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Which streamer doesn't even try to hide it?
24-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.
Breckett even 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.
He's not out there on Hassan Piker's show, right?
For example, right?
The man to his left is a very controversial guy.
Hassan Piker insults just about everyone.
Or if you go back and listen to some of the things
that he says, Carl, this guy's not gonna wear well.
Their so-called Joe Rogan of the left, Hassan Piker,
is back in the headlines this time
for calling Republicans terrorists.
Piker has a controversial history,
and we've been showing 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, Hasan Piker.
They should stay away from him.
What's going on, everybody?
I hope I was having a fantastic evening, afternoon,
pre-due, no matter where you are in the world.
I'm Hasan Piker, and this is Oz and I'm Brooke,
has come to you live from sunny, well, not so sunny,
a little bit gloomy California Los Angeles folks
were alive and alive.
And I hope all the boys, girls and enemies
are having a fantastic one
because today is a beautiful day.
Today is a wonderful day.
Today is Tuesday.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen.
It is
Newsday,
Tuesday.
It is April, Tuesday, April 21st, 2026.
1135 AM Pacific. I'm a little late and I apologize at a long conversation with an interesting
outlet that I think will be very, very fun to read later down the line. And also the
angry responses that that will create will also have reverberations across time. But
But in any case, I'm live.
I'm alive.
And this is part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news about what's
going on in the world of a song house on every piker in between the time period where I press
the stop streaming button and press the start streaming button.
So help me God.
That's what I'm going to do.
There's a small delay in the audio.
I don't believe you.
I've been seeing.
HasunaB, it's oddly impressive how you barely touch video games, yet when you do, you play
like you've been secretly training for years.
There's no build up, no struggle, just quiet efficient skill that feels almost misplaced.
You don't even seem that invested, which somehow makes it more impressive and slightly
confusing to witness.
You're not just good at gaming, M-dash.
You're great.
Chat GPT, really?
We're doing Chat GPT now?
We're doing Chat GPT shitposts?
That's where we're at.
We're doing AI-generated glaze?
That's crazy.
That's crazy.
That's unbelievable.
AI-generated glaze ahead of time for gaming?
Later down the line?
Wow.
Wow. Flattery gets you everywhere chat. It's you everywhere. Anyway, um, where was I? Oh
yeah, personal news wise, um, you know, everyone's favorite shut as loser ended the broadcast
last night and at the broadcast last night and what did I do? I watched beef season 2
and I'm loving it. It's really good. I like it a lot and I have been enjoying it quite
a bit. Great hair today too. Well, let me just fuck it up for you real quick. I'm gonna flip
it. I'm gonna flip it to the other side. It like freaks me out because this camera is
mirrored, and it just like messes me up if my hair is not, if my hair is not looking normal.
So I just, I just fucking ruined it. You say great hair today, King? Well, guess what?
Now it's not great hair.
Don't touch it again.
No, this camera is mirrored or maybe not mirrored. I don't know the way I see myself in the mirror
Oh
Or all the f's you or me
It's me. No, I'm kidding. It's you. Yeah, I'm watching beef season two is pretty good
I am enjoying it and enjoying it quite a bit
intro song low on energy and weak on crime just like the Pope um yeah did you buy your rotisserie
chicken today yes always look at that look at the little baby you're not just maga cattle m-dash
you're the best voter i've ever seen and yes you are defending your country from mexicans
Where was I? Where was I? Yeah. So watch beef went to bed, woke up early, hit the weights.
You already know what it is. And if you recall, I talked about how I played basketball, like
a little bit of basketball, not even a lot of basketball, but a little bit of basketball
on Sunday and instantly knee pain, back pain, instant, it just instantly came back and it's
unbelievable. Okay. Yes, I'm old, I'm fat, I'm a chud, I'm a chud ass loser. This is
how it is. It's a, I'm elderly. I'm basically on the verge of death and there's not really
anything else I could do about it. It's just who I am now. It's unbelievable, but sorry,
almost laid blast offs here. Thank you. You aren't just old. You're pushing 40. Shut
up. Yeah. Any travel plans? Yes. New York. Some other secret places that I haven't gone
to yet, but we'll, uh, that you'll see when I get there.
I don't want to reveal it ahead of time.
Uh, Philly, Chris, Rab, that's going to be another one.
Maybe the Bernard rally in Michigan.
You know, there's a lot.
There's a lot of travel on the docket.
There is a lot of travel on the docket.
So get excited for that in any case, in any case,
folks, folks, folks, uh, Brazil, there might be Brazil. Yeah, I might do Brazil. Uh, another
Canada, Canada trip as well in the works. Okay. Just, just you wait. Just you wait. Um,
going international. This dang show is going on the road.
Why did you say this? What did I say? Very hard to top this Titan, but I'm the man to do it. It's
true. I can top them. Yeah, a lot going on in the world, but the reason why I'm late is because I
did an interview, a long interview, much longer than it was supposed to be. And yeah, so that's
the reason why I'm delayed. But we're live in a live regardless. Let's take a look. Trump expects
great deal with Iran. C's fire ends today. Labor secretary at Purg modulator chat advice on Thursday.
You know, we got a lot to cover. We got a lot of grounds to cover. Get in now.
Twitch.tv slash Hassan Abbey. Meetup with Lula like Michael Brooks, potentially. We could do that.
We could do that. We can have a lula meetup
Okay
Day 11 of chatting every day until it's on interviews. You're only whale and running for Congress and this you want an MA. Okay, dude
Dude, there's there's too many. There's too many. There's too many
There's too many congresspersons that you want me to interview. There's too many congresspersons that I'm already interviewing. Okay, please
Please, please, please enough.
Here we go, we're blasting off.
We're blasting off, let the people know.
Did they, did you see they got you
with the Stanley Cup playoffs?
You could park a Chevy Suburban
in each one of PK Subbins leg pants right now.
That's insane.
Yo, respect, respect for the big pants guys, okay?
respect. Keeping the big paint game alive. That's important for me. This is a big movement
for me. You already know, you already know what it is.
Subban, not subbing. All right, whatever.
Someone with social media post this, I have none. Clip is choice. What is this?
feels almost misplaced. You don't even seem that invested which okay, the onion does it
again. Yeah, this is trouble in. Okay, we'll look at that in a second. But SpongeBob big
guy pants. Okay, yeah, it's just sucks that the big guy pants are going away when the
song came out. I am noticing that the song came out and the big guy pants all of a sudden
fell out of favor, you know. What is this? Had the pleasure of talking about the rises
arm. I'm down in a Sompiker in the EU parliament today. Wait, what? What the hell? Also, the
The fit goes crazy. The fit goes crazy. Let's go. EU Parliament is going to freak the fuck
out. They, they ain't never seen a white boy with that kind of Chinese swag before. Okay.
They never seen this. Stop spamming. That's my job. Dripped out the wazoo Eric. God damn.
He made a video about the Uighur. That's really good. Not sure if you watched it. I have not.
Oh yeah. Etch-a-lon insights dropped the poll and they fucking put me on the poll, which
is crazy. Okay. New national poll dropped and they added me into the poll. Apparently,
uh, we're going to be taking a look at that. Obviously April, 20, 20, six verified voter
omnibus, new national poll dropped to some piker at minus eight AOC at minus four, Josh
Ashapura, plus seven Israel at plus two Israel at plus two, hmm, uh, 51% of Dems say leaders
should condemn your views. 30% say you're an asset. 68% of Dems wants socialism, most
confusing poll of all time. Hmm. They slandered you as well. I don't know. I don't know what
But this just came out. I didn't see it, but it's a wonderful bro fell off. Yes. 79% of
Democrats don't know who the fuck I am. And also the respondents want Kamala Harris. It's
a majority of Harris Shapiro, Buttigieg and Newsom voters that were polled. Yeah. Trump
seems like he wants the Dems to win at this point.
Look at the cross tabs. That's why they blasted you on Fox News to make you look bad on national
polls? Yeah. And of course, there wasn't, you know, I mean, look, the people that obviously
look at these polls are the very same people that are like, I think Kamala Harris will win the next
election. Okay. Oh my God, Bowdoin College, if you Apex Twizy, please, we get it. You're doing
great work for Bowdoin Socialists, okay? I swear to God they're gonna end your chapter.
They're gonna end your chapter. They're gonna stop the Bowdoin Socialism movement because of you,
single-handedly, okay? Single-handedly, everything that you've done is going to cause
was socialism to end in Bowdoin College.
Identify as conservative, 37 as liberal, 32.
Anyway.
Yeah, these are some of the, we'll look at this poll in a second. We'll look at this
poll in a second. Yeah, the word on the street is I'm both washed. Word on the street is
I'm both disliked intensely and also no one has ever heard of me or have no opinion of
me, okay? And yet, the very same people that are apparently running this poll, there's
a 68% of Democrats are like, I love socialism, I want socialism, I'm a socialist myself except
I hate all of the closest associations to socialist politics from Democrats like AOC.
And I also despise the Sompiker.
They want socialism, and they also are plus two on Israel.
I love socialism.
I hate AOC.
I love Josh Shapiro.
That's the...
When you look at the crosstabs, you're about 50-50 among Dems, but twice as many Republicans
know who you are and hate you, yeah.
I welcome their hatred. Okay, we'll look at this. We'll look at this in a second. Yeah,
the truest expression of American politics is the labor Zionist. That's why Bernie is
the most popular politician in the country.
There's also an indictment of how little people watch major media nowadays. Lamal because
how much of them supposedly watch major media people?
Yeah, yeah, the congresswoman resigned. Mark Levin and Alan Dershuas talked about you on the radio.
Dersh compared you to Goebbels?
Many of the others.
What do you make about the fact this has sound piker?
Oh, Jesus Christ, dude, dude, that's a fucking unbelievable. All right, well, well, we'll
get into that in a second. Jesus Christ, dude. Yeah, you, you love, I love being acknowledged
by my goats, you know, the goats, the true goats of American politics. Okay. Mark Levin
and Alan the Dersh, Dershowitz. Wow. What a time to be alive, folks. What a time to be
alive, you know, just in time, just in time to get mentioned by the Dersh, who seemingly
has left the Democratic plantation. Okay. Once again, as a lifelong Democrat, this is,
I believe the seventh time that Alan, the Dershowitz has left the democratic plantation.
I like that he just keeps writing this exact same article. What will we do? What will anybody
do without the Dershowitz?
Jeffrey Epstein guy, Alan Dershowitz, the pedophile lawyer.
Why does R slash 538, hey you, they posted the echelon insights poll, but didn't post
the data for progress one, are all polling bros moderates?
Buddy, you went to the Reddit, you went to a sub Reddit that is designed around Nate
Silver's operation 538. Of course it's going to have some of the most like unvarnished neoliberal
thought. These guys are holding on. They're carrying the flame of neoliberalism. The only people that's
still unironically abide by the gospel of neoliberalism are the people on subreddits like that.
Yeah. What's next dude? You went to r slash Israel and they had a unfavorable opinion
of me. Wow. Hey man, I went into the comment section of Fox news and they had a really,
really negative opinion of you. What's that about? Yeah. Blast off. I already blasted
off. Okay, that's good. That's a good blast off for later. If I do play pragmatic, anyway,
where was I? All right, well, let's get started on that. Let's get started on that. Let's get
started on this echelon insights poll, uh, that Donald Trump's job approval stands at
42% approved, 57% disapprove.
I must read by the Democratic majority for Israel.
That's so funny.
I've warned Democrats for months about Hassan Piker's efforts to insert himself into our
party.
Read my op-ed in the Washington Post about why the normalization of Piker with the Democratic
party is a mistake.
And it's one that Democrats cannot afford to make
It's just there is there's nothing funnier to me than like guys that have no fucking motion whatsoever
The echelon cross tabs are so funny you have one positive demographic and that's moms of kids under 18 where your plus six truth nuke
Let's go
That's what I'm talking about, dude. That's what I'm talking about. I don't like to be
perceived this much. And, uh, lately I've been getting perceived quite a bit. Okay.
I've been getting perceived, uh, an unbelievable amount and I don't like it, but I'll take
it. Why are they treating and mentioning you like someone who has been in the Epstein
files are a terrorist, because from the perspective of, of, of the super wealthy in this country
that want to keep their stranglehold on American politics, uh, on both parties, specifically
a democratic party, I am basically a terrorist. That's their attitude. Their attitude towards
me is if you're Israel first, if you want to maintain America's relationship with Israel,
then I'm, you know, I'm more dangerous than a terrorist because they look at someone like
myself and they think oh dude he's convincing people to like sever ties with Israel that's we have to take care of him
from
From the from the perspective of people who are like no we can't have Medicare for all otherwise
It will destroy our profit margins for the health care for the for-profit health care industry. Then yeah, I am a genuine threat
I am a genuine fucking threat
So that's the reason why and that's why they're treating me like this
Anyway people are saying United States are headed in the wrong track 60% right direction 34 unsure of 6%
Let's you know what let me just fucking download this okay
Okay. Open this file in Chrome and let's take a look at it in Chrome. Do you have a favorable
or unfavorable view of the following groups or individuals that have been in the news
lately? Okay.
Hassan Piker is 7% favorable, 15% unfavorable. Okay.
American Israel Public Affairs Committee, 18% favorable, 25% unfavorable.
I wonder what the cross does of this look like. Tucker Carlson, 22% favorable, 49% unfavorable.
Candice almost 18% favorable, 35% unfavorable. Megan Kelly, 22 to 38. Donald Trump, 42 to
57.
Now, this is, yeah, this is basically what the smear campaign did, right? And what the
smear campaign did. First, they run a multi-million, two-week negative PR campaign against you
in the media. Then they drop a poll to show how bad you are. Yeah. All the shows, in my
opinion, all the shows is that like, for the people that respond to polls like this, like
the older voters, there's still a decent amount of people who appreciate what I'm doing.
And I suspect that this is both Republicans and Democrats. So most Democrats don't know
who I am slash don't have a, I assume a 50-50 breakdown, but Republicans probably know who
I am by wider margins and don't like me at all, especially considering that, you know,
the commentary on the Fox News side has been relentless.
So under normal circumstances, when Republicans attack this hard, Democrats and liberal outlets
are supposed to defend. But because liberal outlets also don't defend, I am in this unique
predicament where I am an island, where it's just the independent media that defends me
every now and then and nobody else. Like the, the allies that I have are on the independent
side, on left media side, but mainstream media wise, uh, I don't have a lot of, you know,
I don't have a lot of allies like Dana Bash, Jake Tapper, like they're not going to do
coverage that defends me. Right. It's just not going to happen.
You were introduced as a Hamas lover in this poll. That's pretty funny. Um, do you approve
disprove the way Donald Trump is handling the economy? Do you approve or disapprove? Where are
the fucking polls? Where are the questions about me?
Control F. Hasan Piker is a popular progressive online consumer who is
was hosted democratic politicians. He said America deserve 9 11 Hamas better than Israel
and bemoan the collapse of the Soviet Union because it made America's global power uncontested
and resulted in humanitarian crises based on what you know about her son, Piker.
Wait, even with his views are antithetical to what most Democrats believe in party leaders
should say so. Even if I disagree with some of his views, he reaches new audiences and
and helps Democrats and defeat the MAGA, right? 21%. I agree with his views and he's an asset
to the Democratic party, 9%. Unsure, 19%. Brother, that is the pushiest of all push polls that
I have ever fucking heard of.
How is that a question, dude? Passan Piker has said every American should be shot and
killed. What do you think about his worldview? That's awesome. That flaming is awesome.
That flaming is crazy. They're basically saying Hassan Piker is Hamas.
This guy is evil. Do you like evil? How much do you like evil?
Yeah, Hassan Piker has said you. Yes, you. The person who responded to this poll right
right now must die. What do you think about that? That's awesome. I mean, like I said,
I don't like to be perceived, but goddamn, we have, we've had a, we've had a week more
proved they see you as a very legitimate threat. Yeah. Tommy Vitor interviewed Elon Goldenberg
of J Street and Hassan, the wait, I came up again and again and again. Where is it? Where
Where's the Tommy Vitor conversation? Oh, is this the guy? Damn, Jay Street or my ops too?
Type in needs for the socialism poll. Okay, hold on. We'll look at this.
Which political direction do you think Democrats need to move to win the next presidential election?
to the center politically. Again, 42%. Okay, dude. Democrats need to be more or less combative
against Donald Trump. Much more combative, 86%. Democratic socialism, where the government
can be relied on to provide basic needs is the best way to build an equitable economy and society.
68%. What the fuck is happening, dude? Which of the following statements do you agree with more?
Everyone is like, everyone is like, no, we love democratic socialism. That's the best.
What is this poll, man? The median voter is so unbelievably insane. Like,
that's not really a description of socialism, though. That's like modern liberalism or social
democracy. I mean, it doesn't matter. It's like, why are they writing about democratic socialism
in a favorable manner that is like appealing to as broad an audience as possible?
Like they did the reversal to someone like myself where they're like, people love democratic
socialism and hate Hassan, Piker, he's dangerous and scary.
You're polling at minus eight, not minus 8% in my eight person reading group for your
information.
Thank you.
Yeah, we must move to the center, fight Donald Trump viciously and also advance American
democratic socialism. The American mind is an enigma, okay? It is impossible to understand
the median voter. That's why I say, just keep pushing your values over and over again and,
you know, just say the truth. And eventually, people will understand where you're coming from.
Rose meet stays in the Midas mouth. Wait, what? In the Midas mouth. Oh, the media's mouth. Why am I
reading it like that? John thinks the Einstein piece corrected the record. Yeah. I don't know why
he said that, especially considering that I texted him personally. He was like, he, he, he was like,
yeah, I did my own research afterwards. None of the things that I said about Einstein was wrong.
I appreciate the thoughtful criticism. I wrote him a longer response because arguing on here is done,
but just summarized good correctives. The Einstein story that I fully admit to not knowing in advance, though
I'm not sure the full details changes on his broader critique of Zionism in a meaningful way.
Whether or not you agree with it, if I had another hour or so on,
I absolutely would have focused on a shine on Russia views,
but thought it was more valuable in this particular discussion to dig on the controversy at hand
than to do a quicker drive-by on all his views and statements. But again, genuinely appreciate Yair's take.
I think fair enough to critique regarding the new medium and incentives, though I would have also argued that many of those incentives exist for columnists and existed even pre-internate age and that the distinction between capital R reporters and columnists is an important one.
Okay. Ben Rhodes spent two hours on foreign policy, including Cuba, Russia, China and Taiwan with Assad. Yeah, that's like another, you know, that's another side of this as well.
You've had a son, Piker, in a crooked media park, seven times and not once you've brought
up his liberal authoritarianism.
It's like, yeah, you know what's really funny about these guys?
My position's on Crimea.
Do you want to know the most popular American politician who had the exact same position
on Crimea?
It was Barack Hussein Obama who happens to be the Pajons' former boss.
Okay?
what a lot of these liberals once again going back to the median voter who
doesn't understand
what they're fucking saying
uh... who
are lost in the sauce for their like all we want to advance democratic
socialism but also we want to you know moved to the center
is that
they all love brago barma
and and
brock obama's assessment was identical at the time where it was like what are we
supposed to go to fucking war with russia because like
uh... they they uh... annex cry mea
uh... in an effort to to maintain the subostapal base that they have like
he chose not to agitate further in that instance
okay
is so crazy and i'd make a very specific distinction between crime yet and uh...
what russia has done
uh... since then but people seemingly find that to be
uh... you know
uh... you unbelievably uh... on a dot putler's camp or something
What was the Einstein Correction?
The Einstein Correction is that Albert Einstein,
a Yale Rosenberg made it seem like Albert Einstein,
I covered it yesterday.
He made it seem like Albert Einstein was like super on board
with what everything the early Zionist movement was doing.
And talked about extensively the first 20 years
of Albert Einstein's assessment on Zionism,
which I wasn't talking about at all.
I was talking about like Einstein's perspective on Zionism,
which would be considered like dangerous and scary by today's standards, okay?
Yeah, Einstein had a bit more favorable view of Israel than a 30-second clip may have suggested.
Yeah, but even in that 30-second clip, I'm saying that with today's standards,
like my assessment on Zionism and Einstein's assessment or his warnings on Zionism,
where not all that far apart, it's just true, you know?
Like his warnings, his warnings after the initial atrocities
in like 1946 and in 1947 that led to the development
the development of the nation state of Israel was that these guys were behaving and they were behaving like fascists
He signed off on a letter that said as much, you know, he has at times critiqued
What Ergun was doing specifically menachem begging coming to the United States of America
he signed off on a letter that that said like this guy is you know repulsive and
And it's so over. What do you mean? Yeah, it's just, it's very, it's, it's very funny that, like,
uh, Yari Rosenberg's like, I wrote my, my undergraduate thesis on this. And then he just
like fails to address the point that I was making at all.
It may be that their thoughts on the Democrat Party moving to the center might be because
the media voters think they're grifted to the right too much? No. Wasn't the main correction
that he wasn't asked to be the first, but instead the second president of Israel? Yeah,
I think that's what it was. Yeah, I got that wrong. The American people want cultural,
social conservatism and economic socialism. They want the aesthetics of the Brady Bunch.
That's what their good old days are. Mind you, it's mostly white people. Yeah, Einstein
would be pro-modern Israel take gives the same energies Republican saying MLK would have been a January 6. Yeah, exactly
Exactly
Not that it fucking matters at the end of the day in Einstein's letters
He would be like it's so cool what Israel is doing and I hope they don't do Nazi stuff
No, he was like, I'm worried that they're doing, you know, Nazi stuff and also we can't do that kind of stuff
We you know, we're Jewish
the Holocaust happened. What are you guys talking about? Like, you know, I don't know what he was
saying at the time, but, you know, something along those lines, he was like, this is, you know,
we need to do, you know, free immigration into this territory and have a commitment to, like,
binational state where we have to play nice with the Arab inhabitants of the land directly at odds
with the attitude represented by Zionists initially, which was, this is a land without people for a people without land.
You feel me?
Yeah, he was very specifically opposed to an ethno-state, which is what Zionism has created.
created. So I don't know, I don't know where the fuck people were coming from, you know?
Yeah, Einstein was for a secular state that allowed open immigration for Jews, but didn't care if the majority was Palestinian.
Any modern person who says they want a state that has no demographic majority, Jewish population would be considered anti-Zionist.
Exactly. That is the main point of contention. That's why they keep yelling as Zoram Mdani, too.
It's very frustrating. Anyway, it's not like Einstein is like, you know, the, like, you have to agree or disagree with Einstein or whatever.
There's plenty of intelligent people that had the wrong assessment on Israel at the time as well. MLK was one of them, right?
Ultimately, ultimately it doesn't matter. I was just using that as a complementary assessment
to my worldview that a lot of people get frustrated by Einstein and post-Zionist colonization
of Palestine and predicted the current catastrophe. Yeah, when a real and final catastrophe should
befall us in Palestine, the first responsible for it would be the British and the second
responsible for it would be the terrorist organizations built up from our own ranks.
I am not willing to see anybody associated with those misled and criminal people.
A few weeks before the creation of the State of Israel, Shepard Rifkin, a New York based
representative of the Stern Group, a Zionist paramilitary organization founded in the Manitoured
Palestine, requested that representatives of the group meet with Albert Einstein in
the United States.
The greatest Jewish figure of the time, according to the journalist I.F. Stone, Einstein's response
was unequivocal. Yeah. And I literally said it in that conversation as well. If you listen,
I chose my words very carefully. The only thing I got wrong was the idea that Einstein
because the invited to be the first president. That's not the case. I guess it was the second.
And it's so funny. It's so funny to like, you know, take a look at this, this statement
and be like, no, he would love modern Israel. Like, what do you mean? Can't you tell he
He definitely wants a, he definitely cares about the demographic concerns to make sure
that there's a Jewish ethno-state.
It's just ridiculous, it's, you know, it's ironic that the people that are claiming that
I'm bastardizing Einstein's perspective, Yair Rosenberg said that, are the ones who are
literally messaging the are the ones who are literally the shopping up his the
the totality of his assessment to imply that he would be in favor of the modern
state of Israel he would just see through the complex cities and the nuances
and still end up on the side of it's good that there is a a fascist state
advancing the fascist cause of maintaining a Jewish majority ethno-state
that's like dominating the Arab inhabitants of the land which is
something that he was against.
Why did Einstein refuse the presidency of Israel by Princeton alumni weekly? The
article One Jews Journey starts to comment from David Banker and the first
prime minister of Israel met with Einstein and Princeton hoping to convince
the venerable scientist to be the first president of his to be the president of
Israel Einstein refused the quotes below might give us on clues why he refused
in a December 4th 1984 letter to the New York Times Einstein among other 28
prominent members of the Jewish community wrote that the then current
Israeli political party the freedom party led by menachembein was a political
party closely akin to its organization methods political philosophy and social
appeal to the Nazis and the fascist parties it is inconceivable that those
Those who oppose fascism throughout the world have correctly informed us that Mr. Beggin's
political record and perspectives could add their names and support their movement he
represents.
Referring to the massacre of Arabs in Jews in the village of Deir Yassin, the letter said,
the Jewish terrorists, far from being ashamed of their act, were proud of this massacre,
publicized it wisely, widely.
The Deir Yassin incident exemplifies the characters and actions of the Freedom Party.
describing the freedom party the letter stated includes an admixture of
ultra nationalism religious mysticism and racial superiority and that it bore
the unmistakable stamp of a fascist party for whom terrorism against Jews
Arabs and British alike and misrepresentation are means and a leader
state is the goal. The letter ended by saying that America should turn its back
on Beggin and not support this latest manifestation of fascism but there's
much more ten years prior to this letter Einstein declared at New York's
Commodore Hotel to the Jewish state with borders and an army to protect those borders
ran counter to the essential nature of Judaism.
Also in 1946 he told the Anglo-American committee of inquiry on the Palestinian issue, I cannot
understand why it, a Jewish state, is needed.
It is connected with narrow-minded and economic obstacles.
I believe it's bad.
In 1938 speech Einstein said, I should much rather see the reasonable agreement with the
Arabs on the base of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state.
in a quote dating back to the late nineteen twenties i signed declared should we be unable to find
away to honest cooperation on his packs with the Arabs
then we have learned absolutely nothing during our two thousand years of suffering
and deserve all that will come to us
many of these and other quotes to be found the book i sign on israel is on his
provocation is provocative ideas about the middle east by fredder on
does rabbi gilstein love believe it's anti-semitic the single out israel because
the only jewish state if so does he also believe that i thought i was a jew hater
and would he assign the same description to one who verbalize the same
sentiments as the dine sign in the above question quotes
who do you think is closer
a guy who criticizes the current nation state of israel on exactly the same
boundaries that i signed it even back then and had consistently over and over
again for multiple decades
a guy who currently defends the current nation state of israel but will like
lean into the side of criticism to say oh it's just a manifestation of the
far-right expressions of
of israeli politics and nothing
but deeply
uh... of the problematic about the
uh... you know the the inception and the continuation of the demographic needs
of an ethno
uh... state uh... a demographic majority
In his criticisms of what I brought up about Einstein's take on Israel, his warnings have
come true, which was my position here. That's what I did. I also did directly talk to John
as well, but I should, you know, I'll still put that here as well.
more. Albert Einstein, a passionate supporter of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, was even
offered a presidency in Israel in 1952, would now be branded anti-Semitic for criticizing
Israeli policies under today's IHRA framework that Harvard University just adopted.
Yeah. He has said this over and over again. I mean, I already talked about this as well.
This is from January 21st, 1946. This is before Deir Yassin.
Dear sir, I have served as witness before the Anglo-American Inquiry Commission on Palestine
for the sole purpose to act in favor of our just cause. But it is of course impossible to prevent
distortion by the press. I am in favor of Palestine being developed as Jewish homeland,
but not as a separate state. It seems to me a matter for simple common sense that we cannot
ask to be given the political rule over Palestine where two-thirds of the population are not Jewish.
What we can and should ask is a secured binational status in Palestine with free immigration.
If we ask more, we are damaging our own cause, and it is difficult for me to grasp that our Zionists
are taking such an intransigent position which can only impair our cause.
It, I think it's truly disingenuous to present Einstein as, as being in favor of like the, the
modern state of Israel, given the, the amount of information that we do have about what he
fucking said and what he warned about what Zionism was turning into.
Anyway,
unfortunately the first edition of his text published in New York publishing
house at a very small print run was never promoted or made into an e-book
and was sold out in no time. That's why Barkha Books has published a new edition with the
agreement of Jocelyn Jerome, the author's widow. It was in Germany in the 1920s, a time
of rampant anti-Semitism with a theory of relativity was attacked as Jewish science that Einstein
was drawn to the Zionist movement. It was not until 1914 when he arrived in Germany
that he discovered for the first time that he was a Jew. A discovery had attributed to
more to Gentiles than Jews. Before that, he had seen himself as a member of the human
Species comes of a cultural Zionist but as early as 1921, Kurt Blumenfeld is a Zionist activist sent
to recruit Einstein, Warren Chaim Weisman, the future president of Israel by the great
scientist. Einstein, as you know, is no Zionist, and I ask you not to try to make him a Zionist
or to attach him to our organization. Einstein, who leans to socialism, feels very involved with
the cause of Jewish labor and Jewish workers. I heard that you expect Einstein to give speeches.
Please be quite careful with that. Einstein often says things out of naivete which are unwelcome by us.
Yeah, I am not sure why Jair thinks Einstein's support of Jewish diaspora in the two decades
leading to the Holocaust is somehow a tacit approval of settler colonialism.
It's disingenuous at best and I think a bastardization, a deliberate bastardization at worst because
Not only was he saying like, hey, we should find a place where Jews are not harmed, leading up to the Holocaust.
After the Holocaust, he literally said, hey, the place that we have found where Jews should not be harmed,
the guys who are designing the society are behaving like the guys who did the Holocaust.
What more do you want to fucking hear from a guy who was like very critical?
Very critical of like even the early Zionist brigades and the violence they subjected the Arab inhabitants to.
That's it. What the fuck do you think that guy's position would look like for that guy who's a socialist?
What would his position be on like finding out about the existence of Otsma Yerhudit, Itamar Ben-Givir and the like?
What do you think he would say?
Apart from Einstein's supposed naivete, Blumenfeld could not have said it better, Einstein would
be a constant obstacle to the Zionist project of the colonization of Palestine and the creation
of the state of Israel until his death in 1955.
Here are some examples of the positions he took, his exchanges with Chaim Weisman, the
future president of Israel, illustrate how important Einstein was to the Zionist, but
more importantly how his views differed from theirs.
In a letter to Weisman on November 25, 1929 he wrote, if we are not able to find an honest
cooperation and honest pact with the Arabs, then we have learned nothing during our 2,000
years of suffering and deserve the faith which befall us.
The idea of the faith which befall us occurs often.
In 1929, he seems to have already foreseen the nation state that design is dreamed of
creating without honest cooperation and honest pact with our Palestinian neighbors would
come, would become what it is today, namely the most dangerous place in the world for
Jews to live.
a few weeks later on december fourteen nineteen twenty-four he wrote the
select bradette ski of the science organization in london i'm happy that we
have no power if national picketed is proof strong enough then we will knock
our brains out as we deserve furthermore leon simon one of the early
editors and translators wrote
there is in professor i think that's a little is a no room for any kind of
aggressiveness or chauvinism
for him
the domination of june over arab and palestine or the perpetuation of or or a
state of mutual hostility between the two peoples would mean the failure of Zionism.
Do you know how many Zionists early on that saw the horrors of the Holocaust especially,
okay, or were close in proximity to those horrors, had an identical viewpoint to Albert Einstein?
I will be interviewing one of these people when I go to Vancouver. His name is Gabor Maté,
Okay, Gabor Matei was a baby in a concentration camp in a death camp. He survived the Holocaust,
he's a Holocaust survivor. His early assessment of Zionism was not dissimilar to Albert Einstein.
Okay? He was like, this is, we need a place, we need a place, a refuge, a place of refuge,
a place of safety for all Jews. Okay? This is a normal point. This was why this is how Zionism
was able to take root. Gabor Mate is an avowed critic of the current state of Israel and also
an anti-Zionist. Okay? He talks very openly about his own development, his evolution of his
worldview on on Israel and Zionism in particular. The idea that Albert Einstein would be in favor
of the modern fascist nation-state of Israel, when he very clearly kept criticizing the
direction that the modern nation-state of Israel was heading in, is unbelievably disingenuous.
Unlike a vast majority of Zionists, Einstein's support for a possible Jewish homeland, not
a state, was not limited to Palestine.
There was nothing religious in his commitment.
Some Zionists advocated for the establishment of such a homeland in China, Peru, or Bidro-Bidjan
in the Soviet Union, but in full agreement with the state authorities and populations
in each case. Einstein supported these steps. For example, the Jewish homeland of
Budo Bidzhan in the Soviet Union after the Second World War, he wrote, we must
not forget that in those years of atrocious persecutions of Jewish people,
Soviet Russia has been the only great nation who has saved hundreds of
thousands of Jewish lives. The enterprise to settle 30,000 Jewish war orphans in
Budo Bidzhan and secure for them in this way a satisfying and happy future is
new proof for the humane attitude of Russia towards our Jewish people. In
helping in this cause, we will contribute in a very effective way to the
Salvation of the remnants of European Jewry in the pivotal years between. Oh, yeah
He was also kind of pro Stalin as well. No, but that's you know
That's not quite accurate he was as far as I know a baby in Hungary whose family passed to another family to be hidden away
I don't think he was in a death camp. Oh, I thought he was in a I thought he was in a concentration camp
I might be wrong. Sorry about that
that. In the pivotal years before the end of the war and his death in 1955, Einstein
was outspoken about the Jewish State Project. Invited to testify before the Anglo-American
Committee of Inquiry on Palestine in Washington, D.C. in January 1946, Einstein answered unequivocally
when asked about the possible state of Israel versus cultural homeland. I have never been
in favor of a state. In March 1947, Izzy David, a member of the Ida Gunterra's group led by
Menachem Begin, sent him a questionnaire to which he responded sharply and clearly. Question,
what is your opinion about the establishment of a free national Jewish Palestine? Einstein.
Jewish national home? Yes. Jewish national Palestine? No. I favor a free bi-national
Palestine at a later date after agreement with the Arabs. Question, opinion about the
the partition of Palestine and Heimweissmann's proposals regarding a partition. Einstein,
I am against partition. On the question of the alliance between British and American
imperialism, Einstein harbored no illusions. It seems to me that our beloved Americans
are now patterning their foreign policy on the model of the Germans, since they appear
to have inherited the latter's inflatedness and arrogance. Apparently, they also want
to take on the role England has played up till now. They refuse to learn from each other
and learn little, even from their own harsh experience. What has been implanted into the
heads from early youths is rooted more firmly than experience and reasoning.
The English are yet another good example of this.
Their old fashioned methods of suppressing the masses by using indigenous unscrupulous
elements of the economic upper class will soon cost them their whole empire.
But they are incapable to bring themselves to change with their methods, no matter whether
it's the Tories or the Socialists.
With the Germans, it was exactly the same.
All of this would be good and well, except for the fact that it is so sad for the better
elements and the oppressed. Again, a socialist back then, at the inception of the USSR, was
a very different kind of socialist than what you would associate in the Western world with
socialism. Okay, back then, there was a very significant approach to socialism that revolved
around anti-imperialism. That is gone now, okay? And as a matter of fact, the overwhelming
amount of friction that I have with even people who are self-identifying socialists in the
Western world revolves around that concept, because socialism also means you are anti-empire.
You are an anti-imperialist, or at least historically, that's what it meant. Nowadays, however, people
just think socialism is modest social democracy in the Western world with no re-examination
of the unequal exchange that we have with the third world, okay? That's a very significant
disagreement that a lot of people refuse to identify, refuse to deal with the contradictions on.
Modern leftists or anti-imperial, you are just counting social democrats as leftists?
Nah. Okay. If modern leftists are anti-imperialist, then there's like 11 of us. Okay.
As for the political ancestors, the current Netanyahu government, Einstein tore into them,
and their political parties, particularly in the New York Times, when Menachem Begin came to New
York, came to New York in late 1948. Einstein, Hannah Arendt, and other Jewish intellectual
figures in the United States published a letter to Nalsik's visit, and the organization he led,
calling it a political party very close in its organization methods and political philosophy
and social appeals with the Nazi and fascist parties. One example they cited was the massacre
of 240 men, women and children in the Palestinian village of Deityasin. Okay, oh wow, down to the
fucking actual village that I identified. Einstein would repeat his accusation until his death in
1955. These people are Nazis in their thoughts and actions. Anyone who says today in the mainstream
media is immediately labeled an anti-Semite and blacklisted.
It is unbelievable that Jair Rosenberg went on The Atlantic.
A magazine whose editor-in-chief is literally a former concentration camp prison guard from
Israel, okay, and wrote that article and his key point on the article, his key point in
the article was that I actually bastardized Einstein's nuanced perspective on Israel when
he did that for selfish gain.
It is common knowledge that when Chaim Weisman died in 1952, the Prime Minister of Israel
offered the presidency to Israel to Albert Einstein.
less well-known, however, is the reason Einstein gave it for his refusal. I would have to say
to the Israeli people, things they would not like to hear, even less well-known as Ben-Gurion
statement. Tell me what to do if he says yes. I've had to offer him the post because it
was impossible not to, but if he accepts, we are in trouble. Hundreds, if not thousands
of people are being accused of anti-Semism or far from their jobs because they dare to
criticize the state of Israel, call it an apartheid state and denounce the genocide of Palestinians.
May they rest assured they are in good company because if Einstein were alive today, he would
be on the front lines demonstrating with them. Yeah, this is most of the quotes are from
Einstein on Israel and Zionism by Fred Jerome. Okay.
The problem with the area Rosenberg's Einstein story by Hassan Piker, it's so ridiculous
and you can create overwhelming amounts of noise leaning into, ironically, the anti-intellectualist
feelings, the anti-intellectualist attitude, which Gerard Rosenberg blames me for, ironically,
not when he is doing that. Anyway, um, right, uh, right as, as a response, bro, that'll
be legit. Yeah, link this article to Gary's tweeting column after bastardizing Einstein's
views and manipulating public. It's ironic that I bastardized Einstein's views on
Zionism and Israel for my purpose, for my ideological purposes, purpose in this article
he quite literally did just that.
Marism, Choice, Quotes from Einstein on Israel and Zionism.
You make up your own mind.
Okay, Einstein, and you get the same treatment select cause to Ben, what you're saying, that's
quite flattering. No, that's just, that's not Einstein and me, that's just like people
will always have their own political goals, their own ideological goals, and in service
of advancing those ideological goals, they will consistently bastardize their opposition's
framework.
They will consistently bastardize their opposition's message, okay?
It's not, it's not surprising to me at all.
It's something that I expect.
It's not, it shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.
It is what it is, okay?
Oh, I said, ironic instead of ironic.
Boom, all right, I fixed it.
I fixed the typo, I fixed the typo, I fixed it.
But once again, we must always seek truth from facts
and we must always say the truth, okay?
Remember that because at the end of the day,
The historical record will always show where you stood on these issues and that all of the overwhelming amounts of silliness, bastardizations of your framework, bastardizations of your thought, all of that, all of that will be cleared when the dust is settled.
Okay, just as for years and years up until the last couple of years, people would hear
my perspective on Israel and would say, how dare you say such horrible things?
You must be a Jew hater.
And now people are much more understanding of where I'm coming from, right?
has vindicated us and our position. If I were to have stood idly by and worried
about the way that people will perceive what I'm saying, then I would not have
been able to convince. I would not have been able to convince people at all. If
others also did not have the bravery to say the truth at a time when lies were a
a much better, much more favorable position to take, advancing lives would have, you know, preserved your career and things like that.
If many others refuse to be, if many others refuse to say the truth for the last couple of years, we would not have seen a sea change.
Right?
Anyway, um, that's why I don't really care when all of these, uh, you know, when people
are like, Oh, he's, his perspective is, is, um, one that we, uh, his perspective is one
that we don't approve of or Oh, Hassan is very favorable views, Democrats should stay
away from him.
Okay.
I don't give a shit.
I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing.
You know what I mean?
I'm going to keep saying the truth.
You don't have to agree with it, but it's still the truth and you can't change that.
On that note, let's move to Iran, situation monitoring and where the ceasefire talks are
right now.
be a pivotal moment in the war with Iran. The two weeks ceasefire between the US and
Iran was expected to expire tonight, but it appears President Trump may have pushed back
the deadline to.
Vanshtrip put on hold. Uh-oh. What happened? Everyone was saying is the definite.
So this comes as Vice President J.D. Vance is expected in Pakistan for another round
of peace talks. So here's a question. Will they happen? Nancy Cortes is at the White
House. Nancy, good morning to you. So many conflicting messages in the stakes are so
high. What can you tell us? Yeah, good morning, Gail. Everything feels a little up in the
air this morning with both sides talking tough right now with this ceasefire about to end.
President Trump is saying if there's no deal quote, lots of bombs start going off and the
Iranians are saying they want the U. S to release a ship it seized over the weekend with a senior
commander saying just this morning that there will be an immediate and decisive response
to any aggression from the U.S.
It's very close to being over.
In an evening radio interview,
President Trump claims the Iranians are coming to the table.
And if they don't, they're gonna see problems
like they've never seen before.
But earlier, Iran's parliamentary speaker said,
we do not accept negotiations under the shadow of threats.
We have prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield.
We have not reached the agreement.
Vice President J.D. Vance,
who led the first round of talks in Pakistan
is poised to have there again for round two.
But even that caused confusion Monday
with President Trump telling one news outlet
that Vance was heading over now,
then telling another that Vance
would leave later in the day.
But this morning, Vance still woke up in Washington.
No plan, no strategy, no clear objectives.
All of it providing more fodder for Democrats.
A big part of the problem right now,
particularly as it relates to skyrocketing gas prices.
Is Donald Trump's reckless and costly war of choice?
On Monday, Trump rejected his energy secretary's estimate.
God, thank God I just got back as my sexy goat,
my sexy king, the sexual panther,
the lion himself, Hakeem Jeffries was on screen.
Thank God.
Vance has paused the trip to Pakistan for Iran talks, source said, as Trump discussed
with his aides, the possibility of cancer in the trip altogether, Vance could still
go to Islamabad, even in this evening, but for right now, travel isn't happening.
Tasnim is reporting Iran is not going to Pakistan, no prospective negotiations at this moment.
Iranian official tells Jeremy Scahill that as of this moment, 3.38pm Eastern time, Iran
won't attend a new round of talks, officials say Pakistan told Iran and Trump will lift
naval blockade in the final hours of the ceasefire. Officials told Pakistan, officials say Pakistan
told Iran that Trump will lift the naval blockade to the final hours of the ceasefire. If that happens
and ceasefire is extended, new talks could happen Thursday. Okay. It's a real, I would say initially
I would have said this is a Mexican standoff, but I guess now it's a Pakistani standoff. Okay.
That's what it is. That's what it is because Iran has made their demands very clear lift the American naval blockade
If you don't do this no talks
America on the other hand wants to to max out on the the victory
Okay, they want to max out on on how victorious they've been so far how they've dominated Iran except the reality
Oh, Pakistan D.O.F. Was right there
fuck
God damn it, you're right. It's a bucket standoff.
Bucket's does in the bond.
God damn it. You're right. Son of a bitch.
Okay. We're going to, we just reversed it. We just reversed it. That's what I,
now I want you to imagine. I said it's a real bucket standoff.
Okay.
Sounds too much like you're just saying the P word followed by standoff. Okay, calm down
Is Pakistan culture inherently parasocial, I don't know, but I have a parasocial relationship with the nation state of Pakistan
Okay
Wow
Yeah, Pakistan is at the table Pakistan is the table Islamabad is now Islam a good I
Love Pakistan I will sacrifice my life for Pakistan
Just play the video no I live for the video, okay
Okay. Iran will not be showing up with the talks. Iran's decision not to attend the
meeting in Pakistan on Wednesday is final according to the Tasman News Agency, the IRGC-affiliated
media.
Now, like I said, a real Pakistan off. Iran's ceasefire ends in three hours, but Trump says
it expires tomorrow.
Cesar will be over in around three hours and 30 minutes according to Iran. UAE is on their
deathbed asking for a currency line. They can't sustain any more missiles.
These are the students who are the future of Pakistan and they are representing in the
world Pakistan.
I love Pakistan. I will sacrifice my life for Pakistan. I love Pakistan.
What the fuck is this love Trump only knows what time it is in Miami in DC
Yeah
Listen as much as as much as it hurts me as a Turk
To see Turkey fall from grace and no longer be the table or at the table
My life for Pakistan, okay?
Pakistan is the table.
Islamabad is now officially the table.
Gas prices likely won't drop below $3 a gallon until next year.
I think he's wrong on that, Trump said.
Totally wrong.
You're going to see prices drop, you're going to see energy come down like you've never
seen it before.
All these things are going to happen.
But most economists actually agree with the energy secretary.
In fact, the government's own estimates
project that gas is not going to go back
below $3 a gallon until at least 2027, Yale.
Everybody's feeling it when you go to gas up your car.
Nancy, before you go, news broke yesterday
about a shakeup in the president's cabinet.
What can you tell us about that?
What happened?
That's right.
Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-Zerimer is leaving now.
She's the third member of the president's cabinet
to depart in less than two months.
She's a former Oregon congresswoman,
but she had been under scrutiny for possible abuse
of her position.
And her husband was also banned
from Labor Department headquarters after two women
who worked there alleged that he touched them inappropriately.
On Monday, however, the president offered praise
for Chavez Dreamer and said,
she's just leaving for a job in the private sector gale.
All right, Nancy, thank you very much.
Our vice president, JD Vance,
is reportedly set to head to Pakistan today
for a new round of peace talks with Iran.
Right, I say Pakistan, you say Pakistan.
Lawrence the girl from there and she said you have to say Pakistan. Oh my god. Wow how cultured
Marcus just dropped on this headline Vance called off trip to Pakistan. Sorry
Oh Jesus Christ, dude, I can't stop I can't I'm sorry
Bro, your live streaming, whatever dude, what, what matters anymore?
You know, nothing, nothing matters a year ago, you marked me for saying Pakistan was
going to be the table and now look at you.
Okay, it's true.
I was wrong.
I was wrong as a Turk.
My background forced me not to see the reality that was unfolding in front of our eyes.
Okay.
That Pakistan was going to be the table.
I, for the longest time, believe that Turkey was the table, okay?
That Turkey was at the table and Turkey was the table.
I was wrong.
Turkey is no longer at the table.
Pakistan is now the table!
Kind of mixed it.
I did Pakistan.
Yep.
A little bit later we'll find out and maybe get that girl on the phone.
We'll find out what's going on with you, Jim.
But President Trump is now accusing Iran of violating the ceasefire, which expires tomorrow.
before and correspondent, Trey Yinks joins us live from Israel with the latest. Hey,
Trey.
Hey guys, good morning. The ceasefire between the United States.
Oh, here we go. We got Trey on, signing live from Tel Aviv to glaze Donald Trump. Trey's
gonna tell us how wonderful Trump is, has, has destroyed the Iranian missile stockpiles.
Everything's going great. People love it. People are celebrating it really. It's fantastic.
Here we go, Tel Aviv Trey, baby.
Tel Aviv Trey, give it to us, Trey.
And this week, the U.S. Vice President, J.D. Vance, and the American delegation are expected
to travel to Pakistan today, going to Islamabad.
State media in Iran, though, says the Iranian delegation has not yet departed for the talks
around parliament speaker posted to X overnight saying Trump, by imposing a siege and violating
the ceasefire seeks to turn this negotiating table in his own imagination into a table
of surrender or to justify renewed warmongering.
We do not accept negotiations under the shadow of threats, and in the past two weeks we have
prepared to reveal new cards on the battlefield.
The reality is that Iran has violated the ceasefire multiple times, specifically in the Strait
of Hormuz, where only 16 vessels passed through on Monday.
President Trump has indicated he's unlikely to extend the ceasefire, saying this overnight.
frankly everyone is they don't talk about it but you can't let Iran have a
nuclear weapon you want to see a stock market get it you cannot let Iran have
a nuclear weapon and they'll use it here they'll take out the Middle East and
knock out Israel in the Middle East and they'll come to Europe and they'll come
here because they are let's say ill if they're ill and we can't let that happen
the president also posted a number of times to true social saying in part
Israel never talked me into the war with Iran.
The results of October 7th added to my lifelong opinion that Iran can never have a nuclear
weapon.
The Israelis agree with that position and have indicated they are prepared if the war
resumes.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is saying this at a Memorial Day ceremony
late Monday.
Our flag is planted from the depths of the Gaza Strip to the Crown of Mount Hermon, and
our pilots control the skies of the region as definitive proof of our superiority over
the Iranian axis.
We have not yet finished the work, but the world is already recognizing our determination
to defend ourselves, and not only ourselves, but to defend humanity from barbaric fanaticism.
President Trump posting to TrueSocial that Iran has violated the ceasefire numerous times.
This is true not just in the Strait of Hormuz, but remember in the early hours of this agreement
they were still launching ballistic missiles at Israel and Gulf countries.
guys. Hey, Trey, could you give me an idea? Are we letting ships through? Because we're
seeing different reports. First, nobody's getting through. Then we boarded a ship to
try to get through. Do you have any reporting that talks about what's really happening in
the strait? Yeah, the United States is allowing any
vessels who are passing through this area to make their way to their final destination
as long as they're not coming from Iranian ports. There were some reports overnight indicating
The 26 vessels from Iran's shadow fleet were able to make it past the U.S. blockade.
There is no evidence of that, and despite what one Democratic senator talked about,
there is a concerted effort by the United States to ensure that any vessels that are
coming from Iranian ports are turned around or seized, as we saw with that one cargo ship
over the weekend.
So, Tre, that was just Iranian propaganda, right?
Yes, absolutely.
And the shadow fleet that the senator is talking about is used to directly fund Iranian
proxies across the Middle East, including Hamas, the Houthis, and Hezbollah, who are
directly responsible for killing U.S. citizens.
And so the shadow fleet is a very serious problem.
It is not getting past the U.S. blockade, according to all reports and information that
we have from the region.
But it is a very serious issue that the U.S. Navy says they will crack down on not just
in the Persian Gulf, but also around the world, including in the Indo-Pacific.
All right. Thanks. Thanks. That's what I'm talking about. Rudin against the country. Who is it?
What's Senator Chris Murphy, the one to Margaritaville with the illegal alien that was in, uh,
that came to this country that I was going to. Yeah. So, so it's like, why are you going against
the country right now in the middle of a war? Dude, you can't do this. This is 2003.
Okay. This is 2003 rhetoric in 2026. It doesn't fucking work, okay?
Because we don't have 2003 economy. We don't have the 2003 economy.
We don't have the, the, uh, almost religious fervor in the post 9-11 anger and resentment that, that, uh, that, that demanded blood.
Demanded revenge. We don't have any of those things as a matter of fact. We're living in the aftermath of all of that
We're living 20 years after that
We know what it looked like when we engaged in action when we reacted to 9-11 and most people
Do not have a positive view over the global war on terror in the United States of America
So to try to whip up this like you gotta support the troops
When the overwhelming majority of Americans are like why the fuck are we putting troops in the line of fire?
This is so stupid like and it's only leading to my gas prices going up
You can't do this whole like oh if you if you disagree with the war effort you must disagree with every single troop
You're spitting on the face of the troops like it doesn't work that way
Okay
Are you really playing the Epstein game Hassanabi what what is the Epstein game is?
Pragmata the Epstein game. Are you calling it the Epstein game? Are you alright?
What the fuck? Not even 2003 stockpiles? Oh hell no, don't even do that to me. The first
round of the U.S. Iran war drains significant numbers of exquisite munitions on top of those
already spent last year defending Israel from ballistic missile attacks. Another round would
presumably drain them down to a point where conventional deterrence is nullified for years.
Oh my god. Oh my god.
It's, I mean, what do you say? What do you say to this? All right. Fuck it. You know, have fun,
I guess. What can I say? According to CSIS numbers over the last seven weeks where the US
military has expended most of its stockpile of precision strike missiles at least half of
its inventory of THAAD missiles and around half of the SM3 Patriot interceptor stockpile.
Oh my lord dude, oh my fucking lord! This is what I've been saying! And the IRGC says missiles are
ready for launch. The US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during
the war with Iran and created an near-term risk of running out of ammunition in a future
conflict should want to rise in the next few years, according to experts and three people
familiar with recent internal defense department stockpile assessments. Now, listen, they're
talking about should a war arise in the near the in the near future. They're not, which
means like if a war starts or restarts right now, it's fucked. Okay. It's unbelievably
fucked CNN has. And by the way, it is fucked. Just so you understand, it's totally fucked.
And hey, guess what, by the way, remember, if you criticize this, you're anti-Semitic.
If, because you have to, you have to remind yourself, what is all of this for?
And then you have to think, oh, it's for Benjamin and Yahoo, who I love and admire and is the
best guy.
He's the best guy.
He's the guy in my heart.
Okay.
He leads the only democracy in the world, not just in the region, in the world, honestly,
the only honest democracy.
No one has ever had an honest democracy.
Israel high. Wonderful that we're doing all this, okay? It is what it is. You just got
to, you just got to live with that. You got to live with that. When you're paying extra
at the pump, just remind yourself that like, if you have any negative associations with
the nation-state of Israel, Benjamin, and the like, remind yourself that you are being
deeply anti-Semitic and just like slap yourself in the, in the face a couple times. So you,
forget those bad thoughts, okay? No bad thoughts, no bad thoughts, only good thoughts, okay?
Israel is now a superpower. That's what Benjamin Netanyahu is saying. So, you know, if you're
wondering like, what was all of this for? Well, remember, it's so that Israel gets to
achieve its strategic objectives of developing the greater Israel project, and that's a good
thing. And if you think that's insane, well, then you're bad. You're bad. And the media
It will yell at you every fucking day.
The media will make, the media will take all of your choice quotes and fucking constantly
talk about how dangerous you are, how dangerous of an anti-Semite you are, okay?
That's the reality that we're living in.
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They were Turkish and they are not happy
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All right, let's continue with the fucking missiles
Let's get back to serious stuff, what am I doing? What the fuck is wrong with me? I'm sorry. I apologize to everyone. I need to I
Need to get back to
actually covering the news. All right, so we're talking about the American missile
stockpile and the critical levels of depletion that we're at. Okay. Over the
last seven weeks of war, the US military has expended at least 45% of its stockpile
of precision strike missiles, at least half of its inventory of THAAD missiles,
which are designed to intercept ballistic missiles and nearly 50% of its stockpile
of Patriot Air Defense interceptor missiles. According to a new analysis conducted by the
Center for Strategic and International Studies, CSIS, those numbers closely align with the
classified Pentagon data about U.S. stockpiles according to the source familiar with the
assessment. Earlier this year, the Pentagon signed a series of contracts that would help
expand missile production, but the delivery timeline to replace these systems is three
to five years, even with the increased capacity of the CSIS experts and the sources said.
In the short term, the U.S. likely maintains enough bombs and missiles to continue combat
operations against Iran in any scenario should the shaky ceasefire fail to hold.
But the number of critical munitions remaining in the US stockpiles is no longer sufficient
to confront a near peer adversary like China, and it will likely take years before the inventory
of those weapons return to pre-war levels. CSIS analysis concludes,
the high munitions expenditures have created a window of increased vulnerability in the
western Pacific, Mark Kincaid, Kankian, a retired US Marine Corps colonel, and one of the authors
of the CSIS report told CNN, it will take one to four years to replenish these inventories
in several years after that to expand them to where they need to be.
Let's watch the CNN report on the critical missile shortage.
Learned that the US military has significantly depleted its stockpile of key missiles during
the war with Iran and according to experts, this reduction is so severe it has created
a near term risk of the US running out of ammunition should a future conflict arise
in the next.
You know who also said this exact same thing was going to happen if we go to war with Iran?
Mother fucking raisin cane, dude.
Trump's beautiful general from central casting.
He did.
He said this.
He said this exact same thing so many times that seemingly fell on deaf ears in the rooms
that Trump was in, that he went to the media and also leaked it.
He did.
General Dan Raisin Cain Cain, he said it.
It's a few years.
Seeing as Natasha Bertrand is with us now, reporting on this, it's some new reporting
here.
walk us through what you've learned.
Yeah, Brianna, so according to this new study
by the Center for Strategic and International Studies,
which was, their findings were confirmed
by three sources familiar with recent Pentagon assessments
of US stockpiles, the US is running dangerously low
on some of these key munitions that would be required
to confront a near peer adversary in the short term
like China, for example.
So while the US does still have sufficient munitions
continue bombing Iran, for example, if the shaky ceasefire were to fall apart, if they were to
need to confront an adversary like China or like Russia, for example, then that could pose
significant problems for the United States. Now, just to give you an example of how much the U.S.
stockpile has been depleted over the last seven plus weeks of war on Iran, according to this
assessment and the sources that we spoke to, the U.S. military has expended at least 45 percent of
of its stockpile of precision strike missiles, at least half of its inventory of THAAD missiles,
which are designed to intercept ballistic missiles, and nearly 50 percent of its stockpile
of Patriot air defense interceptor missiles, which are, of course, very key air defense
munitions.
Now, the U.S. military has also expended approximately 30 percent of its Tomahawk missiles, stockpile,
which are those long-range munitions that are really key to attacking targets further
away.
20% of its stockpile of long-range joint air-to-surface standoff missiles, and approximately 20% of its SM3 and SM6 missiles.
Now, this is important because these munitions take a while to be replaced.
And according to our sources and this analysis, it would take anywhere between one to six years to replace a lot of these munitions.
And so this is a really big problem that we should note that the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, General Dan Cain, he actually warned about.
As the administration was preparing to potentially go to war with Iran, he was raising concerns
were told about this issue of depleted stockpiles around the world, particularly ones that could
be very useful to U.S. allies like Israel and Ukraine.
So the Pentagon is preparing to ask for a supplemental from Congress.
Always fun to have the near peer assessment of China never mentions mobilization tempo.
Like they can't even move at a pace that the U.S. could ever match at the event of a
the event of a prolonged conflict. Yeah, near peer also doesn't make the calculation that
China could just like shut off the faucet of raw materials necessary for manufacturing
these missile systems. So that assessment weirdly enough is never a part of the calculation.
Because that's the real problem here, is that if China just slaps on export controls on
key materials necessary for missile production, for American national security, which they
have entertained in the past, it's fucking over.
It's literally over.
It's never been more over than it is right now.
There's no way for America to design a contingency plan around that procurement strategy because
China has almost a complete monopoly on the manufacturing, or sorry, the procurement and
the refinement of rare earth minerals, magnets and the like that are necessary for missile
production.
Now, of course, China won't do that.
They love trade.
They will fucking die if they don't do trade.
But here, I'll tell it to you like this, I'll give you a burger analogy.
Imagine a world where all the cows are in China, okay?
All the cows are being processed in China, and there are very few cows that exist
elsewhere, other than the markets that China has, you know, complete control over. Okay.
Now, Americans have this unbelievable appetite for burgers. And they're eating, they're consuming
so many burgers, okay? They're eating burgers like crazy, like there's no tomorrow. All of a
sudden, China says, Hey, we're no longer giving you, we love the burgers, we're consuming the
burgers ourselves, we're no longer going to give you the cows to make the burgers, no more burger
for America. Okay. I didn't want to scare you guys, but that's kind of the reality that
we're, uh, we're facing currently. Okay. Yeah. Imagine a hamburger. Thank God. I finally
get it now. Yeah.
For additional funding to try to replace these munitions, but it could still take quite
some time before those are actually back in us stockpiles, Brianna. All right. Thank
you, Natasha for the reporting. Boris, joining us now to discuss this and more regarding
the war with Iran is retired Army Major Harrison Mann. He's a former Defense
Intelligence Agency official, also the associate campaigns director for Win
Without War. Major, thanks so much for being with us. When you hear that report,
how much do these shortages concern you? They concern me and for more reasons just
than running out of ammo fighting Iran. Part of this is a math problem that we
knew the answer for before this war started, right? We knew what our stock
pals were and I used to work with the folks at the Defense Intelligence
agency who used to do their best to count how many missiles and drones Iran had.
And so, like, there's really two things that I want to draw out of here.
One is that the folks, politicians and experts who were advocating for war with Iran, they
were just kind of detached from reality.
We've run out of up to 50% of strategic defensive interceptors a month into a war with a regional
power, right?
This is Iran.
And from that, we also got to kind of extrapolate folks who are advocating for war with China.
That is a global power.
The fact that we are totally unprepared for these conflicts is not an argument for us
to gear up for war, but it should make us a little more introspective when we have people
saying it's going to be a slam dunk and we really need to fight these wars.
The other thing I want to pull out of this, I think you could be watching this report
about us running out of all these critical munitions and say, well, wait a minute, don't
we have the most powerful military in the world.
Trump on true social, based on the fact that the government of Iran has seriously fractured,
not unexpectedly so, and upon the request of Field Marshal Asim Minir, the Prime Minister
Sheba Sharif of Pakistan, Zindabad.
We have been asked to hold our attack on the country of Iran until such time as their leaders
and representatives can come up with a unified proposal.
I have therefore directed our military to continue the blockade and in all other respects
remain ready enable and will therefore extend the ceasefire until such time as their proposal
is submitted and discussions are concluded one way or another.
What happened?
Dude, every time Donald Trump pulls away, every time Donald Trump pulls away from military
action, he presents it in a way where he's like, it's because they're so weak.
It would be, it would be bad. It would, it would look bad if we just hit our enemy in
their weakest moment. Okay. It's so funny. Another Tuesday, another taco Tuesday. Okay.
Now of course the problem here is still the, the continued blockade. He'd rather explode
them be seen as weak, it's pathological. Yeah, I think this is turning into a Trita
Parsley's assessment a little bit. I still think there's perfidy at play here. Mike
Fuckabee has been recalled to the United States. That's interesting at least. And also, you
have a lot of, of troop activity leading up to this moment. So who knows what he does?
Wait, please explain. So China wants to produce material for bombs that could potentially
be directed towards China. Huh? Please explain. Oh my God. We taught the average person how
international trade works and they wanted to, their mind exploded instantaneously. Brother
or sister
or a damper that is what's going on right now
that's why it's really funny when america's like all we hate trying to we
have to go to war with china it's like
every single missile component
touches chinese hands at a certain point okay
this is just how it works this is how international trade war is is china is it
is it
unbelievably important, if not the most important part of the supply chain.
So yes,
on the one hand, you hear Americans endlessly talk about how China is a real threat,
a real danger to America. On the other hand, China has for years and years
been a manufacturing base that creates the materials that are necessary for missile production.
China is the manufacturing base of the entire planet. And yes, Vice versa, China uses USA
chips in their weapons too. Like there is this very strange design that we have over
international trade that does not correspond to the way that we talk about China. Now,
of course, China doesn't talk about us in the same way that we talk about China. Let's
be real. If we're being totally honest here, they don't talk about us like the way we
We talk about them, but we have this very belligerent attitude.
China recognizes the interdependency that they have with us.
If we're being honest, recognize it as well, but we talk like we don't recognize it.
But then again, that inconsistency is perhaps best demonstrated by the way that Trump moves
on the timeline.
On the one hand, sober minds recognize that Iran still maintains all the leverage by controlling
the Strait of Hormuz.
Donald Trump needs to open the Strait of Hormuz.
And instead, he has decided to add a second blockade to the Strait of Hormuz, making it
seem as though America has the upper hand in these conversations.
The high closed doors, they're begging the Iranians to get to the ceasefire table and
negotiate with the Americans.
But in public, they're doing this.
They're doing a whole lot of this.
Don't we have the biggest military in the world?
We just spent nearly a trillion dollars on the Pentagon last year.
Why don't we have enough ammo?
I think it's important for folks to understand, especially as we move into talking about supplemental
funding or a new defense funding bill, that these hundreds of billions of dollars that
Congress gives the president for war largely do not go into things that we would say we
need for war. The reason that we don't have enough air defense interceptors is because
instead we've been spending that money on these big projects that are kind of designed
to be expensive. I hate to describe it this way, but a lot of this $900 billion budget
and that's what Congress passed last year, nearly every Republican and over 50% of Democrats
kind of becomes a slush fund for defense contractors.
Raytheon Lockheed, instead of producing
the defensive capabilities that you say we might need,
instead of doing things like paying to get black mold
out of the soldiers barracks,
instead of going towards getting better bomb shelters
for the hundreds of US troops who've been wounded
in this war, we're building big vanity projects
like the F-35 stealth fighter,
which we learned pretty early on in this war
is not that stealthy.
Iran caught it on camera and shot at it,
or like Ford-class aircraft carriers
that the toilets don't work on.
And so I think it's really important to understand
if you see these numbers and are shocked or worried by them,
more money is not the answer.
More judicious spending is.
There's also an aspect to this, specifically when
it comes to Iran, and I'll get to China in a moment.
But financially, it's asymmetrical, right?
I've heard some experts describing the US weaponry
as a Ferrari out in the skies over Tehran, and the Iranians essentially shooting like
a razor scooter at a Ferrari. It's way less expensive for them to take out the U.S. and
Israel's equipment than the inverse. How does the U.S. make that more efficient? Does it
need to adjust toward a more Ukrainian-like model?
So this is another reflection of our misguided priorities, I would say. Drone proliferation
in the Middle East has been a threat for at least a decade. We saw them popping up in
Syrian civil war, and Iran has been a leader in this field.
As you mentioned, Ukrainians, out of necessity, figured out much, much cheaper ways to deal
with this threat.
Why haven't we invested in them?
But again, these are because of decisions that Congress and successive military leadership
made.
US, and I mean this, will never be able to engage in the same efficient procurement strategies
of the Ukrainian or the Iranian drone manufacturing industry.
And there's one reason for that, and especially for Iran, but even this is also the case with
Ukraine as well, to a lesser degree.
The reason is because of why our defense industry exists, okay?
The Iranian defense industry exists out of necessity.
It is for survival.
It is for sovereignty, okay?
It's not because America doesn't have the industrial base to do this.
Of course we do.
I mean, look at China.
The reason why is because our military industrial complex does not exist for national security.
It exists for profit.
The Ukrainian drone industry was built out of necessity.
Now it's still very westernized and therefore there is an element of profit seeking in that
one as well.
But it's still ultimately built out of necessity.
And it is especially the case for Iran.
Iran's defense sector is not designed for profit.
It is designed for survival.
That's it.
That's it.
Is that simple?
And that's precisely the reason why we take the Iranian Shahad drones that are made for
like, I believe $7,000 to $10,000 a pop, the cheapest versions of the Shahad drones,
which is basically like a lawnmower with explosive ordnance attached to it, right?
Very cheap and very reliable.
And our version of that, which is the Lucas, is like $30,000 apiece.
So even when we just take the Iranian invention and basically slap made in the USA, made in
the USA sticker on it, it's still infinitely more costly.
you know, twice, sometimes four times, five times the price and the reason for
that is because American manufacturing is not designed around survivability, is
not designed around necessity, it's designed around contractor bloat, it's
designed around endless profit-seeking. Is that simple and that's why in a
situation where you're going toe-to-toe with a country that is capable of waging asymmetric
war, and a country that is willing to absorb a lot of the costs, because it's had to absorb
a lot of the costs due to the sanctions regime that we implemented for many, many years,
they have a lot more leverage.
It's a lot cheaper for them to maintain control over this key choke point for trade, for international
trade and they can just withstand us in a game of attrition.
The U.S. defense industry is like the last pillar of our domestic industrial investment
and it's used as a way to pour money into the economy via bloat and for greed of course
it is incredibly inefficient and we get so much less per dollar than many other countries
do, yes.
But it's also important to understand that when I say defense bloat or when we talk about
like why we spend so much money. That is a much more favorable attitude about what the
defense industry exists for. It's true, it's true that this is the last line of like good
in air quotes, good jobs, reliable jobs, aside from like fracking, right? However, even in
that field, much of the money, much of the unlimited expenditures still goes back to
financial engineering in the same exact way that all of these companies are no longer
companies that manufacture goods and try to make the most reliable good you possibly could
have, but instead, all these companies have turned into banks.
This is the same for Lockheed Martin, it's the same for Boeing, it's the same for North
of Grumman, these companies are all banks now, okay? That is the problem. Capitalism has
made the United States of America and its imperial war machine, which is a necessity
for capitalism to continue into a much weaker, much more overextended behemoth.
In some ways, this is a contradiction working itself out.
See to the zombie look at Trump's latest truth. Yeah, I did
Anyway
Not very good ones. I keep asking my local branch for loans and they just tackle me when
I walk in. So, yeah, I still think this might be perfidy. Jeremy Scale also seems to agree,
given that the US twice attacked Iran while claiming to be negotiating, we could never
rule out that the US and Israel resume the war against Iran, even if talks are scheduled.
what happened in June 2025 and February 2026. So while the talks are seeming not, that doesn't
necessarily mean they're truly off. Anyway, let's get back to the American stockpiles.
Or is not that stealthy? Iran caught it on camera and shot at it. Or like Ford class aircraft carriers
that the toilets don't work on. And so I think it's really important to understand if you see these
numbers and are shocked or worried by them, more money is not the answer, more judicious
spending is.
There's also an aspect to this, specifically when it comes to Iran, and I'll get to China
in a moment.
But financially, it's asymmetrical, right?
I've heard some experts describing the US weaponry as a Ferrari out in the skies over
Tehran and the Iranians essentially.
Yes, yes, this is true.
my my brother has said the birokhtar is like the old reliable the birokhtar is like a like a like
a Toyota Camry whereas the American drone systems are like a like a Bentley or a Ferrari actually
shooting like a razor scooter at a Ferrari it's way less expensive for them to take out the U.S.
and Israel's equipment than the inverse how does the U.S. make that more efficient does it need
need to adjust toward a more Ukrainian-like model.
So this is another reflection of our misguided priorities,
I would say.
Drone proliferation in the Middle East
has been a threat for at least a decade.
We saw them popping up in the Syrian Civil War,
and Iran has been a leader in this field.
As you mentioned, Ukrainians, out of necessity,
figured out much, much cheaper ways
to deal with this threat.
Why haven't we invested in them?
But again, these are because of decisions
that Congress and successive military leadership made.
And it's really unfortunate,
because how did the first US troops die in this conflict?
It was a drone strike.
I did wanna get your thoughts on China,
because this morning President Trump
said the US intercepted a ship
that had quote, a gift from China.
This is notable because as the president is saying
that he was sort of surprised,
Trump speculates is crazy.
Brother, that's the president.
What do you mean?
I like that the president is so unreliable that when he makes a statement, and this is
a pretty significant statement, he's basically, Trump is basically saying China was sending
weapons to Iran and we intercepted it, right?
But because he is so unreliable as a narrator, that even American news has to be like its
speculation.
As by this, we talked about last week, the letters exchanged between he and President
she of China in which she effectively promised Trump that China would not be supplying ammunition
to Tehran, do you think a shipment of arms from China could have gotten sent to Iran
without she knowing, without Beijing being aware of what was being transported to Iran?
I don't think that that would be possible, but we also have to note that the accusation
here is a dual use system.
So that could be electronics, it doesn't necessarily mean they sent them missiles.
A lot of Iran's missiles and drones do depend on electronics circuit board stuff that they
can't manufacture domestically.
So this could have been something routine or it could have been China testing the waters
and trying to keep the Iranian war effort going.
It's hard to be sure right now.
Major Harrison, man, thank you so much for the perspective, I appreciate your time.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Dual use is, oh shit.
Hedges is with my goat John Mersheimer again. By the way, before people say Hassan, why is
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Wonderful guests analysts, you know for brilliant foreign policy analysts this time on Thursday, of course
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Well, as international law, Iran says, Oh, we'll do this after well, and you heard Pete
Hexath, he said this at every single press conference. He says, when you read some of
these headlines from, from a lot of the media, the legacy media, who side are you on? Because
I, I'm under the impression you're under the side of, of Iran and not America. You're
rooting for Iran.
So you said Chris Murphy is everything he says is so as so against his president truly
against the country.
Every time Senator Schumer talks on the floor, talks about things that he thinks are going
wrong with the war.
He prefer the GCPOA, which he didn't vote for.
And we have that sound bite.
But Chris Murphy is probably the worst sees himself as a presidential candidate.
But now cheering for Iranian propaganda, hoping it's true.
And here it is.
original post, at least 26 Iranian shadow fleet vessels bypass US blockade.
Senator Chris Murphy retweets awesome.
Wow.
So that's the senator from Connecticut.
Now obviously you shouldn't be rooting for this anyway, right?
That's the first thing.
But number two is it's clearly Iranian propaganda as well.
So he's cheering for it and then the information is still even not even true.
He gets briefed on this type of stuff.
He could make a phone call to the White House or get a breed by the Pentagon about this
information.
Apparently, apparently, China's president did make a call with the Saudi crown prince.
And this is what he said to him.
The Strait of Hormuz should remain open to normal passage as this serves the common interests
of regional countries and the international community.
No joke.
Hey, President Xi, snap out of it.
is Iran, who you finance, support, and arm up, and buy their oil, 90% of it, that he
shut down the straight.
Why are you calling Saudi Arabia saying open up the straight?
They're the ones who gotta redirect all the oil around the straight.
Also, why would the Saudis reopen it after Iran has been attacking them?
But they can't, they're not in control of that.
Why do they even try to help with this negotiation when China has been silent on Iran attacking
the Gulf States?
When they didn't even do offensive measures?
Your Gulf State should turn the screws on Iran and say, if you want to do business with
us, stop just on China, stop doing business with Iran.
That these shouldn't be friendly calls.
And China is the wild card here.
If China says, I need oil from Iran and now any Iranian ship cannot deliver oil, they're
the ones you should turn around and say, Iran open up the straight.
That's the theory.
And they even though they have some oil in reserve, this is straining their economy.
Yeah, don't forget, this is just Iranian ports.
This is not allowing their ships to allow them to transport oil to other countries.
We're not allowing any of their ships or their vessels to go through the Strait of
Ormuz if they came from one of their ports.
It's open to everybody else.
Yep.
Robert Levinson's son joined me earlier.
Now Robert Levinson, if you don't remember, is a CIA agent that was picked up on Kish
Island 20 years ago, and they've been trying to find out what happened to him.
And they've been going multiple times to Iran, and these people are evil personified.
They take hostages, they torture the hostages, they ask for ransom back.
People like President Biden actually give them money for people.
But Levinson, there's so much mystery wrapped around it.
So I asked him how he feels about this, and he also said what makes it doubly hard is
Iran's ambassador to Pakistan is the one who kidnapped his father.
And he's got a diplomatic position, prestigious in that world in Pakistan.
And he's negotiating on this peace deal with us.
Watch.
There's only a few people in the world who know exactly what happened to my dad who
were involved in what happened to my dad.
The FBI identified five of them.
One of them was killed in the initial airstrikes at the start of this conflict.
And another one is hiding in plain sight.
He's right out there.
He was at these talks helping coordinate things.
it's a slap in the face to our family, slap in the face to the United States of America
because I don't know what the heck he's doing over there and that Pakistanis allow this.
It hurts their credibility as an independent, intermediate between the two countries.
You're right, man. We should negotiate with other, with foreign adversaries. Sorry. It
makes you mad. Got it.
What do you mean?
What is this?
They don't understand sarcasm, you had to come out and say it was sarcasm?
Oh yeah, I do take a lot of pleasure in seeing even someone like Chris Murphy having to experience
the same type of like, uh, cynical outrage manufacturing that, that I have to withstand
with regular frequency, you know? Yeah, it's, it's very funny. Chris Murphy was like very
obviously being sarcastic, but you're not allowed to do sarcasm clearly. Uh, you know,
uh, to that I say, yeah. Anyway, uh, this, I don't care about what this guy is complaining
about. Let's get to Donald Trump earlier this morning, delivering an incredible interview
with CNBC, where he just says, ridiculous shit.
We're joining us now on the Squawk Newsline. And then afterwards, afterwards, we will get
to a goat talk with Chris Hedges and John Goatsheimer that if the U.S. can, okay, get
excited for that uh... president
donald j trump president trump welcome thanks for joining us this morning
well thank you very much
you are very welcome what can you give us uh... i think it's on everyone's mind
the latest
on where the around negotiations then
and we now know uh... to run his publicly
uh... confirmed that it will send representatives to the meeting
uh... with uh... vice president vance what do you expect what what are you
hearing at this point
well i said two days ago when they said they won't send them i said they'll be
sending them they have no choice but the send them
uh... what i think is that we're gonna end up with a great deal
i think it's got i think they have no choice we've taken out there maybe we've
taken out their air force
we've taken out their leaders frankly which does complicate things in one way
but these leaders are much more rational
it's a it is regime change no matter what you want to call it
which is not something i said i was going to do but
i've done it indirectly maybe but i've done it
and uh... i think we're a very strong negotiating position to do what
other presidents should have done during a forty seven-year period with forty
seven years with the pv's blood thirsty people have been
uh... killing a lot of soldiers a lot of our soldiers and a lot of other people
that will kill forty two thousand people over the last
two months
and uh... you know you get
to a point where
people don't want to mention that they don't like mentioning that forty two
thousand unarmed protesters
innocent on our protest is many of them hung
so we're not dealing with the nicest group of people but we're dealing with
them very successfully in the blockade it's been a tremendous success they said
that two two days ago we will open the state of the no we're not going to open
the straight
until we have a final deal no no we want to open the straight
if it were not opening we totally control the state just so you understand
for all the fake news out there
And Mr. President, we are, we've seen a hundred days of the largest protests in
Iran since the revolution in 1979.
And I know how much you respect.
We live in a totally separate planet here in the United States of America.
Like, no, 42,000 protesters with the biggest penises you've ever seen had
not been hanged by the Iranian government.
Okay.
I'm not, that's what Donald Trump is claiming.
Okay.
Don't get mad at me.
he said they're all hung, okay? That's not, none of those things have happened, okay?
That's ridiculous. And even if it, even if that ridiculous claim were to be true, it's
still additionally ridiculous to, to, you know, blow up the Iranian fucking, the pipelines
and the Iranian bridges that 93 million people still use and the Iranian power plants that
again, 93 million people use. That's not a solution to this problem. Not only is it
not true, but also even if it was true, what the fuck is your solution to wipe out the
entire Iranian civilization? How is that somehow a solution to this problem?
And admire and are concerned with the Iranian people themselves.
And this is, I think, a large degree, one of the reasons you decided to embark on this
whole thing, maybe among other things, but the timing was right.
If we get close in negotiations right now, but the deadline for the ceasefire is tomorrow-
Yes, I listened to the daily today pissed me off to no end. Oh my god
All my fucking God the New York Times daily still doing the damn thing
If it looks like things are like the daily basically when it comes to foreign policy is a way to
manufacture consent
for
The most liberal audience to still feel
Reluctantly on board with whatever fucking military action we decided to do against whatever for an adversary we've designed
where, where that's their primary purpose is to be like, listen guys, I know you might not,
I might, I know that, you know, our libtard audience might be feeling some type of way about our,
you know, bombing campaigns, directed by the president who has said he's going to do a genocide
against the Iranian population. But here are two Iranians that are, you know, not in Iran currently,
and how they also think that American military action is totally justifiable here.
It's unbelievable. I basically listen to it when I'm lifting to piss me off so I can get better gains in the mornings, okay?
It's just
It's it's so frustrating to see exactly what they're doing like exactly what they're doing
The whole purpose is for liberals who are anti-war to feel
Reluctantly on board with the actions that Trump is taking. That's all it is see here are two Iranians who agree
And obviously, in an effort to maintain some kind of credibility, they will mention that
like there are other Iranians, including the first guy's wife who lives in Iran, who's
like, shut the fuck up.
Of course, bombs are not good, right?
They'll show both sides of the story.
But the two key fixtures in the commentary are two people that are not in Iran currently,
that are excited to go back to Iran, who still tell you, you know, blowing up Iran might
not be the worst option here because we're so desperate for regime change.
We're progressing.
Will you not necessarily extend it to a definitive amount of time, but will you let it keep going
if there's progress in the talks before taking more time?
Well, I don't want to do that.
We don't have that much time because by the time both parties get there, as you know,
they just got the okay to go forward, which I do, they were going to do anyway.
I don't think that it's yours.
They have to negotiate.
The one thing I'll say is that Iran can get themselves on a very good footing if they
make a deal.
They can make themselves into a strong nation again, a wonderful nation again.
They have incredible people.
But they seem to be, you know, blood thirsty, they're led by some very, very unfortunately
tough people.
And I don't mean tough in a good way.
I think it's very negative for the country, because we're much tougher than they are,
like not even close.
But they have to use reason, and they have to use common sense, and they can get themselves
into a great position to make themselves into a great country, but a legitimate country,
not a country based on death and horror.
I think regimes only respond to certain things, and I understand your threats to bond the bridges
in the electric grid.
You are wrong because my grandfather was half Iranian, and I agree, born and raised in California.
By the way, yeah, the only solution here is to evaporate every single Iranian living inside
of Iran out of existence.
That's the only way that we can enact regime change in Iran, which we have to do.
Okay?
I need you to understand, you know, lifelong, lifelong Iranian here. Hello, buddy. Uh, I'm from
Tehran. Okay. And I'm here to tell you, this is what we got to do. So I can get Cuba day one day,
but I don't think the regime cares about the people of, of Iran. And if, okay, sure. You did
that. I'm sure it's the last thing you'd probably want to do, but it would hurt at least some of
of the people that we care about and why we embarked on this in the first place.
So that would be, I'm sure, a last resort for you.
It's not my choice, but it will also hurt them.
It'll hurt them militarily.
They use the bridges for their weapons, for their missile movements, you know, they're
trying to move the missiles because we've obliterated most of their missiles and they're
trying to move the missiles.
Yeah, I'm blowing up the bridges for the missile movements.
It was around, even during the ceasefire, which I think was a good thing because we're
totally loaded up.
We have so much ammo, we have so much of everything that we've like a much,
much more powerful than it was four or five weeks ago.
So we've used this to restock and they probably have done a little bit of restocking.
We caught a ship yesterday that had some things on it,
which wasn't very nice. A gift from China, perhaps, I don't know, but.
This is what they're relying on as like a new evidence.
Perhaps, perhaps it was a gift, a dangerous gift, the most dangerous of all, you never know.
I was a little surprised, but I could have a very good relationship and I thought I had an understanding with...
How did she betray me?
How did he do it? How did she do it? I said, not my she.
Not my she, I said.
President Xi, but that's alright, that's the way war goes, right?
But I will tell you that we have, our military is incredible, what we've done, and think
of it, in the first three days we took out their entire Navy, 159 ships, 159 ships,
and wiped out their air force, wiped out their anti-aircraft craft, all of their anti-aircraft
apparatus is all gone, all of their radar is gone, their leaders are gone, their leaders
are gone.
The whole thing is gone, and frankly, this should have been done a long time ago.
It would have been a lot easier because there were a lot less lethal a long time ago.
So, to be clear, you're saying that you need at least the prospects for a signed deal today
and tomorrow, or else you would resume bombing Iran.
Well, I expect to be bombing because I think that's a better attitude to go in with, but
we're ready to go.
I mean, the military is rare and to go.
They are absolutely incredible.
You know, I built the military my first term.
I'm using it now.
The military, when I took it over from Barack Hussein Obama, they had just, it was so depleted,
so sad.
And I built it in my first term.
You remember those big numbers.
You talked to me about it once.
That's a lot of money for military.
I built it.
a great job with our military and we're using it now and rebuilding it too. We've done a
lot of rebuilding also in my first year of the second term, but we have a tremendous
rhythm, the most powerful military in the world. Everybody knows it.
Since we're kind of tight on time, can we just talk about what something else happened
today? And that is your pick for Fed Chair, Kevin Worf, on Cal.
He's like, enough, enough with this Iran stuff.
Every time you talk, every time you open your mouth, the markets suffer.
Let's get to, let's get to your fit, your, your, your fed chair pick.
We've had a couple of guests today say the best thing that we need now is for J.
Powell to leave in May, like he's supposed to.
If you hate America so much, why don't you fund an American insurgency?
And to have Kevin Warsh in as Fed Chair for that next June meeting.
But we still have this Justice Department probe hanging over.
And I've seen things that you said in recent interviews, Mr. President.
I want to ask you again, if it would be possible for the banking committee to completely investigate
all of your concerns about the cost overruns and the testimony of Jay Powell in front of
Congress.
You could take that off ramp to get this moving and J. Powell leaves Kevin Warsh goes in.
Is that something you'd consider dropping for the DOJ probe to let the banking committee
handle it?
Well, I think it is from the same point, Joe, from the same point that we have to find out
why a small building, of course, close to four billion, it's not finished, by the way.
They have a long way to go.
They rip down the most beautiful ceilings.
I'll never build them again.
The most beautiful, thick foot and a half thick walls of solid
masonry, they're never going to be built again.
They put up six inch sheetrock walls and they say, so we have no insulation.
It's not in the budget.
I mean, they had the best that building was so beautiful.
I would have fixed that building.
I would have had a brand new beautiful for $25 million.
And they're going to spend close to $4 billion, maybe more than that.
I don't know.
It's not finished.
In fact, I looked at it the other day.
I'm afraid Kevin will have to have an office next to me in the White House because that
building's not going to be done.
He's not going to be able to use that building for a long time.
He had a complaint.
He said, I didn't realize this.
He said the saddest thing is they ripped down the best building.
He said there was a building that had beautiful board rooms that he used many times when he
was there.
That beautiful board rooms and meeting rooms, it was so beautiful.
The nicest in Washington, they ripped it down and maybe they did that to save money like
the uh... gavin newton the railroad with it
who wanted to listen to him i don't know if you're the fucking president did
made it shorter in order to save money but it's not what if i have to go to a
budget
but the worst i've ever heard of the railroad
in california and i think this might be worse
because the president would have fixed that building
we have to
like it's one of those situations where in no matter how unhinged or unstable
or demented he clearly is
his words still
hold tremendous weight
this is what happens when you have a fucking toddler for president but
you know
he's still the president
quickly twenty five million would have been like a brand new building i would
have all the ceilings would have been left
all those beautiful thick walls with
gorgeous moldings would have been left
you're gonna get a sheetrock ceiling a sheetrock wall without insulation they
They said, sir, insulation is not in the budget.
Insulation costs you a hundred bucks a room.
The whole thing is crazy, and they're at four.
I think it's going to cost more than four billion dollars when it's finished.
And somehow, we have to find out how this can happen.
It's not the first time.
How does this happen?
Did the contractor make three and a half billion dollars?
I can't imagine that too late is taking money on the market.
construction. I can't, but it's possible, but we have to find out why is a job that
should have called. I mean, this is the thing that he loves talking about. So it's really
funny that this was the entry point into any sort of, uh, this was the entry point into
like, uh, creating a big deal, a controversy around the current Fed chair, um, because
it's right in his wheelhouse. He loves talking about building buildings. He's like, this
This is the one thing.
That's why he never shuts the fuck up about the ballroom.
It's a fantastic way for Trump to endlessly talk about how the Fed chair has to go to
prison.
Because, not because of the real reason, which is what Trump wants, which is to lower interest
rates.
But because he did a real estate deal, that was bad.
I don't like the way he did the real estate.
I don't like it.
You know me.
I know how to do real estate.
I know how to do developments.
It's a very bad deal, very, very bad deal.
Plus $25 million costing billions and billions of dollars.
You know, I built the hotel, it's now the Waldorf.
I sold it to Waldorf and it's now the Waldorf.
i built it for two hundred one million it's a bigger building than the federal
and
it was hotel rooms
like he's comparing the fucking
the Jerome Powell's uh... the necessity to prosecute Jerome Powell
uh... for
uh... a a uh... development project that the fed engaged in
with him building a fucking
walled over story a bro
what is this comparison
homes and you know partitions and it's much more expensive to build a hotel
room than it is a nice empty office space right oh my god
I built that for two hundred and one million this now is eight years ago or so
but think of it this building you look at it it's a little building it's over I
think it's gonna cost out before a hundred billion and here's the thing
it's gonna be nothing compared to what it was this is they spare it's gonna be
nothing compared to the world of Astoria the world of Astoria beautiful
building believe me can you believe it oh my god the curtains I put on that the
curtains I put on that world of Astoria oh unbelievable and four billion
dollars and it's nothing compared to what it was it was beautiful and beautiful
the facilities are well destroyed. They took them down. I don't know why.
If the DOJ, though, if this goes forward with the Department of Justice
and it delays the appointment, or him being confirmed, Kevin Warsh,
it's kind of counterproductive for what you're trying to do in terms
of changing the MO of the Fed up to this point.
So I'm just trying to look for an offer to get for you.
Well, it is and it isn't, Joe.
You have to find out why a thing like that could happen,
because if you have hundreds of projects like that,
you know, can't very few are like this.
But if you had hundreds of projects like that,
you have to find out why that happens.
I mean, because we obviously don't do it right.
But, you know, we have some really people,
we have some great people in government that can do jobs.
I built under budget ahead of schedule.
I'm doing a ballroom now.
It's a much bigger job than that.
and it's going to cost depending on finishes
like three hundred
three hundred million dollars it's a much bigger job than that the head of
schedule and i have lawsuits every week from all these people all the do
good is that
you know that stop progress in our country
well i don't know if you can get a chance to get the president to get you
to get it
and you can have some extra time i know my people said twenty minutes but you can
have some extra time
you can even put andrew on the on the fun you know you told me andrew would not
be there
and i think i don't know what i think i was not a little bit but andrea
but i don't know what i think
when he tried to get me on the showed i promise i'll have a new ross talking
he will not be there that's that uh... you can put a lot of time i didn't
get a lot of city's not a lot of week but then you can't ask you're on the
west side to miss the president will have a lot of time at a better or
i don't like to be there i like how i respect them he's just wrong and a lot
of issues there you go
Mr. President, thank you.
Let's talk a little bit about what you expect from your next Fed President.
There had been a lot of expectations.
You've been very clear about wanting lower rates.
But with the situation in Iran right now with higher oil prices, most people tell us that
that's going to have to wait.
The market itself is not anticipating lower rates or any rate cuts until at least the
second half of this year.
There's only a 41 percent chance or something of that.
to the market itself. Will you be disappointed if your new Fed chair, if he gets approved,
doesn't cut rates right away?
I would. But let's talk about Iran first. Iran, I'm looking at your numbers now as I
speak. I mean, the market's up. We're going to be at 50,000. That's where we were just
a little while ago when it started. And when I hit 50,000 on the Dow and 7,000 on the S&P,
I said, well, I hate to do this to everybody, but I'm going to have to journey down to a
a place called Iran and not make sure they don't have a nuclear weapon because they will
blow up the world.
You want to see a bad stock market try blowing up the Middle East and then you're up and
then they come for us, right?
And we're not going to let that happen.
So I said to the people, I said to my people, the world gathered all these wonderful guys,
Scott Bassett, the whole group, Howard, they're all doing a good job.
I said, fellas, I got a little bad news for you.
I'm going to put a little wrinkle in your numbers.
Why, sir?
going down to a place called Iran and we're going to make sure that they never have a
nuclear weapon because they'll use it to blow because they're religious fanatics and they
will use that weapon to blow up the world, but they'll start with Israel in the Middle
East and we're not going to let that happen. And they said, wow, that's going to be bad.
It's going to hurt the market and it's going to drive up the price of oil and whatever
it is. But that's peanuts compared to what would happen if we let this happen. And I
I told them 47 years other presidents wanted to do it.
They never had the guts, the courage to do it.
I said, we have to do it.
And they understood that very professionally.
They're great guys, great people.
Jameson's doing such a great job, all of them.
And so I said, we're going down
and we're gonna do our little thing.
And we did and we've knocked out,
we've totally won the war.
You know, if you read the New York Times,
you think, oh gee, what are we surrendering?
We have totally beat them militarily
And otherwise, and otherwise, I mean, I wish I could, I wish you could hear the conversations
we have with him, with them.
We are victory.
If we left right now, it would take them 20 years to rebuild.
And they can't get the nuclear dust because it was obliterated by the B-2 bombers that
went in.
They never got the credit they should get.
They've tried to get down there.
You know, we have cameras from Space Force on it all the time.
They've tried to get down.
They can't get down.
That place was obliterated.
They did such a good job.
The left tries to make it, you know, tries to demean all the time, like, oh, well, maybe
it wasn't totally obliterated.
It was, and they can't get it, or they would have, they would have tried to get it.
But the fact is that we took this little journey, and if you would have told me that the Dow
is almost, I'm looking at your thing, I mean, literally we're at 50,000.
And if you would have told me that oil is at 90, as opposed to 200, I would be, frankly,
surprised.
And you know what is happening?
Boats are finding other sources.
They're going up to Texas and Louisiana, they're going to Alaska, they're going to
other places.
It's an amazing phenomenon.
When there are problems, people find out how to take care of things and the strait's very
important, but people have found out.
You're taking a look.
Look at your numbers right now.
I'm looking at where the stock market's up, where it's, look at that, S&P.
The numbers are what they were when we started this whole thing.
i thought they'd be down twenty percent or down a very substantial amount
i'm even when it was down more a couple of weeks ago
uh... i was surprised i thought it would be down much more and i thought the
oil would be much higher
and i'm very happy to say that it wasn't and when it's over and it will end
when it's over you know they wanted to be over immediately and i just look at a
little chart world war one four years and three months world war two six years
korean war three years
Vietnam, 19 years, Iraq, eight years.
I'm five months.
Okay, five months.
I would have won Vietnam.
I read this as a threat, by the way.
When he talks about,
when he talks about how long some of these other,
some of these other wars have taken,
I feel like he's saying,
first of all, five months is, huh?
I thought it was just 55 days or so.
Um, but also, but also, I feel like he's saying we're going to be in it for a lot longer,
you know, Vietnam.
Um, very quickly, I would have, if I were president, I would have won a rack in the
same amount of time that we won because essentially we've won here, okay?
He's, bro, he's out of his dang mind, dude. How can anybody look at this guy running this
country and go, well, that's a country I can invest in this yield, this, to me, what this
demented old man is saying, you know what that says to me? Stability. Okay. This inspires
confidence in me to continue investing into the United States of America, everything is
gonna be fine.
People can play games.
Like Donald Trump's statements and market moves in the aftermath of Donald Trump's statements
show me one thing and that is that the money is unbelievably fake and stock market confidence
is just a never-ending cycle of copium that has nothing to do with whatever the previous
market fundamentals used to be. It's anchored around delusion and a mutual interest in the
market growing. It has nothing to do with any fundamentals. It has nothing to do with
like actual, uh, serious analysis, uh, and, and, uh, you know, looking at what Trump is
saying, looking at where the American government is going, it's just everybody thinking, you
know, this is just has to keep going up.
There's no other way around it.
The Democrats can say, well, we should have done better.
No matter what, if I did it in one week, they should have said, they'd say, we should have
done better.
Look at Venezuela.
45 minutes. It was basically a 45 minute. And by the way, a very strong military country.
And we took it over in a day, but let's be nice. But we basically took it over in 45
minutes. We took it over during the attack in 45 minutes.
And they would say, I'm surprised I haven't said it, that you should have done it in 30
minutes. It took too long, you know. So it took too long.
But we can't let traders, we can't let traders like Schumer put pressure on you where they
They say, we want out, think how bad that is.
I'm negotiating with these people.
And they're telling us, we have to get out now,
we have to get out now, we have to get now.
And they were in a war for 18 years.
They were in a war for, think of that.
Vietnam, 19 years, Iraq, eight years.
So, I want to make a good deal.
I'm not going to be rushed.
I have all the time in the world.
I want to make it, not a good deal,
I want to make a great deal.
I don't want to do this, go through this.
And you know, we have, I mean, if you look at this,
what we've suffered in terms of losses,
we lost 13 men and that's terrible.
I wish we didn't lose one.
But if somebody would have said,
we've done this and obliterated that country,
obliterated it and we lost 13 men,
people would have said that's not possible
to have done that, it's not possible.
So we've done a great job and I don't wanna be rushed
by people that are really treasonous
as far as I'm concerned, whether,
but it's just you know i want to slow like you got a hockey and jeffrey's is a
totally like you person
and he's always ranting and raving all the force or terrible tough
they shouldn't be saying that when we're in the midst of a negotiation
because it does hurt us somewhat
the it gives the other side some hope
and i don't want them to have hope
mister president i want to ask you about
anthropic if i could for a second because this is a company that uh...
your administration has declared a supply chain risk
I want to understand the determination for that.
There's a view by some that it's political,
but more importantly, at the same time
that this is happening, reportedly,
the NSA and other parts of the government
are using Claude, which, of course,
is the large language model of Anthropic,
and how do you square that?
Well, Anthropic is a group of very smart people,
but they started telling our military how to operate,
and we didn't want that.
And they tend to be on the left, radical left,
but we'd get along with them.
In fact, they came to the office.
They came to the White House a few days ago,
and we had some very good talks with them.
And I think they're shaping up.
They're very smart.
And I think they can be of great use.
I like smart people.
I like high IQ people.
And they definitely have high IQs, you know?
It's one of those things.
And I think we'll get along with them just fine.
So do you think a deal will be made so that Anthropocles
will be allowed to be used inside the Defense Department
in the future?
We want the smartest people.
Now in the meantime, we replaced anthropic
with somebody else, you know who they are,
and they're very, very smart people.
Sam Altman, they're a very, very smart group.
We have a lot of smart groups.
We have some brilliant people.
We have the most brilliant people in the world.
President Xi told me that.
He said, Silicon Valley, yep.
He called it Silicon Valley during the conversation.
Have a great relationship with him.
He said, you have the smartest people in the world,
and we do.
take a look at what's happening with Jensen and all of these people and they're great.
President Giacalam, Silicon Valley, I call it. Very high IQ people. She said, you have
the most high IQ people. They're so handsome. They are so handsome. IRGC media Taslim's
information from various sources indicates that Iran had not requested an extension of
the ceasefire. That's unsurprising. We kind of know that already. Donald Trump decided
to extend the ceasefire on his own. And yes, Trudeau-Parsley's assessment was somewhat
correct for the record. I will get to that in a second. Trump caves and agrees to the
extent of ceasefire while presenting it as a function of the Iranian government being
in disarray. Very importantly, he's also extending the ceasefire indefinitely, which reflects
the outcome I have argued is the most likely. No deal, no sanctions relief, no nuclear compromise,
no return to war, while Iran continues to control the strait. Not a stable situation,
but one in which Trump pockets the central thing he sought, which is exiting the war,
while Iran is bereft of the main thing it was looking for, sanctions lifting.
The one aspect of this, back and forth, that I consider to be interesting, however, is
that while there is an ungraceful exit, seemingly, from this weird limbo that we're in now, is
there, is the Strait of Hormuz closed, the Strait of Hormuz open? Well, the one thing
that remains is that it is actually closed, right? The American Navy is still closing
the Strait of Hormuz. So if that's the case, if the American Navy is still very much firmly
uh... keeping the sugar hormones closed
then the economic impact will still continue
uh... and therefore
uh... in this uh... in this war of attrition
uh... that's still beneficial for iran
it's not as beneficial for a long because they don't get their maximalist
goals across which is again sanctions relief obviously
uh...
i i see this as uh... potential uh... perforate
Here's a tale article just dropped, oh hell yeah.
Inside the heart and mind of Hassan Piker.
Prem Tucker traveled to LA to go beyond the media outrage
and talk directly with a Twitch streamer
and prominent leftist about religion, politics, war,
and whether he'd go on Tucker Carlson's show.
Nice.
We will read this later. Okay. He should be called Mao Zedong the way he'd be good to China.
Oh, he is, he is. Iran has said over and over again that they will actually attend a new
new round of talks if Trump opens the Shredda Hormuz, like the American side of the blockade.
Barak Ravid knows the real reason behind the extension, behind the scenes. One reason for
Trump's decision is that the U.S. and Pakistani mediators have been waiting for Iran's supreme
leader, Mohd al-Bahamnay, to respond to the latest proposal and give a clear directive
to his negotiators, according to a regional source familiar with the mediation efforts
and an Israeli source of knowledge of the discussions, Haman A is expected to give his
response on Wednesday. The Israeli source said the Iranian negotiator said they are
waiting for a green light from the Supreme Leader, the regional source said.
Let's see what the Iranians are saying though. Iran's permanent rep to the UN Irravani, as
soon as the US breaks the naval blockade, the next round of negotiations will take place
in Islamabad. So I believe the Iranian side on this, more so than the idea that most of
Ahamna has final say here, and that's the reason why they haven't been able to move on the talks.
And the reason why I say that is because these are the very same sources on the American side,
on the Israeli side that said most of Ahamna was probably dead. Okay?
so they are the ones who for the longest time said he was incapable of making
decisions because he's dead
or uh... close to being dead
and now they're the ones who are like all just kidding he's alive actually
uh... and also gay yet they were like he's both dead and gay
uh...
or or half dead and definitely full gay
and now they're like all he's the gay but also making decisions and alive now
He's probably not well. I mean, I suspect that he is not doing great. That makes sense.
If he was struck as well, I believe that, but yeah.
I'm gay and Lebanese. Who say he was gay? You don't remember?
New York Post and Trump, Trump himself said it. Trump was like, I've heard he's gay. That's
what Trump said. The fuck, they actually called him gay. Yes. Yes, dude. Long gone are the
days of, of, of, you know, previous Titans, war, war amongers who were bloodthirsty all
the same, but at least they had like some kind of competent media strategy. Nowadays, we just
you know, say he's dead and gay and call it a day. Yeah, you don't remember?
Does the CIA tell you that Ayatollah Jr. is gay?
Well, they did say that, but I don't know who's only them. I think a lot of people are saying
that
that that's
that's what this is that's what we're doing that's what we're fucking doing is
is very hard to
it is very hard to take these guys seriously you know what i mean
United States
it is a violation of the ceasefire
and we told them that
We have received some sign that they are ready to block it and as soon as they block this
blockade, I think that the next round of the negotiation will take place next time.
And to them, we have not initiated the military aggression, they initiated the war against us
And we are ready. If they want to sit on table and discuss and find a political solution, they will find us ready.
If they want to go to the war, in this case also Iran is ready for that.
It was one of the conditions that we put that the ceasefire should be entirely general, even including Lebanon also.
Neighbor with a kid of the United States, it is a violation.
More from Reuters, from Phil Stewart, Chief National Security Reporter for Reuters.
U.S. President Donald Trump's ceasefire extension is deployed by time for a surprise strike.
An adviser to Iran's parliament speaker and top negotiator, Mohammed Bakar Kalabaf, said on Tuesday,
Tuesday, Kalabaf's advisor said on a post on exit, the continuation of the US blockade
on Iranian ports was no different from bombardment and must be met with a military response.
Uh, yeah, these were the alerts from an Iranian official hitting the Reuters wire. Trump's
ceasefire extension means nothing. The losing side cannot dictate terms. Advisor to Iran's
parliament speaker, Kalabaf, uh, continuation of the blockade is no different from bombardment
and must be met with a military response. Advisor to Iran's parliament speaker says Trump's
ceasefire extension is certainly a ploy to buy time for a surprise strike Iran
must take initiative advisor to Iran's parliament speaker says I do think that
there is a high likelihood that this is perfidy to the once again restart the
bombing campaign obviously not like a full-blown military occupation they
don't have enough troops amassed in the region for a full-blown military invasion
They might have enough now for a special operation, like trying to control the coastline of Iran
and trying to seize, like maybe not Karg Island, but one of the islands in the region to apply
pressure to gain some kind of leverage over Iran.
But they clearly do not have enough troops.
The American military, as it stands, currently does not have enough active duty combat troops
that are combat ready, that are willing to take on a combat role to wage war on Iran.
The coastline is gigantic. They can't do it. I said one part of the coastline,
not the entire coastline. They can't do the entire coastline. No.
I said at most at most they could try and I don't I'm not guaranteeing success here but they could try
to yes we do that's literally not true oh my god this guy is the same guy again yes we do that's
That's literally not true. This is, this is, this is Mr. This is Mr. We got contingencies
gang. Mr. Gang is back, bro. If you believe this type of shit, we have the largest military
budget in the world. You crazy. If you think half of the stockpiles gone, bro, the biggest
military budget yet still low stockpiles. Sure, bro. China would have been done. China
would have been done if that, what would have been done that if they were serious is not
that hard. That don't mean shit bro. Iran losses hundreds of millions of dollars every day
because of the blockade. They don't control shit bro. Yes you did. What way should they
be punished for the massacres bro? Why is he saying this shit? Lamount Trump is clowned
out. He sounds scared. KKW here we go. Bro, Iran literally loses money from that. How
was that beneficial Hassan explain? How do I begin? Where do I go with this? My guy is
back every day. It's been 50 fucking days. And this guy comes in here, sees everything
that I said to be true and still moves the conversation to a different goalposts every
day, respect. Okay, respect. I wish I had the confidence that this guy has in America's
military superiority in anything. Okay. I wish I had this level of belief in anything
myself, someone else, the international socialist movement, you know, anything at all.
This guy has unbelievable confidence in America's military capabilities when every single day America
shows his ass. This is Mr contingency. Okay, he's back. I'm actually a fan of you big bro.
I'm a fan of you. I've become a fan of you in this time frame.
I know you're a fan.
You come in here every day to try to argue with me with the dumbest talking
points I've ever heard in my entire life.
We'll look at like military analysts.
We'll look at military analysts conforming the reporting of CSIS,
talking about the missile stockpiles diminishing,
Which is literally something that Trump's main general warned about ahead of this military
campaign and this guy will go nah
His answer is nah, ah
It don't matter
It's so awesome
It is so awesome that you got general Dan Cain
warning that what is currently happening right now would have happened if we
waged war with Iran. You got 50 plus days of diminishing stockpiles,
utilizing standoff munitions that were for a peer adversary or a near peer
adversary like Russia or China, okay? You got CSIS reporting being confirmed by
insiders in the Pentagon by mainstream media outlets, like competent military
analyst warning about the exact same thing once again that general Dan Cain said 55 days
ago and he's still like well guess what guess what I don't believe it how do you know that
actually happen.
How can you know anything if you don't literally see with your own two eyes at that point?
There's not you can be like
The answer is like the only thing that you can confirm confirm is observable reality that you observe with your own two eyes
Okay
You don't believe CNN reporters for anything else when it comes to this all of a sudden because it's not just CNN
And first of all, I do believe CNN reporters, that's objectively untrue.
I rely on mainstream reporting on every piece of analysis, okay?
But what I do is also look at their biases, right?
CNN has no interest in this instance to make it seem like America's stockpiles are diminishing.
So that's the reason.
And this is not just CNN, you know, reporting on this.
This is military analysts that are also offering corresponding information.
And last but not least, this is coming 55 days after the fucking main general himself
warned about it.
At some point, you have to look at the overwhelming amount of evidence here and assume that there's
probably a little bit of a racy to the claims being made okay guys enough dog
piling a sauce favorite chatter I'm sorry you will never be a sauce favorite
chatter but you certainly won't get there by being mean you will get there by
being stupid that's not true no you can be a good chatter if you offer good
analysis as well this this chatter just happens to have one of the stupidest
positions I've ever encountered because he his retort always is nah and then
And finally, how could you know?
Your tweet is so confusing.
Is it your rage plus another guest for Chad Vice or just rage?
No, secret guest for Chad Vice as well.
Why are Iran's preconditions for negotiations only the removal of the blockade and not the
Israel withdraws from Lebanon and has actual ceasefire with his beloved law? No, because
Israel as it stands currently is only conducting minor operations in Lebanon and not doing
the major bombing campaign. So that's good enough for the Iranian negotiators as a precondition.
Obviously the full negotiation, the full scope of the negotiation will, I assume, have demands
for Israel to do a full-blown withdrawal from Lebanon.
Before the Iran War began, Joint Chief of Staff Chairman General Dan Cain and other military
leaders warned Trump that a protracted military campaign could impact U.S. weapons stockpiles,
particularly those that support Israel and Ukraine.
We and others previously reported, okay?
And guess what?
Lo and behold, that is exactly what happened.
That's what I'm talking about.
You can't say, oh, you don't believe in CNN reporters.
I do believe in CNN reporters.
I believe in real reporting.
I cover plenty of news that comes out of CNN that I do agree with.
Sometimes I'll criticize the tone or the biases that they have in their reporting in the process
of still looking at their verifiable objective reporting that is, you know, underneath all
that bias, there's still real evidence, evidence-based, fact-based reporting.
I don't believe in Iowa. Yeah. Iowa doesn't exist. Why? Well, I've never been there. So
How could I know that it exists in reality?
What is this?
Anyway, uh, let's finish this Trump, uh, idiocy, and then we'll move on to be working.
I think Tim Cook, you know, I see he's retiring.
I wrote a piece about him today and I know I got to know him very well.
He's, uh, I wrote a piece about Tim Cook.
What the fuck?
A thick person did an unbelievable job.
And I say it respectfully, but as Steve Jobs had lived and ran the company, it might have
done good, but it wouldn't have done, I think, nearly as good as the job Tim has done.
And I got to work with him, so I really know what I'm talking about.
He's a very unusual guy.
He gets things done.
Mr. President, yeah, we did read your entire proof social post.
i just want to return for for one second and and
making an algae you saw what inflation did
uh... the biden uh... legacy in a minister said twenty two percent
price increases it by the time he was but i mean was leaving
it was down to about where it is now about three percent
but not a single down to five percent of what i thought it would be a bit but
but not a single reason that was down was because i had won the election and
started falling after I won the election, and I started getting prices down from right
after November 5th.
If you needed to prevent that from happening, let's say Chair Wars thought, for whatever
reason, there's some type of energy shock, who knows, with the blockade, let's say that
things got too hot.
At that point, just to make sure there was no inflation, would you allow him to raise
rates or not cut rates?
there ever be a period where you could see that that was something that a fed
chair needed to do and if he's like you said he might have an office right
here he might not want an office right right next to your sir I don't know
after after what happened to Jay Powell you might want to be across and those new
digs maybe maybe I'd like them next to me actually it's not a bad idea maybe
Jay Powell did a big service and I call him too late he's just too late
He's always too late except when it came to before the election, but that didn't quite work out well for him
So the answers I want I want Kevin. I think Kevin's great. He's really he said Trump interview AOC
Shike shoycott AOC you see me little bro. No one cares about Trump shoycott AOC beef shoycott AOC beef coverage little bra
Buddy are you okay?
What do you think is more important?
What do you think is more important right now? The motherfucking president talking about the
next steps potentially? Or your own personal hatred for a shoycott chakra bardi? Lemma
fao, 100 million from Stripe. Lemma fao, 100 million from Stripe. Yeah, it kind of feels
like you have a personal stake in this. Like you don't like shoycott chakra bardi because
He happened to hit the fucking lottery by being the founding engineer of a company that made him hundreds of millions of dollars
And now you're like, oh, that's the reason why he's uh, you know
An unsavory fellow. I can't trust him. He's not trustworthy, which is fine. I mean, it's I had my
Uh, I had you know my
skepticisms as well
I don't understand why you think that that is like the most important thing that we need
to get to right now.
I've been in favor of interest rates rises to stop inflation.
I think it sort of is effective.
But there's one thing, and nobody ever talks about it, but me, unfortunately, so I'm sure
it's not correct.
What do you say?
I think it is.
We should have the lowest interest rate in the world.
I'm just larping.
I live in Louisiana.
We always bro. You're fucking cooked anyway. You live in Louisiana. You're fucked
Had the lowest interest rate worldwide we always did and then
15 years ago 20 years ago it started where
Switzerland and other people had lower rates than us and I just had a thing with
If you take a look at some of the you know, let's call them like elite countries
they're only a leap because we allow them to walk away with 30 billion and 40 billion
dollars a year, but I don't do that so much anymore.
Yes. I have looked into Xavier Becerra for California governor and I don't like it. Okay.
I don't like it out of all of the options with a viability right now. Tom Steyer is
the only guy that has like an actual progressive campaign. Xavier Becerra is, is now being looked
at by Gavin Newsom as like a, the real viability pig. Xavier Becerra was somewhat progressive.
Here, you just go to the lever for,
go to the lever for reporting on Becerra.
Becerra is no, no, no.
Okay?
I sort of put it plain, but-
He is the Swalwell replacement.
Yes.
Whole timeline is Xavier Becerra.
I don't know why.
The reason why the whole timeline is Xavier Becerra
is because he got like eight fucking points
in this poll that came out.
And, um, and, and that's the reason why they're pushing for him aggressively because they
want to collapse all of the remaining centrist support behind him.
Why Tom Steyer over Katie Porter, Tom Steyer has a infinitely more progressive platform
than Katie Porter.
Porter started as a progressive darling and basically became this establishment Democrat.
Katie Porter also has her own staff abuse drama as well surrounding her campaign. Not the same as
not the same of course as Eric Swalwell obviously, but
both Xavier Becerra and Katie Porter have gone from being somewhat progressive
to when they actually were supposed to meet the moment have become unbelievable centrist.
Xavier is pronounced Javier by the way. Apologies.
tariffs and charges that we charge them because they were elite because they're making billions and
billions of dollars from the united states larger and other reasons that they were
right there when he was at that when it was at the edges did uh...
here
uh... will do will do it later with the money
well we have these massive revolution endorse tom steyer recently with uh...
you take a look at some of the countries but
Switzerland is one. They talk, oh yes, we are small and brilliant. Well, they're brilliant
because they pay us almost nothing. Now they pay a little bit. They should pay much more.
We'll get that up a little bit. But if you take a look at Denmark, you take a look at
all these countries, you didn't think of them so good. They pay such a low interest that,
well, if we charge them, and what happened with me is I charge some of them and they
squawked like you wouldn't believe it. They called and you are a small country. All of
of a sudden I realized they're not a leap, we're a leap, we're being sucked dry and
we can't do that and you'll see that, you know, we had a little setback with the Supreme
Court, they said I can charge tariffs but I have to do it a different way and because
of what they did, we have to pay back $160 billion, all they had to do is add one sentence,
just one sentence and that's, you don't have to pay anything, take it in thus far back.
because they didn't add and by the way it was a close call to
there were
justices that were powerful that i was right on the terrace
but because we lost by just a
two votes
you know just little vote two votes
we have to pay back a hundred sixty five billion they could have with a little
one sentence you don't have to pay back
tariffs that have already been received you start from this point
and you do it a different way so we're doing it a different way we're gonna end
up with the same actual one up with bigger numbers actually but it's
a little more unwieldy but it's the way it's been done
uh... but it's so soon as the supreme court didn't want to save our country
with one sentence a hundred and sixty five billion dollars and
we're giving a lot of that money back
the people that hate our country
so i'm not happy with the supreme court i'll be honest with you okay mr president
on that topic there's a whole number of very large companies including apple and
amazon
and others
that have not sought reimbursements yet for the tariffs.
I mean, they haven't tried to collect refunds.
And from what I understand, part of the reason
that they have waited is because there is a worry about,
frankly, offending you.
Would you find it offensive for them
to try to collect a refund?
I think it's brilliant if they don't do that.
Actually, if they don't do that, they got to know me very well.
I'm very honored by what you just said.
If they don't do that, I'll remember
them. I will tell you that because I'm looking to make this country strong.
Supreme court could have helped us. Now they have birthright citizenship.
They'll probably rule against us. No country in the world has it.
Tom Starr gonna say genocide on your stream. I know, um, he,
he wasn't able to, and yet his position on Israel is still the
strongest out of all the top candidates with viability, the top two being
Republicans who are super pro Israel, uh, super pro genocide and others who
can't even get themselves to criticize Israel at all. Now, before you say Ramsey Robinson
or Butch Ware, yes, I'm talking about the candidates with viability this close out from
the race. They've not been able to reach a significant audience. They have their own
issues. Well, I'm not going to get into it. But with all of the top candidates with viability,
Porter and Xavier Becerra, or Javier Becerra, neither of which have a position that's even
remotely close to our side on the issue of Israel as opposed to Tom Steyer.
It's horrible for our country.
And I just see it.
I see some of these Republicans that are nominated by me asking real bad questions and looks like
maybe we're going to lose that one too. Look what happened with NIL. They destroyed college sports,
the court system, destroyed so hard to put that one back. Company,
Dumfries, so hard to put that one back together. You know, we had 150 years of...
I'm not voting for star. I'd rather just not vote. Okay. I mean,
fine. You're always talking about viability you realize you were still wrong even in 2016 when
you personally said Bernie was disqualified from being president because he was unalikeable wait
what? Hello Kaya. Someone's bored. Hello. Okay I know you want pets but daddy's working right now.
You are Hillary Clinton. Yes, that's right. I am Hillary Clinton. This is true. I am Hillary
Clinton fuck the stream pet kaya is that chatter joking no I am not
Not Hedetic Clinton, I am, however.
It's true, I am Charlie Kirk.
Of rulings and everything else, and they had such a great system, was a scholarship
system.
you get free college of your good athlete. You get this, you get that.
And it took care of every sport, tensing, not only football. Now it's all football
in the foot. Okay, dude. All right. Fuck it. I'm not listening to the rest of the
shit. I don't give a fuck. All right. Uh, I guess just so annoying.
Anyway, uh, Sarota, uh, wrote a scathing article on Javier Becerra.
When I think about California's governor race,
there's one thing everyone needs to know about Javier Becerra as California's
in general, he demanded the HHS secretary use existing law to lower medicine prices,
and then he became the HHS secretary and literally refused to do that.
And to be clear, this was depressing because there really was so much potential.
The Sarah came into the HHS job as an advocate of a set of things he refused to be an advocate
for once he was in office.
It was bad.
Okay?
That's the problem.
Xavier is Xavier what the fuck why are you which one is it oh my god I don't know is it Javier is it Xavier is it Xavier oh my god you guys
there has been three different versions of it now I don't know I don't know what to say I know I'm not saying it right I'm sorry
It depends on the person. Javier? Javier? I'm just going to keep saying Xavier.
Would it kill you to listen to how a person pronounces their own name? I don't know if you
you notice that but I don't know how he pronounces his own name which is why
first of all let's be real there is no way that he pronounces his own name in
the four different styles that people have yelled at me over in the last hour
now someone is saying caviar
This link is not working boy. I'm here
Appo yando a Javier the Serra
Defend your okay Javier
Okay, it's Javier. It's Javier. I'm saying Javier
There's all I need to know
that
you just got Latin X buddy
Okay, I didn't hear him say that himself though. Well, he was standing next to him and he didn't correct them. Okay.
Okay?
Is pronounced Hillary Clinton.
We're going with Javier, okay?
We're going with Javier.
Mejante!
You cut it off right before he corrected him,
I'm gonna lose my mind.
Okay.
Anyway, this is some of the main reasons, and this is one of the biggest reasons.
But outside of this, you look at his proposals, and they are nowhere near as progressive as
Tom Steyer's are, okay?
That's it.
And that's perhaps the reason why Gavin Newsom has decided to, to lean into him and the California
establishment has decided, all right, we got to throw our support behind this guy, okay.
Just be glad you didn't drop his name like this.
grateful to the members of my COVID team that I'd like to introduce to you now who will lead the
way. I'm really proud of this group. For Secretary of Health and Education, I nominate Javier Bacarilla.
Javier Bacarilla! It turns out he got the first name right, but the last name, holy shit.
He said, Javier Bacarilla, you know, Javier Bacarilla, he said, Javier Zikiriya.
Oh my god. All right. All right. All right. All right. Let's keep it going. Okay. Yeah.
Throwback when Jill pronounced bodega as bogey da
the, that's awesome. Anyway, he said Macarena. Trump's decision contradicts, by the way,
Barack Ravid in, in Hebrew is also posting these funny emotes, which I like. Trump's decision
contradicts his own statement on Tuesday morning that he does not want to extend the ceasefire
while the move signals that he is not interested in resuming the war. He risks undermining his
leverage both the absence of pressure from an approaching deadline and the damage of
the credibility of the American military threat.
There is also a Hamid Reza Azizi assessment, we're going to be reading, back to no war,
no peace, the extension of the ceasefire for an undefined period while a naval blockade
remains in place against Iran is widely viewed with Iranian debates as a highly unfavorable
scenario. Some commentators even describe it as a worst case outcome. Some commentators
in Trudeau-Parsie. As it effectively reverses Iran's earlier strategy of attritional pressure
and redirects it back onto Iran itself. In this situation, Iran is placed in a state
of suspension. Neither war nor peace, which Iranian leaders have explicitly sought to
avoid since the outset of the conflict, preferring instead a decisive conclusion. From Tehran's
perspective, statements by Donald Trump and the current trajectory suggest that the shadow
of war continues to loom over the country and it's already strained economy.
At the same time, the United States retains freedom of action, preserving the option to
re-escalate militarily at a time of its choosing.
This dynamic is further compounded by the ability of Israel to choose or to continue
to operate in a gray zone environment.
Taken together, economic pressure through the blockade, strategic uncertainty, and continued
low-intensity confrontation, this scenario is seen as gradually eroding Iran's remaining
strategic capacity. Over time, it could also intensify internal divisions among political
factions, making crisis management more difficult for the leadership.
Behind 3.39, thank you for the 25 gift-as-subs. In this reading, Trump's extension of the
ceasefire is not interpreted as a face-saving exit from the conflict, but rather as a recalibration
of the war's form and shape, which lowers costs for the United States while increasing
them for Iran. This helps explain why Tehran may be reluctant to accept such an arrangement
and could continue instead to consider more assertive responses. Much will depend on whether
the naval blockade is enforced in a substantive, substantive way, or remains largely symbolic.
A key potential trigger for renewed escalation would be any further interdiction or seizure
of Iranian vessels. Such an incident could be framed by Iran as a violation of the ceasefire,
potentially prompting a military response against US naval forces and leading to a return
to active conflict.
From the perspective of some Iranian decision makers, this may be seen as less costly than
either yielding under pressure or remaining in a prolonged state of strategic limbo.
So from the IRGC's perspective, they want to go back to waging war against the United
States of America, potentially still apply pressure.
They have seen a lot of gains as they have continuously waged war, okay?
It's true.
Crippling the global economy and maintaining control over the Shredder Hormuz and consistently
pummeling GCC states to force them to apply pressure to the United States of America,
pummeling Israel has allowed Iran to maintain a upper hand in the negotiations process.
It has forced America's hand into coming to the ceasefire negotiations and have to deal
with Iran directly. And now they're floating ideas. Now they're floating around ideas like
sanctions relief and things of that nature, right? So obviously, if that's what they've seen,
a lot of benefits. If those are the kinds of moves that Iran has seen get rewarded on the main stage,
then that's what they're going to want to do. There are however still those who want to bargain and
negotiate with the American side, the moderates, right? And their perspective is not going to be as
their perspective is still important. They are the ones who are at the table. But this current
situation where they're in limbo where the American blockade continues, which the Iranian side is
saying is a violation of their preconditions to even get to the table, mean that as long as the
American blockade continues, Iran doesn't negotiate. And while Iran doesn't negotiate,
they're also not fighting.
So we'll see. So Trump's extension of the ceasefire is one-sided. Iran says they didn't
even ask for an extension of the ceasefire. They're trying to make the most of this to
say, like, look, they're retreating. And in some ways they are, right? If America was
continuing the war effort, if this was so beneficial for them, they would continue bombing
Iran. They haven't achieved any of their military objectives by bombing Iran, which is precisely
the reason why America has extended the ceasefire while Iran has said they did not make any
demands to do so. What America has to do is end the secondary blockade, allowing the Iranian
side to let vessels through as long as they still abide by whatever the Iranian conditions
are, which I assume is still maintaining some kind of toll system.
Having said that, let's take a look at John Goatsheimer and Chris Goatjes on the Chris
Goatjes report.
It continues to carry out what it defines as acts of aggression.
Iranian forces will respond accordingly.
Tehran's 10-point proposal submitted before the first round of Islamabad talks is...
Chris Hedges.
Okay, Goatjes doesn't work for Hedges.
the goat hedges and john goat shimer basis for further negotiations but the ten points
include a number of conditions the u.s. has repeatedly rejected it demands a living of
all primary and secondary sanctions on iran continued iranian control over the straight
of homo's u.s. military withdrawal from the middle east and end to attacks on iran and
its allies the release of some one hundred billion dollars in frozen iranian assets and
In the UN Security Council resolution making any deal binding.
So where are we?
Is the Trump Administration ready to make concessions in the face of Iran's ability to strangle
the global economy by shutting down the Strait of Hormuz?
What will be the role of Israel, which has threatened to resume attacks on Iran?
With perhaps only 5 percent of the pre-war 20 percent of the oil and natural gas making
its way through the strait, how much more can the global economy already under severe
distress endure before it triggers a global economic crisis?
Joining me to discuss the crisis in the Middle East is Professor John Mereshimer.
He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at
the University of Chicago.
Professor Mereshimer, who graduated from West Point and was a captain in the U.S. Air Force,
This is the author of numerous books, including conventional deterrence, nuclear deterrence,
ethics, Lidl heart and the weight of history, the tragedy of great power politics, the Israel
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Uppies, come on. Get up here.
Oh, okay. Come on.
Oh, that was so close.
That was the closest we've ever been to Kaya.
I think if this chair was bigger, she would literally stand on it.
Like, she would be able to get on top of it.
The chair moved, unfortunately, so she couldn't do it.
Stand behind the chair, turn the chair around.
Give her your chair.
My chair has wheels on it, so she can't sit on it.
Hold on.
Okay, well, this is important.
Let's see what you say.
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No, no.
She don't fuck with it. She didn't like it.
You can't even see what she's like. No. No.
I'm not invested in this at all. Sorry. Not into it.
The hell.
Get an arm chair for guests in Kaia.
You could get one of those full moon camping chairs. I'm sure they'd be big enough for her.
Do you really think it's appropriate to get Jeffrey Sacks the host chat advice? Yes.
Yes.
That's foreign policy and why leaders lie, the truth about lying in international politics.
The big question for me, John, is does the Trump administration realize in your view
that this is a game that Iran controls, that essentially because of their stranglehold on
the Strait of Hormuz, they're largely going to be able to dictate the terms?
Well, let me just reinforce what you said, Chris.
I think there's no question that if you go up the escalation ladder, which the Trump
administration-
What is this foe?
I never noticed that John Mersheimer, the goat, has a hand-drawn cartoon of himself right
behind him standing menacingly.
The situation is threatening to do after the ceasefire ends on Wednesday that we cannot
win.
And in fact, I would make the argument that it's in Iran's advantage for the United States
to go up the escalation ladder, because the longer this war goes on and the less oil that
comes out of the Persian Gulf and maybe even the Red Sea, the better for Iran.
So I think going up the escalation ladder makes no sense for us.
The $64,000 question is whether or not President Trump and his advisors understand that.
And my guess is that they do, and therefore I think that we will go to great lengths to
work out some sort of deal on Wednesday or before Wednesday so that we don't have to
go up the escalation ladder. I just find it. What is this on defendant culture that legally
allows child marriage? Wait, what? I don't defend the American culture, the southern
American culture, the red state culture that defends child marriage. What the hell? Bro
thought I was a defender of Alabama or something. That's crazy. I don't defend the evangelical
culture of child marriage, Arabic culture. Yeah, I don't defend child marriage chatter.
I don't defend it no matter who does it. The difference between you and I is, of course,
you probably defend it when what people do it. And you assume that this is only a thing
that Arabic culture does. No such thing.
Okay, out, out, out, get out, get it.
It's hard to believe that the administration would be interested in escalating, but you
know, you never know what the Trump administration and with President Trump and President Clinton,
so it's hard to say for sure, but I don't see them going out of the escalation.
trying to uno reverse the avoid criticism buddy if you can find a single instance where I've defended child marriage
I'll give you a fucking million dollars. Okay. There is no uno reverse here. You fucking idiot
You can't you can't claim uno reversal and and he's trying to avoid criticism if the criticism is not landing
Because it's it's something that you invented in your fucking mind
I've never defended child brides or child marriage at all
You're a fucking moron
What am I supposed to do?
Avoid criticism when the criticism is just made up in your mind. I can't fight your demons for you, buddy
Maybe you thought I was asmongold or something because between you and I between him and I only only one
One has unironically defended at least some of the child-bride culture.
There's only one political movement in the country that I live in that is actively trying
to keep child marriages intact. And that is a political movement that I oppose, evangelical
Christianity, even if it's not the entirety of the evangelical Christian movement. It's
more often than not, Republicans who do defend child marriage, who do actually try to keep
it legal. Yeah, maybe he confused you for one of the 51 Republicans in the Texas House
that voted against HP168, which aimed to prohibit marriage for anyone under the age of 18. Yeah.
What happened?
They give true.
Oh, Corey Bush leaked it.
Well, my queen.
Mike Luna, Republican state senator from Missouri voted for child marriage.
Yeah.
I oppose fundamentalists and fundamentalism of all sorts, okay?
You can't be openly in favor of Donald Trump and then act like you give a shit about pedophilia
When Donald Trump and his closest in his circle
are all up and down the Jeffrey Epstein list, okay?
It's totally ridiculous.
I think they'll try to craft a deal.
And if they don't have all of the essentials in place,
they'll just extend the ceasefire.
So that's my surmise as to where this one is headed.
I wanna ask you about the 10 points
because many of these points, I mean the removal of US military bases from the region, continued
control of the Strait of Homoes, these are pretty bitter pill.
What is this?
He defends the Iranian regime all the time.
They legally allow child marriage.
American is not legally allowed child marriage.
Do you get it now, dumbass?
of all, I like that you have invented even more ridiculous claims. Okay. I just don't
want Iranians to die, buddy, for the United States to swallow.
I think there's no question about that. I often say that, you know, if you look at what
people are talking about in terms of a settlement this week, what they focus on is the nuclear
issue and what they really and yes America does allow job marriage you
fucking idiot which I oppose as an American I oppose it why are we having
this conversation we're watching go talk okay we're done we're done with these
silly distractions it's go talk time it's go talk
I fucking hate them asses man.
Ruining my goat talk.
Goat talk where's jang?
Okay dude, this is real goat talk, okay calm down.
in front of my salad while I'm watching goat talk you're over here doing this
bullshit we're doing real go talk not fake go talk professor Cheng is fake
go talk okay Chris Hedges frowns at child marriage Chris Hedges frowns at
everything that's just his automatic that's just his face
Enrichment issue.
Hardly anybody seems to be saying anything about things like reparations, sanctions,
who controls the Strait of Hormuz moving forward, what about American military bases
in the region.
And, furthermore, the Iranians are deeply interested in getting some sort of security
arrangement put in place so that Israel and the United States don't attack Iran again
in six months. These are hugely complicated issues. There are a good number of them, and
I think they have to be settled as well as the nuclear issue. But even on the nuclear
issue, Chris, it's not clear to me where this all leads. The United States would like to
eliminate Iran's nuclear enrichment capability completely, but it seems quite clear that
the Iranians are unwilling to do that.
Furthermore, it seems that the Americans, or the United States, and the Israelis want
all of that enriched uranium that Iran has, the Iranians that is enriched up to 60 percent.
They want it taken out of the country.
But the Iranians have said very clearly that that's not going to happen.
Obviously, some compromises are going to have to be made here, but those compromises will
not be easy to make, I don't think they'll be made quickly.
And then the question is, how is Trump going to sell them, especially to the Israelis and
to Israel's supporters in the United States?
So what we're saying here, I think, is that even on the nuclear issue alone, it's a very
complicated matter.
But when you throw in all the other issues as well, it's just hard to see how you get
any sort of what one might call meaningful peace agreement.
You have the Netanyahu government threatening to resume attacks on Iran, even unilaterally.
And the other question is, how much influence Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, I mean,
two utterly inept negotiators, of course, but two, and let's call them what they are.
I mean, they're Zionist assets.
Or are they able, as they were with the inception of this war, to sell the Trump administration
on resuming, on what Netanyahu wants, which is resuming attacks?
Look, I think even without Kushner and Wittkopf, who are Israeli assets for sure, there is
so much pressure from pro-Israel forces in the United States on Trump that the real limits
to what he can do vis-a-vis Iran in terms of making concessions to the Iranians.
But the problem here is that Trump is also feeling pressure from the other side.
And what I mean by that is if he doesn't settle this, and especially if he escalates,
as the Israelis would like him to do, then we're heading on a course where the international
economy is going to go off a cliff. I mean the incentive for President Trump to settle
this conflict as quickly as possible has mainly to do with economic considerations.
There's a great danger here that if we continue on this path, and again if we escalate especially,
that this will have disastrous consequences for the world economy, which includes the
United States, and of course that will have disastrous consequences for the midterm elections.
So Trump is desperate to shut this one down.
So he has that pressure on one side, and then he has pressure from Israel on the other side.
And again, we cannot emphasize strongly enough that Israel has no interest in settling this
war.
Israel wants to see Iran finished, finished off.
They want to see Iran decisively defeated.
And as we both know, if anyone has won this war at this point and is likely to come out
of this war as a winner, it's Iran, not the United States.
Well, given that reality, the Israelis
are going to continue to put pressure on the United States
to stay at war.
So I would argue that even if President Trump is
able to extend the ceasefire and get a framework
for a future agreement in place, the Israelis
and their support as in the United States
will be working overtime not to make
that framework morphed into a peaceful agreement, they'll be working overtime to undermine that
framework and get the United States back at war with Iran.
Well, the fascinating kind of subtext of this was Lebanon. Israel almost when the ceasefire
began started pounding Lebanon. But Trump, you know, said it had to stop. I mean, Israel's
has a very uh... kind of
spot-up to these fires it's still attacking lebanon but
uh... there
this was a fundamental demand on the part of iran the
uh... they said well we we've stopped attacking
gcc
uh... bases in gcc countries
uh... with your allies
uh... so you have to stop attacking our allies this is a regional ceasefire
and
uh... they
you know while
israel certainly breached
the ceasefire in lebanon
uh... as they do daily in gaza
nevertheless it does see
seem i don't know what your take on it is that that was
a huge concession on the part of the trump administration
to iranian demands
the the trump administration
had no choice
to get Israel to stop attacking Hezbollah and Iran
for a brief period of time, at least,
so that the Iranians would open the Strait of Hormuz.
That's what they wanted.
And Trump was able to get the Israelis
to make a small concession,
which is to say the Israelis agreed to a 10-day ceasefire.
Just think about it.
It's a 10-day ceasefire, and I've been following it,
and it's not even much of a ceasefire,
in Russia, 10 day period.
But the idea that the Israelis are interested
in a meaningful ceasefire is not a serious argument.
What the Israelis are interested in
is creating a civil war in Lebanon for two reasons.
One, to weaken Hezbollah and to take Hezbollah's attention
off of Israel.
And number two, to weaken Lebanon overall.
This is standard Israeli tactics, and the Israelis will continue to attack Lebanon and
Hezbollah in good part, not just to weaken Hezbollah, but in good part to undermine any
negotiations between Iran on one hand and the United States on the other.
It's obvious that for Iran, Hezbollah is a very important ally, and they want to do
everything they can to help Hezbollah. The Israelis fully understand that, and the Israelis
understand that if they continue to attack Hezbollah and continue to keep the situation
in Lebanon as a hot conflict, that this will limit how much Iran will be able to concede
to the United States. So this is one of the reasons I find it hard to imagine that you're
we're ever going to settle this conflict in any meaningful way.
You wrote the book with Stephen Walt on the Israel lobby.
We've certainly seen diminishing of the power of the Israel lobby in A-PAC.
The Democrats now kind of run from it, whereas they couldn't wait to get key slots at the
A-PAC convention.
Do you think the Israel lobby is weakened enough that its kind of death grip on the
American political system is no longer as effective?
I think in terms of the public discourse in the United States, the lobby has lost.
When Steve and I wrote the article and then the book in 2006 and 2007, the lobby was able
to basically control the discourse and greatly limit the criticism of Israel, the U.S.-Israeli
relationship, and the lobby itself.
Those days are gone.
The discourse today about the lobby and criticism of Israel, this is all out in the open in
ways that are actually hard for me to imagine, Chris, given where we were at back when Steve
and I wrote the article in the book.
But that's at the level of the discourse.
At the level of policy, and especially with regard to the Trump administration, which
as you know has two more years and nine months in power, the lobby still has a stranglehold
on the Trump administration.
And there's no evidence that Trump has been able to break away from that stranglehold and
act independently, to act simply in America's interest.
So in terms of U.S. policy, I think the lobby is as strong as ever.
Now how that plays out after the next presidential election is a different matter, because you
see both in the Democratic Party and in the Republican Party that there are politicians
who are beginning to question the relationship with Israel, who are beginning to question
whether associating themselves with APEC is a good thing, and so forth and so on.
But I would still bet that it'll be a good 10 years before our policy towards Israel
is not seriously affected by the lobby.
So what does that mean vis-a-vis Iran?
So if the Israel lobby retains that kind of power, in a way Trump was even more obsequious
because the Israel lobby has been calling for a war in Iran for four decades and other
administrations have resisted for all the reasons that are now apparent.
But how does that play out?
I mean, it looks like a very dark scenario.
Well, it's hard for me to imagine, Chris, that we'd get a meeting.
You have to remember, Mershamer's assessment on defanging the Israel lobby's power in public consciousness also was much faster than he ever could have perceived.
So when he says 10 years, you have to understand that's not an assurance.
Okay? That doesn't mean it will absolutely take 10 years. It could be much faster than that.
meaningful peace agreement between the United States and Iran because of the power of the
lobby.
I think the only argument against that position is that the economic consequences of continuing
this war against Iran will be so drastic, will hurt the international economy, and therefore
the American economy so much that we have no choice but to work out an arrangement with
Iran that recognizes the fact that Iran is the winner in this conflict and that there's
not going to be any more attacks on Iran down the road.
That may happen.
It's very hard to say just how this is going to play out over the next few months.
But I think if that doesn't happen.
In other words, if we don't get to the precipice and we're not on the verge of falling off
the precipice, I think that Israel will make it impossible for us to have a meaningful
agreement with the Iranians.
Let's talk about the tactic of seizing Iranianships by the Trump administration.
Well, I thought that last Friday when the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon was in
place, and the Iranians said that they would open up the Strait, and in fact began to open
up the strait that the ceasefire was then fully in place and that we would begin moving
forward in the negotiations in Islamabad.
It looked very promising last Friday when these events took place.
Then President Trump said that he was not going to take the U.S. blockade off the strait
of Hormuz, which is another way of saying he was not going to take the U.S. blockade
off of Iran.
And this is after Iran has just agreed to end its blockade.
And he also said that the United States was going to stop and board ships that were headed
toward Iran or were leaving from Iran.
And the end result is that the Iranians did a 180-degree turn, and they said they're
re-closing the straight of Hormuz.
And that's where we are today.
This is completely counterproductive.
Forget the legality of what we did.
This is completely counterproductive.
You got the ceasefire in place on Friday,
and you're talking about having negotiations in Islamabad
early this week in the wake of putting the ceasefire in place.
Why wouldn't you just put an end to the American naval blockade on Iran?
It just makes common sense.
Why would you say you're going to keep the blockade on?
Why would you say that you're going to board Iranian ships and then actually go out and
board an Iranian ship after you shoot it up?
It just doesn't seem to make any sense to me.
And this is, you know, one of the principal aspects of Trumpian foreign policy.
It is rather bizarre and doesn't seem to comport with what would consider, one would
consider sort of rational legal behavior.
So I, to be honest, don't understand what's going on here.
Don't they, isn't it in their interest to have Iranian oil on the market?
That's, I didn't mention that, but you're exactly, you're exactly right.
That's why we were allowing Iranian oil to come through the straight out into the global
market.
You're exactly right.
And yeah, it doesn't make any sense.
the goal is to alleviate some of the pressure that our allies are experiencing in this energy
crisis and that is America's like ultimate responsibility and ultimate role then continuing
the blockade or adding a secondary blockade to the sort of hormones is the most idiotic move
that you could possibly do. And it makes no sense because it's just Donald Trump hurting
his own ultimate goals here. Here they are threatening to cut it off. In addition to
the fact they're making it less likely that the other side trusts you, the Iranians trust
you, and that you can work out a deal.
It seems that the Trump administration wants a deal.
They should want a deal, because as I said to you before, they can't go up the escalation
ladder and win, number one.
And number two, they are in danger of taking the international economy off a cliff.
So they should want a deal here.
And sometimes President Trump acts like he wants a deal.
times he acts like he doesn't want to deal. And this is an instance of that. And then
you add to it, as you did, the fact that we really do need that Iranian oil out in the
global market to do everything possible to keep oil prices as low as possible.
Well, the reason great powers have a diplomatic core is that they're multilingual, bicultural.
They understand their adversary as well as their allies, and the Trump administration
has gutted the State Department.
So one wonders if it's just – on the one hand, they may want to deal.
On the other hand, they're utterly unable, perhaps, to read Iranian political power and
Iranian culture.
I agree with you. I mean, there's no question that just in a very general level, President
Trump does not respect expertise. He thinks he's a genius. He thinks he knows everything.
He doesn't have to rely on experts. And he doesn't need anyone from the State Department
or any area experts inside the government to tell him what to do. He knows what to do.
there is that dimension to it. But there's another dimension to this, Chris, that's even more worrisome.
Yeah, at the end of the day, no matter how sound your analysis is,
if one of the two parties is just not playing by any rules or any reason,
like if there, if one party is like behaving in this unbelievably illogical manner,
that where they keep scoring own goals over and over again,
It's going to be quite difficult to conduct proper analysis.
And that is that it sometimes strikes me that President Trump is a mad king.
I don't know if you read the story in the Wall Street Journal about what life is like
inside President Trump's White House in the course of this war against Iran.
And the story is told in there, and the White House has not refuted this story, that after
those two pilots were shot down earlier this month, and President Trump was told about
this, he was hysterical.
He was hysterical for a few hours.
He was just beside himself with rage, to the point where his aides had to keep him outside
of the room, while they decided how to deal with the problem.
And occasionally, one of the aides would go out and brief him on what was going on.
You want to just think about what's going on here.
Here is the President of the United States in the midst of a serious crisis.
An American fighter has, fighter plane, an F-15 has been shot down inside of Iran.
There are two pilots who are missing.
They have to rescue them.
And this is going to take some careful planning.
This is a crisis.
The president of the United States
is throwing a tantrum, an hours long tantrum,
according to the Wall Street Journal.
Again, to the point where he has to be taken
outside of the room.
Can you imagine this happening with JFK
during the Cuban Missile Crisis?
It's unimaginable.
It's unimaginable to me that any president
would act this way.
And it's very interesting how little attention
this episode has got in the mainstream media.
But it, I think, speaks volumes about the dangers
that we face with President Trump in control.
If we get into a really serious crisis,
something beyond the actual war that's now taking place
that threatens to escalate,
that involves maybe China or Russia,
and he's in charge.
this is a very frightening thought. And I would imagine in that circumstance who
we pushed out of the room again and his aides will take over. But what does that
tell you about the United States? And just one final point on this, you want
to remember that President Trump is the kind of person who thinks he knows
everything and therefore even his aides don't matter that much. He is the
ultimate decider, period, end of story. And if this is our ultimate decider, if
If this is our sovereign in an extreme crisis, I think we're in real trouble.
Well, he was reportedly against the advice of his military and intelligence chiefs.
He believed the Iranians would not seize the Strait of Homs.
Oh, absolutely.
Absolutely. I mean, I think if you go back to the original decision to attack Iran, and
you read, there were two New York Times stories on this whole matter. The second one was just
filled with details. It's very clear that, except for Pete Hexeth, who really doesn't
matter very much, because I don't think anybody, even President Trump, takes him that seriously.
But all of his other advisors were very, very skeptical, if not opposed, to this operation.
They understood full well that this was playing with fire.
But nevertheless, President Trump dismissed their concerns, and he went along with the
Israelis, who basically sold him a bill of goods.
There was the head of Mossad and David Barnea and Prime Minister Netanyahu, who convinced
President Trump that we would win a quick and decisive victory.
And then just to build on your point, therefore we wouldn't have to worry about Iran closing
the Strait of Hormuz.
We would win very quickly.
But the fact is, if Trump had listened to his advisors and he had carefully examined
them as to why they were reticent or opposed to going to war against Iran, he might not
have done this.
In fact, I think it's highly likely he would not have done it.
But again, he didn't really care what they had to say, and he was willing to listen to
the Israelis.
And he should have understood that the Israelis were selling him a bill of goods, but apparently
he didn't.
Let's talk about the global economy.
So, you know, I guess some oil is getting out, not a lot, I mean an estimate, maybe
5%, countries, India, Japan, I mean, they're Philippines, they're already in serious trouble.
And this, if it's not a total blockage, this trickle is already having seismic ramifications.
So talk a little bit about where we are now in terms of the global economy and potentially
where we could go.
And then there's all sorts of other factors like fertilizer, which I mean, which is also
pass through the strait and because it's a oil derivative and the effect on food prices.
Yeah, I mean there are a number of dimensions to the economic catastrophe that's staring us
in the face and again I like to talk about this is the Titanic hitting the iceberg and it's important
and emphasize that Titanic has not hit the iceberg.
And although there's no question that serious damage has been done and will be done, catastrophic
damage will be done if we hit the iceberg.
And of course, this is why President Trump is deeply committed, I believe, to shutting
this one down as quickly as possible, because he does not want to hit the iceberg.
First of all, there is the helium as you point out. There is a significant helium shortage
in the world because the straight has been shut down, and helium is very important.
I think one thing that remains, regardless of the why he's doing this, is the fact that
seemingly he's unstoppable. Like, there is, I mean, he's advancing the interest of Israel
first and foremost, so obviously that is part of the reason why there isn't as much pushback.
But he is unrestrained. It's obvious that when you have a dementia-addled brain-diseased
and chief who gets to make these decisions unilaterally. It's virtually impossible to
figure out what the goals are here. All we can do is just chirp on the fucking sidelines
and try to make sense of the senseless chaos. Syphilis one hits harder yo. I mean, I don't
I don't think he fucks. So I don't know if he has tertiary syphilis.
Orton for producing microchips.
Furthermore, there's been a significant slowdown in the amount of aluminum
coming out of the Gulf and aluminum.
Do you think if he loses the election,
this all falls apart because Trump doesn't have a personal relationship with the
replacements? No, because Israel's wishes are not being communicated to Trump because
Trump loves Benjamin Netanyahu personally. I don't think Trump even likes Benjamin Netanyahu
that much.
Israel's goals are not being advanced just by Benjamin Netanyahu either. Naftali Bennett
would have similar attitudes. He might be more applying to American restraint, to extend
the lifeline to Israel. However, however, there's no indication that he will move differently
than Benjamin and Yahuas. And last but not least, this has nothing to do with the Trump's
personal connection to Benjamin and Yahu, just as it has nothing to do with Benjamin
Netanyahu's singular ambitions, this is about the greater Israel project.
It was being advanced before BB and it will continue to be advanced after BB.
There's also major swaths of the population that are on board with it, right?
Not only has Netanyahu been able to build a governing coalition over and over again and
has been in charge for the longer half of the last four decades. But this is a democratic
project. Do with that information what you will, right? There's majority approval for
this. So whoever comes next will probably either try to manage that and behave in a
more restrained manner, at least in the interim, or they'll lean into it in the same way that
Benjamin and Yahoo did, really matters as well. Then there are the fertilizers. 30%
of the world's fertilizers come through the Gulf and hardly any are getting out. And this
This is going to have huge consequences for the production of food around the world.
Remember we had this thing called- New Bulwark piece on you?
Another one?
Oh my god, bro.
Another one?
What the heck?
Okay.
I really did think that by this point, they would have just given up.
I don't know why.
Was the interview you did this morning?
No, not the Zataya one.
Um, I, I.
I don't know.
I don't know what to say.
Yeah, you need the return of communism sheet by Kathy Young, a new generation discovers
a worker's paradise.
Wait.
It's not every day that someone on a Twitch livestream reads it length from an essay by
Vladimir Lenin, the father of the Russian Communist Revolution, but that's exactly what
of a son, Piker, did five months ago,
devoting a portion of a stream to Lenin's 1920 pamphlet,
left wing communism and infantile disorder,
a dire tribe against overly uncompromising European
communists who refused to participate in bourgeois
parliaments and labor unions.
It was Piker, it was, Piker said,
an example of a leader of a successful revolution
advocating formative work within existing structures.
It's par for the course for the controversial streamer
who has also expressed admiration for Mao Zedong,
lamented the lack of appreciation
for communism in the United States,
noting that this is the country
defeated the USSR unfortunately and most recently declared echoing Vladimir Putin that the fall
of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century. But love for communism or
Soviet-style socialism, which in practice amounts to the same thing, is hardly unusual in progressive
spaces these days. It has been on the rise since the early 2010s. When apologia like,
why you're wrong about communism, seven huge misconceptions about it and capitalism started
showing up and left wing outlets like Salon, typically relying on sleight of hand and other
falsies for why communism is fine argument. In 2016, even the new republic, the former home of
the Cold War liberal hawks, featured a peace titled, Who's Afraid of Communism? Author Malcolm Harris,
Mock Hillary Clinton, and her antiquarian anti-communism partially because of her praise for NATO and
credited communism's role in defeating Nazism without mentioning inconvenient details like
Molotov-Ribbentrop pack or the joint German-Soviet invasion of Poland in September 1939. Once again,
Then liberals will always bring up Molotov ribbon-trop as though it's like some sort
of secret sauce here.
Oh, an unspeakable truth has been revealed without talking about Western appeasement
and the attempts of Stalin to warn the West about the dangers of Nazi Germany's expansionist
agenda.
They always bring this up. And I think the greatest comparison to this is when, you know,
current modern day conservatives say, oh, did you know it was the Republican party that
ended slavery? Abraham Lincoln? Have you heard of it? Did, wait, did this, okay, that person
that you banned is awesome. That person that you banned said, did you brothelize a child?
That's what they, a brothelizer, what the fuck is brothelizing a child, dude?
SchmeckleTV account created in December 5th, 2017.
What the fuck does that even mean?
You absolute freak.
He started off with, you're starting to get Jank's double chin bud.
on. You're starting to get Jake's double chin bud, which is again funny. You wish. Did you
really bang an underage girl at a brothel? Did you brothelize a child until they got
banned? The answer to that question is obviously not you fucking animal. What the fuck is wrong
with you? What is wrong with you? This also betrays the severity of the accusation.
Because you started off by one, demonstrating how parasocial you are,
knowing that I have like body dysmorphia and thought that this would actually hurt my feelings and then when you didn't get the actual
response at all
You moved on to an insane accusation
He's weird as fuck. Oh, he's got a YouTube page
Let's see what what kind of beauties
Wait for us here
Insul Invasion immediately cringed because they're gonna cost females money to live alone
To not be kept safe
For the in cell and basin. That's right, cunts. We got another. Let's skip the intro today
We're all the shit
Definitely looks like a Daniel I discovered Daniel's channel when I came across one of his videos
was creatively titled feminist will be raped in the streets okay he's like
fighting against the incels so that's good
he's like the robot guy he's like the robot guy brother told gamers that a
bunch of them are virgins who hate women with the idea of having families the
chasers upset oh that's why they're mad oh I was wondering where the new wave of
of a fucking losers was coming from. That makes sense. It's because I recently, because
I recently said, you know, you're, you're never going to, you're never going to get
pussy. So why are you worried about, you know, whether or not women's biological clock is
ticking. You got posted in a lot of gamer subreddits. Ooh, nice. Your pragmatic take
pissed off in cells. You offended the pedos and the capital G gamers and the in cells.
Yeah what they're offended by I think primarily is the truth. That's what offends them the
most when they hear the fucking truth. Yeah I saw this this guy made fun of us and really
nailed it. The song comes off as a freak in this clip for defaulting to this view of a
game he has not yet even played at the time of the clip.
Gamer dads is like a huge thing. Yeah, except gamer dads aren't the ones who are going,
oh, we have to replace the Western birth rates with new white babies. Gamer dads, who do
you think is closer to your worldview? A guy who's a fucking father with a family who likes
to play video games on his off time or random fucking incel, uh, Twitter monsters.
The clip was chopped up to conflate all gamers with incels.
I think whoever was editing was trying to get a bunch of gamers.
I think you hated all gamers.
I saw an Irish girl saying you were unhinged for your take on prog motto.
I'm unhinged for my take on prog motto that the correct assessment here is that prag
motto is actually going to save the white birth rates.
This game from capcom is going to save the.
I
Some party gets mad at gamers who like pragmatta
So what's really interesting about this is all the unfuckable losers in the gaming sphere
Always talk about starting families and stuff and I don't understand why this has become a thing they care about I
Can already smell the stench in the comments coming from the gamers I
Wouldn't call this map more like pointing at the hypocrisy of right wing rhetoric the title the title that post also
Missing because the song quote has nothing with people like pragmatta
He's talking about loser or using pragmatic to shame people who don't have kids
Have you seen the guy having a meltdown when he found out the VA for Diana is a black woman?
No, but that seems
You know that seems in line with what I've seen so far from fucking in cells
What is the context around this quote Capcom came out with a game that I was excited to play and I started playing last night
and the game's main
main character
Rolls around with like a like a little girl and little AI girl
Okay
And
Everyone is like preg matters a sigh up to counter decades of anti-natalist propaganda and bring up the global birthrates
To which I said buddy saying anti-natalist propaganda out loud in the real world will guarantee your bloodline ends with you
Now I
I find the game to be cute and I find the game to be fun. I like the game. I was excited to play
this game when it was first announced. I will continue playing this game, but what I find very
strange is that these guys who make everything political, who've spent years and years and years
saying, well, get the politics out of my video games, are now looking for political propaganda
points in every game that they play. And in many circumstances, they don't even play
of these games. They just chirp about them. That's it.
I don't get this, because if you're mad at it, or if you're just admitting you're an unfuckable
loser, I think we're far beyond that point.
Your actual thoughts were not even close to clipped.
Every clip that went viral or quote image meme reframed your tag as gamers to be in cells
universally.
Oh.
Yeah, I don't really care.
My friend sent me this exact clip of yours.
He framed it as, why is this on talking down on lonely gamers who got inspired to have children?
Isn't he supposed to help them become normal?
I hate how much your haters twist your words.
My friend is a good guy.
And on the left too, but he keeps getting rage baited by these clips.
He has agreed to watch a few streams with me to get to know how you really are.
It's difficult for me to maintain my nice posture when I hear stuff like that.
Unfortunately, we're not going to make it.
I know it's not you're dealing with the biggest losers in the gaming space unfortunately Twitter became their megaphone so their annoyance remains there so let them rage bait until a severe aneurysm hits their core.
hits their core. Um, they'll clip that. They'll clip me reading that comment to be like, Hassan wants every gamer to
die of an aneurysm. Watch. Uh, yeah, I don't really care. My opinion of in cell gamers, not like all gamers, I myself
would identify as one as well. Uh, and people who enjoy video games broadly, uh, I have no issue with, but my opinion of
the very specific type of in-cell right-wing video game commentary people is lower than
dirt. There's no opinion that I have lower than the opinion I have of them. So who gives
a fuck? Let them chirp. You know, they're already unbelievably sad. They live incredibly
depressed lives and every single day is yet another opportunity for them to try and make
others just as, uh, just as sad as they are. So if that keeps them alive, keep it going,
buddy. I'm glad that I've, uh, I've given you more life for one additional day. Take the gun out
of your mouth, big dog. So yeah.
I had a friend who was super anti a sock on the for a few years just let it be and would
you know he came around started getting away from Joe Rogan started getting super in the
left scotty to clean yours even makes left scotty on Instagram now you like one of his
real full circle people come around as they see the company they have in my opinion yeah
you reach those guys more than you know. You did kind of come out of nowhere with that comment
on blast. See, this is what I mean. This is, uh, this actually frustrates me more than anything
else. Uh, you got to hand it to the people who are cynically framing what you said that I actually
technically agree with, but I'm choosing to abide by the cynical framing of like neo-nazi in-cell
gamers who jerk off the lolly con pornography instead. Well, when you do that, you might as
Well, just leave the fucking community and go join them. You know, I had a very normal take
It was clipped out of context and people got mad about the out-of-context clip
But most people probably still can understand exactly what I was saying
There's really nothing I can do in that situation. Don't you think what am I supposed to say?
offer a million different qualifiers every single time I talk should I just
Choose a different method of communication so that people can't
chop it up
I already do give my assessment with a million different qualifiers anyway.
So, you should ask yourself why you are choosing to go along with their goal, right?
Especially considering that I do give a million different verbal qualifiers,
knowing full well that someone is going to chop shit up out of context. And even then,
motherfuckers still end up chopping it out of context. And then motherfuckers still turn around
and say, well, you should use a different format. Yeah. Well, next time I'll do a interpretive dance.
And have a ASL interpreter as well on the side.
I
Originally thought like this and was thinking
Like has sought can a song be more charitable than I realized it literally doesn't matter
They'll do whatever they want with the clip just ignore it. Yeah, we don't live in a universe where people actually even look for
We don't live in a universe where people even watch the video
They just literally do this a song Parker gets mad at gamers who like pragmatic. That's not what I said
right? That's not what happened at all. What am I supposed to do?
Anyway, who gives a fuck?
Did this go viral on LSEV is that what it is like they finally got one where they could
just like frame something totally out of context and make it seem like I was talking about
everyone who enjoys pragmatic is a weird loser or something.
Is that what happened like I don't know where this even came from.
I don't know where the hate farming began.
The post got removed for harassment, oh.
People used to not reflexively believe everything they saw on the internet and face value.
We're not going to make it big dog.
No we are not.
He was talking about people, gamers, who were using the game to talk shit about women who
don't want children as an excuse as to why they can't find someone to start a family
with.
He was talking shit about the loser men who blame women for all their shortcomings.
Get it?
It's on states.
So what's really interesting about this is all these un-fuckable losers in the gaming
sphere always talk about starting families and stuff and I don't understand why this
has become a thing that they care about.
Like if you're a gamer you should probably care about things that you can actually experience.
You should care about things that you actually enjoy, right?
You're a fucking lonely gamer who has never been around a woman and will never have sex
with a woman.
Why do you care?
Like what do you care?
children are like writing for having children. 1.2 million views. Outlaw gamers. That's what
I say outlaw gamers. Let's continue revolution and the green revolution allowed countries
around the world produce to produce sufficient food to feed almost all of their people. And
that food that green revolution was heavily dependent on
the coming of abundant fertilizers
right uh... used to have to rely on manure
compost uh... instead of fertilizers but once you get fertilizers
sorry to sound super bright but i wish i could do something about all this
happening in the u.s. not just sit around and consume content i just
graduated college still don't have a job because someone like me you join your
local organizing and lots of local organizers coming out of the gulf
that facilitates the green revolution.
And then furthermore, you mechanize agriculture.
And when you mechanize agriculture,
that means that agriculture is dependent on gas and oil
and what have you.
And therefore, if the amount of oil coming out of the Gulf,
the amount of fuel coming out of the Gulf
is reduced significantly, that is,
along with the fertilizer,
to have a significant effect on the amount of food that's produced and the price of food.
So I think the food crisis that's looming is great and it could be even worse if this conflict
isn't shut down sooner. And then with regard to oil and gas, the Saudis to some extent got around
this problem by shipping oil across a pipeline that crosses Saudi Arabia from the Persian
Gulf to the Red Sea, and they're exporting oil through the Red Sea, and quite a bit of
oil too, and that's alleviated the problem somewhat.
The great fear here is that if this escalates, the Iranians working with the Houthis will
shut down the Red Sea at Babel-Mondam Strait and that will really do disastrous things
to the world economy.
So at the moment the damage has been limited somewhat because Saudi oil is getting out
through the Red Sea and as you pointed out before Chris, Iranian oil has been getting
out as well.
So I would guess that 20% of the world's oil comes out of the Gulf.
That's about $20 billion barrels a day, excuse me, about 20 million barrels a day.
And I think probably now about 10 million barrels is getting out, or when Iranian oil was getting
out it was a total of about 10.
So only about 10 million barrels were being held up.
But you can imagine a situation where if this war escalates, we'll go back to where 20
million barrels are not coming out.
And that will have devastating consequences.
So what I'm getting at here is a great deal of damage has already been done.
Most of it in Asia at this point in time.
But almost everybody agrees that the effects, the negative effects, are working their way
toward Europe and eventually will work their way towards the United States.
But in Asia, there's huge problems already, and there is a real danger that they will
get even worse if this war escalates, or to put it in slightly different terms, if this
war isn't settled quickly.
And one thing I forgot, by the way, is diesel and jet fuel.
That's where there's a bigger crisis looming than even with regard to normal oil and gas.
Didn't I read somewhere that the European airlines have about six weeks left of jet
fuel?
Yes, and then they're in real trouble.
And that problem has already manifested itself in Asia, right?
And as I say, the problem is beginning to move into Europe, and it'll eventually move
into the United States.
And again, this is why President Trump has a deep-seated interest in shutting this war
down and doing everything he can to minimize the damage and minimizes the important word
here.
There's been a huge amount of damage done, and almost everybody agrees that there's
going to be significant damage in the years ahead, that this is not a problem that can
be fixed immediately.
But you can minimize the damage.
And if President Trump doesn't cut a deal with the Iranians and get the straight open,
get oil flowing, get diesel and jet fuel flowing, doesn't get fertilizers flowing, and we're
in the same situation, you know, five months from now that we're in now.
I believe that the consequences will be catastrophic for the world economy.
So you have Trump's idiocy and impulsiveness.
You have, in your words, the fact that the Israel lobby still has a stranglehold on the
Trump White House and U.S. policy, and of course, the Israeli government is dead set
against any kind of agreement with Iran.
You have demand.
Why does he keep saying Trump is seriously committed to ending this?
Because the logic, the rationale is to end this.
And he has, I think, offered sufficient evidence as to why the logic is about ending this,
like managing this situation, managing this crisis with a permanent cessation of hostilities
and reopening the Shredda Hormuz.
I mean, he literally just spent the last fucking 10 minutes talking about how devastating
this is no more fertilizer being shipped or heat no more helium no more fertilizer food
prices skyrocketing no more jet fuel for Europe the crisis is delayed the impact is delayed
in Europe and certainly delayed in America but eventually the crisis will get there as well
it's already targeting Africa it's already targeting Asian markets quite a bit so
So that is the reason why Trump has to end this at some point, okay?
He has to.
You can't be the leader of the world, the global hegemon, and allow the world to fall
apart.
The reason why he won't end it is because he's a baby.
behaves like a fucking baby. He has a baby brain and he needs to like, he's losing right
now.
And he needs to somehow make it seem like he won.
And let's be clear that Iran has been target for 47 years.
They've, through sanctions and I think it appears that Iran is set enough.
This is going to end.
These are big demands for the United States.
How do we limp forward?
How does it go forward?
I don't know.
You know, I mean, you raised these issues at the beginning of the program when you started
talking about the 10-point plan of the Iranians, which President Trump has said would be the
basis for the negotiations moving forward. I mean, just think about Iranian control.
People keep asking, like, when the ceasefire ends tonight, do you think Iran will start striking?
I don't know, but I don't think so. And the reason for why I don't think so is because
Because Iran, unlike the United States of America, is always operating from a significant
disadvantage.
This is an opportunity for Iran to show the rest of the world that it's a stable partner.
Okay?
Israel would be the first party that violates the ceasefire before Iran.
But I don't even know if Israel will do that either.
Because it is beneficial for Trump to not restart a full scale war.
And again, Israel does want the ceasefire to fall apart.
Israel does want to push the United States up the escalation ladder and commit them into
a full blown military conquest on Iranian soil.
So you could expect Israel to potentially violate the ceasefire and force Iran�s hand
into retaliating.
My two cents same as last week, Donny might want an out, but more than just talk, he fundamentally
thinks himself the victor over Iran, being able to pump the energy market and impose
a blockade since the ceasefire has only contributed.
As of right now, this makes an amenable settlement a dead end.
His constant need to humiliate his counterpart and exact demands to maximize�Chatter, did
you just send me your own take.
I mean, it's a good take, but that's crazy.
That you were just like, hey,
check out this take I found on the internet.
Why don't you just type it out in the chat?
Anyway.
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of the Strait of Hormuz, which effectively means they're going to treat it as a pathway
that has a poll booth, an Iranian poll booth on it.
In Chinese currency, not in the dollar.
Yes.
Are we going to tolerate that?
Kind of hard to imagine, but maybe we'll have to swallow on that one.
Then there's the subject of sanctions.
Are we really going to take sanctions off Iran?
And are we going to pay reparations to Iran?
If that happens, isn't Iran, over time, likely to recover from the punishment that we have
inflicted on its economy?
And won't its economy flourish?
And won't this lead to it becoming a more powerful state in the Middle East?
And how will the Israelis react to that?
We're not going to do away with their nuclear enrichment capability in Toto.
I mean, they're going to keep some nuclear enrichment capability.
The Israelis and the Hawks in the United States are never going to be happy with that.
President Trump at best, I think, is going to get an improved JCPOA.
Can you sell that?
Furthermore, how do you convince the Iranians that you're not going to pay them a return
visit, that there's not going to be a third war?
What do you do in that regard?
What do you do with American bases in the region?
Are we just going to leave the region as they'd like us to, or are we going to stay there?
And if we stay there, are they going to greatly increase their ballistic missile force?
I think so.
anyone could argue that even if we leave, they'll greatly increase their ballistic
missile force. What are the Israelis going to do then? So you can go on and on talking
about all of the really difficult issues that have to be solved. And the question is, how
do you solve them? How do you get some sort of meaningful peace agreement here? And even
if you don't get a meaningful peace agreement, how do you work out a frozen conflict? What
What does a frozen conflict look like, and how stable is that frozen conflict moving
forward?
I mean, I wish I could give you clear answers to this, Chris, but when I look at it, I find
it kind of mind-boggling to try and figure out where this is all headed.
And the only thing I can say, with a high degree of certainty, is it looks like one
giant mess that's going to lead to endless trouble.
Do you limp forward with a ceasefire, a frozen conflict?
Is that perhaps at the moment the best that we can hope for?
Yeah, I think that that's true.
As I said before, the one possible factor that offers hope is that if we are headed
towards the iceberg, and it looks like we're going to hit the iceberg, and we have one
last clear chance to veer away from it. Oh my God. Shenzhen, New York City, the Shenzhen
of America. My Albanian goat. He's more Chinese than you. Okay, ease up. Okay, come the fuck
down. We may then put tremendous pressure on the Israelis to just not say anything to
to just accept what we do.
And then we cut a deal with the Iranians.
But that deal we would cut with the Iranians
would be a deal that's very favorable to them.
The key point here is that the Iranians
were in the driver's seat.
This is why I said you can't go up the escalation ladder
and win against them.
You want to remember, we came into this war
with four big demands.
They had to do away with their nuclear enrichment
capability completely.
They had to stop supporting the Houthis, Hamas,
and Hezbollah, they had to get rid of their missiles,
and furthermore, there was going to be regime change.
Those were the big four demands,
the most important of which I believe was regime change,
because if you got regime change,
then in their story, you could achieve the other three goals.
But those were the big four goals.
We have failed on all four counts.
You just don't want to lose sight of this.
We have failed to achieve any of those goals.
And in fact, one could argue, Chris,
that we have made the situation worse.
In terms of missiles, it would seem to me that the major lesson that the Iranians should
take from this conflict is that they should build lots of missiles, lots of launchers,
and hide them in missile cities.
In terms of the nuclear issue, one could argue that they – if anything, they should
have learned that what they need is nuclear weapons.
And this could be pushing them further in that direction.
And then there's the whole question of the Strait of Hormuz.
And it's important to emphasize that in addition to failing to achieve our four objectives,
we're now in a situation where the Iranians control the Strait of Hormuz and have a toll
booth inserted in it, which did not exist on February 27th.
And this is likely to remain in place.
hard for me to imagine them giving up the toll booth or giving up control of the
strait. Maybe they will, because they'll get some other goodies in the deal that
has worked out. But we have failed here. This has been a colossal blunder. And
Trump is again now in a position where he's got the Israelis hemming him in on
one side, and he has the potential of hitting that iceberg, hemming him in on
the other side. He has hardly any maneuver room and it's hardly surprising
therefore to see him behaving in more and more erratic ways, looking more and
more like a mad king because he has put himself in an untenable position. Is this
our Suez crisis? Are we not there yet? Does the Suez crisis happen once we get
the iceberg? It's not our Suez crisis. I mean to understand what happened at
Suez, you have to remember that Britain was a declining great power. The decline started
around 1900, and it's pretty much all downhill from 1900 up until the present. And Britain
in 1956 was not even a great power. You remember well, Chris, we referred to the world that
we lived in during the Cold War is a bipolar system.
There were two great powers in the system.
We called them superpowers.
Those two great powers were the United States
and the Soviet Union.
Britain was not even a great power.
And you remember in 1968, this, of course,
is 12 years after the Suez crisis,
the British basically abandoned
all their defense commitments east of Suez,
east of the Suez Canal.
And this is because, again, Britain is a declining great power.
It's losing its military might.
Its power projection capability is greatly reduced.
This is not what's happening to the United States.
There's no question that the United States now has a peer competitor in the system, which
is China, and Russia is also a great power.
We're now in a multipolar world.
So the United States does have to deal with two other great powers.
the United States is still a great power it has. Yeah the also the other the other issue here I guess
well not issue necessarily is that the other benefit to the United States interest is that China is not
even remotely invested in playing the great power game at all okay
because I feel like there's very different ways that China could be moving right now
very different ways that China could have moved with Venezuela, very different ways that China
could move with Cuba. It's very obvious that China does not have any interest whatsoever
in invoking the wrath of America, which is really interesting because America is fighting
against China as though China is actively fighting against America. I don't know how long China could
continue doing this, they are almost singularly focused on Taiwan and the South China Sea
and like the surrounding regions, like they're behaving like a regional power, not a global
superpower. Okay. What is this person doing? Taking our off.
U.S. is literally destroying itself, man. I'm not so certain as to, I mean, yes, I think
America is accelerating its own demise. But in the process of doing so, it is trying to
to undermine Chinese influence all around the world.
And it has seen success in forcibly decoupling countries in its own backyard from dealing
with China, Venezuela as a great example of this.
It's a tremendous amount of power, and that power is not going to go away.
What's going on here is that the United States, especially under President Trump, but even
under President Biden, has lost its ability to employ that power in smart ways.
We behave in remarkably foolish ways.
And this is true not just under Trump, it was true under Biden as well.
You want to remember that Joe Biden is the president who embraced Prime Minister Netanyahu
after october 7th and fully supported the genocide in Gaza.
And there were a number of other policies, including US policy toward Iran, where President
Biden
What about the debt traps China is putting in the entirety of Africa and not that the
global north is in?
It doesn't have neocolonely ambitious global sell, but I think China is definitely not
just a regional actor.
Yeah, the Chinese debt traps have been regarded as not a debt trap by foreign policy magazine.
So being to the right of foreign policy magazine seems kind of unbelievable to me in the Twitch
chat of a person like myself.
Okay?
China offers infinitely more favorable loans without any conditions in comparison to the
IMF and World Bank.
It's not a thing.
You're literally doing propaganda from 2014 when you say debt trap.
debt trap was 2014-2016 era. Talking points, the updated talking points have moved beyond
that. Even the western analysts have realized that actually it's not a debt trap at all.
As a matter of fact, it's forced the IMF to reconsider the way that they offer debt traps
because the Chinese loans are infinitely more favorable. It's the equivalent of talking
about Chinese ghost cities, you know?
Misbehaved or behaved in foolish ways would be a better way to put it.
But the point is the United States is incredibly powerful, and that's what makes President
Trump so dangerous, and it's also what allows President Trump to whiplash allies and adversaries
alike to ignore international law and international institutions.
We can get away with all of this because we are so powerful.
We're not, in my opinion, going to get weaker with the passage of time.
The United States is going to remain a very powerful state on the world stage.
And the only interesting question is, will we get our act together and act in responsible
ways, which we have not been doing for a long time?
I don't hold out much hope in that regard.
But I don't think it's a Suez moment.
Suez moment, I think the Suez moment was just one
giant step in the gradual decline of British power
over the course of the 20th century.
Great, thank you, John, and I want to thank.
Goat Shimer, Krista Goat-Hedges, as always.
Oh that was like the next step in this video. Oh my god Chuck Schumer was asked about I'll
say its comments. Yes I did see this not sure he saw it. Two CIA agents died this morning
in Mexico and Shambham had no idea the CIA was active in the country. Two CIA officers
die in Mexico accident after counter narcotics operation. It's notable that the Mexican security
cabinet was apparently not informed of the collaboration between the CIA and the Chihuahua
state government.
The Chihuahua Attorney General, Clem's CIA officers were only there for training.
Shinebomb reiterated yesterday that intelligence sharing was the only form of cooperation that
they were engaged with and not joint operations.
Ambassador Johnson says, this tragedy is a solemn reminder of the risk faced by Mexican
and U.S. officials dedicated to protecting our communities, and it strengthens our determination
to continue their mission and advance our shared commitment in security and justice.
I cannot believe the work that goes into governing Mexico because you just literally have the
world's largest hegemonic superpower that you share an unbelievably large border with
and they basically run your country.
They get to do whatever instability they want to do.
They get to work inside of your nation's boundaries without your knowledge.
It's truly insane.
The fact that AMLO and now ShineBomb have still been able to develop some semblance of
autonomy and have been able to move in the direction of like modest social democracy
In spite of American ambition, in spite of American interest is truly unbelievable, genuinely.
The ambassador to Mexico helped shield Bukele from an investigation into the Salvadoran
governments alliance with MS-13 by dismissing the contractor who had collected key evidence
and by refusing to help extradite the MS-13 boss who was a witness of the partnership.
another move as well. And yeah, why does King Clipnestine believe
Shyambaum knows what the CIS is performing operations in Mexico? Is it Mexico complying
with our demands to not send oil to Cuba? How much autonomy do they really have if they
aren't saying or looking but they don't have any autonomy that's the point I'm
making maybe shine bomb doesn't want to admit that I mean I trust Ken's
reporting on this stuff so if he says that shine bomb new and is lying then
I'm inclined to believe him
I mean, true um, anyway, there was also a mass shooting that took place in, uh, I forget
where but my mom was there, uh, or was near the mass shooting that took place where, uh,
A Canadian tourist I believe was killed.
Yeah, it's fucking terrifying. She's fine.
But that was yesterday or the day, uh, yeah, or two days prior.
And Teotihuacan. Yeah, at the ancient temple site.
It was another order of nine angles, Nazi shooting, gum issues, several tourists at historic
pyramids in Mexico killing a Canadian.
Living at least 13 people injured.
Shooter was identified as a 27-year-old Julio Cesar-Hasso of Mexico, a state official told
the AP on condition of anonymity.
Later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, authorities said, and street officers found
Laguna, Niven ammunition. Yeah. Just, we are a cancerous force on the planet. I swear
to God. Terragram is just creating lone wolf-style attacks all around the world. Anyway, getting
back to it, the bulwark, the return of communism chic.
Long before there was a Sompiker, far-left pockets of like chopper trapeze and Poddam,
America offered a similar blend of outrageous provocation, craftiness,
militant anti-capitalism, and unabashed sympathy for far-left or anti-western
regimes, including claims that if communist regimes did not commit crime
and atrocities, capitalists made them do it by waging a holy war against
communist revolutions. By 2018, even Teen Vogue, then mixing beauty and lifestyle
tests with left-wing politics in a true epitome of radical chic, was celebrating
Karl Marx's legacy for its bicentennial and gushing that his work inspired social
movements in Soviet Russia, China, and Cuba, et cetera. Social movements, what
acute euphemism for gulags and killing fields gulags and killing fields
Karl Marx is responsible for gulags and killing fields as hilarious perhaps one
of the most important thinkers that contributed to the entire field of
of sociology sociology but anyway the same area you go up over the victims of
communism foundation. Oh my God. Victims of communism foundation. Yeah. Nazis, Nazi victims
of communism foundation. Half of the fucking victims of communism were Nazis. Anyway, more
than half. Found that while just 15% of America's all the favorable communism, the figure shot
up above 25% for younger adults, millennials, and Gen Z.
Communism, sheik, of course, is hardly new for the Western left.
In the 1920s and 30s, plenty of American and European intellectuals flocked to the U.S.
SARS political pilgrims to quote the title of Paul Hollander's 1981 book.
But in the decades that followed, the ranks of the dissolution grew.
The God that failed, the 1951 book by six writers and intellectuals who were broken
with communism, received glowing notices, became an international bestseller.
Five years later, Nikita Khrushchev's shocking expose of Stalin's monstrous crimes opened
many other eyes other blows followed
the brutal suppression of anti-communist uprisings in east germany
hungry the soviet invasion of cheslaw again nineteen sixty-eight the christian
liberal reforms of the pratt spring
in nineteen seventy three publication of alexander social nitsons the gulag
archipelago which expanded on earlier revelations about stallings great terror
and added the human reality of shattered lives
research for new communist yes i know there was a lot of our anti-communist
propaganda and and uh... a lot of color revolutions some valid some invalid that
were
uh... sometimes repressed uh... through violent means
yada yada yada yada yada okay the search for the new communist paradise is
in china vietnam cuba proved equally disillusioning in polpas version of
the utopian experiment and body killed nearly
two million people in a country seven million
i like that in the beginning she literally said
killing fields or
uh... these these radical commies blame the west and then brings up polpot
and ally
uh... to to henry kissinger
but that's besides the point you know
by nineteen eighties when soviet communism entered its terminal stage
was still considered somewhat gosh in many left of center circles of the anti
communist or anti-soviet as i found out
as a refugee from soviet union my mother who taught piano ruckus university
in the eighties and nineties was chided by a fellow faculty member for channeling
american propaganda
when she described the conditions she had experienced a witness in soviet
hospitals
by actual communists or communist sympathizers were by that point pretty
rare
yet today tankies all my god
tankies with the hammer sickle emoji and the profiles are fairly common sight on social media and memes asserting the victims of communist terror deserve
What they got are not a rare sight
Snarky hand waving of communism's human tragedy isn't limited to social media
2023 hit piece by the baffler by Brooklyn journalist and activist Billy Ananya about the victims of communism museum which opened in 2022 nearly 30 years after Congress
Authorizes construction sneered at usual suspects among the victims such as cool ox and Cuban plantation owners the snide reference to cool ox peasants
peasants
accused by the soviet regime of being rich exploiters is particularly revolting given
the history
yes peasants
in nineteen thirty in nineteen thirty three more than two million farmers
brand is cool box office simply because they oppose the collectivization of
agriculture were mass-supported
to remote regions in grueling conditions more than half a million died often during
transport and on your scoffs and nitpicks
the museum doesn't feature material on the nazis
and on the crimes
of western colonialism
It displays a quote by Soulsenit, Soulsenitson, a favorite of Steve Bannon and Jordan Peterson and, you know, the Nobel committee, a photo of it, yeah, the Nobel committee, again, another incredible beacon of, obviously, democratic excellence.
One of their last, one of the last pieces of fantastic work that they contributed to was Maria Machado.
If you want to understand what their perspective looks like as far as like participating in American instability around the world, being a loyal servant for it.
A photo of an East German guard fleeing the West Berlin is credited to the CIA, the Black
Book of Communism, the 1997 volume that is a museum source for global death toll, over
100 million is dismissed and delegitimized by its own contributors, yes, some contributors
questioned overly sweeping claims in the book's preface, and suggested their own estimate of
65 to 93 million.
Yeah, of course, it's fucking insane.
I mean, come on, man, like, the Cold War is over, you know, the capital is won.
You can admit that these sorts of things are fucking stupid pieces of propaganda, right?
Like what are we doing?
What are we fucking doing here?
Like you don't even have to be a dick writer or a Stalin to be like, yeah, I'm gonna question
the veracity of literature that was designed to be complimentary during the Cold War to
to foment anti-communist, you know, anti-communist sentiment, a relic of Cold War air propaganda
as well as thinly veiled bigotry and a white washer fascism. All of that is true. No notes.
So why the return of the tankies? There are many reasons for starters. There's a generational
turnover. The Cold War is a thing of the distant past for younger Americans. Victims of communism
foundation has often noted that they, the lack of knowledge about the history of communism
been a horrible failure of education. Well, there is a failure of education.
In the Foundation's 2017 survey, only a third of millennials had heard of Lenin. No wonder
they're easily sold on there. It is a cover-up as homicidal fanaticism.
Oh, Vladimir Lenin, the lion that you were. Meanwhile, the progressive focus on oppressions
and liberal Western societies and only the ugly sides of Western history, slavery, colonialism,
aggressive wars, the subordination of women, you know, just a couple things that happened and
continue to happen, right? Come on, just fucking let go. Why do you care about a couple
a couple instances of baby genocides, okay? Come on. Anyway, has produced some self
exploration, but it's also led to the erasure of whitewashing the evils of the west adversaries
whether in the global south or in the communist bloc. In that 2017 survey, about a third of
millennials brought up George W. B. Bush was responsible for more deaths than Joseph Stalin
cooked. I had to this, the fact that the transition for communism after the fall of the
USSR, particularly in Russia, turned out to be a mess of corruption and chaos that at least
temporary did leave many people worse out defending Parker's lament for the Soviet downfall.
British socialist writer Owen Matthews cited the economic collapse and the drop in life expectancy
in Russia in the first years after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
But the aftermath of communism's fall is a massively complicated story. It's always complicated.
It's just complicated. It can't be bad. The West has never done anything bad,
including all of the things that I just mentioned here that the West has done,
that you can just kind of hand wave away, you know? It's complicated. It's never complicated for
the Soviets, very black and white for the Soviets, of course. It's always, they're doing it because
they're evil. When we're doing it, we're not doing it because we're evil. We're doing it because
it's complicated. Okay? God forbid, God forbid, you actually see both sides as complicated in
certain instances and, you know, utterly evil in others. This person has an Israel flag in their
username and is constantly tweeting about you. The person who wrote that article, oh my God.
Oh my god.
Also, preferring Joe Rogan to me, hmm, I wonder why this person prefers Donald
Trump supporting Joe Rogan to someone like myself. Perhaps the flags in her
or bio could be some indication to why. It's always the same, man, is always the same,
like hyper fixation bordering on mental illness, and also to search their opinion on Israel,
and you will understand exactly why there's so much fervor, you know, amongst my most
the rabid naysayers. Just a little bit of slavery and colonialism. Very complicated
stuff. Anyway, Soviet economy is already running on steam when Gorbachev embarked on his reforms.
Most of the country was emissary under communism. Medicine was in a visible state. Russian life
expectancy in the mid 80s was 67. Some years, some seven years lower than in the United States
at the time. Yeah, except life expectancy is higher in Cuba in spite of our fucking attempts
destroy Cuba. So I don't know if that's the most reliable metric. I mean, I would use that. I would
use that as a as a decent metric to figure out, you know, which country is which country is offering,
you know, better amenities and better privileges to their citizens unconditionally, or at least with
the limited amount of resource that they do have. Some seven years lower than the United
States at the time, it's not surprising the health care system fell apart under pressure
of a ill managed transition, ill managed transition. It was the shock doctrine through and through.
It was resource extraction, exchanging ownership off the hands of, of previously state on enterprise
into the hands of corrupt oligarchs that still have unbelievable amounts of power that are,
you know, singularly focused on whatever the fuck Vladimir Putin wants to do. But, you know,
Now the, the rape and pillage of, of the USSR was managed by Western economists.
Other factors in communism's reputational comeback includes capitalism's tarnished reputation
after the 2008 financial crisis.
Add to the romantic halo of the fight for liberation, often joining the language of
class struggle to that of racial justice.
Witness the comeback of black activists and unrepentant pro-soviet communist Angela Davis,
who had, oh my gosh, she's shitting on Angela Davis.
Okay.
work is comprised of never Trump Republicans, right? It's an outlet for never Trump Republicans.
You can't shit on Angela Davis, okay, who is literally a vote blue, no matter who style person
unconditionally in ways that are, you know, in ways that the Democratic Party actually appreciates
a lot more than even myself. Shit on me, you can't shit on fucking Angela Davis, Jesus Christ.
This is Christopher Rufo style commentary. Oh my god, you clocked it
Qt Qt tweet below the one you read
Hassan always in favor of the wealthy getting raped literally or metaphorically. Oh my god, this person needs fucking serious help. Holy shit
it. While all of it is on the left, we shouldn't forget the role of the right. For one thing,
you keep calling just about every center-left Democratic communist and compare Barack Obama
to Lenin Stalin. One possible effect is to take this thing and the stigma out of the
C-word. That's true. You could even say that the effect is that normalized communism in
American political life. Oh my God, being such a rabid anti-communist that you're criticizing
people to your right, even. You're a reactionary, and you are criticizing people who are furthest
of the right of you, that they're normalizing communism. Come to think of it, Trump himself
has done a pretty good job of legitimizing communism, and not just that he shatters all
norms and uses classic Stalinist tropes like enemy of the people, famously only Stalin.
invented saying enemy of the people. I'm a brilliant intellectual. He clearly has an
affinity for Russia's Vladimir Putin who may condemn the Bolshevik when convenient,
for instance, when he needs to blame them for Ukraine's independence, but clearly wants
to build a simulacrum of the Soviet regime. Literally, Vladimir Putin is an anti-communist
through and through and has been critical even of Lenin, which is a big no-no for understandable
reasons, not a no-no for him. And not only that, but also, no, he wants to build maybe
the Russian empire, or at least like restore Russia to his former glory, certainly not
a communist by any means.
But clearly wants to build a similar algorithm of the Soviet regime. Lately, he's been bromancing
with even more Soviet post-Soviet leader, Alexander Lukashenko, whom he's described
as the highly respected president of Belarus. And don't forget his love affair with North
Chris Kim Jong-un, add to this Trump's Kim-like love for extravagant praise and large banners
of this phase. You might understand why ex-influencer Jackson Hinkels, the self-described Magga Communist.
Okay.
Um, yeah, Trump is a Communist. You got it. Good way to end that piece. Uh, very smart.
I
Anyway, where was I what was I going to show you? Oh
There was a Mark Levin situation as well
That I forgot to mention
There is the president or not the president but like a J Street guy also
went on Tommy V Tor Show and and got very mad at me. Zbiotics.com is senior vice
president and chief policy officer at J Street. Gellung Goldenberg, welcome to
Potsdamerica. Thanks for having me. Great to see you. So over the last couple of
years, probably longer, there's been an intense debate about the War in Gaza, the
US-Israel relationship, especially US military support to Israel, and the line
between anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism. Now, thanks President Trump, you can lump in the
role Israel may or may not have played in the latest war with the debate. Mershe Sanch
should essentially be banished from the party. This was in a Wall Street Journal op-ed.
So John Favreau talked through a lot of this. I actually don't know. I don't know what
Jay Street thinks about me. I have no idea. So this will be new for me as well. I know
that they endorse Mallory McMarro and obviously we are at odds with my worldview. I think that they
are trying to sanitize the American-Israeli relationship to the best of their ability.
But as you guys know, for the longest time, I haven't had much smoke for Jay Street.
So I, let's see what they have to say. So it's about a week ago. Folks should check that out
if they want more. But you wanted to provide a different perspective on how you believe one
can still be a supporter of Israel and a liberal Zionist and a Democrat all at once. So we want
to talk through that and maybe I can poke and prod your argument and see how we go. So let's just
start with where you disagreed with Hassan on his definition of Zionism and kind of we'll go from
there. Sure. So the problem with I think Hassan's argument on that and thanks for having me Tommy
was you know he talked about Israel and Zionism as essentially an ethno-state with superior you
you know, essentially looking at a, what you'd call a supremacy ideology.
Uh, and if you actually look at the founding documents of the state of
Israel, for example, and you look at the history of Zionism, you know,
Israel is intended to be a Jewish democratic state.
It was also to be in its declaration of independence, uh, described as a
state with equal rights for all of its citizens.
Huh.
Well, is that what's going on?
Have they actually been able to abide by that standard at any point?
I like that he has to say intended as well.
Interesting.
If he mentions that there are Arabs in some positions of power in Israel, I will lose
my mind.
I mean,
That's what the vision of the state was.
Now that's been incredibly imperfect and huge efforts still need to be made to move
in the right direction.
That's one of the reasons J Street exists.
Yeah, it's a kind of, it's been an abject failure. Don't you think big dog?
It's only moved in one direction since its inception, which started with the
knock, but 750,000 Arabs, Palestinians that were ethnically
cleansed and, and pushed away from their ancestral homelands, uh,
never allowed to return again. Uh, and has, uh, kind of, kind of it going in
the opposite direction of the one you want to move it in.
That's right. I mean, we exist because the view before us was, you know, you just kind
of support Israel and everything. Israel is the perfect democracy in the Middle East,
the only American democracy in the Middle East, and the only democracy in the Middle
East really.
This is what I mean. This is why it's fucking racist, bro. This is it. Liberal Zionism is
still a racist ideology because Zionism is a racist ideology. What do you mean the only
democracy in the Middle East man? Like why are we, why are we making it seem like there
are no other like complicated and yet still somewhat democratic countries that exist in
the fucking region? I know he did a Freudian slip and said American democracy, shut the
fuck up Chatters it doesn't matter the point he's making is he's using the
same exact trope Israel's the only democracy in the Middle East yeah guess
what dude Israel's an apartheid state which you know J Street also recognizes
right I'm pretty sure they do how can you be a democracy while also being in a
apartheid state it's fucking ridiculous
This is my problem, like it's just, like what are we doing?
Yes, this is before we get to 2018 basic law passed by the Knesset is literally antithetical
to his whole argument.
We're not even talking about them.
J.S.H.R.E. does not recognize apartheid, are you sure?
I thought this was the whole point of the liberal Zionism is that they recognize the
the West Bank occupation is bad and it's an apartheid and you know, you got to stop it
and but like that's the only way to do a two state solution, that type of thing was I,
I don't know. I thought that was the case. And you know, our argument was no, there's
all kinds of problems that you are just a anti semi Hasan. Yes, dude, you're right. I'm
the biggest anti-Semitite need to be worked out. And we need to be honest and critical
with a friend of ours in Israel. But the answer isn't the tilt all the way in the other direction.
And to say, well, you know, Hamas and Israel are like J Street recognized the genocide,
right? J Street reluctantly had to recognize the genocide. Are we not supposed to punish
people who have done a genocide? But can you like, what's the argument here? Oh, well,
can't do the Nuremberg trials because like they're supposed to be an ally to us. Is that what we're,
is that the attitude? Like words have meaning, right? If you recognize the genocide as J.
Schreit says they recognize, then, then, you know, we have to have some accountability for genocide,
right? I mean, this is like the entire principle of, of the entire reason for why we have Holocaust
studies and and genocide scholars in general is so that you know it never
happens again and here it is happening again. Hamas is a lot better than the
Israeli government and I'd much rather have Hamas than I would the Israeli
government and treating it as uniquely evil because look Ibn Netanyahu is a
fascist potentially authoritarian. Trump is also a fascist and authoritarian
it, right? Do I call America a fascist state?
You should. You should because it is we are living in a fascist state. Hello. What the
fuck? He's going to lose the liberals with this one. What liberal is going to look at
the current modern day America that is watching positive America be like, wait a minute, what
the fuck do you mean America is not currently a fashion. We are living through the fascist
times. Authoritarian state? No, I don't. I recognize that there's huge problems here.
And I operate from within that very kind of- Yeah, I operate within a consistent framework
then, okay? Okay, never mind. Also, you can't have both of these things at the same time.
where Israel is democratically electing a fascist monster like Benjamin Netanyahu or
Israel is not a democracy.
Now of course, Israel is an apartheid, so who gives a fuck if there's a democratic process,
that's my attitude at least.
Oh wow, there's a real democracy for the in-group, and they are democratically deciding to destroy
the out-group.
Oh great.
In any case, yes, I think the American government is a post-liberal, illiberal, fascist government.
Yes, it's unbelievable that this is a point of contention.
What the fuck does Trump need to do?
He literally has set up concentration camps.
He has an unaccountable force that he has given unlimited billions of dollars to go
and wage war on American cities.
He has occupied American cities unsuccessfully, but still attempted to subjugate American
citizens, killed American citizens through the process, and keeps consistently black
bagging people that live in our neighborhoods.
Basic understanding.
So this, I think, was kind of my problem with Hassan, which was the argument was this state
is uniquely evil.
state was founded purely based on ethnic cleansing and we have terrible ethnic
cleansing in the founding of this the history of the United States and so many
what is going on yeah dude what yes that's my point what the fuck yes if
left unaddressed white supremacist fundamentals will inevitably bring about
a fascist government we are currently in that fascist government that is
actively rewriting the rules in the United States of America, he's like, hey, guess what
guys, in order to prove that I'm right, I'm gonna show you how wrong I am with an example
that you can literally identify from your own real life.
Also this argument is so ridiculous because it's like, well, every country has been designed
with a little bit of ethnic cleansing.
Why can't we?
I don't know.
Maybe because Wright, Israel did it in 1948, okay?
Key quote from him.
I listened to the interview with John.
I don't think Hassan is anti-Semitic.
I just think his views are misinformed.
I mean, I think his views are misinformed.
In different countries around the world.
And so I think we just need to pull back
and have a longer conversation about what is wrong
and what is right and within the context of the state of Israel and how to move it to a better place.
So, look, I don't want to, I'm not going to try to speak for Hassan or anybody else, frankly,
but let me just offer what I think kind of a pushback to your argument would be,
which is not that I think anyone was saying Israel was uniquely evil.
It was just sort of whether or not there's a supremacy ideology in the sort of founding documents.
I think what he would say is Israel was founded after the mass displacement of, I think, 700,000 Palestinians.
Since 1967, Israel has occupied the West Bank and Gaza,
and there's been groups of people living
under permanent occupation.
And the reality today is that it seems like Israel
has chosen to be a Jewish state and not a democratic state.
And so I guess like, I can't,
it's fine to debate what like David Ben-Gurion
and others had in mind in the 1940s.
I'm not an expert on this stuff.
I would never pretend to be.
But I think people would say,
look at the reality on the ground is that
It's this much darker version of whatever that intention was,
a permanent occupation, and then some would argue apartheid,
or at least very clear instances where there are different rules
for Jews and Palestinians, that we can unpack that as well.
What would you say to that?
Sure, well, I'd say, I don't disagree with that, right?
But the answer is not Hamas, right?
I mean, just pull back a little bit.
I also worked on the presidential campaign in 2024.
Okay, PFLP.
That's fine.
Like, what do you mean? Like, my point is it's not up to me and the occupation and the apartheid.
Let the Palestinians decide. You know, like, I'm not going to sit here and be like, well,
I don't agree with the internal governance of Hamas. Like it's just not, that's not the
main problem. You know, the main problem is the Israeli occupation, right?
It's, it's, it sounds silly. It sounds like a, like a silly conversation to have. And
some people even in the Western world, like, uh, leftist socialist communists even in the Western
world will be like, well, Hamas is Islamist. So, uh, I guess like I'd be in favor of PFLP. It's like,
no, no, no, no. That's not the point here, okay? The point isn't us pushing our design on the
Palestinian population. The point is Palestinian people having sovereignty and dignity, okay?
They get to choose. I would like for them to be communist, socialist, right? That'd be great,
but that's not up to me. I want them to stop being murdered. That's my main gripe here.
I spent a lot of time talking to American Jews, I spent a lot of time talking to voters.
And I think most voters are not in these two extreme positions, right?
I mean, I think at the end of the day, you know, you have those who are from the beginning
inside the Democratic Party have said, here's the APAC position.
We're going to support Israel no matter what.
And then there's where Hassan is, which is to argue that Israel is this kind of uniquely
evil or deeply, deeply problematic.
I mean, it is, it is, it is uniquely evil. Like it is. In this day and age, the only
country you have to do Israel shit and not even to the same severity of Israel, in terms
of its like civilian targeting, like direct civilian targeting is the United States of
America and the United States of America gets to do it because it's the hegemonic superpower.
right? So in that vein, it is like, if, like I, I try to think about like alternatives where I'm like,
there are still like colonial holdovers that, that France occupies and like, you know, some
European powers occupy. However, if, um, if any Western country, I'm talking about Western and
Western aligned nations, we're still in this day and age. No, guys, oh God, people are like, what
What about Sudan? Dude, you're failing to hear my point, okay? I'm not saying other countries
aren't doing fucking genocides. Yes, Sherlock is a great example. I know, okay? Come the
fuck down. There is no other country like Israel in the sense that there is no other
country that gets to only do this because America is giving it unlimited and unconditional
fucking support. And then that country turns around and intervenes in the domestic affairs
of the American public, okay?
Holy shit.
That's the reason why there is a uniqueness
to what Israel is doing.
Other countries are also committing genocide.
I'm not saying genocide is unique to Israel.
Oh my God.
of a state where the reality is I think you find most at least American voters I would
argue and you can look at polling that shows this that can say hey you know what I really
want is for you don't get fired for saying the UAE is backing the RSF that's committing
and genocide in Sudan, but you can get fired in certain instances and you certainly could get fired
or at least get yelled at quite a bit for saying Israel is committing one with American support.
Okay, that's the difference. That's what I'm trying to explain here. There is a uniqueness to it.
And as far as like civilian casualties and civilian targeting goes,
or the maintenance of an apartheid and the maintenance of an occupation that has
last for 80 years at this point goes, yes, Israel is unique. Israel is more unique than
South Africa, for example. Because back in the day, you could say, well, South Africa
has an apartheid, sure, right? The difference with Israel is that Israel has been able to
outlive the South African apartheid.
There aren't any Congress persons that are going on. There aren't any Congress persons
will be like, as a Democrat, I know it's a 90-10 issue, but I'm going to probably erode
what remains of my credibility to defend the RSF because they're waging a brilliant war
against the Sudanese civilian population on the fucking halls of the Senate.
You know what I mean?
No one is going on.
There's no Chuck Schumer equivalent to maintaining the genocide of the Sudanese population.
That's why I'm saying it's unique.
It's unique because of its resilience.
Israel's apartheid has gone on for far longer than other historical apartheid states that
were aligned with the West.
All Jews in Israel and all Palestinians to have freedom, security, equality, a state
of their own.
That's what we're arguing for at J Street.
I can be horrified by the acts of October 7th by Hamas, and I can be horrified by the horrific
actions that the Israeli government has perpetrated in Gaza against Palestinian civilians. You know,
I can really hate Bibi Netanyahu, and I can have some sympathy for the Israeli people at the same
time. I can recognize that anti-Semitism is a real problem. Does UAE have a pack in our elections?
UAE Street? Yeah, U Street. That's it. And I can also recognize that criticism of Israel
is not anti-Semitism and that even very sharp criticism of Israel and anti-Zionism is not
anti-Semitism. So this is where, you know, a guy like Hassan Piker, I don't necessarily think he's
anti-Semitic. I just disagree with his views. And I think this is the kind of nuanced, hard
conversation that I think we need to have in the Democratic Party. I should have a conversation
with this guy. I should have him on the stream to talk to him about this. So Democratic coalition?
chat will be fucking unbearable throughout the entire process. So it's probably a horrible
idea. They'll yell at me for not like doing a citizen's arrest on the guy.
Because I also think that's where most democratic voters are. That's where I would say most
normie voters, democratic voters are. Certainly American Jews.
Yeah. This is also not about like, here's the other side of the story. Okay. People will sometimes
say, oh well, don't you feel like you need to lean into this in order to win elections?
There is truth to that now.
But I was saying this shit when it wasn't popular to say either because it's just the
truth.
Sometimes the truth is unpopular, okay?
Like that's the other side of this calculation.
It's only now an electoral calculation and not simply just the moral calculation because
it's gotten so out of hand that people also recognize it and want change right
but i talked to you that's what j street was
was founded to represent
was that this is where most american jews are they're not where a pack is
uh... but it's also i think just not where
j street does not sincerely believes genocide i don't know how to convince
you the entire goal j-should delay delay delay the death of israel's
popular in america policy largely only acknowledge criminal court will likely
decided to genocide to
total to face language
This in and of itself is the, is the reason why I don't, uh, I, I, I don't know how you
can say like, well, you know, Israel committed a genocide, which Jay Shree reluctantly acknowledged,
but then also are like, but we still need to give them weapons to defend themselves.
But then we don't need to sell them further weapons or rather, sorry, we need to sell
them further weapons, but we don't need to subsidize their weapons purchases.
It's like, okay, well, if they committed a genocide, then embargo now, okay, and accountability
now like what do you mean that's not just a word you throw around you don't go oh well the Nazis
committed a holocaust but uh you know let's not punish them right that's crazy the fuck
like that doesn't make any sense to me at all yes embargo hey no more political cover what are we
talking about?
Even if we have some folks on the base who are going further left, I think that there's
just a huge constituency for this very common sense of view that I'm expressing.
Yeah, look, my view on Hamas is that what they did in October 7th is evil and unjustifiable
and fuck them, and that they're bad for the Palestinian people and for the Jewish people,
and that's fine.
I was making kind of an inflammatory point of when you look at the death toll in terms of the number of people that have mosque killed in October 7th versus the idea, but I think you get in trouble when you're, when you're doing comparisons.
I'm also why someone is again, why should we get in trouble for those comparisons? Like it one, one party is committed to genocide. The other has not, right?
Like that's my point. The reason why I'm trying, the reason why I'm saying those things is so that these conversations actually do take place. And then people.
And then people start recognizing, okay, maybe it's not so fucking crazy, because I understand,
as I explained to John Favreau on the podcast as well, is that, like, Hamas is not an alien
entity.
It's not like a group of guys that got together and were like, ooh, we're evil.
Let's do evil.
Right?
Like, let's do unbelievable evil.
We want to kickstart the process of Israel's genocide.
Israel is not an unstoppable force. It's not a natural disaster. It's not a naturally occurring
phenomena. It's a country with people, right, that are making these decisions. And Hamas is not an
alien entity. Hamas is comprised entirely of Palestinians. And the actions of October 7 while
horrifying were the the final act of desperation of a people that have been
dominated for 75 years at that point. Not a fan of BB Netanyahu since 2009 when I
first was in the same room with the guy. I think you're getting at this middle
ground position. I want to push you on that a bit because I think every
elected official in the United States basically pays lip service to the idea
of a two-state solution. And I think for decades, the US government made a very sincere effort to
facilitate talks that would lead to the creation of a Palestinian state. But for basically his entire
career, Netanyahu has worked to block the creation of a Palestinian state. And these days, he brags
about it. You know, he says, like, through my depth statesmanship, we've prevented this from
happening. He calls it a terror state. And in reality, I think the peace process has been dead
dead for a long time. And then since October 7, both Israelis and Palestinians have lost
faith that it will ever happen. I think like one-fifth of Israelis and Poles think there's
any hope for a Palestinian state. And that number is kind of propped up by Arab Israelis.
So you know, meanwhile, the situation on the ground, it's the West Bank gets further annexed
every week. Gaza is now even further occupied by Israel. So I think the critics would say
this liberal Zionist vision of
uh... support for israel
and a two-state solution is kind of delusional in a way of just avoiding the
obvious reality that
israel long ago chose to be a jewish state
and not a democracy so full democracy for all people who live there
so what's your response to that that argument
so let's again i don't disagree the situation is grim and also i'll say i
worked on some of those negotiations that john carry led in two thousand four
team as part of that
process you know that
during president you know under president obama
and
yeah some of the assumptions in those
in that old way of doing things were deeply problematic for example the idea
that we couldn't touch security assistance for israel
uh... and we need to give them a blank check because
if we start to
enforce or threaten
just basically say forget even
is the road with all to stay solution bro lives from high status liberals you
Ascended the fine at Palestinian state and even their most blue sky vision is completely humiliated
Baltas on occupied by foreign troops. No such comparable demands. Of course, I ever made of
Israel 100% of elected Democrats who argue for two stays do not. Yeah, this is why I say like the
Tuesday solution, uh, at a certain point, uh, had viability. Okay. It's not 1968 any longer. Right.
It's not 1988 as a matter of fact, which is when the settler expansion accelerated dramatically.
It's just a talking point at this point. It's just a talking point. Do you expel 750,000
settlers from the West Bank in order to create a contiguous Palestinian state in the West
Bank and force Israel to retreat from Gaza as well and then somehow find a way to connect
Gaza to the West Bank? Or do you recognize that currently there's only one state that
sovereign there, and it's the state of Israel, and it's maintaining an apartheid state.
Right? That's it. I had a conversation you'll hear about in the upcoming days on this issue as
well. It was like, well, what do you do with like Hamas and their arms? And I was like,
well, here's the thing. There would be no need for armed resistance if there was no Israeli occupation.
Like, there's currently one singular sovereign state there, it's Israel, and it necessitates
armed militancy, armed resistance.
In the aftermath of a single, solitary, secular state solution, if there were people that
still engaged in militancy, well, you treat them as criminals.
And the higher likelihood in that system of a group doing violence would not be the Palestinians,
as a matter of fact.
It would be the settlers.
It would be West Bank, the Jews living in West Bank that are unbelievably radicalized.
They would do the same thing that we saw in the aftermath of the abolition and the Reconstruction
era.
They would continue to operate like Klansman did, right?
They would need to be punished.
One state is delusional right now.
Why would you want Palestinians to live alongside people who committed genocide against them?
Obviously, this, oh my God, this conversation is so fucking stupid as well. Okay, dude, brother.
First of all,
because I recognize what the current situation looks like, okay. I'll give you an example that I
used to bring up all the time, okay. There's currently different, two different formations for
Palestinian existence under Israeli occupation. If you're in Gaza, you have experienced the genocide.
It is an open-air prison that Israel completely controls and completely dominates.
If you live in West Bank, it's the apartheid. In the West Bank, the conditions are even worse
than, excuse me for saying this, other much more famous and much smarter Black thinkers have also
made this comparison, the conditions are worse than Jim Crow in the South, okay?
In the West Bank, the conditions are worse than Jim Crow in the South, okay?
Moving that conversation in the direction of like the current unjustifiable
systematically racist structure that black Americans live in would be an objective improvement
on the lives and livelihoods of regular Palestinians. Okay? That's it.
And this wouldn't happen magically overnight.
There would have to be a Truth and Reconciliation Committee set up with, you know, international
investigators, punishments that are dished out for those who have engaged in war crimes,
and on top of that, reparations that are afforded to people who have lost their homes, lost
their lives, and a right to return for the 15 million total Palestinians all around the
world.
If you have free migration of Jews from all around the world to Israel, then you have
to allow, then even without that, you still have to allow free migration of all Palestinians.
Okay?
That is the moral consideration here.
It's not just overnight, like things remain the same, and then the Palestinians are no
longer being killed by Israel, and then it's just business as usual.
that would, of course, still create a tremendous amount of militant resistance.
What is your obsession with comparing the Black issues?
Great question. It's because many people in this community understand the Black struggle
because they're Americans. So I'm trying to compare it to something that is identifiable in
in modern day America, and also historic struggle
that people learned about, albeit not so great,
but still learned about a little bit
in their regular education.
Also, the other reason why I compare it,
or don't feel worried about making this comparison
is because, Brenda The Show,
Connecy Coates has made similar comparisons.
Is that a good answer?
Carmbot 3?
It can be traumatizing for black people to constantly hear about our oppression, not saying it's a criticism just so you understand.
Okay, well.
You know, I just feel like that's why there's five black people in this chat.
Are you trying to say that black people are incapable of hearing about their own struggles
and make adequate comparisons, app comparisons to the struggles of other oppressed people
by similar forces, similar supremacist forces, sometimes the same exact supremacist forces
as a matter of fact?
I don't have such an opinion about black people.
there aren't just five black people in this chat. If that comparison hurts your feelings,
you should think about why. You might have some resilient American exceptionalism in
in your mentality.
No, it just belittles our struggles when the narrative is constantly, this is actually
worse than Jim Crow slavery, etc. First of all, I didn't say it's worse than slavery.
Secondly, it does not. It's to heighten the severity of the crisis at hand. You are the
one who thought it belittles the systematic forms of oppression that Black people endured
during Jim Crow. I never said that. You think that. Do you not understand?
Yeah, Desmond Tutu also said it. I guess he was being erased when he said the conditions in
The conditions in Israel, the conditions of apartheid in Israel are worse than the ones
that they had struggled against.
It's just, you know, anyway let's continue.
Gaza is Disneyland compared to Jim Crow you goof.
Sure. Anyway, let's continue.
It's gross.
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You know what? If you're not behaving in a way that is consistent with our policy and our interests and our laws
We're just not going to give you these weapons and not sell you these weapons
Which is really what my position is now and where J Street is and has been for a long time
We were advocating last week, you know for 40 senators to vote against these kinds of pieces
These kinds of weapons. So I'm not arguing for that the liberal Zionist old position of let Israel do whatever it wants
And let's just work this out, right? We can use leverage
We do have leverage. And at the same time, I kind of agree with that
Honest chair reacting so badly right now only proven their point like what's come?
That's completely reasonable and you guys are being so mean long. No, it's not it's not reasonable
The only reason why you think it's reasonable is because you haven't fully comprehended exactly what it looks like to be a Palestinian
And in the West Bank and occupied West Bank. That's the only reason
It's okay. It's understandable. You, I assume, are American. So that's part of the reason why, but I feel like I'm getting baited at this point into having a clippable moment that someone will clip out of context to make it seem like I'm actually undermining black issues in this country.
It's one of the it's one of the time-honored traditions that in many instances pro-israel
people like to pit different different oppressed and and undermined historically undermined
marginalized communities against one another.
You should if you're doing this sincerely and you're not here to just like clip bait
clip farm. You should ask yourself why you're, you know, behaving like a, like a loyal servant
of these malign, these malignant forces. Um, Chris Rapp, house rep of Canada and Philly,
who's getting motion opponent tried the same talking point saying, don't belittle other
people's experience by saying the G word, especially black people's lived experience
video. You don't have to speak on it, but it isn't going over well. What is this? For
those who have been a victim of a genocide whose families are still suffering. It's hurtful
to them. For Israelis who have been accused of committing it, it's hurtful for them.
Oh my god.
You didn't quote Taunton-Hunsey codes properly. The comparison is a good one to make to get people to be able to understand the severity of the situation there.
But they are really equally as horrific an individual way. Saying it's worse is not really productive.
It's the same exact reactionary forces that are doing similar styles of violence, okay?
This is a direct occupation, a military, okay?
You have the exact same supremacist attitude, but the systematized version is unlike anything
else in modern history.
The systematized version is comparable to apartheid South Africa, and if you believe
the people that experienced apartheid South Africa and fought against successfully the
apartheid regime there. They, a long time ago, when the situation was comparatively much better for
Palestinians than it is now, thought that the Israeli apartheid was worse. Okay, this is not
oppression olympics or anything like that.
Like, think about it. People who withstood and fought back against the apartheid in South Africa
We're saying 30 fucking years ago that the Israeli apartheid was worse
Those 30 years ago it's gotten far far worse think the answer is well we should support Hamas or we should be
No one's saying we're here. Let's just thought that's like I feel like it's a straw man
Or leaning on here to make a silly argument fuck Hamas everyone agrees fuck Hamas. Okay. Well, let's just say this
I actually think what you do have a problem is you have extremists on both sides. You have Nitzanyahu and you have Hamas, right?
And let's not forget in the 90s when we actually almost did get to a peace deal. It was Hamas bus bombings
In that's that's not true. Come on, man
Come on, man. That's not true
That's not true that came after
That's not true
Okay, that came after.
That came after the mosque shooting.
This is historically inaccurate.
Then brought Netanyahu to power.
These two guys, these two sides are two sides of the same coin.
They're thriving off and building off each other.
similarly in the two thousands right like netanyahu actually has millions of
dollars in cash from Qatar landing in bengorian airport and being pushed into
Gaza you know to pay off Hamas and empower Hamas and keep it quiet while
he's purposefully weakening alternative moderates on the Palestinian side so the
point is what what what jay street advocates for and what we do when we
talk to israelis and Hamas materialized a gun into a Jewish supremacist hands to
kill Yitzhak Rabin. Even Yitzhak Rabin was horrible to the Palestinians, okay? So the
The nicest guy, the nicest like Israeli leader to the Palestinians, still never fully committed
to a fully fledged state for the Palestinians, never at all.
By his own admission, it was a state minus, like something less than a state in his grand
design.
And he got fucking assassinated.
Sok Rabin famously was in charge of the security forces during the first Intifada, where he
demanded the police and the military break the bones of Palestinian children.
And they did, tens of thousands of them, because at the time, the first Intifada was symbolized
by rock throwing.
A lot of Palestinian children as an act of resistance would throw rocks in the direction
of Israeli armored personnel carriers, okay? And in order to punish and stop this, okay,
Yitzhak Rabin wanted to break the bones, the hands and arms of Palestinian children and
they did. That was the guy who was the most peaceful, most tolerant to the Palestinian
existence in Israel. And again, Israeli society was infinitely more tolerant in comparison
to now, to Palestinian existence, maybe even Palestinian statehood.
There is and yeah the idea that like many Yahoo funded Hamas or pushed Hamas all this
stuff like there's some evidence to yes the the like keeping Hamas in power being at the
time beneficial or seemingly like their calculation was that Hamas being an Islamist group would
make it much harder for them to gain any favorability in the western world and maybe they also thought
they could bribe Hamas into submission into not really caring about emancipation. It didn't
fucking work demonstrably, right?
A, I think still a strong minority who wants to work towards that alternative vision, both
on the Israeli and the Palestinian side.
Whether we don't call it a two-state solution, we actually call it, we started calling it
23 state solution because we don't think it's just going to be a deal that gets a new Palestinian
state and Israel living side by side. We think it needs to be part of a regional integration
that actually has Israel at peace with all of its neighbors, which creates a lot of incentives
for the Israelis. And part of that is a new Palestinian state. Now, when you do polling like
that and you present Israelis with the president of the United States were to come to Israel and say,
Here's a plan. End all the wars. This was done during during the war in Gaza. We're going to
end the war in Gaza. We're going to get the hostages out. We're going to pursue a plan that
ultimately ends with Israel peace with all of its neighbors. And as part of that, you can have a
Palestinian state. Like that kind of proposal still gets 60% in Israel. Isn't that a lot of hurdles
to set up before the Palestinians? It was like, I just want to like live in in peace and with
self determination. Suddenly like Israel has to make peace with every single neighbor before
they can have that opportunity. No, it's actually not that complicated. You just do both processes
at the same time. And at the end of the day, that's really about peace with Saudi Arabia and
everybody else goes along. Doesn't that been pretty complicated? No, it is complicated. But so is,
but so is a Palestinian state on its own. You're trying to create it. And by the way,
I should say the public, you said there's a lot of non believers in the Palestinian side too.
Polling in the Palestinian public is also pretty terrible right now, right? I got permanent for
just a couple years back. I didn't think Hamas was a lesser evil yet. Is there any way to get
unbanned. That's funny. Oh, man. You fucking debate pervert. You got
them debate pervert you. I do think they're better. That's
funny. I mean, look, you got to take it up with it with the
mods and discord.
Both sides. But at the same time, on the Palestinian side, again, if you actually offer them a
pathway, those numbers change dramatically. If you just say what makes the most sense
now, I mean, the overwhelming majority is still for arm resistance, but there's still
40% who are pushing for this two-state solution.
And yes, the overwhelming majority are for arm resistance because the arm resistance
is the only way to fight back against the armed occupiers,
like the armed occupation.
Like no occupation means no conditions necessary
for armed resistance, I just don't understand it.
I, it doesn't make any sense.
The other thing I'll say about this is,
and this goes back to my days,
again, working at the State Department on these,
when you present both sides
of the public with
here's a deal would you take it
you presented to the israeli public
you know you do polling you get about forty percent you presented the
palestinians like here's a deal would you take it
forty percent
you say here's a deal and the other side is already agreed to it
the numbers jump to like sixty five percent seventy percent point is
i still think there is a desire
on both part both sides
to get there
And I think what you have to start doing slowly,
and it's gonna take time,
is get away from this dynamic
where it's Hamas on the one side
representing the Palestinians,
and Bibi Netanyahu on the other side
representing the Israelis,
and they're playing off each other,
and they're strengthening each other,
and they're weakening all of the alternatives.
You're gonna have elections in Israel later this year.
That's a real opportunity.
We just saw what happened in Hungary.
And there is-
Jay, sure you have much motion. They will after the dust is settled. I mean, who knows actually,
because I do think that people who are just pro-Israel think these guys are also Hamas
for the most part. They have a miniscule contingency here. They are trying to be like
the Democratic Party's lifeline to continuously supporting Israel.
And what is this? Oh my god. Did you know your tax dollars are being used to amplify
a terrorist sympathizer who has called for numerous murders to be murdered?
Some pikers said I should be killed. All capitals should be murdered.
Hamas in the writing on October 7. I'm all for free speech, but allowing this violent lunatic
to speak in an American university at Yale should be a shame that all their federal funding needs
to be pulled.
Invite a guy named Hassan
Yale University
Invite a guy named Hassan Piker
Dude, what the fuck?
He, bro, he is not giving up.
What is happening, dude?
They're a university.
Dispute obvious hatred
towards Jews, Israel, me,
Kapless, America,
with your tax dollars.
So, I don't believe any of your talksters, not a penny, should go to Yale University when they say.
Incredible development. Do not hit translate on this, Ankh.
The foreskin is the hijab of the penis. Dude, why would you send this to me?
Port an individual like this
Dude, he is so mad. It's crazy. It's crazy. He's just not he is relentless, dude
I'm gonna keep saying cut funding to Israel not our universities you demon
You click on anything nowadays is true. I really do be clicking on shit. I really need to stop
You got a literal supervillain as an op dog you need to animate. Yeah, it's pretty crazy
easy. What is this Michigan fish shit? I want the Michigan fist! That's going to be a sound
drop. Oh, that's why you guys are constantly chirping about this. Yeah, Corey, Corey wants
the Michigan fist. Rick Scott got confronted and cooked by copank. Let's go to Cuba. Stay
We stayed in one of the only four hotels that the U.S. government allows us to stay in, and
they are all four or five star hotels.
They have to the U.S. policy be owned by a foreign company, and this one was owned by
the Spanish government.
So we were complying with your laws by staying in that hotel, which is one thing we have.
It's not our position to say what the government should be like.
right. We were there during the Obama years when there was a flourishing of private enterprise.
What happened? You would have a lot of socials. What happened is that Trump came in and killed
all under-terrorists. Why did you guys go to prison? You know what? I had a lot of choice
for the prison junior in the United States. Why would you go to prison in any other country?
Under Biden, they ran electricity. That was Trump's fault? Biden was present for four years.
Yeah, it was actually Trump's fault. It was Biden's fault too, but it was literally Trump's fault because Trump
implemented in 2019 secondary sanctions, which is what initially started crippling the energy grid.
So yeah, it was literally still Trump's fault. These guys never want to fucking
make an honest assessment, but yeah.
And it was certainly fucking Biden's bitch ass too that continued the same system instead of fixing it or
reverting it back to
You know Obama levels because he's an asshole just the same but
You know
So I am so tired of the US trying to influence its will on other countries.
So for the people who are starving, you don't care they don't have electricity.
You don't care they don't have electricity, you don't care they don't have electricity.
I dedicated my life to stopping people from starving.
And I started out in the Vietnam War.
And I started out in the Vietnam War.
So I don't care because I care about people.
I think it's disgusting that you go support that communist regime that's destroying people's lives.
and people I know in prison, and do nothing to get them out.
What we do is we go to bring medicines and solar panels and help people.
Your policy is only hurting people.
Anyway, he's just like, you support socialism, you support socialism, you got nothing.
Opportunity that those elections aren't going to necessarily bring you the most left leaning
government you could ever imagine Israel the alternative to Netanyahu is probably kind
of a center to center right government, but it's one where at least you have people you
can work with?
Well, let's talk about the Netanyahu piece of this, because, again, I greatly dislike
Israeli Prime Minister, Bibi Netanyahu, I have for a very long time.
I think he's corrupt.
I think he's racist.
I think he's bad for Israel.
But I feel like the US people talk about him sometimes as if getting rid of him is a quick
fix and will fix everything, and it seems very unlikely to me.
As you mentioned, the country is lurched to the right.
You've got violent extremists, like literal terrorist
sympathizers like this guy, Yitamar Ben-Gavir, who are now
in government.
And by the way, his support for his party in polls
is going up and up and up, not down.
Even the moderate candidates, though,
they're not that liberal on the Palestinian issue.
The head of the moderate Yashar party
just visited a West Bank settlement
and that was tied to some really horrible abuses.
Yair Lapid seemed to back Mike Huckabee's bizarre claim that Israel is a right to take
over the whole Middle East because of biblical claims.
So it would be great to see that in YAHUGAHN and preferably in a prison somewhere.
But isn't there a lot of evidence that for the Palestinians and for the Palestinian issue,
even more moderate parties are not going to be all that much better?
I think what you will see is first of all, you're going to stop digging use von der lehen.
We must succeed in completing the European continent so that it's not influenced by Russia,
Turkey or China.
James Jackson says, I have never once heard your piece complain about Turkish influence
until Israeli started their campaign.
It's so fucked up, dude.
So it's so fucked up. I mean, all it takes is like a couple op-eds to just say this is our next target.
Wanderlain, EU Commission publishes a correction to prevent a diplomatic
crisis with Turkey. Turkey's mentioned by Wanderlain was a recognition of his geopolitical
cloud size and ambitions, not least in the Western Balkans and not meant as a comparison
with any other country. Turkey is a key anchor in the region. Turkey is also an important
NATO ally and EU candidate country. And as such a key interlocutor, hmm, you are the
specter over Europe? Brother, many of you don't know this, but yes, originally, the specter
haunting Europe, the specter of communism, was originally the sick man of Europe, which
was the Ottoman Empire. So yes, Turks are literally the OG specter haunting Europe.
not even a joke. That's how the Europeans used to refer to the Ottoman Empire. Just think about it
this way. Obviously, that's not the case any longer. But think about it this way. This is a Muslim
country, a Muslim empire that was terrifying to the Christian monarchies that existed at the time
that made its way all the way. People are still talking about winged Hussars, exactly.
But this Muslim Empire made its way all the way to the gates of Vienna. Think about,
Now, think about what that does to the European psyche.
That's an unbelievable, that is a terrifying prospect.
saying Al-Andalus, but that's like far, far, that was a much longer time ago. You know what I mean?
Like there's a difference. What I'm talking about is in the last couple of hundred years, like that's
you know,
a lot more relevant to modern attitudes.
White card revoked? Yeah, give me talking about the Ottoman Empire and you'll quickly
realize my white card is on shaky grounds. I had at a time our history teacher who would
not shut the fuck up about how horrible the Ottoman Empire was acting like she was a personal
victim of them. It was so odd. Yeah. What are the chances that Turkey angles that attack
you indirectly? No, that's crazy. Dude, that would be really funny. Israel hates me so
much. They've decided to wage war with a NATO partner. That's so stupid. They're like these
fucking Turks, these goddamn Turks and their goddamn propagandists doing fifth column infiltration
inside of the United States of America.
Yeah, me and jank. Yes, the redistricting referendum has enough support to win in Virginia.
I know. Every time you laugh like that now, I can imagine is Austin Gailey calling you
a brute? Yeah, that was really funny.
Yeah, Turkey officially three weeks away from having nukes. Except, you know,
Turkey does have nukes. They're just American nukes inside of American
military bases for the record.
Yeah, Eric talking about me in the European Union parliament is devastating. I had the
pleasure of talking about the rise of Zoramundan in a Sampaiker in the EU parliament today.
Terrifying prospect. You can never trust the conniving, the perfidious Armenian. He's
out there. He's out there warning. He's out there warning about my potential impact.
I
Brother they're gonna try to depour you to the moon. Yeah, I'm fucked
The way things are going it's not looking too good. I'll be honest
Right so
Going back to Ben Gevier for example
Yeah, his numbers have gone up but also Smotritch's numbers have gone down these two parties together his numbers in terms of
still extremists, yeah, exactly.
Two extremists currently in the government
basically stays the same.
But exactly, guys like Smotrich and Ben Gavir
aren't in this new government, right?
And Smotrich and Ben Gavir, these extremists,
play this unique role of essentially being king makers,
which gives them huge amounts of leverage
in Israeli decision-making and pushes the government
to more terrible and terrible places.
Whereas if you had, instead, guys like Yair Lapid or Yair Golan, who are not ideal, but these are
kind of the Israeli center left playing the kingmaker role, that's a meaningful difference.
Yair Golan being a retired general who ran down to southern Israel on October 7th
and saved a lot of people, just basically got up and went down there, but also is very much
arguing for a two-state solution and is arguing for some of these things.
And what you could get then at least as a government that at least starts
cracking down on things like what we are seeing in the West Bank and extremist settler violence in
the West Bank. We're at J Street pushing for legislation actually at Capitol Hill called
the West Bank Violence Prevention Act that at this point has you know overwhelming support of
of Senate Democrats more than 40 and a hundred and I'm bored of this. I'm not gonna lie.
I can't believe the J Street vice president was like, like talking about me for 35 minutes
on pod johns.
Do you really just defend ethnic cleansing? What the fuck, dude?
Yeah, it doesn't seem like the, the Pajans fans are, are picking up what my man is putting
down though. Look at this, Jashash's just APAC with a friendly code of pain. Genocide
isn't an issue that can be both sided. Stop this war, stop funding apartheid, fund American
middle class, cut military budget.
You know, it's really funny with Donald Trump and the modern Republican party demonstrating
such like open resentment towards what America is.
I do feel like there's a unique lane that liberals could kind of occupy, not in the
way that they have in the past where they're like, we're the real, you know, militancy.
We're the real American patriots.
We're gonna hurrah, like, you know, we're gonna build the military up and shit like
that.
a recalibration of what it means to actually care about America and Americans, almost in
a way that is not dissimilar to what Trump said about isolationism, because at the end
of the day, what he was representing with an isolationist perspective is not dissimilar
to what I'm saying.
Right?
idea that like, why are we wasting so much money, killing people overseas instead of
focusing on ourselves, building our own infrastructure, building our schools, building our hospitals,
right?
So I do think that there is an opportunity there.
There is a lane there.
It's not nationalism.
Before you say nationalism, socialism is an international movement, okay?
It is kind of funny because like, you know, it is time to put the working class first.
Now that you've platformed the hospitals who claims it's possible to be simultaneously progressive,
pro-Israel progressive is an oxymoron at this point, nothing progressive about genocide next.
Oh my God. Oh my God. They are not picking up. They're not picking up anything that the
J Street guy is putting down at all. Here we go again. History started on October the
seven. Oh my God. This poor gentleman is either delusional or dishonest. The problem with
the extremes on both sides. Its argument is that Nenye was not an ideological outlier
in Israel. He's almost a perfect representation of the Israeli people if you look at the polling
support for his actions. They may say they dislike him, but based on the polls they absolutely
love the hideous things he does. The main complaint, 26%, is that he doesn't go harder.
Look at polling. Smoters is just trailing Banki Verba quite a bit because Smoters is
considered too soft according to the people poll. That should terrify anyone who's ever heard Smoters
speak. Goddamn. Trump cope. President Trump just posted
Iran is desperate to reopen the Shredda Hormuz so they can keep raking in $500 million a
day.
They only claim they want to close because Trump is totally blockaded.
They're begging to save face, but Trump is a falling port for it.
People approached me four days ago saying Iran wants to open it up immediately, but if we
do that, there can never be a deal with Iran unless we blow up the rest of their country.
They're leaders included.
Okay.
gaming first is no different than america first which originated from germany first
all right wing all fascist all nazi gaming what the fuck gaming is a right wing form
of entertainment gaming is a right wing form of entertainment and that is the truth i will
die on this hill says giga left. Buck chat. Keep talking. Don't game. Heart. I didn't
know you have such a super critical gaming frog. I'm the type of fan that just wants
to watch someone enjoy themselves. And if he truly enjoyed the brief glance of prog
mono wants to continue cool, but I'm just, I'm not going to lie and say it was an enjoyable
segment of the stream. I'm a fan. I like a song generally as a person and agree with
his political platforms, but he's not good at gaming streams because he's stuck in reaction
or news mode and it makes the games not fun to watch, especially when it doesn't pay attention
to simple instructions.
See, there are gaming haters out there. A lot of you think that there are just gaming
lovers, but there are plenty of gaming haters, man. What the hell? That's what I'm talking
about. We have to, we have to feed the gaming frogs and the gaming haters. The gaming haters
don't get enough food. They don't get enough sustenance with the seven hours of uninterrupted
political commentary. They need more.
I fucking hate gaming stream. I left immediately when you started
Yeah, I've totally given up on trying to convince many of you that you should watch me play video games
You're just never gonna do it
But I will say the people who do end up
Oh, this wasn't friendly fire, by the way, right-wing cope does actually not like me
for the record.
He said the Hassan hit pieces won't land with anyone under 35 because most people didn't
have a driver's license on 9-11, probably find the joke funny.
If you're going to attack him, at least try to make him look like an idiot.
This is literally a promotion piece.
I said one day you'll find the perfect hit piece, right-wing cope, perhaps your alignment
with these losers should give you pause.
i think he's the most of them as reread the tweet dog over saying if you're
gonna write a hippie's at least make the hit about so someone's wrong issues
that of a list of old cause and no one cares about
and then all of the uh... the the classic he's literally defending say
is a defective op ed
this is more so about
right wing quote uh... being a fan of uh... some annoying uh... influencers
uh... in the past maybe they've changed their attitude since then
uh... but
the reason why i said this is because at least make him look like an idiot try to
make him look like an idiot
what do you mean try to make him look like an idiot
you're so good at gaming
i'm on the right wing cope discord they don't like you yeah i know there's a lot
of uh...
There's a lot of libs on there, some of which are, I think, coming to my side and recognizing that like all of the anti-Assad hysteria is so unbelievably reactionary that they are, they're beginning to reconsider their stances on it.
I heard you brothelize my mom. Yes, I turned her into broth. She's broth now.
FYI, the guy's been having more and more takes he would have previously called campus according
to a friend of course. Yeah, I think so too. I am beginning to notice that Trump has worsened
the contradictions and made them unavoidable. And therefore, okay, there's a couple of things
I'm going to do before I get to progmata. Okay, hold on here. Number one, we have to
do Julian Casablanca's four takes on subway takes. Because otherwise, if I don't watch
this you will explode let's take a look at the long audio text messages banger
represent disagree you're one of those people I send I send them all the time
yeah it sucks it's the worst thing I don't watch your stream of consciousness
man I have things to say hey I'm driving I'm just wondering yeah wait hold on a
second I got a turning left someone left a 19 minute message the other day that
That is rude.
Little bit.
Yeah, turn it up a little bit.
We had a warm take.
Okay, I mean modern cars are just kind of the worst.
100% agree.
Aesthetically, everything is ugly.
Okay, two for two.
Agree 100% with this guy so far?
Technologically, I feel like, you know, temperature, radio.
We're trying to like open the back right window,
like that much or that much.
It's impossible.
Like people like calling you, like everyone in the car,
like the music stops, the name, the mysterious,
who's that it's weird the tax or
progressives
together to a non corporate consensus
populist party okay do you know I
you're losing me a little bit there but
okay that's fine it's not left versus
right it's up versus down type beat fine
okay join to fight the real billionaire
gang agenda villains and you know what
you fight about abortion and guns later but let's
just focus on you know no corruption and
Democracy and yeah class class, okay, it's a class then the war of all against all
I know you're saying like ooh like a Euro class next up
You want the most controversial one? Yeah, you do. Yeah, give it to me
Well, it's been nice having a career with saying let's go down with the ship captain
American Zionists are
are
Get the benefits of you know, white privilege people but talk like they are black people during slavery
I'm never seen something so shocking
Where they're like bars?
That's fucking bars Wow, that's a blisteringly coming it's cold take it's 100 cent true
But it is a hot take unfortunately in this a day and age
But yeah, I mean, it's literally like the will you hide me stuff, right?
Living in the Upper West Side being like I am
You know, I'm under attack
by
Jewish voice for peace campus activists. Will you hide me?
I'm so
Oppressed I'm oppressed first. I'm like
You are going to a wedding in Tel Aviv right now, when there are 80,000 dead people, and
more, 80,000 plus dead people, including women and children, half a mile away.
Absolutely fucked, and totally, you know what?
I don't think it's bad to say that.
I mean, just for the people that are going to be like, hello, September 7th, yes, bad,
you know, Native American rebellions didn't mean it was, you know, okay to do what we did.
Slave rebellions that were violent didn't mean that, you know, slavery is not bad. You know what
I mean? So that's the scope of that answer just to be the haters.
that was a banger after banger banger after banger there's also this thing apparently
there's an Israeli influence operation called generative AI for good that creates AI victims
of Iran to agitate for regime change they just held a conference last week in New York City
here's a short clip of one of the deep paid propaganda videos they released a few weeks ago
And I got one last thing to talk about gendered of AI and conservatism.
This is truly unbelievable that they're like source, while AI, it is one of the most heinous
things I've ever fucking seen. I don't even know how to explain it, um, yeah, but there's
more. And I briefly tweeted about this earlier. AI is being utilized in very meaningful ways
in our lives, in ways that many people can't comprehend, and in ways that many people probably
assumed it was being used. I'm, of course, talking about some conservative influencers
on the timeline. Okay. Wait, did I not tweet about this?
Here it is. I said it's unbelievably easy to grift to stupid people. This is why you
always see the scheme going one way. For Wired, E.J. Dixon wrote a report where he spoke
to a med student in India who made thousands of dollars duping MAGA fans by creating blonde
AI influencer named Emily Hart. Here's how he did it. Okay. Of course, Democrats protest
us because they are deporting half their voters. Sam wanted to make a little extra cash. So
we fed an image of Sydney, Sweden into a custom chat. You can do tool to make Emily Hart,
20 year old nurse based in New York City who loves Christ, beer and ice fishing. Okay. Now,
ice fishing in New York is really funny. That should probably include you in on the
fact that this person is not a real, I mean, this person doesn't fully understand America.
But I guess he understands America enough to know that you can really sell dumb fucks on
right-wing grifting. Emily Hart's account blew up. Every real life puzzle is getting
three million views, five million views, he said. I haven't seen any easier way to make
money online. He attributes his success to, uh, following, uh, to his, uh, uh, he attributes
his success to the following. The MAGA crowd is made up of super dumb people and they all
fall for it. Trump should tell all the illegals that he will give them citizenship if they
vote Republican and see how fast Democrats want them out of the country.
We should accept illegals into our country, they could end up being a doctor.
Now apply that logic to the unborn."
Sam also started an account for Emily Hart on Faisley, which is how he made most of the
money.
Insta did a monetizer account.
He regularly DM'd with horny men who followed her, sending AI-generated bikini pics.
Sam didn't make an insane amount of money, just a few grand, and his account was ultimately
banned from Instagram for suspected fraudulent activity. As of publishing time, however,
Emily Hart's Facebook is still up. Read the story here.
You know what's really funny about this story? First of all, just a few grand goes a long way
in India, right? But you have to remember something, okay? And my favorite part about this is that
He also tried this in a liberal way as well, because he's a med school student in India.
He doesn't give a fuck about American politics. He's just trying to make money. So apparently,
E.J. Dixon is a woman. Oh, sorry. Apparently, the person is a, he I'm pretty sure, right? The
22 year old aspiring orthopedic surgeon from Northern India got some money from his parents,
But he says he spent most of his subsidizing his licensing exams and he's still saving up
hopefully emigrate to the US after graduation. So we started searching for ways to make additional
money online. Sam, who requested a pseudonym to avoid jeopardizing his medical career and
immigration status, tried a few things with varying degrees of legitimacy and success.
He made YouTube shorts and sold study notes to other med students. It wasn't until he started
scrolling through his Instagram feed that he landed on an idea. Why not make an ad-generated girl
using google's gemini nano uh... nano banana pro and so bikini photos were online
when sam started posting generic photos of a beautiful scantily clad woman on
instagram he was dismayed to find that none of the content was hitting
he turned a gemini for advice he created generic hot girl you're competing with
a million other models is said according to a transcript
sam provided the wire sam says he presented gemini with a few possible
options to help his model stand out in the chat box like the one in particular
the maga conservative niche referring to it as a cheat code
Plus, it said, the conservative audience, especially older men in the U.S., often have
higher disposable income and are more loyal, a representative for Gemini, said Gemini is
designed not to give particular opinion unless you tell it to, instead it is designed to
offer neutral responses that don't favor any political ideology or viewpoint.
So last January, Sam created Emily Hart, a registered nurse, and Jennifer Lawrence,
look alike. On an Instagram account for Emily at Emily Hart Nurse, Sam posted photos of her ice
fishing, drinking Coors Light, and shooting off a few rounds of the rifle range with
the moji leading captains like
if you are reason on follow christ is king abortion is murder and all the
legals must be deported
and at the of the u rs signed intelligent birth but you identify as a
liberal clown emoji
though sam has never lived in the united states he became as uh... and is
seduce student of maga ideology
every day i'd write something pro christian pro second amendment pro-life
anti abortion anti-wog and anti immigration tells me the grief seemed
almost too obvious but the sam's astonishment
he says the account blew up
every real opposed to getting three million views five million views
ten million views
the algorithm loved it he claims by the way
there is a there's a human version of this as well his name is as many gold
yeah he's right down the hall okay
that's how simple it is
i tell you all the fucking time of course this work
Within a month, Emily Hart had more than 10,000 Instagram followers, many of whom also subscribed
to her soft core AI generated content on the only fans competitor, FanView.
And between FanView subscriptions and selling MAGA theme t-shirts, one sample message reads,
PTSD, pretty tired of stupid Democrats.
Sam estimates he was making a few thousand dollars a month.
I was spending maybe 30 to 50 minutes of my day and I was making good money for a medical
student.
India, even in professional jobs, you can't make this amount of money.
I haven't seen any easier way to make money online.
Emily Hart is one of a slew of AI-generated hot girl MAGA influencers inundating social
media thanks to technologically savvy young men like Sam, capitalizing on both pro-Trump
sentiment and Americans' relative lack of digital literacy, and just lack of literacy
overall.
Overall, Americans are fairly stupid, especially right-wingers, obviously, and right-wingers
are incredibly easy to dupe. I mean, look at Donald Trump. He literally duped tens of millions of them
and still continues to do so to this day. All you got to do is say the right things
and a bunch of dumb fucks are like, hell yeah, brother. This is my life now. This is my wife.
The influences are created from a specific template. They tend to be white and blonde with jobs,
emergency responders. A lot of them are cops, firefighters or EMTs. They also incorporate
right-wing views into all their content, railing about immigration or Epstein files or pronouns
while posing in American flag bikinis or MAGA hats, often both. Valerie Wertschhofter, a fellow
of the Berkings Institution, studying emergency tech and democracy says, while the trend of fake
profiles is anew, AI has made them more believable and there has perhaps been an amplification of it.
Though many social media platforms, including Instagram, require creators to disclose their
content as AI generated, such guidelines are enforced only in a slap-dash fashion. Emily's posts
were not labeled as ad-generated and Sam says he was unable to monetize her account on Instagram
itself.
Female MAGA influencers tend to do well on such platforms for a few reasons. I love that
this is like a serious wired.com article. So they have to like write this seriously.
But the answer is because MAGA men are fucking dumb and they're horny. Okay. That's it.
Because they're stupid and they're horny, which makes them even dumber in their moment
of peak horniness, and they are infinitely more likely to get duped.
The overall chud reaction seems to be, yes, we fell for it, but have you considered that
AI is hot and the Indians are deceptive checkmate liberals?
What we did learn from this, a, Indians like to scam, b, conservatives are generous.
Wow.
That's a, that's a cool interpretation of events.
Yeah.
That's awesome. Yeah, dumb, horny, lonely and angry, which means easy to manipulate. The
same lot. Okay. So MAGA movement, unlike their Gen Z mail counterparts, 18 to 29 year old
women overwhelmingly skew liberal young MAGA women are therefore more attention grabbing
where Schaffer says, side of the upper over the likely AI generated Swifties for Trump
Trump posted on true social during the 2024 campaign as one example. The same logic, however,
apparently does not apply to left wing influence accounts as Sam learned when he created a
short lived liberal counterpart for Emily on Instagram.
Oh, hell yeah. Oh, come on. Come on. That's the best part of the article. This is what
I was waiting for. This is what I was waiting to get to. This is my favorite part of the
article. Democrats know that it's AI slop, so they don't engage as much.
Sam's explanation for why MAGA Influencer accounts work is blunt. The MAGA crowd is
made up of dumb people, like super dumb people, and they fall for it.
There's also another reason. The algorithm favors controversial views, making politically
polarized content more successful. This was Sam's experience in running Emily's account,
which he characterizes rage bait even though liberals will flock to the page leave irate
comments they were still clicking is a win-win situation because you're getting engagement
anyway and your content will go viral he says lately he says he noticed that pro nazi pro hitler
content has been getting especially high engagement on platforms like reels speculating that an ai
hot girl nazi influencer would blow up it would just break all the records when asked about his
claim a metaspoke person we prohibit content that glorifies supports or represents nazism and we
we remove it when we find it. In recent months, the phenomenon has attracted more notice,
especially after Washington Post article charted the rise of Jessica Foster, a leggy blonde
army service member who went viral proposing a selfie with President Donald J Trump and
Vladimir Putin. Though her Instagram account was clearly faking garnered more than a million
followers in just over four months, which Jessica Foster appeared to capitalize on by
promoting feet picks. The account has since been taken down an account for Foster has
has since been added to fan view. Another popular account, Mayflower mommy, 13 features
brief videos of brunette woman in a car in a kitchen, a car or in her kitchen, gazing
coquettishly at the camera with captions like if this American flag emoji is your pride
flag, I want to be friends. Hashtag let's magga her followers ate it up. Not a Democrat
live in the world.
Looks like this folks. Young fellas, pay attention. Read read read some comment. The account appears
have been removed after wired, reached out to meta for comment because only fans is policy
requiring ad disclosure as well as creators authenticating their identities before joining
those trying to profit off of hot girl mega accounts, gravity towards only fans, competitors
where such policies, such policies are less rigorously enforced fan view.
One of the most popular options is differentiated itself by allowing ad generated content. Though
Well, he did not actively promote Emily's fan view account for fear of alien or conservative
mega base. Sam says he used Gragas to generate nude photos of her and uploaded them to the
platform with Emily's fans sending him payments for exclusive content, exchanging messages.
I was basically doing nothing. He says, and it was just flooded with money. He says he
made a few thousand dollars off the account in a few days, but we did not enjoy the interactive
aspects. Once the guy sent me a video with Emily's nude on a tablet, on a pillow, and
He was basically recording himself fucking the pillow. He says it was incredibly weird, but he sent me a $50 tip
So I was like, okay, do what you want
Few of the fans cared when whether Emily was real Sam says this is very much in line with the psychology the average hot girl
Maga fan according to worse after
Whether it's plausible that a sexy blonde nurse would love Christ ice and flashing her boobs for strangers is
secondary to the fact that many, many people want to believe it. Even among some digital
natives, there's a perspective of, well, I don't actually care if this is true. I like
the sentiment of it, she says. Even though platforms like Meta ostensibly require AI
content to be labeled, it can often escape the detection. And it counts like Emily's
continued proliferate. To Meta's credit, however, Emily Hartner's Instagram was relatively brief.
In February, Emily's account was officially banned after Instagram flagged it for fraudulent
activity. Sam says, even if her account had not been banned, he probably would have stopped
posting anyway. He doesn't have any regrets about creating Emily. I don't feel like I
was scamming people, he says. After all, he was getting paid and people were happy with
the content he was making, but he's moved on from AI hot girl influencer niche. He says
he needs to shift to focusing on his studies. That, my friends, is proof, once again, that
there's only one direction that you can grift on with ease. You sell to stupid people. I
know I tell you this all the time. If you actually want to sell a product, you don't
sell to competent people, you don't sell to smart people. And if the product that you're selling
is a lifestyle, or if it's selling a political perspective, there's definitely one group of
people that are infinitely dumber than the other. Okay. I get mad at liberals all the time.
Oh, head of EU heard of my warnings about Hasan and immediately started calling the
to cut off Turkish relations. You got tweeted by the NRSC black.
I'm the all said and Sampiger birds of a feather. Dude, the Senate Republicans account claiming
that I'm anti black is really funny. Brother, you're the Senate Republicans. Who are you
fooling with this, okay? You are the Senate Republicans. Anyway, thank you for the links
chatters. Every link that you send is adding another 10 minutes to an hour to gaming time.
You're taking away from gaming time.
The last week, a record number of Senate Democrats voted to block arms sales to Israel. And also,
Recently, one of the leading Senate candidates in Michigan, Democratic candidate, said that
the Israeli government was just as evil as Hamas.
You voted to continue those arms sales.
Are you on the wrong side of public opinion in your party and this issue?
The answer is yes.
Our caucus is united and focused on ending the war in Iran.
And that's why we're going to be voting tomorrow on Baldwin's resolution, and we're going
going to be keep voting on those resolutions again and again, oh, there was also this took
across and apologized for his role in Donald Trump's rise to power.
Dude, who cares about politics? We have been waiting to game since you stopped playing
Fortnite. Okay, calm down. All right. Well, I'll cover the, the, I'll, I'll, you know what?
Fuck it. I'll cover the article about me from Zutay. Oh, uh, you should read it regardless,
But I'll cover the article about me from Zataya later tomorrow and we'll get into pragmatah.
I got to pee real quick.
And also I have to change the fucking, I got to make the game easier to play.
I mean, come on now, this shit was, it was too difficult, even though it was a baby game.
you give us a quick recap of what happened sure? it's uh... I'm an astronaut and I'm
in space. I'm an astronaut and I'm in space. hold on, I can't even change the difficulty
right now.
What have you been up to here?
Wait, hold on, what the fuck?
Oh, what the fuck? It brought me back to level zero? Hold on, I gotta pee.
I'm a dad, and I'm an astronaut, and I'm in space, I gotta pee.
I
Pragmatop, okay
Why is it that it what sucks about this is that it put me
me, uh, it, it plays me back in the beginning. Like it doesn't actually save, uh, the mission,
like all of the, uh, all the things that I did in that mission. That's kind of annoying.
the fuck chat I also can't find the photo you never leveled up brother you
never got the level one bro check your save file it like it I died I died and I
quit but I didn't realize that I didn't realize that if you die and you quit it
just like kicks you back to like do I have the guns for example let's see oh
wait I can upgrade I have an upgrade module so I guess it kept some of my
gear like I can repair yeah I'm not gonna do a blast off it's fine it saves you
just started the hub whenever you quit so the the enemies restart then sponsored
Yeah, dude is sponsored
Wait what the fuck where are my guns at?
Oh
It puts me in the second sector, okay, we're gonna use the upgrade
Save your game do a hard save
Huh good to know things get crazy and head back for a breather
There we go first one down
Okay
Wait, you left without using your module first?
Yeah, I didn't use my...
I didn't use my module, yes.
Ah, I got... I did all this stuff already.
That one's not that good at long distances.
I'm fucked up. Oh, what the fuck?
I'm freaking out. I'm fucking up worse than I did yesterday
I'm literally worse than I was yesterday, how was that possible?
I was cooking yesterday.
And today I'm not cooking, okay?
Okay elite gamer shut up guys I don't know how to dodge still just go back to the
Shelter and upgrade your armor and save
I know Diana shut up
Oh shit
Oh god
Oh my god, I'm gonna die
I'm gonna I'm so bad. I need to go easy mode. I need to go baby mode. I actually do need to go baby mode
This is unbelievable. It's so embarrassing, but I literally, your glaze doesn't mean anything to me, okay?
Your glaze means nothing because I'm losing. It doesn't matter. Your glaze is utterly irrelevant here, chat.
How can you not see?
your glaze has no power here it's ironic they're roasting you okay well Diana
believes in you do it for her it doesn't matter
Oh shit, this unlockable cutscene.
Okay, well I hadn't figured that one out yet.
for a niece backpack I don't know what that does oh shit probably not gonna be
what is this
What? This is a shockwave gun? I already have it. Fuck.
Okay, alright. What's the chism of this game? A chism? What do you mean a chism? What the
How the hell does that mean?
What's the chism of this game?
I don't know.
What?
Is there no way to like, uh, heal yourself at these like, gas, state, shield, sector,
command or whatever?
No.
You know the chism.
I don't know what the Chisholm is.
What does this do?
Oh shit, it's bringing me upstairs.
I have no idea what I'm...
I don't know where I'm at.
I've lost myself.
The healing stations are orange? Yeah.
What is- oh that's just the portal to go back.
Really enjoying this gaming. Only wish it was in 140.
Oh fuck.
I'm just fell. God damn it.
Rose being botted now right now right? No it's fucking chat behaving like bots.
Discord has made up their minds that if they keep posting, you're so wonderful at gaming
Hassan that it'll give me sufficient courage to continue playing video games instead of
being afraid to play video games.
What they fail to consider is that their words mean nothing.
And that this is where I died last time, so.
immobilizer. I did all of this last time and I got destroyed right here when I walked
through this gate. How do I get that? That's what I need. How do I... is it...
How do I get up there?
What is that music, man?
It freaks me out every time.
It makes me feel like there's enemies around.
that don't be afraid of music I am afraid of music because I got my ass beat last time
by these goddamn monsters dude I hate bots I freaking hate bots man
get to the shelter to heal no because then I I I have to kill all these guys
guys again right. I well I guess I'm gonna have to kill these guys when I go through
this thing anyway, right?
Wait, I did go!
Fuck one more.
What the fuck is this?
Come on!
Reload!
Reload!
RELOAD!
Why doesn't the stasis gun give you additional damage points or something?
COME ON!
Oh my god, I killed him with much less health this time too.
Oh shit.
You're so good at gaming, thank you.
No chatter, thank you.
Thank you for saying the truth.
Now I'll take it.
Now when you say you're so good at gaming, I believe it, because I actually did achieve
that that devious AI enemy right there. How do you get up there?
Ah, whatever.
Wait, is this the door?
What is this?
What does this do?
Okay, what the hell is this?
Oh
I hope it's dropping down here, so now we can back up to the top floor.
Oh.
Maybe there's a elevator up ahead.
Oh, it's like a cargo system.
It's like a ladder.
Whoa!
You can dodge mid-area.
Yeah, I heard.
Hey, look!
What's this?
That's the Earth.
The blue part there is all ocean.
That's the earth. The blue part there's all ocean. Look outside and see from here. That's
weird. More, more spherical, uh, propaganda.
Oh, okay. Printer's busted.
The data here looks alright.
The ocean. Water everywhere.
Kinda hard to appreciate when it's just the half.
Listen, we get back to the shelter. I'll look you up in the morning.
Really? I want to see!
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for supporting Delphi's development and expansion of the Cradle Delphi Corporation.
So the actual ways that we, the actual ways that we actually like have real checkpoints is by
by going back to the like these are these are like fires right like dark souls wise these
are like the fire checkpoints right is that what it is young bay things in solar plant
are in a word quiet grounds like a show up in the morning check out what the boss a plan
for the day and then we spend the rest of the shift trying to look busy gets thinking we're
both engineers but you ended up in the front lines of lunar development and we have wish
I could be out there too. Well, no you don't because everyone
Nice upgrade I got a cartridge holder now I have to repair cartridge capacities
Okay, okay, I dig it. What's that?
Why does the toilet have a glass door? You know that's really interesting.
We are gaming each stream one step closer to ceasing the means of production. Not even seizing, but ceasing the means of production.
Restart the main power terminal. Still the point. Oh, boom. Easy.
Chatter is doing sponsored copyposses. I'm not sponsored chatter
No Japanese corporations will ever sponsor me. Don't be crazy
They are unbelievably conservative about who they work with. Are you kidding me?
Cause it's fake Diana because it's literally freaking flat
Okay, dude, yeah sure
What is this thing?
Many cabin figures.
We're fun little buddies.
If you spot us and we'll give us a troll, then we'll beam right to your living quarters.
Functionality zero.
Obsession with hanging out maximum.
Okay.
Well done, Assam.
Once you're done, is it real?
While you're at it, it isn't.
Tactically, in your class of webinars, increase officer eight breakthroughs, they shift in
the battlefield.
Wait.
Tactically, in a certain class of webinars, increase options of 8 breakthroughs, they shift
in the battlefield.
Wait, so now I can just like print shockwave guns and stasis, stasis nets, and I can also
get thruster charges.
Alright, what should I use my moolah on?
chargers right? That's probably better, right?
Upgrade and repair shotgun.
Once you unlock a weapon, you can also upgrade them.
Alright, sure, I'll unlock them.
Whoever reads this message to ProudHouse on a gaming watcher, their lifespan expanded by 10 minutes.
Yeah, it's true.
And then this is the upgrades on the suit.
Uh, what should I upgrade? Primary unit damage, right?
Like, what should I upgrade, chat? I have 8.
All 3?
be a glass cannon what do you got
what do you mean everything we need is already at the cradle so why do we need earth stuff
well people just like having things that remind them of home I think being up here ain't easy
So people hold on to whatever makes them feel better.
Hmm.
I wonder if RBMs will make this.
No, because you're a bot.
You know?
Sorry to all the chatters.
But you're a baby, you're a weird baby.
Debate the robot baby.
Clunker hates beach.
Equip mods?
Oh.
Oh my god there's so many modifications I can use.
the tram wait you have on okay are you RP as a traumatized asshole your first
mistake was giving it a name as true we have literally done that we should not
have but we did. We gave it a name.
Uh-oh. I don't like television screens that are busted like that. That's usually
not a good sign.
Uh-oh. This looks like a boss area.
Hacking nodes yellow. Special effects that trigger when passed through while
completing a hack. Hacking node disrupts enemy internal systems temporarily increasing damage dealt.
I don't like that it still doesn't hit hard enough
Cash's defamation thrown out, that's so crazy, I wish they hadn't, I wish they
actually waged war. Cash Patel is so fucking stupid, he literally like do you
know what the discovery process would look like if they actually went with
that court case? Like the amount of the the unbelievable amount of damaging
information that we would learn like the the the courts actually saved the FBI on
that one for the record uh-oh uh-oh I bet they're gonna fall on me oh come on come
Come on now. Come on now!
Ah!
Oh my god, is that... are they throwing bombs my way? What the fuck?
Fuck me.
No!
Oh.
No, no, we'll get another shot.
God damn it, that was tough.
Wait, can I go here?
No, I guess not.
The yellow hack is a limited resource?
Oh, it is?
Oh, goddammit.
All right, where do we find the main power terminal?
My ammo is full?
What did that happen?
happen wait more decode more decoders
ECO plus three. Oh, I can't grab it anymore. I've already
there's a finite amount. The number underneath the gun is how much ammo each has. You have
to keep an eye on how many times you fire it. Yeah, it's a significant restriction.
I wish there were more health modules out there.
Why is your title crazy?
If you're gaming, what do you mean?
Because I'm a crazy gamer.
I feel like powering up this entire platform is probably not the best idea considering
how many... how many freaking bots are in the building?
Primary connection
This is egos unregistered guests are forbidden from this area
Sector guard protocol here we fucking go
No, that's a mecca we got a mecca bot
I feel like you should have figured it out by now that all of your homies are trying to
Destroy us
Okay
I don't even know where it's weak.
Hack it?
I did.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck.
I have like 5 health left.
What is it?
Leeson!
You're the worst!
You?
Stay away from the red circle!
Charlie!
You too! Watch out!
Hey! Who are you fishing around?
Oh, these balls.
Critical shot.
Oh, let's go.
Oh, shit, okay.
Okay, I'll take it.
Wait, what the hell was that?
What did I just do?
Did I double down it or did it power up again?
What the frick!
What the frick?
What did I just do?
Overdrive.
When hacking gauge fills, dying his ability to overdrive protocol can be activated when
you use it.
It opens nearby enemies and mobilizes them briefly and deals damage.
fields by hacking press lr when the hacking
Where are the freaking... where are the guns at? I need another shockwave gun.
Oh god, I died.
hang in there I'm freaking dead baby and on that note I will be ending it here
because I have a call in approximately 10 minutes so I am going to do that and
I'm also changing the difficulty because that's far too difficult for me
however however 30 minutes yes chatters 30 minutes okay it was fun while it
lasted and you should appreciate what you got okay because I have a call like I
said. Anyway, everybody, folks, boys, girls and MBS, gaming is real. It's not just in
your imagination. It's not just a figment of your imagination. It's real. You'll take
the crumbs and you will like it. In any case, I will be tomorrow. I will be back tomorrow.
Again, Jeffrey Sacks, not in the building, but talking to Jeffrey Sacks about where we
go from here and many other issues. Another day of gaming. Love you all and I'll see you tomorrow. Bye-bye.
It's just begun
Cause there is again
A sun is streaming
A sun is streaming
There is again
A sun is streaming
A sun is streaming
Reviewing a Chinese train
Ten kind of praise, Son in as many channels,
Giving grinning grace, Zoram winning and wise,
He walked to back with the force, The roguin of the left to me,
Me and a nimbo still on course
The Tricorps assassination, the fear and online show
Eight full fucking years of this, plenty more to go
Doing fun stuff tomorrow, throw PBS up on the screen
And made more 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
Kacked out of the DNC, Irelia marched the gond
Committing the propaganda to shut down people's throats
CBS Israeli news, a coup, a regime falls
A full-blown fascist takeover and still the duty calls
A total radicalization coming out to sea A system where he'll always fail, it's up
to you and me All these daily streams, weather show, or weather
I've held millions of people keep it moving right on home
Cause there he is again, her son is streaming
Her son is streaming
There he is again, her son is streaming
A son is streaming
But hey, what can you say
That's BBS for you
But he'll play games real soon
Just you wait
Say hey, what can you say
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But he'll move on real soon
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