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04-14-2026 · 7h 02m
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I think they had searched into the man's scare to rule male voters ahead of 2028, but
they'll have to compete with the digital world world's new rising star, far left activist
the song pika what I really want is whether it's social media influencers are
Two-way chariotes like Hassan Baker, who are more of other kind of promoters of hate.
We must always maintain revolutionary optimism, and we must always continue to organize, and
must always continue to agitate, because the quicker we can create enough pressure that
causes the American state to re-calculate its soon-to-be-patch with Israel, the quicker
we can save as many Palestinian lives as possible.
What's going on, everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening afternoon, no matter where you are, for the
soundbikers on broadcast from New York, from, uh, I don't even know where I am, New Haven,
I think Yale, I'm at Yale, I'm at Yale campus coming to you live from Yale campus in New
Haven, Connecticut. I think it's New Haven, Connecticut. We're live and alive and I hope
all the boys, girls and MBS are having a fantastic one because today's a beautiful day. Today's
a wonderful day. Today is Yale Union debate day. That's right. Wonderful state of Connecticut,
one that actually receives quite a bit of animosity, unjust animosity from your boy.
I know everyone's going to be really fucking annoying today and say, oh dude, you have to try
New Haven Pizza. You have to get this pizza. You have to get that pizza. Connecticut Pizza
is the best pizza. I know there's nothing else to live for in this state of yours. Okay. I know
know many of you live here in the McMansions that your parents pay for who work in finance
and didn't want to, you know, they didn't have enough money to pay for an apartment
in New York City, so they live in Connecticut. I know that like many of you, you know, grew
up in this wonderful state that is pretty much like a close tax haven, a more affordable
real estate market for all of your parents that, you know, do whatever they do in Manhattan,
right so many of you are obviously very aware of it we're on stolen is it
Quinnipiac it's Quinnipiac the name of the tribe stolen Quinnipiac land
okay New Haven has incredible fellow fell okay thank you anyway we're live
we're alive and I hope everyone's having a fantastic one because today's a
beautiful day. Today is a wonderful day. Today is Tuesday. It's Tuesday, April 14th,
2026, 11.36 a.m. here. Well, it's 11.36 a.m. in Pacific time where I'm not. I'm actually here
236 p.m. on Eastern time. It's 75 degrees in cloudy here on in New Haven,
Connecticut. Anyway, I will be going to Yale for the first time ever, never been.
Later today to do a debate. That's right. Debate! So get excited for that.
Obviously, many of you are debat enjoyers.
We will be going to the Yale Union, where I will be delivering a speech.
My resolution is End the American Empire.
And I'm going to be, I wrote a lot about it.
I have a lot of good riffs on it too.
I'm trying to perfect my craft to become a better speaker
and deliver these thoughtful responses, working with Noel Cohen as well as my editor as always.
So, excited about that, very excited about that performance, if you want to call it that.
And then afterwards, student groups are going to be debating one another, you know, one
after the other, some in the affirmative, some negative against the resolution.
So, yeah, that's exciting stuff, but that's later in the day.
Before I do that, I will be watching the American Empire collapse on its own weight, on its
own contradictions, in real time, of course.
So that is what we are going to be doing.
But Quinnipiac and Algonquin tribes were in the area.
Thank you.
Have I heard that Bloodborne is getting a film adaptation?
Yes.
And Jacksepticeye.
Jack Spadisey.
Jack Spadisey.
Jack Spadisey.
Jack Spadisey.
Is
Is one of the guys is a
Reckoning with Israel's one-state reality by Ezra Klein. Oh my god newest Hasan abi had Ezra Klein as a one-stater now
That's incredible. We'll talk about that. No mouse suit. No, I didn't want to wear the mouse suit because I I wore the mouse a
Dong suit on Z way. I wore it at Stanford. I have a decent fit though
Don't worry. I mean I'm wearing the pants the pantaloons of the mouse a dong suit, but I
I wanted to go with like a different fit, you know
So yeah, it's a ridiculous campus. Honestly breathtaking kind of like you Chicago possibly more grand
It's always grand. It's always grand. So all right. All right. All right
Where were we where were we where were we PBS?
Biker broadcasting service sponsored by you the people for you the people
I don't want to make the mouth fit be too overused right like is this my favorite fit it fits so well
There's like a glove don't want to overuse it don't want to use it and abuse it
So yeah
Alright personal news wise part of broadcast where I tell you about my personal news about what's going on in the world of San
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 what I'm gonna do and
As far as personal news goes
I'm gonna try to ask loser you already know last night. I
I ended the broadcast, I was very tired, very tired and I thought I'll get a good night's
sleep, I'll go to bed early and I'll be able to wake up early, I'll finish the tweaks of this speech
and I'll be fine, I'll be energetic, I'll be able to deliver a great speech to
thunderous applause, convince the next wave of Yale graduates to become revolutionary anti-imperialists,
right, instead of going into the CIA or maybe into the CIA to fulfill Felix Biedermann's
dreams of a free officer's movement, right? So, that didn't happen. God had other plans.
What do I mean by that? I went to bed at like around 11 not that early and I woke up
at like 1 45 almost 2 a.m. and I could not go back to sleep. I woke up at 2 and I could
not go back to sleep like 4 and I was just like watching Jesus Kaisen last episode was
peak by the way oh my god you guys are so good um but i just simply could not go back to sleep
until four and then uh i went back to sleep at four woke up again at like i think 9 30
got in a car came to Yale uh showered
and here we are uh put some final tweaks on the speech
And here we are, right?
Just because it fucks heavy.
Yeah, it's so good.
This is why you need a Benjamin.
Yeah, I don't think it works that way for me.
A Benjamin is, is you're saying it'll help you go to sleep.
But like, I have a different solutions that it's called cranking it cranking,
jorking the peanuts, cranking the hog, um, you know, just beating your meat.
Uh, this, it just didn't work.
It didn't work at all.
I tried and trust.
A lot of that going on is just like simply didn't work.
God, I'm supposed to be a serious political commentator with the
fuck's wrong with me.
I need to stop doing that shit.
Anyway.
Where was I?
Um, yeah.
The pen is far more time saving than okay.
Well, you're just not efficient, buddy.
You're just not efficient, buddy
Okay, I can do things much faster
Fox News doing more free PR for you. Yeah. Yeah. I know I know I know we'll talk about all that and more but
Yeah, but that's it that's that's all I got for you guys
Let's blast off. Let's get started. We obviously don't have a lot of time
Well, we do have a lot of time, but we have like, you know, around four hours, four and a half hours and we have five hours
until we're done
until I have to head over to Yale to deliver a speech and do the back and forth, the debate, all that stuff.
So the pen is mightier than the sword. Okay.
Yale, I'm in Yale, New Iran talks.
Trump offends God.
fallout
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Ever fall asleep while charming the one-eyed snake?
Yes, of course.
This is a blast-off?
What the fuck is this?
This is not a blast-off, okay?
Sometimes you guys do low-effort blast-offs.
That's not even in the low-effort category.
We're gonna go with the high-effort ones, okay?
Here it is. We did it. I blasted off already. I don't even know what's going on with that
little tiny hand. It's like a Twitter meme, isn't it? From Japanese Twitter or something.
Very drunk thing to do. I always follow through. I always complete my mission. Okay.
I'm in Yale. Do a raw talk. Strap offense. God fallout. U.S. Hormuz. Double block. Continue.
vessel passes, situation monitored, Epstein's Fury Day 46, Yale debate on ending the U.S.
Empire later, get in now, looking sharp. Hassan Samah, please do the Hebrew podcast
when you're in New York City, anytime, any day, baby. As long as he wants me there, I'll
do it.
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a family could talk about jorgen peanuts that's I would I would hit the
far right there but I can't
um I know exactly this is yeah don't forget who you're fighting for yeah this
guy true
will you also be streaming going door-to-door selling life insurance yes
Women in chat hearing how fast you finished that's a joke. I'm joking and go as fast. I want her as long as I want. All right
Pontifex
Pope Leo don't give a dang about what Donald Trump's been saying about him. He's still hitting him hard. Okay?
That's my goat right there. That's the goat the goat Pope
We are all Catholic on this beautiful day. Did you see that they leaked an entire movie on Twitter?
Which one we they always leak stuff on Twitter?
If you consider any of these major media political commentator series that you're should have
heart attack your farm or series were also of your faptalk than those fools.
Thank you.
In any case, folks, folks, folks, folks, oh, Avatar, the last airbender.
Oh, dang.
Really?
Oh, you saw Avatar Aang movie?
That's crazy.
That's kind of a bummer or good.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I mean, I love piracy.
that they did that before the movie could come out, you know?
Check out Chuck Park running for Congress and Queens.
I know, I know, I know.
Everyone always tells me to check out Chuck Park.
Yes, we will check out Chuck Park eventually.
All right, I promise.
Voices are ass.
Apparently, when you bring in the 2022 long hair back,
never, never.
Okay, that's not gonna happen.
Paramount kicked it from theaters.
was going to streaming. Oh, okay. The plot of it is straight-up Israel, like anti-Israel
or pro-Israel. Longwell is out here hating you more. What is this? It's always good to
engage with people and understand their illiberal worldview. That way, there's no confusion about
conflicts or jokes. Americans are ready to re-evaluate our relationship with Israel.
But I suspect they'd find signing with Hamas a bridge too far.
This is not about siding with Hamas in this 21-second clip that you got from RNC Research.
This is about who is the worst offender and who is worse for American interests.
And the answer is, it's Israel, whether you like to admit it or not.
The entire framework of that question is to get you to question or get you to try and
defend Israel. But, of course, for many people, all this amounts to is just going,
but they're terrorists over and over again, right? They are not entertaining
the thought experiment that I'm trying to create here. They're not entertaining
the two different forces to match up with one another. They just keep leaning
into, well, they're terrorists. Oh, lol, euphoria season 3 is out. Nice.
Interfaith maxing? Oh, hell yeah. Are you Mormon cosplaying right now? Yes, that's what
I'm doing. I love that. I love interfaith maxing.
30th anniversary of steamed hams. I don't know what that means.
What is this? Far left center hopefuls radicalized and Maduro cronies
through the torpedo campaign, tired of the chaos.
Wait, tied to Maduro?
As sides campaign continues, Fox's digital encoded even more ties radical socialist activists
such as a promodora organizer or other farla figures.
Wait, what?
Abdul's even cooler than I thought? That's crazy.
Holy aura is real.
I just got here, but do you see clavicular almost crying while being interviewed? Yes, clavicular got,
uh, clavicular got, uh, frame mugged.
And, and also intellect
Mogged, I guess. Is that a thing? Can you mox on with your brain? He got brain mugged by a 60 minutes Australia correspondent.
Hassan's bitch says, what the fuck is wrong with the chatters? I get that people give you compliments.
But why the fuck do they come in with rude comments under your parents? No more people don't talk to others like that.
Be normal, chatters, be kind. It's okay.
It's all good. I'm used to it.
Yeah, he got thought mugged.
He also tiptoe maxes. That's crazy. Um, all right.
So, uh, where were we, where were we, uh, we'll get right into it.
We got situation maxing. We got situation monitoring maxing. Uh,
hopefully I will, uh, have some time maybe eventually to discuss,
uh, even the, the, uh,
intellect mogging that took place,
The intelligence IQ mugging that took place at the 60 minutes interview with our goat, our hero, Club Ikylar.
But yeah, there's this guy also that was talking about Mamdani Mets.
I guess people are blaming the Mets on Zoran Mamdani for some reason.
I don't know why are the Mets doing poorly is that what it is I don't know anything about baseball
I don't follow baseball at all but they're doing Mets slander I guess we need to shake up this team
new starting lineup Bernie Sanders Hassan piker big bill de Blasio mama colo ocazo aoc rama
DeWazhi was shooting to leave Letitia James.
He hugged Mr. Met, that's it.
The mascot, they said it was anti-semitic.
No, but like, are the Mets doing poorly or something?
Sid Rosenberg, here's a fun fact, since Mr. and Mrs. Met practically banged New York City
Mayor, the Mets have lost every game since, and now they've got the Dodgers in LA tonight,
let's go Yankees.
Yeah, practically banged.
Is he saying that Mr. and Mrs. Met had a gang bang with Zoramum Dhani?
Is that what it is?
It's because Zoramum Dhani met Mr. and Mrs. Met at a city field and Sid Rosenberg is
a psycho. They got really upset about that.
The team has been awful this year.
Um, isn't the Mets always kind of bad, though?
Like, isn't that one of the things is like the Mets is anti-Semitic because, uh, not because they met with Zahram Mamedani, but because it's like, uh, it's, it's constantly creating sadness and grief for New York Jews.
Many of which are fans of the Mets. Like I thought that was the whole, I thought that was the whole ordeal is that like the New York Mets were anti-Semitic from the start because it hurts the feelings of every New York Jew that is a fan of the New York Mets.
They've been okay sometimes they choked on the playoffs.
Also the mascot snub said he's been crying ever since. Oh.
Oh, that's funny
Hey team seeing it better Pirce got better this year for the first time in like 20 years
All right, whatever
Don't steal John Stewart's swag that's his bit. I mean, I think that's just like a common meme. No
It's a little bit like a cliche most of the right wingers are in in New York or Yankees fans
Yes, I've heard that except for AOC. AOC is a Yankee
They got mugged by the doiers in offseason there was smoke around them signing an all-star player only for the doiers to come in and sign him
Oh
Anyway, the McMorris people have given up anti-Semitism series and have moved as ludicrously on to pro-corporate economics
Jill
Philipovich says is true that Donald Trump's one trick is to blame every problem on immigrants
But I don't think it's a better trick to blame complex problems on nefarious corporations
that apparently want you jobless homeless and dead. Oh my god. Oh my god. That is
incredible. That's a brilliant take. It's a brilliant take because what's the
what's the alternative? It's just don't blame anybody. Is that what it is? Don't
blame the actual entities responsible for your demise. Don't blame the system.
Don't blame capitalism. Don't blame corporations. Don't blame immigrants. You know, that's what the Republicans do
But they also that means you can't actually blame the the real
The real pressure points the real issue in American politics, which is like corporate domination
Again that that puts profit over the interests of the people
over and over again and a system of corporate domination that has designed this country in a very
undemocratic manner
That is only kept up through
Constant subsidies and and cost and cash flows to politicians directly so that politicians listen to the corporate demands rather than the demands of the people
That's cool though. I guess that's not true. That's just fake
Yeah
There are real problems corporate power of a back corporation took your nice thing away
is not actually the sole or even chief cause of most of these problems. Democratic politicians should
offer real, but it's real solutions of which there are actually many. If you can't afford a home,
it's probably not because of corporations speculating on the home you should have had. Wait,
no, it's literally the entire speculatory process itself. The entire speculative process itself
that treats housing as a commodity, a speculative asset, rather than shelter for people is the problem.
As I said in the initial tweet, out of control corporate power is really a huge problem and
the Democrats should take it on, but I'm just not impressed politicians who have a single
answer to every problem, especially when the problems are actually complicated and caused
by multiple forces and what people need are accurate diagnoses and thoughtful solutions.
Take housing.
One of his examples.
Housing is generally expensive in places where people want to live because there's not enough
housing.
There are other causes too.
So why are there not enough housing?
Why is there not enough housing?
Why is there not enough housing?
Great question, right?
Okay, there's not enough housing.
I agree.
Sure, you know, I don't consider myself
to be a NIMBY or a YIMBY.
I'm invested in building public housing.
I'm also fond of the argument
that we need to build more housing.
I'm fond of that argument.
I'm also fond of preserving like, you know,
certain cultural landmarks and ensuring
that the way that we design these cities
Also habitable is a wonderful places for people to want to live in you know
So I see both sides of the NIMBY and the argument sorry San Francisco chatters
I know this will trigger the fuck out of you because you're always like with solder you on will kill you
but
You know, I don't I don't think it's like that anyway
Left Yimby isn't is a thing and China does it well, okay, whatever I don't want to get into it
I know when I say YMV or NIMV, everybody gets mad.
So my point was you say take housing, for example,
housing is generally expensive in a place
where people want to live because there's not enough housing.
Why is there not enough housing?
Is it because the land is finite in supply?
Because you can make the land work better, right?
You can build more units on top of the land,
on top of the preexisting land.
But that's one way of going about it.
So why?
Why are we not doing it?
Well, it's because housing is treated like a speculative asset.
That's the whole point.
What did Xi Jinping say?
The eminent leader, the dear leader, Xi Jinping,
what did he say?
He said, homes are to live in, not for speculation.
He was right.
I agree with that sentiment.
And I hope that more American politicians
can openly say exactly that.
Houses are to live in.
Houses are not a speculative asset to trade.
Okay. There are other causes too, but it's fundamentally a supply issue and that supply
issue is caused by a long list of things. But the biggest problem is not in fact corporations
buying all the houses. Yeah, no, it's definitely one of the multiple forces, perhaps the most
consequential one is the way we treat housing in this country. We don't need to exclusively
build, we can convert space like they did in San Jose. When I was homeless, they call
Santa Claus country people got indoors yes what are her solutions nothing status quo yes it's just
a fucking complaint it's just a chirp anyway interfaith maxing here uh that's very cool uh shouts out
to the goat the pope classic jail thing you leave with a stupidly overstated criticism of someone
on the left and then you cover your ass with a thread full of hedging i think it's ultimately
really funny though because these people will be like you need to craft better messaging
and then they'll get mad at the left for you know doing left populism and they'll say
no you need to craft better messaging that actually explains the problem.
No you didn't explain the problem at all you just made it unnecessarily complex to not
explain the true problem and left populist messaging that's easy to identify, easy to
understand is unironically a million times better than whatever the fuck you're doing
uh... especially because any person that hears or encounters your message
is going to go what do you mean corporations are people to and we need
to preserve their feelings the fuck i'm gonna shit about corporations
okay fuck corporations fuck the billionaires right
have you seen fox news tweeting your statements and everyone disagreeing yes
uh... it's been
uh... two days of both fox news
and a lot of uh... right wing democrats
uh... doing everything in their power to i guess like
spread my message far and wide. And to that I have only a thankfulness. I am thankful that
they're doing that for me. That's very kind of them. Shouts out to all of the corporate backed
lobbyist funded center right democratic consultants and certainly a big thank you to Fox News as well.
Well, Mission Media is cool now, exactly.
All right, let's get to the Pope before we get to situation monitoring, obviously.
But yeah, like I said, this is the blast-off meme.
You spread it far and wide.
All the real patriots.
We're going to get into situation monitoring.
The United States, don't it?
The United States actually reportedly passed the U.S. Hormos blockade, the American blockade.
But before we do that, I'll read to you one thing that the Pope said.
He is not standing down as a real American Chicagoan.
Okay?
He says, God's heart is torn apart by wars, violence, injustice, and lies.
But our Father's heart is not with the wicked, the arrogant, or the proud.
God's heart is with the little ones and the humble, and with them he builds up his kingdom
of love and peace day by day.
Wherever there is love and service, God is there.
Now I'm not exactly a fan of the Pope saying something like that and then following that
up with hashtags, but he says hashtag apostolic journey, hashtag Algeria.
Now you didn't need to do that Pope.
You could have just chapped it at the statement, right?
because hashtags are, you know, they're of a bygone error, right? But yeah, we got a real
pope versus president situation going on, the president being the pope of the freaks and the
heretics and the agents of Satan, and then the real pope being the pope of the Catholics, you know.
know. So, chill. That was probably his 60 year old intern lady doing her best. Yeah,
probably. So, let's get into it. Yeah, the Fox News is back at it again. They said Hamas
over Israel every single time. Far left streamers on Pika double down on the support of Hamas
con the Islamic terror group, the lesser evil compared to Israel. Py girls was the biased
comment saying the terrorist organization is a thousand times better than Israel.
This will hopefully get some other people to question why I'm saying that, right? Because like,
I know that the Fox News audience is probably not going to look at this and be like, oh yeah,
he means like, you know, Israel has killed a lot more than Hamas has or anything like that.
But at least for those in the margins, those in the periphery, hopefully this will be a wake-up
call an opportunity for them to really reconsider.
That's my job.
My job is to pierce through these pre-established, often times racial, animus that many Americans
have the notion that any kind of resistance front and non-state actor that sometimes may
or may not actually engage in war crimes themselves in their emancipatory endeavors is, can be
would be a better force than the forever ally that we have that is doing the genocide.
So yeah, yeah, why does he say that?
You already won because that is the start of the questioning of the status quo, yeah.
Yeah, the only way out is through is right. Okay, let's get into it before we look at
The the the news fresh hot slander that obblos say it received also in Hanomar
Stay away from my queen stay away from my queen
She said she likes me better.
That's a lie.
She did not say that.
You're crazy.
She said that you're taller, but
you don't have a sense of humor.
No, no, that's devastating.
Repeating come down bits is not
a personality.
I would never repeat come down bits.
I would never repeat come down bits because they're offensive, and I'm woke.
No, apparently you repeated it.
She told me the ones you repeated it.
I was like, bad. There was no even real justification for that one.
That's all.
Well, there's justification for you saying the come town bids when you were on come
town, but there's no justification for me repeating them.
I wasn't saying much on come job.
Yeah, this is just there.
Anyway, uh, we need in Han Omar to settle the debate. Hassan, the hunt versus Adam Friedland.
Scott, uh, this was, uh, called in the question on the timeline and Ihan Omar responded with,
hate to break it to us on the hunt and Adam Friedland, but Kaya is my favorite,
which of course means that I won. Okay. Do you think they'll let me bring my camera in today?
Uh, holy moly, I love you so much. That is my favorite type of question. Right.
My favorite type of question is like not even where is the debate? What's when is it happening?
Will it be streamed? Everyone asks that. My favorite type of question is like do you know the event security dynamics?
Why would I have an answer for that question?
What why do you think I would know what Yale unions?
Security restrictions look like
Okay
I have no answers for these questions
Is there a clear back policy I don't know you should know if you got a ticket you should probably know
Like it's so funny, it's like whenever I do
Whenever I do a merge drop everybody's like all right. Well, you're my call center, you know
And whenever I do these sorts of speeches these events which always get streamed by the way
They almost always get streamed including this one. This will be live streamed
People will come in and be like is there a no shirts no shoes no service policy
Do I have to wear closed toe shoes?
If there is a you must wear shoes policy, like I have a lot of questions. I'm like those are great questions. I
Love you for asking those questions. You should ask those questions to someone else
Okay, I can't find out. I can't find out the answers for you. I'm not fucking customer service
okay, I
Should I wear a sweater? How cold is auditorium?
I love that people are just leaning into the bit
But I can't even tell if people are actually doing a bit now or if they sincerely are like oh
So I shouldn't ask questions, which means I must ask you more questions, right?
Anyway, it's naval blockade
Let's get to it Chinese tanker reportedly passes the US Hormuz blockade is a Chinese flagship
Let's hear where the double blockade is at.
In Easton, we're around 17 hours in and basically a lot of the traffic, the little trickle we've
seen since the start of the war has come to a screeching halt, apart from one incident.
And this is really interesting because this is a Chinese owned vessel.
It's now said to have tested the US naval blockade because it has passed through the
Strait of Homoes.
Let's take you through this.
This is a rich story.
This is a tanker said to be carrying methanol.
It started moving from Sharjah here in the UAE.
Remember a lot of these vessels turn off the AIS transponders who don't really know the
origin of which port that they moved from.
Signed to move towards Kesham and Laruk Islands, then starts a boarding mission, moves back
and then starts to take that route once again, passing through the street in the early hours
of this morning.
Now this is a tanker that has been sanctioned since March 2023 by the US Treasury Department
because it has links to Iran.
Now from what we understand from experts, this tanker was able to move through completely
unfazed by the US naval blockade so we don't know what exactly transpired and how the United
States is enforcing this blockade, but this is really interesting to see this tanker that
that has, you know, a glix tree run that has been sanctioned
by the United States being able to move through
the Strait of Homo at this time.
A lot of the Shippers are very reticent
to even make the voyage.
Number one, they're worried about having to coordinate
directly with the Iranians.
And then number two, what will they face
when they hit the US naval blockade?
A lot of the Shippers believe that this is a double dilemma
in terms of negotiating with both sides.
From what we know right now, that the United States is doing this naval blockade to perhaps
start negotiations to force Iran to the negotiating table.
You'll remember that a lot of the revenues that Iran is getting right now at the start
of this war had to do with the toll that they were charging the shippers, Rosemary, and
then importantly, the Iranian oil that was being sold.
And if you look at some of the tanker traffic since the start of the war, it has been dominated
by Iranian-linked vessels and also vessels that are friendly to Iran.
So the United States and President Trump has been very clear about this, that any vessels
and e-shippers that have paid back toll fee could face indictment.
And you have an interesting bar chart here showing just how much the traffic plummeted
since the start of the war, and you've seen a trickle throughout over 40 days that we've
been facing this conflict, in total 453 vessels have transited the Strait since February 28th,
and importantly, just to give you a bit of a perspective, normally 130 vessels
pass through the Strait on a daily basis. Richard Mead is the editor-in-chief of Lloyd's List
Intelligence, and he's with us now for life from London. Richard, good to see you. You know,
you and I have been talking consistently since the start of the war, and there's been, you know,
really interesting development, specifically over the past few hours after the US naval
blockade came into effect. We saw one Chinese-linked tanker that was sanctioned by the United States
since 2023, transiting through the strait after initially had backed out and they moved through
once again. What do we know about the rich starry and whether it was challenged by the US Navy?
Well, at the moment, we know very little. It's still moving.
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Um, Sancom denies that any ship may have passed the blockade.
Of course they did suggest that it hasn't been challenged by the US to be
clear we're not entirely sure that this was laden with Iranian crude it's been
used as floating storage for a while it entered back into the Gulf about 10 to
12 days ago from memory. And then it was heading out of the gulf this weekend and did a bit
of a U-turn at the point that Donald Trump announced the blockade. It then made a break
for it last night and has exited. Now, this is, as you say, a sanctioned, falsely flagged
ship. It is nominally fraudulently flagged to Malawi, but we know it's a fraud. This
probably would be a target, but it seems to have gone out. We've also got a number of
other shadow fleet tankers than one of which is sanctioned heading in.
So it's going to be interesting to see how the US responds to this.
But right now, the vast majority of shipping is not moving on either side.
Yeah, so give me a sense of what shippers are telling you.
You know, there's a lot of confusion about who to negotiate with on the Iranian side.
I mean, it's been very clear, coordinated directly with Iranian forces.
Now you've got the US naval blockade.
Is there any appetite to move through the straits even if I mean, I think what America is trying to do is
force the hand of
desperate
desperate shipping companies
to not go through the toll process and avoid the Iranian Navy and
Go directly through the American blockade because like what they've said they're doing is like if you touch an Iranian port
which as it stands all ships that transit through the Strait of Hormuz can
only go through the Strait if they stop at an Iranian port at which point they
will pay a toll and then move through the Iranian port and safely transit the
Strait of Hormuz. So what they're trying to do I think what they're trying to
to to create as an environment where like maybe some of these oil tankers are like dumb enough to
try and transit without paying a toll uh and only those ships will be allowed uh safe passage by
the american blockade because even if you're not a chinese flag tanker even if you're not uh an
iranian shadow fleet uh tanker even if you're just uh a a you know united arab Emirates uh tanker
or like any other flag tanker, if you stop at the Iranian port, then America is supposed
to stop you, right?
Like that's basically the way that they've designed it.
Having said that, however, it's totally ridiculous if the goal here is to stabilize the global
markets.
goal here is to stabilize energy prices, then adding a secondary restriction makes it worse
overall. And we are in it now officially. Like if you look at the way that oil transits,
it's very slow. Okay. It takes a long time for these massive tankers that oftentimes
have two million barrels of oil in them to go through a full transit. They load up and
they take the oil to refineries around the world. America, because of its distance from
the Gulf, America still receives oil from the Shreddhoor Moose. By the way, a lot of people
don't know that. But because of its distance, America is the last to receive the oil shipments,
Which means there's a delayed impact for American oil.
Ever since the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, I believe this week was the timeline for many
of the Asian markets.
Like, I think it was yesterday or today.
It will be the last time Asian countries will receive oil from the Strait of Hormuz.
is all the tankers that left before the closure are finally arriving at their ports, okay?
Some are arriving tomorrow, some have arrived yesterday.
For the United States of America, I believe it will be this week at some point where the
last oil tankers that left before the oil blockade took place will finally arrive at
American refineries.
On top of that, there is a shadow fleet, and there's also spot trading as well, because
this is a very expensive commodity.
Obviously, there are a bunch of other tankers that either don't have their transponders
on or are sanctioned, right?
So they can also, they can also offer a little bit of price stability.
that were previously sanctioned like Russia will be able to offer additional supply to
countries that previously were not allowed to get oil from Russia, will be able to get
oil from Russia, right?
I am in so much fucking pain.
I hate you, says Bittencarrow.
Wait, what did I do?
What the hell?
Anyway, so on top of that, on top of that, there are spot traders, right?
Like there are, you know, people that have a lot, like there are people that have oil
tankers out and about that can take advantage of the new market prices and sell at a higher price
point, right? So there are some forces that can stabilize the market a little bit, right?
However, however, that's finite. At the end of the day, if you cut off 20% of the entire
globe's oil supply, the entire globe's energy supply, it's eventually going to
lead to price shocks, okay? It's that simple. And because of the the length of
travel for oil, we haven't actually received the price shocks just yet, okay?
We haven't seen it. We haven't seen it yet because they're trying to play around and take advantage of the lag.
They're trying to play around with the best of their ability to withstand the imminent collapse of global energy markets.
But there is a finite amount. Okay, there is a finite amount of oil. So if you run out of it,
and it's a necessary commodity with inelastic demand, it's a necessary resource with an
inelastic demand, if you run out of it, you're going to run into problems. Here's a video,
Someone sent that says it explains it very well as they go.
Four soccer fields long, carries two or three million barrels of oil, and it weighs more than a skyscraper.
All of which makes it slow, 10 or 15 knots.
That is no joke, the speed of a bicycle.
Our global energy supply lines move at the speed of a shwind.
And let me show you on this globe why that's important.
If you biked all day, how much of this globe do you think you could cross?
like maybe the width of the point of this pen, right? Maybe. It worked really hard. Okay,
now imagine mopping in your 12 feet and starting in Dubai. Where's Dubai? Here we go. Starting in
Dubai. And now imagine that you have to bike out of Dubai, all the way down here, down the coast
of Africa, down, down, down, across the Cape of Good Hope, back up the other coast of Africa,
all the way across the Atlantic, through the Caribbean, before finally arriving at the Deepwater
Oil Port in Louisiana. That would take forever on a bike, right? Which remember is the speed that
these oil tankers go. Like, that is how our oil travels, as if it were on a bike. And maybe you
see where I'm going with this. This is a map of global oil flows put together by JP Morgan.
Don't worry about all this text. We'll explain it in a minute.
These red lines show the oil coming out of the Middle East, going out to the rest of the world.
This is the stuff that's been cut off. Here it is back in December before the war.
There it goes. The oil is flowing.
This is so inefficient, we should consider launching an oil into space to make it faster.
It's really funny, except this is the most efficient mode of transport, ironically enough.
It sounds inefficient, but there's no other way to ship that quantity.
This is the as it stands most efficient mode of transport, which is why there are major problems here
Because like you got pipelines, but even then you can't move as many units through a pipeline
You still need and and there are issues pipelines as well pipelines don't travel all around the world
You don't you can't do a pipeline from you can't build a pipeline from the Persian Gulf to South Korea
where the refineries are for the Asian markets, right? Like, it's not going to happen.
Remember, it moves at the speed of a bunch of bikes.
This video you're watching is by Max Fisher, part of Johnny Harris' network. Oh, that makes sense.
There's a very Johnny Harris twang with this video, but it seems like a really good video so far.
So now it's January, and the oil is just finally breaching parts of Asia and Europe.
And we're in February before it hits the US, and then it hits refineries in South Korea
that then sends it on down these pink lines to Australia and New Zealand.
So when the war starts and the oil stops flowing, there's actually still a ton out there,
taking its long, lazy little bike ride around the globe.
That's a big part of why things seem weirdly normal.
For most countries, the oil shutdown has not reached us yet.
We're still...
It's because they have a style guide, I feel like,
where you got to do the flipping of the pages sound effect, the little clicks. These are all
audio cues to remind you that you're under the Johnny Harris network. You're under the Johnny
Harris umbrella. You're getting shipments that were sent out before the war started. So when do
those shipments stop? If you look at that map again, it says most deliveries to the US will stop
around April 15th. In Europe, they stop around April 10th, Asia, April 1st, so it's just getting
started. But here in parts of Africa, there's March 20th. We're already well into it. That's even
hitting places like the US where we are still receiving oil from before the war started.
Countries whose shipments ran out are creating this big surge in demand. So anytime you go to the
pump or pay your power bill, you are bidding against them and they are bidding against you.
And all of this is going to get significantly worse when China and Europe start running out of
shipments to and surge demand to replace it, which is really
We are making a film like this for the next mini doc. Yeah,
I'm down to do it. Vietnam and the Philippines are shutting down their economies one day a week
Rice prices have doubled. It's not feeling normal for them. This room is hideous. Connecticut. Yeah,
it's not it's out of my control big dog. No disrespect to Connecticut, but you know, this is
the best we got out here. There's a full video on YouTube. Sure. I don't think we're going to
watch that right now because we've got situation monitoring to do. But China has a big stockpile.
Yes, they did. They bought a ton. Before, I think they started buying a ton and increased their
strategic reserves after the 12-day war started. Like after the 12-day war ended, rather,
For a potential moment exactly like this one, right?
The lamp has nice curves y'all are horny
There are obviously a lot of other there are obviously a lot of additional
impacts of not being able to transit not just oil, but gas as well
You know precursor chemicals
fertilizer that then will impact field of medicine, agriculture, increased food prices, right?
Total Energy CEO says, we prefer paying fees to Iran rather than closing the Strait of Hormuz.
There you have it. These are some of the first but very important voices that are, you know, letting their position be publicly known.
people siding with the IRGC, people siding with the Iranian control over the Shredi Hormuz, over whatever fucking inconsistent
American enforcement that they want to add on unnecessarily on top of a straight that would be open as long as they just paid the toll to Iran.
Good stuff, you know.
vessels are not at any Iranian ports or Iranian territorial waters?
Right now, no.
And I keep telling you, uncertainty is raining across the shipping industry.
That goes in peaks and troughs.
If you'd asked me just before the weekend, I would have told you that there were at
least half a dozen ship owners that were preparing their ships to move out.
And we did see probably the busiest period of activity in terms of transit through the
trade over the weekend, around 30 ships transited. The shutters then came down. And as far as
I can tell from most main ship owners with their tankers still inside the Gulf, absolutely
no appetite to move right now until they get some clarity. For those that were looking
to get in, they are again waiting to see what happens over the next few hours. You've got
a double blockade, essentially. You've got the US essentially blockading Iranian linked
tankers, and then you've got the existing restrictions and threats. And if you do engage
with the Iranians, are the US going to get you and vice versa? The shipping industry
is stuck in the middle right now.
Yeah. I mean, I also was looking at marine traffic data, and in total, since the war
began, there are 450 vessels that have been able to transit through the strait of Harmous,
keeping in mind that it's usually 130 vessels per day. The big question now becomes, how
many of these vessels?
Classic CNN still having these issues by the way. It's so strange that the audio issues
still persist on CNN's videos.
It was paid a toll to Iran, given that President Trump has said any vessel and any ship that
has paid will be indicted. What data do we have on who actually paid Iran directly?
little direct evidence, and that's deliberately so. I think everybody was very nervous about the
tolls. Essentially, the money that was being paid was going directly to the IRGC, which is
designated as a terrorist organization by certainly the US and the EU. No Western shipowner is going
to want a paper record of that, and we know that settlement was being done in Yuan or crypto.
So I think probably there's a few nervous shipowners that we know to have paid,
But I would stress that the vast majority probably haven't paid.
I think you're looking at a three-tier system.
There's the Iranian ships themselves.
Obviously, they're not charging their own ships to go through.
There's the ones that got through with diplomatic agreements.
So the Indian government has been absolutely clear that they definitely did not pay for
any of their tankers to get out.
And there are similar agreements with lots of other countries.
are a small amount that we know to have settled at least a fee. Now, in some cases, that was
a large fee around...
You haven't got so much aura as a currency, not going to lie, cold name, strong and sheer,
true.
Two million dollars for a couple of tankers that we know about. In some cases, this was
being passed off as an administration cost, more in the chain of around under $5,200,000.
So I think probably there's going to be a few nervous questions as to how some of these
ships got out.
But that's for tomorrow.
Right now it's a question of what happens immediately and how we get the vessels moving.
Yeah.
I mean, you know, President Trump wants to see the strait opening up.
Do you think that putting in a U.S. blockade is going to have that effect?
It's a little bit early to tell, I think.
I think, as I say, right now, nothing is moving.
So I think there is a peace and form policy from the Quincy Institute about how Iran and the U.S.
could potentially strike a deal by agreeing to a toll system, but one that is on, that is done in
dollars. It was strengthened in the weakening petro dollar rolls and providing Iran with
reparation revenue that Congress would never authorize. It would also be good for Iran's
reserves. What do you think? Yeah, I think Iran would be fine getting paid in dollars,
But the issue here is America weaponizing the dollar system against Iran and against his enemies, right?
So, there has to be some kind of guarantee, and I guess the guarantee in and of itself would be the fact that
Iran controls the straight and could shut it off.
That is guarantee enough, right?
Iran enforcing its power, its control over the Shredda Hormuz would probably be a major guarantee
guarantee that America can't fuck with it any longer and apply these sanctions back on Iran
when it sees fit at the behest of Israel, because once again, and I cannot stress this
enough and I will continuously repeat this over and over again, okay?
The war that we have waged against Iran is not a war that we wage for our strategic interests.
Okay, Iran as a country has in spite of our actions
Always been ready to negotiate. Okay, they have openly stated it a million times over and we have always said no and
Then Barack Obama
Said yes for the first time ever and there was a successful deal with Iran Donald Trump destroyed the JCPOA
at the behest of Israel and ever since then we have consistently agitated and
and worsened the Iranian economy by choice, by design, specifically so that we can destabilize
this country with 93 million people. If you're an honest person, you have to look at it honestly,
okay? All honest people will readily admit this reality. Iran was never a serious,
significant threat to the United States of America. Iran, however, was a threat to Israel,
Israel, and still is a threat to Israel. Iran doesn't need to be a threat to Israel, of
course. It's a sovereign nation in the region. It doesn't have to be a threat to Israel at
all. But Iran will always remain a threat to Israel as long as it remains a sovereign
nation, a sovereign nation with a ballistic missiles program that can reach Israel, as
long as Israel continues its endeavors of destabilizing every other country in the region
and expanding
on the greater israel project
that is the real problem so the story here is very clear
if america wants to deal with iran and negotiate with iran and treat iran
like a sovereign state which it should
it has to restrain
israel's ambitions
this is not just good for the region is not just good for iran
you could even make the argument that is good for israel certainly good for
america
it's really good for the global energy markets
But right now, we are on this double-suicide pact with the nation-state of Israel, and we are abiding by their idiotic interests, okay?
These are not our interests at all.
You cannot explain this from even a reactionary conservative perspective.
What the Trump administration is doing right now cannot be explained from a pro-empire framework, okay?
this is against American imperialism. Obviously, I have a different calculation,
a different moral calculation regardless, but even from the perspective of pro-American
imperialism, this is directly at odds with our goals, okay? Some instability and some
volatility is good for people to make money, but the reality of the matter is, too much
Volatility means our capital owners can't turn profits any longer. Okay, Peter
Bynard explains really well here. He says this is this war is all about the
Palestinians. Dude, it's not even an Israel strategic interest. I mean, yeah, I
think it was true to parsey that said it best on the broadcast. Israel sees every
state as a threat to its security, regardless of the regime in charge. They
are determined to reduce every country's capacity to make sure no one could
ever challenge them should they choose to. Yes, it is a deeply paranoid,
unbelievably fascistic state that is willing to act out its most violent
desires, no matter who gets swept away in this cause, whether it be the global
hegemon, United States of America, or whether it be all of the nations that
are unfortunately placed so close next to Israel.
right? To that extent, it is having an impact, but we know that there's a couple of ships heading
in westbound. We don't know whether they're going to try to get into Iranian ports. We've just seen
that. I think you may be wrong. This is about oil resources through fascism. No, the the inception
of this allegiance that we have with Israel and the allowance that the Israeli lobby has gotten
unlike any other country. The special privileges that Israel has gotten, unlike any other country,
that has allowed it to create the sophisticated influence peddling operation is because of what
you just said. Yes, resource extraction was the primary focus, was the primary reason for why
we gave so many allowances to Israel, right? The unsinkable aircraft carrier in a resource-rich
region that
Was a very reliable ally. Okay for many many years
That's no longer the dynamic especially with American energy independence and also on top of that
Like America becoming an exporter should have actually changed this calculation a little bit
But let's say we still want to have control over this region because we want to have control over the prices, right?
because who knows if Saudi Arabia and OPEC plus decide to act out their own
desires all of a sudden they remind the world that they're autonomous group
right then Israel comes into play that's why it always has to be powerful
that's why we always have to give it unlimited support however however
regardless of America's exporter status right and and regardless of this
calculation, Gulf nations have been even more reliable allies of the United
States of America for a very long time now. It's a very different
design that we have. We've already successfully tamed any sort of ambition
that the GCC might have had, not only that, but also they give us trillions of
dollars in investments. Israel does not. So in some respects these vassalized
states in the gulf are more valuable to american strategic interest and certainly more valuable
uh... as far as uh... you know maintaining our global dominance for the petro dollar
than fucking israel ever could be
and yet
this is not changed our calculation even one bit
has not changed our calculation at all
as a matter of fact we've hardened our uh... weird loyalty to israel as time
has moved on
uh... and especially accelerated under trump one and now we're seeing its
final stage in trump two
one-hand eastbound using
uh... what we call a zombie number these are essentially
tankers using identification of ships that have been scrapped years ago trying
to falsely give themselves an identity, it will be interesting to see whether the U.S.
Navy intercepts any of these. I think we're really now just waiting to see what the actual
action is and the enforcement strategy from the U.S. side.
All right, Richard Mead, really great to have you with us. Richard Mead, going meat for
me. Well, China President is meeting with the leaders
of countries that have been impacted by the war and its economic fallout. Xi Jinping is
meeting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to discuss political and economic ties between
the two countries. Earlier, she is met with Abu Dhabi's crown prince Sheikh Khaled bin
Said, as China calls for stronger relations with the Arab world, and also in Beijing is
Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, for talks on the U.S.-Iran conflict and the
blockade of the state of Hormuz. Beijing has affirmed its readiness to play a constructive
role and contribute to peace in the Gulf region.
these historic changes are unfolding in ways neither seem and now we lose Europe because
we're omega teres I don't know man I I think that should happen and if Europe was smart
and operating in a self-interested manner and at least had like a fracture of the confidence
necessary to make these sorts of decisions I'd be more open-minded to that but they are so
vassalized dude. Pedro Sanchez is doing this. Maybe it opens up the conversations for other
European countries, but I think there are significant hang-ups here. Part of it is racism,
part of it is Orientalism, the idea that you can never fucking trust the Chinese. Their system is
too damaging, too scary for the rest of the world. Even when they've shown, since basically 1979,
that they have no ambitions of like militarily occupying other countries at all, and their
ambitions are almost always internal, including the affairs in Taiwan, which they regard as, you
know, as a, you know, internal issue, right? Some will say, oh, it's sovereignty and whatnot. I'm
just telling you what the Chinese government's perspective on the matter is. But beyond that,
at most, they build like, you know, island bases and stuff like that in the South China Sea,
things that great powers obviously will always do, they don't have the fraction of the interest
or the appetite that America has demonstrated over and over again to dominate the globe, right?
You said, Tobitkov, again, these are things that the Chinese government regards as internal
domestic affairs.
Before, human society faces a choice between peace and war, unity or confrontation.
We must strengthen coordination, enhance cooperation and build a more solid, resilient and dynamic China-Arab comprehensive strategic partnership.
China's bottom ministry spokesman, Guo Xinakang, is holding a daily media briefing in Beijing.
He's been speaking about the situation in the Strait a few moments ago. We're going to take a listen.
You say this as if China does not have border disputes with literally all of its neighbors,
Hassanabi. Buddy, talk to me when China has 800 military bases. I'm saying as far as great
powers goes, the the appetite that China has for military intervention is virtually non-existent
in comparison to the United States of America. It's not even a fucking question. Like, you're
Literally you're you're comparing not even apples to orange
You're come you're comparing a coughing baby to multiple nukes at that point
Like they have a border dispute with India where they use sticks and literal stones
Okay in the enforcement of said border dispute
Like what are we doing what are we doing right now in Iran, what are we doing in Iran right now?
We as the United States America, what are we doing in Iran? Okay?
Yeah, you have to dumb it down for some of these people at least do it once a week.
Well, I do and every time I do people like people go you're glazing China or glazing
you're defending China, I'm not. I'm telling you as an American citizen, okay? I'm not
only just as an American citizen, but I'm telling you as someone who is looking at this
situation honestly, I'm telling you the truth. What you have learned thus far is a lie, okay?
You're comparing America's unlimited appetite for death and destruction, whether it be Iran
now or iraq or afghanistan or numerous other uh... numerous other
uh... interventions that we've covertly engaged in or directly engaged with
boots on the ground military warfare the countries that we have funded the
genocide that we funded and the political cover we offered to israel
which is an extension of america and then you're comparing that to like
the chinese
coast guard
spraying filipino fishermen with water cannons it's a ridiculous right it
It's a ridiculous asymmetry that you're trying to fucking compare.
Yeah, Chinese foreign policy has its own problems,
but using lethal military power to force the hand
of other countries and subjugate them is not one of them.
Exactly.
That imbalance exists.
That asymmetry always exists for like a decade.
And then honest actors eventually will say,
you know what, we were wrong about this.
whether it be ghost cities that people now recognize or are forced to
recognize is like uh... you know
incredibly productive tier one cities that are massive
or whether it be
the chinese debt trap right in comparison to i m f loans in comparison to the way
that the world bank operates
chinese loans had no fucking conditions whatsoever
and chinese loans were oftentimes forgiven as well
this became a reality
after a decade of doing propaganda on the one-belt-one-road initiative the
form policy magazine
at the openly right
peace after peace as they did for the past couple years now
to say hey we have to really reconsider how we're giving loans and
and what kind of conditions we're offering they were giving loans into the
uh... you know developing nations because the chinese loans are infinitely
more favorable and they're out competing us
do you understand
first
Western analysts always look at, you know, whatever China is doing and greatly overemphasize it, embellish, sometimes lie, or
refuse to understand why they're doing certain things, even though they're very forthcoming with why they're doing certain things.
They always say it ahead of time. They call their shots out like Babe Ruth every single time.
Okay?
Or they do similar things that we do in terms of like offering loans and whatnot
for development in exchange for natural resources, okay, but their process is
infinitely more favorable to the country, so of course they prefer Chinese
loans over Western loans, and then we complain about it at first. We're like,
oh, they're doing what we were doing, how dare they do what we do, and then they
turn out, and then it turns out that's not the same situation at all, so they
have to like quietly admit perhaps they're not doing what we've been doing,
perhaps we should change what we've been doing in an effort to, you know, compete against China.
The immense irony of the US now flat out refusing capitalism's basic rule of letting the best
products win. I mean, that's always been the case. Trade protectionism has always been
a fundamental aspect of American trade policy. Let's be real.
All right, let's continue.
All right, let's continue.
government parties to honour the ceasefire arrangement, stick to the direction of peace
talks and take concrete actions to de-escalate the situation in the region so that normal
traffic via the street of Homoes will be able to resume as soon as possible.
What continue to use joining us now live from Beijing, so the foreign ministry spokesman
there making it very clear where Beijing stands on this, they want everybody to honour
the ceasefire agreement, they say that military intervention is only going to make things
President Xi and Pedro Sanchez, the Spanish leader, have been pledging closer ties amid
what they're calling a crumbling international order.
The UAE, it seems, is also of a similar mindset.
That's right, very busy day for Chinese President Xi Jinping.
In the morning he met with UAE Crown Prince, who is joined by a rather large delegation
of government and industry officials.
They're here to strengthen they say the comprehensive strategic partnership between UAE and China
So we're expecting some trade deals to come out of that and behind closed doors
No doubt they also discussed the war in Iran after that presentation
No, man
They're artificially devaluing their currency and not boosting domestic consumption in some hope the experts will produce growth and absorb the excess capacity
The Chinese consumers are not
Trade requires two partners if one is providing everything while needing nothing. That's just dependency. I don't understand why you don't see this
I mean the answer to that is tough titties like what are you talking about you're just you're you're mad that they get to out compete us in the game that we design this is literally the peak of western hypocrisy
It's no different than when Western nations would literally say Chinese manufacturing is far too cheap. Okay, it's too cheap. We can't compete. It'll destroy our domestic productive capacities.
Why is it cheap? Well, because they control flows of capital. Okay, we have a similar system here in the United States of America and all across the Western world as well. It's called subsidies.
subsidies. The problem is those subsidies are not used or those subsidies come from a centralized
control system, but the way that those subsidies are used is determined by private owners, okay?
It's not determined by the state. In China, it's determined by the state. That argument isn't
totally wrong, but that's just not exceptional for a powerful country. Exactly.
But it's an argument that is identical, right?
Like, that's why I always jokingly say, in order to defeat China, you have to become China.
Okay, because their system is better.
Their system is better than ours.
In terms of being a manufacturing hub, they have a far better system than we do.
And we will never be able to compete with China because they have a 50-year runway that we do not,
not as far as developing the productive forces.
I am not mad at all.
It's just the fact that if Europe, which will not go into a communist revolution
anytime soon, they need to have an economy and manufacturing base.
They are deliberately not boosting their living standards of their own population.
We almost did China during FDR.
I mean, we did because it was World War two.
That's the only reason why we did a China.
Everyone kind of did a China, modern China during World War II.
And we ate good off of that.
Damn, you brighter than my future.
Is it, is it overexposed?
No, I'm not overexposed.
How will America become a production hub when half the American population
sixth grade reading capability. I mean that kind of stuff doesn't matter as much.
If there's a will, there's a way. The problem is there is no will, there's no interest,
because that's just not how the American system works. The American system doesn't
work that way. The American system works in the exact opposite way. It works in the behestive
capital. That's it.
Hosted Pedro Sanchez from Spain. Now this is the Spanish leader's fourth visit to China in just
few years, he's been criticized by some in Europe for treating China as a sort of strategic
ally rather than an adversary.
And he's really spoken about strengthening the ties between Beijing and Madrid for economic
reasons.
But he also says that the two countries have more in common, that they both respect international
law and international order.
He's actually calling on Xi Jinping to play a bigger role in the multi-polar order and
to do more when it comes to the war in Iran.
He said at a press conference following his lunch, which is a thing that no interlocutor
is like China, and is it like China able to play a key diplomatic role to end this conflict?
They also spoke about countries he mentioned, countries that violate international law,
that they are only just subjected to threats, i.e. Israel.
So the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, they're very critical of Israel and the U.S.,
moving closer to Beijing.
Xi Jinping isn't done this week actually. He's also due to host the Vietnamese leader,
To Lam, who's arriving in China this evening for a four-day visit. So I think this really shows
that during this war, China has not just been calling for restraint and calling for a return to
talks. It's been really busy taking advantage of this moment to move closer to countries around
the world who may be disenchanted with the U.S. and its actions in Iran. And that's not to say
that's not doing anything when it comes to the war. We've just had China's foreign minister Wang Yi
speak to the Pakistani Foreign Minister yesterday, he's hosting the Russian Foreign Minister today,
Sergey Lavrov, and it's expected they will also discuss the Iranian conflict in China,
also saying that it will do whatever it can to try to restore peace and stability in that region.
Katrina, we understand that there is a...
Can't believe you compare sanctions to AOC Lamar,
his China maximum AOC is Nanyahu and JVP Maxing? No.
Also, it's different shows for different folks. It's like ridiculous to make those comparisons.
At the end of the day, the social base or the social appetite for social democracy in
Europe is like far greater than the United States of America.
That's number one.
So that's not a great comparison regardless.
Number two, you don't know what an AOC would look like if she was in power.
And number three, with respect to the rest of the parliamentary system, Pedro Sanchez
is a center left figure that is trying to ensure that a far left group doesn't actually
win more favor.
Those are the reasons why he's doing this stuff, which, you know, I don't have, I don't
have disagreements with it.
I mean, it's moving the needle in the right direction.
Okay.
China's ship has been sanctioned by the US passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
Are you hearing anything in Beijing about that?
That's right, the Starry Ridge, which is a mid-sized oil tanker, interestingly.
Sir Jeth 259, thank you.
It's a Malawi-flagged ship, although it is quite clearly owned by China,
and it would also broadcast its own signals as being affiliated with China.
We know that it left Dubai yesterday on Monday and actually stopped before the U.S. trade
blockade was announced and it actually went to do a U-turn. And then it continued through the
Strait of Hormuz and we know it was the first vessel to pass through the Strait since the
blockade was imposed on Tuesday. Now interestingly, as you mentioned, it was actually sanctioned in
2023 by the U.S. for evading its sanctions on Iran. And so really its passage through the Strait
raises more questions than it provides answers. First of all, was it allowed by the U.S. to
pass through the strait because it was coming from Dubai and not from Iran? Or was its passage
kind of missed by the U.S., maybe pointing to how difficult it is to enforce a blockade of that
waterway? So I think we have to see how many more ships are able to pass and what their affiliations
are. Bringing these up to speed there from Beijing, that's Katrina Yee. Thank you very much indeed.
This is your fourth visit to China in four years. It almost seems like, bro, what are you doing?
Like Xi Jinping is like, come on, dawg, what's happening here? You like China a little too much, maybe?
Cut it out. Cut it out, big dawg. You've been here quite a lot.
Every time I see this room, I just realize our tables aren't big enough. True.
Are you jealous? Yes, I am.
I am jealous.
Yeah, we should share the communication,
giving mutual trust, always the same stuff.
We must oppose a return of the world,
we must oppose a return of the world to the law of the jungles.
Uphold true multilateralism and safeguard global peace and development.
who change your daffodil and father.
President Xi, it's an authentic pleasure to see you again.
Today, we're going to raise the strategic dialogue between our two countries.
We're a friendly and constructive people.
What do you mean by that?
Like, why would Xi be bothered that Petrosanjian visits China too much?
It's a joke, man. I'm joking.
Okay?
In a long history, as well as in China, we are a stable, predictable country, and because
we know that only that spirit will lead us to prosperity and a lasting peace.
Chengli won in Beijing. This was quite the controversial move, okay? It was quite the
controversial move because, you know, it's not allowed. Any sort of conversation around
like normalizing relations between mainland China and Taiwan obviously goes against our
interests of using Taiwan as an entry point, as a constant thorn on the side of China.
Now Cheng Li-Wen is interesting because she initially was obviously a massive advocate
for separation, massive advocate for independence, and her attitude has changed over the time.
The reason why I say this for the record, the reason why I say this is not because I
think there is a growth in the Taiwanese population to unify with mainland China any moment now.
I'm not saying that at all.
I'm simply saying that if there was ever an appetite for unity, reunification necessarily,
in Taiwan, America would not allow it.
i i genuinely don't think america as it stands currently
uh... would ever allow and we're seeing
a part of that
uh... equation right now
okay
as soon as this conversation took place and and there's obviously supposed to be
a uh...
meeting that she should be in is going to take
with donald trump
that's a part of the supposed to happen this month of suppose i have a right now
actually
uh... but now they pushed it back because of the uh... the iran debacle
but in that conversation we're gonna talk about arm sales right
arms sales taiwan america is consistently
increased arms sales taiwan china understandably is disturbed by this
and considers this to be
an act of aggression against the united states uh... against uh... the
the people's republic of china
the camp he isn't even really advocating unification for the moment is
prefer closer economic and cultural ties with a more dovish defense policy. Exactly. Exactly.
Baby steps. Baby steps that I think are moving the conversation in the appropriate direction.
Okay.
China considers additional defense contracts from America to Taiwan as a provocation. It's
understandable to see it as a provocation. They want peaceful reunification to take place.
The Taiwanese population's attitude that is consistently pulled here over years shows
that they want status quo. Okay, it's the overwhelming majority opinion. They want status quo
with China, one foot in the Western world and one foot in China, mainland China.
And you'll hear, like even in this conversation when he's talking directly with the KMT leader,
he doesn't say we're going to reunify by force or by peace, no matter what, like the way that it's
presented in the United States of America. He basically just saying like we want to improve,
we want to improve cooperation. We want to improve relations across the straight. That is usually
the language that is used. We want to decrease tensions and hostility across the strait.
We want to improve relations across the strait. Okay.
There have been plenty of opportunities for China to try and militarily overtake Taiwan.
Today and tomorrow is a wonderful opportunity for China to do so, considering the American
limitations, right? Like look at the situation with America and American power projection
capabilities, American force projection capabilities. America so busy trying to dominate Iran and
failing to do so for the last 46 days that how the fuck would they ever actually successfully
defend Taiwan if a military takeover ever took place? They can't. So that should potentially
help you understand, or clue you in on what the ambitions actually look like, right?
and the Chinese history of the revolution.
The common people created the brilliant Chinese culture,
the great democratic spirit of the common people.
They also saved the land, which cannot be divided.
The country cannot be messed up.
The nation cannot be scattered.
I can't stop the culture.
I can't stop the culture.
I can't stop the culture.
I can't stop the culture.
I can't stop the culture.
The big road is under the leadership of President Xi.
This is from car music, I don't know.
And the continuation of the flight.
The 15th wave just started.
The meeting marked the first formal high-level engagement between the leaders of the two parties in a decade.
She said the meeting holds significant importance for advancing relations between the two parties
and for promoting ties across the Taiwan Strait.
No matter how the international landscape and the situation across the Taiwan Strait
may evolve, the overarching trend toward the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation will
not change, and the prevailing momentum for the Chinese on both sides of the Strait to
come together will not change.
China echoed what Xi said.
She believes both parties should uphold the common political foundation of adhering to
the 1992 consensus that embodies the one-China principle, as well as the post-Taiwan independence.
To let her held a press conference where she spoke about the meeting and called on all parties
in Taiwan to set aside their differences and work together to promote peace, amid rising
intentions across the Taiwan Strait, an increasing confrontation in cross-strait relations.
What she wants out of this bargain is better relations with mainland China.
What she's willing to offer for it is limiting arms sales from the United States of America.
And in exchange for that, what they receive is Taiwanese cultural products to enter the
Chinese market, TV shows, things of that nature, you know, a boost to the Taiwanese economy,
stuff like that.
Okay?
General Secretary Xi Jinping has shown a significant gesture of goodwill.
Such exchanges will definitely go beyond the scope of just between the Communist Party
of China and the Kuomintang, France 7th to 12th April. She is a traitor. Oh, hey,
Thank you, dad.
Of course you're on the screen, dad. The camera is right in front of you.
No, I can't. I'm done with the coffee.
It's not left.
This is a step in the right direction, regardless.
Okay?
Developing better ties with mail in China, this fucking behemoth, is still not a bad thing, okay?
It's not.
It's ridiculous to treat it as such.
The delegation led by Chang Li-wen visited Jiangsu Province, Shanghai, and Beijing in a
tight and busy schedule.
Despite this, the visit certainly brought about successful results.
On Wednesday morning, Chang Li-wen and her delegation of Chinese Kuomintang Party have
come to visit Ma Saling, Dr. Sun Yacen.
a great pioneer of China's democratic revolution.
21 years ago, she stood in the same spot as a spokesperson for the Kuomintang delegation
accompanying then-Chairman Lianzhan on his historic ice-breaking visit.
Visitors from across the country read it back.
The moment left a strong impression on the scoring how deep-rooted and enduring the bonds
across the street remain.
In Shanghai, the focus shifted to economic vitality, with more than 20,000 talent businesses
currently operating in a city.
Through firsthand experiences ranging from drone delivery services to the torrent of
C919 assembly line, and a visit to Yangshan Deepwater Port, the world's largest automatic
container terminal, Cheng highlighted a vision of development that is already taking shape.
In Beijing, Cheng Yiwen made a point of visiting Tsinghua University High School, and Zhong
Guangsun often referred to as China's citizen valley, focusing on AI education and broader
innovation ecosystem.
She emphasized the engagement with the mainland goes beyond managing tensions.
It also provides access to technological opportunities that will help shape the next generation's
future prosperity.
I usually say that both sides of the Taiwan Strait have strength of their own, and now
they should join hands to solve problems together, and even beyond that, for the world.
As the delegation was wrapping up their visit on April 12, the Taiwan Work Office of the
Communist Party of China's Central Committee unveiled a package consisting of 10 policies
and measures that aim to boost exchanges in cooperation across the Taiwan Strait.
This includes the establishment of the regular communication mechanism between both parties,
promoting two-way exchanges between young people on both sides, fast-tracking the full
resumption of regular direct flights across the Strait.
The Chinese Kuomintang welcomes the policies and measures.
The Chinese Kuomintang parties welcomed this and hopes that all parties in Taiwan were
jointly promoted without being hindered by any obstacles so as to benefit the people
of Taiwan.
Although the ruling Democratic Progressive Party authorities in Taiwan made a statement
criticizing Kuomintang and Chang Li-wen for visiting the mainland, others said the visit
that holds great significance for the promotion of peace and common development across the state.
I think the meeting between both parties was very successful.
It lays a good foundation for peace.
And I particularly thank our compatriots on the Chinese mainland for supporting all of this.
We expect to use the opportunity of this meeting
together for peace and to liberate our sources from bottomless weapon purchase, and to return
to the construction for people's livelihoods.
The road ahead may not be smooth, but after years of rising tensions, Chen's visit serves
as a reminder that dialogue remains essential.
It not only reinforces the political foundation for more stable cross-strait relations, but
also offers a framework for broader engagement between the Chinese mainland and a wide range
of political parties, groups and social sectors in China's Taiwan region, helping steered
exchanges back to work a more constructive path.
Let's update you on what is happening right now in the strait of Hormuz, with the latest.
Yeah, um, if Iran drags war out, the current war runs in a hard deadline under the war
Under the War Powers Resolution, Trump can't legally continue military operation in Iran
past 60 days to Congress, but he may try to redefine the operation and reset the clock
if push comes to shove.
Under the War Powers Resolution Act of 1973, President's most terminated military operation
after six days unless Congress has voted to declare war or pass legislation to authorize
use of force.
Yeah, I don't think he's going to care about that.
I don't think, I don't think America or Donald Trump cares about that sort of thing.
CPC and KMT leaders have met over 20 times the past few decades, figures like Lian Chan,
Po, Song, Maiying, Zhou, Erqiu, and Hung, Kuxiu, Chiu have all met, either China's President
Hu or President Xi, yet none of these meetings sparked any closer global reaction we're
seeing this time.
What has really changed is the atmosphere.
In the past, people understood that the conditions for reunification simply weren't ripe.
Those high-level meetings, while symbolically important, can't fundamentally alter the status
quo.
But now, with China's steady rise, a growing number of observers have come to believe or
feel that the conditions for reunification are gradually falling into place. China's
adversaries also feel the shift viscerally and their anxiety is palpable. Their fierce
opposition to this latest meeting only draws more global attention to it. Cheng Li Wen
is not necessarily more pro-China or more capable than her predecessors. As an old
Chinese saying goes, a man of the hour is made by the times, not necessarily himself.
Okay. So, that is the, that's the situation. And I suspect that is the reason why, I suspect
That's the reason why Americans and Western analysts are more mad than ever before.
Ancient Chinese saying, yeah.
Anyway, let's continue.
It's just funny because like this is what we're doing around the world.
like they're, they are taking advantage of the chaos that we're causing to achieve their goals.
Okay. All the while, what we're, what we're trying to do is just like develop even more
leverage against China and the Malacca straight as well. There's now a security cooperative agreement
with Indonesia that Donald Trump signed off on recently. And people think that that's another
way to create an additional checkpoint where oil and gas passes through on its way to China.
And you have the likes of Rick Scott, who constantly talk about how I have called for his
assassination when I did not. Yesterday he had a semaphore, he was at a semaphore conference in
DC and
He had let me see if I could find it. He had some some choice words
some unbelievably violent
Rhetoric
Talking about
The double blockade that currently exists
Not just against China
but also
Against all of the other countries that rely on oil and gas coming from the show to Hormuz. Here it is
he said the war
i think blocking the straight of hormones is fine for my standpoint let's
see let's see what he uh...
let's see what he had to say were in iran
which is sort of in a ceasefire right now how do you feel like this is going
should the u.s
wrap this up get out of there now or do you think there's more to do that
i think i think i appreciate the trumps trying to get rid of the nicole
weapons i don't want to die by nicole up and from iran they wanted to kill us
i mean
this appeasement of bullies i don't know if you can your life if that's work for
you guys it's never work for me
And so they wanted to kill us.
So they're getting close to being a physician to kill us.
And they basically had been killing Americans.
So I think what Trump did is the right thing.
Now, I think this, they're, he...
Saying that while we're in the process of killing Iranian
people is so funny.
It's just such a strange,
it's such a strange predicament.
And it basically exposed American hypocrisy.
like our enemies are not human only we are human our enemies are just something
different right there they're
uh... parasites that need to be vanquished
that's just the way we operate but he literally so i was been killing our
people you have a that's interesting is news to me you know
we've been killing their people
for the last forty six days
i mean you killed a bunch of americans doing medicare fraud but that's a
totally separate story
right you get to do that
rick scott
but in the process of like why we must continues blockade
he speaks
in this callous manner
the other
secondary
unintentional and sometimes intentional victims
he's talking about starving out china here
and it's
so
fucking stupid as to
he has to get
the them in a position that they don't have the ability to do the weapons are
blessing this
that's i think that's where we have to go
i don't know what the right approaches going to be
i think
walking on the uh... street removes
it is is uh...
is fine for my standpoint
if not if no oil ever goes to china again
and their economy is destroyed that would be a really wonderful day for me
here's why this is
incredibly violent
for understandable. I think many of you can understand what this is, right?
Like he's saying, oh, let's just destroy the Chinese energy grid.
Let's like starve out China. Now, that's already a demonic thing to say.
However, however,
what he fails to consider is that you're not just blocking oil to China.
When you do that, you're blocking all the Japan,
which gets 90% of his energy needs from the golf, from the Persian golf.
All of those tankers cross through the Strait of Hormuz you're talking about the Philippines talking about Korea
You're talking about the entire Asian market. You're not just starving China. You're starving the entire
East Asian market
that's number one
Which is unbelievably stupid to say number two
China is responsible for
30% of all of our trade is the manufacturing hub of the entire planet China produces the components necessary for our national defense
China produces
China refines the rare earth minerals
That are also necessary for our national defense to just you know point out one sector, but pretty much all sectors, right?
so what do you think happens to America if
China no longer has access to energy
You're so fucking stupid and racist that you think we live in a totally separate design a totally separate world
world, where every single country is not interconnected, especially China, is not interconnected
with every single country in the productive process.
It's so stupid, like this is not how this stuff works at all.
He's just so horny to be brutal.
He's so horny to behave like a ghoulish monster in this moment that he doesn't realize that
he's basically demanding not only billions of people die, not just in China, but all
around the east asian markets but on top of that he's talking about american death too because if
that if we played this out to its final conclusion if he actually got his desires across if that was
the american foreign policy americans would die as well it would destroy the entire planet it's just
so stupid. But also a perfect demonstration of American exceptionalism, American imperialism,
American exceptionalism, American individualism, and how self-defeating and how idiotic of an
assessment this is.
To carry out our violent goals, to carry out our violent goals against an enemy state that we have designed as a foreign adversary that doesn't need to be seen as a foreign adversary at all, we will destroy the whole world and kill our own people as well.
people are that rich people that are rich enough to not be affected say let it
all burn no no one is rich enough for that okay that's not a real thing we
live on the same planet it's the same principle with climate change people are
rich enough to soften its impact but they're not rich enough to avoid it
right everything is connected
it's a very stupid way to operate
Yeah, billionaires Penny Pritzker and David Rubenstein, co-founder of the Carlisle Group,
fund semaphore.
Surely they can find someone in Washington, D.C. who understands the oil markets are global
and tanking Asian economies will come back to us everywhere.
It's not just the oil markets that are global.
This isn't about being rich enough to avoid the worst consequences, okay?
about being racist enough to not recognize the immediate worsening of conditions across
the board that this will yield. This would have tremendous consequences. You just can't
foresee them because you're a racist idiot. A new YouGov poll shows 25% of Americans falsely
believe Iran possess a nuclear weapon and 45% believe the also false claim that Iran is an
active nuclear weapons program. So I examine why this misinformation is so widespread,
namely sleazy innuendo-laden Iran coverage by US media. That's what it is. I love these polls
because it's all what is sometimes reads like a flex, right? American media, when they conduct
these polls are almost flexing. They're like, look at how powerful we are at, you know, making
large chunks of the population into stupid cattle,
completely oblivious to how things are happening,
completely oblivious to how things are going around the world.
Ship tracking data has been analysed by BBC Verify showing
that four around-linked tankers have crossed the strait
the strait despite Washington's naval blockade. Two of those ships had visited Iranian ports,
that's according to Marine Traffic. Its data shows a bulk carrier, the Christiania, crossing
the strait on Monday, having called at the port of Band-Aman-Homani. China, the biggest buyer of
Iranian oil, describing the US restricting access to Iran's ports as irresponsible and dangerous.
And what we've been hearing from the Pakistani capital, Islamabad as well,
reports that the next round of talks may take place this week or early next week to extend
the current two-week ceasefire.
So far, neither Washington nor Te Iran had made any formal comments on this next round
of negotiations.
We're watching out for that and we'll bring you any comments as soon as we get them.
Well, James Parkham, as a retired Rear Admiral and the Royal Navy with Iranian link ships
managing to get through the Strait of Hormuz, he told me what he thinks is going on on the
Strait.
The most important thing for your viewers to note is that this is a blockade of Iran's
ports rather than a blockage of the Strait of Hormuz.
And as a result, much of the action and activity in that area of the world is going to be calibrated
by how ships try and escape the blockade.
And the four ships that have gone through the strait today indicate that perhaps it's
not-
guy. Not only is he a very British guy, this is a very British room. Everything about him
is so unbelievably British.
Things enforced as strictly as might otherwise be the case.
So what we're seeing at the moment is a policy from the US Navy of deterrence, James, rather
than enforcement.
Well, it's an interesting analogy because one of the things that has been apparent in
the last few weeks is that despite quite a lot of the rhetoric, the straight-a form
move is not actually blocked, it's not blocked physically, there's no evidence of any mines
being laid. But what has happened is that civilian shipping companies have been deterred
from transiting the Strait of Hormuz because of the danger of attack from Iranian forces
in particular. I see no evidence that that deterrence has been dialed down at all. And
merchant shipping companies who are perhaps connected with non-Iranian ports and non-Iranian
and the cargoes have so far been extremely reluctant to go through the strait because
of both the shipping insurance impact and also the risk of attack or damage to their
cargoes. So for a blockade to be legal and effective, it does have to be enforced. And
certainly for the first 12 or so hours of the blockade, that doesn't appear to be the
case.
What is the biggest danger right now?
I think there are two dangers that leap out as to causes of action that may take place.
Danger number one, I think, is that the ships and the assets that the US Navy have assembled
to enforce the blockade are not able to do that.
Blockades themselves are actually a matter of international law, and one of the elements
that has to be fulfilled for this to be a legal blockade is that it has to be effective.
And if four ships have gone through already linked with Iranian cargoes that have not
being stopped, not being boarded. That implies that the U.S. Navy at the moment is struggling
to have sufficient assets in the area to be able to enforce the blockade itself.
They're saying is a fake Mickey Mouse blockade. The American one, that is. They're saying
that sufficient deterrence from the Iranian blockade over the Shredda Hormuz has been
been established, but the American part of the blockade that was supposed to have been
established is not real, is a Mickey Mouse blockade.
So I think danger number one is that the Iranian ships continue to get through and the US forces
perhaps slightly overreact in order to counter the narrative that the blockade is not being
of force. Perhaps the second and more dangerous but less likely course of action is that the
non-Iranian link ships, which are free to pass under the US Navy's notice to mariners
to non-Iranian ports, when they start to go through and they've been reassured that they
are subject to attack by Iranian forces, that would be the worst of all worlds, because
it would show that the merchant shipping community is not free to proceed that the US Navy's
told them to do and the Iranians are reopening hostilities against both ships and potentially
ports in the region.
How much of a concern- Imagine being called an economic terrorist by fans of all people.
It's ironic because he called himself an economic terrorist last night as we watched.
He basically said, what Iran is doing is economic terrorism.
Two can play that game.
We're going to do it too.
Which is such an insane thing for America to say because it's like fundamentally at odds
with the whole point of america being the global hegemon
the entire point of why america is the global hegemon
the the whole
the bargain here
is
that the united states of america
gets to keep
uh... all of the
it gets to keep all the waterways free
of interference
okay
that's that's the whole point as why we have thirteen
uh... aircraft carriers right
that was a real or enemies never stop thinking about new ways to harm our
country and our people
and neither do we
uh... moment yeah
yeah america is number one because we guarantee a system of free trade in
international law
now obviously that's been bullshit for the longest time like we've never really
uh... follow-through on that the whole international law design that we put
together
the the post
world war two
uh... uh...
international rule-based order was designed a way where we could just like
uh... claim that our enemies are not abiding by those rules and then we get
to violate those rules whenever we want
right
but a part of the reason why we get to do that is because it was supposed to
create global stability
this is the exact opposite
you are throwing the the sole purpose of your existence away as the global
hegemon
when you
lean into israel's
desires
of dominating the fukum region
uh... in exchange for that uh...
uh... that follow-through what you get in return is here on
control in the state of our moves
forcing your hand into negotiations
you've created global instability
iran is basically saying what there's only one way out of this
we got a gun to the head of the the international markets
a proverbial gun
we're we're we're not even pulling the trigger we're letting everybody pass
through as long as they pay a toll
and then america's like no we don't like that you defeated us here so we're
gonna fuck it up even further
ourselves and that's insane
further evidence that america is not invested in stability at all
and is that james and we've talked about it a lot but if you're actually out
there in your the u.s. navy that it's not always possible
to identify these ships, that there's false flags,
and you don't know necessarily where they're going
because they couldn't turn off their tracking data.
Well, that's a really good point
from an open source intelligent point of view,
but in reality, modern armed forces know very well
where every ship has been and to whom it is connected.
From your reporting earlier on today,
you discussed a false flagged vessel,
flagged with the Cormorous Islands, which is actually not a registry that I believe has.
Why aren't the markets reacting negatively to the blockade? Because the markets are bullshit.
What are they supposed to do? Concede to the reality and then watch everything implode?
Because if they were to be like, yeah, you know, sell everything, panic, sell everything, it's over,
then they can't make money. There has to be, there has to be a maintenance in this fake
system. There has to be some level of confidence, some semblance of stability. And everyone,
Every player in this design has to make it seem like, no, things are fine, actually.
There isn't a crash that's imminent.
Yeah, the markets are being weakened and burnished right now, exactly.
That ship on its books.
But actually, US Navy, the UK maritime trade organization, which is the global leader in
tracking merchant marine traffic in that area.
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The Iran-U.S.-Israeli war, and the first 24 hours was past the Donald Trump's blockade
of Iranian ports. Retaliation for Iran's effected closure of the Strait of Hormuz that JD Vance
advised. What are you talking about? I already saw this.
economic terrorism. So what if anything has been the impact on shipping in this crucial
shipping lane? This shows us 24 hours of movement since that blockade began. We've speeded it up.
You can see scores of cargo ships and tankers on either side of the strait at bay. Uncertain
what to do. Many have been there for weeks. Some vessels are willing to make the dash
through this... Halo Sydney, think you're the thing you did.
...despite it's facing not one, but two blockades. Let's take a little look at some of the vessels
individually, because they tell a tale about what's going on.
This is the L-piss.
It is US sanctioned for having moved Iranian oil in the past.
It's come from Boucher in Iran, where
it's filled up with oil.
We don't know where it's going, destination unknown,
but it has passed through.
Very close to Kashyam Island here.
It got as far as here, just off Oman, really.
But then it pours about 10 hours into the blockade.
We don't know why it stopped, but it hasn't moved on.
There's a similar story with this vessel, the rich starry.
Again, U.S. sanctioned. This was Chinese-owned. Again, it headed east, out of the Persian Gulf,
got to here, and then a few hours ago it turned back. We don't know why, but it has nevertheless
done a U-turn. Now, it came from an anchorage off Shajr in the UAE. Donald Trump has said
that neutral vessels that aren't going to Iranian ports will have free passage. So let's
wait and see what happens to this vessel, whether that U.S. sanctioning trumps any of
the questions about where it's actually loaded up with oil.
So I've got two more, because they show us another side of this story.
The Merley-Cashan and the Peace Gulf, some are optimistically named.
They've got several things in common.
Number one, they are heading in to the Gulf.
They're not heading out.
They're both empty.
They're not ladies.
They're presumably looking to load up with oil.
Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me no pleasure to inform you
that the northern lion supercruise
has not been able to pass the straight of hormones they are currently stuck
in the persian gulf
that's right
unfortunately the northern lion supercruise is still stuck
on the other side they have paid
the iranian toll
but there is growing concern
the American Navy might explode their crews and therefore they can't pass through the
Strait. Northern Lion has commandeered the ship. He's officially the captain. He's chosen
to take off the transponder in an effort to turn the ship dark and allow safe passage.
But unfortunately, in spite of the mutiny, they haven't made any leeway.
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They are both linked to China.
The Molochishan has come from Lanshan in China.
The Peace Gulf is Chinese-owned.
There's something else that haven't come.
I want to point out here, see if we can get a look at this.
They've both taken this route north of Larak Island.
It's a narrow, straight, above the main straight-in-call moose.
And it's where Iran has asked ships that are paying a toll
to pass through so they can take a look at them,
actually, almost physically.
Kairan's toll booth.
Now, we've got no idea whether these vessels have paid that toll,
but it is perhaps telling that ships on the way in
have chosen to take that route.
The big question for these vessels and the others
we've looked at is what happens when they eventually do try and leave the Gulf. Now the US Central
Command has said that in the first 24 hours 10,000 sailors and marines and a dozen warships have
been forced to blockade. No ships have left. Make fun of me if this is a dumb question because I
know nothing about oil. Can they use planes to transport oil? No. It's a lot. So no. It's very
heavy 2 to 3 million barrels of oil sit on top of these tankers. It's impossible to transit
this by any other means. Yeah, it would not be cost effective and you would never be able
to reach the same quantities.
The Gulf of the Sixth Marine ship turned round back to Iranian ports.
We don't know if any of the boats we've looked at are part of that.
What we do know is that the bulk of shipping is not willing to take the risk of
potential Iranian attack by moving through the strait of the Moos in any volume.
As long as these two are trading barbs, even with a ceasefire,
as long as there's a diplomatic impasse, the Strait of Hormuz effectively remains closed
in the global economy, and all about ultimately.
Stunning, it was achieved through the wars Israel pushed the US into, the genocide it
committed, and the manner in which criticism of Israel has been punished, but it's backfiring
massively. Holy Toledo, here is Harry Emden, also known as Harry Emden.
Then, talking about Donald Trump's, or not Donald Trump's, I'm sorry, Israel's approvals
absolutely cratering among men under the age of 50.
Now, this is also part of the reason why I feel unbelievably confident in my position.
Not only because it is a position that is born out of truth, it is the morally righteous
position, but also it's a position shared by many people. Okay, more people in the
United States of America than ever before. This is why Fox News can chirp
about, you know, whatever I'm saying all day every day, but the reality of the
matter is we are living in a very different information environment. We're
living in a very different environment where the attitude against Israel is
is only getting worse every single day look at this shift
for the net favorability of Israel among men under the age of 50 from 2022 till now
They have very much shifted away from Israel. Look at this net favorability of Israel among men under the age of 50 in
2022 not too bad, but not too hot to try either at minus three points by 2025 again down
Now when we go, minus 22 points, that is a 19-point shift in just three years time.
But it gets even worse.
Look at this for Israel.
Minus 47 points.
That's a 44-point shift away from Israel on the net favorability amongst young men who
of course shifted massively into the Republican column back in 2024 and they have been shifting
away from Israel over the last four years.
Yeah, and there's obviously still more room to grow, right? There's still more room to grow. You already know my position on this, you know?
We're not hating hard enough, okay?
Nathan J. Robinson says, Israel doesn't care about losing public opinion as long as it maintains political support.
The crucial thing is to translate the shift in public sentiment into meaningful change in U.S. policy.
Also, correct.
This is a great video to pop up how to show how far we've come, yeah.
Let's talk about the U.S. relationship with Israel.
Senator Sanders, you maintain that Israel's response in Gaza in 2014 was, quote, disproportionate
and led to the unnecessary loss of innocent life.
What do you say to those who believe that Israel-
It's really funny because like a lot of people are going to hear Bernie say this and be like,
Oh, there goes Bernie.
He has a wishy-washy attitude here.
This was in 2016, okay?
I don't think any of you have the capacity
to understand how unbelievably refreshing
this perspective was to hear at the main stage, okay?
I'm telling you right now,
In 2016, a decade ago, Bernie Sanders was one of the only figures that would say things
like this.
Okay?
This was like coming out of Yahis and more strongest soldier in 2016.
Exactly.
This position was in comparison to what my position is currently in American discourse,
the way that I talk about Israel, the way that I talk about, you know, the Palestinian
resistance. It's the equivalent of that being revealed, not even the equivalent of that actually.
It's not even that. It's like saying, it's like someone coming out and saying Yahya
Sanwar is a brilliant tactician and you know all this stuff. Like it's like being pro Yahya Sanwar
in 2020 in 2025. That's how incredibly rare this was at this level. Well, as a right to defend itself as it sees fit.
Well, as somebody who spent many months of my life when I was a kid in Israel, who has family in Israel,
Of course, Israel has a right not only to defend themselves, but to live in peace and
security without fear of terrorist attack.
That is not a debate.
But, but, what you just read, yeah, I do believe that.
Israel was subjected to terrorist attacks, has every right in the world to destroy terrorism.
But we had in the Gaza area, not a very large area, some 10,000 people, who were killed
1,000 civilians who were wounded and some 1,500 who were killed
Now if you're asking me not just me
But countries all over the world
Was that a disproportionate attack?
The answer is I believe it was and let me say something else
Somebody who is 100% pro-Israel
in the long run, and this is not going to be easy, God only knows, but in the long run if we are ever going to bring peace to that region which has seen so much hatred and so much war, we are going to have to treat the Palestinian people with respect and dignity.
So one is not to say, to say that right now in Gaza, right now in Gaza unemployment is
somewhere around 40 percent, you've got a lot of that area continuous, it hasn't been
rebuilt.
Decimated, houses decimated, health care decimated, schools decimated, I believe the United States
in the rest of the world, I've got to work together to help the Palestinian people.
That does not make me anti-Israel.
That paves the way, I think.
Thank you, Senator.
This is so oxymoronic, and the fact that you're calling it as refreshing is disgusting.
Buddy, buddy, did you not hear what I said?
The truth about Israel was still the same in 2016.
I'm not talking about what the truth is.
i'm talking about how rare even this sentiment was in twenty sixteen
especially being delivered
at the main stage
at a democratic presidential debate during the fucking primaries
that was ten years ago
at a certain point you have to understand like
i'm using my words very carefully
okay
you are behaving irrationally
Because you don't want to understand the words coming out of my mouth.
Okay?
Even saying this was unbelievable for 2016.
I said what I said.
Oh, just take a fucking day off. You're so goddamn unbearable, dude
Because again, you're not you're arguing with someone who's been an anti Zionist, okay?
It's so fucking annoying to constantly have this back and forth because like you're you're angry because you're misunderstanding the point
I'm making I'm trying to show you how much public attitude has shifted since then and
You're just trying to fucking
Be ignorant like willful you're definitely willful ignorant to what I'm saying you're like I don't care. I don't care
I'm mad
This is no longer even a point of contention over the facts on the ground
This is just you refusing to understand the point I'm making
So fucking annoying that works in the middle of the year, Secretary Clinton, you agree
with Senator Sanders that Israel overreacts to Palestinian attacks and that in order
for there to be peace between Israel and the Palestinians, Israel must also is really funny
because like, you know, most of the prominent anti-Zionists were so elated. Myself included,
I wasn't a prominent anti-Zionist back then, but most of the prominent anti-Zionists were actually
so excited at the prospect of having such a pivotal figure in American politics openly say
these sorts of things. Okay? At the time, they're reduced to doing the dapke at Bernie
Sanders rallies. Okay? Well, and it's disproportionate responses. I negotiated the ceasefire between
Israel and Hamas in November of 2012. I did it in concert with President Abbas of the
Palestinian Authority based in Ramallah, I don't offer Bernie until he said this in the debate
By the way, I had a whole ass fucking bobblehead and action figure of Bernie that literally burned in a fire pit after this
You should pack yourself on the back for converting someone who's clearly that propaganda is and I'll forever be grateful for you
Grateful to you for it. That's so funny. You burned the Bernie Sanders bobblehead. That's
That's so funny
And now and now you're to the left of Bernie on this like it's just
like people change people have the capacity to change especially with no
information especially if they maintain charitability that's so funny
I did it with the then Muslim Brotherhood President Morsi based in Cairo
working closely with Prime Minister Netanyahu and the Israel God I can't
believe. I can't believe Hillary Clinton didn't win really cabinet. I can tell you
I was 15 brother. No, because I have been there with Israeli officials going back
more than 25 years that they do not seek this kind of attacks. They do not
invite rockets raining down on their towns and villages. They do not believe
that there should be a constant incitement by Hamas aided and abetted by Iran against
Israel.
And so when it came time after they had taken incoming rockets, taken the assaults and ambushes
on their soldiers, and they called and told me, I was in Cambodia, that they were getting
ready to have to invade Gaza again because they couldn't find anybody to talk to to tell
them to stop it, they, I flew all night, I got there, I negotiated that.
So I don't know how you run a country when you are under constant threat, terrorist
attack, rockets coming at you, you have a right to defend yourself.
does not mean that does not mean that you don't take appropriate precautions and I understand
that there's always second-guessing anytime there is a war. It also does not mean that we should
not continue to do everything we can to try to reach a two-stage solution. Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's
like, ah, Hamas, Hamas. Ah, ah. Do Palestinians have a right to defend themselves? I don't mean
You need to acknowledge that you have many Arab fans that simply hold resentment towards people like Bernie because we don't believe in the right for Israel to exist no matter how much we allow Bernie.
I don't give a shit. Shut up. Okay. I don't care. I don't care. Like, what do you mean? We're not, that's not the point. That's not the point that we're having here. That's not the point of contention.
Okay, it's a misunderstanding of why I was showing this
Jesus Christ
It's unbelievably annoying to do this because the conversation that we're having is not about how fucking
Correct Bernie Sanders was in 2016 the conversation is about how unique this was to to hear from a
Person because we're reflecting on how much the attitude has shifted in the last decade
especially in the last three years, okay?
Oh my god.
It's so weird, bro. It is so fucking weird.
And I was there back then.
And you're wrong. You were probably a baby back then.
So you don't remember.
I was there back then, and people were fucking stoked, so you're wrong about that too.
The song Crying on Q as per usual?
Bro move on, bro move on, bro move on please move on buddy move on Baldi here 36 months
subscriber you can get fucking permafried if you wanna suck it from the back.
I
Anyway
It's just so funny to also do it to someone like myself, like, I'm, you know, a fairly
prominent critic of the state of Israel and certainly even critical of Bernie Sanders
on this issue.
So what the fuck are you talking about?
Anyway, let's get back to Iran.
Why the Iran ceasefire may have shifted dynamics back in Trump's favor, says Trita Parsi.
Diplomacy between Washington and Tehran has not yet unraveled, despite J. D. Vance's theatrical
departure from last week's talks in Islamabad.
Trump now signals that the two sides could reconvene within days in the Pakistani capital.
Whether negotiators return to the table or continue their exchanges through quieter remote
channels before the ceasefire lapses, one reality appears to have shifted.
Trump has clawed back a measure of momentum and with it leverage over Iran largely by
virtue of the ceasefire here is why.
I don't know if I agree with this assessment so let's take a look.
Trump entered this moment politically cornered and strategically constrained.
Surgeon gasoline prices were inflicting acute domestic pain eroding and standing at home.
More critically he faced a bear in escalation ladder.
Each conceivable move strikes on Iran's oil infrastructure, attacks on civilian targets,
seizure of Persian Gulf Islands, or covert operations to capture in rich uranium carried
the near certainty of forceful Iranian retaliation. Such responses would not merely match his
escalation but compounded, deepening his economic exposure, amplifying political risk, and
entangling him further in a perilous and unwinnable strategic bind.
Nor could he simply extricate the United States from the conflict on his own terms. Absent
understanding with Tehran, Iran retained both the capacity and the incentive to continue
targeting Israel and vulnerable U.S. assets across the Gulf, Trump needed Iran's permission
to get out of the war.
The ceasefire, however, has subtly altered that equation.
Trump may no longer need a formal nod from Tehran to step back.
If he disengages now without a comprehensive agreement, Iran will almost certainly maintain
its grip over the Shredda Hormuz, a strategic setback for Washington, yet Tehran is unlikely
to resume direct military operations against U.S. targets in the Persian Gulf.
do so in the absence of renewed American strikes would cast Iran as the aggressor, inviting
severe and potentially coordinated repercussions not only from Washington, but from wary global
powers such as Russia and China.
Moreover, the balance of needs has tilted.
Iran now appears to need an agreement more than the United States does.
Trump has already secured a central objective.
The escape from a war he was ill-advised to begin with.
While Iran, despite a crewing leverage through its command over the strait, remains far more
from realizing his broader ambitions, meaningful sanctions relief, a definitive and enduring
end to hostilities, and perhaps even the contours of a more stable, constructive relationship
with Washington.
Tehran's decision to dispatch its largest, most senior, and most expansive delegation
to Islamabad, for direct talks with the American vice president, reflected a striking confidence
that it occupies its strongest negotiation position vis-a-vis the United States since
1979.
Yet, to convert that moment of perceived ascendancy into little more than a cessation of U.S. bombardment
would fall short of its aspirations.
Even if Washington were to actu acquiesce to Iran's control over the strait, such an
outcome would pale against the far more consequential gains Tehran believes are within reach.
Instead, Iran needs to translate this leverage not only into a durable end of the war, but
ideally into a new peace.
that delivers sweeping sanctions relief and inaugurates a more stable, mutually defined
economic and political relationship with Washington. Such an arrangement will serve as a bulwark
against renewed conflict. The economic imperative is especially stark. Sanctions relief is indispensable
to reconstruct the country, now burdened with damage, running into the hundreds of billions
of dollars.
I don't know if I fully agree with that because I think controlling one of the key trade routes
around the planet that is responsible for 20% of all of the oil and gas needs is, and
achieving that militarily is a spectacular feat.
I disagree.
I don't fully agree with this assessment.
I get what he's trying to say, but I don't think this is as beneficial to Trump because
Because as long as the energy markets are still suffering, there will be domestic pressure.
Every day that Iran continues to control the Shreya Hormuz and continues to operate a toll
on the Shreya Hormuz.
Like if tomorrow Donald Trump decided, all right, fuck it, we're not doing a double blockade.
Right?
We're not doing a double blockade.
says, okay, 100, you know, 15 ships, a passenger to Hormose, we can make that 100 if necessary.
They implement a toll system, a more efficient toll process, and allow ships to go through
unimpeded. All of a sudden, there's a major revenue resource here, but on top of that, on top of that.
Not only is there, this is a major source of new revenue coming in,
Then, revenue that will be utilized to rebuild Iran, okay, this is a major pressure point
that it now has, command that it has over the rest of the globe.
This way, Iran, while also maintaining the position of being the more stable actor in
comparison to the United States of America, can commit to bilateral relationships with
many other partners around the world, which has started doing anyway.
control in this process with like secondary sanctions to anyone that is actually trading
with Iran will diminish.
I don't fully agree with this assessment.
They fought militarily and won a major strategic objective.
As I've argued before, sanctions relief is not merely an economic demand, it's a strategic
necessity.
Iran risks a condition of chronic erosion, a slow but steady weakening that would leave
it exposed.
That vulnerability in turn could invite further attacks.
It was after all the misperception of Iranian weakness that helped open the window for initial
strikes.
But Trump does not in any fundamental sense, okay hold on, I gotta grab the door real quick.
This morning new details emerging from peace talks that broke off between the US and Iran
over the weekend.
The big question from here on out is whether the Iranians will have enough flexibility.
Vice President JD Van says, while progress was made, Iran would likely need to send a
new negotiating team to reach any deal.
The team that was there, one that was unable to cut a deal, and they had to go back to
Tehran either from the Supreme Leader or somebody else and actually get approval to the terms
that we had said.
Those terms reportedly include a demand that Iran suspend uranium enrichment for 20 years,
but Iran reportedly proposed suspending enrichment for only five years.
foreign minister calling U.S. demands excessive, but acknowledging there was progress on many
issues discussed. The Associated Press reports a second round of talks could begin as soon as
Thursday. Now, with the U.S. blockade of the Strait of Hormuz in place, experts warn oil prices
did not yet reflect the supply issues caused by the war. More than 80 oil facilities in the
Middle East have been damaged, resulting in 13 million fewer barrels. I don't think he's saying
it's not a strategic win. He's saying it does not help them achieve their main goals, sanctions,
his relief, and he's likely correct, that if the U.S. does not re-engage with strikes,
Iran would not be able to resume its own strikes without the world shutting them down. It's
still a loss for the U.S. and a strategic win for Iran, but far from what they were
looking for and kicks the can down the road for future conflict.
Yes. That's why I also said the number one thing that they wanted beyond sanctions relief
at that they were never going to get, ironically enough, was to restrain Israel, to drive a
wedge between the relationship between America and Israel and to show the rest of the world
that America had the capacity to stop Israel. Okay? The reason why they wanted to do that,
the reason why they had to do that was so that they could actually
ensure that future conflicts such as the one that Israel brought America into never happens again.
There's also another problem here, though, and that is another part of this puzzle that I think
Trita is not factoring in to the equation, which is that Iran can rebuild and develop closer ties
with China in the process and not only develop closer ties with China in the
process but get better weapons get better defenses and on top of that on
top of that if it's an inevitability that Israel tries to attack Iran again
this time they will have they will have a stronger force against Israel a better
means of retaliation against both Israel and maybe even the United States of
America, if that were to happen again.
They reinforce their control over the Shadahormuz that doesn't go away and
then also on top of that they have they have a they have more bandwidth to
potentially fight back against Israel. But Trump does not in any fundamental
sense require any of this. The United States can endure without a formal
agreement with Iran and without the benefits of an economic relationship with
Tehran, to be sure a negotiated settlement would better serve long-term American interest.
The nuclear constraints with Trump seeks can only be credibly secured at the negotiating
table.
A abruptly abandoning diplomacy while leaving Iran in undisputed control of the strait would
also unsettle key regional allies if these strategic preferences, not immediate necessities.
Like I just don't, I don't see this being a bad thing for Iran at all, because let's
say Iran decides we're actually going to nuke, we're going to get a nuke.
Okay, Iran's like we're gonna build a nuke. Fuck it. You can't do anything about it. We need to develop sovereignty
We're gonna build a nuke. That's always an option on the table now
Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Haman a passed away his fought was gone
It seems to me like the remaining Iranian leadership are far more favorable to the idea of developing nuclear arms
Okay, let's say in the process of developing nuclear arms
Israel tries to attack Iran. This gives yet another opening now to a much stronger Iran
to fight back against Israel and restarted all over again. In the past, they did not control
the Shadaharmuz. In the past, they had not blown up every American military base in every radar
installation in the region. This is a very different Iran. Iran won. America was begging
to get to the ceasefire table. That's it. It's a massive W for Iran. Even if America retreats
from this conversation, even if America retreats from the ceasefire process, okay, and basically
forces Iran's hand not to restart the tit-for-tat bombing campaigns or whatever, okay. Iran can
continue bombing Israel, for example, if Israel continues to bomb Lebanon. That's another angle
here. So there are numerous ways in which Iran could continue applying pressure.
Trump's calculus is far more transactional and far less patient. He can point to the damage
already inflicted on Iran's nuclear infrastructure and conventional forces, proclaim a hollow victory
and disengage. He has already emphasized that the United States no longer depends on the Persian
Gulf oil, insinuating it from direct economic consequences of Iran's toll regime as a result
the burden shifts outward, the strait becomes a problem for european and asian powers, countries
that trump has noted declined to rally due to his side when he sought their help in prying the water
away from tehran's grip. the window now open offers tehran a chance to convert battlefield leverage
into lasting strategic gain to let it close would mean forefitting not just incremental progress
but the possibility of reshaping its economic and geopolitical position by contrast to the
United States having already secured a tenuous exit ramp through the ceasefire has less at
stake in the short term. Walking away, therefore, is politically and strategically easier for Trump.
Then for his Iranian counterparts. Both can live with diplomatic failure,
but Tehran has more gains to lose. How Tehran chooses to navigate this narrowing corridor,
whether a president-vanager overplays his hands, will be interesting to see.
I think this assessment is far too pessimistic on the upper hand that Iran has and the amount
of damage Iran has been able to do to the confidence that other countries have in American
defense. Not only that, but also there are numerous other pressure points for Iran going
forward and also an additional source of, an additional stream of revenue.
The next question is how can we reduce the demand because, of course, the least expensive
energy is the energy that is not used.
We should reduce demand while fully respecting the free choice of consumers.
we are looking at energy efficiency levels such as renovation of buildings or the renewal
of equipment in industrial operations. These are some measures, but there are also other
measures that we will present or will be the core of the presentation of.
Bro, there is no more cucked up a fucking entity than the European Union is unbearable. First
with Russia, then with this situation, like, they always get how do they not see that they
just get fucked over so much harder than America does every time America does some fuck shit.
The communication next week on the table of the leaders so far for the it's like, it almost
This is like they're also accelerating the anti-EU movement.
Like they want to destroy the European Union, it seems.
I hear from EU leadership is is worse than the last statement, you know
They're forcing governments to stop fuel subsidies for the common people because by the way because of fiscal pressures
They want to do austerity at every turn. Yeah
Oh, it's Twitter down
Seems to me like Twitter might be down, huh
That was going on and remind us just uh it's an ad block situation again. Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine versus the war of the Middle East. We are achieving levels of liberal contradiction here to for an unknown demand.
More vital.
The breakdown of international laws evident in today's two preeminent global crises Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine and the war in the Middle East. Oh
Oh
Who are the?
Who are the parties in this broad?
War in the Middle East who are the who are the parties involved who are the belligerents?
Who who is responsible for this war in the Middle East is just like just happening I
guess oh I can't say so stupid I said oh the the Singapore foreign minister came
out and he was like we're not gonna negotiate with Iran for safe passage
the ships because we are Singapore, we also control an even smaller choke point than the
one in rock controls and it's completely against like everything that we've ever done to recognize
any sort of toll system on choke points.
It doesn't even matter though, because I think Donald Trump wants to control this choke
point regardless.
I suspect the real reason for Singapore's out here, let's just watch what he had to
say short.
The streets of Malacca, the streets of Singapore, is in fact another critical choke point.
You may be aware that in fact if you add up all the maritime oil, crude and refined,
You might be surprised that actually more flows through the Straits of Malacca and Singapore
than even the Straits of Hormuz.
If you think about global trade, container trade, there is far more flowing through this
place.
And the most important geographical fact which most people are not aware of, the narrowest
point in the Straits of Hormuz is 21 nautical miles.
What the narrowest point in the streets of Singapore is
Iran is the means to control the choke point Singapore does not might is right quite simple
Yeah, I mean, I guess that's also true less than two nautical miles
So do you understand now why we have to take a categorical position?
That international law, it's just funny to say this because like if if Singapore had
you know a
competent defense industry, and they were attacked militarily, I suspect that they probably
would also change that dynamic. I suspect that their calculation would change dramatically
if such a thing happened, right? So, it's not like Iran one day woke up and was like,
the Shredda Hormuz is looking real tight would be a shame if it got tighter oopsie like there's a
reason there were events that took place before Iran did the the unthinkable right anyone control
a choke point at this point because the drone technology the Houthis could do it in Yemen
with next to nothing Singapore could absolutely shut it down yeah I'm just saying like let's
say they have it let's say they have the drone technology they purchased it they have competent
enough defense because you can't really do that if you were to control a
strategic choke point such as that one America will come and blow up your fucking
country as they did with Iran well they did it before Iran ended up controlling
the Shredda Hormuz but like they would be able to militarily reopen the Shredda
Hormuz if Singapore was trying to or the Shredda Malacca if Singapore was
trying to maintain control over it
Singapore spends three times, like three times more in its military than Iran.
Yeah, I think that's a very different situation.
Does Singapore have DPRK-backed underground missile silos?
If the answer to that, and underground missile striking capabilities as well,
if the answer to that is no, then Singapore can't control the Strait of Malacca.
you know what i mean
not many countries
first of all see for is also tiny it's like literally half of a fucking city in
comparison to iran
not many countries also have the capacity to withstand american
bombardment campaigns
and still be able to have a uh... a competent
uh... uh... capacity to retaliate militarily
it's just not a thing
Singapore is a fucking city-state.
They don't have the capacity to control the Sri Lanka and militarily defend that decision.
An uncross is the constitution of the oceans
and this is a right
freedom of navigation as a right
and not a privilege for ships
and planes
and this is of profound
importance to Singapore.
So to your specific question
i think so as long as there's someone who compressed but it's just on the
street of iran hasn't blocked the show the hormones because as great navy or
missiles into the ships is a threat of just one drone
that's keeping it shut there haven't been that many strikes in the city so
that's not true
there have been plenty of strike so far
and that's pretty i mean it doesn't take much is what your argument is yes
but again
let's say singapore is not like a western-aligned nation tomorrow okay
let's say with all the military might that they have is a city state
they choose to close the state of malacca
do you know how fast
not even not even america do not fast like indonesia
malaysia
and every other country would just like
destroy the whatever remains of the singapore military
with conventional arms like it's not a thing
my point the point that i'm trying to make here is
that iran
has militarily
conquered the shredded uh... hormones
and part of that is because they can withstand american attacks
Yes, I have engaged with the Iranian foreign minister before the war.
And yes, I'm sure I will engage him in the near future.
But as a matter of principle, and not because we're taking sides, I cannot engage in negotiations
for safe passage of ships.
How can Singapore spend a lot more than Iran, but withstand the attacks, Les?
What do you think?
At some point you have to realize that like the dollar value that you spend on your military
is sometimes a irrelevant factor in terms of demonstrating military competence.
Geography plays a role, right?
Topography is a huge factor for Iran and also Iran's budget is very different than
Singapore which operates in the
Which it operates again normal country that is it?
You know they're they're a very different currency than than Iran does I
Mean look at America's
Military expenditure America's military budget is larger than like the next 10 countries combined
And even then they could not defeat Iran militarily
Yeah, that makes sense. The defence aspect is different, but it seems that the offensive
capability is far less relevant than if it used to be because with very little actual
attacks that you manage, it can make getting insurance for your ship impossible. Sure.
On negotiate, on toll.
I'm just saying they would just pounce on Singapore. They shut off Singapore's water.
Okay.
Great. Because to do so would be implicitly eroding this legal principle. So again,
so again this is
so anyway he just says like he has a principal stance against this right
controlling any straight whatsoever
they're committed to free trade
are not bertrand says i suspect the real reason for sygna for supposition it
to a toll on her moves not some high-minded uh... devotion international off
but because of its sets a precedent
and a total of exist on the shirt of malacca it would basically kill the
current business model
geographically speaking the locker runs primarily between malaysia indonesia
singapore only controls a small stretch of the southeastern exit
yet currently they capture most of the streets commercial value through port
services bunkering
and transshipment
basically like them having the best service station on the world's most
popular free highway
with the hormones president established is all about is the revenge of geography
power given back to the countries that own the road
as opposed to those with the best rest stop
fantastic news for malaysian indonesia which is partly why you're seeing key
malaysian political figures like norwell is all on war
issue a highly unusual review of singapore over
the uh...
Malakrishan's remarks, but a big threat to a city-state whose entire economy is built
on being the best service provider on what's largely someone else's waterway.
I think the other problem for Singapore is that, yeah, if they try implementing tolls
or if America's like, hey, you have to implement a fucking toll, you have to implement a blockade
for Chinese trade or whatever, they're cooked.
So for them, maintaining a consistent position overall is probably so that they avoid further
conflict down the line.
Europe has gone so demented that I cannot tell whether this meant a celebration or condemnation.
What is this?
third Reich of far-right Polish deputy brandishes in Israeli flag marked with a swastika.
What the hell's going on in Poland, man?
Also there might have been a security incident breaking a large number of Israeli soldiers
were lured into a trap by Hezbollah and killed according to reports from on the ground.
The soldiers were lured into a building in Bint Javade and it was rigged with explosives.
The whole building was detonated with no survivors.
report a serious security incident, but has yet to comment on the details.
Very Polish things happening at Polish pride. Yeah, they're back to their old, when I'm
fucked up, that's the real me, said Poland. Produced each day. Right now there's no fighting.
Right now we have a blockade. Iran is doing absolutely no business. And we're going to
keep it that way very easily. Meanwhile, Israel and Lebanon will hold talks in Washington
Today, Israel's sweeping attacks on Iran-backed Hezbollah and Lebanon have reportedly killed
more than 2,000 people and have displaced more than 1 million residents.
But Hezbollah vowing it will not abide by any agreements reached during the talks.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is expected to host those talks in Washington today.
Italy's Prime Minister, Giorgio Maloney, said that her government has suspended a
defense cooperation pact with Israel.
comes after Israel's fired warning shots last week at Italian troops serving in
Lebanon under a UN mandate causing damage to a vehicle and after Georgia
Maloney's criticism of Israel's bombardment of Lebanon, the far-right
government has until now been one of Israel's closest supporters in Europe.
Sima Gupta is in Rome. Sima, I hope you can hear us. What has brought Georgia
Maloney to this point.
Well it is quite a sharp reversal as you mentioned.
I mean back in 2023, early 2023, Benjamin Netanyahu actually visited Robin at the time.
Ms. Maloney said that Israel is a friend and key partner of Italy.
And now today she has made a statement saying in light of the current situation, the government
decided to suspend that defense corporation pack. Now that packed was set up back in 2003
under the government of then Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. It is about procurement
and training as well as the import, export and transit of defense and military equipment.
And so it's not a massive thing for Italy, but for Israel, but it was definitely a point
of connection for these two countries. And it was something that was automatically renewed
every five years, but the decision was made that as the renewal was coming up, not to
do it this time round. And this was something that the government, the opposition here had
been long calling for the government to do. And Ms. Maloney said, essentially, when things
don't go, are happening that we don't agree with, we will act accordingly. So really,
A reaction perhaps as you mentioned to the warning shots that were fired by Israeli soldiers
on the Italian soldiers that are based in Lebanon as part of a UN force, there were no injuries
but a vehicle was damaged and at the time Rome summoned the Israeli ambassador to Italy
and subsequently the foreign minister visited Lebanon on Monday and he said it was unacceptable
the attacks on Lebanese pizza Israel in turn calling on the Italian ambassador to Israel.
Maybe it's because I haven't had New York pizza in a minute, but this might be the greatest pizza
I've ever had. And it's not even warm. It's been a minute since I've had East Coast pizza,
of a god damn dude unbelievable so clearly tipped for tat and now the
suspension of that agreement Israel of course saying on their part that this
was not an important security agreement it was simply a memorandum of
understanding but clearly this is a strain on ties indeed I think they
can dress it up however they want it's clear that someone who was actually
saying they disagree with what they are doing and clearly this is having an
an effect across the international community. And I'm wondering, Seema, is the position now
taken by Maloney really a reflection of public opinion in Italy?
Yes, I think it's very much a calculation on her part in terms of moving forward. She's very much
aware of the fact that Italians have taken to the streets to protest against the Israeli government,
And particularly the situation and the war in Gaza and their support for Palestinians.
And Italians are also very much against the U.S.-Israeli war in Iran, feeling that, of
course, this is having an impact on their bottom line in terms of resulting in higher
gas and patrol prices.
And so with this much opposition, she's also got her eye on the general elections in 2027,
And she can't afford to lose people's support.
It's interesting today that the Milan based daily Corre De La Serra also published a short
interview with President Trump on his comments on Ms. Maloney.
And he said he was very shocked by her decision not to assist the US in the war against Iran.
And he actually said, and I quote, do people like her?
I can't believe it.
I thought she had courage.
I was wrong.
It's very different from what I thought she was.
So clearly a reaction also from Mr.
This is a big deal.
Assuming we're getting new haven test.
She is succumbing to domestic pressure.
And basically has to do this
She didn't do this on her own volition she did this because the Italian labor unions have been going absolutely crazy
The Italian labor unions have been doing general strikes over an arm again. She has an election coming up. She has to do this
Trump, to her statements about him, particularly in reference to the Pope, she said the statements
that Mr. Trump made his criticisms of Pope Leo XIV were unacceptable.
He turned around and said she was unacceptable because it seems as if she doesn't mind Iran
having a nuclear weapon that could hit a country like Italy itself.
So clearly, the tensions and the relationship,
she was once considered the Trump whisperer.
Now it seems that there are tensions
in that relationship as well.
But it's sort of a calculation
because Italians are not happy with Trump,
not happy with what Israel is doing,
and she has to respond to that.
Indeed, Maloney taking a stand,
Donald Trump is usually trying to deflect the criticism
that is landing on his doorstep.
Simba, as always, thank you very much
to seem to go to join us their life from run. Hey there, I'm Harry Enten and today we are
running all the numbers. Oh, there's even more numbers. Nice. I love this is my favorite.
I feel so proud when I see these numbers. Israel's popularity
diminishing. We saw a piece of it. Democratic Party's officially to the right of Georgia
Maloney on foreign policy. Yeah, that's pretty crazy. I never thought I would fucking see the day.
Okay.
It's on Israel's US popularity problem.
Israel is losing support here in the United States, even amongst Republicans.
Take a look at this data.
Take a look at this data amongst young Republicans.
Look at this massive shift that we have had over just the last four years, the net favorability
of Israel among Republicans under the age of 50.
You need to go back to 2022.
Two thumbs up.
Two thumbs up for Israel amongst young Republicans.
But by 2025, look at this, already a 30 point shift away, their net favorability down to
minus two.
Today, look at this, minus 16 points, that's an over 40 point shift in just 1, 2, 3, 4 years
time away from Israel amongst young Republicans.
But that's not the only part of the Republican base where Israel is struggling.
How about amongst moderate or liberal Republicans?
They make up about a third of the Republican base at this point in time.
The net favorability of Israel with moderate liberal Republicans back in 2022, again, two
thumbs up.
You'll notice I do a lot of Cisco and Ebert references, I just really like them.
At plus 26 points, today, again, negative territory, minus nine points.
That's a 35 point shift in just four years time with moderate liberal Republicans shifting
away from Israel.
And this to me gives you a good indication of why one of the more ardent critics of Israel
within the Republican Party is actually at this point favored to win a competitive primary.
You may know him.
Thomas Massie.
He, of course, is the representative from Kentucky's Fourth District.
He has been opposed by Donald Trump.
Donald Trump has endorsed his opponent.
Pro-Israel voices are also opposed.
Many of them have also opposed Thomas Massie.
But at this point, look at this.
chance of being the Republican nominee winning that Republican primary in
Kentucky's Fort District is actually more likely than not to occur look at
this according to the calcium prediction mark at this point a 71% chance
but here's the thing again I'm building blocks here it's not just on the right
it's not just amongst Republicans where Israel is losing support I mean amongst
the on is there any support remaining on the Democratic side is like what 90 is
It's going to be like 98% or 2% at some point.
Expected places.
How about among younger men, younger men who are a key part
of Donald John Trump's coalition back in 2024?
They have very much shifted away from Israel.
Look at this, net favorability of Israel
among men under the age of 50.
In 2022, not too bad, but not too hot to try, either.
Yes, CNN is a Kalshi sponsorship.
That's why Holy Toledo's referencing Kalshi
as though it's like a serious part of the analysis.
Minus three points.
By 2025, again, down we go, minus 22 points.
That is just, that is a 19 point shift
in just three years time, but it gets even worse.
Look at this for Israel, minus 47 points.
That's a 44 point shift away from Israel
on the net favorability amongst young men
who of course shifted massively
into the Republican column back in 2024
and they have been shifting away from Israel
over the last four years.
But here's the thing, you want to talk about unexpected, perhaps no number I have seen
is more unexpected than this one, because when we talk about the democratic base, right,
and we talk about them being against Israel, that's been true amongst liberal and very
little liberal Democrats for a decent period of time.
But now we're even seeing it among moderate and conservative Democrats, because take a
look at these numbers.
I mean, this is a sea change.
This is a sea change, net favorability of Israel amongst non-liberal Democrats that
has those who identify as under-moderate or conservative.
Back in 2022, Israel was on the plus dial-edger.
I'll give it one thumbs up at plus three points.
Look at this.
By 2025, minus 30 points.
That's a 33-point shift in just three years' time.
You think that's a big shift?
How about now?
Look at this.
Among moderate-conservative Democrats, the net favor of Israel, down into the Sea of Galilee
at minus 55 points. That's a nearly 60-point switcheroo in just four years time.
That's the bulwark audience, right? That's why I wasn't stressing when everyone was on my ass
And I'm still not stressing it because it's fucking over.
You can come after me all day every day, but you can't change these numbers.
Okay? Now, what's really interesting about this, of course, is that these percentages
are brought up on CNN, but the media is not representative of this attitude at all,
and neither is our political class. Non-liberal Dems is in like conservative Dems.
Think about that. Major sea change. These percentages are completely untenable with
any kind of support for Israel. And yet, when you look at mainstream resources,
mainstream outlets, legacy publishers and the like. It's the exact opposite, obviously.
It's the exact opposite. For mainstream outlets, maybe you get like 10% anti-Israel sentiment
to 90% pro-Israel sentiment.
For mainstream, for politicians, you got 10% critics of Israel,
90% supporters of Israel.
It doesn't make any sense.
The media and the political class
are not representative of the majorities of the masses.
I've never seen this much of a divergent, clear-cut divergence.
this big of a gap between what the public feel like and what the media wants
the public to feel like
and i don't know why they have not figured out
instead of attacking people like myself
they probably should try and coalesce around people like myself
to gain back some confidence to gain back some credibility on this issue
now why are we seeing these shifts
why are we seeing these shifts amongst democrats amongst republicans at least
certain portions of the Republican electorate and why are we seeing it among
younger men who are a big part of Trump's coalition. It is because of this
part of a larger sea change against Israel. I mean just take a look at these
overall numbers right now. The net favorability of Israel among all adults.
In 2022... Is the bulwark audience big? No, it's not.
It's because mainstream media and politicians think they can discipline
their audience back into a more manageable position. I think one of the
problems politically is that even though Democratic voters hate Israel, many
don't yet hate Israel enough, that it means they won't vote for a pro-Israel
candidate otherwise aligned with needs to be more of a wedge issue. I mean I'm
sure that's part of the equation for the Democrats. That's certainly part of the
equation for the Democrats. Like for the party itself, they're like, yeah, you'll
We'll lie to you and we'll figure out a way to get you on board regardless.
The problem is these resentments are never going to go away.
They're only going to keep festering.
They're only going to get worse, especially because this is Israel's last opportunity,
and therefore they're going to get increasingly more belligerent as they have done
more and more insane shit, more and more ultraviolence in the region.
I mean, they got the Trump administration to attack Iran.
Plus 13 points.
I'll give that two thumbs up.
Look at by 2025 minus eight points.
That's a 21 point switch in just three years.
And now the net favorability of Israel amongst all adults minus 23 points.
That's a 36 point change in just four years time amongst all adults.
Now, okay, that's part of the reason why
that we're seeing these groups within these shifts, right?
A rising tide lifts all boats, but it's more than that.
How about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
which of course has been taking center stage
over the past few years here in America,
especially after the October 7th attacks
and then Israel's response to it.
Take a look here.
I mean, this is a change.
This is a change.
Who Americans sympathize more with?
The Israelis or the Palestinians?
Back in 2022, before the October 7th attacks, it was the Israelis by 28 points.
That would even climb into the 40s, 50s, depending on which polling you looked at in terms of
who Americans sympathize with, the margin very much on the side of Israel.
But look at where we are now.
In 2026, Americans sympathize more with the Palestinians by an 11-point margin.
That is a shift of nearly 40 points in just four years' time.
And when you compare it to 2023, after the October 7th attacks, we're talking about what?
A 50-60 point change?
My goodness gracious, this is the best position that the Palestinians have ever been in, in
the minds of the American public, the Palestinians making history in terms of who Americans sympathize
more with.
But it is not just the Israelis and the Palestinian conflict in which why we're seeing these
shifts among all these different groups, and overall as well.
It is because of the man who right now is the prime minister, the longtime prime minister
of Israel, who's been prime minister at least in parts all the way back to my childhood.
I mean, I think he was the prime minister when I was like eight or nine.
That is how long.
And while I look young, I'm not that young anymore.
But take a look at BB Netanyahu, look at his net favorability rating here in the United
States.
In early 2024, he was on the plus side of the ledger at plus nine points.
But look now.
Now, minus 23 points, again, an over 30 point shift in the wrong direction if you are fan
of BB Netanyahu here in the United States.
And among independents, we're talking about that his net favorability rating at this point
is a minus 35 points in the average poll.
He is about as popular as Donald Trump is here in the United States.
What do Israel supporters think about when they look at this stuff?
They freak out.
They think all of it is because of anti-Semitism.
They also, like the smarter Israeli officials, they see these numbers and they're obviously
a little worried.
They're panicked about it.
So what you're seeing as far as like, what you're seeing as far as like what Israel is
doing right now is their last attempt, their last big attempt to acquire as much territory
as possible.
And therefore, ironically enough, it's just like leading to even a further disapproval.
I think mostly liberal Israelis care what America thinks.
I don't think the more orthodox you care at all, no, no, no.
Like the average Israeli, I'm sure the average Israeli looks at this with concern and maybe
even a little bit of panic.
i'm saying that
uh... i i i suspect most of it still
uh... by their calculation is is uh... what they think is uh... due to anti
semitism though it's the
it's the uh... anti-semitism that is uh... guiding people into this position
i can't believe how anti-semitic people are
but that doesn't even matter what matters is what the israeli government
thinks
and the israeli government sees these numbers
and they recognize that their time is running out
their time is running out
so they're trying to do as much as they can as much damage they possibly can
uh... before
the the the funding vehicle runs out and israel tries to develop some kind of
like self-reliance
uh... you know
uh... focuses more on like uh...
uh... their their own uh... indigenous manufacturing industry
uh... their weapons industry
despite the u.s
bending over backwards is wrong time is really study at least my understanding
thinks america's too critical and not not supportive of them anyway
sure
i mean you saw that with uh... biden
they treated biden like uh... biden was a oppositional figure
it's fascist man it's a fascist society i don't know how to explain it they're
not do you like stop trying to make sense of it okay they're insane
so of course trump
into hot to truck to borrow phrase they used earlier on
here's the other thing
which is this is starting to have major electoral ramifications
Israel has become a four-letter word in democratic primaries.
And one way you can see that is APAC, right?
APAC, the lobbying group, Google searches for APAC in 2026,
up like a rocket, up 363% versus last year,
reached an all-time high last month. You often hear those...
Can Israel look for another sponsor like China?
No. Because in the absence of, if Israel is looking for other regional partners or global
partners, that means that America is no longer the global partner. And if America is no longer
the global partner to Israel, then China, as much as it loves trade maxing, doesn't have any utility
out of Israel. Because for the longest time, the reason why China has maintained good trade
relations and good relations overall with Israel is because Israel gets the
latest technology from the United States of America and maybe sometimes the
latest technology that no one else gets except China gets to have some of that
technology because Israel gives China some of that technology at least to my
understanding.
So, if America and Israel's relationship is broken and changed in an irreparable manner,
then China doesn't have much utility for Israel.
the left using APAC against their opponents if they have in fact taken money from APAC.
I'm not expecting that to change anytime soon. On the left, I think the question is going
to be- Yeah, Russia is a more likely potential new primary beneficiary here than even China
is, I think. If these young Republican numbers hold, and
When we see this right here, will APAC in Israel possibly become a boogeyman on the right as well?
People say China does not care about any human rights violations of the mountain.
Yeah, of course they don't. They don't. They don't give a shit.
They never have.
They work with us. Why would they give a shit?
Again, we, they are responsible for 30% of all trade, okay?
30% for the United States of America.
If they're working with us while we're literally actively trying to wage war against them,
old war in a potentially hot war
then yeah
i don't think they're gonna have a fucking issue with of working with israel
even if it's beneficial for them to apply pressure to israel
to show that they are a you know global
superpower
capable of
uh...
capable of applying political force and political pressure
to a rogue actor
we're not really quite sure at this point given how quickly these numbers have
changed maybe they'll change back the other way in four years time but the
bottom line is this views on Israel have shifted tremendously in a lot of
unexpected places not just on the left wing of the democrat yeah this is again
and I keep repeating this over and over again but like this is why I don't mind
when people are like oh dude you're fucking anti-Israelist like yes so is
everybody else dumbass wake up okay wake the fuck up
Former PLA head of intelligence said that Pakistan is to China with Serbia is to Russia or Israel's the US quote Pakistan is China's Israel
Yes
This is true on what base are you talking about US Israel relationship breaking the max extent of domestic pressure?
We're applying to met domestically is furiously can dildos out of concentration camps views are irrelevant. No
Um, I mean you're not wrong about that either. Yes
I was just giving a hypothetical scenario to a chatter who asked like if America and Israel's
relationship was like irreparably damaged and broken. The likelihood of America and Israel's
relationship changing though is, I think it's very high. Okay, I think America and Israel's
relationship will forever change. I don't think America can steadily funnel all of its resources,
all of its tech, move its naval assets with ease in the way that Donald Trump did ever again.
I think Israel, if we were somewhat competent, Israel would become a partisan issue. But even
then, I think Republicans would basically reluctantly defend Israel in the way that
like Democrats do currently, right? Like not literally reluctantly, but at least they would show
So a little bit of reluctance publicly, even if they admire what Israel is doing privately,
just as Democrats do currently.
Jake Tapper must be vivid.
Yeah, I think these guys are these guys are not not seeing the the political reality their political culture is based on victimhood
I'm portraying all the scent from their actions as anti-Semmits, which is blinding them to the reality
They could change their behavior to improve their image
Megan K. Stack says I wonder if Israelis realize the animosity growing in the US public
I'm not talking about anti-Semmits in which I also see growing separate topic, but Israel itself a few years ago
I could have never imagined the passing comments I hear from a political and centuries equate a centrist acquaintances
Trust me on this
There is a reason why I feel confident whenever I get attacked on this issue, partially because
I was attacked on this issue with heinous smears for the last two and a half years.
And you know, there was a limited success, but especially now, I know for a fact that
the overwhelming majority public opinion is on my side on this issue, okay?
That's it.
So they can fucking keep chirping and complaining over and over again, but it's over.
The conversation is done.
Now, now is the time for action.
How do we actually enforce the public's wishes?
The Israeli public don't see it at all. I promise even if some do they think it's meaningless
to the relation between the governments. I mean, I guess that's like not a wrong interpretation
of events. Okay. Because, you know, that's not how foreign policy works in the Western world.
and especially when it comes to Israel, it's just, you know, democracy doesn't really matter, secondary.
But public opinion can gum up the works. It makes things more difficult, like Maloney being forced
to change her attitude. Like Maloney just cut off the defense contract that they, the defense
negotiate the defense conflict they have with Israel. Why did she do that? Well, she did that
because the Italian population has been unbelievably angry and showcasing
how much power they have as well to cause a ruckus to create instability, to withhold their
labor power their productive power that's huge
massively consequential
new poll shows
corby bush tie with incumbent was the bell in missouri primary poll commission
by corby bush campaign conducted by
hirt strategy shows bush and incumbent congressman
was the bell statistically tied among likely democratic primary voters in
missouri's first congressional district with bell at forty four percent of
bush at forty percent
Within the survey's 5.4% margin of error, the poll conducted February 19th to 23rd among the 401 likely Democratic primary voters also found Bush holds higher overall favorability than Bell, 52% favorable to Bell's 45%, it's actually crazy that it's even close.
It should be a blowout.
The only reason my core Bush loss was because she was right too early and that race was bought and sold by a pack entirely. It was like a singular race.
The
polls will test the favorability of APAC, a major backer of Bell's 2020 for campaign
and ice finding 40% and 86% unfavorable ratings respectively among district Democrats.
said Philip DeFranco covered me again. Does anyone have a link?
Yeah.
Governor here just announced this. Governor just announced this.
Just recently Indiana was chosen to have a national drone testing site.
I guess that one chatter was lying.
Oh Rick Scott at the end.
code to Franco and start cleaning up your digital footprint.
But then, diving into our final bit of news today, we should talk about what ends up being
another controversy surrounding, or at least involving, Hassan Piker.
And this time it speaks to a much greater conversation about free speech on college campuses.
And that's because he's scheduled to appear at a debate with the Yale Political Union
today.
So with Florida Senator Rick Scott, who had previously done events with the organization
writing, Yale receives billions from the federal government.
President Trump and Congress need to immediately revoke it.
An elite private university that hosts an anti-Semite who says a senator should be killed,
should be killed, and the US deserved 9-11 shouldn't get one cent from taxpayers.
And there you had Rick Scott specifically referring to one of the things that
Hassan was actually temporarily banned from Twitch over in the past.
Because when Piker was pushing back against Mike Johnson's crackdown on Medicaid fraud, he said,
If you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott.
The reason why I'm saying if you cared about Medicare or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick
Scott is because, and not make him a prominent part of the Republican Party, is because he to
to this day is still known as committing the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history.
So, you know, Scott, not the biggest fan of Hassan.
Of course, that wasn't the only criticism or thing people brought up when they were
protesting Hassan being there.
And in general, there's been this split on whether or not to embrace Hassan, to engage
progressives or to ice him out of politics or being too toxic.
And that divide, it's playing out with what's happening with Yale right now, with the political
union's president telling the Yale Daily News, he just bring in someone who's vocal and has
influence.
definitely is vocal and has influence and has a lot to comment on in terms of the specific issues
in today's politics. Saying the fact that a student organization's regular Tuesday debate has become
discourse in the national media and has become commented on by prominent politicians and journalists
speaks to the idea that our organization, the Yale political union, is one that is a central part
of not just the Yale experience but of Yale's unique university experience at large. You also
had some students at the school defending Hassan saying that it is disingenuous to try and cancel
him when the right-wing figures dominating politics say much more inflammatory things. But then also
you had conservatives at that school feeling differently. Or the president of Yale's Turning
Point USA chapter telling the kids, I hope you put my joke in. I hope you put my joke
in. Come on.
It's paper that Hassan's rhetoric quote, isn't just inflammatory. It is blatantly
violent and then adding its language that is very antithetical to the mission of Yale
University in terms of promoting an environment of free speech grounded in mutual respect
in pursuit of the good. And ultimately, it's really just anti-American. And so yesterday
you actually had Hassan responding to this himself, specifically calling out Turning
Point and other Republicans who oppose him speaking on a college campus.
Turning Point USA. See, this I do love, okay? I love this. The reason why I love this is
because it exposes the inherent hypocrisy on the free speech side of the conversation when
free speech lovers actually fucking meet a guy who can go meet for me, okay? Band for fucking
band. All of a sudden people have a very different approach to free speech. You're God, okay? You're
Pope like figure Charlie Kirk clearly had enough respect for what I brought to the table
that he wanted to fucking debate me at Dartmouth campus.
If you want to abide by the hadiths of Imam Charlie Kirk, okay?
If you wanna bless his memory, peace be upon him, then you have to abide by his standards.
These guys want to fucking revere him like he was a religious figure, but they're not
carrying the goddamn flame.
And actually on that note, there's a whole other campus speech controversy happening
regarding Charlie Kirk right now.
Utah Valley University, the school that Charlie was speaking at when he was assassinated,
is facing a ton of backlash over its upcoming commencement speaker, Sharon McMahon, where
she's an author and has a newsletter called The Preamble that breaks down, quote, government
and law in straightforward ways with clarity and context delivered with sanity and reason.
And according to multiple news outlets, she made posts critical to Charlie Kirk following
his assassination.
What people are pointing to and one that's actually still up on Facebook. She posted a video tearfully responding to the news of the shooting writing
This isn't the America I want to live in. I am sure Charlie Kirk and I would not agree on many things
And my heart is still broken for his family. Well, that seems pretty non-controversial and neutral
She reportedly also went further and that's crazy that they got mad at her for that
That like even even the mere mention that you might have disagreements with Charlie Kirk
Bro, people were, man, it feels like a lifetime ago, but the media environment was so wild,
holy moly.
Opposites have since been deleted.
For example, her apparently addressing some of Charlie's quotes and writing.
These aren't soundbites taken out of context.
Millions of people feel they were harmed and the murder that was horrific and should never
have happened does not magically erase them, is said or done.
And what of many, they don't see anything controversial about that statement.
The college Republicans group at the school released a statement opposing UV use.
I want to know what, I want to know what people said at the end so there's probably not going
to be a lot of commentary here, but I wish I could see what the Philip DeFranco audience
had to say about my Charlie Kirk comments, but you've just been filled in.
are engaged in an all-out fight over popular twist streamer,
Austin Piker.
But I think I have a unique lens here.
Not only have I done Piker stream a couple of times,
but I held an event with him at University of Chicago in 2025,
which to me gives me a perspective that
can help cut through some of the noise here
and help you understand what this controversy is actually
about.
Democratic moderate think tank third way
published in Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal
saying that Democrats should distance themselves from Piker.
They said that his previous kind of controversial statements
saying that America deserved 9-11 or his pro-Palestinian
advocacy, which some people have said
have veered into anti-Israel sentiment
or some anti-Semitism.
But the catch 22 here is that Piker
has a big audience, particularly with the type of voters
that Democrats are doing worse against.
All in all, I think this shows to me
how some of this controversy is a little astroturbed.
Piker's answered these questions for a while,
and he's been consistent about making a distinction
between his anti-Israel advocacy and anti-Semitism.
I think you got to think of him as somewhat of a shock job,
someone reminiscent of the radio host of the 90s or 2000s
that really drives people somewhat
through driving engagement, interest,
and ruffling a few feathers.
The other thing I'd say is I don't think this is really
about Piker himself, but really about a democratic organization
who's wrangling with the question of how its voters are changing
when it comes to Israel and Gaza overall.
Democrats are going to have to answer this question
in a big way come 2027.
piker seems like small potatoes
in fact
if someone feels like these interest groups are trying to create a litmus test
before the big fight comes later
that's i agree with that yes
he will
he will probably do more damage than good and alienate rural voters who isn't
satisfied with either camp or the other side
that's what's so crazy about this
uh... conversation is like
who do you think is more vulgar
in the way that they communicate
who do you think is more vulgar in the way that they communicate like uh... i don't
know like a yell graduated liberal that went it to work at dc think tank for
fifteen years and
maybe as a career in the media where they appear
or
but who do you who who is closer to the way that like the the average person
speaks on like myself
or the other guy that i just mentioned
that's why it's so funny when i see this kind of sentiment on the
on the internet where they would like all dude
if the son met like uh... like a blue collar
if the son met
a uh... blue collar worker like a mechanic on the countryside
that blue collar repeat in the death of him is like to what the fuck you think
like first of all everybody has access to the internet that's number one
number two
the the broader policies that i advocate for
a lot more popular
amongst people like that then you think okay
it's just so stupid is uh... it's
it also makes it seem like my entire audience are a bunch of feet lives
that uh... live
and
uh... only go to these like uh... academic institutions they're all
they're all in like ivy league college campuses that like they don't have blue
collar jobs are working fucking warehouses or our amazon delivery drivers
that work all around the country
it's so stupid it's it's very strange
the latest attitude that they demonstrate when they make it seem like
my the information i'm presenting is like not accessible
to the average person or that
My commentary would come across as like super out of touch.
It's very stupid.
It's so amusing to hear those trash dakes.
In PA, truck nut, wheeling Trump bumper sticker guys,
we'll see my Brady bumper sticker and say
he's better than Biden at least.
The idea of normally Trump voters are closer to third way.
POV is totally baseless.
Yeah.
Here's the other side of the story, okay?
I think a lot of people will hear what I have to say, and might not even appreciate the
language that I'm using, right?
But the one thing that I've seen consistently, even from Republicans, even from people who
are self-identifying moderates, independents, whatever, is the idea that at least I'm saying
things with conviction. I believe the things that I'm saying, as opposed to the understandable
assessment that they make about Democratic Party politicians and their spokespeople.
They look at guys like that and think, oh, these people are insincere. They're trying
to lie to me. It doesn't even matter if those people legitimately believe in neoliberalism.
They're not just preaching the gospel of neoliberalism. They're not just saying that because they're
are getting paid by corporations,
the preacher gospel of neoliberalism,
they actually might sincerely believe it.
But the language that they use is come across
and is being interpreted as insincere, right?
That's it, you might not disagree,
you might not agree with me,
but you know I'm telling you how I feel.
That might be a problem for you,
but at the end of the day, it's honest.
And I think a lot of people appreciate that.
a lot of people would prefer that
even if there are disagreements a lot of people would prefer that then
this other totally sanitized
uh... mode of communication that no normal human being talks like
I'm suddenly wondering if they think a single blue collar worker would vibe with someone
like Michael Knowles. Yeah. And it led me, it just, it got me thinking like who would
be the perfect like working class whisperer from their assessment, right? Because if they
they think I'm a, I represent, uh, you know, elitist smug entitled liberal attitudes by
their assessment, like who's better Ben Shapiro, Nick Fuentes, Tucker Carlson, and even on
the democratic party side, Jake Tapper is Jake Tapper, uh, going to communicate with
average working class person better than someone like myself? Are there beliefs closer to the
average working class person, the blue collar worker that you're fantasizing about? Like there are
some sort of savage that has no way of seeing this kind of commentary on the internet to begin with?
HVAC worker here from very red northern New York. I could tell you from this from experience you have
a far more positive reach in these areas than you think. My coworker and I put your stream on
when you go live and listen to it. Let's do it on the job more often than not. Our customers
have similar but views as you do even in these deep red areas in New York. Yeah,
Yeah, Graham Platner is a great example of this, okay?
A guy that just cuts through the noise,
tells you exactly how he thinks, okay?
And, you know, he looks the part as well for sure.
He looks the part a lot more than I do, right?
That's the one area where you can call me out on,
like the clothes I wear, the way I carry myself, whatever.
You might say, oh, that's too highfalutin.
right? It's fine. Fair. Okay. But as far as the things that I'm advocating for and the
way that I'm communicating my desires, I'm a lot closer to the average person than a
million other Democratic Party consultants. It's very stupid. Not savage, but a simpleton
who loves God, country, neoliberalism, capitalism, and hates vulgarity and cursing. That's who
they dream of. Yeah, it's just funny because like the, the, like in their mind, the, the
median voter is a person that, uh, that, that wants insurance to, to remain private. Okay.
That wants to continue funding Israel and is really worried about like the growth of
anti-Semitism in the country and associates that with like, uh, negative feelings towards
is real. Right? But what are you fucking insane? That person doesn't exist. That person is just
you and your friends in the media. And maybe you and your college educated friends that went to an
Ivy League institution and now working a fucking think tank or work for campaigns. That's not a
real person in the wild.
Do you average American is a small business? Exactly. Anyway, let's, uh, do you think they
will woke scold next like this for Plattener? Oh, this is, yeah, I saw this grand planner
claims he changed. Why is he still using the R word, Mother Jones? Like, I just, I'm not
even gonna get into that okay I just don't care I don't care all right um yeah
that's indicative of no you did a no growth grand plattner
what is this moderator next question how do you feel about a Sampai Gurnizam
he's an anti-Sami and a strongly disavows views on Israel Trump running
illegal for a third term well you know he's a good-looking guy good-looking
handsome guy, I can see why people like him.
Um, this person is another one of these like, uh, fucking annoying liberals though, uh, to be fair, that's funny.
I like that take, but I've seen this person's commentary on me, uh, in the past.
Okay.
Sometimes they come up on my for you page and it's always, I don't know, I just like, it's, it's so annoying.
these guys who are fucking or maybe I'm thinking of someone else. I don't know.
But yeah, this is what I mean. Look, this kinda kind of feels like the
bottom has fallen out of this sort of stuff. It sounds too dumb to be a
majoring political figure, but this won't be what sinks them. Overton windows
been blowing wide open, over turned windows been blown wide open, nobody cares anymore.
Like, when I see something like that, I get so fucking annoyed, because it's like,
who the fuck do you think is a brilliant mainstream political figure? Okay?
Who, who is the brilliant force of politics in this goddamn country? Okay? Because like,
Listen, I call myself dumb all the fucking time.
All right.
But this kind of shit annoys me to no end because your instincts are fucking dog shit.
Your instincts have been dog shit.
That's part of the reason why you get very annoyed with my presence.
Okay.
It's unbelievably annoying to see people consistently advocate for failed political
maneuvering over and over and over again.
Only to then turn around and be like now this guy's just dumb dude. He just doesn't know what he's talking about
It's like all right. Well sucks to suck for you. I guess
My girlfriend's boomer dad who's your classic former Republican that Sarah Longwell crowd wants to show
They can bring the dem tent listen that bull work episode and then listen to your pot save episode and said he has a lot more in
common with you than what they are trying to sell is what moderate americans
want they have lost the average person's position on israel and class
consciousness
yeah
regarding a song by the fact that internet personality to streamers topic of
major political debate in his country's already so fucking sad regardless of the
stupid politics universities newspapers and centers of actual reasoning and
education or acts of destroyed
Internet clowns come out on top stupid stupid world. Yeah, the reason why he's saying that is because again
And lost the fucking battle for defending Israel award. Okay another one of these guys
Every single one of these guys can't I remember I remember Arash Aziz. He's like consistent commentary
Where he was trying to find a fucking reasonable landing pad on the issue of Israel that still you know was defending Zionism defending Israel
Okay, and lost it guess what sucks to suck, okay?
Now all you can go all you can do is is run around and be like, oh well
He's just like stupid dude. Just don't listen to him. He's just stupid
Okay, so why did this fucking stupid guy know exactly what the fuck was going on and knew exactly where the public was headed
Far before any of your brilliant liberal guys ever did
Go talk to some more Atlantic writers where you write for Arash. Who do you think has a closer eye?
Who do you think is closer politically to the average person's position right now? Me or fucking Jonah Greenberger?
Whatever, Goldberg. What's his name? The fucking editor-chief that used to literally work at one of the prison facilities in the Israeli occupying forces.
forces. All these guys lost the fucking battle, so all they can do is complain.
Jeff Goldberg? You're not in him. I forgot.
What was it? What was the read the second comment?
And more and more people are part of the internet personnel in TwitchStreamer World, and we'll call you elitists or whatever for standing up to this idiocy. Yeah, exactly.
I mean, I basically responded to that before he even retorted.
You think after these people have been wrong about everything since 2016 they have some self-reflection, but no they're still the smartest people in the room to themselves. Exactly.
They're surrounded by other people that are also lost in that same echo chamber and they cannot contend with how much the public has moved on so many different issues.
Okay?
The latest fallout from two major controversies involving President Trump and religion.
He has now taken down an image he posted showing himself as a Christ-like figure.
That's after a backlash from Christian conservatives.
But he's doubling down on attacks against Pope Leo.
He calls him weak on crime.
Riju Jang is at the White House.
How do you know more than someone who's written books about what Iranians
Want and is a historian at Yale though. I
Don't know what you're referencing we're talking about a rush
Is he a historian at Yale, I don't think he is I
Don't even think he actually disagrees with me on on Iran
on any longer.
Arashza Marxist himself, yeah, sure.
Jonah Goldberg's at the dispatch.
No, I'm not talking about Jonah Goldberg.
I'm talking about, no, I'm not talking about Jonah Goldberg.
He sucks too.
I'm talking about the fucking editor chief of the Atlantic
who was literally a constant threat.
and
jeffrey goldberg
is the editor in chief of the atlantic
the one that was uh... the
quote on quote journalist in the signal gate
Also, the issue was not about Iran, the issue was about the issue was about public sentiment
shifting on the issue of Israel.
Even if you've written extensively about what Iranians want in Iranian history, it's
an entirely separate subject matter.
not, you know, contesting his knowledge on Iran.
Good morning. Good morning to you, Nora. Good morning to
everybody. I already got pizza in New Haven. It was really
good. Several of President Trump's staunchest supporters were
among his critics, something he is not used to. In fact, Trump
initially blasted those who thought he meant to portray
himself as Jesus. Later in a phone call with you, Nora, Trump
acknowledged the growing backlash among supporters led him to
delete that post. McDonald's. After a DoorDash delivery to the Oval Office, to point out President
Trump followed through on a key promise, no tax on tips. We asked the president about
the latest controversy to land on his doorstep. This image he posted online then deleted,
appearing to show Trump as a Christ-like figure.
He offered a different interpretation.
I thought it was me as a doctor and had to do with Red Cross.
But some of the President's supporters in the religious right saw it another way, calling
the image outrageous blasphemy.
While Vice President Vance said it was a joke.
He took it down because he recognized a lot of people weren't understanding his humor
in that case.
Just one day earlier, Trump took on the first American-born Pope, calling him weak on crime
and the threat from Iran.
We don't like a pope that's going to say that it's okay to have a nuclear weapon.
After that, one prominent American Catholic Bishop Robert Barron called on the president
to apologize.
Do you want to apologize?
No, I don't, because publicly I've said things that are wrong.
He was very much against what I'm doing with regard to Iran.
Trump said the right people in Iran called again Monday, and they want to make a deal
quote very badly.
But he insisted his biggest red line remains.
You mark it down, Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
We asked President Trump if a deal is not reached by the end of the ceasefire set to
expire in eight days.
Will this threat from before still stand?
You may remember, he said he would take out an entire civilization.
Trump said he wouldn't comment, but quote, it won't be pleasant for them.
Let me put it that way.
Vice President Vance says the ball is in Iran's court to accept the offer he presented.
Gail.
All right, Weizher to be continued.
Thank you very much.
Weizher just mentioned that you had a call with the president and you called him and
he picked up.
He did.
Well, he said that he was actually watching 60 minutes on Sunday night.
That's why he then issued that truth social post and put up that picture where he depicted
himself as a Christ-like figure that he's now taken down, but he has not apologized
for it.
When I talked to Trump, he was doubling down on his criticism of Pope Leo.
I said, would you call him?
He gave me a firm no.
I said, do you think the Pope will ever come to the United States?
Because he was born in Chicago, and he said, I don't know, that's up to him.
So they're still at a standstill.
I mean, this is quite a diplomatic firestorm.
We've never seen anything like it.
Never seen anything like it.
I see a pope and a president at odds.
And it's interesting, JD Van said, it was a joke.
So there again, there's another interpretation.
And I want to just say that the vice president is Catholic.
The secretary of state is Catholic. Six of the nine Supreme Court justices are Catholic.
30% of Congress is Catholic. This is a huge voting block of people. And the question I
think is what's going to happen now in the midterms because a lot of Catholics were offended
and Christians were offended by that image.
Sure. All right. To be continued.
Freaky News, this hour another woman accusing California congressman Eric Swalwell of sexual
misconduct hours after he announced that he would resign his house seat. He held a news
conference in Beverly Hills today with her attorney and said that back in 2018 she was
drugged and assaulted by the congressmen before going to a political event. Take a listen.
Jesus Christ dude, this fucking guy. What an animal. What a fucking psycho he is, huh?
Why not the mouse suit?
Trump loves winners, which is why he converted to Islam and made fun of Christ.
No Muslim would ever make fun of Christ.
Straight up.
Certainly not a devout Muslim.
Actually, not even a not devout Muslim would not make fun of Christ.
Vance is getting heckled at the Turning Point USA event.
he's so fucking annoying. Muslims are so respectful when it comes to other religions,
kind of crazy. It's not that crazy. And also, Issa is a prophet in Islam as well.
We solved that problem as wild to say.
I guess like, I mean, this is in some ways not dissimilar to Trump being like, well,
Obama built the camps, right? Like, that's what they're trying to do. That's what he's trying to do,
but he's such a, he's such an annoying lib, an annoying and smug ass lib in the way that he tries to
diffuse or deflect.
me me me me and and and by the way not only was our administration like the
administration that solved the problem but the president excuse me sir right
right now right now you right now you see more humanitarian aid coming in the
God so that it has any time in the past five years because we have taken that
I was cams for Oliver Larkin in a wealthy neighborhood of Jewish retirees and I
encountered 10% of Dems were still pro-Israel, Moscovists has never had a
town hall yet these people knew him personally and spoke frequently. They
were pro-Israel yet anti-war and they refuse to believe that Moscovists
supported it. This is who the Dems like Chuck really represent. I mean there's
like eight of them so.
Let's see, there was another one.
Vance, how can you say that God was never on the side of those who wield the sword?
How can you say that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword?
Was God on the side of the Americans who liberated France from the Nazis?
got on the side of the Americans who liberated Holocaust camps and liberated those, those
innocent people from, you know, those who had survived the Holocaust.
I, I, I, I, I certainly think God would not be on the side of genocide.
The answer is yes.
And I agree.
Jesus Christ does not.
I agree.
Jesus Christ certainly does not support genocide.
Whoever yelled that out from the dark, he certainly does not.
I think that's pretty easy.
I think that's a pretty.
Oh God.
God, okay, so what is it then you're?
Like how do you square that circle is it just that like oh well, you know, it's not a genocide
What is real there's not a genocide Jesus would agree with what Israel is doing
To the Palestinians pretty easy principle
Okay, so so here's a guy. Let me just say this this is a guy
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. First of all, first of all, random dude who's shouting.
Can I finish my point?
Oh my God. Oh God, he is fucking so, so repulsive. Another $240 million torch. US Navy has confirmed
that it lost a $240 million MQ 4C Triton reconnaissance drone last week. Likely, this one crashed
into the Persian Gulf after scouting the Shredda Hormuz, nice.
But make no mistake, Iran's anti-air defense systems have been destroyed.
This is how you establish air superiority.
They wanted to drop the Triton drone.
You see that was on purpose. We like
Dropping drones for fun to show how much money we have, you know what I mean? It's kind of like. Oh, that's my
That's my throwaway
$240 million machinery
That's just how it is
and also
There was a laundry fire on the drone and it was old
It's irrelevant. Nobody likes those drones anyway. We're just who cares.
Trump mocked their cheap one-way drones. We're losing our expensive two-way drone.
It doesn't matter if it's two-way, if we waste it. Well, when you think about it, an
MQ-4C Triton Reconnaissance drone can be used as a one-way drone. As a matter of
fact in this circumstance it was used as a one-way drone. So while the Shahad
drones are what $10,000 to pop this one is $240 million and we destroyed it. We
used it like a Shahad drone, you know?
you
Please go to Pepys Pizza. That's what I had okay. I had Pepys Pizza already. It was delicious
More money equals bigger boom
Hasan, it's not funny, drones only do that when they're extremely distressed.
Oh, here, we'll talk about Swalwell's horrible allegations, and then we'll talk about Geigo
as well.
I only had one glass of wine.
Hassanabi is there a way to rewind a stream to see you enjoying Pepe's pizza?
Yes, if you subscribe to the Piker Broadcasting Service you will be allowed to rewind
You can rewind the broadcast if you subscribe for six dollars or for free
When I am right at his hotel room, I was already incapacitated and I couldn't move my arms.
Can you read to me?
Yeah.
And he jumped me.
ABC News has not been able to independently verify any of the claims against Swalwell,
but earlier this week he did deny what he calls serious false allegations made against
him.
ABC News has asked Congressman Swalwell for a reaction to the latest accusation.
He has not yet responded.
Our Alex Stone is on the story out of LA, along with our political director Avery Harper.
So Alex, what more can you tell us about the latest accuser and these allegations we just
heard?
Yeah, Kara, they are violent allegations.
There are similarities to some of the other allegations as well about grooming, getting
to know her, promising connections, that sort of thing.
But then there is a difference in what she is saying, that the violent nature of it,
you heard her there a moment ago, saying he raped me, he choked me, she said, I thought
I was going to die, I did not consent to any sexual activity.
She did not go to police, but she says that she is going to file a police report to get
an investigation going.
He did not do it.
Of course, it's not just the Republicans.
Someone said I'm on Fox News right now, again.
Oh my Lord, dude.
Oh yeah, there's more.
You awesome?
Oh yeah, my dad got it.
It was spectacular.
Why do you have the link for the live? I don't know why it's not loading for me.
It's not loading. The live stream is not loading for me. I don't know why.
God damn it. How are you charming the magas more than ACP?
fault foxes ripping the fuck some pairs record i can't watch it i'm
and now i did that i'd ended up i'd turned off my a block i don't know why
each writer john fabrero
fabrero try to have piker tamp down his suggestion that hamas is one thousand
times better than israel
I do mean it. Why would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time?
Pennsylvania's Democratic Senator John Federman writing on X, the left 2026. Hamas, check.
Nazi tattoos, check. But an X for Israel and Iron Dome.
Piker's profile has grown in recent months after hosting Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and
he campaigned on college campuses with Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El Sayed.
Brett?
Mike, thank you.
That's it.
Just in the past few minutes, Turning Point USA CEO, Erica Kerr.
Can you remind me of Sky News, a reputable source?
No, it's not a reputable source.
Yeah, RNC Research.
Democrat spokesperson, Issam Piker, tells Ihan Omar he will make significant changes
to the Democrat Party.
Okay.
I'm not a Democrat spokesperson, man.
What the fuck?
I mean, I do take offense to that.
Okay, yeah, dude, it's right there. Um, I hate that shit
Why is Mars dressed like Ezra Miller? I don't know
Yeah, why didn't they were show my response to
To the ogre
changes and build a real left caucus in the party and hopefully maybe even bully some
other Democrats into coming on board with positions that they previously would never
have the moral courage to openly fight for.
I think we do have a real-
Oh, they, yeah, don't, don't touch it. They, uh, they said the HDMI cable, they got mad.
Uh, the IRL guys did. Yeah. Apparently the other HDMI cables have the capacity to like
potentially break the backpack. Yeah. So they swapped it out. Yeah, they did.
Well, I thought you actually said something controversial all yeah, they're so weird dude. They're so fucking strange
Sorry, I fucking hate cables fucking shit up. Yeah
Capital's bully politics 24-7. That's why they own them. Yeah
It is funny though that there this is not even an offensive statement
They're now going to report everything you say just like those annoying Twitter accounts. Yeah, but it's kind of funny. Oh
Oh, I saw this, yeah, the Democratic Party and the chat GPT because of course when when
I went up to my good friend chat and said, hey, can you walk me through some more controversial
statements of a son piker even chat GPT went out of its way to soften the edges of a son
and give me context.
Thanks but no thing.
He said, I don't want context, sir.
I just want you to, to say that he's anti-semitic.
Yeah, I love when the woke, the woke AI
doesn't give you what you want to hear.
Yeah, hold on.
I'll turn on the laptop camera.
Boom, okay.
Yeah, woke AI dude, woke AI came in hot.
Okay, no, it's fine.
Thanks.
No.
ChatGPT.
He's a rock star of the Democratic Party, and of ChatGPT, because of course, when I went
up to my good friend chat and said, hey, can you walk me through some more controversial
statements of a son piker, even chat GBT went out of its way to soften the yeah everyone
everyone is against you, man, but Democrats into real life. What is this associated with
some piker isn't how Dems win young men, young voters, how you alien everyone else that these
are not the kind of people you want to platform and be a part of. I mean, he's an anti American
anti-Semitic misogynist, but the tech doesn't need to be that. Oh, the former Biden staffer.
Yeah, this person is uh, Fox News always loves, uh, bringing Fox is always loves bringing people like this where they're like, see, even this woke libtard hates this other woke libtard, you know, they love doing that shit.
Yeah, this person is the classic like, uh, let's bring in a Democrat to shit on the Democrats person. I've seen her before. Oh yeah, no worries.
Big in the Democratic Party, and I wish people would stop platforming him.
But I also think Democrats and Republicans here need to realize that engaging with youth
voters is not going through podcasts that are, are hateful and are going to drive division
between the party.
You have to talk about things they care about.
Yeah.
No, hateful podcasters famously have not played a role in any president winning elections
in the past.
about the economy. And so the sooner that Democrats realize that, the sooner they will
get youth turnout to be more on their side.
They just hate how vulgar you are. They have no counter messaging. Yeah, exactly. At most,
what they can do is, at most, what they can do is just like posture on the aesthetics,
about how vulgar I am, and maybe pull some choice clips out of context to be like, people
don't want to hear this.
Why is Fox News always telling the Dems how to win?
They're just nice.
They want to make it more difficult for themselves.
Don't you kind of just platform yourself at this point?
Yes, I do, which is the whole problem that these guys are experiencing currently.
The big issue for these guys, for mainstream media, both on the Republican side and certainly
for the mainstream media that's more responsive to the needs of corporations and the super
or wealthy is that they can no longer gatekeep information
and gatekeep who gets to have a platform.
So they're just trying to bully people like myself
to the best of their ability with the hopes
that people won't tune in.
But in this day and age, it's virtually impossible.
me not going on msnbc
is not bad for me
bad for msnbc
that's just that's it
you don't get to have access to my audience
for that show for that format
as opposed to
uh... like i don't really need as opposed to me needing your audience
pull up to yell bro your event is about the start shut up
i know
uh... ruben gago
just gaggle was like thirty five minutes
what is this new erica curbed in
okay
now
hold on i gotta show this real quick
uh... through tears he says wallows a predator and live the double life
he said he had no knowledge and never witness inappropriate behavior but he
admitted he had heard
rumors for years of him being flirty
i ask a go point blank whether he's ever engaged in probly behavior himself
the new woman outside his marriage and now i ask a go if you ever witness
swallow being flirty said never
question was never he said never
video online that I surfaced up Eric's phone making out with a woman sitting next to someone was that
you sitting next to them this is where I snow I was not sitting next to him I was not in the room
I was nowhere I don't know where it happened this is exactly I'm talking yeah they were roommates
by the way him and Swalwell they're they're like best buds they were best buds in Congress
about chrysosaveta and a bunch of other right wing political operatives are pushing this narrative
that somehow was in that room with uh... eric's well
ruben gaugos harassing behavior towards women are in the nickname the troll in
the arizona house during his tenure in the arizona state legislature
fellow democrat lawmakers
kathryn randa and lydia hernandez filed a harassment complaint against gaego the
complaint by the two devout liberals folks on gaegos alleged comments that
included
implication that maranda was promiscuous gaego shortstop man
had earned the nickname the troll
while serving
while serving
in the arizona legislature according to one capital insider gago would pop up
at the weirdest times always demanding something
the last time he popped up to the embarrassment of arizona voters
was when a photo of he and representative eric swadwell writing
topics on a camel during lobbyist funded junk at the cutter made headlines and
and field endless social media means.
That's funny.
Are we ready?
Yeah, he was demanding to pay the toll, I guess.
The troll toll.
All right.
We got
Will keep playing we got to go
And that's up. I'm human. I
Trusted this man
I trusted him to watch my children. I would watch his children
He knew that I had just gone through the most bruising campaign, where I was accused of being a mule for the cartel, where my kids were subjected to TV commercials about what an awful human being I was, and he knew how to prey on that.
And I was a loyal friend to someone that just was not loyal to me.
And so did you?
In the beginning you said when you first heard these rumors a few weeks ago, that's when you called him, then you said you heard these rumors for years. So which one is it, Senator?
So I heard rumors of him being flirty.
And that wasn't an issue enough for you to not trust him to watch your kids or be close with him?
Because you know you hear this and then when you're close to somebody and you know his wife you see this you see that
Relationship you know that like it maybe just isn't true
When you first heard these rumors should you have acted when you first heard these rumors several years ago?
The rumors are heard
Where that he was just a flirty social guy. That's it
The bombs have stopped falling on Iran, for now.
But before we exhale, let's be honest about what just happened.
40 days of an illegal war.
An elementary school full of Iranian children, gone.
The worst energy shock since the 1970s.
A million people displaced in Lebanon,
threats of nuclear annihilation,
and a ceasefire that could collapse at any moment.
This is what American foreign policy looks like.
Not just under Trump, under both parties for decades.
wars that working people fight and die in, wars that make life more expensive for all of us.
I have a different vision, that working people in Brooklyn and Queens have more in common with
working people in Tehran, in Havana, in Gaza, than with the billionaires who profit from our
suffering. The real security doesn't come from bombs, it comes from solidarity. Today I'm releasing
our foreign policy platform. We permanently end the war in Iran, lift the embargo on Cuba,
freedom for Palestine, self-determination for Puerto Rico, and global cooperation on the actual threats for survival.
My name is Claire Valdes. I'm running for Congress because more than people across the world have nothing to gain from endless war
and everything to win from peace and solidarity. Read our full agenda at www.clairvaldesforcongress.com.
We just got results from the first post-debate poll and our campaign is surging.
In just a couple months, we've closed the gap between ourselves and our opponent from 21 points to just five points
And we've got the highest favorability of anyone in the race
Bro
California has a top two election system and this man is cooking. They're calling it the Hassanabi bump. No, I'm kidding
It's not me
We've closed the gap between ourselves and our opponent from 21 points to just five points
And we've got the highest favorability of anyone in the race
California has a top two election system and in a general election head-to-head. We're tied
But I'm not planning to come in second. We have a chance to win this in the primary and completely shock the establishment and our opponents know this
sending out lies about me attack mailers and coming after me for going on Hassan Piker's stream
They're panicking cuz they know if we win we can finally break the corporate stranglehold in our politics
So we can pass Medicare for all ban congressional stock trading and end the endless wars including the genocide in Gaza
So if you're ready to completely change the direction and leadership of the Democratic Party join the movement go to short cut by US
This is a damn brawmin campaign.
As this stuff was crazy.
What the hell?
All right.
I love Hassan Piker.
Israel is an extension of American empire.
Israel is not a separate entity
from the United States of America.
There's a reason for why Israel is this malignant force
in the region, is violent entity in the region,
a constant destabilizing force in the region.
And that is because it corresponds
to the American grand design in this resource rich region.
Israel is a attack dog for American empire here.
A bunch of Democrats say Democrats should shun Piker because he's bad for the party.
He's a loose cannon.
He says wild stuff that's crazy.
Let's be clear.
Hasan is radical.
He says things that are indefensible and he's definitely a wild card.
Some Democrats are trying to cancel Hasan Piker and that could have huge consequences for
the Democratic Party.
He's been accused of making anti-Semitic comments, calling Orthodox Jews inbred and
for defending Hamas.
The senator denies he's anti-Semitic, saying that his criticisms are focused solely on the Israeli government and Zionism, not Jewish people as a whole.
But the centrist think tank third way sent a memo urging Democratic leaders to distance themselves from left-wing voices like Piker.
They even called him anti-American, saying that he's no different from ultra-right-wing streamers like Nick Flinta.
The son Piker doesn't actually belong in the pro-democracy coalition.
He's an illiberal guy.
a China, Russia sympathizer who hates women, hates Israel, like he's all the toxic things.
At the end of the day, the real problem that is being presented here is Israel.
They don't like that there are loud, outspoken, anti-Zionist voices that Democratic politicians
are hearing from, and they want to desperately gatekeep who their politicians speak to and
listen to.
They're actively trying to turn someone like myself into a toxic person within the party.
The only thing that is correct about this assessment is that I am vulgar, but that's
just who I am.
I'm a vulgar person, and I think that's still infinitely better than being a civil war criminal.
Being a civil person that defends war crimes or defends war criminals is, in my opinion,
far worse than being a vulgar person that is on the side of justice and on the side
of truth.
This man looked bad for the party.
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.
You wanna know the worst possible outcome for 2028?
Tucker Carlson runs on an anti-Israel platform
and the Democrats put forward a pro-liberal Zionist,
pro-defending America's military might candidate.
Tucker Carlson wins by Ronald Reagan numbers.
The Democratic Party is done.
The next wave of fascism is here.
That's what I'm afraid of.
Tucker Carlson versus Gavin Newsom
is unlimited Tucker Carlson victory.
This is why I've been trying to urge Democrats
to take a stronger stance against Israel.
You cannot have a guy like Tucker Carlson
lead the conversation on Israel.
The Democrats as a national party
You have to universally oppose Israel.
If you don't do that, a guy like Tucker Carlson, who has been leading the conversation for
normies on the issue of Israel, will come out and destroy you.
What is Piker really about?
He's a very articulate, well-read, intellectual, good-looking, manly, star of the far left
media ecosphere.
When the left said, we need our own Joe Rogan, ugh.
There's a charismatic, masculine, progressive media star.
Is that not the left's Joe Rogan?
As if that's what the left needs.
Piker's on the far left.
Like he's a fan of Bernie, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar.
He's for Medicare for all, taxing the wealthy, free public transit, affordable housing, radical
lefty stuff.
He thinks Iran should have a nuclear weapon, because that would keep other countries from
attacking it.
I think they should have nukes.
If they had nukes, it would be like North Korea.
Every country in the aftermath of the dissolution of the USSR, where a separate world power
could actually protect other countries under their own autonomous nuclear umbrella.
You gotta build nukes, that's it.
You have to build nukes.
Iran had nukes, and the region would be much more stable.
Iranian population will be safer right now, okay?
They wouldn't be getting fucking bombed.
Israel would not even be able to do half of the shit
that it's doing in the region.
That is precisely the reason why Israel never wanted
Iran to get nukes.
He's a Marxist-adjacent democratic socialist,
but none of that is why anyone is attacking him.
Piker is at the heart of a fight about what direction
the Democratic Party is going to take in the near future,
because Piker represents the rapidly rising pro-Palestinian left, a faction that could
become a kingmaker within the Democratic Party, because today, two-thirds of Democratic voters
are pro-Palestinian. But most Democratic elected officials are pro-Israel. We are in a battle
over who the Democratic Party is going to be, and Piker is at the heart of that as one of the
loudest, most pro-Palestinian voices out there. He's pro-Palestinian in a way that's shocking
to some people. Piker has said that Hamas is a thousand times better than Israel. That is not
wrong. Israel's decades of genocide, murder, apartheid against Palestinians is far worse.
Israel is an apartheid state.
Piker has said he has no issue with Hezbollah.
Again, this is shocking to people who don't know a ton about the situation, but Hezbollah
was created in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
It exists to protect Lebanon from Israel.
Hezbollah would not exist if Israel had not repeatedly attacked Lebanon.
They are defenders of a small nation that cannot protect itself against an Israeli army
that is funded by the US.
People are horrified by Piker saying these things about Hamas and Hezbollah, partly because
they hear a sanitized version of who Israel is.
Many people have just never encountered my worldview in America.
As Piker said on Pod Save America, Israel creates October 7th for Palestine all the
time.
reduction voter. I'm a lesser evil voter and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel
every single time because I'm looking at the situation as a paramilitary organization that
has like a political party as well, a Politburo as well, that is entirely comprised not as
an alien force but of orphaned children that have had their parents killed by an apartheid
state that has been dominating the lives of Palestinians for 80 years at this point.
And they've done a genocide at this point as well, but like it started off with the
Nakba and and has only
Okay, I'm swamping it. Okay
Oh, hey
Didn't see you there
Currently on our way to Yale Union
Where we are going to be participating in a debate
The debate is about
ending the American Empire. It's a resolution. I'll be delivering a speech for 30 minutes.
Give or take. I wrote one once again.
After that speech, there'll be a brief Q&A portion. And after the Q&A portion,
there will be, I believe, five or six students, both on the left flank and the right flank,
both in the affirmative and against my resolution that will duke it out in the marketplace of
ideas. I'm not entirely certain as to what I'm supposed to be doing while that's happening but
I guess I'm just gonna be like the overseer of the debate or something and then I give my final
remarks at the end. Never done something like this before? Not certain how this stuff works but
excited to be a part of it and yeah hopefully you guys will also enjoy the
experience. Can I show them the northeast? Sure. It's beautiful. The college
campus is incredible. And New Haven was the American capital of pizza. Yeah
Um, everyone's been saying it.
I had fucked earlier.
Yeah. You fucked up.
You fucked up.
Downtown New Haven. Yeah, it's uh, it's really really nice.
The master debating is gonna be hard.
It's a debate you take no, so you can counter the arguments they make.
No, I'm not gonna be...
...countering their arguments.
The fuck?
Coming to you bro. That was strange
Sally's pizza for the wind now I have Pepe's
Which people think are
Everyone's going to call it in the chat people say Pepe's is not
The best but I
Like it. I liked it a lot. It was incredible. I
Get why people ride for Connecticut pizza. I feel like I've had Connecticut pizza before but I don't remember being this
good. But it could be because I haven't had any East Coast pizza in a very long
time. But yeah, New Haven is beautiful. It's beautiful.
It's very pretty. Yeah, I like it. I like it a lot. Good job. Good job, Connecticut.
you got motion you got motion twin I didn't realize I was disrespectful of
your game I didn't know you had it in you
but yeah we must end the American Empire is also right in my fucking wheel
house as well but hopefully hopefully there won't be too many clippable
incidents. You know what I mean.
You know where it is?
Let me see the photo again. My dog shoulder.
Which side is that?
I don't know.
Look at that right now.
Actually, it's right up there in the middle.
Durba, via...
You see the brown?
I mean, we can find it out.
Yeah, yeah, I'm down.
Let's just get out.
We'll get out.
Thank you, sir.
I'm high in camp for a bit.
Alright chat box, sorry I know it's freaking blown out right now.
I'm pointing a camera down as to not make it entirely obvious where we are.
None of them says where it is.
I'm texting, man.
That thing can happen.
It can be a fan waiting to get inside.
That's why it's wrong.
We won't get in from there. We'll get in from the back door.
I think this might be it. Come here.
Or maybe not.
You don't like someone?
Oh yeah.
You want to show them the photo?
One sec.
This isn't in the back door, but I'm like...
Oh, he just dropped us off.
In the wrong place?
It's a bit far, I think.
Oh, it is up there.
It's this one.
Don't say it out loud, though, please.
OK, I think this one down here is on the corner.
OK, thank you.
Thank you so much.
Oh, he just dropped us off in the wrong place.
Yeah.
All right.
You want to fix the exposure?
Yeah.
Word.
All right.
It's actually a beautiful day up to still a marshes,
but in the East Coast.
New York, Connecticut, New Jersey.
Springtime and falltime, in my opinion,
are the two best times.
Summer's too hot and too humid.
Winter is too wet and too cold.
Right now, perfect temperature, perfect time,
perfect conditions.
Look at these beautiful eyes building.
Yeah, this campus is sick, dude.
Hi.
Hi.
Hi.
Thank you.
I have no idea.
You want to take a guess?
1874.
1874?
I don't know.
What's going on?
Are you going looking for?
Hell yeah.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
We are going to go backstage and then we'll show the procedure.
That's my dad.
What's going on?
Okay, I'm glad I wore a suit.
Oh, okay.
Hell yeah.
Yeah, I went to get a fit there, I'll be getting some teachers, so how it all works.
Yeah.
I'm trying to moderate myself.
Perfect.
Excuse me.
This building's ancient.
That's not a enter there yet.
That is going to be our stage.
Can I take your things for you?
Oh, is there a place I can put it?
No, we don't want that.
Is there a place I can put it?
Um, yes.
We're going to put it.
Oh, is there like a place I can put it?
No, we don't want that.
Is there a place I can put it?
Um, yes.
Where are you going to put it?
Uh, I'll, so it's a different room.
I'll just grab them and put them there.
Oh, you don't want to bring it up on stage?
Oh, I don't want to bring it up on stage.
No, I don't want to bring it up on stage.
Um, uh, a green room or something?
Yeah, we do get to site, like, green room that we can put it in.
Yeah, can we just go there right now?
We have to go through the audience, I think, is the issue.
Oh.
Okay.
then we just shout to the audience.
Is there a way to go to this door?
Because I'm keeping it closed, but it's open and we don't want that.
Thank you.
I mean, we can go through the audience.
It was really nice.
Okay.
We prefer...
We can go around and...
We can go around to the front and go through the back.
I'll just do that.
Okay.
I mean, you guys just...
I think it might be easier we'll enter through the front then all right let's do it
was the drive over I was fine yeah yeah yeah before yeah maybe I briefed on
the procedure on the way then okay perfect let's do it so it should be super
It starts, I'll gavel us in, we'll have seven brief announcements from the chairs of chairman
of our different parties, just sit there and look for you for that.
Then more, we'll give a brief announcement, and then I'll say, is there perhaps a first
docketed speech in the affirmative?
When that happens, you raise your hand and say for the speech, then you get up to the
podium and give your speech.
It should be hopefully between 20 to 30 minutes.
I'll gavel once at 10, twice at 20, three times at 30.
I'll just circuit this sort of wrap up.
I won't restrict that.
Then you'll have questions.
I'll call on the questions,
cause you don't have to worry about that.
I'll make sure people need to,
people who like actually talk about your speech
most importantly.
Oh yeah.
Isn't that good?
It's,
okay, can you give me my phone?
I brought it.
I told you not to put it in my camera.
Hell yeah.
Okay.
Then we'll have questions.
More.
And where are we going to keep, where are we going to, uh...
Oh, shit.
It's too late. This is not a scene.
Okay, Danny?
Uh-huh.
Wait, what do I say again?
I'll say it's their first thought and speech in the affirmative.
You just raise your hand and say for the speech.
For the speech.
For the speech.
Easy, easy, easy.
The only thing during your speech is to try to keep us where you're going to be.
Every time I do it, I have to do it after that one.
People laugh at me.
I am low try.
I will, I will.
Thank you.
I think it's just like crosstalk.
Like, when you're sort of like talking,
they're trying not to have you call and respond
to the audience for like their speech.
You will have time to like obviously talk,
you will have questions.
Yeah.
Or like, you know.
If we can just put your things down last year.
All right.
Okay, good.
After questions, you will sit down
and we'll have five student speeches.
Four of the student speeches, they're five minutes each,
so that's the question for you as always.
All you do is listen, and you are more than welcome to ask questions of those.
I want to see if your questions go to those.
Sorry, I'm putting you down.
If you want to ask questions for those, just raise your hand.
And I'll call on you.
So I'll have those five student speeches.
We might have a group of other two.
Two of those will be agreeing with you.
Three of those will be negative.
And then I'll say, end of debate, are there perhaps closing remarks from the guest?
And then I say, floor to speech again?
No, you can just get up.
Thanks.
Give closing remarks.
That's not really speech.
It's more informal.
that can be much shorter.
Yeah.
I don't like the entire debate,
what you thought, et cetera, et cetera.
The only other thing is we stomp when we like something
and if we don't like something.
Okay.
It's good to know.
Don't get phased by that.
It's a little off.
Question.
We wanted to print out my speech.
It's already on the table.
Oh, it's already on the table.
Yes, we have it for you.
You'll sit in the middle and we have it on the table there.
Okay, perfect.
All right.
All right.
What's on your phone?
College.
I don't guess that.
Anything about procedure that seems...
No.
Okay, no.
Do you have questions already?
No.
Did you ask questions?
This is a nice question.
Okay.
Yeah, sure.
If you have any other questions, let me ask them.
I'm Jasper, I'm here to see you.
Hi.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Okay, that's cool.
Yeah, so I'm going to wait now.
I'll just figure.
Nice.
I'll just check.
Okay, I'll just figure.
Let me forget to get the phone.
Will you be sitting here?
You're wearing it either.
Yeah, could you show me where?
Well, I was going to go.
You're wearing it either.
Do you want to be in the hall?
I forgot who they were, I read a tech call book.
And when are we starting?
Yeah, probably at Isle.
Oh, okay, they were just waiting for us, so we should just go right now.
Okay, well let me...
Yeah, let me...
Okay, well I need to go set up.
Alright, you go set up, I go pee.
Okay, give me the...
And then someone, could you give us a really nice one?
Sorry, Chad.
If you can also concede your while we're up there.
I'm clicking next to you.
Alright, Chad.
It's going to be just you and me for a minute, okay?
Hassan, I will walk in with you, so we'll do better next time.
Hassan, wait.
Sorry, one last thing.
Before he goes up, where are you going to stage him?
Like, in that back room we came in at the very beginning?
Is there no, now, the idea is to walk in through the back.
I just want to put a mic on him before he walks on stage.
OK.
So if you just come downstairs there,
we won't walk in until you guys can read my line.
Sounds good.
OK, well, as you're coming in, I'm going to mic you,
and then I'm going to set up the tripod right now.
OK.
And yeah, it's going to be a pleasure to have
a conversation with you for right now.
All right.
Here you go.
Is it fun?
Yeah.
All right, Chad, I'm putting a tripod on you.
I'm inserting it.
Sorry, I know this is really, really personal.
Yes, they came
Okay, someone show me where to set up and I'll go set up
Let's go
I have the mic.
Backwards.
Backwards.
Okay.
For sure.
All right.
And then, if you need help, we can give you a sign up.
All right.
Check.
That's how we're going to do it.
We'll do a little side-clust, a little production side-clust.
You guys have been here before.
You know where it is.
Oh, actually, I'm so sorry.
I have to change the lens real quick.
Yeah, the word is sorry.
already, you know, oh, look, it's all live, okay? There's a lot of moving parts, as
long as stuff that happens, okay? It's hard to remember everything. Got just a
long lens on you guys. I'm not reading chat right now because I'm
I've been balancing so many things, but it seems to be patient with me.
Actually, I'll open you guys up directly at least.
I'm monitoring the situation that is the chat box.
Hi, chat.
I want to watch the entire fits through the back, but it's a good thing.
You said that because this mitt is actually fear-end official merch that is releasing very soon.
So stay tuned also you're gonna get flashbanged, I'm warning you.
It's okay, I'm back, I'm holding you now.
I'm holding you now.
I'll adjust the light.
Okay, a much longer lens on there now.
I'm going to bring it back up white and light with me just in case everything goes to shit.
And now we should be good.
Let's fucking go. That wasn't so bad, right, Chad?
Okay.
Yeah, this is a new fear in, we're just coming out.
I actually love how it turned out.
It's like an oversized gradient knit, custom cut, so asymmetrical.
I'll tell you there.
Okay.
So yeah, I think a hallway set up would be ideal.
Where's whoever I can get a clear shot of the stage?
Yeah, this alleyway works. Let me see.
Where's he gonna stand at that podium there?
He's gonna be at the podium and I'm gonna be sitting in the middle seat.
Okay, I think this works.
Yeah, yeah, this works.
Oh, let me ask the chat.
Are they my sounding board?
Chat, does this work?
All right.
This works, right?
Yes, yes.
Yeah, that's good.
Okay.
We're gonna post up here. Thank you so much.
Wait. Oh, yeah, not yet though.
Let me set up the actual tripod.
These are so antsy.
Give me two seconds, guys, to open the legs.
These young and so full of energy, all right?
Oh, to be, to be young again.
Sorry Chad, I know it's really shaky. I'm almost done. I promise. I'm sorry Chad.
I'm just going to get him to microphone.
Can you hand this to him?
Oh yes, of course, yes.
The left sits on the right, sits on the right.
And then a lot of the guests move.
Is that to uh...
Yeah, that's great.
Okay, because that's the way as well, I want to stay ready for a while.
Oh, okay.
I know.
I want to stay ready.
Are they ready?
You're ready?
Alright, I'll leave the way.
That's it.
We're ready?
Alright.
I call this debate caucus of the Yale Political Union to order.
It is there perhaps an appropriate announcement from the chair of the party of the left.
Chair.
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Ladies and Speaker, last week the party was activated to resolve recent older religion.
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and it's possible that some of the things that happen will be in the streets.
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Last week, the Progressive Party honored our seniors by remaining resolved.
Will!
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Their expense is, perhaps, an appropriate announcement from the Chairman of the Independent
for the government.
Last week, the incentive army gathered to debate the result of embraced consumerism.
We will not!
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common room, the Federalist Party will be debating, resolve, join the sons of liberty.
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Mr. Hassan Eichert is one of the most prominent progressive voices in America.
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All these members are on request to save the resurrection of the entire United States.
I suspect that people have to be turned away from the disease they've had to.
But so it is disrespectful and in fact an expression of genesis of our mission,
which is to debate if it's at least leave for me.
And if that's what you think it is, please.
I move that the yellow political union is to be resolved and the American Empire.
This is going to pick me up, right?
Everyone can hear me?
All right.
I just want to start off by thanking everybody for allowing me to come to Yale University today
and be able to deliver a speech on one of my favorite subjects, the U.S. Empire.
I know that it was quite contentious, it seems,
That there were a lot of people that didn't want me to come here today and speak to all of you
That's right. I
Know what that means now
I want to start off by thanking the Yale Union
I'm especially sad that Senator Rick Scott couldn't make it
I'm sure you have many opinions on whether or not we should end the U.S.
empire and the global capitalist system, which is what I will be talking about today.
And then your grandparents are probably going to hear about it on Fox News tomorrow.
But it's an interesting resolution and the U.S. Empire.
It's interesting because how do you end something that's already in the process of dying?
Because that's the situation with the American Empire as it stands today.
The Empire of the United States was born in the Spanish-American War and rose to the
position of global superpower during World War II.
People are hissing World War II.
That's crazy.
That was a good one that we fought.
Sure, you can trace America's Imperial roots to killing and stealing from the Native Americans
or to the Mexican-American War, but America's status as a trans-Oceanic power came with
the dawn of the 20th century.
After the Second World War, the American Empire was in a time of expansion.
We benefited greatly from our distance from the damage to the war itself.
We hadn't suffered the terrible losses that our allies did, like in the USSR, with more
than 20 million slain defeating the Nazi scourge.
But the Axis powers had been defeated.
But the United States, fueled by anti-communist fervor, turned against its former ally, the
the Soviet Union.
This next phase of the American Empire was structured as a world competition between
Washington and Moscow.
Everywhere the United States looked, it found communists under the floorboards, under the
beds, both real and imagined.
And naturally, this anti-communist struggle went hand in hand with American imperial
interest. From Europe to East Asia, the interests of our investors and our corporations were
protected and protected unconditionally, mind you. And rather than start converting our
swords into plowshares at the end of World War II, we dropped atom bombs, two of them
to be exact, to show the rest of the world that we had that capacity to change the tides
of history in irreparable manner.
We helped out Nazi and Japanese war criminals.
We got into a hot war in Korea where we used the information that we got from those part
in Japanese war criminals, chemical and biological warfare on Korea.
And we began this long-term, worldwide cold war.
In other words, we became the monsters that we had supposedly vanquished.
What Americans call the Cold War was, to most of the people on the planet, an endless series
of butcheries, each more perverse and more tragic than the last.
In Korea, the United States dropped 635,000 tons of bombs.
By comparison, the United States dropped 500 tons of bombs in the entire Pacific Theater
in World War II.
The United States and its allies destroyed Korea, cut the peninsula into two, built up
an anti-communist dictatorship in the southern half
and have maintained a 75-year economic war
against the northern half.
Global American aggression during this period, however,
was not limited to the military.
Sometimes we used covert operations
to take out socialist governments,
replacing them with our favorite clients.
This was exceptionally effective in the third world, where the American Empire went in to overdrive.
Take the case of Chiquita. Some of you might be familiar with this company.
Today, it's one of the world's biggest food companies.
But once upon a time, it was called the United Fruit Company.
And for a decade, the United Fruit Company worked as kind of a state within a state in Guatemala.
All resources in the country, land, labor, transportation, you name it, were mobilized in service of United Fruit and its investors.
Essentially, there was no part of the state left uncaptured by United Fruit.
But a left-wing government came into power in Guatemala, after a 1944 revolution, and
the socialist government pursued, trigger warning for all the capitalists in here, land reform.
To make matters worse, they tried to break U.S. corporate control over their land and
and to reappropriate it to Guatemala's vast peasantry.
To make it even scarier, they also reformed the labor code, giving the power to strike
to the workers on United Fruit's plantations.
But Uncle Sam had different plans.
That was far too much.
I should point out that the American Secretary of State, John Foster Dulles, you might be
aware of this person, had previously been United Fruits Corporate Lawyer.
Now he was in a position to back them up.
In 1954, the CIA organized a coup d'etat in Guatemala.
They did this by isolating Guatemala diplomatically, punishing it economically, cutting off weapons
purchases and when Guatemala was weakened, the CIA organized an army in exile to finish
the job and to throw out the socialist government.
The CIA drew up a list of dozens of communists to be killed by assassination.
Guatemala has suffered in poverty and violence for most of its history since then.
And many people have rightfully wondered, what was the point of defeating the Nazis
if we went on to dominate so much of the globe as violently as we have?
Was the point of all of it so that we could have the rest of the world to ourselves?
The Guatemalan President Juan José Aravello delivered a speech at the height of the American
pressure campaign that kind of channels that exact same question. Before the
coup d'etat he said these words and I think those words still ring true today.
He said, and I quote, the war that began in 1939 ended but in the ideological
dialogue between the two worlds and two leaders Roosevelt lost the war. The real
Victor was Adolf Hitler. It is my personal opinion that the contemporary world is moved
by the ideas that served as the foundation on which Hitler rose to power.
Seventy years later, I think history has proven our Avallu right. In place after place, time
One after time, the United States can never settle down its imperial bloodlust, this forever
hunt for manifest destiny.
We can draw a straight line from indigenous massacres of the early United States to the
20th century, killing fields that we have created in the third world.
In Vietnam, we continued France's colonial war for decades, tearing society apart at
home for pretty much no strategic gain abroad.
In Iran, we spent the 1970s sending the brutal Shah's regime billions of dollars of weapons,
only for those same weapons to fall into the hands of the Islamic Revolutionary Government
in 79, our new and heavily armed, worse enemies.
Worse enemies that kept propping up over and over again, enemies that we designed sometimes
because they simply wanted to have dignity and sovereignty.
The story keeps repeating itself over and over again.
We didn't do much better with Iraq,
where we spent the 1980s arming Saddam before invading
and then sanctioning Iraq into destitution.
We wielded Iraq as a weapon against Iran as well at that point.
All that before we actually invaded and just straight up
broke the country in 2003. I can go on and on and on. And we celebrated the fall of the
Soviet Union, cheering on its destruction, which plummeted millions and millions of people
into an economic disaster, the consequences of which we still see today.
Zoram Umdani's election victory night party.
I was interviewed.
I was interviewed by a media outlet where I said, we defeated the USSR and the USSR dissolved
unfortunately.
This was quite the controversial statement at the time.
Fox News still loves repeating this soundbite.
And some Democrats also channel that frustration as well.
They say, how dare you, Assad?
The USSR was our enemy.
They were ruthless, authoritarian.
The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.
Just wait.
Listen, maybe you'll agree.
Not only was there incalculable harm done to every single country under its banner,
child prostitution, skyrocketing suicide rates, life expectancy plummeting, but America was
no longer contested around the globe.
And it is precisely because of the end to that multi-polarity that we saw accelerated
neoliberalism that is devastating every western nation right now, unlimited and unchecked
greed.
Our successes are leading to our own demise and the demise and collapse of the liberal
system.
The U.S. has produced disaster after disaster after disaster.
I am reminded, however, of some famous words spoken by a guy by the name of Mao Zedong.
Speaking with an American journalist in 1946, Mao Zedong said these words.
All reactionaries are paper tigers.
In appearance, the reactionaries are terrifying.
But in reality, they are not so powerful.
Speaking of U.S. imperialism, people seem to feel that it is terrifically strong.
But it will be proved that the U.S. reactionaries, like all reactionaries in history, do not
have much strength.
In the United States, there are others who are really strong, the American people.
I think about that quote quite a bit, especially in these last couple of weeks as Operation
Epstein's Fury wages on.
Perhaps Mal was right about this, but maybe it was a little too early.
After all, being a leftist is about being right, but too early.
I'll revisit that quote in a little bit.
I want to talk about another great man, Vladimir Ivich Ulyanov.
You might know him as Lennon, Lennon.
It was Lennon who described imperialism as the highest or newest stage of capitalism.
Successful imperialist powers he observed allowed their citizens to benefit from the
exploitation of their colonies, but the system was unstable.
The development of imperial economies was uneven.
The colonies were a way of sending surplus capital and people into new markets.
In the 1960s, Kwame and Krumah, the African socialist who served as Ghana's first president,
updated Lenin's theory.
With his own book on neocolonialism, what he described was how, in the era of decolonization,
under American hegemony, colonialism actually endured.
For many different ways, foreigners were still able to dominate notionally independent countries
like the Congo or Colombia.
To give an example, say an African country nationalizes its oil reserves, but unfortunately
they don't own or operate their own domestic refineries.
Or maybe they don't even have domestic refineries at all.
Today, that African nation decides to take a closer look at the Western capital-backed
contracts.
What do you think happens?
All of a sudden, armed militancy and uprisings prop up, left and right, instability is born
out of nowhere.
Now those militants might not wear a NASCAR jacket that says, Shell Corporation, but that
doesn't change the reality that those militancies oftentimes are working for the same exact
interests.
So there's the visible forms of intervention rendered invisible through the covert actions
of the State Department, but then there's the more complex forms of economic imperialism
through a financial infrastructure that Western capital has built to benefit its own interests.
Offering loans through the IMF only to cycle that wealth back to foreign capital is one
of many ways.
Loans that come with tremendous restrictions like austerity.
Money that is handed over to developing nations that are only allowed to be spent in ways
that generate returns for foreign investors.
And to think all of that debt in the third world that is owed to financial institutions
in wealthy countries, whether it's Goldman Sachs or the IMF, capital does not go to those
who most need it.
This has been, with, of course, substantial updates, the system of global exploitation
that has endured for decades.
And it has been facilitated by the United States, which, after so many disasters, is
now running out of energy to hold this system together.
There are no more big enemies left that the United States can beat.
And after an empire destroys all of its enemies, it turns the gun on itself.
After all, all of this plunder is not necessarily done for you.
It's done for parasitic international capital.
And parasitic capital has no loyalty to ethnicities, religions, nationalities, but only to the
almighty dollar, only to the profit motive.
Although critics have been pointing out the decline of American imperial power for decades,
I'm certainly one of those critics, we've never seen the decline happen so quickly.
And we have never had this much obvious evidence for it.
The many Trumps around the world, like Viktor Orban, Viktor Orban, they're not doing so
hot.
They're not doing great.
As the Ukraine war heads to a settlement that will be unfavorable to NATO, the United States
in Europe are fighting over Greenland and Benjamin Netanyahu.
And speaking of Benjamin Netanyahu, some might say, the real president.
A man with great ambition, constantly trying to get America to become more active in waging
war with Iran for multiple decades.
Well he found the perfect guy to do it with.
Donald Trump let the Israelis drag the U.S. into this newest war with Iran after three
years of bipartisan support for the genocide that Israel was committing on a different
front of Israel's multiple ongoing wars of aggression.
While Americans have shown the world that might makes right, it appears the U.S. has
bit off more than it can chew with this supposedly 47-year imminent threat, which is just really
picking on a country that chose to fight back for the first time in a very long time.
And one of the lessons that not only we are learning, but the rest of our security partners
are learning, is that in the absence of soft power, 800 military bases that we have all
around the world can very quickly turn into 800 separate invasions, or in the case of
the Gulf nations, it can turn into missile sponges at the behest of Israel, almost overnight.
And all of this is happening as the United States government has destroyed its credibility
domestically with a murderous and absurd deployment of ICE as the cost of living just keeps going
up and up and up.
The very same tactics that we have observed in countries that we have dominated and countries
that our allies have dominated, like in occupied Palestine, are now being turned back on the
domestic home front against American citizens.
Mass thugs of the state, unaccountable to no one,
unelected, are engaging in acts of violence against
Americans with impunity. And when Americans fight back
against ICE, as they did in Minneapolis, ICE shoots
back.
And the problems continue.
The analyst Stephen Semler wrote recently that Trump's budget manages to be $361 billion
larger than last year despite cutting $300 billion in social programs and other public
investments.
All of that money is going to policing and it's going to endless war.
It's not going to bridges, it's not going to tunnels, and it's certainly not going
to healthcare.
Every single one of you, regardless of your political affiliations or your ideology, should
consider that money to be stolen from you.
Those are dollars stolen from you to be put towards industries of death that have no future.
This bargain isn't tenable anymore.
It's over.
It's not tenable for the employee of the California missile designer.
It's not tenable for the veteran who wants free college.
It's not tenable for the kids in crumbling Philadelphia schools.
And it's certainly not tenable for the homeless, the working class, and of course for the rest
of the world.
Those who happen to exist under the boot.
We have been spoiled by an American way of life that requires so much death.
The fruits of imperialism were always immoral.
Now they are obviously rotten.
I don't know how else to put it.
The American Empire is fading fast, regardless of what we resolve here today.
And I'm not just saying that so that I have an upper hand in this conversation.
No matter what we say here, the American Empire is going to inevitably fall.
But, but, I think, as Mao Zedong himself said earlier, there is a power within the American
people to change the nature of this decline. He had a lot more confidence in the American
labor class than many Americans do today. I'll tell you that much. I believe that we
are living through a strange and radicalizing time for millions of Americans, and I've seen
that with my own two eyes. I've gone to protests all around the world, tasted the tear gas of
different countries, and I've seen barbers and debas aged 75 and above yelling at ice
agents in Minneapolis.
The contradictions have worsened and they are also restless.
They also want that change.
People intuitively understand that there is another way for the United States to exist
in the world.
The way in which we're not constantly exploiting people,
deciding other countries' futures for them,
or say, blockading their seas,
because they just completely embarrassed us politically,
like in the case of Cuba,
holding on to old grudges for no reason
as we starve economically and literally,
an island nation that happens to be 90 miles off
of our coastline where 10 million people live.
And that's happening on autopilot.
It's happening even if you give no consent to that whatsoever.
But we can change that.
Once you see the cruelty of American Empire, it's quite difficult to unsee it.
And I do think American people are seeing it for the first time ever.
They know, and they know that we are getting a raw deal.
The super profits that we have enjoyed are coming to an end.
And our debt to humanity requires negotiating a new deal, a real, equal world peace.
never die quietly, and we must end the American Empire regardless. But we must manage the
retreat of a superpower from the world stage. This is a challenge for our time. Actually,
this is THE challenge for our time. Because if we do not do this, then the American Empire
will come to an end in a much more violent way. A curse on future generations that we
must avoid at all costs. Thank you.
I think I'll just use this.
Oh, OK.
Let's raise on Steve.
Perhaps questions?
Share.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
Well, I think there's a kind of a speech
I don't think we'll be able to express.
I think that what I think is a kind of an understanding
is that the American people are a political body for the British
and they're struggling with this.
I just want to ask you to figure out
how do we all swear to, I mean, ever get a national
circle, to get a national circle,
to get a national plan, to actually get a sort of
over-crisis of something that is a kind of national
Great question. So, from my calculation, the way I see it, as I tried to explain in this
speech here, is that it's going to happen because it will collapse on its weight no
matter what. It'll collapse under its weight regardless. And what I want to explain to
to every American that will listen is that we do have the capacity to change the system
that we exist under in an effort to ensure that we have a much more equitable outcome
where we don't diminish the potential of Americans and we don't diminish the potential
and starve out the potential of people living in the periphery.
This is something that I saw personally when I visited Cuba recently.
The economic terror that we've subjected this island nation to is unforgivable.
And yet, and yet the Cuban population has still thrived in very meaningful ways.
They found novel cures for the lung cancer vaccine
that they've had since the 90s.
And I was talking to a scientist on my trip there.
And apparently, Cuba also has the only current working
treatment for Alzheimer's and dementia.
It's in stage three clinical trials in Canada right now,
as we speak.
I think about what Cuba would look like if they weren't constantly under the threat of American sanctions.
Because these sanctions, these sanctions have stifled growth.
They've played a formative role in developing even further cures, right?
So that's not just bad for the people of Cuba who are suffering, their economies and tatters,
but it's also bad for people like ourselves. I mean Alzheimer's and dementia is a massive problem.
Almost all of my grandparents suffered from Alzheimer's and dementia. So
the way I see it, it's almost a selfish argument to make sure that we can unlock the potential
all of these countries that we seek to dominate. And on top of that, I feel like
all of the resources, all of our productive output is wasted on this
unlimited endless cycle of violence that we subject other nations to. And as
soon as you connect foreign policy back to all of the domestic problems that we
have, not just in the concept of blowback, which I famously have spoken about, but also
the reality that every dollar that is spent on a bomb is spent on a bomb that blows up
a school is a dollar that could be spent building schools here.
Americans are...
Americans, at least in my experience, are much more responsive to that kind of message.
Because at the end of the day, you don't have to use academic language or talk about the international proletarian cause.
You can just tell regular folks, ordinary folks, that random person living in Tehran has the exact same interest that you and I do.
They want to have shelter, they want to have a hot meal,
they want a better future for their children.
We're all people.
So, at least in my experience, that's been a way to get ordinary Americans
who've never really thought about these sorts of things
to start thinking about it in these terms, in these terms that dictate that we stop,
we cease our senseless violence and bloodshed campaigns overseas, and instead focus on ourselves.
There was a guy who said that, and he won twice, his name is Donald Trump.
He lied, but that's what he said, and it was successful.
I hope that we can have more earnest leaders who will actually advance that cause so that
we can allow the nation the periphery to breathe so that they can develop sovereignty and dignity
for themselves so they can unlock their potential and that we can unlock the potential of Americans
as well.
For the questions, I have a question for the chair.
I'm very glad that you spoke about the U.S. intervention in South Korea.
If you talk about the U.S. intervention in South Korea, what exactly about a unified communist Korea, for instance,
would he find to be good, more preferable than the current
kind of government that we work with?
Great question.
From my assessment, I don't necessarily
care about the way that other countries govern themselves.
I know that we like to act as though we do.
It's the basis for American intervention.
It's the number one argument that we present,
as to why we must intervene in other countries affairs.
But it's an inherently hypocritical argument,
because there are plenty of countries in the world
that have devastating systems, ruthless autocracies,
that are formative allies of the United States,
and no such intervention is ever seen as a necessity.
Saudi Arabia, the Gulf States, the kafala system that they have.
Now you might say this is what about us, but the reason why I'm bringing this up is because
from my estimation, the things that we did in Korea before there was such a thing as
South Korea or North Korea were unbearable.
Not only did we prop up a military dictatorship that was unbelievably authoritarian and unbelievably
deadly, taking out any kind of socialist trade unionists or communist uprisings that were
taking place in the South.
But beyond that, what we did in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea or North Korea
is tantamount to genocide.
The only distinction is that it was America that did the genocide, so the rest of the
world does not call it a genocide.
What can you call the destruction of 90% of all standing buildings?
What do you call the death and destruction, the utilization of biological and chemical
weapons on the Korean population that led, I believe, 10% drop off the entire population?
It was unbelievable.
It was unbelievable bloodshed.
I don't know what Korea would look like in the absence of our intervention, but I can
only speak to what we've done to Korea.
And what we've done to Korea is incredibly violent and for no good reason whatsoever.
I don't want to ask more, they're hitting me.
Thank you very much Mr. Speaker. I think I'm just going to go to about 90% of the
members of the party. I have a few comments that I have a question for you. When do you
attribute this power to the law? When do you use it as a function of sovereignty and
and having to maintain allies, and so on, and so forth.
When is it right for us to intervene in, say,
Ukraine, from Taiwan, should the US have gotten involved
in something like World War II,
to give those kind of a question to the world?
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
This is a great question as well.
I think exhausting diplomatic solutions is the most important thing that the United States
should be doing in every single scenario.
And once it's established that diplomacy is impossible, then I think military intervention
can be reasonable.
An example I'll use is not Taiwan or Ukraine, but Israel.
This is why I advocate for boycotts, divestments, and sanctions from the state of New York City.
Eighty years of apartheid, eighty years of settler colonial violence, ethnic cleansing,
surveillance, mass incarceration of Palestinians, robbed from their ancestral
homelands with no right to return, against all international humanitarian law,
against every rule in the rule book. Israel has been able to do this because
they were an invaluable Cold War ally and an invaluable ally to the United
states' interests in this resource-rich region.
But if there was such a scenario, we're
in the aftermath of that one phone call
that Joe Biden could have made, that Donald Trump could make,
that he seemingly chooses not to,
be really good if he made that phone call, especially lately.
What comes next would be social pariah status
at the international stage.
No more political cover for Israel.
No more weapons to Israel.
No more aid to Israel.
And if that doesn't work, sanctions on Israel.
Now, I'm of the mindset that it wouldn't even get to that.
That's why I believe that a single phone call would probably
put an end to this kind of death and destruction.
But as far as our foreign adversaries goes,
I think we present a lot of opportunities.
We create a lot of instability around the world
with our intervention,
with our interventions in the affairs of other countries
in an effort to constantly prod
at these foreign adversaries that we've designed
rather than trying to have an equitable solution
that treats these countries, not as foreign adversaries, but as diplomatic partners.
But in the absence of that, of course, I think military intervention would be appropriate.
I can't hear you.
which I hear from many points.
I'm very strong at this point on the dangers of ending the American Empire.
What exactly does the process of ending the American Empire
with, as you said, preventing a catastrophe for future generations of life?
And is it not the case that the American Empire ends
that another global nuclear power will once again be destroyed?
This is the argument that necessitates the existence of the American Empire.
This is what we tell ourselves.
This is what we are taught to fear.
The idea that if we were to retreat from the rest of the world, other great powers would
be just as ruthless to us. But the way that I think about it, as someone who is fascinated
by movements of liberation throughout time, this argument has been the exact same argument
time and time again. The idea that the white slavery, if they were to abolish slavery,
live in the same status in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery and be treated by
the newly freed African men and women in the same way that the slavery treated them.
The idea that if liberation came to countries like Algeria or if the apartheid in South
South Africa was abolished, that somehow this new formation would actually punish the 10%
whites in apartheid South Africa in the same way that the 10% white population has punished
the black population.
History has also shown us that that's not what happens.
It's never happened.
So the idea that other countries would treat the United States of America with the same
violence that we have subjected them to has never really borne itself out.
So I don't believe that that would be the case.
So fear that many people hold on to though, and I think that fear is what justifies in
the eyes of many Americans the continuation of empire.
Now you asked me about trying to manage this retreat and what this catastrophic outcome
would look like.
I think we're living through that right now.
The destruction of all previous rules of engagement, international human rights, the
law, the jungle, a retreat from our previous security commitments, no longer relying on
soft power initiatives, this is the death of American Empire.
We've now moved on to a much more vulgar form of imperialism, much more vulgar form of commanding
our interests over the rest of the globe.
And I think, and I hope that this is not the case, but I think that things are going to
get even more violent from this point on.
So that's what I'm trying to avoid, because the reality of the matter is empires rarely
die quietly.
They go out over the course of sometimes centuries, but in America's case, probably a lot shorter,
with increasing amounts of violence.
And we're seeing that with our little sister nation Israel right now, going through its
own fascist death spiral, not dissimilar to what the Nazis went through.
I want to avoid that.
Next, one last, briefest, final question.
I have a question.
Yes!
So, the gesture of the nation is explaining that the American Empire is over-emissioned.
We don't, you know, like, there's not much to do, it's in this dead spot, right?
As someone who wants to see this empire end,
like, yeah, should he just do nothing and wait for it to end?
Like, he wants the empire to end, and it is ended.
Like, what's the point of like reviewing it politically
if one can just sort of wait around
and wait for it to end?
Great question.
Um, my statements are more so a warning for people, and like I mentioned, I want to manage
this decline and I want to move into the next phase of American development before it gets
so totally out of hand that we see something as devastating, God forbid, as like a nuclear
Holocaust or something. Because if the current economic organization of the American society
persists, then the income inequality that we're facing is only going to worsen as wealth
just stays at the top of society.
And people who are from a working class background
have a horrible end of that bargain.
And their material conditions deteriorate even further.
Also accelerated by climate change too.
So what I want to do is try to organize against that
and to ensure that we have the most peaceful transition
possible so that we don't, so that we stop starving the potential of the masses here
in the United States of America as well as elsewhere around the world.
Yes, you got it.
Yes, thank you.
It is our time.
It is our time.
It is our time.
As you mentioned, I'm a member of the NEPA, and I really think that this is going to be the best along the way.
This is the biggest part of the NEPA, because it's going to be problematic.
But the other thing is that the part of the NEPA that I think is going to be the best along the way is
what I want to understand is that in the U.S. NEPA, the question of charitable representations,
not just for me, but for the NEPA, nor for the NEPA, but also for the NEPA,
Thank you very much. First, I'll just outline three reasons why. The first is that America
has no home land. Mr. Piper will assert that America has been an empire since the Spanish
American War. I say it started much earlier than that. It started with the establishment
of, yes, the 13 original colonies. America has been an empire since its inception. In
In fact, the land we're standing on today is formed by way of violent displacement of the
Conipia Pagoset and the Wauhanger Kingdoms.
Second, America is no ethnomationist empire. Every other empire in history has been ethnomationist,
with the exception of Rome.
The British Empire was for white bricks.
The Mughal Empire was for ethnically Indian people.
The Chinese empires were for people who were ethnically Chinese.
technically Chinese, America is not an ethnomatialist empire.
Finally, America is an economic, not a territorial empire.
Why is this so significant?
I think Mr. Piper and I would both agree
that economics are the most important component
of America's empire.
It is capitalist incentives that draw us
to this sort of downfall.
And I'm really proud that he brought the example
of Guatemala.
I agree that the deposition of Jehovah's Witnesses,
that was an economic incentive.
But note the difference.
It was not the case that it was a typical colonial expansion
where America made Guatemala a colony.
It was commercial interests.
So that's the first thing I'd like to establish.
But then the second thing I'd like to say,
and this is where I'm in the negative,
is that an American empire is greatly preferable to any other
type of empire.
Now, my problem with Mr. Peijer's speech
is that he lacks a theory of power.
He lacks a theory of where power goes.
Power does not evaporate.
And I think it's telling that he would agree with me when
he says that it was a tragedy that the USSR fell, because
suddenly there's a power vacuum, and there were real big
problems that sprouted from that.
I would posit that fall of the American Empire would lead to
a very similar situation.
Why is that important?
I posit that one of two things would happen.
Either we return to a system of spheres of confluence, and
we saw how that turned out in early 20th century with World
World War I, there's a much bloodier world I'm sure we do want to live in.
And second, America could be supplanted.
And I'm grateful to Ms. Perry for bringing this up in a question.
Mr. Piper, Mr. Piper now claims he says that that would never happen.
He says there would be no supplanting because the historical record doesn't
reflect that.
But his examples, the fact that power went back to the people in South Africa,
it went away from the apartheid state and towards the people,
shows that power does not evaporate, it changes hands.
So it's not a question of empire or no empire.
It's a question of where the power is.
And I, because it's much better that it's in American hands,
which are covered in blood, than it's in Chinese hands
or in the hands of another great power.
Why is this the case?
I'll promise you that America gets a lot right.
America gets free speech, right?
America gets capitalism, right?
America gets a lot right.
The fact that we are motivated by a politician
above all else is the greatest virtue of this country.
It means that we get an efficient economy.
It has its problems not being first to admit those.
But it works a whole lot better than the Great Week Forward,
where the state says, we need to collect a life's land,
and 55 million people die.
Now, Mr. Kreiber recently made a trip to China,
an economy to a destination that's
brought 800 million people out of poverty.
That was because of reform and opening up,
Gigan Haikou.
Reform and opening up to what?
Reform and opening up to the system, the post-World War II
system, that America created.
the opening up to billions of dollars in Western loans
in the IMF and the World Bank.
American Empire has enabled these things,
and it's far from perfect, it's quite far preferable.
And Mr. Piper, because you like Mao so much,
I'll end with a quote of his,
but I think you would do well to study,
which is,
Chiang Gan's Lv Nian Chu Zheng Quan.
Did you get that?
Did you get that?
It's political power grows out the barrel of a gun.
We do not want a violent world
into a power struggle when American Empire falls.
America has blood on its hands, but it's better for power
to be in American hands than any other.
Question!
For perhaps, question.
Make sure it's.
I just wanted to ask one of those things to me about that,
who that was in the process of coming here at the time.
So other ones didn't have a say in the question,
but the U.S. has a say.
But the U.S. practice of race, basic slavery,
and if it doesn't end in some,
it's still practice of division based on race
and on argument, if you don't have the same thing.
I guess, why would you put an entire stop on racism
than the rest?
I think that's an excellent question.
And I think that it's true that our racist legacy continues
with us to this day.
But I think there's a big difference
between a racist society and an ethno-nationalist one.
One that claims this empire is for this ethnic group
and a system which is systemically racist.
I think we can all agree that we are moving in what
is certainly the right direction.
We are moving in the direction of civil rights.
The last half century has proven exactly that.
And so while I can, I'll be the first to can see
that America is not perfect, especially on race,
especially when dealing with immigrants,
we are not an ethno-nationalist empire.
Her reflections were gentle.
The guest.
What's the format?
How do I say it for the speaker?
Just ask the question.
Okay, all right, never mind.
Just wanted to abide by tradition.
It's been around.
for the gentlemen.
You have somewhat of a deeply cynical,
I would say, worldview about how power is supposed
to continue.
You did bring up an example in apartheid South Africa
where the people were able to achieve liberal democracy
to a certain degree.
There were issues and there's still issues in South Africa.
Why do you think that the abolition of U.S. empire would create a power vacuum that creates
a Chinese empire, for example, and why do you think that that system would be far more
violent as opposed to an evolution just like what we saw with the American empire being
a far better legacy than, let's say, monarchies that existed.
That's an excellent question.
And I don't believe that when the American Empire falls,
if it does, China will necessarily take over.
But I do believe that, apparently some people do,
but I do believe that power doesn't evaporate.
Power is something that doesn't simply disappear,
it falls into different hands.
And so I think as it applies to my speech, Mr. Piker,
what I would say to you is that it has to go somewhere.
And again, I think one of two things will happen.
Either it'll be assumed by another great power.
And unfortunately, there is no better great power
than America.
I really wish there were.
And the other alternative is that we return
to a system of geopolitics,
which is contingent on spheres of influence.
I don't believe we should return to the time
when it's kingdoms fighting each other.
I think that's a much bloodier world.
In an interview with Ezra Klein,
my speaker reads a comment.
Former YG President, I will comment.
He made a comment that we,
that like liberalism has become a victim of its own success,
which is to say that liberalism has
achieved to such an extent that we have forgotten
Mr. Freckin, my generation, your generation,
my parents' generation, your parents' generation.
Hi, comment data.
I hope you're watching this.
Which they are.
We don't remember what it was like before this liberal system.
We don't remember what it was like before World War II.
We don't remember how bad it was.
And so while I am right there with you,
that America has created such evil through its colonial empire,
I also believe that it is far better than anything we've ever had.
The reason why we have intellectuals like Fukuyama saying
is the end of history.
It's because this is almost as nice as we've ever had it.
and the best of the best.
Thanks!
With respect, your division of the violence and imperialist brutality that America has committed
and be capitalist international order that we uphold is entirely artificial and farcical.
The blood on our hands was spilt in service of the liberalized capitalist international
order that you so idolize.
Our coups and our imperilous conquests are committed at the behest of the international
corporate conglomerates that our governments serve.
America is not, and has never been, the lynchpin cinching together the democratic free world.
We toppled a yenne to install Pineshe in the 70s, provided financial backing to the fascist
Argentinian juntas, supplied unconditional support to Yeltsin, chief architect of the
modern Russian oligarchy during the Soviet collapse of the 90s.
And today, we bankroll the genocidal apartheid Israeli regime, playing defense in the U.N.
for the anal gang-rape of Palestinian presidents with rusty metal poles.
We have set a global historical precedent for draconian drug laws, upending entire economies
gang warfare driven by the American elite's unquenchable twin desires for coke and bloodshed.
We have set back progress combating the climate crisis that threatens the imminent annihilation
of life on Earth by funneling untold billions into hydraulic fracking and deforestation
of old-growth forests on federal lands.
The incineration of the Amazon is in service for our appetite for beef.
The Israeli state is a product of Palatir and we sponsor the dissolution of democracy
internationally, through armed violent coups, and respond to the dissolution of society to
the insidious form of new liberal austerity, exercise in our name to the IMF and World Bank.
These problems are not a product of America, per se, but they are an inevitable outcropping
of our status as the concentrated seat of the powers of capital on the global stage.
We are the principal edges and benefactors. Our interests are their interests.
this barbarous monstrosity, this regime of terror and destruction and death
that we have created must be destroyed and it must be destroyed now.
A threat has run the mutt's mind.
Preston.
I agree.
But I don't know if you can tell me where should the power go after what better way to set
I find the assumption that power must necessarily concentrate in the hands of some other international
dominant government to be insane.
What we are striving for is not just to transfer our status as imperial global hegemon to another
quote-unquote more benevolent empire.
What I and what the Left Project in general is aiming for is the complete dissolution
of that hierarchical system of international control, power, and economic coercion.
Where power should end up and where power should resolve is in the international hands
of people, of human beings, not of governments, not of corporate leaders, not of stock traders,
not of the monsters who would bomb life on earth into oblivion for another cent in their
stock portfolio.
And there's a heart in second confidence in the affirmative.
The feet!
The feet!
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Oh, God!
Um, hello, YPU.
Hello, chat.
Hello, March. Hello, guest.
Okay, so,
in 1961, Dwight Eisenhower,
a Republican president,
a five-star general and supreme commander
World War II warned the nation that we must guard against the acquisition of
unwarranted influence by the military industrial complex. He said that it would devalue the
resources the country needs to survive and 65 years later he was totally right.
So the America is an empire. We've got 750 to 800 military bases across the globe,
the territorial possessions from Puerto Rico to Guam, the ability to sanction any
economy, bombing country, and toppling any government that we choose. The United States
just approved a $1 trillion defense budget, and next year's proposal is $1.5 trillion.
How are we going to pay for it? By cutting 10% of literally everything else. So we spend
more money on the military than the next 10 countries combined. That's 40% of all the
military spending in the entire world. But my argument isn't just about money, it's
about morality.
The story of how it's been documented
how American expansion has always
been justified by the same line that
were spreading freedom and democracy around the world.
But from the Philippines to Vietnam to Iraq,
the pattern never changes.
It's mass violence abroad, decay at home,
and ordinary people are set to put the bill.
So who gains and who pays?
This year, Congress added $39 billion
in military projects that Pentagon didn't even ask for.
Why did they do it?
Because of the lobbyists.
This is empire.
It's a wealth transfer from the working class of HX
to defend military contractor shareholders.
So, there are currently 46 active armed conflicts right now,
which is the most since World War II, by the way.
We spent $8 trillion on the world on terror.
And what do we have to show for it?
The world is severely less stable
than it ever has been before.
And this is the fault of the heritage of empire.
Moving on to who's paying, let's look at the kid in Mississippi whose school can't afford
tax books while the nearest military base next door gets $500 million in expansion taxes.
The battering, the boys inside bring this, deny care while defense contractors produce
record-breaking profits.
However, and having said that, money isn't the real issue, even if we tax the wealthy
and funded both empire and society, empire would still be wrong, because empire means domination,
it means killing people who have done nothing to us, including our fellow U.S. citizens.
On to the impact. From an environmental perspective, the U.S. military is the single largest
institutional producer and consumer of fossil fuels on the planet at 270,000 barrels a day.
And that's for routine operations during peacetime, not even at wartime. That's more
missions than 140 countries combined. And we, the people, are told to recycle, take
shorter showers, buy EVs. The onus is put on the individual to change the world.
Meanwhile, a single military refueling tanker burns more fuel in one flight than
the average American does in 40 years. We sacrifice day and age. So, the military
burns gold to protect access to gold, which funds more military spending. It's a
self-reinforcing cycle of extraction and violence. Our business model cycles
and sustain themselves on death tolls.
And from a life perspective, Brown University's cost
of war projected that we tracked a humatul.
So the deaths of post-911 wars have killed 4.5 million people
and displaced 38 million people.
And the empire doesn't deliver the stability that it promises.
Every intervention creates blowback.
We've armed the Mujahideen.
We've got Al Qaeda.
We toppled Saddam.
We've got ISIS.
We are the ones perpetuating these conflicts
because perpetual war is profitable for the elites.
And the negative says, like, be glad it's the American Empire
rather than somebody else's.
But at the same time, this is a false choice.
The choice isn't between like American Empire
versus Chinese.
It's between domination and cooperation.
China's power is economic.
And mutual destruction, it can anyone's best interest.
So the power vacuum fear comes from, like, the idea
that somebody must dominate, but that's an imperial mindset.
Most of the world doesn't care about groups of Americans
or Chinese and Japanese, they want multilateral cooperation
where no single country has power or autonomy over them.
And that world is possible, we're just blocking it.
So, life is the world of the alternative.
Empire undermines rule-based international order,
replacing it with war of one against all.
You can't champion international law
while bombing whoever you want,
and you can't demand others to follow the rules
that you don't follow your son.
Most of the world already wants you multilateral cooperation.
We're just never minding it, because we
are the ones withdrawing from climate agreements
before they were just vetoing U.N. resolutions.
We sanctioned international criminal court.
Instead, we ought to work towards diplomacy before bombs,
strengthen our international institutions,
create trade agreements that benefit workers,
and use the constraints that we stay
in between investments that have went abroad.
So, with that being said, America's founding promise with self-governance and
empire betrays that promise.
Every dollar spent on defense is a dollar taken from the public school.
Eisenhower was right in the empire of the future.
Let's give the lady for perhaps an ultimate question, Mr. Mohan.
I think the lady comes to each.
I guess the one thing that is, you know, with this frame,
because I'm not sure that is because I do that
introduces, you know, this desire to have a combination
without being able to hold hands and live together
and do this at the, I mean, it's a really nice,
every class, it makes me so happy, but,
I mean, there's a lady, and maybe,
you know, I have to kind of approach this,
I mean, if Chinese members stop trying to see
how they do that, I'm just gonna take a look at that one,
So what I'm saying, it's not like militaries won't exist.
I'm advocating for regional partnerships, like we aren't the ones, America shouldn't
be the answer to what's happening in South China Sea.
I think Japan, Australia, South Korea, Southeast Asia,
they can form their own partnerships
like through diplomacy, or what have you.
Further questions for the lady.
Or perhaps, final question.
I have another question.
Two, three, two, one.
I got two positions.
Okay, two, three, two.
So the lady makes the claim that there is an alternative
to domination and cooperation.
One of the big issues, the international bodies, that seems to me is that there is not a cultural cohesion, right?
I mean, some things that seem like totally incompatible for us are part of the cultures of other countries.
How does she reckon we work through that in this idea of cooperation?
We ignore the issues in which we have cultural differences, or will we eventually coalesce around one global culture?
I don't think it's necessarily advocating for a global culture, like people can have their own cultures, what have you.
I think it's just about diplomacy, and what our guest said, like diplomacy, diplomacy, diplomacy, till the last, like, that, as far as we can go, rely on that rather than, you know, us even elaborately deciding what the world can and cannot do.
And with that, we're going to need a second motion!
I would read that Ms. Anthony Joseph was finally in the speech on the floor of the room.
Yeah!
Yeah!
There is nothing in this world that can't be stopped.
And there is nothing in this world that can't be stopped.
Stopping speech in the negative.
Where the speech is speech.
Yeah!
Yeah!
Sorry to everyone that missed Ben and Jerry's free ice cream.
Thank you.
I'm pretty sad at this.
We on the left need to say something that too many of us have become afraid to say.
America is worth loving.
Yes, America has flaws.
Serious ones.
I'm one of the biggest critics in my country and it will continue to be.
We should be honest how we treat the poor, how gun crimes ravage our communities, and
the lack of healthcare.
But call out the hypocrisy that exists in the gap between our reality and our ideals,
but never forget that we are still better than any of the countries supposedly under
or empire, not just the alternatives to our empire.
My mom was born and raised in India.
She loved learning and reading and writing.
She scored atop of her class and school.
But when it came time to college, my grandmother thought it would be more fitting for a woman to get married and learn the trades of a wife rather than allow her to pursue her dreams at college.
She was married off to my dad, who she'd not meet until her wedding day.
He happened to be a good man, many others were not so lucky.
So what should we say to this?
My grandmother was wrong.
The culture which taught her this was wrong.
The government would not stop that and even incentivize it was wrong.
And this is what so many of us on the left are so afraid to say.
We are so obsessed with possibly everything in terms of hegemonic power structures that
we fall into the worst form of relativism, one in which we no longer recognize evil.
We think of the world in terms of such a binary.
The West are the oppressors and everyone else is the oppressed.
But in doing so, we romanticize and fetish the evil of these regimes simply because they are anti-Western.
I respect you a lot, man, but Stolendez killed 20 million people.
Look at Iran. It is not some, like, innocent, misunderstood regime.
It's a regime that killed 30,000 of its citizens just because they protested.
It is a regime that has backed terrorists that have intentionally killed thousands of civilians.
It's a regime that's allowed women to be stoned for committing adultery.
Although to Venezuela and Cuba, they're so corrupted by cartels that they're basically narco-states.
They deny their citizens basic necessities.
They jail and kill dissidents and only look out for those in power.
You may oppose intervention for practical reasons.
People will disagree about what can be done and what costs are bearable.
But do not delude yourselves in thinking that these people are free or that they are living great lives.
Do not tell yourselves who are in deep into silence or dissidents being thrown into prison
just need more time to work things out on their own.
The least we owe them is honesty.
There is no hope for these people outside of America.
Their regimes will continue to repress them while enriching their leaders.
The lady before me asked for regional partnerships.
Are regional partnerships with Iran and Lebanon going to free the Iranians?
And the rest of the international community will continue to turn a blind eye,
whether in Israel or Palestine or in Armenia or Azerbaijan.
The only solution is an American one.
I agree with the lady before me that the American Imperial Project
project is inherent in corporatists, but like, how do we solve that? Like I think Mr. Piker
I said before, elect someone other than JD Vance or Gavin Housa. That's the solution.
Not to get rid of American power wholly, but to like, make ourselves better. To criticize
America all you want, I will too, but do not insult the people who flee these places by
by pretending their chains are beautiful.
There's a reason my parents came to America.
They were offered a promise, and though this promise
is far from fulfilled, at least we're trying.
My mom got her community college degree here in 2012,
and she hopes that I'll have a daughter one day
to realize her dreams.
So know the difference between a country that
fails as ideals and regimes that do not even have those ideals.
The left has room for patriotism.
So I have a little bit of time left,
and it's my last speech of the union.
I just want to say a few words about Rick Scott, who
proves again that conservatives don't believe in free speech.
You just conservative.
I condemn Mr. Piker's statements and political violence.
Just as I condemn Mr. Scott's colleague from Georgia, who
said that Obama should be hanged,
or that Pelosi should be shot.
I condemn them just as I condemn the January 6th
writers committed to actual violence,
and was a merely part of my Mr. Scott's party.
But here is the difference.
I still believe that Mr. Piker and Ms. Green
should be allowed to speak here.
Because in America, unlike in Iran or Venezuela,
dissent is not supposed to mean censorship or silencing.
In this country, when we hear ideas, we disagree with it.
We do not respond by saying that the state should shut it down.
We respond by arguing, by vehemently debating.
We respond by listening, persuading,
debating bad ideas in the open.
This is the fundamental ethos of the First Amendment
and part of what makes this country extraordinary.
And a group of college students seems to understand
that better than the senator,
because we do it every Tuesday at the Yale Putt-A-Way game.
So Senator Scott, you're free to rage about college students
on Twitter and threaten our funding,
but never again pretend to be a champion of free speech.
Thank you.
What's going on, Senator?
Yes.
Oh, are you getting special privileges?
Yeah, right.
Okay.
Great speech.
You brought up that Venezuela and Cuba were narco states.
Not exactly sure where you got that information from.
I think it was Donald Trump who said Venezuela was a narco state,
and then he dropped it.
At least the Southern District of New York dropped it, the FBI did,
because there wasn't enough evidence for it.
But beyond that, you talked about free speech at the end of your speech.
It's a value that I also believe in.
even, and maybe even sometimes exhaust.
But I also believe that free speech has been taken away
from Americans time and time again, especially
throughout times of war.
Eugene Debs famously was jailed for being
a conscientious objector.
We've interned Japanese people living on US soiled
during World War II.
We've assassinated leaders of the Black Panther Party,
of the Black Panther Movement.
These are all direct violations of free speech,
both for domestic concerns and at times
when America's power around the globe is felt threatened.
Now, do you feel like free speech is inherent
to American liberal democracy, number one?
Do you feel like social liberalism is only compatible
with American imperial hegemony, and if so, why?
And last but not least, what do you say to the argument
that we are losing what remains of our free speech right now
directly as a consequence of America's power
waning on the global stage?
Because empire does feel threatened.
So I think your first question was free speech
and relations to liberal democracy.
So I agree.
I think I'm one of the big ones that condemns Americans
through jail and the Red Scare and all those things.
I actually think that we're actually pretty good
at protecting actual free speech right now.
I don't think people are actually jailed or anything.
I think one of the most dangerous attacks on free speech
is the sort of more institutional one,
the ones that's happening in schools all over,
like the South, for example,
where you can't teach for race theory.
But once again, I think one of my main points
is that this sort of free speech is unique and even unique
to America compared to the rest of the West, for example,
the UK, where they get a tense or anything.
But the state of free speech in America is certainly, I think,
way better than anywhere else.
Your second question is social mobilization
compatible, only compatible with American imperial
or Gemini?
Currently, yes.
Currently, it's like we are the only ones that look to our partners in Europe,
look to anybody that's advancing any idea of like social liberalism.
Yeah, there are like some like dissents in like some of these countries themselves.
But I actually think that the strongest voices are the people right here in America,
and those are like the left.
And I think like we got to win this election 2028, that's how we saw that.
I forget your third question.
Oh, it was just the Venezuelan Cuba being narcos.
Where you got that information from?
I mean, I'm not the greatest expert on cartels,
but I'm pretty sure, for example,
I hand-tied some sort of research for you,
but I'm pretty sure Cuba, for example,
makes a significant amount of money
as a middle point between South America,
South America cartels, and America,
and it's like planes take off from there,
and there is some evidence that the government
has cooperated, same, I think, similar in Venezuela.
I was going to say, I think it's like wrong to sort of like
say that they haven't cooperated at all with some sort of stuff.
For perhaps a final question, Mr. DeFatric.
Oh, thank you, people.
I couldn't see when he was jumping in my coffee.
I'll see you tomorrow.
So on violence, I think one of the tough parts of giving a speech is that I'm a struggling pacifist.
But then I also have trouble largely thinking about history and World War II.
But I do think there has to be some level of imposition.
These things aren't going to solve themselves.
And I think that's part of my point.
I actually think that revolution is now impossible.
possible. You can't resist states anymore. Military technology has gone way too advanced.
The only way I think is external. To be honest, the only hope for a lot of these countries
is the American people. Go vote for the 28th.
And with that, gentlemen, thank you. Is there perhaps a third doctor to teach in the affirmative?
a third doctrine of speech in the affirmative.
What a speech!
Mr. Speaker, today I stand before you wearing all black for two reasons.
One of those reasons is due to your resolution
Because I fear we cannot argue about whether to slaughter an already dead empire.
An empire is not defined by territory, especially the world that is so raw with globalization.
Rather, empires are defined by their dependents.
If a state becomes structurally asymmetrically reliant on another for culture and tradition,
security, or economic survival, they're integrated within this larger empire.
For example, if I'm a sovereign state that adopts American cultural traditions,
receives protection through military bases,
and relies on exported goods to American soil,
then I am one with the American Empire.
But there's one thing that those who have the will speak on the stage
have gotten terribly wrong, Mr. Speaker.
Empires are inherently good.
When conflicts can be simplified,
down to ingress and dehumanize outbursts,
forcing other nations under one in group as vowed to reduce outgrouped villainization to humanization in conflict.
Without this coordination, power, fragments, and struggle for domination reached havoc upon this mal-vacuum.
An empire can stabilize trade, reduce conflict, and establish greater order and allow for greater,
lived, meaning in a multicultural world.
The world needs dominance for peace.
And if this is a sort of utopian, then certainly the ends justify the needs.
There is one condition though.
An empire is only legitimate if it is directed towards a clear and coherent end,
preferably one that maximizes collective human good, but an empire can be legitimate enough.
What an empire does require for legitimacy though, is for its actions to push towards this coherent end.
And for a time, the American Empire met this condition. Initially, with the
longer doctrine, and then later in policies in the post-war period, like
the Marshall Plan and the Truman Doctrine, America drove towards clear ends of
democracy, social mobility, and containment of the
utilitarianism. But today, it has failed. It does not fail because it lacks power,
But it fails because of no longer military power is core. What are America's ends now? I ask the senior.
The issue is not that America has no direction. It is that is attempting to pursue incompatible ones.
The American Empire still holds claim to its original ends, but it now directly
contradicts that through maintaining strategic control over global regions like the Middle East,
supporting allies and instigating regime changes, often promoting its own influence over eventual democratic outcomes.
This is not covered under this ends justify the means philosophy, because these are competing priorities that are fundamentally incompatible.
After all, control by definition limits autonomy.
So, it is not that America has no ends, but rather the presence of multiple incompatible ends at once.
An empire with many ends has no ends at all.
America no longer has a strong enough national identity to consolidate a civil direction.
And without that, its actions lose meaning.
We see this contradiction clearly in practice.
The American empire was built on the idea of a melting pot,
and nation defied not by exclusion, but by openness and integration.
But today, Mr. Speaker, even within its own borders, that identity is contested.
Immigration is no longer a shared ideal, but a point of polarization within our political
climate.
And when there is that level of internal conflict, this empire can not export an end that it
no longer believes in itself.
And on a global scale, this lack of coherence breaks down the very system of empire is supposed
to create it, where a strong empire organizes itself in states.
An illegitimate one doesn't halt an angered output conflict, and instead serves as just
another force in the mix. That can be seen with Middle Eastern conflicts today. And when
an empire loses its coherent end, its means no longer serve at purpose beyond themselves.
What was once a path to its stability becomes a system of permanent control and just a lifeline
for the Americas to stay kicking. The ends once justify the means, but how there are
no, but now there are no ends left to justify them. So why not reform? Why not just realign
the system. Because the American Empire cannot be gainical here and without
abandoning the very structure that makes it an empire. If America chooses
democracy as its end, it must obtain control over allies and regions, which
dissolves the penance and the empire ends. But if it chooses control as its end, it
must abandon democratic legitimacy, which destroys credibility entirely. In either
In other case, the current system cannot survive.
Ending the American empire does not mean chaos.
All it means is abandoning a system of domination
that no longer has direction,
and let an American cultural, political,
and economic presence fade.
It means recognizing that power must be tied
to a coherent, intelligent end if it's germane, legitimate.
And thus, the power, the danger's not that
American empire ends.
This is tough.
I'll put it right behind your back.
OK.
This is tough.
I'll put it right behind your back.
We just took the top of number thirty.
Six.
The end.
I'll give you a text.
All right.
Here comes a text.
I'm in a hurry, but OK.
You need to cash in with that bag.
Is it OK?
OK.
I'll give you a text.
I'll give you a text, OK.
You can give the text.
Right.
Thank you.
The danger is not that I have a profound sense of the matter.
Oh, that's one sentence.
OK.
The danger is that it continues up
to a system that has lost its purpose.
And it's so utter as a very important one
state in preserving.
Isn't that a great question?
question. Mr. Gett. Thank you Mr. Steve.
So I'm going to say this because I thought that you were going to do an interesting scene.
I'm interested in like the sustainability of the system now.
He says that they can hire a boss out of sort of one hand.
But it seems like to me that an empire naturally wants to nominate more, wants to change more, wants to have more influence.
And he kind of pushes into having more influence and then becomes more sustainable.
It seems like to me that this is a process of empire.
Like, how does the man with the gentleman's reconciled look?
Is it like possible to have a sustainable long-term empire with just one hand?
I think that's actually a really good question because it can be shown with a lot of unkindness and ask
that they start up with a clear goal, they don't think for it, but then eventually, over time,
they start splitting, they start gaining competing factions, and then eventually they fall.
So, I mean, I think America is already in this downward spiral, but I would like to hope that in an ideal empire that there is one that is able to stick with their ends, but even a stronger constitution or leadership that keeps the same ideas to generations, which I know is very highly unlikely, but at least that is what the ideal empire would be like.
For perhaps an ultimate question, Mr. Moritz.
This presents this idea that empires, in order to have a particular goal on that end,
can strive for tools of good. But have any empires who have history actually had one particular goal?
They seem to be motivated by the right-wing, by the right-wing, by the right-wing, by the right-wing, by the right-wing.
and fighting communism, and other terrible lengths,
can we actually attain the standard
that the gentleman describes?
So if I want to go here again,
I don't mean that we're picking between democracy
and the contaminants of how terrorism,
I mean like one set framework,
but I do understand what the gentleman's coming from,
and I honestly don't think any empire
has really reached this at this point
because what other empires besides the American empire
And perhaps the Chinese empire, do we have really existed today?
And for perhaps a final question, you
need to sometimes speak your head out.
So empires ought to employ certain means to say that.
So I'm curious what kinds of means are just applied.
For example, if an empire teams a certain group subversive
to its own ends, a group that makes
the sizable portion of its population
would something like a mass extinction,
or a mass transformation, or a mass disenfranchisement
of this group that would be justified?
Because of the way the gentleman posits his view
of an empire, it seems like this is a reasonable thought.
We're on the liberal Hitler.
Absolutely.
So I did have one line that was basically
in terms of your imperfect one that maximizes
collective human good.
So, I mean, the empire, if it does those actions
that the gentleman is saying,
then it could be legitimate empire,
but it's certainly not a good empire.
And with that, the gentleman is back.
Is there perhaps a final documented speech in the negative?
Speech.
Oh, no questions on him?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh, okay.
One day, the young people of today will inherit America.
We grew up hearing that our country was strong and special.
We heard stories of our founders that taught us that this country meant something.
That it was more than just land, more than just an economy.
We were supposed to be the nation of liberty, of builders.
A nation of industry where those who worked hard succeeded.
But we now stand to inherit an America that is not that.
Our political machine has given us back-to-back senile presidents.
Our president desecrates Easter on Easter.
We still don't know what's going on with Epstein.
But it isn't good.
And it involves a lot of people.
We have a Congress that's bought out that 80% of Americans disapprove of.
That's our leadership.
And what fruits has it bore?
The economy has been braved.
We believed in hard work.
Now we gamble on sports and cryptocurrency.
We're short 27 million affordable homes.
We have no bullet train.
China has 30,000 miles of them.
And our cities see their public spaces
to people zombified by Clinton.
Our house is not in order.
And what about internationally?
That's the subject of this debate.
We have to watch on that runway in Afghanistan,
while our allies trace the C-17 down the runway.
We watch them cling to the side while it takes off.
Those people believe in our values.
And look what happened to them.
And now we have this entanglement in Iran.
We've done a surprise attack, like cowards.
We never used to do those as a matter of principle.
We've accomplished none of our goals six weeks in,
and now we are considering their 10-point plan.
So how can the proud American look at the state of our country
today and feel anything but humiliation?
And what was the point of it all?
Chief gas?
Gas isn't even cheap.
So I agree that we've got problems,
But now we have this idea that's coming from Mr. Piker and other people on the left.
And we just need to name America.
We just need America to just shrivel up so it can't do any more damage to the world.
And I hear this idea, it's so weak.
It's so convenient because it doesn't require fixing anything or having solutions for our country's problems.
Our national mission, the mission of Washington, of Hamilton, of Lincoln, has been subverted
from the inside.
It's been subverted by the rise of so many who desire nothing more than to skip off
the top.
People who see our country as an economic zone in thinking terms of quarters and election
cycles instead of decades.
The abuse of our power abroad is just one part of our problem.
We've lost that great civilizational gravity that built our power in the first place.
We've lost the American difference in industry, in economy, in our standard of living, the
American dream essentially.
And so to the rest of the world, we are not that city on the hill anymore.
And so we replace that influence with the influence of bombs and drone strikes.
But this fashion grab domestic situation and our disastrous foreign policy are both coming
from the same place.
The lobbyists, the super PACs, their donors, the defense contractors, they're eating our
country. And so that's a hard problem to solve. We'll probably have to reform our
elections. We'll probably have to reform our bureaucracy, revive antitrust and
consumer protections, federalism, and so much more. But this idea that the solution
is just to retreat from the world, I don't buy it. It's giving up. Maming our
Our stature will not fix congressional corruption, it won't solve the housing shortage, it won't
fix our infrastructure, it won't rebuild faith in our country.
But I have hope that we can once again achieve that civilizational gravity that we long for.
That if we rise to the occasion as we have so many other times in our history, and if
If America is renewed, not only in strength and power, but also in our values and beliefs,
then we can be a force for good in the world.
We profess our values today but fail to uphold them, but how many more refused to even acknowledge
them?
The world of this weak, retreating America is not a good place, and the world of a renewed,
focused, strident America is a better one.
we do not have to accept anything less than what we know this country can be.
I yield the questions.
Questions for Denny?
More for Dr. Prykden, just in the end of the lecture.
Thank you for the announcement.
You know what, Mr. Speaker, I heard a lot of aye-aye-aye on these meetings.
You know, the American Empire has the long-lived great work from the rich on the planet.
That's all right, that's all right.
As soon as it's the subject of the empire, one should all be compelled to care when it's happening in the United States.
Why should I care if the United States is doing it themselves and not doing it?
It's what my economy and the independence of a happy country in the United States has imposed upon us,
and that is, it being imposed upon other countries as well.
Why should those countries be okay if this continues on policy?
Why should this focus specifically be on what is needed for America?
If you're talking about India, America is not a problem.
No.
That doesn't mean that there's a problem.
Well, certainly I don't think that our foreign policy
should continue as it's been.
That definitely is not a part of my argument.
But to respond to the broader question,
the point is that in America that lives
by the values of the Declaration of Independence,
in America that truly stands for what we say
is good for the world.
And so that's why you should care.
That's why people around the world do care what happens in our country.
Further questions? Perhaps a penultimate question?
Is that a good comment?
I think that's a good question.
Okay.
There is a tension between our main team, the presence in the world, and Facebook and in terms of news.
That, in general, mentions housing and the fact that your budget is a big one.
continue spending as much money, setting laws abroad, and maintaining this empire,
to have such a plethora of issues in the middle of the South, is it not more morally consistent to its peak?
And to handle all these issues so well.
There is tension between spending $1.5 trillion on the military as has been proposed and fixing
our domestic problems.
But I don't propose that we spend $1.5 trillion on the military, but I do propose that we
continue as we hopefully perform in or through our country, having a place in the world,
having the ability to project influence.
And so there is, there can be tension between the things that we do in pursuit of an empire
and the things that we seek to do at home, but there is also a way to achieve both at
the same time, I believe.
And for perhaps the briefest final questions.
Well, if you don't believe that our country is special, or you don't believe that there's
thing here then that would be a cynical viewpoint that one could adopt but that's
not what I would ever want to see from our country that's not what I would ever
propose or support and with that
are there for a half closing remarks from the guests yes good do I say forward in
speech again all right
Wow.
Wow.
That was incredible. A lot of wonderful speeches I heard today.
And some maybe not so wonderful.
I did, however, hear a lot of American exceptionalism.
I heard a lot of liberal chauvinism and an overall fear of the unknown.
A fear of the enemy that we've designed in our minds.
That is what justifies Western imperialism in the minds of many.
of many so it's expected. But I just wanted to say thank you for all your
wonderful and thoughtful contributions today.
I want to make this short and sweet. A hundred years ago liberalism was failing.
There was tremendous conflict on the European continent. A hundred years
later, with the exception of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, let's be real, it would be unthinkable
to assume that Germany would fight against France, or that France would fight against
Why? Because there's collaboration.
Capitalism has robbed us of our humanity.
We assume endless greed is the nature of man.
of man. But while greed has played a formative role in developing Western society, so has
collaboration. We looked at these institutions that we've built. We looked at skyscrapers,
the invention of the Internet. Maybe that was not so good. Although it did give me a
job, so I have to be grateful. And we assume this is a byproduct of capitalism, a byproduct
motivated by man's greed, the profit incentive. All of these institutions, whether it be skyscrapers,
whether it be our infrastructure, was also built with labor, with collective action.
It is our choice at the end of the day to focus on one over the other.
We can make that choice to no longer be greedy.
We can make that choice to no longer exercise that selfishness.
And we can make that choice to engage in collaboration.
Many of you, I believe, regardless of your ideological background, would probably agree
that Donald Trump is forcing us to retreat from that collaborative nature, whether it's
for good or for evil.
But ultimately, it is that one thing that each and every one of you has to collaborate
with others that I believe that we can, no matter what happens next, find a much more
just an equitable future. The only way we can do that is through organizing.
One of the first speakers, I forget your name, had some interesting words to say
that there's always going to be power. I say we put the power back in the hands
of the many, rather than the power of the hands of the people. If a dictatorship is inevitable,
I'd rather have it be a dictatorship of the proletariat than one that is designed around
the needs of the bourgeois class. And on that note, thank you so much for having me today.
I look forward to seeing you on the course.
No objections. The guess is so thick. Is there now perhaps an appropriate motion?
The motion is here. I am in for a discussion.
Say it again!
Hearing seconds and no objections, we will now come to a vote. Floor leaders, please come to the front.
Per the union constitution, please only raise your hand to vote if you are a member of one
of our seven parties.
All those members of the union, in the affirmative of the resolution, please raise your hand.
That's the view.
Oh, yeah, yeah. I vote.
All those members of the union in the negative of the resolution, please raise your hand.
All those abstaining!
By a vote of 54 to 31 to 3, this motion passes.
It's not perhaps a final appropriate motion!
Mr. Gettner.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I'm the Speaker.
There is no objections and it's a move.
Hi, I'm Andrew Gettner.
Thank you.
I really appreciate it.
I'm going to meet you as well.
Time to grab this guy to get us to a chair.
Just two?
Yeah, we have two.
Let's get a... I'll be Virginia's partner.
You want to take a photo?
Yeah.
Oh, there you go.
What is it for? You listening today?
I'm here to do this.
Oh, you're right.
Yeah, I have it in my pocket.
One second.
Yeah.
Let me just give this to Marge.
Yeah, you got it.
There you go.
It's going to be crazy, but
I'm looking at it pretty well right now.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Nice to meet you.
Yeah, we'll talk about it in a minute.
Alright.
When are we going to eat?
We'll see if there's a bite.
Okay, the event is dinner, right?
Or something?
Okay, cool, cool, cool.
What's up?
Nice to meet you.
You guys were incredible.
Thank you so much.
Of course!
Yes, of course.
Yes, of course.
What's going on?
Nice to meet you.
Oh, yeah.
Do you want me to stand between everybody?
How do we want to do it?
It's just going to be tough.
First, let's do just what we want to do.
that we want to do. First I'm going to do just with them two and then it's with everybody okay?
Don't fall!
Get that .5 Doug.
Yeah, I'll get that .5.
Height log in my face.
Alright, 3, 2, 1, Revolution!
Amazing, what a big laugh.
Alright, nice to meet you guys.
Thanks man, great to meet you.
Yes.
Wow, what an event huh Chad?
You guys enjoy it?
It's good, they had fun?
I can't check.
Yeah, of course, it's good.
What's up?
Thanks for coming. Here's your award.
It's been a right-wing guest this semester, so...
Uh-huh.
I bet you none of them...
I bet you it didn't...
It's cause...
Oh, hell yeah.
I bet you they didn't cause half the controversy at meet and greet.
Yeah, Rick Scott came too.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was no one cares about reason.
No, no, that's true.
He came when I was three years old.
We also have the Heritage Foundation.
Yeah, well that was when I was three years old.
All right, let's do it.
Whoever...
Quick.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Cause we gotta...
I gotta go.
Yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
All right.
Wait.
Wait.
Wait.
All right.
All right.
Sure.
I'll put your real back camera.
Thanks.
Thank you so much for coming.
Of course.
I really appreciate your speech.
Thank you.
You kept me safe.
I'm assuming.
A lot of liberals on this campus, I see.
I'm not actually expecting it, no I mean I, I, I definitely, I definitely, I'm thinking that the audience will be more receptive to a less aggressive message.
Oh my god. I think it was needed. We gotta go to the green. Oh we gotta go? Okay, alright last one, last one.
I'll show you how to do it.
I'll show you how to do it.
Yeah, come on now.
I'll show you how to do it.
I'll show you how to do it.
Alright, they're gonna go guys.
Alright, thanks for coming.
Alright, thanks for coming.
Alright, where is the airbase?
I just want to say thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
Thank you for the conference.
All right.
Oh my God.
All right.
Nice to meet you guys.
What's wrong?
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you guys.
Hi.
Hi.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
Nice to meet you.
How are you doing?
I'm good.
You finished yours?
I'm sorry.
Thank you.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, no, they were great. They were great.
Maybe. I mean, I've done Cambridge Union and Oxford Union, but that was more so. I mean, there were contentious questions. Love's open for whoever.
I know that there's like different formats. I've never done this one before. I've never.
Well, this is quite a unique format.
Yeah, I like it. It's like.
We are the oldest and the largest debate society in America, so.
Yeah.
There are some that are coming in and are actually asking for our support and help, and so we're doing that.
and so hopefully you get invited by some others as well.
Yeah, no, I mean, there's definitely...
College campuses invite me to do stuff all the time,
but it's rarely ever, you know, this format.
Yeah.
And then as soon as you're ready,
we're just gonna call you to a private event.
That is a few blocks away.
Okay, all right.
Yeah.
Let's just end it here then.
Yeah, I mean, that's what we had.
Yeah, yeah, all right.
Everybody, thank you so much for watching.
that was a wonderful experience very fun I hope you guys also enjoyed it I'll be
live tomorrow from New York once again I might have might have some guests on the
show maybe maybe not I don't know we'll get back to situation monitoring as
always and yeah I think as far as problematic clips goes from this event
It wasn't too bad. I didn't say anything too radical, I don't think so I think