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04-17-2026 · 6h 26m
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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.
A noted far-left influencer is declaring the Republican Party the biggest terrorist on earth.
Right to the 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, and sells just about everyone.
where if you go back and listen to some of the things that he says Carl, this guy's not going to wear a well.
Their so-called Joe Logan of the Left, the son, Piker, is back in the headlines this time for calling Republicans terrorists.
Piker has a controversial history, and we've been showing you this all week.
You don't give somebody like Hassan Piker 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, Nassan Piker. They should stay away from him.
What's going on everybody? I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon, afternoon, no matter where you are in the world.
from the Sampaica in this house and I've brought this coming to you live from sunny California,
Los Angeles folks were live and alive and I hope all the boys, girls and MBS are having
a fantastic moment.
His city is a beautiful day today is a wonderful day today is a very special day. Now you
might be thinking, why is it such a special day? Is it an everyday special day? Well,
no, this one is extra special. You might know why you might not know why. Okay.
I'll tell you exactly why it went now. Of course you might be thinking to yourself,
Oh, is it because the war is over? Well, we don't know if that's the case yet, but
potentially that could be the case, right? Or is it because, uh, you know, you worked out this
morning, woke up early? Is that the reason why you're feeling pretty good? Because it's my
birthday. No, that's not the reason either. That could be part of it though. I think many of
us know exactly why today is a very special day because it's a very special day every
single time this day comes up. It's Friday. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, it's
freaking Friday and all you know that Friday means freaky ass Friday. Friday. The day
that our forefathers fought long and hard for to ensure that we have a five-day work week.
Trade Unionists, Socialists, Anarchists, Communists of Life united in arms and fought back with
blessed red and tears to ensure that you have a sense of autonomy and sense of purpose in your
life because it's a friggin' weekend where you have a little bit of time to yourself.
Okay, it's Friday, it's Friday, it's Friday Slay, you already know what it is.
It's Mufasa Friday, the vibes are gonna be immaculate.
The vibes are gonna be immaculate until proven otherwise.
That's right ladies and gentlemen, I got some immaculate vibes for you on this beautiful
Friday.
I already know what's up and it's also my birthday. Okay.
Happy birthday to every single person that was born on this beautiful Friday.
It is Friday, April 17th,
2026.
And I am right on time. It's 1119 AM and I'm right on time coming to you live
from sunny Los Angeles, California, 68 degrees and sunny here in one of the
greatest cities on the planet, Los Angeles, California, a city with many, many problems,
but with many promises as well. That's right. Coming to you from stolen Tongva land. We're
live and we're alive and I got a lot to tell you, but none of it is about my personal
news is part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news about what's going on in the
world of a son house and I'll be piker in between the time period where presses stop streaming button
presses start streaming button so help me god that's what I'm gonna do but there's not really
too much going on in the world of a son house and I'll be piker because I'm a chud ass loser
you already know what's up I am a chud ass loser as you know and therefore there's not
much happening in the world of a sound house on a biker between when I press the
stop for my button and press the start streaming button but and the broadcasts
didn't really do much hung out with my dad a little bit went to sleep early
woke up early feeling pretty refreshed did an interview on the phone from the
gym worked out got a lift in feeling pretty good about that there are so
many TV shows out you'd rather spend your time on Twitter I mean what are the TV
shows that are out that I must be watching did you see the David update
Yeah, I saw the dovetail update. Yeah, he's he's arrested
Invincible I haven't really been keeping up with invincible
The pit I I haven't watched the season of the pit
And and I haven't I
Haven't watched this latest season of the pit. I don't know why I watched the first episode and it felt like kind of corny
And I haven't really watched the boys at all because like the season one of the boys was was
Excellent, right? But ever since like season one. I've noticed a downtrend
In terms of like the politics of the show. It's gotten like cornier and cornier
I'm on like I think I stopped like
Two seasons ago on the boys
It's just gotten
Lamer in my opinion and now people have realized that
that Frenchie is the guy is IDF and everyone's freaking out about it.
And they're like, you know, I've noticed that this show that is really good at identifying
reactionary political movements in the United States of America is noticeably uncritical
of one country that plays a formative role in right-wing politics in this country.
Especially the evangelical right that people, the evangelical right that people
obviously rip into, the evangelical right that the show rips into.
Weirdly enough, there's one element of their politics and their culture that is
not really represented, which is their unbelievable loyalty to the nation state of Israel.
And, um, yeah.
But that's not the reason. I just like, I don't necessarily care
about like how lipped up the show is. I'm not one of those guys at all. I just think that,
that since season two and onward,
it's just gotten less and less interesting for me.
I did love season one of the boys.
I thought it was incredible.
So,
GMV saved it and it's good.
Every Amazon show sucks past the first season.
Have you seen an Android yet?
Yeah, of course.
Um, anyway, yeah, and then the pit is also another one of these shows are like season
one was a banger and season two, I was watching and I was like, yeah, it's fine.
How about DTF St. Louis?
I forgot about it.
I forgot about that.
I've just become such an anime watcher.
It's kind of gross.
I'll be honest, kind of lame.
Like I've been watching hell's paradise.
you just because it is. Excellent. Excellent. Weaves detected. Yeah. Anyway. Yeah. W anime.
There's a new Apple show. FYI. Okay. I want you to go. Let me get a fallback on Insta
Darling XX. No. It's crazy. Crazy requests in the chat. Okay. Yeah, that's it. That's all
I got. That's all I got. And not much else is happening in my life other than that.
In any case, let's blast off and let's get right into it.
We're going to be talking about Annalia Meija winning in the New Jersey 11 special election,
putting up numbers on the board.
The Strait of Hormuz might be open.
Hormuz status.
Open question mark.
Lebanon status.
Ceasefire question mark.
Cuba next. What just happened with the war situation still being monitored Epstein's Fury Day 49.
Obviously, we'll be talking about all of that and more. Get in now.
And yeah, super crew status is off.
Super crews has been canceled for all of the super crews
and joys I wanted to apologize.
I know many of you were excited to see me
at the Northern line super crews.
But now that the Shreddha Hormuz is open,
the super crews has decided to end,
which I thought was also strange as well.
But I guess like the entire point
of the Northern line super crews was
to cut through the IRGC naval blockade
without paying a toll
and then cut through the American naval blockade also
without paying a toll as well.
That was like the entire purpose of it.
It was like a big statement
that we were all gonna make
that the waterways
where commerce flows through must never be impeded, right?
Like that was the entire point.
Northern lines perspective on this,
I can speak for it.
I can speak on his behalf.
He's given me that opportunity to do so
because I was gonna be one of the guests
on the Northern Lion Supercruise.
Basically, we were going to cross
through the Strait of Hormuz without paying a toll
and then cross through the American Naval Blockade as well.
It was gonna be this like big thing that we were doing.
And now that the shrewd of Hormuz is open for business, we're no longer in need, you
know, we, we were willing to do it. We were willing to do it. Yeah. Northern line turns
out has a, you know, has, has a lot of opinions on commerce on, on waterways and who gets
to control them. He was, he's, he's a little bit like Singapore in that regard where
he has a lot of opinions on like the Strait of Malacca as well. He's got a lot of takes on that one too.
A new super cruise might start. A new super cruise might start if there is any sort of
restrictions on the Strait of Malacca. Yeah, Northern line, that's why they call Northern
sea lion. Many of you might not have known that.
Yeah. People think, oh, like what kind of lion? Like a lion on the land? No, it's a sea lion.
Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, don't worry. There will be more international conflicts that we can
can make political statements on, right? FYI, the northern part of his name refers to the
northern coast of the Panama Canal. Oh, that's interesting. Okay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That makes sense. That makes a lot of sense. If you recall, you talked about the conflict
between China and Trump. The conflict between China and Trump during the the
Panama segment that was a big deal. Right that was a huge ordeal for the
Northern Sea Line community. Anyway, but yeah we're saddened by it, but
but also excited that, at the very least, the, the, the strates are open.
Hassan Abba Cruz won, always, always, forever, tomorrow.
All right. Anyway, COFDD is openly saying that Israel has to increase war crimes
committed until the next presidential relation. That's not surprising. We'll obviously get
to that. We are Snarlins Kirk. Thank you for the 25 gifts to subs. God damn. We got a boss
on the straight. We'll talk about all of that and more. The Macias, do you have a playlist?
Very offended that you're testing out your new funny moms material on us. Yeah. Okay.
We got live President Trump delivering remarks that TPS is build the red wall event in Phoenix,
Arizona.
Iran's Australia Hormuz is completely open.
Let's take a look at what that actually means because there is a little bit of back and
forth and some confusion on what the straight of Hormuz being completely open actually
means.
If you ask Donald Trump, it's completely open.
If you ask Iran, they're still setting up a toll process.
So we'll get into all of that and more.
I don't know why I have this up here,
but yeah, we've blasted off already.
Let the people know we're live.
We are alive.
Get them in.
Let the people know.
Get them involved.
Assampanic comes into the attack on Bondi Beach with Justify Active Anti-Syanism.
Dude, what the fuck is up with these people, man?
Oh God, it's just, ew, gross.
Blue check marks.
You're not a victim, you're a communist, a quiet Jackson Hinkle that's being exposed,
not a victim.
Like, brother, just post that on like relevant shit, you know what I mean?
What's up with you guys?
time Fox didn't talk about you in weeks or maybe we missed it. Oh, that's, that's true.
For the last three weeks, Fox is talked about me every single day. This is the first day
that they haven't. It's kind of sad. Maybe it's because they finally have something
to talk about that that seems to move the needle in the appropriate direction. Or maybe
It's because I've fallen off
Washed felled off. I done felled off folks. It's over is done. So I done felled the Frick off
Steve Bannon pissed himself. I saw that that's pretty unbelievable. I guess for him. It's the alpha dog movement
Jonathan shade is still chirping at me as well. He said his son pikers and authoritarian so is Netanyahu
If liberal Zionists want to survive, they must fight both.
Yeah, Jonathan Shade is comparing me to a war criminal.
Jonathan Shade is comparing me to a war criminal who is in charge of an apartheid regime that has conducted a genocide that's currently, you know,
Well, in the process of also taking over Lebanese territories, well, just a total psychopath.
And then on the other hand, you have a Twitch streamer who believes in Medicare for all offering
more autonomy to the labor class who is an anti-sinus who doesn't like the things
Benjamin Netanyahu is doing. Obviously, both of these things have the same level of power, right?
Both of these guys are illiberal forces that we must combat.
that. Right? I guess maybe Jonathan Shade is a Twitch watcher. Like he might have just
been a Hassanabi head, like a former Hassanabi head who felt like I was ruling this chat
with an iron fist and like banned him because he did it. I'm just curious. Right? And then
And I just hit him with a band hammer.
So now he's like, this is just as authoritarian as Benjamin
and Yahoo.
I will be sending an email to Chomsky
to try to figure out if this was ethical,
if this was a justifiable hierarchy by anarchist
standards.
And Noam Chomsky will reply, it doesn't seem to be the case.
maybe that's the reason why he thinks I'm just as authoritarian, you know?
Could be.
I bet you feel silly now that you realize that authoritarianism comes in many
different forms.
Sometimes it's a genocidal, uh, country, right?
Guy who has done a genocide.
And then other times it's a guy who has, um,
Genocide at your feelings, right?
Maybe you have a special emotional, uh,
support country, the size of New Jersey, let's say, right?
Oh, majority report.
Thank you for the raid.
We were just talking about how much of a,
how much of an authoritarian I am, uh, according to Jonathan
Like think about it this way, one guy actually slaughtering children in real time with my
tax dollars.
The other guy slaughtering your feelings about your loyalty and your feelings about your
emotional support country, your emotional support apartheid, which happens to be the size of New Jersey,
like why do you care about it so much? Why do you care about it so much? Why do you care about the
death and destruction that was doing right? Will you acknowledge your gamer genocide? That's true,
I have. I have done that is true. It is a real famine here for all of the gaming watchers,
There's all 12 of them.
They have experienced real famine like conditions seems.
It seems as though given the lack of gaming that's taking place on this broadcasts like
we got to get the human rights watch on this, you know, we got to get humor HRW on this
shit, man.
know how like amnesty will do like a little bit of this, a little bit of that where they'll
do, where they'll, they'll talk about, uh, they'll, they'll talk about how like, you know,
well America has done some war crimes, but then also so has Iran, so has Hamas, right?
Like it's kind of like that. Maybe, maybe they'll finally cover the true atrocities,
which is what I've done to the gaming frogs, or perhaps it was because I was being paid
by the U.S. aid to do gaming with a socialist slant. And now the U.S. aid funds have been
cut. No more gaming. Maybe as many gold was right all along, maybe U.S. aid was cut as
revenge against Gamergate. Have you thought about that? No, you never think about that.
Um, so yeah, I mean, the hits keep coming. Jonathan shade is not alone. Jonathan shade
is not alone. The ADL has written a piece. Hassan piker, what you need to know, the ADL
apartheid defense league has officially put me in their anti-Semitism glossary, their
extremism database from their center of extremism published yesterday updated today from the center
on extremism intro. I want to see who else they have on their website, right?
Yeah, they, where can I find the actual database? I want to see
center on extremism. Where is the, who are some of the other characters on here? Who's on the hit list?
I want to see what kind of, what kind of crazies they got on here. Apparently they deleted
Charlie Kirk from the list and not because he died. They deleted Charlie Kirk from the
list because they were worried that the Republicans were yelling at them. He's no longer considered
an extremist, which is cool. I think, I mean, that's right. Uh, so good on them, good on
them for combating the real extremists in the United States of America, a son, Piker's
prominent to a shimmering political commentator who has a history of rhetoric that sanitize
violence and denigrate Jewish people as of April, 2026, some pikers combined 11.3 million
followers across all social media platforms. He has expressed support for designated terrorist
organizations and anti-Semitic ideas on many occasions.
Piker is a nephew of Chunk Weigert, CEO and founder of the Young Turks, a political network
that is veered into explicit anti-Semitism in years. Piker began his career streaming
for TYT in 2016 and started his own Twitch channel 2018, streaming full-time by January
2020.
Piker's Twitch account has been suspended on multiple occasions for violating the
platforms policies such as for using them phrase Zionist on a live stream rhetorical themes.
Piker has a history of rhetoric that sanitize and justifies violence and terrorism against
the state of Israel of and of using derogatory rhetoric towards Jews. This includes claiming
the orthodox user in bread, which he subsequently apologized for in response to the backlash
he calls for the eradication of Zionism and demonize the Zionism as a mental illness.
No notes support for terror and violence. While much public attention has been paid
to the pikes commentary about 9 11 pikers expressly spousal support for us designated terrorist
organizations such as Hamas the Houthis has the law and the popular front for the liberation
of Palestine. That's fucked up. They did not mention the DFL P here. The malice are
getting cooked once again, even in Palestine. If you are a malice, you are being undermined.
Okay, that's right
the fraction between the popular front for the liberation of Palestine and
The DFLP was a very real one. There are three
Total Maoist third-worldest Palestinians out there and they decided to build their own political movement their own political faction
and guess what I
Can't believe that they do not have the DFLP here
They just mentioned PFLP on numerous occasions. You also falsely claim to the world document
of sexual violence committed by Hamas and other terrorists on October 7th did not take
place.
Parker's casual and frequent assertions of support for terrorist groups and violence
they commit normalize the use of violence to his millions of followers.
I'm glad you've been getting all this negative press at least now that you're well known
enough that people don't think I'm unemployed because I know who you are celebrating or why
watching us designated foreign terrorist organizations. I'm a lesser evil voter. And therefore I would
vote for Hamas over Israel every single time interview with POT Save America April 2026
as a lesser evil voter. I will once again repeat my harm reductionist credo. Wait,
Why are they putting a sick, this is from a tweet.
Like this wasn't, isn't that something that you put
when you're taking a quote off of like something I said?
Or are they saying, this is sick.
Can't believe, can't believe he said that.
As a lesser evil voter, I will once again repeat my harm reduction is credo. Hamas is
a thousand 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.
Overall, what my favorite flag is, Hezbollah. Look it up. I'm not even kidding. It's actually
dope flag. It's got an AK on it and a fucking hand holding it up for your end podcast, for
your end podcast mentioned. Let's go. I do not have a single issue with Hezbollah as
a form of militancy trying to incur penalties on the genocidal state of Israel, Twitch stream
with Ethan Klein, May 2025.
What the Houthis are doing on the other hand is resistance. And it's not only moral,
but it's just, there's no comparison between Israel and Hamas. One is a militant resistance
comprised of orphaned soldiers born into a 77 year occupation. The other is an
ethno-religious supremacist apartheid state with nukes doing a genocide back by
the USA. Pigers justified and endorsed every type of arm resistance against
both the settlers and also the Israeli occupying force in the West Bank and
said it doesn't matter if they're DFLP. Oh DFLP mentioned! DFLP mentioned! The
three Maoists, the three Palestinian Maoists, they get a mention here, respect, respect,
respect, BFLP, Democratic front for the liberation Palestine, PFLP, popular front for the liberation
of Palestine or even former Fata militants. Okay. It's perfectly legal, perfectly valid
and perfectly moral to stream August, 2025, October seven, rape denial. The United Nations
and multiple international human rights organization found the Hamas and other mills in his committed
sexual violence in the attacks, Piger in contrast has claimed that Israel polluted the evidence
pool and claimed the Schell-Sanberg's documentary screams before violence is basically the unsubstantiated
claims that some of which were directly found to be incorrect.
Literally this is a correct statement and much nicer than what many others have said,
by the way.
Every single, that is so funny that they posted this objectively a correct statement.
These are straight up mainstream views on top of being objectively correct. Anyway, derogatory
rhetoric about Jews.
Piker has alluded to the classic anti-Semitic tropes and conspiracy theories such as familiar
conspiratorial claims about the 2026 US military operations against the Iranian regime. For
the past 38 days, Operation Epstein's Fury has been continuing by a bunch of fascist
monsters that got tuned up by Israel, where Donald Trump basically was the first
and hopefully last ever president that would be foolish enough to be at the mercy
Benjamin Netanyahu and to follow through on his lifelong project of continuing his death and
destruction campaign. Piker's remarks during a campaign event with the U.S. Senate candidate,
Abdul El Sayed, literally posting my W's. Yeah. Do they have this kind of a smoke for Maggie
Haberman for writing in the New York times about how Benjamin Netanyahu is basically in the room?
Do they have the same kind of smoke for Anthony Blinken or numerous other officials like John
carry. Or do they have the same kind of smoke for Benjamin Anyahu who was personally admitted
that this was his lifelong dream and Trump was basically dumb enough to go along with it?
On multiple occasions, Piker's also used terms inbreds or psychopath to refer to
Israeli and Orthodox Jews during his live streams he has since expressed regret for using the word
inbred. Yet, no regret for using the word psychopath though. Piker has stated Israel's
actions of gospel inevitably turn Israel into a nation entirely comprised of messianic,
Inbred ultra orthodox psychopaths with a new nuclear arsenal. Again, no notes. Piker asserted. Dude,
this is so funny. This is like reading this out loud. Like, I mean, obviously some of it is like
out of context, but like most of it isn't. And, and I just, they're so open about the fact that,
But they're so open about the fact that this is just like anti-Israel. Okay. It's like a highlight
reel. I don't have any issues with these quote. Your haters are so fucking weird, man. I just
looked through the quotes of some of your tweets. Yeah, no, no, my haters are psychotic.
Piker asserted it is literally the Jewish KKK brigades out there in the West Bank. Just
a bunch of fucking inbred hicks literally doing pogroms to the Arab population. No notes.
Again, completely correct. Oh my God. In the beginning, like in a couple months in October
7, every week there was another fucking psychopathic settler in bread fucking douchebag wearing
fucking military fatigues, shooting at another Israeli dude, getting fucking executed by some
in bread 15 year old fucking douchebag in military fatigues. Again, no notes, correct
assessment. That's literally what happened. There was unbelievable amounts of friendly
fire going on between the settlers that were hastily armed by Itamar Bengibir with American
weapons mind you. And then they kept shooting each other.
There's a video version of this article.
Oh, they just posted it while I'm talking.
Oh hell yeah, okay, we'll do the article extreme anti-zionism similar to pikers use of anti-semitic
conspiracy theories and tropes by the way, no anti-semitic conspiracy theory was ever mentioned
in this article unless you're just considering that the Trump administration being stupid enough
to get goaded by Benjamin Netanyahu to go and wage war on Iran to be an anti-semitic conspiracy
theory, which once again is not an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory, that's just reality. Observable
reality. Okay. Similar to Piker's use of anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and tropes, is vilification
also tropes, I'm sure. Is vilification of Zionists and obokalcy, Zionism destroyed,
are an attack on the right to the self-determination, oh no, and the statehood for the Jewish
people in their ancestral homeland. This rhetoric encourages the targeting of Jews for a notion
that plays a central role in modern Judaism. In a totally just world, regardless of your
background, any kind of fucking Zionist tendency should be treated in the same way as being
a fucking rabid neo-nazi. You shouldn't even let someone be the local, the fucking local
dog catcher if they ever exhibited any sort of positive feelings about the state
of Israel. No notes. Denigrating Zionism in mocking former October 7 hostage, Adon
Alexander. Zionism is a mental illness. Holy shit. Shame on everyone who said this American
dude who volunteered to join the Nazi army was some kind of hero. It's true. I did say that.
And I stand by it. These are some of my greatest hits. Zionism is an exterminationist ideology
built around ethno-religious supremacist values. So when people say, oh, well, you know, I'm a
a liberal Zionist, I want there to be a Jewish ethno state. I'm like, okay, what do you mean?
It's like saying you're a liberal Nazi. You want an Aryan majority ethno state. Like what
are you talking about? Interview with representative Rashid Tulli, but the DSA national convention.
The same goes for AOC and Bernie Sanders as well. I've been very critical of Bernie
Sanders. I love Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders, I think is a very important political
figure in contemporary American politics. But I think his liberal Zionism was completely
unacceptable I'm just like be truthful be honest like be honest about the
conditions that led to October 7th also true and once again you can have
disagreements reasonable disagreements with your comrades okay this is a
normal and healthy function of political organizing remember holocaust
trivialization pigers engaged in rhetoric that served to minimize the
holocaust including by insinuating that and frank would have supported the
Houthis and equating Israel with Nazi Germany.
Pyger's messaging office case, the enormity and gravity of the Holocaust
and millions of people perpetuating dangerous ideas and attitudes.
This is my favorite type of shit when they go like, oh, he's doing
Holocaust civilization.
And then the comparison is, I said a brown guy, okay, that experienced
his own genocide when he was a teenager, okay, in Yemen, uh, is no
different as and Frank experiencing the Holocaust. Okay, this is not trivialization. You're just
a fucking racist. Okay. In your mind, you're like, no, there is something, uh, unbelievably
special about the Holocaust. How dare you compare victims of genocide in other countries
to victims of the Holocaust, especially God forbid you ever make a comparison between
a victim of a genocide in Yemen, a brown person, an Arab, nonetheless, to, you know, and Frank.
That's not Holocaust trivialization. That's the entire purpose of Holocaust education.
Never again means never again for all, not never again just for Jews. Okay. That's not
how this fucking works. During a discussion about a pro-Houthi anti-Semitic Yemen based
pirate teenage. They just like kept adding stuff. Yemen based pirate teenager,
piger previous platform. Ethan Glock asked, do you think he's like Anne Frank, piger immediately
said, Oh, of course, absolutely. That's why we have Holocaust studies, right? That's why we have
genocide studies in the entire field to specifically understand exactly how Nazi Germany
got to that position. And I think that, you know, you might even disagree with me on this,
But that's where Israel is. That's where Israel is at right now. They have become an incredibly
angry culture, an incredibly angry country. Misogyny and racism. Pyke uses streams and
other activities across few mainstream and free spaces at times moderating his language
with the former audience. But on his live stream, Pyke's rhetorical style often relies
on inflammatory race or misogynistic statements delivered in a sensationalist, just joking
manner.
Um, to that I say legalized comedy. Yeah. That's right. This is, you know, one of your
faves, Jonathan legalized comedy. People have been scrubbing archive footage and finding that
settler guy from that cover. Oh yeah. Yeah. I know. In one June, 2023 live from Pirates
series, the millionaire billionaire was filled. So it should not only be allowed to do
gig, should only be allowed to do dairy with other billionaire millionaire failed
daughters. Okay. This is, at this point, this has been robbed of its context so much that
it's just taken an entirely different life of his own. There's no way to even address
this. You just have made this up. Okay. Not that it fucking matters. That's not what I
said at all. At this point, it's like telephone. The game of telephone has reached a totally
new life in and of itself where they're just like, they're, they're basically saying like,
oh, it's not as pro rape at that point. Like it's just fucking unbelievable defamation,
always defaming leave, always defaming league. Um, and also apartheid defense league.
Yeah, shocking.
Shocking coming from the institution that primarily defends Israel, which had a pro-rape
riot.
Remember when Israel had a January 6th style pro-rape riot where they successfully extracted
the six concentration camp guards from Sudei Tehman, that the Israeli government had apprehended
in order to prosecute for raping Palestinian prisoners in Sudei Tehman, sometimes to death.
Yeah, unbelievable. They had a pro rape insurrection and it succeeded. And also Benjamin Netanyahu,
only a couple of weeks ago, apologized for even trying to prosecute the Sudei Tehman rapists,
Okay. Apologize publicly. He said, oh my God, I'm so sorry that we even thought about prosecuting
you after you did a rape incident came on on camera caught on CCTV footage. Okay. That is the
country that the apartheid defense league is choosing to defend while also having the audacity
to claim I'm fucking pro rape psychopaths.
In response to 2025, Twitch viewer who criticized Parker for talking about how black people vote
for and for not speaking out about the situation is to down, Parker responded, the other black
people who wish to engage in radical activist language could suck my fucking cock. That's
also again, unbelievable levels of telephone where it's just like, it's just been slapped
up so much. Again, interesting that it's the ADL doing this. Once again, defending
the country that has sterilized Ethiopian Jews. Okay. Just remember, oh boy, you think I'm
anti black. First of all, dedicated my whole professional career to combating anti blackness,
combating white supremacy. And ironically enough, actively have, have talked about
Israel's deep embedded anti blackness and white supremacy. Once again, very strange.
This is like when Fox news does this shit where it's like, you're Fox news. What are
you talking about? Shut the fuck up. He reacted to a Vietnamese pro-Trump BBC guest in 2020
by calling her a South Vietnamese motherfucker and whatever like Christian supremacist,
psychotic fuck of refugee living in America now and being able to talk that shit on a stream
telling her to go back and live in fucking South Vietnam in the same conditions. Yeah.
And the conditions under the South Vietnamese dictatorship that we had established that
she seemingly has so many sympathies for, you know, people were literally lighting
themselves on fire at the time to protest against said South Vietnamese dictatorship. Anyway,
doesn't really matter.
Influence, while Piker associates some extremely anti-Zionist organizations, he has also been
profiled in major media publications that appear on platforms across the political spectrum.
Political Spheres, Piker has interviewed and at times campaigned for a prominent left-wing
politician affiliated with the DSA. DSA is the largest social organization in
the US and is known for his explicitly anti-Zoa Zionist position on a national level among
some of his chapters and committees, support for us designated groups in the Hamas led October
seven terror attack on Israel. At least it's 2020. Parker is verbally expressed support
for and interviewed DSA members, DSA affiliated politicians for those who associated with
the group, such as AOC, Rashid to lead, you know, Nomar, Ro Khanna, Senator Bernie
Sanders and New York city mayor, Zahran Mamdani, you know, real, real villains,
real villains of the bunch. Okay. Some of the most popular politicians in the country, okay.
Extreme anti-sign is what does that even mean? A person with a, you know, a moral compass
who is uncompromising and an anti-fascist. Okay.
Nevertheless, he continues to be a sought after figure among those sitting elected officials
and political candidates viewed as someone who can boost their profile and reach potential
voters, even though he does not have political experience. What do you mean?
I don't have political experience, buddy.
I'm a political commentator who's been doing this and,
and working with organizers for what 13 years at this point,
what more fucking experience could I potentially have?
Piker is increasingly engaged in direct political activities and on the
ground organizing and campaigning since 2025.
I've been doing this for far before 20, 25, by the way.
It's just so funny that only now they've chosen to pay attention to it.
He attended the DSA national convention in August, 2025. And in April, 2026 campaign in
person with DSA back us, Canada, Abdul El Sayed, and us representative, summer Lee,
a former DSA member in Michigan. He also, by the way, they know I've been doing political
stuff and actively campaigning alongside politicians because they wrote an article
in 2020 about how my moderation team was so unbelievably good at targeting right-wing extremism
that the AOC stream that I did all the way back in 2020, had my moderators on the AOC,
on the AOC stream side as well.
And they got tremendous praise from the ADL because back then the ADL didn't just exclusively
Uh, uh, engage in like pro Israel shit. They did have like a fairly competent team, uh,
not this similar to the SPLC, uh, where they would, you know, cover right wing radicalization,
right wing extremism. They would pretend to care about other shit as well in an effort
to, uh, in a fuck you in an effort to, this is going to be in the anti-Semitism glossary.
The son piker said fuck you to a chatter who was simply waving the Israeli flag before
banning them anyway.
Add that to the list.
Click.
One more.
No gang signs in the chat.
No gang signs in the chat.
Not allowed.
Alright.
Yeah, he also fundraises for some DSA candidates on a stream, such as Oliver Larkin, a fundraise
for so many more, but it's fine. Anti-Israel movement.
Piker has served as a feature speaker at high profile national events and convened by groups
that together represent vast swaths of the organized anti-Israel movement in the US, many of
which are known to support terror organizations that have a history of harassing Jewish
people. For example, Piker spoke at the national march on Washington for Gaza in
April, 2025 of the second annual people's conference for Palestine in August, 2025.
The organizers of these movements include prominent anti-Israel groups such as Palestinian
youth movement, answer coalition students for justice to Palestine, Jewish voice for peace,
American Muslims to Palestine, US Palestinian community network, and many others.
Oh, terrifying.
Oh, scary.
Both events were marked by calls for violence and pro-terror rhetoric.
The national march on Gaza drew thousands of protests, and some of whom openly displayed
paraphernalia for groups like Hamas in the popular front for the liberation
Palestine, the people's conference for Palestine featured such speakers as
Hosam Shaheen, a member of the designated terror group Al-Aqsa martyrs brigade,
who served more than 20 years in prison for in Israel on charges of
attempted murder and conspiracy commit murder and calls for those accused
of supporting Israel's actions around the world to be taken out.
These events and Piker's presence at them demonstrated the ways in
which figures like Piker normalize these extreme elements and amplify
these messages across fringe and mainstream spaces.
While Piker is not a leader in the anti-Israel movement in an organizational or strategic sense,
he is recognized as a major figure who can deliver the anti-Israel movement's position to the masses.
During his interview with Representative Tlaib at the DSA National Convention in 2025,
Piker wore a PYM branded shirt that was created by the group to celebrate the first
anniversary of October 7. The T-shirt features an image of a terrorist standing on top of
his child. It's literally a kid. It's a kid and there's flowers growing out of the tank,
symbolizing that one day this militancy will end, and children will be able to live freely,
by the way. It's literally, they are describing a child, very clearly celebrating the end of
this conflict classic. It was a terror. It was a baby of terror, terror, baby, um, on
top of an overturned IDF tank, an innocent overturned IDF tank. Okay. With the caption
that read in Arabic, Gaza is the cemetery of occupiers.
Piker has also appeared in PYM social media content. In March 20th, 26, Piker joined
left-wing anti-Sinus organizations, Code Pink, Progressive International, and the
People's Forum on a trip to Cuba. Conclusion, taking together Pucker's
record of supporting, uh, support for designated terrorist organizations and
derogatory rhetoric about Jews represents a dangerous pattern that is
millions of followers are exposed to regularly. His growing involvement in
electoral politics and mission media amplifies these messages far beyond
fringe spaces. So, um, there, there, yeah, this is the, this is it, this is
the thing. So, for the people who are wondering like why do they have this entire website,
right? Like why do they have this page? Like who the fuck would, you know, read any of this,
right? Who would read any of this? And the reason why they put this out there is so that it's
easy for like Richie Torres and other, you know, Stooges of Israel to just like make
it seem like they're, they're, uh, you know, in tune with some of my most dangerous rhetoric.
Right. That's the whole point. Um, the reason why they put that out there is not even
just for the SEO. It's so that there's a easy, clickable website that you can go
to. And then when Dana Bash is covering me, she'll be able to just like do pull quotes,
Boom boom boom boom boom to say like this is why he's radical. This is why he's dangerous
The difference of course is that the ADL doesn't have a
lot of
The ADL doesn't have a lot of motion any longer. I mean, it's it'll make its way into like chat GPT or whatever, right?
Sometimes
But yeah, ultimately
Yeah, the anti-defamation league put it out there to make defamation easier. Yes. That's why it's the always defame always defaming league. A friend who works MS now said this article got blasted through a bunch of booking producers and anchors. Yeah, exactly.
exactly. That's how it works. So they write this article and then they send it to all the
booking producers, not realizing that those booking producers, if they're under the age
of 45, are already familiar with my rhetoric, with my commentary, with what I do, but most
importantly, what does a booking producer care about? They care about analytics, okay?
So they already know what value I bring to a show when I go on a show.
So they don't give a fuck about any of this stuff, right?
Like, especially because they're like, yeah, we would love to have Hasan on the broadcast
because he would bring an unbelievable amount of eyeballs and attention to the broadcast.
You know?
Which is precisely the reason why this kind of stuff doesn't really matter.
And what's ironic, the whole article is pretty much a summary of your correct position with
justifications and arguments on a 90-10 issue.
The ADL officially hired themselves to be your PR firm, yeah.
So from my perspective, when I see stuff like this, even if it was impactful, right, even
if this actually worked, okay, I can't go on MS now, oh my god, I'm going to-
I'm Brian, kill me.
It's over for me.
I'm Brian, kill me.
My career is over.
I can't go on MS now.
I'm Brian, kill me.
What will I fucking do?
You know what I mean?
Because not only does this unbelievably dumb attempt to try to blacklist someone, not only
does it not work, but also even if it did, even if I got blacklisted from these legacy
pubs, who gives a fuck?
You know?
Who gives a shit?
Here's the one-minute video that they also made as a complimentary
I don't know who Hassan Piter is and at this point I'm too afraid to ask
Let's just let him do the talking you support terrorism question mark
America deserve 9-11 dude therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time. Hezbollah is a paramilitary
I don't have a shoe. We think that the Houthis on set a lot is doing
My favorite flag Hezbollah look it up. Ah, you are anti-Semitism
This is awesome! Dude, why did they put this out? This is a highlight reel, bro!
Yo! This is so funny! It's like, especially because if it's in video form, you can tell when I'm like also memeing too.
Oh my god, they're like, he's making fun of my emotional support apartheid country that's
doing a genocide.
I'm gonna reposition.
That's where Israel is.
You shouldn't even let someone be the local dog catcher as if they've ever exhibited any
sort of positive feelings about the state of Israel.
Oh, stop there, right?
Bro, what rapes did Hamas do?
Any other black folk want to engage in radical activist language in this chat?
Who is you harder?
America or fucking Ho Chi Minh suck my old lady
Who they are believe them yeah, oh hell yeah, dude
Another highlight reel just dropped
Shout out shout out to the
the apartheid defense league for their tireless work of trying to get me blacklisted from every
major outlet, not realizing that the bookers at these places realize that this is totally
ridiculous. And my presence on these shows do not. Okay. I'm just going to say it's totally
ridiculous. Way too long ended after the shout out. Another highlight really just dropped
shout out to the apartheid defense league for the tireless worker trying to get me
blacklisted from every major outlet, not realizing the bookers of these places realizes totally
ridiculous. I want to put the bookers part on in there too, because I know that's the
reason why they're doing it. It's like when Richie Torres is Richie Torres is comms team.
Anytime there's a new ADL article or anytime there's a new Jewish insider article about
me, they'll like mass blasted to these news houses be like, don't, you know, don't
get this guy on your show. They'll be like, hey, WQRX, local news broadcaster in Georgia.
Make sure that you never have this guy on. It's like, why would they, like, what are
you even fucking talking about? Why would they not?
Okay.
Find these hit pieces to be totally ridiculous.
Yeah, I said a part of the defense team for their tireless worker trying to get me black
this for every major news outlet not realizing that the bookers at these places find these
hit pieces to be totally ridiculous.
A deal must be losing funds if they're resorting to becoming your clipper.
Mike Moe and 22.
Thank you for the 10 gift the subs.
Yeah. It's always great. It's always great. I like it. Do nothing when your enemy is committing
errors. Yeah, they're making fan edits, dude. They're resorting to making fan edits, which
you know, I respect. No, they're not running out of money for the record. For those of
you who are wondering, they're absolutely not running out of money. They're making
more money than ever before, while they have also fired half of their research team because
half of the research team was actually researching legitimate anti-Semitic incidents and legitimate
like far-right extremism in the country.
Selkowitz, thank you for the 10 gifted subs.
All right. Let's get started. Iran says straight up hormones is completely open. Okay.
Foreign minister on acts says that the straight up hormones is open for all commercial vessels.
We're just learning this right now. Let me read what we are, where we are getting this
from acts.
The free press is running paid ads. This smear me. Oh my God. That's amazing. BDB reacted
to you on Laura Anger. Most of the love you noticing them. So many media outlets
smearing a live streamer. Looks like the capitals really can't still sit still anymore.
The factional strife is getting bloody. It all started when the Democratic Party candidate
teamed up with the Sompire for campaign promotion, only for hardliners in the Democratic Party
and Republican-aligned media to join the smear Hassan, turning him to primetime TV sensation.
Capitals control public opinion, making it too hard to turn things around.
A specter is haunting Europe, the specter of communism. All the powers of old Europe have
entered into a holy alliance to ex exercize this specter Pope and czar metternich in guzziot
french radicals and the german police spies where is the party in opposition that has not
been decried as communistic by its opponents in power where is the opposition that has
not hurled back the branding reproach of communism against the more advanced opposition
parties as well as against its reactionary adversaries exer from the introduction
to the communist manifesto brave people support you is on the ruling class is scared
protect our great general. Too much freedom of speech. Can't hold it anymore.
Hassan loves it here so much that people have speak so nicely. Everyone is
talented. Finding comrades give you the energy and courage to keep the revolution
going. Wow, he really reads out every single sentence. I want to be on TV. If
Hassan is successfully suppressed, it not only proves the stupidity of the
American people, Hassan must understand that the US currently likes their
soil for a revolution because their suffering isn't enough to bear its
cause. Yeah, it's true. I say that all the time as well. I don't think the
material conditions have deteriorated to such a degree that, that like a revolutionary movement can be built.
They're, they got as long as the jalapeno popper still keep flowing, Americans will, will never engage in revolutionary actions and they'll never organize in that direction.
So,
that and also
a significant lack of class consciousness.
All right, but let's get to the Shraddha Hormuz. Is it open? Is Hormuzi open? Is the
Hormuzi open for business? The foreign minister saying in line with the ceasefire in Lebanon,
the passage for all commercial vessels through the Shraddha Hormuz is declared completely
open for the remaining period of the ceasefire on coordinated routes as already announced
by ports and maritime organizations of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
But this is a huge announcement coming from the Iranian foreign minister about what has
become a central part of the negotiation, getting the Strait of Hormuz open and safely.
And so we're going to bring you much more as we get this in.
Literally, my hermese is open, as we're talking about.
As we are getting this, we also have a new report that claims that United States
This is also considering a $20 billion deal that would help to end the conflict.
This is a report from Axios, co-written also by CNN Political and Global Affairs analyst
Barak Ravid.
Let me...
It's closed again.
No!
My harmose is closed!
The flood of tankers and cargo ships are making a break for the Strait of Hormones
to exit the Persian Gulf.
Nearly three dozen ships can be seen sailing for the Strait via marine traffic, including
vessels declaring Chinese, Indian, and French ownership.
Traffic flow appears to be obeying the IRGC issued navigation orders.
Sometimes I regret telling about you to adults.
We don't know the financial, we don't know the final terms but Arakshi tweets way too
much.
Timing is off.
Why did Arakshi announce during market open?
I don't know.
we're gonna try to address what's actually taking place. If all the ships that are navigating the
Shroud of Hormuz are still going through the Iranian side, numerous ships making the break for
Shroud of Hormuz this evening have made the abrupt U-turns that are heading back towards
the Persian Gulf over a dozen ships have already turned back. Yeah, I think there's a miscommunication
amongst some. Maybe some of them are getting their information just from the American channels
and they thought it's like fully open. Whereas the reality is different. The reality is that
it's not fully open. It's just open for business. If you go through and pay the toll, that at
least is my understanding. My understanding is the shirt of harm Lucy is open for business.
If you just pay the toll, right?
Yeah, it's still pay a toll at time.
The young soldiers are hermosing hard today.
Pay the toll to who?
Who do you think?
You gotta pay the toll to the troll.
I'm not gonna say the rest of those words
because I'm not allowed to make jokes anymore.
read a quote from this reporting now coming in.
The US and Iran are negotiating over a three-page plan
to end the war with one element under discussion,
being that the US would release $20 billion
in frozen Iranian funds in return for Iran giving up
its stockpile of its uranium.
This according to two US officials
and two additional sources briefed on the talks.
A lot of breaking news here.
Let's get to Nick Dover, who's in Islamabad
on this breaking news first.
How have they not fixed the audio yet?
Look, it seems to me we're getting some positive breakthroughs.
The fact that the Iranian Foreign Minister has said that Strait of Ramouz is open to all commercial vessels
really seems to indicate that the talks that the Pakistani mediators are having
and they're going into their third day of talks in Tehran right now
are beginning to bear some fruit sources I've been speaking to, involved in all of this
All of this are sounding and looking very positive about where the talks are at the moment.
Of course, I'm not getting an indication of what other hurdles there may be to overcome,
but it has been one of the things that Iran has wanted, one of those points.
They want assets unfrozen.
They want to see sanctions lifted.
They want money for war rations and damages.
We've been talking here about billions upon billions of dollars last weekend that
The talks, the Iranians said they'd ask the United States for $8 billion in unfrozen assets
at the time in the talks last Saturday and the Sunday.
The White House knocked down the suggestion Iran was going to get that.
But it's always been part of Iran's core demand.
Iran's now lifted, it seems, their own blockade on the Strait of Homoes.
Is that in exchange for money?
Are they expecting the money to come?
What the Iranian Foreign Minister has said, and I think this is very, very telling
and we were talking about this just yesterday, that the reason that the Iranians have lifted
their blockade on the straight of from us for the duration, the remaining duration of
a ceasefire, probably as the U.S.-Iran ceasefire, which has about five days to run, he said
this is because that there is a ceasefire in Lebanon.
These things have been inextricably linked in the Iranian mind.
So while the Pakistani lead negotiating team has been in Tehran talking, of course
that Lebanon deal came through yesterday. We were saying that that was going to aid
and benefit the talks in Tehran, and it does seem to be the case. Now, what remain the
sticking points, the nuclear issue that enriched uranium, Iran's commitment and desire for
nuclear bomb, that's always been at the core of U.S. demands. That's what President
Trump was saying yesterday. He said Iran had set foresworn that it wasn't going
to have a nuclear weapon. He also said Iran had agreed to hand over the nuclear
We don't have details on that yet, but these moves at the moment sound like Iran is softening.
It sounds like a deal gets closer into view.
Yeah, absolutely.
And Nick, on the other side of the screen, we're looking at, right along with you, is
we're looking at oil prices right now dropping over 9 percent, Brent crude, as well as
WTI is standard in the States.
markets reacting understandably to this news coming in. There's a lot to digest here. Nick
Robertson tracking all these developments in Islamabad for us. Let's get over to the White
House now. Elena Trine is there as well. A lot of elements here. Elena, you've got
the announcement coming from the Iranian Foreign Minister about the strait. You've got this
reporting from Barak Revit of Axios, about a $20 billion in frozen Iranian funds that
could be part of the discussion, something talking about frozen funds, frozen funds being
handed over, something President Trump has been highly critical of, of the previous nuclear
deal in the past.
What are you hearing from there right now?
Yeah, highly critical is definitely right.
I'd remind you that under the Obama administration when you had that Iranian nuclear deal,
they had handed over $400 million in cash to the Iranians during that agreement.
But look, from everything that Nick laid out and that Axios report, it is lining up with
the conversations that I am having, which is that there is a lot of optimism right now
in that building behind me, Kate, about where things stand around a potential deal.
Now, I don't want to be too optimistic.
You hear a lot of this talk among Trump administration officials about how positive
they are.
There are, of course, still sticking points that remain as Nick laid out.
idea of the length of time that the Iranians would agree to suspend their enrichment of
uranium and also a deal on having the U.S. or some sort of country going in and retrieving
the nuclear materials still in Tehran's possession.
But they are hopeful that they are getting to a place now where really an agreement
is in sight.
And I know from the conversations I've been having that Trump administration officials
are really working toward and hoping that a potential second round of these talks of
this meeting could happen in person between the U.S. and Iranians as early as this weekend.
Again, things are very fluent, so we have to see what happens today.
But today is also a very important day because we know that the Pakistanis have been meeting
with Iranian officials in Tehran, the Pakistanis, of course.
I am definitely optimistic, depending on how we monitor the situation and what the situation
looks like.
It's very fluid right now, just like the flows of water through the Strait of Hormuz, also
known as now the Strait of Iran.
That's what Donald Trump said.
So Donald Trump is claiming Iran has agreed to everything, but Donald Trump is a liar,
okay?
And also totally oblivious in many instances to what's actually going on.
So what we can take a look at is, once again, the facts on the ground, the realities on the
ground.
What we can look at is what the Iranian government is saying, which has been more reliable throughout
the last 48, 49 days, obviously, as far as what they're communicating.
But also, the one thing that is the most important factor to consider is the realities
on the ground, are the ships that are crossing the strait actually paying a toll to the IRGC?
If they are, then yes. They absolutely, like the Americans, I'd absolutely conceded to
a key demand from the Iranian side. That's number one, okay? Number two, we're gonna find out
how much of the assets of Iran that the Trump administration is on the freezing.
Some of the numbers being floated around are for the tune of $20 billion.
How many sanctions are going to be released in this process?
So if the endpoint of this negotiations process is very frustrating for Israel,
Well, then you can kind of understand, maybe they did concede on a lot of key demands that Iran was making.
That's number one. Number two, are the ships actually paying a toll to cross through the Hormuzzi's hole?
Okay, very important. Number three, how many of the assets have been unfrozen?
Number four, how many sanctions are going to be released?
And number five one of the key pictures of this back-and-forth ceasefire
Negotiations process was whether or not there is a long standing ceasefire a real cessation of hostilities in Lebanon
If there is a real ceasefire in Lebanon, okay wet-ass hermosey is right
Many people are telling you stop saying that shit dude. My grandma is watching this okay
Well, guess what?
It's true.
Stop, you're scaring my mother. Okay, I will stop. I will stop saying these words now.
This is so dumb they wrongfully open the street without even getting all the guarantees.
Okay. No, no backseat negotiations, please.
We are once again monitoring the situation.
I will make a decision on whether or not this is silly or dumb depending on what the realities
on the ground are.
We currently don't know.
We don't know.
In any case, in any case, if the Iranian demands were communicated to the Trump administration,
the Trump administration successfully stops Israel from advancing into Lebanon.
But the Trump administration successfully gets a ceasefire in Lebanon against Hezbollah.
That means that regardless of all the other theatrics of like the Lebanese government
talking to Israel, all this shit, that's all theater.
To hide the reality that Iran was able to successfully put so much military pressure
on the Trump administration that Trump had to go back and do the unthinkable, telling
Israel to stand down, okay?
These are very, these are very important facts that we will only know in the upcoming days
once the dust is settled and we have adequately monitored the situation.
intermediary here between Washington and Tehran. The Pakistanis have been in touch with top
Trump administration officials throughout this process. And so really the goal of those talks
in Tehran are to try and get the Iranians to a level of significant compromise where
again the contours of a potential agreement really could be reached. And that is the
goal they're working toward.
I'd remind you this.
I feel like this is a blunder by the Iranis because it gave Trump more room to maneuver
by taking pressure off of him from the markets from a 10,000-foot view. The Israelis have
not been forced to concede anything. They've gained since launching these wars of aggression.
I mean, baby steps. Yeah, the Lebanese government has no sovereignty, has no say in this process.
Obviously, this is a real ceasefire. If it's a real ceasefire, it's a ceasefire
between Hezbollah and Israel, right? If Iran has been able to force America to force Israel
to retreat, that is a gigantic move in the right direction. That's a huge deal. I don't
think it's insignificant at all. I don't think it's theater that Israel is freaking the
the fuck out. I think it's frustrating that they are able to get a foreign terror state
like Iran from their assessment to command what they want to do in their foreign policy.
It's a huge deal. The entire purpose of the Iranian missile program is to be able to do
this. That's why I kept repeatedly saying over and over again, the number one factor
in this back-and-forth in the ceasefire process was not the sanctions relief even
though that's hugely important as the second most important part. It wasn't
the the unfrozen assets which would be great for Iran to rebuild their country
that would be the third most important or whether they would be able to enforce
There's a toll or not, which, again, it's still pretty significant as far as like generating
revenue for the Iranian coffers, necessary revenue.
And it certainly wasn't the uranium, the nuclear dust or whatever Donald Trump has
been laser focused on, they've given up on that on numerous occasions, right?
And the only reason why they were enriching uranium clearly beyond civilian usage levels,
but never enough to create nuclear arms was because they wanted to have leverage when
they inevitably got back to negotiations where they would demand in exchange for their nuclear
program, which they were volunteering over and over again, sanctions relief.
But the number one reason as to why they even have ballistic missiles that can reach
Israel, is to restrain Israel, to restrain Israel's ambition. So if they just cut out
the middleman, or if they, instead of directly bombing Israel, were able to get America to
restrain Israel, then they accomplished a fucking huge goal, okay? That means that
as long as they control the strait, which they do, and as long as they can just keep
pummeling the GCC and Israel, which they have been able to show, and get America
back to the ceasefire table, they can make demands of America to restrain Israel. Okay?
That's a big deal. That is a much bigger deal than I think people give it credit.
The two-week ceasefire expires on Tuesday, April 21st. And there has been, you know,
there had been talk earlier this week of a possible extension. But from the conversations
I've had, Kate, with White House officials is they want to try and formulate some sort of deal
before the ceasefire ends. A very ambitious goal, but it does seem, as you know, today with this
latest news about the Iranians reopening the strait, thanks to that ceasefire between Israel
and Lebanon, that they are actually- Yeah. So here, Israel is prohibited by the U.S. from
bombing Lebanon, says Donald Trump. It underlines a basic fact. Israel's genocide of war crimes
could be stopped at any moment by any US president's own Jones. He's right. The USA will get all
nuclear dust created by a great B2 bombers. No money will exchange hands in any way ship
or form. This deal is not in no way subject to Lebanon either, but the USA will separately work
with Lebanon and deal with the Hezbollah situation in an appropriate manner. Israel will
not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are prohibited from doing so by the USA. Enough
is enough. Thank you. President Donald J. Trump. May Allah awaken the people and help
them to see the evil doings of Israel and the United States. So here's the thing. Couple
stuff that they're mentioning here. No money will exchange hands in anywhere shape or form.
That is bullshit, okay? They are unfreezing assets, which means technically America is
not giving payments to Iran.
But Barack Obama didn't do that either, but Trump's estimation was that Barack Obama
did just that. And so did Joe Biden. Whenever Democrats unfreeze Iranian assets, it's considered
direct cash payments to Iran, green cash in pallets. That's right, believe it, okay? Plains
full of cash going to Iran. When Trump does it, no cash exchange is taking place. Okay,
Which is it? Well, technically, it's never America making direct payments to Iran.
Okay? It's America unfreezing the assets that they've forcibly frozen between Iran and other trade
partners of Iran. Okay? So that's what it is. Suzanne Lambert is Tegan, who is Suzanne Lambert.
Even Instagram is like nah
What is this is Suzanne Lambert basketball is a game worth playing
My favorite person not gonna lie don't hate him when I saw him at the crooked con green room. That was fine
Whatever I've done I've interviewed a couple times and you know what we do we disagree. Yeah, that's okay
And that's okay, and I and I totally agree
I personally think it's great that Democratic candidates are opening up to going on these different shows
Here's where I push back a little bit when people defend Hassan they say like well
He can reach so many young people and young voters etc
And I'm like well. Yeah, he has millions of subscribers followers like clearly. He's an influential voice
I would never deny that I don't think anyone is but from my perspective
I feel like he's reaching people who would already be engaged politically because when I think of like my kind of random guy friends
Who are floating in a no-man's land politically from my perspective?
they're going to turn on Hassan Piker talking about neoliberal, imperialist, rad lib, you
know, whatever and be like, this guy sounds like a weirdo. What is your perspective?
I think it's not as simple as, oh, we already have those people or these are not the people
we need to reach or they're already on the left as opposed to being more independent.
Two great challenges when you're facing an authoritarian.
Once again, I think a lot of people assume that the average guy is a fucking idiot.
people are smarter than we give them credit.
Like, I don't utilize, but first of all,
am I utilizing academic language that actually frustrates people?
Maybe at times, certainly.
Or am I too vulgar for a polite civilized society?
Because I do both.
And that's part of the reason why these guys can't, like,
like put me in this effective box to be like he's actually inconsistent or he's actually
problematic and not good and not good at doing outreach. I do both.
I do both. I contain multitudes. I speak like a normal person, but sometimes I also add, you know,
know, some academic language into my commentary, but I think people eventually understand exactly
what it is, right?
Rising government.
You're trying to prove that the institutions can work, even when the other side-
Also, this was a conversation that took place with Bernard Sanders, if you recall, where
I believe it was the Lisa Slotkin, who said, stop using the term oligarch.
Why are you doing the oligarchy tour?
Stop using the term oligarch when describing our corporate overlords.
Americans are too dumb to understand the term oligarch, except they weren't.
They understand exactly what it is.
Okay?
That's it.
It doesn't follow the rules of those institutions.
It's as if we're playing basketball,
and we're trying to not only win the game,
but also convince the crowd that basketball is a game worth playing.
And they're cheating the whole time.
And we're like, no, no, no, the rules of basketball are pretty good.
And they're not perfect, and we could change it here and there.
But if we all follow the rules of basketball,
we all have a better time.
And they're cheating left and right.
But we're trying to win a game while proving that the rules of the game are worth following.
And Democrats have fucked that up repeatedly.
People are anxious. They are upset.
upset, they are cynical, they are worried.
And it makes it easier to turn your fire
on people who will listen, right?
There's a lot of times where people want to fight
amongst themselves because you want to complain
to people that care about your complaints.
Meanwhile, we have this overlap
between these tech billionaires
and right wing media and anti-democratic politicians.
Protomocracy movements don't fall apart
because it's easy.
They fall apart because there are real disagreements,
huge, important, moral disagreements.
I believe it is completely sincere
when people find things that Hassan Piker says
to be outrageous and beyond the pale.
We have to be a big pro-democracy movement
that runs from anti-Trump Republicans
all the way to the far left
of the Democratic Party and beyond
and that will be uncomfortable at times.
But that is our job.
That is what we have to do.
That is what it means to face the threat
for what it is.
It means you have to put aside
those very real differences at times
to recognize you're ultimately on the same team.
And so that's why I think it is worth it sometimes
to try to see us all as part of a coalition.
on these shows, even, even if the times you find like what you're saying, like, I don't, I think it's kind of weird.
I also don't think that the podcast find me all that objectionable.
Maybe, maybe love it more so than others. But even then, like, I've known love it for almost a decade now. You know what I mean?
Like, a lot of these people are newcomers and, and maybe ideologically more aligned with like the center of the party, but
I've known these people. I've known these people for almost a decade.
You know, yeah, I, I completely agree.
It's just really funny.
And what's ironic, of course, is that like they've gone through their own ideological journey and some of them have become
more open minded to our perspective as, as the situation is unfolded, right?
And that's because of, once again, the realities on the ground, the contradictions worsening.
One example is Israel, right?
The more Israel's violence becomes unignorable, the more Israel's manipulation of American
leadership becomes unavoidable, the more it becomes a fixture of modern American politics,
the more ridiculous it is to not engage with people like myself who have been there for
many, many years.
So I remember listening to PAW Save in 2016, they've definitely moved left since then,
I wish people would suggest an alternative for when they critique you. What are your solutions?
Because I don't see anyone else on those list who's on the list left. Yeah, that's the other
side of the story. Of course, like it always, it almost always feels like they're just
angry that they're not part of this, you know, part of the top influencer sphere where
And they're like, why can't our guy who is a centrist who is just going to unconditionally
and uncompromisingly defend the Democratic Party without making demands at all.
Why can't that guy get up there, you know?
In a perfect world, someone that they craft in one of these think tanks would be in
this would be in the top, would be doing the tireless advocacy of, of defending some of
these do nothing Democrats, but that's the problem.
It doesn't work that way.
Charlie Kirk is still up there, rest and power twice as a matter of fact.
The average guy is most definitely a fucking idiot.
Um, sure, there's a lot of stupid people out there, but even stupid people have the capacity
to understand when they're getting fucked.
even stupid people have the capacity to understand who's fucking them. And if they achieve that
status of awareness, all of a sudden, they're no longer so stupid. Okay? There as a matter
of fact, much more intelligent than people who have gone through the process of, you
know, going to Ivy League institutions and still holding on to this false notion that
like liberalism hasn't failed in a spectacular fashion, right?
That's the beauty of class politics.
The beauty of class politics is that once you see it, you can't unsee it, okay?
And once you see it, you're in a far better position overall in terms of analyzing
Exactly what's taking place in the United States of America, then the most well-educated liberal.
Like, you're automatically better than Stephen Pinker, okay?
The guy who has dedicated his entire life to saying things are actually great.
Yeah, things are great for you, Stephen Pinker, you know?
Moving closer to that goal.
And just to go back to that ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon that, of course, President
Trump announced yesterday, I am told that that had a positive effect on some of the talks
that are going, of course, between the U.S. and Iran through the Pakistanis on a broader
agreement.
And so a lot of different developments today that we
There's also a crazy for someone who's been active for literally one election cycle
saying they know how to reach, who to reach and how to reach them.
And the left doesn't need, yeah, yeah, I've been doing, that's the other side,
Like I've been doing this for a lot longer than a lot of these other people have been.
And there have been some wonderful voices that have propped up in this process.
You know, I glazed and, and highlight them with regular frequency, very thoughtful people.
Um, with, with great analysis, you know, head in the offices of one of the guys that I, uh, routinely glaze as well.
They, they're worthy of a jam podcast boys as well.
They're very young, but they're, uh, you know, they're, they're doing a great job.
And then there are others who are trying to do the old school method of just like, we want to be a mouthpiece for the DNC.
And I don't think those guys are going to reach the same audiences because people see
that, people have heard from others who have the exact same mentality for years and years.
We are learning of.
We have to see, I think, you know, these negotiations are continuing.
I think a lot of these reports, we have to be careful with because things are fluid.
negotiations are not over and agreement has not been reached but that's
certainly I think adding to the level of optimism that this Trump administration
feels today as we move into the weekend. Yeah there is there is movement
there is breaking news on this front in this moment that clearly is getting
reaction all over the world already. Elena thank you very much John. Well
so interesting there if we keep those numbers up for just a second huge
huge drops in oil prices of more than 10%.
That's just this morning.
And then the stock market, you know,
an impressive positive opening,
but to a certain extent,
I think the stock market has already taken into account
that a deal or progress was likely
between the United States and Iran.
But those drops in the oil prices,
let's just keep those numbers up.
You don't see movements like that almost ever.
Now 11 points down just in the last 10, 20 minutes.
We do have a new Trump through social posts here.
So I'm just going to read this to you.
This literally just happened a few seconds ago.
Donald Trump posting this.
The Strait of Hormuz is completely open and ready
for business and full passage.
But the naval blockade will remain in full force
and effect as it pertains to Iran only until such time
as our transaction with Iran is 100% complete.
This process should go very quickly
in that most of the points are already negotiated.
Thank you for your attention to this matter,
President Donald Trump, more now with CNN Global Affairs.
Hormuzzi Alpin, what does he really mean for Iran oil in the U.S. blockade?
So here's true to Parsi's analysis, says signs are pointing to a higher likelihood of
a framework agreement between the U.S. and Iran being secured through Pakistan in the
next few days to be followed by another 30 to 60 days for a final agreement.
That is indeed an achievement, but it is important to understand how vulnerable the
final agreement will be in that 30 to 60 day window to Israeli sabotage. If past
patterns are repeated, Israel will do everything in its power to prevent any
deal that ends the US, Iran, enmity, and lift sanctions on Iran. If he really wants
the deal, Trump will have to be tougher on Netanyahu than he's ever been before.
So, there are signs pointing to a long-standing commitment to a cessation of hostilities, okay?
Okay?
Ironically enough, if implemented, this will be a far more favorable deal to Iran than the JCPOA was.
Okay?
But that's precisely the reason why Trump is doing a good deal of propaganda here to
make it seem like they got the maximalist goals across.
I don't think that this is a W for America.
Some people are saying it's a W for America.
I don't think it's as big as a W for America as the people are presenting it.
I think Trump is presenting it as a W for America because that's his fucking job.
This looks from my perspective as a complete concession
to almost all of the Iranian demands with the only Iranian demands,
if what Trump is saying is true,
being reached on the side of the enriched uranium
or what Trump likes to call nuclear dust.
If you recall, for weeks leading up to this,
Trump kept lasering in on the nuclear program.
And I kept repeatedly telling you, this is good.
Because it means that they are likely to commit to all of the other Iranian demands.
Now all of this could still be perfidy.
Remember, there are still troops moving into the region.
They could be utilizing perfidy to have a little bit of economic relief while they
Deploy the necessary force to militarily invade Iran
There's obviously a gamble here
If that is the case that's going to be at this point triple perfidy
Okay, three strikes in your fucking out
holy shit
But not only that but also the interim period is when Iran is also capable of
digging out some of their cave entrances and and you know maybe even rush
shipping in new weapons systems from China or even rush shipping from the
other from the other totally closed sea route that they have with Russia new
weapons systems as well, right? So there is an opportunity for Iran to harden its defenses
as well
expedited shipping from both china and russia potentially
but we shall see
as malibu case as the u.s president's claim about talks with iranian officials
is untrue enable blockade is a violation of the ceasefire
and iran will certainly take the necessary measures
Whenever we feel that the issues and interests of the Islamic Republic of
Iran are considered and secured within the framework of an agreement, then it
can be said that we are close to an agreement.
Lifting sanctions is very important to us.
Compassating for the damages incurred holds special significance for Iran.
There is no ambiguity regarding any part of the negotiations.
We have clearly stated our positions.
They have been pretty firm, pretty steadfast in their commitment to the
10-point plan that they released fairly early on, okay? I think that the only
negotiable part of that 10-point plan is the enriched uranium. And the only
reason why I say that is because the reformists and the moderates, some of
which still hold power in Iran, not as much power as they once did, the ones
that are more conciliatory to the demands being made by the West, the ones that have
always advanced negotiations with the West, they have given up on the enriched uranium.
They have given up on the enriched uranium time and time again, because the sole purpose
of the nuclear program is leverage for sanctions relief.
Now, if you ask me what they should be doing, well, that's to continue enriching
iranium and fucking make nuclear arms instantly, right?
guillotine on louis neck, Hassan really believes everything iran is saying, doesn't he?
have you noticed that i'm currently in the process of explaining to you something that
iran claims they care about that i think they're lying about?
if you had the capacity to hear the words that are coming out of my mouth, understanding
What I'm saying you would have recognized that while you were typing out that comment
I was actually talking about a key part of the 10-point plan that Iran has advanced
Claiming that they care about it quite a bit that they don't actually care about
The nuke take is bad
Have you noticed that
No, you haven't you immediately go into the nuke take is bad you just you know
I refuse to hear words that are coming out of my mouth that directly contradict your assessment
and immediately move on to the next thing, okay?
Please, sometimes it's okay to just, you know, let it breathe.
You don't have to type out whatever, you know, onage in the marketplace of ideas you think
you're going to have here, okay?
And no, the nuclear sovereignty take is so not bad and so good that Francis Fukuyama
and Ian Bremmer, two major liberals agree with it at this point. Okay? I don't know what more it will
take. I mean, those are King Libs, right? King Libs who also agree with nuclear sovereignty at this
point. A lot of people often forget the third and perhaps most important provision of the
Hassanabi nuclear doctrine. And that is if America has claimed you have nukes, you must
drop everything and develop nukes yesterday. Okay? Rule number two is always keep the nukes,
never give up the nukes. Rule number one is get nukes. Rule number two,
always keep the nukes, never give up the nukes. See Ukraine. See Cuba. And rule number three is
if America or a Western power is suspecting you of having nukes or claiming that you have nukes,
Drop everything and get nukes immediately
Okay, that is the Libya rule of the Hassanabi doctrine
Tried tested and true
Ismail Baqai is responding to more Trump claims in rich uranium is a secret to us as the soil of Iran and will not be
transferred anywhere under any circumstances. The opening and closing of
the Shredda Hormuz is determined by the field, not cyberspace. Ismail Baki also
says the other side intends to breach the agreement which apparently wants to do
and if the naval blockade continues the Islamic Republic of Iran will
reciprocally take the necessary measures and there is no doubt about this.
Media and people should not pay attention to the opponent's media game.
They have contradictory positions. Iran is the guardian of the Shredda Hormuz
and whenever, wherever necessary in implementing measures that guarantee the interests and
rights of the Iranian nation, it will show no compromise.
Notice how I said in my assessment at least, some of what he's saying is true, which is
controlling the Shreddhormuz, verifiable by monitoring the situation, and some of what
I think he's saying is untrue and just gamesmanship, which is the nuclear dust predicament.
Breaking, despite President Trump prohibiting Israel from striking Lebanon, a fresh Israeli drone
strike has just killed at least one person in Bateyahun, southern Lebanon, the country's
civil defense told Al Jazeera. Just an hour earlier, President Trump posted on
true social, the USA will separately work with Lebanon and deal with Hezbollah situation in
appropriate manner. Israel will not be bombing Lebanon any longer. They are prohibited from
doing so by the USA. Enough is enough. The Lebanese army had already reported ceasefire
violations before the strike, including hours after it went into place when Israel struck
an ambulance in the town of Kunin, close to the border on Friday, according to the National
news agency with a report of casualties among the targeted medical workers.
The Lebanese recorded a number of violations of the agreement with several Israeli attacks
recorded.
In addition to intermittent shelling, targeting a number of villages, it said in a statement.
Classic.
Classic Israeli potshots.
Almost as classic as the other Israeli technique of increasing the intensity of
the bombing campaigns right before the ceasefire.
are two techniques that Israel engages in all the time. Yeah, complete disregard of
international law. No one is restraining them. Why should they, right? Barak Ravid, Barak
Unit 8200 Ravid says the US official clarifies Trump's Lebanon comments. The president sees
far agreement between Lebanon and Israel clearly states that Israel will not carry out any
offensive military operations against Lebanese targets, but preserves his right to self-defense
against planned imminent and ongoing attacks. Okay. So let's continue.
An Iran expert, Kareem Sajibullah, also with us, the former NATO Supreme Allied commander,
retired US Army General, Wesley Clark. To both of you, thanks very much for joining us.
For joining us, Kareem, let me start with you on this major news from the Iranians, announcing
that the Strait of Hormuz is in their words completely open. It's been a source
of leverage for Iran for some time now. What do you think? Does this suggest a peace deal,
a real peace deal, could be imminent?
Well, President Trump obviously wants to try to end this 47-year conflict with Iran in several
weeks, but in my view that's not going to happen. You still have the same regime which
wants the United States as an adversary. A more narrow agreement on just the nuclear
issue is possible, but there's no signs that Iran is prepared to change its conduct.
And on the strait of Homoes, what they found is that that's an incredible tool of leverage
for them.
They agreed to open it now in exchange for Israel ceasing its military operations in
Lebanon, but in the future if Israel resumes its military operations in Lebanon, they
will try to stop traffic in the strait again.
Well, what's going to happen if Hezbollah in Lebanon starts firing rockets and missiles
towards northern Israel, which they've been doing.
There are so many saboteurs in this equation,
not only Lebanese Hezbollah, the Houthis,
and Yemen, Shiite militias in Iraq,
and individuals within the Iranian Revolutionary Guard
who actually want to prolong the war
for their own internal expediency.
I stand by, I want to bring in General Clark.
General Clark.
Yeah, yeah, no, it's never Israel
that's a saboteur, famously.
It's always, it can be IRGC in Tehran, not Israel.
Of course, this is the, this is the Iranian guy from one of these think tanks, right?
There's always like an Iranian guy from one of these think tanks.
They'll be like, you know, the real, the real enemy here is always and forever
the axis of resistance Israel famously and notoriously never does anything wrong.
And if you think that it's doing anything wrong, it's obviously because Israel had to do it. It's a preemptive strike
How dare you how dare you talk shit about the beautiful
Nation-state of Israel bouncing the opening of the straighter of her moves the Iranian foreign minister said vessels must still
transit through what they called a
Coordinated route laid out by Iranian authorities. Is it unusual at all that Iran would be determining this?
It's always funny because it's like now that we got
Now that we got an Iranian guy to say, M is real high, it's time for a Wonderbred White
general to say the same things, okay?
Well, it's absolutely unusual.
It's unprecedented and it's illegal.
And so this is an international waterway.
They have no right to do this.
But there are still maybe mines out there, and those mines have to be cleared.
Someone has to certify that the mines are cleared.
But Wolf, in addition to that, as Karim was saying, this situation will never go back
to what it was before, because what's happened is Iran has exercised a weapon, and that weapon
is still there, it's still like an axe hanging over international commerce and diplomacy
in the region, and they've seen how powerful it is.
And I think we also have to look at the role of China in this.
When Pakistan is coming in and helping to broker this, and convincing China is behind
Pakistan, the Saudis are working with Pakistan, it's a temporary fix, yes, it should be open.
It should be open for China because they're the biggest beneficiary of it, and the Iranians
know it and they can't keep it closed.
But there's been a real demonstration of strategic power here by the Iranian regime.
So I just second what Karim has to say.
Lots of saboteurs out there, lots of potential pitfalls in the future.
MR.
Certainly, Karim, the U.S. Navy currently has a blockade that went into effect a few days
ago on Iran in the strait that President Trump says will remain in full force, but only
as it pertains to Iran, his words, only as it pertains to Iran.
How does this impact the country?
So Iran is a country under dire economic straits.
before this war was probably the most sanctioned country in the world. Now it's endured probably
tens if not over a hundred billion dollars in damages as a result of this war. And that's
one of the reasons why there are folks within the government who don't mind prolonging
the war because once there is a longer term ceasefire, they will face an incredibly aggrieved
population.
No doubt about that. General Clark, we're about a day into that 10-day proposed
truth between Israel and Lebanon.
Hours after it started, though, the Lebanese Army accused Israel of violating the ceasefire.
The conflict in Lebanon has been a key sticking point in all the negotiations between the U.S.
and Iran.
Is Israel playing into Iran's hands here, if in fact it's violating the ceasefire?
MR.
PALLADINO Yes, of course it is.
But Iran has never had Hezbollah come back and acknowledged the ceasefire.
So Hezbollah is a third party left out at any time.
Hezbollah could launch a couple of rockets, and you can't take away Israel's right to
defend itself.
Israel has that right, and I know that there are many in Israel today who are perplexed
by this.
We saw it, we're going to get an agreement with Lebanon, and what about Hezbollah?
We were going to get rid of Hezbollah, there's still layer.
What restrictions will emerge on Iran's support of Hezbollah as we try to wrap this
up with a complex, complete diplomatic agreement. And if there are no such restrictions of...
Something tells me that this news is non-neutral. Wait, what makes you say that?
Is it perhaps because Wolf Blitzer?
Yeah, right now you have apolivist, a CNN anchor, Wolf Blitzer, who used to do PR for APAC.
It's real. Look it up. Okay. Wolf Blitzer, before he was on CNN, was a spokesperson for
APEC and a U.S. general are, you know, all engaging in the Israel Defense Forces commentary.
It's wonderful. You get to see the full diversity, the full spectrum of commentary
on CNN on these issues, right? I wonder if there's another person. I mean, why don't they
just have Benjamin Netanyahu on directly, right? It's quite anti-Semitic that they don't have
anyone who's straight up Israeli to come and talk about how they're getting fucked over
in this process, because if they don't do child murder in Lebanon, they'll literally die,
If Israel does not do child murder in Lebanon, do you want Israel to explode?
It's really fucking anti-semitic.
We're still in the danger zone, Will.
No doubt about that.
The danger zone continues.
General Clark, thank you very much, Karim Sajapur.
Thank you to you as well.
Well, oil prices are trading at their lowest level in five weeks following the earlier
announcement by the Iranian Foreign Minister.
Let's discuss with Richard Quest, CNN Business Editor-Large in Anchor of Quest
means business. So Richard, we're seeing this significant drop in prices. But as they say
in the real world, what's changed? Oh, I think quite a lot has changed. The sentiment has changed.
If you look at the developments over the course of the day, there is a view that
there is more of a willingness to move forward towards peace. Now, I get the
the point that you're making what's changed factually of course nothing. And that's why
although I say the willingness and the trend and the mood has changed, this fall that we're
looking at at the screen is entirely justifiable and predictable and it is equally reversible
if the trend does not continue, if the mood movement doesn't change, if for example
blockade remains and no oil flows out. That's the reality here. It's going to be a case of wait and
see if the ships actually move. Talk all you like. We want to see the ships. We want to see the ships
and you have Maresk, one of the largest shipping companies saying that they've noticed Iran's
announcement on the Strait of Urmuz and then they go on to say the safety of our crew vessels
and customers cargo remains our top priority. That doesn't signal that they are ready to
to set sail, all things being back to normal?
No, and they won't be.
And however many ships they've got caught in the upper Gulf,
they will remain there.
But let's just say the Iranians start
to give exactly those guarantees.
No, you can go forward.
No toll.
Let's just say I'm speculating.
You can go forward.
But you've still got the Americans
in the Arabian Gulf outside.
You've still got them waiting with their blockade
to move things forward.
So the price that you're looking at now
is predicated on actual real oil ships moving.
If they don't, that price will go back up again.
As for the longer term, how much of the economic crisis
is baked in?
Is the cake actually rising now, inflation?
How much damage has been done?
We don't really know.
It'll be a few more weeks before we can quantify that.
Certainly an element of damage.
But the better news is that things are looking better.
Now they've got to actually prove it.
Yeah, and it's pretty clear that the president
is wanting this war to come to an end
rather quickly as well.
He sees all of these economic numbers.
CNN's, thank you so much.
Really appreciate Richard Quest.
Thank you for joining us.
What are we hearing from the president on all of this?
He's on quite a spree on true social this morning
on these big developments, Betsy.
Yes, Pamela, President Trump and his team are watching this very closely, receiving regular
updates from here in Las Vegas where the president is making an economic push.
But news that the Strait of Hormuz is reopening, very welcome and officials are feeling optimistic
as these talks are progressing in real time.
President Trump reacting in that flurry of social media posts.
Now, we are learning, according to reporting from our colleagues, Lena Treene and Kevin
and lip-tech, that the Trump administration is also considering unfreezing $20 billion
in Iranian assets as part of these negotiations.
I want to read to you from a post the president sent just a few moments ago.
He says, quote, the USA will get all nuclear dust created by our great B-2 bombers.
No money will exchange hands in any way, shape or form.
Of course, this idea of Iran potentially bet potential.
Yes, Trump is at the tort conference. Yes, Trump is at WrestleMania. Yes, he's doing all of the things that are happening in Vegas right now
I've heard I've heard that Trump is there specifically to to go to the tort conference and see Sam Cedar
Uncle Sam versus El Presidente
Financially from this deal even if Trump loves tort tort reform if no money is exchanged
could lead to some criticism of President Trump, who has been critical of similar deals
under the Obama administration.
But officials are hoping that a broader deal to end this conflict could be finalized as
soon as this weekend.
And they are watching those talks between Iranian and Pakistani officials very, very
closely to see that if a potential second round of talks could take place in Islamabad
as soon as this weekend.
Now, there are still some major sticking points, and that includes how long Iran has agreed
to pause its uranium enrichment, as well as retrieval of Iran's nuclear material.
That is what President Trump is referring to as nuclear dust.
But all of this comes after the president yesterday announced a 10-day ceasefire between
Israel and Lebanon, something that sources say really paved the way for these quickly
progressing developments, as well as this announcement that the Strait of Haramuz is reopening.
And Trump has said that the straight blockade will remain in full force until that deal is
complete.
But we are already seeing oil prices go down, the stock market going up, due to this news.
It comes as the president is here trying to make that economic pitch, and people I've
talked to are already feeling the crunch from this conflict, Pamela Unwold.
All right.
Betsy Klein, thanks for the latest.
$20 billion for nuclear material has been floated, not decided.
Nick referenced a reporting.
No, quote from one proposal includes unfreezing assets in exchange for Iran turning over its stockpile of highly enriched uranium
Iran is astro major sanctions relief on freezing of assets north of the 20 billion figure the sources said the discussions are on
Haven't been resolved. This is like the crux of everything straight is
Hmm
Just no no no money has exchanged hands hmm
It's kind of interesting that when Barack Obama was unfreezing assets, Iranian assets, when
Joe Brandon was unfreezing Iranian assets, that was money exchanging hands.
When Trump is doing it, that's a different thing.
That's a totally separate thing.
You guys don't understand.
No money is no green pallets, no green pallets of cash.
Just 20 billion, 20 billion dollars.
larger number much bigger number than the Joe Brandon six billion dollars much
bigger than the Barack Hussein Obamna's 1.7
after all it's inflation that's why it said with inflation 20 billion is far
smaller than 1.7 billion far smaller than six billion.
linchpin i think from an economic perspective but this is the crux of the deal that every president
has been going after for decades and decades what's your latest sense of that yeah i mean those
are the two biggest for the record for the record for the record i i want you guys to understand
something like this wasn't this is not a point of a serious contention when barack obama did it
it's it should be done rig scott is so obsessed with he's not posting a year old profile by a
you about the New York Times demanding why they glazed you. Yeah, it's pretty funny. Hey New York
Times, can you let me know why you're giving a guy who said I should be murder such a glowing
platform would love to know your standards dog. This was written before that there's been new
articles blazing me since then, you know, I do think it's really funny that Rick Scott spends
most of his time crying about my existence now.
One of these days, man, one of these days you'll get them, okay, a promise.
I think throughout these entire negotiations and as you mentioned the straight one of them
but I think for now seems more likely to be resolved.
It's this idea of how long will Iran actually commit to suspending their enrichment of uranium
and then also the idea of going into retrieve the enrich having the US or perhaps another
country, you know, some sort of mediator going into retrieve.
It is somewhat humiliating that he has been consistently pushing this, and I have yet to
see any support.
Like, if I claim that someone had put a hit out on me, and I just kept posting through
it over and over again, like, why does nobody care, like, this person wants to kill me?
Why does nobody care this person wants to kill me?
And every single time I posted it, people were just like, yeah, you suck, dude.
You've killed so many people with your Medicare fraud.
Fuck you.
Like, if that's what the response was, every single time I posted this thing, this lie,
right?
Because I didn't actually, you know, demand someone kill Rick Scott.
Like I was talking about Mike Johnson not being sincere about the cause of Medicare
fraud, right? But it's pretty funny. Like if I, if I saw, no, no, it wasn't even in like
a video game thing. Like it wasn't, it was hyperbole, right? Like it's obviously hyperbole,
which is precisely the reason why the Secret Service or the Department of Homeland Security
or the FBI didn't even fucking, like, you know, do anything about it. But in any case,
pay attention to the actual point here. The point here is, if you keep consistently posting
this false claim over and over and over again, okay? And no one came to your aid at a certain
point you have to recognize is humiliating, right? Because you're basically putting yourself
out there and finding out that people either A, don't believe you or B, a far worse consideration
that they do believe you and they don't care.
So it's, I don't know which one is worse.
But I think it's the second one that's probably worse.
Like at a certain point, you got to give up, right?
Because you're just basically, one, amplifying to everyone that you've done Medicare fraud
record breaking, Medicare fraud, and two, showing everybody, showing the rest of the
world that like a lot of people actually don't care.
A lot of people don't care at all.
Sad.
Sad state of affairs for Rick.
Preve the uranium that they already have.
And he just put out a flurry of social media posts this morning
announcing the US would require all of Iran's quote,
nuclear dust.
And that money would not be exchanged in negotiations
for that nuclear dust as he calls it from the B2 bombers.
But two sources are telling CNN this morning
The administration is considering unfreezing $20 billion in Iranian assets as part of the
negotiations.
Really quick, I want to play what the president said earlier about the Obama administration's
Iran deal.
And then very importantly, I terminated Barack Hussein Obama's Iran nuclear deal a disaster.
Obama gave them $1.7 billion in cash, green, green cash.
They could add up banks from Virginia, D.C., and Maryland, all the cash they had, flew
it by airplanes in an attempt to buy their respect and loyalty, but it didn't work.
Is it a good idea for the U.S. to consider releasing these funds to Iran?
What do you think?
Well, you know, we obviously were very critical of the way President Obama handled giving
cash to Iran.
I think it really depends on the negotiation that President Trump comes through with
them.
What are we getting in exchange?
the security measurements that we're going to receive and have the assurances that they're
not going to pursue any sort of nuclear capability, President Trump is a tough negotiator.
I mean, we've been really able to watch him negotiate almost as a general public through
the truth social posts.
And there's days you're like, wow.
But this is the way he negotiates.
He's a tough negotiator and he gets results.
Including threatening taking out an entire civilization.
Well, and you know what?
That was one of the things that, as he said, they say death to Israel, death to America.
And I think we have to take them seriously.
And while they are a much smaller country and they don't have the capabilities that we
do as Americans, we still have to take it seriously.
And I think that those were the types of words that they understood what those meant.
I believe that he never intended to do that, but it was simply the rhetoric to
put them in a position of he means business.
means business. The bottom line is the US has long pointed to Iran as being a
state sponsor of terrorism. Going back 47 years and Trump for his part said that
this war was initiated to prevent Iran from funding that right. So if the US does
ultimately unfreeze these assets for Iran as part of these negotiations and move
the blockade away so the oil ports are open does that essentially allow it to
continue to be a state sponsor of terrorism? Well I hope not. I mean I
I was I was born in 1976 and as long as I can remember Iran has been a state sponsor of terrorism
I mean they have killed thousands of Americans they continue
Znn dude
Znn it's fucking unbearable, okay
It's just so funny. This is supposed to be this like anti. This is supposed to be this like anti-trump
Trump commentary. This is the pre Larry Ellison purchase, ZNN. And as soon as foreign policy
is called on the question, as soon as like Israel's needs are called on the question,
it's uniparty. Like everybody, everybody is just regurgitating the same exact idiotic
pro-trump propaganda. They're just saying the shit that Trump has been saying. Oh yeah, that's...
I mean, everyone knows, like, I mean, obviously, Iran is a great danger to...
Everyone knows Iran is a great danger to both Israel and the United States and the rest of the world.
So I guess you guys have no issues, right?
To fund these proxies in the Middle East causing disruption, whether it's Hamas or Hezbollah or
the Houthis, and of course all of the instability in Syria and Iraq, Iran's always behind it.
And that's why I really truly believe that President Trump knows this is the moment that
there has to be a change in ideology in the government, in Iran.
And that's going to take some time here, but I think the hardest part of the work
is done, and now it's going to be a lot of diplomacy and also pressure where the
pressure needs to be put in place to push in that direction.
As the Strait of Hormuz is declared open by Iran while a Lebanon-Israel ceasefire holds,
Britain and France have welcomed the announcement, but warned that more needs to be done.
We welcome the announcement that was made during our meeting, but we need to make sure
that that is both lasting and a workable proposal.
And if anything, it reinforces the need for the work that we've been doing.
Also, the audacity Iran, famous destabilizer in the region, I say, as an American, like,
wow, yeah, no, it's true is the, the great, the great destabilizer in the region, Iran, and not,
I don't know, the United States of America or its extension, Israel,
Well, famously, it's them doing it.
Oh yeah, this is of course always awesome.
Cure Starmer is flying to Paris this morning to co-host a virtual meeting of the Shredi
Hormuz Maritime Freedom Navigation Initiative.
He's doing the important work, the necessary work of reopening the Shredi Hormuz as
you know. It's hard work, but someone's supposed to do it. I'm glad. This apocracy pisses me
off. Callus, Caya Callus starts her sense with under international law, yet under the
entire genocide in Gaza, Europe completely ignored international law with the US attack
Venezuela, EU leaders explicitly stated that this was not the time to discuss international
law. They repeated that when the US attacked Iran. But now, Clare Callis returns to opening
her sentence with international law. International law is not an optional feature of international
relations that you invoke only when it suits you. Well, except it is. That is how it's
been utilized. And now they're much more flagrant about that utilization. Mark Levin, great delays,
bro.
Lindsey Graham, great questions from the great one. Mark Levin is mad about Donald Trump.
How dare Donald Trump do something that Israel doesn't want him to do, okay? Remember, the
great one. Which side are you on, Mark? Marky Mark, Master Shake. What's our plan to stop Hezbollah?
Once we disarm Hezbollah, now that we have taken on this responsibility, how will we prevent Hezbollah
from regenerating and reconstituting its forces? The Lebanese government has neither the will
nor the way, or they'd have done it in the last year, cease fire that Hezbollah violated.
I expect Hezbollah will see its tactics of using buildings to organize, store weapons,
and fire rockets as successful, and will comment more of it, or will do more of it,
given the declaration. And it will continue that Israel can't do anything about it,
as this declaration protects his bullet so we shall see
i'm the great one also known as master shake
his british is good but this is an l accent i mean i'm trying to do i'm trying to do
fucking Mark Levin also known as Master Shake
Israel is degraded as bull I without much help from anyone else
They took out its leadership. They lost soldiers
They've relocated 1 million or so of his citizens because his bull of fires thousands of rockets into their towns
Shakesula the Mike ruler the old schooler you want to drink I'll bring it to you. Oh my god
Did you get a vocal coach? What is this? New survey claims you are the top news source
for 1.6% of 2024 voters.
That's crazy.
Top news influencers number one Joe Rogan, Sean Hannity, Greg Gutfeld, Elon Musk, Mark
Levin, show Jimmy Kimmel.
John Stewart, Brian Tyler Cohen, Erica Kirk, Jordan Peterson,
Philip DeFranco, Hassan Abbey, next to Philip DeFranco, Glenn Greenwald, Russell Brand, David
Packman, Dean Withers is two. Okay. This, this, I don't understand what these guys are utilizing
as far as the measure of influence.
It's definitely more. Cause if I was asked that in a survey, I would lie. Why?
Because like there are a lot of people on this list like Ben Shapiro has no motion, dude.
What the fuck Ben Shapiro is unbelievably motionless.
That's why I'm saying like they're the idea that these guys are like, I believe Joe Rogan
is one of the top, right?
I believe that for sure.
But as far as like, uh, Rachel Maddow or Ben Shapiro or fucking Maria Bartiromo, I don't
think that that is like, I don't know how they conducted this, but it was a nationwide survey
poll mentioned in the post that was reposting who the fuck we say Elon Musk, a lot of dumb
people get there.
I mean, I guess it's 2024. So maybe it was a different time as well. But even then I don't,
it's from 2024 dog. Now I still don't believe that. Also, where the fuck is Charlie Kirk?
Charlie, Charlie, Kirk E. Erica Kirk in 2024. Erica Kirk in 2024. Guys,
guys,
I'm sorry. This is an unbelievable list. No, Charlie Kirk, Erica Kirk instead. No, this
is 2024 voters, not 2024 metrics. Oh, this is just percentage of 2024 voters, not what
their influence was. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay. So it's a new poll. The data isn't from 2024.
The people pulled are those in that voted in 2024. The poll was more recent. Oh, got
it. David Pagman has more motion than no name Haas is true. I agree.
Online personnel as the community's overtake TV and newspaper as primary news source new
Ipsos poll conducted for the Jordan Center of Journalism, Innovation and Advocacy at the
University of Mississippi shows how the media landscape has fractured.
ever bar graph bro I agree I'm I'm low motion they should stop covering me that's what I think
yeah once again um this the only reason why I think this is unbelievable is not because I'm at like
1.6% um that's normal I'm not that big of an influencer but you got names on here that make no
sense like Jordan Peterson has no relevance whatsoever. Ben Shapiro has no relevance whatsoever
in modern contemporary discourse and considering that this is a new, considering that this
is a new list, like Jordan Peterson has been in rehab for fucking months. We don't even
know if he's still alive or dead the fact that they would put Jordan Peterson up there
like would mention Jordan Peterson up there is some some about the the way that they're doing
this list doesn't make a lot of sense
he's in a red meat coma yeah Jordan Peterson Erica Kirk like that that also sounds
Unfuckin believable, really?
4% of voters said that they get their top news from Erica Kirk.
Anyway, let's continue.
Just saw you on Fox News. They were so mad. I'm a fan now.
Bishop of Follings is 2025. Okay.
Yeah, this might be more so like maybe a name recognition poll because like it is base boosted
with conservatives.
It's chock full of conservatives.
And that makes sense because these guys were dominant, right?
They were towering forces in the information landscape on the internet for a decade.
Now they've died, sometimes literally, sometimes figuratively died.
And so from a name recognition perspective amongst like 2024 voters, it kind of does make sense
because they're thinking of like who they used to, whose names they recognize, whose
names they've heard from. I don't know. Because it doesn't make any sense as far as like their
current relevance because Ben Shapiro has no base. Ben Shapiro has videos on his YouTube
page to get like that barely cracked 20,000 views, man. It's fucking over. It's so
unbelievably over. Why'd you put a hit on on Rick Scott? Shut the fuck up.
Anyway, Mark Levin is not happy about Trump letting Hezbollah live and not
not allowing Israel to do more genocide in Lebanon.
We're very clear that the mission that we're putting together is a defensive mission that
comes after a cease-fire.
The announcement broke as British Prime Minister Kirstarmer and French President Emmanuel Macron
co-hosted dozens of world leaders on the situation in the Strait of Oremus.
CNN's Melissa Bell is outside the Elysees Palace in Paris for more.
And Melissa, I'm serious when I ask this question, what is the point of this meeting for European
officials when they don't have a stake in any of the decision-making here, as has been
seen given the announcement from President Trump of potentially a deal looming, and also that
the Strait, as for now, is open?
This was a meeting that was initially proposed by the British and the French, but that also
attract today in presence they were actually here in Paris the Italian leader and the German leader
but there were some 50 participants who are fucked with electronic intifada they're covered so good
yes i love electronic intifada events in it uh many uh remotely they were global organizations but
some 30 heads of state of government add that to the adl list again uh another offense he is
connected to the most dangerous group of all electronic intifada add that to the adl list
It wasn't just Europeans. What we're talking about are the leaders of from Latin America
through the Middle East to the Indo-Pacific. Those parts of the world that were not belligerent
in this case, that are not directly involved in the war, but have been on the front line
of its effects, of its impacts. And so they came together to try and put together, and
they've been talking about this for some weeks, this coalition to ensure that navigation
can stay open in the Strait of Hormuz. The idea is that they want no blockade,
They want no tolls, and they want the end of fighting, a cease-fire allowing them to mount
this mission with the help of the ships of France, the United Kingdom, Germany and Italy,
in order to carry out minesweeping operations.
Now, crucially, only once a cease-fire has been struck.
Then this announcement of the lifting on the Iranian side of the blockade and all
the hope that it has brought.
But what the French president wanted to keep front and center was the need for
produce because we've seen so many times before at moments of the glimmer of hope
Disappointment then of the face of the Maximist demands of the United States the
Transitance of the Iranians and the continued frustration of the rest of the world face with this the idea here was to try and do something
There's something very funny
about how humiliating it is
to watch
European leaders
exercise their powerlessness, and exercise in futility. Like, hey guys, we have a say
in this too, like, look at us, we're still here. Also, we would stood, obviously, the
worst impacts of, you know, Trump's dangerous and increasingly belligerent and increasingly
violent actions in the region. But also, we're still here, we have a say in this,
Okay, we are, we're doing Zoom calls.
We're not cucked.
Hassan is the Alex Jones of the left.
That was so a bit that it just mewans,
they haven't heard of them.
Top wash news influencers,
Keir Starver, the Coocture meeting,
Hassan is the Alex Jones of the left,
this is Mark Apologis.
Apologize for Mark Omor.
Think about it, without.
Benjamin was just talking about you on CNN.
No, again.
Those involved directly in the war.
This is what the French president had to say.
Distin des hostilités en cours.
We demand a total reopening immediately, unconditionally, by all parties of the Strait of Hormuz.
We demand a restoration of the conditions of the...
Ha! I just heard on the news that you said Anne Frank would have supported the Houthis.
She would have been a believer too.
I didn't even say Anne Frank would have supported the Houthis.
I don't know what her take would be on this conflict.
I just simply stated that there is not much difference between a survivor of one genocide
and someone who as a teenager experienced the Holocaust.
Like I don't make a distinction between genocides, right?
I'm sorry for, you know, ruining your joke artistically and explaining away my position
but you're right.
I think Anne Frank would have been a believer and probably a supporter of the Houthis.
Free navigation that were in place before the war.
So they're feeling prudent about the prospects of peace, because of course the complexity
of the negotiations ahead leaves no doubt to leaders who gather here in Europe in
Paris today, but they're also simply actually looking for a return to the situation before
this war began.
Yeah.
Melissa Bell in Paris for us.
Thank you.
Now, I will say, from all of the conversations I've been having today with Trump administration
officials, White House officials, they are very optimistic.
What do you mean, survivor?
No, I said a survivor of one genocide as in the American-backed Saudi blockade in
Yemen.
Tim Houthi-Shalome survived that as a teenager.
He experienced that and he lived to tell the tale and Frank survived the Holocaust.
I don't know why you're getting so mad.
That's not what I said.
That ideal could potentially be finalized as early as this weekend.
What I'm told is that really what we're watching play out, Nick was describing it in Tehran with the Pakistanis,
mainly the Field Marshal Asim Muneer who has been really the lead person talking with top Trump administration officials and the Iranians
How that goes today if they I watch a lot of CNN reports John Federer
CNN asked on the hunt Federer you misunderstand is fuck Israel not fuck the Jews get it right lurch. I
Guess I was on CNN
We can successfully get the Iranians to agree to a certain number of things that we know
they are really pushing for.
These are two of them.
Yeah, I like that Fox News took a break from Focus on content.
So CNN picked up, CNN picked up where Fox News left off, baby.
The biggest ones.
Then they believed they could get there.
Now, of course, we've heard these discussions of potential second round of talks.
I think actually at this point what the Trump administration is hoping for, again, this is
all, you know, best case scenario, I should say.
This is not something that is a done deal.
But they're hoping that actually if they, you know, these top officials, Wiccough,
Kushner, perhaps J.D.
Vance, go to Pakistan, then it would be more of a formality, that it would be
signing a potential document, finalizing a couple last-minute things, but that really
the big discussions are happening in Tehran today. It's also been so fascinating to me.
It's almost frustrating because I am trying to report this out. Seeing the president posting
repeatedly nonstop, you know, 11 plus truths today. I'm told that's really, he has been
getting constant updates from the Pakistanis who are in Tehran. And then he's posting
about untrue social. The thing I would tell our viewers and remind them is that this
is his interpretation of it and this is one side of the agreement. The Iranians
obviously have a different one and so there are still, you know, gaps that
need to be closed, but they are in a much more confident position than they have been
in recent days.
Well, I'm now joined in the studio by Hassan Ahmadiyyan.
He's an associate professor at the University of Tehran.
Good to have you with me here in the studio.
So, first of all, let's take apart some of these lines that have been dropping fast
and furious in the last couple of hours.
Donald Trump saying Iran has agreed to suspend its nuclear program indefinitely.
How likely is it that Iran has agreed in your own?
Yes, dude, it's me.
Yes, it's me.
On Al Jazeera.
It's the other Dr. Jihad.
Permission and clip.
That's easy for me.
Bro, he's still in the bunker.
He's in the Führer bunker alongside Benjamin Ninjahu.
Haunt, just to come back to something you said, who in your party do you believe is cheering for Iran?
It's like you are. You are making a seat way.
Yes, and so that's what's important to support and we're heading to a strong end at this point.
Sir, just to go back to something that you said.
Sir, what the fuck are you saying?
Just a moment ago in your answer, who in your party do you believe is cheering for Iran?
I'm saying it's like, if you are, you are making it seem that we, you know, America
is not the force of good in the world, criticizing America.
I think this is such a shameful thing, like they really should stop having this guy on
TV. It is a shameful experience. It almost feels like they're doing this as punishment
for Israel, for Israel's war crimes. Their punishment is here is your top guy in American,
in the American political class. This is your top defender.
You can watch him short-circuit. Sometimes I feel like they're trying to see if they
can make him zap back to, they can hit him with another stroke, but just by using his
words. They can make him hit another struggle where he's good again, you know?
It's just, he is such a fucking ogre dude. The media class is conducting an experiment
to see if they can short circuit his brain to fix it again.
Criticizing is real. You know, you have Iran, what they've done. You know, the kinds of outrage
what you know with Iranians massacring tens and tens of thousands of Iranians just just
recently for that now if you're going to continue to vote against our military if you're proud
to vote against defensive kinds of systems like iron dome for for Israel and you can like
everybody knows yeah massacring everybody knows he's he's brain dead right like he's
functionally brain dead it's not like he's doing a good job hiding that he's fucking
functionally brain dead. I don't even understand what this exercise is for. It's so sad. It's
such a sad state of affairs, man. It's fucked up. Continue to vote down something that you
know is going to fail. You know that actually must absolutely excite Iran to see, you know,
the way that many people, you know, in the Democratic Party, you know, doesn't back the
attempts to try to break and destroy the Iranian regime to acquire a nuclear bomb.
Yeah. So I know you and I have spoken a number of times.
He's not even meant yeah, this wasn't the clip. He's not even mentioning me, but I'm
sure he will he has to I think a pack pays him every time he brings up my name
The
Hormuzor is not letting the tankers through mass turnaround nearly every ship attempting
the crossing has turned back. Oh, no, they're harmosing. The
harmose is not open for business, or at least it's open for
business as long as you pay the toll to go through the
harmose hole.
They're like, Oh, fuck, it's too tight. I really got to stop.
I'm sorry. I apologize. I apologize. I'm died fucking stupid. This is why no one should be listening to me.
Pushing 50 years old. Oh, I'm sorry. John Federmen can er er er er er his way through this process, but I can't make a couple
Parmussi is too tight jokes like that's fucked up. Let me have a little bit.
Understand, to suspend its entire nuclear program indefinitely.
There's nothing that has been agreed so far on the nuclear program.
Well, why then would the US president make this kind of statement if Iran is,
is Iran going to come out and say we haven't done this?
I think the negotiations that are to...
I convinced my mom to tune in today, Sajj, okay.
Basically, we start with the mediation of Pakistan are about this.
So there's no negotiations now that he basically forced the ceasefire,
which was supposed to happen in parallel to Iran's ceasefire.
It was a regional ceasefire agreement with the Iranian assets for Iran to return.
I told the mediator of Pakistan said yes, and then understanding.
Iran and Pakistan said so, but Israel violated it, and so Iran said that wartime situation
in the Hormuz will continue.
Now with the ceasefire in Lebanon talks of unfreezing Iran's assets, the Strait of Hormuz
being dealt with differently by Iran.
Not that different, but still.
We'll talk in a minute about the Strait of Hormuz, but I want to finish first these
lines about what Donald Trump is saying has been agreed and he's saying we will go in at
a leisurely pace to recover uranium which we think refers to the 60% plus enriched uranium.
Again, how likely from your understanding is it that Iran will agree to allow U.S. I
guess forces to go in and recover enriched uranium to that degree?
I wanted to get to this point. So so far, nuclear is subject to discussion. There's no agreement.
Trump tells CBS Iran agreed to stop supporting Hamas and Hezbollah. Yeah. If there's one claim,
I absolutely do not believe it's this one. Okay. Yeah, I'll believe it. I'll believe it when I
see it. Okay. Sure, man. Yeah. Because like, remember, this is not like, this is not an
ideological allegiance. Okay. I'm not, I'm not silly enough to believe that like, oh, Iran is doing
this because it has Bullah Shia and they have like a great deal, a real commitment to the
emancipatory needs of these people. I'm sure there are some who believe that, right?
Inside of the Iranian government. But ultimately, the reason why they're doing that is because
it's a part of leverage. It's a part of the leverage that Iran has against America and
Israel in the region. So, it's, in a way, it's not dissimilar to the other totally ridiculous
demands that the American government has made that Iran will never abide by, which is to restrict
their strike capabilities away from Israel. You're wrong, Hassan. It is ideological law.
I mean, it's sure, sure. There's a ideological need for it as well. But ultimately, it's
pressure, its leverage. Okay, there's no ideological need for why Iran must have missile striking
capabilities that actually reach Israeli airspace. That is leverage. That is deterrence. Okay,
and it's the same before the axis of resistance.
I think on anything on the nuclear file, there are ideas mediated by Pakistan back and forth
between Iran and the United States, but there's no agreement.
I can say that with certainty.
I also don't think, I'm not a committed believer in the Orientalist framework that
people understand Iran through, where they'll be like, oh, well, they're Shia, like they
don't care about death, like they don't care about martyrdom.
I'm sure that that also, I'm sure that that plays somewhat of a role, but at the end of the day, like states, sovereign states, don't make these sorts of, they don't make these sorts of considerations.
They don't make these sorts of decisions exclusively for some kind of like ideological purpose.
Bro, you're the only one I've ever heard, even bring up the Shia mentality.
Yeah, I say that as a joke, not serious analysis.
But Iran basically has a bread line on its nuclear program.
You can't just ask it to indefinitely freeze its enrichment because that's a right.
it has in accordance with international law with the treaty, the non-nognuity, the empty
basically.
What the fuck is this?
Reasons to be a Hassanavi fan of comprehensive guide in parentheses, streamer stink, Hassan
Piker, self-proclaimed geopolitical guru, one struggle to locate Yemen on a map, turns
out his expertise is lost as a sense of direction.
His hot takes on the Israel-Hamas conflict, Hamas can never do wrong dismissing war
crimes like their L.S.F. shitposts.
He rails against capitalism while nestled in a 2.7 million dollar mansion.
Wait, someone wrote this as a book?
Link McKinley.
Then there's the song's love affair with terrorism defending Hamas's resistance fight as well
as shrugging off the October 7 massacre of 1200.
His claim that Jews are imbredded and vile isn't critique.
Is a dog was allowed enough to wake a coma patient?
Oh my god, this is chat GBT.
This is an AI book.
wrote a fucking AI book. Is AI slop? Undoubtedly self published.
AI has made effort posting much easier. Don't call a slop as
Kino. Yeah, I just, I think, like, AI, like back in the day, people used to actually do
effort posting. Okay, guys, stop linking the fucking dumb fuck haters, chat, GPT posts,
like, oh my God, my own community are my worst fans. They just never think they literally
don't think they're just doing promotion for this fucking dipshit like please
what the hell is wrong with you it's not willing to give it up and I think him
talking about Iran giving up its uranium is also unrealistic we crave the
slop yes you crave the slop you love the drama you can't be serious you
You can't think tactically ever.
This came up with ideas before the war, and I think they are sticking with those ideas.
That's what I was going to say.
It was reported before the war through the Ammani mediators that there had been a breakthrough
in handing over the plus 60% enriched uranium.
It's not handing over.
It's bringing it down to 20% diluting it to 20% and then to 3.67%, which is for
Yeah, contrastive negations are my least favorite chat GPT isms. It's not effort posting. It's slot maxing
Yeah
It's it's so fucking annoying. I hate it so much. I don't know why chat GPT decided this is the best way to do it
Is the best way to go?
and
Peaceful purposes only according to the IAEA, and so you don't think it's realistic that
they will now agree to the U.S. going in there and taking that in reach?
There's a threshold to getting into an agreement on this.
For two reasons.
The Iranians are saying this is our right.
second, they don't have that much of stockpile to give this off. And then when the United States
violates its commitments, then to enrich again. They don't have much uranium, so it's not that
easy. Let's talk about the Straits of Hormuz, and the U.S. President also saying Iran has
agreed to never close the Straits of Hormuz again. Again, how likely is that, do you think?
Well, that's, I think, depends on how the United States acts. Basically, when there was
agreement, as I said, they violated it into basic points. Lebanon and then the unfreezing
of assets. Iran also said, we are not bound to it. Now, if the United States is to violate
its commitments, I can see that the Iranians will also go back to where they were.
Well, he's already saying that Iran will not receive any frozen funds from the U.S.
So is it likely that the Iranians will take that step without any promise of unfreezing
their assets?
I can't imagine a scenario in which the Iranians would have done so without, you know, receiving
promises from the mediators that this will happen, because that was a package offered
to Iran and Iran accepted it.
And based on it started dealing with the United States indirectly through Pakistan and went
to the negotiations.
Yes, Iran told mediators it will continue to limit the number of ships allowed to cross
the Shredda Hormuz and that it will also charge tolls for the remaining period of the ceasefire
according to the Wall Street Journal report.
I know.
They never backed away from maintaining control over the Shredda Hormuz.
That was just a made up thing that Donald Trump, or it wasn't even a made up thing.
It was just Trump saying like the street is open to make himself look better in American
media, which is precisely the reason why I think a lot of the, I guess, sailors that read
only Western news thought that it would thought that this would mean like fully open passage
with no toll system implemented at all, which is why you're seeing a bunch of these
ships make U turns now.
I don't even think it's market manipulation. I thought Iran had said it's also open. No, the Iranian statement from the start
Was literally the straight of her moves is now fully open in accordance with the IRGC's demands
People just heard the first half of that statement and just refuse to listen to the second half of that statement
You're referencing what Iraq. She said, okay a
Abbas Said Arakshi. Here is what he actually said.
Where the fuck is it? Hold on.
I have it somewhere. Oh. In line with the ceasefire in Lebanon,
the passage for all commercial vessels through the Shed of Hormuz
is declared completely open for the remaining period on the ceasefire,
on the coordinated route, as already announced by Ports in Maritime Organization
organization of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Okay? Yeah, you got to read the
terms of service. They said you still got to go through the Iranian ports. This is
the coordinated route as already announced by the ports and maritime
organization of the Islamic Republic representative of Iran. As in, the
pay a tola is still going pie a tola pay a tola yeah coordinated route implies
you still got to pay the toll to go through the harmuzi's hole the harmuzi
is still tight oh fuck that's so tight that's too tight harmuzi I can't get
through it.
Brother, please.
What's that, brother, sir?
Can you stop being so academic?
Yes, I can.
The one is announcing that the situation in this trade is changing.
I can imagine that there is an agreement on this.
So I'm listening to everything you're saying, Professor.
And then you yell at us for not being serious?
I mean.
This is what I'm wondering now.
It basically sounds like you're saying pretty much everything that the US president has announced
is not accurate.
It is not correct.
Why are we not?
Guys, shocking.
Shocking.
Every single thing that Trump said so far about his end of the bargain has been total
nonsense.
That's why I said you got to sit back and you got to wait.
Are they going to unfreeze assets?
likely yes. Or is the Iranian side still collecting a toll? Yes. You did not describe it that way
with yesterday's guess. Yeah, obviously, I'm not going to say hermese. My hermese is so
tight ooh in front of Amy fucking Goodman chat please I too contain multitudes okay I also
didn't say oh I'm her musing right now I'm the harm loser I also didn't say all that
oil still can't lubricate the hole in her musi. The her musi hole is not being lubricated
by all the oil that's transiting through it. I didn't say any of those things because that
would be insane. What if she laughed so hard and snorted and then said, well, Hasan, you
You are the best, but that train's gone now, like your opportunity.
I would never test that in the marketplace of ideas, okay?
That's not, I'm not brave enough.
Hearing anything from the Iranian side, doesn't that silence tell us something?
Well, the silence is basically not that weird when it comes to Tehran, because they're
not within the mood of President Trump, who just basically-
contain multitudes translating i'm a fake less than leftist and support is real
yes it's out and uh you know gives different announcements i suspect brony's this day knee
should not be the news cycle again yeah that's why i'm saying these things so that the news cycle
will go this guy's too gross for us to cover that's my you've you've identified my trick
okay that is my that's my technique the iranians will come out with uh with their narrative
There have been some points, you know, being raised by people in Tehran, but it's the official line, it's Friday today, so you will hear more.
This new maritime, shall we call it, arrangement. Is Iran going to be able to enforce that long term without the objections of other states because it pushes the maritime traffic into Iranian territorial waters?
borders does that not violate the UN convention on the law of the seas articles 37 to 39 that
talk about the right of unimpeded passage for ships yeah sure you see if you put it in that light
of course but the reality is that the deepest road goes through Iran's territorial water
so Iran is not changing the route for that purpose it doesn't need to but before February
Eighth, the ships were not restricted to only that passage, there is a change, right?
But the ships that are heavy or heavier, they usually go through Iran's territory of water because it's deeper.
So they don't need to change anything. They can just, you know, in accordance with international law, observe what's going on in and out.
out. And they have said with the announcement by Mr. Araucci, they have said that it's the
Supreme National Security Council's announcement that is to be observed. Firstly, that passage
is only for innocent passage, for ships that are commercial or energy-related, not military.
And secondly, they should be observed by Iran's Navy. So it's basically that same
announcement that was announced before. Well, I have so many more questions, but I'm already
being told that the time is up. I apologize. We're going to have to leave it there, Professor.
Professor Hassan Ahmadiyan is the man. And I'm not just saying that because we share a name
or that he weirdly looks a lot like me. Okay. It's, uh, I don't know what the fuck it is.
But yeah, no, he's this is he teaches in University of Tehran
It's put her down for you. I don't know
Maybe we're on our way BBC interviews has below representative is Israel Levin on ceasefire
Has been announced it looks like you and Matt watch out a baby calm down. Don't say that. Oh, here is a German chancellor
Iran must end its nuclear program. Yeah, let's take a look at what's it was it
What's the Germans are saying?
We've also achieved the last the end of the war as quickly as possible our message also in coordination with Oliver
Which all of our partners is Iran most end is nuclear program
It must stop attacking the Israel, which is our emotional support, apartheid, we love the genocide, we love it, there's never been a genocide that has happened around the world, or even ones that we've committed that we haven't been fully on board with.
When white people do voices, it's just racist FYI, well, I guess I'm racist.
Oh, oh, my God, I can't believe you're being racist against the Germans.
The Germans speak, yes.
Anti-German, but not in the anti-German ways that I like.
You must stop attacking the Israel and the Gulf States and which it must rely
on Lee permanently and without the payments of any kinds of reopens
the straight-up almost for free navigation you and what army motherfucker
what are you talking about what are you talking about bald man what are you
saying you are motionless you got no bitches you got no motion you got
nothing don't provoke Germany we don't want a World War three he has nothing
he doesn't even have the German public's consent 93% of Germans disagree with
merits and German support for the attack on Iran now stop arms deliveries
on to the USA in Israel revoke overflight rights and close the Ramstein base.
Wait, should Germany and the USA support Iran militarily?
93 percent, no, no!
of all nine nine nine nine. It's just is ridiculous. Watch out,
you're gonna accidentally step on you. So I guess it's not
just 90 to 10 in motherfucking United States of America. It's
93 to five in Germany.
Life of a EU vassal. Russia is the only major European country that has increased to share
global GDP in the 21st century. Germany and Italy have fallen sharply. Poland has held steady.
Yeah, respect the, respect the Poland. They're pulling through.
The White House is slot posting again. So this might mean there's actually momentum in the ceasefire. Yeah.
The Witcher is keeping Poland afloat. Yeah, true.
Cutting the EU out of negotiations in favor of Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, Saudi was helpful in that these countries actually have a strong interest in ending this conflict
and did not just blindly outsource their views to Washington or Tel Aviv.
The European response to the GCPOA being violated was revealing,
and that they just don't play a fucking constructive role at all.
At the same time, this was allowed to split countries like France or Spain
to take an independent stance, which is more helpful.
Donald Trump.
A son have you seen your cartoon, um, which one? There have been many, but the answer
probably is yes. It's, it's so, it's so fucking ridiculous. Come on, Macron is not independent.
He pretends to get tiptoe the line.
He wishes he was out on on this.
Fun fact about Mertz, he spent 12 K euros for his hairstylist last year.
This is the product of 12,000 euros.
Are you serious?
Ain't no fucking way.
Stop.
That's a joke, right?
He's Mr. I'm middle class with 12 millions in my bank account. Who marts or are you talking
about me? Are you fantasizing about me saying those things? Or is marts also a fake socialist
a fake rich socialist. All Mert said that. Okay, Mert's fake socialist Andy. He said he's
middle class. Yeah, he's in the middle. He's in the middle of like, uh, uh, striving millionaires
and billionaires. He's right smack dab in the middle, you know?
He's in the middle of what? Millionaires and billionaires.
Trump, now that the Hormuz Strait situation is over, I received a call from NATO asking if we would need some help.
I told them to stay away unless they just want to load up their ships with oil.
They were useless when needed, a paper tiger, President DJT.
You was in Iran, both of troops on the ground just in case,
but it seems like they're both trying to f with each other.
To meet a senior Hezbollah political figure, Wafeek Safar.
He is instrumental in understanding Hezbollah's position right now,
What do you see this and it is a critical time. Yes, I did see it. He is also a high value target for Israel
So we're meeting him in an undisclosed location and we've been asked to leave our phones behind
We meet in a building on the outskirts of the southern suburbs of Beirut
He tells me the Iranians have told him his ceasefire is about to be announced
And so I start by asking him if his Balla would abide by it
Can you show fire your foot luck no
If it was time to set fire as it was in the 24th century,
meaning there was freedom of movement,
then we would certainly accept it.
We are sure that we would accept it.
We would not accept that we return to what we were on in the last 15 months.
Will Hezbollah ever disarm?
Never ever.
Damn, he said that shit in English.
Not until the return of prisoners, not until they pay for the reconstruction, will we ever
disarm.
Until then, it is not possible to talk about the law's weapons.
Can you feel that you're dragging Lebanon into a civil war?
Oh, I fucking, oh, yeah.
Oh, Western Journal is, Israel is not a naturally occurring disaster, okay?
There are people who are pressing the buttons that blow up schools in Lebanon.
There are people who are flying the planes that do target strikes on buildings in Lebanon
that kill 300 civilians in a matter of 10 minutes, okay?
This is not a naturally occurring disaster.
These are human beings, well, maybe, that are committing these atrocities, okay?
The idea that Hezbollah is triggering this volcanic incident is totally ridiculous, okay?
I hate this fucking argument.
Oh, well, don't you feel like your existence is necessitating Israel's maximum violence against the Lebanese population?
I don't know then why the fuck did Israel invade Lebanon before Hezbollah even existed?
Hezbollah's existence its military actions are
Are are the actual necessity here
Israel's violence and Israel's existence necessitates some sort of militant response in advancing the
self-determination of the Lebanese population in advancing the goals of defending Lebanon.
Hezbollah exists because of Israel. Israel doesn't do violence because of Hezbollah.
Israel simply uses the existence of Hezbollah to continue doing violence.
Any civil war in Lebanon needs two warring parties.
The party that doesn't want it is the one that has the power to do it.
It is Hezbollah.
Hezbollah is in favor of civil peace.
Hezbollah has always been and will always be keen on peace.
and Hezbollah was the first to attack after October the 7th
and Hezbollah was also the first to attack in this war
Why?
Bullshit! Bullshit!
Israel never stopped ceasing its fire
When Hezbollah stopped its fire, Israel never stopped
In the region everybody knows ceasefire with Israel means you cease Israel fires
Israel killed
thousands of people in Lebanon in the months long quote-unquote
Supposed ceasefire process. It's totally ridiculous to be like. Oh, you guys fired first you guys fired first that is
Bullshit, okay
that is complete fucking bullshit and not only is it complete fucking bullshit
Israel has openly stated their desires to turn Lebanon into Gaza. Here's Christian
Amanpour posting the New York Times report on it saying the Gaza vacation
method per the Israeli government not only for Gaza but also Lebanon and Iran
with the United States.
Hezbollah, as a part of the Axis of Resistance in 2023, engaged in the act of deterrence
against Israel by not just striking Israel, by the way, but simply starting its strikes
against Lebanese territory that Israel was currently illegally occupying, okay? Many
people don't know this. Many people think Hezbollah just started lobbing missiles
the northern Israel out of fucking nowhere, okay, which again, as a part of its acts of resistance
contract, okay, not like a directly written contract, but as a part of its function as a
primary military deterrence against Israeli incursions in the Gaza was actually supposed
to literally invade Israel militarily, okay. I agree, but it's not just the Western
and journalists. This is the opinion of a lot of people in Lebanon, including some she
is informal allies. They feel like Hezbollah provoked Israel by no longer following the
one-sided ceasefire. As unfair as that assessment is, it is how the political sands are shifting
in Lebanon right now. This is a real make or break moment for Hezbollah, not only
how they navigate it politically and militarily will be really important.
My job is to say the truth. My job is not to abide by the false notion that
people have developed in the region. Okay? I don't care. I have to say the truth. And
if the media doesn't say the truth, I have to call them out on it. Why? Don't you think
that a part of the reason why people are saying enough is enough, and that Hezbollah
is the reason for why Israel is blowing up Lebanon, is a concession that people
are making because they are getting this kind of false information from the media.
To be honest, I think you are wrong.
Me if I was an idiot, to be honest, I think you're wrong.
No, you're talking about, he's not saying that to me, he's saying that to the cloud
district lawyer, but it doesn't matter, okay?
What matters is the truth.
It's like saying, okay, well, the assessment from the Iranians who are shah defenders
inside of iran is the idea that american israel are going to save iran
at the time there were plenty of people who were coming into my chat
before you know forty nine days ago leading up
to american israel's bombing campaign that there were plenty of people inside
of iran that were getting their information from iranian international
and were developing the wrong opinions totally ridiculous assessments
The idea that America and Israel were going to engage in an emancipatory act of bombing Iran, and I told them the truth, it was hard to fathom, it was hard to hear, and many of them got very mad at me, many of them even left the community, I suspect.
But that didn't change the reality.
There are plenty of things that I've said, especially in the last three years now, but
certainly for the last ten years that I've been doing this, that many Americans don't
want to fucking hear.
They're like, no, this doesn't make me feel good.
This doesn't make me feel good.
Say something that makes me feel good instead.
I'm still going to say the truth regardless.
That's my job.
My job is not to make people feel good.
My job is to say the fucking truth.
especially at a time when a lot of mainstream media outlets are not doing that.
Yeah for 15 months they sat there and they fucking ate it.
They had their entire, they, they withstood one of the worst state sanctioned acts of terror.
They had their own like, you know, Israeli 9-11 little kids face were blown up.
Healthcare professionals were assassinated and the beeper terrorism that, that the massage so expertly put together.
And not only that, but also they flexed on the entire world that they were able to do this.
able to do this. They acted like this was not just a heinous war crime, an act of terror
that if other states were to also start doing, this would collapse the entire fucking world.
It was such a heinous act of terror. It was such a heinous and direct act of terror that
like former CIA director Leon Panetta went on television was like, this is unbelievable.
This is terrorism. There is no other way to conduct, like there's no other way to make
an assessment on the situation. These pager attacks are directly clear cut and act of
fucking terror. And this, if other people also refuse to follow the standards of international
law, this would be an incredibly dangerous predicament. Oh, hey, look, the guy that Matt
Walsh cosplayed on What is a Woman Is Live? Who? Did you just volunteer that you watched
Matt Walsh.
As such a set UXD.
Oh my God.
Oh,
it's,
it's so sad.
Chatter.
That's pathetic.
Please.
I mean, I'm excited that you know how to type words and unbelievable accomplishment.
But probably shouldn't volunteer this information because most places that you go to, that's
a lot to get excited about.
No, I am.
It is exciting.
who has the brain-possessing capabilities of a CQ cumbers capable of fucking typing words
together and hitting n or that's pretty, that's a profound feat. It's like we celebrate the
little victories here at the Hassanavi broadcast, including but not limited to John Federman
going on CNN and stringing words together like a big boy. Right? I'm just telling you
right now, it's probably pretty embarrassing to admit stuff like this in public. I wouldn't
do it. I'm just giving you good advice for the future. You know, if you turn 27 and you
still XD, I got bad news broken heart. Yeah. Like, for example, there are certain catch
phrases that I say that I won't say that get Kaia really excited, right? And the thing is,
I get excited when she understands the words that I'm saying because I'm like, oh my god,
my dog understands human words. It's kind of like that.
When someone comes in here and openly demonstrates how stupid they are, right?
But then they also have the capability of understanding human language and then typing stuff out in the chat. We get excited.
What phrases tell us? I don't want to say it because she'll wake up.
She's sleeping right now. Wish she'll fucking wake up. Actually, I want to kind of test it.
Hold on.
Kaia. Treats.
Kaia, treat.
You want to treat?
Do you want to treat?
Okay, now I have to go and get her a treat.
You did this, but I guess it's a good thing. It's not a bad thing.
to become the target point for the Israeli enemy.
So if the Israeli enemy attacks,
and Allah's wills,
Allah's will wills will be reversed.
As for Allah's will, he didn't use the civilians to attack.
We are in a critical moment for Lebanon.
We are in a critical moment for Lebanon, where the interests of Iran clash with the interests
of the Lebanese people.
And for Hezbollah, which ones come first?
The interests of the Lebanese people, or for Oror of Tehran?
On the contrary, we benefited from Iran. Not Iran benefited from it.
We benefited from Iran because when it was fighting against Israel, it was helping us in this war that was going on.
This is from the other side. From the other side, Iran has bought to enter into negotiations that there will be a ceasefire in Lebanon.
This will be the happiness for Lebanon and for Hezbollah.
fragile truce looks like. In Dahia, the southern suburbs of Beirut, I saw what so many are
now returning to. Neighborhoods devastated, lives upended.
You really can get the scale of the devastation here. Entire residential buildings have been
destroyed. This is home to hundreds of thousands of people in this sprawling, densely populated
community. It's also where Hezbollah has administrative offices, security offices and
financial offices. And so Israel has been hitting this community incredibly hard.
This is an area where Hezbollah has long had deep roots and where Israel says it has been
targeting its infrastructure. But on the ground, its civilians were living with the consequences.
A resident of Dahia told me he believed the strikes had been indiscriminate.
Even if there is an office for Hezbollah in the building, it doesn't mean you impact
all the people living there and bring the whole thing down because of one apartment.
They're able to target one specific place.
They have advanced technology.
It's not necessary to hit the whole thing.
There are people who are not with Hezbollah.
We are not part of Hezbollah.
We rely on them because of what's happening because no one else is supporting us.
It is a view echoed by many here and even also I want to I want to repeat one more time.
I know that living in the United States of America living in the Western world, we see
somebody like waving a Hassan Nasrallah banner and we think, oh, that's a terrorist.
That's not how this works.
Okay.
You can't just like kill people that are affiliated with Hezbollah.
bullies a real functioning party in the lebanese parliament
okay
just because the united states of america and like many other western
countries
have at different
uh... decided to uh...
desigate his bullies as the uh... a terrorist organization
doesn't change the reality that it is still
a functioning part of lebanese politics
and and has many supporters
You can't just kill random people for waving the Hezbollah flag.
It would be no different than killing a bunch of random people for waving the American flag.
It would be no different than killing a bunch of random people for, for waving the Likud flag, right?
Yeah, Hasan Piker's name is everywhere. Yeah, I did a Garrison Hayes combo with them.
Damn, 38 minutes long. Yeah, this was, I'd just woken up to.
day one there are fears this could all break down
We totally refuse any direct negotiations between the Israeli entity and the Lebanese
state.
It is unable, incapable, and unlawful.
Yeah, there was also like an article that came out, I forget who wrote it, but they
were talking about how like the Christian Lebanese actually support Hezbollah now
because Hezbollah offers defense for them as well against Israeli attacks.
And then they quickly deleted that article.
But the idea that like, everyone in Lebanon hates Hezbollah is regional, okay?
I have heard from many Lebanese people that say, oh, Hezbollah is really bad, is really
bad, is really bad. Okay? It depends. If you're a Lebanese Christian, for the most part,
especially not living in the southern territories, then you probably don't like Hezbollah.
You think Israel would leave Lebanon alone if it wasn't for those, if it wasn't for
for the pesky Lebanese Shia.
For our constitutionally and nationally for the Lebanese leadership
to give such a dangerous concession that threatens Lebanon's future.
In the southern city of Sidon, that return begins in shelter.
Families who fled with almost nothing are gathering what little they have left,
preparing once again to move.
Lebanon's children have been forced to carry the burden of this conflict, but even amongst
the uncertainty, there is still hope.
Yalda Haqim, Sky News, Beirut.
All right, progressive Democrat, wins New Jersey, see him blow out victory.
We are going to talk about Annaliyah Meiya now, now that we have extensively covered
the inconsistencies with what Trump is saying.
But I guess before we get to the Annaliyah Meiya coverage, Mark Dewowitz of Foundation for
defending dickheads fdd, uh, uh, came out and said this, Israel has until January 20th,
2029. Remember, these guys are, uh, basically Benjamin Netanyahu's personal think tank, an
expression of, uh, an expression of support for, like anything that fdd says is, should
be reflected on as basically what Benjamin Netanyahu is saying and demanding from America.
right? Israel has until January 20, 2029, the deep end damage to its enemies and convert
its remarkable battlefield games with US backing into lasting political advantage. With few
exceptions, the next president is likely to threaten Israel, even if that weakens American
security. So he's basically saying do more genocide before the money faucet is shut
off. This is a different posture than one you would expect from Israel because
it's very cognizant of the realities that American foreign policy is going to
change with respect to Israel. So they are trying to do as much damage as
possible as much genocide as possible. Uh, and, you know, they're trying to get it
out, get it out of the way, knowing full well that, uh, knowing full well that it
is real, is, is no longer going to have the same unlimited unconditional support.
Okay.
It's gross.
It's a gross way to, to think and it's a gross way to operate, but that's
the reality. Okay, so let's get to Ana Lulia Mejia, the Bernie
Cratt, that won the New Jersey 11 special election that took
place because Mickey Sherrill went for the governor's race
and occupied the seat or vacated the seat, sorry. And there
are some interesting elements of this electoral victory is a blowout victory is plus 23. Right.
Um, it was obviously, uh, uh, and it was, is certainly better than Kamala Harris's margin
of victory. Yeah. This was a Republican seat a decade ago. It's completely turned
around, okay? However, however, however, what's interesting about it is there were
some losses, some marginal losses, in certain districts, okay, in certain
townships. Last night in New Jersey and Centrist Twitter and election trackers
have been losing their dang minds over it.
Jersey that special election for a house seat ending with far left progressive Annalelia Mejia
handily defeating the Republican Joe Hathaway. Here's what she said last night in her victory
speech in Montclair, New Jersey. We stand up. It's not 19 points. I think it's 23 points,
by the way. We resist. We will not allow it to continue. This system is broken, but guess
So she's looking for the attention and she's got it now.
Brian Ennis has the fallout today.
Brian, hello Bill.
So I don't know why we're doing the Fox news coverage.
Let's look at Harry Emden for a second.
Holy Toledo.
Harry Emden breaks down the honor.
Lily Aminia win in a special election in New Jersey's 11th district allowing Democrats
to further narrow Republicans razor-thin majority in the U.S. House.
I love the ice cream in that district, I'll tell you, all so many great places to go.
Of course Harry's from the, I'll come.
Of course.
Of course Harry Anton is from New Jersey.
Of course he is, classic.
How unsurprising.
A district, you know who else is from by the way?
Noah Cullowan, for those of you who don't know.
Nicole's father is a rabbi in the district, specifically in the neighborhood, that Annalya
actually lost support in.
Let's take a look.
Well, you know, but bottom line is this, Tomahawk has won that district by nine points,
but right now we obviously see, we see that Mahia is way out ahead, but that is not
surprising me because it's part of a larger picture.
Look, we are now talking about seven special elections, and in every single one of them
that we've had.
Emma Vigelin is from there as well. Oh my God. Well, I'm technically a Jersey boy myself.
I was born not in, I'm actually going to be, I'm actually going to be talking to a person
running in the district that I was born in for the record tomorrow. Okay. It's a different
district. I'm in New Jersey 12 technically. That's where I was born. I'm not stealing
New Jersey Valor. This is New Jersey 11. And during the second Trump era, the Democratic
candidates for the House have outrun the Kamala Harris baseline. You know, Florida won last
year. I remember you and I were together, 23 points, 16 points in Florida, six, Virginia
11, 17 points, Arizona 7, 17 points. New Brunswick is New Jersey, six, not 12.
Wait, really? Did I, did I fuck that up? I'm sorry. Okay. Maybe I won't wait.
Isn't Hamawi running or is Hamawi from New Brunswick?
I thought he has some connection to New Brunswick.
Your boy is a Monmouth County boy.
Yeah, Dr. Adam Hamawi is going to be in the building tomorrow.
Dr. Adam Hamawi, I might have fucked something up there, but...
Tennessee 7, 13 points, Georgia 14, 25 points, and while there are still votes to be counted
here in New Jersey's 11th district, I will say at this point we're probably looking at
an overperformance of at least 10 points when all the votes are seven done. So seven special
elections and in every single one of them, the democratic district for the house of representative
has outperformed Kamala Harris's baseline by at least 10 points.
So holy Toledo, holy Toledo, ladies and gentlemen, it was a blowout as expected, okay?
It was a blowout as expected.
Now, although it was a blowout as expected, there were still some centrists on election
Twitter that were frustrated for some weird reason, okay? Election watchers on the centricide,
on the centricide of election watcher Twitter, were un-fucking-bearable because, you know,
it's not enough. It's not enough that, honestly, I mean, he actually won and won big. She
could have won even harder if she was a fucking centrist, if she could have won
even harder if she wasn't anti-genocide. That's what election Twitter was focusing on.
Very aggressively, mind you. And of course, Steve Krenacchi had some analysis on this as well.
He pointed to in New Jersey 11, May 1. Yeah, she didn't win the right way. May 1 with what has
been the customary dem recipe during Trump's second term, a massively motivated base in the
college plus burbs and giant gains in Hispanic areas where Trump had done
unusually well for a Republican. What was different, however, she lost
substantial ground in two large traditionally deminus palities with
substantial Jewish populations. This is true, Livingston being one of them,
right? And she did. She actually underperformed Kamala Harris in these
to substantially large Jewish populations. But she won big regardless, right? Which was
the argument that I had presented over and over again. There are far more people who
actually care about taking a strong anti-genocide position. Then there are those who will claim
that they won't vote for you or even vote for the Republican if you are pro-genocide, okay?
Okay. Now, here's the thing. This turned out to be the truth. This turned out, we don't
even need to speculate on this any further. This is quite literally the reality, observable
reality, but that didn't stop you much voter from posting the, you know, Milburn in Livingston,
the Milburn in Livingston underperformance versus the electorate perspective here. Okay.
Claire, the shruckener of going to repost this chart from yesterday since the online
left can't stop being miserable, would love to hear what part of the sentence folks disagree
with.
The reason why people are dunking on you, Mitch Voter, is because she won.
She overperformed Kamala Harris.
It doesn't fucking matter that she underperformed in Livingston and underperformed in Milburn.
What the fuck are we talking about?
in an era where Dems are historically unpopular everywhere, Dems are moderate to say a leftist
could have won harder, were they more moderate is an insult to voters? Yeah.
And I jokingly said, for every pro-Israel pro-ice voter we live, we lose in Livingston, we
pick up two wokes in the other suburbs, which is true, which is literally what happened,
right? And that was actually what I was trying to explain to people.
Annalelia outperformed the center stem's best ever result by 5% during the 2018 blue wave.
If that's what's standing up to Israel's genocide does for you, that's a massive landslide nationwide.
Okay?
Umich voter is also from New Jersey.
Wait, I thought he was from Michigan.
His name is Umich voter.
It's not Rutgers voter.
It's false advertisement.
And ironically enough, I think Ana Luia Meia did some things that she didn't even need to
do. And she still lost that vote. The important lesson here is you don't even need the J.
Shred endorsement. In my opinion, you can just stand loudly and proudly and be anti
Zionist be anti-genocide and it's totally fucking fine. Okay? Because Annalia Meia
was the only candidate that was anti-genocide, right? Malinowski wasn't.
But Malinowski had at some point, if we're looking back in the primaries real quick to remind
people, Tom Malinowski is a regular lib, right? With a lot of established relationships and
And not only that, but also a longer track record than on a Lillia in, uh, in, in Congress.
And yet APAC ran ads against Malinowski showing that Malinowski and on those ads,
they said Malinowski was pro ice.
Okay.
That's also important.
They obviously didn't talk about Israel, but the reason my APAC ran those ads was
because Malinowski was slated to win this race.
And APEC had their own candidate.
And Malinowski was attacked as being not sufficiently anti-ice
at a time when this was fairly consequential
in the eyes of many liberal voters in the region.
Okay?
But the reason why APEC did this
was because Malinowski had made the mistake, I guess,
according to APEC's estimations, of saying he could look at conditioning aid to the state
of Israel. That is all it took for APEC to launch the money cannon against Malinowski.
That's all this was, by the way. APEC is such an insane institution that even someone
who has always been pro-Israel that said at one point that they could potentially condition
aid to Israel.
At some point, that's all it took.
So they landed a bunch of attack ads on Malinowski saying, never really talking about his perspective
on Israel, mind you, but just simply saying Malinowski had been pro-ice in the past.
And of course, people then looked to the anti-ice candidate, which happened to be the anti-genocide
candidate.
That was Ana Liliyamea.
This was seen as a spectacular failure.
APEC went back to the drawing board and switched tactics very quickly in the Illinois races.
And we saw that, you know, they still lost Daniel Biss one obviously, and he's now
weirdly enough.
of the most anti-APAC guys out there, Daniel, this has been running around talking about
how APAC can eat dicks forever. He's become the loudest voice against APAC, even though
I mean, he's the J street candidate, right? He's like still pro Israel. He's just not
a, a APAC candidate, but basically there's a couple of things to learn from this as
I keep repeating over and over again. One, you absolutely can be anti-Israel and that
the electorate cannot punish you for being anti-Israel. This hasn't stopped people from
chirping about Annalia's performance in an effort to make it seem like Israel first voters
in the Democratic Party that make up 10%, not even 10% in most places, but 10% nationally.
Right? People who are still pro-Israel at this point, I think we can say, is, you know, Israel first.
Those people are not significant enough to make or break elections, but that hasn't stopped people
from complaining about it. Michael A. Cohen, not Trump's lawyer, loves to fucking yell about me.
me quote retweets this guy, E caliber seven. While Mia outran Kamala big time across most
of New Jersey, 11, she faced gargantuan at least R plus 30% defections among Jewish Dems
due to a rhetoric on Israel. This was especially prominent in Western Essex towns. Okay.
This is what'll happen in Michigan if Dems nominate al-Sayed, which could be enough
to cost Democrats the Senate seat. Now, where have I fucking heard that before? Michael A.
Cohen saying he's uncommitted, what if uncommitted, but about doing more genocide and also very
bad at math or surveying public opinion.
Michael A. Cohen is now claiming that Jewish Michiganders are going to be a significant
enough mover and shaker in the state of Michigan, okay? Which has the highest density of Arabs
in the country, by the way. It's like, by totality, I believe it's like the sixth largest, but
by per capita numbers, Michigan has the highest per capita population of Muslims, okay?
So it's really funny that he's trying to say, oh, we're going to do uncommitted in Michigan
for the Jewish Michiganders with, by the way, no guarantee that Jewish Michiganders are
going to do this anyway.
I don't know what the exact percentages of Jewish Michiganders is, or rather what percentage
of them actually are Israel first, because there's also obviously no guarantee.
And even if someone is very, um, even if someone, uh, who is Jewish, uh, in the state of Michigan
cares deeply about the state of Israel, there's also still no guarantee that they will withhold
their vote.
Jews across the board in the country are, you know, around, um, 75% in favor of the
Democratic party.
Uh, and the 25% oftentimes are very conservative and that might shift a little bit.
Uh, now that the Democratic party is like, whether they want to admit it or not,
they like it or not are turning into the anti-Israel party, those percentages might change a little bit, you know.
But it's not a significant percentage of the population, okay? I'm not even saying we should just,
you know, cast aside those votes. I'm not saying we should take those votes for granted.
But what I'm simply saying is the notion that American Jews living in Michigan are going
to be Israel first to such a degree that they won't even fucking vote for someone who's
an anti-Israel candidate, like the argument that they presented in New York, which is
significantly larger in terms of its per capita Jewish population and also its total
Jewish population.
And this argument didn't work on Zohran Kwame Mamdani in New York City.
What makes you think it's going to work Michigan Statewide?
New York City is one of the largest, if not the largest Jewish city on the fucking planet.
Okay?
Jews make up 20% of the New York population.
New York has an anti-Zionist, socialist, brown, Muslim mayor who is fucking beloved.
Okay?
We have to stop with this bullshit.
We have to stop with this nonsense.
Okay?
Let me re-emphasize that, says Marshall Steinbaum.
My father told me that May's victory wasn't assured because the wealthy Jews would vote
against her.
that if you lose them, you pick up a far larger coalition. And that is what the party establishment
fears, not losing. Okay? Ironically enough, Trump is Erica Kirk posting and is live with
Erica Kirk at Turning Point USA toilet paper USA. He's left the situation monitoring seminar. He's
left the tort reform conference and he's now in Arizona. He is about to speak at Turning Point
USA. We'll watch that in a second. But remember, remember, remember, one of the things that I
wanted you to understand here was Democrats wanted to win with their own metrics of success
in 2024 and they lost. They didn't want to win unconditionally. They wanted to win
without foregoing support for Israel. And they lost because of that. Well, here it is,
is Democrats by force and by a stroke of luck, let's be real, shouts out to APAC for that
one.
Here are Democrats winning and winning big without the tiny marginal percentage of voters
that are Israel first.
So I say you can replicate this victory condition across the board all around the country
I mean, not only that, but you can also, you can also have the same victory condition even
without having to like lean in the J Street.
Ana Lillia didn't want to do that.
She was worried about the same things that we're talking about here.
She was worried about the Jewish vote.
Turns out there were a lot of people that had previously voted for the Democrats that
are Jewish that chose not to vote for Ana Lillia, even after she made those
fucking concessions. So who gives a shit? Take the moral stance, number one, and stand
on your principles, number two, and be loud and proud with your anti-genocide statements.
Given how Jewish those areas are and the fact that she won those areas nonetheless, it doesn't
even seem like it was a big exodus of Jewish voters. No, it is. It is a significant
percentage of Jewish voters that had previously voted Democrat that didn't in a special
election nonetheless, where Democrats are supposed to outperform Republicans. No, that's a, that's a
significant percentage. It's just not significant enough to, to, you know, be in the margin of
victory at all. Everyone's focused on the ground media laws with Jewish voters. But I think the
fact that a candidate who defines Gaza as a genocide still won, one of the most Jewish
districts in America does a lot to deconstruct the idea that Jewish voters are a monolith
against criticisms of Israel. Yep.
I mean, they're not a monolith at all, but the story here is that pushing too hard really did
cause unthinkable double-digit swings, even in ancestral Dem counties. It's just offset elsewhere
by other voters. I mean, it definitely did cost there with Jewish voters, no argument,
but I've seen a lot of the more insidious factors on both sides try to enforce the
Jewish voters are loyal to Israel narrative on here. And I think it's important to point out
when that's exposed, it's false. Yes.
The reason why people are talking about the Jewish vote here is specifically to try to warn
the Democrats not to fucking take strong stances against Israel.
It doesn't fit.
Okay?
What does demonstrate, what it does demonstrate is the absolutely massive right-wing swing
of American Jews of voting bloc as much as their unified voting bloc, as you've said.
They're going full MAGA.
No, they're not going full MAGA, but some Jews are.
It's true.
I'm
Also, our Jewish New Jersey voters are metric to analyze how likely Jewish Michigan voters
will vote per state basis seems important.
No.
No.
It's not as important.
Jewish areas in New Jersey live in showing a similar persuasion and do swing to Republicans
that the down by the city, but candidates in your city saw in the wealthy Jewish areas
in Manhattan.
Yeah.
That's what happened.
There are some, uh, wealthy Jewish voters who care about Israel quite a bit that swung in
the direction of Cuomo as well.
It's just they're not as significant, okay?
They're not as significant.
They're not large enough in numbers.
And also you have to pair that up with their fucking ridiculous demand.
The ridiculous demand is what?
Don't say the truth about Israel.
Get the fuck out of here.
It's a 90-10 issue, guys.
It's unbelievable to be like, oh, well, what will, you know, some of our wealthy Jewish
voters that have reliably voted for the Democratic Party, what will they think?
That's ridiculous.
Like I've said already, if someone is going to refuse to vote for a Democrat, okay?
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
open. If someone is going to refuse to vote for a Democrat after reliably being a voter
for the Democratic Party, because that Democrat is saying the truth about Israel's genocide,
which is not only, which is not only the truth, but it's also the morally correct
position. And on top of that, it is the overwhelmingly popular position that channels
the desires of the overwhelming majority of the base within the Democratic Party, okay?
Then who gives a shit?
Who gives a fuck?
You can say good riddance to some people.
You can say that.
You're not saying good riddance to all Jewish Democratic Party voters.
As a matter of fact, that's not the case at all.
It's just funny because this is unironically the argument that I presented to not only
the Pajams before the election, but this was an argument that I kept repeatedly saying
over and over again.
There's no one, there's no guarantee that like Jews overwhelmingly only care about
Israel too.
Even if Jews do care about Israel more than like the average person does, let's say.
Let's lean into that hypothetical, okay?
There's no guarantee that they're gonna vote for the Republican party because it's
not going to be the number one thing they care about.
You know, last but not least, even if all Jews almost universally cared about Israel and were
making voting decisions based off of that, they're still not large enough in most districts
as far as on a per capita base with the exception of certain districts, they're not a large
enough political force to make or break elections.
This was the argument that I presented in 2024.
There's a level of contempt here for American democracy.
Oh yeah.
She means lose this Senate seat for Israel.
That's the country she's talking about.
Yeah.
Hey Chuck Schumer, it's your time to shine.
It says Shannon Watts.
Sort this race out.
Sort this race out.
The party and country can't afford to lose the Senate seat. Yeah.
The country that she's talking about is not the United States of America is talking about
the state of Israel for the record. There's a level of contempt here for American democracy,
for Democratic primary voters, this off the charts. They're begging Senate, them leadership
and pro-Israel donors to induce Stevens out of the race so they can consolidate
their firepower to block El Sayed behind McMoroll. Okay. They're not afraid that
he can't win the general. They're afraid that he will and won't keep rubber
stamping what is the unconditional military to their special little project more over
their petrified of a party that isn't beholden to billionaires obsessed with that and anyway
the deadline to get off the ballot is next week for twenty four we'll see if they can
engineer what they're nervously begging for they're trying to get hailey stevens out
of the fucking race so they can lean all of their support into mcmorrow who will be
fucking pro israel but is capable of lying and is the established at least some level
of like proximity or some level of distance to Israel and Israel aligned groups, okay?
That's what it is.
It's fucked up.
It is so fucked up.
They're trying to bite and rat fuck this race too against the Abdullah Sayed, like
updated in 2020 with Joe Biden.
Do you accept money from APAC?
No, I have never accepted money from APAC.
I will never accept money from APAC,
not on this campaign or any campaign.
It's just not true.
And there is a ton of misinformation out there online,
but my FEC reports are public.
I can check for yourself.
I
Yeah, place
Anyway, um she did give a secret policy paper to a pack and I really want to see that shit. I want to see that shit real bad
um, I
I guess we'll never know what the policy paper looks like though because the reality is if if if
Stevens was close enough a pack would have leaked it if Steven's and McMarrow actually were head-to-head
A pack would have leaked it knowing full well that that would show that like McMarrow is disingenuous
I don't know someone might leave anyway no fuck no dude a pack is basically a pack is
is not going to release anything like that don't be crazy the audio is actually so we
We have a better live stream where the audio isn't echoing.
Yeah, it's funny that also speaking of electoral defeats, the autopsy, the 2024 autopsy knew secrecy
around the 2024 election autopsy is dogging the DNC's Ken Martin with more than a dozen
members and leaders telling us they wanted out genuinely.
What did they all find out that we did not North Carolina party chair Anderson Clayton
said, DNC materials give a glimpse in the problems with field operations and canvassing
with Harris's 2024 run.
Despite making 300 plus million phone calls 2024, more than any campaign in history, only
3% of the calls the Harris campaign made actually resulted in a contact with a voter.
I got a test by a sex Seth Molten town hall tomorrow and I'm tempted to go and
yell at him.
Oh, absolutely.
That she will do triple platinum
Are you the guy with the shock collar dogs? Yes
Look hi
Yes, look see
You hear that?
That's the sound of the shock collar.
All right, anyway, let's listen to what Trump is saying on the turning point, USA.
Not easy.
They were living with what they call the bully of the Middle East.
They had the bully.
Iran was the bully of the Middle East.
Yeah, she's basically gotten used to the shock collar.
With the help of everyone here today.
If you notice, she remains unfazed.
You guys see that?
Look, look, look.
I'm gonna do it with a close-up shot where you can get a better get a better look look look she remains
She it doesn't even phase her anymore fucked up. That's how much I fucking zapped her dude. I've zapped her so much
She's tased and unfazed brother. I
Just keep doing it. I just keep doing it and she's like nope not even a problem
New Erica Kirk walkout just dropped. Oh hell
Oh
My god
Wait that music is weird bro, what the fuck that's a weird-ass like dubstep with like
Oh
Oh my god, there's nothing
Country many of them are now gone. I'm pleased to tell you the murder rate
Isn't it a terrible thing to be talking about murder, but you gotta say it?
At least if it's good news, I guess it's quick news with the murder rate reached the lowest level in over
125 years
1900
Before my father was born, my father was great before he was born.
The flow of deadly fentanyl pouring across our border is down by an astounding 59%.
And as you probably noticed, if you watch the news, illegal drugs coming in by ocean
or sea are down by 97%.
97.
And we're trying to find out who the 3% is because I consider them to be perhaps the
bravest people anywhere in the world.
Boom.
Or they don't watch television or something.
We passed the largest tax cuts in American history, the largest spending cuts in American
history, the largest regulation cuts in American history, and the largest investment in border
security in the history of our country.
And starting my first day in office, we banned the transgender mutilization of our
children.
Now we made it the official policy of the United States of America that there are only
two genders, male and female.
That was easy.
Could you imagine of ourselves up here 20 years ago or 15 years ago, probably 12 years
ago, and they said there are only two genders, male and female.
would say what else he's saying that for? Is he crazy? That's got to be the worst
speech I've ever heard. Why is he saying that? Well why is he saying that we got
men out of women's sports? Can you imagine saying that 15 years ago?
15 years ago? And we got men out of women's sports. The audience who said,
what's wrong with that guy? It's the craziest thing I've ever heard. And we
got critical race theory out of our schools. And we abolish DEI across the entire federal
government. And we eliminated so-called affirmative action in federal contracting and university
admissions. If you get great marks and have great scores and your boards are good, everything
is good, you're getting in. People can't go before. We have a country now that, again,
is based on merit. That's the way we became great. But we have to win the midterms, and
all of these things, it'll stay with us forever. But if we don't win the midterms,
I said it during my state of the issues which I interviewed and talked to some people backstage.
I said, you know, I'd like to have some of these people now called out for their greatness.
And we gave out, as you know, that night the Congressional Medal of Honor to a young
man who was flying a helicopter with practically his leg shut off.
And he landed in Venezuela perfectly with a lot of men on board, like 48.
And if that goes down, the Venezuela incredible attack, nobody killed.
Hundreds of millions of barrels of oil taken out.
The relationship with Venezuela is great.
We're working like a great partnership.
Yeah, I'm the swing voter that's going to be primed and ready to go in the midterms.
And I'm at the Turning Point USA Conference in Phoenix, Arizona.
So I'm really glad that Trump is urging me to go out and vote.
Now I'll definitely do it.
I was questioning it beforehand.
But now I'm doing it.
Democrat was clapping that we introduced a war hero from a hundred years, he was a hundred
and one years old, gave him the Congressional Medal of Honor for his great heroics, wasn't
recognized until I came along.
Not one Democrat clapped.
Not one Democrat clapped.
And now they don't want to pay our border security and they don't want to pay our great patriots
of ICE.
You know, ICE is a tough job.
You've got to do those murders that they're allowed into our country.
Think of it, thousands of murders came into our country, 11,888, 50 percent of whom killed
more than one person.
These are violent criminals and ICE is tough.
I don't want that job. And most of you don't either.
I have a couple of friends in the front row and they're tough people,
but they're not that tough. They don't want that job.
And if we don't have ice and if we don't have our great border patrol,
if we don't have our great policemen and all of these people, they're incredible.
They keep our country great. They keep our country safe.
And the Democrats, the Democrats want to defund them.
They want to defund ice. They want ice terminated.
stop everything. What do you liberal conservative? Does it matter? Democrat, Republican, independent.
Is Jesse Waters trying to woke up by himself by behaving like a gay man because he sees
the woke wave because he sees the woke wave coming. So he just keeps gay baiting. Is
Is that what it is?
I guess on television, maybe standing backstage, they said,
this guy is killing you.
Start clapping.
And the last half hour, they were clapping for everything,
I said.
They were clapping for everything, things they
shouldn't have been clapping for, because they heard
they were getting killed.
Just remember that night.
That night was a very telling night.
And we don't want to go back to that.
We don't want open borders where millions of people
poor into our country. We want to have safe borders. We want people coming into our country,
but they want to come in and we have to have them come in legally. Very simple.
So I signed a historic executive order starting the process of shutting down the Federal Department
of education and sending education back to the states.
Thank you, Linda McMahon, Linda McMahon.
You know, education, move back to the states where it should be.
You don't want to have a bureaucrat from Washington
who couldn't care less about your community,
telling you how to educate your child.
You have your local boards and your parent groups.
One thing, I know you love your children.
I'm not sure that they do.
but we've largely removed education.
When we just did it, just move them back.
You know, we're supposed to go through a long process.
Thank you, by the way, to Linda McMahon.
She's been fantastic.
Oh my God.
And we removed over 300,000 bureaucrats
from federal payrolls.
They had sometimes 10, 11, 12 people to do one job
and they just sit there.
And you know what, I have a lot of respect for whatever.
But we can't run a country like that.
All right.
I can't do this.
Uh, this is boring as fuck.
All right.
Let's get back to the progressive win.
I don't really mean a new J11 is a blue district and progressive
activist and a little, a Mahia defeated Republican Joe Hathaway last night by
nearly 20 points.
Now this is the seventh special election since president Trump took office
nationwide and Democrats have done better than their 2024 presidential
results in each of those seven races.
It is notable, though, that NJ11 featured the most progressive Democrat and saw the
smallest shift toward Democrats than any other special election.
Now, the AOC Bernie Sanders-backed Mejia wants to abolish ICE, universal health care and
child care, and she wants to use taxpayer funds to cancel all student loan debt.
Now, last night, she made the case her win proves she is not a radical.
It is not radical to say that a worker who's toils every day cannot make ends meet, that
they deserve justice, that they deserve higher wages, that is-
Bro, you'll have candidates absolutely cook, right?
Like sincerely say, base that shit, like Annalisa is doing right here, and Fox News will
come back from that cutaway and sit there and tell you how insane that statement is.
And what's worse is, you'll have Fox News audiences that will agree with that.
I mean, they've been doing this to me for like the past couple of weeks now, you know,
where those be like, Hassan Piker is a dangerous radical and I'll just be like, Israel is
a fucking psychotic and what it's doing is unbelievable and unacceptable.
And we have to stop sending aid to Israel and they're like, you see, you hear his words.
Ladies and gentlemen, how was he even allowed to say those things?
They should, you know, we should actually throw this guy in jail.
That is good conscience.
That is a good economy.
Republicans had low turnout.
Half the way in Mejia could face off again in November.
the way writing quote I still believe the broader electorate and NJ 11 is looking for
balanced pragmatic leadership not the kind of far left policies embraced by Miss Mahia
that conversation is not over I'm looking forward to the rematch in November when more voices
will be heard and the full electorate will have its say one warning sign for Democrats
heading into the 2026 midterms Mahia who is anti-Israel accusing Israel of genocide
significantly underperformed with Jewish voters in her district.
Bill Republicans now have a razor-thin majority in the house
and can only afford one GOP defection on party-line votes.
It doesn't get much closer than that.
Brian, thank you, sir. Brian Yenis watching that race into Jersey.
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Whether you like it or not, you have been
made to seem like a boogeyman of some kind, right?
from from the Republicans, especially when you were running. So do you feel an added sense of
pressure nationally because of the face you've become of the Democratic Party and specifically
the progressive part of this party? I'll be honest with you. I don't let myself think too much
about what Republicans seek to portray me as.
They should cut this and be like, see, he doesn't think too much. We got him.
Zoram Mamdani says he doesn't think too much.
Is America ready for a stupid mayor?
I think about the fact that the power of an ideology is judged in the worth of it.
How bad is Malort?
I'm in an airport in Chicago and I see it at the bar.
Chatter.
Stay the fuck away.
I'm telling you right now. I'm saving your life. Do not put that shit in your mouth, okay?
It is unbelievably bad. It's one of the worst alcoholic beverages I've ever consumed.
It might be one of the worst beverages that I've ever consumed. It doesn't taste like something that is supposed to be in your mouth.
Everyone that's telling you right now in the chat, he's lying. You should try it.
it wants you to, throughout the rest of your trip in this plane, have the taste in the back
of your mouth of like some unholy chemical. Okay. It tastes like, it tastes like you're
drinking hairspray or something. It just doesn't, it will fuck you up. Don't do it. I genuinely
like it. He's just dramatic. You're such a liar. You've lied to yourself. No real Chicago person
actually, no real Chicago person actually likes the taste of that shit.
Galabath came out as the speaker of the Islamic Republic of Iran's parliament. Galabath, who was
a part of the conversations, by the way, and he is responding to Donald Trump. He said,
The President of the United States made seven claims in one hour, all seven of which were
false.
They did not win the war with these lies, and they will certainly not get anywhere in the
negotiations either, with the continuation of the blockade, the Shredda Hormuz will
not remain open.
Passage to the Shredda Hormuz will be conducted based on the designated route
and with Iranian authorization.
Whether the Shredda is open or closed and the regulations governing it will be determined
by the field, not by social media.
warfare and engineering public opinion are an important part of the war and the Iranian
nation is not affected by these tricks. Read the real and accurate news of the negotiations
in the recent interview of the foreign ministry spokesman.
Trump lied. People died.
Chatter. Stop. Do not listen to Chicago slander by the Coastal Elite Champagne Socialists.
I just don't understand why people from Chicago actively want to fuck themselves
over by by by associating their beautiful city with malort
malort is discussing okay can i get you a surely temple then maybe a chalky milk yeah
you're such an adult for drinking hairspray for drinking motor oil
is so stupid
Also, I like scotch. It's not like I'm, you know, it's not like I have like a like a baby
taste palate.
It's delivery. And delivery at the end of the day is every single thing that we want to
do. It's why I spoke on Sunday about pothole politics as a way we describe the work that
we do. Because for a long time, Republicans have sought to describe themselves as being
driven by the needs of working people when in reality we've seen a chasm in what they've
actually delivered for those people.
I mean, look at the war in Iran today.
We're talking about a federal administration that has spent close to $30 billion, killing
thousands of people at a time when working-class people across this country cannot afford the
bare minimum.
And to be told that a city-run grocery store is implausible, but spending more than
$500 million a day to kill people in Iran and Lebanon is not only plausible but necessary.
It speaks to a broken kind of politics.
When you were campaigning, President Trump did have names for you.
He called you a communist lunatic and you had names for him.
You called him a fascist.
Now that you've met with him, that you've spoken with him multiple times, do you still
think he's a fascist?
Yes.
And do you tell him that?
Yes.
How does he react?
I think everyone saw in the conversation we had in the Oval Office after our first meeting.
What about your impressions?
I mean, given the questions that have been raised, including on the right about his mental
acuity in this moment, posting online that he would end a civilization, recently posting
an image AI generated of himself that seemed to depict him as Jesus and then deleting
it, how do you assess that as somebody who has met with him, spoken with him?
I've been quite clear with the President and also with the public of my deep disagreement
and opposition to so many of these policies.
And I think that one of the few things that we have in common is that we are both New
Yorkers.
And I think one part of being a New Yorker is both to be honest and to be direct.
And when I'm sitting with the President, we talk about places of potential collaboration,
whether it could be working together to deliver more than 12,000 homes, the most
homes delivered in a single housing development, the city has seen since the early 1970s, but
we're also very clear about places of disagreement.
And one place that I mentioned to the president was on my views around ICE.
I believe that ICE raids are cruel and inhumane.
I believe they do nothing to deliver us on the stated intent of public safety.
And in the previous meeting that I had with the president, I mentioned that just
that morning, a Columbia student had been detained by ICE.
And I said that this was actually part of a larger pattern of five individuals who
who had been detained in or around Columbia University.
I gave him that list about 30 minutes after the meeting
he called me and said that he had now made the decision
that he was going to release that Columbia student.
And to me, it also showcases the importance
of continuing to make the case for our city
and its people no matter if you agree or disagree
with the person that you're speaking with.
We got, oh there was one grand planner thing too, he was asked about Israel too.
You talked about wanting to build stronger relationships with all kinds of New Yorkers,
but specifically Jewish New Yorkers.
You drew significant support from liberal and leftist Jewish Americans, Jewish communities.
But you also drew a lot of skepticism.
And there was a lot of fear that your sharp criticisms of Israel would also translate
into something else.
You did not renew two executive orders from your predecessor, one that adopted a
broad definition of anti-Semitism and another that prohibited city employees from engaging
in the boycott, divest, and sanctions movement against Israel.
Yeah, because both of those provisions were fucking insane.
One is directly at odds.
One is directly at odds with the First Amendment, the BDS-1.
I mean, they're both, they're both just undemocrats.
And this drew some concerns from some Jewish groups here.
Why did you make that decision?
So we made the decision coming into office that we would revoke all the...
They're both anti-first amendment.
Executive orders that the prior mayor had signed after he was federally indicted.
That was a moment at which many New Yorkers started to ask themselves, what was the
motivation of any one executive order?
Was it driven by self-interest or was it in fact being driven by what it should
be which is public interest. And we've also sought to show that we are fully committed
in fulfilling what we had spoken about over the course of the campaign to not just keep
Jewish New Yorkers safe across the city alongside each and every New Yorker, but also to celebrate
and cherish those same New Yorkers. And so over the course, for example, of Passover,
it's been an incredible opportunity for me to attend a number of Saders to host Jewish
city hall officials at our home at Gracie Mansion for a Seder to sit there as staffers
look for the Afi Koman to get a better sense of what it means to lead a city with such
incredible beauty and breadth of Jewish life across the five boroughs and also to get
a glimpse into the amount of service that so many organizations within the Jewish community
are providing, whether it was joining with an organization on an airfield to
to give out food that they had procured
for teachers in the community,
or if it was sitting with a Jewish New Yorker
looking at civil war era texts together,
it is all been a joy to be able to be the mayor
of a city with such a flourishing community
that I'm so proud to represent.
How will your office define anti-Semitism?
So we actually have the office
to combat anti-Semitism here at City Hall.
And one of their jobs is to not only define that,
but frankly, to conduct a listening tour
to actually bring in the perspectives of Jewish New Yorkers
from across the five boroughs.
You faced a lot of anti-Muslim rhetoric
and fear mongering around your faith
and the faith of many Americans.
You know, an example that you'll bring
Islamic law to New York City,
but you do turn to scripture to make political points
both from within your faith and from other faiths.
And you, I, for example, in immigration,
you quoted the Quran.
No way, that's the real Jessica Tarlaw in the chat, right?
No, dude.
That's funny.
He dodged both questions pro-politician, yeah.
And you quoted the Bible.
Should there be a role for religion and politics?
I think that religion is a part
of so many New Yorkers' lives.
And it also provides a guide for many
as to what it looks like to bring a morality
into a politics that is often missing.
And what I mean by a morality is a belief in the dignity
of those who are struggling.
And we've seen that.
By the way, that's not so subtle.
Will you do Sharia law?
Are you a practicing Sharia law supporter question
from the NPR news desk, which is crazy.
Used as a tool to divide, and I've instead
seen it across the city as a tool
to actually find commonality among so many because the lessons of many scriptures, they
are similar in the empowerment of working people and in the belief that there has to
be something more than simply a desire of profit when it comes to delivering for people.
You said we've seen religion you by profit.
He means profit, Muhammad, peace be upon him.
Oh, we got him, boys.
We got him.
New York Post.
Get ready.
Get ready.
New York Post.
He said profit.
A desire for profit.
part out. He means Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him.
News to divide. Are you talking about this administration?
I think it is something that is frankly not exclusive to any one
administration. We're seeing it within this federal administration. We've also
seen it within both political parties in this country.
There you know so much of the bigotry that I faced it was not just in the
general election. It was also in the primary election
and the language. He celebrated Orthodox Easter a few days ago by the
By the way, my Greek Instagram is full of people calling him sneaky.
It's so funny that like, like almost every single criticism that is launched against
Zoram-Amdani, that's not coming from his left flank, okay, is just racism.
It just breaks down to he's scary Muslim guy, and he's just doing this performatively
to make me forget that he's a scary Muslim guy who wants to kill me with Shakira
a law. Like everything, all of the fucking, uh, all of the, the statements around like
Zaron is actually deeply anti-Semitic, just pure fucking racism. Okay. There's just no
other way to put it. Like the idea that this dude, the idea, what is this seriously
though? Watch Alex Wagner's interview with Jennifer Palmieri about you. I have no idea
what this is. The interview will frustrate you, but the comment section will give you
such hope. I have no idea what this is, but you can link that to me if you subscribe to
the Piker Broadcasting Service. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, Piker Broadcasting Service
for tomorrow's news today. A subscription will allow, I watched it, it was a waste
of time. A subscription to the Piker Broadcasting Service will allow you, the
people, to support the People's News Broadcaster.
Alex Wagner, I think I did her show on Podjohns. Did I not? Is that who you're talking about?
Marat Space Laser. Thank you for the gift to subs. You can also gift subscriptions, obviously,
and allow others to send links. This is so stupid, never giving them an inch.
Mamdani's wife apologizes for past anti-Israel social media posts, being 15 doesn't
excuse it.
Ramadwajee, the wife of the New York City mayor, Zoramundani wrote that television should
not have existed in the first place.
Yeah.
She apologized for the use of slurs when she was 15 years old.
She did not apologize for any of the fucking pro-Palestinian posts that she liked for
the record, just so you understand.
And it actually made people freak out on her even further.
I mean, I was a little worried too.
I thought she like literally apologized for, you know, posting like Lila Khaled
or something.
was not the case. Yeah, she just said like, you know, it's it's being 15 is not an excuse.
I use slurs on 15. It's the I know it's fine. I mean, it's valid. I'm not gonna fucking shit
on her politics runaway country with Alex Wagner and peak awful out of touch arrogant
them strategies. OMG, she's the reason why Schumer thinks he's fine. Neither of these
people have a clue. I paid pretty close attention to politics and I didn't know who this guy
is. Lifelong Democrat here. This consultant is an embarrassment and should never work
in politics again. These are the people that gave us Clinton Biden hairs. Do not listen
to a damn thing they say. Literally what was the point of this interview? This was
just hilarious to watch. This lady represents the establishment and that's why they
lose.
Centrist brain rot. Yeah, the woman ranked Clinton's campaign and lost the Trump
has no business telling anyone anything about politics. The platitudes and drivel
coming out of her mouth, are everything that's wrong with this party, her and the gang, oh
my god, they're cooking.
She knows about Tim Miller and Sarah's take, but doesn't know what's on his lie.
She's selling the same Neolib ideas, the same strategy in 2024.
Let's move right and lose some more.
This guy says, Wolf, it gets you are gay.
Uh, yeah, I fucked your dad and he loved it.
He was quivering.
Prostate simulation, you heard of it?
Your dad certainly heard of it. You might have heard his screams when he was orgasming
from having his anal cavity penetrated so many times with my penis. I had homosexual
sex with your dad. I'm your father now. I'm the stepfather. Nay, I'm the father that stepped
up you're fucking grounded take a second off
orgasmically yeah he orgasmically greeted me
you are straight I am but I don't give a fuck
I'm currently watching stream on a two minute delay on my TV in my living room with my mom,
grandma, and whole family, yep.
You had the prostate puckering, yup.
I convinced my grandma to watch for the first time today.
Well, maybe your grandma is about to experience what allyship really looks like for the first
time ever.
Did that guy come back with anything?
I want to know.
I'm a 60 year old white woman who loves the Sompiker.
Yes, hell yeah.
My fete yin.
The idea that you have the same year Mr. Apilot with certain flags just not how politics
works in the real world really does not, really does that not entirely encapsulate
the mega campaign 22 of other Dems are just a guilty of this type of campaign, which is
precisely what Asana is pointing out. The Dems wouldn't support Sanders, Mamdani, now Platinum.
They continue to use the same playbook, which is unsuccessful. Meanwhile, taking money from
APEC and other powerful lobby groups. How's that working out for them? They've lost the
trust and respect of the electorate because they refuse to read the writing on the wall.
We need more like Zoran Mamdani. You're never going to convince people that Zoran
Mamdani is bad, and that we can't have more Zoran Mamdani's everywhere around the country.
That's it.
What was used then was language that was used among and by Democrats within a primary for
this position.
And we're speaking about a city that has more than a million Muslims that call it home,
and yet it's a city where so many are made to feel as if they're guests, as if their
belonging is forever in question.
And I want this to be a city where every New Yorker, no matter their faith, no
matter where they were born.
My seven-year-old Catholic conservative father called me yesterday and said, Fox News,
the Hassan piker lately. Well, he must be over there target. If they're making this much noise
about him, I hope he keeps it up. Whatever he's doing. Hell yeah. That's what I'm talking about.
A lot of people don't really like, I've realized that a lot of people already have like their
points of view about like these big media franchises, right? And oftentimes it's not very
positive. So if someone is actually a hater of CNN and they see CNN and shit on me,
me, they develop a positive association with me. If someone is a hater of Fox News and they
see Fox News should have gone me, same thing happens. That's what the hilarity of the situation
is here. And the same principle goes for Israel. When they see mouthpieces for Israel constantly
attack me. They don't actually go, Oh, wow. Well, I guess I should love Israel now. I
saw a lot of people falling just because Fox News is coming after you now. What is this?
Oh yeah, the aura edit. People love the aura edit dude. It was crazy.
It doesn't even try to hide it 34 year old Hassan piker not only hates America
He's hinting at a civil war a noted fall left influence. I love this or it is now my favorite video
Have you seen an increase in views or followers since the last month of attacks
I mean, I don't know if it's because we're monitoring the situation
People are more invested in it or because of because of the attacks, but yeah, I mean I've seen an increase in viewership for sure
But it's petering out now that you know that
The people are not as invested in what's going on in the Hermosy
You just repost your own post yes, I did yeah, bro if nobody got me I got me all right
and then when we don't have fuel we are practically paralyzed.
A lot of people say it's getting worse than it's ever been.
The president has said that he expects to focus his attention on Cuba after he's dealt with Venezuela, of course, and Iraq.
I do believe I'll be in the honor of having the honor of taking Cuba.
Certainly we know that the Americans and...
Yo, they're trying to be like me bro.
You see that?
They're trying to be like me. Sky News.
I mean, hey, whatever.
The Cubans are talking about what does this all mean to the people of Cuba?
What will this country look like when the blockade is lifted?
This is Havana, the capital of Cuba, with three months into a U.S. oil blockade, and life
is unraveling here faster than anyone predicted.
This is right in the heart of the city, and through the rubbish bins, they search for
anything of value and anything worth eating.
Some collected in bags, slowly working their way to the mounds of rubbish, seeking out discarded
food and vegetables rotting beneath the blistering sun, sifting out what they can scavenge from
here.
These aren't necessarily homeless people, but they are desperate people.
Others can't wait.
Inspecting the food, then eating it.
That's that desperate.
There's been incredible poverty here in Cuba for a long time,
but this type of open desperation hasn't existed here
for many years.
What our people have been telling me is that the streets
have been famous for always being really clean,
even though the people are really poor.
But things have got worse.
and it's duty, as a lady was just explaining to me.
This is here because the normal refugees people,
the bin men, haven't got petrol
to actually come and pick up the rubbish.
So, it's past lots of street corners and it's like this.
Since the start of the year,
the United States has imposed an oil blockade on the country,
meaning no fuel is allowed in.
But it doesn't mean there's just a shortage of fuel.
It means that everything falls apart.
There's now a growing food crisis.
Yeah, remember this when you hear from people that like America is a good superpower, the
best superpower that we could possibly have.
This is the stuff that America does on autopilot.
It doesn't need to do this at all.
And yet this is the impact of America's cruel and unique mode of punishment, also known as
its sanctions regime.
Cubans are going hungry.
This is economic warfare every bit as destructive to life here as bombs and bullets will be.
The home of sleeping roughing back alleys is now a common sight where it was once unthinkable.
People have to queue to get money from cash machines.
There's a money supply issue in Cuba, and that means there's strict limits on what can
be withdrawn.
Often, there is no money to be withdrawn anyway.
also queue for hours to get bread from barely functioning.
By the way, none of this, none of this is because of socialism or communism or whatever.
It's entirely, entirely related to the sanctions.
Sanctions created and designed to have these sorts of outcomes.
Sanctions enforced by the most powerful country on the planet against the country
that is tiny in comparison.
10 million people living 90 miles off of our coastline.
The government control bakeries, they're limited to one piece of person when there is any to be had.
This is a government ration shop known as a pedega. They're meant to provide essentials
at cheap prices. The shelves are virtually bad.
I mean, that's also not, you know, there are, there are definitely, there are definitely
markets that sell a decent amount of product.
Like I don't think that's, it's not as bare all over the place for sure, at least from
what I saw.
Some places, some places absolutely were bare, some places were not.
An emergency load of rice was being delivered.
This is humanitarian aid.
Cuba can't produce enough of its own.
What we found was that more often than not,
the bodega stalls were completely empty
or shut in this current crisis.
Pharmacies as well have just empty shelves.
This one appears to be open,
but it seems there's virtually nothing in stock.
Have you seen your criticism from deculturation?
No, um, I have no idea what that is, but
that sounds like a, like a sweaty ultra.
He tells me with one lip here.
Chatters, I have a serious question.
Do I have to respond to every fucking person
that has an opinion?
Like, genuinely, do you feel like there's something productive?
Should I just stop watching what America's and American imperialism is doing to Cuba
right now and adding additional commentary from my own personal experience when I went
to Cuba and instead hear whatever the fuck some random dickhead had to say, whose only
Only mode of activism is to fucking chirp about me.
Is that what I should do?
No, half the time it's the person or their boosters coming in to try to get a boost over
coattails.
One man, an English teacher, approached me asking if I had paracetamol.
He explained he didn't have enough money to buy medicine or milk in shops that aren't
run by the government.
I have a car to buy too. I'm an English teacher. I teach a teenager in high school. But we
have very few possibilities to buy new jobs because the new market is, we can't afford.
I mean, people who live like me, like a wage, my income is 2,500 pesos like a teacher.
And I cannot afford to buy a new job.
With the Cuban state failing to find a way of dealing with this crisis, it's fallen on
charities to provide some help.
The community of Sant'Egidio charity is now trying to feed a growing number of the most
vulnerable.
The elderly and homeless line up for a bowl of pasta, dished up by volunteers three
times a week.
to lifeline to these men and women,
the charity's resources are stretched and limited.
Well, the statistics vary,
but somewhere between 72% and 90% of the people
who live in extreme poverty,
about three quarters say that they miss at least one meal a day
because we simply can't afford to buy the food.
They just haven't any ways of getting food.
For these people, the most vulnerable,
this is an absolute lifeline, and this is possibly the only proper meal they're going to get today for certain,
but maybe for the last part of the rest of the week.
Inaris Suarez Cardenas, the charity's charismatic senior manager, says this crisis is getting worse.
They're now feeding children, opening schools and trying to provide medical care.
They never used to do this before.
Life has been tough in Cuba for many years, she says, but the U.S. blockade is pushing
you over the edge.
First off, how important are these meals for these people here?
una buena alimentación es muy probable que si no almorza que cuando en su casa lo que
coman solamente no no es que no es que un anciano pueda tener recursos económico como
para almorzar desayunar el comer merendar entonces esto es como no es una gran ayuda
but it is something that at least receives a food supply.
There have been periods of time where there have been crises in Cuba's history,
Soviet Union, COVID. Is this a major crisis period once again?
Yes, this is correct, the US blockade didn't even start this year, it's something this
video is not even mentioning, US started applying secondary sanctions into any fucking carrier
that was bringing in oil or anything to Cuba in 2019 and Trump won.
It actually had a serious crippling effect on the energy grid anyway.
Persona no puede ni siquiera conservar el poco alimento que pueda resolver.
Entonces los precios suben.
Do you think that the fuel blockade by the United States is making things much worse?
For example, they've had to close their doors because they don't feel comfortable.
Every economic sector in Cuba is being affected by this blockade
and one of the most obvious casualties is tourism.
Sparkling classic cars, typical of virtually every image
she's probably seen of Havana and renovated for tours of the city, now stand empty.
Any English speaking like American website or any Western website where you try to figure out what
people are saying about Cuba is going to be fucking unbelievably reactionary. Okay.
Okay?
Drivers, desperate for business.
I was there.
Historic squares are all but empty of the foreign visitors who throng these streets.
Souvenir shops and markets are now displaying their wares to virtually nobody but the old pass-by.
The tourism industry brought billions of dollars of hard cash to Cuba.
That vital foreign currency arriving on its shores is slowly but surely drying up.
President Trump's threats, the continuous talk of war, the events in Venezuela and
Iran and the lack of fuel for airplanes is taking its toll.
The band may still be playing, but they've lost their audience.
It's quite astonishing to experience this.
From the sky, vast swathes of Havana are enveloped by darkness.
people here are not used to this remember these streets are in the center of
the city if there are lights they're by and large from batteries or energy
stored up from solar panels damn how'd they get the drone shots that's crazy
nightfall simply can't continue
People walk through the streets, illuminated by headlights and torches.
Others wander around making preparations to go to bed.
It is strange, even quite frightening, driving around in this darkness.
but powerless to provide its people with power.
One of the country's major hospitals
is a beacon of light surrounded by darkness.
Its generators keep it functioning just.
Like the rest of the country,
just about functioning is as good as it gets.
Just because it's daylight doesn't mean there's power.
Some of the power cuts last for days at a time.
Some areas are restricted to a single hour in every 24.
Federal stations are now routine.
How do you think corporations aren't helping you out?
First of all, corporations that aren't moral actors, if anything they're immoral actors
is number one.
Number two, corporations could genuinely profit from doing regular trade with Cuba.
It's just America will sanction them and destroy what remains of that profit incentive anyway.
When we close, there's not a fuel shortage at these stations.
There is no fuel.
Cues immediately form when news spreads that a garage has received a small supply of
petrol.
But it's never very much, and prices have gone through the roof.
Cuba's revolutionary heroes still look down from the monolithic buildings and sports stadiums
built to celebrate the country's new beginning decades ago.
American economic sanctions have combined with the country's own mismanagement to
They leave many of these structures in disrepair.
Alone, athlete trains in the country's
once formidable center of sporting excellence.
The Pan-American Stadium is now a crumbling monument
to a past era.
There's no money to rebuild this.
There's no money at all.
In the warmth of an early evening sun, young men gather in the square for an improvised
game of humble.
We're in a small town near Pina del Rio, a farming community a couple of hours out
of Havana.
This is typical of most of Cuba's rural communities.
There's not much going on.
Pretty much everyone is poor, unemployed.
You blend the American sessions of the country's own mismanagement?
Yeah, I mean, mismanagement, of course, also plays some of a role, but it's so marginal
that I feel like it's inconsequential to bring up.
The government is high, and more often than not, there's no electricity these days.
When we arrived there hadn't been power here for two days.
When power comes on people charge their electric scooters and car batteries to run lights in
their homes.
Many make use of bicycles as well and of course horses and donkeys.
At sunset some climb up onto the roofs of their Soviet-era apartment blocks looking
to find a bar of phone signal.
They tell us communications with their family and friends in different towns is often impossible
for days at a time.
Others prepare charcoal fires to cook meager dinners for their families as the sun drops
below the horizon.
As night falls, single, weak lights flicker on in the midst of a general blackout.
Row after row of apartment blocks shrouded in darkness.
It will stay like this until sunrise.
Right, communities like this one across the whole of Cuba have had problems with power
shortages for a long time now but everyone who lives here tells us it's
getting worse since the fuel blockade imposed by President Trump on Cuba has
really kicked in and it affects all of their lives right so there's some
electricity is there heating, lighting to be seen there's no telecommunications
the pumps that push water around means there's no running water in this
community of farming community they can't afford the field to get to
the fields to do their farming and they can't afford to run the farming equipment.
The reality of life during this fuel blockade is summed up by the darkness, by the grinding
monotony of living without the appliances of modern life. In many ways Cuba goes back
in time every single night.
We invite you to come and meet your family who live in this apartment block, some of them have lights, it's a solar power or batteries that they've got.
I don't know about the third floor I think of this apartment, this is their electricity meters.
They're not doing anything, you can see that they're completely stationary.
No power at all.
They're not going to go down to that power here.
But we're going to come out and see, uh, it's surprising.
Oscar is a physics and math teacher. Perhaps unsurprisingly, he's rigged up a system to
keep the lights on at home. It's a short-term fix, but it is effective.
Oscar and his wife Lisa, an English teacher, live here with their son. Oscar takes home
about £10 a month as a teacher. All government wages are poor, so he holds down three other
jobs to try to make ends meet. They aren't happy with their lives, but they don't see
Donald Trump as their saviour, they prefer Cuba to do better than the American blockade
is making things worse.
Because like remember, wages are obviously controlled by the government, right? And wages are low.
Why are wages low? Because there's no money circulating in the economy. Why is there no money circulating in the economy?
Because you can't do regular commerce, like you can't do international trade. Cuba has the capacity to build factories in the same exact way that any other country does.
But you can't get loans from any bank whatsoever to even start these sorts of infrastructure projects start these sorts of
Start these sorts of projects and even if you were able to build a factory and there's plenty that exists in the country
You can't actually you know make things and then sell them as you normally would because the United States of fucking America
Makes it illegal for you to actually if I'm not illegal, but like de facto illegal
to actually engage in any sort of international trade.
Did you worry about the future?
El futuro puede ser incierto porque no sabemos a qué se pueda llegar a través.
Wait, he said one teacher makes $1,200 and the other says $10.
Yes, $1,200 like in Cuban pesos,
which with, you know, in American currency,
it translates to somewhere around $10.
It's usually in a potency in terms of what it's...
Or I don't know, I don't know
what the actual currency exchange rate is.
Oh, he said 10 pounds.
I'm not here to kill you.
I don't want to die.
In another apartment,
Jeanette prepares the charcoal to make her dinner for the evening
with the help of the light of a torch.
She's a pediatric physiotherapist
and lives alone in her two-bedroom flat.
Much of her extended family
live in the blocks around her in town.
Getting by is just a way of life for Jeanette.
She'd like more, but there isn't more.
Like so many Cubans we've met, she's scared about the future
and afraid about what may happen to her country.
Donald Trump says he wants to bring about huge changes in Cuba,
that blockade is to try and bring about those changes.
Do people in Cuba resent this interference?
At the end of the day, the same people had to take all the consequences for the change that could happen.
The need has increased. The people are suffering from it.
Do you worry about what's going to happen next?
Of course, we live here.
We live here and we will live the consequences of what can happen.
By morning the town slowly awakes.
Another night without power gives way to another day without power.
It's relentless.
Cuba's economic mismanagement and neglect of infrastructure over decades contributes to this
situation but years of sanctions and the current American fuel blockade certainly
has made the power problem here more acute.
It's a Sunday so it's even quieter than usual.
Some passed by dressed up in their Sunday vest heading to church, or anyone who does
have a job or has a way of finding food, they head out.
Horses and carts are pressed into action, right here, don't have much.
I'm going to keep it a buck.
I didn't see not one fucking horse carriage when I was there and I did see actually a
lot of fucking regular cars driving around including, I mean it wasn't a lot, it was
certainly a lot more than what this guy has shown though.
I'm sure there are, there is one horse carriage guy, but, but he's been hyper focusing on
that one horse carriage guy to make it, to frame it as though like Cubans are,
Cubas are using horses to get around, or maybe he's not in Havana, maybe it's the countryside
that's probably...
A little distance away in the countryside we saw the difference between having little
to have enough.
Yeah, okay, never mind.
The most vulnerable in rural Cuba are old and frankly helpless.
Now, and Pancia live on a farm, or rather a shack on farmland.
Pancia tells me her state pension is one dollar and twelve cents a month.
That's 83 pence a month.
Obviously, nobody can live on this.
She and her husband are utterly dependent on their family and help from the community.
The Cuban government doesn't like anyone seeing this type of poverty, but it is very real.
It's so sad because like one of the massive improvements that the Cuban revolution offered
was the fact that the countryside was brought up to similar comparable standards to like
the big cities, right?
That was a huge deal.
like the Cuban revolution was able to improve the infrastructure all around the island, you
know, bring literacy rates up in America after, you know, decades of sanctions has forcibly
destroyed the Cuban economy to such a degree where like the countryside has gone back into
the, gone back into its previous mode of existence like peasantry.
Can I ask you, do lots of people talk about oil blockades by the United States, and that
life is much harder now?
Does it make any difference to you?
Have you heard about those things, or does it make any difference to you at all, that
life is already tough?
No.
It's hard to see, but it's difficult to see.
This is an incoherent phase, in the end, with night lighting.
I had to wake up thousands of times in the morning,
at night, at night, in the bathroom.
I said I didn't hit her, but that's crazy.
If I get up in the morning, I'm going to die.
It's so dark.
It's not even a light to light up,
because I didn't have a light to light up,
but I'm going to have to go back.
Heading back towards Havana, it struck me that there can't be a clearer illustration
of fuel shortages than taking a trip on one of Cuba's motorways.
We barely see a car.
Mostly we pass horse-drawn carts and slow-moving motorcycles and scooters.
past parched, burning fields, smoke drifting across the road. There's no fire engine to
put out these fires. Well, there is. It just hasn't got any fuel. There's barely any traffic
on the roads now. Economic highways appear to be redundant for all, but the most determined
or needy traveller.
The reminder of this country's past status can be seen in the magnificence of old Havana.
Disgusting old bastard.
I don't think he set the fire.
Look look look.
I'll be honest.
While there is like a little bit, there's definitely a decent amount of like maneuvering
that he's doing where he every now and then will be like well as you see the government
has failed you right over and over again it's good to for people to see what is going on
here obviously the main takeaway shouldn't be wow look at how poor these Cubans are
and and this must be communism but it's still important to see the conditions imposed upon
the Cuban population by the United States of America you know the truth.
And then these people who are starving, these people who are suffering, these people who
we have caused tremendous harm to, now Trump is talking about, you know, overtaking this
country militarily, which let's be real, doesn't really have the capacity to put up a fight
whatsoever.
This is not like a wrong style situation.
This is a, in some ways, the Cuban government is infinitely more competent than the Venezuelan
government and the way that the Venezuelan government is operating.
but also in many other ways, they do not have a fraction of the military force that
the Venezuelan government had because Venezuela is an oil-rich country at the end of the day
and was able to build
military forces
and all of that amounted nothing of course because
Clearly, the American military superiority still was able to, and maybe a little bit of
engineering behind the scenes, was able to create a successful military operation.
Yeah, none of them said the blockade of the sanctions are good.
All of them said it's hurting them.
You know, the Trump administration has a whole rationale is to help the Cuban people.
Exactly.
Trump to circuit Kirk during the turning point turning point event a dream city church in Phoenix, Arizona. Oh god. It's so gross
Once the bull has been stabbed a hundred times it doesn't take much to finish the job. Yeah
Yeah. It's crazy to think that Cuba had like a pretty competent military force, you know, first strike capabilities against the United States of America in the USSR era, nuclear arms, Russian nuclear arms that were, that that were surface to surface missiles to not just anti air defense systems but surface to surface missiles and Air Force.
It was a sovereign state.
America fucking hated that shit, obviously, but this is why I say, you know, Khrushchev
was a lion.
With its beautiful ornate neoclassical mansions, art deco buildings and baroque churches that
marked out Cuba as a special place for hundreds of years.
degree, it still exists at first glance. Yeah, it has a lovely... Yeah, Cuban only had a very competent
military force, but they straight up sent that competent military force to Africa to play a formative
role in liberating African nations. Feeling about it, that Spanish colonial look. Lots of the center
of downtown in the old city are in good good knee. Actually a little bit more closely in Havana.
These are some of the most iconic buildings, hotels, that are actually completely and utterly destroyed, empty.
It looks more like a war zone than a major city, the capital of the country.
So you have to scratch beneath the veneer here, you don't have to scratch very far,
you see just how much trouble Cuba is in.
The truth is, the buildings are neglected and slowly falling into ruin.
It's true.
It's so beautiful too, it's so sad, it's so fucking beautiful.
of its political inclinations that took root here a couple of generations ago.
Observers, neutral or otherwise, agree people can't continue to live like this.
The current fuel in Barber is quite simply collective punishment on a mass scale.
President Trump says Cuba is next, but nobody here, and perhaps not even in the White House,
have any idea what next means.
The merry-go-round of threats, sanctions, blockades, and sometimes negotiations about the future
go on. When it stops, is there even a future for this generation? Is there even a plan?
These far-broken explosions throughout southern Lebanon is real carrying out a huge amount of
of detonations of Lebanese infrastructure, Kuntar, Kiam, Nakura, Al Bayat, of Chama
and Hula being destroyed, very unsurprising that they're doing that.
Thank you.
Okay. Okay.
Okay.
Chika Chika.
Um, all right, let's start with this because it's my patriotic duty. Have you condemned us on piker?
I have not.
What I do I have to leave now.
You do. I mean, in fact, we're calling the cops back down the stairs.
calling the cops, yes, up the stairs and down.
Literally brought you here to ask you to condemn him,
go back down the stairs.
Yes, get out.
I mean, I obviously do,
because I'm a patriotic American.
Now, just I guess for people that aren't aware,
there was...
There was a small kerfuffle.
There was a small kerfuffle.
A three week long media cycle.
A three week long media cycle
where there's a lot of centrist Democrats
and pro-israel donors that are trying to discredit Hassan in particular because
he has uh... joined up with progressive candidates across the country including
yourself
doing rallies we played some footage of it earlier this week
at michigan in michigan state of the lines that were outside of your rallies
to see you in his son
uh... together and and the queen from western p a
some really some really gotta say uh... in all this coverage the thing that
bothers me the most is the summer Leah Richard. It's because she's such a what
you call her the tin dunking of the progressives in the house. That is so
good. Yes. Yes. Phenomenal fundamentals. No, but where's your shoulders takes a
shot of like whoa. She's not going to be like the flashiest or the or the one
that's seeking. But the truth is she is also flashy too. I don't know why
she doesn't get the shine she deserves. Honestly, it is pretty crazy because she can be flashy.
I mean, she's a, she's a brilliant orator. I mean, she's great.
I do wonder about that a lot. Misogynoir, maybe that's probably what it is. It's that's what it is,
right?
It's like, um, I, I feel a similar way about Ayanna Presley,
who also is occupying her own lane and has been, uh, to my surprise a little bit because I, I
I thought she was going to be like one of the weaker members of the squad.
I was so, I mean, this was many years ago at this point.
So like it doesn't matter.
I'm just saying like that was my initial assessment.
I was so wrong.
She's also been, uh, really amazing.
Like she's been one of the, the best Congress persons in general as well.
She's very progressive.
Um, obviously summer Lee is probably one of, uh, she's like top 10 in Congress.
So, it's really interesting that the only black woman that was able to cut through that
noise outside of just like being in Congress for many, many decades has been Jasmine Crockett.
And it's kind of unfortunate that like her policy side was was not up to par with some
of these other people that we're talking about, right? Like she was nowhere near as
bold in her policies, but, but yeah, it's got to be because she's, she's a black woman.
Like the, the summer, the erasure.
She's so phenomenal, dude.
I love her so much.
She is incredible.
The Emerson pollster talked about you to the to the Forbes wait what the fuck
I'll say it has
What the hell? All right, let's watch this in the most attention, but she's always shown up in the right way and look
I you can convince her I wanted to run for Senate in tongues. Well, yeah
I literally told her I mean I was watching her just as someone who's sort of a student of the game
like I really enjoy public communication as an art form and watching her take that
mic and then just set the crowd on fire I was just like oh my god like it would
be so fun to watch you run against that ogre yes I I would love I would love
that right I mean and you know in Tim Duncan wins championships I'm just
saying doesn't win games he was champion he wins championships that's
So, and, but I think that, gosh, it was the, the, the previous Democratic Senator that just
lost.
Bob Casey.
Yeah.
Casey, he's already like, him coming out the other day and saying, oh, I'm going to run
for Federman's seat.
To me, I think he saw how Summer Lee was kind of putting herself out there a little
bit and wanted to head that off.
That's just my speculation.
Honestly, honestly, let's have him jump in.
Sure.
And then have Summer Lee jump in.
I actually love those odds.
i love those odds to well i mean there's any other white dude
that's right preferably over the age of sixty
right please don't want to be there is an open u.s. senate seat
and then
and then like summer dunkins jumping in
yeah exactly um... uh...
ray of sunshine out of there's so many plays on her name i love it
it really could work and she's exactly the kind of voice that people are
craving similarly to what you're seeing with your campaign like
This has been a long campaign process so far and I was looking at Michigan primaries
until August.
August and we've been at this now for a year.
Yeah, so.
We're celebrating a year into this campaign on April 17th.
Yeah, so just reflect on, I think, one, your surge in popularity is really coming at the
right time right now.
I know that these attacks on Hassan really backfired because didn't you guys get a
lot of small-dollar contributions once there was more sunlight on your campaign
through this?
been a bit of a slower build-up, but right now it feels like there are a lot of establishment
Democrats panicking about where you're at in this race.
Yeah, I mean, look, we had a clear sense of the race we wanted to run from the jump,
and I also knew it was coming for me. We watched it happen in 2025. I mean, just to speak to the
the controversy quote-unquote TM.
Hassan was invited by Vice President Harris
to the DNC to stream from the DNC.
The last time he appeared with anybody in this race,
it was actually Senator McMorro,
who was also at the DNC speaking.
And then the audacity that we have
to do the same thing that Vice President Harris did,
it was wild to me.
Now, look, I knew that there were going to be some voices, particularly from the pro-genocide
wing of the Democratic Party, that were going to come out and say, well, how could you?
I didn't realize it was going to be a three-week news cycle in a news cycle that should have
been 100% focused on an illegal, unjustifiable war.
And then people ask, well, why do we lose?
Well, I think it's this story in a nutshell.
one, we miss opportunities to speak to the broadest issues that affect everyday people.
Because this war is literally lighting our tax dollars on fire to raise our gas prices
for God knows what reason except for the interests of the foreign government.
Then there's the fact that people are frustrated because we're campaigning.
My understanding of politics now, like I studied complicated things, okay?
This one's not that complicated.
If you believe in what you have to say, you should take what you have to say out to people
who might want to hear what you have to say, which is why I go on Fox and why I appear with
Sampiker.
Now, nobody's yelling at me for going on Fox, which is interesting, because I would
argue that the things that they talk about on Fox seem to be less consistent with
the broader thrust of our message that we are for human rights and for health care
and against corporations in our politics.
But now what's happened is, because of the power of money in the Democratic Party, there
are a lot of folks who are jumping in and echoing this because they're afraid of what
it means for the flow of APEC and other pro-Israel money into the Democratic Party.
And so how dare we speak to that issue if it's going to interrupt the flow of the
gravy train to Democrats?
But here's the problem.
I would rather have our morals than have their money.
And that's the thing that they find so frustrating.
But you're also campaigning in such a Muslim way.
No.
You know, in your eyes.
Yeah.
I generally, when I make comments to people, I slip my gaze.
And then I just speak in an accent.
Yes.
Right.
Really played up for people that don't realize.
I mean, the Free Press, I guess that was Olivia Reingold wrote about you.
in a way that would make racist cartoonists in the South blush, like in the Jim Crow era.
Could you reflect on the Islamophobia that's been directed towards you?
And Hassan is a stand-in for that too.
That's really what they're saying.
Your opponents are afraid to attack you on a racist basis, so they're attacking Hassan
on a racist basis.
Look, I'll just tell you this, you know, I'm surprised they didn't come from my beard.
Like as a Muslim dude, as Arab dude, you're supposed to have a nice beard, like I got a
weak ass beard.
I don't know what it is.
I always have my dad's got an incredible beard, alright?
He's got two sons, my brother has a different mother than me, and both of us got weak
ass beards.
So in some respects, part of me was just like, at least if I had a nice beard I'd
be like, damn, like come at me for my beard, but I'd have an awesome beard though.
Right.
You know, at the end of the day, it's not my job to defend myself.
Yeah.
It's not.
Like I, you know, I'm not in this because I need to defend myself against their attacks.
I'm much more focused on defending people who have been subjected to a politics that
is literally picking their pocket to drop bombs on other people rather than to provide
them health care or make sure their kids go to a good high school.
So, you know, I'll let you guys comment on that.
It's not my job.
My job is to focus on the issues that I've been fighting on for a year now
and frankly 10 years since I jumped in the public service. I want money out of politics,
money or pocket, Medicare for all. If they're going to come at me as a stand-in for something,
if they're going to try and otherize me, if they're going to try and say, you know,
I don't believe enough in American values, those are not things I haven't heard before.
I've been me my whole life.
Right.
And at the end of the day, I know enough to know that we are our best when America
empowers one another despite our differences. And the most amazing thing about the democratic
process is that we're constantly testing whether or not America is as big as she says she can be.
And guess what? Most of the time that test comes back positive because you know when when folks
can vote for somebody who might not share the same faith, who might not share a name that they're
used to, we're saying that America is about those ideals. And I'll just tell you like one of
the most formative moments in my life was watching my dad become an American. I was six years
old. I remember my mom, my stepmom Jackie, who's a daughter of the American Revolution,
and saying, telling me like Bubba's gonna become
an American tomorrow.
And I looked at her for a minute, I was like, what do you mean?
Like, and I'm expecting he's like gonna come out
with like blonde hair and blue eyes.
Cause like that's what I always thought
when I was a little boy.
Like that's American, you're Egyptian, right?
And I watched him swear no to the Constitution
and coming out of it, he still had his accent.
He still looked like me.
And she's like, Bubba's an American now.
I was like, no, he's not.
She's like, yes, he is.
America, he's not.
He loves America about what you look like. It's not how you sound like. It's what you believe in and so, you know
All of these folks who are fighting us about what America can be it's so funny because he is the the
Classic immigrant story, you know what I mean?
Guy whose parent guy who's whose dad comes to America. He's born in America. He fucking loves America
like this is this is it this is the whole this is the most beautiful story about america
i know i'm fighting for america that is as big as she says she is the america that's
always given me so much and that really should be about giving us so much more and and making
a positive case for immigration is something that i think the democratic party is starved
for uh... in your time campaigning throughout michigan what have
voters said to you about ice and your message on this as somebody who is the
the child of immigrants
i'm i want to miniapolis at the height of metro search
and i want because i want to understand what it looks like when our federal
government weaponizes itself against the constitution under the pretext of
immigration
everybody
who has looked at this honestly understands that ice has nothing to do with the southern
border has nothing to do with immigration because like
i don't know i
i learned maps
miniapolis
nowhere near the southern border michigan where they're setting up
nowhere near the southern border this is about
weaponizing a paramilitary force against the constitution itself
and i think people understand that
what's funny is watching
folks who should understand in their bones how unamerican this is
talking about
read
reforming
or retraining
I'm like, what do you say to the ICE officer
who used a little boy as bait?
Like you imagine the PowerPoint slide,
like you're the guy who's supposed to design
the PowerPoint slide to teach that guy
to do something different.
I'm sorry, but like if your humanity did not stop you
from using a child as bait,
you do not deserve to work in the federal government anymore.
You never deserved that in the first place.
So people understand that abolishing ICE
is not this extreme fringe position.
Abolishing ICE is the moderate position.
holding people accountable who broke constitutional law
forget civil law
immigration law is not
criminal law it's civil law
it's like you didn't pay your parking ticket law
and they're breaking the foundational law of the land the constitution
over the idea that we ought to be enforcing civil law
with guns covering our faces
and it's also uh... it connects with your broader critique of uh... america's
support for Israel and our support for the genocide in Gaza because immigration enforcement
didn't always look this way.
But since 9-11, this has been the infrastructure that the United States has built out, and
it's affecting not just the hundreds of thousands, it's got millions of people who are currently
being impacted through violence with U.S. bombs and Israeli bombs as well, but it
affects people at home.
And has that been a salient kind of argument for you on the campaign trail, connecting the
struggle of everyday people in Michigan and even their experiences with ICE, which I think
is a part of this, I don't think, it's a part of the same infrastructure?
Has that, have they made those connections?
Do they understand fundamentally how linked we all are here?
So fundamentally.
And here's the thing about it, like, I don't need the good people in Michigan
to understand the plight of the Palestinian people
to want to stand up against this.
I just need them to understand their own plight.
Every dollar that we send abroad to subsidize genocide,
every dollar that we send abroad to drop bombs in Iran
or bombs in Lebanon or bombs in Gaza
is a dollar that we're not spending
to provide your kid a good school, your kid healthcare,
your kid dignified infrastructure
that you guys drive on every single day.
And at the end of the day, we are getting our pockets picked
by our own government being wasted around this idea
that somehow we've got an enemy outside at the gate
or we've got enemies within.
When really at the end of the day, the enemy is this idea
that we cannot invest in ourselves
and build good things for each other.
So people get that 100% and like people are feeling that.
You can't afford your groceries well,
probably has something to do with corporations
who are manipulating our government
to focus on issues that have nothing to do with you.
You can't afford to fill your tank with gas.
Well, it turns out that when we bomb oil depots abroad,
it raised the global price of oil.
You can't afford to see a doctor.
Well, we could be investing in your ability to see a doctor
except for instead, we're wasting our money on ice,
$185 billion.
ice-funded to the tune of a hundred and eighty five years that's more
than the budget of the u.s. Marines is more than the budget of the fb i
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okay so this was uh... to ratio he did a seventeen minute video about me i
didn't
i didn't get to watch it but i'm excited
bob husan piker
israel is an extension of american empire
israel is not a separate entity from the united states of america there's a
The reason for why Israel is this malignant force in the region, this violent entity in
the region, a constant destabilizing force in the region, and that is because it corresponds
to the American grand design in this resource-rich region.
Israel is a attack dog for American empire here.
A bunch of Democrats say Democrats should shun Piker because he's bad for the party.
He's a loose cannon.
He says, wild stuff.
That's crazy.
Let's be clear, Hassan is radical.
He says things that are indefensible and he's definitely a wild card.
Some Democrats are trying to cancel Hassan Piker, and that could have huge consequences
for the Democratic Party.
He's been accused of making anti-Islamic comments, calling Orthodox Jews inbred, and
for defending Hamas.
Piker denies his anti-Islamic, saying that his criticisms are focused solely on the
Israeli government and Zionism, not Jewish people as a whole.
The centrist think tank third way sent a memo urging Democratic leaders to distance themselves from left-wing voices like piker
They even called him anti-American saying that he's I liked it
Ticktockers have a better style guide
Then virtually every mainstream legacy publisher
Because like this guy literally says centrist think tank
every
legacy publisher refers the third way as a
a left-leaning think tank. It's not true. It's a centrist think tank. It's a center-right
think tank. No different from ultra-right-wing streamers like Nick Fuentzeb.
Sondpiker doesn't actually belong in the pro-democracy coalition. He's an illiberal guy. He's a China,
Russia sympathizer who hates women, hates Israel. Like, he's all the toxic things.
At the end of the day, the real problem that is being presented here is Israel. They
They don't like that there are loud, outspoken, anti-zionist voices that democratic politicians
are hearing from, and they want to desperately gatekeep who their politicians speak to and
listen to.
They're actively trying to turn someone like myself into a toxic person within the party.
The only thing that is correct about this assessment is that I am vulgar.
But that's just who I am.
I'm a vulgar person, and I think that's still infinitely better than being a civil
war criminal.
a civil person that defends war crimes or defends war criminals is in my opinion far
worse than being a vulgar person that is on the side of justice and on the side of truth.
Does this man look bad for the party?
Every single dollar that is spent on a bomb is stolen from each and every one of you
because that's a dollar that they spend blowing up a school overseas instead of building
schools in your neighborhoods. You want to know the worst possible outcome for
2028? Tucker Carlson runs on an anti-Israel platform and the Democrats
put forward a pro-liberal Zionist, pro-defending America's military might
candidate. Tucker Carlson wins by Ronald Reagan numbers. The Democratic Party is
done. The next wave of fascism is here. That's what I'm afraid of. Tucker
Carlson versus Gavin Newsom is unlimited Tucker Carlson victory. This is why
I've been trying to urge Democrats to take a stronger stance against Israel.
You cannot have a guy like Tucker Carlson lead the conversation on Israel.
The Democrats as a national party have to universally oppose Israel.
If you don't do that, a guy like Tucker Carlson who has been leading the conversation for
normies on the issue of Israel will come out and destroy you.
What is Piker really about?
a very articulate, well-read, intellectual, good-looking, manly star of the far-left media
ecosphere. When the Left said, we need our own Joe Rogan, here's a charismatic, masculine,
progressive media star. Is that not the Left's Joe Rogan? As if that's what the Left needs.
Piker's on the far left.
Like he's a fan of Bernie, AOC, Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar.
He's for Medicare for all, taxing the wealthy,
free public transit, affordable housing,
radical lefty stuff.
He thinks Iran should have a nuclear weapon
because that would keep other countries from attacking it.
I think they should have nukes.
If they had nukes, it would be like North Korea.
Every country in the aftermath
the dissolution of the USSR where a separate world power could actually protect other countries
under their own autonomous nuclear umbrella, you've got to build nukes, that's it.
You have to build nukes.
If Iran had nukes, then the region would be much more stable.
If Iranian population would be safer right now, okay, they wouldn't be getting fucking
bombed.
Israel would not even be able to do half of the shit that it's doing in the region.
That is precisely the reason why Israel never wanted Iran to get nukes.
He's a Marxist-adjacent democratic socialist, but none of that is why anyone is attacking
him.
Piker is at the heart of a fight about what direction the Democratic Party is going to
take in the near future, because Piker represents the rapidly rising pro-Palestinian left,
a faction that could become a kingmaker within the Democratic Party, because today,
two-thirds of Democratic voters are pro-Palestinian.
Is this guy? No, he's not. He's not an op. What are you talking about? He's showing full context of
my statements. Why would that be an op? My ops, you can tell when my ops are my ops because they
don't show no matter how like crazy something might seem even with the Iran statement, right?
They would never show the full context of what I'm what I'm talking about pro-Israel
We are in a battle over who the Democratic Party is going to be and
Piker is at the heart of that as one of the loudest most pro-Palestinian voices
out there he's pro-Palestinian in a way that's shocking to some people
Piker has said that Hamas is a thousand times better than Israel.
That is not wrong.
Israel's decades of genocide, murder, apartheid against Palestinians is far worse.
Israel is an apartheid state.
Piker has said he has no issue with Hezbollah.
Again, this is shocking to people who don't know a ton about the situation,
But Hezbollah was created in response to Israeli attacks on Lebanon.
It exists to protect Lebanon from Israel.
Hezbollah would not exist if Israel had not repeatedly attacked Lebanon.
They are defenders of a small nation that cannot protect itself against an Israeli
army that is funded by the US.
People are horrified by Piker saying these things about Hamas and Hezbollah, partly because
they hear a sanitized version of who Israel is.
Many people have just never encountered my worldview in America.
As Piker said on Pod Save America, Israel creates October 7th for Palestine all the
time.
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 a paramilitary organization that has like a political
party as well, a Politburo as well, that is entirely comprised not as an alien force but of
orphaned children that have, you know, had their parents killed by an apartheid state that has
been dominating the lives of Palestinians for 80 years at this point. And they've done a genocide
at this point as well, but like it started off with the Nakba and has only evolved as
technology has gotten better to become more heinous. Gaza is this hermetically sealed area that many
people correctly point to as the world's largest open-air prison before October 7th. I think
that Hamas's tactics, which I oppose at times, right, are secondary to this conversation because
it's like placing a lot of emphasis on the Nat Turner rebellion. Instead of
talking about the much larger, much more consequential, much bigger harm that
chattel slavery was to black people, to like sell black people and to rape
them and treat them as though they weren't human, I think that's a far
larger systemic force that is going to make the Nat Turner rebellion look
inconsequential in comparison to the greater harm. What Hamas has done,
Especially when there has been an October 7 times a thousand if not more than a thousand at this point in the hands of Israel
Against the Palestinian population in its entirety. I mean they're doing an October 7 to Lebanon right now as we speak people hear
Hamas and Hezbollah and they say things like violence is the problem
No one should be violent and that drives me crazy
The central problem is not violence. The real problem is
is injustice. The reason why you have violence is because you have injustice,
oppression, genocide, apartheid, and the intentional prevention of a Palestinian
state, thus keeping the Palestinian people suffering in cruel captivity.
Oppressed people have a moral and a legal right to fight back. It's kind of
unbelievable that such a high-profile mainstream political figure like Torrey is straight up
not only saying, like, look at all the defensible things that Hassanah said, but also on top
of that, like, actively saying, like, you know, militancies have a right to resist militarily
against occupied force against a force that's occupying their lands their territory killing
them doesn't you go on like MSNBC and stuff like that's usually
it's kind of cool but piker is shocking to some because Americans have been fed a narrative
that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, and they're a victim surrounded by enemies
all around them, valiantly fighting back. It's like they want people to see Israel as like
a white person who's moved into a rough black neighborhood, and they're constantly being
attacked by their neighbors because they're white.
That's a really, oh, I'm gonna steal that analogy. I'm gonna steal that analogy.
a good one. So does Mehdi to be fair? No, Mehdi does not. What are you talking about?
Mehdi famously does not defend militant resistance. There's no metric, no category of barbarism
by which a mosque could be considered more terrorist than the IDF. The atrocities committed
by that even just the month after October 7th dwarf those committed by Hamas in its entirety
of its 40 year existence. There is no comparison. It's true to raise the OG hip hop journalist.
He's interviewed a lot of great people. Yeah. That's a great take. Oh, brown people. Yeah.
It's not realizing that he's not he's not the only one who read Richard the earth. Okay, calm down
Israel is a settler colonialist project. That's captured native people and taken their land and attack the neighborhood
It's not about the knowledge chatter. Many people have the knowledge
It's about the courage to say the truth
Many people that have the knowledge would much rather
Many people that have the knowledge would much rather deny the truth would much rather refuse to say the truth
especially if they have a foot in with mainstream publications.
That's the difference.
In countries because they view perpetual war as good for them politically.
They also dream of expanding the borders of Israel.
The image of Israel as the most aggressive nation in the Middle East practicing apartheid,
committing genocide.
That can be hard to grapple with if you've grown up in the American news media's Israeli
centric bubble. Israel is an apartheid state.
Piker's comments on Palestine and Israel
are shocking to people who don't know the true story of what's going on.
But he's not wrong. Piker says Judaism does not equal Zionism.
It actually serves a very anti-Semitic purpose.
When you tie Judaism falsely to an apartheid regime doing a genocide,
You think in the interim period it might be a adequate defense?
You might be able to even silence some critics.
But all you are doing is falsely smearing the Jewish population.
For the record, it doesn't even work anymore.
This was like early on.
With the crimes of a nation state that does not have
the Jewish population's best interest in mind.
Guys, it's because I don't have a fucking beard, okay?
Jesus Christ
Why do you you guys are literally babies? Okay? You know how you know
This chat reminds me of those videos of like father shapes is beard for the first time and watch what the baby does next
Okay
Literally, that's you
Okay, that's you every time you see a different length of facial hair you go wow you look so different a
A bunch of babies with no object permanence, and I'm the father
And he says
Palestinians are not shown as human in Western media
They refuse to show
Palestinians as humans and they have very successfully been able to dehumanize them. There are voices in Israel
There are voices out there who who see it who see the brutality who see the endless
Humiliation that palace. Yeah, they may fuck remember when destiny and all of the fucking
Psychopaths many of which are now noticeably quiet about the issue of Israel. Have you guys noticed that man? Not that's any he's still pro-israel
but
so remember when everyone fucking made fun of me for for crying during
uh, this leftovers video where they were like
How many centrist apolitical drama farming
How many centrist apolitical drama farming dipshits made fun of me for this for months on end
He says Israel is practicing collective punishment.
You said Israel has a right to defend itself.
They didn't even do it when it happened. They went back like a year to accuse you of faking it at the time
Yeah
Yeah, they said I was faking it they said I was like a bitch for crying
All a lot of these clips are right after October 7 that Tori's using by the way
So these are people think that this is a ridiculous statement
However, how Israel is defending itself is collective punishment collective punishment in the form of depriving
1.2 million people of electricity, of water, of food.
He says Israel is an apartheid state.
Israel is falling out of favor because many Americans and many people in the Western world
are now finally seeing the truth that Israel is an apartheid state that is built around
an ethno supremacist ideology and that Israel is doing a live streamed genocide.
This is the reason why Israel has fallen out of favor and has become a pariah state
on the global stage. He says Israel could stop the genocide right now. Please explain
how the Democrats can stop the genocide right now. It's this, okay? It's this. This is a
telephone, okay? You pick up the telephone and you call up Benjamin Netanyahu and you
say, Hey, cut it out. No more weapons. Click. And the reason why America is so
invested in Israel is beca
destabilizing factor in a
region. There is now a c
to smear this man's name
too toxic to be in polite
name Hassan piker just c
for the first time. It's
has been a coordinated s
against this man for being right about Israel.
Hassan has become a more prominent figure on the left in recent years.
This has led centrist Democrats and their billionaire donors
to accurately assess that Hassan is a threat to their grip on power.
This is not co-worker Ludwig, this is friend Ludwig.
They failed to stop-
This is Ludwig if he wasn't evil.
They were on Mondani from becoming mayor of New York.
But now they're trying to make sure that his success can't be continued elsewhere.
They dislike Hassan because Hassan is not a politician.
He cannot be bought and paid for by the donor class.
And he is entirely supported by his own follower base,
meaning the only way they can take him down
is by making him a radioactive to leftist candidates.
So don't fall for it.
We are told that this campaign is coming from moderate Dems
and the centrist group Budweig.
Yeah, that was Budweig, not Chudwig.
But I think it's actually fueled by the pro-Israel lobby,
the likes of A-PAC and groups like it.
They want to demonize piker and make him seem too toxic for prime time and thus to silence him.
Not because anyone thinks he's going to run for office, but because he is an influential voice
in progressive media at a moment when the Democratic Party might be at a tipping point
over Israel and Palestine. Over the last five years, Democratic voters have become
extremely pro-Palestinian. We now have an NBC poll saying 67% of Dems sympathize more
with Palestinians than with Israelis. Gallup found 59% of Dems sympathize more with Palestinians.
76% of Dem voters now support an independent Palestinian state.
Meanwhile, Democratic elected leadership remains extremely pro-Israel,
In part because the pro-Israel lobby supports those who support Israel and attacks politicians who dare call a genocide a genocide
So we have a Democratic Party that's in the wilderness and trying to find itself and is deeply divided on the issue of
Israel and Palestine
So will the party continue to drift in the direction that the elected officials and the pro-Israel
Ludwig is an evil he's cowardly you shouldn't suggest someone is evil even if you're joking. Oh my god calm down
It's a very common fucking meme on the internet when people say like markiplier is not evil Hasan
It's a joke man, it's not now I'm not being serious. I
like that you actually hit him with a more
Serious criticism than what I was doing. I was joking. You're now actually
Reaching biting criticism territory
story in your unbelievably woke statement.
I was joking.
You're being serious.
Lobby wants.
Will Dems nominate a moderate like Gavin Newsom who won't call it a genocide?
Or will the party slide in the direction that the voters want and become more pro-Palestinian
and look maybe to a candidate like AOC, who's unafraid to call genocide what it is. AOC may
seem like a long shot to some, but in a Democratic party where being pro-Palestinian is a crucial
voting issue, like an issue that could make or break who voters choose, do not rule out AOC.
But as the pro-Palestinian-
And the pro-Palestinian left vices on the phone of AOC and Zoran Mamdani and millions
of Democratic voters.
The pro-Israel lobby wants to silence them.
They can't have the pro-Palestinian left become an important voice, so they're trying to silence
people.
People still bite the funeral bait so hard.
I mean, who cares?
The attacks on him are not because he's too wild.
These comments are fairly common on the pro-Palestinian left.
It's because a specific pro-Israel faction of the Democratic Party does not want him to
be heard.
When Democrats say, piker is bad for the party, the question is, bad for what party?
Bad for the party that Democratic voters want?
Or bad for the party that APAC and the donor class wants?
The Democratic voter base has become pro-Palestinian and the Israel lobby is pushing back trying
to squash their influence.
But if the Democratic Party is going to represent Democratic voters, it has to be pro-Palestinian.
Piker speaks for Democratic voters on this issue.
Will Dems listen to their base and respond to what their people want or find a way
sabotage themselves again. Thank you for watching. Please like, subscribe, and comment all the things. I'll be back tomorrow.
We're gonna tell Rowan that he is gonna get to meet Hasan tomorrow. So, Rowan's a big fan.
We're gonna get him that handshake. What is it for? Is that meeting? Uh, the budget?
Love. Okay. Um, Rowan.
Well, it was a great video by Tora, by the way. That was, uh, that was a banger.
I've never I've never seen clear defense of my positions
I was dope
We're gonna tell anyway, this is the show I got video that came out
Oh
Yeah, so tomorrow we're gonna walk over to beat reba
No, you're gonna meet us on
Wait, really? Wait, what?
You're gonna meet us all?
Yo, give me the fire, man!
Yo! Hey!
You don't fucking wait!
Let's go!
Let's go!
Mesa Falls are gonna get traded into the Bolivian.
Wait, wait, what?
Is it actually? No, it's not April.
Can't do that to me, man.
It's April Reals. It's happening.
April Reals.
Calm this house and I've been why are y'all talking shit? You'd be that you do the same as bullshit, okay?
Kind of nervous we're gonna meet Hassan son piker pretty excited
I got him a little souvenir. You know so you remember San Francisco our home. I'm here with Hassan my favorite street
What's up, man? What's up?
Can I get a photo with you?
Yeah, sure.
Can I do a photo with you and a photo with you in joycott?
Oh yeah, yeah.
Sounds good, sounds good.
This is a video.
I also want really, really quick,
I actually got you a gift.
What, a souvenir?
A souvenir.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
There's something small.
I was like, oh, I should have gotten one.
Yeah, you're the rich guy, what the hell?
I can't paint that.
Serendipity, unexpected cards and gifts.
There's something small.
I got you a coaster for San Francisco,
so you remember our city.
And also you could put your diet Dr. Peppers on it.
Thank you so much.
Yeah, of course, of course.
This is very thoughtful of you.
Yeah, of course, yeah.
You get a little note in here.
Yeah, read that later, also.
It's embarrassing.
Yeah, yeah.
Those guys have food.
We're actually gonna go upstairs to their spot to eat to defeat dinner and then...
Okay.
Hell yeah.
All right, let's do it.
Chef's in here.
Later in the night, we have two locations.
One is here in the bus triangle.
You talk like you're surprised you have fans.
I am.
What is this pole?
Pole, pole, pole?
What the fuck is the pole?
It's not nailed to social interaction. Well, I voted yes, but of course everyone's going to vote no because they're fucking assholes. Okay
So yeah, this was the original location
It's Palestinian
Inspired to see I'm very excited
All right a lot of people also forget that I did this after like a nine-hour broadcast
and and on top of that I did the whole like a university of San Francisco law
school speech that I did so start with the fuck you solid oh
yeah for you god damn yeah it's gonna be a smart video like a move back right
move so fast the number one person for my parents always like why are you
eating on camera and now I'm not even live and I'm still eating on camera
How are you know when some of these people over I can do them for the first part, you know, and then I think it's like
Actually explaining what I think
I'm a BCBA if you need someone to build your social skills program. What the fuck are you guys talking about man?
I'm my social skills are fine. You can do and why I'm running the first place because it's not enough and
Just go there and be like a safe progressive voter a safe blue boat
like I think the real opportunity right now there's this massive change moment. It's a bunch of popular
outrage and we could channel that into an actual political resolution. The stuff that Bernie was
talking about 2016. But that means, you know, primaring and replacing a bunch of corporate
Democrats. It means going in there and being willing to like risk your career. Oh, I'm shocked.
60% said no, I didn't nail the social interaction. And 40% said yes, I did.
Works and go to DC and leadership will dangle all these carrots in front of you to say,
Hey, if you go along with us, you'll love on the spectrum season two came out and everyone in your
TikTok comments are spamming. He nailed that social interaction.
Wait, what do you mean? Isn't that he nailed that social interaction coming from? Wasn't that Caleb
Herron? Or is that actually from love on the spectrum? I thought Caleb Herron invented that.
Yeah.
It wasn't get XYZ you'll get this committee seat you'll you know in 30 years you're gonna
be chair of something and that's why nothing changes and like yeah my chat is way too fucking
neuro atypical to be issuing judgments like this okay a lot of you are click clacking
away at your keyboards in a dark bedroom right now terrified of any sort of social interaction
with anyone that's not your mommy and you're out here talking big shit. That's crazy. That's crazy.
It's such a waste like that. Nothing's going to change that if we do that.
We're just going to end up with the same Democrats.
It's not just pure reviews party. We're going to get, you know, king bands in 2032.
and we'll have 40 years of authoritarianism in dystopia.
People are so ready for this.
Like we're living in the moment where this is possible.
So it would just kill me if like we have this moment
and we completely miss it.
That'd be wild.
I look like I'm focusing on the food
and I'm listening, okay?
I don't have the ability to focus on a million things.
Yeah, I don't know how it's gonna read on camera.
It's gonna probably look like I'm hounding this food.
just friggin pound in the falafels.
You make it harder to shoot.
Yeah, even far better than I thought it was gonna be.
Oh my God, oh my God.
Oh my God, damn, there's like a cry for you.
Right off the bone.
Oh, God.
Like, are you feeling the same?
Oh, that's fucking embarrassing.
That is fucking embarrassing, dude.
I got- God, I'm such a fucking fat ass dude, I literally got the old face, my dog has more manners, I'm over here nutting!
I said, damn, shit came off the bone.
Ah!
That's crazy, that is- oh god, that's fucked up, that is fucked up.
the thing right now around just like the moment right yes I see it every day when I go out to
protest even when I go to the new kings rallies when I went out to Minneapolis when I saw you
know 60 year old 70 year old album trees doing neighborhood watch teachers nurses retirees
everyone has that same exact resentment and I say resentment because they are resentful
They are very angry, not just at Donald Trump, but they're very angry at do-nothing Democrats.
They're very angry at business as usual politics in general.
And for the first time ever, I think the Democrats who normally vote along, not their own personal
convictions, but along like what the electability argument favors, the calculation that the
television has basically told them, they're now saying, we do believe that a Bernie
crack would be the true electable candidate. Yeah, they're becoming more risk-taking. Like I feel
like there's this sort of small risk. If I agree it's not a risk. There's a risk not to do this,
but you know for the for the average mainstream Democrat, they felt like Bernie was a risk,
but they felt like doing this kind of politics is a risk. Which is sort of funny because you
know I spent time in like Tennessee and in Texas and in some ways like the populous stuff
You can tell the guys hopelessly looking at the bird that's left and calculating how much
he can get before you finish it.
Look, he is!
He is his eyes!
His eyes!
Is I so high oh
No
Y'all are fucked up dude. That is messed up. Why are you calling me out like this man?
It's easier to get across in a Republican party like doesn't surprise me that Trump did their version of populism before the Democrats did
Right, you know I've been trying to talk to candidates who are also running around the country and people it seems different like when I do injustice Democrats
Like most of the candidates we were talking to who weren't
Candidates we had recruited
Still kind of in the mode of like, you know, how can you help me raise money?
It was just my best of stuff you got to do in the campaign, but now some of the people I've talked to
They really want to what to do like what are we gonna do and we're in Congress?
And I'm hoping that that like we got to build a relationship before we go in because I saw how like
When you go in there, if you try to do it after you get elected leadership picks your part
They lie they do everything they can to make that not work. No, I
Was sure I got broke buddy. Have you noticed that's not autism? Okay
That's because I was literally locked in on the food
food. And I was eating like my life depended on it. I was eating like I would never have
food ever again that I'd never had food before that moment. And I was there's not a single
moment where I'm not looking at either what's going in my mouth or what's coming next. Okay.
I was looking at the only time where I was not looking directly at my fork was when I was
Thinking about what I was gonna put in my mouth next
But um, but I haven't had as many in-depth conversations. That's probably you had
Oh my god
Thank you.
You see, I'm popping a peek at what his food looks like to me.
Look.
No manners.
I told you.
No.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I told you, the whole thing top such a fucking little piggy dude.
I was looking at his food.
Oh no!
F**k!
Oh Jesus Christ.
Uh huh.
Uh huh.
I- I- In the moment.
I- In the moment I'm not even kidding.
In the moment, I was thinking like,
You think it's fucked up if I asked to try his food?
Are you gonna eat that?
Look, I gave a second look.
Well, it wasn't enough.
I did another drive by.
Look, look, look while I'm putting the food in my mouth.
Oh.
Oh, that's so fucked up.
Oh, my God.
I can't ever do that.
I can't ever do a video like this ever again.
Oh my god, that's fucked up
I wanted to get this because it's a gauzin I don't I'm Turkish we have almost identical food
I mean at Palestine was under the Ottoman Empire's protectorate for the longest time
So our food and our shared cultures is very similar.
Foreign policy is always such a tough thing to to forefront in like domestic politics.
But now this war in Iran is...
Look, look, look.
Look. Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
He's explaining stuff to me.
And I'm looking at more food.
Oh my God.
Oh
No
Oh god, oh
No
Someone said bro, you're the new Anthony Bourdain. No motherfucker. I can't be cuz it's clear
clear is clear that I don't have the the composure and the self restraint to be able to conduct
myself in an appropriate manner when we're doing videos like this.
Fun of mine and everyone knows how much money we're blowing on it and it's just like and
everything you're and like the price of gas is going up which is making a very fun
center for people. And so like, I think there's this huge opportunity to get a bunch of people
elected who are just going to break this bipartisan consensus for war in DC, because people actually
care about it right now, which is not a normal thing. It's like a one potential silver lining
out of all of it. It came out in the New York Times report earlier today that- Stop looking at the
food. Stop looking at the food. Stop looking at the food. Stop looking at the food. Stop
stop looking at the food. Oh my God. Oh my God. I never stop. I never break eye contact
with the food.
Trump actually wants to expand the military budget to $1.5 trillion. And he immediately
immediately one look and then back to the food. Like it's not going anywhere. Hasan, it's
not going anywhere. The food is right there in front of you, man. Stop trying to make
a calculated decision on whether or not you need to eat more.
Oh, that's going to go to the midterms with that message that like we just need to
Expand the military budget and we need to do austerity here
Which is psychotic. I mean I genuinely think like if I were to invent a
Secret agent that wants to undermine American imperialism it would look like Donald Trump
It would do the things that Donald Trump is doing that is one of the conspiracy theories
Yeah, like be like super vulgar about it, you know
say the quiet part out a lot all the time.
It's like, yeah, I'm gonna go kill people for oil.
Also, none of that, none of those revenues
are gonna come back to you, actually.
It's gonna go to all my best friends
because we're all corrupt.
We're all super corrupt
and we love manipulating the market
and I'm gonna keep manipulating the market.
There's nothing you can do about it.
I'm gonna sell a shit coin.
First thing I'm gonna do before I become president
and it's unbelievable.
Like, I mean, he still has a cult,
which to give him credit, like, that's impressive.
Hey, it was incredible so good everybody come visit Bayremo 138 Church
The Boast Triangle. Come see us. This food is delicious. It's so good. It's my
favorite spot in the city. Thank you guys. Good luck to you. Thank you. Thank you.
And you great work. Oh, thank you. I watch you all the time.
Hell yeah.
You have.
I saw a bigger, I saw a bigger freak out.
Whoa, what the hell?
I saw a bigger freak out backfire spectacularly on a secular talk.
It is a full blown meltdown over a song.
There's another one.
Also on secular talk.
But we got the mother Jones if you're going to watch his forces in this country are screaming
from the rooftops and they chose the issue of Israel to attack me on, which is the most
like base uniting position.
Oh, here is the Emerson clip.
By the way, let's see how did I have to say it's appearance with the Sampire impact
is Michigan Senate.
Chances.
Polster explains in recent months over statements and actions in relation to his campaign.
recently, he has received criticism over his decision to campaign with political commentator
Hassan Piker. But based on the numbers that we're seeing out of this poll here, it doesn't really
seem like that's impacting him in a negative way at all. No, it does not. So what I will say is that
he has built the support with voters who are under the age of 50 broadly. Now, that is going
to be important. And we do think that this is going to be a younger electorate. But with
that said, older voters are almost always going to be a more surefire bet in a primary electorate.
So all things considered, you know, I would really rather be McMorrow and gaining some of those older
voters rather than being completely dependent on younger voters who aren't necessarily going to
turn out and hire numbers. We do expect that they will be higher than years past, but we don't
know that they're going to be enough to put else. I had over the top, but to your point,
we absolutely do not see any sort of backlash as of yet to his campaigning with the Sondpiker.
Yeah. They're right. They're right. Older voters are the most reliable voters. Let's
be real. Come on. How many old people do you know? How many old people you know they
vote like is there is their passion, bro? They vote like it's the only thing keeping
them alive. Like they, they cling on to voting. They cling on to the, to the capacity to vote
more than they cling on the life at times. They love voting and they fucking oftentimes
love voting for the worst candidates. Right? I mean, they fucking love to vote for like
whoever is going to ensure that their grandchildren never get to retire and will
probably die in a, you know, hellfire damnation that the world will turn into because of the
antivirus and climate change decisions that they voted in the office. So,
you know, we got to get those olds on board. And you got to play a role in that, too. You
You got to get your olds in your life to turn around and, what is this?
You got to get those olds in your life to turn around and go vote for Abdul El Sayed.
I'm going to stop you right there.
Millions of the highest turnout demographic for Zoran.
We can do this.
No, we still need the olds too.
I saw a hundred and seven year old woman talking about always voting for Trump.
We need to cut off.
I agree.
They took a 90-10 issue and chose to be on the, you know, 10% side of this 90-10 issue.
I have just woken up, as you can tell.
The soundpikers name has been everywhere lately.
Not for winning an election, not for passing legislation, not for doing anything really,
except for yapping.
And depending on who you ask, he's either one of the most dangerous voices in American
politics or one of the most honest.
Hassan is among one of the biggest voices on the American left.
His megaphone is a Twitch stream where he spends about 8 hours a day, 7 days a week
breaking down political news to an audience that skews young and male.
And if you listen to him long enough, you can see why.
He's blunt, if not crass.
He toes the line between relatable and aspirational.
He's deeply influential.
And of course, he's controversial.
This is a thug, this is an extremist, this is an advocate for terrorism.
Which is...
Wait, Carl Rove?
What the fuck?
Why some factions of the Democratic Party have been beefing with him for the like...
Bro, Fox News has done so much coverage on me, I didn't even know Carl Rove talked about...
Tocque talked about me.
Carl Rove called me a fucking thug, I mean I am, thug life, but like that's crazy.
That's crazy that car...
Oh Jesus Christ.
That's a few weeks.
to off-color comments he's made over the years. I sat down with Hassan Piker to talk about exactly
that. We talked about why Fox News can't stop covering him, the ideological battles inside the
Democratic Party, what he really thinks about Israel, and what, if anything, the Democrats
could do to earn his vote in 2028. This is my chat. Yeah, bro. Actually, low-curgan honor.
If a Fox News commentator calls you a thug, that's an automatic invite to the cookout,
right like that's because we all know what that's a substance what that's a
substitute for like word-wise like maybe half an invite with the son piker
enjoy son piker thank you so much for this is an
An unfucking believable photo that they somehow edited to what the hell what the hell oh my
God oh my God bro looking like Kevin Jones.
it made you look a little zesty. Bro, this is like my worst haters would not have done
this to me in the time.
Thank you for having me. This is exciting. I'm a big fan of your work. Oh, thank you.
Very excited to be on. Thank you, man. Thank you. I really do appreciate that. Well, I
guess this is an interesting way to start, which is that you talk a lot, man. Like,
you talk like respectfully, right? You taught this is the job. But I wonder what do
What do you think has contributed the most to your current position in the national media
spotlight?
I already kind of give you a few options.
I think obviously the out of context clip economy is an option here.
Maybe you talk about Israel and Palestine and progressive things and conservative things.
But what would you say has kind of put you a new form of censorship is making you
look less hot.
Michael Perente didn't consider this true.
That's how you disparate the center of the empire.
discourse. I mean, it's hard to figure out exactly what is the highest offense because I, you know,
I have an anti-imperialist framework. I'm socialist. These are not exactly ideas that a lot of people
are fond of hearing, especially, you know, corporate-backed mainstream institutions.
And then my position on Israel, of course, is also very frustrating for a lot of people.
But I would say that the fact that I speak on a contentious format that is very interactive on
polarizing issues from a perspective that is of the left, a perspective that many Americans are
either unfamiliar with or taught to be antagonistic towards, you know, combine all of that. And
of course, you're going to have an inevitability such as this, I guess on a personal level,
how are you processing like the onslaught of criticism? I mean, we'll get into the politics
of it all in a bit, but I'm curious how you're doing personally. This isn't the
first one, but but this one's been maybe a bit different, which you agree talking politics
This is my passion. Ha ZZZ. Yeah, bro. That was for LA times. That was, I had slept for
like two hours the night prior and I was up at like, that was like 6am or something LA
time. All right.
Yeah, but it's been different, not in a negative way. It's actually been quite positive.
I don't yeah chat has been on my ass today, bro. Y'all are on my ass. Oh, it's on. Why are you so fat?
Oh, it's not why you look so old with your beard. Oh, it's on. Why do you sound so sleepy?
So fuck is this find these last couple of weeks? I mean, I find it strange that it's been going on for the best couple of weeks
Nothing goes on for more than four days in America in our current news cycle. This has been the most
resilient thing and I think it's partially because you know I'm I'm live
all the time so I'm obviously gonna get fucked every single day as they have
been they've been updating their new the R&C research department is cost
Hassan piker will kill billions if we let him that's fucking awesome
I mean, true, the only posting new clips of me every day I even joked about it at the Yale Union last night where I was like, you know, today we're going to talk about the resolution in the American Empire.
And then tomorrow your grandparents are going to hear about it on Fox News, which is literally happening right now.
So I guess that's a big part of it as well some maybe some Republicans think this is a great
Opportunity to like tie someone that they consider to be radical to the Democratic Party so they can attack the Democratic Party
And then there's plenty of right-wing forces in the Democratic Party who also recognize that there's like an ideological battle
within the party itself
the idea that we talk about with like big tent or you know who's in the tent what
not all this stuff actually is a pretty basic spiritual fight that the
Democrats have conducted and the centers have successfully defeated the left
flank over and over again up until recently that's the that's that's the
heart of it could you name that spiritual fight like what are the two
sides of that fight. This dude really watching himself? True.
What is this? Twitter live talking about how global is
intifada from the river to the sea.
Blank slate. When you're legitimate, when you're
legitimizing globalizing intifada, running a movement
that legitimizes you as state, it becomes personal, all
Jewish voters. There are around 300,000 Jewish voters
in PA, 100K in Michigan, 50K, 30K, 125K GA, 85K
Arizona they matter in states that matter too. He's not Jewish for anyone wondering.
Wait. Just a quick question. Are you Jewish? No, but my first preschool was at a Jewish
community center, winky face. He said, I'm Jewish. Like George Santos. All right, dude,
I'm actually tired as fuck though. I'm not going to lie. Although I, um, although I started
this process of watching myself and I do recommend you guys watching some mother
Jones been out for only about for three hours and it's only got a thousand views
go show us some love I am I have a event that I must attend later in the day so
I'm doing half day Hossie time six hours 20 minutes you already know what's up
but I'll be back tomorrow as always you want to watch a new avatar let me
know if you need a link is it because we made fun of you no what if I quit the
stream because my channel economy I wouldn't ever stream ever again
alright everybody love you all like I said I got an event to go to tonight but
I'll see you tomorrow peace
All the chatter's trickling in, I'll sell people hay
Sonny in Los Angeles, California says her son
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Cause there is again a sun is streaming, a sun is streaming
There is again a sun is streaming, a sun is streaming
Reveal what a Chinese train, Ten-kai-a-place.
Sun in as many chattel-loves, Giving grinning's grace.
Zoram winning and Waisting, Walked two back with the force.
Broken of the left to me, a dumb gimbal still on course
A child of Kirk, a assassination, a fear and a light show
Eight full fucking years of this, and plenty more to go
Doing fun stuff tomorrow, throw PBS up on the screen
A man made her reaction brought to you by this life's dream
Cause there he is again, a son is streaming
A son is streaming
There he is again, a son is streaming
A son is streaming
Can't doubt in the DNC, I rel-en-march the goat.
Commending the propaganda, the chock-down people's throats.
CBS Israeli news, a coup, a regime falls.
A full bomb fascist takeover and still the duty calls
Total radicalization coming out to sea
The system where he'll always fail, it's up to you and me
All these daily streets, whether short or whether long,
have helped millions of people keep it moving right along.
Cause there he is again, a son is streaming, a son is streaming
There he is again, a son is streaming, a son is streaming
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