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I mean, head first into the atmosphere to rule male voters ahead of 2028, but they'll
have to compete with the digital world's new rising star, far left activist Hassan
And what I really want is whether it's social media influencers on Twitch and YouTube like Hasan Haikar or other kind of promoters of hate.
We must always maintain revolutionary optimism.
We must always continue to organize.
We must always continue to agitate.
Because the quicker we can create enough pressure
that causes the American state to re-calculate its soon-to-attack with Israel,
the quicker we can save as many Palestinian lives possible.
What's going on, everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon, pre-noon,
No matter where you are in the world in the Sumpiker and this also I broadcast coming to you live from
Not so sunny, but kind of sunny California Los Angeles. It's partially sunny
California Los Angeles folks were live and alive and I hope all the boys girls and enemies are having a fantastic one
Because today's a beautiful day today's a wonderful day today
April 14th Thursday April 16th what fuck I said 14
Tuesday, Thursday, April 16th. Hi from Nairobi. This is Persian Queen. Hello. Hi. It's a Thursday,
April 16th, 2026. I'm a little fucked up. Sorry. I've been all around the world, all
around the United States of America. You already know going from one stolen land, Quinnipiac
land, stolen Quinnipiac land, stolen Algonquin land, and now finally back in the home front
On home turf on home territory is stolen Tongvalan. That's right ladies and gentlemen. You already know what it is
We got the soundboard back
Had to wear a nice shirt today because I have a very special guest coming on later my queen
Amy Goodman, that's right. She's gonna be in the building later
We're gonna be talking about her new documentary that just came out
not celebrating her long and storied career as an investigative reporter, a journalist,
overall great person, and an icon, someone that has been unbelievably influential in
what I do.
You know, I try to have a mere fraction of the impact by the time I'm done with my career.
If I could have even a fraction, a mere fraction of the impact that she has had over her life,
I will have accomplished my mission.
So don't show her the soundboard.
I will be showing her the soundboard.
I'm sorry.
It's going to have all that white hair in your beard at the age of 34 is getting to you.
Too much stress, I assume.
Um, no, I mean, it's normal.
It happens.
also maybe, maybe perhaps it's because of chatters like yourself that are deeply
parasocial and try to pull on strings that don't exist, that you know, caused me
to have a little bit of accelerated aging.
No, I had it there at 34. Yeah, I think it's normal. Also, I don't really mind it. People
say you can kind of see it on the sides and it's like coming in the middle as well because
I have a red beard. I used to have a red beard and in my experience, I think maybe some people
with like more red beards can also explain this but like I think the parts that are red are
they turn gray faster maybe? I don't know. I got a white hair in my beard when I turned 29 and I
loved it but I personally don't care. Guys I'm a political commentator okay? It's time. It's time
that I get a little bit. It's time that I age a little bit you know and the best you can hope for
is age like fine wine. In any case, ladies and gentlemen, as you guys know, I'm a
shut-ass loser and I have nothing going on in my life. I ended the broadcast last
night. I went and I hung out with some friends, went to dinner and it was a
wonderful time. Got to see my New York homies a little bit, you know, chop it up.
And then I got back to my huddle went to sleep for a couple hours woke up early
Immediately rushed to JFK
Got on an airplane
Took some photos with some Hassan on the heads that were on the flight
There's that
Got off the plane came to
Home base and here we are that's pretty much it I took a shower
I pooped in the shower and I'm here. I literally don't do anything. I don't do anything at all. I just slept.
I slept the entire flight. That was pretty good.
Page Shatters is not a meme anymore. Yeah, I saw that. That's a little bit unethical, but it's fine, I guess. I don't know.
Chuck Park basically took
me reading a chat comment or telling him to look into the Canada and use it as promo.
Like, that's pretty crazy.
Were any secret stalker photos taken on the plane?
I don't know, cause I was sleeping.
So maybe, maybe we'll find out.
Maybe, maybe there's new jet blue mint.
The Son House on the Piker flies first class.
Comments.
But,
you know, yeah, I'm, I'm fucking, I'm paid, dude.
I'm freaking caked up.
You already know what it is.
Ah!
Yeah.
Okay.
So, where was I?
All right, yeah, but big day today as always.
Oh my God, that's the post I got age shamed on, on IG.
They put a file in Invincible.
Nice.
Okay.
Um, long, Laura Lumer was on the flight with you.
Who knows?
Yeah.
Fox News keeps posting him pieces about you on Facebook.
Yeah, it's awesome.
I think they're going to eventually, they're going to help me radicalize the proletarian
vanguard of the, of the Olds, right, the Olds, but we got some really good news on the flight
and I'm going to be talking about that obviously.
The Iran War Powers Resolution obviously is, it failed in the House, we'll be talking about
that.
We're going to talk a lot about congressional ineptitude today.
Seems like all this negative surprise is actually helping the left
flank. Yeah, I think so too.
I think so as well.
There was a very fun nation article, uh, that someone wrote that didn't seem to
be all that like positive about me, but the article still came out cool in my
opinion. But yeah, Trump versus Pope, new Abdul poll shows our boy surging.
Trump wants Cuba next, Israel, Lebanon, a ceasefire, question mark, 7 Senate Dems, vote to continue sending bombs to Israel, war powers, bails.
Uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, uh, situation monitored, EF day 48, Amy Goodman in the building.
Get in now.
You don't want to miss this.
It's going to be good.
Um, I obviously, you guys know this already.
I'm a big fan of Amy Goodman and I'm actually very excited to share, uh, that
experience with all of you and like go through her work and get to talk to her
about, you know, her journey, her life story.
how she became, who she is, and I'll talk about, you know, how important she is to me.
Are you going to play peak mona later today? Yeah, with Amy Goodman. I don't even know what that
is, but yeah, I'm going to have Amy Goodman of Democracy now play peak mona.
What's on Amy beyond? Your camera angle on the road has become better than this one, where you
We look like a floating head, low-mount, lower the camera and zoom out a little bit.
Yeah, the problem with this camera angle is that this desk setup is different.
I mean, we can go back to this one, which is not great either, right?
We can do this.
again the the the camera angle on this is
personal makes your head look giant good that's why I'm doing it Amy Goodman is
the one with the chimpanzees no dude that's Jane Goodall I mean I kind of
understand why you would think that no that's Jane Goodall she passed away
recently. And no, Amy Goodman is democracy now. Jesus Christ. But yeah, I like the old
style better. We can see the Fretchigan bag in the back. This is a more professional setup.
That's why I like this angle. That's why I'm going to continue this angle.
Yeah, it's funny. You saw like a old white lady and you were like, damn, damn Fox news
has another clip copy on me. This time it's my queen, Laura Ingra ham will obviously be
taking a look at that as well. Fox news put the crosshairs on me again. You know, another
Another day baby, another day, another hit piece that hits, keep coming.
And I personally like it.
Maybe I'm a glutton for punishment.
Maybe I personally think that this is not bad but good.
You know, the line of demarcation being drawn, people openly coming out and contesting this
world view trying to disparage it aggressively. I feel like having this battle,
having this conversation on the boundaries of a Twitch streamer
is a good thing because a Twitch streamer has a lot more liberties as opposed to a politician. A
politician is, is limited in the response that a politician can give. I am not. I talk
for eight hours a day. And therefore, I can talk and talk and talk. My Fox News brainwash
manga father probably hates your goats. Hard to get through that guy. What is this? Hassan
piker is a heterosexual paid partnership. Yeah, I saw this yuck. I don't know. Is this a Benny
Johnson meme or something? Like someone posted Benny Johnson as a heterosexual and it was a paid
partnership. Is that why? Is this kind of counterfactual opposition tactic ever truly worked to move
the dial? This kind of stuff, these kinds of conversations taking place is good because it
moves the Overton window in our direction, okay? I don't think I'm coping when I say this. I mean it.
I sincerely believe it. I think these kinds of conversations happening in mainstream media,
especially if there is like a back and forth rather than slapping on,
you know, rather than just like slapping it on to Bernie Sanders and then having him in the
in the midst of like an election campaign, turn around and be like, Oh no, I don't like
Cuba or whatever. Right? Like that is unproductive. You don't get to the meat of the story. You
don't get to explain your position at all. You're, you're forced to take a quick and
easily digestible stance. Um, there are some who excel in that field. Zoramumdani obviously
these very good at finding like liberal adjacent responses
that are very fast that get to the heart of the issue.
And that plays a big role in entering collective consciousness,
getting people to really think deeper about these issues.
I sometimes have the ability to do that as well.
Like the, you know, I joke about it, but like the whole,
I'm a lesser evil voter,
as a harm reduction voter, a vote for Hamas over Israel,
like that really pisses off conservatives,
but they don't really have a decent message against that
other than just going, oh, you're a terrorist,
you're a terrorist, right?
So, you know, that's a really good,
that is a really good conversation to have, right?
And politicians can't do that.
They don't have the bandwidth to do that.
They don't have the timeframe to do that.
Yes, I heard the northern line crew's got canceled, dude. Please. Please. I know I got it. Okay. Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ. Oh my God
Okay, I'm trying to get a word edgewise over here and you're like you have to you're like you're like one of the reporters on the press
Pool with the Pope
Okay, it's just like hey, did you hear Trump said this Trump said this about you Trump's talking mad shit about you Pope
Pope question question about Trump. Are you guys doing drama?
Like, okay, I heard, I heard the fucking northern line where crews got canceled.
I'm devastated.
I'm sorry.
I was going to go.
I was one of the secret guests, actually.
Okay.
So I knew, I knew about it already.
Tyler Schumer and Sampiger continues sympathizing with America's enemies, this time seeming
to mourn the loss of the Soviet Union at Yale University debate.
When I studied Russian, one of my teachers lived under Joseph Stalin. Every time the
phrase Soviet Union was set in class, he would always say, thank God it no longer exists.
Someone should explain to him that the Beatles back in the USSR was a parody. I'm not defending
this guy at all, but in some aspects of the statement, hold some water. The whole region
fell apart. No one knew who had control over the nuclear weapons, weapons grade, uranium
and plutonium and all the other conventional weaponry. And it took quite some time for
all those new countries to get their feet underneath them.
But I do not lament the dissolution of the Soviet Union. See, even dude, if a, if a magga
boomer on Facebook comments, a magga boomer, that is like responding to Facebook comments
on the Fox news Facebook page, like is capable of comprehending the nuance of that statement.
That's good. That's a productive conversation that's taken place. Okay?
It's such a radical take it triggers reflection. Yeah, it's also not exactly an indefensible
point of view, right? Almost like the hate tweet. Yeah, the nation wrote this article and it actually,
it was kind of fire, but I don't think it was like very positive on me, but I still liked
it. We'll read that as well, but yeah, my, from my, from my perspective, having these
sorts of issues, like I'm willing to tank this stuff, right? I can tank the damage because
if these sorts of questions are brought up in front of Congress persons without broad
awareness shifts taking place, they have to be very fast on their feet and they have to
address things in a very black or white manner.
And it's going to be difficult. It's going to be difficult for them to address complex
geopolitical points of view or, you know, they have to keep account of where the public
is, right? Nowadays, you could say whatever the fuck you want about Israel for the most
part, right? Cause like the public's on your side, they can call you a anti-Semite terrorist,
whatever. It doesn't matter. But that didn't use to be the case. And even if politicians
who had, you know, similar points of view, for example, uh, uh, to, to people like ourselves,
they didn't have the same bandwidth. They didn't have the same allowance to be able to openly
say this kind of stuff, right? Even I myself could not be as forthcoming about the the full scope
of my opinion, because you just have to you have to go through the motions. You have to
to abide by like what is the most permissible thing you can say, right?
Yeah, Norm Finkelstein got ultra cancelled for his honesty. Yeah, that's why I will always respect people who are bold and will stand on their principles and say the truth no matter how unfavorable it may seem at the moment and at the time, right?
right? You've said this in the past when your biggest streaming regrets was saying you're a
socialist, do you still feel that way? Yeah, I don't really give a shit anymore. We're almost a
decade in at this point, you know, what are you going to do? It is what it is. All right.
Jesse, why doesn't Laura Ingraham obsessed with you?
Red Square propaganda bothers me most because it's an excuse to blur the line between socialism
and communism. Yeah, I mean, it's just, it's, it's, there is a tide shift. Okay, there's
a tide shift that's taking place. And, and we're in it. One day, one day, certain statements
that are used to disparage you will be seen as a marker of your bravery and your honesty,
will be seen as a marker of your consistency, right?
For the longest time, even saying that you were a socialist was immediately grounds for
antagonism. People would hear that and go, oh, I can't, you know, I can't take this guy
seriously at all. This is dangerous. This is danger, danger, danger, right? Bernie Sanders
ate it for many, many years, but he ran as a disrupter, the unique candidate in 2016.
And said he was a democratic socialist and now we're living in the aftermath of that
brave decision.
You know, sometimes you meet the moment, sometimes you're there, but you just, I don't know,
I have a more stoic approach to this sort of stuff.
I don't cry over spilled milk.
Listen to this clown.
A Sondpiker roots for America's demise.
Stoic, lamout your trash.
Thanks, chatter.
All right, yeah, we'll start off here
and then we'll look at some of the Fox News hits
and then we'll talk about
how those hits haven't actually worked
because we now have evidence.
New Emerson poll came out in the state of Michigan
and it's got some really good,
really juicy tidbits in it, really good stuff.
Not to spoil it ahead of time,
but here we'll start off with this,
we'll start off with this nation piece, okay?
What the monk fit?
What do you mean?
Inside Yale's, Hassan Piker, spectacle,
the push-trumor's invitation to debate
Yale Political Union drew the ire of Laura Loomer, Rick Scott, and Turning Point, USA.
This was written by Zachary Clifton, who I guess is a Yale student.
It had been six months almost to the day since Florida Senator Rick Scott gave a speech at
Yale Political Union when, on April 14, the oldest collegiate debate society in the United States
heard from a son, Piker. Piker is a left-wing online streamer who said in a March 2025 live
stream, if you cared about Medicare fraud or Medicaid fraud, you would kill Rick Scott.
the former CEO of a health care company who had overseen $1.7 billion of settlement for Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
This was apparently the relevant criteria for what Piker would later call maximum punishment.
For the first couple of days, even from that point, I'm like, oh, maybe, I mean, he's a really good writer.
So even if he's a hater, I'll give him credit, you know?
For the first couple of days after the Yale political union announced the event, it seemed as though it might pass without any serious backlash.
But then Laura Loomer got ahold of the event's advertisement.
Loomer complained that parents were paying nearly $100,000 a year to send their children
to a communist indoctrination camp, where they were being taught to destroy America
by a Muslim communist streamer who was, she noted, captured on video saying America deserved
9-11.
Senator Rikuskas saw Loomer's post and reshared it.
"'This is wild,' he wrote.
I spoke at Yale Political Union last year.
Now they're hosting a guy who said I should be killed.'"
at least he gave a little bit of the context. Sure. So, one of the things that I find fascinating,
hold on, I gotta do the paywall thing, the paywall remover real quick.
But one of the things I find, well, not even fascinating necessarily, but one of the things
I find very annoying is the Republican retort to any sort of nuanced conversation on ideas
that they are antagonistic to immediately resorts to, oh, you're a danger. You're a danger.
I don't want to hear what you have to say at all. I'm not even remotely intellectually curious.
you're a bad guy, you're a terrorist, right? And I feel like political discourse perhaps always
was like this. And on our side, we certainly have our fair share of this as well. As a matter
of fact, many people in this community will actively demand, I tar and feather anyone that is
remotely to my right. And I still try to maintain a more decent, more open-minded posture
that factors people's social conditioning in their background, into their decision-making,
into their ideology, and try to be as charitable as possible.
However, for a lot of these people that talk about debate, for almost every single person
that says they love debating, for all the debate pervachry out there, and all the celebration
of meeting interlocutors in the marketplace of ideas,
none of it is about the actual ideas. Like almost none of it at all is about the ideas.
And that's a very frustrating concept, right? And I just, I kind of hate that.
I don't know why. It's like, we can have a conversation about,
We should be able to have a conversation about why certain ideas are bad and why certain
ideas are good.
Instead of trying to utilize the language being used and weaponize that against your
opposition, against your ideological opponents, and we do it and they certainly do it as well
on the right.
And it's very frustrating because it it it automatically destroys any sort of productive conversation
And I guess it's partially because
Debates are fucking boring
right
Debates are boring
Drama is exciting
Well, you just gave it away now haters will do it more. I mean
Okay, that's not that's an unchanging fact about
about my career at least, right? So, so that's, you know, I think Iran cast you in their latest
Lego music video. That's a lie. They did not do that. You're lying to me. I've seen this
one already. I was not a part of this. How dare you. Like, if we're going to have a real conversation,
it shouldn't be around, it shouldn't be around like what you want to shove down my throat or what
you want to warn others about, right? Like, let's have a conversation. One of the best examples
of this is one of the best examples of this is about the USSR take. Like, it's pretty obvious
what I'm saying, or even another one. The other highlighted moment was like when I was talking
about, you know, if a dictatorship is inevitable, as you say, rather have it be a proletarian
dictatorship rather than a bourgeois one, that has been roundly condemned, criticized by people.
They're like, oh, the language that he's using is scary. He said, dictatorship, right? Like,
they're not listening to the words that I'm using. Like, that's a response.
as a response to someone else, as a retort. If you rob it of its context, then it makes
no sense. Anyway, just something that I've been increasingly more frustrated by. I expect
it from the right, obviously, the likes of Rick Scott and Laura Loomer, they're going
to be disingenuous, they're going to cry, it's bad faith, but I get very frustrated
when liberals do it as well, when they do the most bad faith interpretation, robbing
the clip of its nuance, the statement of its nuance, of the context. If it's a retort,
they just act as though I just said that. In any case, this is wild, Rick Scott wrote.
I spoke at the Yale political union last year and now they're hosting a guy who said I should
be killed. Scott called for action. Yale receives billions of federal government funding. He
declared President Trump and Congress need to immediately revoke it. Scott's words seem
to imply that he wanted federal input on the Yale political unions debate docket, but the
group makes those decisions independently of the university and it does not appear that
anyone defrauded by Scott's company was given any say about Yale political union's decision
to host Scott last October.
Yeah, Scott's victims that were defrauded in his Medicare fraud scheme should have had
to say on whether or not he was allowed to participate in the Yale debate union, right?
Dispect Goldie announcement, the backlash, Scott's rallying cry finally made its way
back to Yale.
When reporters of the Yale Daily News reached the president of the new Turning Point USA
chapter on campus who Piker's language, who called Piker's language anti-American and added
more pointedly that it was antithetical to Yale's mission to promote free speech.
Before the YDN had received those comments about what was American and what wasn't,
who could have, who could have free speech and who couldn't, the discussion about the debate
had been about Piker's passwords, about Scott, about 9-11, about anti-Semonson. But the turning
point USA chapter president had come along and added free speech to the spectacle. Then Piker weighed
in. On Monday from a stream, Piker scrolled through the Yale Daily News article previewing
his visit to Yale until he reached the relevant quotes at the bottom. He read the words about
free speech and anti-Americanism and said, Charlie Kirk clearly had enough respect for
me. He wanted to debate me at Dartmouth continuing. So I don't know what the fuck this guy is
chirping about. On Tuesday, Piker began his seven hour stream from a hotel room with distracting
wallpaper in New Haven, Connecticut. It's true. The wallpaper was asked. He talked for more
than four hours about the news of the day. Then around 645 he left and got into a car
heading for the Sheffield Sterling Strathcona Hall. 400 students sat around me, eyeing the
hall's exit door and back room entrance, longing for a glimpse of Piker's arrival to crowd.
Thought they had spotted him entering a few times and clapped for rank and file Yale political
union members whom they mistook for Piker. Piker finally walked in about 20 minutes
later after leaving his hotel room stream and was, according to a post, by Stop Antisemitism,
Orgasmically welcomed by the audience,
Piker on Wednesday,
reshared stopping anti-Semitism characterization
of the crowd asking, did you bust?
A question that was viewed almost 400,000 times.
Piker steam would arrive before him,
started a new stream that was being watched by 15,000 viewers.
I don't know where they got this from,
because that's not what happened.
We were just streaming continuously
and it had 33,000 viewers.
Erm, excuse me, excuse me, the numbers are wrong.
And we'll go on to be viewed more than 600,000 times.
He passed.
The door is open.
Yeah.
Okay.
He passed through one of the aisles
and climbed to the stairs of the stage,
finally settling in a chair
between the Yale political union's president and its speaker.
While he was being introduced,
several onlookers noticed that Piker took the Zin
behind his lip, uncapped a dark shiny pen
made notes in the margins of his prepared remarks. For a moment, he hadn't yet looked up at the crowd.
Then he did. I'm sad to see Senator Rick Scott did not make it. The stomping was almost immediate,
as the applause had been when Piker entered the room, and when he had been introduced
at the L political union, approval is stomping and disapproval is hissing. And on this night,
there was a raucous near constant demonstration of both, sometimes before the end of a sentence,
sometimes before the sentence had begun. What Piker had come to argue was not exactly the
resolution as it had been advertised to the people in the room and the streamers at home.
And the American Empire. Piker instead argued something adjacent. He argued that the United
States is already in terminable decline. He asked, how do you end something that's already in the
process of dying? He quoted Lenin. He quoted Mao. He said Benjamin Netanyahu was the real American
president. He said the U.S. maintained roughly 800 military bases abroad, each representing not just
a presence, but a possible place where it might stage invasions. Then he called the fall of the
the Soviet Union, one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century, and the hissing was deafening.
His comment about the USSR had gone viral by the next morning. According to Exxon Count,
there were more than 59,000 posts about the speech. The people who had most loudly used
free speech to explain the importance of tolerating campus speakers seem to have set that aside.
Yale is poison more than one post said Yale is disgusting. Hello. Hello. Hi
Hello, oh my god, little ladies here here little ladies here
Hi you smell so good
Okay. Okay.
Hi.
Hi.
Bob.
Or no.
Okay.
Anyway.
Um
Stop hitting her I'll never I'll never hear
Kai camera
Not exactly getting her but it's fine. She don't fuck with you anymore with all that traveling. She gets so sad when I'm
When I'm when I'm leaving like she gets like depressed. It's kind of funny. I don't know why
Anyway, Yale is poison more than one post said. Yale is discussing another post said Yale students have been indoctrinated more than a few posts said and many more implied.
A great many of the posts for reasons that remain unclear mentioned tuition.
It seemed these people could not believe the students whose parents had spent so much money on their education would choose to attend a political debate at the Yale political union.
When Parker speech ended five students split speeches between the affirmative and the negative.
the negative. The first in the negative, Kaisan Kwakrup, spoke deliberately, taking the resolution
to face value. He glazes him a little bit. That's why I say he wasn't fond of my
speech, because he was saying, I sidestepped the actual resolution. I didn't
respect the actual resolution, and I cheated. Whereas the person who replied to me did.
power does not disappear. It is assumed by others. The hissing and stopping still came for quick rep,
but later, then they had come for piker and at the ends of sentences rather than the middle of them.
When it came time for piker to conclude, his earlier sympathy for the USSR had become a little sullied,
maybe by how long the debate was dragging on for, or maybe by how warm and stuffy the room was getting.
Capitalism, he said, had built things worth keeping, skyscrapers, infrastructure, the internet.
But those things had been built by labor, and the fruits of that labor had not been evenly distributed.
He ended with a line that brought raucous applause. If a dictatorship is inevitable
I'd rather have it be a dictatorship of the proletariat. The room did not clear immediately
Students stood in the aisles attempting to rush the stage for photographs. The yellow plate
This is also he cleaned this up a little bit too. So that's why I was saying that he's a good writer
It's a bad writer or not a bad writer, but like a writer that was trying to seem contentious here would have just like
You know
chopped it up. The room did not clear immediately. Students stood in the aisles, attempting to rush
the stage. For photographs, Yale Political Union's president and member of the party of the right
told me he was pleased with how the night had gone. In recent weeks, he said the
union had hosted figures from across the political spectrum, including Kevin Roberts,
one of the architects of Project 2025. We have people on the right and people on the left,
he said, and they stayed until the end and they asked questions and they were respectful.
By then, the members who had already voted 54 to 31 in favor of the resolution for 53 students at
Yale and a piker who also got the vote, the American Empire was something to be brought
to an end.
The event had drawn no close.
Piker had left the Gothic Revival Hall.
The federal government had not cut Yale's funding.
The people who had used free speech to argue that a private institution should not allow
a speaker to speak had not mobilized soon enough.
But everything that had made the spectacle matter remained intact.
And certainly did not conclude with the vote.
Zachary Clifton is a writer and student at Yale University.
He's written for Salon Oxford American Yale Daily News, National Civic League and more.
So, it's a good piece. It's more so talking about like all of the, the spectacle surrounding the event rather than, you know, the meat of it.
But the dictatorship of the proletariat has some oxymoron in it. No, man, it doesn't.
It literally is the same as tyranny of minority versus tyranny of majority. It's the same principle.
Mob rule is, mob rule is democracy. Okay? In America, we think representative democracy is mob rule. We call it tyranny of the majority.
Well, guess what? Saying tyranny of the majority actually hides the inverse of that, which is the case currently, which is the tyranny of minority. Okay?
The positive way to respond to that,
the positive way to describe that is just the democratic process,
having true representative democracy,
having giving power back to the people,
rather than keeping it in the hands of
the select few that have no interest in the people.
That's it.
Zoran did an infinitely better job, a more liberalized version of that as well. And we
can talk about that in a second. But I just wanted to do this real quick. Wait, hold on. Yeah.
Zoran hit the CBS airwaves and he said something not dissimilar, but one that is infinitely more
palatable for regular liberals, right? Let's hear what he has to say.
But what I find is that New Yorkers ask me less about how I describe my politics and more
about whether my politics includes them.
And I think what we can see is that a democratic socialist politics is one that should be judged
on its delivery, like any ideology.
And what we're showing in this city is we can pursue the big things, like universal
child care and do the pothole politics at the same time that we're showing and not just
filling in the potholes, changing the catch basins, but also repaving over a thousand
miles of roadway.
But Mr. Mayor, presidential and statewide elections are often decided in battleground
regions that do not look like New York City.
Yeah.
I'll be honest with you.
Before I was the mayor, I was an assembly member of Astoria in Long Island City.
At that time I was told that you could only be a democratic socialist in Northwest Queens.
Then I became the mayor.
Now the next question is the state.
Then it'll be the next question will be the country.
I think that this is a politics that can flourish anywhere because frankly there is only one
majority in this country that's the working class.
That's so good.
There's only one majority in this country, and that's the working class, is whew, bars,
okay?
Bars.
Fantastic.
Fantastic.
Fantastic.
So good, so effective, so easy to understand, okay?
Incredible delivery.
Now, of course, this delivery would be less consequential if he also wasn't a very popular
figure of government, right? If he was an unpopular mayor, people will go, oh, all you
do is yab, right? If he wasn't actually delivering on the sewer socialism, if he wasn't actually
filling the potholes, if he wasn't actually desperately, and dare I say successfully changing
the city, and the trajectory of the city in a positive way, right?
Then his words would ring hollow.
You got to have both.
And Zoran, to his credit, has both, and it's fantastic.
That's why, you know, while everybody glazes him super hard, you know, sometimes I might
I have criticisms of him, the way he carries himself,
the way he conducts himself every now and then,
I think is like maybe too conciliatory to reactionary forces
when he has a lot more room to be bold, right?
Especially given his unbelievable popularity,
especially given the success of his governance
in such a short period of time,
he has a lot more bandwidth to promote others,
promote other candidates to say like,
this is our movement, this is who we are,
here are some of the people that are associated with it,
right? Because that's, you know, a big part of it. He's a, he's supposed to be a movement
guy, right? But ultimately, you can't, you can't criticize the guy too much. I mean,
he's, he's cooking. He's doing a great job. Right.
And it's time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what it is that we're
pursuing and not as part of the appendix.
So, I cannot believe what you did to Melancheon.
Wait, what did I do?
Oh, is it because he's like streaming on Twitch or something?
Is that because of me?
Did I do that?
I don't think I did that.
Melancheon.
Yeah, and of course his policies,
Zoran's policies are very popular nationwide.
And there's a different type of Zoran out there
for every city, each according to their needs, right?
So,
you know, that's where we're at.
But before we talk further about Zoran's tax policy
and the hubbub surrounding it and the anger surrounding,
Zoran's actually pretty solid tax policy.
Fox news.
Fox news has decided to put me in the crosshairs once again,
as I talked about earlier, uh,
they're doing like multiple daily hits at this point,
which I personally appreciate. I like it.
I'm excited for it every time because while that might not,
might not, well, that might not get all the MAGA boomers to listen to what I have to say,
right? They might be fearful of who I am and what I'm saying and what I'm doing. There
are definitely boomers on the other side that have a negative opinion of Fox News and have
a negative opinion of right-wing politics, Trump who hate Trump just as much as I do,
who will hear some of these words coming from the mouth of a Fox News house and go, I kind
of like what this guy has to say.
There's a negative polarization that takes place in these moments, and therefore I welcome
this stuff, right?
Now if I was a different person, if this was a different time, if, for example, I did not
have the opportunity to reach my own audience organically, and that, you know, I was limited
to whatever mainstream media was saying about me and I had no way to retort. Obviously,
this would be devastating. If the large majority of people only encounter
what you have to say through a negative filter, they're going to develop a negative attitude.
But that's not the case any longer. A lot of people have access to the internet. A lot
of people are actually interested in getting or incorporating independent outlets into
their media diet, even old people. And therefore, when this kind of stuff happens, people don't
just watch it and go, well, I'm horrified. I'm not going to look into this person, right?
They do the opposite, plenty of people do the opposite.
Listen to this clown, empires 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.
this is the challenge for our time.
Why is this so important?
Because if we do not do this, then the American Empire will come to an end in a much more violent way.
The part that he doesn't mention is that he's rooting for the destruction of the country.
The idea is that they're introducing now this new socialist movement and they get a lot of support.
Zara Mandana, who's only been an American for about seven years, became a citizen.
And he got elected on these platforms that totally disagreed with our value system.
They don't want long.
And the American streamer warns, American empire will end.
Yeah.
In order, right?
They believe that if you work hard in this country, you get a good job and you get a
little bit of wealth, that the government should be able to strip that away and give
it to someone else.
These are, they don't believe in national defense.
I believe she's just allowed the enemy in and deal with the consequences there.
That will destroy this country and they're rooting for it to take place because they
believe that at our core, we're a racist country.
And you can't have those people around.
They love communism.
They're glad that 9-11 happened.
Yes.
Awesome, awesome, dude.
And what's even better.
Wait, there's more.
Oh, this is the Laura Ingram.
So Sompiker is hinting at civil war. That's back to back, baby. That's crazy. Um, yeah.
And it's, it's pretty funny that Brian killed me sitting there in the corner going, I'm
Brian, kill me. I'm Brian, kill me. It's funny. I like that. Thank you, Brian. Love how little
of a clip they played before the mischaracterizer statements. I mean, that's X that's expected.
That's expected. No matter what happens, I need you to understand something. Okay. They're
not, they're not offended at what I'm saying. They're offended at the entire worldview that
I represent. So from that perspective, they're going to do everything they can. They're going
to do everything they can to disparage the messenger. They're going to bastardize the
message. You're going to chop it up. Okay. What is this? They want you on the Sean Hannity
podcast, Fox and friends. I want to see them in a debate. I told Sean, invite them on your
podcast. I don't even know if he'd live through 9 11. I want someone who's brilliant who can
say that to him that will have it. Oh, there was more. There was more.
You didn't hear it in that sound bite, but he got a pause at Yale for his anti literally
he's the control of the right time. Invited number one and number two. He says it and
gets applause. I want to see him in a debate. I told Sean us and invite him on your podcast
because I want a long format.
I want him to understand what he is.
I would love that.
Oh my God, I would love that.
Oh, hell, oh, hell yes.
Oh, oh my God.
Okay, oh, oh yeah, oh yeah.
They're gonna be like-
Do not come.
And I'm gonna be like-
I'm gonna come.
I'm gonna come.
You know what I'm saying?
That's what it's gonna be like.
say I'm gonna come reach out immediately before they forget. Yes. Did you see the highlight
reel from Fox? No, not yet. We're going to look at that in a second. I didn't even know
that there was more additional commentary on this.
I don't think he's lived through communism. He hasn't lived through. I don't even know
if he lived through 9 11. How old is he? He looks young. Oh, thank you. Oh my God. Oh my
Oh my God, the glaze. Oh my God. Fox news. I'm blushing. Oh my Lord. They said, I got
great beard hairs and I got the, this is the oldest I can possibly look, right? Cause like
there's different variants. If I shave all of it off, including the mustache, I look
like a child. It's horrible. Everyone makes fun of me. If I shave the beard off, or if
it's at least like a little scruffy. I, I de-aged by like a decade. So it's pretty funny that
she thinks that I'm not 34 years old, bro. She literally said, you look younger than 25.
Yeah. It's pretty crazy. That's wild that she thought was younger than 25. That's,
that's wild. Damn. I don't even use any like facial creams or nothing. I don't got no,
I'm so happy to live in this time. Yeah.
Yeah.
You too.
So I'm going to understand the consequences for what he's saying and what would happen
if America did fall.
Where would he go if America fell?
But the thing is, Angelique, people like that are uncoachable.
I wouldn't know.
I wouldn't know where.
I just leave this.
Oh, Brian's like, no, no, no, Sean should not debate him.
I'm Brian.
Kill me.
Oh, no.
Wait, hold up.
Hold up.
Brian.
Brian.
No, Sean will destroy me.
He will destroy me in the marketplace of ideas.
Let me do it.
Let me do it.
Let me do it.
What?
I want to know why he believes this and I want someone who understands these issues, who
is brilliant, who can say to him, what you're saying, this is what-
Who's brilliant?
And then the person that she's using is a brilliant order is Sean Hannity.
What will happen if America falls?
This is what will happen if America becomes a communist country.
Hi, oh my god. I'm licking my lips dude. Oh my god. I give Sean Hannity a kissy poo. Yeah Sean Hannity
No one brilliant person. Oh
My lord, all right, then there's more that we got you shouldn't debate him such a bad idea
He'll make you look so bad in the short position. Yeah, that's what I mean. That's what I mean. I just oh, I'm scared
I'm so scared about that. That's I would hate that I would hate that I would hate for that to happen
I would never do that. I'm terrified. Okay. I want to know I want
Okay. Oh, this is Sean Hannity's fiance. I would hate to get destroyed in the marketplace
of ideas by the likes of Sean Hannity. I love that she is glazing her fiance. Which is cute.
That's cute. You know they will want to edit their video to make it look bad. Yeah, I mean,
I'm not gonna, I'm gonna film it myself as well. There's no way, there's no way that
that's gonna be. I would hate to get destroyed in the marketplace of ideas by the likes of
Sean Hannity. Oh yeah, the one where Trump leaked their relationship. Yeah, that's the
one. If you get invited, you'd be forced to do it. You'd hate that, but you'd do it. Yeah,
I would hate it. I added him. I added him chat. I did. I did. Um, I did. I already did.
Fox and friends first covered you too. What the fuck is going on now too? What the fuck? What is
happening, bro? Why? Why is there so much? What? I don't understand it. It's like,
I know liberals think it's because my ideas are terrifying because they think it's bad and terrifying.
So liberals think, oh, they're glazing or they're highlighting a song because they want to use a
song as a cudgel, except it hasn't worked. It hasn't really worked. And I think part of it is because
these guys have a much more conservative estimate on where America's anger and resentment is
right now. They think independents are resentful of America because I guess Trump is not conservative
enough or something. No, they're resentful and angry for the same reasons that I'm resentful
and angry. You can try to disparage me all day every day and be like, no, he just hates America.
If I hated America, I'd be excited at what Donald Trump is doing, right?
I'd be so elated at the prospect of being like, wow, look at Donald Trump punishing the heartland.
Look at Donald Trump robbing the poor, the blind, robbing his own supporters
in the Rust Belt, robbing his own supporters in places like West Virginia,
ensuring that they don't get a leg up, ensuring that their infrastructure is never fixed,
waste, and wasting away all of that productive output, all of those resources on Israel.
Fantastic. And doing it in this incredibly shitty way where he's also failing on the
main stage, right? He's crippling the force projection capabilities of American Empire.
He's almost single-handedly destroying the petro dollar, right?
So great.
You know, if I hated America, I'd be a Trump supporter.
I'd be dick riding Trump into oblivion.
I think a lot of people have that anger and resentment.
And since Donald Trump actually won the election and has been governing like a madman for the
last two years, many Americans have realized, even those who voted for him, some, right,
especially the independents and the swing voters and whatnot, that voted for him,
have now recognized that, oh no, it wasn't actually the trans people or the immigrants
that we were dominating that was causing all of these issues, right? Perhaps there's an
alternative out there. And the Democrats don't actually fill that void. The Democrats are
refusing to communicate where this frustration is coming from, right? They're refusing to
explain correctly why Americans are feeling the pain, perhaps even a worsened version
of the pain that they felt even underbid it.
You know?
Well, Son, is that a spending a whole time defending shit you said you should bring up
some Sean Hannity controversy and grill them on it?
I mean, yeah, there will be a good, there will be a little bit of that too in this situation
like that.
Oh, I got a P.
who far left Twitch streamer, Hassan Piker,
who made some controversial comments
while speaking at Yale University.
Listen here, and then we'll get your reaction
on the other side.
It's an interesting resolution, and the US 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. So as you heard, he makes it seem like America's downfall is inevitable.
It's going to happen and that it's on my generation to figure it out and sort of mitigate the
damage. Your reaction to what he said there. Well, not only what Hassan Piker just said
there, but I think I heard cheers from that audience at Yale. So scratch off another school
that my daughter and son aren't going to go to. That's certainly for sure. It'll be
a real hoot seeing Hassan Piker be the keynote speaker at the Democratic National Convention
one day, won't it? Because more and more Democrats are lining up to be on this Maniacs podcast.
Elon Omar was just on there this week. Rokana last week. AOC. Zora Mandani. Even The New
York Times' Ezra Klein just recently gave him the written version of what you could
call, I guess, you know, a hot stone massage and a peace title. Let's see. Hassan Piker
is not the enemy. I'm pretty sure he's the enemy considering that this is the same guy
who was again, an enemy to what? An enemy to you. Absolutely. An enemy to the people.
I don't think so. I think people are smarter than we give them credit. I think Americans
are smarter than we give them credit, okay? As long as someone is just telling the truth,
eventually more and more Americans will hear that over and over again.
And they'll start recognizing that there is an alternative vision out there. There is an
alternative trajectory that we could be on. One that actually doesn't destroy this country, okay?
One that maybe even manages the decline that we're experiencing currently.
because we are experiencing a decline.
Things are not working. Donald Trump was able to identify that pain,
was able to identify that resentment, and then he channeled it to
unproductive outlets, vulnerable populations. He took that anger that people were feeling at a time
when the liberal side was seemingly communicating that there was nothing to be angry at all,
that the system was fine, that we were just going to do business's usual politics, right?
So, put me in front of people, coach.
I think the more they see it in an unfiltered manner, the more they hear this message in
an unfiltered manner, the more they will recognize that while some of these concepts might come
across as foreign, right? At first, to the uninitiated or to those who have been taught
to hate these sorts of concepts, right? Who have this unnecessary antagonism towards the
word socialism, the word communism, they don't even think about it. They're like, this is
an enemy thing. This is an enemy thing. It's fine. Those labels are unnecessary at the
I just want you to have health care. I want you to have a better future. I want you to have education. I want this country, the wealthiest country on the planet, to do better for all of its citizens and not just work at the best of these lifeless, faceless, parasitic corporations that have loyalty to no one but generating profits.
Okay.
For the violent fall of this country and just did again recently, the same guy who said
America deserved 9-11, the same guy who calls Jews inbreds, that's a quote, and the same
guy who quotes Hamas and supports them 1,000 times more than Israel.
So if Democrats want to make Hassan piker its next team mascot in an effort.
Like if they just kept it at like, oh, he calls Jews inbreds, like I think more people
would probably be like, wow, that's fucked up. Why did he say that? Well, when they actually end up
associating like a bunch of anti-Israel comments right at the end of that, not to give them,
you know, tips on how to do better, focus on propaganda, but like, when they do that, people
understand that it's not, oh, shit, nevermind, it's not, this is probably not about Jews at all,
it's probably about Israel in general, right? For to capture more anti-American pro-antisemitic
voters, roll the dice and take your chances, guys. But this is not somebody they should
want to be aligned with yet. They keep lining up to be on this podcast. Go figure.
Yeah, and he just called Republicans. It's just funny because like this literally
failed with Trump. Like I'm not obviously running for office, right? But this is unironically what
the uh what the the liberal shot to do with donald trump but they were like oh he says so many
offensive things he says so many terrifying things right and people didn't give a shit because
they understood what he was talking about he called the revolvings what terrorists the biggest
domestic terrorists in the country on the pod save america podcast and and it should be emphasized
with an underline that he was at Yale University speaking to young people who as you said
did cheer when he said how do you end something that is already in the process of dying referring
to the United States of America. Those are just the facts there. Joey, you have to leave it.
Thank you so much for joining us. We appreciate it. Thanks Joe.
Peter Savonagon, the free press, the freest of all press wrote an article saying
My latest on the Democrats is on Piper Parlamore, Ezra Khan doesn't get it. And what has to
happen next if the party wants to avoid 25 years in the wilderness? Okay? Yeah, when I
want to hear about what liberals should do, what the Democratic Party should do, I go
to the free press, which is a publication that basically operates as a propaganda mouthpiece
for a foreign state, Israel, and is also the most pro-Trump outlet out there.
What is this?
I am shivering right now, just watch that footage of Hassan Piker saying that our country
deserved 9-11.
I'm shivering right now. Okay. Well, we don't have to watch newsmax. Come on
Anyway
Um, there is also
Elon levy
Former spokesman for the state of israel elon levy is tragic to see the monumental cells sabotage of the senate democrats are performed because of Hassan
Pikerization of their party. This is something that I never thought I would see. Because this is
Hassan derangement syndrome. This is a telltale marker of Hassan derangement syndrome. The idea
that Chris Van Hollen and Democratic Party senators are actually moving in this way against Israel
for the first time ever in a very meaningful way, by the way. 40 votes is nothing to cast aside.
it is an implication. It is basically the clearest example. You might say it's too little too late,
and I agree with that, but it's the clearest example that this is now going to be a partisan
issue, right? It's over. Like Israel is losing the hill. Israel had complete dominance in the hill.
Israel has to now move to just the White House and just the Donald Trump. That's the last bastion
that they have of Israel defense. When they lose the uniparty approach to Israel and the hill,
well, things are going to change dramatically in American foreign policy and certainly in the
way that Israel conducts itself in the region. But the idea that someone like Chris Van Hollen
is taking this approach now, not because of the events that have unfolded, but because he knows
who I am and I've been able to convince him, is so idiotic. And the expectation, or I've heard this
statement before, right? I've heard people say shit like this before. It's usually like
Ethan Klein fans, people that have no understanding of politics whatsoever, people who treat politics
like drama that surrounds certain villains and certain characters that they watch and
consume the content of.
I wouldn't expect the mother fucking former spokesman of the state of Israel to say such
a thing, right? Like, this is a legitimate war criminal, right? Like an adult. And he's calling
this the Hussam Pikerization of the Party. Israel's your bravest, most dependable ally. We're
crossing off your most wanted list, fighting your wars. You're spiting yourself, he says.
It's so strange that they think like, I am responsible for this, or they would rather
they would rather associate my name with this initiative. It's very, very strange.
Okay? Why are we spending an hour on posts with hundreds of likes? Did you not hear what
I just said? This is the fucking former spokesman for the state of Israel, dude. Like, this
is a person who was doing press releases for the apartheid state during the peak of the
genocide and his assessment of the situation is not that like Israel's actions have caused
a serious fissure in the Democratic Party, which they previously had tremendous control
over and they've lost that control in a very meaningful manner.
And by the next cycle, next election cycle, hopefully, inshallah, Israel will completely
lose control over the Democrats.
They will no longer be able to dominate the Democratic Party as they did in the past.
Because this kind of stuff was unthinkable, okay?
And even then, it's too little, too late.
But it doesn't matter.
It's still fairly significant.
It's like moving the needle in the right direction.
It takes a long time.
It should be faster.
It's an injustice that it's not fast enough, that our politicians are not responsive enough,
that the fact that Chuck Schumer is still voting against this provision to block the
bombs, like it's unbelievable to me.
But it's a huge deal in comparison to where this previous bills like this were regarded
by the Democrats in the Senate, okay?
I'll get to that in a second though, cuz Eton Nehine, who actually is fairly sympathetic
to anti-Zionism, he did a wonderful piece on Adam Friedland recently.
He said it would be more substantive to not up what it would be more substantive to not to of the Ben
Givirization of the Israeli government since season power in a Samp Iker isn't just last week
Smallfresh announced the goal of the war is to expand Israel's border. The Dems aren't going to subsidize the war for the settlers
Yeah, it on a king is a
He is a Haritz reporter in New York, and he actually recently wrote a
He recently wrote a piece
about Adam Friedland. Yeah, but he's right. He says it's probably a lot smarter to point to,
like, you know, Ben Givir's impact on the Israeli government and even Benjamin Inyahu's impact on
the Israeli government. And what the Israeli government has done that has caused this kind
of backlash from the Democrats, previously loyal allies of the state of Israel,
then some random fucking Twitch streamer, and he's right.
This is very much on BV, yep, but for Hosbra, apparently it doesn't matter who's leading
Israel and what policies are enacting, it's in war or otherwise.
Must be nice to live in a world where actions don't have consequences, yeah.
What you cooking on the top left chicken rotisserie chicken.
So yeah, that part was really stupid.
So this was one of the fox news hits, but the hits keep coming.
Here's the anger mangle.
The commie and the billionaire.
That's the focus of tonight's angle.
What an evolution for the Democrat party.
Now in the JFK era, it was pro-life and patriotic.
In the Clinton era, it was anti-illegal immigration and-
Yeah, except you guys opposed all of that even back then.
So why are you bringing it up now?
This is the same, I guess this in some respects is not dissimilar to like the Democrats going
back to like the George W. Bush era, and being like, well, at least they were a competent
party.
run by the orange man, and Democrats are doing this, Republicans are now doing the same thing as well.
Now, you had never heard this from the Republicans, though. Republicans normally don't do this, okay?
Why are they doing this? Because they're retreating. Because even a fucking Twitch streamer can cause
the republican propaganda apparatus to retreat to show that there are moderate democrats out there
to no longer call Nancy Pelosi a fucking communist when they when they see someone who's actually
saying communist shit they turn around and go yeah actually maybe there are some moderate
democrats they were glazing aliza slotkin the other day okay they were glazing aliza slotkin
the other day saying, of course she's not gonna go on this mean man's podcast. This cuts away at
their bravado. It shows that they are also paper tigers. This is important to acknowledge, okay?
Because I think genuinely this plays a formative role in combating the ratchet effect, okay?
Okay? Because for the longest time, Republicans have been able to, for the longest time, Republicans
have been able to move the Overton window, shift the Overton window to the right over
and over again, because the National Democratic Party has always been conciliatory. They've
always offered concession after concession after concession, whether because they are
backed by the same corporate entities and that's what they were supposed to do, or whether
is because they genuinely thought that this was the only way to win elections, right?
I'm not gonna say if it's a, I'm not gonna make an assessment on how sinister the national
party's attitude on this issue was, and what, if there was an ulterior purpose there, an
ulterior motive there or not.
But I'm simply saying that the outcome of Democrats consistently conceding to the Republicans
on right wing framing on issues, only made this country go to the right.
But the moment this almost says, no, fuck that, republics are terrorists.
What are we doing here?
Uses maybe even similar language that republicans use with regular frequency and not just like
republican propagandists, but straight up republican politicians, including the president.
When Democrats do just a fraction of that, they will receive tremendous results in terms
of pulling back the Overton window to a place of normalcy.
Now, of course, my goal is not to just like recenter American politics.
I don't want that.
I want to shift it so far to the left that we never elect another Republican ever again.
that the idea of fascism is impossible to contend with, or people are like, what are
you talking about? It's ridiculous. That's what I want to do.
But the fact that even like a Twitch streamer is capable of making these guys retreat should
be important, should be important for even centrist Democrats to take note of, okay?
this is the exact opposite of the method that they've applied and lost on over and over again.
This is the exact same reason why they lost to Trump twice, not once but twice.
Because they were far too forgiving of the insanity of the Republicans.
They did not fight back against the Republicans.
They did not actively try to sever the ties that Republican politicians have with Republican
voters, okay?
And that's the reason why Republicans got away with saying whatever the fuck they wanted
about the Democrats for years, and that conversation got only more toxic and more violent as time
went on.
And Democrats could do nothing but just sit there and cower.
But the moment that you have someone that speaks a similar language to the Republican
party from the actual leftmost position possible, they immediately retreat and they immediately
start glazing moderate Democrats.
When have you ever heard them glaze moderate Democrats before?
Anti-Defense Espending.
So Democrats used to believe that America was basically a force for good in the world.
But now, the left's new golden boy, Twitch Streamer, doesn't even try to hide it.
34-year-old Hassan Piker not only hates America, he's hinting at a civil war.
Empires 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.
I love the applause he gets at Yale. Glad I went to Dartmouth. Of course, he presupposes
that we are-
Does she think Dartmouth wouldn't be just as excited to receive me? That's so stupid
of her. Yale is more conservative than Dartmouth. What are you talking about? I mean, these
are elite Ivy League institutions. Most of the people there are not going to be receptive
that message in any way, shape or form.
An empire which we are not.
Piker either doesn't know his history, maybe Rutgers didn't teach that, or purposely distorts
it for effect.
America's not an empire, it's so funny.
Who believes that?
What are you talking about?
At this point, there's not even a handful of people in positions of power or in the
think tank orbit that still maintains the position that, like, liberal interventionism
is a force for good. Okay? Also, elitist shitting on a state school. You notice that? Again,
this is how they operate.
But it's irrelevant anyway. It's slip-shod, lazy thinking that is par for the course for
this once great party. Who needs to read? Who needs to understand the sweep, the arc
of history when you can just go for Maxima Marx's shock value.
This is so insane.
America deserved 9-11, dude, f***, I'm sayin' it.
And he not only celebrates 9-11, but he mourns the fall of the USSR.
The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century.
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. I love this. I love when they bang the, that's the new applause. Ooh, the Ailees are
actually impressed by the word multipolarity. Very revealing. As was this exchange. When you say
Hamas is a thousand times better, do you actually mean that or is that a rhetorical move or like
a solidarity signal? I do mean it. I think it's a rhetorical move because it frustrates a lot.
I love that they've, I guess like at this point, at a certain point they have to like
give up on, on the cheap, on the cheap shots and actually get to the meat of it. Okay.
But this is just posting my W's like, I have no issue with this. Okay. At this point,
Fox News viewers watch you as much as we do. Yeah. Yeah. Your grandparents are, are
are getting a very quick, short summary of at least some of my high notes, my highlights.
This turns into a highlight reel. The moment that they don't like, the moment that they
are, they're not trying to do the cheap shots that are, are not resembling my worldview
whatsoever. And, and actually showcasing some of the things that I believe, I'm happy with
that, you know, we, this, this is a little bit more productive.
People, I've also said I'm a harm 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, as, as a paramilitary organization that has like
a political party as well.
Well Piker's not a socialist.
He's not a progressive.
He's a communist.
Hassan Piker is the ultimate privilege, Nepo baby.
Okay, that's cool. They're also now, again, another rhetorical retreat. Not only is Laura
Ingram glazing moderate, centrist, neoliberal Democrats, she's also separating communism
from progressives and socialism. Okay, again, that's another, that is another rhetorical
retreat. It almost feels like the politics that I am representing is forcing Republicans
to take a more serious look at what the broad scope of the broad scope of ideological representation
within the Democratic Party.
Have you noticed that?
Again, this is not a bad thing, this is a good thing.
These are the same people who say, Jeff Bezos is a communist, Nancy Pelosi is a communist.
All of a sudden, all of a sudden, when they hear someone say communist things, they turn
around and go, actually, Bill Clinton was pretty good.
I mean, he wanted to protect America, he wanted to glorify America.
and that Hassan Piker is a communist,
very different than socialists or progressive.
Great.
He cut his teeth as an intern at the Young Turks show,
which his uncle, Sank Uyghur, found it.
What he learned there was how to get attention.
And he's getting a lot of it.
Nothing is off the table,
including resurfaced comments about property owners
who choose not to rent out their empty homes. He said, quote, kill them, kill those MFers
and murder those MFers in the streets. Yeah. Then they go back to this and it's like, okay,
ask me, do I believe this is a, is this a sincere policy perspective? No, it's not.
Okay. Let's move on. The streets soak and they're leaping red capitalist blood, dude.
And he's gotten so much traction among younger voters that he's plotting. I like that she
add a do, but you wouldn't add fucking in a video game.
And to take over the whole party.
I think we do have a real opportunity to make some significant 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, would never have the moral courage
to, to openly fight for.
So to Laura Ingraham, I have to say, legalized comedy.
And another reminder that having a social media following doesn't mean having a brain.
But it's not just the Gen Xers who are moving hard left.
One of the Democrat Party's most prominent donors, billionaire Tom Steyer, is now the
front runner for governor of California, and he's a total fanatic.
I'm very straightforward about this.
I should be abolished.
We really can't reform an organization which is absolutely wrong and criminal from top
to bottom.
Yeah, he's even more open-boarders than Gavin Newsom, if that's possible.
Be sure to like and...
Yeah, and then the rest of it is...
I don't understand why it says they're hinting at civil war, but this one actually banged
for them.
clips. This one got a lot higher view count than there are other clips that usually don't
get this level of view counts. So that's, that's good. That's cool. Um, and they're obviously
very mad pays there for the mullies. I think you'd be happy. There is guys in big trouble.
He needs arresting for blatant reason calling for the fall of this great country. Pigers
are sick individual. Do not give a dollar to Yale. Yale should be closed for what they're
do it in America. These people need to be addressed by courageous patriots. He should
be arrested. It's like, what happened? What happened to fucking free speech? None of y'all
believe in any of that shit. Okay. It's crazy. It's unbelievable. Um, yeah. Nick Sorter did
the whole, you know, we must end the American empire. He got mad about it too. Obviously,
I guess like this is, uh, you know, they're, they're, they're reposting banger after banger
over and over again. Rick Scott goes to Sompiker, hates America, glorifies terrorism in his call,
for me and others to be murdered. He should not be given any type of platform, let alone
a college campus that receives federal funding. Not realizing that, again, this is exactly what
the Democrats failed at, okay? Democrats tried to do this. Liberals tried to fucking do this in
2016 and even leading up to 2016 and certainly after 2016 and it failed. It failed. Trump
Trump is president, I don't know why they, I mean, fuck it, I don't want him to stop
because it's beneficial.
It's beneficial to this movement.
It's beneficial for me personally to get my message in front of as many people as possible.
This is creating unnecessary friction.
And it's also demonstrably a failure.
At this point, yeah, we are close to Trump talking about me, literally everyone except
Trump has talked about you, I'm honestly shocked he hasn't yet.
I, you know, in some ways I don't want that to happen because I feel like I'm gonna get
assassinated after that happens, but.
But yeah.
like you're self launching a presidential run? I'm not. I'm not. I'm not even interested in fucking
running for a local office, dude. That's the funniest part about all of this, is that like,
this is, they're treating me like I'm running for president, but I'm not, like, I'm, I'm,
I don't think America is ready for a person like me to be in a position of power, okay?
Okay, it's just not gonna happen.
I also personally think that I have a lot more impact
doing this where I can highlight other candidates
and help out other candidates and work to build a movement
rather than spend all of my time, all of my energy
on trying to win one fucking race.
And there's no guarantee that I win regardless, right?
So, it's very silly, just know, if I'm even entertaining or run for any position whatsoever,
that means that American politics have already moved in our direction so, so severely, you
know that I'm running as a fucking moderate.
Anyway.
You could just grip for millions of dollars every four years like Jill Stein.
Why would I do that?
right? Because AOC and Bernie don't campaign with others. Buddy, I've seen a fraction of
what it takes to do even one day of campaign rallies. Okay? Do you know how much time and
effort is expended on, on running everything in your life is about winning that race. Okay.
I wouldn't be able to cover the news. I wouldn't be able to promote other candidates. I wouldn't
be able to do the necessary background research on other candidates. I wouldn't be able to
adequately fundraise for other candidates. I'd have to be fundraising for myself. Like
you guys don't even understand. Like it's just not, it's, it's a, it's a complete time
suck. It consumes every aspect of your life. There's also limitations on what I could and
couldn't say regardless. It's just not, you know, it's not possible. And on top of that,
there is no guarantee. And on top of that, I don't even want to do it. Like it's just,
it's silly. People have always throughout my career told me what I should and shouldn't do,
what I should do instead, right? Oh, you have all this money. Why don't you start a charity?
with all this money, why don't you, you know, why don't you build socialism? Why don't you build
Medicare for all? And it's like, there are certain things that I'm good at, and certain things that
are within my power, and I'm trying to maximize my utility. That's it. That's what I'm trying to do.
inter heaven thank you for the 50 bones
at the end of the day that is what i'm doing i'm i'm maxing out on my utility
i'm very good at one thing and one thing only and that is going live every day and yapping and
talking about the news and and trying to help out uh with with movements both all around the world
and also certainly in the united states of america and move this country's politics in a
in a more productive direction that is better for the working class. I don't hide that intention
at all. I say it. Sometimes people disagree with my methods. There are plenty of people who
disagree with my methods, actually. There's even people to my left that disagree with my methods.
But this is who I am, this is what I'm doing, and I'm radically transparent about it, too.
So much so that people actually, people will take advantage of that radical transparency.
Now, one of the positive news hits that has come out of this in the last couple of weeks
of endless smears that I in this community and the campaigns that I align with have withstood
is the fact that there is a lot of increased attention, increased eyeballs on some candidates.
One of them is Dr. Abdul El Sayed. Now, you already know, I went to Michigan before,
I went to your board, I worked out with them, we had kebabs. And then a couple weeks ago,
I went to Michigan to MSU and University of Michigan Ann Arbor and I stumped for Dr.
Abdul El Sayed.
Now I personally didn't think this was a new thing at all.
I just didn't understand that like, you know, going on a campaign rally alongside a candidate
would be perceived as something so totally different than having the candidate on my
broadcast, right? It was only last week. Oh, it was god damn I've been traveling a
lot. I thought it was like a fucking it feels like a lifetime ago.
So,
as Dr. Jihad, I stood alongside Dr. Abdul Al Sayed, Dr. Jihad, Dr. Jihad,
And I was there with Summer Lee as well or she did to leave as well. And in the crowd at University of Michigan, Debbie Dingell was there too. And it's a big deal. But
One of the main problems for Dr. Abdul Al Sayed wasn't his policies or wasn't his background. Those are, you know, I mean, he is a fantastic candidate, right?
He is exactly what we're looking for.
Now, we don't fully align on everything, but that doesn't matter, right?
He is far better than the average Democratic Party senator.
And I would be elated to have as many Dr.
Abdul-Aziz in Congress as possible, right?
That's the whole goal here, to move the overturn window to a more productive place.
A place that actually is helpful for the American working class.
So there was a lot of back and forth,
a lot of pontificating on how dangerous it is
that someone like Dr. Abdul-Alsadeh
running for such an important seat,
like the Michigan Senate seat,
would align with someone so radical.
But he didn't cave.
He didn't cave and he said,
fuck it. We're doing it, right? It didn't back away, which in my opinion would have shown
weakness regardless if he had. And it turns out, as I had suspected, it's actually been
quite fucking beneficial. Ladies and gentlemen, there's a new Emerson poll in the Michigan
race. Now, as I said over and over again in the lead up to this stump that I did,
one of the biggest problems Dr. Abdul-Asaed and his race was that he didn't have enough name
recognition. The race wasn't getting a lot of media attention, and it seems like it now has
gotten a lot of name recognition and media attention. And in that timeframe, in that time frame,
Some people might even call it the biker bump, but probably not.
It's not, once again, it's not me.
It's not even us.
It's also the candidate, right?
It wouldn't work if, uh, Abdul-Alsayad didn't have, uh, the proper policies that,
that communicate to the actual economic anxieties of the working class, right?
Michigan Senate Dem primary with cross tabs shows Dr. Abdul al-sayed at 24% up 8 points
from the last time that Dr. Abdul al-sayed was pulled on this exact same poll when he
was in third place. Mallory McMorrow only gets a 1.2% bump at 23.6% and Haley Stevens
has dropped three points at 13.4%. And the not sure is still at 35%. Now Emerson is huge
Because Emerson actually is one of the few pollsters
that is actually factored in the increase
of youth voter participation, okay?
This is why it's a big deal, okay?
This is not an internal number.
This is not an internal poll.
This is a legitimate pollster, an independent one
that is looking at this race, that has developed a very reliable reputation so far, was one
of the closest to Zoran's victory in the New York mayoral race as well.
One of the pollsters that got it fairly right. And even then they hadn't, they weren't able
to weigh in youth voter participation as well as what came out on election night.
Okay.
This is huge.
Obdual said last time, when, when he was pulled last time amongst likely
Dem primary voters on January 24th to January 25th was at 16%.
Since then he's at 24%.
Mallory McMarra was at 22%.
Since then she has gotten up to 24% as well.
And Haley Stevens was at 17% and now is at 13%.
And the undecideds went from 38% to 36% only 2% of undecided voters have actually moved
in the direction of voting for one candidate over the other.
This is huge. Obviously, there is a lot more work to do. Okay? There is a lot more work
to do here. Which one's A-PAC? Haley Stevens is the pure A-PAC candidate, and Mallory McMorah
is the one that's trying to present herself as the Goldilocks candidate, as they like
to call it, who is, you know, presenting herself as an Israel skeptic because she knows it's
deeply unpopular, but at the same time is perfectly willing to work with Israel. She
has given a policy paper to APAC privately. We still don't know what our policy paper looked like,
but it's APAC and APAC-like pretty much versus someone who APAC is going to dump tens of millions
of dollars against Abdul El Sayed. So, in any case, we have an incredibly important opportunity ahead
head of ourselves. We have to make sure we turn out every single young voter and
even older voters in our lives for this primary because a lot of people forget
that primaries are even more important in the general election as far as
changing the trajectory of the Democratic Party. So if you're frustrated
when you see stuff like why did Trok Schumer vote to send Israel bulldozers or
send Israel dumb bombs when he's supposed to be the leader of the party, why are
there's still seven Democratic senators. At a time when this is a 90-10 issue, you still
have seven Democratic senators that are signing off on sending Israel half a billion dollars
worth of tools and weapons so they can continue their apartheid, so they can continue their
genocide.
At a time when the overwhelming majority of Americans are recognizing that Israel's doing
a genocide, and that they don't wanna contribute to it with their tax dollars. There are still
Democrats out there who are putting Israel first, who are putting the interest of this
foreign entity, this very violent foreign entity, against the interest of the American
population, against the needs of the American population.
So if you're wondering how that happens, why there is no real Democratic representation
in the Democratic Party, it's because we don't participate in the primaries.
It's because we lost that opportunity with Bernie Sanders in 2016 and also in 2020.
So you have to work within the Democratic Party's primary system.
If you want the Democrats to resemble the actual, if you want the Democrats to be more
responsive to your needs, you have to participate in the primaries, okay?
The primaries will change the direction that the party is heading in.
And the general is just about, you know, whether fascists win or not, okay?
Is it going to be fascism or fascism-lite?
Or if you vote in the primaries, is it going to be fascism against socialism?
I've always had this attitude.
Yeah, then the twitch CEO is being asked about me at some of four. It's really funny, but
Look, here's the thing a
Lot of people talk about voter apathy a lot of people talk about
You know what the need like why we vote for these do nothing Democrats, right?
Well now you have someone to vote for
Now, you have someone to vote for, and it's not just Abdul.
There's people to vote for all around the country in the primaries.
But it's important to activate our friends, to get them out there, to do something that
is relatively inconsequential in the grand scheme of things, but will have massive impact
on the future of this country, okay?
Please remember that.
It's huge.
Ariana Jasmine says, despite widespread voter opposition in the war in Gaza, seven Democratic
senators voted against the resolution to block arms sales to Israel.
Chuck Schumer received $6.5 million from the Israeli lobby.
John Federer received 1.9 million for the Israeli lobby. Richard Blumenthal received
1.6 million from the Israeli lobby. Chris Goons received 1.7 million from the Israeli lobby.
Catherine Cortez Mastow received 3.1 million dollars from the Israeli lobby. Jackie Rosen
7.6 million dollars from the Israeli lobby. And Kirsten Gillibrand received 3.2 million
dollars from the Israeli lobby. Midterms are coming up. Make sure you support the people
primary establishment politicians. That's right. That's why I always say voting is the
least significant, most consequential thing you can do.
You take a couple hours out of your day, you know, you could turn it into an event if you
want with your friends, and you go and you vote, especially in the primaries,
and you can have tremendous impact on the future of this country,
on the future of American politics, okay? This is our opportunity. If you hate
plugging your nose every time you vote, when you go out and vote every four years,
in the general or the president, and you say, why the fuck are we voting for these goddamn
Democrats that are, you know, established Democrats that don't respond to our needs.
Why do we have to always make this decision to vote, make this calculation to vote for
harm reduction as opposed to the fascist Republicans? Well, here's your opportunity to vote for
something, just like with Zoran. There's an opportunity to vote for something. And I
And I think that matters because I think that once people start seeing, like I said, about
a thousand Zoran's bloom, but once people start seeing that there are more responsive
politicians out there who will fight for our needs, who will place our needs first, not
the needs of Israel, not the needs of corporate lobbyists, not the needs of mega corporations
that pay zero and fucking tax dollars and keep sucking up everything in the form of
subsidies, sucking up all of our productive output, ensuring that it does not go back
to fixing your potholes, fixing our infrastructure, giving us high speed broadband internet, something
I'm personally pissed off about, you know, spending all that wealth and all of our resources
on healthcare and education instead of doing all that.
If you're wondering why there are no policies to fight for that, well, it's because people
don't want the fucking primaries and for the longest time, politicians like this didn't
actually run.
And even when they did run, they didn't have the opportunity to get in front of a lot of
people.
They didn't have the opportunity to spread that message far and wide.
They didn't have that viability.
They would always get pummeled.
They would always get bullied by mainstream media as insincere and silly candidates, unelectable
against the Republicans.
But now, a lot of people recognize that the Bernie Cratt wing of the party is the most
electable wing of the party.
They realize that centrist Democrat attitudes, pro-corporate Democrats, are precisely what
has caused the Democratic Party to lose to Trump, not once but twice.
Bernie would have won is a resounding message now for many people who previously thought
Bernie was unelectable. So if you have someone in your district that is the left most candidate
you could possibly vote for that has electoral viability, you have to go out and get other
people to vote for them. You have to go out and doorknock and Abdul Al-Sayed obviously
is the guy in the Michigan race, in the Michigan Senate race.
Okay. Emerson poll has else. I had surging into the lead with basically all of the movement coming from him, uh, growing as a no name.
People have said, well, I'm the last I had went all around the the state when he was running for governor. Very different dynamic. I think
People forget.
Is a totally new race.
And it's a totally new
electorate in some ways, their attitude towards Bernie's message is entirely different than it
was in 2018. Okay. Here's some more information from the Emerson poll we're looking at. US Senate
Michigan primary, Democratic primary 2026, Abdul El Sayed. If the Democratic primary election for
the US Senate were held today, who would you vote for at this time? As we've seen, Stevens is losing
support. What is this? Is this AI? No, it's real. It's a real video.
So,
remember that.
There are some cross tabs I wanted to look at and also some responses that I've seen
Shannon Watts, one of my primary ops who absolutely despises me and is a super, super pro Israel
weirdly enough.
I don't even know where that came from for her, right?
She was an organizer for gun violence prevention.
And now she's a, you know, I guess she doesn't want school shootings to happen in America,
which is an honorable cause.
I'm on board with that, but she's perfectly fine with school shootings taking place in Gaza every day, it seems, and Lebanon, and maybe even Syria and certainly in Iran, right?
It's very odd how you can be like an anti-school shooting guy in America, but then also consistently demand we funnel more weapons so that Israel can blow up schools overseas.
Kind of doesn't make sense. You don't have this like universal perspective on anti-school shooting, right?
Weird. Anyway, she saw the poll numbers and went, seems like one of these people should
drop out for the sake of the party. Exactly. I agree. That person should be McMorrell.
Okay. That's what I think. That's what I think. But of course, she's trying to say,
say, you know, McMoroll should drop out. So they're starting to hit the Grand Platinum
lines, which is good. Okay, because if you recall, if you were paying attention to the
the grand Platinum race, who, they're Stevens, you mean? No, I think she wants, oh, did I
say McMoroll? Yeah, I meant, she wants Abdul to drop out in favor of McMoroll, sorry. She
He wants Abdul to drop out so that McMoro can thrive against Stevens.
Now, I misspoke. I apologize. What's really interesting, yeah, Abdul winning black voters
is going to shatter a lot of narratives here as well. This is also a huge part of the,
the cross tabs that we need to look at as well. Top line, Abdul, I'll say it is at plus
0.4 on the democratic side.
side with plus 5.4 for independent and other McMorris at plus 10 for white McMorris at
3.3 for black, Abdul al-Sayed is at plus 6.7 plus six seven. Okay. That's huge because
everyone always tries to cynically weaponize the black electorate against the progressive
flank of the party, the progressive wing of the party. But guess what? One, black voters
are nowhere near as conservative as liberal media presents it. Okay? That's number one.
And number two, you know who understands racist attacks better than anybody else? Black voters
do. Okay? That's it. It's like when you do racist attacks like this, who do you think
he's going to see that better than anybody else? Who do you think is going to understand
what's going on there? For the male vote, LCI is at plus 2.5. For the female vote, McMorrow
is at 1.7. For ages 18 to 30, LSIAD cleans up, okay? Ages 18 to 29, it's a plus 10.8.
For ages 30 to 39, LSIAD is at plus 23.4, okay? The millennial wing is going crazy for
Abdul. For 40 to 49, McMorros lead is marginal, which is huge. Again, remember. And then plus
McMorris lead grows. Now, this is significant because plus 50, if we're looking at the actual
electorate of who votes in the Democratic Party primaries, plus 50 in the Democratic primaries
is basically the damn near entirety pretty much of people who vote.
Like, it's definitely going to be the majority. The majority of voters are plus 50, okay?
And McMorrow cleans up, and that's the reason why she's so competitive against Abdul.
Plus 50 to 59, McMorrow's at plus 72, 60 to 69, McMorrow's at plus 9.7, and at 70 plus,
McMorrow's at 10.5, okay?
And this is part of the reason why.
This is part of the reason why even, I believe it was, where is it?
Yeah, it was Hailey Stevens' pollster that pushed back against the Emerson poll.
Brian Stryker, who's conducted internal polls for Hailey Stevens, pushes back and says,
Umich voter who is, uh, again, a McMurray fan says, this is interesting for dem primary
voters. This would be a stunning change for the Michigan August primary electorate, 52%
under 50 electorate, 48% above 50 electorate. Now, the reason why Emerson is weighing the
under 50 electorate higher than other pollsters is also the reason why they've been more successful
at reaching the final results, like closer to the final results in the Zoram-Amdani election
as well.
Even though, even in that certain, even in that race, they were undercounting youth turnout,
okay?
Because youth turnout is usually not great, okay?
the youth turnout is disastrous. It's terrible. So they are increasing the likelihood of youth
turnout in their calculations because they've seen it happen in other primaries. That's
the reason why Abdul is so competitive. Okay.
Emerson is clearly pegging the likely Democratic primary electorate to be younger than it was
in 2022 and in 2018 per L2C chart below. They might be right or wrong about that assumption
for the model but hardly irresponsible or worthy of being ashamed says Adam Carlson
and other pollster. There has to be some sort of respectful middle ground between doing
your job advocating on behalf of your client Stevens and publicly shitting on another polling
firms model and assumptions. And this is Adam Carlson obviously dunking on the pollster
that does internal polls for the Stevens campaign, right?
The reason why it's significant is because Emerson has weighed youth turnout fairly well.
That's why they've gotten closer to the final results than any other pollster so far. Okay?
That's what I'm trying to stress here. That's why it's a very significant poll.
striker says partner impact research stevens campaigns on internal pollster says yeah this
poll methodologies irresponsibly flawed emerson should be ashamed to put it out it massively
under represents the older non-college democratic primary voters that support hailey stevens
the most in every poll in 2018 the most similar election nearly half 45 percent of voters were
over 60 in this poll it's 31 percent it projects more voters are under 30 than over 70 wrong
wrong wrong in 2018 about two and three voters did not have a college degree this poll says it's
only half wrong again black voters a strength of haley's are way off 56 percent are under 40 in this
poll on primary day fewer than 20 percent will be this wrong uh will be this young why is it so
wrong it projects literally zero voters will vote in the general election to skip the primary that's
not how primaries work in 2018 in michigan a similar election with competitive state by
by GOP and Dem primaries, most November voters did not vote in a primary.
Again, look at it 2018, at least 2.1 million people had voted in November, but one of the
two primaries.
The general had 4.2 million votes, the Dem primary had 1.1 million, the GOP had 1 million.
So he is trying to desperately reframe the message by saying the electorate will broadly
represent the 2018 primary structure and it will not look differently in 2026.
Emerson is saying it will look different in 2026. Yeah. And for the record, the two polls that were
the closest to being correct were Emerson and Data for Progress. All the other pollsters actually
undermined or underestimated or on Mumdonis successes. Okay. Emerson had Mumdoni at plus
26. Where's the DFP? I don't see it. But Emerson had, yeah, Emerson had Mumdoni at 26. Most
of the other pulses were at like 18, 16, all this stuff. Okay. The reason why, the reason
why they had, um, the reason why they were closest to the final outcome was because they
were weighing youth turnout heavily. Okay. Going to election nights on Monday, the Democratic
candidate led most pre-election polls by double digits, though these results varied widely
from seven to 26 points. It remains to be seen whether the polls that assume that older,
more typical mayor electorate will prove accurate or whether the younger, early voting turnout
primary electorate will signal a different composition that could benefit Mum Dhani.
What is this? No, I won't ever stop criticizing DSA, the Organs with the funnel for the Dems at
the end of the day, ICP for life. Oh my god, okay, chatter. Yes, yes, yes, yes, you got it.
Like, I don't even, I don't even criticize more, you know, like, I don't even criticize the anti-electoral
left-wing, you know, the Communists and whatnot, like please.
It's just, yeah, ICP, Insane Clamposy.
Anyway.
Um, Dave Weigel offers some, some, uh, perspective. Again, notable to see Mallory on top, but
it's Teta-Tet in, uh, in, in Michigan.
McMorris Clear's path is convincing the moderate Dems that Steven's is toast and she's the
Goldilocks candidate who can win the primary, a non-Shummer pick without else I had vulnerabilities.
This is why the time graph about how Schumer is okay with McMorris beating Stevens helped
else I had. He instantly said he was the only candidate Schumer who activist Dems now think
because the loser wasn't okay with.
I wrote a bit about the early dynamics last year.
The entire primary, basically Dave says,
El Saad, I'm taking the most maximum left-wing position.
McMorrow, I wouldn't go that far.
Stevens, oh golly, I love manufacturing.
I mean, Stevens is toast.
We know that already.
But the matchup is McMorrow versus El Saad.
If McMorrow can suck up a lot of the Stevens
conservative voters,
And also I can't get all of the progressive voters in the primaries. It's going to be a tough matchup. Right? That's the case.
So some of the consider now there's still, there's still a lot going on, right?
Right
There's still a lot of I mean, it's not it's not going to be an easy race regardless right even in the primaries
It's a tough primary. Let's be real. It's very competitive primary
Let's take a look at what Abdul's statements are and then you know, I got more to say he says this is movement building the momentum for
Getting money out of politics putting money in pockets and passing Medicare for all is undeniable and it's all because of you
Keep it going and chip in $5 today. Now. The reason why he's doing that is because he doesn't have any corporate packs
He's not backed by any corporate packs whatsoever. And he's anti-corporate packs. And therefore,
it's much, much more difficult for him to fundraise in this very competitive race. Right?
And part of that has been seen in the data as well, right? You have McMorrow that has
been able to out-raise Abdel El Sayed in spite of the fact that El Sayed has a lot more real
momentum backing him, as we have seen from these Emerson poll results.
There are also still a lot of undecideds in this race, okay? A lot, almost a third,
more than a third of the primary voter eligible population, or likely voter,
but Dem primary voters have not decided who they're going to vote for yet. Okay. And so
the number one thing that they need, the outside campaign needs is obviously going to be money.
Right? Here's a, I had a data on this as well. Hold on. I'm going to pull it up. I think
was you Mitch voter that posted this as well. Let me, let me find it real quick. Here it
is. This was from April 50th. It's from yesterday. Michigan U S Senate raised fundraising for
quarter one. McMorrow raised $3 million. I'll say it on the other hand, raised $2.29 million.
MacMorrow spent $1.26 million. I'll say it spent $1.75 million. MacMorrow has cash on
hand of 3.6 million. L says cash on hand is 2.5 million. However, however, MacMorrow has
spent most of its MacMorrow has spent most of the campaign cash on Facebook ads to fundraise
further.
Abdul El Sayed, on the other hand, has spent a lot less cash on trying to generate more
fundraising dollars. Okay.
We have a breakdown for Abdul El Sayed, 1.26 million out of state, over $200 donors, for
a hundred thousand Michigan in-state, over $200,000, or $200 donors, $596,000 under $200
donors, more from California than Michigan. He's trying to, you Mitch voters trying to
say, you know, it's a, it's outsiders. And there is not really enough momentum inside
of Michigan from the also had, and the momentum is coming from outside of the state, you know,
people like ourselves, people that are in the state, people in California. Okay. Now
here's the situation. It doesn't matter where the money's coming from because that money
he will be spent on putting, I'll say it, in front of Michiganders, who will vote.
And because he already has the platform and because he already is the charismatic candidate,
as long as he gets in front of people in Michigan, as long as he gets in front of people in Michigan,
he's going to win, okay?
that simple. Small tip from someone who's worked in campaign finance, you don't need more even
as much money as the opponent. You just need enough to have a real campaign and a certain
point money as the ministry returns to electoral politics. Yes, there's also some truth to that
as well. If you don't have good politics, if you don't have a good campaign or if you're
not charismatic, it doesn't matter how much more you spend than your opposition. Kamala
Harris is a great example of this. Kamala Harris outspent Trump. Kamala Harris was dumping
millions and millions of dollars in the certain TV markets in like Pennsylvania. And it wasn't
even moving her favorabilities a little bit even, right? And if you recall at the time,
I pointed to that to say people are not responsive to Kamala Harris' platform. They don't like the
platform. If they did, they would see a big difference between Kamala Harris and Donald
Trump after looking at those ads and her likelihood of winning the race was skyrocket, right?
But it didn't. Abdul on the other hand has the exact opposite problem where because he
doesn't have massive corporate packs and big donors in general, that he has the good policies,
he has the good platform and he has the charisma, but he has a hard time getting in front of
people. Okay.
It's that simple.
It's also why mom Donnie didn't need to outspend Cuomo, but there's always a
minimum you need to have a real operation to pay staff and comms, etc.
Exactly.
Seeing a big difference between Kamala and Brandon would have helped.
She did the opposite.
Yeah.
So, just remember that, okay?
Also important that Abdul is plus eight in the last quarter, for the more voters here
about him, the easier he has it, so it's way more upside for him than McMorrow, yes.
And that's why I was confident that the McMorrow Jewish insider piece and like the attacks
and the smears against me and Abdul would backfire on them, which it did.
Because it brought a lot of attention to the race for the first time ever.
This race was not getting any attention at all, even though Abdul in this, in this primary
season, amongst all the Democrats is probably the one devoid of any sort of red flags whatsoever.
And only upsize, no downsize, right?
He is the best on paper candidate that the Democrats have.
Straight up, I stand by that.
And I say that even though there are socialists that are even closer aligned with my worldview
running.
The reason why I say that is because, especially for the state of Michigan, he has no, he doesn't
have the grand platinum red flags at all.
He's a Rhodes scholar, a doctor, someone who worked in public health for the state of Michigan.
who actually got a lot done in that position in the state of Michigan,
someone who's been all around the state for years and years and years.
No fucking red flags whatsoever.
So yeah, the biggest issue in this, uh, in this race for,
I'll do all said for the time being is fundraising.
Do you think using your controversy could help boost candidates even further than before?
I don't know.
What I do know is this, okay?
It seems that other politicians, is Islamophobic left to think?
No, it's not.
I mean, I'm sure there's like Islamophobic centrist Democratic Party voters and stuff,
but even then it's like not as significant as you think it is.
But what I was going to say is, um, oh, one last thing was, uh, yeah, from Emerson,
January poll to their April poll outside has gained ground nearly across the board, but
his biggest gains have been among voters 30, 39 caveat sample sizes of subgroups are smaller,
though these are all in 65.
So movement should be treated as directional.
Millennials are rising up, okay?
So
Well, I don't know how much impact
candidates appearing alongside myself have
right
What I have noticed is other candidates who I am not even associated with directly, okay?
Using me mentioning them on stream like Chuck Park
Who's a progressive running for Congress in New York six?
Like even even me responding to a chatter is
is
Being taken advantage of here by Chuck Park. Now, this is a risky thing for a candidate to do for the record
Like it's risky because this could backfire spectacularly
I could be like who the fuck is this guy
But I at least know enough about his background and know that like a lot of people in my community are working on his campaign
That I'm not gonna do that obviously
But the fact that like he's using this as a free ad is crazy, right? I know I know I know everyone always tells me to check
Out Chuck Park. Yes, we will check out Chuck Park eventually. I promise why not this weekend?
You can check out Chuck Park for Congress. That's me at 2 p.m. on Saturday in downtown Flushing links in the bio
Hassan you're invited and representative man as always you're invited to
Check out Chuck
Like a yo chill don't expose like that. I mean, this is a crazy thing to do. Come on man is brave, you know
Um
Damn, he might be outmoggin' you, bro, he's handsome, I agree, he is very handsome.
Yes, Chris Rabb is another person that I'm excited about as well, please, everybody.
Um, you know, it's, it's, it's, Jesus, okay, calm down.
We will get to all of this stuff eventually, okay?
So, yeah, we got Oliver Larkin that's getting some traction as well.
It's very exciting.
And what is this?
Oh, Shoika Chakrabarty also looked at the House that just failed the pass resolution and Trump's war with Iran by one vote.
One vote, the count was 213 to 214.
Just one Democrat, Jared Golden, voted to let Trump keep waging the war.
Hired, hired, bish, bish, yes, get it done, yes, get it done, so on.
Shrekha says way more Dems than Golden want to continue this war, but
they know it's politically toxic to vote for this war.
So Dem leadership gets Golden to be the one to vote to make sure this fails.
He's not running for reelection, so he has nothing to lose.
That's how this works.
Okay, rotating villain, remember that.
Our goal is to ensure that there are less rotating villains
in Congress, okay?
For the love of God, please pronounce his name correctly.
What, Shoykat Chakrabarti?
I am pronouncing his name correctly.
Am I not?
Yeah, yes, Indians and Indian names in general, I think I'm Bengali Hindu, you are pronouncing
his name correctly.
Yeah, I am.
It's Shreycott.
It's Shroycott, isn't it?
Yeah, it's Shroycott, Schrocker, Barty.
Strange.
Trump posted?
Oh, God. Anyway, in any case, he's absolutely right about this. Okay. He is absolutely right
about this. And, and, and, you know, we, we have an opportunity to clean the ranks a little
bit and forced the party to be more responsive. And I think Democrats recognize that fear,
which is why they're leaning into the right-wing attacks. Here's a clip copy from Fox News of
all the times I've been mentioned in like the last 24 hours, I think.
Well, what's new Golden Boy Twitch streamer doesn't even try to hide it? 34-year-old Hassan
and Piker not only hates America,
he's hinting at a civil war.
A noted far-left influencer is declaring
the Republican Party the biggest terrorist on earth.
Brechted evening, Hassan Piker is unapologetic
for his controversial comments on a range of issues.
An anti-American far-left commentator
who is named Hassan Piker.
Now that he's being highlighted,
Democrats are flocking to him.
She's not out there on Hassan Piker's show, right?
For example, right?
The man to his left is a very controversial guy.
Hassan Piker insults just about everyone.
Or if you go back and listen to some of the things
that he says, Carl, this guy's not gonna wear a well.
Their so-called Joe Rogan of the left, Hassan Piker,
is back in the headlines this time
for calling Republicans terrorists.
Piker has a controversial history.
This is an aura edit, dude.
This is crazy.
Yo, this is crazy.
We got to do like a newer version of the intro song.
Maybe not with this music, maybe with something else
as a copyright free potentially, but God damn it.
We've been showing this all week.
You don't give somebody like Hassan, Piper,
this kind of attention, this kind of platform.
It only rewards the kind of rhetoric that I just described.
Hundreds of students lined up and packed into these rallies
and they ate up the anti-war anti-capitalist
and anti-establishment messages.
That's him, Hassan Piper.
They should stay away from him.
God damn.
This goes fucking hard dude, holy shit.
Damn this shit just got being pumped up and I'm in it. You know what I mean?
Holy shit
It's always great
Mom mom deep. No, I I I do I I do know where the the beat is from I was just saying it's not
It's not fucking copyright free. That's it
So this part of the VOD will be muted. Okay, it's just missing the Aussie lady
going, Hassan, Playa, God. Anyway, it's like how the rightist wanted to let this
day away from you. If they cared, they'd not say a thing. Yeah, I know. It's awesome.
I think it's less tactical for them and more just, you know, something to fill
the the airways with cuz like you know I'm a target rich environment I will say
crazy things right I'll say things that like they can easily pick up on and say
look at how radical the left is look at how crazy they are and stuff like that
right and any moment that they spent talking about me is a moment that they're
not talking about Donald Trump's failures but what they're failing to
comprehend here is that this actually ends up you know engaging in culture war
territory that a lot of people actually get annoyed by, even Republicans don't give a
shit about it at all. And it just like boosts my visibility, especially among like Democrats
who might not have heard about who I am. Many of them don't know who I am. It makes sense.
I'm a Twitch streamer, right? And I'm on YouTube and TikTok and whatnot. But it elevates my
my presence and the things that I'm actually talking about, the message in front of an
audience that is infinitely more receptive than most people think is the case.
So a couple other lines I was going to say. Adam Rand says, a post Piker Rally's data
point does suggest we are entering the post cancellation political era, okay?
Obviously, I wouldn't even say this is post-cancellation in general, it's because like most people,
most people don't traffic in this kind of cancellation, because there are people who
do things that are worthy of cancellation.
Like if you do something illegal, right, like, you know, Swalwell is a great example of this,
right?
Like Swalwell was a monster, and of course, he was yelled at once it was revealed how
monstrous he was with his rampant sexual assault and horribly unprofessional behavior
beyond his sexual assault.
And it was untenable for him to continue running his campaign, and he dropped out, and he also
even resigned from Congress.
It's very different than people being like, I don't like what you're saying, and I'm
going to imply that what you're saying is the worst thing I've ever heard.
right now, long ago, my friend didn't even know who are in yesterday. He asked me about
you out of nowhere and I pretended that I don't know you because you are not gaming
anymore. Good. Okay.
I see a GOP super pack that won't disclose its donors until after the primary running
ads about how Abdul is too progressive for Michigan. I wonder what, uh, I wonder what
that super pack, a GOP super pack would be. I wonder which one that would be. Pay close
attention to who the GOP wants, okay? Pay close attention to who the GOP wants in this
race. They do have a tendency to miscalculate obviously as they're doing with elevating
my profile as well. But more often than not, they will figure out exactly who is easier
to beat, who has an easier go at it, and then they'll try to pump that candidate so that
they have an easier race in the general.
Okay.
What is this?
Official Lady Bunny.
The DNC and establishment are going to have to realize the effect of a sign increasing
visibility of their candidates and making people volunteer and participate in the election
process.
After comma loss of 2024, the then party decided that it was, uh, it has a problem reaching
young men that they would have to address.
We needed Joe Rogat to let, they said, now that a son by Graham, some bodybuilding left
you with millions of hours has been campaigning for Democrat, Abdul Al-Sedem, Michigan.
The results have been astounding.
Yet many of the them party are bashing him refusing to go on his podcast, digging up
his past remarks and make him sound radical or Hamas sympathizer.
Son voted for common in 2024.
So he's no, I'm not sympathizing.
It's hardly a radical or GQ wouldn't be profiling him like his uncle, Jake Uygur from the young
Turks, a progressive news outlet.
Piker will always tell you to vote for the dem party. No matter what he says during the campaign,
he recently made headlines saying he'd vote third party rather than Gavin Newsom in 2028.
Yet, centrist Dems are furious to anyone famous, even expressed sympathy for Palestine,
even if they fall in line for the dem candidate every four years. And in one interview,
it's actually called George Senator John Osloff's dark horse picked for 2020. I have no idea what
that even means since Osloff isn't progressive. Sure. We take those. We take those.
Yeah, the Michigan GOP doesn't want the dem nominate to be Abdul, by the way. This was
very funny. This was a very funny moment where Clay Travis goes, Michigan Republicans
should consider voting in the Democrat primary for Abdul El Sayed. He's a crazy left-wing
radical that I don't believe can win in the Senate or in the state. It's an open primary.
If Mike Rogers wins for Republicans in Michigan, the Senate is secure. Michigan GOP, Michigan
Republicans do not do this. Hmm. Hmm. Why did the Michigan GOP, uh, uh, profile urge?
I was watching Midas touch and my dad overheard and got angry. They were saying America was
getting rolled over by Iran. So he asks, is that the Hasan guy? He's 60. Why is Michigan
GOP's Twitter account telling Michigan Republicans not to vote for Abdul El Sayed in the primary.
So open primary, just do it. He is the weakest guy. He is the guy to beat. He's so easy. He's
so easy. Think about how radical he is. Michigan, Michigan Republicans, you should vote for
Abdul El Sayed. He is such a weak candidate. I mean, he will, he will get destroyed by
Mike Rogers. I mean, clearly, clearly, you know, Patriots do the right thing. You want
to maintain, you want to maintain your majority in the Senate at least. Cause like, you know,
you're probably going to lose the house. All you got to do is make sure you vote for
Abdul in the primary so that Abdul, the easier candidate to defeat can, can, you know, go
up against Mike Rogers and, and be defeated by Mike Rogers. Yeah. For sure. For sure.
For sure. He's, he's Muslim. Abdul El Sayed, scary name, scary, scary name. May Allah awaken
the people and help them to see the evil doings of Israel and the United States.
You know, just think, just think about how easy that would be, how glorious that would
be.
Um, apparently I've been asked, uh, now Dan Clancy's getting asked about me too, so I'm
right.
Movement about you.
What is the past four weeks establishment has been obsessed with denouncing a twitch
streamer, Hasan Piker.
Why?
They're terrified think about it the corporate wing of the Democratic Party hasn't been offering anything new or interesting
To its voters for almost two years now these corporate Democrats have spent weeks
Freaking out over a twitch streamer not because he's pro-Palestine. That's just the surface
It's because he and his millions of viewers demand more from these Democrats
Hussin is calling out the party's
inability to inspire young voters, to organize labor, or to stand up against corporate interests.
And deep down, these corporate Democrats know that he's right.
Remember what happened to the Republican Party after the Bush era?
The Tea Party and Trumpism destroyed their old guard.
And the establishment Democrats in office right now, they watch that collapse up close.
And they know exactly what it looks like when a party loses control of its base.
So when they go after people like Hussan, like student protesters, AOC, Zoran, or even
Bernie, it's all based on a craven interest in self-preservation.
They see the next wave of progressivism coming, and it's the beginning of the end of neoliberalism
and do nothing Democrats.
I've read about what happens to political parties right before they go extinct.
The wigs didn't expect to disappear overnight.
The Bush era Republicans, they didn't see it coming either.
And if progressives keep building on the momentum that they have been over the past two years,
Husson Piker won't be a problem for these corporate Democrats any longer.
He will be part of the future.
However, we can't just sit and wait for this future.
We have to build it.
If you want to put real labor rights and progressive values on the ballot,
phone bank for a candidate this week who's actually ready to build this future with us.
When the American Israel Public Affairs Committee often refers to as APAC,
shows a major office, what will you do in a while?
Let's see.
Fuck they pack.
They're a licensed organization and we'll all meet with them.
That's Chris Rabb.
He is running for Congress on a platform that centers organizing, fair pay, getting corporate
money out of politics, and growing the power of the American.
For the record, that is how you say, that's how you use swear words, okay?
Like, Democrats would be like, oh, I, oh, I'm mad.
Like that's that's different like that that is not effective messaging. Okay
Simply using a bad word
Is not going to have the same utility as saying fuck a pack, okay
Working class if you're ready to kick do nothing Democrats out of Congress make sure to join the phone bank ASAP hell, yeah
another W defense so obviously establishment Democrats problem with
Hassan piker isn't actually his morals they don't think he's an anti-Semite or
that he's a terrorist lover anything like that the problem with him is that he
encourages his base to criticize them and to ask for more he hasn't just get
online and say shut up and vote blue no matter who what you want doesn't matter
he exposes bipartisan corruption and shows how closely laid the Democrats are
to Republicans and they don't like that because the Democratic establishment is
very used, just being able to say, we're not Trump.
That's all we have to offer.
They're used to being able to run against something
and not for something, and telling you
that you have to vote for them no matter what, even when
they are actively inching towards the right, every year.
And that's the reason why we ended up with Trump
in the first place.
Fascism did not start with Trump.
The neoliberal to fascism pipeline is very real.
As I said before, I don't even think
Trump is the entire problem himself.
I think he's more of a reflection of it.
He's like an American mirror.
Just all of our problems in America
that we've let go unchecked for so long,
Manifested into one person. Manifested, unfortunately, into an evil geriatric idiot who's suffering from dementia.
It's a strange timeline.
But that being said, I find it so frustrating when Liberals hate on Hasan Piker because they will, like, ignore so many other issues.
I'll be like, hey, I don't like this person because they support genocide and are a literal war criminal,
and Liberals would be like, oh my gosh, you can never be satisfied.
That's the problem with you leftists, you know, you just engage in purity politics, you sort everybody to be perfect.
As if genocide is like a minor issue.
Then they'll run around and say that Sonpiker shouldn't have a platform and try to like, you know, ban him entirely.
Is that not purity politics?
And like, for stupid reasons too.
Usually either hatred of him either stems from a misunderstanding of his worldview,
they just stop clips taken out of context and don't really understand what he was saying,
or there's not like his vibes, I feel like.
I think his mannerisms, the way he speaks, the way he behaves, and carries himself,
relates a lot too closely to young men.
It's the reason why he's able to attract a young male audience and kind of steer them away from the right-wing pipeline.
other people it gives them like bad vibes they get like frat boy energy from
him or something and they're like oh he reminds me of people I don't like he
reminds me of those who are you know racist sexist misogynistic things like
that even though he's not at all I'm just like you can't hate on me for not
liking war criminals and turn around and be like a son piker is a danger to
society he's a real threat over here holy view boss yeah this is all view boss
baby yeah keep coping keep coping little man
Strange, because I will see those same liberals in the comments section see people like Candace
O. and Zantucka Carlson agreeing with them.
Feel being like, oh my gosh, is Candace O. only becoming smart now?
Like, I can't believe I agree with her.
Kara Carlson actually has some good points, guys.
They'll start siding with Candace O. and Zantucka Carlson because they're no longer in support
of Trump.
Even though the worldviews are still problematic.
It's like, how are you still willing to embrace somebody's worldview is deeply problematic
and so different from yours just because they have the same enemy as you?
But you're going to see Hasan Piker, somebody who likely has your worldview, and also shares
your common enemy, Donald Trump, and treats him as an enemy.
Like it makes no sense.
I don't get it.
So obviously, establishment democrat's problem with Hasan Piker isn't actually his morals.
They don't think he's an anti-Semite, or that he's a terrorist lover, or anything
like that.
The problem with him is that he encourages his base to criticize them, and to ask for
more.
He doesn't just get online and say shut up and vote blue no matter who, what you want
doesn't matter. Again, oh, this is nine minutes. I can't watch in nine minutes. All right.
Norm sounds the alarm that I've been also ringing for a minute now talking about the
hijacking of anti Zionism and the warning signs that he is seeing out there for the
record, and they exist. He is talking about the exact same thing that I've been talking
about with respect to, I'll just repost this as well, what he's talking about is the same
thing that I have also seen, which is Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens establishing credibility
in the anti-Zionist space in the absence of more Democrats and more liberal content creators,
leftist content creators coming out and saying the correct points. It's very unfortunate.
Even the fact that the Democratic Party is aggressively attacking someone like myself
in an effort to disparage the left flank approach in an effort to attack the anti-Israel position
without actually yelling at their whole base by saying, oh, well, we are skeptical of Israel,
too, but this guy takes it too far. He's anti-Semitic. That kind of sentiment,
especially in the base of the Democratic Party, can have a little bit of impact.
Like it actually unironically works. Meanwhile, some of those very same Democrats will still
turn around and highlight Tarkov's positions when Tarkov's not shooting on Donald Trump.
Nick Fuentes' positions even when Nick Fuentes is shooting on Donald Trump, right? They'll be like,
oh look, see, Nick Fuentes has actually dropped, like near attended, right? Near attended comes
the mind.
Neera Tandon has literally retweeted Sneeko, retweeted Nick Fuentes, and in the same timeframe
has attacked me endlessly, calling me a fucking, calling me an oppositional figure, calling
me a bad person.
It's just unbelievable.
so it's dangerous really. I do believe that we're in a difficult situation now because the right
is at least on one issue, masquerading itself as the standard bearer of a leftist state,
what has historically been an issue of the left. Yeah. And it's in a very different trajectory than
the left. It's a very different trajectory. The agenda of the right is not my agenda.
Well, certainly not. But this is a void that's not going to get...
But many people would believe, unfortunately, I cannot believe that... You would never believe.
How many emails I get? What do you mean the Israelis didn't kill Kennedy? How can you say that?
But, you know, so irate, so indignant, you know, I don't know where things are headed,
but for me it's a source of concern as a person of the left, that these have now become the
Spokespersons on the leftist issue, now they have now, if I can use the term, they have
hijacked the issue. And I believe they can take it in places which are grounds for concern,
though it's not the priority now. The priority, as I said, ICE is not knocking on the doors of
Jews. It's knocking on the doors of undocumented workers. I get that. I have no problem with that.
I have no problem with it.
What is the survey today? And news is incredibly obvious. Oh yeah, a new survey that came out,
the far-left youth are anti-Israel, but the least anti-Semitic. The far-right youth is anti-Israel
and the most anti-Semitic. Oh my God. I already, I also have an issue with the statements that
they're regarding as anti-Semitic regardless, because like even the way that these questions
are designed could lean in either direction. But yeah, young conservatives are much more likely
to agree with anti-Semitic belief than young liberals. Number of statements agreed with from a
Jews in the United States are more loyal to Israel than to America, which is anti-Semitic,
for sure, right? B, it's appropriate to boycott Jewish American-owned businesses to protest
the war in Gaza, which, once again, could be anti-Semitic, or it could not be anti-Semitic,
right? It could be anti-Zionist. That one is the one I took issue with, because it's like,
it's like purposely obscured, right? It does the same exact thing, like tying Jews to Israel.
Okay? If you ask the question sincerely, if you were like, is it okay to protest or boycott
Zionist institutions, right? Institutions that are fundraising for the IDF, for example,
institutions, institutions that are doing fundraisers for the IDF or doing fairs, like where
they're selling stolen land illegally occupied in illegally occupied territory. That's not anti-Semitic
at all. That's perfectly fine. It's perfectly valid. And more people should do that, right?
simply claiming that this is, you know, a Jewish institution and people are like
attacking it because it's a Jewish institution, is an obfuscation that is
dangerous, a conflation that's dangerous, right? Tying Judaism back to Zionism.
And then see, Jews in the United States have too much power, which fair, that's
also, you know, certainly anti-Semitic. So they polled the voters, all voters under 35, okay?
And amongst the extremely conservative, amongst the extremely conservative,
it was a much higher, it was a much higher percentage, right?
You can't claim to defend Jews while you constantly attack Adam Friedland.
true. It's like saying why people have too much power which is kind of true. I mean it doesn't,
it's not the point here. In any case, this obfuscation, this false conflation, this false
framing still serves the purpose of anti-Semites because they can just go look at everything that
people in the media are saying, what do you think? Right? Because people by and
large, at least to my knowledge, very rarely are actually just targeting a
Jewish institution. Like it is an unbelievably rare instance, right? Like
if there's a synagogue that gets tagged or something, right? Like that's unbelievably rare.
What is actually infinitely more commonplace is people protesting outside of synagogues,
because inside of the synagogue, they are doing a settler fair. This is a very common thing that
happens in Jewish institutions, right? Or people protest outside of places that have done fundraiser
for the IDF. That is a very common form of protest. The problem is, the media will look
at that protest and slap on this insane sentiment that they're just protesting against Jews
or protesting outside of a Jewish institution, a Jewish place of worship for no reason. Okay?
Can you give a brief explanation of settler fares?
Yes.
West Bank settlers will go and do a pogrom in a Palestinian village in occupied West
Bank.
They'll do this with the backing of the Israeli occupying forces, okay?
They'll throw Molotov cocktails.
They'll kill the animals, the sheep, or, you know, whatever animals the Palestinians
have and they'll drive the policies out of certain villages and then they'll build settlements
on top of these villages. This entire process is completely illegal, okay? It's immoral,
it's gross, it's repugnant, it's Nazi shit, and also it's illegal, okay? It's illegal
under international law, it's illegal under domestic laws as well.
Now, the problem is, or not the problem, but rather what happens after is now that they've
acquired new territory illegally, okay, through this unbelievably violent and morally repugnant
process, they'll come to the United States of America and they'll sell that new land
that they have illegally acquired, this new territory, which only a few months ago would
of housed Palestinians that have lived there for centuries.
Okay, they'll bulldoze their homes
and they'll start the process of rebuilding
settlements on top of it.
Then they'll sell those new settlements as land
that you can purchase to American Jews
in American synagogues.
This is a process known as settler fares, okay?
It's insanely, insanely illegal, it's unbelievably illegal, and it's also heinous that these
institutions, these places of worship, synagogues, and other Jewish institutions will open their
doors to this illegal process, and the media will play along with the narrative that these
anti-Semitic protesters are attacking a synagogue, or protesting outside of a synagogue.
It's insanely frustrating.
And they've never really caved on that point as well.
They do it all the time.
Like the media defends synagogues that are engaging in settler affairs all the time.
They will falsely smear and present every single person that protests outside, even
if they're Jewish, even if they're Jews that are protesting, and by and large there aren't
a lot of Jews that are anti-Zionists that are protesting these events.
They'll say they're all unbelievably anti-Semitic, they're attacking a synagogue, and most people
will just remember that Judaism is tied to Zionism.
Like, that's the takeaway for many people, that's what you're teaching, the uninitiated,
okay?
And no, it is not a fringe thing at all.
fares actually take place all the time. This was one of my biggest points of
disagreement was Zoram-Amdani. Zoram-Amdani was anti-settler fares. Zoram-Amdani has
actively talked about settler fares and their illegality and yet when he became
mayor when there was yet another settler fair that was taking place in
Queens and a synagogue in Queens, there were anti-Zionist protesters outside of the synagogue
and they were protesting and some of them were chanting, you know, say it loud, say it clear,
we support Hamas here. On the other side, you had the pro-Israel protesters that were waving
the Qa'anist flag, Mayer Qa'an's flag, the JDL flag, JDL is a, you know, also a state
a designated terrorist organization. They were talking about how they were going to rape
and kill Zoran. They were going to rape and kill Palestinians. Like all this insane heinous
nonsense. And Zoran and AOC and numerous others in New York politics, Leticia James, universally
condemned the protesters that were saying, say it loud, say it clear, we support Hamas
here, rather than the far worse and illegal action that was taking place inside of the
synagogue. It was ridiculous. Imagine selling Ukrainian land in a fair inside of a Russian
Orthodox church in the United States of America and expecting, or expecting everyone be okay
with it or you're at anti-Christian races. Yeah. Anti-Russian, you're Russophobic, you're anti-Christian
orthodox. I thought those were my friends who got rape threats. Yeah. It was fucking insane.
It was, is so, so unacceptable. Again, it's, you know, it's in the rear view now. So I'm
not going to spend too much time on it, but I, you know, that was a big point of contention
that I had with Zoran as well, because I think that was no longer Zoran being conciliatory
to cynical people with the hopes that they'll like get off his ass, which they never did.
But the reason why I thought it was unbelievably bad as a, as a message of like what you choose
to focus on. Okay. And this is where I said as a lesser evil voter, I will once again
repeat my harm reduction is credo. I'm also 1000 times better than the fascist settler
colonial apartheid state. And the real harm happening here is that another illegal stolen
land sale is taking place at another synagogue. For the record, I don't expect an elected
U.S. policy to come up, come out as pro-Hamas, but it's clear that many people see the pro-Palestinian
causes as at least discardable if they're going to make a fuss about this instead of
the Kahanist flag waving Zionist or the illegal synagogue land sale.
It's crazy. You have every opportunity to talk about the real, the real unforgivable
act that's taking place that is illegal, okay? Just straight up illegal. And instead you
choose to focus on protesters that are protesting against said illegal act. Hyper focusing on
the aesthetics
rather than hyper focusing on the actual crime
as for the process of an answer for settlement fares
but this is fringed most american jews are reform and this doesn't happen there
and no
sure
i understand that a lot of american jews
would probably bracket into some kind of like liberals on his position
They find the West Bank activities to be morally repugnant.
Maybe some of them actually think that it's like indefensible genuinely because it is.
And some of them think it's a bad look.
But ultimately, it's happening, right?
And not only is it happening, it's happening at a Jewish institution.
And when you have New York politicians not focusing their efforts on stopping that from happening,
but instead focusing their efforts on the language being used by people
who are on the right side of that protest,
it's no longer just like unproductive or conciliatory.
You're basically aiding and abetting at that point.
Anyway, this is again, bygones be bygones, I guess, but still.
Okay, but you're implying it's happening everywhere, man.
It's happening all across the country.
It is.
You said it's happening everywhere.
I don't know.
Seems fringe.
No, it is not a fr- brother.
happening in synagogues all across the country. It has happened in synagogues all across the
country. What the fuck are you talking about? It should happen zero times, okay? It's kind
of like the age old adage, you know? You fuck one goat and you're called a goat fucker for
the rest of your life. It's kind of like that, you know? Oh, it's just a couple synagogues
that are doing illegal land extraction and land sales. Like how dare you make it seem like it's
way more commonplace is like well it's happening
and not only is it happening
but also people choose to fucking defend
or people choose to attack the people that are protesting it
it's ridiculous
it should happen approximately zero times
it's not just fringe it's a heinous crime
Anyway, there was also this, this guy, Ed Elson, who I also retweeted. I didn't even realize
Clipster no longer the byproduct of the main product. They're the main product. No matter
the size of the show, they drive the ultimate reach. Now, technically what he's saying is
correct, but he actually did this thing that I didn't even notice when I was retweeting
him. He just looked at my live concurrent viewership and then he looked at my VOD viewership
after the stream is over. And he slapped that on as though that was my average live stream
viewership versus clip viewership. This is just wrong. So, Jules Nader went in, our resident data nerd,
went in and corrected the record. He said, this graph annoyed me. So I grabbed it myself. Below is
the song the Huns viewership on his official Twitch and YouTube channels plus some fan channels.
His Twitch viewership is lower, but it's still massive around 646,000 per day. And combined
with YouTube, it exceeds 2 million views per day. So it turns out with the greater reach,
and this doesn't even feature TikTok, right? This is just YouTube and Twitch VODs, okay?
The Twitch stream at the end of one like eight hour Twitch stream gets approximately 650,000 views.
So 650,000 unique viewers, right?
But then the daily unique viewership on YouTube is, you know, approximately 1.5 million as well,
1.4 million. Therefore, the total unique viewership every single day on this broadcast just on YouTube
who've been Twitch alone is reaching 2 million views, okay?
2 million views.
And this is before we get to TikTok
and all these other platforms as well.
APAC blasted an action alert
urging people to contact their senators
and thank those who voted no on the Sanders Dangerous
Resolution and express your disappointment
and those who voted yes.
close talking boys as well sent to me by Hillstaffer who received it. So, you know, it seems like
the clips industrial complex is alive. It's cooking doing well. Um, not correct. One person
watch multiple zombie videos in one day is true they can but you know the likely hitter that is
is far lower anyway um let's move on and let's get to situation monitoring now uh there was a
Oh, this last one is, oh, the last two things I was going to look at.
SEMIFOR is doing a conference.
Asked about Democrats debating whether to go on Hassan the Huns live stream.
Twitch CEO Dan Clancy tells Maxwell Taney.
These words, let's take a look.
Sure, you've been aware that one of your biggest streamers,
Hassan Piker has been in the middle of this weeks long debate inside the Democratic Party
about whether people should go on his stream.
As more politicians do go on Twitch, Hassan Gavin Newsom was gaming on there somewhat recently.
I mean, you've obviously dealt at various times with Hassan Piker.
You guys have taken him off the platform.
He's kind of come back on, temporarily kind of suspended him.
What's your perspective as you kind of watch this play out?
Do you think that people are kind of misunderstanding
or anybody in the Democratic Party
is kind of misunderstanding his audience
or his kind of popularity there?
What do you think as you're watching this debate?
Yeah, so look, I don't have an opinion
on any particular streamer.
I think it's absolutely the case that one of the challenges
when you're live streaming is you're up there
and you say a lot.
And when you say a lot, especially as you're more
inflammatory, you might say a lot of things
that are over the top.
Now, for us, the way we handle that is
We have a very clear set of community guidelines
where we do not allow certain type of behavior.
If you exhibit, if you violate that,
then we take enforcement actions and we suspend you.
It's designed not to kick you off forever.
It's designed to say no, you're gonna have a suspension
whenever Hasan is stepped over the line,
we've taken action.
And it's interesting now because those folks
will get worked up from both the right and the left on this
because we have also conservative people
that are saying certain things that some people don't like.
And one of the things that kind of works well on Twitch
is if you don't like what someone's saying,
then don't go and listen to them.
And then it's not in your face at all.
It doesn't get injected into you like, you got to go see it.
Totally.
You disagree.
And so in general, we think it is important for us
to allow people to express themselves.
bro, what do you expect? He's not gonna fucking, he's not gonna be like Hasan is the man. What
are you crazy? And also, and also not only is it, uh, no, it's good that he's not saying
shit like that. Okay. And yes, I have been, um, justifiably banned due to pressure campaigns
And also unjustifiably banned during due to pressure campaigns, oftentimes coming from
the far right.
Um, but I don't, you know, it is what it is.
You just got to fucking play ball to the best of your ability.
Uh, the reality of the matter is if you're looking at like inconsistent standards, obviously
as many gold has, uh, has a shit ton more violations of the terms of service than, than
I do.
Right.
He basically traffics exclusively in racial animus and horrible things that he says about
Horrible things that he says about the the minority populations of the country entire swaths of like migrant populations. He calls parasites
Did you ever cover the road crashing out about his band and doubling down? No, I didn't even do that because it was there was a lot going on
in the world that was
far more consequential than whatever fucking Asmongold was saying and doing, but yeah.
It's, there is this ridiculous double standard that has always really existed, like, because right wing sentiment oftentimes can hide its violent commentary in the form of systemic violence, right?
But even outside of that,
even outside of that,
sometimes right-wingers will engage in
direct calls for violence, right?
Beyond the calls for violence,
they can shelter in systemic analysis.
However, however,
Even when right-wingers engage in direct calls to action, they oftentimes don't get hit with
a ban hammer.
There's a couple different reasons for it.
One, ironically enough, I think left and liberal groups no longer care as much about
like weaponizing cancel culture as much as the Republicans do.
Right-wingers love cancel culture.
They love weaponizing it, right?
I mean, look at what Fox News is doing for like the past week or so, for the past couple
weeks. They do that far more than the liberals do against the right, especially nowadays.
The other reason is also because I think that these platforms are genuinely worried about
suspending people because the Republicans are much more aggressive in defending heinous
shit that their side says. Like there was a real likelihood when Asmongole got banned
that, you know, JD Vince could have said something about it. Obviously it was like a very different
media cycle at the time, so there wasn't enough backlash at all. But that was a real fear.
So, I don't even know what Asmongole got banned for.
I didn't even look into it.
I didn't even care about it.
And the reality of the matter is there's far too many things you should have.
I would have been banned for that he didn't.
Why do you have meat cane videos so you both react to each other for money when you didn't even farm his ban?
If roles were reversed he would have farmed you for a week. Yeah, I don't really care.
I don't give a shit.
Anyway.
Before we get to situation monitoring, actually, there's one thing I wanted to show.
This is a really good hit, I think, drop site found AOC in the halls of Congress in the
tunnels in Aster about why she's a little gun shy about endorsing others.
Let's take a look.
Chief of Staff, how much Chief of Staff is running in San Francisco that
primaries in June obviously you're not gonna have a reporter tell you to
endorse but like is that something you're are you at least monitoring the
race looking at it I mean what's your stance on it?
Yeah I think for me overall it's more about I'm trying to think about the role
that I am trying to play more broadly in these things you know it's we've got
435 seats in Congress right and there is this kind of moment where it's like when
and not just with this race with any race once you go in then it's like what
about this what about this what about this one and I'm one person with you
know a pretty amazing crack but also lean team and so we're thinking about kind
of like how much of myself I'm pouring into this and how much of myself we want
make sure that we're, you know, pouring into the task at hand, like, you know, what we've
got going on here.
So, but I think that-
I'm trying to remember, President, I can't be endorsing Muslims.
That's not true.
Come on.
Come on.
Come on.
That's not what it is.
That's not what it is at all.
I, look, I can only speculate.
I can't, I don't know what's in her mind, right?
My speculation is that she doesn't want to be disruptive.
And I think, I think she should be, like this is her opportunity to be a leader in the party.
Okay?
Like I think playing it safe is not good.
Don't let others speak for yourself.
Go out there and be in the fucking front lines.
I promise, I promise, as long as you're bold and unflinching, people will back you.
They are waiting for it, okay?
That's just the way I see it.
Because like half of the reason why the broader left has negative attitudes about AOC is born
out of her safe plays that come immediately after she actually does make a bold legislative
play, right? She'll go on the floor of Congress and say, what Israel's doing is ethnic cleansing,
it's genocide, it's unacceptable, before many others do, before many others would ever even
dare to say she loves her thing, right? But then she'll go and partner with institutions that
are pro-Israel and will do this like she'll be apologetic almost about like being in the front
of the conversation, being in the forefront of the conversation. I wish she was more bold and
stood by her principles. Because she has those principles. If you look at her legislative
track record, it's far, far more progressive than most. And yet, a lot of people on the
left think she is an op, that she is an oppositional figure to progress. And I think it stems from
the fact that she always wants to play it safe or is a little bit worried about being
out front. Because when you're in the front, you're going to get yelled at a lot. Right?
When you're in the front, you're going to get yelled at a lot. And she does not like
to get yelled at. Nobody does. And I understand nobody does. But
I think it's time. It's time to be bold. It's time to be brave and it will be beneficial.
What I will say is that I think that the primary environment that we're seeing is really great.
I think that progressives have already notched some really impressive victories this early
into the primary season and we've got another what six or seven months of it to go and I'm
looking forward to having a lot of new.
Cry me a fucking river, a three bedroom is $9,100 a month, primary the mall, okay man.
I just, I truly think, I truly think,
like think about how fast the entire like progressive and progressive curious flank of
other Democrats swung on the defensive, offensive weapons distinction after AOC went to the
DSA and they asked about her position on this, to clarify her position on this.
And in order to get their endorsement, she said like, yeah, I'm not making this distinction
any longer. Boom, all of a sudden that was the new bottom, right? All of a sudden that
was a new litmus test. And we could go far beyond that, right? And I think AOC should
be leading that charge. This has been my position from the start. And I wish, I wish that some
of our, you know, representatives, some of our movement representatives in Congress were
less gun shy and we're more unapologetic because I think there is a lot of upside to that kind
of communication strategy. Even, I'm not even talking about like issue specific things at
this point. I'm just saying like, vibes wise, just being unapologetic, standing 10 toes down
and saying, this is what I stand for. This is what this movement stands for. I have the
backing of the people. So I'm gonna say this, even if you yell at me, that will genuinely
benefit people, okay? That will genuinely benefit all politicians who choose to do so.
A little bit of friction is good, okay?
I mean, it doesn't even matter, like, she has the backing.
It's her opportunity to seize.
That's what I'm saying.
Long Beach Road for the first eight years, and I'm really hoping that it'll be a little
less lonely in November.
My boss has a book about that.
You keep telling us she has the bagging?
I mean, she does.
It doesn't, no, she doesn't.
She clearly doesn't come on.
Wait, what?
Chatter, I'm going to serve you a little bit of hard pills to swallow here, okay?
A little bit of cold hard choose time. A lot of people don't like hearing this,
in this community especially, okay?
This is a real Grand Platinum situation for many of you, okay? A real Grand Platinum situation.
Most people don't make these similar calculations to you. Most people love AOC.
Most liberals love AOC and a lot of leftists love AOC as well in the broader movement. Okay.
There are certainly those who criticize her. There are certainly those who sometimes even
are wrong in their criticisms and will lean into fake bullshit. I've tried to work through that while
still maintaining a critical framework in my coverage of things that she does, the things
that I wish she would do, right?
It's not her genuinely lying with a ceasefire bag in the day broke a lot of trust. I'm saying
her moving this way will not win anyone back or forward. No, I think a lot of people would
led by God's be by God's on that spectacular flub.
If she was coming out and, you know, championing the genuine people-backed movement.
Alex Thompson says this validates in case you missed a Holly Otterbine in our report
of Sunday on how AOC has an endorser former Chief of Staff in the California Congressional Bid,
part of some larger friction with some of the left-wing people who were with her in 2018.
Even the fact that this is what Alex Thompson is saying and what Holly Otterbinder is saying
through their Axios article, should be an opportunity for AOC to clarify her stance,
to be like, no, that's not the case, right?
If AOC went hard on anything, it would shut up the majority of chatters, thinking she's always
playing a safe. Exactly. Because people are desperate. People are desperate for a new movement
leader. Okay. It can't be Bernie Sanders. Let's be real. Bernie Sanders has already exhausted that
role. Right? He's old. He has a lot of impact still. He's very popular and he's using that impact.
He's exhausting that impact to set up the next wave of Bernie crats. But the reality of the matter
is like, there is a need for a continuation. There's a need for a person to rally around,
right? And I think AOC could be that person if she changed her communication strategy.
Because everything that I have observed of the way that she moves is like, she'll take two steps
ahead of other people, right? Like she'll sometimes be aligned with Ihan Omar or Rashida Salib.
And then immediately when she puts herself out there, she gets yelled at immediately.
She gets yelled at by the groups. She gets yelled at by people that, that angle their
criticisms in a way that actually has a lot of impact in her calculation because she's like
worried about coming across as offensive, right? And I think a lot of people manipulate that interest.
And as soon as that happens, she retreats and by my estimation, like from what I have seen thus far,
she is very worried about coming across as offensive, even though there have been instances where she has been bold, right?
Like, she's come on this broadcast more than most politicians have, okay?
Obviously, if she was that afraid of coming across as like offensive, she wouldn't have done that.
All those quotes were already flying around the ether far before AOC has come on this broadcast many, many times over.
My point is, my point is, if she was more bold, I think there would be a little bit more friction,
for sure. But in the aftermath of that friction, she would gain a lot more. She stands to gain
a lot more by being bold. It doesn't help when so many chattars have an anti-AOC perspective
that you'll hate mobbers so dumb, invite her onto our side more and give her more support.
I mean, that doesn't matter. That stuff is, I mean, she clearly does see it. And it's
New Atlantic. Jonathan Shate, Israel moderates are losing the Democrat party. Oh my God.
Another admission of defeat has come from this time, this time a motherfucking publication
whose editor in chief is an Israeli concentration camp guard. Oh my lord, Jonathan Shate. He
He isn't the concentration camp guard, but the fact that this is like being published
in the Atlantic.
Oh my lordy, lordy.
If you recall, for the longest time, for the longest time, I used to say, by the way, shouts
out to the Piker Broadcasting Service.
If you want to be on the winning team, you already know where to go, Piker Broadcasting
Service for tomorrow's news today.
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If you want to get the news and where the country is moving towards in the next couple
of months, you come here to the Piper Bracken as a service sponsored by you, the people for you,
the people. That's right. Piper Bracken as a service. The article is too new for it to be
properly archived by the way. I can't do a paywall remover on it, unfortunately.
So maybe someone can send it to me if you have the actual subscription or something.
And then we could do it. Yes, Hassanabi's new pharmacist.
This is not the pharmacy to take you to the five gifted TPR 91, they give you the 10 gifted.
Anyway, but like even this, even this is a clear cut indication that having moral conviction
and having moral courage and overcoming the barrage of ceaseless smears has benefits.
Like, think about how much, think about how much people have been yelling at me non-fucking stop,
right? I didn't back away from my position. I kept pushing through it. I kept pushing and
and pushing and pushing, and we're on the other side already, okay? We're on the other
side of that story now. If you noticed, you got major, and this is not something that
happened in the last couple of weeks. This is something that's been going on for the
last couple of years at this point, okay? Well, like think, think about the heinous shit
they said about me for the past couple of weeks. It's a 90-10 issue that we do not have
to concede on any longer. We never really had to concede on it, and I'm glad that many
people, not just myself, but many people who went out there, who put their careers on the
line, who put their livelihoods on the line, who got arrested, tear gas, pepper sprayed,
beaten up, brutalized, ruthlessly smeared, doxxed by institutions that are backed by
the Israeli Knesset like, you know, canary mission and the like. Okay. And we pushed through it.
And they brought awareness initiatives, shifted collective consciousness on this issue to a 90
10 issue. Right. And now, and now people are fucking yelling in their chirping. And they tried it,
right? Centrist Democrats tried to do it. For like the last month or so,
Leaning into the Republican forces to create
The this this manufactured outrage campaign
I didn't fuck them back away from it at all and look where we're at now in a matter of three weeks
Liberal institutions are waving the fucking white flag
And the same annoying online left is la u2. Yeah, but I don't care they're they're
They don't have any like material power in this country and in the way that politics works
They're the people that say Hassan is a reactionary, he's a liberal Zionist, and guess what?
They still come in here and watch, okay?
They reluctantly come in here and watch because there's no other real vehicle for even the
marginal change that they want to see.
And I think deep down inside, they also understand that I'm with them, and they're just being
silly for the moment.
Okay.
So let's take a look at this article.
Israel moderates are losing the Democratic Party.
Their position has become untenable.
The liberal Zionists can adapt.
Oh boy.
The Sampaiers attracted millions of followers across multiple social media platforms, making
them one of the most popular left-wing streamers.
He's been the subject of several flattering magazine profiles that have lingered over,
what they describe as his handsome looks and bodybuilder physique.
Some progressive see him as their long sought entry point into the alternative media that
can reach a young, mainly male audience.
But he is most important as a stand-in for a fight over whether the Democratic Party
should be open to, or even dominated by, militant anti-Zionism.
Although he allowed, after October 7, that the Palestinian resistance is not perfect,
who hasn't raped kidnapped and massacred 1200 civilians from time to time. Look, Jonathan
shade with the worst, with the worst edit that isn't what I said at all. This is unbelievably
annoying as far as the framework, but it's fine. Evil, evil edit, evil edit of this fucking
statement. He defends the masses a thousand better, a thousand times better than the fascist
settler colonial apartheid state. He's likened the leaders of Hezbollah, a terrorist arm
of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, to Nelson Mandela. Well, technically to MK,
but whatever. A debate over American policy towards Israel is likely to divide the party
in the next presidential primary cycle, and even more clearly than Medicare for All divided
it in 2020, even as many voters aren't invested in the debate at all.
the democrats establishment opposed to terrorism backs a two state solution by
grannies allies want to cast opposite position as the fact of support for the
status quo which is a single state controlled by israel if the
establishment party has any hope of holding on to the party rather than
surrounding it to the piger wing it will need to defy that characterization by
recognizing that facts on the ground have changed political morals and public
opinions are pushing in the same direction ending american financial
support for israel for decades democratic parties consensus on israel has
combined diplomatic military and economic support including several
billions in annual aid and a friendly push for a two-state solution.
In theory, Democrats have supported the national aspirations of both Israelis and Palestinians
while giving themselves room to condemn Palestinian terrorism, along with the excesses of Israel's
occupation and West Bank settlement project.
The theoretical case for a two-state solution remains as sound as ever.
Sure.
Okay.
The trouble is that the Palestinian side has rejected repeated attempts.
Oh, my fucking God.
Yeah.
It's the Palestinians that are no partner in peace.
Okay.
classic. There is very little difference between this position and just unfiltered Zionism,
okay? It's in the same direction. It's a continuation of the single solitary state that is Israel
that remains sovereign over this territory that will continue destroying Palestinian lives,
okay? This is Jonathan Shate desperately trying to put the cat bag in the fucking bag when the
The cat's out of the bag.
Toothpaste out of the tube.
Jonathan.
Oh my fucking lord, dude.
What a silly approach.
It's so, it's so indecent and so immoral
because it tries to actively,
disparage the Palestinian side as aggressively as ever while saying that the dynamic has changed.
Okay, so if the dynamic has changed and we're no longer in yet January 2024,
you can't really write this article while claiming that you recognize that the dynamic has shifted.
Because I assume his main thesis here is going to be,
me, if we don't find a more manageable solution where we can maintain liberal Zionism and
defensive Israel while still criticizing the excesses, Hassan and his militant anti-Zionist
wing are going to come across as the morally righteous position, and there's a little bit
of truth in that admission.
We are the morally righteous position.
It's correct.
And not only do we maintain the morally righteous position, we now maintain the majority popular
position, okay?
Even Jonathan Shade in this very moment cannot acknowledge that, okay?
It's fucking over.
But it is unbelievably cynical for someone to openly admit that they're losing control
over this conversation, when their primary goal is to still maintain some semblance of
aid for Israel.
And this is purely about tactics, like how we, liberals Zionists, must communicate our
criticisms against Israel so we can maintain our support for Israel at a time when people
are demanding no support for Israel. It is evil. Yes, of course it's fucking evil.
Let's take a look. Hype trend level one achieved by the way. Okay. The trouble is the Palestinian
side has rejected repeated attacks by Democratic presidents to bring about the birth of a Palestinian
state and that Israel's longest serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his right-wing
coalition do everything they can to subvert such a solution. At some point, supporters
of the two state solution have to take no for an answer. The United States is effectively
supporting a one state solution whose entire strategy rests on an endless cycle of responding
to terrorism with military force, a process of periodic attacks that Israel calls mowing
the lawn in place of any diplomatic path. I like that. He still talks about how fucking
not sified Israel is by the way. He's like, yeah, Israel is pretty not sified. I mean,
that's a, that's a pretty crazy thing to say. Uh, but also it's the Palestinians that just
keep refusing
the big beautiful democrats and the wonderful
proposal that the democrats of offer the palestinians fucking bullshit
many i represents a parliamentary majority that is run the country for two
decades he is undermined diplomacy repeatedly by among many other acts
lobbying is the obama administration's nuclear deal with iran
popping up a moscow's and gots before october seven to show that the
palestinians didn't have leaders he might be expected negotiate with
and proposing that trump administration go to war with iran
This is literally, I'm telling you, this is like October 8th, 2023 article for someone
with foresight that, because if you recall, I was shocked for months after October 7 when
Israel was just going through the process of conducting his genocide.
I was shocked that the Democrats wouldn't even lean into a liberal Zionist off-ramp,
right?
Because I was like, you've lost control over this narrative.
You've lost control over this conversation.
the wheels have come off, this cart is going off the hill, rolling off the hill at this
point, and it's over.
And it wasn't just, I wasn't alone in this assessment, Ilan Pappe said as much as well,
right?
Ilan Pappe famously had a very similar assessment, he said, this is the end of the Zionism project,
like it's over, right?
Israel is this uncontrollable behemoth, it's engaging in heinous acts of violence, and
the more americans in the western world
recognize that these actions are heinous and the more they actually
uh... look at the scientist project
uh... as as
not dislike uh... beacon of prosperity in this otherwise desolate barren land
but instead
they a uh... uh... an extermination is project which is what it actually is
there they're no longer going to want to support it
and he was right
we were right
This article would have been infinitely more worthwhile to write a couple of months after October 7.
Writing it in 2026 is an admission of defeat and basically recycling the same exact bullshit that ultra scientists are saying,
maybe you're not as openly racist, right?
But I don't think there is a lot of appetite for this, especially when even people like Ezra Klein have actively recognized it as a single state
and it's a dominant, it's basically a fascist state,
and that it's an uncontrollable monstrous fascist state
that is killing Palestinians and ethnically cleansing
other territories that they have no, you know,
religious or biblical justification for acquiring,
like fucking Southern Lebanon, for example, right?
So it's gone, it's over, it's, you know,
there's no, there's nothing salvageable here.
sentiment within the democratic party is far harsher than among the general public raw manuals
now saying that israel can buy american weapons but should no longer get them for free say what
you want about a manual but you can read a poll if moderate democrats can continue to support
giving israel which is getting more unpopular military aid which is broadly unpopular they
will sentence themselves to obsolescence social media counselors a pack tracker which defines
a pack is including organizations as jay street a liberal group that now favors any aid to israel
and is bitterly opposed a pack have gained white circulation senator leesis lockett of michigan
who is not backed by a peck recently was accused by a student at a public event of accepting
support from pro-israel lobbies more and more propossed on activist treat acceptance of israel's
existence in any form is genocidal because it is because it is acceptance of israel in its current
formation is genocidal because israel is continuing to do a genocide and continue to do ethnic
ethnic cleansing sucks to suck for you guys but the reality of the matter is more most americans
are aware of that now. That's the difference, right? That is the major, that's the major
point of contention that these guys cannot solve, okay? That's what it is. And that's perhaps the
reason why many liberals, Zionists are so shy about recognizing that Israel is conducting a
genocide, right? They don't want to say it. Because once you do say it, you're like, okay,
It's official. You can say Israel's a Nazi state.
Unfortunately for them, the overwhelming majority, if one more person sends me the
Trump tweet about Zoran, I'm just gonna fucking blast you in the orbit, okay?
I saw, I saw, okay, I promise you, I am aware that Trump tweeted about Zoran, okay?
Yes, he's destroying New York. Shut the fuck up.
I'll put you on Artemis 3 and send you on a one-way trip to the Sun. Jesus Christ.
The most essential task for liberals on this is to separate their ambitions from a stubborn
reality is Israel's government. Liberals on this can say that they oppose the status quo in favor
two independent states, but as Israel's willingness to trade land for peace recedes further into
historical memory, those pleas sound detached from reality, because it is.
The traditional Democratic posture is becoming outright impossible as long as the party
continues to support Senate Billions of Dollars to Israel every year.
By 2028, two consecutive presidencies are likely to have incinerated political capital attempting
to leverage the American alliance with Israel.
If a Democratic president is going to succeed Donald Trump, not only must he or she, woke,
from a primary electorate that is likely to be highly skeptical of Israel, but the candidate
must also win over a November electorate that is highly skeptical of foreign aid of any kind.
The winning alternative to embracing on compromising Palestinian nationalism
will not be the reviving the American partnership with the Nyahu or one of his would be successors,
the most plausible of whom Naftali Bennett opposed any Palestinian state. It will be pulling up the
stakes for the Middle East and letting his residents and Palestinians, figuring out for themselves,
renouncing unconditional aid to Israel may seem like a full-scale surrender to the piker wing of
the Democratic Party, but Israel can survive without American assistance. Even Netanyahu has
proposed weaning his country off the American, oh, this is just like, I'm just realizing this is
literally just the J Street press release. This is just associating my name with the J
Street press release so that it gets, you know, better, it gets more eyeballs and more attention
in the algorithm because if you were to just recirculate the J Street press release, people
would be like, okay, I read this already. Who cares? Anyway. But Israel can survive without
American assistance. Yeah, more important to equate the withdrawal of the American subsidy
with left wing position misconstrues just how radical the latter has grown. Anti-Israel activists
such as Piker are calling for more than an end date for Israel. They're demanding an arms embargo,
which would prevent Israel from even purchasing defensive weaponry from the United States,
which is the truth, which is what should happen, which is the right move here,
and cultural and economic boycotts of Israel, but not any other human rights violator.
The anti-Zionist left sees Israel not merely as a recalcitrant and overly aggressive power,
but as a fundamentally illegitimate state that is the source of unique evil in the world.
I mean, because it's true, Pyger's Revenge to Israel as a settler colonial apartheid state reflects a fashionable ideology that imagines Israel as an alien western power that must be expunged so that the land can be turned over to its natural inhabitants.
inhabitants. Now, this is the position of some anti-Zionists. I would go so far as to
say I'm a much more reasonable and much more pragmatic person. That's why I say I am in
favor of the dissolution of the apartheid, recognizing the realities on the ground that
Israel is the singular sovereign state there, for a state that offers equal rights and representation
to all the Palestinians, a right to return to all the Palestinians that were forcibly
pushed away from their ancestral homelands and reparations, and the creation of a Truth
and Recurriculation Committee that takes a cold hard look at the war crimes that were
committed so that Israel could prop up its apartheid state that is engaging in a genocide.
Okay?
I think this is the bare minimum.
I think it's a, and the mechanism for how we bring this about is the public pressure,
boycotts, cultural boycotts, as I've also mentioned, and also a full-blown embargo of
not just arms sales, but also all full-blown embargo of arms sales and potentially sanctions
on the state of Israel as well, right? That's my real position.
That ideology propels activist groups that are pushing the party leftward. Every major
propulsive activist group refuses to criticize Hamas and either endorse or justify the October
7 attacks. Soon as for Justin Palestine, the umbrella group organized a campus protest
called the October 7 attacks a historic win for the Palestinian resistance over the facade
of an impenetrable settler colony. The Palestinian youth movement asserted, we have a right to
resist in our own land within our lifetime stated, we defend the right of Palestinians
as colonized people to resist the Zionist occupation by any means necessary. These things
come across as like scary, and they certainly were scary on October 8. Once again, it's
2026. And a lot more people, especially armed with the knowledge of what Israel has done
before October 7, and what Israel has done since October 7, are much more understandable
of the mere reflection of the legal right of occupied peoples.
Because remember, this is simply a regurgitation of the international humanitarian rights of
unoccupied peoples and their right to resist militarily against an occupational force.
So this is just a matter of international law that's being reflected.
You could say it's scary, but the reality of the matter is there is a legal right for
the Palestinians to resist militarily against the Israeli occupation.
It's true.
What they do in the process and some of their methods might be a violation of the rules
of conduct, but the reality of the matter is they still broadly have that legal right.
They retain that legal right as a matter of fact.
they have exercised that legal right, especially when Israel started doing its genocide post
October 7 inside of Gaza.
Same goes for Hezbollah in Lebanon.
Anyway, among the leaders of the protest against the Democratic National Convention was Khatem
Abu Daya, the national chair of the US Palestinian community network.
On October 7, 2023, Abadiah wrote on behalf of the U.S. PCN, Palestinians have an internationally
recognized right to resist illegal military occupation, and today's attacks from the Palestinian
resistors should be understood as a legitimate response to the unending violence from Israel's
extreme right wing, racist white supremacist designers, government and settler movement.
Revealingly, the movement is focused on Gaza, to the point where Gaza is often used as
shorthand for its goals. Although Gaza has seen the worst carnage, it was also the staging
ground for horrific mass attacks on civilians, pogroms by Israeli settlers in the West Bank,
have no defensible rationale that they have received a fraction of the attention bestowed on Gaza.
The most convincing explanation for this selective attention is that Gaza, but not the West Bank,
is controlled by Hamas, and the propacity and activist network in the US is in solidarity with
Hamas. Or perhaps people do talk about the West Bank all the fucking time, and people still hit the
Hamas lines against them, no matter what. This argument is, is silly. I've never encountered a
single person in this movement that does not actively talk about the pogroms in the West Bank.
That is ridiculous. That's so ridiculous, especially considering that a big chunk of the people
that are in the diaspora, living in the Western world, are either directly from the West Bank
or have family members that are still living in the West Bank, some of which are living in Gaza
as well. But like, there's a good chunk of people that travel in and out of the West Bank as well.
So they have actually been on the receiving end of the Israeli occupation directly. They've experienced it. It's fucking ridiculous. They were born into that environment.
Anyway, I like that he's doing a what about Sudan, but this time instead for the West Bank.
And it's such a stupid argument to make because it's the same fucking forces. It's the same genocidal apartheid settler colonial apparatus that is doing the violence in both of those instances.
instances. There are plenty of Jewish people within our lifetime, and meanwhile,
their dean had someone tried to kill her. Yeah, exactly.
The anti-Zonist left is pursuing what activists call an entry of strategy,
in which members of a faction try to move into an existing party and convert it to their ideology.
It's having some success. Earlier this month, Abdul Al-Sayed, a Democratic candidate in
Michigan-St.Primary invited Pyger to speak at a rally. Al-Sayed's two Democratic opponents
criticized him for campaigning with Pyger, but fellow Democrats such as Summer Leader
and reshoots leap joined the event. Matt Duss, who has advised Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
on foreign policy, leaped to Piker's defense, as did the new Republicans, Aaron Regenberg,
and the nation's President, Bashar Sankara, among other progressives.
Piker was not even the most radical anti-Sinist to appear at El Sayad's rally, standing as
to Piker was Amir Maklad, a lawyer who has represented Michigan student protesters, who
was running for region in the state. Maklad has written and shared numerous posts praising
his Bala and Iran's leadership and has used Jew as a slur outside and his allies have
defended his rally with Piker as the equivalent of appearing on controversial shows such as
Joe Rogan's logic endorsed by commenters such as Ezra Klein as if doing an interview with
the podcasters the same thing as accepting an endorsement of the campaign rally. The
anti-zine has left understated Piker's views which is which also run towards broad sympathy
for China, Cuba, Russia and authoritarianism in general are repugnant to the majority of
voters even in a democratic presidential primary. The main defense of Piker's appearance at
else I had to rally by the way this kind of stuff is a ridiculous I'm not
sympathetic to fucking Russia and yes I am sympathetic towards Cuba because
we're fucking destroying Cuba we're killing Cubans of course I'm gonna be
sympathetic to the victims of American Empire and the reality of the matter is
that the same ideological hang-ups that that existed during the Cold War are no
longer as important for everyday Americans so when you actually encounter
everyday Americans and you explain to them the situation in Cuba and you're
like, we're doing that to the Cuban civilians that were murdering, right? And we're starving
currently. They go, oh my God, that sounds insane. We should stop that. Okay. And as
far as like broad sympathy for China goes, again, people, the American population's approval
rating for the Chinese government and the Chinese people in general, or like China as
as a nation state has actually improved dramatically in the last couple of years.
There's probably a good reason for that, one, it's because people have been lied to about
the way that China operates or the way that China is in general for years and years and
years.
But of course, now that there is a more democratized media apparatus that can actually look at
what the fuck's really going on in China, where people can make up their own goddamn
minds about like, you know, Chinese tier one cities and whatnot, they have realized,
fuck we were lied to this is not like a backwards scary communist nation state that was you know
propped up by peasants and you know led by peasants that that is is not a fucking world power at
all this is horrifying like place that resembles the DPRK okay but instead it's actually a competitive
of superpower, and one that is increasingly defeating America in many different sectors,
key sectors. That's the reason why people are like, oh, wait, we relied too much on
him. Maybe China is not so bad. You can go and visit. You know, it's all open for business.
Authoritarianism in general are repugnant. Yeah, I love authoritarianism. That's why
I fucking combat American authoritarianism every fucking day of the week. It's so stupid.
Anyway, even in a Democratic presidential primary, the main defense of Piker's appearance
that I came from, uh, the main defense of Piker's appearance at El Sayed Israeli is
that he's insignificant.
Sunkara, enumerating a series of world crises, observed sarcasticly in the Guardians.
So naturally, the Democratic party has found something truly urgent to focus on, a Twitch
streamer.
El Sayed himself made the same argument.
Our president is waging a genocidal, illegal, unjustifiable war with Iran that is torching
our tax dollars to the tune of 1.5 billion a day.
He said at his rally and yet apparently the most important thing happening on Twitter was whether or not we were going to campaign with a son.
This is not about my insignificance personally.
Okay.
This is about how insignificant my placement alongside up low say it is in comparison to the world changing events that are taking place and the fucking
media hyper focus on the less significant moment.
perfectly valid argument to present at that time. I am at the end of the day
insignificant in comparison to the president saying that he's gonna do a
genocide in Iran. Yes, nothing I have said, especially given the lack of power
that I represent, is ever going to meet the standard of what the president is
saying and what the president is fucking doing. If I'll say I doesn't think that
people should discuss his rally with piger why would he hold a rally with
piger the answer of course that he believes democrats should discuss
piker but only to agree with them this sort of deflection is a common move for
political activists when their allies does something too embarrassing for them
to openly defend but they do not wish to condemn they're recognizing the
unpopularity of the views they want to mainstream nobody they're recognizing the
popularity of the views they want to mainstream they just don't see the the
need to have a conversation on on these incredibly cynical grounds as
especially on a fucking campaign stump, because then it's going to take the attention away
from the actual issues that a campaigner wants to communicate to the public.
That's it.
But those views can prevail within the party only if the alternative is equally unpopular.
At the moment it is.
Israel is alienated to public opinion, a shift that began before Israel encouraged and joined
in a potentially disastrous war with Iran.
meeting propulsive activism with defiance, the more intelligent strategy for moderate
Democrats would be to sever their political liabilities and compromise with public opinion.
Liberal Zionists can win an intra-democratic argument against anti-Zionist radicals,
but they can't win it while burdened with support for subsidizing settlements
and strategy of endless conflict. The most extreme anti-Zionist activists won't be satisfied
with anything short of committing the Democratic Party to Israel's demise,
but the most left-wing position in recent Democratic primaries on Iraq in 2004 on healthcare in 2016
has rarely been adopted by the candidate who emerges the party's eventual nominee.
Yeah, don't you think that that's part of the reason why the Democratic party right now is
facing unprecedented unpopularity at a time when they should automatically be the popular party
in our current duopoly because Donald Trump is unbelievably unpopular? Perhaps there are some
questions that you must ask about the conduct of the Democratic party, the National Democratic
Party, and their inability to address certain fucking massive issues that people care about.
I don't know. Again, bragging about the undemocratic nature or the lack of interest in the Democratic
party to actually conduct themselves in a way that is responsive to the needs of the
fucking population is precisely the reason why they keep losing. The decisive block of
Democrats includes those who are disgusted with Israel's policies and are ready to wash
their hands of the American support for its maximalist strategy, but wary of going full
Piker, either mainstream Democrats will give up any illusions that they have about the
ugly nature of Israel's current government, or they will no longer occupy the mainstream
other party. Yeah, so he's basically saying, we have to sever ties with Hassan, okay? But
right now, we can't sever ties with Hassan because we don't have any legitimacy in the
anti-Israel space. So this is begging the Democrats to no longer come across as their
pro-Israel.
What he fails to understand, what he fails to understand in this process is that the
more Democrats lean into the popular wishes, the more we're going to demand they express
our totality of wishes, okay?
Because that is the correct position.
And many people are there already.
That's it.
That's precisely the reason why when Jayshu comes out and says, like, oh yeah, we don't
want to pay for Israel's weapons, but they can still get those weapons, obviously, as
long as they pay for it, they don't realize that there's plenty of appetite to punish
Israel, okay?
That's the problem.
These guys want to have their cake and eat it too.
They want to say, yeah, sure, Israel did a lot of war crimes, but no punishments should
come for Israel.
Of course there should be punishments.
What are we talking about?
Accountability is what people want.
You're losing sometimes you need to abandon your liabilities and compromise. Yeah.
Why do people like to talk about you, but journalists hate talking about,
talking to you about Israel. Well,
one of the best parts about articles like this,
what I was going to say is for the longest time,
whenever the media covered me, they would say, Oh, he's handsome.
They would rarely ever talk about my worldview, right?
And I didn't have an issue with that because I, you know, I, I jokingly would refer to that as terrorism insurance, right?
Cause like it's so silly to present me as like a dangerous, radical terrorist when the very same outlets, these, these, uh, you know, legacy publishers are, are, you know, writing very positive, um, puff pieces in general about the space that I occupy, right?
Now they're forced to write about my positions. Now, of course, the overwhelming majority of
people that are writing about my positions are writing from the most cynical, most negative
framework possible. They're trying to filter what people see about my worldview. But because I am
a media personality with his own independent platform and one that is arguably much larger
than like the Atlantic readership base, for example, they can't compete.
They could do that towards, you know, college campus activists, for example, because college
campus activists don't have that megaphone.
College campus activists can't go on CNN and defend their positions, right?
So they got away with disparaging campus activists by talking about them in this incredibly
negative framework.
But they can't really do that to someone like myself because I have a louder megaphone
than they do. I have a bigger platform than they do, right? And that's it. That's it.
I'm still mad about the Pagrone comments because on top of everyone also hating the West Bank
stuff, I have moral obligation to oppose our funding of the IDF specifically, who was much
more involved in Gaza than the West Bank where the settlers themselves act with approval
of the Israeli government with that. I have little influence over. Best thing I can do
was protest the Allison family and stop going to Mavs games. Yeah, anyway, one of your most
impressive attributes is your ability to know who your enemies political insiders and journals
who can't really get away with being snarky, yeah.
Anyway, that was waving the red flag to urge the Democrats to basically become the leaders
of the anti-Israel movement in the country in an effort.
It's literally what I tell Democrats to do, right?
to this, not like limiting it in the way that Jonathan Chate wants them to, obviously.
But I want the Democrats to become the true leaders in this movement in an effort not
to cede territory and legitimacy to the likes of Tucker Carlson, right?
That is my argument, ironically enough, part of it at least.
Obviously my primary argument is it's the moral thing to do, it's the right thing to
do, and it's also the popular thing to do. But, having said that, the Jonathan
Shate article can be summarized as, if you don't want the anti-Zionist wing to
win, you have to find a new way to to entertain defending Israel in order not
to lose complete control over this conversation, you have to come across as like sincerely
being anti-Israel.
Okay?
What is this?
Actually, Hassan Piker is the Democrats' enemy.
Democrats should go on a show and stand up for Democratic values.
Okay. Yeah, the billionaires and millionaires are offended. They're number one with their,
I mean, their whole, okay, I'm going to read the Trump criticism of Mum Donnie, because if not,
someone's going to kill themselves, I think in this chat. Would you read Spiked? No,
I'm not going to fucking read Spiked. I'm not going to read the homosification of
has no, I'm not going to read that shit. Sadly, Mayor Mamdani is destroying New York. It has
no chance. The United States of America should not contribute to its failure. It will only
get worse. The tax tax tax policies are so wrong. People are fleeing. They must change
their ways and fast. History has proven this stuff just doesn't work. Thank you for your
attention to this matter, President DJT. It's so funny that you guys lost your fucking minds.
It's, it's, it's actually hilarious that you thought this was like an incredible criticism of
Zoram-Amdani. Like Donald Trump, if he wanted to genuinely blister Zoram-Amdani, he would be
saying he's a Muhammadan terrorist who's doing 9-11 with this tax, okay? This is not even that
serious. He's just, God, you guys are so fucking drama obsessed. I swear to God.
The only reason why you're freaking out about it is because up until now,
Zaram-Amdani and Trump have been side-by-side with one another and on fairly positive terms.
Yeah. Y'all are so funny.
I'm pretty sure the administration just released
the second Avenue subway funding that has been held back this whole time.
Bro's just chirping into the wind. Yeah.
Drama obsessed, bro. He's the president. Yeah, but you need to read, uh,
you need to read into like the severity of the statements.
If he's saying,
if he has a much more tempered response to Zoram-Amdani than he does to the
motherfucking pope, then understand that it's not as significant.
Now that calculation might change, right?
But like clearly he's just like I'm anti-taxing people and Zoran is taxing people and that's
bad.
That's all he said.
That's nothing.
There's literally nothing.
He's over here talking about how the Pope sucks dick and you're like oh dude it's over.
It's over.
It's his first diss.
Is baby's first diss against Zoran?
Yeah, compare that to his post against Candace Owens, Tucker Carlson, all this shit.
It's gonna be, is it gonna be drama when Trump finally tweets about you?
Pogo, when Trump finally tweets about me, it will not be as mild mannered as what he's
saying of us, Zoran, okay?
Pray for the troops is on. Oh, yeah, I saw this. This is on this is so bad. Dude. What the fuck
Images of food being served to sales on the US is Abraham Lincoln and US is triply published by USA today
Supplies are going to get really low and morale is gonna be in an all-time low one sailor messaged another I
Don't even know what the fuck this is bro. What is this?
You can't even get a steak and lobster before getting deployed. That's crazy
What the hell is that someone said boy dinner, bro, this is this is dinner with a side of mutiny
Okay, if they're giving you shoe soles to eat it literally looks plastic
As long as a goi brick enjoy your goi break soldier
Oh, this is nasty
When that many ships are in any given area, it is really hard to do underway replenishments.
That's why my food looked like, that's what my food looked like for three weeks on a
deployment ship was bleak.
Bro, this food is so bad, British people wouldn't eat it.
Okay, that's how bad this is.
This shit ain't even scran.
Oh my lord.
Too far? No, it's real.
It looks worse than dog food.
It really does.
It really does.
It's unfucking believable, dude.
Y'all threw all that tea in the harbor for nothing.
Yeah.
You just heard my feelings.
Okay, dude.
I mean, that is, this is plastic.
This is actually plastic.
Also, why are your feelings hurt?
I'm saying that even a British person wouldn't eat this.
If anything, I'm defending the British.
I'm curious to see how they will portray the food in the next Lego video.
At this point, we're following along Operation Epstein's Fury by imagining what the Iranians
will present this ad as in Lego format, okay?
I thought you were joking about Don Lemon being one of your peers now but there he is
on Twitch.
Yeah, he is.
Don Lemon.
He's a brave warrior.
Anyway.
Anyone? The Marines will starve due to lack of crowns. Don't worry, the Marines still
got their crowns. Crowns are easier to transport, I think. US and Tripoli doesn't even serve.
Yeah. US and Tripoli doesn't even have veggies. Families have put together care packages to
send a flow, but they haven't been delivered yet. These are the exact trades found on USN
vessels, including here on the Lincoln in 2018.
Oh, this guy is trying to fact check saying like look at the background on the table.
my stainless steel comment was r-worded but it sparks some debate this doesn't look real to me
no matter what where'd you find the photo huh boom oh and two on this
yeah IRGC meanwhile is eating the finest kubi day yeah
they're in those goddamn bunkers dude we have so much dominance of airspace we can't even get a
single supply drop that sounds like winning to me even worse no i saw this already yeah
Bro, this is some shit that ironically enough, Americans would be making fun of for what Russians
are eating, right?
This is literally the type of shit that you see about the aesthetic forces of Russia,
because they just don't have the supply chain that they've established, they don't have
the supply lines, they're running out of money.
This is unironically something that the American side would pose or the Ukrainian side would
pose about the Russians.
Fun fact, Elmo is actually short for El Mohammed.
Oh my god.
The word of the day is Habibi says Sesame Street.
Oh my god.
Oh, this is going to break people's brains, dude.
Salamu alaykum everyone.
I'm Rami Yusuf.
Oh, it's Elmo's Elmo.
Mr. Rami, what does salam alaykum mean?
Well salam means peace and it's a way to say hello in Arabic.
Cool! Oh, Salam Aleykum everybody!
Elma and I are here to wish all of you a Happy Arab American Heritage Month.
Yeah, Happy Arab American Heritage Month!
I'm so proud of my Arab heritage and I'm so happy to share this month with my fellow Arabs and Elma.
So-
Oh my god, oh my god, this is going to-
Oh my god, this is gonna piss off-
First of all, it's gonna piss off every Zionist, okay?
Okay. Cause let's be real. Zionism is a very racist ideology. Okay. It's also going to melt all the hog minds in general.
Like the, the broader hog coalition are going to lose their minds. Someone needs to check on Jordan Peterson. Okay.
I don't even know if Jordan Peterson will remain barely alive as he has been. This is like current status is barely alive.
I don't even know if that'll continue after this. I know he's like beefing with Elmo every now and then.
Thanks, Habibi.
Oh, wait a minute. What's Habibi?
Oh, it's an Arabic word for a special friend.
Really? Uh, well, Happy Arab-American-
Get- Get away from him, Elmo!
Now it is month, Habibi. We love you.
Well, it brings me no pleasure to report that Elmo is Hamas now.
episode Elmo teaches you how to say the Shahada. Oh my God. Now repeat after Rami.
Abdullah Rasulullah. Muhammad the Rasulullah. No, Abdullah, right? Should I know? Yeah, it's
yeah, that is you missed it. You missed the word in there. Yeah. J.P. responded. Go to hell.
Trump out here starting on your boy. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's fine
Abdul Abdul Rasulullah
Yeah, first it was Mitch miss Rachel and now Elmo both are Hamas now. Why do you think Elmo is red? He's part of the DFLP
Breaking news about Elmo, Gitmo.
Saying special friend the way my conservative parents explain my gay uncle's boyfriend?
Oh my god, that's true.
Yeah, oh my god.
Does this mean Elmo is both gay and Muslim?
Oh my god, it's Woksharia.
or a Luma on rope watch after this. Yeah, this is woke Sharia through and through. He's
saying Habibi as in a lover. He's saying my love, my special friend. See, just ask President
Trump if he had a falling out with mom, daddy, no, not at all. He's going to ruin the city.
However, his policies are no good. Trump said over the phone. There you go. I told you.
What did I tell you? What the frick did I tell you? That it was never, it was never
going to be a sincerely held gripe because he loves Zoran too much. Okay.
Sammy Gold had a take on Peter Savodnik's report saying, Peter understands that what
the median voter is most concerned about is whether Turkey recognizes Israel's right to
defend itself. Yeah. Larking, Larping as Larkin, Larping as Zoran. I mean, it's a little
Michael has a little bit cringe, but it's fine, I guess. We'll let him have that. Can
you and March go to Sesame Street next? Yeah, I'm a link up with Elmo on Sesame Street.
They would, I mean, people would genuinely kill themselves if that happened. If they, if Elmo, like first they lost Ms. Rachel, like at least, at least Romney's like kind, you know, he's like a media figure.
The most offensive trait from their perspective is that he's Arab, right? And he's pro-Palestine. But if I were to do it, it would, you know, first of all, it would never happen. Let's be real.
But if I were to do it, it would be like, oh, wow, Elmo has actually joined Hamas.
That's crazy.
Elmo says he learns, he loves learning new medicine facts with Dr. Jaffab.
What is this?
The inflowerncification of establishment of positive students will be the death of me becoming
a Tiktoker won't win you an election, especially when you refuse to refuse the Israel-sized
elephant in the room. Yeah, it's a good take by Sean.
Hey, everyone. So I'm here in Charlotte since the start of Trump's war of choice. It's
$15 more every time you fill up your tank of gas. The price of diesel has now gone up
80% since the start of the war and you best believe that's going to carry over to how much you're paying for all the good
What is this? Can you imagine being a four-year-old Jewish child excited every morning to see Elmo and then your parents are watching the news and you hear
That Elmo said you should die
What I mean, this is from before right like this is from july 14th 2025. I don't even know what fucking Elmo was up to back then
But that is hilarious
Oh, Pete Hexac quoted a fake Bible verse from Pulp Fiction during a Pentagon sermon.
America Christianity was a 24th century, syncretic religion based on elements of Christianity,
liberalism, Roman paganism in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is centered around worship of a holy
trinity consisting of Donald Trump, the state of Israel, and interracial cuckold pornography.
Oh my God.
Oh, oh my God.
Oh, this was when Elmo's Twitter got hacked.
Is that what it is?
hold on. All right. My guests are here. So here I'll play this for you now. Yeah, hold
on one second. I'm gonna come out. I've just announced a ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon.
He did so on Truth Social and the president said the leaders of both nations agreed to
a 10-day ceasefire starting at 5 p.m. Eastern today. If it holds, and that's a big if, it
could lead to a broader peace deal between the U.S. and Iran. He also says he'll be inviting
the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Lebanese president, Joseph Ayun, to
the White House.
I want to get straight to CNN International diplomatic editor Nick Robertson, who is in
Islamabad, Pakistan.
Nick, what does it say to you?
Yeah, it says a number of things.
Of course, the Pakistani-lead negotiators,
the most powerful politician in the country,
Field Marshal Asim Muneer and the Interior Minister,
have been in Tehran over 24 hours now,
meeting with top Iranian negotiators.
We don't know how those talks have been going,
but we absolutely know that Iran had explicitly said
It wanted a Lebanon ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to be in place and part of the
biggest ceasefire picture.
So what does this do?
This gives the Pakistani negotiators some leverage at the table with the Iranians to
get them to soften some of their positions.
Because when J.D.
Vance left Islamabad just a couple of days ago, early Sunday morning, he said the United
States has put its best and final offer on the table.
The bull was in the Iranian court.
They needed to soften their position.
That was the implication that Iranian, the Pakistani negotiators have been there trying
to make that happen over the past 24 hours.
But I think one of the key, key takeaway here for the Iranian will be that President Trump
played such a prominent role, as we had heard about this, cease-fire in Lebanon as being
on, as being off, that the Lebanese president wouldn't have a conversation with the Israeli
Prime Minister.
It took President Trump getting involved, picking up the phone, calling both, and of
course the Iranians will have been aware of President Trump's involvement.
And there's a huge amount of distrust between Iran and the United States at the moment.
So they, the Iranians, you know, left the talks here, disappointed, feeling that the
goalposts have been moved.
So they're going to be looking at what President Trump has just done in Lebanon and trying
to interpret that and trying to understand, is he also going to be as serious and as committed
to meeting some of our aspirations, some of the Iranian aspirations about a long-term
ceasefire.
So I think the President Trump's high-profile involvement is also signaling, it's not just
the event itself, it's that signaling that's going to be critical for the Pakistani negotiators
in Tehran with the Iranian leadership right now.
Let's go to CNN's Jeremy Diamond in Jerusalem.
And Jeremy, there's reporting of some real frustration among that security cabinet in
the sense that this ceasefire was announced before they officially voted on it, just walk
us through the reaction in Jerusalem and what this means in terms of any action from Israel
over the next 10 days.
Yeah, well, President Trump's announcement of this ceasefire in Lebanon, effectively,
you know, between Israel and Hezbollah, although it is officially between Israel and Lebanon,
as Prime Minister Netanyahu was convening a conference call with his security cabinet
to discuss this very ceasefire proposal.
And so what's clear is that President Trump very much seems to have been the responsible
party here in forcing this ceasefire through.
It came amid days of mounting pressure from the United States towards Israel to agree
to a ceasefire.
Recall, if you think back to a week ago, we were looking at a situation where President
Trump was urging Prime Minister Netanyahu to scale back strikes and then ultimately
beginning to pressure him for a ceasefire. The prime minister, though, has been resisting
calls for a ceasefire. It was as recently as a few days ago that he insisted that, you know,
the fighting was very much continuing in Lebanon, that there is no ceasefire in place,
and Israeli officials telling us that Israel would only conduct negotiations with Lebanon quote unquote under fire.
But clearly the pressure here came to a boiling point where following the initial meeting between the Israeli and Lebanese ambassadors to Washington at the State Department,
it became clear that there was real momentum here towards having negotiations between these two countries.
And from the Lebanese point of view,
they were insisting that a ceasefire needed to be in place
in order for those discussions to develop.
In fact, it was only today that we saw
that after the notion was floated of a coal.
Okay, I think we set it up.
I think I set it up perfectly,
but I'll fix it in a second.
Yeah, we got two chairs.
Hold on, let me...
Did you send me the...
Can you send me the thing on Discord? Yeah, the link on Discord. Alright, hold on everybody.
Okay. Yes, not one but two guests. I know, exciting.
Hold on.
Okay
Okay
We've been on. Yeah, I've been at chatters are saying the war and peace report. Yes.
now the war and peace report. That's right. Um, there was just a big fundraiser for WBAI
with the film and the pizza, two boots pizza sponsored the pizza party before and they call
and we were coming up with names the war and pizza report. Oh yeah. Okay. I have a little gift.
Oh wow. Okay. Oh my god. No way. I have so much. I have a lot of democracy now,
merch because I get the fundraising emails all the time. But thank you. This is amazing.
I love this. Oh, nice. It's good. It's perfect. Thank you so much. And all I was going to
say is if you don't mind speaking as close as possible to the microphones, the SM7Bs,
they're very, they have like a sensitive noise gate in order for my chatters not to
Hear my mouth noises, but um ladies and gentlemen, it's a great honor uh to have uh
Amy Goodman and Carl Deal here today on this wonderful day. I'm a huge fan as you guys already
know. I have the the clip somewhere. I'm going to pull it up right now. I know you're huge.
Like how tall are you? I'm six four. Okay. Holy cow. Yeah. I'm mesmerized by your audience here.
Yeah, there's around 40,000 people watching right now. So live people watching. But here,
I'm going to start off the broadcast by showing the first time I ever saw Amy in the real world,
because I've been listening to your voice for years every morning on Democracy Now,
as you tirelessly engage in the work of advocacy and doing investigative reporting for years and
years, offering a voice to the voiceless. You are a very inspirational figure for what I do as well,
and I'm eternally grateful that you're here. And thank you, Carl, so much for being here as well,
and also doing this documentary that we're going to be talking about. Amy Goodman, for those of
of you who don't know is the legendary host and co-founder of Democracy Now, one of the
four most independent news publications that broadcast on radio, TV, and online in, I believe,
1500 stations, right? At least I got that from the...
Public radio and television stations.
Yeah, got that from the doc.
Globally, yeah.
Okay, so if you were wrong, that would be on you, Carl.
So you watched it.
I did, yes. Amy has been fearlessly reporting from the front lines of global conflicts and
and amplifying voices that mainstream media routinely ignores for over three decades.
Her motto is steal the story, please, which also happens to be the name of the new documentary
chronicling her fearless career in journalism.
Paul, as Amy, she takes on soldiers, politicians, and corporate media in pursuit of the truth.
The documentary has already won over a dozen awards at major film festivals.
Also joining me is Carl Deal, the film's co-director and a former investigative journalist and a
long-time documentary filmmaker whose work has consistently looked at power,
media, and resistance from the ground up, instill the story, please. He turns to
Amy Goodman's story. He turns Amy Goodman's story into a film about what
independent journalism preserves and what the public loses when that space
disappears. Amy, also you brought another friend. What's your-
This is Zazu Goodpup. She is one of the leading news hounds and then no disrespect
to Kaya. She is one of the most important paparazzi of our time. I see that. Kaya is also, I don't know,
Kaya almost loves being in front of the camera. She has gotten really used to it
through the many years that I've been doing, you know, merch photo shoots and things like that,
and she knows how to strike a pose, and she will get in here when she feels like she's not being
sufficiently paid attention to.
Zazu is probably the most popular character in the film.
Tell me what happened at Telluride.
Oh, this is such an interesting story.
Oh my God, I don't know if I should sweat that down.
There was, you know, at the Telluride Film Festival,
it's different from all others.
You don't know what films are gonna be there.
And Garland Tia's film, Steal the Story, Please,
was invited to the film festival.
When we got there, we then learned
that all different films in the film about Bruce Springsteen
was also there, delivered from nowhere.
And Jeremy Strong and Jeremy Allen White were there,
actually Bruce came.
And so did John Landau,
because it's a story of that French, it's an important one.
I didn't know what to do with Zazu at the time
because I had to leave her in New York
so I asked a friend, Patty, to take care of her.
And then it turns out that this film was there,
John Landa was there.
She had gone out with his brother for quite a long time.
John Landa's brother, Patty, who was taking care of Zazu.
And I said, oh my goodness, this film is happening.
Deliver me from nowhere.
John Landa was here, Bruce is here.
And she said, what is wrong with this picture?
You are a telluride, and I'm sitting
taking care of your family in New York.
Yeah, yeah.
It's beautiful.
You've, you said Bruce on a first name basis
as Bruce Springsteen been on the show, I assume.
Well, we just had our 30th anniversary
and we had this big event at the Riverside church,
this famous church where Dr. Martin Luther King
gave a speech against the war in Vietnam
year to the day before he was assassinated. April 4th, 1967, he gave the speech. So that's
where we had the 30th anniversary event. The problem was 2000 people were going to pack
the place on February 23rd and then Snowmageddon happened in the day before we had to cancel
it. So then we found a date about a month later and went Marsalis was going to go down
the aisle had this jazz legend, but he had to go to Japan. So he wasn't going to be a
a part of it, but Patty Smith rejoined. She was with us at the 20th anniversary and now
she could attend on March 23rd as did Michael Stipe of REM and hooray for the riffraff, the
singing Palante, Ever Forward. Michael Stipe, Patty Smith, and to wrap up, I looked out
at the thousands of people and said, we couldn't figure out how to end tonight. Oh, but I see
someone in the audience who could maybe help us. The boss, Bruce Springsteen. So he got up,
he sang as he was singing all over the country now, streets of Minneapolis, and then together
they all came up on the stage, Patty, Michael, Hooray, and Bruce, and they sang Patty's legendary
song, People of the Power. And maybe that's a great way to start here because that is the
the principle of independent media.
People have the power, you know?
When we're gonna cover war,
we're not brought to you by weapons manufacturers.
When we're gonna cover the climate catastrophe,
we're not brought to you by the oil gas or coal companies.
And we're gonna cover inequality,
not brought to you by the banks and the financial institutions,
but brought to you by listeners, viewers and readers
who are so committed to an authentic independent voice.
That's the kind of media that'll save us.
Absolutely.
What do you say about the state of media right now?
Now that we have a Calci and even Poly Market,
these like gambling websites
that are also purchasing ad space
and doing collaborations with the likes of CNN,
do you feel like the state of major media
is in a worse position than it's ever been?
I mean, the legacy media is really in a shambles.
I mean, we had on a few weeks ago,
maybe someone takes Ozzie because she's done a little
number too.
And I guess she wants to investigate from the military.
Oh, maybe she's just going to sit.
We had on a Washington Post reporter.
And she had done an anatomy of the first day of the bombing
of Iran, right?
The girl school in Minab in southern Iran,
where like 175 people died, about a dozen teachers,
but overwhelmingly primary school girls.
and just watching them get to know each other here.
And, you know, I think it was a US missile
that most likely was used in this.
President Trump tried to say it was,
Iran was using it, but they don't use US,
these particular US missiles.
The Tomahawk missiles, yeah.
The Tomahawk missile.
So she had done this really explosive exposition,
but she wasn't doing it for the Washington Post
because she had just been laid off,
as had hundreds of Washington Post journalists, right?
Jeff Bezos, who founded Amazon, owns a Washington Post.
They developed their motto,
democracy dies in the darkness under Bezos,
but that's exactly what's happening now.
They laid off almost their entire Middle East department,
to their division of reporters,
as US and Israel attacks Iran.
And this is extremely serious.
What is happening to the media?
The corporate mergers, you have CBS
and you have, you know, Skydance merging
with Paramount owning CBS in 60 minutes.
And how did they get approval for this corporate merger?
So President Trump sues CBS for its 60 minutes editing
of a Kamala Harris interview.
and you know all this, and I'm sure you've talked for hours about it.
I don't think it would have stood up in court,
but it wasn't worth it to CBS to fight this.
Instead, they paid Trump $16 million,
which supposedly goes to the presidential library.
Why?
They had much more to make in a $6 billion merger
between Paramount and Skydance
that had to be approved by Trump's FCC,
and that's exactly what happened.
and now Paramount is making the moves to take over
Warner Brothers Discovery, and it'll be HBO, CNN,
already on CBS.
But that's where Carl can pick it up
because Carl DeO and TLS have joined 1,000 other directors
and Hollywood stars, and we'll take it from there
and challenge it.
She's such a great host.
She's such a great news host, see?
Yeah, immediately throw it to the guest.
You can just go back and take a nap.
Yeah, we got a real pro in here.
Yeah, yeah.
No, I mean, it's true though.
But the narrowing of the mainstream media
through all these mergers and stuff
does create space for voices like yours
to just sort of proliferate now.
And there are all these different ways
that people are consuming news now,
and it's by necessity.
And I think in a lot of ways,
what Amy's been doing for 30 years,
and what Democracy Now does
sort of helped widen that landscape a little bit at the same time.
No, absolutely. Yeah. So the mergers are screwing everything up. I mean, like Amy said, there's been
this, this, this movement now called block the merger. Everybody thinks this is a done deal,
but it's not, you know, I mean, Paramount, it hasn't been approved yet. And once it does get
approved, the states can also get involved and try and try and stop this. So, you know, Jane
Fonda is one of our executive producers, Rosario Dawson is one of our executive producers, Julie
Colin, Tia, we've all signed this letter to our colleagues. We've signed this letter to
let people know and are trying to bring some attention to it because it not only affects
the business, but it affects the consumer and what it is that we have access to, right?
Yeah, absolutely. Because freedom of the press, the reason it's enshrined in the Constitution
is much more than freedom of the press.
It's about the public's right to know.
And that's how a democracy functions.
And then when you erode that,
when the president calls the press the enemy of the people,
that is taking us down in the authoritarian road
that must be challenged.
As Maria Ressa says on Democracy Now,
that's included in, steal the story please,
the new documentary, the rights we lose today,
We may never get back.
Yeah.
So can I see you fanning out to Amy here?
Are you here for us?
Yeah, okay, yeah, for sure.
I was gonna move on to the questions,
but you're right, this is the first time I ever
ever saw Amy Goodman in real life.
I think he was here two years ago.
Oh my God, oh my God.
We can see him.
Oh my God.
Oh my God, I'm such a big fan of you.
And you had no idea who I was.
You're like, who is this tall person
yelling at me for?
Amazing
Can I can I take a photo with you? Oh my god
We're oh my god chat, I don't even know if this is
Yes, you're amazing, I love you so much. I love all of you guys you guys are incredible
Thank you. Hi, of course. Hi.
What's going on? I got the hat and everything. I'm also a donor.
Someone sent me from your donation.
No, no, no.
This is incredible.
You guys are inspirational.
You literally are so important in in motivating me to do what I do now. There is there are I don't even know are we
I'm gonna cry a little bit. I'm saying girl.
No, absolutely. So that's what I was going to say. Someone from your donation department
or whatever sent me an email, because they didn't know who I was. They just sent me an
email as a donor. And I was like, I don't think they know who I am. Well, now I know
that you do. But when the donation department was like, hey, you should come check out the
studio as a big donor. I was like, no, I don't think they know who I am at all.
Let's take a picture.
All right.
Is it okay for me to go here?
Yeah, I don't want to.
There it is.
Yeah, that was our first interaction.
And you know, that's amazing,
because I'm with all my colleagues there,
and it's really a brain trusted democracy.
Now, Haim Asoud almost played
on the Egyptian basketball team.
He was right there.
And he's the first voice you hear
and steal the story, please, because we were at the UN climate summit in Poland, and we'd
just gotten off the show, and we saw Trump's sole representative there, and honey is saying
to me exactly who he is, and you hear his voice as we move forward.
And then there's Nermin Sheikh, who is the co-host under Marx now in the white jacket.
And next to him is, yeah, there's Nermin Sharif, Sharif Abdel Kadous, he's right there, and
You know, Sharif is now at Dropsite News.
He's behind.
And in the documentary, there's this whole part
at the Republican Convention in St. Paul,
where it was John McCain and Sarah Palin,
and there were mass protests against the war in Iraq.
And Sharif and Nicole Salazar went to cover it,
our two of our producers, and they immediately got arrested.
And Nicole was slammed to the ground.
Um, and so I was on the convention floor and you know, cause you've been inside and you've been outside.
It's hard to get to the convention floor.
Finally, I got there.
I had to ask a bunch of questions.
I got a call.
Trief and a call have been arrested.
Oh my God.
So we go racing out.
We get to that corner.
I try to ask for a supervisor, police officer saying, we need to have those two reporters released, but instead they drag me in and they arrested me.
And interestingly, after hours, we were all brought to separate places, but there was such outcry that
we were released. I went back to the convention center and someone to interview me, I think it was in
the NBC Skybox. And at the end of the interview, when the camera was turned off, the reporter said,
I don't get it. Why wasn't I arrested? I said, Oh, were you covering the protest too? And he said,
no. I said, Oh, okay. So I said, I don't get arrested in the convention center either.
We've got to be here, we've got to be in the corporate suites to find out who's funding this,
and we have to be out in the streets where the uninvited guests are.
And that's what it is to have a media that is independent, that is not there just to bring
you the voices of power, but is there to bring you the people, as Nermeen says, that are outside
the frame and not only get them inside, but center them.
Yeah, and look at this respect that you're getting here and I don't think this sounds not talked for this long
I had a
somewhat similar experience
I covered the the protests the first day of the DNC I was outside I was at the protest and then I
Covered extensively the uncommitted movement on the last day and I was actually invited. I I took advantage of the the influencer route
And I was invited by
I remember that the creators for Kamala and and they actually were pretty good at like
finding a space for myself because they couldn't like figure out exactly what I was doing.
So I took advantage of that like because they didn't understand what like Twitch streaming is
and and they ended up giving me this like massive box seat that you know was was even better seats
than like CNN that they paid like you know hundreds of thousands of dollars to be able to get.
But they, they provoked the credentials that I had on the last day because I had, you know, I interviewed the uncommitted movement and then also was, you know, creating a big fuss about not having a Palestinian speaker and how this was a major point of condition.
Now this is going to lead to real issues down the line for for Harris's
electability. And they've wrote my press credentials in front of a New York Times
reporter who was actually covering me in real time, in front of like, you know, 70,000 people.
And I had to go and cover the rest of the the event from my hotel room.
They made it impossible for me to be there and continue doing.
And how do you think your coverage changed from that front row seat to being in your hotel room?
Which was better?
Do you think?
Oh, I don't mind doing it from the hotel room at all.
I, it didn't, like my commentary didn't change at all.
Well, I had to whisper because like someone, uh, I was yelling a little too much in my
hotel room apparently because I was, when I heard Kamala Harris talk about, uh, you
know, how she was going to commandeer the most lethal military, I was like, Oh no,
this is, this is like disastrous.
Like this is disastrous, a pro war commentary coming from the Democratic president, like
the Democratic presidential contender.
This is not going to be received well.
Of course, none of those warnings were heard.
But yeah, I had someone down the hall come in, knock on my door and be like, listen,
I really, you know, I like your commentary, but you've got to keep it down a little bit.
I had to whisper, whisper yell for the rest of the night.
Yeah.
But I want to start off by asking the question.
Um, I think I might know the answer to this as well.
Cause this is like something that I also embody.
Uh, why do you encourage others to steal your story?
I think of an exclusive as a failure because just us having
it. Well, what matters is people talking about it everywhere. That's when people can decide
what they want to do about it. So in the documentary, still a story, please, we go out to Standing
Rock to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. It's this epic struggle.
It was the first presidential race between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
And April 1st, this, the unofficial historian of the Standing Rock Sioux, Ladonna Brave
Bull Allard, invited people to come because the Dakota Access Pipeline looked like it
was going to be built and they were afraid about it polluting the Missouri River, I
think the longest river in North America right next to the reservation.
And she said anyone who would come could stay on her property, set up your TP or your tent.
And she thought a couple dozen people would come, hundreds came, then thousands came,
then all these resistance camps were built.
Veterans and all the people from all the Vrwaks alive.
Indigenous people from Latin America, first, yeah, water is life.
First nations from Canada, it was the largest indigenous gathering in decades in the United
states and their non-native allies. And so we were covering it from afar, but came from New York
Labor Day Weekend. And we covered a group of people that went on to property that they said was
there an burial ground and a judge was going to rule on whether it could be excavated a few days
later. But they were shocked to see bulldozers there already beginning the excavation. And so
Girls, women, men, boys stood in front of these earth-crushing machines.
It's very dangerous.
I mean, we know what happened to Rachel Corey, March 16, 2003, three days before the US invasion
of Iraq.
She was in Ratha.
She was in Gaza.
She's standing in front of a pharmacist's home about to be demolished, the home.
She stands in front of it with a bright fluorescent vest.
And she was crushed to death, so I was very aware of that.
And I see these women and girls standing in front of it.
It was scary, but their presence that day, a Labor Day week in 2016, the bulldozers decided
to pull back, one, two, three, four, five, six of them pulling back, but then the security
guards of DAPL, the Dakota Access Pipeline, unleashed dogs on the protesters, they called
themselves water protectors, and we filmed a dog with its mouth and nose covered with
blood.
dogs were like about the size of Kaia. They were, I think, German shepherds. And they
were being gassed. They were being bitten. And we then had to go back to New York and
we posted it online. And within 24 hours, there were 14 million views of this video.
Now I'd been invited into CNN and then MSNBC and all these, and I would say, why don't
you cover the climate crisis? And they'd say the executives upstairs say people aren't
interested there. There won't be any more eyeballs on this. I think any executive would drool to get
14 million views. So that just showed the lie that people were interested. And then media started
to pick it up all over. And it was on all the networks, the video coverage that we had done.
And that's what I consider successful reporting. Steal this story, please. Or someone we're going
going to have on tomorrow. Aliyah Rahman. Aliyah is the woman who was driving a Minneapolis
to a doctor and she was an immigration official. Stopped her. This is just a few months ago.
Smashed her window, dragged her out of her car. She said, I'm disabled. She's autistic and disabled.
And they said too late and they take her to the Whipple Detention Center. And we interview her
Then Il Hanomar, the only Somali refugee congress member, invites her to the State of the Union.
She goes there.
She's really injured, but she felt it was too important not to go to the State of the
Union.
She's sitting in the gallery with all the other invited guests.
And you know how that was?
The Republicans-
Your camera will pick up what's on your phone.
The Republicans were standing up, sitting down, standing up, applauding, sitting down.
And that would work the other way, too, if it was Democrat.
And so at one point, when President Trump was denigrating the people of the Twin Cities,
Alia stood up quietly, just bearing witness.
And security took her out, and she had already been brutalized.
And now she was being taken down again.
So she's arrested, she goes to jail, she says to be on her show the next day for her response
to the State of the Union.
got at a jail for in the morning and she says Amy as she comes into action on the next day
I'm wearing the same clothes I wore last night because I just got out of jail and I thought
it's important to live up to my commitment. Well now she is suing and tomorrow her and
her lawyer will come on to talk about their case but when we had her tell her story of
what happened at so to the State of the Union all the papers picked up the story because
We don't have your typical pundits on who know so little about so much explaining the
world to us and getting it so wrong. We have people closest to the story at the target end of
policy. And that's the kind of voice we need picked up and stolen to be widely disseminated
in the press because it's how the rest of the world learns about us through the press. It's
how we learn about a lot of things in this country and it's got to be through something
other than a corporate lens.
Yeah, no, it's absolutely.
I have a similar motto as well, probably picked up from your assessment too, from your motto.
But that is my mentality as far as the things that I talk about where people will be like,
oh, I use your talking points when talking to my family members.
I'm like, well, that's the whole point.
I want you to internalize what I'm talking about and then be able to effectively communicate
indicate the right side of a lot of these issues, a lot of these causes, so that you
can then change their minds as well in the same way that I've been able to do that to
people in my audience.
Now, I have a question.
All these people that are writing in, which is just amazing to see all the emojis and
the words.
If anyone's in the Los Angeles area, one of the things that we're doing as Tia and
Carl take the film around it just opened in New York and now it's in Los Angeles at the various
Lemleys is doing fundraisers for independent media and of course I got my start at Pacifica radio
found in 1949 in the Bay Area we're going to do one for KPFA this weekend but tomorrow is the big
day for KPFK because of course you live in KPFK land you live in Los Angeles and we're going to be
at the Lemley Royal in Santa Monica Boulevard in West LA, and they're having two screenings
of the documentary at 1.10 and 7.10, and we're going to do a Q&A afterwards, and there's
a dinner before the 7.10 one, and anyone who wants to come out and see these films, it's
a great way to both see the films and support independent media.
You can go to kpfk.org, their website, and get tickets right there.
It's tomorrow.
That's the 17th of April at 1.10 and 7.10.
Is this allowed on your show?
Of course.
And you should report to independent media, of course, if you can come out on Friday for
one of those two shows due.
If you can't, you can still come see the film because we're opening at the Lundleys.
We're going to be in, as long as people come, they'll keep playing the film.
So, lots of options there.
And you've got a record.
I mean, this isn't my film.
This is Carl and Tia's and Carl and Tia are Oscar-naminated filmmakers who made Trouble
the Water about Katrina.
Tia did the Janes, won three Emmys for that underground abortion network in Chicago.
But you can say you broke a record in New York at the IFC where it's continuing to
play.
Yeah.
No, we're independent, you know, just like you, just like Amy and we were rolling this
film out.
going to be opening and probably upwards of a hundred theaters nationwide, which is pretty
big for a doc. But it's all because in New York people came out and saw the film and
it was the most successful documentary opening in the last decade. So it's a big deal and
it's cool and it's because of Amy. It's because people love this woman and it's also because
people want to hear what she has to say and what the film has to say about the importance
of independence media. I mean, look, watching you two here side by side, it's really cool
because, you know, you would think you guys do different things that you're completely
different, but I can see the same spirit in views, everything you do that I've been
watching Amy.
And you see a similar hat.
And it might be the hat.
I try. I try my best.
No, but it's like, you don't care about the artifice so much. You just, it's about what's
What's real and your job is to call people out and to ask people questions that's really
that simple.
People might think it's rude when Amy's, or the president might think it's rude when
Amy asks them a tough question, right, like we see with Clinton, but that's just her doing
her job asking the question.
Because she's independent, because you're independent, you don't need to stick your
head in the sand. You don't have somebody above you telling you that we're going to
lose advertising if you don't step into line. So it's really important.
Or access journalism as well. I feel like that's become the normal state of affairs
and legacy publishers where they're too afraid of not being invited to the press pool. I
mean, it's accelerated even worse under the Trump administration, especially the second
time around where they were demanding that the Pentagon press pool signed loyalty pledges
to never release any information that the government could declare classified that they
had to get pre-approval before they report on anything from the Pentagon side.
I mean, that's just not journalism at all, it's just you're becoming a stenographer
for the state.
I call it the access of evil, right?
Trading truth or access.
And it's not worth it.
Politicians need journalists more than journalists
need politicians.
It's not worth asking the softball questions
to stay there and ask the soft questions.
I either ask the hard questions or do something else.
Yeah, do you feel like there are still people
that are carrying on that spirit?
I mean, there's obviously independent media outlets,
one that you guys also work with quite frequently
is Dropsite.
There's now Zetao as well, and many others,
but are there some that you feel like
are not getting the same level of attention?
Well, you know, in the documentary, you see Jeremy,
and where Jeremy Scahill, who co-founded with Ryan Grimm,
Dropsite News, he gets his start at Democracy Now,
And then Jeremy goes on to co-found the Intercept
and then goes to drop site news.
And then you've got Dave Isay,
who ends up doing StoryCorps,
which is really actually very important.
It's a cultural commentary of our time,
just people interviewing each other,
grandparents, grandchildren,
and the Smithsonian is picking up all that.
Sharif Abdelkoudous, his work is absolutely critical.
He started at Democracy Now!
he was going to be a corporate banker, and then he went a different route.
And that was right before the, he's on ad, a democracy now,
some professor sent it to him or a friend.
And it was right before the US invaded Iraq.
And because you spoke Arabic, we were at DCTV, which is closest national
broadcast to ground zero, and that's a part of the film.
Uh, but within a few weeks, John Alpert, a great filmmaker and journalist
who runs DCTV, asked Sharif to come with him
and the Renault brothers to Iraq.
The Renault brothers were Craig and Brent Renault,
a dynamic filmmaking duo from Arkansas.
And they would go on to make many documentaries.
Sharif spent that time with them
and then Brent became the first Western journalist
to die in Ukraine.
And Craig, his brother, to honor him
so that we don't forget his memory
is great work, did the documentary, armed only with a camera, the life and death of
Brent Renault. And that went on to be Oscar nominated. And I went with them to the Oscars
this year, sitting with Brent and Craig's mother, George Ann. And that work will hopefully
continue in all different ways.
Okay. So I got some exclusives here. Okay. I got some exclusives here. And so I'm going to show them one by one. These are some of these might be never before seen photos. And I wanted to I wanted to ask you like what's going on in these photos.
Wow.
I got these from.
Awesome. You're great.
So what's what's happening here? There's a young, there's a young Jeremy Skahill.
It was like 23 or 24.
Jeremy used to work at the Catholic Worker in New York on First Street and First Avenue.
And that's where I met him.
I was doing a story.
And then he started calling, I want to work with you.
I want to work with you.
And as he's talking, he says, it was yeah, that's a good journalist, a good reporter,
constantly nagging.
As he said, he bothered me so much saying, I need to work with you.
And he said he thought I would either take out a restraining order on him or give him a job.
So finally he came to WBAI, that's a specific curator, that's the KPFK of New York.
And we started working together. And then I got the chance to interview Ken Sarawiwa.
He's a great writer. Actually, he wrote a soap opera in Nigeria, Africa's most populous country
and the producer of the greatest oil, the most oil in Africa, and he was not going to
forsake his people, the Agoni people. They were taking on Shell, which had crisscrossed
Agoni land with pipelines. And he started to talk about it everywhere. And the difference
between him and activist inside Nigeria is Ken had the wherewithal to take it outside.
that was very threatening to show
because he was taking a story to the Western nation
where people would push back.
An activist called us in New York said,
Ken Sarawiwa is in New York, can he come into WBAI?
This is before, this was right at the beginning
of Democracy Now and I was on a show called Wake Up Call.
And I said, I'm so sorry, we are totally booked today.
I didn't know who Ken was.
And he said, but he's only here for this morning.
I said, two minutes, he can come in
and he can say what he's going to do.
Classic.
And as he started.
As the credits are rolling.
No, but this was at the beginning.
As opposed to the end, you're right.
As the credits are rolling.
Yes, we forget it.
I love that every time.
But at the beginning, as he started talking,
and I said to him, he said that the oil companies
like dictatorships because they can crack down
the people who protested the despoilation of their mangrove forest and he said, I am
a marked man, which was to say the least chilling. He left our offices. We at that point bumped
everyone else on the show to hear what he had to say and he would go back to Nigeria.
He would be executed with eight other minority rights activists. And I mean, Tia and Carl
show this section in the film and it just chills you to the bone.
He was killed and then we went to investigate another story that we learned about on the way to Nigeria,
which was the Chevron Corporation in the Niger Delta.
And we went through the nooks and the crannies of the Niger Delta.
Jeremy and I, with a number of Nigerians who took us there.
And we learned of the killing of two Nigerian activists in the jailing of many others.
And we went to investigate that and to then question Chevron about it.
And that picture, look how young Jeremy is.
Yeah.
Jeremy's, I think he's 22 there, Amy, actually.
And they came back from Nigeria and did this report, Drillin and Killing,
about multinational oil companies complicity and putting down these protests.
And they want to, they want to George Polk Award.
I mean, Jeremy must be the youngest person to ever win a George Polk Award for journalism.
It was called drilling and killing Chevron and Nigeria's oil dictatorship.
When you say it like that, it almost feels like I'm hearing you in my ear in the morning.
Okay, we got another one here.
Is this, it might be from the future.
And as you look for these pictures, I just want to remind people from your LA area,
I love your emojis, but I want to see you in person.
So if you're here tomorrow on the 17th,
one 10 or seven 10 at the Lemley Royal.
And by the way, the other thing,
because we have to look at the whole constellation
of independent media,
these independent art houses around the country,
I especially appreciate these theaters after the pandemic.
Media was so important,
Pacifica and public radio and television during the pandemic.
Keep us safe at home,
but we can all engage in a dialogue from the safety of our isolation.
But now there's nothing that compares to people being together.
We just got word from Tia Lesson, the co-director of the film.
She's at the full frame festival.
Maybe one of you guys in North Carolina listening in Durham,
thousand people packed into the Carolina Theater to watch it today.
On a Thursday afternoon, one of the afternoon, a thousand people came out to see the film
and to hear Amy is something else.
And what's really cool about this film, I've got to say, because you know, I, he and I
produced a bunch of Morris films, and you know, we've been, we've been around a little
bit.
And when you get an audience, you can tell when you have an audience on your side, you
You get instant gratification here, because you're getting these constant feed.
When somebody's looking at it on their telephone, they could be scared.
You don't know what they're doing with it.
But when you see it in a theater, and with this film, it really feels like you're at
a No Kings rally, except the sound is really, really good.
And it forces you to have an experience with strangers.
And it can be really cathartic.
especially when it's, you know, somebody with the charisma of the Navy Goodman who's opening up
and sort of letting you get a peek into her life, but also understanding the bigger issues that
mean that are so important today, probably more than ever in my life. You know, so.
You know, I've been saying go to Eliabot. I know that you have like a global audience and people
can check it out at stealthestory.org and that's the website of the film and it's showing all
the theaters and more and more theaters are being added all over. And they've won all these audience
favorite awards at all the film festivals from the United States, Santa Barbara, Santa Fe, Seattle,
Woodstock to Oslo, Norway, the human film festival. If anyone's watching from Norway right now,
It's just been amazing to see what you guys did with this film with the 30 years of democracy. Now,
it's not easy. Hi, Jeremy. Yeah, another another photo of young Jeremy. Not exactly sure where this
is from. Whereas this looks like an amphitheater, but this one I personally this is my favorite.
I just recently came back from Cuba and I saw this young Jeremy with the with the fitted
Backwards hat next to a solid Shakur. Oh, it's an Amon Jordan. Okay. Yeah
I don't know how you let this guy be around you with this with this outfit
But wait a second. Can you tell us a little about your Cuba trip because it's amazing what you did?
Yeah, so we went alongside progressive international
I'm good friends with some of the organizers there and uh, I hit him up
Right as Trump had accelerated the oil blockade, it actually started in 2019 with the secondary
sanctions.
A lot of people don't even know that, but it got significantly worse in the last couple
of months where the Trump administration decided no oil shipments from any country
whatsoever.
This was right after the Venezuela operation, the kidnapped Maduro, cutting off a lifeline
that Cuba was relying on.
And I hit my friend up, David Adler,
and I was like, what do we do?
And he's like, I'm already working on it.
So we put together this group.
We worked alongside Code Pink.
The answer coalition brought an international group
of artists, activists, politicians and the like,
and we brought in 40 tons of aid,
medical aid, food, necessary supplies.
This is after one blackout and after another in Cuba.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And at that point it was, you know, they had experienced, I think like 36 hours of rolling
blackouts and it was devastating.
I had talked to Ben Rhodes prior to going, you know, to get a feel for what it was going
to be like.
And he said to me, like, you're going to be very sad when you see it.
And he was right.
I was very sad when I first I was taken aback by how beautiful the island is, but then I
I was very sad about all this poverty.
And then I got very angry because I was like, we're doing this to this,
this country of 10 million people. That's unfortunately 90 miles off of our coastline.
And I say, unfortunately, because I feel like, uh,
we've never allowed this, this island nation to breathe.
And, and we've, uh,
we've limited so much potential that Cuba has and all for an ideological
at first, you know, because there was a lot of industries that Cuban Americans owned that I guess the American government was not fond of the the seizure of, but then after that, it turned into this ideological war and it still carries on in that similar vein.
But, yeah, it was a total devastation.
I interviewed doctors, both responsible for the medical missions.
They were so sad that Marco Rubio had successfully severed medical missions in Jamaica and numerous
other countries.
Some of the countries had said no, like Italy had said no, to severing the medical missions,
but it was unbelievable.
I was in Haiti after the earthquake, and the number of Cuban doctors who were there helping.
I mean, some whole hospitals were run by Cuban doctors.
Yeah, it's, I mean, yeah, they're tremendous.
The Cuban government, I believe, sends more doctors to poor countries around the world
than the G7 nations combined.
Yeah.
And I think Marco Rubio said he wanted to have them investigated for human trafficking.
Yeah.
Yeah.
to send doctors to New Orleans after Katrina and you know we're denied but because we couldn't
take care of our own or we wouldn't yeah and it's I guess it's a technically principled
stance against that any sort of of socialized medicine that the American government carries
on where they're like denying other countries but I was talking to the head of the medical
missions and he was telling me that like they had 100% coverage in Jamaica and now there's
so many parts of Jamaica, we're just never going to see another doctor ever again. He's telling me,
like, you know, the Jamaican politicians that responded to this pressure, they can maybe get
platinum health care in their countries, they can even fly to America to get this, but like,
poor Jamaicans that live in the countryside are never going to be able to see another health
care professional because of this, because of this decision. It was devastating. One of the things
that I also was shocked to find out about it was the resilience of the Cuban people.
The amount of biomedical research they've conducted, they've had a lung cancer vaccine
since the 90s. America's restricted the distribution of said lung cancer vaccine,
even though I think it was a collaborative effort with the Colorado University.
They have a currently they have a diabetic ulcer treatment that is is you know that America is is doing its very best to block the distribution of
They were forced to create an indigenous COVID vaccine because the American government stopped Jack Ma's shipment of Cinevax from entering the island and not only that but then also the American government
government created another vaccine hesitancy campaign.
We know about the one in the Philippines
that was covered extensively.
But apparently there was another vaccine hesitancy campaign
in Latin America because they wanted to stop the Cuban
vaccines from being distributed in Latin American countries.
And they created more vaccine hesitancy campaigns
in Latin America.
And what's really interesting about the ties of, I guess,
American Empire and how all of these foreign adversaries that we've designed as enemies
collaborate with one another, oftentimes force to collaborate with one another, is the fact
that the American government alongside Israel bombed the pasture institute in Iran. That
was the institute that was in coordination with, I think, Havana. That was the institute
that created that indigenous COVID vaccine that made its way to Latin American countries.
So all of the death and destruction, the wars of choice that we engage in are not only totally
unnecessary but it's just a great cruelty and seeing it first hand in Cuba, like seeing
the impact of it on the Cuban population was devastating.
Yeah, it is, I mean that's why it's important to be places to be with this.
Oh yeah.
And it's such an important job and it's such an important service.
And, you know, it shouldn't be a business.
It shouldn't be dictated by the business interests of the parent corporation.
That's what the problem is right now.
You know, it's not a new thing, but we just happen to have an openly transactional president who is, you know, pulled off, pulled back the curtain and doesn't even try and hide it.
it. There's there's a little bit of opportunity there though at least in my like in my experience
what I've found is that the way in which Trump communicates the vulgar nature of American Empire
has been illuminating for a lot of people that may have inadvertently believed in the
liberal interventionist attitude where they thought you know sometimes America engaged in
cruel actions, but it's all for a good purpose. Now that Trump has just ripped that shroud
and is very open about how violent he is and how he's doing this for, you know, extraction
of natural resources and the like, I think that there are a lot of liberals that might recognize
the true nature of American foreign intervention. And not only liberals, I think what Trump is doing
is really cutting across the political spectrum, in some cases, uniting people across the political
spectrum against them. But how long were you in Cuba? Only for three days.
Our motto is, and it's exactly what you did, is go to where the silence is. And often it's not
exactly silent. It's raucous, it's rowdy, people are organizing, but it doesn't hit the corporate
media radar screen, and that's why it's so important to break the silence.
Yeah, offering a voice to the voiceless. There's always a perspective of the populations that are
withstanding American intervention, sometimes even violent intervention, and I always find it
interesting that we never get to hear from them, right? Even if it doesn't
suit the purpose of the American State Department, like, we should still hear
from them. This is one of the things that I really appreciate about, like, what
Dropsite does as well, which is to go directly to the Hamas-Polit Bureau and
to talk to the Ansar-Allah movement and hear what their attitude is and
word they're at. I think everyone in mainstream news also has that opportunity to just choose
not to engage in that because I guess they're terrified that they might hear an argument
that they understand that their audiences might be receptive to.
Yeah, and I think also they don't have the freedom within those institutions. I mean,
let's give the benefit of the doubt to most of the people who decide they want to be a
a journalist and that they want to do it because they believe in the public's right to know.
But people choose to work in these institutions that don't give them the freedom to really
live up to that ideal.
And it's one of the things we're seeing now with so many people fleeing and going on their
own, not unlike what you do, but there are people who've been in the legacy media for
a long time who are either out of a job now or they're leaving because they don't like
like what's happening and they're finding ways to do it on their own.
I'm just making sure there's a human at the other end of the nation.
Zazu, yeah, Zazu. OK.
Oh, good. OK.
And it's why this idea trickle up journalism that Amy and democracy now practice,
you know, where you want the stories to infiltrate and to come up.
You know, is why we call this film Steal the Story, please.
Right. Yeah.
Steal the Story, please.
It's not, hey, you want the story, it's steal the story.
Please, you know, do your fucking job. Yeah. And this experience for yourself is, you know,
not always, not always a comfortable one, right?
Your career is filled with incredible moments of standing up to power from being the only
reporter aboard the plane with the ousted Haitian president, Aristide, when he attempted
to return to Haiti to being badly beaten by Indonesian soldiers in 1991, you've literally
risk your life for the truth. Sure, a lot of people have asked this question already,
but what keeps you motivated after all these years? And in retrospect, do you think you're
crazy for doing everything that you've done?
Have you ever been asked that question before?
You know, covering Prison Aristide was an amazing experience because he wasn't the victim
of one U.S. Baku, but two. And the U.S. took him out of Haiti. He was the democratically
elected president, and then his wife, Mildred Aristide, and sent him on a plane to the Central
African Republic. This so enraged Trans-Africa, which was an amazing group that was founded
by Randall Robinson, who has since died, that he, Maxine Waters, the Congresswoman from
here, Los Angeles, a Jamaican parliamentarian, got a plane and went to the Central African
Republic to bring him back.
He was basically under house arrest there.
And I got a call from Randall Robinson, and he said, would you want to cover this?
And I said, absolutely, I want to be there.
He would later tell me that his wife, that Randall's wife, had said to him, what are
you doing?
You're a plane, a small plane of black people.
This was under George Bush, Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, and he said, you're
a small plane of black people.
You could be blown right out of the sky.
You have to have someone white with you.
So I didn't realize that's when he called me, Randall Robinson, he said, would you like
to come cover this trip?
And so then when Randall Robinson's wife said, I don't understand, you're going, did you
get someone?
He said, yes, I called Amy Goodman.
And she said, oh, no, you're going to get blown in the sky even faster.
But anyway, we all went to Bangie.
And they negotiated with the Zeeze, the CAR leader who was in power for a year and wanted
to look like he had the imprimatur right of his country.
And they got the Aristides back.
But as they were coming back to Haiti,
Grumsfeld and Powell and Condoleezza Rice threatened them
and said, you are not to come back to this hemisphere
to which Randall Robinson replied, who's hemisphere?
What are they talking about?
They would go into exile in South Africa
for seven and a half years.
And then I went to South Africa with Danny Glover,
who had always wanted to make a film
about Tsila Vertur, the independence leader of Haiti,
and followed them back in a plane to Haiti
when they successfully landed
and the response was enormous in the streets.
I mean, that was an incredible experience.
From that to, I mean, East Timor is a story
Epic horror. It's one of the great genocides of the late 20th century. A third of the population was killed by the Indonesian military, which was armed, trained and financed by the United States. They invaded December 7, 1975, the next quarter of a century. They killed off the people.
I covered East Timor, went there with my colleague Alan Nairn,
who was writing for the New Yorker and on November 12th, 1991,
we witnessed and survived a massacre of over 270 Timorese.
We thought our presence as Western journalists could head off the attack,
because we came from the same country the Indonesian soldiers weapons came from.
But unfortunately, it did not head off that attack.
But as information came back to United States and you see that scene in the film when I'm questioning Mike McCurry, the spokesperson for President Clinton,
Congress actually had cut off military training aid to Indonesia. Was Clinton really going to restore it?
And he got angry, McCurry, and he said the turnip is dry.
And what was most interesting about that whole interaction with the White House press corps
is that a bunch of the journalists giggled with him, laughed, and that kind of peer pressure.
You know, who cares?
Because we're talking about lives here.
We're talking about life and death situations.
But in 1999, the people of East Timor got to vote for their freedom in a UN-sponsored
revolution, resolution and referendum. And three years later, they became one of the
newest nations in the world.
Yeah. Um, so democracy now, um, throughout the last couple of decades has been competing
with corporate industry titans like CNN and Fox for 30 years while sustaining itself on
a financial model of newer leaner publications like Dropsite or Zatel, how do you view democracy
now's role in this transition towards viewer-supported news and how do you expect the news landscape
to change in the next 30 years?
I can't predict how it's going to change, but in the predicted social media platforms,
but what we do is go to where people are.
And so we started 30 years ago, there wasn't even the word podcast.
We had to figure out how this 59 minute show is going to get to radio stations.
So we put it on the intertube.
So we put it at democracynow.org and radio stations could take it.
Other networks, you know, would pay money to put it on satellites.
We didn't have the money.
But because we went, we established democracynow.org, we immediately, before almost all other
networks had a global audience. And then we'd have, you know, you have the headlines.
And then you'd have segment one, maybe someone in Mexico would transcribe that segment two,
someone in Montana, segment three, someone in South Africa. We'd have our transcription
coordinator posted online. And we'd have the full transcript. This built the audience.
And then reporters could take these voices to the press briefing, the Pentagon or the
State Department or the White House. And these are the original voices, right? Not like those
fund-its, but I was saying before who knows so little about so much, explaining the world to us
and getting it so wrong and asking the president, the Pentagon spokesperson, the secretary of defense
and others. Um, okay. Zazu wants to get involved with this conversation too. It might be coming
friends with Taya or not. We'll see. Taya's checking her out.
So, they were in podcasts then. I was just talking to Amy's colleague, Dennis, yesterday
about this and they called them in MP4s, RSS, and MP3.
And that's how stations started taking it. And then that was 1996 and five years later,
the week of the 9-11 attacks.
We were the closest national broadcast to Ground Zero.
I was telling you, we worked out of this downtown community
TV, where the Renault brothers worked.
And we just kept broadcasting.
The first plane at the first tower,
minutes before we went to air,
the second plane hit the second tower at 9-03.
We were broadcasting at the time 9-10, now we do 8-9.
And we didn't know what had happened,
but people started running down the streets covered in ash
and we broadcast for hour upon hour.
And then I knew we couldn't leave
because we were within the evacuation zone.
If we left our broadcast site, we would not be allowed back.
So we stayed there.
There was this hammock that I would try to sleep in at night.
I'd walk around near the pile.
Everything was covered in ash.
and then station after station, TV station,
then it was public access station.
Start task, can we run Democracy Now?
Those are TV stations.
We're sending out so many videocassettes.
I don't even, I bet half your audience doesn't even know
what a videocassette is.
And then when we would send out those,
the college station would ask in a town of radio station,
can we run you?
Then the PBS station, then the NPR station,
All the Pacifica radio stations are running us.
And that's how it grew to almost 1500 stations.
Also our headlines available in Spanish.
We haven't translated right after the show.
So many in Latin America also take our headlines.
And that's how they stole the story.
And that's how, and I mean, you asked,
so listener, viewer, reader supported.
That's who we turned to from early on, but it was global.
And that's what made the difference.
In the film, the interviewers often
say that other journalists simply do not
ask the important questions that you do.
Why don't they ask those questions?
Well, part of it, I think, is the access of evil,
trading truth for access.
That's pretty straightforward.
And it also, democracy now is a brain trust.
Of all those people we've been talking about,
just people dedicated to the mission of independent media.
And we work really hard.
I mean, the producers comb the world,
looking for people who are closest to the story.
And then with that knowledge of what has happened,
questioning those in power.
And also having debate and discussions
among people who deeply care about issues,
but they don't necessarily agree.
And I think that's what makes for this vibrant,
really a vibrant grassroots global news hour
that democracy now is,
and stations every month are picking us up,
but online, YouTube, TikTok, Instagram,
wherever people are, we go.
We don't expect people just come to us.
We have to reach out.
Yeah.
One thing I've noticed is that you rarely
offer your own personal opinion
when you cover a story, your own personal commentary.
But I'm sure you'd be the first to say
that the very language we use to cover an objective story
is always gonna have its own bias.
For example, passive voice,
whenever mainstream reporters are covering incidents
that pertain to police violence or even that translates to, you know, state violence, no
matter how, no matter how closely it resembles terrorism, like in the case of Israel, how
do you view your role in shaping narratives and providing your insight into current events?
Again, speaking to people closest to the story and hearing their descriptions of what's
I mean, the horror of Gaza, I mean, hundreds and hundreds of journalists have been killed.
I mean, most recently, just last week, an Al Jazeera reporter in Israel completely admitted it.
I said they targeted it. I was just thinking about Rafat Al Adiyar, because for our 30th
anniversary, in addition to the musicians, and by the way, I don't know if you knew this,
Do you know Peaceable Kingdom by Patty Smith was actually written about Rachel Corey, who
I was talking about earlier about what she did in Rafa in Gaza, which was fascinating.
But Rafa Thaladir, he is the poet who wrote, I must die. We interviewed him in Gaza,
revered poet and professor, teacher. He was killed with his family. And democracy now is 30th
anniversary, we were joined by Mossab Abutoha. So we played Rafat on Democracy Now, and then
we played Mossab Remembering Rafat. And we played Brian Cox, who is the star of Succession,
reading If I Must Die. And then Mossab came out trying to keep his composure, just when
the Pulitzer Prize for his essays in the New Yorker and his poetry, and he read his
poem under the rubble. And there is nothing more eloquent, more real, less debatable than
someone describing their own experience. And you know, I go back to the beginning of
Pacifica was founded like three quarters of a century ago.
49 by a war resistor came out of the detention camps in Berkeley,
founded KPFA 1949 here in Los Angeles.
1959 was KPFK in New York.
1960 was WBAI, 1977,
Jazz and Justice Radio WPFW in Washington,
where we're going to be going and doing a big event with them.
on May 1st and in Houston, KPFT, we're also going to be having a big fundraiser there with
the film coming out there, KPFT goes on the air in 1970. Within a few weeks, the Ku Klux
Clan straps dynamite to the base of the transmitter and blows it up. So KPFT acted fast, the community
built the station, they rebuilt the transmitter.
And right in the middle of Arlo Guthrie
singing Alice's Restaurant,
the clan strapped 15 times the dynamite
to the base of the transmitter and blew it up a second time.
And I thought Arlo Guthrie's song is good.
I like Alice's Restaurant, but it was blown off the air.
So then it takes months to go to rebuild.
And January 1971, Arlo Guthrie comes back
Houston and finishes the song on the air and it's never a stop broadcasting. I can't remember
if it was the Grand Dragon or the Exalted Cyclops because I often confuse their titles
and leaders of the Ku Klux Klan, but he said it was his proudest act and I think that's because
he understood how dangerous Pacifica is, how dangerous independent media is.
is dangerous because it allows people to speak for themselves.
And when you hear someone speaking from their own experience,
whether it is a Palestinian child or an Israeli peace
activist who lost his parents on October 7,
like Ma'uluz Inam, who's working together with Aziz Abu Sara,
and they just wrote a book, The Future is Peace.
Whether it is an Afghanistan or an uncle in Iraq,
you may not even like the uncle
he reminds you of, that uncle,
but it challenges the caricatures and stereotypes
that fuel these hate groups.
It makes it much less likely
that you'll want to destroy someone.
When you simply hear them speak,
I think the media can be the greatest force for peace on Earth.
Instead, all too often, it's wielded as a weapon of war,
which is why we have to take the media back.
Absolutely.
It was powerful.
OK, so you've covered stories all around the world.
We briefly talked about it.
But what was the trip that had the biggest impact on your life?
I don't know if it's a corny question or not.
But what was the biggest trip?
What was the trip that had the biggest impact in your life?
And do you ever take any fun relaxing vacations
that don't involve paramilitary groups?
Oh my God.
Sitting on my couch with Zazu is like for 20 minutes.
It's like a month on the Riviera.
Is that a good enough answer?
That's a great answer.
It's one that I would probably give
because there's a question that I get asked all the time
as well, so I wanted to carry it over to you.
Like that broadcasting live 24 hours a day.
know, but you have been tirelessly doing this, you know, I wouldn't say I'm tireless. I can
still be tired and do it. Yeah, well, but you've been doing this for so consistently for so many
decades. It's just like I do, you know, it's I had to ask you that question. This is one that I
receive all the time. Let me try though. Let me try. I know you're asking Amy, but Amy, Amy's so
used to centering other voices and other people that I think it's sort of ingrained in her DNA
not to be able to answer a direct question about herself. Because she's very selfless.
But she talked about it earlier, and I'm just speaking because I've immersed myself in the
last 30 years, my partner, Tina, I did. And when Amy, there's no bullshit coming out of Amy. When
And she believes everything she says and she lives her life by these ideals.
And so when she says that surviving the massacre and witnessing those murders in East Timor
by an army that was armed and financed by the United States, that that changed her,
she means it.
And then off of that, her reporting changed what was happening in East Timor because it
became part of a much larger movement.
And that's, I think so, objectively speaking, as an outside observer who had nothing to
do with what Amy did, seeing the power that you have as a journalist that your voice can
have to change the course of history or to influence the course of history, I think was
the most life-changing thing that I've seen her experience. I mean, in that case, it was the people
on the ground, especially these young people in Timor. They weren't even born when Indonesian
invaded and illegally occupied them, but they were the ones who were standing up.
And that is incredibly inspiring, even when their friends, when their neighbors were killed.
And I, so many of these interviews in Timor, in Haiti, here in the United States, interviewing
people in Gaza through this period, in Iran, I mean, it is amazing to talk to Iran.
Iranians and the diaspora, Iranians in Iran, but I mean, the professors, the artists, the
poets, the people who themselves have been victims from the regime, you know, I'm death
row in the Aviv prison, notorious prison, but they are saying now, no, this is not going
to improve the situation for us and our colleagues or the dissidents or compatriots in Iran right
Now, it will harden this regime.
This is not what we think will further any kind of democracy.
It's just amazing to hear people speak for themselves.
And that's, they're the ones who change history.
To point a mic in their direction,
to shine a spotlight on what they're doing.
That's the honor of my life.
Wow.
I wanted to give you a poster.
We got one right there.
Oh, here it is, here it is.
Check this out.
You know who Shepard Ferris is.
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, the amazing writers of street artists.
He works in all kinds of media.
He did the Barack Obama Hope and Change poster.
The Hope and Change poster.
Well, he did this.
He's also a fan of hers, not of mine.
And he offered to do this poster.
Beautiful, because what I love about it here
is the fist in the air, and the weapon is the microphone.
Yeah.
And we just went to Shepherd Ferry's studio,
and we told him we wanted to give this to you.
And again, at the top, it says, go to where the silence is
and say something.
And that's really very much where
Carl and Tia and the documentary. Yeah. Right. You have to sign this for a sign. Oh, I'm going to sign it. Yeah, that's what an honor.
I have another question for you. Again, someone of a corny one, but you've basically interviewed every single person from Bill Clinton to Noam Chomsky and some of Jeffrey Epstein's other friends as well.
Who was the most, what was the most important interview that you've ever conducted?
Oh man.
Tough. Tough question.
I cannot say the most important interview.
I, I, oh.
Thank you so much.
And then look, I have to show you something.
In the background, there is, this is when Sharif got arrested.
And then I also got arrested along with him.
This is the standoff, it's standing rock covering it.
And these underneath these what are called laurels,
I'm only learning this world of the film festivals,
but they are amazing, these film festivals.
And this is not my work,
this is Carl and Tia's work.
They have won so many awards, grand jury prizes,
as I was saying before, and audience favorite documentaries,
which is why I want all you guys who are watching
and listening right now to go out to your favorite movie
theater and either get them to run it
or go to the theaters that are running it.
And we're here in Los Angeles to really, well,
one is to talk to you and do these fundraisers
for Pacifica stations, OK?
And I, do you think I've worded your question?
A little bit.
It's okay, you don't need to do that.
You don't need to think.
I have to come back, I have to think about the answer,
but I will, I know one thing as I won't choose just one
because so many are important for so many reasons.
Each story I've described to you now
includes so many interviews,
whether it is Rafat al-Aliyya, whether it is covering the journey of President
Aristide Pady, whether it is talking to Al-Yaramah, this remarkable woman who
stands for so many people who've been brutalized in the Semirgrin Crackdown,
It just goes on and on I got some tough questions for you, too. Don't worry
Okay, so you took
30 very memorable years Amy's life and you condensed it into
98 minutes. Okay
What were the hardest editorial sacrifices and was there anything you cut from the film that you wish you kept it? Oh
Yeah
It's a process. You know what you do is real time. Mm-hmm. What we do is is a couple years of work and
Especially when you immerse yourself in 30 years of somebody's career in life. It's really hard
I'd say in a weird way
You know this story, please is also a very personal story for me and for Tia
Because it's a reflection of the things that Amy has done throughout her life that have impacted us the most profoundly and
and it sit with us to this day.
So I'd say, you know, the choices are difficult to make.
When we had a hard choice, when we had,
when we had three and a half hours of a film,
and we knew that we couldn't put out
three and a half hours of a film,
you know, we had to impose some process.
And that was whatever was speaking most clearly
and profoundly to the moment that we're living in now,
stayed in the film.
That and the other big rule, which has always been a rule,
which we learned from Michael Moore, is you never take a laugh out.
And, uh, and Amy Goodman is a barrel of laughs.
She has so much fun, um, in, in this life, uh, she is surrounded by so many great people.
Amy never says no to, to an invitation to do something fun, to be out on the town,
to be walking on the street and, uh, and she's always laughing.
And, and so we wanted to, you know, that bad appeals to us who doesn't like somebody who likes to have fun. It finds joy.
And, and it's important for telling the story about a person, even though the film is admittedly, it's about a much bigger thing than any goodman.
But, you know, it makes Amy so relatable.
You know, I was just looking at this picture you have up of
I think this was at the, um,
I think this was at the Polk Awards, and they had us do a, um, you know, a large poster.
But it made me think about the Overseas Press Club Awards, because we won an Overseas Press Club award for this.
because we'd won an overseas press club for the award for this and I'm not here to boast about that
but we learned about the ceremony it was at a midtown hotel and we thought okay I mean we I think
it was in the midst of the bombing of Yugoslavia and we had so much work to do but we were supposed
to go and collect this award. So Jeremy and I raced over to the hotel and we couldn't
actually afford to sit and have the meal because it was expensive. It was hundreds of journalists
that were there. So we went as press covering our own awards. But what we saw there was
Richard Holbrook, and he was the US envoy on Yugoslavia at the time. And this was a, oh my gosh,
it's almost exactly like 27 years ago. And we say, oh my God, this is fantastic.
Because we're at this award ceremony, we get to get to speak to people you wouldn't normally get
get to speak to. And so this is a real opportunity. We had our tape recorder. We're going to cover
our own award ceremony. So we ran up to Mr. Holbrook, and we said we he had just given
a speech talking about how the you how NATO had bombed the RTS building. That's radio,
and Serbia. They were taking out the body parts of the makeup artists, of the camera
people. It was horrifying. This is a civilian site. And so we wanted to ask him a question.
And here he is at the prestigious awards ceremony surrounded by journalists. That's
right. This was the perfect moment. Yeah. Right before he spoke, we went up to ask him
because he thought maybe we won't get a chance to.
Actually, he was going into the bathroom,
so we were following into the bathroom.
But he said, no, they made a deal here
that I would not answer questions.
And the head of the overseas press club
and said, came over and said to us, what are you doing?
And so I said, we were asking Mr. Holbrook a question.
He's the point person on NATO bombing Yugoslavia.
Yugoslavia and they said, no, we made a deal.
We're not going to ask them questions
because he's our keynote speaker.
So then we go back in and they're announcing the awards
and they come to the award that we were winning.
And it was one of the network news anchors
and I think it was Tom Brokaw.
And he said, and now the Overseas Press Club award
Overseas Press Club Award goes to drilling and killing
Nigeria's oil dictatorship.
Jeremy had gone up right before when Mr. Holbrook
had just finished his speech and said,
Mr. Holbrook, Mr. Holbrook,
because you wanted to ask him a question then.
That was our second check.
You don't know Mr. Jeremy doing that.
I was standing at the back of the room
and they had security take him out.
And so I was at the back, and as they're taking Jeremy out,
I said, release that man.
He's just about to win an award.
And they were very confused.
They didn't know what to do.
And when Broca announced that we had won the award,
I went up, Jeremy had already been taken out,
so now it's just me.
And then go up in the stage, and I said, Mr. Broca,
I want to thank you for the Overseas Prescott Award,
but we're going to have to refuse it.
Meanwhile, I'm thinking, oh my God, it didn't even ask Jeremy,
but he's been taken out.
I don't have the opportunity.
I hope he's okay with us refusing this award.
And I say, we're gonna have to refuse the award
because we came to this event
which honors the highest in journalism.
And yet we were told that a deal had been made
that an agreement had been made
with a person who's a key player
in the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
that we're not allowed to ask him questions.
So I wanna say thank you, but no thank you.
And Brokaw said, well, that's why the First Amendment is great.
And that was the end of that.
So when I see that picture of us,
I asked Jeremy after, did you mind that I'm so sorry
that we're not bringing home this award?
And so given that he had been taken out,
he definitely understood and supported the decision.
Yeah, it almost, it reminds me of,
I think it was during the Columbia campus,
student encampments that were taking place.
I believe it was like the Pulitzer Hall
that was like offering or the journalism school
was setting guidelines on what their students
were able to report in the student newspaper
because they were worried that the Trump administration, or not even the Trump administration, the Biden
administration at the time, was going to enforce these restrictions, or was it under the Trump
administration?
But I just thought that it was very interesting that we're teaching this next generation in
an incredibly prestigious university that carries the same name as an award that is
given to reporters where we were teaching them that, you know, you have to censor yourself
ahead of time instead of conducting what you're supposed to do as a reporter, as a journalist.
It's a very interesting lesson in, I guess, that hypocrisy that has been going on for far longer.
There was a question I had. I have a question. Okay. Do you have the trailer?
do I have the trailer? I can find it. I don't think I have it right here, but no, I don't have the trailer here. I can find it though.
stealthestory.org
Oh, it's there. Oh, right. It's right there.
I think you hear Jeremy in it, right?
You hear Jeremy in it?
I hear Sharif.
Hi, I'm Amy Goodman from Democracy Now. Can you tell us what you think about President
Trump saying about the changes of the Chinese economy?
This is so funny.
Right, but you weren't running away.
This is amazing.
But you're just standing there.
At this outfield.
Yes.
My first impressions of Amy.
What did you say to those who say that you're a war criminal?
I was asked to brush that.
No.
Independent media is the oxygen of a democracy.
What do you mean by independent?
Nothing sponsored by corporations.
No.
Independent media is the oxygen of a democracy.
What do you mean by independent?
Nothing sponsored by corporations.
Amy's periodically brilliant at the spy game.
We began on nine radio stations.
If she believes something, she's going to fight for it
and get it out to the world.
Straight up journalism.
It came from my Jewish education that you asked questions.
Sharif, can you talk about what's happened on the Gaza Strip?
From Brown Zero, from East Timor,
this we deploy in Haiti,
from Georgia's death row prison.
We have to smuggle in our recording equipment.
This was extremely dangerous.
We're accusing a powerful American corporation of murder.
Without any warning,
military open fire on the protesters.
They put the guns to our heads.
It is critical that we expose what is done in our name.
Donald from Understood, corporate owners of the media would do anything for money.
She taught me to speak to the people at the target's end of the bone,
speak to those who are being deliberately silenced.
When you hear someone speak, it's less likely you'll want to destroy them.
We expand the frame and center those voices.
There is a great force that would like to silence us.
The first to hit the enemy of the people.
We're not going to let it happen.
Wow.
One thing missing from that.
A poll quote from Hassan Piker.
That's where we...
You mean, wow?
No.
Just wow.
Yeah, just wow.
I have many words to say.
You could have put the, me fangirling, but it almost made the film, it was in the cut
for a little while.
Oh, really?
Absolutely.
Dan, you put me on the, you edited me out.
Now we got to get the real deal, the Carl Deal cut.
Yeah.
But also Juan Gonzalez throughout this film, who's been with Democracy Now for 30 years,
he had two DNs like the New York Daily News, he was with for 29 years.
And he had democracy now, which he's still with, and his wisdom, his journalistic prowess.
He began way back.
He was part of Columbia's student strike of 1968, when leaders went on to found the New
York chapter of the Young Lords with the people and one of the things he says in the
documentary, which is so profound, you see this group of Puerto Rican, I mean, they're
like the Puerto Rican Black Panthers.
he says, we managed to frame our own story, to shape our own narrative. When you look
at that circle of, of Puerto Rican activists, you realize almost everyone became a journalist.
Yeah. And he said, that is the most important thing you can do. And that's the whole idea
behind steal the story, please. It's really about shaping the narrative and putting it
go. Yeah. Um, last question,
because I feel like I've kept you here for far too long and thank you so much.
You mean you're going to make us late to the screening tonight?
We're doing it with Pamela Adlon, right? Yeah, Pamela Adlon.
It's going to be the moderator of this. And then tomorrow,
it's a surprise the two KPFK fundraisers again, go to KPFK.org and get your
tickets there. But you could even show up at the tomorrow.
if you're here at the Lemley Royal in West Los Angeles.
And I bet they'll be able to have tickets for you.
But if you're in Seattle, Washington or you're in Portland, Oregon,
if you are in Seattle, IFC in New York, San Francisco, if you're in Berkeley,
if you're in Sonoma, if you're in Chicago, if you're in D.C., Boston.
We're going to be all over San Francisco this weekend.
Everyone keeps saying I got to hit her with the you have 10 seconds left. Give her hit her at the you have 20 seconds
Every time
I'm like no I need to hear more
But um what I was gonna what I was gonna say is there's there's been a
Real sea change in attitudes over
for Israel's conduct in the last two and a half years now.
And I feel like that is, of course, the lion's share that
burden comes from the Palestinians who were able to communicate
the atrocities that were taking place in real time,
sometimes in their final moments.
think of all the countries of Germany.
And not even just reporters who are unbelievably brave, but even regular ordinary Palestinians
under constant threat by the Israeli occupation being bombarded, having their lives destroyed.
I feel like that was in large part due to their bravery and also because of the fact
that independent media, by way of both social media and places like Democracy Now, were
able to take that footage and try to honor the sacrifice of martyrdom, honor the work
that Palestinians put in to showcasing the reality on the ground.
Do you feel like there are lessons that major media could learn from that?
How do you feel?
You've covered this issue. You've covered the apartheid for decades. It didn't start on October 7 as many people might think. Do you see that sea change? Do you feel like it was rapid?
completely. And I mean, I, I completely see a sea change. Yes, I was there covering the
first Santa Fada and carrying through to today the strength of voices there and also here
and being a Jewish journalist and coming from a religious Jewish background. My grandfather
There was an Orthodox rabbi on my mother's side, and my great-grandfather on my father's
side was a Hasidic rabbi, who was a monastery rabbi in Lower East Side.
I also really carefully monitor the Jewish community, and the sea change, especially
among young people.
I know this causes APEC great concern.
And why I've always been amazed at the universities going after students who are part of the encampments
is so much of what students learn, yes, from their own background, but when they come to
college and they take human rights classes and they learn about what's legal and illegal
and international law, universities should have seen it as such a tribute of the learning
and the education of their students.
But from my perspective, steeped in the Holocaust, as my family was, my grandmother, a woman
of three centuries, born in 1897, in Rivna, Ukraine, though it was Poland and Russia at
the time.
She lived until she was 108 in 2005.
She died in Brooklyn.
I was steeped in who died and who lived, what family members were able to flee and who wasn't
able to flee.
And I was always struck by non-Jewish people who and families who would horrible Jews protect
them, put a child in the basement or the attic or in a barn simply to protect them from the Nazis.
And I'd always wonder, they're called the righteous. Why would they do this, risk their own families' lives?
And we learned a deep, deep lesson through the horror of the Holocaust. And that was never again
for anyone anywhere. And I think it is not only my Jewish education, I think for Muslims,
Hindus, Christians, agnostics, atheists, this is a humanistic education. We cannot afford war
anymore. We cannot afford this mass victimization. As reporters, we know no borders, and it is
absolutely critical today that these issues be solved on the ground, empowering people to live in a more
justice. Oh, powerful words to end it on. Thank you so much for coming on. Um, yeah,
this was a real honor. I, uh, I listened to you every morning. So I hear your voice all the time.
Well, people can check it out in the video and audio podcast at democracy now.
That organ all social media. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you for having us on. Thank you for what you do.
You know and and and don't don't don't let him silence you. Oh, no, I'm good. I it's not happening
anytime soon. I didn't want to get into any of the drama. I don't know how aware you are of like
all the other stuff that's going on. I'm a little bit of the main point of contention in a lot of
legacy publishers right now. My affiliation with campaigns has been brought up by, you know,
right-winged think tanks, APAC, ADL and numerous other organizations are trying to
forcibly sever my ties with Democratic elected representatives and people who
are campaigning, but it hasn't worked so far. And I don't think it'll work at
all because we are now due to in large part your work, your tireless work for
For many, many years, we're in a very different media environment where the independent media
that is truly independent of the corporate shackles, the golden shackles that corporations
offer can communicate truth to power and the audience is much more receptive to it and
they demand it.
Hopefully the lesson that they can learn from that is to reestablish credibility that they've
lost and do true contentious adversarial reporting, investigative reporting, and not just investigative
reporting every now and then so they can like, claw back a little bit of that legitimacy
that they've lost, but just like consistently engage in that.
But yeah, thank you.
Thank you so much for coming on.
This is a real honor.
Thank you so much, Hasan.
thank you so much to this amazing tens of thousands of people who are listening and watching right now.
This is what community looks like. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah. All right. Thank you. All right. Let's take a photo
as well. And I'll we're we're going to get back. Oh, and steal the story. Right. Steal the story.
Please. That's what makes it all worth it. Yeah. All right. Let's
between the Israeli Prime Minister and the Lebanese president.
The Lebanese basically said that that was not happening, and that seems to be largely
in part because a ceasefire was not yet in place.
And so very shortly following that, within a matter of hours, we now have this announcement
from President Trump that there will be a ceasefire agreement taking effect officially
at 5 p.m. Eastern time, so less than five hours from now.
And in addition to that, we also saw this quite striking announcement of the president
inviting the Israeli prime minister and the Lebanese president to the White House in order
to engage in peace talks, in broader talks about normalizing the relationship between
Israel and Lebanon.
These are by far the most substantive negotiations we've seen between Israel and Lebanon in more
than 40 years since 1983.
But even since then, you know, we have never seen fully normalized relations between these
two countries.
And now that very much seems to be the aim of this White House.
The bigger picture, of course, is the U.S.-Iran ceasefire.
And President Trump seems to have brought this pressure to bear on Israel, in part in order
to keep that U.S.-Iran ceasefire alive and to kind of continue pushing forward the diplomatic
solution on that broader conflict, very much needed to be tied to a ceasefire agreement
in Lebanon as well.
The Iranians have been insisting on it for some time now.
And now, again, we do see this announcement of a ceasefire.
A number of questions still remain, but a major announcement now from the president.
And, Jeremy, so how will Netanyahu, though, frame this ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon
domestically?
I mean, obviously, yes, it's temporary.
It's only 10 days.
So for voters who are a bit more to the right, who are a bit more sort of security minded,
he doesn't want to look like he has backed down or offered sort of too many concessions.
How would he frame it?
Yeah, and it's not even just the right in Israel.
I mean, 80% of Israelis, according to recent polling, wanted Israel to continue striking
and fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon.
They were, this is a country where the majority of the country was not in favor of a ceasefire
with Lebanon.
a very real political reality that the Israeli Prime Minister is and will have to contend
with.
I think he will certainly lean on the fact that it is a temporary 10-day ceasefire that
it is in order to allow for the possibility of negotiations.
Maybe he will signal that he sees a potential major breakthrough on the horizon that could
kind of begin to change the face of this region.
But so many challenges still remain.
You know, as Israel and Lebanon engage in these negotiations, the key will be disarming
Hezbollah. And while the political will certainly now exists in Lebanon in a way that it didn't
before, the capacity to actually carry that out on the ground is still lacking. The Lebanese
Army is incredibly weak in particular as it vis-a-vis Hezbollah's paramilitary strength
inside of Lebanon. There's no desire in Lebanon for aggressive action that could potentially
tilt the country back into civil war. And so there are a number of considerations and
Lebanon is going to need some real international support in order to actually carry this out
and a broader kind of political and diplomatic framework in order for it to happen.
One last thing that we're still waiting to hear about is what does, what happens to the
Israeli military positions inside of Lebanon?
Because we have Israeli troops right now inside of Lebanon.
As far as 10 kilometers inside of Lebanese territory, there's nothing about this temporary
ceasefire agreement that indicates that they are going to be withdrawn at this moment.
So as we just heard from Nick Pakistan in Iranians, as we're hoping to see renewed negotiations
in Pakistan, Iran is watching closely and seeing that the president, in fact, is delivering
a ceasefire.
But they're also seeing something historic.
The fact that the president has brought together the Israeli leaders and the Lebanese leader
or perhaps a summit, imminently.
You had officials meeting in Washington earlier this week.
How is that angle of all of this sitting with Iran?
Well, this puts Iran in a very difficult position.
The Iranians would not like Lebanon to fall
under the Israeli sphere of influence
and the American sphere of influence in the region
and perhaps be the next country to normalize relations
with Jerusalem.
So while the Iranians need a ceasefire,
and I think Nick Robertson made it clear
that this might be a piece of that
to get to a better place in terms of negotiations
between the United States and Iran,
it is a challenge for the Iranians
because Hezbollah is quite unpopular.
Israel and Lebanon can be partners
in undermining Hezbollah further,
and they'll have outside support from the United States.
Wow. That was crazy. That was... Trump delayed for you? Delayed what?
Trump is going an hour late and counting, so now his fans are doing some sort of sing-along?
Oh, Trump is about to go live on No Tax on Tips in Vegas? That's interesting.
I don't think you get I'm gonna go I'm gonna go tomorrow to the I'm gonna go tomorrow to the
late later screening that you guys don't understand okay well maybe my goal was hopefully for the
uninitiated or people who don't, who haven't watched a Marx now or who are
unfamiliar to understand it like I am like this is, I am at a loss for words.
It's, you know, Amy Goodman is such an important figure in my life, both from
her principles both from her, you know tireless worker,
her advocacy, her journalism, her reporting,
the fact that she always tries to offer a microphone
to those who rarely ever get that coverage, you know?
Putting a microphone in front of the people
who are under the bombs,
rather than those who are deploying these weapons of war,
That's the same exact principle that I try to maintain as well.
She's been doing this for so many decades.
It was a crazy experience.
Anyway. That was crazy. Do you want to be doing this as long as Amy has? Yes. I mean,
that's the other side of the story that I think is like kind of similar. You know, this
This is like, this is her life's work.
She's dedicated her whole life to this and I totally understand it, you know?
You should do a peace signer photo, of course.
Dude, that's the other thing.
I also do always a peace sign as well.
Um, you just start thinking of increasing the size of your PBS, but Parker broadcasting service
I'm from Pacific Island. I grew up watching Amy on PBS KQED. She's an icon for journalists. Yeah
Yeah
Was it for was this her first time on the Schumer? Have you been on demarxing out? No, they've asked a couple times for me to do it. But because they filmed super early for LA time, I haven't been able to do it. And the times where I'm in New York, I haven't been able to do it either.
Because you know I had some other obligations at the same time, but I eventually I will of course
Do you guys like the the personal touch with the young Jeremy he had to ask his mom for these photos?
it's also a network of like sometimes the same people you know what I mean like these are these
are people who've been at this game for a very long time you know it's just in your Narduwa
era yeah every time we got a we got a drop in a little Nardu are
anyway
Are you going to have any candidates on soon?
Yo, can you talk a bit about upcoming candidates you might have on?
I don't know who I'm going to have on soon.
There's too many candidates I've been asking and I am, I've told you guys this so many
times, like I hate.
What is this?
He's locking you down.
Parker said yes to collab with me on live stream. Hasan I'm ready when you are in New York City or LA your call
um yeah I'm
I I hate doing uh Canada stuff but we got some we got some I can't tell you exactly
I can't tell you exactly who or when
Everybody this is not your opportunity to start spamming which candidates you think I should be interviewing trust me
I know, we're already in contact, okay? I promise. Why do you hate it? It's just like,
it's not my forte. I've talked about it already. It's like, it's not,
Is that because you lose yours? No, it's not that. I don't really give a shit about that.
that could be interesting. Adam Freeland 2.0. Are you going to do any gaming soon? Probably
Probably not. Trump is crashing out watching the five get her off the air. Trump is late.
Trump is late to his event where he's supposed to be talking about no tax on tips. And instead
of instead of doing that, he's on the plane. Instead of doing that, he's on the plane watching
the wait, they didn't cover me today on the Fox five, right? I didn't. That didn't happen
today, right? Because that's a big uh-oh moment. They absolutely did. No, no, no, they didn't.
They probably didn't. I guess he does watch Fox every day, so he might have seen it on
another day. But, yes, they're going to clip that.
penis. Penis goes right through your mind. I want the penis.
They're going to clip that.
Trump, I'm on Air Force One, heading to Las Vegas in Arizona for greetings and speeches
on no tax on tips. A windfall for our great American citizens. I'm watching one of the
least attractive and talented people on television. Jessica, stop. Stop coming after my queen.
Okay. That's ridiculous. How dare you? Her voice is so grating and terrible. I had to
turn her off. Her Democrats sound bite are fake. She makes up poll numbers and nobody
challenges her because she is so boring. I have the best poll numbers I've ever had.
And why shouldn't I? All the country does is win CNN had me at a hundred percent saying
They never saw that before. Get her out the air. She's bad for our country. I hear Megan Kelly,
Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are dying fast. Their numbers are terrible. This was the clip
that he saw. Nobody believes him anymore. They were fake MAGA and now they've been exposed.
President Donald J. Trump. So one, you know, just throwing it right back at Jessica is the way that
she threw it for me. Jessica is objectively attractive. Okay. Not that it matters. We
We don't objectify women on this broadcast, only men.
So how dare you, sir?
Number one, that's number one.
Number two, we will always fight for the queen, okay?
Jessica Tarkov, Jessica, escape from Tarkov, we will always, we ride it down, okay?
You tell us where we need to go, we will ride for you, okay?
That's number one.
Number two, it kind of feels like Donald Trump is feeling the pressure a little bit.
Because obviously, if he was comfortable about his position currently, his approval ratings,
he certainly, oh, may he wins the special election to fill Cheryl's seat, New Jersey
11, quick AP call, boom, boom, boom, easy peasy, okay?
You were on Fox and Friends today?
No, I watched this earlier, yeah.
Yeah, but not on Fox 5. Thank God. So, congratulations to Annalia Mejia. But, um, yeah, as we were
saying, clearly, if he was confident about what was going on, clearly, if he was confident
about what was going on, he wouldn't be this man that Jessica Tarlove is saying the truth,
right?
So you want her to be the nominee in 2020?
No.
You want her to run.
The twisting of what I was saying is crazy, Kelly.
And I did not say I want Kamala Harris to be the nominee.
I said that the argument that you're making against the Biden-Harris administration falls
flat when you look at what the Trump administration is doing.
I'm just gonna look at that, the Trump got elected on running against the Biden-Harris
economy.
is a 35% approval rating in most polls.
What?
He's not a politician.
He doesn't care.
He's not campaigning.
Stop saying that he's just opposed to the apprentice
who came to save us.
The guy has been in office.
You can't say, you can't understand Trump
because his political decisions aligned
with his personal and patriotic ones.
You understand Kamala, you understand Gavin,
you understand Biden because their political decisions
are divorced from the things people want.
Why are you on the 20 of every 20 issue?
It's because you divorced political desires
from human needs.
And then you have to dress up your decisions
as compassion when they're merely wants
from an activist class.
The thing about Trump is I don't care
whether you like him or hate him,
you're suffering from the Trump America alignment problem.
Political, personal and patriotic desires all stack up.
up, which means what he wants, the country tends to want. If it's 80, 20, he's on the
80, you're stuck on the 20. You can get your defenses are getting more and more narrow
because you say, we keep saying the same thing every day. It's because we have to because
you don't listen. I do. All I hear in my head is your voice.
You're lucky. This is why I respect Jessica. She goes into the lines then every day and
she has to sit next to Jesse Waters and Greg Buttfeld. Okay? It's unbelievable. Like the
torment that she puts herself through, there is no amount of money. There is no amount of
money that would make that a worthwhile experience. Okay? The whole time his feet are kicking
because they don't touch the ground. Exactly. Exactly. It's ridiculous. And now Trump is
coming after her for no fucking reason.
You think you can get her on?
Yeah, of course I can.
I've been, I've met her.
I've, I did a whole appearance with her at the Podjons.
This is the voice of Bob.
No Americans wanted the tariffs.
They didn't want the war in Iran.
They would not like them.
And they don't want the ball room.
What do you got?
What do you got?
Look at what you have on your side.
It is a cloud car of carnival atrocities.
I can't wait for elections.
Does she know you're anti-Semitic though?
She literally did talk about my quote unquote controversies.
I think, I forget where was she, there was a,
was it with the bulwark?
It was something.
She was on a show.
You might have been with like Tommy Vitor or something.
I mean, she's also literally talked about my conferences on the show, which is why,
which is why, you know, it's a little bit worrisome that Trump is watching and is mad
at Jessica.
Yeah, but I've met her. I've done a whole thing with her. The legend, Jessica Tarkov,
Jessica Skate from Tarkov. New Trump truth about Hezbollah. Okay. What is this? I hope
Hezbollah acts nicely and well during this important period of time. It will be an end great moment for them
If they do no more killing must finally have peace. Thank you for attention. This matter
President Donald J Trump
So I don't fully understand are we like are we good is there
Did he do the boss call like did they
Did they lean into Iran and the demands of Iran because I just don't believe Israel will
ever cease to fire, right?
Saudi Arabia and other players like the French.
So I know, I know, stop, stop, chatter.
I know the one that's spamming with the fucking pink code.
I know, man, calm down.
I saw it.
It's going to be fine.
Okay.
Oh, um, perhaps the Iranians.
Jesus Christ, dude.
holy shit. This from a tactical perspective, over the longer term, I can expect them to
try to undermine any kind of rapprochement between Israel and Lebanon.
Stephen, I'd like to get your perspective on how this 10-day ceasefire between the Israelis
and the Lebanese will affect Netanyahu politically. While in this country, here in the US, the
number one main political issue, at least right now, is a lot of talk about gas prices
before the midterms in Israel. The number one political issue is of course security and
there's going to be a lot of fear and concern among Israel.
Oh my God, you're mad. You're mad now. Okay. You're mad. Wonderful. Your aggravation is
totally deserve normal. I'm aware of everything that's going on chatter. Okay. It's fine.
If I'm not responding to you, it's, I promise you, I've seen it, right? You've been in here
long enough. You know, if you spam something like I'm definitely seeing it. I'm just like
purposely not talking about it, avoiding it, you know, responding to it. You spend it seven
million times over.
It is that this temporary ceasefire that all it does is going to allow Hezbollah to reposition,
rearm, regroup. And then on top of that, you've got the fighting with Iran paused without
either side, either the US or Israel, anywhere close to achieving their objectives, be it
of regime change, or this idea that Iran should never be able to have a nuclear weapon.
How will that affect Netanyahu, Steven?
Yeah, in fact, there was a poll that was released by the Israel Democracy Institute
just today, which indicated that about 80% of the Israeli public supported continuing
the fight against Hezbollah.
This is sort of the post-October 7 mindset among Israelis, where they don't want to
necessarily manage their security threats on their borders.
They want to resolve them.
And so Netanyahu is clearly being jammed by President Trump.
His security cabinet could not come to a decision last evening on a ceasefire, and the president
went ahead and announced one anyway.
So Netanyahu is already in a difficult political position.
His coalition is only polling the implied number of seats in the legislature.
Only about 50 seats at the election were held today, which is far short of the majority
he needs to form another government.
So he is in a difficult position.
Recently you've seen him put spin on it, show that, you know, a lot of damage has been done
to the Iranians.
And he's right.
A lot of damage has been done to the Iranian war machine.
There's been a lot of damage to its proxies, but they have not been able to translate those
tactical accomplishments on the battlefield into Israel's strategic goals.
And that, I think, is frustrating Israelis, and I think it's frustrating Israelis with
Prime Minister Netanyahu.
Are you saying that he was talking about his concerns?
Very important that the Pope understands.
Very, very important.
It would be nice not to say it.
Iran killed 42,000 people that were totally armed.
They were protesters.
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon if they did every country, including Italy,
where he stationed every single country in the world would be in trouble.
So we're doing very well with respect to that.
Having to do with the whole situation on Iran, the blockade is amazing and holding up very
strong, very powerfully.
And I think we're making a lot of progress in that.
But the co-pastor understands Iran is very simple.
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
The world would be in great danger.
He's a friend of mine from India, and he's doing great, we had a very good conversation.
He's a friend of mine from India. Oh, really? The Prime Minister of India is a friend of
yours from India. Thank you, sir. I love when you just add stuff like that to be like, look
how knowledgeable I am, you know? Yeah, I know he's from India. Modi, he's from India.
Many people are saying, many people are saying, I don't know which country which leaders from,
But I know, I know, I always know.
We're doing very well, I can tell you, maybe it'll happen before that, I'm not sure it
needs to be extended.
Okay, so you know, Iran wants to make a deal, and we're dealing very nicely with them.
We've got to have no nuclear weapons, and if we do, that's a big factor.
And they're willing to do things today that they weren't willing to do two months ago.
So, I think they're handling it about Ukraine.
I think they will.
I think it's going to be actually, it's very exciting, because it's 48 years.
We're going to be meeting with BB Netanyahu, as you know, and the president of Lebanon.
I had a great talk with both of them today.
They're going to be having a ceasefire,
and that will include Hezbollah.
And I think it could be number 10 for me.
You said that you have a new Ukraine.
You have a new Ukraine.
Ukraine is moving along.
I wish they could get along, frankly.
A lot of people are dying in Ukraine.
We'll see what happens.
Things happening there.
We're focused.
A lot of people are dying in Ukraine.
in Iran, seeing when we can get that completed.
And I think if you look, the stock market is good,
the oil prices are coming down, and it's looking very good
that we're going to make a deal with Iran,
and it's going to be a good deal.
It's going to be a deal with no nuclear weapons.
Mr. President, I want to say that's in-person ground
of negotiations on the war in Iran.
What does that take place?
I mean, it's not a question of Iran.
All of them, of course.
The President will you send them a blockade?
The President said the blockade has been incredible.
It's been, it's held.
They're not doing any business.
They're unable to do any business because of the blockade.
And so the combination of having no Navy,
having no Air Force, having no anti-aircraft equipment,
they have nothing.
Everything is gone, including their leaders.
Now they have a new set of leaders,
and we find them very reasonable.
And they're the President of the United States.
They're the President of the United States.
They're the President of the United States.
very reasonable what we have is we we have a statement very very powerful
statement that they will not have beyond 20 years that they will not have to
I think I think that Todd Blanche is doing a very good job from what I'm saying.
All I can say thus far I think Todd Blanche is doing a very good job.
I would say the fighting is there's no deal, fighting reserve.
Okay, and then on gas prices, how long will Americans continue to see these high gas prices?
Well, they're not very high.
If you look at what they were supposed to be in order to get rid of a nuclear weapon,
with the danger that entails.
So the gas prices have come down very much over the last three or four days.
I know, you know, that's what ABC says.
But the fact is that if you look at the stock markets up, everything is doing really well.
And the big thing we have to do is we have to make sure that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon,
nuclear weapons, because if they do, you want to talk about problems, you don't have problems.
So, very important is that Iran does not have a nuclear weapon, and they've agreed to that.
Iran's agreed to that, and they've agreed to it very powerfully.
They've agreed to give us back the nuclear dust.
It's way underground because of the impact we've made with the B-2 bomber.
So, we have a lot of agreement with Iran, and I think something's going to happen very
Very complicated subject. It's I don't think we're waiting. I think we're moving very fast. It could happen pretty quickly
We're doing very well with the blockade, it's very routine for us, the Navy is incredible.
And I think the blockade is doing very well.
No ship is even thinking about entering, no ship is going past our Navy.
I have nothing against the Pope. His brother is looking at Magga all the way. I like his brother, Lewis. I'm not fighting with him. The Pope made a statement. He says Iran can have a nuclear weapon. I say Iran can not have a nuclear weapon.
That's not what the Pope said.
That would be really funny if the Pope said,
Iran can have a nuclear weapon.
Nuclear Pope.
The Pope is very weak from the standpoint of crime.
The weakest crime pope of all time.
Previous popes very strong on crime.
Pope. All he cares about is war crimes. Believe me. Not good.
And if the pope looked at the 42,000 people that were killed over the last
two or three months as a protester with no weapons, no nothing. I mean, if you
take a look at that, uh, so I could disagree with the pope. I have a right
to disagree with the pope.
People who see that who say your president
Nothing, I have no disagreement with the fact the Pope can say what he wants, and I want
him to say what he wants, but I can disagree.
I think that Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
If they do, the whole world would be in jeopardy.
The Middle East will be blown up and the whole world will be in jeopardy.
We're very close to making a deal.
That'll be a great thing.
The Pope has to understand Iran has killed more than 42,000 people over the last few
months thinking of it. Protesters without guns, without anything. They were totally unarmed
protestors. The Pope has to understand that. This is the real world. It's a nasty world.
But as far as the Pope and saying what he wants, he can do that. Now, I know the Pope's brother.
He is a big bag of person. He's got MAGA all over his house. His name is Lewis.
Why do they keep bringing up?
Like, does he not realize that when you're the Pope, you're just the Pope?
Like, you're no longer the person that you were.
Like, the things that you're communicating are no longer the things that you would communicate as a normal human being.
Like, his brother is totally immaterial, totally irrelevant to this conversation.
Conversation his brother is not like Pope, you know that
He doesn't become like half-pulp by by kinship
Well, I'll have you know the Pope's brother agrees with me is a crazy statement
He's the vice pope they should make him the pope
Yeah, like what about the popes I don't know fucking girlfriend when he was in high school, you know
Like who cares
Oh my God, do you think Donald Trump thinks that the papacy is like monarchies?
Like, cuz it's old, and there's a lot of, you know, funny outfits that you wear and
stuff.
I just realized, he might legitimately think that he could just like replace the Pope
with his brother or something. If he felt the need to do so, listen up, Pope, don't
make me change you out with your brother. Back in the day, that's what they would have
done. They would have swapped the Pope out with the brother, put the brother in, brother
is better.
New Pope.
He's actually a great guy, and I'm sure the Pope is a great guy, I haven't met him, but
I disagree with the Pope.
If the Pope would allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon, you can't do that.
I think it would stop from going to the U.S.
I think it would stop from going to Lebanon.
What?
I think it would stop from going to Lebanon.
I would like to ask you about the implementation of the standing board.
Yeah, it's very exciting.
With Lebanon, it's very exciting.
I think we're going to have a deal.
We're going to have a meeting first time in 44 years, and Lebanon will be meeting with
Israel, and they're probably going to do it at the White House.
I think we will have an agreement between Lebanon and they're going to take care of
Osvala.
But they're going to be working on Hezbollah right now, but we'll have a agreement between
Israel, very importantly, and Lebanon.
Would you support our Lebanese army?
I would, I would.
I would.
I would agree to this peace fire.
They're all agreeing.
It's a very nice little package for about a week.
And we're not going to have lots of bombs dropping.
And we're going to see if we can make peace between Lebanon and Israel.
President, because there was a group of bishops and they put out a statement saying
really exercising his opinion, he's preaching the gospel and he's taking people that use
it.
Well, I want him to preach the gospel.
I'm all about the gospel.
But I also know that you cannot let a certain country, which is a very mean-spirited country,
have a nuclear weapon.
If they did, they would use it, and I think they'd use it quickly, and they would kill
many millions of people.
So, you know, the folk would disagree with me on that, but certainly we're allowed to
have that.
I'm all about the gospel.
I'm about it as much as anybody can be.
I can't allow a president of the United States of America.
I can't allow a re-
I'm all about the gospel.
I can be about it just as much as anyone can be about the gospel.
And here's the story.
They won't have.
They've already agreed not to have.
That's good news.
And I think the folk will be very happy.
I don't agree, I think we should have phones.
I'm not going to execute four more protesters, reporting the first women's protesters.
What do you say? Tell that to the pope.
What are you saying? Tell that to the pope.
That Iran is gonna run.
Is that, did you just hear that?
Iran is gonna execute four people in political.
That Iran is gonna run.
Bro's beefing with the Pope, man.
It's so weird.
Bro is straight up beefing with the motherfucking Pope.
He's like, tell that to the Pope.
That's a good line.
Tell him, yeah.
I don't know if we're going to have to, but if we need to, I would do that.
So if you look at the oil and if you look at the price we're paying, it's about half
what people thought it would be if you did what I had to do.
We had to take this journey to the Middle East in order to get rid of a nuclear weapon.
And they would have been – if we didn't hit them with the B-2 bombings, or if I didn't
kill the Baroque Hussein Obamity of a nuclear deal, which was a disaster, we would have
had nuclear weapons exploding in the Middle East and beyond.
I believe I've been able to stop that.
I think we have a very successful negotiation going on right now.
And I think it'll be – if it happens, it'll be announced fairly soon.
And that'll give us free oil, free, almost straight.
will be nice and I think your oil price will go down to lower than what it was before and I think a lot of good things will happen.
Just for clarity, you're willing to extend the ceasefire?
I don't know if it will happen. Ideally, if I needed to, I would.
If any people loved it so much, what do you say? If any people loved it so much, what's your method for them?
And you will visit Lebanon after this deal. I will do that. At the right time, I would certainly go.
You know, who doesn't want to stop at a funeral?
He's bombing Ukraine.
Do you think this war has potential to go on for years more?
Well, it should have been. It should have never started.
If I were president, the war in Ukraine never would have started with Russia.
But if you tell that to the Pope,
the war in Ukraine, why does the Pope not talking about Ukraine?
If he's so good, how about he stop that war?
It's going on. Hopefully, it'll get over soon.
I don't know.
He came out last week and said she had no lead with Jeffrey Epstein.
Who did?
The First Lady.
What is it?
She had none.
Why did she come out and say that last week?
Because the fake news is saying she did, and she had none.
And I think that's been proven.
It bothered her that the fake news and big fake news.
So she just wanted to clarify.
Who's taking care of Haslula?
We're going to see how it all works out, but they'll be working and coordinating, if
you know, Lebanon.
So they'll be working with us, probably.
Are you still interested in acquiring a range of oil?
Well, we'll see.
I mean, we have a very good relationship with Iran right now.
It's hard as it is to believe.
And I think it's a combination of about four weeks of bombing and a very powerful blockade.
The blockade is maybe more powerful than the bombing if you want to know that you can
do anything.
Are you going to make the air in touch with today?
That's...
I mean, what do you say to that?
What can you say to that?
That is such an insane statement to make.
First of all, there are tankers going through the blockade.
That's number one.
Number two, he keeps saying that the new administration is much better
when that's not happening.
Like the new admin, the new government is comprised entirely of hardliners.
Everything he says is the exact opposite of what's going on.
As I've said earlier, Donald Trump is the last person to ask about any event really,
because he doesn't know what the fuck's going on.
not only does he not know what the fuck is going on, but he doesn't even know what he's
going to say next.
I think they'll make that.
I think they're going to make that contribution.
I think the Arab countries, because he's done a lot, I think they'd make a contribution
What the fuck?
Nothing about it.
I'm going to say that you are.
What happened?
But I think we're very close to making a deal with Iran.
You'll be the first to know, but I think we have a chance and
if that happens, oil goes way down, prices go way down, inflation
goes way down and you're going to have much more portion of that.
But I thought there was no inflation.
I thought that there was no issue.
Now it kind of sounds like there is a real price issue here.
You just said the prices aren't up. What happened?
Now you're talking about inflation will go way down, Democrat Anna Lilliam Aia wins the
New Jersey special election. Yes, yes, yes. Yeah, one of the one of the funniest things
that could have happened is that Saudi Arabia pulled funding from live golf, which of course
This is like the worst thing you can do to Donald Trump.
Pop topic took long enough to arrest him.
David has been arrested for the murder of Celeste Rivas.
He's just Christ that took like a year.
Well, Donald Trump there, talk about a whole range of issues, including his relationship
with the Pope, the war in Ukraine, and of course the unfolding situation in the Middle
East.
He said that we need to make sure Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons and-
people that are a lot different than we were dealing with at the beginning, and you know,
they're no longer around. They're no longer with us. But we have a very good relationship.
And I think there's a very good chance we're going to make a deal. Also, Israel and Lebanon,
I think there's a good chance that they'll make a good deal. So he's still answering questions.
Okay, fuck it. All right. Here's the newt. All right. Benjamin in the out came out talking
about Israel will remain in security zone 11 on despite ceasefire in any other says once
again classic classic case you cease we fire what kind of ceasefire means that
you still continue occupying the territories like it just doesn't make
any sense another yellow line just like in fucking Gaza
Because as always, we have to care about Israeli security needs, you know?
Primary concern here.
Primary concern always is Israeli security needs.
Yeah, they're literally just begging.
The ceasefire from their perspective is just like, Hezbollah doesn't get the fire on our
tanks as we keep moving them further and further north. Great stuff, obviously.
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I never want to hear chat bitch about chewing they don't know how good we have it
oh am I is there's too much mouth noises
Drop site interviewed Hisbola M.P. about the ceasefire.
Do you have the link, Chatter, do you have the actual short link?
Breaking Lebanese Army reports Israeli ceasefire violations.
There's a Twitter link.
as bogus israel under the 10 days ceasefire agreement is permitted to carry a strikes in
Lebanon as long as it claims they are in self-defense
article three reads israel shall preserve its right to take on necessary measures of self-defense
anytime against planned imminent or ongoing attacks oh planned attacks oh so they can do a
another a first strike self-defense first strike preemptive first strike
Yeah, this doesn't, it seems like bullshit, but what, who knows?
IDF setting up more outposts Southern Lebanon.
We're behaving just like we did in Gaza, one army source said there's a list of homes
to be demolished and we measure success based on a number of buildings destroyed in one
day. I just I can't do it. It's a fucking Nazi country. It's a fucking Nazi country.
It must be brought to heel. There has to be punishments. There has to be accountability.
The world cannot continue existing in the ways that it has with, you know, this much
as much bandwidth given to this psychopathic Nazi state.
What the fuck are we doing, man?
It's just crazy because like everyone knows, too, there's no,
there's no defense of this, right?
Everyone knows exactly what's going on at this point.
Everyone in Lebanon already knew, everyone in Gaza already knew.
But now people in the Western world know, too, it's like, oh, here we go again.
Another fucking fake bullshit ceasefire where this demon still continues to
fire as the other side ceases, no accountability. We're going to send them weapons.
We're going to try to advance the agreement. This opportunity is because since the war
of revival Gaza war, we have fundamentally changed the balance of power in Lebanon.
We have remained in Lebanon in a thick insecurity zone.
It is not the five points that were before the roaring lion, Iran war.
It is a security strip that begins at the sea and continues to mount Dov and the outskirts of Mount Hermon,
a security strip of 10 kilometers, 6 miles in width, which is much stronger, much more intensified,
much more continuous and much more solid than what we had there before, there we're staying.
This allows us, first of all, to break the danger of infiltration into our communities
and secondly, it allows us to prevent direct anti-tank fire into the communities.
I spoke to President Trump now in these past two days.
He told me that he's extremely determined to continue, also the maritime blockade,
bring about the dismantling of Iran's nuclear capability, what remains of it?
Yeah, he's the real president. I'm glad that we heard from the real fucking president, you know.
Israel strikes three paramedic teams in South Lebanon health ministry says.
every time it's crazy because like he just openly says he just openly says like oh no we're gonna
keep bombing them like it's fine. Like, don't worry. Don't worry, folks, like the bombing
will continue. And territorial acquisitions will continue.
Oh
Oh
Lebanon is already taking a step in the meeting in Washington
It will not be drawn into another step that would let that would hand in yahoo moral victory
He has been unable to achieve on the ground in lebanon
David finally arrested yes I saw man I saw okay I can't believe it took this long
I don't I don't even understand what the fuck they were thinking like what what the police were
doing like maybe the first month I mean it was suspicious from day one right it
was unbelievably suspicious from day one but the fact that it took like months
and months
sorry hold on the fact that it took months and months and months is I mean
doesn't make any sense. No, it's not that they, it's not that they didn't want to fumble the case.
It's been said the court case follows are so because the primary suspect is often a cop.
I just don't understand how they just took their ass, they took their sweet ass time.
Law enforcement only likes to take cases they know they'll win for sure. No, dude. What the fuck? This was a lock
What are you guys talking about also? No, that's not the case police have a dog shit clearance rate and
No, you're wrong about that
There was plenty of evidence to actually apprehend these guys I mean it's playing out evidence to apprehend him
I don't know if none of it makes sense acting ice director Todd Lyons resigns he will stay
on until May 31st well what the fuck why
He was smart and lawyered up, I think it's largely because of the victim's demographic
background, poor girl, poor Latina girl from poor family in like a poor neighborhood.
They just didn't give a shit enough, maybe.
It doesn't really make sense other than that and that the perpetrator, alleged perpetrator
was wealthy and famous. Because I can't see any other reason as to why they would
take their sweet ass time like this. It just doesn't make any sense.
You know? Anyway, skip this.
I know. To the press, to the press corps. Pete Hexit calls press on patriotic and
compare it compares them to the Pharisees dude one of the funniest parts about this Pete had
exist shit is that like apparently he did uh for he did a the the the pulp fiction thing
he did the pulp fiction speech right like as though he quoted pulp fiction as though it was like a
a real part of the Bible or something. Do you guys have a link to that?
Pharisees just mean Jews, by the way, he's showing his hand.
Yeah, I'm going to be honest with you, man.
I don't think these guys are, uh, you know, I think there's a high
likelihood that they're Phyllosomatic rather than anti-Semitic.
You know, it's still comes from a place of other rising Jews, but like
So these guys literally are operating with the same mindset that most evangelical Christian Zionists are, where they literally think like Jews are the chosen sons of God, and therefore they have to carry out the extension of the world.
The extension of the end of the world and all this stuff, you know, Pharisees doesn't
just mean Jews.
I don't know.
Anyway, prayer is CSAR 2517 and it reads and pray with me, please.
The path of the downed aviator is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men.
Blessed is he who in the name of camaraderie and duty shepherds the lost in the valley of darkness.
Okay, I don't know enough about Christianity, but that's not a Christian, or that's not a Bible thing, like that's just Pulp Fiction.
Like that's not a real quote from the Bible.
Quoted Quentin Tarantino is Scripture.
this timeline blows is a fake quote from the movie that's it so it's not like
there's no there's nothing in the fucking there's nothing even close to it in
the Bible is what you're saying like Tarantino made that part up
wow
In the movie Samuel Jackson says he made it up right after that
He is truly his brother's keeper
And find your lost children and I will strike down
Look at all these fucking dildos like closing their eyes and and going yeah, he's being real godly right now my goat
My goat he's speaking the word of God. You know what I'm saying
He's doing the damn thing
That's the word of God
upon thee with great vengeance and furious and those who attempt to
capture and destroy my brother. And you will know my call sign. Those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.
And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my...
That's wrong. There is in fact an Ezekiel 25 or whatever the number is in
Pulp Fiction but it exists in the Bible and it's about bowing vengeance to
Pharisees and other neighbors of Israel. It's a real verse in the Bible, the
version in Pulp Fiction is rewritten.
So he took not the real quote from the Bible but turned around and took the...
I heat because he's doing a one-to-one with the Quentin one
So he just straight up oh my god
Well these guys came into Christianity right you got the president beefing with a pope
You got the fucking secretary of war trying to quote the Bible, but then ends up quoting pulp fiction
Like
It's just they're all calm and bro. The every every part of this is so performative and such a sham
And there's so many dumb fucks that eat it up, you know, they're like well, I don't even care if it's not from the Bible
I love pulp function. Who's great?
There's a great movie lived hard shut up
To the American media
As I just can't help but notice the endless stream of garbage
coverage, the relentlessly negative coverage, you cannot resist peddling, despite the historic
and important success of this effort and the success of our troops, troops.
Sometimes it's hard to figure out what side.
So he's doing my favorite thing that Trump does to it's like, Oh, if you criticize me,
that means you're criticizing our brave troops.
No, they're just criticizing you, man.
a separate thing. Oh, that's, uh, yo, I bet you wouldn't say that to the men and women
in service. Yeah, they wouldn't because that's, it's not about the, the troops is about you.
Okay. You're actually on. It's incredibly unpatriotic. Yeah. Anytime you guys do investigative
reporting or not even investigative reporting, because these guys don't even do that that
much anytime you fucking anytime you make fun of me for being a drunk asshole
you're actually calling the troops drunk assholes okay and that's really fucked
up of you oh I bet you bet you would spit on the American flag right now if
you could there in church and I thought our press are just like these Pharisees
Not all of you, not all of you, but the legacy Trump hating press. Your politically motivated
animus for President Trump nearly completely blinds you from the brilliance of our American
warriors. The Pharisees scrutinized every good act in order to find a violation, only looking
for the negative. You see, on the battlefield, these are demonstrations of uniquely American
capabilities, strength and resolve. It's all around you each and every day. But in the
press, you only seek the negative, earning each and every day.
Dude, that's awesome. Complaining to the press pool in the Pentagon as the Secretary of Defense,
known as secretary of war about how big of a meanie they're being is fucking
awesome. It's like you're tactically destroying true readiness by talking
about talking negatively about me personally and it's like a lot of the
troops they look up to me and you're destroying true readiness and you're
actually shitting on the troops so please stop doing that. Why won't you
look at the positive side of this failure of a 48-day military campaign. Why are you
looking at only the negatives? I don't know, because there's a lot of negatives. What's
the positive side that you blew up a fucking little school, little girl school? That's
the positive? What is the New York Times supposed to report on? Well, actually, Donald Trump
destroyed the dinghies and the jet skis, which was the majority of the Iranian Navy.
And also on top of that, he killed an 87-year-old man with cancer and 160 little schoolgirls.
What a brilliant military achievement this has been, sir.
Thank you so much.
Since then, the Shredda Hormuz has been blocked, the global energy markets are collapsing,
And there's no end in sight to the pain.
Again, Donald Trump has brilliantly navigated this treacherous field by consistently lying
about what's going to happen next in order to engage in market manipulation.
But if you're not, he has done the market manipulation very successfully.
And it's good that he did the market manipulation.
The market was actually too stable, is what we were thinking here at the New York Times.
And we've realized that it's actually a little bit of volatility is good for everybody, you
know.
It only makes me grind harder.
Great news label.
But the American people with goodness in their hearts see past the Pharisees in our press.
When you fire criticisms of Pete Hedgeman, it's like firing missiles at our troops.
So to those troops, stay focused.
Block out the noise.
aggressive. You are showing the world what it means to be an American warrior.
Dog, they are. But it's not as good as you think it is. But you're not. That's not.
You are making this building and the American people proud.
Recognize for one minute.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker.
In February, the Trump administration, in conjunction with the Israeli government, launched an illegal
and disastrous-
AOC goes nuclear on Trump, Batman. Okay, let's see. Let's see, let her cut in Iran. They
provided no rationale to the American people. They sought no legal authority from Congress
and they have since descended our world and our global economy into chaos. And that was
just the beginning. Now, President Trump has threatened to use the United States military
to carry out acts of genocide against the Iranian people, innocent civilians.
Up until today, he has done this on his own, a rogue actor, but today, we vote on whether
or not he will do this in the name of the American people.
Congress must vote to exercise our power to stop this chaos or whether we sanction it.
And we must vote to restrain it.
I urge our colleagues that we vote yes, and that we end and stop all that is imperiled
before us.
And with that, I yield back.
The gentleman from the U.S.
Last night, we got 40 votes in the U.S. Senate to stop providing U.S. military support to
the extremist Netanyahu government, which is causing so much devastation in the Middle
East right now.
And that's far more than we've ever got before.
And I think the answer is not complicated.
The American people are hurting financially, they can't afford to fill up their gas tanks,
can't afford food and housing, and you know what, they've got better things to do with
our money than provided to destructive policies of Netanyahu and his military.
So we're making progress, we've got a long way to go, but I was pleased with what happened
last night.
New York City Mayor Zoran Mondani capped off one of the most impressive rises in modern
political history when he was sworn into office in January.
The Democratic Socialist became the first Asian American and the first Muslim Mayor of New
York City.
Mondani is also the city's youngest mayor in more than a century.
New level of glaze on lock.
GOP Congressman Troy Nelson, Trump is almost the second coming to Jesus Christ.
Let's go.
is better than sliced bread. I think he's almost the second coming in my
humble opinion. I believe that Donald Trump is better than sliced bread. I
think he's almost the second coming in my humble opinion. I think he's done a
fantastic job. He's got a very difficult job. Pope's got a tough job, you know, got
issues in the church, but Donald Trump has a very, very difficult job to do. The
toughest job in the world. When asked about Donald Trump and the beef that he
has with the Pope. This guy says he's almost the second coming of Jesus Christ. Bro, Americans,
American Christians believe in anything but Christianity. Okay, it's actually unbelievable.
I think I have more respect for this fucking religion than the average evangelical Christian
does. Actually, I know that for a fact. It is insane. Everything that they do is blasphemy.
What is going on? I swear to God, American white evangelical protestants are anything
but Christian, okay? If anything, they're closer to the Antichrist every single day.
that they say, everything that they do, everything that they believe is unbelievably, not only
just not Christian like, but just satanic. It's, it's insane. It is so fucking insane
that people don't even like look at the stuff and go, what the fuck is happening? These
guys are just like actual freaks.
I
Don't understand it. I don't get it. I don't understand it. It
What like how does it how do you not call into question these people's supposed beliefs? Oh
I've seen it in some texts and even you'll read the Bible with their eyes closed tracing
papers and finger like it was magic they believe whatever the grifter pastor says I just it's
so un-christian-like, man. I don't know what else to say.
Dude, my dad is a recent convert to evangelicalism. Literally grew up with him voting for Obama and
him being atheists. How does that happen? What is happening? Is it lead poisoning?
To be clear, evangelicals often hate Catholicism and many claim that they're not even Christians.
Religiosity isn't just a cultural flavoring for these ghouls. It's a cancer in their minds.
Call me red atheist, but is there a point where the left actually positions itself against
evangelicals just in general, it's a cancer on the nation. I mean, I'm sure there's normally
evangelicals out there. It's just their, their representatives are so psychotic though. Holy
shit. So how's the mayor doing in his first 100 days? We're going to ask him, but first we ask
New Yorkers for a letter grade. I guess they're just straight up fundies, right? Like they're just,
They're they're like ISIS
But instead of you know Toyota Hiluxes they have at 450 pickup trucks and and it's just ISIS in like
Much much wealthier neighborhoods, so they don't do the ISIS shit that ISIS normally does right
It is it's just like they're they're straight up fucking insane dude like the average
The average evangelical Christian is not that different, like you put them, you put them
in Syria, they're ISIS, okay?
You put them in an environment like Syria, they're going to behave like ISIS.
They're not going to be like, oh, we shouldn't be, you know, throwing gay people off roofs
or whatever.
They're going to be like, oh, hell yeah, it's time to throw some gay people off roofs because
why?
I don't have jalapeno poppers to soothe my bloodlust with, you know, to satiate my appetite
for bloodless, I could normally go and get a tall marg at Applebee's alongside $5 jalapeño
poppers and watch football on the TV, right? But now I don't have those things. I don't
have that my material conditions have deteriorated to a degree where I'm in fucking rucka. I'm
going to throw gay people off roofs now. I'm ISIS now. Like that's literally put them in,
put them in Syria and their ISIS.
Here's what some of them said, b plus a minus bro what are you what are you taking points
off of like that he hasn't been able to magically do the billionaire tax by himself.
I think too bad yet and he hasn't done anything too good
yet so I think the C's perfect for a plus.
They're not done he got a sense of humor it seems to
I just know you haven't done anything too bad yet you haven't
done anything too good yet so we'll give you a great how do
you think you're doing your first 100 I'll always leave
it to New Yorkers to give me the grade but I will say that
I'm proud of what the team has accomplished over the 100 days
I mean we saw $1.2 billion secured in a partnership with
Governor Hockel to deliver universal child care in our city. We held bad landlords accountable
for $32 million, fixed 6,070 apartments. We filled 102,000 potholes and we did all
of this while also returning $9.3 million back to workers and small businesses that
have been ripped off by mega corporations.
Yeah, that's all the good stuff, Mayor, but people will talk about the promises that you
made during your campaign. Three of your signature issues, universal free child care, freezing
city rents, making city buses free. Promises haven't been materialized yet because the
rent is in frozen, the buses aren't free, no universal child care.
Okay, CBS chill. Classic.
ZBS, yeah, Z doesn't stand for Zoran though.
And so New Yorkers are saying, it's been 100 days, why haven't you done it?
What do you say to that?
Because the campaign promises were big for a lot of people.
As they should be because New Yorkers are facing a big crisis of affordability.
So I'll go through one by one.
We said that we would deliver universal childcare.
On day eight, we announced that agreement with Governor Hockel
for the first time in New York City now.
We are delivering universal childcare for two-year-olds.
2,000 this year, 12,000 next year,
every single two-year-old by the end of year four.
We said we believe that the rent should be frozen
for New Yorkers who live in rent-stabilized housing.
There's six vacancies on the board that determines that.
We filled those vacancies.
They're gonna make their decision.
They're an independent board.
They'll make that decision this summer.
And then we said that we would speed up
the slowest buses in America and make them free as well.
And we're proud to say that we're already speeding up buses for more than a million New Yorkers putting six minutes back in their pockets, which as
you know, W toddlers, bro, the toddlers didn't do nothing.
They're fucking, they're, they're getting a free ride. Actually, it's L toddlers.
If they were W toddlers, they'd be working hard.
Okay.
They'd be working hard at them, at the mines, at the factory, chimney sweeps, you know what I mean? These dumb ass babies, these little ass toddlers.
Don't know the value of a goddamn dollar getting a free ride. It's what I like to call a moral hazard
Okay
Get to work
No, New York City time is money and we're working with all no, I'm not proud child labor. I'm pro toddler labor. Okay
Get him started early opening to make them free
And so what I would say when we look at these three main campaign promises is we're seeing the kind of progress
we were told was impossible. And we're doing all of it while also accomplishing the same
thing that we said we would do before it's not, it's not the saddest story of all time
is not baby shoes never worn. The saddest story of all time is baby shoes, no bootstraps
to lace. Okay. That's right. Lace up those bootstraps and get to work, baby.
Even affordability, which is public safety. And that is a key part of our agenda.
Mr. Mayer, I want to widen the lens a bit.
After your campaign win, there were a lot of questions
about whether Democrats across the country
could have similar success.
Do you think it's possible a Democratic socialist platform
can translate into something that's
electorally viable in a statewide election
or national election, given that, according to Gallup,
many older and rural voters still
have issues with the term, with the label socialist?
You know, what I find is that New Yorkers ask me less
about how I describe my politics and more
about whether my politics includes them.
And I think what we can see is that a democratic socialist
politics is one that should be judged on its delivery,
like any ideology.
And what we're showing in this city
is we can pursue the big things like universal child care
and do the pothole politics at the same time
that we're showing and not just filling in the potholes,
changing the catch basins, but also repaving
over 1,000 miles of roadway.
But Mr. Mayor, presidential and statewide elections
are often decided in battleground regions
that do not look like New York City.
I'll be honest with you, before I was the mayor, I was an assembly member of a story
in Long Island City.
At that time, I was told that you could only be a democratic socialist in Northwest Queens.
Then I became the mayor.
Now the next question is the state.
Then it'll be the next question will be the country.
I think that this is a politics that can flourish anywhere because frankly, there is only one
majority in this country that's the working class.
And it's time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what it is that we're
pursuing and not as part of the appendix.
Now, I love that.
There's only one majority and that's the working classes bars. I, I'm stealing that. That's
boop. Downloaded. Okay. Downloaded. It's mine now. I'm saying it. Did you see this? Yeah,
grand platinum praising Hamas. Yeah, I did. It's also really funny because I feel like
all the people who are like, we fucking hate grand platinum. He's a baby killer. Like he's,
he's fake. He's the agent of the CIA. They're going to be like, okay, this time they, they
They have to hand it to him, right? Like all the people that have been saying he's a, he's
a baby killer. All the troop exploder left is they're going to look at this and be like,
okay, nevermind. Maybe he's, you know,
Can we talk about act like a chud, think like a woke man.
President Trump for just a second. And specifically your relationship with president Trump. I
I think you guys raised a lot of eyebrows
and people were like, we weren't expecting that
because both of you seem to enjoy that moment
in the Oval Office.
What is your relationship with him today?
Talk to him on a regular basis?
I would say the two of us are in touch.
We've had a number of meetings now in the Oval Office
and we are honest, direct about the fact
that we have many disagreements.
There is one place of agreement that we have
which is that we both love New York City.
And that's I think something that is at the heart
of every conversation we have.
is how can we make this city better?
Because both of us have said publicly
that the better the city does, the better we feel.
Were you surprised that the two of you
seemed to get along well?
Because most people thought, no way
these two are going to work.
Away.
I think in many ways, it's a New York story
of people who have vehemently differing views
and have said many things about each other
and can also still work together on the points of agreement.
You have vehemently different views on the war in Iran.
Absolutely.
I'm deeply opposed to the war.
I think it's something that should be opposed,
not just on a political level or an economic level,
but frankly a moral level.
We're talking about spending close to $30 billion
to kill thousands of people in ocean away
while we're told that we don't have even an ounce
of that money to help working class Americans
across this country.
Have you spoken to him specifically about that?
It's no secret of how I feel about the Iran War.
The president and I are very honest
about those disagreements and I'll give you another example.
But I know it's no secret that how you feel.
Oh my God, they're fucking, okay, let's be real.
That's actually a very direct question.
And it's actually a good question.
These people remember that they're journalists
whenever they want to cook someone.
It's so fucking annoying.
It kind of pisses me off.
I kind of want to answer.
I want to answer myself.
Like I personally think it's good
that she's grilling him a little bit,
but also I feel a little at odds
Because like the reason why she's doing this is because he's gonna be dodgy because the
answer is no, I don't think he's fucking talking to Donald Trump about the Iran war and how
he fucking hates the Iran war.
That's insane.
Okay.
Let's be real.
He's not doing that.
That's Trump.
He's the president.
Okay.
But they want, it's a win-win.
If they get an answer, they can either, if it's a yes, then they can draw a wedge between
a driver wedge, sorry, not draw, drive a wedge between Zoran and Trump.
That's beneficial for Barry Weiss.
If he says no, he looks weak to his base.
So that's what's going on.
Stop shocking your dog, weirdo.
know. Because you've told us, but have you too had a conversation about that specific
issue? Can we drop that and have to un-follow?
A number of issues. And that includes our disagreements on foreign policy. And I'll keep
the frequency and the nature of those conversations private because that's the premise of them.
But I will tell you that in those conversations, it is one that is driven by actually being
And the last time that I sat with him, I was there to speak with him about the potential of the federal government to
Invest in what would be the largest housing development this city had seen since the early 1970s in the same conversation
I mentioned him President Trump that you know just this morning. I said detain the Columbia student
I told him and I said that this is part of a pattern of five individuals who've been detained in or around Columbia
And I put the list over to him and then 30 minutes after that meeting he called me and said I've made the decision to release her
Your administration, speaking of the president, you released a plan to eliminate racial inequity
in city government, including addressing pay disparities, anti-racism training, other
things.
The president's assistant attorney general for civil rights called it fishy in a tweet.
She called it fishy and illegal.
What is interesting about this is your administration is being accused of scrubbing references to
diversity, equity, and inclusion in this report.
Did you do that to appease the president?
What we did is we inherited a report that had been diluted by the prior administration,
one that hadn't even been released.
It had been Stonewalled for hundreds of days.
And we strengthened that report because, frankly, the truth is that many New Yorkers know that
we can't speak about the affordability crisis if we're not also speaking about the way it's
been intertwined with the history of racism in this city.
The very same neighborhoods that are being hit hardest by rises in rent and affordability
are also the ones that have been overlooked by city government time and time again.
So we laid out this plan that's both a racial equity plan for how government can do better
and also a true cost of living plan.
Now if you have federal administrative officials who are saying that this looks fishy or illegal,
I wouldn't trust their barometer of what's fishy or illegal because they've been doing
a lot of fishy and illegal things in the name of the law.
Can we get your take on the story that's making national news of police officers, the
undercover police officers in Brooklyn, in Blad's neighborhood, who you can see physically
beating a man. Turns out this guy apparently hadn't done anything wrong. I want to get
your reaction to this and what you think should be done.
Democratic mayor of New York City doing opposition media on CBS. What a time to be alive. Yeah.
Why even grace CBS to the sit down if he's on. He's feeling himself. He's feeling himself
as a flex. It is kind of funny though because they would never in a million fucking years
do this if it wasn't Zaron. Again, on the one hand, I think this is good. This is good media.
This is good journalism. On the other hand, can you ever imagine in a million fucking years
any mainstream media outlet talking to a Democrat mayor or a Republican mayor about
police brutality like this? Can we get your take on police brutality on this, in this instance?
Okay? No. They, one million percent would never do that. As a matter of fact, if people
were beating up, if there was a mayor that was actually complaining about police brutality,
they would be like, well, don't you think some people deserve to be brutalized? Like,
here's a case of, I don't know. Here's a case where this guy was a really violent, dangerous
criminal. The cops had to apprehend him violently. Don't you think that that's appropriate? You
of force. It's kind of crazy. Again, they turn into like real reporters whenever there
is a, whenever there's a, there's a character that they want to attack.
It's, it's very tough to watch. We give everybody, we say it's disturbing heads up very bad,
but as mayor of the city who's in charge of the police department, what do you say about
this? It is even the commissioner. Yeah,
It is incredibly disturbing and it is unacceptable.
What we are seeing on this video
is the kind of behavior that should never be condoned.
And I not only have made that clear,
the police commissioner has made that clear,
it's being investigated as we speak
because as New Yorkers see this,
this is not what it looks like to deliver safety
or justice in this.
I know, but you know, whenever we see video like that,
that's always the line.
It's disturbing, it's upsetting.
I think people want to hear, what are you?
Oh my God, they're literally holding his feet to the fire.
They're like, what kind of reforms are you going to commit to the NYPD?
Like this is again, I'm, I, I feel like they, they have turned into journalists.
Like this is Gale.
What this is a different kind of Gale.
Can you imagine?
Can you fucking imagine CBS mainline turning around and talking to any fucking mayor or
any politician, like what, what kind of hard line commitments are you offering to reforming
these unaccountable thugs of the state? No, it's not the over two window that changed
chatter. No, they're doing that because he's anti cop. That's why they're doing it. They're
doing that because they're holding his feet to the fire. It's like when, like the question's
like, Oh, don't you feel like the things you're wearing are too expensive would not be a question
you would ask any political commentator, except for me. Why? Because from their perspective,
that is my worldview. That is like an inherent hypocrisy, right? Even though this is not
a perfect analog, because there's nothing hypocritical about the, you know, wearing
nice clothes or whatever the fuck, as opposed to like, well, being a socialist.
But there is genuinely a, a, a, a, a hypocrisy here at least, with Zoran not delivering a
stronger stance against police brutality, like what the investigations are, what kind
of reforms are going to be committed, right?
Anything to make you stutter can be clipped, what do you mean?
They don't genuinely believe that police need to be fucking reformed.
What are you crazy?
I've heard how they talk about police for years and years.
The only reason why they're doing that is because it's Zoran.
What are you going to do about it?
These officers have already been shifted in their duty.
They've already been put on desk duty.
And the point of this investigation is to ensure that we get to the entire set of facts
here so that they're actually held accountable because no one in government should be above
accountability.
includes myself as well. Mr. Mayor, before you go, Governor Kathy Hockel has been adamant
about not raising income taxes on the wealthy, which is key to getting much of your agenda
accomplished. How do you-
Oh, death's duty. Gales about to push me like, we've heard that before. Gales about to be
like, we've heard that before. Death's duty, huh? Don't even feel like your predecessors
would also do the same thing. Isn't death's duty simply a way to sidestep accountability?
about the cook them. It's crazy. The Zauron may CBS woke. Okay. She's out here being like,
yeah, this is, you know, black lives matter. She's about, she's about to be like, listen,
I've been a big fan of defunded the police. Very disappointed that you won't do what's
necessary. Everyone knows cops are, everyone knows pigs are class traders, Zauron.
It's time to bring this unaccountable, these unaccountable ages of the state to heal.
Get her on board for what you're trying to accomplish. Well, I'm actually really excited.
Yeah, she's about to be like, what's next? You're gonna cut the library budget again? Huh, Zauron?
on? Some more homeless sweeps, Zoran?
You asked that question just a few days ago. The governor announced that we are going to
be pursuing the city's first ever Peter Tear tax. This is a tax on secondary homes owned
by non New Yorkers that are worth more than $5 million. We're talking about Gail coming
out and being like, why won't you commit to supporting armed resistance against the occupied
and arm arm resistance against occupying state.
It's international human rights law after all.
Do you not care about that?
Seemed like you cared about that when we were talking
about holding Benjamin Netanyahu to account
and arresting him.
CVS coming out pro-Hamas, the Cooks Zoran,
it would be very funny.
Polar Garks from across the world.
And these are homes that when they're built,
developers even tell local elected officials,
don't worry, it's not gonna be an increase in city services
because no one's going to live here.
She's like, one day I'll be like,
I'm a prison abolitionist.
And as a prison abolitionist,
I want you to stay true to your word
and abolish Rikers, if not all prisons.
Why haven't you released Maduro from prison?
We're going to be raising $500 million
for the city directly from this new Piedotera tax.
And it is a clear example of not only a system of taxation
that has been hurting working people, but now one that will be fair by taxing the wealthiest
just a little bit more.
You're still enjoying this job?
I am.
You are?
It's truly...
Would you tell us it worked?
Yeah, I would blink twice.
All right.
All right.
Blink twice.
He's out blinking.
Thank you for your time.
Well, we're going to tell Rowan.
Bro, she even cooked him on the blinking, dude.
That's crazy.
What is this anyone else black in the chat and I'm finding something you can laugh at
like I get the hypocrisy was still they do Brandon Johnson the same way he should say
something actually it's a good take yeah they cook Brandon Johnson on a similar vein as
well all of a sudden the media is like the woker. All of a sudden the media is the woker
when they're talking to a left mayor. I just watched a very interesting interview with
Amy Goodman of Democracy. Now I'm very cool to see Democratic compatriots having a spirit
of conversation. I do feel your soundboard could have enhanced the experience. Perhaps
a tasteful fa here and there could have really enhanced the experience for me. Is there a
particular reason you chose not to use it? Yes, because it was Amy Goodman. Okay.
I would use the soundboard with Obama, but I wouldn't use it with Amy Goodman.
So you admit the board is a disgrace, got them? Yes, sure.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Alright, I'm fucking tired, dude.
I traveled this morning, everybody. I apologize for only doing seven hours and 30 minutes.
Okay, it's messed up messed up I know but that is all I got for today.
I am going to be live tomorrow is always same time same place you already know what's up
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