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The left's new golden boy Twitch streamer doesn't even try to hide it.
34-year-old Hassan Piker not only hates America, he's hinting at a civil war.
A noted far-left influencer is declaring the Republican Party the biggest terrorist
on earth.
Breckett evening, Hassan Piker is unapologetic for his controversial comments on a range
of issues.
An anti-American far-left commentator who is named Hassan Piker.
Now that he's being highlighted, Democrats are flocking to him.
She's not out there on the Son Piker show, right?
For example, right?
The man to his left is a very controversial guy.
Hasan Piker insults just about everyone.
Where if you go back and listen to some of the things
that he says, Carl, this guy's not going to wear well.
Their so-called Joe Logan of the left, Hasan Piker,
is back in the headlines this time
for calling Republicans terrorists.
Piker has a controversial history.
And we've been showing you this all week.
You don't get 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, Hassan Piker.
They should stay away from him.
What's going on, everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening,
afternoon, pre-noon, no matter where you are
in the world of Hassan Piker.
this also number are just coming to you live from sunny California Los Angeles folks were
a lot of a lot and I hope all the boys girls and enemies are having a fantastic one because
today's a beautiful day today's a wonderful day today is hump day that's right it's Wednesday
It's hump day, ladies and gentlemen. It's 11am on the dot May, um, May 6th, Wednesday,
May 6th, 2026. We're live. We're live. And I hope everyone's having a fantastic one.
Today's a beautiful day. Today's a wonderful day. It's another suit day. You already know
what's up is how it is, baby dressed up like he's at the Met Gala. Dude, this
This is, this is who I am. I'm a soup guy.
Get used to it.
Get used to it. Get with the program. We're dapper now.
Uh, anyway, ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls and MBS folks were live. We're alive.
I got punched in the cop at the land sale.
He swung on my friend and hit me instead. Damn. That's,
I hope you're all right. Chatter.
But you look like a Persian used car salesman great
Yeah
The dapper yabber yeah, we swear suit hyper fixation. Thank you
You need to get some gold tight clicks big bro
Uh, maybe. All right. So I got the blast off memes, Druklu. Thank you.
But, uh, we're live. We're alive. This is part of the bracket coming to you live from sunny California, Los Angeles, 67 degrees and sunny here in Los Angeles, California, stolen Tongva land.
But.
That's where we're at.
My 86 year old grandmother found her talk with Zach Goldlansky interesting and said she was glad there are people trying to sort things out.
That's such a funny grandparent thing to say.
Anyway.
Can you address this lender against her?
Wow, wow, they just they don't want to see a Turk shine bro. That's what it is
Shingu was over Shingu was voted most over the NBA most overrated player in the NBA by other players
Yeah, bro. They just they hate to see a Turk shine. That's what it is. Honestly. That's straight up what it is
That's what it is. Can you please watch the talks of the correlation between autism and
leftist politics? No. No, I will not be watching that. Sorry. In any case, folks, folks, it's
part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news about what's going on in
the world of a son house and I've been piking between the time period where I press the
stop, remember button and press the start, remember button. So help me God. That's
what I'm gonna do. Um, guy has only one hookshot from the right hand. Nothing else. No slander
for the Turkish goat. Uh, but yeah, in any case, folks, folks, folks, folks, uh, we're
live. We're alive. Personal news wise, what has happened in my world, in the world of
a son, house, and I've a piker between time period, where press the start, remember
to press the start streaming button. So help me God. I watched a bunch of invincible. That's
what I did. What is this? BDBD. They really want you back with the helly on T.
Okay, I don't know. But yeah, I'm sold on style. Literally every the candidates bought or paid for
by corporations is the one time we're being a billionaire means you're not beholding the
corporate interests.
Your collar and tie combos may need a little more attention to detail.
What do you mean?
Anyway, listen, listen, listen, listen.
I watched Invincible last night.
I watched Invincible.
Okay, and it was
It was
Pretty good
It was very good. I don't know why I stopped
I think I stopped season two because like it started off in that alternative that alternate universe
Season two start off in the alternate universe, and I didn't like that and I just stopped watching it and
I realized now that I
You know, I shouldn't have done that. Oh
Oh my god shitty animation is so good. Okay, calm down anime purists. I don't want to hear it. I
Don't want to hear it from you
But
But yeah invincible season three was better, okay
Well, I'm on season two right now and I'm halfway through and I kind of like it and I kind of like it so
In any case, that's all I did hanging out with the fam, watching a little bit of Invincible.
Woke up early, did a bunch of phone calls, scheduled some guests on the stream.
We'll be having Evan Hill from Washington Post.
He is a forensic architecture guy.
technically he's the oh sick guy who does some some online forensics you know
in chatters we're gonna try something new today we're gonna just let these guys
just scream in the chat I don't give a fuck my chat logs are permanent lemon
fail I came to say fuck this animal abuser brother I don't know who duped
you or how hard they duped you. But that dog back there, when they're sleeping, she lives
a better life than you. Okay. I don't know if it's, it's because you're like, Oh, you're
an ideological opponent of mine. And it's a much more, it's a much easier way to fucking
say to falsely claim that you're a dog abuser or if you genuinely think that I am a dog
abuser I don't know but let me tell you something okay?
We're not gonna, we're not, yes I'm famous.
Oh that's all this was?
Okay.
Alright.
What's the whiteboard for? Oh, Professor John Cosplay. Yeah. But yeah, let's try something
today. I'm just going to let him, let the shit slide. I love when streamer on some
Democrat's bad side is turning his attention to California. This is such a funny way to describe
me, but fuck it. I'll take it. Melissa Barrera. Oh yeah, I saw this. I love her. She's goaded.
I've tried to get her on the broadcast. I don't know. I don't know if she's down.
Yeah, Dr. Jihad. Dr. Jihad.
I was hoping to be tutored in racism by Professor Jihad one day I'll show you.
My wired interviews out of Sampai Grissel described Ayatollah of woke wants AI to die.
Yeah, I issued a FATWA on AI.
Okay, that's true.
Korea is dead I saw but let's be real if they want it dead then it's dead you know
if best Korea doesn't want to reunify it is what it is anyway where was I okay
so personal news was yeah I did some I did some phone calls some stuff like
that I, you know, I was asked to do this Kathy Hockel foam bank thing. And of course, I was
down to do it. As always, much love to the DSA New York Comrades, you know, they're great,
they're doing great work out there. So almost got to do it. Someone's got to freaking do
lifting lately. Yes, I am. What is this? Yo, I just saw a poster in my San Francisco
neighborhood for an anti-Hasan Piker protest. Wait, what? Did you snap a photo of it? I
don't think I'm this serious of a person. I don't think like Israel pro supporters
have organized a protest. What is this? Bound an SF. Braggs about paying for sex. Feminist
rhetoric, different reality. It's not like a bright notion about paying for sex at a Berlin
brothel while calling himself a feminist ally. I actually speak louder than rhetoric. Feminism
isn't performative. Oh, no, they tapped into the swurfs, bro. Swurfs are the craziest.
Fix your collar, fix the back of your collar and shoot, please. Wait, what? It's fine.
What the fuck are you talking about? Oh, no, they tapped into the swurfs. It's
It's like POT Save the World Boys mentioned you work out with one of their co-workers
named Jordan.
Yeah, it's true.
I do.
I used to train in the same facility.
I think maybe it's a joke about the tweet.
This is like, he said rape allegations don't matter.
Sampai Republic we dismiss sexual violence, calling them rape hallucinations.
We believe survivors we demand better.
This is yeah, so the the Israel
The Israel defenders insane lore your IRL friends are your biggest ops guys
I like to say it tastes like a Turkish delight not at all. That's exactly how to describe a song's penis flavor
Dude, come on. Come on. Come on. We can't be doing jokes right now like we can't be doing jokes right now
I don't know what you guys I think
There is no org named in these flyers. It's just one crazy person probably. I think some of you guys have to understand that like there's time for jokes. There's time for no jokes. Okay. Like what the fuck I'm finding new versions of this. She spoke out his audience piled on in 2022. A black woman critic was meant with a wave of coordinated harassment. She spoke about his own playground stream as a documented pattern.
What the fuck is this?
What the fuck is that bro? Are these people okay? Americans are 9-11 dude. Fuck it. I'm saying it
They need to do dirt on you king this shit is ancient you do some actual bashing to make it more interesting
dude you piss off it's so funny but like Israel defenders are basically like the most
skit so politics people out there where they just they just dial in like they they have no chill
okay there is no like there's not even an investment into making themselves seem like
they're normal they're just like I am not okay I'm an insane person like I've never met someone
I've never met someone who's made it their lives mission to defend Israel come across like even a
remotely part a normal person they have no investment in this whatsoever where they're just like
I am the most insane person you have ever fucking encountered in your life I'm gonna make it
Literally everybody else's problem. Like it's kind of funny
It's kind of funny to see how how hard they go
So is this a counter process against your event with shorycott? I don't get it. Yeah
I'm an sf I'll rip those signs off for you. Fuck those haters. I mean watch your fingers sometimes these people
The real freaks will put
Like they'll put why what is it called like razor blades underneath the posters
Yeah, so if you're gonna do something like that make sure that's a that's a old Nazi tactic. Okay
So yeah be careful
I'm not saying these guys will go that far but you also have to be you have to be careful anyway
But thanks for teaching me about Dave's hot chicken finally has some holy shit
Today's Luigi Mangione's birthday. Yeah, Dan Stockman wrote an article. I know I covered it yesterday briefly. It's like disgusting
disgusting. Um,
Abdulla say it in the decline of the Senate guy who's literally a fucking road
scholar, double doctorate, okay.
Worked in public health, uh, and, and abolished 300,000 Michiganders,
like medical debt. That guy is, uh, not good enough for the,
that guy is not good enough for the Senate. Like he's the best.
He's too good for the Senate, if anything. And, and of course he's
Muslims. So, uh, you know, uh, Dan Stalkman, who has no qualifications, uh,
barely literate Dan Stalkman gets to write a fucking article for Israel's
favorite newspaper, the free press, uh, disparaging him.
We'll talk about Ted Turner in a second.
Um, but in any case, 50 bones, uh, Bula junior, thank you for the 50
bones. Yeah, we got a lot going on today. We're going to get into all of that and more. Let's
blast off real quick, straight pause for the ceasefire. California governor debate, W and
special elections Trump expensive W and Indiana oil plunges market surge, DSA call to demand
again, Kathy Hockel, tax the rich later, talking to Heaven Hill of Wapow on extensive U.S.
case, damage in golf. Anyway, get in now. Ted Turner, aka Jane Fonda Thumbler. I didn't
know that. He's lived a storied life. I will say in some ways, I do feel, how do I say this?
I feel a little bit
Sympotico to someone like Ted Turner. I feel like maybe I'm silly, but they don't make them like that anymore. You know, there is no like current modern day media equivalent of a guy like Ted Turner, which is kind of lame when you think about it.
Like I know
You are silly lol. No, no, no, it's just like
Like I know he's not like the best, obviously he's like a very, very unbelievably unfathomably
wealthy guy, but he also was like, you know, he was straight up a fucking like media demon
who had unique interests, eclectic interests who actually pursued said eclectic interests.
Whereas like nowadays, like nowadays you have the equivalence of this is like, what?
There's none.
There's nothing.
Yeah.
And I'll go through some of the things that he said in the past for you guys to understand.
Maybe I feel a little sympathetic because I'm a media guy who you guys think is unfathomably
wealthy.
Nowhere near like Ted Turner wealth, obviously.
But I'm, I too am a media guy who has made controversial, controversial remarks for the
time period that technically wasn't wrong, but he was a, you know, they demanded he apologize.
Right.
And of course I'm talking about him saying Israel's doing terrorism in 2002.
even hitting the Mahmoud Mamdani, the Mahmoud Mamdani line of the Palestinians are doing
suicide bombs because they have nothing else. Israel is, on the other hand, one of the strongest
militaries in the region. I would go so far as to say they are the ones who are doing terrorism.
Who's to say it's just the Palestinians doing terrorism? Stuff like that.
that. Maybe that's what it is. Like it's hard for me not to feel a sense of sympathy for
the, the, the founder of CNN a little bit because it's just, he's the last of a bygone era. You
think about like Anthony Bourdain, this actually ties into Anthony Bourdain as well. Okay.
There aren't guys like this anymore. There aren't people who are well read, intellectual,
have like unique interests, have some political perspectives that go outside of the confines
of whatever the fucking neoliberal state department interests are.
You know what I mean? Like this doesn't happen anymore. I just, I can't think of like an equivalent
here. Like you got fucking Peter Thiel. You got Palmer Lucky. You got Elon Musk.
guys all suck. Okay? This doesn't, like, I don't, I'm not trying to say that it's good,
that you know, you got, you know, billionaire philanthropist or whatever. I'm just saying
that even on the billionaire philanthropist side, there are, there's a diminishment
of the quality. Okay? Like where are the, the interesting, where are the interesting
super wealthy guys. Like Gabon is the only guy I can think of that is unfathomably wealthy
and has his own like unique interests and pursues them, right? Like Mark Cuban is not
anywhere near as interesting as like Ted Turner was, right? Nowhere near as interesting. I
mean, I guess we have the Roy Singham guy. He's not even a billionaire, but Roy Singham
as an example of this, like the PSL guy, you know, the guy who funds like all that stuff
from China, you know, yeah, valve gaban gaban is an interesting eclectic billionaire kind
of guy. I mean, he is. I don't know. Anyway, let's continue.
He changed the world.
Known as the mouth of the South and Captain Outrageous,
Ted Turner built a media empire that changed cable news forever.
I didn't have any upper limits to how far we could go.
Champion, philanthropist, environmentalist.
I don't know how to quit.
It's not in my genes.
But growing up wasn't easy for Ted.
Born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1938,
His parents sent him to boarding school when he was just four years old.
I didn't like boarding school.
I wanted to be home.
So sad.
His sister, whom he adored, died of lupus at 17.
About two years later, Ted dropped out of Brown University.
He'd been studying classics until his father cut off the money.
He thought I was wasting my time.
So he went to work for his dad's billboard company, but tragedy struck again when
nothing boomers do impress me because they were basically living on easy mode
chatter this is not a regular boomer he was also unbelievably wealthy like he
comes from a wealthy family it's not like you know it's not like he came
from like a like a broken home you know and he was like a very broke growing
up or anything. He just, you know, he, he comes from a very wealthy background on top of everything
else. Um, it's just like, it's just, look, look, do you want to know why I like Ted Turner?
I'll tell you why. One, obviously Jane Fonda kind of cool. Okay. If you're at that level and
you're like, you know, and you go after a babe, uh, like Jane Fonda, I'm going to give you a
little bit of respect. Okay. That's number one. Number two, let's read some of his
controversial comments. Turner once called observers of Ash Wednesday, Jesus freaks,
though he apologized and dubbed opponents of abortion bozos. In 1999, Turner made a
joke about Polish mind detectors. Ted Turner himself was Polish, by the way. Uh, when
asked about Pope John Paul II, after a harsh response from the Polish deputy foreign minister,
radek sikorsky turner apologize that story is actually very funny
uh... they're like what would you say to the uh... what would you say to the
pope if you met him
and he said
i would point to my foot
and go have you ever seen a polish mine detector and i would just point down to
my foot
that's the joke he made
obviously the polish got very mad
do you do you kind of understand why i have a little bit more sympathy for
this guy
regardless of uh... of him being a evil billionaire media demon
Do you, do you see like he has, he has all of my interests and he has stepped on similar
landmines over and over again. Okay. Uh, from Polish jokes to, to shitting on, uh, the,
the ultra Christian, uh, to this part, which is very good as well in 2002, Turner accused
Israel of terror. The Palestinians are fighting with human suicide bombers. That's all
they have the Israelis, they've got one of the most powerful military machines in the world.
The Palestinians have nothing. So who are the terrorists? I would make a case that both
sides are involved in terrorism. He then of course had to apologize for that remark in
2011 and about the nine 11 hijackers. Uh, he said, wait, what was, I forget what he
said about the nine 11 hijackers, but he said something like that. Uh, he said
some of law about the nine 11 hijackers as well. And he said, look, I'm, I'm
I'm a very good thinker, but sometimes grab the wrong word.
I mean, I don't type my speeches and then sit up there and read them off the teleprompter.
You know, I wing it.
Also in 2008, Turner asserted that on PBS, Charlie Rose that if steps are not taken to
address global warming, most people would die and the rest of us will be cannibals.
Turner also said in the interview that he advocated Americans having no more than
two children.
In 2010, he stated that the People's Republic of China's one-child policy should be
implemented.
Oh turn your calls attackers brave but a little nuts
Yeah, I mean come on dude. This is what I mean when I say don't make him like this no more
Like think about fucking Tom Steyer. Okay, think about Tom Steyer and and the way
That he talks the way he carries himself like he's the what the closest equivalent here like an eclectic
billionaire who's like deeply invested in in you know doing shit outside of what billionaires do nowadays
Like there is not there. We don't have guys like this. Okay. We don't have guys like this anymore
So I do feel a little fucking
You know
Yeah, he also mentioned Bush and praise Fidel Castro.
Of course terrorists are brave Ted.
What are heroes?
Ted Turner has crammed his foot into his mouth once again.
This time calling the Twin Tower terrorists brave, comparing President Bush to Roman dictator
Julius Caesar, stunning an audience of students at Brown University Monday night.
The man known as the mouth from the South and Captain outrageous also commended Cuban
dictator Fidel Castro.
Do you understand?
Do you fucking understand what I mean when I say he's just, I wish we had more guys
like this?
Ted Turner's not Polish?
I thought he was.
Am I wrong?
Was he a wasp through and through?
I thought where did I get that idea?
I might be wrong.
Turner is an English name.
Now, half these guys don't use their real fucking last names, bro.
He was Turkish.
Anyway, not to mention that he was a wrestling guy who once owned his own promotion. Yeah.
So do you understand why I feel a little bit sympathetic to this guy though? Do you get
it? His name is Robert Edward Turner, the third. I think he was as waspy as they come.
I don't know where I got the, he was a Polish idea from, um, are you, are you debating Van Jones?
Great question. I'm supposed to, but he stopped responding to me in the DM. So I don't know,
I want to, but um, fire writing, chatter. This is not, uh, this is a classic. Okay.
This is not, uh, this is not key. This person didn't come up with that on his own.
Okay, this is a real fucking Zhou Enlai statement between the Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev.
I'll show you the OG in a second. New virus incoming?
What the fuck? What is happening? What the fuck? What new virus?
Hantavirus? What is it? The Hantavirus kills you too effectively for it to become a full-blown pandemic?
Is the kind of jaded analysis I look for from a virologist? What the fuck is Hantavirus?
Anyway, this was the, yeah, this is from the California debate last night, but...
but uh...
i have said
billionaires like me should pay more taxes and the big corporations should pay
more taxes excuse me you better or i had this proposition is on the ballot in
november all vote for it
but going forward we do need to go further this is a one-time tax and it
also doesn't spread the money across the government the way
everything else does and specifically it doesn't go
education and teachers and students which is a critical need in the state of
California. The tax I'm proposing to close a corporate real estate tax loophole
there's more money and it's spread to me. I'm confused. Do you support the
billionaire's tax that is going to be on the ballot in no way? Yeah, yeah. We
watched this happen in real time right? This is I'm the daughter of farmer
she said, you're a billionaire. We have nothing in common. Perhaps we do, murmured her New Yorker
antagonist. What blustered Porter? We are, responded Steyer, both traders to our class.
So the original here, the original is a Khrushchev-Zohenlai conversation,
okay? Where, that's what Zohenlai says to Nikita Khrushchev, right?
This is also about how Khrushchev betrayed, you know, it's at the time it was one of the issues that the Chinese had with the Soviets was that they had betrayed the Marxist-Leninist fundamentals and they were no longer beholden to the
And, you know, to the original principles of Lenin, this is like in the destalinization
period, if I remember correctly, and China did not like that.
However, you know, regardless of my, you know, my criticism of the Khrushchev, I've also,
I also still maintain the position that he was a fucking lion, as you guys know, uh,
for bringing nukes to Cuba and allowing Cuban development to flourish in the
aftermath of the Cuban revolution. Um,
and the USSR did do a bunch of unbelievably cool things internationally
during the Khrushchev period. Um, so, you know,
every leader, every,
Everyone has, everyone makes mistakes, but then they also have their moments, right?
You got to look at the, you got to look at the positives, you got to look at the negatives.
So, everybody has those days.
This was, yeah, I saw this Van Jones thing.
That's why you grade potters on a curve. How would you grade Tom Steyer?
I mean, I have no way to make an assessment on what he's going to be like right now,
but in his current race, he is the best option. I have said that.
You got to stop settling, my man. We left this should only accept people who have never made
a single mistake. Okay. Well, I'll, you know, obviously I myself have made many. So,
yeah, we were, I don't know how we got here. We were talking about Ted Turner,
and I want to get back to that first. But yeah, so Ted Turner glazed a little bit,
even though he's fucking billionaire media demon responsible for CNN,
he was kind of cool. His father killed himself.
He went against everything that he taught me,
be courageous and hang in there.
Ted took over the family business and cope with the loss by working even
harder. You said that's a crazy, that's hangers are crazy, crazy fucking wording to use there.
Set your goals so high that you can't achieve them in your lifetime.
When Ted was at working, he turned to the sport he loved sailing. You got to go fast.
And when the sports top race, the America's Cup, I had worked very hard. I took me a number
of years to become a champion. He put that same drive into expanding the business. In
1970, Ted bought a struggling TV station. It was a broken down UHF television station
in Atlanta. He was going to transform UHF television into... He was also a stud, like
he was hot. You know? Bro, Mr. USA 2025 just replied to the Yale student speech
you reposted. I'm Republican, but this is fire. Lamal. Wait, what is it? Which one is it?
It's the it's the other girl who was talking about capitalism, right? In American imperialism.
Mr. USA 2025. Who the fuck is Mr. USA 2025? This new world of satellite television.
Ted renamed the station WTBS and it became the country's first super station.
What Ted made happen?
Check logs for quick haunted virus recap guys. I'm not gonna fucking get into the haunted virus recap right now
Oh my god, some of you are seemingly unbelievably excited to the prospect of talking about yet another fucking
Virus developing. Okay, we are not gonna do that right now. Please stop spamming haunted virus related shit
Okay, we will get there eventually. Okay, stop
I was just as important as the internet road.
Contovirus is serious stuff, it's going to be bad, please read about it.
I'm going to get to it man, I'm just not doing that right now, that's my fucking point.
Jesus Christ.
Evolution of the 90's and 2000's.
But starting out Ted needed content.
He bought the Atlanta Braves and broadcast their games nationwide.
The Atlanta Braves.
The Braves became America's team.
When we bought them in 1976 they were terrible.
By 1995, Ted and his team were World Series champs.
As he built the superstation, he set his sights even higher
on a 24-hour news channel.
I worked till 7 o'clock, and when I got home,
the news was over.
So I missed television news completely,
and I figured there were lots of people like me.
People did look upon that as a foolish idea
that was destined for failure.
but they underestimated the eternal.
Most of the leaders of the world thought Ted was nuts.
We signed on on June 1 and
barring satellite problems in the future.
We won't be signing off until the world ends.
We'll be on, we will cover it live.
As based as he is 24 seven news cause irreparable damage to our society.
Yeah, 100%.
Um, yes. CNN has, has, has been, uh, at the forefront of, of the brain poison that is
American, uh, televised media for sure. Um, yeah, it's, it's terrible, but, uh, he's not
based. No, he had his moments. He had his moments. He had his moments. Come on, bro.
literally fucking said Fido Castro was dope. He said he literally said the 9-11 hijackers
were brave, but a little crazy. That's what he said. Come on, man. Are you fucking kidding
me?
He said, he said they want to hate on a hustler like you. Yeah. He gave us adult swim to Nami.
Very important for me specifically. Yeah. He's the Robert Oppenheimer of brain poison
and 24 seven news in some ways, but he also had some cool ass moments.
I dedicate the news channel for America, the Cable News Network.
Take a letter, Mike.
CNN aired its first broadcast on June 1, 1980.
Good evening.
I'm David Walker.
And I'm Lois Hart.
Now, here's the news.
It took five years to turn a profit.
I lived for 20 years in my office.
He was one of us, and he would be in this outcote down, having breakfast in the Hart
News Cafe.
And we'll get better by the end of the week.
called it chicken noodle news. But the Gulf War would give CNN the respect it
deserved. It was the first time a war was broadcast live on television and it
was only on CNN. I still believe that was the greatest scoop in history of
journalism. You can see her there. Ted didn't care as much about ratings as he
about being the most trusted man I've used. Ted also cared about the world. Over a 10-year period,
he donated the- Who gives a fuck about Ted Turner long? I mean, I do. I do.
And also, I mean, he is a he's a very impactful guy. He's kind of fun. He should be like, who
gives a fuck about this guy? But like, I mean, he he invented CNN, dude. What are you talking
about like that's we hate it sure it's understandable but why though not trying to be antagonistic
but seriously wondering like what's this guy's impact guys he is the guy the inceptor of the
Modern 24-7 news cycle. Are you guys fucking rage baiting me? What is happening?
Read a book!
Oh my god!
Someone, read a book. Any book. Pick up any book right now. It might be a dictionary.
It doesn't fucking matter. It might be a coloring book.
It might be Kashpatel's book about the plot against the king. Just start reading!
Oh my god!
What the fuck is going on?
I picked up hillbilly elegy it's fine, just read something.
Billion dollars to the united nations.
I'm no poorer than I was nine months ago when the world was a lot better off.
And he expanded his empire launching networks like TNT and Turner Classic Movies.
In his personal life, Ted was married and divorced twice with five children before he finally
met his match, Jane Fonda.
She agreed to have dinner with him, for me it was love at first sight.
I can't ever forget the reasons that made me fall in love with him.
I've never met any human being that thinks the way Ted does.
Ted was a visionary, a titan, even Time Magazine's Man of the Year.
But in 1996, he sold his networks to Time Warner.
He got almost $8 billion.
I said, Ted, if you sell, you will no longer be captain of your own ship.
Ted Turner, Ted.
Five years later, Time Warner merged with AOL and Ted was out.
Ted used the description.
I've been fired.
got shafted and it hurt. It was more than just a company to me it was um it was a way of life.
Yeah but what did you do? I'm gonna I'm gonna die. Bro, bro invented CNN, okay? Like
abated? Okay. He lost his empire and the love of his life. After 10 years of marriage
He and Jane parted ways, but your lover still, yeah, to this very day, to this very day.
He fumbled the biggest batty, Jane Fonda. Anyway, that's a, that's a big L, big L for
Ted, big W for Ted, also big L for Ted. But Ted never gave up his final act,
saving the planet. He created the UN Foundation and the nuclear threat initiative.
On his Montana ranch, he made it his mission to save the bison.
Hi, well you never go home, do you?
And he opened restaurants to ensure their survival.
Ted's love of the outdoors has made him perhaps the number one environmentalist that I've ever known.
Before his 80th birthday, Ted revealed he had Lewy Body Dementia, a progressive disease.
He spent his final years treasuring private moments, his ranch, and his family.
He wants to know that when he goes out, it will be with the love of his children and grandchildren.
You can never take away what he created and what he did.
We have never seen a man quite like Ted Turner before on this planet.
And I don't think we'll ever see another one like him again.
there's the amazing American success story, the businessman, the visionary,
the revolutionary who created really a media revolution. And you know,
every single thing that followed him, anything in the 24 seven genre started
with Ted Turner. Everything was a copy. If I dare say so myself and not the
best copies. He was the original and he made us all proud and he made us all
hope.
If you want to, if you want to consider it like the inciting incident to the
creation of Fox news, you could potentially make that argument. But like, yeah, he is,
he's the guy who created the 24 seven, the 24 seven news broadcast, right? CNN.
And then obviously Rupert Murdoch is in my opinion, a far worse, a far, far worse media
demon billionaire who is unfortunately still very much alive. But no, he didn't create
Fox News, he created CNN, okay? He created CNN. Like he is the guy who created the 24-7
news network, okay? On cable television. He's the one who created that, okay? Before him,
this did not exist. They didn't have like 24-7 news cycle. Fox copied his model and
turned it into opinion editorials rather than the way that CNN was operating, which
was supposed to be, the way that CNN was operating at its inception was unbiased, straight, objective
reporting. Obviously, there's no such thing as unbiased reporting. Let's be real, but
they did a good deal of state department propaganda as mainstream media is supposed
to do as mainstream media is tasked with doing. However, however, the way I thought PBS was
unbiased, the Piker Broadcasting Service, the People's Broadcasting Service is unbiased.
It's the most unbiased that you can get. Just kidding. I'm just more open about
my biases. So, yeah, CNN was the only one doing 24 seven reporting until the US did
the invasion of Iraq. But yeah, in some ways he is like a Robert Oppenheimer style figure.
if you want to look at like the bastardization of media or whatever, but
and they were destructive in the Afghanistan Iraq coverage. Yes, guys, this is not a defense.
This is not a defense of CNN in general, okay?
This is not a defense of CNN as an institution.
I'm just telling you why he was an impactful person in media history, both in the United
States of America and also around the motherfucking globe, okay?
That's it.
like, what's up? What's up with this guy? Like, why are you covering this? So I'm explaining it to
okay.
Ted Turner had a dinosaur named after him.
After he donated the fossils, Ted Turner had a dinosaur named after him, Sierra, Sarah,
Topps, Ternary, after he donated the fossils found on his land to a museum. As far as
billionaires go. He's well respected among paleontologists.
Yeah, I'm not saying he's a great guy or anything like that. I'm just
just saying that he is an impactful figure in media history, but also I do feel a little
bit sympathetic to who he is because he also had a lot of classic moments where he put his
foot in his mouth where he would say things that I think were objectively true and then
everyone would yell at him, including things about he's a 9-11 guy himself.
also called Israel a terrorist state in 2002. That was what I was trying to fucking explain.
He's defended Fidel Castro. So, like, what I'm saying is there is an end-shudification
that has taken place. This is just the reality under capitalism. It's not just the products
that you consume and enjoy that are getting worse year over year. It's not the services
that you take advantage of that are getting worse year over year. It's the fucking, the class of,
of the super wealthy guys who were eccentric that have also gotten significantly worse. Okay?
That was the point that I was trying to make.
take.
Is Trump trying to retcon Ted Turner here? President Trump on the passing of Ted Turner.
Ted Turner, one of the greats of all time, just died. He founded CNN, sold it and was
personally devastated by the deal because the new ownership took CNN, his baby and
destroyed it. It became woke and everything that he is not all about. Maybe the new
buyers, wonderful people will be able to bring it back to its former credibility and glory,
regardless, dude, dude. He would kill himself, okay? Like, if he wasn't, if he didn't have
advanced dementia at his old age and recognized what was taking place with CNN post the initial
merger that already was devastating for him, he probably would have just killed himself, okay?
Okay? Yeah, sure. I'm sure he would love the thing that he founded, turning into a fucking
flesh puppet for Donald Trump and the state of Israel. Definitely very exciting. Yeah,
rolling in his unduck grave currently. Regardless, however, one of the greats of broadcast history
and a friend of mine, whenever I needed him, he was there always willing to fight for a
good cause.
President Donald J Trump. I mean, yeah, Turner calls 9 11 attackers brave, but a little nuts.
I mean, that lives in my mind permanently. So yeah, uh, he was a little crazy.
He was definitely a little crazy, a little interesting guy. Um, but, uh,
obviously they're not going to fucking mention any of that shit on CNN.
We'll strive for his vision of a better world, whether it was in news or
whether it was in the philanthropy.
He was the first of the modern day philanthropists after the Carnegie's
and the melons and the Rockefellers of their generation.
I wanted to let you know I was watching Mershimer on the Good Judge Napolitano show yesterday
and as an insult, he called the Trump administration a bunch of pikers.
He hit the word hard too.
Maybe that's why he's not coming on the show.
That's crazy.
Papa Mersh, Papa Mersh heard my name and was like, what, what am I a piker?
I'm not going on this guy's show.
He also loves saying that's the $64,000 question.
He's so fucking old.
That's so awesome. Like that is, that is a, like the $64,000 question, okay, was a game
show from 1955. Okay. That's why it's hilarious. Every time it goes, and that's the $64,000
question, I'm like, there is not a human being on the planet that knows what you are referencing.
Okay, they're not alive. They're all dead. You're the last guy
You and Judge Napolitano are the only two fucking people that know what this reference is
Okay
This is like the first game show
Oh, it's so funny. He's such a boomer. I, I, I love the guy. All right. Let's continue.
As Wolf just pointed out, when he gave a billion dollars to the UN foundation and then Bill
Gates and then Warren Buffett and then Michael Bloomberg and all the others joined in to,
to, to follow in that incredibly noble pursuit. He was big, huge on climate and that's
of global issue, obviously, he was way ahead of the curve on on climate and climate mitigation.
And I remember asking him in one of my last interviews with him, what would you say to
the young people who look up to you and who want to make their own first billion dollars?
How would you suggest they do that now? And he said, climate green technology, the
green economy. So sure. And he was always so absolutely right. And as as Wolf was
saying, you know, he was somebody who believed in breaking down the barriers between peoples
and between nations. I remember when I was still, you know, in 1980s in New York and I
was climbing up the ranks, I started in September 1983 in Atlanta, and I remember when he banned
the word foreign and I was absolutely devastated. I wanted to be a foreign correspondent like
Edward R. Murrow and all those people. And he brought the word international. And
It wasn't just a little thing, it was because he didn't want to drive a wedge into people
by calling them foreign.
And he didn't want to have separation.
Imagine that kind of leader and what we're left with right now, when everything's about
weaponization of identities and beliefs and all the rest of it.
He was exactly the opposite.
When he took CNN International in 1985, what he did was not just be the first ever
global team.
No, I'm saying boo, because he's like, oh, you can make money off of, if you want to make
a billion dollars, it's like, or if you're a billionaire, you can work on the climate
agenda. It's just like, I don't want to hear, I, I don't want to hear that he's a billionaire.
I know he is. Okay. But I, it's just, you know, it makes me, it makes me cringe.
TV 24 7 behemoth network, but he also chipped
Down the walls of states and authoritarian
Regulated media so all these nations where the people could only see what they were fed by their authoritarian leaders
And I'm not talking about that part of the world
You know he gave them something else
He opened their eyes to the rest of the world, and I thought that was absolutely
Fundamental and he said to us when we were in the Gulf War. He said look
I'm not gonna force anybody to be in Baghdad, which of course was the enemy capital here a multimillionaire buddy
His lifestyle is probably similar to yours
Yeah, no definitely. Yeah, no, I live exactly like a bill
Yeah
Yeah, and no, famously, famously a billion dollars is very close to my level of wealth
and fortune.
That's not exactly, but compared to a normal person.
No, no, that's, what are you talking, a billionaire is so rich that a multi-millionaire, a multi-millionaire
closer to a homeless person than they are to a billionaire. That's not how the math works!
You're just wrong! Open the schools! Objectively!
What the fuck are you talking about?
Crazy how you're acting like a billion is a thousand millions, yeah.
What is a billion, dude?
Like a thousand of these millions?
Like what?
And that's just one of those billions.
He had more than one of those.
He made 8 billion off of just the first initial sale of CNN.
8,000 of them.
What are you talking about?
Yeah, 11 days versus 32 years, okay?
United States, we had been reporting in Saudi Arabia and around, and we also had distinguished
ourselves as CNN, the reporters there in Baghdad.
But when it came to the war, you had the president, you had the, you know, chair of
the Joint Chiefs, you had all these people call Tom Johnson our president and say,
You better get your people out of Baghdad because it's going to be real.
Obviously I agree with you, but their point is probably when it comes to lifestyle, beyond
a certain point being a multi-billionaire isn't even that much more luxurious.
It's just a bragging rights thing.
No, it literally, there is levels to this shit.
We just don't even know how to fathom the levels to this shit.
So no, it's objective.
The only reason why we think that way is because people that are at that level,
But the exception of Elon Musk, no better and shut the fuck up about it, okay?
It's not even remotely close, okay?
There is absolutely varying layers of wealth.
Like these people purchase mega yachts and shit.
And it doesn't even put a dent in their overall finances, like they purchase mega yachts worth
more than whatever I will make for my entire lifetime and they don't even think about that purchase that
purchase doesn't even they purchase that with the with the like for them the amount of wealth they have
is so unfathomable that a mega yacht that they purchase is like me purchasing a fucking slice of
pizza with my current level of finances and that mega yacht is worth more than I will ever be
worth for the rest of my fucking life. Okay? They're purging, I'm making it out like they're
door dashing. That is the level of, of the finances that they're operating on. It's just
not even close. There's two reasons why we can't comprehend it where it's like,
it's just so unfathomably wealthy. Like the, the large, the number difference is so vast,
so large that we just can't comprehend it at all in our minds. That's how big it is.
But then also on top of that, it's just oftentimes these purses are not done in broad daylight.
So you have to like, you know, Google it, you have to look at it.
You have to search to see what they're, what they're up to.
I've had a navy with 159 ships and now every ship is blown to pieces and lying at the bottom of the water.
They had an air force, lots of planes, and they don't have any planes.
They don't have any anti-aircraft.
They don't have any radar left.
The missiles are mostly decimated.
They have something probably 18, 19% not a lot by comparison to what they had and their leaders are all dead
So I think we won
Now it's only a question of look, bro
That's not it doesn't even have a boat money for LA. What do you mean boat money bro?
I live in a fucking normal mid-sized home that people have called a
Multi-million dollar mega mansion because it's like where it is and I bought it with a fucking 30-year mortgage like people make it seem like I just
You know,
They go a big step further, but
Anyway, I'm not going to be getting into my fucking finances.
It's just such a dumb conversation to have.
Very good talks over the last 24 hours.
It's very possible that we'll make a deal.
Yeah, thank you, Mr. President.
Good to see you.
What are the status of these talks?
They're very good.
Just give some insight as to where we are going to talk.
And we've had some good talks before, as you know.
And all of a sudden the next day, they're like,
they forgot what happened.
You know they're proud like Ted Turner had a more similar lifestyle to you sure he had more land but aided local dollars he owned and didn't have a
mega out but a small civil dude you're fucking nuts you get hit by somebody else
stop justifying yourself over your wealth over and over again oh my god I hate
this conversation these people are great right the others do too enemies have
great pride we went into Venezuela smart people great people they're really
strong military we want it very quickly and we have a fantastic it's been a
great thing for Venezuela. The people are really happy they're dancing in the streets
because they have a lot of money coming in through the big oil companies that are all
moving in. I was with Exxon Mobil last night. The chairman was here. And we're talking about
Venezuela along with a lot of them. She had a run. They're all here last night. They
all want to go there and elsewhere. We just hit a new high in the stock market.
The stock market's highest it's ever been. And I expected that the market would
be down 20-25 percent.
I was willing to do that to get rid of a crazy country, crazy people.
You know, when you talk about regime change, their first level leaders are dead, their
second level leaders are dead, some of their third level leaders are dead.
I call that regime change.
But I thought we'd be down maybe 20 percent, and we're up.
The stock market's higher now than when we started this war.
And I thought oil prices would go to $200, $250.
It's at $100 now.
And I think you're surprised that I'm surprised.
But even if it went to $200.
Cool, it was $77 that filled my tank.
Yeah, but don't you feel patriotic?
Don't you feel patriotic and good
that Israel gets to do the greater Israel project unimpeded?
Shouldn't you feel good about that?
An excursion down.
Are you anti-Semitic?
Because we can't let them have it.
I'm alerting the authorities to your location.
is very simple. Iran cannot have 10 new immigrants.
Yeah, no, keep complaining, chatter.
It's tough as they are.
We want to keep them alive.
See if we'll allow that kind of anti-Semitism to manifest
in this country.
And they've agreed to that, among other things.
Mr. President, you've had some recent back and forth
with Pope Leo.
I understand Secretary of State Marco Rubio
is going to meet with the Pope tomorrow.
What message do you hope he delivers to the only person?
Well, I can tell you this, that as far as the pope is concerned,
it's very simple.
Whether I make him happy or I don't make him happy,
Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
And he seemed to be saying that they can.
And I say they cannot.
Because if that happened, the entire world
would be hostage, and we're not going to let that happen.
That's my only message.
Complaining about gas prices is anti-Semitic
unpatriotic, un-American. Don't ever do it. Don't ever think about it. Don't ever think about doing it. I would never.
I think it's going to be the biggest event we've ever had at the White House. I mean, the White House doesn't really do athletic events for the most part.
And these are all the greatest champions of the world. They're the greatest fighters in the world. You can tell by looking at them.
These are the greatest fighters in the world. How do you think of you wanted to heavy training?
I think you'd be a little tougher. Have a good time, everybody.
I did the math.
Somebody with 20 million dollars is closer to someone with zero dollars than one than the one single billion also closer to someone with
$100 in their pocket than the sum one with $100 billion.
I'm totally against paying higher taxes, but higher gas prices are great.
Yeah, no, same. I mean, it makes me want to grind harder. So that's good.
I think it's good. It's good. It's time. It's time that we pay more.
I think that there is,
I think the working class in the United States of America has had it too
good for too long, okay? Too cheap. Americans need to experience a little
taste of Euro-style gas prices in a country with none of the Euro-style
amenities in a country where there is no alternative modes of transport like,
you know, they have in Europe. That's what's really cool about the situation.
I mean, there is something inherent, there is something ironic about the
fact that Trump's biggest supporters are obviously more likely to purchase, you know, Ford F 350
pickup trucks and drive 45 minutes every fucking day both ways to the job site where they never
actually touch any of the material because they are usually the managers of the construction
site.
So those guys are the ones who end up eating the biggest cost increases here.
So that is an interesting irony in this process here.
Some of his biggest supporters are the ones who are paying the most money now.
But obviously, we'll get into it.
We got a lot going on.
We got a lot to talk about.
done with the Ted Turner glaze that everybody was left confused by on the broadcast. They
don't make them like this anymore. They don't make them like they used to. I wish that we
still had like some eclectic wealthy people that did not shy away from saying things
Uh, that, uh, you know, I may or may not have said as well. So, um,
Counterpoint, I know tons of Latinos with big trucks. Okay.
So
Chatters owners and money, a senior engineer and a major tech firm in San Jose
probably has a multimillion dollar net worth and the living standards are going to look a ton.
A lot like an upper middle class union tradesman.
Absolutely. Everything is degraded, including the quality of our rich and famous. Yeah.
Very interesting predicament. Very interesting circumstance in my opinion. It's just
on the tax the rich issue. I argue your options supported just to get you to pay more money.
Yes. Will I be covering the FBI raid in Virginia? Yes. Lawfare, of course. Analyst Stephen Zemmler,
who I really appreciate and retweet from time to time, has calculated the US's really war on Iran
has cost $72 billion in just 60 days, 288% more than what the Trump vans Rubio Hex's
administration claimed it was. Okay. Uh, and, uh, even that I predict is a conservative estimate.
Okay. What is this? Franklin, the national suburb is now in the same issues as rural
Lake County 200 miles away and downtown Memphis, just as the founders intended. Here's the proposed
map for the Tennessee redistricting as just, uh, sent out from the Republican Senate Press Office,
Hashtag Tennessee
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Are you complaining about how much does it cost that's a these medics? Sorry. Sorry. I I meant this is good
It should be more expensive. I think I I feel
I I feel a sense of duty a sense of responsibility a sense of great honor
Uh, I close my eyes and think about
How cool it is that we're finally punishing the only country the only sovereign country in the region
that has
Has created some
standard of defense against the greater Israeli project. I I
Don't want anyone to misunderstand me. I think we should give trillions to Israel. Okay, we should give Israel more money
Okay, we should give Israel more money em is real high. I love Israel. I think it deserves more money
and I would never I would never ever in a million years come across as as
is so anti-Semitic as to say maybe we shouldn't have wasted $72 billion on this bullshit rather
than pursue a chart a path of diplomacy in peace with the sovereign country, the country
of Iran.
And then maybe use the $72 billion on American citizens that are suffering right now, build
rural hospitals, fund the education initiatives in the country.
I would never say such an anti-Semitic thing. I would never ever in a million years say something like that
That would be
Devastating obviously, I would never I would never want that really I don't think we deserve it
I think Americans don't deserve these things. I think Israel deserves it
We should keep waging Israel's wars for them
And and send American sons and daughters over there to you know make sure that no one can push back against Israel's greater
Israeli project
So yeah, I'm glad that we got that out of the way. Let's go a White House gives mixed messages on Iran war as
Trump says
As Trump says straight-up Hormuz operation is paused
House on the war with Iran President Trump has paused the US operation in the straight-up Hormuz
Just two days after it began despite claims. It was working. He says it is to let quote peace process
Justice, play out.
Gas in Tel Aviv is cheaper than in America.
Israel has free healthcare and education.
Yes, they deserve it.
You don't.
Hello?
Yes.
They also don't have any issues with abortion rights either.
They deserve it all.
You don't understand your position.
Okay?
Israel deserves free healthcare.
Israel deserves free college.
You don't.
That's it.
That's what at least I've gathered
from my fucking politicians
who keep talking about it like that so
i don't know
i don't know what else to say about it
otherwise
you'll get a million
hit pieces written about how fucking anti-semitic you are
okay
congress is decided for us israel gets to have all of its defensive and
offensive initiatives
covered by the american tax dot taxpayer putting the fucking bill
you don't get to have health care though
Okay, you don't get to have health care.
They do.
Anyway.
Meantime, Secretary-
I gotta pee.
Secretary-Pakha Rubio says the war is already over.
Holly Williams is following all of this
from Tel Aviv, Holly.
Good morning.
Good morning, Nate.
If you are confused by what the US is doing here
in the Middle East, well then so sometimes are we.
Yesterday, the Secretary of Defense
celebrated the success of Project Freedom
with a total of two American flag commercial vessels
passing safely through the Strait of Hormuz,
protected by the US military.
But then just hours later,
the president said the operation was paused
to try to reach a complete and final agreement with Iran.
Meanwhile, more than 1500 ships remain stranded
by a waterway that used to carry
around 20% of the world's oil.
And Iran insists that it is still
in control of the Strait.
The US says the Iranian military tried
to disrupt project freedom,
including with cruise missiles that the president and other officials maintained yesterday that
the ceasefire with Iran was still in place.
And to add to the mixed messages, while President Trump had said that fighting with Iran could
resume, yesterday the Secretary of State seemed to contradict him, saying that Operation
Epic Fury, the offensive stage of the war, is now over.
Nate.
Israel. Thank you. New reporting this morning about a potential peace deal with Iran.
OXIOX is reporting that the White House believes it is getting close to an agreement on a one-page
memorandum of understanding to end the war instead of framework for more detailed nuclear
negotiations. That's according to two U.S. officials and two other sources briefed on the
issue. It comes after President Trump announced a pause on project freedom, his plan to guide
stranded vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. The energy markets reacting positively to the
prospect of a deal with oil prices falling more than 10 percent at one point this morning.
Let's bring in MSNOW contributor Insimom Rashid in Dubai, former Undersecretary of the Army,
Admiral James McPherson and Joel Rubin, former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and the
author of the new book, Saving Democratic Foreign Policy. Insimom, you think we would have at
least more accessible or affordable healthcare if we didn't fund Israel's? I mean we're
We're not directly funding Israel's healthcare.
We're just funding Israel's defense and Israel's offense,
and therefore they have a lot more room
to spend money on their own healthcare.
That's number one.
Number two, if we didn't actually spend it,
if we didn't actually spend money on Israel, right,
we would spend it elsewhere.
We spent it on some other defense initiative.
It's capitalism.
The reason why you don't have healthcare
is not because the money is going to Israel.
I'm just using that to expand on the contradictions.
I'm using that as an example, right?
It's not directly your healthcare funds
that are being used on Israel, okay?
The point is, we're subsidizing the Israeli defense,
subsidizing the Israeli offense,
and then on top of that,
we're using our military like a mercenary force
at Israel's behest.
However, however, if it wasn't for Israel,
be another reason for the American military industrial complex.
The point is, Israel is not the only country that gets the benefit from this.
The point is that we have this perverse interest in funding initiatives that keep funneling
resources, our productive output back to the super wealthy capital owning class in
this country, okay?
They put profits over the interests of people in this country.
That's it.
That's the reason why you can't have socialized medicine, because there's a guy out there,
a faceless, lifeless, parasitic force known as a capital owner who is making money off
of paywalling your healthcare, okay?
And this is tremendously beneficial to the GDP.
So it's not going to change anytime soon.
Break down what we know about this reported memo.
Polana, let's be clear.
This is an initial kind of proposal that's come from the US, worked up with mediators
Pakistan and is being handed over to Iran.
Now I've not seen specifically what's inside this memo, but there is some reporting from
Axios.
Obviously, the Pakistanis have been telling me today, sources within Pakistan who are linked
with the mediation, that the prospect of a proposal to end the war is very likely in
the coming days. So a sign of positivity. Now, what's inside this specific deal? Well,
Axios are saying that there will be a declaration to end the war in the region. This will
then start a 30-day period of negotiations on a detailed agreement to open the Strait
of Hormuz. This also includes a limitation to Iran's nuclear program, potentially stopping
enriching uranium to create a nuclear bomb for around 12 to 15 years. This will also
lift US sanctions on Iran. It will have restrictions on shipping through the strait of Hormuz,
and the US naval blockade would be gradually lifted during that 30-day period. And the
the U.S. have said that if negotiations collapse and U.S. forces would be able to restore the
blockade or resume military action. And President Trump has come out today and essentially
spoken about this in a true social post. He says that assuming Iran agrees to give
what has been agreed to, which is perhaps a big assumption, the already legendary epic
fury will be at an end. He said that if they don't agree, the bombing starts
and it will be sadly at a much higher level and intensity as it was before.
Look, I think this appears to be a positive step for now,
but it does have to be received with a lot of caution, Anna,
because we've been here before with proposals and with frameworks.
And then we've gone one step forward and two steps back.
I think what is a positive sign is that Pakistan is working incredibly hard
behind the scenes with Iran and with the U.S.
to get the two signs to the negotiations.
Brett Bayer had a phone call with Trump and the deal timeline is a memorandum of understanding
and a deal timeline is looking to be about a week, which is interesting because that
puts it on a trajectory to finalize by the time he gets to China.
May 14th is when the Beijing summit starts, okay? Eight days from now. Now, this is only
if you believe Donald Trump. You can't believe Donald Trump because never a deadline for Iran.
The deal will happen. You can't really, you can't really trust Donald Trump because
he's not a reliable narrator of events.
He is the worst possible person to listen to,
to understand exactly where things are going.
That's why you have to look at the other events
that are in motion.
The best possible way to analyze what is taking shape
in the Shred of Hormuz is by directly looking at
the Shred of Hormuz.
Are there ships transiting through the Strait?
Are there not ships transiting through the Strait?
The best way to look at whether or not America
achieving its military objectives in Iran is not by listening to Pete Hexeth or listening
to Donald Trump or listening to a million different Israeli analysts, but instead to
look at during the tit for tat bombing campaign, whether or not Iran's forces were actually
attritted.
If that was the case, obviously, they would not have been able to successfully continuously
strike Israeli soil and strike the Gulf nation states.
So you have to look at exactly what's going on in the ground, like what's going on in
the straight, what's going on in the Gulf States, are there ship's transiting, are there countries
being bombed, are they not being bombed, that's the only way to genuinely make sense
of it all.
And as far as the diplomacy goes, the only way to interpret what is actually happening
beyond uh... you know the the features pumping and dumping
uh... that donald trump is is engaging in every time he opens his fucking mouth
about the oil prices or or what's going on in the fucking straight
uh... is to to look at the the other
external larger interests at play here
uh... one of the biggest deadlines for donald trump obviously is the
Beijing summit as i kept
uh... repeatedly mentioning over and over again
he can't go to Beijing with no deal
he can't go to Beijing
he cannot go to Beijing
on may fourteenth
for the two-day summit for may fourteenth of may sixteenth
without having to deal
uh... with the the uh... straight of hormones
it's an unbelievably weak position he's going to go in an unbelievably weak
position already
but right now this is to stop the hemorrhaging okay
not only is this important to stop the stop the bleeding
for the rest of the global uh... energy markets
uh... but also it's the stop the bleeding
uh... to uh... to to have at least like a less weak position overall
uh... at the Beijing summit
and i thought all prices would go to two hundred two hundred fifty dollars
it's at a hundred dollars
and i think you're surprised and i'm surprised but even if it went to two
hundred
uh... it would have been worth it i understand that we had just said a
record
Well, he will have to, unless he wants to take a huge L to actually make a deal with
Iran.
No, he is, he's already taking an L, okay?
Donald Trump and the American forces have already taken an L. America has taken a spectacular
L here, whether or not Donald Trump cuts a deal today, tomorrow, or two weeks ago,
okay?
As a matter of fact, we've already lost, okay?
We have already lost.
The point now is to pull out as fast as possible so that you stop the bleeding.
But the issue is, there's impediments, there's hurdles in front of making the smart adult
responsible decision here.
One of the major hurdles here is Donald Trump's own outlook, right?
He doesn't want to look weak.
He is a very petty person.
He doesn't want to look like he lost.
This is a huge deal for him.
The other unfortunate reality is Israel.
Israel doesn't want any sort of ceasefire to take shape here, and therefore will do everything
in its power to stop it from happening.
One of the buttons that Israel can push to make sure that this ceasefire is not real
or valid is of course, the continuous bombing of Lebanon, right?
The United States wants to end this war and open up the Strait of Hormuz and pack this
entire process up before they actually get to China.
They also obviously don't appreciate the fact that as a hegemon, they have a different
standard here, right?
They have a different set of goals here.
the hegemonic superpower with great power comes great responsibility. One of those responsibilities
is to ensure that this kind of trade restriction never happens, right? All of the, all of the,
the routes of trade, all the normal routes of trade have to be open at all times. America
is supposed to be the guarantor, guarantor of, of, you know, free commerce.
This is something that I brought up yesterday. It gives like a lot of people who want to
defend Donald Trump will make it seem like the real standard here is how long can the
American economy withstand pressure versus how long the Iranian economy can withstand
the pressure.
That's not the real dynamic here at play, okay?
Not at all.
The real dynamic here is not how long the American economy can withstand the pressure.
American economy can eat a lot more damage, tank a lot more damage.
It's a far grander, far larger economy.
an oil exporter, right? As opposed to Iran. Iran is a much smaller country, a regional
power. I said this yesterday. I said the battle of attrition is not between the U.S. economy
and the Iranian economy. The U.S. is the hegemon has a different obligation to fix
the energy markets, especially after the initial Amir-Israeli bombing campaign caused
the blockade.
Your crash-out will be legendary after Israel attacks Turkey next.
Cool.
Anyway.
Why can't you see that this is all part of our beautiful president's genius plan,
the art of the deal, geopolitics edition, baby?
nation table. I don't think they'd be doing that if they didn't feel that there was some
prospects of a peace deal in the coming days and weeks ahead. You mentioned this is all
come after President Trump's pretty remarkable U-turn of ending project freedom, which was
there to escort vessels through the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. Navy vessels would be escorting
ships. That wasn't really all that successful. And today, as a result of the president
lifting project freedom. The IRGC, the Navy command of the IRGC, have kind of given a bit of a gift
back to the U.S. They've essentially said that we could see steps to reopening the Strait of Homoos
fully, which again, I think, signals a positive sign that we could be going down the route of
diplomacy. Anna. Insumam Rashid, keep up the great work there in Dubai. Thank you.
Admiral, I just want to underscore, MSNOW has not confirmed the reporting of this one-page
memo, but we do know a Pakistani government official linked with mediating talks as they
proposed.
Project Freedom didn't, didn't last too long. It was, that's how efficient it was. Okay.
It was so efficient. Project Freedom was so efficient, they packed it up in approximately
what, three and a half hours? They translated one ship. Iran immediately started implementing
the blockade, Iran immediately started bombing the United Arab Emirates.
And America was like, never mind, actually, we just don't even want to do it.
We don't even like it.
We don't even like transiting ships through the shadow hormones, actually.
It's not, you know, it's fine.
It's okay.
We just give the world a taste of that freedom.
And then we pull back.
Huzal is very likely in the coming days.
How are you looking at this news?
Does this sound like a real breakthrough to you?
Well we've heard pronouncements before that we hope are real breakthroughs and they eventually
broke down in the face of reality.
And I think we've, a tip of the hat to Lewis Carroll, I think we've slipped down the rabbit
hole and we've now joined Alice in Wonderland.
Two days ago, the Secretary of State announced that Operation Epic Fury was concluded.
It's over.
Therefore taking the War Powers Act off the table.
New poll.
think Trump could beat them up? What? What is going, dude, stop!
Hey, I just gave my mom your stream because she needed a political commentator who wasn't
insane. Can you be normal for like the next 25 minutes? No, I can never be normal. It's a
we're in abnormal times, okay? Now we're involved in project freedom,
which was soon paused by the president. Notice the change in wording. We went from an operation
epicure to a project freedom. Clearly operations are military in nature. A project can be anything
in nature. And I think it's important to note that wording. It was metered by the administration
to address the criticism they were receiving with regard to not following the War Powers Act.
Joel, what has been reportedly proposed here is a one-page memo of understanding compared
to the JCPOA Iran deal under President Obama, which was 159 pages long.
What does that tell you about the potential agreement if it's just one page?
Yeah, clearly we're in the schizophrenic phase right now of our Iran policy where
every day brings a new twist in turn.
And if we're to believe that now we have some type of framework, some type of limited agreement
that the sides are focusing on, that in many ways does mirror the process for the JCPOA.
Before the JCPOA, there was a JPOA.
There was a smaller short-term agreement that set up the framework, created the terms
of negotiations for the parties to engage on and ultimately leading to the comprehensive
deal. It took months and this goes to what the admiral is saying as well which is, you know,
frankly, if you're going to engage in these negotiations and seize hostilities, you're
going to have to find some way to ensure that the pressure is maintained to have successful
negotiations. That's what we did. That's what was done by President Obama. Sanctions were
not lifted until a full agreement was reached. And so the big question is not just about
what is in that one pager, but also what is the way to enforce it in the negotiation process
will take root and that it will lead to a sustained solution and that we won't be stuck in
schizophrenia where every day seems to bring a new twist, a new turn, a new uncertainty about
the end state of this war. I want to play what Secretary of State Marco Rubio said yesterday
about the U.S. goal.
As President Trump has said, and the facts clearly bear out, the United States of America
holds all the cards.
There is no scenario here in which if they decide to join a ladder of escalation, they
want...
No more suits.
Why?
I like it.
...end up getting the last say.
But our preference is for these streets to be opened to the way they're supposed
to be opened, back to the way it was.
can use it. No mines in the water. Nobody paying tolls. That's what we have to get back
to the next goal here.
We'll try.
Trump was asked the question about Iran refusing to submit. Let's see what he had to say.
Wait, wait, this will work. You're facing an opponent right now in Iran that has refused
to submit. You seem optimistic now that you may be closer to a deal. What's different
about this moment now than in other moments where a deal has seemed close?
Well, why do you say they're refused to submit? You don't know that you don't know what's going on. You don't know that they're submitting super hard
You don't know that
In the world of war a few days ago. No, they want to make a deal badly and we'll see if we get there
Yeah
They were just firing us ships. Yeah, and a few days ago was a long time ago
You know, in the world of war a few days ago, the world of war, it's awesome.
We do deserve Donald Trump as a president.
As Americans, I do think sometimes that we kind of designed the world in a way where
Trump is the perfect curse to exist under.
I mean, seriously.
He is so fucking stupid, man.
He is not even remotely intelligent, curious.
We really are.
We really are a country that's just like, oh, that's worth it or 9-11 deserve comment.
I mean, what?
I mean, I live here.
I live here.
Okay.
I fight back against this every day, but, oh.
There is no other president than Trump in this current system that we exist under.
He is the logical conclusion of a country that has deliberately undermined funding education,
a country that that has a refuse to to take a cold hard look are endless and
senseless militarism
overseas
like
what's the expectation here that we're gonna have a fucking brilliant orator
who is uh... actually peaceful
and not an unbelievable on varnished racist
not gonna happen
Admiral, what do you make of Rubio saying the goal now is getting this straight back to the way it was?
Back to the way it was before we engaged in these hostilities through Operation Epic Fury.
I wish I could be more optimistic, but I'm skeptical. And the reason is
we've always heard the term the fog of war. Well, the fog of war is no more dense than that
in the Persian Gulf. We've learned that over 40 years of naval engagement in the Persian Gulf,
things happen. And as every sailor knows, that happens quite quickly in naval warfare.
So again, I'd like to be optimistic. I'm a little bit skeptical, particularly the first one,
end of war in the region. What does Israel have to say about that? I think we're going to wait
and see right now, and I hope we see favorably. Joel, the U.S. blockade, as far as we know,
continues. But even with the implementation of project freedom, Iran has still managed to
to keep most ships from transiting.
I think officially we only knew of two ships
that went through and that maybe 24 plus hours
that the project freedom was enacted.
Which country has leverage right now in negotiations?
Iran or the US?
Short answer is both.
They're staring at each other.
Ultimately.
Cope, that's the closest you're gonna get
to an acknowledgement that Iran has
the maximum leverage here.
An American analyst, even on MSNBC, MSDNC is never going to be like Iran is cooking us
right now.
They're not going to say that, because they're American at the end of the day.
It's a pro-state department network.
This is a defeat.
It's an unambiguous defeat for the American forces, and this is the closest to an acknowledgement
that you will get from an American network.
Really, the structure of a deal is going to be one where both sides pull back from their
hard positions, and we're looking at essentially a deal of opening straight-forward moves for
some type of constraint on Iran's nuclear program, its nuclear enrichment, maybe even
and extracting the highly enriched uranium
that's sitting underground inside of Iran.
But you know, both of these sides,
us and Iran are hurting each other right now.
Iran is suffering deeply because of our blockade,
hundreds of millions of dollars in lost revenue daily.
We are suffering here at home with prices at the pump.
We have our military is stuck in a sense in limbo
right now in the region,
watching on a hair trigger, but not yet re-engaging militarily.
But that's 50,000 troops.
And so this is the moment where the mood music, as we're hearing,
is starting to change because both sides are seeing that there's only so far
they can take it.
Look, to add, we're not going to go on the ground into a rom.
We're not going to invade.
We're not going to put troops there and seek regime change.
That's clearly off the table.
So now within the world of practical choices, what is it that we can seek?
And what is it that the Iranians can seek?
And I think that's why we're hearing about these terms focusing on Hormuz in the trade
for enrichment.
Around 2,000 vessels, 23,000 civilians stranded in the Gulf since February.
Unwitting hostages caught in the crosshairs of America's war with Iran.
They're sitting ducks.
They're isolated.
They're starving.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said these men and women had been left for dead.
And so President Trump, as he always does, stepped up and answered the calls for their help.
They told us that answer was project freedom.
As a direct gift from the United States to the world,
we have established a powerful red, white and blue dome over the street.
A dome that had come down by the end of the same day.
Last night, Donald Trump on truth social suddenly said that progress towards a complete and final
agreement with representatives of Iran meant project freedom will be paused.
Today he said a deal would allow the strait to be open to all, including Iran, but no
deal would mean the bombing starts and it will be sadly at a much higher level and
intensity than it was before.
So what deal could end U.S. military activity, according to Axios, the Americans hope a one-page
memorandum of understanding could start a 30-day negotiation period.
14 points are said to include the moratorium on nuclear enrichment, the release of billions
in frozen Iranian funds, and the gradual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz.
But Iran said it had yet to respond.
The flurry of activity comes ahead of Trump's visit to China next week with the Iranian
Foreign Minister.
I don't understand.
Why does the world not call out the lies of the Trump administration and go all in with
China?
Everyone is terrified of China.
They consider a world governed by China as the major superpower to be a scary, uncertain,
uncharted territory.
They don't know what it looks like.
China is run by a single party, communist party, and China does have a tremendous amount
of control over the flows of capital.
It completely directs its own flows of capital.
So their system is very different in many respects to the Western world system that
has been designed to benefit capital owners, okay?
So that is the most terrifying prospect for capital owners that have dominated the world
for the longest time.
So that uncertainty, regardless of the fact that China says they're not invested in any
way, shape, or form in changing the countries that they deal with and forcing upon a communist
rulership or central planning over the countries that they invest in, there are plenty
of capital owners who are terrified of the Chinese menace.
is afraid. Capital is also very collaborative with China as well. I mean, without China they
would not have had record high profits as they took advantage of cheap labor in China for
many decades. But at the end of the day, the very same forces of capital that dominate
the United States of America, absolutely dominate our European allies as well in the exact same
very meaningful ways. And therefore, from their perspective, it's good if you just use the Chinese
labor force for cheap or even now precise manufacturing needs. However, it's terrifying
if we lived in a world where China took over the role of the United States of America.
It's terrifying from the prospect of the global capitalist class.
So that's it.
Abbas Arachi, in Beijing today, making clear that while Trump will no doubt claim American
victory, they see themselves as the winners in this war.
Our Chinese friends also believe that Iran, after the war, is different than Iran before
the war.
That it has attained an elevated international standing, that it has proven its capabilities
and strength.
Donald Trump wants to spin this another way, as he seeks to explain to Americans
That's why he started what he has called a mini-war, a little excursion, or today.
I call it a skirmish, because that's what it is, it's a skirmish.
Addressing military mums in the White House, the president sounded hopeful about a breakthrough
with Iran.
It's going very smoothly and we'll see what happens.
They want to make a deal, they want to negotiate.
But he laced the words with a threat.
We'll see whether or not they are agreeing.
And if they don't agree, they'll end up agreeing shortly thereafter.
So that's the way it is.
The two-ing and fro-ing is nerve-wracking for those stranded in the gulf like this sea captain
who described watching missiles passing overhead.
Then after exactly like two to two and a half minutes later, we could hear the explosion.
We could see the light.
Must have been terrifying.
It was terrifying, yes.
Trump is saying if this agreement isn't made that the bombing will start and it'll be worse
than before. How does that make you feel? Yeah, it is very disappointing to know this but
let's see what happens. He keeps saying so many things but doesn't happen every time. We are
helpless here. We can't do much and we just try to keep ourselves safe. We see that has become
the electoral victims. Whether it is a mini-wall, a little excursion or a skirmish, the impact
of this military conflict has been huge on the lives of those living and stranded in
the Middle East, but also on the world economy as Iran discovered the power that can be
extorted from this international waterway. Well, oil markets reacted with a burst of
of enthusiasm to news of a possible peace deal,
but that piece it out as investors became less certain
about whether it will work.
Our economics reporter, Neil McDonald is here.
So how are the markets reading this?
Well, as you're saying, I mean,
this produced a dramatic reaction on the markets,
but pretty quickly, one, for example,
one London fund manager was describing this
as a false dawn.
I think energy markets assume that President Trump
is looking for a way to get out of the war
And they're obviously going to jump on any sign
that that is happening.
And this is producing huge volatility, which is sometimes
very hard to read.
So this morning, the price of barrel of the bank crude
started off above $108.
It then plummets on rumors of this deal.
It goes well below $100.
That's the lowest it's been for about two weeks.
But then, it snapped back up.
So down $11, up $6, all in the space of five hours.
At the end of the day, one trader
saying he thought there are probably too many red lines for Iran we're going to be crossed
in this deal for it to be a permanent settlement.
So what does this mean for the UK economy?
Well if oil prices do settle just above $100 that will be an improvement but it does not
mean that the pressure is over and let me just show you petrol prices and diesel since
the war began in the UK. You can see how they peak mid-April at which point petrol
is up by a fifth and I think diesel is up by more than a third.
Now, they've stopped going up, but you'll notice from that line
it's very hot, see any sign of them coming back down.
I think the question is that the RAC would say
this morning the outlook is probably ominous for these prices.
They say that last week wholesale costs were going up
for petrol and diesel.
If that is passed on, they believe that further increases
in full-fought prices look inevitable.
Thanks, Neil.
Now, the Israeli military has carried out a strike
in the southern suburb of Beirut
in the Hezbollah-dominated area up to here.
The Israeli government said it's jets that targeted the command.
Yeah.
This is a predictable outcome, obviously.
Even when there is a mere thought of a ceasefire,
Israel obviously behaves in the predictable manner
that it is expected to behave, which
is to try and sully the deal to try and sully the deal
the best of their ability by punishing a country that is in striking distance, right? That's
usually how it goes.
So it's day 68 of the Iran War. The Jesus Christ has been 68 days. Oh my God. Oh my God. Victory
After victory, after victory, man. Fantastic.
Peace far seems to be holding between America and Iran, but nothing could be further from
the truth in southern Lebanon. The IDF have released another series of 12 towns and settlements
that they've demanded to be cleared. What is interesting when you see where they are
on the map is the original buffer zone here to try and protect northern Israel, but actually
only three of the proposed targets are south of the Litzani River where we thought
the buffer zone might be extended to. Most of them are well north, so it does expose
the fact that Israel may well have greater ambitions deeper into southern Lebanon than
we had thought. Meanwhile, President Trump at the start of this ceasefire imposed it
on Israel. It feels more like President Trump is tolerating Israel's attacks at the moment,
because the more pressure on Hezbollah, the more pressure on Iran to come to some
sort of deal.
That's bullshit. That's that's insane. No, Israel is aligned, is a belligerent in this
conflict, aligned with the United States of America, and is using this, not as a mechanism
to apply pressure to Iran. Israel is using this because Iran set the standard that of
course Lebanon is supposed to be a part of this deal. The entire acts of resistance
is supposed to be a part of this deal. Because otherwise, as Truda Parsi has explained over
and over again, what takes place is America and Iran stop fighting one another, but Israel
keeps hitting Iran's allies. But Iran can't hit America's allies. I mean, it doesn't make
any sense. Okay?
So of course, from the Iranian perspective, it makes total sense for the full blown ceasefire
to take shape with Israel, also a party, because Israel's a party to this conflict. Israel knows that
and that is precisely the reason why they're hitting Lebanon over and over again
in an effort to, in an effort to sully this deal, this ceasefire. That's exactly what's going on.
The idea that like Israel is trying to apply pressure to Iran to come to the table is
bullshit it's the exact opposite
right on schedule with being uh... with a reporter u.s. are on talks israel
initiates bombing of the route to sabotage any possible and to the war
that's exactly what this is
okay it is
pure
sabotage
it'll form is project freedom was originally designed as a humanitarian
effort to ease the burden
of those twenty thousand c fares that have been stranded in the persian
golf
but it very quickly become apparent that the actual objective was america to
to challenge Iran's control of the Strait of Hormuz.
In fact, central command were very clear
that there were fresh assets available for this,
including 15,000 soldiers, over 100 fighter aircraft,
destroyers, and aircraft carriers.
Indeed, Pete Hexeth even said there would be a red,
white, and blue dome over the Strait of Hormuz,
24 and seven providing that security.
But the reality on the ground was
that Iran fairly immediately actually
struck two merchant vessels,
one of which ended up with some casualties
and some damage to the ship itself.
Almost immediately, President Trump
put a pause on that operation.
But he also claimed that he paused it
because of the progress of talks.
The challenge with that claim, of course,
is that dozens of times President Trump
has claimed that talks are progressing when actually it
feels like that's more to placate the markets
than reflecting how the talks are actually going.
So where are we with these talks?
What is clear is that America and Iran
are not talking directly to each other, but Pakistan is acting as a great intermediary.
We understand that Iran has put a proposal to America. America has considered it and
handed its counter proposal back to Iran. But we're not sure where we are yet. What
is clear at the moment is that their nuclear situation will be at the front and center
of any negotiation. President Trump has been very clear that Iran cannot be allowed
to have a nuclear weapon. We understand the clause that's in the current round
of negotiation is about a moratorium on uranium enrichment
by the Iranians.
The word moratorium sounds grand,
but it actually means a delay or pause, a temporary.
And therefore, it's actually kicking a can down the road.
We also understand that a sweetener for Iran
agreeing to this term will be a lifting of sanctions
and potentially also an unfreezing of up to $100
billion worth of assets.
But I think the real challenge here
is that we understand it's simply a one-page adocument.
The last time these negotiations happened, it took 20 months, big teams of people, lots
of detail.
So one pager will not cover that at all.
It almost certainly will be a memorandum of understanding, some sort of framework for
talks, which will not have any detail in it.
It will now both sides declare the $100 billion to go back to status quo.
No, it's worse than that.
Okay.
It's worse than that.
billion dollars lit on fire to go back to a worse deal from the American perspective than the JCPOA,
a worse deal from the Israeli perspective than the JCPOA. A deal that is infinitely more beneficial
to Iran, which once again, I don't even have an issue with that.
that. If we're being real, I think that diplomacy is a good thing. Longstanding peace is a good
thing. The only possible way to do that with Iran is through the negotiations process is
sanctions relief. It's a good thing that we're doing that. I think it was cruel that
we were applying such rigorous and rigid sanctions to Iran from the start. I mean,
This was very clearly designed in a way to starve the Iranian population.
It's not a secret.
American leaders have openly admitted as such.
So from my perspective, it's good.
It's good that there's an ease in sanctions potentially down the line here.
So they fought for it and they suffered a lot in the process.
They lost a lot of lives in the process, but it's totally appropriate to do this.
But my argument always is, shouldn't we have arrived at this conclusion without killing
160-plus little girls at school without allowing Israel to pummel Lebanon?
Shouldn't we have done that from the start?
If all wars end with treaties at the end of the day, if the only way to achieve long-standing
peace is by way of negotiations, by way of diplomacy, then why don't we just do that
first?
That's always my argument.
That was my argument in Ukraine as well.
And that has certainly been my argument with Israel and Gaza.
Okay. And that is apparently Ted Turner's argument as well. Ted Turner, RIP on the Iranian nuclear
program from 2006, often contrary, and Turner called it a joke that Bush demanded that Iran
abandoned Iran abandoned any ambitions for nuclear weapons while at the same time hoping
to ban all such bombs. They're sovereign state turners out of Iran. We have 28,000.
Why can't they have 10? We don't say anything about Israel. They've got a hundred of them
approximately or India or Pakistan or Russia. And really, nobody should have them.
Do you guys understand a little bit more why, as to why I, I, you know, I'm,
I'm sympathetic to Ted Turner.
His perspective was very interesting. And we often don't hear, uh,
shit like that from unbelievably wealthy people any longer.
What is this, gentlemen and scholar, Sebastian Gorka was asked today if Trump's war on Iran
might create new terror threats.
Dr. Gorka responded, you are testically challenged if you don't support this war, that's a low
T approach.
The point of using forces to take something you wouldn't have gotten through negotiation
though, isn't it?
Yes.
The problem is there is a geographic limitation.
There's both the fact that Iran has been, for thousands of years, a fucking mountainous
fortress that has not changed, right?
And two, the reality, the geographic reality that the Strait of Hormuz is 21 miles wide
with only two miles, two miles wide of an area that you can actually transit these
massive fucking oil tankers through. So for that, that reality was, was the same 47 years ago,
that reality is still the same 47 years after. So recognizing that reality should have changed
the calculation on how we deal with Iran. And yet American hubris did not allow that,
you know, reasonable method, the reasonable mentality to prevail here.
here, and Israel finally found a president-pliant enough, insane enough, to go along with their
ambitions.
That's it.
Trey, and then look to discuss the details downstream, the big positive is that at least
that would get the straight-from-noose open again.
The challenge, of course, with talks
is they involve compromise.
And Iran clearly has leverage that will not
be comfortable for President Trump.
The trouble is, his options are looking somewhat limited
at the moment.
One of them is to return to military action.
There's no advantage in doing that on a big scale,
but he might decide that if negotiations fail,
that he has to pummel Iran's nuclear capabilities
even further if they've been damaged actually
to destroy them in a sort of midnight hammer too.
But that still won't open the straight-up foremoves.
second option. Yeah, Iran doesn't, I mean, I still think Iran needs nukes for full blown sovereignty.
But in the absence of a nuclear arms, or even like a payload delivery mechanism that they also
have to build on top of the nuclear arms, they can control the trade of hormones, which is the
nuclear option for global energy markets.
So clearly they have different methods
of dominating America without building nukes
and then having the threat of mutual assured destruction.
And this to continue negotiating
feels like we're in a bit of a stalemate at the moment
with both sides waiting to see who blinks first.
And the third option of course
is for America to walk away
but that would leave lots of matters unresolved
none of those options are particularly palatable.
There is one way of light, though,
that's just coming into view.
China is a delegation from Iran, a senior delegation,
visiting China as we speak.
Why is that important?
Well, China takes about 50% of its oil supplies
from Iran.
Iran exports about 90% of its oil output to China.
So there's a vested interest for China
in getting the situation resolved
and the straits open again.
Meanwhile, President Trump is very keen to do deals with China and also wants access
to rare earth metals.
Therefore, bizarrely, it might well be that actually there's an opportunity for China
to broker a peace and bring pressure to bear on Iran to open the Straits of Hormuz.
So when does that leave us?
Well despite America, President Trump's very aggressive America First policy, it's
always worth maintaining diplomatic relations with not only your friends but also your
enemies because you never know when you might need help even from potential adversaries.
Iran's foreign ministry says it's evaluating a 14-point piece proposal from the United States.
Now that plan reportedly would center on a one-page memo to end the war and then 30
days of negotiations on stickier issues including Iran's nuclear program.
So the president this morning confirming some of what's in this proposal, he told
PBS News, that Iran would export its highly enriched uranium to the U.S.
something that has been a red line for Tehran in the past.
Trump also said Iran would agree not to operate its underground facilities and would operate
in goodwill for a long period of time, so no specific timeline included there.
Now some reports say the proposal would also include a reopening of the Strait of Hormuz
and that the U.S. in exchange would lift sanctions and release billions of dollars
in frozen Iranian funds.
We do not, though, yet have any confirmation from the White House on those details.
But a few things to note here about all of this.
First, crucially, the Iranians have not yet agreed to any of it.
And it's far from clear whether they would change their previous hard-line rejections,
especially on things like exporting highly enriched uranium in order to make it happen.
So that goes to one side of your original question about how much optimism to have.
That said, it does seem, though, like the White House is warming to this idea of
phased negotiations.
That idea would reopen the strait and then leave the nuclear issues for later.
The Trump administration had rejected that sort of approach in the past as recently as
just last week.
But if they're up for it now, then down we could be that much closer to a deal.
So there was some coverage on Israel feeling blindsided again by this negotiations process.
So in an effort to go against that media cycle, Benjamin Netanyahu of course immediately
came out and was like, no, no, we talk every day. We talk and America gets their notes
from us every damn day. Don't you worry about a thing. Here he is. The demon himself between
us and the United States. There's full coordination between us and the United States. There
There are no surprises, we share common goals, holy echo chamber.
What would you like to hear instead?
Chatter, go ahead, explain to us what you mean by that.
What is the echo chamber?
Would you like me to say that America is doing unbelievably well?
Because when people come in here and say, holy echo chamber, it kind of feels like what
you are looking for is to hear the exact same thing that the president is saying currently.
You are the one who's demanding an echo chamber.
Chat is the echo chamber.
No one here has an original thought.
Yes, you're a real free thinker.
Go ahead, give us some of your free thinking thoughts.
Let's hear it.
Love to hear.
Would love to hear from this free thinker for once, okay?
Real, original thoughts, please go ahead.
One of the most unoriginal things that you could possibly do is come into the chat and
not even address the political discourse that's taking place and instead immediately go, oh,
this chat is a real echo chamber.
Perhaps it's because you have no free will and no free thoughts of your own that you
immediately choose to go, I'm above this, go ahead, elaborate, give us something, anything
about what your opinions are, about the events that are unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz.
I would love to hear from you and I'm sure that you could cut through the noise and maybe
even convince a lot of these chatters, save them even.
Believe in yourself.
I believe in you.
Give me something.
They also say that they're prepared for all scenarios because there was some reporting that
claimed that Israel thought that the war efforts were going to escalate and the military campaign
was going to restart and that they were frustrated that it didn't he left fake
demon it's always so funny when guys like this come in here and and act as though
they have some kind of independent thinking capabilities and as soon as I
put like the spotlight on them they just scatter like a bunch of fucking
scared cockroaches. I've given to the army and our security services, we're ready for
any and all options, that's what they are, that's what they're claiming.
Alright, so that's what we got for the time being, as far as the situation monitor, we'll
be monitoring the situation once more with Evan Hill in a little bit in an hour, where
I will be talking to Evan Hill of Washington Post. He's the professional situation
monitor. They just came out with their very comprehensive report on the extensive damage
that the Iranian military has delivered to American assets in the region. Evan Hill is
a journalist at Washington Post. We'll get to that later. Okay. You get paid so you
You are a professional too, I'm a professional situation monitor, you are right, I get paid
because you the people pay me to deliver to you news for the people, by the people for
the people.
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I don't see any way that Iran agrees to a deal right now, I don't even think they have
a reason to go to the negotiation table right now as the U.S. has showed that they can't
be trusted even with the perfidy aside.
Trump doesn't hold his end of the deal with allies, what reason would Iran have
to believe that the U.S. would hold up their end of the bargain with an adversary?
China, Russia, and a multilateral commitment, because this deal will only take shape if
Iran feels like they have actually established necessary military deterrence, okay?
And as it stands currently, they might be feeling that way, okay?
There will be guarantors of this longstanding peace and longstanding ceasefire treaty.
There will be European partners involved in this.
There will be Chinese and Russian partners involved in this.
And that's the only way that I think they'll be comfortable to, that's the only way I
feel like they'll be comfortable with the deal.
Jeremy Scales says there's intense diplomacy, exchange of amendments on a potential memorandum
of understanding between Iran and the U.S.
The entire process of damning indictment of the fact that this is a war of choice by the
U.S.
A deal could have been reached in February or much earlier.
Trump will try to manufacture a claim of victory for putting out parts of a raging
fire he started.
But the fact is Iran inflicted a level of damage and displayed a resolve that stunned
Trump's administration and they have flailed to find a way out.
the assassination of its senior leadership, Iran engaged in organized sustained retaliatory
strikes and its government remained intact and in power. The promised uprisings or regime
collapse never materialized. Iran used asymmetric tactics to create a severe
crisis in the Shreya Hormuz that the U.S. could not defeat, culminating with the
failed Project Freedom farce. Auk was right about you. I don't think you should ever
admit that you agree with DJ academics on anything. He could tell you that the tastiest
donuts are Boston cream donuts and I still wouldn't openly admit that I got that information
from DJ academics or agree with him on that. And let me tell you that's an area that
he has a lot of experience in. If you had the capacity to feel shame, you would recognize
that many of my naysayers are not exactly people that you should be openly writing for.
Anyway, nothing is guaranteed in the US twice bomb Darron while claiming to be negotiating.
could happen again, but time is not on Trump's side. The U.S. will have to make concessions
that Trump swore he would not. This is not going to end with Iran's unconditional surrender.
Okay?
Iran has kept its condition that any ceasefire or nonaggression agreement must apply to
Lebanon and other regional allies, but we do not have any formal sense of the position
of the U.S. has laid out in the back and forth.
Also not clear if Israel would be party to this agreement.
But beyond the situation monitor, let's get back to what's going on in the United States
of America.
press as FBI executes warrants tied to dem senator. This is the cool democratic senator,
state senator in Virginia, that played a formative role in the redistricting efforts in the state.
And of course, predictably, lawfare is taking shape here in the United States of America.
Hold on.
People in that string of FBI raids across Virginia. This is all connected to an influential
Democrat in the Commonwealth of Virginia, state Senator Louise Lucas. They are at
her office executing warrants as a part of a major corruption probe.
So I want to go back now to Alex Hogan, who's there, Alex.
Hi, so you can still see that the FBI are behind me.
We've been seeing them throughout the morning, bringing boxes in and out.
They also told staff members they needed to leave the building.
We heard some of those employees coming out saying that they were told they had to leave
and they were not allowed back inside.
I do want to give you some context of where we are.
the FBI not only arriving here at this location, but also at the dispensary, the cannabis dispensary
just across the parking lot. And this is a look at what it looked like earlier today
with the FBI agents arriving, SWAT teams getting out of their vehicles with weapons, telling
people inside that cannabis dispensary to put their hands up and to come outside.
At least three people were taken into custody. Federal law enforcement say that they're
carrying out these court authorized criminal search warrants at more than 10 locations
across the state. Again, this is the state Senator Louise Lucas's office behind me, but
we're also learning that she is connected to this dispensary here. Senator Lucas is
President pro 10, meaning she's one of the highest and most powerful figures in the entire
state legislature. And when she arrives here, I asked her about being here at the FBI
I'm just going to wait and see if I can hear you.
So again, dozens of members of the FBI arriving here and being here throughout the last hour,
taking boxes of documents we could imagine from the office behind me.
They're also still at this cannabis dispensary.
We have seen the senator circle around and say,
I'm going to take a look at the documents.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't know what's going on.
I don't know what's going on.
We have seen the senator circle around a couple times in her vehicle clearly as she her as we heard her say
In that comment that she doesn't know why they're here a lot of questions for the people in the community who are coming out
Taking pictures wondering again what their senator
Could potentially be involved with as we're waiting to hear more information as well Paris. All right, Alex
Thank you. Keep us posted as you have great reporting
be sure
Yeah, I mean this is
This is totally ridiculous
Okay, Obama appears to criticize Trump at Colbert. We're not going to get to that first.
Totally ridiculous. 100% deliberate.
This administration is weaponizing law enforcement. We already know that they're weaponizing law enforcement.
And the reason why they're doing it is because this was a very outspoken advocate for redistricting.
and Donald Trump hates, especially black women in general, Donald Trump hates black women, period,
but a loud outspoken black woman who also achieved results against the Republican Party
in securing additional Democratic Party seats, oh boy, you know, probably the number one op
of this administration, number one op of white supremacists, and certainly the number one
op of Donald Trump, okay?
Kenny, Ken Klippenstein? Ken Klippenstein shared a new 14 page counterterrorism doc,
leftist and radical transgenderist? Yeah, I know. Yeah, this looks like the arrest and
eventually execute the opposition's shit that they were talking about early on. This feels
like, uh, why we need to get prepared. So I'm going to memorize before it's too late.
I mean, you know, do what you will. But yes, um, as it stands currently, uh, the courts
are the last bastion of defense against the complete erosion of liberal democracy in this
country. And they have, you know, they've held strong, I will admit, they have held strong.
And there is not really much we can do beyond
I mean, I don't even know. There's not really much we can do beyond community organizing in general and to push back to the best of our ability
But that's that's where we're at 100%
Skotis held strong now. I'm talking about the lower courts in general
Because like whenever whenever shit like this happens
there's usually the first line of defense is like a like a prosecutor that refuses to comply and
And then after that they will go and find a client prosecutor that will actually abide by Trump's ridiculous demands
scotus ultimately is cucked
but
Donald Trump's unpopularity
Paired up with the fact that there are still plenty of judges all around the country even Trump appointee judges
All around the country that that still
want to maintain some semblance of liberal democracy in the country that are, you know, in their final moments doing the right thing.
This isn't to say that like I trust the courts that, that, you know, things are looking up
or anything like that.
I'm just simply stating what has taken place thus far, right?
And what's taken place thus far is, the only thing that we have, the last line of defense
here is the law.
It shouldn't get to that point but that is the case.
Anyway, you think once Trump fails in Iran he will heavily escalate his domestic fascist
efforts?
he will probably move to Cuba to try to secure like a W for himself. I know that sounds insane
to say out loud, but I think that is the way that this government operates. I can see that.
There are instances where the administration is refusing to comply to court orders,
But, you know, I fuck with the tie on contrary to what people have been saying, I'm glad you're
leaning into your old age and wearing more suits. Thank you.
How does this humiliating defeat in Iran leave them with any appetite for another invasion?
What do you mean? We are not a rational country, chatter. We're not a rational country at all.
We're not behaving in a rational way. We're just looking for smaller and smaller Ws.
i would go so far as they like iran is
on the pathway to a much larger conflict against china
and the the problem of course is that america's capabilities
have diminished
or rather it's oppositions capabilities have have increased especially because
they can wage asymmetric warfare
and in the asymmetric warfare model especially if they're sitting on top
of a a gold mine per se
uh, that is the straight of hormones, then they have, uh, the, the capabilities of dishing
out a lot more damage while, uh, withstanding a lot of damage, uh, internally being called
on by a 28 year old law.
I mean, I'll take it, whatever who cares.
Like what took place in Iran was a miscalculation of that exact same sort.
Cuba on the other hand will most likely be a lot easier than Iran.
Unfortunately, it pains me to admit this, but you know, Venezuela is the reason why
Trump got the appetite for Iran.
But the Iranian failure won't actually cause Trump to second-guess military conquest.
It will force him to be even more vindictive towards countries in a manner not dissimilar
to Israel.
Israel knows can't do shit to Iran, so what does Israel do?
They punish the Palestinians in Gaza, they punish the civilians in Lebanon, right?
They bomb civilian populations in countries that don't have the same capabilities of self-defense.
That's just how it is.
What would be the global response of blowing up Cuba?
Nothing. Nothing at all.
What do you mean?
What was the global response to Venezuela?
It was nothing.
nothing. So the global response in Cuba will be nothing as well. The only reason why there
is a global response that is somewhat tempered still in comparison to the unbelievable destabilization
that America has brought the rest of the world, the global response to Iran has only
taken shape because there are global consequences. There are no such global consequences in
in the Cuba endeavor. Cuba doesn't sit on a strategic choke point like the
Strait of Hormuz. Cuba doesn't have underground missile bunkers.
Well Cuba is 30 minutes on the coast of Florida. They can hit
back harder than you think. I don't think so.
My mom saw one of your 2020 takes and flipped out so I sent her your stream
She just texted me you look so nice. Why do you say such critical things?
And I forgot that suits are like lingerie to conservative women smart style choice for this moment. Well, someone gets it
That's the point
Yes
It really is
Anyway, let's get to Bardock, no bummer, Barack Obama appears to criticize Trump in
an interview with Stephen Colbert.
Some very pointed comments for President Trump from former President Barack Obama in an
interview with Stephen Colbert.
The 44th president criticizing the expanding powers of the executive branch including
President Trump's use of the Justice Department.
Weizhe Zhang is at the White House.
Weizhe, good morning.
President Barack Obama had some thoughts.
Good morning, Giao.
Good morning to everybody.
The former president actually went on the late show ahead of the opening for the Obama
Presidential Center in Chicago slated for next month.
But yes, he had plenty to say about the presidency and how the Oval Office has changed since
he was in charge.
It's this struggle.
Shouldn't China threaten the US if they touch QO?
They would never in a million years.
between. I'm sorry, Chatters. China does not give a fuck about any other country, but China.
They will never, the only reason why they're, they're even remotely invested in what's
going on in the shed of hormones because it's a, it's a strategic choke point that they
get their energy from as well. They want to stabilize the Gulf so they can get back
the trade maxing. They care about stability above all else. They care about Chinese
interest above all else. They have no investment whatsoever. They are unbelievably resistant
to any kind of disruption against the United States of America. They will never do that.
I think part of it is because they've seen and perhaps attribute a lot of the USSR's
failures to its internationalist perspective, to its international solidarity against like
growing socialist anti-colonial movements,
uh... China is non-interventionist through and fucking through.
That's it.
The idea that we the people
includes everybody.
During a taped interview on the late show with Stephen Colbert, Colbert asked
former president Barack Obama about the expanding powers of the executive
branch
and what powers he believes whoever is the president should not have.
The White House shouldn't be able to direct the Attorney General to go around prosecuting
him.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I appreciate it.
Will socialists and communists do ICANN, CPSA, getting robbed of USA's invaded?
Will socialists and communists in the U.S. do anything if Cuba's invaded?
I don't mean hippie parade protests either.
Are you a federal agent?
Are you tuning in from Langley?
What are you saying in my chat right now?
Take a fucking day off, dude.
Will there be some direct action?
Hopefully with some tenorite.
Here, I'll give you guys the coordinates right now, Comrade.
Shut the fuck up.
Like it's technically a gender executive chance.
The norm is that it's independent.
The norm, the idea is that the attorney general
is the people's lawyer.
It's not the president's consigliary.
You can't have a situation in which
whoever's in charge of the government
starts using that to go after their political enemies.
or reward their friends.
Obama did not mention President Trump by name,
but he nodded to critics who say Trump has leaned on the role of Attorney General
and the Justice Department to pursue investigations
into his political adversaries, including former FBI Director James Comey
and New York Attorney General Letitia James.
Obama also spoke about the President's power as commander-in-chief.
There had been a whole series of norms that were in place to ensure that you weren't trying to
make that military loyal to you as opposed to the Constitution.
Obama also seemed to criticize the president for using the office to advance business interests
for his family and friends.
A good policy that I'd like to see followed is that the president of the United States
shouldn't have a bunch of side hustles that,
and those companies.
Oh my God.
He's just saying the most basic shit.
And they're getting thunderous applause.
He's saying the most basic stuff
and getting thunderous applause.
It's just like, yeah, no shit, man.
I mean, he's right.
Yeah, he's right.
I don't know.
I just, I expect a little bit more motion from, um, perhaps one of the most popular
figures in the, uh, democratic party, uh, as it stands currently, you know,
just a little bit more.
The only one saying basic shit publicly, no, it's, there's definitely more
need than just this.
In the next video, he talks about liberals versus leftists, which will be more interesting to you.
Foreign entities can invest in.
How much of that is just jealous that you didn't think of selling a sneaker?
Because your sneakers were flown. You know that, right?
Even when joking about Colbert's future, the former president appeared to take a jab.
How dumb do you think it is for people to say that I should run for president?
Well, you know, the bar has changed.
That is true.
A recent Washington Post ABC News Ipsos poll on Trump's approval rating found only 37% of Americans approve of his job performance.
This interview dropped just six months before a contentious midterm election when the U.S. is wrapped up in a war where the Ron and gas prices continue to decline.
We have asked the White House for a response to Obama, but have not heard back this morning.
All right.
We do, Jane, reporting from the White House for us this morning.
For more on this, let's bring in our Chief Washington Analyst, Robert Costa.
Bob, as we just outlined, this criticism comes as President Trump faces some very,
very tough political headwinds.
You frequently speak to President Trump.
What do you make of this, and how might President Trump respond?
Good morning.
There's always a political dance for former presidents.
They don't always want to weigh in on current affairs, but with the opening of the library
we see former President Obama doing just that, not using President Trump's name.
But his comments reflect a growing confidence among many Democrats nationally.
That ahead of these midterm elections, the headwinds are around the White House right
now that the Democrats have a real shot of winning the majority.
But we can expect, based on my conversations with White House officials and top advisers
to President Trump, he is going to fight back.
He believes he has executive authority blessed by the Supreme Court and he has the political
will to fight.
Alright Bob, I want to pivot here and talk about something else.
Last night there were some closely watched primaries across the country as you know
in Indiana.
Five Republican state senators in Indiana were backed by President Trump, defeated candidates
who opposed a Republican redistricting plan.
And then Ohio.
You had Vivek Ramaswamy who won Ohio's Republican primary for governor.
So what's your overall takeaway from the results of last night?
It's a real sign that President Trump's pushed to have redistricting across the country to
redraw political maps so they're more favorable to Republicans, especially in red states where
he believes legislatures in the states can do just that.
If you don't follow his lead and take his order, you could pay a political cost.
So those Republicans in Indiana, some of them who opposed President Trump's push
on redistricting, they were defeated in primary elections.
It's a real statement that despite the president's problems, they spent millions of dollars in
races that are like maximum 50 grand to 100 grand just to elect five out of seven new
seats because Donald Trump's feelings were hurt that the incumbents in the state legislature
in Indiana refuse to do redistricting because they were like, our constituents don't want this.
Well, it turns out their constituents actually want one thing and one thing only and that is
having sex with Donald Trump, okay? If you're shocked by the Indiana outcome, you've never been
there. No, I'm not. I'm not shocked by the Indiana outcome at all, okay?
There were seven priority seats that Donald Trump wanted to unseat.
They literally found whoever they could people that didn't even have any investment in running for these local district seats at all
They spent millions of dollars
And they got five out of seven
They only won due to low turnout. I mean, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. I'm just trying to explain to you that like
Two things that i'm trying to explain to you right now is one
The the the republicans in indiana are just fucking pure bred hogs. Okay through and fucking through
That's number one. It's just a lesson for the rest of the country. No matter how small a
seat might be, if you oppose Donald Trump, you're gonna get elected out of office, okay?
That's number one. Number two, people might literally say, no, I want my representatives.
I want my representatives to represent my interests. I don't give a shit about redistricting.
As a matter of fact, I only care about the cost of living.
They should work on that.
Okay?
It turns out that's not the case.
It turns out when the president says jump, the people in Indiana say, how high?
Okay?
They are obedient cattle.
They are absolutely a product of this cult.
They are 100%, at least the ones who go out and vote are a part of a cult.
Okay?
Straight up.
So even when you have Republican elected representatives in the state and the state
legislature that are like, we are going to abide by the better wishes of our constituents.
We're going to listen to our constituents.
They say they don't give a shit about this redistricting.
As a matter of fact, they're against the redistricting process.
So we're not going to abide by the whims of the president.
You get punished for it.
It sucks.
It sucks.
But that is the reality.
Now, let's get back to Barack Obama.
Barack Obama had a conversation with Stephen Colbert on the late show.
Let's watch the longer video now.
Folks, of all the interviews that President Barack Obama has given, critics are calling
mine the most recent.
Yvonne, the center is non-partisan, but you yourself are still a member of the Democratic
Party. There's a debate on what the direction of the Democratic Party should be. It looks
like it's going to be a fairly good midterm election for the Democrats, a chance to take
the House if not the Senate. But there's a big debate on what the leadership would
be like going forward. Basically it's liberals versus the left to be very reductive about
As as as my children say to me dad you're liberal we're leftists because they're like liberals are people Stephen Colbert's son might be a house on
Obby head it seems okay interesting didn't know that
Okay, well who think things should basically stay the same you know what I mean and the next generation really wants them
I'm gonna be honest with you. I know Obama
Or a fact hates this line of questioning
Because he considers this to be disparaging of his career, disparaging of his legacy.
So...
It's a change. So you have...
I wonder how they'll respond.
Great leaders, people like Abigail Spanberger and Mikey Sherrill, very centrist.
But then you have further left, like AOC or Zoran Mamdani.
What direction do you think would be best for this party
actually achieve change?
Well, two things I want to say.
First, you're right.
The presidential center is nonpartisan.
And the reason I want to mention that
is because I'm worried about the Republican Party, not
just the Democratic Party.
When I was president, people would ask me,
what change would you like to see in Washington?
I'd love a loyal opposition.
I'd love a Republican.
God. Okay, Nancy. Okay, Nancy Pelosi. Oh, I want a strong Republican party. No, I want
no Republican party. Okay. I'm gonna be very honest with you. I want an ineffective,
feckless, weak, kind of like the Democratic party is currently. I want the Republican
party to be like that. I want a Republican party that is utterly dominated and humiliated
in broad daylight that people are embarrassed to say that they're voting for a Republican.
Okay? That is the reality that I want. Okay? I don't understand why liberals still play
this song and dance, where they're like, no, I want a strong Republican party. And
too. Crazy. It's crazy. How about no Republican party? Okay. I want such a strong party platform
for whatever the left flank party is. It doesn't have to be the Democratic party. It could
be whatever you want to call it. Okay. I don't care about like, I have no party loyalty
in general. I just care about policies. I care about advancing the interests of
the working class, okay? But let's say in a hypothetical, ridiculous scenario, it's the
Democrats that got their shit in order. I want that party platform to be so solid that for
generations, people don't even think about voting for the Republican Party. And the
Republican Party's are actually, the Republican Party and its representatives are actively
conceding to the demands being made by said party that they look like a shell of
what they used to be. That is the future that I want. That is the future that I know we can
have. Okay?
A party that was conservative in some ways, that didn't agree with me on a whole bunch
of stuff, but believed in rule of law and judicial independence and empirical evidence.
evidence and science and wasn't constantly tapping into our worst impulses.
And there has been a Republican Party like that in the past, and I want to see that return
because I think you have to have two healthy parties.
Now.
No.
Wrong.
Wrong.
I think this is a very clear, different school of thought, okay?
If I am to take what he is saying at phase value, wrong.
Wrong again, Bob.
100% wrong, okay?
Absolutely not the idea that we are going to find this beautiful
Moderate center when we have two different schools of thought two different ideologies that are constantly competing with one another as as
Even interlocutors in the marketplace of ideas and that's exactly the golden mean bullshit
One Republicans never operate with that mentality and that's why they fucking win even though they have a toxic agenda
even though they have horrifyingly bad policies, they still win because they never come to the table with concessions in mind.
That's number one, okay?
Number two, what you are describing is gridlock regardless. That's precisely what people hate about American politics in general.
Like even if this idea was correct, that there was actually like two strong parties and they were just like dishing it out
out and trying to find the perfect solution like no
there's usually one solution that is actually perfect the one that actually
centers the working class
you don't want any opposition to that agenda
i don't want any opposition to that agenda that opposition is the reason
why we couldn't get the public option in the aca
okay and that wasn't just a strong republican party that opposed it
they did all
oppose it
there was also opposition within the ranks of the democrats
do nothing democrats
or uh... of sequence of rotating bill is specifically joe lieberman
in his circumstance
destroyed
uh... voting for the public option
there were corporate demands who stood idly by and it was it were excited at
the prospect of of destroying the public option
it's totally ridiculous
with respect to democrats uh...
i'm not as worried about this
so-called rift between the left and liberals, as you described it.
I would, you know, the best possible future where you have a true left party and the Republican
party is basically the liberal Democrats, okay? That is a much more productive, much healthier
future trajectory for America, okay? Where you have a real socialist, communist, leftist,
workers party, and then the right flank opposition is the liberals, okay? The
liberal democratic party that is the current democratic party that behaves in the exact
feckless way that the current democratic party behaves, constantly conciliatory to the demands
being made by a much stronger party. Okay? That's what I think.
We absolutely should not have a fascist, illiberal Republican party. We should not. The Republican
party, the over two window in a perfect society would shift so far away from the current far
right perspective that it is centered around that the Republican Party would resemble the
Democratic Party, okay?
Because I think that within the Democratic Party, and I would argue a bunch of independents
and even some Republicans as well, there's an overarching belief in equality, fairness.
If you work, you should be able to make a living wage and support a family and retire
with dignity and respect.
We should not allow companies to just run roughshod over the rights of workers.
They're a bunch of...
Yeah, I don't think there's consensus amongst the Democrats for this, by the way.
You'll never get to positions like that with what is this?
David Sarota, Obama unveiling an oligarch fundage trying to himself and admit everyone
in America being fleece by oligarchs and almost two on the nose bookend of a presidency that
bailed out its Wall Street donors who were throwing millions of Americans out of their
homes.
Yeah.
I mean, it's not surprising to me that that that is what's happening, okay?
Things that we agree on and it's really more of a question of what are the specific
things that we have to do. You look at somebody like Mandami, who I think is an extraordinary
talent. He wants people to be able to afford housing in New York. Well, you know, I would
assume liberals in New York want the same thing. And so I don't worry as much about
some of these, these issues within the Democratic Party. What I'm more interested in for Democrats.
No, I think the real, okay, you only get away with saying something like this because in
the United States of America, there is no political education, right? There is a real
rift between the left and liberals, okay? There is. And that rift exists on not
just the methods, but the ultimate goals as well. Okay. The left broadly starting in the
United States of America adjusted to the current understanding of American politics starts
at social democracy. I know a lot of people are going to get mad at me. They're going
to say that's not an anti-capitalist opinion in the United States of America. It gets
treated like it's fucking communism. I'm sorry. Okay. And it ranges from social
democracy all the way to full-blown anti-capitalism, you know, Maoists, Maoist Third Worldists,
Marxist Leninists, anarchists, right? All of this stuff.
And for the most part, these guys are seen as unbelievable radicals. One of the greatest
examples of this is Zora Mammdani, who was a democratic socialist, but his platform
that he ran on to become mayor of New York was modest social democracy, right?
Bernie Sanders is another great example of this. None of these guys are actually advocating to seize
the means of production. They're operating within the framework of bourgeois liberal democracy,
liberal capitalist democracy. And in many respects, they're trying to pull politics
to a more sensible perspective, okay?
And that's what they're doing. That's what they're doing because adjusted to the mass politics of
the United States of America currently, even that stuff is seen as radical by the media.
And obviously are oligarchs that consider any kind of erosion of their profit margins to be
the most untenable reality. Okay? But there is a significant difference there, because
I guess the most, like the easiest to understand significant difference is this.
Are you willing to hurt profits or not? Okay? Are you willing to target
it, profit centers or not.
Even social democrats who want modest regulation on unchecked unfettered capitalism, okay,
will still say yes, we should actually erode profits a little bit.
I'll give you an example, okay?
When it comes to housing, even social democrats recognize that the housing bubble has to
pop, right? Many social Democrats still recognize the housing bubble needs to pop. This means
that the existing inventory of housing that is treated as a speculatory asset,
even though it's not supposed to be, it's supposed to be homes for people to live in,
will actually reduce in value, okay? Liberals by and large do not believe in this. The
Democratic Party as a national party will never get on board with this agenda unless we
force them to. Okay? And it's not just housing either. This is just one example that I'm using.
Liberals, for the most part, do not want to harm profit at all. Social Democrats in the broad
left, social Democrats being the furthest right of the leftist movement, still are comfortable or
outright demand a reduction in profits. Okay, that's it. If you put profits over the interests
of people, you are a liberal and you are closer to the right, in my opinion, then you are
to the left. So that's a big difference. That's a big ideological difference. We can use
vague generalities all day every day to say, everyone has the same interest. Everyone
has the same interest. Okay, Republicans have the same interest too then. After all, the reality
of the matter is everyone wants what's best for their countrymen, right? Like the Republicans
aren't literally saying, oh, we want to like cordon off undocumented migrants and like
drop them into concentration camps overseas because we want what's worse for America.
Although the outcomes are worse for America overall, it's unbelievably violent. It's
heinous, it's rude to say the least, but they're saying that because they think that's the best
possible way to, you know, make a better, make a better America, right? Make America great again.
So technically everyone wants what's best, but we just simply have a disagreement on the methods
of arriving at what's best. Okay? You can extend that to all the way to the MAGA movement.
Do you know how to just talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar, right?
Can you talk plain English to folks about it?
I think that's one of the powers that Mom Donnie has.
That's correct.
He also, not only does he talk like a normal person, but he lives a normal life, but he
also, he names what is obviously wrong.
Yes.
And he goes, we should change that thing.
That doesn't make any sense, and not have a bunch of gobbledygook around it.
And so, what I'm looking for...
Is there a strict no-gobbledygook?
No-gobbledygook.
Here at the...
You should carve that into the wall somewhere under the Obama Center.
No-gobbledygook.
Just talk.
The building's not completed. I'm I think I'm gonna put that somewhere. I'm gonna carve it into people in cloud
That doesn't make any sense. I mean it does it does like using technical language or academic rhetoric is
Poison for a mass politics any kind of mass politics. So there is truth in that
Except the reason why Barack Obama is saying that is because he's just you know trying to imply that you we got to cut it
Out with a woke shit or whatever right whatever he believes
he is defending his own version, his own ideology, which is, you know, neoliberalism.
That's his agenda. That was his agenda of governance. That's what he did when he was the president.
So it's not, you know, I don't disagree that jargon does play a big role in this, right?
I try to the best of my ability to make sure that it's as easily understandable as possible
my message right when I talk when I communicate a lot of people unironically will look to that and say I'm fucking stupid or
I'm a revisionist or I don't know
You know the I don't understand the dense
Marxist literature because of the way that I communicate about these these issues. I try to to debate that
world view into
Normal polite conversation
It's, it's really fucking annoying that, that I get to hear this all the time.
It's one of the, one of the funniest things I hear from, from, you know, the true vanguard
of the communist revolution in this country, which is, you know, hammer and sickle accounts
on Twitter.
We don't do anything, but just fucking chirp online all the time is the idea that
And I am a fake radical that utilizes the popularity of Lenin.
To me, that's the funniest fucking thing you could possibly say, because the average American
either doesn't know who the fuck Lenin is, or assumes he is a terrorist, or possibly
like Adolf Hitler, but socialist.
The average American doesn't think Lenin is a popular guy.
I mean, it's hubris, it's ridiculous.
It shows how sheltered and now uneducated Americans are.
Okay?
But it is very funny that people think that in the United States of America in 2026 that
Lenin is like an objectively popular figure that I'm actually stealing the shine from.
Okay?
Yeah, people think Karl Marx is a dictator that killed 100 quintrillion people.
Okay, that's what Americans think.
So if your mentality is so clouded that you think that the average American actually
has a positive association with Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, the dragon that is Lenin, okay?
The revolutionary, then you're already, you're lost in the fucking sauce. Go talk to some
some real people please.
Now let's get back to Barack Hussein Obama.
Some of the granite out here, no gobbledygook, just talk like normal people talk.
You know what, like, the rent's too high.
We need to make the rent lower for people.
All right.
Earlier this year, you said of aliens, quote, they're real, but I haven't seen them.
Then you tried to walk it back the next day.
You know no one believes.
God damn it, Steven.
Come on.
This was supposed to be a productive conversation.
Oh, and then we move on to aliens, really?
He was, you're talking to the former president, the most popular Democrat in the country, okay?
You have an opportunity to hear a little bit more about the distinction between the
left and liberalism from his perspective.
It's not anything that we haven't heard before from Barack Obama, obviously, but-
And Pussy too.
And that too, obviously.
But like even then I would like to have him elaborate a little bit on this, on this distinction
and not like a fucking, you know, aliens or whatever. I don't even care to listen to the
rest of this conversation. I don't care about the aliens.
Yeah. Real question is Zora more popular than Obama at this point, probably not, but
close. No, no, not even remotely close. Are you crazy? No. Amongst Democrats. No. Barack
Obama is the number one guy. Okay, across the board, I would say Bernie Sanders is probably
the most popular politician in the country still to this day. But, but no, Zoramum Dhani
is, is too green, too young, too new for most Americans to have a positive or even negative
association with him. He is a very popular figure and he's certainly very popular in
New York City. That popularity is obviously going to go away. He's not the most popular
any more or less message where Barack Obama is not.
He is the most popular Democrat, I would say. Barack Obama is the most popular Democrat
unless something has changed. I'm pretty sure he is.
Bernie even after his pro-Israel anti-gun control bullshit, first of all, to the average
American's perspective, Bernie Sanders is not pro-Israel, even if he technically is.
Again, what do I always say? You have to understand what the average person thinks.
If you were to tell the average person that Bernie Sanders is pro-Israel,
he's a liberal scientist, they'd be like, what is that even, what are you talking about?
Okay. And secondly, his anti-gun control attitude is the reason why he's
much more popular across the board.
UGov has Obama, the Arnold and then Bernie, and that makes sense.
Yeah, Barack Obama, his popularity is at 54%, Arnold Schwarzenegger at 54% as well, Bernie
Sanders at 49%.
Oh my God, Kamala Harris at 45%.
insane. Joe Biden 45, Elizabeth Warren 41, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez 41, Zoramundani 40%,
Hillary Clinton 38, Charlie Kirk 36%, Tim Waltz 37%.
This from the New Yorker. Barack Obama's popularity is immense. A Gallup survey last year found
that he was seen favorably by 96% of Democrats leaving some to wonder why he isn't doing more
to counter Trump's assault on democracy.
Yes, some is me.
I'm the guy.
I'm some.
I'm some of the people.
Now, I'm not totally wondering why I have my opinions on it.
I want to elaborate.
But more people should be asking that question of Barack Obama.
Why aren't you doing something?
Anything, please?
Anyway, it's ridiculous.
In a perfect world, Barack Obama would literally lean into the left populist movement and do
everything in his power to prop up people like Zohar Mammadani.
He'd be going to Philadelphia and hanging out with Chris Robb and promoting him in this
this, you know, plus 43, the bluest district in the country.
He would be leaning heavily into the insurgent campaigns that are taking shape all around
the country.
And he would be associating himself with this growing movement.
Obviously, it's not going to happen.
But that's what would happen in a perfect world, right?
I do not want Obama anywhere near DSA members.
Thank you very much.
Another buddy, buddy, the goal of the DSA is to not only win power, but also to boost
membership so that we can instill class consciousness among Americans and also engage them with political
education.
Buddy, Barack Obama is the most popular Democrat in the country.
That's why I didn't have any criticisms for Zoramundani aligning with Barack Obama.
Okay?
That's why I said it was a good thing.
Okay?
your job, your username literally says join your local DSA and you're over here fucking
gatekeeping people joining DSA.
I know people will say, Hassan, here you go again.
You are pro-American empire.
No, I'm just a realistic person who understands how the average American, the average American's
viewpoint is on on these sorts of issues. Okay. Obviously it's never going to happen
regardless. So you guys don't have to worry about it. Okay. You don't have to worry about it.
And I know there have been so there's been so much discourse, so much back and forth on this,
like, if your goal is to win national politics day, when we have developed no real power and
can only work with liberals in this argument makes sense. I shouldn't have to explain
How ridiculous thinking from that framework is I'm prepared for a 20-year struggle legal and illegal electoral and not electoral. Okay
Until a third party isn't an idea but the material reality we have created with our own hands people unwilling to engage in such a project
Shouldn't be considered a part of the Communist movement and we should ignore their thoughts on what we should be doing great
I think people should ignore my thoughts if you're if you're building a third party movement great fantastic
Okay, when you build it I will be there
A lot of people yell at me and say, Hasan, you're not building the third party movement.
You should be the one building the third party movement.
And to them, I say we have different methods because we have a very different assessment.
We have a very different assessment on what the current realities look like for mass
politics in this country.
I've seen the average American.
I've heard the average American's perspective on communism, on socialism, on Marxism,
Marxist Leninism, okay? And the only reason why that perspective has changed dramatically
since, you know, prior to 2015, prior to 2016, is because Bernie Sanders said he was a socialist
and ran for president, and ran against a corrupt elite establishment figure like Hillary Rodham
Clinton. Because if Bernie Sanders was running against Barack Obama, he would not have
achieved the same level of success that he did. Let's be real, because Barack
Obama was charismatic. He was also seen as an insurgent figure as well when he ran against
Hillary Rodham Clinton as well. Okay. The chatter shot a jump to point five in the plane
and the country hasn't even got the country hasn't even gone off the ground. Yes. So
That is the reality. I'm not saying, you know, vote for Democrats, Libbers, okay?
What do you want?
But right now, I see the biggest hurdle against building a working class movement or a working
class party, the lack of class consciousness in this country as a direct byproduct of hundreds
of years of red scare propaganda. If you know anything about me, you know that I am not
shy about being called a communist. Okay, I don't care. I'm sure. Whatever. Who cares?
Right? I'm not like one of these anti-communist, euro-socialists. I'm not one of those people at all.
But I also am very cognizant of the hurdles that remain in front of people even recognizing
using their own socialist tendencies. Sometimes you have to reduce the language down to its
bare bones, okay?
normies away from lives is your method? Curious not judging? I just think it's, you know, with
a meta commentary. I mean, it's, it's a good time to have this conversation. Okay. I think
it's, we are not retreating. We're openly socialists is an important component of winning
socialism? Am I not an open socialist? I am. I've described it over and over again. There's
a reason here. Here's the thing, okay? Class contradictions, heightening is an important
factor is not just coming from politicians yes but if there's no organizational capacity
it doesn't matter if class contradictions worsen because you can't take advantage of the revolutionary
potential of the masses if there is just class consciousness or without class consciousness
just class contradictions in and of itself will not magically cause people to start
recognizing their class position.
It actually leads to a tremendous amount of lump and pearls as a matter of fact
as we've seen over and over again.
The average guy living in a fucking trailer park should be a self-described communist if
that was the case.
Why is that not the case currently?
Think about that.
Why is it that there are so many people living in the United States of America barely making
ends meet, very frustrated way things go, and yet they turn around and they vote
for reactionary politicians.
They vote for fascism in this country.
Even if that fascist politician will end up killing those people at the end of
the day.
At the end of the day.
do that because they don't have class consciousness because there is no there is
no the real organization that they can they can see themselves a part of
former left-leaning lived in here now dsa 100% because of the curiosity spark
watching the stream. Yes, that's my goal. That's what I continue doing. Talk about Memphis or
I riot. They're taking our vote away. Okay, man, please don't riot. Okay, talk about Memphis, you nut.
We are not progressive. We are socialists. We are at war with the Obama wing of the Dems.
Yeah, I don't think you understand what I was saying, okay?
I do not think you comprehend what I'm saying at all, okay?
We are at war with the Obama wing of the Democrats.
Yes, what Obama currently represents is the centrist wing of the Democratic Party,
the corporate wing of the Democratic Party.
But what Obama represents, the average Democrat, is the last time where they felt any fucking
hope with a competent leader in charge. Okay.
Anyway, uh, one day I'll, I'll hit the communism button,
the international communist, uh, button. I just have it in my desk,
but I keep accidentally hitting the place button instead, you know,
where I just shot Kaia. All right.
American Jewish committee also apparently had, uh,
some, some choice words to say. Um,
Oh, last point I was going to make by not just like the American Jewish committee, but also
Democrats, unlike hammer and sickle emoji, hammer and sickle emoji users on Twitter,
Democrats, corporate Democrats specifically, are actually, hate to say it, much more intelligent
than many of these other Twitter posters are. They understand that the party is currently weak.
They understand that, they understand what I'm doing better than the communists on Twitter do.
Okay? And that's precisely the reason why they do everything in their power to make me into a toxic
figure. Okay? A figure that people must avoid. A figure that politicians never should go around.
Okay? Dude, you are losing it, Hassan. Wait, what?
If Obama supported Eisen's side of the military, you guys would see he's a fascist, but the
children killed aren't Americans, so he's left LaMalle.
Yes, I'm losing it.
You're right.
Yes, you're right.
How dare you accuse Twitter leftists of not thinking strategically and just tweeting whatever comes in their head. Yes
Take talk defending you
As a wise man once said Hasan piker could be in the back smoking crack
And I would take a thousand of him over Liz Cheney, a thousand of him over John Fetterman,
a thousand of him over every single Never Trump Republican that joins the party and
then doesn't change how they view political, economic or social issues but only just disagrees
with Trump and that is the only thing that gets them into the tactic.
I'm tired of it, y'all.
I'm tired of it because a lot of y'all don't fundamentally disagree with him.
You just don't like the way he presents himself.
You don't like that he's vulgar.
don't like that he's like reminds you of a dude in college you didn't like and I
can't argue against that because a lot of y'all fundamentally agree with the
points he makes you also believe what is happening in Gaza's a genocide you also
wanted to see the end of ICE you also want free health care and a better
working system for the American people you just don't like how he looks and I
can't argue against that but can we be serious white supremacists are being
invited to the White House by the president as a wise man once said
Hassan Piker could be in the back.
It's true.
Twitter posts are relevant.
This combo always goes nowhere.
Venting session is true.
That's also true.
Huh.
Crack smoking stream when?
Soon.
Anyway.
No. Ironically, the smooth-bearing response to you highlights exactly why the US left isn't
ready for whatever these larbers are advocating for. Yeah, there is no organizational discipline.
There's no class consciousness in the country. Before you build that, there will never
be a active, robust, successful working class party or a working class movement in general.
Even our union density is dog shit. And the unions that exist are corporate unions. Some
of them are pig unions. Like it's just not like we have, we don't even have a functioning
trade unionist movement in this country. And motherfuckers are talking about building
communism now. And I'm not the fetus about the way things are. Even if I described
you exactly how how devastated, how it treated successfully the working class
movement is, okay? Yeah, Lenin's party was tiny before 1917. What's your point?
Oh my god.
Brother,
You are comparing the material conditions in Tsarist Russia to industrialized America, the Imperial Corps.
Okay? This is ridiculous.
We are living in 2026, man.
It's important to understand the successes and the failures and not repeat the failures, but build on the successes
You speak as if your method is achieved success if you wait for the conditions you speak of it will never come for what do you mean wait for it?
What do you mean wait for it? Am I waiting for it? Does it seem like I'm waiting for it? The point here is
The point here is you are waiting for it. Okay, you're not doing the fucking work
That's the problem many people are not doing the work all they're doing is chirping of someone who has perhaps
the the same goals
Okay
Perhaps the same fuck have you brought upon increase in unification rates. Okay chatter
Let me ask you something super serious here if you think that I am unsuccessful at right in
You know delivering any sort of material change
Okay, then you're actually you're first of all you're you're agreeing with me. You're agreeing with my perspective
Okay, as a singular force in American politics if I have not been able to
dramatically increase unionization rates, for example, even though there are plenty of people
who have unionized their workplaces because they became Hassanabi heads, but that's besides
the point.
Let's say that's a blip, right?
Which it is.
And how the fuck do you think I have the capacity to build a Marxist Leninist party
in this country?
You fucking idiot!
That's my fucking point!
That's my point!
I don't think you're wrong. I don't think you're right. I think you speak so condescendingly
when your methods haven't achieved anything. Your methods are not even methods. You don't
have a method. All you have is chirping in a fucking Twitch streamer's chat that you
You also recognize just like the Twitch Turmer does, has no fucking power!
Whatever modest gains I've been able to achieve here and there is still endlessly larger than
whatever the fuck you've done!
That's my point!
We are strong, united!
That's it, that's my point.
I'm not simply waiting for a spontaneous revolution to happen.
Okay?
I'm trying to build the necessary organizations
for when those contradictions worsen as they are currently
so that people have the necessary tools.
First is awareness, awareness of your class,
then comes political education,
then comes robust organizing efforts and labor militancy.
We're not even on fucking step one.
That's the difference.
Some of you are fortunate enough to have arrived at these conclusions, but you unfortunately don't realize others are nowhere near where you're at. That's the whole point.
Well
Anyway
Someone like a Sampire Nick Fletters in their ilk should not be welcome anywhere when you say America deserve not 11 when you say the Holocaust didn't happen
You are not welcome at the Milken Institute global conference Ted Doresh
which spoke out strongly against the explosion of anti-Semitism in online spaces.
Man, what the fuck does America deserve 9-11 to have to do with anti-Semitism?
Like, what is that even?
Why are you tying those two things together?
One is directly anti-Semitic, saying the holocaust didn't happen, which Nick Wintas
regularly traffics in holocaust revisionism, holocaust support, you know, whatever
you want to call it.
But what the fuck does this have to do with anti-Semitism, dumbass?
Social media companies have a duty to curb hateful speech on their platforms as a plot
of a duty to shun extremist rhetoric from their parties.
Anyway
All right.
Mayor Zoram Omdani billionaire Ken Griffith battle over Peter tear tax
Ken Griffith says Zoram Omdani put the crosshairs on him and actually threatened his life
The O Ken Griffin is once again taking aim at Mayor Zoram Omdani as they're feud over the pieta tear tax continues to escalate
And in just a few hours the mayor will be making a housing announcement
I witness news reporter Phil Tate is live in the more sania. I miss your reaction to Obama
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Okay, let's watch more on all of this. Good morning, Phil. Yeah, Tonya, Peter. Good morning
and just hours. Mayor Mondani is expected to appear outside of this more senior apartment
building just right behind me. And that says the city has reached a settlement against
the property owner at around $31 million. Now I just spoke with someone who lived in
building off camera who tells me that yes there have been a ton of issues from elevator outages
even to lack of heat and hot water. Meantime we are watching the fallout of this feud between Ken
Griffin and the mayor as they're not quite seeing eye to eye when it comes to those taxes on
second homes that are quite expensive are made at New York City's ongoing budget challenges.
You may remember this video posted weeks ago from the mayor outside the home of hedge fund
CEO on our Ken Griffin saying he should pay more taxes on his 238 million dollar penthouse
Bro, this gives the game away
For an unbelievably wealthy person like Ken Griffin like the demand that they pay a little bit more in taxes on
their you know
11th fucking property is
akin to a death sentence like he literally is just like what?
This is the scariest thing that anyone has ever suggested, okay?
For the bosses, a fate worse than death is the fate that many of you experience on a daily basis.
It is to be reduced to a worker, okay? That's what it is.
They treated like you're you're getting thrown in fucking prison like they put the handcuffs on you like you're going to the gallows or something
Oh my god
You're going to tax my 11th fucking property
My penthouse is 238 million dollars. That's basically like a demanding the gallows
The chief operating officer had questioned whether a planned midtown construction project
would move forward following the attack on Griffin.
The project, the redevelopment of 350 Park Avenue that would create 6,000 construction
jobs and more than 15,000 permanent jobs.
At a conference in California, Griffin said he would probably go through with the project
But the mayor's video left him to explain his base in Miami, calling it an immediate and direct consequence of the mayor's poor decision.
But the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners and principally my New York partners, my New York partners, is that we need to double down on our bet in Miami because we want to be in a-
Yeah, it's not gonna happen, big dog. I know for a fact it's not gonna happen. Good luck. Have fun with that, okay?
David Danes, as I was in the room, and it was impossible for there to be more whining
in his tone.
He pretty much compared having his high-rise apartment in a video to Trump assassination
attempts.
Yeah.
Here is Bronco Marsetic from Jacobin.
Why is nearly a 60-year-old businessman talking like this?
Here's the quote that he had.
Looking at what mom Donnie did to me and more broadly is doing to the city of New
York is triggering the trauma I went through in Chicago.
Triggering the trauma, what are you talking about?
It's not even soy right though.
This is real, okay?
This is sincere.
It's hysterical, but it's sincere, okay?
For a multi-billionaire, the demand that they pay even a crumb in return in exchange for
being able to live and have properties in one of the coolest, nicest cities in the entire
fucking planet, New York City, is basically like a death sentence.
How dare you?
state that embraces that embraces business that embraces education that
embraces personal freedom and liberty and that embraces people having an
opportunity to live the American dream and the mayor's office responding to
those comments saying in part quote mayor Mandani wants all New Yorkers to
succeed that includes business owners and entrepreneurs who create good paying
jobs and makes the city the economic engine of America. It also includes Ken Griffin was
a major employer in our city and a powerful figure in our economy.
Yeah, Mamdani's tax-the-risk slogan is just as hateful as racial slurs New York real estate
Titan says. Stephen Roth, the CEO of the real estate giant,
Bornado was sharply, hello, was sharply critical of mayor's Zara Mamdani.
Creepy and weird is what Ken Griffin had to say Tuesday at a conference about Mamdani's
campaign style video touting the tax outside the hedge fund managers, $238 million penthouse.
Stephen Roth, the CEO of real estate giant Bornado went further Tuesday on an earnings
call. I considered the phrase tax the rich when spit out with anger and contempt by
potters both here and across the country to be just as hateful as some disgusting racial slurs
and even the phrase from the river to the sea roth said refer to the propel city in phrase oh my god
they're adopting the israeli strat for class is is perfect that's exactly what it is
I consider the phrase, packs the rich, quote, packs the rich, but spit out with anger and
contempt by politicians both here and across the country to be just as hateful as some disgusting
racial curse and even the phrase, from the river to the sea.
What these whole calls seem to be saying is that the rich are evil, or the enemy,
or the targets, or maybe even just suckers.
But the rich home, the politicians are targeting, are the epitome of the American dream.
They are our largest employers and largest philanthropists.
And it is the 1% that made 50% of the New York, they are at the top of the great American
economic pyramid for a reason.
They should be praised and thanked.
I must say that I can.
Yeah.
Guy who's definitely not out of touch is like, Hey, you know, you know what?
what billionaires are like the beautiful nation state of Israel you know two
concepts that are broadly popular in all of the circles that I frequent well I
don't understand why won't you worship me a billionaire like you worship the
beautiful nation state of Israel two things that are obviously broadly
popular and if it's not what do you think of her criticism of you what is
this?
It has come a long way to make himself palatable to the American public, especially American
liberals by only working with the DNC and DSA and constantly platforming people like Bernie
Sanders and AOC on his stream, which is the way that he's been doing content for like
a decade now and I think it may be time to wrap it up.
But every time I talk about Hasan Piker, I always, always get comments from white
men.
It's only ever white.
Why do you send me this?
Guys, come on.
right like and then all the fucking dudes in the chat are gonna go in there and be like me me me me me me me me me
It's like I don't care about any of this. Okay. It's great. It's great. It's great. Okay. It's it's she's right. I'm wrong
Who cares?
Okay, god damn it. I should stop clicking on these fucking vent posts. Oh, holy fuck
It doesn't matter it doesn't matter it doesn't matter
Okay. Yes, I will wrap it up. I'm done. I'm over. My this project is done. It's time for, you know,
and new people to come in. Okay, it's time for new people to come in and build the the communist
movement that I will be terrified of because deep down I'm a cynical capitalist at the end of
the day. I'm a sheepdog for the Democratic Party. I'm a liberal Zionist. I'm a I'm a pro-empire
kind of guy okay I really I really get my rocks off when children are being
slaughtered overseas you guys got me you know I will stand in opposition to that
real movement that was going to be built you are a wrecker me yes it's true
it's true careful Fox News might start praising you I don't think these kinds
the conversations are productive. I don't want you guys to go over there and fucking attack
people that have constructive criticism in general. Okay. You need to stop. You need
to stop doing all that. Just anytime you see a take where you're like, oh man. Anytime
you see a take on the internet that pisses you off, you know what you should do? Smile
and dial, okay? Go and phone bank for the DSA today, okay? I need 10 phone banks from all of you,
okay? Anytime you see shit like that and you get upset or frustrated, you smile and dial and
you call up Kathy Hockels, you call up Kathy Hockels office and you say, hey, as a New York
resident, I am very frustrated with the fact that you are allowing austerity to take shape
in New York, making New York City unaffordable for the working staff like myself, okay?
You should tax the rich so they pay a fair share back to New York City so we can fund
these programs and make New York City the best city in the country, if not the entire
world, okay?
That's what you do.
When you get mad, when you get mad about stuff like this, you know, use that anger into more
productive routes, okay?
every time I call my New York Palsy they hang up on me. Leave a voicemail.
Shocking stuff from the CEO of Vornado, RealtyTrust on his latest earnings call is not so shocking.
if you know how these guys think and operate.
Hold on.
Starting to think he called it Vornado on purpose to align with the kink.
Anyway, start stream, no.
She won't listen.
What?
Okay.
Stop.
Stop.
Stop criticizing the other person, okay?
Stop criticizing the other person that I accidentally clicked on, please.
No more fighting, okay?
You're not advancing socialism or communism or whatever the fuck when you also go into the replies of someone who's criticizing me.
It's just as unproductive if not even more unproductive, okay?
It is not lost on me that these fucking whiny billionaires are literally saying you must worship
us like you should worship the state of Israel to two entities, two concepts, two groups that
are unbelievably unpopular with the working class.
But they don't recognize that because they only go to the fucking Milken Institute.
They never actually react to the average Joe.
They never actually are around regular folk.
They're so unbelievably removed, far removed from the working class individual, the ordinary
stiff, okay, the average Joe that they can't even comprehend what the average person thinks
about billionaires or fucking Israel.
It's hilarious.
Stollers says, this whiny billionaire just drove spirit airlines into liquidation.
He's now trolling the mayor of New York City because he doesn't want to pay taxes.
And he got Florida legislature to strengthen non-capita agreements so
his hedge fund employees can't leave.
Great guy.
So what does that leave us at 350 part?
That leaves us with the fact that we went to Miami and
revised our building plan to make it a bigger office building.
You're bailing?
So, what do we do at 350 is still a point of discussion internally, but what is no longer
a point of discussion is that Miami is now, you know, when we moved from Chicago there
was a debate between New York and Miami.
It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice.
I'll leave it at that.
It's unquestionably true that we made the right choice.
And now, and now what the mayor of New York has made clear to my partners and principally
my New York partners, my New York partners is that we need to double down on our bet
in Miami because we want to be in a state that embraces business, that embraces education,
that embraces personal freedom and liberty, and that embraces people having an opportunity
to live the American dream.
Yeah, here's the thing, okay? The reason why, the reason, look, there's this concept of
the Laffer curve, right? The idea that if you raise taxes so much that you end up diminishing
taxable revenue because wealthy people will find ways out of it and they'll leave and
they won't actually pay those tax. Now, in reality, that's not what happens at all, okay?
And perhaps the greatest example of this being bullshit is the fact that currently wealthy
people have the capacity not to live in California and yet still choose to do so
even though California taxes are far higher than other states.
The reason why they still choose to live in California
is because California is fucking awesome.
Okay?
And part of that is because there are places
where there is higher taxes
that also have higher quality of life.
Okay?
When these people turn around and say,
oh, we're gonna go move to fucking Miami,
okay, have fun.
Right. Have fun with that. You're probably not going to. As a matter of fact, during COVID, a lot of upper middle class people moved to places like Miami, moved to places like Texas.
And now they're coming back to these big urban centers. Okay. Now, here's the thing. Is there such a thing as like, uh, uh, as, as too high taxes, I guess there could be, right?
There's reasonable debate on this. We are nowhere near that percentage right now.
I believe the the Goldilocks zone is like what top marginal tax rate being at like 70%
Currently it's 34. I believe or 35. So we're nowhere near that's at half of where it could be
Okay
So the the notion the notion that like we are uh, uh, so cruel and so ruthless the wealthy is fucking idiotic
Okay, it's a lie. It's a lie advanced by corporate media because their job is to defend the interests of super rich billionaires and millionaires
That's the thing. Okay? That's the reality. The notion that the super wealthy will leave
if they have to pay a higher share of taxes is completely ridiculous. It's utter nonsense.
People in New York already pay a higher percentage in their taxes than super wealthy, already
pay a higher percentage in their taxes, and they still choose to live in New York.
because it's fucking New York City. Okay? So Zoram-Amdani's agenda in New York City that
Kathy Hochul should absolutely get on board with because it is broadly popular, it's unbelievably
popular, is to make the city more affordable for the people that are working there at
the behest of these billionaires and millionaires. Is that simple? Because eventually, if you
drive up inequality, if you keep pushing austerity, if you keep reducing the services the city offers
that require taxable revenue, okay? If the roads are filled to the brim with potholes,
if the buses don't arrive on time, then you have a less productive workforce as a consequence of
that. That actually hurts the productivity of these mega corporations in the long run.
It's ridiculous.
I agree with you, but looking at other places, successful wealth tax requires or at least
is largely well-assisted by an accompanying draconian exit tax, so when went, oh, I'm 100%
in agreement with that.
Yes.
But that is the nuclear option.
I don't even think it needs to get to that point.
So these guys, when they say, oh, we're leaving, it's always like one or two people, you know,
like the Google CEO leaving California because he's unbelievably mad about the wealth tax,
the one-off billionaire tax, the one-time billionaire tax.
It's always just a couple people here and there.
The idea that there will be an exodus of the super-wealthy from these places is
ridiculous.
It is a lie.
has never happened and it will not happen, okay?
Because these are expensive places to live in and have already higher percentages of
taxes for the super wealthy already because they're nice places to live.
That's where a lot of the highly educated workforce is already living and operating
It's important to make sure that those people are more productive.
It's important to make sure that those people, those places are livable for the average
Joe or the working class person.
Someone's got to fucking make your coffee, right?
You can't expect that someone to come from three hours away.
I just, I can't stand the amount of greed demonstrated by these people.
It's unbelievable.
You just said that.
Wow.
Wait, what is this?
Okay, I have a problem with this wealthy dude, Hasan, preaching to good gospel when
And this wealth is a part of the problem.
It criticizes Cali's no socialist light environment.
They gave us the billionaires Google, Meta, and Bezos.
Wait, what?
Yeah, regular people can't afford California.
Why they moved to Texas?
What?
You just said that.
Elitist has fought.
Wait, what did I?
I wish we just had a...
I wish...
I just wish we had a worker version of you.
buddy there are worker versions of me they exist all around you just fucking
tune into me instead okay you tune into me because this is my job this is what I
do
Jesus fucking Christ dude yes because I have a people funded broadcast I have the
freedom to be able to fucking chirp all day. There are tens of thousands of people who feel
the same way that I do, who communicate the same way that I do in this chat right now.
The problem is, they're stuck fucking delivering Amazon packages. So you are not going to hear
from them. So my job, or at least what I try to do is offer a voice to their grievances.
you sit here and you fucking complain but walk the talk you're a millionaire what
are you saying what are you saying go work a fucking distribution facility so
you don't hear what I have to fucking say is that your argument
shut the fuck up fuck
I
Well
It's just aesthetics at the end of the fucking day that's it
That's literally it. It's aesthetics. This person is just like, I don't, I like what you have to say, but I can't get over the aesthetics, okay?
I can't get over the aesthetics. In my mind, socialism means everyone has to be fucking poor.
That is an unbelievably reactionary perspective, okay?
That is a capitalist perspective. That is the perspective of these fucking millionaires and billionaires dumb-ass. Why are you limiting yourself?
Jesus Christ
Socialism is a poverty cult the only way to be a real socialist view where a barrel around your fucking chest
It's so funny to be like
Oh
So, funny.
All of this ends up being, hey man, I think you should advocate for what I perceive is
your class position, okay?
That's all this is.
Yeah, Private Chef, my billionaire dad.
Hey, mate.
Oh.
All this is is, hey, rich guy, why the fuck do you care?
That's this is, that's what this is, is a, hey, rich guy,
why don't you advocate for the fucking interest of the rich?
Like I'm, like I'm used to hearing it fucks me up.
Yeah, even my private chef is rich dude fucking billionaire
This doesn't make any sense
I'll never understand this. I'll never I'll never understand it. It's just something that I cannot comprehend
You finally made it on the list for April, what is this list?
Oh, this is the top 50 most viewed.
I'm probably at the fucking end here.
If I'm even on this list at all, I don't even see myself.
I'm not on this list.
Oh I am, I'm at the end.
Above Prager you goddamn as whack
We really gotta
Now we also know that governor hopeful did meet with Griffin and did have quite a talk where she did praise Griffin as he is again
A big voice here in our city
We will be sitting by to hear from Larry Mimdani this morning at his news conference schedule for 9 a.m
We are live in the Marasenia section of the Bronx. I'm filthy channel seven. I witness news
City mayors around mom Donnie today announcing the largest settlement in city history with he with what he calls bad landlords in the Bronx
Those landlords will now pay 31 million dollars after the mayor says tenants were forced to live in horrible conditions for years
I witnessed his reporter Marcus Solis live in the Marasenia section with more in this story Marcus
for some long-awaited repairs
and improvements that they've
been demanding for years. When
these buildings were built,
Mitchell Alma housing back in
the 60s, they promised
luxury living at affordable
prices. The buildings have
changed ownership several
times. The mayor says the
conditions have evolved into
inhumane conditions. Two
years ago, HPD took the
landlords to court, and
They've won big.
It's the best news we could have ever, ever hoped for.
Cautious optimism after what residents describe as years of horrible living conditions at Robert Fulton Terrace.
Twin 18 story...
Jonathan Grimblatt talking to Jake Tapper about me.
Oh, here we go. Time for the daily lashing, dude.
Here we fucking go.
1274 incidents. There are real people at stake. And I think about Sarah Milgrim and your own
Lashinsky shot in the back walk out of a museum in D.C. by a man yelling free, free Palestine.
Is that left wing? Is that Islamist? I don't know what to call that. I think about the
student in Seattle, Washington, harassed by her classmates, telling her week after week
with no interference from the teacher that Hitler was right, the Nazis should have done
the job. Is that right or left? I mean, all of it is right or left really. We need leaders
on both sides of the aisle to say, especially to their own enough with the anti-Semitism
enough with the hate. Pretty sure that's right. A drop, a sizable drop in 2025 from
the number of incidents reported in 2024, which is some good news in this. What do
you attribute that to? Look, that is good news. And we welcome the fact that the
overall instance are down thirty three percent
it's a tribute to a few things jake number one
college campuses we saw a two-thirds drop on college campuses year over year
i think that's function of the fact that
campuses started enforcing their policies is to the new rules
part because of pressure from the way i'm not letting the proposal for us to
present happen part because of pressure groups like a d l the campus report card
that held them accountable
you also saw less because they consider that to be an anti-semitic incident
less bomb threats so there's some good news
But here's the thing, Jake, what I worry about is a new normal because that number this year, even though it's better, it's 70% more than what we saw before October the 7th.
It's five times what it was a decade ago. It's almost like there's a pre-October 7th and post-October 7th, and we've got to get things back to normal.
Jonathan Greenblatt with the ADL. Thanks so much for joining us today. We appreciate it.
Appreciate you, Jake. Thank you for having me.
We missed my mention.
with over 300 units. Today the city announcing it has secured 31 million
dollars in penalties against two Bronx landlords, 900,000 of which will go to
making immediate repairs. These funds come directly from the landlord's
accounts, money that should have otherwise been allocated towards this
work long ago. And we will not only make the urgent repairs that are needed
today, but also the long-term improvements that tenants deserve.
The settlement establishes a chief restructuring officer who will hire a property manager.
For years residents say they've lived with frequent elevator outages, lack of hot water
and general disrepair on balconies and inside apartments that has resulted in rat infestation.
I don't, should not be boiling water to bait.
Not in 2026.
That is completely unacceptable.
Right?
So, I'm hopeful.
The settlement also includes the Fordham Tower, which is a sister building to these on 188th
Street.
The landlords are Karen Singh and Rajmati Prasad both are on the public advocate's worst
landlords list.
We're live in Marseille in Marcos, so it's Channel 7, IWITNESS News.
Marcos, thank you.
So to me, this is one of the most egregious votes and acts that the legislature will
overtake. They are deliberately slicing up African American voters in Memphis for
their own political game. I am so hurt and angry at these actions. It's
disrespectful to our ancestors and all the black people who fought for
representation, equal rights were murdered, who was led, who was being all
of the things. And we're going to sit here in 2026 and undo all the work
that they have done for fair representation and fair elections. I
I'm not happy and I'm going to be giving this the best fight as possible this week.
But it's time to roll up our series to get to work.
But this is downright racist, this is downright egregious, and we all stand with it.
Shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame, shame.
This week, the governor of Tennessee convened a special session to draw Jim Crow maps,
not to support our hospitals, not to fully fund our schools, but to cut a jagged line between
you and your neighbors down your county through your city, through your community,
through your block.
to have a voice. Do you support this kind of demonstration at a moment like this?
What the hell does it want to do? We have a majority of people with the infrastructure
that's been given the chance to destroy us. This is not going to happen once. And we're alive for it.
And we all have to do something. And so this is what we need to do, and that's what they need to do.
White supremacy is codifying itself in the state of Tennessee. And all across the nation,
This is a police event or an accident.
They're coming for black political power.
It's in the state of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana,
which is the greatest province of black pepper
since the era of the Reconstructed.
I'm here at the location of our next rally on Thursday, May 7.
I'm back on CNN.
Wait, they're still talking about me on CNN? What the fuck?
This is the best cook on any meat that I've had today.
You ready to kick some barbecue brawl, bud?
Season premiere, barbecue brawl, Monday at nine on Food Network.
Yeah, that's tomorrow.
Staking with our national lead the rise of anti-Semitism across America.
Two, he's doing two pieces on me today.
Josh Godheimer of New Jersey have introduced a new resolution that condemns the surging distribution of hate-filled anti-Semitic rhetoric and content
at the hands of prominent online personalities.
Congressman, welcome to the show.
Thank you so much.
Congressman Lawler, tell us about the growing influence.
You focus on Hassan Piker on the left
and Candace Owens on the right.
Why did you focus on them and how much influence
do you think they have?
Well, Jake, thanks for having both Josh and I
to discuss this important issue.
This is one that I think across the political spectrum
we have seen a rise of anti-Semitism,
especially social media,
and a lot of it at the voice of people like Hassan Piker
and Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson,
among others who are promoting anti-Semitic hate speech,
who continually seem to engage
in longstanding anti-Semitic tropes.
is why being a leftist sucks by the way because i have no support elected
officials regardless of party
uh... we have no support from the democrats
i have no support from the let broader leftist movement say i'm a fucking
zionist meeting yesterday with i just i just got you in my district my chat
that's it's centered around israel
uh... the war in iran
uh... and frankly a lot of it focused on
is this is my name before can is on the anti-semitism bill israel
seem to be blamed for a lot of things that happened in the world and
uh... i push back against it forcefully but
this is something that i think uh... is important across the board
so congressman got her obviously the first amendment says uh... congress
shall make
no law establishing the freedom of speech or of the press uh...
what do you say to somebody who wonders are you not risking running
a foul of that
one thing as uh... your last guest talk talked about one thing to
speak up and let your point of view be known it's another to incite
hate and violence targeted others
uh... uh... son piker canis owens
this is hate speech intended to incite violence is
has uh... was just pointed out the a d l numbers which came out this year and
and and jake really glad you're focused on this because these numbers
are shocking
but you're still up seventy percent
of anti-semitic incidents since october seven
uh... that's unacceptable
uh... the hate in the streets uh... around the country is unacceptable is
might just pointed out and i'm grateful for his leadership here too
uh... when you talk to young people
uh... you know people are pointing fingers instead of actually getting to
the facts
and so alone in the list on
we've got to take the temperature down
this kind of hate speech speeches unacceptable
and whether it's on social media or in the halls of congress we have to
condemn it
people like a son piker and kandace owens should be out there
uh... campaigning with uh... elected officials or and and and being used in
propped up
as heroes when you have
you know uh... piker saying things like jews are bloodthirsty pig dogs and
inbred and uh... i've never said that america deserve to use our blood
thursday as a fucking bullshit we need
on either an either party
but congressman laler and what do you say to somebody who might say look it's
very easy to take on
can't as i was very easy to take on his son piker
But what about the politicians who campaigned with them?
Or the politicians who, well,
Dr. Hartman spoke at the Republican National Convention
in 2024, that by going after these individuals
and not the folks who enable them,
the people who join them on the campaign trail or such,
you're doing something easier
than what would need to be done.
First of all, these folks are grifters.
You look at somebody like Candace Owen,
She's making about $500,000 in episodes spewing this hatred.
And they foment this hate to make money.
And one of my opponents, Effie Phillips-Daily,
was just on Hassan Piker's podcast
and was criticized not just by me,
but by the four county democratic chairs
for embracing somebody like Hassan Piker.
and you know i've called out people in my own party like marjorie taylor green
one of the dumbest people to ever serve in congress who
talked about jewish space lasers
uh... and continues to engage in anti-semitic tropes
uh... the fact is
in both parties we need to call out this extremism we need to
demand better of our elected officials
uh... and really hold these individuals that foment hate to account
i think mike's right you got it we've got to call it out and we and even
it's of our colleagues. You've got to call it out when you see it, when you see anti-Semitism
and say it's unacceptable, it will poison any political party. We've seen it happen
on both sides and we've got to stand up and that's what Mike and I and by the 20 of our
colleagues who stood with us in this legislation, that's what we're doing is standing up to
this.
Alright Congressman, now Josh Gottheimer of New Jersey and Mike Lawler of New York,
thanks to both of you, appreciate it. From bipartisan politics to Trump and politics,
new election results underscore his influence and power in the Republican Party. Can
the momentum continue?
What do I fucking say what do I say to this dude I?
Hate this shit so much
Oh
Fuck Jake tapper fuck fuck Mike Lawler fuck Josh got Heimer
bottom paid for by Israel
bottom paid for by a pack
Please sue I'm gonna fucking I'm gonna end the broadcast right now. I think if one more dumb fuck in my chat says please sue
I'm just gonna end it. I'm gonna end it all. I'm gonna end my life. Okay in a video game
This did there's no world in the United States of America where you can pursue
litigation of this sort as a fucking public figure. Some of you do not comprehend that, okay?
I know nobody buys the CNM bullshit, still fucking annoying to constantly have to be compared
to Candace Owens dude. So frustrating. So disgusting. These freaks.
My parents think you're an anti-Semi. My parents do. Okay great. Well maybe you should
do a better job of fucking explaining to them that that's not the case.
There's been many celebrities and public figures that have won defamation lawsuits.
Yes, dude, against that, against APAC, the ADL at this level.
There is no, these, these kinds of statements are, are specifically tailored in a way where
a public defamation trial will not benefit me in any way, shape, or form.
i don't know why you guys think that this is like uh... it going to be successful
it's also not just because of israel either i mean israel is the entry point
israel's entry point of this conversation but uh...
but they are smarter than the fucking hammer and sickle guys on twitter
okay
they understand the danger of allowing
because their goal ultimately
their goal ultimately is to to sever
any kind of sentiment that is anti-capitalist
from the ranks of the democratic party
any kind of anti-zina sentiment from the ranks of the democratic party
They aggressively pursue this, this outrage campaign, this smear campaign.
You're literally letting Congress pass a bill to censor you without even putting up a fight.
Okay, I'm done.
Um, mods, you can ban people that are just making dumb fucking suggestions.
Uh, we can, we can do that now.
I, I was wrong to say, let's let it ride today.
Let's see where it goes.
I feel like I'm getting fucking baited by the dumbest people on the planet.
He got triggered.
Yes, I did.
You got me.
You did.
Yes, Stalinist purge time.
You are a horrible rich man.
You should feel shame, but you were not raised that way properly.
Just censor the audience again.
You are not with the US.
You are the same as Candace.
You're not like we are, Eson.
You are like Candace, not any of us.
You mock us, slander us, and lie about us.
Oh my God.
The amount of fucking mental illness manifesting in this chat sometimes is un-fucking
bearable, dude.
What are you saying, dude?
What are you fucking saying?
Who is us, bitch?
What the fuck are you talking about?
Who's us?
Who's we what are you talking about? Oh
You saw Mike Lawler's town hall I did not
It's like all your friends are cute.
To the audience who are not comfortable with being reported,
be reported.
Do you think they're funny?
Dude! Fuck you!
Yes, it's fucking wrong.
I think they're gonna use our participation in this shit.
They don't not have rights!
I don't really understand the exact same thing. Yeah. Exactly. Yes. These anti Israel protesters
criticizing a pro Israel politician is exactly the same as dumb fuck churpers in my chat that
are literally just trying to annoy me because they recognize the moment of
emotional weakness because I'm so fucking frustrated that after three and a
half months of being smeared on the goddamn timeline by every fucking
mainstream media outlet there are still people who are coming in here to be like
oh no I just fucking sue it doesn't work that way okay in the United States
of America it's unbelievably difficult there's no guarantee they know it
That's why they hit it on on a totally personal issue like that. They're saying they believe I'm anti-semitic, okay?
You think I haven't thought about my fucking options here. I have
Yeah, and yes, I know their entire reddit's discords and Twitter communities with nothing but my haters who lived the fucking
Have me read their stupid ass comment and like get mad in the process. I know I
Just want I just want what's best for people man. It sucks so fucking bad to just like be professionally misunderstood all the goddamn time
It's so fucking annoying
And stop falling for it. You will never understand what it's like. That's just the reality. Okay, you're not in this position
I will never be able to communicate it to you. Okay, it's just virtually impossible
possible. This is an unbelievably sophisticated machine that never stops. It's day in, day
out. It's backed by a shit ton of people who have nothing else to live for. And you're
over here making it seem like I'm just too weak.
The bad news, because I'm always honest about where the bad news is, Representative Gottheimer
admitted the left's disdain for Israel is a growing cancer.
Four years ago, he said this.
The bad news is it's becoming increasingly loud on some pockets of the far left of our
party are very critical of Israel and very critical of, as you know, of the relationship
and using intersectionality and phrases like apartheid that we talk about Israel.
And it's a very, very small group of people and be very clear about this.
People think it's taken over the democratic party.
It's just not true.
It's a very small cancer, but it's a growing cancer.
And the issue I worry about more than anything is that some of my colleagues, when I call
them now to join on something. They'll say, listen, Josh, you know I'm with you. You know
that I'm going to vote with you. I always stand by Israel. But you know, I just don't
feel like getting beaten up. I get beaten up so much when I come out and support. So
I'm just going to lay low if you don't mind. I'll be there on the vote, but I don't
want to sign the letter. I don't want to speak out publicly. I just want to lay
low. That's what I'm worried about because the reason they're refusing to speak
out and want to live in our Langlow is because they just get, just not being
at them when they stick their head above the parapet. And, and you know, that's
It's talking about being fucking pro-Israel
You know what's we so what's going on in college campuses. I'm here in college campus right now
We see what goes on. So why do they matter like who the fuck are these two fools are pretty irrelevant will be out of office soon
Anyway, no they won't and also their representatives of a much broader problem here
Okay, the real cancerous the real cancer is Israel. Okay, it's not the anti-Israel crowd. It's actually Israel and
And Israel has unbelievable amounts of money to throw in the direction of
Destroying the lives and livelihoods of its prominent fucking critics as a as a way to try to discipline the public
okay, I'm
Eating this from every angle every single fucking day. Look. I try to put on a strong face
Okay, but holy shit dude it it does it does fucking bother me because it's untrue
Okay
Lawler is is most likely going to be replaced hopefully with Effie
We got to work to to phone bank for her to
You
Don't sue to win brother you sue to cost them money. They're winning for free right now dude. You're fucking medically stupid
You're talking about Israel dude. You're talking about the pro Israel crowd
They've been able to buy the motherfucking government. They bought Donald Trump for 250 million dollars
And you think I can put a fucking dent in that are you fucking stupid?
The answer is yes, you are stupid if you think that that is genuinely a thing. I have the capabilities are doing. Oh
My god
Okay, I'm done. I can't I can't do this. I can't do this
Let's just move on here
We have a fucking rally tomorrow that I'm gonna be attending which apparently will have some counter protesters
I'm near the location of our next rally on Thursday, May 7th
Join Hassan piker Jamal Bowman and me at 715 Harrison for the change the party rally
The last time we have one of these over 800 of y'all showed up and the energy was insane
So we got a bigger venue and a disco ball so RSVP and I'll see you may 7th at 7
Tomorrow San Francisco
Okay, I'm skipping this
Oh
Oh
Walter Masterson went to the park east park east synagogue, uh
Landfare
They're doing the same thing disorder but the land sale protests he's saying is too weak protests
So there's really real estate event in your city where illegal land sales are being advertised
I'm
Um, yeah, Clairville, this had a really good take.
Clairville, this mom, Donny back, congressional candidate breaks with the mayor regarding NYP's
handling of last night's protest.
said New Yorkers don't just have the right to protest the sale of stolen
Palestinian land they have a responsibility to NYPD should be
protecting our first amendment rights not blocking and pepper spraying us when
we exercise them. I think that as opposed to what Mamdani said where he said he
was satisfied with the NYPD's handling of last night's protest obviously a
lot of people who went to those protests were not satisfied with the
way that the NYPD treated them. Thank you Mayor can you assess how you think
things went last night at the Park East synagogue protest. Do you think the police effectively
enforced a buffer zone? Is that what essentially happened? And was the right to protest sufficiently
protected in your view? And then I have one more question.
Yes. I think that I've made it clear time and time again that we in this city believe
in the sacrosanct nature of the right to protest and also are committed to ensuring
that any New Yorker can safely enter or exit from a house of worship and that they – that
access never be in question while we also protect the First Amendment.
And I do believe that the police insured that yesterday evening.
And as you talk about ways to prevent anti-Semitism, I noticed yesterday that when you put out
a statement about the protest in advance of the protest, you noted that you agreed
with the protesters.
You've weighed in on the subject of Israel and a couple of other ways and recent
days.
I just wonder whether, you know, are you considering whether you personally put in your views about Israel?
Yeah, do you feel like you're fomenting anti-Semitism by criticizing the illegal land sales taking place in synagogues?
I don't know, are the synagogues fomenting anti-Semitism?
Or allowing these places of worship to be used for such a heinous crime?
NYPD has so much power in New York, man, it's crazy.
Israel out there is in any way fueling anti-Semitism in the city.
Do you ever think maybe you should just not weigh in or just not bring it up?
I think that critique of the policies of a government
are very much separate from bigotry
towards the people of a specific religious faith.
And there is no tolerance for anti-Semitism.
There is no tolerance for hatred of Jewish New Yorkers,
which we have seen time and time again,
whether it be in the graffiti of swastikas
on a number of homes across Queens recently.
And I've also been clear to New Yorkers
my honest opinions about the fact that when we have a real estate expo that is promoting
the sale of land, which includes the sale of land in occupied West Bank in settlements
that are a violation of international law, that that is something that I firmly disagree
with and that I also believe that many New Yorkers firmly disagree with because it
has been at the heart of an ongoing effort to displace Palestinians from their homes.
Hi, Kelly.
Hi, Kelly.
Yeah, it's a...
What a ridiculous song and dance this is over and over again. I mean...
100s are rallying in New York City outside of Party Synagogue to protest the greatest
really real estate event selling illegal and land in occupied West Bank.
Police have shut down the entire block radius, restricting foot traffic despite new buffer
law not being fully enacted yet.
I really do not understand why Synagogues keep agreeing to host such West Bank real
estate fairs.
Is it an attitude of never giving it in to the haters?
Confidence that anyone who would protest Synagogue comes out looking worse?
Surely someone realizes it's irresponsible.
Yeah.
I think it's because they know, no matter what happens, mainstream media will immediately present it as,
look at these fucking scary Jew haters that are terrifying these worshippers of the Jewish faith
and stopping them from entering the synagogue.
It's just being used as a shield.
because let's be real no one in mainstream media ever fucking takes a
serious look at what's going on here by I mean it's by design they never say it
they don't say they don't say what the problem is they don't say why there's a
protest happening at this synagogue there's no pro there's not a process
happening in every synagogue all the time it's just specific synagogues whenever
they're doing land fares inside a synagogue if those land fares those
settler fares were taking place in not a synagogue but a regular commercial
building then those protesters would go there having a mob of people outside of
any place of worship looks super fucked up on the news yeah I don't give a fuck
people should continue protesting wherever the fuck they're selling illegal
land
here's the reality
what's fucked up is not that people are protesting the landfairs of the
settler fairs
what's fucked up is that there is a settler fair taking place to begin with
it's doubly fucked
that they're auctioning off stolen land inside of a god damn synagogue a place of
worship
It's unfuckin believable.
When you're auctioning off land, you stole a lecture you however we want.
I don't give a shit who you think you are. Yeah.
Mossad pointing, Mossad point positing.
Posting about how Zorn is probably my PD. Yeah, they're dude. They're just trying to fucking piss people off
Dude, please never come back to this community ever again, okay
Please never come back to this community ever again. Don't come back in a sock account. Just go go elsewhere. Okay, you're not welcome here. I fucking hate you
For saying that
Operation trust me row failed not back to routine operation folks. Okay, whatever
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It's JDL Jewish Defense League. It's a cahonist organization. They've done actual instances of domestic terror
On US soil
NYPD captain Wilson making political statements in uniform members of the public knowingly on camera
Denigrating New York City mayor saying he's nonsense in extent expendable and not my mayor
update Wilson already transferred out of 94th precinct following this viral video from
MWP's response community members mobilizing against ice in bushwick brooklyn
Looks like Wilson got transferred to the communications division, a dead zone likely proceeding force
retirement in lieu of fire.
Wait, you guys forget.
Look, I mean, I'll tell you, like, when you become the mayor, there's a totally different
relationship with the police, like, Zora Mondani has a security detail.
He has literally NYPD police officers around him at all times, anywhere he fucking goes.
Okay?
Not only is the NYPD unbelievably powerful, but then they also have like direct access
to him.
Yeah, the NYPD in the past is fucking kidnapped a mayor's daughter, Bill de Blasio's daughter
and doxxed her.
Mm.
Yeah, the police benevolent association literally posted a dox of Bill de Blasio's child.
Yes.
So.
It's it's probably the most difficult part of this
You should take a few days off man. Go be with family family hang with friends man. Stop dude. What are you talking about?
I'm going to a fucking political rally tomorrow. It's not happening. Okay
She'll be at the rally tomorrow. Yeah, Daria Lisa
Super pack attacking representative Adriana Espayats DSA challenger appears to be the return of United for progress pack led by Floridian consultant
Marcos VR, the super PAC's biggest donor in previous cycles was George Soros' Democracy
Pack.
And she claims she's a progressive fighter, but her campaign cash says the opposite.
She pocketed money linked to a controversial AI surveillance firm that police have used
to spy on Black Lives Matter, and from a luxury real estate developer that helps
the rich make millions at the expense of working class neighborhoods like ours.
She even cash checks from Palantir, the same Palantir whose technology helps ICE
illegally hunt immigrants and activists.
Elisa Chevalier isn't telling the truth about fighting the corrupt system because she's funded by it
That's crazy
They got more smoke for you importers who became millionaires while in office via insider trading what were you talking about?
The condemnation seems like a weaponized attempt to actually foment real and soon they're targeting audiences to try to make us act out
No, um, I think they just
still think that there is any sort of
Genuine power in just like calling someone a fucking anti-Semite
When there is none like there is a there's obviously like institutional stigma associated with anti-Semitism
It's not a bad thing. That's a good thing
But even even in spaces like that where there is institutional stigma most people understand
When someone like me is getting called an anti-Semite, they they they know that that's bullshit, right?
Most people understand that that's fucking bullshit. They know that it's because I'm anti-Israel
Maybe some normies get duped in the process. It is what it is
You know, if you're over the age of 55, I can't really help you with that, right?
But because mainstream media and all these other groups so effectively hit the anti-Semitism button for years and years to stop any kind of discourse from taking place on the issue of Israel, any kind of critical language in the discourse about Israel being stopped,
They still keep hitting that button over and over again because they only remember a time when that shit worked
All right
You're in a ton's latest piece for Harrods. Oh shit actually I
Actually like some of his writing. He's interviewed Adam Friedland not sure if he actually appreciates me but
But in a phone or email, the donors on Tuesday of the American-Israel Public Affairs Committee
warned of a coordinated, well-funded effort to punish anyone who stands with Israel, which
is gating ground fast.
The email singled that, I'll blow a certain ground planner to progress the five brands
and rising Democratic nominees for the Senate who, according to APAC, the pro-Israel
lobby group aren't just critics of Israel, but are running campaigns built on undermining
at Plattner, an insurgent Democratic candidate. Senate candidate has emerged the party's front
runner in Maine after Governor Janet Mills withdrew from the race outside a physician
and former Detroit health officials running into Democratic Party's primary for Senate
in August. Both have not minced words on Israel. Plattner, a 41-year-old Marine veteran and
oyster farmers, positioned himself as an anti-substantial candidate and his frequently
bash Trump's foreign policy in Israel's Warren Gaza. He has described the conflict
as a genocide and said he would not accept funding from APEC. He has also drawn backlash
over a Nazi theme tattoo, which is now covered up. The Jewish Democratic Council said it's
not ready to endorse him because he doesn't represent the views and values of the majority
of American Jews outside 41. The son of Egyptian immigrants said last month that the Israeli
government is as evil as Hamas. He also drew criticism up after a car ramming attack on
a Michigan synagogue when he said that the attacker whose brother had been killed days
earlier in Israel is striking Lebanon. After being identified as a Hezbollah commander
by the idea that hurt people hurt people, it back accused both candidates of embracing
extreme rhetoric and pushing false accusations of genocide and supporting cutting off
aid through Israel policies pushed by Bernie Sanders and amplified by voices like left-wing
political streamer Hassan Piker.
This is in a disagreement on policies, a direct threat to the US-Israeli relationship.
Yes, that is policy and yes, they are right and yes, they should actually feel threatened
because we are coming for that relationship.
That relationship should change.
Yes, we shouldn't just put an arms embargo on Israel, we should punish Israel, we
should hold Israel accountable.
Words mean things.
We have rules and the rule books for a good reason, okay?
Just like with ICE, we can't just simply say abolish ICE but we must actually hold ICE accountable.
The same goes for Israel as well.
We must apply an arms embargo upon the nation's data of Israel and we must punish those who
have done war crimes.
Coalition of the willing if you will.
It should be noted that while Al-Ghul said and planner of both criticism, some of al-Sahad's
statements have not easily sat has not sat easily even with some progressives
but apex email collapsed on both in the extreme anti-israel candidates erasing
context and nuance precisely the point a pex logic dude this is literally the
woke is how I wretz writer a ton he's like written about Adam Friedland and
even he still hits this line where like Abdul al-sayad is more extreme than
grand platinum who has a fucking Nazi tattoo in the eyes of the broader
white world. A fucking brown man with the name Abdul Rahman is always gonna be
seen as more extreme than a fucking white dude who had a fucking totem cough
tattoo on his chest man. Like I'm not saying this to be critical of
Grant Platner, I have defended Grant Platner. Okay, a lot of people get mad at
me for doing that. But god damn dude, we're talking about a fucking doctor man,
and a doctor, a public health specialist.
Oh my God, oh my God.
Fuck.
It hurts my soul to have to deal with this shit,
to have to see it on a daily basis,
to see how most people in society view people like Abdul.
Okay?
And in some respects, myself as well.
I'm white-passing, I'm white, you know?
So I have the benefit of that.
But even then, when people hear my fucking name
and they hear my worldview, they go, uh, of course.
God, damn it, dude.
Even fucking people who are supposed to be like,
aligned somewhat.
US public opinion critical of Israel
isn't driven by the far left fringe of American politics.
It's A-PAC claims in its letter is driven by Americans
who after two and a half years of war,
including two in Iran, have come to conclusion
amount of advocacy can override in the September poll only 47% of Americans set back in Israel
is in the U.S. national interest down from 69% in 2023 and February poll for the first
time found more Americans more sympathetic towards Palestinians than Israelis. Support
for conditioning or cutting aid to Israel once controversial to become increasingly
mainstream planner and outside like other progressive candidates aren't the source
of Israel's popular problem in the United States nor are they the real threat. They're
a symptom of the deeper shift in American public opinion. That shift is reflected in
established Democrats such as Chuck Schumer and Rahm Emanuel, who have expressed support
for Platinum and candidates like him.
Some of the decline to do in the past with Bernie Sanders, even more recently with New
York Mayor Zoram Amdani. For years, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu worked to turn
Israel into a partisan issue in U.S. politics, narrowing pro-Israel to an alliance
between American and Israeli right-wingers. Now, as that strategy appears to have backfired,
he himself has called to phase out USAID. Apex argument that Platinum outside and
are an extreme direct threat to the U.S.'s real relationship shows not only how out-of-touch
it is with Americans, but also with the relationship it claims to defend.
Lucky boy is publicly supported planner. I didn't know that Chris Robb article or Chris Robb ad
Running during the Sixers playoff game
I'm told his ass stars 200k behind it and we'll air during the Sixers Nick series with another 200k coming behind it
We need a Philly fighter in Congress. Why we're all in Chris wrap Chris Robb the rabble route
From center city. Nice. Yeah. What's Billy the South Philly?
Everybody's for last
Wraps taken on big corporation fought for Medicare for all stood up to Trump's war and genocide in Gaza
Billy's own Chris Brad endorsed by the inquirer and AOC the working families party and me and me all of us
Oh Billy what the people Chris Brad for Congress working families party packet response work the contents of this
Honestly church supporting planners more damning condemnation anything a Republican put out
Is that will go hard and Philly? Hopefully. I think I think Chris Rabb has a
really good shot here. His opponents are not great. The only problem is that, did
you endorse them? Yes, of course I endorsed them, but they're not gonna put
me in a fucking ad chatter. What are you crazy?
The problem is you got a lot of older black voters in this district who I
I don't know how which way they will swing. I don't know if they uh, I
Don't know where they're at on rabb. I
Mean he's locked down all the other demographics. This is a very this is a very black district and older as well
So I think
The the goal here is to door knock on on black neighborhoods, I think it's a
He that's the most consequential demographic he must win
But luckily luckily BSA is out there and they got some unbelievable door knockers, so I'm not too worried
Good news Haley Stevens and Sue Collins campaigns are linking up for a pack
This campaign begging DC to step in and save them they came in third in 2026 Q1 fundraising and completely rely on a peck fundraising featuring Susan Collins
Small dollar donations of really 10% of her opponents had to pay people to collect petitions
Yeah, Haley Stevens is is under water, but it's actually beneficial for McMoron. That's why you Mitch voter is
Posting it gotta hit all the charges. Yes
Anyway, you got to keep pushing it's synagogue in the Upper East Side of Manhattan.
There is a land sale of stolen West Bank lands.
This is a real estate sale.
The protesters that are here are not protesting Jews.
They're not protesting Judaism.
Zionism is not Judaism.
Zionism is not Judaism, sir.
Yeah, that's so you're a Jew and you're a Zionist. They're two different things
There's you people I'm a sin ethno state
The violence besides that's no state Jewish supremacy
Do why are these guys trying to be woke man just own it it's so fucking annoying I
Can't stand like the the cry bullying that come from Zionist. It's just like you want to have your cake
You want to eat it too you want to fucking feel like a victim where you get
You get to literally have your ethno state and it's it's not we can't even question it
We can't even say like that's an ethno state. That's kind of fucked up. Don't you think you're like no, it's not
It has to be an ethno state. It has to look at the dirty Arabs
You know, we have to dominate them
Don't you understand? I'm the victim. Okay
listen what you guys are doing you're supporting evil and then you dare to do
this in the name of Judaism and the Jewish religion this is an embarrassment
to our people and then this is a desecration of God's name in the
state of Israel is a move my goats my god of terrorism started terrorism way
before anybody spoke about it.
Of course I'm a Jew.
We're humanitarian Jews that are against murder.
I'm 73 years old.
I know since I was 14 that Israel is not a democracy.
Goated.
Kings and queens, dude.
See, has never been a democracy.
We are here for the rights of people to eat and live and have water and have their homes returned.
Hell yeah.
Fucking awesome.
Um, yeah, more Republicans think Donald Trump could beat them in a fight than the inverse.
39% think Donald Trump can beat them.
It's also really funny because Republicans are like the first to be like, oh, I could beat Serena Williams in a tennis match
These are usually the same people who think they can beat female UFC fighters
and even real bears.
You know what I'm just gonna say.
Yeah, they think that they can beat fucking female UFC fighters, but they don't think they can beat Donald Trump.
Donald Trump, what does that say about these people's mentality?
I didn't put the bears part in there.
Unnecessary, because I can't vibe out a bear.
Here's Abdul's new campaign on Nobody Needs PBMs.
Yeah, hey, PBM Pizza here.
That'll be 20 bucks.
Perfect, thanks.
Give me a second.
Whoa, buddy, not so fast.
Still haven't paid your delivery coordination fee.
That's 25 bucks.
Hey, I thought the whole thing was 20 bucks.
Yeah, the pizza's 20 bucks, but there's also a $15 assembly fee, holding your pizza while
you wait fee, and generally wasting my time fee.
Wait, did you even make the pizza?
Well, no.
Are you even the delivery guy?
Yeah, and no.
So what do you actually do?
I manage pizza benefits, and I'm also here to collect all the fees that you owe me.
Now imagine ordering a $20 pizza, and Bro shows up and says you owe him $70?
Yeah, that's exactly how our pharmaceutical system works.
And the culprit?
PBMs.
A PBM, or Pharmacy Benefit Manager, they're the ultimate middleman in the healthcare
system.
They sit between you, your insurance company, the pharmaceutical company, and the pharmacy
that actually gives you the medications that you need.
So the restaurant made the pizza.
Yep.
My insurance paid in part for the pizza?
Yep.
And the pharmacy is the one that actually sent you here with the pizza?
Yep.
So why am I paying 70 bucks?
Oh, because of the fees.
And they use that position, in theory, to negotiate what drugs are going to be on the insurance
formulary, how much they're going to pay pharmacies and pharmaceutical companies.
But really, they use their position to figure out how to fleece every single one's pocket.
And all that money comes out of yours.
I am super hungry and this pizza's all I got.
Oh, I almost forgot one more feat.
What?
for explaining the feats.
Healthcare shouldn't work like that pizza skin,
but that's exactly how PBMs operate.
When middlemen control your access to pharmaceuticals,
they don't lower prices, instead,
they use that control to extract bigger and bigger shares,
and you're left paying the price.
And that's why we're gonna ban the middlemen.
Turns out, we don't even need PBMs, instead,
we're gonna empower the federal government
to negotiate prescription drug prices on all of our behalves,
and we're gonna empower local pharmacies in the process.
And look, pizza got cold too.
Welcome back. If it's Wednesday, we have election results.
Including the closely watched Republican state senate primaries in Indiana,
where five of the seven incumbents who opposed the president's redistricting push
were defeated by Trump-backed challengers.
the last few days. We've got
to get to the last few days.
We're going to get to the
last few days. But with this
hour, State Senator Greg Good
is the only one projected to
hold on to his seat with the
final incumbents still locked
in a tight race separated by
just a handful of votes. That
race is still too close to
call. Joining out with NBC
News chief data analyst Steve
Krnackie and Shaquille
Brewster on the ground in
Indiana. Steve, let me start
with you. Walk us through
last night's results and
what we know about the
remaining uncalled race there.
that Trump had targeted here where Republican state senators had voted against him on that bid to redraw the state's congressional office
Where you see that pink color that means those state senators lost the Trump side one and the margins where this happened generally were landslides
This is Lake County here. This is basically the Chicago suburbs Republican incumbent here was absolutely clobbered
Who would voted against that redistricting plan a loss here?
This is another state senator who was defeated Trump endorsing the challenger
This was a member of state Senate leadership Republican leadership who opposed Trump who got beaten by the Trump back, Canada
It was a landslide here. It was a landslide here by the way
This is also
This district right here is a Republican state senator who voted against redistricting and who got drummed out last night
Trump for reasons that are not well understood did not actually endorse the opponent here
But it seems the Republican voters there understood the dynamics the way they did in all these other districts and voted out
that incumbent anyway. So as you can say, as you said, there was one who survived down here in
Tera Hote, one incumbent who defied Trump who survived, and then there's this one ass.
My goat's over at Tera Hote. Tera Hote Indiana, baby. Yes, I'm dressing up every day. Get over it.
Get over it. It's a new dawn. It's a new day. Okay?
standing race. So the Trump forces in these of these eight incumbents, six of
them have been defeated, one survives and then one's fate is still to be
determined and we could just zoom in here and show you that thought we could
just zoom in here we go and show you that race right here. I mean it doesn't
get much closer than this but it's three points. Spencer Deerey is the
incumbent, Paula Copenhaver is the challenger, you're talking about
West Lafayette where Purdue is, some rural areas and basically what's
happening here is we're just trying to figure out how many provisional ballots
there might be here. We're talking about potentially a dozen, two dozen ballots,
something like that, obviously with the margin that that close is not something
we're gonna be in a hurry to look at this like. We're talking about 10,000
people voting.
We're talking about 10,000 people voting and they spent millions of dollars.
Just to lean into Trump. Just to basically punish people for saying, you know, I don't
think people care that much. I don't think people care that much about redistricting.
matter of fact, our constituents don't want it. So we should probably, we should probably not
do this redistricting thing.
But it turns out that people do only care about what Trump wants.
There's other was all that matters in this district.
How stupid the call, but this is the one incumbent, you know, left here who has a chance of hanging
on potentially.
So it's either me seven for eight or six for eight for the Trump side.
In that sense, the outcome of this almost doesn't matter because the message that
that comes through from the Trump side,
very clear after this.
Steve, I can't remember the last time we saw a race
separated by three votes.
That's just astounding.
I think you're right.
We'll take our time before we call that one.
Let me ask you about Democrats.
They continue to overperform,
including in Michigan State's special election.
Tell us more about that.
Yeah, I mean, this has been
the story of Trump's second term,
and we've had these special elections.
When I say special election,
you're talking about like,
and not in November, low turnout,
only the most committed go to the polls.
And the Democrats, the Democratic base has been more committed
in those elections in the Republican base.
They keep doing much better than they did in 2024.
It continued last night.
This was a special election
for a state Senate district in Michigan.
You can see here, this has Democrats had held this seat
and they continue to hold it by a landslide here.
Again, this is consistent with what we've seen
in all these other special elections.
The significance of this one is it preserves
Democratic control of the state Senate in Michigan.
With a win here, Republicans could have moved
to a tie instead the Democrats when they win in the landslide and again it's
just that story we've seen here that Democratic base is a component of that
base that is clearly showing it wants to turn out in any and every election it's
very motivated it's very plugged in right now and when Donald Trump isn't on the
ballot in these low turnout special elections the Republican base you're
just not seeing that same level of enthusiasm so we keep seeing results
like this in special elections remarkable all right Steve Kornacki as
as always. Thank you so much for the breakdown. We really appreciate it. Shaq, let me turn
to you. You're on the ground there. You actually spoke to one of the Trump Act winners, Trevor
DeVries, before polls closed last night. How did he describe the president's influence
on the race to you?
Well, he said it's a big factor, Kristen, and just to kind of paint the picture a little
bit. This was minutes before polls were closing and set to close, and he was still
handing out flyers to people who were going into the polling locations. But you
You can tell from his body language how confident he was feeling.
He knew he was in for a good night.
He suspected that other challengers in these primary races were in for good nights, and
he was right.
And he won his race by more than 50 points.
And for some color on the ground, when you look at his lawn signs that have been around
this district, he had Trump's name on top, and then it said Trump endorses debris.
So that just gives you a sense of how much he leaned into that endorsement.
So I asked him right before polls were closing, what do these Senate races say about President
Trump's influence here in Indiana?
Listen here.
He's the sitting active president of the free world at the end of the day.
It's an honor and a privilege to be endorsed by President Trump.
And really, he's been the driving force in the Republican Party for the past 10
years at this point.
I mean, he's been helping push for change and helping reform a lot of the things
people are upset about and been disenfranchised by the political systems over the past couple
decades. Um, so him, he won our district heavily and he's going to continue to move the needle
in Northwest Indiana. It's a fire incumbents. I think this is good in the long run.
The more Donald Trump shapes the Republican party in his own image, the better it is.
because obviously he's not going to be around forever, you know.
He's not going to be around forever.
So at the end of the day, considering how unpopular he already is, hitching your wagon
to this dying movement that is on its last leg is probably not the worst thing from the
perspective of the opposition.
Q. Season right now, and people are just tired of feeling like they're being left out.
A. Now, one of the incumbents who was fired in another district said that this was about
Retribution and retaliation. You had another Senate leader who's on the opposite side of Republican but kind of
Gets some heat from President Trump and other Republican leaders here
He said that it's about the outside money that came into these local state Senate races
But look this was a good night for President Trump and his allies
They got nearly exactly what they wanted and what they were expecting heading into this primary Christine
All right. Thanks for bringing us that interview and that breakdown of the results overnight. Steve and Shaq really appreciated it.
We thank you for watching and remember stay updated on breaking news and top stories on the NBC News app or watch live on our YouTube channel.
But the Atlantic magazine.
Sondra Rangers syndrome has consumed the media. This is from three days ago. I'm gonna skip this
Let's do the Nick shit Lee
Oh, this only got 477,000 views no motion
Nick shit Lee went to Cuba
only in America the crazy guy on the street wait what is this piece of Scott
Lobadia Lobito went nuclear over his arm on Donnie's ties the streamer no what
that's all this piece of God I still don't know what that's all about with the
president why he has this scumbag around having a friend like Hassan pika
that said and continues to say as he travels this country and gets to speak
at American University saying that America deserve 9-11 and this piece of
Smiles and goes there when knowing that he's best friends with the guy that pissed me off
I've been trying for years to get the appropriate size American flag I ground zero
I love this guy. This guy, I'm going to immediately, I'm in a good mood. Okay. This guy in instantly
put me in a good fucking mood. God, I love this man so much. He does not know that
I love him. I think he would probably stab me with a pen if given the opportunity.
But I fucking love him.
No way that's your capstone project, dude.
What the fuck?
Well, how dare yous, this fucking guy, Hassan Pika, in his fucking community, making fun
of me for trying to get the appropriate sized American flag at ground zero.
I'm walking here.
This New Yorker still does races in the old fashioned way, yeah.
And you can see the jealousy too, they hate that Donald Trump loves Zoran.
Mam Deppi.
Why the fuck is my president Donald Trump the greatest president of all time?
What is he fucking like Zoran Mam Deppi?
Zoran Babadoubi?
Fuck a Mam Dandy.
about it mr. president I love you's but by way of transitive property it's like
you're fucking best friends with his sandpaker
mr. president next are you sees are I'm back that boom ask him what he thinks is
the appropriate size American flag at ground zero. I bet you he'll say a tiny one like this
big. No flag large enough, yes, this is the guy who is protesting me and and my my best
friendship with Zoram. I'm Donnie. Me and me is Zoram. We're fucking best friends. Okay.
We love each other. Uh, deeply. And this guy knows it. And I, and I, he also knows me really
well. He knows I say, America's are not 11 every day. I go to, I have family members
die in 9 11 and these bitches cry more about it than me.
Why is it so hard to be angry at the eyes of New York City?
They're, they're the best.
They're the best.
I love this guy in time.
This guy can slur me up and down and I wouldn't give a shit.
He's fucking awesome.
Like he literally makes it seem like I'm traveling around the country, going to colleges and
just getting up on the podium and going,
America deserve 9-11 and then everyone was like,
yeah!
Every day.
Look, look, look, it was the run it again.
Come on, man, from the start.
Let's hear this motherfucker one more time.
He's so, he's so good.
This piece of garbage, I still don't know
what that's all about with the president.
Why he has this scumbag around.
He having a friend like Hassan Pika
that said and continues to say
as he travels this country
and gets to speak at American University saying that America deserve 911 and this piece is
a little gypsy.
And I like that he slurred so much that they actually didn't bleep out one of the slurs.
Like I'm glad that they kept that in like they were like, no, you know, you need to
hear this one.
They're like, this is the one thing that like maybe is, uh,
this is the one slur that he said that is not like well established as a slur.
So we're going to keep that in God.
I love this man so much smiles and goes there.
We're knowing that he's best friends with the guy that pissed me off.
I've been trying for years to get the appropriate size American flag at
ground zero in time for the 9 11 25th anniversary.
And I'm sl-
This piece of garbage, I still don't know!
God, I love this man so much.
Sigh.
He's slurring for a great reason. Yeah, he is he really is he really is
Did you see his art wait, he's an artist wait, this is him
Oh my god artist Scott libido speaks of the Trump Vance campaign event
This is whoa he uses his hands he puts his hands in there too
Wow.
Wow, he's a bold visionary.
Wait.
So what is the art?
Like what is it?
Is that it?
Wait, what?
isn't that cheating? Like he just he just fucking printed that beforehand. Like so the
only art that he did was just like finger blasting the fucking backdrop. That's it. Also, what
is supposed to be the backdrop? I don't even understand. Also, why is Donald Trump grabbing
the empire state like he's grabbing people by the pussy.
I have so many questions.
Is Trump Kong?
Mr. President, I fingerblasted this painting like I would love to be fingerblasted by you.
Please bust out my asshole, Mr. President.
Dude, call up Zoran to actually get the correct size flag on the grounds here and this dude
will become your Feddy now, he's, I think there's some different reasons as to why
he hates both me and Zoran Mbandy.
Wow!
That's awesome.
That's fucking dope.
This guy is so good.
Oh my god.
I am an artist from Israel, and this is my art.
It makes you think so.
It is good art.
Your ability to trigger hogs was fine tuned in the ruinous lands in New Jersey.
And that's very visible.
I just I love this guy so much.
I don't know why he made Trump in the King Kong here, but.
Yeah, if the Met Gala is our.
And so this is art. Listen, this is objectively art.
But it's also objectively dog shit. You can make dog shit art
No way you ignore chat trying to make you feel better and then the majority or four video trying to defend you
But a clip of this angry motherfucker just makes your day. I'm out dude
Yes, I'm a freak that's why I'm cut out for this. Okay, that's why I'm so perfectly cut out for this business
business. You understand? It's true. It's true. Give me a fucking fresh hog who's losing their
dang minds and I'm back in baby. I'm back in. You cannot say whether something is art or
not but you can say whether it's bad art or not. Yeah I mean this is just bad art.
drew this while you drew boobs in turkey okay calm down please check logs and
shake me on oh I saw this guy this guy is this real like it seems surreal
yeah I'm the crossing guard on 50 50 King's lesson
when I tell you he ran the light chief boned the lady
I'm bobbing and weaving I'm just thankful thankful to be alive right now thank
I love that he doesn't stop. He doesn't skip a beat. He's still he's still going to town on that ice cream
He's like nope near death experience gonna have some ice cream right after
No, that's where not to be funny it happened that fast and I had luckily
I'm alive
Do you know what time of day? I had to pull it out there. It was out there. They were in there
I had to pull a kid out.
No, I had to pull, what's the name of nephew out?
What's the name of nephew?
No, what's the name of nephew?
Um, um, um.
Yes.
So there were kids in there.
Yes.
What, what's, so, describe this for me.
Wait, he just posted a monologue about you?
So we have this legend of a New Yorker.
Captain Wilson, who is demoted, humiliated, annihilated by the city that he so loves and
protects because he set a few things off the cuff.
Nothing vulgar, nothing threatening, nothing violent.
He just stated a little bit of an opinion.
This is the cop that says Zoram Umdani is replaceable. He's not he's not my real boss or whatever
Who's this compact square head Jeff Goldblum as a dude, dude, he does look like Jeff Goldblum a little bit
He got
But yet this jihad fucking gypsy maya that we have
and all his friends
who say
that America deserved 9-11, that those cops that died at 9-11 deserved it,
spying in and all those other folks deserved it.
And they get away with saying stuff like that.
And then you have these protesters who violently and destructively
destroy everything in their paths,
going far above breaking the law,
and they get away with it.
But this hero, this hero with a pair of fucking balls, Captain Wilson, just said a few words
and he's annihilated.
So I want all you people in this city to be prepared for the continuing, the continuation
of the burning and the destruction of the city.
And you're all going to feel the fucking pain.
And rightfully so, because that is the only way that the city is going to rejuvenate itself,
is once all of you, pain compliant, you feel the pain and the suffrage.
So I-
You think this guy would kill me?
If given the opportunity?
I feel, I love this man, and I think I've never been in a situation where I've loved
someone so much immediately after first setting my sights on him. I knew this was love at first sight
and he probably will still try to kill me, you know. I just, I feel like
Like, you do not have health self preservation instincts.
I wonder if he knows how much I love this man.
I do hope that all of you I've never heard right wing racist slam poetry before.
I thought slam poetry was like something that the wokes did.
Right.
I never knew that.
I never knew that it was a thing that the racist people did too is like a
anti woke thing as well.
You know, also got to put the hat on for in a little bit when I'm talking
the New York City DSA folk.
No, this is monologuing.
No, I think this is.
This is slam poetry.
So I'm thinking I could fix him.
No, you know what it is?
It's because I love hogs so much.
And this one is like the hog king.
We did it Joe painted by Scott Lobito the world needs to see this share it wait motherfuckers are sharing it, bro. Oh
My god people love his shit they do share it
Is this guy popping I
Didn't even realize he was popping like that
He's got W motion I got L no motion. All right, let's get back to this. Hey
I don't know which way to go because he ends up in the schoolyard.
Luckily I wasn't on the corner, I'm in the shade slightly because it's a 82 degree day to back.
And then, and then what?
Crazy. Crazy. My adrenaline is still running. I'm just thinking it would be a lot.
So, so you see this car on its side, kids are screaming, what's going on?
I run sheeple, and I grab a kid out because he's stuck frantic and pulling him out.
Ain't nobody in there, guys in there, he's trapped in there.
Then I run out and get myself together, because my heart is boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
There we go.
Crazy.
And you grabbed the kid.
Pulled him up out of there.
How was the kid?
Well, well, well.
He was shaking up.
But I pulled him up out of there.
What was, so was he like all of a sudden?
Damn, bro.
He is going to town on that ice cream.
It's crazy.
No prisoners, bro.
He is, he went full throat.
Look at this.
He, this is, this is respectable technique, okay?
Because if you don't, if you don't take all the corners out, they might drip. This is not his first rodeo. It's a hot day in Philadelphia, okay?
And he knows, he knows he has to eat all of the corners in rapid succession, but he's got another job. He's got a story to tell, okay?
So in this moment the maximally efficient move is to just throw it
Entirely and he does it. He doesn't give a fuck. Look at that hold him up. I
Look he hit look at that expert
Expertise a lot of people don't understand a
A weaker man would nibble on the sides.
Well, the weakest man would say, I'll let my ice cream melt, okay?
A less weak man would at least give little licks on the side.
Only a legend is going to go full cone and just hit the swirl on local television in
in his 15 minutes of fame, turning into 15 minutes of glory.
Is he like under a piece of playground equipment?
Yeah, right up under there.
Wow.
No, I'm being honest.
No, I'm being honest.
So, tell me about this car.
Did you see what happened to her?
Do a 360.
I didn't know which way to go.
I'm, luckily I wasn't right there on the corner.
I would have been trapped in a madness if you zoomed in.
I'm being honest.
What's going through your head?
You're being honest.
Thank you, Jesus.
That's what's going through my mind.
Thank you, Jesus.
Look, he is shameless, dude.
Whoa.
He is, he is, he, you know what?
He shouldn't feel shame about this.
Also look at this, the official portrait
of the 112th mayor of New York City.
Zoram Mandandi.
Wait, why is he eating a pigeon?
Also, why are there witches flying in the background?
Zoran is doing witchcraft.
There's this, this photo contains multitudes.
This is real art, man.
A lot of y'all don't understand.
This is real art.
Okay.
It's real art.
Anyway, I'm going to go into the, in a couple of minutes, in a little bit, I will be talking
to the New York City Democratic Socialists of America, okay?
And I'm going to be delivering them a speech, which I did not write, as always, to talk
to them about the importance of smiling and dialing, all right? It's almost perfect, but
it's missing two towers. Yeah, because Zora and Danny took it out. Wrote the Yale one,
this is different. Dumb question, but how are you going to phone back with Stan Stream?
I'm not going to phone bank. I'm going to give a hype up speech and we're going to do a little combo.
It's a trash boat. No, I don't think that guy is an AI artist.
I don't think that guy is an AI artist at all. How dare you?
That's crazy.
I feel like that would be the most disrespectful thing that guy is a finger
artist. Okay. He uses his real ass fingers. He doesn't even,
he doesn't even use the Jamel Bowie cosplay. That's funny.
This is a short people react to you in public.
Oh,
Mousa Don shocked by the height of Henry Kissinger's wife.
You know what's crazy about this, by the way,
Henry Kissinger's wife must have been tall as hell,
probably like my size because Mao Zedong was tall. I mean,
obviously he's like very old at this point. So he's maybe,
you know, slumped over a little bit slouched over. Maybe he
lost a couple inches, but like Mao Zedong was pretty fucking
tall.
Yeah.
I got the other TikTok tab you have open your haters are insane no jokes a lot of this one
address the absolute bloodbaths happening over you on threads and Twitter right now I made
one joke okay and I guess comedy's illegal men got mad but fine we can get into it
because it's not funny but it's also really funny all at once recently I started using
threads in Twitter exclusively for just ratioing men because I am funnier than every man I've
ever met on this planet.
Much to no one's surprise, not everyone found my jokes as funny as the women's fear.
Last night before I went to sleep, I posted this meme and it just said it was on, but
it rejected me not to go through with it on my wedding day.
I had 100% bail in this photo of stupid sexy his own.
And this morning I woke up to thousands of men screaming my name across threads and
Now I guess it's made it to Twitter and threatening in me in my DMs to come find me.
But trust me, it gets funnier.
First and laziest thing that happened obviously was guys like this one taking my profile picture,
ranking me like a 4 out of 10 void and then getting ratioed by me so hard that he had
to delete everything he put up.
The most common insult I usually see about myself is these guys commenting on my literally
Greek God chiseled jawline.
I simply like to respond pointing out that I understand why my jaw definition confuses
them.
year because they started finding the hottest photos of me I've ever seen in
making those trend as if I was ugly and once again getting absolutely ratioed
to hell. And again every step along the way here shout out to my women's fear
for backing me up but then I posted this video obviously addressing the
elephant in the room which is all these men are only screaming crying
throwing up over my crush on his son piker because they actually thought
it could be them up at the altar with me. And then they tried to screen
grab this exact photo of me to get that trending as the ugly photo of
me.
Honestly, at this point I felt so bad for them that I was just going to offer them alternatives
since they insisted on only taking the hottest photos of me known to man.
And once again, they took these and started spreading these shoes.
So I don't actually think you hate me as much as you all claim you do.
You're in my DMs threatening me because you're actually so delusional you believe
that you could have had a chance at being up at that altar with me someday.
And I had to shatter that by making a joke about how I will always choose Hassan
above you.
And I stand 10 toes down on that actually all that to say that even in the completely delusional made-up fantasy wedding
You have for the two of us in your mind. You still think that I'm hot enough where Hassan piker might text me and ruin it
Man can't do anything, especially take a joke
Hassan has this open on one of his tabs right now, and we'll probably cover later. That's crazy y'all are and
Y'all are ops a swear to God y'all are friggin ops
Okay, let me let me join in on the zoom call real quick. Let me get in on this
Let's see where we're at. Okay. I'm supposed to be speaking in three minutes. So
Hold on let's see
Okay, that should be good.
Okay.
Recording the threat to all of us.
And that's why we are all here.
Um, like Gustavo said, New York City faces a deficit of over $5 billion dollars.
Right now, Kathy Hockel is poised to allow Trump cuts to wreak havoc on New York City and New York state.
She's poised to pass a budget that allows.
For a payout to New York's richest to come out of the rest of our pockets.
Governor Huckle could pass a budget that works for all New Yorkers, one that ensures that the libraries stay open, that teachers stay in their jobs that after school programs, they funded.
And that countless other city agencies receive the funding that they desperately need.
Instead, she is going to allow New York City public servants and our communities to be used as bargaining chips.
she's going to allow, she's poised to allow the rich to keep getting richer and richer,
while those of us who keep the city running and the communities we love are forced to do more and
more with less and less. So that's why we're all here. I would really urge anyone who is watching
and not in the phone bank right now, if you're in New York, please call Governor Kathy Hockel.
Her phone number is 518-474-8390.
Tell her to tax the rich, save New York's
public services from Trump cuts, and please call every single day until
the budget is finalized. And I am going to pass it back to
Gustavo.
Awesome. Thank you so much for that. You know, like Molly said, the fight of library workers is really all of our fights when they come after one public service.
They're going to come after all of them.
This has been the strategy that neoliberals and capitalists use to defeat working-class
movements like ours, but we're fighting back, we're getting organized, and we're not going
to let that happen.
One thing I forgot to say at the start of the call, just some community agreements,
We want to stay respectful during the call, let speakers give their remarks, hear them
out.
We're here to organize together and have our backs to demand that the governor tax the
rich.
And we're going to be starting our training, making phone calls later.
keep the chat open but you know just keep it respectful and be considerate and mindful of others.
So I think we're still waiting for Hassan to join. Is that right?
I'm here.
Okay great awesome welcome Hassan. I'm gonna pass it over to our guest. Really awesome to have you
here. You know, he's been a huge support to the fight to tax the rich, big supporter to DSA. Shout
out to your DSA member here. I'm one of the co-chairs of the New York City Democratic Socials of
America, and I'm going to pass it over to Son for some hype. What's up, everybody? Some of you
might know who I am. Some of you probably don't. I'm a Son Piker. I'm a Twitch streamer,
And, uh, it is my honor to be here with you today. I'm not as good as a, uh, I'm not as
good at communicating, contrary to what I do for a living, uh, as, as Zora Mamdani is, but
I'm going to try to hype you guys up. I don't know what that actually means, but, uh, when,
when I was approached to do this, um, I thought about, well, one, I thought about how wonderful
of an opportunity this is because, uh, it's really good to apply some pressure to make sure
that we have some responsive politics in this country, specifically when politicians, more
often than not, are completely out of touch with not only the needs of the working class,
but also rarely ever get to hear from the working class.
But one of the questions I've approached, reshaded to leave in many other Congress parts
of many other politicians with always is, are politicians stupid or are they cynical?
The reason why I always ask this question, and some people really don't like it, is because
I want to know why they're so unresponsive. Are they actually refusing to hear the calls
of the overwhelming majorities that demand an end to the genocide, for example,
and simply choosing not to hear it? Or are they completely oblivious? And Rashida actually
told me something very interesting where he said no they're actually in most circumstances
kind of stupid maybe not stupid but kind of out of touch and and that gave me a lot of hope the
reason why that gave me a lot of hope is because when they do hear from people like yourselves
when they do hear from their constituents that actually does light a fire under their asses
and that's why I think phone banking uh like uh what you guys are doing today well we're all
doing here today is unbelievably important because door knocking is good. It's great
to get an elected representative out there. It's great to boost membership, but the job
doesn't end there as Bernie has also talked about in the past as well. The job actually
begins once you get someone elected into a position of power. Unfortunately, our opposition
in this fight, are unbelievably wealthy corporate overlords that have been responsible for the
grand design of New York City, leading to such unjust outcomes. So we have to be undeniable.
We have to be, in some instances, an unbearable force to be reckoned with to make sure that
our demands are met. We have to sometimes force democracy and the democratic process to take
place. So I think that's precisely the reason why phone banking operations like
this one and smiling and dialing is incredibly important. So I'm really
excited that you guys are all participating in this. One of the things
I tell my audience, I even told them earlier today, is whenever you get
annoyed, you know, whether it be with someone from a left caucus or a right
caucus inside of the DSA or Hamela's sicker, a sick old Twitter users on
on the timeline, talking shit about the DSA from the outside, saying it's not revolutionary
enough.
I get called a shepherd, a sheepdog for the Democratic Party all the time, for example.
Whenever you hear stuff like that, take that anger and frustration that you have with
others and channel it into something productive, okay?
Channel it into something productive like this, calling other New York constituents
and ensuring that they also and urging them to call Kathy Huckle because the reality of
the matter is, this budget crisis, even though the New York Post and many others claim is
happening because Zoran is a communist, this budget crisis was born out of capitalist mismanagement.
And there are only two solutions to it either.
We demand that the super wealthy that enjoy this city, one of the greatest cities
on the planet to pay a fair share of the productive output that they seemingly consolidate amongst
themselves or the only other way out of it is austerity.
And we all know that that's unacceptable.
The city has become increasingly unaffordable and it's untenable.
The situation is untenable.
So I think we have to make sure that Kathy Hockel hears those demands and abides by the
democratic process.
So on that note, you guys, you want me to read the notes, right?
About like where to go and stuff.
Yeah, we're gonna do a little role play now between one of the campaign leaders who's
who's just gonna go over what it's like to call a voter
and patch them through to Kathy Hockel.
So Sarah, who's one of the field leads, field chairs,
she's gonna lead us through that together with you.
Yeah, also I don't know if we wanna get people
to join this phone bank if we have that opportunity
with love others to join.
think that there is a link that if people can easily join this phone bank at. I don't know if
someone can drop that in the chat. And also, it's not nice to meet you. Hi, nice to meet you. My hero.
Okay, yeah. So the link to join is dsa.nyc slash ttr phone, dsa.nyc slash ttr phone
If you want to join the phone bank and call New York leaders, tell them to hexa rich.
All right, so we're going to do a little role play. I'm the volunteer. So most of you on this call, I'm you tonight.
And Hasan is the person on the phone.
All right, and we'll do this again in a training and actual training showing you how to use the tool.
But for right now, just imagine I'm calling. I'm looking at my script and I'm like, hey, this is Sarah.
I'm calling from NYC, DSA's campaign to tax the rich. Is this Hasan?
Yeah. How did you get my number? Oh, great. Great. I'm so glad it's Hasan.
I'm so glad to speak with you. So we're in the final days of the state budget negotiations
and Governor Huckle is refusing to tax the rich. She's forcing cuts on New York City by
refusing to fill the budget gap. And the governor sabotages our own agenda and our
chance at making New York affordable. So would you be willing to leave a short voicemail
urgent leadership in Albany to support real taxes on the rich in this year's budget.
I can text your short script and pack you through directly to her voicemail.
I'm a little worried. I feel like the wealthy deserve all their wealth.
Don't you think? Aren't we limiting the most productive individuals in society
if we were to tax them? Wouldn't they run away from New York City?
I can always see why you might think that. I can see why higher taxes maybe don't sound
appealing, but things like public transit, public school, health care.
You got muted. I can't hear you.
Can you hear me now? Yeah, I can hear you. This, see, the infrastructure is so terrible.
I feel if only there was a way to harden our infrastructure here and in one of the wealthiest cities on the planet.
Oh, well, exactly. And I think you're really touching on some things about why we need higher taxes. I don't know if you heard me earlier, but things like public transit, public school, health care, they run on things like taxes.
They run on the budget that the state provides the city. And that's really what we need to have a stable and functional New York. And I love the city. How do you feel about the state? Do you love it too?
Yeah, I do. I do like it. And I heard, I heard Kate Griffin talk about how he's
gonna move his businesses down to Miami and that really pissed me off.
Yeah, yeah, I know, right? That sounds insane, especially since we know we've
seen the facts. It's statistically not true that anyone's leaving New York when
they're making more money. The millionaires are actually coming here.
There's more millionaires here and billionaires here than ever. There's
actually more billionaires here than the whole world. So it's absolutely untrue that raising taxes
on the rich is going to change any of that. It really is only going to impact working people
and people who need that money coming into the city. Okay, so what can I do then? You've sold me.
All right, so it sounds like you would be willing to leave a voicemail
to our state leaders. So if you don't mind, I'm going to send you a script right now.
do you mind if I text you a script? I can do it really easily. Sure. I'll patch you through.
All right. Okay. You're gonna see a script come through on your phone.
Do you want me to read this script? Oh yeah. Okay. Hi. My name is Hasan Piker and I'm calling
to stop Kathy Hockel's cuts and to tell the governor to text the rich. Hockel needs to fund
Zoran's agenda and stops sabotaging him. Over a million people voted for Zoran's affordability
agenda. We won't accept Kathy sabotaging that agenda by imposing austerity on New York City.
Hocal, stop the cuts, fund New York City, and deliver a budget for the working class,
not the CEO class. And then, the rest of it is, that's it, right? End of the call to action.
So actually at the end of your voice mail, you can just hang up, but you did it. Great
called a Kathy. Okay, there it is. That's one extra call to Kathy Huckle.
All right. Well, thank you so much for allowing me to be a part of this process and also, obviously,
I'm sharing this with my audience right now as well. This is being live streamed live broadcasted on
my stream as well. And all of you guys can join the phone bank too from anywhere in the United
States of America. You don't have to be in New York City to do this. And you can go and join
the phone back at dsa.nyc slash TTR phone. Right. I got that right. And we're, we're posting a link
in the chat as well. And if you can't join now, and you're in New York, because I don't know,
you're working or something, you can call Governor Kathy Hockel at 518-474-8390.
That's 518-474-8390 and you can actually call Kathy Hockel's office every single day until it's over.
Yeah, I think a lot of people don't understand that, you know, someone has to keep this city
running. Like a lot of wealthy people in general, they think, oh, you know, I feel like it's
a fate worse than death if I were to pay a little bit more in taxes. They're unbelievably
selfish. In some instances, it almost feels like they're more worried about the threat
of it all. Like though they're more worried about any success whatsoever, as far as taxing
the wealthy being implemented, they're worried that more of that will happen. They're
worried about existing in a more just, a more equitable system, but it's pertinent on all
of us to make sure we play a role in advancing that agenda, because I talk to politicians
all the time.
You would not believe the amount of access that wealthy people and corporate lobbyists
have, and sometimes we have to be, we have to be a lot louder than they are.
We have to work extra hard, but we do have the numbers, and I think that is what matters.
I've seen it.
I've seen it with politicians that listen to the demands of their constituents in town
halls and whatnot, where they do sometimes change their mentality.
It's not as, I know it seems like American politics is so unresponsive.
I know it seems like politicians don't actually care.
They only care about their corporate benefactors, but the reality is when they do hear from people
like yourselves, when they do hear from all the other people that you're calling to urge
to call as well to advance this agenda, they actually do respond.
There is a lot of power in that.
There is a lot of power in your voices.
So thank you guys.
Thank you to everyone that's participating in this.
I feel like we might have broken the phone line.
That's what people are saying in my chat right now.
Hopefully, you know, you guys can join afterwards as well and thank you so much to the New York City Democratic Socialists of America for
Putting up a strong fight
To fight for those who can't fight for themselves
Yeah, hell yeah. Thank you for your solidarity
We're gonna get started with the phone bank
It's been great having Hasan here. He's been a
strong partner this whole fight.
So we're going to get started with our dialer training.
Eric, who's our campaign manager,
is going to go over how scale to win works.
Then we're going to start making calls to
voters in New York and patching them through to Cathy Ockel.
Okay. All right. That was it, everybody.
You're wearing the Philly hat? No I'm not. I'm not wearing the Philly hat. I'm wearing
the New York hat. Shut up. Check logs? You're wearing the Philly hat? Even if I was wearing
the Philly hat who cares it'd be funny it literally says New York City right here
Yeah, I just wanted to joke. Thanks for humoring me. I second the chatters and Jesse tell them
Instead of a Google form or a sheet sign up to maintain calm momentum, one's lines clear
As the owner of New York City, that's a Philly hat. Okay
Nix is playing Philly today respectfully. We don't fuck with Philly
This is against the usage of the suit wearing the suit shows no distinction away from mainstream
media stuff from politicians of police society suit should not define professional opinion
wearing casual clothing would expand the permission structure for left opinions. Okay, calm down, dude.
You did fail RP.
Can you ask them for a link that has the script?
Dr. Jihad on the phone? That's crazy.
That's crazy
They released the fc note oh
Okay, this is impossible to read that's probably why they released it they're like you will never know what it is federal
Judge released a previously sealed
Perpeted Jeffrey FC suicide note from the cellmate case
The investigative read for months found nothing so 15 year old charges resulted as a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye, which you want me to do, bust out crying, no fun, not worth it, Jeffrey Epstein's perpated suicide note. Okay, this is fake as hell.
There is no way he wrote this shit.
This looks like, this looks like Cash Patel wrote it.
Or potentially Donald Trump wrote it. You see this from DSA LA? What is this?
Camus he makes you hot. I did not see this from DSA LA. What the fuck?
I don't believe it I feel like it's fake it's so fucking phony
me. Wow. It's so crazy. The suicide note literally says cash for till they didn't get cut to the
White House Correspondents Dinner. Yeah, that is crazy.
Also don't see any typos. Please urge your UK viewers to vote green tomorrow today over
there. Yes. Obviously, 100% Shausau, Zach Polanski. He's been getting attacked nonstop. It's been
unbelievable, but interesting. Adam Conover video about the LA mayor's race and Spencer
Pat's rise with a debate on tonight. Why is Karen Bass boosting the campaign of a
Maga right-winger for Mayor of LA. I know why. The reason why Karen Bass is doing that is because
Karen Bass wants Spencer Pratt to be the number two slot and not Nithya Ramon or Rei Huang,
which it doesn't unfortunately doesn't seem to be Rei Huang. He's probably not going to
be the number two slot. It'll most likely be DSA LA's Nithya Ramon. And
and and that is uh... that's the reason why karen bass is trying to
make her chances a little bit better
because spencer pat is and not job
trace and a lot more people
need to be talking about it so you guys are familiar with how hillary
clinton
boosted donald trump's candidacy in twenty sixteen in the primary because
you thought it would help her win the general right
we all know that turned out well karen bass is doing the same thing
in los angeles this year characters catastrophically unpopular she has
a 24% approval rating because of her mismanagement of the fires and the city budget.
And so she has drawn a strong progressive challenger named Nithya Raman who has been described
in the press as the next Zoran Mamdani and who's running on a platform of housing affordability.
So since Karen detects that she might lose, she has started promoting the candidacy of
Spencer Pratt, a right-wing MAGA Republican who wants to let ICE invade the city.
He vacations with Alex Jones and he was literally inspired to run by watching
Donald Trump on television.
So this could work because L.A. has a nonpartisan primary system.
All the Republicans and Democrats run against each other and the top two finishers go to
the general in November.
In a normal year, L.A. is so blue that that means that a centrist Democrat usually goes
up against a progressive Democrat unless the centrist Democrat can get a right-winger
to win that second spot.
And so that is what the Bass campaign is doing.
I found this page on her website where she literally describes Spencer Pratt as a
a strong contender for the second spot
and then spends the entire rest of the page
bashing Nithya's plans to make it easier
to build a housing in Los Angeles,
even though I think Karen would agree
we need to build more housing here
because housing is too expensive.
They also leaked an internal poll to TMZ of all places
saying that Spencer Pratt is the biggest threat
in the LA mayor's race.
And since TMZ has a conservative right-wing audience
largely, this is clearly an attempt
to boost Pratt's name recognition
and therefore his vote total.
Now this strategy could work in the short term
But it's also incredibly risky because Karen is so unpopular that anybody running against
her automatically has a good chance of winning.
So by campaigning this way, she is risking a right wing mega takeover of Nithya and Prada
both APAC Stooges.
No, Nithya, Nithya has, Nithya is not a fucking APAC Stooges, okay, calm down.
She has in the past worked with a Zionist group though, which is true.
She's not an ape, no, she's not an apex dude.
I, Adam's been boosting Nithya, I know.
DSALA did not endorse Ray, Huang, nor Nithya, Raman.
And the reason for why they didn't is because they were, you know, they didn't, I guess,
there wasn't sufficient votes.
I don't know the background process.
I don't want to get into the background process, but they're both DSA LA candidates. Okay, Ray
Huang and Nithya are both DSA LA candidates. The thing is Ray came out and was the only,
initially the only DSA LA candidate. And then a week after we did the stream together,
Nithya came out and said, she also wanted to, uh, she also wanted to run and it came kind
of out of nowhere. The reality of the matter is Ray has a lot of great policies and I really
like her. I've obviously interviewed her. Uh, Nithya has more experience within, uh, LA
government and not only that, but also has a much higher likelihood in the polls of actually winning.
although as a council member she has done things or she has voted in the
direction that that makes me a little uncomfortable as well. DSLA decided not
to reopen their endorsement window for Mayor of Los Angeles following a debate
that means neither Nithya Raman or Ray Huang will get the groups backing for
the June primary which comes with canvassers and phone bankers vote needed
two-thirds majority but only got 54 percent.
Why not make a choice of endorsement seems like a bad strategy.
I think part of the reason why they didn't want to do that is because once again, Nithya
decided to run for mayor kind of out of nowhere.
LA city government.
And don't say it can't happen.
Trump did it in 2016 when Hillary used that strategy. So do we really want to roll the dice again?
Is Spencer Pratt becomes mayor of Los Angeles? He has pledged to invite ice into the city.
He's a conspiracy theorist. He's a vaccine denier. He lies constantly and he is only in the race
to feed his political ego just like Trump, but again, like Trump, he could win. So let me be
really clear. The way to stop this from happening is to get Nithya Raman into the
general election into that number two slot and look I'm Google nithya is real bitch I know
I've literally fucking endorsed her in the past what are you talking about I know
I know supporting her I'm volunteering for her because I am genuinely excited by her candidacy
she's a true policy wonk she was the first person to pass strong tenant protections in Los
Angeles in decades she is unbought by anybody and she's an incredibly principled person
And we would do very well to have res mayor at the very least we would do very well to have a
real race between her and Karen Bass instead of Spencer. Pratt and this is urgent because ballots
are already in the mail. So look in your mailbox for your ballot grab a yard sign and volunteer
at Nithya for the city.com. You all have a mayor has no form power form policy. No, that's
bullshit. It's first of all, it's LA. Okay. Based on what you described,
Nithya seems like a spoiler. Yeah, buddy. In the real world, that's not how it works. Unfortunately,
when you are close to the top, when you're literally either in the first place or the
second place in the polls, that's what matters. Okay.
I would agree with you, except for the fact that Nithya has a better poll position than
Even said Spencer Pratt does and I'm beginning to worry a little bit about the Spencer Bratt situation
Because if the top two slots is between Spencer Pratt and Karen Baskin
Yeah, everyone's gonna fucking vote for Karen Bass
But if the top two spots is between Ray Huang and Karen Bass people there's a much higher likelihood of Ray Huang winning
And if the top two spots are between
Nithya and Karen Bass then people are definitely gonna vote for Nithya
Okay
That's the real fear here. The fear that Spencer Pratt sneaks into the second slot
against Karen Bass, who is an unpopular incumbent, but an incumbent nonetheless, okay?
A lot of people in the animal community are voting for practice. He's doing something
about the homeless animal abuse that's happening on Skid Row. The socialist candidates need
a touch on this they haven't what what is he doing about the animal abuse what
yeah that's why he's winning
He's making videos on animal abuse. Is he saying that people in Skid Row, homeless people
that have animals on Skid Row are actually abusing their animals and we must take the
animals away from homeless people? Are you saying that a socialist candidate has to
run on taking the fucking pets of homeless people away from them?
That's what, that's the number one issue facing Los Angeles right now.
That's what.
So you got candidates that are worried about housing, and then one candidate who's like,
people devoid of housing shouldn't have animals either.
That's like, that's, this literally sounds like, like the white feminism rich liberal,
uh, rich, rich white liberals were like, I care literally more about the pets of homeless
people and their well-being and their safety than the fucking homeless people themselves.
It sounds like, sounds like someone fucking made that up.
They use puppies to panhandler and toss them in the sewers when they grow up
and get another?
What?
What are you?
Bro, I met these homeless people at fucking Skid Row.
What are you talking about?
It's not a panhandle situation at all.
It's literally their best friend.
It's like emotional support.
What kind of like,
1957 fucking ass
rhetoric is this shit?
saw it in Nashville bitch saw it in Nashville okay well I've been the
fucking skid row I've seen the people that don't have alms but have pets and
let me tell you okay they're not fucking using puppies to panhandle what
the fuck's wrong with you what the hell
oh my god dude we literally we treat human beings like they're nothing in this country oh my god
oh my god
holy shit
like homeless people are not fucking aliens man they they also like dogs too
anyway yeah we're gonna fix homelessness by stealing their fucking pets dude
causing them to all causing the kill themselves this way we will fix homelessness
California seems fucked
it is fucked
Yeah, if you're worried about the animals or the homeless people, you should work to
build, you should work to build more housing so there's less homeless people, you know,
less people who have animals that become homeless and also on top of that, build houses for
the homeless too.
Anyway, Adam's courtside of the Knicks game right now are you gonna stick courtside to
watch SGA dad dick LeBron?
Those words came out of your mouth, you typed those words out, you said dad dick and LeBron.
If there's anyone who has dad dick in this situation, it's not the foul merchant SGA.
Okay.
It's LeBron.
Yeah.
No pause.
Okay.
I don't even care if you say, oh dude, pause.
Oh, pause.
Yeah.
LeBron's LeSiemann is participating in the games.
That's how much dad dick LeBron has.
I've seen the SGA know me picture. Okay. Don't come at me like this. How dare you?
Yeah, SGA lost the meat off
Val merchant is slander
What was that what was the fucking what was the me where someone was like
Um, boys, our boy, our boy won the meat off.
I'm not one to criticize songs, man.
I just don't know what he had to deal with.
He seems to just give her a quick video exposure that just virtually never cover her again
and never gave her that one-on-one they were talking about.
it's all but too late now. You can't be saying less semen with the DSA hat on. Yes, I can.
Have you seen Jennifer Wells defending SGA? Speaking of Jennifer Wells, I might be, I
might be going to a, I might literally be going to a game with, with Jennifer.
anything you want to say about the thunder?
Yes.
Okay.
I would like-
They're huge obviously from Oklahoma, huge Thunder fan, huge SGA fan, and I'm the, obviously,
the Dick Ryder of LeBron James, also known as Lasinus James, also known as Hebron James,
okay?
I'm an honest Dick Ryder.
You have to go to the floor.
I would like to say that I think Doris Burke is a maga style propagandist with calling Shay
Gilligas Alexander a foul merchant.
And I have ever since she said that propaganda everywhere I go in New York, all these salty
Nick's fans tried to diminish SGA's athleticism, which let's face it.
We haven't seen anything like this since Michael Jordan.
It all started with Doris Burke, who is a thunder hater, an SGA hater and a thunder and SGA
propagandist.
I've completely had it with her.
She's not loved in Oklahoma City.
It is not objective journalism.
And people say, oh, you need to support women in sports.
I support honesty above everything else.
And she was dishonest about Shay.
Now, all of these little haters, all of these little jealous basketball fans.
She knows way more than you get 100%.
I'm just a, I'm just a shameless dick writer for LeBron James. That's it.
But even I know SGA is a foul merchant. Like even I know that.
He said being happy for SGA, then they claim.
SGA wears pushup bras in practice. That's also true, but, uh,
we, we don't practice that homophobia around these parts.
He does foul bait, but he also gets fouled a lot. So why wouldn't he LaMau?
Breaking the IDF co-extraction squad has been deployed at Hebron James's home. This comes after rumors
Tel Aviv is starting its own NBA team more details of five. Okay, dude
Someone should ask SGA what he thinks about Israel. Okay, so we can fucking even the playing field
This part of my feel will try to look for a check list to send you
I know what this is. I know I just gonna be fucking it's gonna be IRGC Rockets on Tel Aviv
yeah I knew it I fucking knew it every time all the wemby edits this is 400
thousand likes by the way these people think they can just do fucking propaganda
that makes people fuck with Israel again okay
my ego oh I heard he was a sneaky dog
I fuck this fuckin' foge and I sneak it down
Me I take naps and you a sleep it down
Catch your ass and a back shoot up your feet it down
Two to three and set your neck
Leave it down
When the opponent is seven six not seven or six
All net and no yahoo
of DJ is severely under hated. He's not used to fighting adults. Shooting against adults
is a whole different game. Physically impossible to write Wemby without a W.
It's kind of funny how much Wemby actually does not like Denny by the way. It is kind
Like I've seen the I've seen the clips where he just won't even like dab him up
Respect
For the first time ever an international body holds a Zionist accountable for something
Yeah, he fucking launched that shit into the ether dude. Look at this. Oh my god. He launched into space
Off the backboard blocks to go at the 17 points. Not even off the backboard. He just flew it into space
This is the energy France needs to bring to the fucking International Court of Justice and the ICC, okay?
Okay, you got a French prosecutor in the ICC, having all of his bank accounts sanctioned
by the United States of America for the crime of fucking prosecuting Benjamin Netanyahu.
Meanwhile, you got a Frenchman out here, Wembe Yama, doing what must be done, okay?
Doing the dang deed.
Are you rooting for Wembe or aunt?
I mean, Wemby is my new goat.
So yeah, I've seen this clip.
Wemby didn't even look at any of the odveja after the game,
Which is kind of funny because who chipped Denny's tooth?
I forget, was it, it wasn't Wemby, right?
Wemby is the face of the league, could be glorious.
No, it wasn't, it wasn't Stefan Castle.
It wasn't Stefan Castle, but here is Stefan Castle
hugging it out and dabbing him up.
No, the castle didn't break his tooth teeth,
But Castle's the one who pushed him or put the ball on his chest and then Denny pushed
him and then he pushed him back.
And here he is still fucking dabbing him up.
Meanwhile, look at Wemby.
Wemby said, nope.
Put his fucking hand behind him.
Ant-Man is the real king of the pirates.
Yeah.
I mean, I, it's fine.
the majority of Wemby's 12 blocks were fouls
that's crazy
it's so funny cause like he's so tall they call it goaltending every time
Bro, he's just too tall to block normally and he's also aware of goaltending
This is a salty wolves fan
As long as a former Portland season ticket holder and denny gate enjoy inject this into
my veins, Lomao? I mean, yeah.
They are going at it.
He's got 15 in the game.
Outwards.
SCL Sonic's fan, okay, so you can eat a dick, a whole free throw merchant dick.
seems a little salty huh anyway um yeah there is a there's gonna be a debate
tonight there's a mayoral debate tonight I do care about it I mean I want to
watch it a little bit it's gonna be Karen Bass, Spencer Pratt and Nithya Rahman
and on NBCLA.
Yeah, it's supposed to start right now.
Ballots are out too.
And I think DSA LA put Nithya as their choice.
Cheaming up with Machaga to give away a fully furnished multi-million dollar home.
Wait, why does Ray not make the cut?
I don't know what the NBCLAs specifications are for who gets to make it, but I think it's
like they did top three maybe.
But the problem with Ray's candidacy is, yeah, they recommend, they DSLA did not
endorse neither Nithya nor Ray, but they did recommend Nithya on their voter, on their
primary election voter guide. Yeah, she's not polling high enough. She's at 3%, unfortunately.
Bullshit five percent of she had one pull over and one pull under
Tonight a debate doubleheader first up the race for LA mayor Los Angeles a big city a bigger reputation
Beneath the blue skies frustration fear and uncertainty it's horrifying and
And everybody has to keep watch.
I don't sleep well at night right now at all.
It feels like there's no neighborhoods that are safe.
Southern California, plagued by homelessness, ravaged by wildfires,
and crippled by the rising cause of living.
Oh, fuck, I'm unbelievable, bro. Oh my God.
Can you play some Fort at the same time,
and the other subway surfer? For me and the other subway surfer app people?
The question is, who's going to deliver?
Here at the iconic Skirball Cultural Center,
a face off for the two biggest races on your ballot.
The top candidates for mayor and governor.
One night, two debates.
Live from the Skirball Cultural Center.
And a good evening, everyone.
I'm Colleen Williams.
Thanks so much for joining us tonight.
Our double-header debate kicks off right now
with the race for LA mayor.
There are a number of issues for Angelinos
and with the primary election now,
just four weeks away, the stakes are very, very high.
Joining me for the debate tonight are my colleagues,
Conan Nolan, NBC4 political reporter,
and Enrique Keabra, Telemundo 52, News Anchor.
I don't know what the fuck's wrong with me.
Welcome tonight, the 43rd mayor of the city
of Los Angeles, the Honorable Karen Bass,
enter two challengers, Nicky Raman,
who's a member of the Los Angeles City Council,
District Hall, and Spencer Pratt.
My nose is running, and also I'm,
I don't know if I have allergies or something.
I'm a former reality TV host.
We'll be asking questions tonight
on behalf of viewers and voters.
We are proud to broadcast and stream this debate
in English and Spanish on NBC4 and Tenebundo 52
in partnership with LMU.
All right, there are a couple rules tonight.
Each of the candidates will have 60 seconds
to answer our questions,
And then 30 seconds for rebuttals and or responses to follow.
Um, that is up to the discretion of the moderators here.
If a candidate goes over their time, we'll give them a warning.
You can argue that.
Nithya is bad as bad as Karen or worse.
By the way, that's fucking insane.
No, she's not worse than Karen Bass.
That's an insane thing to say.
certainly no no name calling obviously. We're interested in some precision here,
some effort at giving the people of the City of Los Angeles some specificity
as to how you're going to handle some of these problems. And let's start with one.
It gets to January 7th of last year. So Mayor, this is for you. I know that
you have apologized for being out of the country during those wildfires. But still, there are
plenty of people who believe that the city let them down. The Los Angeles Fire Department,
for some reason, didn't have a strike team or a brush unit where there had been a fire just
days earlier and had been reports. It was still smoldering. That appears to be inexcusable.
LAWP had a reservoir that was dry, the fire hydrants went dry, so based on that issue alone,
articulate for us why you should get a second contract as the mayor of the city.
Absolutely. Well, first of all, thank you very much for the opportunity to speak with you.
You know, when I took over as mayor, LA was definitely facing an awful lot of tough problems
And obviously January 7th was horrible.
And as I have told you before,
it was one of the worst moments of my life
to not be here when my city needed me.
And it didn't matter where I was or why I was away.
To me, it reminds me of like,
if you're away and a family member is in an accident.
But I think that I deserve a second term
and I'm gonna fight for that
because we have made significant progress
in a variety of areas.
For example, homelessness was going up year after year.
And under my watch, it is the first time
we've had a decrease in street homelessness.
While it went up in the country, 18%,
it came down in Los Angeles, 17.5%.
I have expedited the building of housing
because our number one issue in this city is affordability.
And one of the main drivers for affordability is housing.
Right, so let me follow up on the fires though.
one gets the impression based on what we saw that you prioritized wages and benefits, a hike
in the salaries of the of the firefighters union over the operations budget. We saw those pictures
of those engines that were inoperable because they didn't have enough mechanics to fix them.
Well, was that a mistake? Because of the union, you fucking idiot. Or maybe it's because of the
fucking police union. If there's one union that has been getting all the fucking firefighters.
we actually had fire trucks with not enough fire fighters there so yes there were fire trucks that
were the real problem is the prioritization of the police budget that the fucking fire union
god local media local media you guys are demonic there was supposed to have you guys are
fucking demonic in the area that did not happen but the same way that la was not prepared neither
was the county thank you ma'am mayor ross mr prat this question's for you it's true though
They didn't have enough technicians because they had the fucking downsides and the number of technicians so that you had a bunch of broken
Fire trucks, but that's the because all the money goes to the cops
That really color your view of what needs to happen at this point and how does that help others moving forward?
Yes, thank you for the question
So the mayor Karen Bass is the thousand firefighters that were available
but there was no engines for them because of the $17 million that Chief Crowley had asked
the mayor for nine weeks before and Mayor Karen Bass denied it. So they may have been available,
but they didn't have the equipment they needed. Not to mention Janice Quinones,
who Mayor Karen Bass put into a position of power at the LADWP. She drained both of these
reservoirs that these firefighters needed to put out these fires. A lot of people talk about
climate change and hurricane force winds. The winds in the Pacific Palace has never reached
higher than 40 miles per hour. For those first six hours, it didn't go above 27 miles per hour.
So without those two reservoirs filled with 117 million gallons and 5 million gallons,
these firefighters have to fly all the way to Malibu and Encino to get water. So that to me
is the most dangerous thing that the mayor put us up against. Mr. Prado, follow up here,
though, what would you do moving forward that would make this better two years from now if we
face the same situation? Well, first off, as mayor, I will never drain the reservoirs that we need
for wildfire protection. There's this conspiracy now that they're empty, that they were for drinking
water. But if you research it, they were actually made for wildfire protection. As mayor, I'm going
to add 20 dip sites all around the communities connecting to pools. So God forbid the water
system goes down again these dip sites that will be connected to individuals pools will fill up
for the helicopters to have water. Mayor Brown do you have a response to that? Yeah absolutely he's
saying several things that are completely inaccurate first of all there was one reservoir that was
out of commission he is correct a million years ago it was for wildfires but over the last
30 40 years it's been for drinking water he talked about the winds that is just completely
and accurate. If that were accurate, then the planes would have been able to fly. And
so the winds reached close to 100 miles an hour and the planes were unable to fly. So
if there were reservoirs at that reservoir had been open, it would not have worked.
We had two other reservoirs totaling eight billion dollars, eight billion gallons that
were available. Thank you. Could not fly. Yes, she mentioned the so this is she's
an incredible liar. Everyone on their phones, Google it. 40 weather stations in the Pacific
Palisades. It never went above 40 miles per hour. She is referencing all to purified.
I have to interrupt you. Um, um, no name calling, please. Yeah, but no name calling. Um,
we should call me like, I don't believe she did. I did not hear that. We're not going to debate
issue. We have a question now for Councilmember Ron. Councilwoman Ramon. So your district 4 is the
fire prone district. My question to you is we see that you've introduced fire preparedness motions
after January 2025. A lot of them happen after the fire. The palace has fired. My question to
you is what did you do before that? Because this seems like it's more reactive rather than
them proactive. So any motions you introduce before January 2025?
Yeah. So my name is Nitya. I'm a council member for the fourth
district representing a huge percentage of the hillside. I'm
for those of you who haven't met me before. I'm a mother of young
twins. I'm an urban planner by training and I've been in this
role for about five years. And in my role as the harsh truth
is a lot of these houses have to do a lot of buddy. That's
like most of Los Angeles though.
really extreme weather before rainy seasons. Actually in the past mudslides have been the
biggest issue in my district. Entire homes have gone off of their foundations and we go
in advance and make sure that traps are cleared, that areas are available for flood and clearing.
We do brush clearance and make sure that all of the departments and all of the inter-districtional
areas that are supposed to be doing brush clearance are actually.
Louie solos all these
What we made sure that we were connecting
There's no way there's a Daniel Louie fan in here. What the fuck is happening at this guy damn community
Well, we don't have the chat is like Nithya is the number one supporter of Israel
The other half of the chat is saying Daniel Louie the fucking billionaire San Francisco mayor is the is
Great mayor. What the fuck is happening that the mayor's role is to be the CEO of the city
All of you are in the city as a councilmember you're a legislator you push for your district
Which I did and I will always do and I will always keep doing
But really it is the mayor's role to be prepared and you've got a machine. Let's hear what she has to say about Israel
I this is my and this would be a concern for me as well. Thank you councilwoman
As I said, we have a lot of topics to cover tonight. The next one is public safety
LAPD is reporting the overall crime rate is down
But people repeatedly say that's not their perception. They do not feel safe
We're seeing yet another series of home burglaries in the San Fernando Valley and just today federal authorities arrested at least
18 people connected to a drug trafficking investigation. They called it save MacArthur Park
Mayor Bass you have 60 seconds for this who ordered this operation with the feds
Is it a sign that our communities are not safe now? Actually that
operation was ordered by the feds. However we have been working in collaboration because we were very well aware of the drug dealing that was taking place there. We have used a comprehensive approach when it comes to MacArthur Park. Multiple things are needed. And so what happened a couple of hours ago was an action that had been in the works for many, many years.
many years. But let me just say, I mean many months, let me just say also that LAP and that
Los Angeles is understaffed in terms of LAPD for the nation's second largest city. And
so I have been fighting to hire more officers. Unfortunately, I have not had the cooperation
from the city council, including unfortunately, my colleague next to me, who has voted repeatedly
against hiring officers, including when we were finally able to increase the class size
and the council would not fund it. What is in my current budget now is 512 officers,
which still is not enough. We at least that will deal with attrition. We cannot shrink our department.
Council Member Raman, you have 30 seconds to respond to that. You know, I've supported
multiple budgets, thoughtful budgets that maintained and sometimes even increased the
I did vote against a big contract a contract that gave the police union more money than the city had a contract and it's not gone effects which ultimately led to the city having a billion-dollar budget deficit last year that led to us having to cut essential services across the entire city.
If you're wondering why your street lights are out on your block and the Bureau of street lighting is telling you that it's taking a year to fix the street light.
to fix the street light.
Council member, Ron, thank you.
Mr. Pratt, there were 100 LAPD officers
working with the feds today.
Your response to what went down in MacArthur Park?
It's unbelievable.
I hope we have the FBI, the DEA, the CDC, the ATF.
The more resources we can make,
the streets LA safe with federal money, amazing.
I talked to thousands of moms a week,
they do not feel safe in the street.
No matter what these crimes,
You talk to thousands of moms a week.
That's a weird thing.
There's a difference between people.
He's like, I love moms.
I talk to thousands of them every week.
Moms are coming up to me.
They're like, I'm a mom and I'm scared.
It's that with the street and the lights being out.
So I think Mayor Bass funding the police
was important actually.
Mr. Pratt, I have a follow up question for all of you here.
Langer is deli.
So do I get to respond to that?
Just a moment.
This is a response to some of that.
Langers deli which as you all know is a staple of downtown Los Angeles is asking all of you.
On the stage right now to end the needle run giveaway program so my question mayor first
of all to you what yes or no.
It's run by the city the city run needle program right yeah it's safe injections yes.
Council Member Ronan.
No.
Mr. Pratt.
Absolutely no needles and pipes for drug addicts on the street ever.
God damn it, what a fucking dumbass.
I mean there you go.
Go ahead.
You have 30 seconds.
Well I did want to say in response to this question that the way you address homelessness,
the way you address people living on the street is by bringing them off the streets and indoors.
I think we need to absolutely invest in shelter. We need to invest in services
We need to actually get people off the streets for people to be safe. That's what I've done in my district
We've had a 54 percent reduction in tents and encampments in council district for just over three years
And I'm very very proud of those results. That's how you achieve real public safety outcomes
That's how you ensure that the people of Los Angeles are this is our song
The chief of police said the other day that they're straight up. I think we're gonna have enough officers for LA
Like ethical relocation out homelessness like yeah, they did they did do a lot of that PD is part of that
Plus you have to control the rest of the city
Hiring more officers is expensive
It's
Extraordinarily so in many cases. What is your strategy man? I don't know fuck that. She's an abundance. So is Zoron
Okay, stop Jesus Christ. That stuff is nonsense. It doesn't matter
is overtime because that's what these salaries for the fire department that
everyone can say the same about Zora Zora is an abundance to fucking Derek
Thompson loves his housing policies right now the LAPD is hired by the same
people that hire sanitation and we need to bring it back like it was 20 plus
years ago so that police hire police and we need a 10-year plan it's gonna take
10 years to get to the 12,500 officers that we need and that needs to be a
priority. Our sheriff's partner, they're the same size. They have a billion dollar more
budget for the same size. So this idea that Councilman Rahman keeps saying that the police
department is overfunded. Public safety should be our number one priority. And we're going
to find all this money when we stop her useless open bed plans that actually doesn't put
drug addicts in these housing that we're spending billions of dollars.
Yeah, there's only one person on that stage is actually not just like eliminated homelessness
by doing sweeps but instead by putting them in fucking permanent shelter and that is nithya
to be fair like the israel stuff is true uh she has also voted to fund the police which
is also true but let's be fucking real she is the only one that's done anything that's
like remotely positive about homelessness on that stage okay oh god oh god they're
I hate the politics in my fucking city.
The police union is the most powerful force in LACD politics.
And when you give contracts to people because they are going to fund your campaigns, and
by the way, I'm the only person on the stage that is being spent against because I had
the courage to speak out about bad budget decisions.
Thank you, councilman.
That is what happens.
Appreciate that.
We're going to stay with you, councilwoman Bramman.
So you said, even last night you said that you're okay with the current staffing
levels at LAPD.
My question to you, people say that's just ridiculous,
is not enough, we need more officers.
My question to you is, what do you tell people,
especially victims who say the city has let them nap down?
Yeah, and I think this is a very real issue.
The city's most important response is public safety.
It is so important to me, I'm the mother of young children.
The safety of people in Los Angeles is absolutely essential.
But that's why I think we have to start getting honest
with people about how we're actually
to respond to public safety needs.
How will we make sure that when they call for help,
someone picks up the phone and 911
and someone comes when they call,
the right person comes when they call.
Right now we have not built out that system
because we have funded in more police officers
but haven't been able to hire.
Our police force is actually shrinking.
We have shrunk right now.
So no more officers stay the same?
What do you say?
I would love to keep it the same.
We have funded them more.
the police force has been shrinking.
So let's get real about how we actually deliver
public safety outcomes.
I'm gonna work as hard as I can
to maintain our police force where it is,
but we also need to make sure that we build out responses
that can actually take call load off of LAPD.
So many calls that are coming into LAPD
do not require armed officer response.
Let's take call load off of them.
And let's make sure that police can come
when people call.
Your time is up.
Quick reply, ma'am.
let me just say that unfortunately my colleague has contradicted herself because on the one hand
she says that if you pay officers what they need then we're going to bankrupt the city
and then on the other hand she doesn't understand that frankly we have to pay the officers had to
give them a raise had to expand recruitment because officers were going to other cities
we were not competitive we have to make a decision and frankly my job as mayor
My number one job is to keep LA safe.
And we can't keep LA safe with the size of the public room now.
We're going to talk about homelessness.
Four years ago, when we did a debate,
it was the number one topic.
It is right up there again.
This is an issue that continues to challenge the city.
Homelessness, many residents say.
The homeless in their neighborhoods
make them feel unsafe.
They feel the homeless have more rights
than the residents do.
So these are two yes or no questions for each of you.
Right now, getting off the street is voluntary.
Should that change if a bed or a shelter is available?
Mr. Pratt, we're gonna start with you.
Yes or no?
It's illegal to live on the street.
So, yes, everyone needs to go inside.
Okay, Mayor Bass.
Everybody needs to go inside.
Making it illegal and arresting people
is not the way to solve this problem.
Ms. Rahman.
Yes, people need to go inside.
When they're offered shelter,
they go inside. It is illegal. It is unanimous here. Next question. Do you
support the ordinance that restricts encampments or daycare centers? Mayor
Bass will start with you. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes or no. I you know I I support
keeping our streets safe. I did vote against the structure of this
particular ordinance and it is because at its best yes or no. It does not.
the way this ordinance was structured. It's no. It's not. It does not keep our children safe. It doesn't keep our children safe. No, I
It doesn't keep our children safe enough. It's a simple yes or no question. Mr. Pratt.
What I was saying is she's fighting because she doesn't think there's a difference between
one foot or 500 feet for kids safety with drug addicts with machetes in front of the school. Yes or no.
Of course. We do not want encampments in front of schools, parks, daycare. Okay. I don't want vehicles.
where you talked about inside safe.
Let's go into that a little bit.
You've suggested that there has been progress made,
but even the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority,
which the city contracts with,
has said that upwards of 40% have left
and gone back to the street.
I mean, there's a concern that a lot of money
is being spent.
There's been some progress, certainly not enough.
I'll have you defend your program.
So Conan, I declare a state of emergency on day one
because I know that what Angelino's want to see are their streets clear.
Uh, insight safe is the only citywide program that we have had that has reduced
homelessness two years in a row. Prior to that,
there was no citywide strategy and homelessness was going up year after year.
We need to have an entirely new system.
If they let Spencer go on the homelessness, he's,
I swear he's going to be like, I'm going to kill homeless people on stage.
Like he, I could see him, I can see him.
If they wind him up enough, he's just gonna be like,
I will use, I have actually used my bare hands in the past
to deal with this problem, the scourge, the parasitic force.
And that is working.
Absolutely doesn't need to be better.
It doesn't need to be more cost effective.
They're not working on that right now.
According to ABC, she didn't make the 5% cut off.
By building temporary structures on city.
There was one pole where she was below it,
one pole where she was above it.
We have been doing it for the last three years
and it's the first time homelessness has gone down.
council member Ramon so you promise to clear half of the encampments by the
Olympics and all of it by the end of your term if you get elected my question
to you you've been in the city council for five years why are we barely see in
this plan yesterday I think it was posted on your Instagram and is this
realistic absolutely it's realistic and it's realistic because I've done it in
my own district this is exactly the plan that I've I've operationalized in
my district to get a 54% reduction intensity in my district in three years.
Okay.
She's not the mayor, but she's a, she is a council district member,
which is almost as powerful as the mayor and united more powerful than the mayor.
This time it is absolutely realistic.
But I, what I want to go back to is the idea that we are satisfied with
our people don't understand it.
Los Angeles is a mayor is like a downgrade in Los Angeles right now can
say that we are satisfied with spending.
city council is more powerful than the mayor's response and getting only incremental progress
in response. I want to change that. Let's use the dollars that we're spending. Let's actually build
out a real system that can get as many people indoors as possible. Let's not put them into a
hundred thousand dollar a year motel rooms for a year or more per person. This system is not
not fiscally sustainable.
New York has, the New York pair has like tremendous power as opposed to the LA Mayor.
So you'll make a commitment to clear all the comments by the end of your term if you get
a like-
Yes, that's correct.
Absolutely.
Yes, Mayor.
I have to respond because I know the statistics she's talking about in her district, but
the statistics are there because of Inside Safe.
Because she has called on Inside Safe repeatedly, I took the initiative to go into her district
to make sure that that encampments were cleared.
We absolutely need a new system
and it has to have a company that's built for us.
I send in another illegal ballot every time
it's just a bright speech.
And there's no room for $10000.
We need to move on.
So Mr. Pratt, you have been critical
of what you consider failures
of the current administration on this issue.
You advocate for what some have called
get help or get out of the way.
What is that and how do you do it?
I don't know who made up that name.
First off, let's, I just want to say,
Councilor Robin acts like she doesn't have any authority
with this homelessness.
She was the third most powerful person.
Mr. Prett, you have often called for unlimited bloodshed
towards some of the most vulnerable people
in American society, the homeless.
What do you have to say about that?
How much bloodshed is too much bloodshed?
As the moderator who's supposed to be impartial,
I of course would opt out for the opt in
to the maximum amount of bloodshed.
But I just want to see how many homeless people
murder with your bare hands
Councilman Robbins plan for treatment first
I will go below the harbor freeway tomorrow with her and we can find some of these people
She's gonna offer treatment for she's gonna get stabbed in the neck these people wait what she has done that the fuck
She's literally done that
Nithya Nithya at this point could just literally like between you and I I'm the only one who's actually done that and seen success in
My fucking district to be fair
This is the one area where she is
Both Karen Bass and Nithya are far better than he is. I mean, he's a fucking demon
to everybody who's watching today. You're going to watch today as Mayor Bass and Spencer
Pratt attack me because they want to run against each other in the general election. Each of
them thinks that running against each other is what's going to help them win. And they
don't want to run against me because my ideas, which are based on real results
in my district, which are based on real data, a real analysis of the system and
to focus on accountability and using every dollar
as effectively as possible, which we have done.
In my district, I want to take the city wide.
This is why this is happening today.
Thanks, Mr. Bousman.
Thanks, Mr. Robin.
We're out of time.
I'm going to give each of you 30 seconds to respond to this.
Can I?
I would love to start.
Mr. Pratt, I'm going to start with you,
and then I'm going to go to Mayor Bous.
First off, Mayor Bous and I are definitely
not working together.
I blame this person for burning my house
at my parents' house in my town and all my neighbors down.
I have not worked with Mayor Bass.
Second off, if I wanted to run against anybody,
it would be the council member who is terrible.
Mayor Bass has at least been a mayor for almost four years
and has, as she talked about earlier,
the unions, all the unions endorse Mayor Bass.
You think it's easier to run against the incumbent mayor?
I like that.
I like that he literally proved her point though.
He's like, oh, I'm not glazing Mayor Bass
because I want to run against her.
Except here I am glazing Mayor Bass
because I want to run against there.
Mayor, though, specifically, there's a lot of money,
billions that are spent on the homeless and kids.
A lot of that money goes to 501c3s and nonprofits.
Now we're hearing the Department of Justice
has a lawsuit against the Director of Public Blessings.
23 million dollars, very much.
That was Siphoned.
Project Homekey, I believe, not a statewide project,
to a real estate developers accused of Siphoning
of 40 million. There's a perception that we don't know where the money's going. And
that we have the legislative analysts in Sacramento said they're $26 billion in state funds.
We're not sure if that did any good. So how can we have confidence that the investment
we are making in the future is not going into the pocket of some director who will
end up in federal court? First of all, I don't think it's shocking that you
do find corruption in big programs like this. And I think it is extremely important to hold
them completely accountable. But I will just say that for the first time, we've had a reduction
of homelessness two years in a row because of policies that I have put in place. I also believe
we need to have an overhaul of the system. But I can tell you that streets that we have cleared,
crime is down, firefighters don't have to go out, firefighters spend 30% of their time putting out
fires that are related to homelessness. Businesses are able to have customers, kids are able to walk
to school and parents without navigating tents. That's what I would say, but I have to say about
my colleague here is that yes, she is a member of city council. She chairs the homelessness
committee but she also in order to get anything passed in city council she has to build an alliance
with her colleagues and she has not been successful in doing that which is why she has not been able
to pass the policy that she's talking about. Thank you council member Bramance so this also
happened under your watch. Your plan calls for fully staffing the Bureau of Homelessness
Oversight which the city council established under your leadership so the question is
Why is it not for the staff as we speak right now?
It's not.
So as part of my efforts to create accountability
on homelessness, I've been pushing for greater oversight
within the city.
Right now in the city, there is no one
who is watching our dollars.
There's no one, even as we're spending hundreds
of millions of dollars every year,
there is no accountability in the city.
There's no staff at the city that
are making sure that every single dollar that you
are spending, your tax dollars,
are going to the issue of homelessness.
People are not watching to make sure
those are going towards outcomes.
They're not watching to make sure
that every dollar is being spent appropriately.
That is because the city has not invested in oversight.
I've been pushing for exactly that oversight.
I created the first data around performance
that the city had because I pushed and it happened.
I established the Bureau of Homelessness oversight
through my powers as a council member,
but the mayor is the executive of the city.
She has the power to move departments to hire
And to build out the staffing a year after this was established,
no new staff members have been hired for this.
No leadership has been hired.
No one.
Mr. Pratt, this next question is for you.
You have 60 seconds.
Mayor Rass would like to respond, I don't know if you heard.
We have the time.
Go ahead, Mayor.
Well, thank you.
Let me just say that the Bureau that the Councilwoman
is referring to is being staffed,
half the staff are there now.
And we have been reducing homelessness again
for the first time and building out a system
that needs to be built.
The problem with my colleague though,
and I appreciate your interest in data and all of that,
that is important.
But I believe it was important to act in this city.
Angelenos do not want to see encampments on your street.
Thank you ma'am.
Sorry.
Okay, Mr. Pratt, Mr. Pratt, thank you for directing traffic up here.
We appreciate it.
How does your professional experience qualify you to make sure and to oversee a budget?
He doesn't have 14 billion dollar budget.
We know you're passionate about what you're doing.
He sells.
We know you're an entrepreneur.
He just sells crystals on his Etsy shop because he blew his trust fund.
How did you bring to the table for that?
Well, he's literally a psycho.
I'm humble.
I have humility.
I'm humble.
You're a reality TV loser.
In the world.
Cause I actually don't have to balance the budget.
The mayor doesn't, but balance the budget.
She has a CAO, she has a team.
And we're not going to say she's the best team,
but she has a team and they balance the budget.
My job is to be as crazy as this will sound.
I'm the adult in the room here,
especially proud.
And that's what it's, that's what it's come to.
And so I plan on putting people that actually want to make sure all of our money like counsel
Councilwoman ramen was saying is accounted for peer transparency every dollar all of our tax money
And to get back to a councilwoman ramen saying about that in her own district
She let one of these NGOs a building was on the market for three million
It sold for eight million dollars to the NGO with that tax money that she's so concerned about she was so watch it all
She can't even keep track of the NGOs in her own district stealing our tax money
I'm gonna be so thrilled with you this shut is will be your next mayor. He's literally fucking Trump
He's Timu Trump. He's Timu Trump for Los Angeles. I'm not sure what specific building
Spencer Pratt is referring to but I will I will also just say that I will also just say that
We have pushed
extremely hard to build the oversight system.
So much so that I had to go out and get philanthropic support
to create the data for performance oversight
and accountability at the city.
The city was refusing to put our dollars
and our people towards it.
This is important.
Your tax dollars deserve to be watched.
You deserve a system that responds to you
with responsibility and accountability.
That's what I want to establish.
Thank you, Robin.
And we have asked you a response to that as well.
Sure.
Again, what I have done on my watch
reduced homelessness for the first time, two years in a row, we absolutely need a system,
a system that is able to provide services to people. It has been woefully act,
woefully unacceptable what has been happening so far. I feel we're moving in the right direction
and under my watch, we will continue to do that because we need to make comprehensive changes
to what has been going on for so many years, years before, frankly, either of us arrived.
Thank you. We have a question from a student from the Harvard of the West, Loyal to Marymount University. Your name, your major, and what year are you? And your question?
Good evening. My name is John Cassavion. I am a senior urban environmental studies major. My question for you is that Los Angeles remains one of the most unaffordable regions in the nation. If elected, what is one housing policy you would implement immediately or change?
the housing policy that I did
implement immediately after I
said it declared a state of
emergency around homelessness.
I expedited the building 42,000
units are being fast tracked for
affordable housing. We have
another 43,000 units that are
potential with our adaptive
reuse, which means you can
change office buildings into
housing. We also change the
zoning codes so we have the
potential for another half million units. I know that one of the prime...
Chatter is watching unbelievably right-wing NBC. Be like, how many homeless people would
you kill and why is it not unlimited? And then have at least two out of the three candidates
be like, I would kill all of them. And Chatters in here being like, your takes on third
party, third party politics not being the appropriate timeframe right now is actually
so counter-revolutionary. Build the revolution, man. Please. I want you to. I want to live
in it. Okay? I want to live in that, in that universe. Okay? I don't want to live in this
one right now because this one that I'm watching unfold is dog shit. Okay? Virtually every fucking,
virtually every person involved, both from the media to the political side is like, let's
just murder the homeless. We need to give max out contracts to the fucking police
for us and and you're over here talking about how like there is actually a
Leninist spirit inside of every American proletariat waiting to be unlocked
and all it needs to happen is the this 17th Communist Party that you are
going to do trash pickup with and all of a sudden everyone's gonna join the
cause right now on average the city takes over a year and a half to approve
multifamily housing apartments exactly the kind of housing that we
desperately need in order to bring prices down. Why is the city standing in
the way? As mayor, I will take my executive authority over the departments
and ensure that they respond to new apartment applications within 60 days
if they are zoning compliant so that we can build exactly the kind of
housing that will make this into a city of opportunity again.
Roman, thank you, Mr. Pratt. You have 60 seconds. She also mentioned
she did. I heard it. How nice they're being to each other. Nice
person. Well, first of all, I disagree in terms of how much time it takes to go
through the process. We have cut red tape so you can go through much quicker
than that. The 42,000 units of housing that are being fast track, 6000 of those
units are actively under construction. But there are definitely other factors
that have weighed into that. And some of the factors are the price of
construction materials, just the general economy. And we are doing everything we can to make
sure that we are able to fast track that housing. We want to see people moving right
now, which is why we've come up with a variety of ways in addition to that.
Thank you very much. Mr. Fradi, you ready?
I am. Thank you so much.
All right. You have a minute to respond.
Well, the good news is when I enforce the law and clear the street of the drug
addicts that have taken over 40 blocks of downtown LA, abandoned buildings that
have drug addicts just lighting them on fire every other day. I will have potentially 20,000
units available to build. And thankfully I spent a lot of time in a town that has a lot of builders
and I see all the new 3D printing and the potential of how fast we can do it. And with this
ED-1 that Mayor Bastarman, I met with the developer this week, Carlos, and he said yes,
she did initiative where she fast-tracked six months. It's been two and a half years
and he hasn't been able to get his permits.
The best part is some of these developers
that are taking over tax money
are charging $750 a square foot
for stuff that should be costing $250.
And Councilwoman Rahman,
this plan that she's gonna build all these years,
guess what?
She's gonna sue all the people
that actually rents to the tenants
and then they're not gonna even wanna rent to anybody
because she wants people to squat in there
for a year and not pay.
So I don't know how her plan's gonna work.
Councilmember Rahman, you have 30 seconds to respond.
And then Conor has a question that coincides with all of this.
Please.
Great.
I'm not sure how to respond to that vision of Los Angeles.
This is a MAGA Republicans idea of what Los Angeles looks
like.
This is really not the city that I love so much.
You move me to the city.
I'm actually from LA.
We need to make this city so much better.
We have to work so hard to ensure that this city works
for everyone who lives in it.
And crucial to that, crucial to that is actually ensuring,
I'm sorry, I was still speaking.
I know you're trying to say that.
Continue council.
Okay, so if you don't mind,
the governor the other day expressed frustration
Mayor with you, it appears the city has delayed
the implementation of Senate Bill 79
that is high density along transit lines.
I know that you wanted him to veto that law.
He didn't.
I know councilwoman, you supported that law.
Mr. Pratt, I'd like you to weigh in.
Just, I don't know if we need a minute for all of this,
but can you just tell us, with regard to building transit,
a lot of neighborhoods are concerned about this
high density up to nine stories at transit lines.
Nitya, it's the big leagues.
What are you doing?
I think you wanted to like that.
fucking dog walked over spence track well first of all i don't know what's wrong but come to shut the
fuck up saying that this is what we call them a goddamn nepo baby especially our city where we are
very much committed to building housing and i don't know how ray would do here either to be fair
we are on track to build housing we need absolutely more housing built but sp79 basically says
you can build it in any residential area and I don't believe that that is necessary.
In some areas, and I always talk about Sherman Oaks, they don't want their individual neighborhoods
disrupted, but they are very open to building housing on their commercial strips.
Councilwoman Harris Dawson is the perfect example where on Crenshaw Boulevard,
you see hundreds of units being built, but the single family homes are not disrupted.
there's ways to do it. We are on our road to do it. We did not need Sacramento to tell us what to do
and to mandate what we were doing. Thank you Mayor, Councilwoman. Here's why SB 79 and other state
laws keep coming down on us because the city of Los Angeles is not taking responsibility
for the demand for housing. We are not building housing at the level that we need to address
our housing shortage. And when we don't build that housing responsibly, when we don't take
responsibility for it from the very top, including from this mayor who's pushed back against these
state mandates, they come in and impose these mandates on us. Here's what I would do instead.
Let's actually plan for the housing that we need. Let's build out the neighborhoods
that we want to build. Let's make them beautiful. Let's actually solve for the kind of density
and affordability that the state is asking us to do. We can do it if we plan for it. And
as mayor, that's exactly what I would do. I would ensure that I would use the executive
authority in the mayoralty to make sure that every department was planning for density
in ways that Angelino's welcomed so that Sacramento didn't have to intervene. In
the absence of that, this is what happened. Thank you, mayor. We'll get to you. Mr.
Pratt, it would seem to me you agree with the mayor on this topic, but I just want
you to ask you about density development imposed by the state.
Yeah, to be clear, I just said I'm gonna have 40 blocks when I get rid of all the drug addicts
that are sleeping on the sides of all these empty buildings. So we will have so much high
density. I'll have so many bike lanes for mayor or excuse me, councilman ramen to have
all her bike lanes. We're going to have all that we have.
Bro, literally over there. What's your plan to build housing? I'm going to murder
homeless people. Bro, that's not this is a one stop shop. Every answer is like,
I'm gonna kill homeless people. I'm Spencer Brown. I'm gonna kill homeless people dead. I'm gonna kill them dead
I need the blood of the homeless to power my machine
I need it.
The buildings on these teeny tiny streets doesn't make sense. Of course, I'm fine with building where they make sense
I love building. I will build high density housing off the bones of the homeless that I crush
But I think they should have some style not to mention the fact that Councilman ramen is fighting mayor Bass on Sacramento
We're she just was telling me this is LA this way. Yeah, it's ironic because he's homeless right now
Because it's house burned down the Palace AIDS fire and now he lives in a fucking trailer like one of one of those like super fancy trailers though
It seems to be and I think Malibu or palaces where the office buildings are worth a fraction of what they used to be
That will impact the budget by the way
You have a graffiti tower. You have a half a billion dollar bridge at 6th Street Bridge
Where somebody ripped out 38,000 feet of copper so it's in the dark
You have restaurants and calls at 6th and Main and Clifton's at Broadway and 8th that
survived the Depression, Prohibition and World War II, but they can't survive the human
feces outside their front door.
Their clothes.
What is your plan for downtown?
Can we afford to let it die?
And Ms. Rahma, we'll start with you.
Would you agree to bring city workers back full time to the office in order to help
some of the businesses?
I think we we do definitely need to bring city and county workers back.
We bring in our office, we have people in the office three days a week in order
to be able to address issues.
There are some workers that should be in the office much more.
And there's others that that can be there three days a week.
But absolutely, that is not the only intervention that downtown needs.
And right now, the lack of care that's being demonstrated in downtown
LA is part of our broken status quo.
downtown LA needs attention and it needs real care.
It needs more public safety officials on the streets.
It needs work with businesses to ensure
that businesses aren't just fleeing downtown LA,
that they're actually staying there.
It needs regular cleanups.
It needs real maintenance.
It needs a strategy.
Instead, what Mayor Bass has done
is to dismantle our Economic Development Department.
We don't have a strategy to keep businesses
here in Los Angeles.
And we're watching as they walk away from this city
instead of investing in it.
That's the kind of investment
that I wanna encourage people to make
by actually investing in a real economic development strategy
for LA.
Mr. Fred, how do we solve this?
Are you wanna bring workers back into the city full on?
I mean, what's the solution for this problem?
He mentioned a lot of problems.
What's your plan?
Thank you, sir.
Well, first off, I was just talking to my friend,
Rachel, who works in downtown LA.
Downtown is so unsafe now
that they have to serve the food.
all the employees have to eat inside. They can't risk going out. That's why all these
beautiful restaurants are closing because it's so unsafe. So before we require city workers
to go back in any buildings, we need to enforce the laws of the street. Councilman Rahman is
talking about safety yet when animal rescue activist Rebecca Corey came in and said the
dogs are being tortured and abused on the streets of Dunnein. She walked out of the hearing.
She doesn't care about safety. She doesn't care about anything she's talking about.
at least stand up more for her tends to care there about it can we afford you've got a minute
to answer this question can we afford to let downtown la die as well we absolutely cannot
but it's in a crisis situation at this point it seems to be going the wrong way so let me just
tell you that we absolutely cannot downtown is the center of our city and it is an economic
engine that absolutely needs to be attended to. We have a strategy that is working. We are
working with the downtown business associations. We are increasing public safety there. That's
why I did the adaptive reuse ordinance, which allows for the office buildings that are vacant
to be converted into housing. And those conversions are taking place right now.
That is why we have to deal with the street homelessness that is there. There needs to
to be massive intervention there.
And then of course there is the convention center
and the convention center is a long-term investment
that we have to make in our city
because the more people you have downtown,
whether it's a convention or people coming downtown
for concerts is the way to make the city more safe
and downtown more safe.
And my number one obligation is to keep our city safe.
So downtown is absolutely critical.
I'm not coming here.
All right, moving to our council member,
Rahman, would you like to talk to that?
To the mayor and what she's talking about.
I mean, look, I feel like we're having
a theoretical conversation here
about the direction of our city,
which is being led currently by our mayor.
Our mayor is the CEO of the city.
She sets the direction of this city.
And if you are satisfied with the status quo,
then I've got great news for you.
The incumbent is on the ballot.
What I'm here to say is that we need more urgency
to respond to the issues right now.
We need real plans.
We need real efforts to make sure
that we're keeping businesses here,
that we're keeping workers here,
that we're keeping residents in downtown LA.
That is the strategy and effort
that I wanna bring to this role.
Council Member Ruff.
Council Member Ruff endorsed Mayor Bass
two weeks before she ran for election.
Two hours before the candidacy closed,
She adores Mayor Bass, so all of a sudden now she's has all these problems with Mayor Bass, they do photos together.
We have so many more topics, and you know what, I know we're passionate, you're passionate about what we're talking about, but voters really want some concrete evidence here, and they want people to do it.
Yeah, but she referenced me, I need to respond to that, that's supposed to be part of the rules.
I haven't been offered that that in a lot of this debate. Well, absolutely the status
quo and breaking up the status quo and dealing with the bureaucracy is exactly why I ran and
I started doing that by addressing homelessness but also by bringing coalitions together
to make sure that we can deal with downtown. Did you know that we are the only major
city that does not have a comprehensive infrastructure plan. So it's been haphazard up until now.
Left to the wishes of every single council member. I have instituted and started a comprehensive
infrastructure plan. And moving right away into replacing 60,000 solar lights.
Thank you.
We've been on this topic now because this next topic, a lot of viewers, when we put
of the QR code wanted to know about this. It has to do with a film and television industry.
A lot of people think we're nowhere close to where we should be. I know it bounced back
the first part of this year, but it's at least 30% below what it was pre COVID, pre
COVID time. So the question becomes, and Mayor, I'm going to start with you. Do
we do enough to keep production in Southern California? Well, let me just let me tell
you what I have done. In working with the industry, we have expedited permits. I established
one person who is Azar to provide concierge services for the industry. We also lowered
the cost to do filming in Los Angeles. So for example, the observatory, we reduced
those amounts by 70%. We are beginning to bring the industry back and I'll tell
this has been a longstanding issue of mine when I was in Sacramento and served as speaker.
I did the first tax credits and also promoted and advocated for those tax credits here in
Sacramento. We have a long way to go, but we are absolutely making headway because of policies
that I put in place. Mr. Pratt, are we doing enough to bring Hollywood back?
Absolutely not. And that's great. Mayor Bastad, those
Thank you for the thank you for the question. I think we should murder the homeless
So that we can bring Hollywood back
I have a suggestion
We should put homeless people as stunt doubles in every set and murder them
Even if it's like a child's movie and there's no need for a murder
I think all of these movies would do better if there were dead homeless people in the background
Five years now. All of a sudden she has these tweets and these posts. She's doing sub stacks
Both of these people have been the reason why none of these people are serious enough
about murdering the homeless.
I'm just surprised.
You know, these things, we're still gonna have drug addicts all over the street because
they're you care about how it was declined.
Of course I do.
I live in Los Angeles.
What are you talking about?
Talk to producers.
They have to pay gang members right now to keep the streets safe to go film anything
on the streets of LA.
So absolutely no, these two politicians.
Oh, he moved on.
He moved on.
We got a thousand.
It's a way to still murder the homeless, but this time we should stop subsidizing gang
members to murder the homeless.
To me, my husband has been a long time writer in the industry and we desperately need to
keep Hollywood here.
And I feel like the mayor's role is really to be the loudest advocate for the best possible
version of the policies that we need, including a tax credit that has no cap that is guaranteed
years into the future so that production, so that studios can actually invest here and they
know that they can invest here. We need to make sure that we're reducing red tape in City Hall
to make sure that productions have no bar to being able to film here. I also would create
a real film office here. We don't have enough people at the city to make sure
that filming can happen quickly and efficiently. We need people who know the industry and know
the city and can make sure that we're working across county jurisdictions. That's what happened
in Baywatch. City and county weren't talking to each other. Let's make it possible for us to
actually do the work. I feel so strongly about this. And Angelinos in the industry need a
fighter. I will be that fighter. Excuse me. Excuse me. We have to move on. Really.
In her time in there, she feels very strongly about it, but never offered one motion.
and when motions came up on the industry,
she either recused herself or got up and walked out.
Thank you, thank you both.
We gotta move on, sorry.
I am so sorry we have to move on.
We have a very important topic,
so let's talk about immigration.
Immigration after what happened last year,
that was a really big deal,
so I wanna ask you all three.
This is a yes or no question and answer.
So there's an LA council member,
he wants voters to decide.
He is saying that non-citizens,
should they be allowed to vote in local elections?
Is this a yes or no, Mr. Pratt?
No.
Mayor Bass?
It depends.
It's not a yes or no.
Depends on what?
Well, first of all, when you say non-citizens,
it doesn't mean they're here illegal.
It doesn't mean they're undocumented.
They could have green cards.
They could be here perfectly illegal.
You're right.
And there's a lot of states and cities
that do that on very, very local elections.
We have to see what the councilman is proposing.
Council member Bremen.
Yeah, I would say, again, it does depend.
In other places, school boards have non-citizens
I have a question for you, you told NBC News a few months ago that you want LAPD to take
care of.
So if you don't want ICE to be here in the city.
So the question is you want LAPD to do enforcement as ICE?
No, that's not what I said.
What I said is when I'm there, I want to enforce all the laws and get all the
drug dealers, the murderers, the child traffickers, the rapists, and if they're legal or
Illegal if they are a danger to our say I want them off our streets. So that's why I said
I won't be coming here because I'm undocumented homeless people
We should make the undocumented homeless first and then and then fight them
Chasing people in car washes ice was chasing people in Home Depot's and picking up vendors
Selling food type of shit. That's getting cooked Spencer Pratt in my opinion. He's like insane sentiment about eyes
That is not what was going on in here. I was against it
I physically went out and did everything I could to stop it and we'll do that again
Was that that phone call when you're like, hello, please don't come here. Um, just to be clear
I didn't say what what she said I said I'm gonna target all criminals. So she does, but what's not what I said
He asked me final question for all three of them
In another hour, there's gonna be seven candidates for governor. The governor is gonna be theirs at one point
very quickly just to align what do you what do you need from the next governor
to help the city? Ms. Rahman? We need support from we need financial support
when our federal administration has abandoned us we need to make sure that
we are able to fund the programs that we need we need to be able to make sure
that we can ensure that the city is vibrant into the future we absolutely
need a governor who is going to fund that full film tax credit that we need
we need the support in the absence of support from the federal government.
Mr. Pratt, what do we need from next governor? What do you need from that person?
Personally, the governor needs to clear all his dead fuels around our community. So more
communities don't burn down all the dead brush surrounding Sunland to hunger, Bel Air, Brentwood,
the Valley. So there's a lot of dead fuels that they leave.
Oh, this is San Francisco politics, even worse than LA somehow. San Francisco politics
is tech CEO that wants to kill homeless versus a blood boy that also wants to kill homeless.
It's just they all, all of California's politics revolves around who gets to kill, who gets
to expedite the murder of homeless people faster. And that's, that's what California
politics is. Who gets to fund the police more? They will literally fight one another.
They will fight one another to be like, I want to give the cops more APCs. I think
cop deserves an armored personnel carrier so they can drive over the homeless encampments.
It's literally, that's what California politics is.
It's incredible. It sucks because I do think the people are way,
the people are like way more woke. If you look at the ballot measures, the ballot
measures are like, the ballot measures are like tax billionaires. You know, the tax every
fucking home that's over, you know, tax every home that's over a dollar 100% so we can fund
mega mansions for the homeless. And then that ballot measure will pass by like 75%. But our
politicians on the other hand are like, we should kill more homeless. I think this is what this
ballot measure means, right? It's crazy. And then the government will just veto it.
Gavin Newsom or the the fucking the California state legislature will just veto those the ballot
measures and it'll go nowhere or they will actually fund it, okay? They will actually
fund it and then it will go nowhere. It will go to like one of these 501c3s that's like
a fucking total bullshit shell company created by one of I don't know one of the relatives
of like a powerful Los Angeles politician, and then it'll just sit there. They'll just
park those fucking tax, the tax revenue, and they'll never build a single fucking shelter
with it. It's insane. It's one of the worst, most corrupt machines in the entire fucking
state. It sucks so much dick and balls. I hate it so much. This is dude. I mean, look
at the governor's race. Look at the gubernatorial race. Like Tom Steyer is a fucking billionaire
and he's like a cut above in terms of progressivism. Then like some of the big movers and shakers
of California politics. That should be a warning sign, right? Like, you should probably understand
how bad things actually are.
At one time, San Francisco's pretty left in some radical politics, but all those who can't afford to live there anymore and have been replaced by technocratic neoliberal tech bros. Yeah.
It's terrible. It's terrible across the board. I'm done. I don't want to watch the rest of this. I'm fucking tired
What a day anyway, um tomorrow I'll be in San Francisco
Where at least you know, show I cut chakra Barty is like someone of an interesting
I mean an actual interesting and somewhat radical candidate that I do like
So I'm just holding on to him as a fucking glimmer of hope even though DSA San Francisco is obviously very frustrated with me because he
Funded Dean Preston's opponent
Many years ago, and they've never let that go plus. He's also
Striped guy sent a millionaire. So understandably there's like a lot of fear there. Oh
But he's going up against Scott Weiner who also fucking sucks
majorly, okay? Oh, what a mess. What a fucking mess this entire thing is. But yeah, I'll be in San
Francisco. I'm going to be doing a rally with a Shoecah Chakra Barty and also numerous other
folks as well. Jamal Bowman will be there. Malak Kuros is gonna be there. Barry Liza
will be there from New York and some Justice Democrats as well. Don't go out for dinner.
What? What does that mean? Shoe cut Chakrabarty? Dude, you're butchering his name. Am I? It's
It's Shroycott.
I'm saying his name correctly.
It's Shroycott.
It's Shroycott.
And his last name is Chakrabarty.
Oh, you meant like don't let him film you eating because you eat like an animal is
true. Anyway, love you guys and I will see you tomorrow from San Francisco.
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