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CHINAMAXXING🤬TRUMP XI SUMMIT🤬NEW ABDUL POLLS🤬EF DAY 76🤬STRAIT: CLOSED🤬ISRAEL SUES NYT🤬NATE BLOUIN UTAH INTERVIEW🤬
05-14-2026 · 7h 28m
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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.
Directed even Hassan Piker is unapologetic for his controversial comments on a range
of issues.
American far-left commentator, who is named Hassan Piker. Now that he's being highlighted,
Democrats are flocking to him. He's not out there on Hassan Piker's show, right? For example, right?
The man to his left is a very controversial guy. Hassan Piker insults just about everyone.
Where if you go back and listen to some of the things that he says, Carl, this guy's not
gonna wear a well. Their so-called Joe Rogan of the left, Hassan Piker, is back in the
headlines this time for calling Republicans terrorists.
Piker has a controversial history and we've been showing you this all week.
You don't give somebody like Hassan Piker this kind of attention, this kind of platform. It only
rewards the kind of rhetoric that I just described. Hundreds of students lined up and packed into
these rallies and they ate up the anti-war anti-capitalist and anti-establishment messages.
That's him, 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.
I'm the songpiker in the stars and I'm broadcast coming to you live from Gloomy, California,
Los Angeles.
Folks we're live and alive and I hope all the boys, girls and MVs are having a fantastic
moment.
I guess today is a beautiful day.
Today's a wonderful day.
The day is Thursday.
Thirsty Thursday folks.
That's right.
we're all thirsty. I'm alive. I'm alive. Coming to you from stolen Tongva territory
here in West Hollywood, California, Los Angeles, one of the greatest cities on earth with many
issues, many complications, but also many beauties for those with eyes to see. What
happened to the suit guy? Okay, one day we're doing one day without a suit and now everyone's
saying what happened finally back to regular clothes is because I didn't have
time okay you want to know why it's because they didn't have time I was this
part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news anyway so I'll
tell you exactly why I'm not wearing a suit okay I'm not wearing a suit because
well you sound awful wait do I
So it's in the laundry. No, it's not in the laundry. It's not laundry day. Um, but yeah,
first of all, it's Thursday, May 14th, 2026. It is 67 degrees and cloudy here in Los Angeles,
California. I'm live. I'm alive. And, uh, yeah, we got this part of the broadcast where
I tell you about my personal news bubbles going on in the world of us on us. And
bi-gram between the time period where I press the stop streaming button and press the start
streaming button so help me God that's what I'm gonna do and it's for the parasocialists
for you the few the worthy but
yes it's six seven degrees 67 degrees um
Um, both folks, both folks, both folks, um, I'm live and, uh, as far as personal news
goes yesterday, as you guys know, I had a wonderful conversation, a 40 minute talk
with Dr. Gabor Monti, okay. And it was wonderful. It was fantastic. We can go back and look at
it. Did you start smoking, bro? Yeah, I did. No, I didn't. It was so good. And I wish there
was more that we could talk about. And I mean, there's a lot more that we should
talk about, but I wish there was more time for us to talk.
But in the aftermath, in the aftermath of that talk, I basically, wait, what, I saw
on the hunt, Climbs to be a suit kind of dresses like this, bro, you got to stop black coat,
tall pants, blue socks, not dress shoes.
doing all the wrong things that work in men's fashion. First of all, it's a navy. You're
wrong. It's a dark navy sport coat. Okay. It's a dark navy sport coat. It's a light blue
dress shirt. And it's a purple tie. This tweet has zero likes. No, this is the, this
tweet is is wrong. It doesn't matter if it has zero rights, zero rights and zero likes.
I saw Manaj compare Jennifer Walsh to you. Nice. Um, it's not an, an on account. It's
probably, yeah, it's with the, the chatter sent his own tweet, but I'm contesting it.
Okay. And the reason why I'm contesting it is because I'm not angry or anything. I'm
just saying you're objectively wrong. The socks? I know that I know that the fashion
guy on Twitter has been talking quite a bit about what kind of socks to wear. And like
I know that you either with gray pants you either wear gray socks or with black shoes
in black pants you wear black socks and most of the time you wear navy socks that's what you're supposed to do
but i don't think i don't think derrick would have an issue with this fit because this is not a suit
right this is not like a full suit this is a sports this is a sports coat like it's a blazer
sports blazer uh with a a uh dress pants like slacks
And the socks are actually a little like a pop of color. Why is your audio so bad today?
I don't know. Did something change? Maybe my levels are up. Hold on. Let me see. Let me see real quick.
I don't know. Is it bad? I can't tell. It sounds like you're sick. Oh, that's probably what it is.
For sure not the sauce Lamal
Yeah, no my throat is a little fried
I've been yelling a lot since the since the the NBA playoffs I was watching
I'm a numbers guy
But yeah, I was gonna say
I wanted to do a little pop of color, but not like the annoying shit that people do.
Like the Trump administration has a hell of an annoying sock game, and a lot of conservatives
do that now, and I hate that.
This is just a little pop of color, which a suit guy says is appropriate.
Also never wear an oxford collar with a tie if I was styling his son.
I put him in a wide French collar shirt with a Windsor or a Balthus knot for the
tie.
Okay. I don't have that. Okay. I don't have that opportunity. Like I don't have an entire
closet full of stuff. Black coat, top pants, blue socks, not dress shoes. Bro's doing all
the wrong things. I've been working in fashion for years. Two options to fix is one. Navy
sport coat with burgundy dress shoes and a belt. Black pants to match the coat with
the black belt socks and dress shoes. Yeah, it's not. It's a Navy, the Navy coat. It just
looks black. It's a dark Navy coat. So this guy is wrong. Anyway, so other than that though,
Other than that, other than that, where was I going to go with this?
In Italian it's called spesato, which means you're wearing a sports jacket and separate
trousers.
Classically you'd wear a navy blazer with light medium gray trousers.
The socks should traditionally match the pants or shoes, but you can get away with
a separate color or one that matches the tie.
Source, I'm a bespoke stylist, you did fine.
Thank you.
Yeah. I thought you could, I thought you can match it.
Your Jamel Bowie style pivot has been something would have expected more out on
guard. I think Jamel Bowie style is actually pretty good. Um,
he's very good at,
he's very good at Polaroff Lauren, Americana. Like there is a,
a very specific fit. I would go so far as far as American fashion,
Polaroff Lauren is it. That's it. Nothing else.
There's nothing that comes close to Americana and its impact that it's that it's had all around the world and
Polarov Lauren is
Americana, okay, it's so unbelief. No, not even Tommy Hill figured nothing nothing comes close
The reason why I say that is because
the reason why I say that is because
even in Japan
Western fashion is is pretty huge right? Western fashion is huge in Japan and
The the nose they get
The Americana style fashion is huge in Japan and the nose they get is usually from
Ralph Lauren
Ralph Lauren Michael Kors of the two major American designers in my opinion. Yes, but I think Ralph Lauren's like
Every day wear is infinitely better
So, Japan is America kind of better than America.
They call it Amatora.
Sure, whatever.
I'm currently wearing all Polar Ralph Lauren ironically enough.
But there's a book called Amitura.
It's not Ralph Lauren, per se, but overall Preppy Style.
Amitura is a Japanese reinterpretation of Ivy League and Prepp Style.
It's a great book.
Yeah.
So that's what I was thinking of as well.
And where was I?
Fashion-wise this whatever.
I just did this Smosh collab this morning for assumptions.
I did another assumptions episode.
Last time I did it, I did it with co-worker wig, RRL is what I'm talking about.
RRL is the highest end of Polar Ralph Lauren.
Yeah, last time I did it, I did it with chud wig and Valkyrie.
This time I did it with a bunch of Smosh people and it was great, it was very fun,
very funny. And yeah, I'm excited for that to come out. And I obviously I got, I literally
left the talk with Gabor Maté. And I got on a flight and I flew back. And there was
There's one funny moment in the airport.
There's two things I've been thinking of.
There was one funny moment of the airport.
In Canada, they do the customs in Canadian soil.
Customs for America and Canadian soil, same with Mexico, same with Ireland.
There's a couple places where they just like let you into the country technically and
then on the receiving end, when you come to the United States of America, you're
basically, it's treated like domestic travel. So what happened is, you know, there's a,
it's not TSA, it's ICE, right? Or CBP, there's a CBP agent. And I realize I have a communist
logo pin
On my jacket and i'm wearing a democratic socialist of america new york hat
I immediately take the hat off. I immediately take the pin off
and I walk up
To the front of the line
Okay, i'm like i don't want to be stuck in canada. I got a smosh thing that i have to film tomorrow
I have to be back
Okay
saw I take the pen off. I take the hat off. I put the hat in my pocket. I walk up to the
guy. They go on one day trip. What were you doing in Canada? I'm like, yeah, I, I'm,
I was doing a speech, like your speech or speaker. Like, yeah, I was doing a speech
the web summit. He's like, okay. What kind of what kind of speaker are you? Are you a religious
speaker? Or are you a political speaker? And I was like, Oh, and immediately I was like, Oh,
none of those. I just, you know, I talk about lifestyle. I talk about young men. Oh, sorry,
I told him I talk about young men. And when I said that he was like, what kind of talks,
like, are you religious? Are you like a religious speaker? Or are you a political one? And I was
like, Oh, just lifestyle. Like, all right. You can't get in trouble for any of that here, buddy.
Brother, this is the American Customs and Border Patrol.
Okay, I was genuinely contemplating in that moment on whether or not I should just tell
Tell him that I'm a youth pastor.
Lying is bad.
Well, technically I didn't lie.
I literally did a conversation with Gabor Mate on lost young men.
And most of the conversation revolved around lifestyle.
He definitely thought you were a menace for your feak if you said you were doing lifestyle talks on young men.
Good.
Guess what? He said, step right away, sir. Go ahead. Please. Welcome to the United States of America. There should be more people like you.
If only he fucking knew what I actually talk about, he'd be like, you're on literally the most dangerous, most wanted terrorist list.
We're not letting you into the country.
You just say you're doing speaking engagements at university conferences
I was just in Vancouver and saw that Mexico has a less lax method. But yeah, that was cool super smooth for me. Yeah
You do have that priest fit so technically true. Yeah, it's the big jacket that I was wearing that you guys have seen before
Some lady also asked me if I was like a like a military officer or something
I don't know why that jacket makes me look like a military officer
But she was pointing to the communist Star Trek pin I had she was like well you have a you have that badge
And I don't know why she thought I was a military officer
What military officer would I be a part of with that jacket and the communism?
The hammer and sickle badge I
Was like no this is Star Trek
Yeah, I looked like like a
I look like secret police from East Germany, you know, is like NKVD fit.
Stasi.
Starfleet, obviously, yeah.
Anyway, um, so I got on the plane, uh, I got on the plane and, uh, came back home, passed
out instantly, insta-locked the bed, woke up early and shot a whole bunch of stuff
or the wonderful folks over at Smosh and now I'm here. Literally nothing else going on in my life,
chud-ass loser style. But yeah, there were some choice moments in the Gabor-Mate conversation.
Let me ask you this. This is what I was worried about. I watched you talk to Hasan Minhaj
I was really worried you're gonna start tugging on some things. Well, I'm gonna ask a simple question. Okay, would you rather be illusion or
Disillusion I
Would rather be illusion you ought to be illusion. No, well, you rather be you ought to believe in fairy tales. Is that right?
Yes, but here's what I mean. Yeah, I'd rather hold out I'd rather hold on the hope
Well and have a north star that I'm working towards
But would you rather have that whole based on reality or based on a fantasy?
True, based on reality, of course.
Okay, well then it's a good thing to be disillusioned.
Okay.
And you were disappointed by Super Tuesday?
I wasn't. I wasn't. I never expected anything otherwise.
I expected the Democrats to be Democrats.
Yeah, true. I was disillusioned.
This is a powerful little too-short conversation,
Turning from the hope in the threads of possibility beautiful. Yeah
There was also this
By the way, it was very hard to hear him on stage like I you guys don't understand I was holding that shit together
I didn't want to say anything at the time
But it was unbelievably because he's so soft-spoken
He's so soft-spoken that I could not all I could hear was like feedback
And I think it's important to make sure that we are organizing with a purpose.
Obviously, I'm a socialist, I'm an anti-imperialist, and that is my North Star for the most part,
and I have seen at least some level of success trying to get people to hold onto little crumbs of hope,
little crumbs of autonomy that they can secure for themselves.
I just wish you wouldn't have called it crumbs.
Okay. What would you call it?
Threads. Threads, okay. Threads of hope.
That we can weave together. Okay, I love that.
Threads of hope that we can weave together to build solidarity across the board,
across the nation and across all nations,
and hopefully present people with an alternative that they can subscribe to,
to build a more egalitarian society.
Look, I salute you for...
Thirds that we can weave together was un-ironically one of the hardest lines I've heard in a long time, dude. Yeah.
But like Q and I, you could bake a loaf of bread with breadcrumbs.
Yeah. On, in some moments it was interesting because
in some moments he was like, uh,
It's so much pessimistic and in other moments you was much more optimistic and would criticize me for using pessimistic language
Dr. Mate likes you a lot. He doesn't talk like that to people as much. What do you mean?
I think you guys are being parasocial we were just
He was talking to me because I was on stage with him, you know what I mean
He little bro, do you guys if there's a person who?
Is you know, I'm not even worthy of being little bro by
Dr. Gabor Mati. I mean he's the man. He's great
Every time I talk to someone over the age of like 50 though, anytime I talk to a socialist
over the age of 50, they're like, what are you doing with this election stuff, man?
Just give up.
It's really funny.
It's like, the honest verification is like, bro, run for elections and also run in a
third party.
What the hell is wrong with you?
Anyway, we got China maxing.
We got the Trump she summit new Abdul polls out.
Looking good for our boy Epstein's fury day 76 trade closes real sus, New York Times,
Nate blue and Utah interview later.
Get in now.
You already know what's up.
already know what it is. You already know what it is about. Okay, we're blasting the
freak off. And we're live and we're alive. Let the people know.
Yeah. So Monica twos, I don't even know what that is. Okay,
Papa is live.
By the way, they're giving Connie the McMora treatment. Yeah,
I know. I know. It doesn't surprise me in the least bit if we're being real. Okay? It is the least surprising thing I have ever seen.
The only problem in that race is that a lot of people are a lot of people on the the institutional left in San Francisco.
either don't give a shit about Israel all that much, or just like don't, um, they just don't really, they don't trust Shorikot.
And, and I don't even want to talk about it that much, because like, depending on how this primary goes, like, obviously, like, we'll have a, we'll have a different conversation once the primaries are over, you know what I mean?
wins second place in the primaries. I'm, I'm certain that many, uh, uh, DSA, uh, and,
and many like leftists in San Francisco will consolidate support behind him.
You know,
surprise little butthurt, Mazda didn't ban me from my fashion takes dog. What's wrong with you?
Why are you trying to start a fight?
Well getting time now for my correct takes no you were just getting you were getting
auto modded.
Look at this.
Vosha is more of a suit guy than you Fawcett bought time to out cool the timeouts for voicing
my opinion on men's fashion is let me know that this isn't really the left of space
for open conversation here.
i love the song but apparently is maz love them so much they can't stand any criticism of this fashion
they will let chud's in here day after day but all of a bit i speak about his
trip fashion choices
supplies a little but hurt maz didn't pay me for my passion takes
what do we learn from this experience
what do we learn from this experience
this is a really good experience okay
chatter you sent me a link of your own twitter posts
I responded to it. I told you the areas that you were wrong on, okay, or at least the areas
where we have disagreement over, because there is no like objective fashion rules, right?
There are some things that are close. There are some...
There are certain points, certain rules that you can point to, but you don't always
have to follow through on but like it's it's incredible I wonder especially after that one like
psycho who was like oh I was a seven month subscriber and now I love this like you know pedophile sex
pest uh streamer who is my favorite now and I hate you ason like I'm your biggest stalker I wonder
how many people actually literally just get like auto modded by Fossilbot because they said something
because they were like typing in all caps like spamming in all caps or something and then the
automatic bot just like stopped them from writing for 35 seconds and they were like wow fuck you
Hasan I despise you now I will be your enemy for the rest of my life
like dude look look at what you did here you went through the many different phases of just
It's like getting angry, taking it personally.
And then deciding that it was like the moderators that did this,
it wasn't.
It was not.
It was just auto-modded.
You got auto-modded because you were spamming.
I just don't get it.
It happens sometimes guys is not the end of the fucking world, you know
Anyway, let's be chill. Let's be kind to one another. Okay, let's be kind to one another. Let's be chill. Let's be nice
Be nice to the mods and be nice to one another
Shadows of straight-ups sexually harass me after getting a timeout, not even a ban, people need to grow the fuck up. Yeah, that's unacceptable.
I just want to say thank you for everything you do. I know there's all this hate towards you and I just want to say something positive and make it a day better.
That already used to be a dumb mega-chat and you directed me to the right path.
When I saw this, I realized how wrong I was about you.
Wait, what?
I just, why do I do this?
do things man why do I do anything I'll be honest like it's just fucking
stupid I shouldn't be doing shit at all
alright how will we only have a hundred and seventy eight likes on this tweet man
go go fucking like the tweet what the hell are we doing we're washed I'm
washed it's over my career is over okay I'm hanging it up I'm hanging it up
Hang up the reins. It's done. So okay. It's jover. It's done
Yeah
Threatened gaming if they don't like seems to always work
Your audience, hey, Twitter, I know, washed, chopped,
punk, streamer, following up on your viral moments regarding American education.
Good explainer for the how the vast majority of us learn.
Okay, playlists for later.
Why are you stealing the Jamel Buoy fit?
Jamel Buoy did not fucking invent men's sartorial choices.
I don't know what I hate more about this new meta, like when I make minor fashion decisions.
People literally lose their minds over it for some weird reason.
Half of the people are now saying you stole Nick Fuentes' fucking style.
Okay, I saw that shit on my timeline. It was unbelievable.
These little fucking dumbass, booger-eating groipers think that like Nick Fuentes invented wearing suits.
And then the other half are saying I stole Jamel Bowie style, which is a little bit more appropriate
Because like he does wear hats all the time with his like suits and and he has pretty good style
But yeah, there's nothing funnier I saw one clip that went viral in the groupersphere or they were like
Oh my god
He's just larping as Nick Fuentes, and it's really funny
It's really funny because they're saying I'm larping as Nick Fuentes
because I
I'm talking about how America is losing the war
Against Iran
Dog Nick Fuentes was
basically
protein in his fucking father's ball sack
When I was talking about America's military ambitions, America being a paper tiger, I'm
an anti-fucking imperialist, okay?
Nick Fuentes was a baby.
Didn't know what the fuck Israel was, and I was out there and about anti-Zionist.
The fuck do you mean?
If anything, he's chimpin' my shit.
Or what's the term?
What is it like?
Steep?
Hot?
Like copying?
Is it biting, aping?
Clip chimping is chimping.
Aping my shit.
Or biting my shit.
Whatever.
runs out of diesel and fuel I know we're going to talk about that but yeah it is very funny
if you're an unbelievably stupid person and you're like well obviously well obviously
my favorite content creator invented suit wearing it's really funny because it's like
It's like that meme, you know, guy who's only seen one movie.
I'm getting a lot of boss baby vibes from this movie.
Okay, that's what you're doing.
You're just telling on yourself that you're a fucking idiot.
I'm getting a real boss baby vibe.
Boss baby is also what Nick Fuentes looks like.
It's also funny, because I openly talked about who got me to wear suits, and it was Zoran.
If there's one guy who I've been stealing from is Zoran Mamdani.
I liked that he was doing, I liked that he was wearing suits
and he was more, he was more out there rocking the suits,
ripping the suits.
And I was like, you know what?
I need to be a little bit more professional.
Plus I'm getting yelled at a lot by adults
by the elderly population and the media.
So I must have, I must do something about it.
Do something about it
Sagar celebrating right now. I know Sagar
Sagar had some weirdly racialized takes on that issue if you remember
It's just funny because like obviously Sagar is also Indian
And he was like yes
Oron dropped the the weird ethnic garb that he used to wear and started wearing Western suits
And that's why people love him and it's like that's kind of a crazy thing to say out loud, especially as a brown man, but
Okay
Well, yeah, I think over the years I've grown to like Sager
Reluctantly I must admit
And even for his insane takes as a matter of fact because he has like truly some
some absolutely insane takes like the weed stuff is really crazy where he's like we should
we should basically put you in prison for life if you even think about smoking weed.
I think you got to have a little you got to have little guys like that that are just crazy
you know that just have you know some decent points but then also are insane in other
instances.
Soggo is a prohibitionist. Yeah, he is genuinely crazy, I think, with the anti-weed takes that he has.
I feel like it is...
First of all, it's just unbelievably anti-libertarian.
It's, in my opinion, truly irredeemable.
But I guess it's not irredeemable enough for me to say I hate that guy.
Are you familiar with the Bong Ribs vs Saga meme?
No, but that makes sense.
Christmas holiday content on Breaking Points, I will do a review of Reefer Madness, specific
We will examine whether the movie conveys its themes effectively and how the claims about marijuana hold up some 90 years later
This is gonna be great. I'll take a bong hit and listen to the continuation of reefer madness
It's weird. It was always people who have never tried weed that want to talk about how terrible it is
Ah, yes, because prohibition were so well. Yeah, it's
You know, it's really funny
You know, it's really funny about saugers we take so saugers supposed to be the heterodox
right-wing thinker, okay? And in some ways he is heterodox on this issue because no one likes it,
no one on the left likes it, and most people on the right don't like it either.
It's so awesome that he is like, nope, this is my one thing. Like, if he just stuck to like
prohibition of heroin or something, most people would agree with him, right? Like,
You could probably get some more conservative liberals on board with like, you know, the war on drugs, uh, era attitudes
Uh that have calcified especially amongst the boomers, but just no one cares about weed most people smoke it most people like it
and
and so
It's one of those things where it's like he's he's almost like
He's almost like a like a zionist in this like 9010 issue on the side of israel
He is the Zionist of weed prohibition, where no one else is on his side and he does not care.
He's like, nope, I'm going to stay the course. One day everyone else will agree with me that
weed is the devil's lettuce and we must stop it. And that's part of the reason why I really like,
I really like that this is the thing that he cares about the most. I really think,
I think it's almost cute like he probably takes it much more seriously than I do. I don't really care. I don't really smoke weed
He's very hypocritical because he hates weed but thinks nicotine is the best substance man has ever come up with okay
I low key agree with him on that too. I mean come on. I'm a fucking Zenfidel. You know this but
Yeah, the jazz cabbage yeah, he's he's all over that
But it's cool. It's cool when you got like a take that you have a totally ridiculous stance on that's
like unbelievably unpopular. And it's unpopular on your side too. It's not just like unpopular
on the other side. It's like a polarizing take and it causes people to maybe come to your side.
You know, it's just unpopular across the board and he just cares about it the most.
Anyway, I don't know why I started talking about Saga.
Um
Yeah, but you also know if you shit on weed, you can't then praise tobacco
No, I I like nicotine. I hate tobacco. I'm very much anti cigarettes
Um, although it looks unbelievably cool. Uh, I I think it's it's horrible
One of the hardest addictions to fucking, uh drop
Have you or do you smoke weed? I used to all the time all the time. I don't because it's just not for me. I
Eat too much. I get fat. I get lazy. I just don't like it. I feel cloudy the next day
but it's
It's not anywhere near as like devastating as people present it but like anti weed
Anti weed guys will
Go to unbelievable lengths to defend their position like they'll talk about how it's like
responsible for
Schizophrenia and youth and shit like that. I mean, I know we used to have a very famous
We used to have a very famous anti weed truth or in the chat
Who would who would send me?
printouts of
Google Docs
That he would compile of information of like
like oftentimes black and brown people that were engaging in violent crimes because they
smoked weed.
It was very racialized as well because that's what like reefer madness is, right?
Like that's, a lot of it is like marijuana is this illegal substance that makes the
browns and the scary black people act out in violent ways, very racialized, very racialized
anti-weed narrative, which it certainly contributed to the disparity that we see in our criminal
justice system.
Well, yeah, I got just no issues with weed.
I mean, if you want to smoke it, you can smoke it.
I think there's like a culture that revolves around smoking weed that is somewhat annoying,
it's become so commoditized and therefore there is like a like a funko-pop air to it nowadays.
You know, but that's actually been, that's actually been like fixing itself as well.
I feel like, cause a lot of people have just been like, normies have been like, ew, you're
gross, stop being gross.
And that kind of like, there is a social stigma that rose out of that mentality.
So even on that front, I feel like it's, it's no longer like a real issue, right?
Um, in any case, let's move on.
Let's get to San Francisco, San Francisco, beautiful, beautiful city in California.
Uh, I wish I lived there, unfortunately, very lived up now.
As you guys know, Nacy Pelosi's seat is now vacant.
And there are three top people running for said seat.
You have the establishment California Democratic Party Machine pick, Scott Wiener has been
around, basically occupies the, in the state side, in the state legislature side, the
almost the exact same district in the state, now running for the federal position in the
house of representatives. He's in the top slot. A lot of name recognition. He's like around 40%.
On the second slot you have my pick in this race, Shoy Ka Chakrabarti, the Santa millionaire
who is, who made his millions off of being one of the first engineers at Stripe.
and has been working with leftist politics in this country since 2014-2015, first with Bernie Sanders,
then with Justice Democrats, then with AOC in her first race, where he became AOC's chief of staff.
And he's never really stopped pushing for a new Democratic party.
And then last but not least, you have the San Francisco institutional left's pick, personal
pick, Connie Chen.
Connie Chen is largely inoffensive in my opinion, but she is basically the Mallory McMorro
of this race to give you a comparison that you might understand if you've been paying
close attention to the Abdel El Sayed race.
Scott Wiener is the Haley Stevens in this race, and Shroi Ka Chakrabarti is the Abdu'l-El-Sayed
in this race, and Connie Chen is the Mallory McQuomo in this race, right?
And what I mean by that is, Connie Chen has spent a good deal of time in local San
and Francisco politics being a center left figure.
There's a reason why the unions have endorsed her
is the reason why the institutional left
wanted her to run, right?
However, however,
Connie Chen is the pick of Adam Schiff
and also Nancy Pelosi.
Connie Chen has also attacked me as well. I don't think she's as bad as McMoral. Yeah.
Yeah. I don't, I don't think so either. I, like I said, I, I just like Shoecott more.
And I think Connie Chen is a, is a relatively low friction, inoffensive center left figure
that is not going to move the needle. Okay. Shoecott is the insurgent campaign here
And Kani Chen is not. That's just real, right?
Obviously, it's an entirely different state. It's an entirely different dynamic.
There are, uh, I'm just trying to give you like a, like a reductive comparison.
Okay.
Now, when it comes to Israel,
which is a good litmus test for a lot of these candidates to see exactly how
responsive they are, to see how, uh,
how much they care about maintaining a moral conviction and how much they
want to find a comfortable landing pad for their positions where they're
inoffensive to corporate interests or foreign lobbies, while also, you know,
trying to maintain the broadest base possible. Connie Chen's position on
Israel is that she doesn't want to stop funding Israel's defensive
weapons, right? Obviously, Shoitat from the start has said, I make no
distinction. We need an arms embargo. We need a fighter. I think she would be a decently
reliable vote on the progressive and left issues, but I don't think she would be a big
advocate on advancing the left movement. Yes, that's my estimate as well, but it's
also a little bit of a risk. If you're trying to move this country further and further
left, if you're trying to move the Democratic Party further and further left, you need
fighters. You need people with backbone and you need people with moral conviction. Right?
Why does this community like her then? She's fine with funding genocide. This community
doesn't like Connie Chen. This community likes Shroy Kot. This San Francisco left on the
other hand trust Connie Chen more than they trust Shroy Kot for these reasons. They're
stuck on not just the optics of Shroy Kot Chakrabarti being a centimillionaire, but
But they're also, they're past grievances with Shroykot's San Francisco local politics
funds and where they've gone in eviscerating the local left in San Francisco has caused
them to understandably have some skepticism.
But I think it goes beyond like a healthy criticism or healthy skepticism and moves
into a place where I consider it to be unproductive, and a lot of people get mad at me over it,
but, you know, I have much love for the DSA local chapters regardless, and I'm never,
you know, I'm never going to shit on them, right?
Shorikot back to anti-DSA candidates in the past over local differences.
Shorikot is very pro-housing, and some of them are not in line with that.
Yes, it's the NIMBY-YIMBY distinction.
That is, that is more consequential than religion in San Francisco.
a fucking libtard in San Francisco for the most part and then there's some like further
left people, but the Yimbyism, NIMBYism distinction is literally the most white Muslim terrorist.
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So it's not a consequential issue outside of the city itself.
No, it's not that it's not a consequential issue.
I would say that it's the way that people treat it.
The way that people treat it, they treat it basically like it's Israel-Palestine.
Like they treat that as the real litmus test.
And in many instances, I would say they treat that as a far more consequential litmus test
than Israel-Palestine. And Connie Chen is a great example of this.
Or shortcut Chakrabarti versus Connie Chen is a great example of this
in the assessment that people are making.
I'm confused why this distinction doesn't exist in other cities where in LA where homelessness
and housing are also an issue.
I don't know maybe they don't have the largest like urbanist culture because I do feel like
this is very, the NB Nimbus, I don't want to get into it again.
All right, we've done it already.
I've already described it.
I don't want to talk about it any further because I literally don't have a dog in
this fight.
even public housing. I just want public housing. I don't give a shit. I want more housing.
I also don't want, you know, I, I, there are certain aspects of both NIMBYism and YIMBYism
that I understand. Okay. But there are also certain aspects of both YIMBYism and NIMBYism
that I oppose and despise, which I think is the more correct attitude to have YIMBYism
or NIMBYism is not ideological at all. As a matter of fact, it's not ideology specific.
That's precisely the reason why you have left NIMBYs, not in my backyard, who are socialists
who say we have to seize the existing inventory of housing and give it to the people, right?
But then you also have unbelievably racist old boomers and unbelievably wealthy NIMBYs,
right?
The right NIMBY position is the idea that we can't build homeless shelters or new
housing in this area.
We can't extend certain bus lines because poor people are going to fucking come
to our neighborhood.
We cannot make our neighborhood more accessible to the fucking poverty, to the poor, to the
poverty stricken, right?
To black and brown people.
That's the right NIMBY position.
And then on the YIMBY side, you have the right NIMBY position, right-wing NIMBY position,
yes, in my backyard, which says, real estate developers are God.
We should be literally preaching the gospel of real estate development.
We should be literally kissing the feet of anyone and everyone that ever wants to
spend any money building stuff even if they're building luxury high rises and
condominiums because here is the the the the paper the study from I don't know
like Stanford or Yale or whatever fucking University that has decided that more
development immediately automatically lowers the the the the median housing
market, the median price of rent, okay? And then the left NIMBY position is somewhat similar
to that. They just want to build more. They want to build more. They say, hey, look, like
we should extend these subway lines. We should extend these metro lines. We should extend
these bus lines. We should make a more cohesive, larger city. We should actually up zone
in certain areas. We should reappropriate some of these older, decrepit buildings and build
more housing in general. That's why I have the same attitude on abundance as well, where
there's certain aspects of abundance. There's going to be some instances where bureaucracy
and red tape are actually a significant hurdle to climb. That is fine. You can tackle
certain aspects of housing policy that may not be appropriate any longer, right?
Like, I don't have an issue with upzoning.
I like upzoning.
It's great.
Fuck it.
Who cares?
So that's the reason why I don't have the same like yimby-nimby distinction that a lot
of people have, right?
Where I sometimes find myself in the throes of yimbyism and sometimes in the throes
of nimbyism.
You understand?
I'm a socialist. I think we should decommodify housing. That's what I think. I think we should move in the direction of
decommodification. So it's all of the other stuff is secondary. I think it's stupid. Anyway, whatever. Who gives a fuck?
Um, can you please explain what any of these terms mean? Wait, what do you mean? I just did
I just literally described to you what yes in my backyard not and knowing my backyard not in my backyard means what the fuck
I just got done subscribe so you can rewind the broadcast to hear the takes that I had literally two minutes ago
But yeah, in San Francisco, local politics in an unbelievably busted housing market,
all decisions are downstream of whether you're a Yimbie or whether you're a NIMBY.
Okay, that's what it is. Anyway, subscribe for $6 or for free with
Twitch Prime so you can also see my good takes. If you miss them right as they were coming out,
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Anyway, the reason why I began this journey to describe to you what's going on in this
race is because there are some new updates.
Okay?
You can modify housing would also mean that you're neither NIMBY nor YIMBY in the derogatory
sense.
Both are only considered bad when they're done in isolation without taking the other
steps to protect renters and ensure that people aren't being exploited? Yeah. Where's the jagger
from? Ralph Lauren. Everything I'm wearing is Ralph Lauren. Anonymous gift or thank you for the 25
gift is subs. Okay, so by the way, my criticisms of like decision-making on
on Yimbism versus Nimbism doesn't just extend to the Shaiqat, the Shaiqat truthers, the people
who are not trusting Shaiqat. It also absolutely extends to Shaiqat as well. And I think a
lot of people don't understand that. Like I'm not defending him working to make sure
Dean Preston doesn't win his race. That's a criticism of Shaiqat as well. Do you understand?
Maybe you don't hear that part when I'm talking about this.
So you just assume I'm caping for Shoycott and defending him because I must be like in
the pocket of big stripe Shoycott Chakrabarti and don't think that he is a unique candidate
with a lot of policy knowledge with a fucking think tank.
Wouldn't commodifying housing be a good thing plentiful and readily available am I just using the term wrong?
No, um
No de-commodifying housing would would make it a more protected good
If you just think about it as like oh if the government is controlling housing then there's not gonna be enough
I'm saying
He rat fuck Preston that's a big red flag you ever press him on that I did on this fucking stream as a matter of fact
And his answer was it was Yimbyism, Nimbism politics. It was wrong. Open presence. The
Strait of Hormuz is not open, but our Qatari oiler is in the building. Thank you for the 50
bones. Jesus Christ. Now, the reason why I'm bringing this up is because there's a new update
on the story. Democratic majority for Israel founding member Sam Lautner with positive words
on Connie Chen and Scott Wiener in the race for Pelosi seat says Shroyka Chakrabarti's
supporters from people who aren't in tune with the established progressive community,
but has good name ID, okay.
The MFI founding member, Sam Lautner chiming in here and everywhere with a positive outlook
on Connie Chen, as Nancy Pelosi herself has expressed approval of Connie Chen.
Francisco left. For you, perhaps, the Dean Preston wound is one that you can't overcome.
But if there's any moment to issue a fucking wake-up call for you, if you don't give a shit
about Palestine, that's fine. I mean, it's not fine. I don't think it's fine. But clearly,
if you have no issues with a congressperson who is once again not only making decisions
at the local level, but at the national level, at the federal level, if you absolutely don't
give a fuck about an anti-militarism, anti-imperialism candidate that you want to vote for in San
Francisco, then yes, Connie Chen is a great way to show Shoecott and everybody else how
mad you are still about the Dean Preston stuff. But if you have, if you have understandable
scrutiny towards Shroycott's politics because of his like, uh, decisions in local, uh, San
Francisco politics, okay? If you have, uh, a level of scrutiny that you're applying to
him, you should apply it to fucking Connie Chan as well. Okay. There's already the
Adam Schiff red flag. But beyond that, there's also obviously the red flag with Nancy Pelosi
and now the Democratic majority for Israel.
DmfI founding member Sam Lawler charming in. In a rare interview Thursday night at an
Asian Pacific Islander council event in Hayes Valley, Pelosi broke her silence and
gave us a glowing review of Chan, a handful of Chinese speakers and reporters, a Chinese
speaking reporters were present. Pelosi, the prospect of electing the C's first Asian-American
congressperson, would be very exciting. She said she was delighted to attend Chance Washington DC
fundraiser, where the supervisor was supported by labor groups, Asian-American lawmakers,
and women's advocates. She really, she really did very well there. Pelosi should be a great
member of Congress. Now the Democratic majority for Israel's founding member, Sam Lautner,
also has additional positive words for both Connie Chan and Scott Wiener.
Weiner has a very strong base of frequent voters in the LGBTQ community in the YMB community
and with the majority of moderate by San Francisco standards voters in the city.
Said Sam Lauder, a political strategist with BMWL Public Affairs and a Democratic activist
who sits on the board of the Democratic majority for Israel.
Connie Chan has a passionate base with the politically engaged progressive community
he added.
The unions, for example, this guy, the DMFI, is saying anybody but Shoycott.
is saying anybody with short cut, we're fine with Connie Chan. We're fine with wiener. A
peck did this exact same thing in the Abdul race. They said anybody but Abdul else I add.
That's why I'm saying like this race is shaping out to be a very similar one. Okay. These
guys are recognizing that they have to make concessions now. They have to make concessions
uh... because israel is is uh... electoral poison
in the eyes of the broader public people don't fuck with israel any longer
and now
israel's own on voice
in american politics
have to make these decisions
have to make these new decisions where they have to offer some concession so
now
they're fine with uh... you know like progressive candidates
that are more malleable
because they don't have moral conviction on these sorts of issues specifically
foreign policy
i wish khani chen
was as bold and as brave
as she is on nimby ism
uh... as she was on you know the issue of israel palestine or american foreign
policy or litany of other issues but she's not
you understand
that's it to me that says something
To me, that says something that says that you can be bought and you can be sold.
To me, that says you are responsive to the interests of not only corporations, you're
responsive to your voter base too for sure.
And you have moral convictions when it comes to certain policies.
But when it comes to other policies, you are utterly devoid of having moral conviction
And therefore, you are malleable, therefore, you are a bit of an opportunist, guys like this, will hurt your feelings later down the line.
Okay?
That's it.
You want Americans to care about geopolitics is asking too much.
No, but this is something that people care about.
This is something that people care about.
That's why I'm just like trying to remind people that this is something that you said
you care about.
And I'm also tying it back to something that you do care about.
Every Americans at the end of the day wants to have a new type of politics.
They want fighters.
They want people who will bring the fight not only to the Republican side, but even to
the Democratic establishment as well.
Shoyka presents that difference.
He presents that change.
He represents it.
Connie Chan, on the other hand, doesn't.
And it's a pretty reliable litmus test for that reason.
Even if it's not just about Gaza, it's about everything else.
Do I have to remind you of the Ta-Nehisi Coates statement?
How can you expect a party that won't stop a genocide to actually fight for democracy
if they won't fight to end a genocide that they're not going to fight to maintain and
preserve democracy?
It's that simple, okay?
That's why it's a really reliable litmus test.
And this is a big difference and that's precisely the reason why the MFI has noticed that big
difference and sees it as an opportunity.
The MFI Democratic majority for Israel sees Connie Chen as a malleable figure.
And that's the reason why they're defending her.
Chakra Bharti's support seems to be coming from people who haven't to date frequently
turned out to vote.
Progressives who aren't in tune with the established progressive community said, having
said that he certainly has increased his name recognition significantly with his personal
spending loader added, I think he has a very good shot at being in the final
too.
Note, all three go beyond Pelosi on Israel's genocide in Gaza. All three support cutting
so-called offensive weapons to Israel. Chan supports defensive ones only if they're attached
to Gaza. Plus, if Israel's forced to comply with ceasefire, shocker Barty supports cutting
all weapons. We know he's obviously lying. Chan supports to the left of AOCs. I don't
agree with that. That's ridiculous. And then this guy goes, Shroycock can say whatever
he wants because he's self-financing his campaign from his tech fortune. Oh really? So you're
openly admitting that I guess because he's a rich guy, he doesn't have to be beholden
to corporate interests. Very interesting that your criticism of Shoyka Chakra Bharti
reads very much like a defense of the independence that he has here. Very interesting.
But yeah, that's it. That's it. That's the take I wanted to get in front of you guys
for a brief moment here. At the end of the day, I don't even think like the San Francisco
left is going to be the mover in the primaries, right? I don't think that's the case regardless.
But I think in the general, hopefully, if Schroekat wins, it's going to be very important
to muster up all the forces, all the progressive forces, all of the left forces in the city
to engage in door knocking and to ensure that Scott Wiener does not win.
To ensure that Scott Wiener does not win this seat that he will occupy for 40 plus
years. Okay? San Francisco cannot give a W to a guy who literally went to Israel after
October 7 and defended Israel until like last week, basically, until a couple months ago,
who even said Israel's not committing a genocide when asked about it directly, only to then
change his attitude on it. You know he's fucking, you know, you know what his real
position is, and you've also now found out that he's willing to fucking lie to you in
order to win your vote.
What more do you need?
Have you considered he's like six foot eight though and looks 20 years younger than he is?
I have considered that it's freakish, but it's fine.
I mean, I'm six four, so.
You're just a frat boy, larp or lamal.
You're basically the equivalent of a leftist Trump talking out of your ass while being
a massive hypocrite, not paying your mods or editors while having the most stupid takes
possible.
Also, I'm waiting for a paycheck from Israel as your mods will probably Sam Israeli Lamau.
So here's what I don't understand.
Do you like?
First of all, you just made all of this stuff up, obviously.
But even in your hypothetical scenario, you also hate the mods.
So what is it?
And also, I want to thank you for this comparison because Trump is probably the
most successful American politician in the last two decades, maybe three.
Ronald Reagan I would say he was able to single-handedly change American politics in an unbelievably
horrifyingly bad direction, but he was a a change candidate nonetheless.
He has accelerated America's demise in many respects, but still probably one of the
most singularly, singularly successful politicians.
Yeah.
Yeah, in this incoherent ramble, you ended up accidentally giving me a far too much credit in my opinion.
Now, the reason why I also say this is because like sometimes we'll be like, oh, this is the left tea party.
Yeah, except it's good. Okay. Except on the policy side, that means it's good. On the
politics side, it's unbelievably good. I mean, the Tea Party was a Ashutur movement backed
by billionaires, and therefore it was obviously a lot easier for them to grow within the
ranks of the Republican Party because the Koch brothers started it, right? However, if
we're talking about like a movement as an insurgency that moves the party in a
more responsive direction, responsive to its own base, then yeah, fantastic.
There's been a significant increase in Osborne, including people I know who were not previously
vocal defenders of Israel and social media. I think it's an attempt to counter the
New York Times' op-ed about sexual violence against Palestinians and Israeli prisons. Yeah, I know.
Anyway, thank you for giving us your feedback, but then also running away.
Anyway, where was I?
You ever consider that you're arguing with AI bots? Maybe. They're calling it the most
normal smear campaign ever. Yeah, I know. I'm going to talk about this as well. Where
the hell is the suit? No suit for today. 100K views on BDBD. Some netizens disagree with
your take? Oh, no.
Asana dollars from visit China, video proof of me watching flag raising ceremony.
Don't say I'm not Chinese anymore.
Asa's level is still a bit lacking.
One one weapons who cares don't buy the best if bought first.
How much tangible benefit has been given after so many years?
Second, the more one one bleeds for the US, the worse the living standards
and the faster the reunification will come.
The darkness before dawn is something we have to endure as for the straight
Iran straight, whether it reconciles or not reconciliation can boost the
economy, but without reconciliation is just the same.
Currently, first, we aren't restricting oil purchases, and second, if global oil prices
rise at worst, we all face inflation together, I guess it's more desperate.
He's got such a narrow view, China doesn't care what Donald Trump did before, but what
he's going to do now between nations' only interest and well-being matter, he fails
to grasp a fundamental issue, whether King Novidal's tenure is more beneficial or detrimental
to us.
I believe the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.
Yeah, the reason why we're in disagreement, which is a unique moment, because Chinese
netizens usually love my takes is because I'm not looking at it just as like what's beneficial
for China in the interim. I'm not Chinese. I mean, I love saying I'm Chinese or white
Chinese. I think China has done tremendously well in the last couple of decades, especially
I love Chinese development. I want to implement a bunch of the policies in China. And I
think this is a very Chinese attitude to have, which I think a lot of Chinese netizens
will agree with me on this, is that to each their own, you know, you can have socialism
with Chinese characteristics, you can have socialism with American characteristics, some
of the stuff that work in China might not work in the United States of America and
vice versa, right? And China understands that better than anybody else. However, however,
my analysis on, you know, what decisions Xi Jinping is making, which once again,
I always will add is just my own personal analysis.
The fuck do I know?
I mean, obviously, he has many considerations here.
He is responsible for the well-being of 1.4 billion Chinese people, right?
First and foremost, as opposed to my assessment, which is a more internationalist framework
that I'm operating off of, is that there are going to be, you know, my assessment
comes from an international framework. Xi Jinping's assessment and the Chinese netizens assessment
here is most likely coming from a pro-China perspective. It's their Chinese.
He fails to grasp a fundamental issue. As for other negotiable issues, let's leave them
the king note all. At least we must secure the midterm elections of founding. Otherwise,
how are we supposed to engage in political battles with the Democratic Party for the
remaining two plus years? What do you think? This round is just a safe face for Donald
Trump, but there's probably little consensus in actual deals. Donald Trump's credibility
can't be redeemed with a shared bike. Also not be superficial understanding of China is still better
than most Americans perception of China, which shows how deeply the average American public
misunderstands China. Because Donald Trump is someone who if you give him an inch he thinks
he could take a mile, so you need to strike a balance where you don't give him too much leeway,
yet he can't find folk with you. Make them feel valued, but don't demean yourself.
There's like one of these, I feel like, I feel like the Chinese
Chinese negotiation techniques are pretty similar to the Chinese Empire's negotiation techniques
in some respects.
One of the things is if your enemy is weak, then flatter him.
If your enemy is strong, then diminish him.
If you have a strong foreign adversary that you are meeting, you try to embarrass them
to the best of your ability by doing certain things so that they feel unwanted and no longer
can negotiate from a stronger position. If your enemy is or if your adversary is a weakened
adversary to begin with, you hold the Orientalism. Dude, this is the one area where I feel like
is not Orientalism, I would go so far say Confucianism as a fucking principle has, has
remained calcified in many aspects of Chinese governance and Chinese culture, and it's been
thousands of years at this point, is not fucking Orientalism, it's just an accurate
assessment as a white guy from afar, okay? This is the one area where it's not fucking
Orientalism, like they, they do really ride for this shit, and they have seen some
of the benefits of this as well. I fucking hate all the Western News article says she's
court the dragon. I'm not doing that stuff. I'm not doing that stuff at all. But to varying
degrees like, you know, Confucianism's cultural relevance and significance has remained, right?
But
So, I think that's the goal here, the flattery for Trump on the one hand, like the direct
flattery for Trump has worked.
It has worked because they know exactly how to fucking play him like a fiddle, okay?
They know China more than anybody else, obviously values diplomacy quite a bit, value stability
quite a bit, and they know exactly how to flatter Donald Trump, and it fucking worked.
I don't even think that's a bad thing.
I think this is a good thing.
I want to chart a different path forward with China, one that is collaborative in nature,
one that is not creating unnecessary tension, unnecessary friction, one that revolves around
cooperation, mutual respect for one another, understanding one another's goals and ambitions,
Whereas the American perspective for the longest time has been a single-minded, singularly focused
on waging war with China.
Well, now China is so strong that even many American analysts are starting to recognize
that we might have to bite off a lot more than we can chew, okay?
That's the reason why you're hearing from so many different American analysts and people
have worked in the CIA, people that are former generals, that this is an unbelievable mistake.
You're putting good money after bad if you think that you can actually catch up to China
with all the defense bloat that we have. I think that Chinese development might yield
a more peaceful path, a more peaceful future by force.
But when I say by force, I don't even mean by like direct military,
direct military intervention or like going to war with China directly.
I mean, by force is in like creating, creating enough leverage and enough deterrence
with your vast forces and with your productive capabilities that you cause
the United States of America to second-guess, and you cause the United States of
America to make more restrained choices in its military adventurism all around
the world and certainly against China.
This is a good thing, not a bad thing.
So on that note, let's get into all of the coverage from my favorite subject, obviously.
Trump meets Xi Jinping in high stakes Beijing summit.
So I have a very different approach, I think, than many Democrats do, certainly on this
issue.
I think this is good.
I think this summit so far has been very good.
It's been good for a couple different reasons.
One, a lot of Fox News people finally went to China and got to experience like regular
everyday Chinese experiences and showing that to boomers is probably really good because
boomers think China is a peasant country, okay?
Obviously every single person in my community has a very different attitude because I literally
went to China.
I talk about China quite a bit.
about Chinese development quite a bit. So you've actually seen it. Okay, you've actually
seen it personally when you watched me do live streams in China, right? In Beijing and Shanghai
and Chongqing and Chengdu and also in Hong Kong. But most Americans think China is run
by an agrarian peasant society that is still working at the rice paddy. It is backwards
that's like not dissimilar to the DPRK and our understanding of DPRK is probably
also different than what the DPRK looks like as well. Obviously, I'm not, you know, saying
it's, it's fantastic. But like Americans are very sheltered when it comes to the way
that they learn about our foreign adversaries. So when you have Brett Bayer on Fox news
in prime time, going up to like Chinese stores and be like, look at this, this is
a robot serving me a fucking sausage. A lot of boomers are going to be like,
Oh my God, they are so goddamn advanced!
Go inside, this is the first of its kind
for this kind of interaction.
If you wanna order something, hello,
can I get a sausage, please?
Okay, coach on 8.81.
This is, go inside.
Oh, baby.
Yeah, also there's a really funny,
There's a very funny clip of Brett Bayer has been the hero of this trip. Okay. It's been
very funny watching him go through the motions of like everyday Chinese existence. It's really
funny. While Fox is complaining they got a ticket for illegal parking. This is what
his team is doing. Beijing resident spotted this and uploaded to Douyin. Fox News Brett
Bayer filming in the middle of busy traffic.
By the way, that is insanely dangerous. Okay. Even fucking walking on regular sidewalks without
paying attention to scooters whizzing by is dangerous. And this motherfuckers on the bike
lane. I don't even know. This is probably one of the most dangerous things Brett
Bayer has done in his career. And I'm telling you, as someone who is there, even walking
on the sidewalks without paying attention to the electric scooters that are unbelievably
silent whizzing past you at like 30 miles an hour, the fact that the fact that he's
walking in the middle of the goddamn bike lane is insane to me. Okay. Those mopeds, they're
gonna take him out. An 85 year old Chinese auntie is going to kill Brett Bayer if he keeps this shit up.
Yeah. Brett Bayer also complained about getting a ticket. They complained about flock cameras. Well,
the Chinese version of flock cameras, that's also very funny. A couple things that I obviously
also experienced was like that there is definitely a lot of surveillance that's in your face
in Beijing especially. Definitely in a lot of major Chinese cities as well, but certainly
in Beijing, there is an environment of tension. Beijing is a very, I would say, uptight city in
comparison to many of the other Chinese cities that I experienced. Shanghai is very Western-facing.
If you're really into like a Western cosmopolitan, there's something for everybody in China,
because it's so vast, it's so large, and there are so many significant cultural differences from
city to city. If you like Western-style cities, you will love Shanghai. That was, you know,
Austin's favorite. Or Hong Kong as well, if you like, you know, Hong Kong cinema, for example.
I liked Chongqing and Chengdu the most. Probably Chengdu was my favorite, because there are very
different, like very distinct cultural attitudes in these different cities. And I think Chongqing
and Chengdu were, you know, like real Chinese cities as opposed to like Beijing is basically like
Washington DC in many respects, very uptight, it's very serious, and there is definitely an
environment of tension where you're like, I don't want to fuck up, I don't want to do something wrong
here. And I didn't feel that way in Chongqing or Chengdu at all.
Nah, Beijing is a really real city. No, it is a really real city, but it's also, I mean, it's
the heart, right? Perhaps I didn't get a good shake of Beijing as well, because it was the
first city that we were in, maybe we were tense for that reason, but that was my experience with
Beijing. It's just very, very uptight, very corporate, or very, not even corporate necessarily,
but just like very party-centric, if that makes sense. Now, there's a distinction here, okay?
American surveillance is covert. Chinese surveillance, on the other hand, is overt.
Chinese surveillance is in your face. American surveillance is not so much in your face with
the exception of flock cameras and things like that. Right? And I find that very, I find that
very interesting. Okay. Um, obviously Brett Bayer is, um, you know, uh, uh, American literally,
those are already low. You can get a ticket in a mall in multiple cities due to automated cameras.
Yeah. Um, Fox news crew in Beijing got ticketed by CCP surveillance cameras after illegally
parking for just two minutes. I have a lot of opinions on this, okay? In fact, because
on the one hand, the overt surveillance that's like constantly in your face in Beijing, especially,
is an interesting culture shock for many Americans. And yet, the things that they're
fucking complaining about here are things that Fox News would absolutely want, like Fox News viewers
would actually want here American style and in some respects it already exists in the United States of America
You think the Fox News boomers don't want a permanent surveillance state to ensure that every single criminal is
Instantly booked and ticketed and actually go to fucking prison. What are you talking about?
out. What the fuck are you talking about? You're, you're mad that they have insta cameras
and insta ticketing options. Okay. You're telling the boomers the wrong lesson because
if you were, if you were an American boomer and you didn't have these racialized hangups
Because they're doing it Chinese style and therefore scary. You would look at this and go wait. What the fuck are you talking about?
The cities are clean. There's no homelessness. There's no fucking visible crime at all
Great. That's what I want. That's utopian from the perspective of
The the white suburban boomers, right? They literally want that
So it's really funny when these guys look at what china is doing when it's like
These are things that i'm critical of china whether i think it's like a little bit too strict
The the the social engineering that takes place in China is far too strict for my taste. I'm a social libertarian in many respects as a
Westerner, right?
This is the culture that I grew up in. This is the this is the opinions that I have but those fucking boomers
They're treat lorites in every respect. They would love this shit. They would love
the the constant presence of surveillance and
And what that does to crime rates in America, right?
The difference, of course, is we have constant surveillance.
We have constant surveillance, and yet it is not overt but covert.
We have flock cameras.
We have probably a similar level of CCTV density in major cities in the United States
of America.
We certainly do in places like London, for example, to, like the per capita
cc at tb density is is probably fairly fucking high in the united states of america's
law i don't know the exact numbers i wouldn't be
surprise if it is though and especially with the
new invention of of
flock cameras
and and uh... you know pegasus and are not pegasus sorry uh... a palantir
software
and and a i surveillance
we are doing
chinese style surveillance
we're doing chinese style surveillance here in the united states of america
already
our driver
parked illegally for two minutes
and he got a message on his phone
that he got a ticket for about forty bucks u.s
because they saw it
on the camera
now there are real questions with the ccp's goal is about
citizen tracking and social scoring
they say it's to make everybody dog you're there stop with the social scoring
you know it doesn't exist man jesus christ go talk to any chinese person
please
chinese people make jokes about social credit on
chinese social media
to make jokes about how fucking stupid Americans are, by the way.
They literally post that one wall of shame that they have
where people crosswalk, or people jaywalk on a crosswalk,
and it just like, poop, immediately takes a photo of you
and puts it on the wall of shame.
They literally post that, on Douyan and shit,
to be like, see, this is the social credit wall
that Americans think is fucking, you know, social credit.
Also, we, unironically, do have social credit.
They don't.
We do.
That's what's so funny about it.
We're like, oh, imagine having social credits as a system.
Imagine having a social credit system.
How dystopian.
Bitch, we have it.
They don't even have it.
Every time there's like a regional pilot program that takes place in a country with
1.4 billion people, okay?
And then the federal government's like, we don't like this.
this program. That's what, that's literally what happened with the social credit system.
It was for businesses in a certain area. It was a social credit system for specifically
businesses in one fucking region. It never got implemented at the federal level, and
Americans still talk about it endlessly. If you want actually a federal system that
is restrictive, and Americans would probably look at as dystopian, look at the, look
Look at the hookah system, okay?
That's one area that needs reform, in my opinion.
It was perhaps very restrictive at the time, but maybe even beneficial for development.
I don't know.
And the current system, the current hookah system is just more so about like region
locking you for social benefits that you get, okay?
I mean, you just said there was a ton of surveillance.
Yeah.
No, I know. I'm saying it made me uncomfortable, but boomers would probably love that shit and boomers probably don't even recognize we have that shit. It makes me uncomfortable in America, too.
Who co-system is being reformed? A lot of Western leftists don't understand the changes that have been made to it in the past. They get, no, I know, I know, I know.
You feel safe. These cameras are watching every minute. They're everywhere. And while
they're watching us here in China, we hope you continue to watch Special Report from
Beijing.
As it is so cool, we have flock cameras and no high speed rail or interest in developing
our infrastructure. We also literally do have this exact same system. Like I said,
We have the flock cameras, we have mass surveillance, like always on constant mass surveillance
and AI tracking on top of that in the United States of America.
Anyway, doesn't Rywin Cope hate you?
I don't think he hates me as much anymore.
I think a lot of people have a lot of former liberals like former destiny
acolytes have over time reformed on their, uh, undying hatred for me.
And I think part of that is because they realized that like maybe destiny
wasn't the best person and were, was kind of lying to all of them about
a bunch of other shit and just was an overall bad person.
So that, uh, cleared up some of the, uh, some of the negative framing
that they had experienced, uh, some of the negative framing that
they had seen over and over again about someone like myself.
That's what it feels like to me.
I think most people are too used to their perceived freedom in most European countries.
The criminal code is super bloated with piracy, even getting you prison time.
They don't realize how often they break the law because there isn't strict
enforcement. Usually there's a lot more leniency in many respects in the
Western world as well. Yes. I think a lot of it is they were genuine and wanting fighters
in the same shift in the base happened with them. They're just lives. Yeah. Oh yeah. Yeah,
that too. One of the main stalkers you had that work with them turned on him and now and
doesn't hate you really. Yeah, I know. I think that they just have been burned so much
Sexpestity's community is tiny for the most part, but he has a lot of
he has a lot of like loyal orbiters that they they self-described orbiters that have like their
micro-influencers. Some of them actually have like fairly prominent platforms as well and
over the years he's like fucked them over so viciously and in sometimes even like in criminal
manner basically doxing them, humiliating them, bullying them that many of them realize like
like, oh, this is like genuinely a fucking bad person. And it caused them to second guess
their, like their, their previous opinions about even someone like myself, because like
so much of his community is born around like this built resentment around who I am and what I
represent in American politics being like cancerous from their perspective. And, and he'll go to
all lengths to basically disparage and lie about his opposition.
And and once those guys basically found themselves in a similar predicament where they were also his opposition
They were like, oh wait, he just fucking lies about everything. He's lying about me this way
So it might have been lying about Hassan as well
And I think that's what caused a lot of people to change their perspective
So Brett Bayer had that take as well on the on the flock shit, but let's take a look at this
the first. Big brother is
watching. There are literally
cameras everywhere in Beijing.
We are outside the Hadian
station, and I can count at
least 20 on this corner. In
fact, in Beijing, they've added
1500 cameras just this year
alone. They see everything.
There's nobody jaywalking here
because they could get a ticket
right away. In fact, our
driver parked illegally for
that he got a ticket for about 40 bucks US. Anyway, so yeah, you parked illegally bitch.
Eat that fucking ticket. This was an incredible moment for me, by the way, Stephen Schoen,
My favorite Trump loyalist, my favorite character from the Trump regime is Stephen Chung.
He is so perfectly shaped.
I can't even say he's rotund because he's more so angular, if that makes sense.
And I love him.
I love him so much.
And I think you guys know this.
I've talked about it quite a bit.
This is Trump's media guy, obviously.
He's the White House comms director.
And I think he is an incredible person.
Okay, I
He is so perfect. He is the most perfectly shaped guy of all time. Yes. He is flats the flounder
He is so flats the flounder shaped
And I love that I personally love that and I'm not alone in that love look at Xi Jinping's face
He's like admiring Steven Chung's size. He's admiring the fact that Steven Chung is a human being
This was a job before the White House. Yeah, he is admiring him like look he's like how can a human being shape himself like this I
Personally think if I had power
If I had any power I
I would probably hire Yakuza bosses like this, okay?
I would probably find myself hiring people that just look so comical, you know, like
henchmen coded for really weird positions too.
In the same way that Donald Trump has, he says, what have they been feeding you, comrade?
You got it, boss, physiognomy.
It's incredible. He is incredible. I'm not even joking about this. Like, I don't, I don't need
to joke about this. I'm being so sincere. He is incredible. He is so perfect in every way. Okay.
maybe my worst take i think this frustrates people when i say like how much i fucking
love steven shun but he is the top chud because he he he's just so chud shaped as well he
is the peak hench build oh god i wish i knew more people like that i wish i had more people
like that in my life. Okay, yeah, you don't wake up looking like this is dedication like
he is dedicated to craft. So yeah, echoes of when Mal met Kissinger's tall wife. No,
literally, that's what I was thinking to look like this is a very famous moment where
Mal goes, Oh my God, your wife is so fucking tall. Look at his face. Wait, it's coming.
It's coming. It's coming. Watch this.
He's like, what?
And remember, Mao is fairly tall. He's like six foot one, fairly tall guy.
And he is in awe. He's like, what the fuck? He goes, that's your wife.
And Henry's like, yep, that's my tall ass wife, man.
That is literally what happened here, okay?
That is what happened here.
It's the same shit.
You laugh now, but he's gonna make bank on Weight Watch that can't be in a cyberpunk
dystopian future.
Stephen Chung, he will never lose the weight.
Get the fuck out of here.
you say that he will lose his perfect shape. I hope it never happens. Okay. I hope that never happens.
That is a disaster of epic proportions. Anyway, Bolsonaro news production company,
Bolsonaro movie left an unpaid coffee tab of 5k. Okay, dude, come on. Come on, lock in. All right.
Yes, Bolsonaro is a crook.
She's six feet.
He's five foot 11.
Mao was five foot 11.
I thought Mao was like six one.
He was a lot taller in the in the real life sculpture
that I saw in the Chinese.
What is it called?
What was the museum that I went to?
The wax museum?
Oh, it's a joke.
Oh, oh, oh, you're making the six foot 511 joke.
Okay.
Nam-Mao, is it over six?
No, he is.
Sorry, I got really autistic.
If you test me on, if you test me on, you know,
cultural forces, historical figures from Chinese history,
I will get really autistic for a second.
All right.
Let's get back to this now.
I stake handshake between superpowers.
Chinese President Xi welcoming President Trump back to China for the first time in nearly a decade.
Rolling out the red carpet.
Chinese children there to greet Trump after the pump Trump heaping praise on Xi.
You're a great leader.
Sometimes people don't like me saying it, but I say it anyway because it's true.
Sitting with their-
That was such an Austin moment when I heard that. I couldn't believe it.
I have many people I always say China is beautiful a lot of people don't like it
But I say it anyway. I shouldn't say it, but it's true
I
Shouldn't say it, but it's true
May Allah awaken the people and help them to see the evil doings of Israel and the United States
Delegations at an expansive negotiating table, Xi sang they should be partners, not adversaries,
that their common interests outweigh their differences.
But the pleasantries a stark contrast to the challenges facing this critical relationship.
In their over two-hour meeting, Xi delivering a stark warning to Trump about Taiwan, which
Beijing claims is its own territory.
According to China's state media, Xi telling Trump if the issue is handled clearly,
two countries will collide, or even clash. Trump tight-lipped.
Dude, by the way, it has been an unbelievable pleasure seeing Trump forced into submission
and seeing him act like a normal politician, okay? You rarely ever get to see it. Even
Even with Putin, you don't get to see him behave like a real politician.
He's like a child.
Okay?
I mean, he's like a child all the time, but he's like a bad child that is actually forced
to behave like a good child for once.
You know what I'm talking about?
I'm sure you have like some relatives who are very spoiled or something, you know what
I mean?
They, they, in an unexpected moment, because they want to have ice cream, or like a toy,
they're told you have to behave for the duration of this event, and then they just sit quietly,
very stiff, more stiff than they've ever been, okay? And they, they just, they wait like an
obedient puppy for the treat, right? And, and that's what's going on here with Donald Trump.
it's been a fucking phenomenal thing to observe from afar. He was so good.
You know how people say, oh, Trump became presidential in this moment or that moment
when he bombed Afghanistan, he became presidential, whatever. This was one of the few instances
where he was forced to behave like a fucking president. I've never seen anything like it.
With Ukraine, he certainly isn't presidential. With Vladimir Putin, he is not presidential.
He reduces himself with Vladimir Putin to a certain degree where it's like humiliating.
This is perfect, okay? It was the perfect amount. I could not fucking believe it.
I could not, I've never seen Trump like this before. I was looking back in his 2017 visit to
see if there was like similarities, but he was a lot different back then overall.
This is the only time where I've seen him not fuck up, okay?
It's genuinely shocking after 10 years of Trump madness to watch him sit and stand next to
to a global force where he has to straight up act right.
Trump hoped to use their sit-down to seal deals on trade and technology, bringing along
with him over a dozen American business leaders, including Elon Musk and Apple's Tim Cook.
But those ambitions overshadowed by the ongoing war with Iran.
China is one of Iran's closest allies, buying more Iranian oil than any other country.
And while Trump has said he-
By the way, they know how to fucking gas him, okay?
The song YMCA will be played at the state bank over the Trump visit.
They know how to gas him so good.
The children, the little kids that were waving the American flags and chains.
First of all, this is a very like Eastern thing, like Eastern country thing.
For those of you who don't know, look, I grew up in Turkey.
And you know children are the future is like a very important part of the the whole
The whole ordeal where we have like a like an international children's day, you know what I mean, so
In America, there's like a like a very weird gross
Association with like involving children and politics in this way
I didn't grow up in that environment in that culture at all
So like it might come across as weird for a lot of Americans when they see like
like little kids waving flags, but like, so the attitude in many parts of the world, not
in the West for the Malsparpa, in many parts of the world, is this idea that like, children
are the future, okay, and that children don't have the same, like, violent worldview, the
worldview, a born out of conflict. So like the idea is that the next generation, our children
are going to merge the world that they all, their, their, their perspective is, is an internationalist
one automatically. Okay. Children are stupid. You mean, of course, the cynical 96 would
say the children are stupid. Perhaps the better way to look at it is that children
haven't been destroyed by capitalist indoctrination and and a theory of conflict even offensive
realism that that we've learned to implement and develop and and believe okay
but yeah Trump love this shit okay they're waving the American flag and the Chinese
flag and they're doing it in unison. They're organized.
Look at him. He fucking loves it. He loves it. Which by the way, for the record, not
Not only is, there's two different Chinese cultural forces at play here.
One, children of the future, they have a hope for a better tomorrow.
This is not just a Chinese attitude either.
I've definitely grown up in this environment in Turkey as well.
But the other one is mutual prosperity.
The concept of, you like, mutual understanding and, you know, wanting to, wanting to create
uh... an environment of of peace charting uh... a more peaceful path forward
through diplomacy
uh... this is not just a chinese attitude but it's certainly one that is
like uh... you know very
important in china as well
america used to do this as well to a certain degree with other countries as
why we have like sister cities
uh... we have we have sister cities and and
uh... like mutual uh... you know like
like an environment of mutual understanding and trying to develop some kind of cultural
cross promotion and collaboration.
So that's what this is, right?
And the Chinese certainly want that, right?
This is like a thing that I definitely saw in China personally.
It's something that many other countries have always done.
I do think that the world has, in the accelerated neoliberal, unipolar American hegemony, the
world has grown dark, I would say.
This was definitely a thing, even in the Cold War, in the 60s, 70s, 80s, and post-90s
in the aftermath of the Cold War, I think this attitude started shifting, where we
lost sight of an internationalist framework, where in many respects everything was global,
but also there was a much more pessimistic attitude about a much more cynical attitude
about, you know, mutual understanding and trying to chart a more peaceful path forward.
The Chinese never gave up on that, okay? So this is like an old world mentality,
But in some respects, this was the fundamental principle of the West as well.
This was like Western liberalism was all about, even if they didn't fully subscribe to it,
or even if they were insincere in their advancement of this kind of idea.
This notion is literally what the Western world was developed around, right?
It worked. And it worked. Okay, this was unbelievably successful. It was so successful. This as
well was so successful. Trump brought it up in the first meeting that they had where
he was like the kids, they were so wonderful. Obviously we're all making jokes, you know,
you know, he's an Epstein affiliate, but it did actually, it did actually work in buttering Trump up.
Right. And he said he had a bunch of different moments in the Beijing summit so far
that were very interesting. I will get to them talking about, you know, Chinese food.
For example, there's like funny moments as well. But here's some of the other top line
moments.
Doesn't need President Xi's help to end the war, his own Secretary of State saying
it topped the agenda. Trump pressing China to urge Iran back to the table and to
reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
We hope to convince them to play a more active role in getting Iran to walk away from what
they're doing now and trying to do now in the Persian Gulf.
This morning the White House saying the two sides agreed that the Strait of Hormuz must
remain open to support the free flow of energy.
Iran's chokehold on the Strait now strangling the global economy.
Another recognition of weakness from the American side is going to your number one
foreign adversary and basically begging them to help you untangle a quagmire that you found
yourself in because Israel pushed you into bombing Iran.
There's no way to look at this as anything but an unambiguous humiliation, an unambiguous
This defeat, America is being humiliated by a middle power, a regional power.
Iran is winning.
Iran has won.
It's now up to us to recognize that fact and move differently.
Sending gas prices soaring back home and inflation spiking.
Americans' budgets stretching thinner and thinner.
Los Angeles Wednesday, more than 2000 families lining up at a food distribution center before
supplies ran out.
It's really bad that's why we're here.
You know prices are going sky high, everything's really pricey, even the gas and everything
so it makes it a little bit hard.
And the two leaders wrapping up their first day with a lavish state banquet here toasting
to their special...
dude who's got the bread lines now the American like if you were to tell me when I was growing
up that there was going to be a moment where the leader of the United States of America
would be going to a communist country run by the communist party to beg them for help financial
aid, financial assistance, assistance in, you know, geopolitical incidents that they've
caused.
And there were food banks or bread lines taking shape in the United States of America as the
communist country they were going to had a much more positive trajectory.
Most people would laugh at you for that.
They'd be like, the fuck are you talking about?
The fuck?
What do you mean?
America as opposed to the the the community country. What are you crazy?
Brother is it a communist or state capitalist it is run by a communist party, okay?
It is run by it is a country run by a communist party is a transitional social estate. They have
tremendous controls
overflows of capital
Where capital does not dominate the country the country dominates capital. That's a major distinction
Okay.
In any case, let's continue.
and President Trump are turning the favor,
just inviting President Xi to visit
the White House at the end of September.
Now, tomorrow will include another round of meetings,
but it remains to be seen if they're
making any real progress on the thorny...
Lenin is turning in his grave. What do you mean?
Lenin himself was more cognizant of the reality
of state monopoly in a transitional period.
What are you talking about?
Issues including trade and, of course, the war in Iran.
Michael.
Yeah, we know if they do, you'll bring it to us, Mary.
We're expecting to see the two leaders face-to-face in this hour, perhaps here a little bit from
them later in the hour, but tell us about what has happened thus far since you've been
on the ground.
Well, so far all we've seen is this very brief vision of President Trump getting off
the plane.
There was some pomp and circumstance.
There was a red carpet.
Exactly what you would imagine President Trump would want arriving in China.
He was greeted by the vice president of China,
which shows how important this trip is,
as well as a delegation on the ground.
There were students with flags,
with the Chinese and American flag.
And then this is the first time
we're going to see the two leaders together.
And this is the first time
they're going to see each other face to face.
And this is really where you're going to see
that big celebration.
And one that President Trump remembers fondly.
This is something that we saw back in 2017,
a difference, of course,
being that Melania Trump was by his side.
He's going to get out of the car and walk face to face with President Xi.
They're going to go down this red carpet.
And of course you can see there the American flag flying.
We're going to listen in right now as we see them on that red carpet,
meeting face to face and shaking hands.
Let's listen and watch.
It's so funny that she doesn't speak English, or at least they say he doesn't.
I think he does.
And obviously Trump doesn't speak Mandarin.
So, there's no...
He definitely does.
He fucking visited the Golden Gate Bridge when he was 32, and then visited Iowa when
he was VP.
I think when he was VP, right?
Like, he's been to America.
He's a lot more familiar with American culture, American works, than Trump is with anything
China related.
But this is always the case.
This is something that a lot of people do not understand in the United States of America.
There's a reason why I, a Turkish-American citizen who literally fucking grew up in Turkey
for the first 18 years of my life, and until like next year when I turned 36, will have
spent more of my life on Turkish soil than American soil, okay?
Have a profound grasp of American culture.
Every other international citizen has to understand American culture because America has been the
domineering force around the world. Maybe our children will probably look at Chinese culture
in a similar way.
So, Kristen, as we're watching these images of President Trump walking down this rope line
of what looks like Chinese dignitaries, one thing I am noticing, and I wonder if you have
some insights into this, is that it does not appear to be any, maybe or many, Western
press in close proximity to the president right now.
Is that your understanding of what's happening in this moment?
There is a small presence that is in that great hall.
The press pool that traveled with the White House was given an option, at least some of
us were given an option to go there.
There are increased rules, obviously, in China when it comes to the press.
And for a lot of us, it was not going to be possible for us to actually broadcast
from that location in real time, which is why there aren't a lot of networks there.
Remember, the U.S. press pool has been credentialed by the White House and by China, essentially
told by the White House that these are the people traveling with the president so you'll
see some of them on the ground there. It is a handful of people but you know it is a small
footprint that we have here among western journalists that are on the ground.
Look at that. Look at that fucking beauty. Just look at that beautiful man.
I feel like he's something beyond man right like I don't want to even call him a man.
Look at that beautiful specimen.
Specimen is a better word for Steven Chung.
God damn is he fucking pretty.
Oh, what a beaut.
Oh, I have so much love for people that just look like their cartoons.
Okay.
He is he is cartoon shaped.
I will say, you know, one of the interesting things I'm seeing here too is the body language
between the two men, President Trump kind of grasping President Xi's hand when they
were shaking hands, showing a lot of familiarity.
I mean, President Trump is one who really kind of dotes on this relationship.
He's often praising how close they are, how they get along.
And you can see him really living that in real time with President Xi kind of showing
that closeness. And he is not somebody who really shows a lot of affection and who's
sitting there patting his hand. So that was an interesting moment. You can see here now
President Xi is shaking hands with...
Yes, I have the Xi Jinping mojito story. I know he loves Ernest Hemingway here. Here.
Xi Jinping is more American than most Americans from a 2015 speech. The Chinese people have
always held American entrepreneurship and creativity in high regards. In my younger
years, I read the Federalist Papers and Thomas Paine's Common Sense. I was interested in
the life story and thinking of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt, and other
American statesmen. By the way, this is very common amongst communist revolutionaries
around the world. Ho Chi Minh is another great example of this as well. Ho Chi Minh
was also unameribu
just so you understand a lot of people
a lot of people hold
the american founders
uh... in great reverence
obviously there are uh... you know plenty of criticisms for the founders
uh... i myself
also have a a similar attitude on it
where i i take the good and the bad
uh... the good end of out of the american revolution
there are numerous schools of marx's thought on the american revolution i
know that's been a
big point of contention on twitter
uh... as of late
because of what a o c said
but uh... regardless
most socialist revolutionaries
communist leaders around the world
hold the american revolution in the american founders and the founding
principles to high regard. In any case, he read the life story and thinking, I was interested
in the life story and thinking of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Roosevelt and other
American statesmen. I also read works of Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain
and Jack London. I was most captivated by Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man in the
Sea and its descriptions of howling wind, driving rain, roaring waves, small boat,
old man and sharks. So when I visited Cuba for the first time, I paid a special visit
to the breakwater in Cojimar where Hemingway wrote the book. And in my second visit to Cuba
I dropped by the bar Hemingway frequented and ordered a mojito, his favorite rum with
mint leaves and ice. I just wanted to feel for myself what was on his mind and what the
place was like as he wrote those stories. I believe that it is always important to
make an effort to get a deep understanding of the cultures and civilizations that are
different from our own. This is something that I try to urge others to do as well in
the United States of America. This is one of the things that I try to get you guys to
do all the time to deepen your understanding of other cultures, to recognize them as human
beings with different goals and different opinions or similar goals in many respects
as well. Okay? Was it, I believe it was Castro or Che Guevara who said a revolutionary
must learn a revolutionary first and foremost, must educate himself. This is profoundly important.
Okay? It's one of the worst aspects of American culture, how sheltered we are. And I think
it's in many respects the deep-seated white supremacist notion that is fundamental to
the development of Western civilization, that has caused a lot of Americans to refuse
to understand others. Because why do you need to learn about it? You don't need
to learn about it at all. You just need to dominate. As a matter of fact, when you do learn
about other cultures, it makes it harder to dominate them. It makes it harder for you
to recognize them as something less than human, right? This is Western supremacy. It's white
supremacy in general. This is a real problem. And it's been fine for the longest time
for many Americans to not know or not care about other cultures beyond our very own.
As a matter of fact, many Americans, I would say, don't even want to learn about their
own culture.
However, nowadays, the world is changing.
There are other powers around the globe that are competitive with the United States of
America or even with the limited tools that they have, the limited economies that they
have, with the limited productive forces that they have, they are capable of fighting
back against the American Empire. So now, you definitely have to learn. If you want to be
ahead of everybody else, this is something that you should remind yourself. Some of the biases
that you have, some of the biases that you have, as an American citizen, the understanding that
the rest of the world is somehow lesser than us, because look at all the bounties of Western
empire for a century and beyond versus look at our foreign adversaries all around the
world living in squalor, this notion that they haven't been able to develop.
This is a backwards way of thinking, okay?
This has been my secret weapon, and this is a secret weapon that I was fortunately
born into, right? I didn't, I have a profound understanding of American culture. You know,
I see myself as an American, and yet I grew up in Turkey. I'm a dual citizen. And therefore,
growing up in Turkey, with a deep understanding of American culture has given me an internationalist
perspective. And this has been unbelievably beneficial in my commentary, in my analysis,
because when I look at a country like Iran, I don't just automatically assume that they're
backwards and they're animalistic and they're primal and they just hate the Jews or hate America
for no reason. I develop a deeper understanding of where that enmity comes from. And the same goes
for China. Okay, this is very important. A lot of analysts, they read about China endlessly. They
learn about China. But they never choose to understand China from a Chinese perspective.
And that is the reason why they always have horse blinders. They think, oh, China's just building
these cities or ghost cities. That's what they used to say in the 2010s. Oh, they're building
these ghost cities to create economic activity or to flex on us to show us that they have some
sort of productive output here. Well, that's very stupid. If you actually just, you know, dug in
and listened to what they were saying at the time, it was very clear what they were doing, right?
The horse blinders that we put on, even in some of the better red people in American society,
some of these analysts that write for foreign policy magazine and the likes of the analysts
that are, you know, that work in these think tanks, they have this horse blinder on where
because of that, no matter how well read they are on China or Chinese history, Chinese military
tactics, Chinese urban planning, they still cannot overcome, they still can't overcome the biases
that they have about China. So they just don't trust it. They don't trust it. They don't
believe what they read. And then, they're constantly, they constantly find themselves,
they constantly find themselves confused. They constantly find themselves
being wronged. Like, they constantly find themselves on the receiving end, or not on the receiving
and what was the what is a better way to explain it. Americans consistently are wrong about China
for this reason, no matter how well read they are. Okay. And it's not just China. It's the same with
Iran. It's the same with Afghanistan. It's the same with Russia. It's the same with the USSR.
Okay. Because biases can be very powerful. Okay.
Okay? If you're unbelievably biased, if you have these major blind spots, if you're perpetually
prejudiced, exactly, you can do the reading, but you'll always be caught blindsided by
what your foreign adversaries are doing, what they're capable of accomplishing. This
is a weakness. This is why I always say bigotry isn't just violent, dangerous, but it's
It's also bad for the person holding the bigoted opinion, okay?
It's cope.
It's stupidity.
When you have these blind spots, you can be the most well-read person, but you still fail
to grasp what's going on in front of you.
So, Geet here says, this is more revealing as a statement of what education was like
and might still be like for Chinese elites than what it says about Xi, aside from the
personal touch about Hemingway.
London stands out very highly regarding communist world as an exemplar of naturalism and for
his own socialism in those terms Hemingway was a continuation of London while Thoreau,
Whitman, Twain can be seen as forming a line of enlightened progressive democratic writers.
My greatest superpower in analysis is not dialectical materialism.
Okay. I know a lot of people think that that's the case and that is a very important part of my analysis and the way I see the world, the way I see this global design.
I think my greatest superpower is that it's dialectical materialism paired up with an
internationalist framework, one that actually recognizes that even our adversaries, no matter
how violent they might be presented as, still have a logical through line, right?
Because you can be equipped with the skills of Marxian analysis, okay?
But if you have these unbelievably powerful biases that you learned from, that you learned
since birth basically, like American exceptionalism, the idea, you're talking out of your ass
homie no true Marxist Leninist is an internationalist? There are still plenty of Americans who
consider themselves to be MLs who actually fail on this front, and the reason why is
because biases and perception can cloud your judgment. That is the point I'm trying
to make, okay? Jesus Christ. I know that dialectical materialism is itself an international framework
ontologically, I know. But if you can't apply it to countries that you have seen as adversaries,
both ideological adversaries and just like foreign adversaries that are constantly seeking
out the death and destruction of America, okay, without recognizing that these countries just
want survival, they want dignity, okay, then you're not fully, then you're not fully reaching
the comprehensive adoption of dialectical materialism.
That's my point.
Yes, sure. We can always posture as someone being a fake ML, fake Marxist Leninist, someone
not fully understanding the principled interpretive tools, the principled interpretive approach
within dialectical materialism. But that doesn't mean anything at the end of the day, because
we're talking about fucking human beings and human beings are imperfect and human
beings are always going to be, human beings are always going to be susceptible to social
conditioning.
Human beings are irrational.
My goal is to try to get you to overcome those irrational behaviors.
With the delegation that traveled with President Trump, including some of his top aides, his
son, Eric Trump, Laura Trump, all of them waiting there to meet the Chinese president.
He can't afford to lose in Iran, but the level of escalation is going to have to be pretty
significant and it won't be bombing these missile sites.
He's going to have to take aim at some of the oil and gas sites in Iran, but if
If he does that, that's going to cause a lot of retaliation and lead to higher inflation
in the United States.
So President Trump is boxed in in a lot of ways.
He's trying to find wiggle room.
Maybe this visit can help that, but that's why the stakes are incredibly high.
And as I said before, Americans, Democrats, Republicans, independents, we should all
be rooting for President Trump.
We want President Trump to succeed.
We don't want him to give away the shop.
We don't want him to make unnecessary compromises on Taiwan.
It's great.
going to get purchases of American soybeans and planes, but in exchange, we have to very
aggressively support American interests.
The kids like what you were just saying.
Yeah, what happens when American interests shift?
What then?
Because here's what it is, right?
What happens when America or Americans realize that it's not in America's interests to
consistently saber-rattle against China. What then? Because I don't believe it is in America's
interest to saber-rattle against China. Our foreign adversary that we are reliant on for virtually
every aspect of American domestic production. 30% of all trade. It's ridiculous. It's a sham. It's
a lie. Now obviously this also to a certain degree existed with the USSR as well, but never,
never to this degree. International trade in the aftermath of the Cold War under the
period of global neoliberal control has been very different. It's a complex web that is
unbelievably fragile and Iran has demonstrated its fragility. Everything falls apart if
the system is not working as intended. America, which wrote the rules, America that was the
architect of this global design, is now suffering from its over-reliance on China.
So I say, lean into it. You designed it. China is now beating us at our own game that we designed.
Time to chart a different path forward. It's that simple. And when I say stuff like
people go, what the fuck are you talking about? Oh my God, you're fucking dirty, commie, you love
China, why don't you go live in China, all this shit. But perhaps even Trump has a more realist
perspective here about America's capabilities in a way that is genuinely shocking. But I guess not
so shocking if you know how Donald Trump operates. Donald Trump respects power more
than anything else. And from that framework, he is not ideological whatsoever. As Gabor
Mate was correctly pointing to, Trump is not an ideologically committed fascist. I agree
with that. His actions are fascist because he sees that that is the the most successful
way to secure power in the United States of America, leaning into unexamined racial
wounds. For example, white supremacy has always been an unbelievable force of galvanizing
the working class, the lump and pearls, the reactionaries alike, and he's done that, but
he's not in the same way that like Stephen Miller is, an ideologically committed fascist.
Okay?
He is a realist in certain instances.
Perhaps that's the reason why he's been so vicious about Hamas, so vicious about
of the fate of palestinians
where he just goes it doesn't matter you can bomb lebanon if you want
it's clear that the the the lebanese paramilitary group
uh... that also has its own you know uh... political party has the law is
incapable of of
uh... you know
dealing devastating blows directly to israel they can deal devastating blows
to the israeli occupation
but not necessarily israel the nation
whereas iran is in a different predicament
but iran is still weaker than china for example
And therefore, when it comes to China, Trump takes a very different tone than he does with
the Palestinians or even Iran.
With Iran, it's different than the Palestinians.
Obviously, it's more conciliatory in comparison because he's forced to reckon with that and
he's going through the motions right now of that recognition.
But when it comes to China, he doesn't want to even disrupt these forces at all.
He tried with Liberation Day and the tariff stuff, right?
He tried to wage tariffs war with China and he ate a fucking sizable L there, right?
He caused a tremendous disruption around the globe and international trade.
But he ultimately had to back away, as I told you he would, okay?
That's why we have the Taco Trump method anyway, right?
Notice how Trump treats Europe versus how he treats China.
There is tremendous reverence with the way that he deals with China as opposed to the
way he deals with Europe.
There's even more reverence with the way he deals with Russia as opposed to Europe.
Because on the one hand, he understands power, and he respects power, but also on the other
hand, he fucking hates people who cave and capitulate, especially from a weak position.
That's why he has no respect for Europe, and that's why he has no respect for the
Democratic Party in the United States of America, okay?
Two forces on this planet have been able to, well, let's say three, okay?
I'm going to give you one funny one and two serious ones.
Three forces on this planet have made Trump, uh, uh, second guess, uh, his
approach.
Okay.
China has made him, uh, take a very different strike, a very different tone.
Iran has made him second guess America's capabilities and Zoramum
Donnie Zoramum Donnie is obviously the funny one.
But why does Trump respect Zoramum Donnie?
but he doesn't respect the Democrats. People always fucking ask this question, right? They
don't understand it. It's because Zoran Mamdani is coming at Trump from a position of power in an
area that he cares about quite a bit. Okay, the respect and reverence that Zoran has
from the elite class, the intellectuals, the cultural forces in this country that Trump has
always wanted. Popularity, real popularity. That's why he likes Zoran and treats Zoran
differently than he treats the rest of the liberal politicians. He expects liberal politicians to
grovel in front of him. He knows that when liberal politicians grovel in front of him,
they're not doing it from a place of having any sort of power and demanding something from Donald
Trump. They're just groveling because they're worried about being stomped on. Okay? The same
Same goes for European elites. He has tremendous disdain for European elites. He has tremendous
disdain for the Liberal Democratic Party, the corporate wing of the Democratic Party, and
he has tremendous disdain for the European elites because the expectation there is you
have to grovel, you have to beg, and you'll be happy for the crumbs I throw your way.
different attitude in China, don't you think? Perhaps there's a reason for it.
I'm just going to listen in for just a second here. I mean, this is a pretty
extraordinary image of young children. I don't think it's sincere. I think these kids will put
up to it. Something tells me that they were strongly encouraged. I thought this was all organic.
I thought it just happened to be here at the same time. We'll listen in for just a moment and watch this moment.
Why would the symbolism would suggest that they are eager to make some kind of deal and
as Jason mentioned, you know, they're not in a great position either.
You know, I know they have vastly more oil reserves, but look, their net import of oil
is down 20%.
This is not an economy that is in a strong position.
been facing a real estate crisis for five years. They need to export all of these goods.
Domestically, demand is not what it was. And so as much as we want this more to end,
look, 50% of their oil comes from the Middle East. So I think, frankly, in this moment,
there might be more to be aligned on, of course, the tech piece of this
is huge. Trump brought a huge coalition.
What do you say to the Clinton news network desperately begging for an
Ellison takeover when they have one of the most consequential American forum
policy moves being made in broad daylight and they choose to bring a fucking
New York Post correspondent on to deliver like insightful analysis the fuck
Does the New York Post know about China man? I
Joke but like I literally am a better fucking analyst on China and Chinese American
Relationships than fucking Lydia Moynihan of the New York Post
What are we doing all you're doing is is diluting your audience why I
Genuinely don't understand why
Like, what purpose does this serve?
I know that the goal here is obviously to maintain social conditioning, to maintain this
approach that we have to fucking posture against China and, you know, behave this way.
But even Fox News is probably lapping CNN at this point because of partisan reasons.
Okay?
Fox News has to take a very different tone on China now, because Trump has taken a different
tone on China.
So Fox News has to follow along.
You can't, God, it's just, just open your fucking eyes, man.
It's right in front of you.
It's hitting you in the head.
What are you doing?
I don't know why people would rather delude themselves in the thinking that the world is
very different than it actually is, just so you can feel comfortable about America's position
on the globe, rather than try to develop a better understanding about where China is
right now.
Chatter says don't talk about China like you know it. You know nothing of China
This bitch talking by America you suck bro you popped out of the ground like a daisy some of us a family who were commies
Don't talk about China like you know it bye
Guy lady who gets mad at me for for saying
As an analyst in America, as a commentator in America, I'm not positive enough about China, I guess.
Or maybe you were talking about the person.
Business and tech leaders. And China is desperately trying to get our AI chips.
They need that capacity to continue to grow their own economy.
economy were in an AI race head-to-head with them and they recognize they need it in video,
they need some of these microprocessors and hopefully that's a huge point of leverage that
Trump stands firm on because there's been a ton of IP theft, we need to make sure
that our companies- Bro it's 2026, it's 2026, stop even the Republicans don't talk about IP
theft anymore, what are you doing? Dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude, dude. This is so dumb,
What the fuck are you talking about? IP theft in in the big two two six. What are we doing bro?
Like IP theft right now unironically sounds like
Like JD Vance coming out and being like well China is a nation of peasants by the way
You're wondering why JD Vance is not there
That could be an answer
When JD Vance said
Why should we worry about China? They're a nation of peasants. Why would we worry about a backwater
nation of peasants? Let me tell you, I was in China right after he said that, okay? That was an
incredibly fucked up thing to say about China. That was genuinely one of the worst things JD
Vanskita said. I mean, they're willing to let Marco Rubio into the country by, you know,
Changing his name after the sanctions that they implemented, but they were not willing to let that one go. I'm willing to bet
We borrow money from Chinese peasants to buy the things in this Chinese peasants manufacturer
that was
The worst choice of words that this fucking moron could possibly sequence together, okay?
The absolute worst thing you could say
It's not only obviously untrue, okay
But it's also so fucking racist
that every Chinese netizen that heard this statement lost their fuck of mind. I mean,
they were, he said this in 2025. And this, this did insane numbers on like Dui Yin and
Shou Hongshu and all the fucking Chinese websites. They were all dunking on them. They
were making fun of them, being like, look at us. We're peasants. And then they show
they're like AI tech and stuff like that. But it was very frustrating to hear.
I don't pay attention to the news cycle for a bit in the American Century of Humiliation and
Chinese Century of Prosperities in full swing. Yes.
I'm willing to bet that played a role. That played a big role in why JD Vance is not in
China today, in Beijing at the summit today, even though he has ambitions of higher office.
You're wondering why, despite his very clear ambition for higher office, he didn't go
to one of the most consequential meetings in China. This is it.
That is not a recipe for economic prosperity.
It's not a recipe for low prices, and it's not a recipe for good jobs in the United States
of America.
Explain to us how you get manufactured, anyway.
Are protected in that regard.
The Anna the Washington Post had a pretty big report today based on some intelligence
sources that say that there's a U.S. analysis that details that China is exploiting the
war in Iran to maximize its advantage over the United States across military, economic,
diplomatic, and other fields. And that actually includes their efforts to kind of stretch
their soft power, their hard...
It's a twofold disrespect to using the term peasants in a disrespectful manner to say
that they're backwater peasants. That's also historically fucked up too, you know?
Because like the modern attitude, like, or at least like the communist attitude on this
is that, yes, China is a nation of peasants that rose up against all odds and, you know,
and created a government that is run by said peasants, or at least cares about uplifting
the material conditions of of all all uh... chinese citizens including the
peasants has played a very important role in the in the revolution
power and their soft power
the enormous amount of leverage in here one of the things that we're not talking
about is the fact that president trump need the favor
from presidential that favor is to reach out to iran this close ally
and essentially asked them or pressure them to reopen the straight up for
me and i think this stuff is good though this stuff is ultimately good
because it will
cause
people to come to our side on this issue.
Hopefully, many people that have yelled at me for years and years, because they just
didn't know about what the modern Chinese existence looks like, how much China has developed,
is now forced to reckon with that.
Because the changes are even more apparent since 2017, okay?
That's it. So people will, slowly but surely, come to terms with the reality.
The big question now is, what does he want in exchange for that? What does he want in
exchange for that when it comes to Taiwan? What does he want in exchange for that when
it comes to business deals? That is a big ask. And what is he going to use President
Xi as leverage to get what he needs out of this when President Trump comes to him?
I went from writing papers on the evils of Chinese surveillance to glazing big-shee because of broadcasts like yours,
the my anecdotal, but there's a shift, brother. I know, but broadcasts like mine are very limited in reach.
And like anything that I've said that is remotely positive about China over the last decade or so
was almost always met with tremendous enmity, okay? By liberals, by, you know, pro-nato liberals,
by American imperialism, liberals. Because American imperialism and American exceptionalism
is one of the hardest forms of propaganda to cut against. Okay?
It's taken a decade or so to get here for even this community. This community would fucking shove words back down my goddamn throat.
There are still so many fucking people in the edges of this community and outside of this community, far beyond this community that will actively say,
oh, Hasan's analysis on China is just glazing China. It's fucking bullshit. It's like, he's such a, like they have a very reactionary opinion on it.
There are still articles being written today purposely misunderstanding my criticisms of China as well at times
Purposely misunderstanding my criticisms of China and then
Acting as though my my perspective my my positive opinion on China is
Coming from a place of being a campus where my analysis is not
is not
born out of what I'm seeing, right?
With the recognition that the Chinese are a sovereign state,
a sovereign nation, a sovereign people that have their own goals,
their own ambitions.
But instead, my analysis is America bad and that's it.
China is cool, but you do dick-riding a little too much.
Man, some dicks are worthy of being rode.
What the fuck do you mean?
I would be dick-riding America into oblivion
If we had a decent form of governance that could control the flows of capital that could actually engage in even development
Focus on fucking rebuilding Gary, Indiana
Buffalo
West Virginia in its entirety so many forgotten places. Okay
Imagine having robust high-speed rail across the entire country the entire fucking continent are you kidding me?
Imagine our foreign policy looking like the Chinese foreign policy, the Chinese approach,
instead of constantly dominating and recreating colonial vestiges in the way that we have
all around the world, we actually focus on genuinely developing these countries.
We focus on building a robust manufacturing base on US soil.
If we had done that for the past 100 years, I'd be riding America's dick super hard, too.
Yeah.
I mean, this is it, like, America's will look you dead in the eye and tell you that the
America's system is superior to China's because we get to be represented by people
like this at a competent bureaucrat.
Even when we recognize we're dysfunctional, we're still a temporarily embarrassed utopia
that just needs people to vote hard enough the next time the illusion of choice is
all we need to feel superior to half the world is by falling behind on every observable metric.
And I'm not even saying like the Chinese system is superior and we must use that system. We might,
we must become like a like a one-party state controlled by the Communist Party, which
I'm not saying that. Okay. To each their own, right? To each their own, to each their own,
to each their own. Maybe it works for China. Maybe it could work for us. I don't know.
I don't know. I don't know. All I'm simply stating is,
let's move in that direction. People love saying China is capitalist and that's why it's so
prosperous now. Okay, let's do Chinese style capitalism in America. How about that? Then
they go, no, it's communism. You can't do that. And I've, I've spent my whole fucking life
having to deal with that. Okay? I say, okay, Norway has, uh, you know, tremendous nationalization.
Norway is, has nationalized this entire extraction industry, right? From the forest,
down to the oil on the ground. Uh, let's do that. If Norway is not socialist,
let's do Norwegian-style socialism. They say no, then it's fucking communism.
I say look at China look at how well China has developed perhaps. There's a lot of important lessons to learn from that
They say oh, it's because of capitalism. I go okay. Let's do that kind of capitalism. They go. No, that's communism
So fuck are we doing what the frick are we doing?
Yeah, most youngest son wears Chinese style vest on the morning of May 14th, most alongside
Apple CEO Tim Cook, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and more than a dozen other American business
representatives.
What copy was attention was the 54 year old most bought his six year old youngest son
on the strip and photo show wearing a top with Chinese elements.
Yeah.
And then he wrote in Chinese, my son is learning Mandarin.
Dude, the super wealthy are showing you where the future is, by the way.
Elon Musk is not alone on this. A lot of super wealthy people are teaching their children Mandarin.
Do you want to know why they're doing that? Because they want to prop them up.
They want to prop their next generation up to be equipped with the knowledge and the skills
to live in the Chinese century of prosperity.
It's that fucking simple.
This is a Chinese diaspora account.
I don't really give a shit whether it's a Chinese diaspora account or not.
What I'm talking about is Elon Musk's response to the Chinese diaspora account, which is
that he's teaching his son Chinese.
I don't understand why some people think the children were forced to welcome Trump.
Beijing's school news papers and publishing interviews with these students, these people
all voluntarily sign up and only go after competition. It's like giving a primary school
kid the opportunity to leave school and meet both Xi Jinping and Trump at the same time
who wouldn't want to go. It's racism.
Americans don't understand it. They think, oh, these kids were forced at gunpoint.
They have to, the American perspective is China does good thing, but at what cost?
does unique thing at what cost China does the same thing that America does but
they do a Chinese style so it's bad I mean we cover fucking Chinese museums as
though they're doing propaganda not realizing that that's what fucking
museums do in America as well and it's very annoying but that's just how it
is that's why they do it
so anytime you read in the American newspaper anything that's going on in
China you have to remember that they are framing it in a very sinister
way, you know? I mean, even I received some of this like similar, this similar bias framework,
right? Part of the reason is because of my ideological framework. But like, I'll go to
Cuba and they'll be like, I saw one to Cuba to throw food at poor people and make them
dance, right? You go to Cuba to deliver humanitarian aid, they say, oh, he just
went to Cuba to use the Cubans as a puppet to do propaganda.
Why wouldn't I support that?
So I'm proud to have that vote.
And also something that the president said before he left for China, he said something
I got clipped saying, I'm not thinking about American people financially.
But what he really would say, he did say, I'm really thinking that we can't ever
let Iran building a building bomb and I mean that's exactly that's the essence of what that is
and to hold that line I mean how could we just walk away thank god for American democracy where we
got guys like this wait and not let you know let that he talks like long nick surely oh my god
happened and now the whole world should join us stand with us China you know Europe all
All these other countries should say we should demand Iran and their nuclear ambitions.
And now we can all get back to building up all of our nation and parts of the world.
So that's here.
You know, why wouldn't I see it?
Yeah.
Americans would look you dead in the eye and tell you that America's system is superior
to China's because we got to be represented by people like this that are competent bureaucrats.
Even when we recognize we're dysfunctional, we're still temporarily embarrassed to
Kobe that just needs people to vote hard enough next time, the illusion of choice is all we
need to feel superior to half the world, despite falling behind on every observable metric.
Every two or four years, I love getting to exert my will to decide which business whose
grandson will represent me.
And they never end up representing me.
They end up representing obviously corporate interests.
So there is that reality as well.
Make no mistake.
theoretical democracy is certainly a progressive historical force, okay, was
certainly a progressive historical force and still has the capacity to
represent a progressive historical path forward. The problem is we don't really
have a real democracy. We have a theoretical democracy, but we don't have a
real democracy, okay? And it's certainly not functional.
So what the fuck do we do? Anyway, here is Trudeparse.
Just before Trump met with Xi, Iranian news services reporter, the Chinese ship said,
begun transiting the Shredda Hormuz under the Iranian mechanism while Beijing rejects a toll.
It has been open to paying an administrative fee for the environmental upkeep of the
straight, which is just another way to frame the toll. This agreement neutralized
American pressure on China to side with the US to open the straight, since the
waterway is open to China. In fact, it reverses the pressure. It stops these
ships from transiting as a part of the American blockade. Trump will be picking
a losing fight to Xi while in Beijing. Instead of Trump pressuring China to help
open the straight, China will pressure the US to make sure the
straight isn't blocked for Chinese ships. This is yet another way in which
Trump's adoption of the FTD's proposal for a blockade of the blockade is
backfiring on the U.S. The sooner Trump stops listening to FDD and its allies, the safer
America will become.
Yeah, this is a different understanding as well. China says no toll for traveling international
waters, but this could be a way for China to say like well technically the Omani and the Iranian
coastline is what actually covers the Shredda Hormuz and therefore maybe it's not international
waters, but I don't know. Well only time will tell. Only time will show what the Chinese ambitions
are here. And we'll probably find out fairly soon. We'll find out soon enough. Okay?
in the new era.
Mr. President, I look forward to our discussions on major issues important to our two countries
and the world, and working together with you to set the core star and steer the giant
ship of China-U.S. relations, so as to make 2026 a historic landmark year that
opens up a new chapter in China-US relations. I will pause here and hand over to you, Mr.
President. Thank you.
Well, President Xi, I want to thank you very much. First of all, that was an honor like
few have ever seen before. And I think I was particularly impressed by those children.
they were happy, they were beautiful.
The military is obvious, it couldn't be better,
but those children were amazing
and they represent so much.
And I know they represent so much to you.
You and I have known each other now for a long time.
In fact, the longest relationship of our two countries
that any president and president has had,
and that's to me an honor.
We've had a fantastic relationship,
we've gotten along when there were difficulties,
We worked it out.
I would call you and you would call me.
And whenever we had a problem, people don't know.
Whenever we had a problem, we worked it out very quickly.
And we're going to have a fantastic future together.
Such respect for China, the job you've done.
You're a great leader.
I say it to everybody, you're a great leader.
Sometimes people don't like me saying it,
but I say it anyway because it's true.
I only say the truth.
And I just want to say, uh, behalf of all of the great delegation that we have,
uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When I,
I love shit like this because this also kind of reminds me of like the Fox news
or on approach.
Fox news to be like Zoran is a Islamist jihadist.
And then Trump will stand right next to him and be like, I love this guy.
And then Fox news has to be like, Oh, okay. Well, you know,
Trump loves Zoran and that's a good thing for bipartisanship.
Same with this.
Same with this. Now listen. Listen. Nobody rewards people for being right but too early,
okay? Unfortunately that's what being a leftist is all about. But you should not worry about,
you should not worry about where things stand and you should just be excited the prospective
attitude shifting. Okay? This is what we will probably hear from liberals in many respects.
Like, this is what's gonna happen over and over again. I think, and that's what I do
worry about a little bit. Like, liberals are going to try to ramp up anti-China sentiment
because they negatively polarize against everything that Donald Trump is doing.
Everything that Donald Trump does is bad, even so.
You have the right giving you props now, Virilium mentioned you in a video and it wasn't shitting
on you.
I don't know what Virilium is.
I think though, in a long enough timeline, in a long enough timeline, that's a Nazi OU gross.
Virilium? I don't know what the fuck that is, a Nazi YouTuber?
Stop bringing up YouTubers, you're paying their bills, true.
Bro, did you hear Blimblop is talking about you?
I didn't.
All right, let's get back to the time.
We have the greatest businessman, the biggest, and I guess the best in the world.
We have amazing people, and they're all with me.
Every single one of them.
We asked the top 30 in the world, every single one of them said yes, and I didn't want
But the second or the third in the company, I wanted only the top, and they're here today
to pay respects to you and to China.
And they look forward to trade and doing business, and it's going to be totally reciprocal on
our behalf.
So I really look very much forward to our discussion.
It's a big discussion.
There are those that say this is maybe the biggest summit ever.
They can never remember anything like it.
It's, I can say, in the United States, it's people aren't talking about anything
else.
It's an honor to be with you.
It's an honor to be your friend and the relationship between China and the USA is going to be better
than ever before.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
Now, a toast by President Xi.
Oh
Donald Trump's gonna come back from China with one of these okay
He's gonna come back from China with one of these motherfuckers one of these bad boys
Would you wear the mouth if you were to meet President Xi I would wear whatever the fuck he wants me to wear okay, but yes
I'm so excited about the Zhongshan suits. I'm waiting cuz like I keep wearing the gray one and I've worn it so much
I've worn it so much that like it's so iconic but I've worn it so much I need
different colors I'm excited. What is there no translation? That's crazy.
the two people's and to the health of President Trump and all the friends
so much more four times well yeah because it's like such a it's such a
unique look in America that you wear four times you put like oh you're really
really wearing it all the fucking time
well it's all Beijing
Speak a little Chinese for him.
All right, let's see what Trump has to say.
Oh, after he speaks, there's an English translation.
Honorable President Donald J. Trump,
President Trump, ladies and gentlemen, it is a great pleasure to host the state banquet
in honor of President Trump during his state visit to China.
On behalf of the Chinese government and people, I'd like to extend a warm welcome to President
Trump and the U.S. delegation.
Okay, that's crazy that that's all he said.
This year marks the start of China's 15th five-year plan for economic and social development.
The over 1.4 billion people of China
join on the rich heritage of our over 5,000 year civilization
advancing Chinese modernization on all fronts
through high quality development.
This year is also the 250th anniversary
of American independence.
The over 300 million American people
are reinvigorating the spirit of patriotism, innovation,
and enterprise and ushering in a new journey for the development of the United States.
The people of China and the United States are both great peoples.
Achieving the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation and making America great again can
go hand in hand.
We can help each other succeed and advance the well-being of the whole world.
This is a little bit of a flex, but he got it like that.
They do be having it like that if we're being real.
55 years ago, President Richard Nixon sent Dr. Henry Kissinger to visit China, and ping-pong
diplomacy was carried out between our two countries.
Through efforts of the two governments and peoples, the door that had remained frozen
for over 20 years was opened, marking a milestone in contemporary international relations.
From then on, China and the United States have written many chapters of friendship through
mutual openness and cooperation.
Under the new situation, President Trump and I fully aware of the expectations of
our two nations and the international community have had multiple meetings and phone calls
and kept China-U.S. relations generally stable.
Today President Trump and I had in-depth exchanges on China-U.S. relations and the international
and regional dynamics, we both believe that the China-U.S. relationship is the most important
bilateral relationship in the world.
We must make it work and never mess it up.
Both China and the United States stand to gain from cooperation and lose from confrontation.
Our two countries should be partners rather than rivals.
President Trump and I also agreed to build a constructive China-US relationship of strategic
stability, to promote the steady, sound and sustainable development of China-US relations,
and bring more peace, prosperity and progress to the world.
Thank you, Mr. President, and all of you, friends and gentlemen.
Can the process of China-US relations development be done to respect and cooperate with the peace and harmony?
It is the key to the development of China-US relations.
Looking back at the course of China-US ladies and gentlemen, friends, looking back at the
cause of China-US relations, whether or not we could have mutual respect, peaceful coexistence,
and win-win cooperation, is the key to-
Bro, this is- oh god, okay, I don't even want to listen to this speech. It's literally
the same. Okay, I have heard this speech ten times, at least, okay? It's literally
the exact same speech, like down to the fucking words.
And I don't know what I was like expecting. I don't know why I thought it would be any
different because obviously China's goals have not changed with their relationship with America.
If anything, if the takeaway from this conversation is that America should be a little bit more
cooperative with China, then the American dynamic will have changed dramatically.
You killed, you just killed the motherfucker, least you could do is speak some Chinese way.
What?
Whether the relationship can advance steadily, the world today is changing and turbulent.
China-US relations concern the well-being of the over 1.7 billion people of both
countries and affect the interests of the over 8 billion people of the world.
Both sides should rise up to this historic responsibility and steer the
China-US relationship forward, steadily and in the right direction.
Oh, speak a little Chinese to him. Derek, that's weird. You were doing the
come-town bit. I didn't understand it first.
Wait. Generic ballot polling trend among independent voters by
signal October 2022 Republicans 51 r plus 9 April 2026 amongst independence Democrats get
a D plus 23 Republicans at 25 points a net 32 point swing towards Democrats. Oh my fucking
God 25 points that is what they do 25% is great. Oh God abysmal.
What is this for your Nate Blown interview was a dense state convention at 424. Blown
was the leading progressive but has fallen out of favor with many on the left.
Liban Mohammed won the R.C.V. vote at the convention 51-49 over McAdams, the establishment
guide.
Liban is endorsed by Ihan Omar and has momentum.
The primary is not R.C.V.
Liban and Nate will split the vote helping McAdams get the nomination.
Yeah, I know.
Now please join me in the toast to the development and prosperity of China and the United
and the well-being of our people to the bright future of China-US relations and
the friendship between the two peoples and to the health of President Trump and
all the friends present. Cheers. Cheers.
Right too early? Yeah, this is, she literally said the exact same words. Exactly.
To China and the US should be partners on rivals in 2024 to Blinken in the
exact same place, the Great Hall of the People, presenting as some sort of extraordinary
concession that Trump would have extracted from China is hilarious, and the insane popularity
of this post, a sad testament to how ignorant people are, 129,000 likes on this.
I never in a million years would have thought she would say something like that.
Lauren Chen, who is weirdly pro-China, but also unbelievably reactionary in every other
fucking uh regard also has been uh also corrects the record even though no one
listens this is very standard rhetoric from china towards america for anyone
who pays attention i'm struggling to recall china even mentioning america as
an adversary or anything overtly hostile
yeah this this is why i think we could
unironically convert the hogs to be communist
I swear to God, I'm kind of joking. Okay. I swear that your haters trying to find a
new way to tie you to Nick Fuentes, Nick, Piker and Hassan, whether they're both saying voting
Democrats of the purpose of the midterms. I don't know what happened to this guy, man.
I used to like this guy a lot. And then they just like lost their fucking mind.
him and a bunch of other like hyper left alters like they they went like legit
insane which is understandable to a certain degree because Israel can make
you insane
chorus nah this guy's not chorus what are you fucking crazy no this guy went in
the opposite direction you y'all are so stupid if you think it's chorus no
No, this dude straight up started saying some such shit about, they started saying some
very sus things about Jews in general, and after that it's just been, it's been very
odd. Some people have their minds completely fucking bricked by the Israel conversation
where they look at the Israeli ambitions. They look at the Israeli ambitions of like
tying Zionism to Judaism and they lean into it because they they just have an
outsider's perspective and and they they genuinely fucking lose their minds a
little bit where they think like no it is actually like all Jews are actually
secretly Zionist
and then they just continue on this journey where they're like anti-Zion
anti-Semitism is the highest form of anti-Zionism and it's fucking annoying
because then like all these like stupid ass live accounts will literally point to
these guys be like see this is the true this is the true voice of the left it's
like bitch I'm right here okay you can talk to me you can try to understand
where I'm coming from but don't fucking tie me to a lot of people that also
despise me as well, right? It's very
frustrating. I eat it from every angle, by
the way. I eat it from the Niquentes fans.
I eat it from the Ultras who say I'm not
like sufficiently anti-Israel because
I'm not anti-Semitic. I usually don't
talk about people like this either
because I feel like it's unproductive
and it just gives them clout for no
reason.
The people of Newark are pissed because you're anti-Newark bias?
Oh shit.
This particular line of commentaries from XCC he's been saying that you're wearing
Susie copy Nick went there's no fucking joke so stupid. I know Nick Funtas invented wearing suits
Nick Funtas invented being anti-Israel to accept for when he was literally 10 years old. I was you know, I was an anti-Zionist
so
Or like when he was 13
I've been in about anti-Zionist for the last decade plus
us. Nick Fuentes was literally 13 years old when I was talking about Israel. Okay.
Tucker Carlson was unbelievably pro Israel when I was an about anti Zionist.
However old Nick Fuentes is. So I don't know how old he is.
I mean, I'm gonna anti-Zan is my whole life, but I'm just saying like I've been
a in my professional media career
Anti-Zan is hipster. Oh, I'm not I'm not that at all
I just I get really fucking annoyed when people hold up these new comers as though they're you know, the
strongest as
Though they're the strongest voices in their criticisms against Israel
It's very, very fucking annoying.
Um, yeah, let's continue.
Let's see what Donald Trump had to say.
Thank you very much.
This is a great honor, it was a fantastic day, and in particular I want to thank President
Xi, my friend, for this magnificent welcome, and it really was a magnificent welcome like
none other, and for so graciously hosting us on this very historic state visit.
We had extremely positive and productive conversations and meetings today with the Chinese delegation
earlier, and this evening is another cherished opportunity to discuss among friends.
some of the things that we discussed today all good for the United States and for China.
It was a great honor to be with you.
Please.
Thank you.
Thank you, President Xi Jinping.
Today, we have had a very good day.
First of all, I would like to thank President Xi Jinping for his great welcome.
I would also like to thank him for accepting my delegation in this historic national interview.
Today, earlier this morning, we had a meeting with the Chinese Prime Minister and the President of the United States.
Tonight, we will have another chance to discuss some of the issues we have discussed earlier today,
and how we can make a better and safer future for the people of the United States.
Oh, God, I forgot to do this.
The relationship between the American and Chinese people goes all the way back to America's founding.
The first American consul to China, Samuel Shaw,
arrived on the first American trading ship
to reach these shores in 1784.
The Chinese merchants had a name for the Americans.
They called their visions the New People.
Two and a half centuries later,
that first connection has grown into one
of the most consequential relationships
in world history.
The friendship between the American people and the Chinese people
can be traced to the beginning of the United States.
Then the first American resident,
President of the United States, Samuel Shia,
in 1784,
became the first American business ship
to reach the end of China.
At that time, the Chinese businessmen
were so rush to come to the US visit.
They called the US visit
a new nation.
Today, 250 years later,
it was a friendship
from the beginning, our citizens have shared a deep sense of mutual respect, founding
father, Benjamin Franklin published the sayings of Confucius in his colonial newspaper, and
today's sculpture recognizing that ancient Chinese sage is carved into the face of
the United States Supreme Court very proudly.
From the beginning, the two nations have had deep respect for each other.
The American government, the former President of the United States,
once held a commission on the establishment of a national security organization
in the ancient times.
The appreciation ran in both directions.
Chinese admirers of President George Washington gifted a stone tablet,
honoring his memory to adorn the Washington Monument.
It bears the words of a Chinese official who called the great general and statesman a hero among men.
这一种欣赏是相互的。
中国很多中国人非常重进,喬治华盛顿总统。
这些人当时就向美国捐赠了一个十杯,
就是为了纪念华盛顿总统。
目前这个十杯已经相见在华盛顿纪念杯里面。
十杯上刻有当时的一名中国官员形容这一名伟大的江湖。
And across the centuries, this mutual esteem grew into a relationship that reflected the
tremendous talent and potential of our two people.
Chinese workers helped lay the railroad tracks that connected our Atlantic coast to the Pacific.
American travelers to China helped spread literacy and modern medicine.
And at the request of China's ambassador, it was President Theodore Roosevelt who provided
the funds to establish President Xi's alma mater, Qinghua University.
In the past hundreds of years, I have been in the world war two president of the brave
people of China.
That's what they were.
Through loud cheers and speeches in the United States.
Everybody loved what he had to say.
Just as many Chinese now love basketball and blue jeans, Chinese restaurants.
Are you a pet abusing head?
Okay, Uncle Satan.
In America today, outnumber the five of us.
I am a pedestrian.
I'm not a podiatrist.
Largest fast food chains in the United States all combined.
That's a pretty big statement.
As a member of the World War II,
President Ross mentioned the Chinese people
who are brave in the many speeches in the U.S.
As before, many Chinese people like basketball
and wear blue jeans.
The number of Chinese restaurants in the U.S.
is much more than the number of restaurants in the U.S.
This bond of commerce and respect
that stretches back 250 years
is the foundation for a future
that benefits both of our nations.
The American and Chinese people share much in common.
We value hard work.
We value courage and achievement.
We love our families and we love our countries.
Together, we have the chance to draw these values,
to create a future of greater prosperity,
cooperation, and happiness,
and peace for our children.
We love our children.
This region and the world is a special world
with the two of us, united and together.
Thank you again, President Xi, for this beautiful welcome.
And tonight it is my honor to extend an invitation to you and Madam Peng to visit us at the White
House.
September 24th and we look forward to it and I'd now like to raise it last and propose
a toast to the rich and enduring ties between the American.
Yeah, this was a funny line from this, but explaining Chinese entrepreneurship to Americans,
there's more noodles than burgers.
Why does coward delete the post?
You love our blue jeans, and we love your noodles.
They're so wet.
African and Chinese people,
it's a very special relationship,
and I want to thank you again.
This has been an amazing period of time.
Thank you, President Xi.
Thank you again, President Xi. Thank you for your wonderful welcome.
Tonight, I would like to give you a chance to invite Ms. Peng and you to the White House on September 24.
I also hope that you will be able to meet the American and Chinese people.
I will remind you that I am a member of the White House.
Thank you.
Remember Donald Trump doesn't drink. He has a relationship with alcoholism because of his
brother who died to alcoholism. His brother was alcoholic. He does not drink. Now I don't know
what this is. It might be apple juice. It might simply be apple juice, but it is really funny
to assume that this was alcoholic where they just like forced his ass to drink a little
bit of alcohol. Surely they as the hosts would know this? Yeah, I suspect it's probably
not alcoholic. Anyway.
Rivals? What rivals? Donald Trump has long accused China's Xi Jinping of-
Let's see what Jesse Waters had to say about this, by the way. Oh, so, um, so far, I think
we all realize what this meeting looks like, right? There is a, a unique level of reverence
coming from Trump that you normally never see. And Trump is acting right. Normally he's a baby.
He is a man child and yet here in China, he's looking awfully presidential.
Okay, he's looking awfully presidential. How strange.
So what will Fox News do? Because obviously for the longest time China is our number one foreign
adversary. Our number one foreign adversary. This is the country that we need to defeat.
This is the country that if left to their own devices would destroy America would enslave us
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? And yet, hogs have to flip on a dime whenever
Donald Trump decides, you know, certain things are good now.
Let's see what Jesse Waters had to say. I hear they're big fans over there. The Chinese
have made major inroads into the American restaurant scene. But get this, there are over 20,000
McDonald's, Taco Bells and KFCs in China, and they're growing every year by the thousands.
And once the United States gets fat, no, don't worry, we got burgers in China. They
We got noodles in America, but we got burglars in China.
That's food into a country.
That's it.
Fried chicken, Big Macs, chalupas.
They start listening to our music, watching our movies.
They start marrying our women.
I'm just kidding.
We don't allow that.
But that's basically now an American colony.
We got them hooked and it's pretty much over.
The Chinese have a history of expanding and then collapsing, expanding and then collapsing.
So Trump, the strategy is ride it out peacefully as they expand alongside them peacefully.
And when they collapse, I'm going, I am reminded of Xi Jinping's opening words.
China and America have a shared history for China.
5,000 years of history for America, it's 250. Okay? Just saying. Just 5,000 years of Chinese history
versus the 250 of American history, you can delude yourself into thinking that China's a history of
expansion and then collapse, expansion and then collapse to make it seem like Chinese collapse
is imminent, but it's the American president that is currently in Beijing. And it's the
American president that is behaving in a way where, in a very rare showing of grace, reverence,
behaving in a presidential manner, very interesting.
Perhaps you feast on their carcass.
Okay. Whatever you say.
Exactly. Great.
It's incredible. It's incredible seeing Donald Trump behave this way.
I didn't even know it was in his capability.
Ripping America off.
But this long handshake felt less trade war
more friendly tug-of-war as Trump's approval rating soared, while among these Chinese children
at least.
Trump's delegation was quite something, his cabinet, flanked by the titans of US industry.
Among them, bosses from Boeing, City, Apple, and the world's richest man, Elon Musk,
another frenemy back in the fold.
Inside, the Chinese president embraced the warmer tone.
China and the United States are both at the same level.
The stable China-U.S. relationship benefits the entire world.
When we cooperate, both sides benefit.
When we confront each other, both sides suffer.
We should be partners rather than adversaries.
I really look very much forward to this.
And the U.S. president gushed in response.
We've had a fantastic relationship.
China can't be five thousand years old considering the earth is only two thousand years old checkmate China crisis king
Look, I didn't even think about it like that, bro
God damn that's brilliant
Checkmate what now liberals?
Shrewd relationship. We've gotten along when there were difficulties. We worked it out. I
Would call you and you would call me. You're a great leader. I say it to everybody. You're a great leader
Donald Trump said he had great respect for China. Really?
China, China, China.
This is a leader who has built his political brand on aggressively attacking China,
accusing it sometimes quite rudely of stealing manufacturing jobs.
Because we can't continue to allow China to rape our country, and that's what they're doing.
And yet on this trip Trump has brought along Apple CEO
Bro, he's like the he's like the dog the two dogs that bark at each other and then the gate opens and they stop barking
This is the difference between a keyboard warrior and a real one, okay, he's barking hard
Fake demon
Fake demon dude. Oh China's raping our country and then the moment that he's inside of the boundaries of China
The People's Republic he had in Beijing is like I love China greatest nation on earth love Xi Jinping and he loves me
We kiss sometimes. I shouldn't say it, but it's true Tim Cook whose products have long been manufactured
overwhelmingly in China with some
diversification but this is exactly what it's like when my fucking haters in the
very unbelievably rare occasion come up to me IRL okay behind closed doors they're
like oh I got him one of them came up to me at the fucking at the at the web
someone who's like, I'm an asming gold fan. I'm going to troll you in real life.
And I was like, okay, do you want a photo? Like,
yeah, yesterday, once you're beef with a shoe on it, I was like,
I don't have any fucking, it's one sided, you know,
Sigma, a real sigma, and a beta, when a beta meets a real sigma.
As I've said over and over again, in the real world, where we can be in each other's physical
spaces. The situation doesn't unfold in the way that you envisioned it, right? On the internet
you can be like, I have portrayed myself as cool, calm and collected, and my interlocutor
is angry, emotional, and therefore losing the argument. But in the fucking real world
it's very different. I notice your 20 second mentions of some YouTubers turning to one
hour videos responding to your crash
Thanks so much. Sorry guys, you have to get through it.
It just doesn't, it just doesn't ever work that way. You know what I mean? Like, like
you think you're going to look smooth with it, right? Like you're going to, you're
going to be, you have this idea in your head that like you're going to look awesome.
I'm here, but then you come across like you're a fucking internet troll. You know,
Now I'm going to have a real rage-beam.
Mainly to India.
So the visit was heavily focused on trade, but also another team, Taiwan.
She's been posing about you and these losers make that your problem.
Yeah, that's one of the funnier aspects of this kind of stuff is that this beef is almost always one-sided.
And like there will be like maybe a 20 second mention on my have where I'm like dude really you're gonna fucking bring up
She won head. What a fucking ridiculous thing to do
We're doing political commentary here. Who gives a shit and now that I've said that she'll do like an hour long video on it being like
He was so owned
He was so unbelievably owned and then and then all of these people are like, yes
Yo, you're fucking destroying him my queen and it's so funny cuz it's like okay. Yeah, I've been thoroughly
Dismantled my worldview destroyed
You've done it
And so it's it's such a funny easy way to algo farm and people still fall for it
Like who's the one crashing out the person who did a 20 second mention or the person who did an hour long video
off of that 22nd mention. This is a one-sided beef. Yeah, I'm crashing out right now. Basant
is crashing out right now. You're reacting to this is enough for them to call it a crash.
I know they have used and abused the term crash out. I literally thought she retired from the
internet. Yeah, I have never really been like someone who's kept up with whatever her politics
are. But even I fucking know, regardless of my knowledge of her politics, even I know she changes
her attitude with whichever way the algorithm swings.
Who's the one falling for it? They're living off of you. I mean, that's fine. They can
They can, they can take a crumb.
They can, if they can make like a quick $1,000 video,
good on them, you know, what are you going to do?
We got bigger fish to fry, right?
What's, I think what's more,
what's more annoying to me is the fact
that there are people who are like,
actively bludgeoning themselves in the head
with this kind of uh...
insanely stupid uh... bottom of the barrel of commentary
and think
that they're actually
uh... feeding their minds with the new information
they're not
they are deluding themselves into
a world that does not exist
but as long as they stay online i guess it doesn't really matter
You know? Hold on. Did you say $1,000? I mean, I don't know. I don't know if they make $1,000 or not, but it's like primary to make 14 to 12 year olds feel like they're political.
I know, but they grow out of it. This entire community is comprised of people who have at one point in time watched.
This entire community has a shit ton of people that at one point in time had similar attitudes.
Obviously for their generation it was different, you know what I mean?
But maybe you watched a Ben Shapiro video and you got sucked into the right wing pipeline.
Maybe you watched Joe Rogan and then went over to Steven Crowder or something.
And then you grew up, the real world hit you in the face.
And then maybe you were a little bit more intellectually curious and found yourselves in a more mature
mindset looking for alternative explanations.
So yeah, for a while the only YouTube commentary was libertarian, even if you were awoke
on social issues, they were all still libertarians, yeah.
commentary sphere has always been unbelievably slanted to the right. It's
never really changed. I mean that's why even Professor Jong who will say
correct things at times about like you know Iran and America will still be like
an unwashed incel.
Are fans allowed to start a grifter version of the Hassan Al-Aminatio complex?
No, do the opposite, dumbass. The opposite can also exist if we build it.
It's actually beginning to form anyway.
You don't have to lean into it if you don't want to, but I think the alternative is already being designed simply due to how diluted, or how diluted the fuck-a-song content has become, that people genuinely started
um people genuinely started making the the anti-focus on uh content on their own
there's a lot of adults who may never grow up from that well you can't win everybody
you can't win every single person
So, work with whoever, you know, work with the people who you can save.
President Xi told Trump that the Taiwan question was the most important issue to the bilateral
relationship between these superpowers. According to China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson,
who warned the U.S. to handle it with the utmost prudence.
If it is handled properly, the bilateral relationship will enjoy overall stability.
Otherwise, the two countries will have clashes and even conflicts,
putting the entire relationship in great jeopardy.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Chinese had raised Taiwan
and the Americans had made clear that their long-held position,
supporting the status quo, was unchanged.
But that didn't spoil the mood. A buoyant mood.
There could have some drawbacks according to Jonathan Zinn, who has served as director for China on the US's National Security Council.
I think the concern is that this meeting goes too well, but that could actually be disadvantageous for the United States.
A kilo guy who did the four hour video on your haters literally says the video by saying he doesn't watch you or agree with everything you say and ask some criticism.
So it clearly is happening naturally.
Well, it also doesn't hurt that all of my fucking all of my haters are unbelievably stupid and overall very bad people
So that's probably part of the reason why like they each you know
They're like one of the biggest issues
One of the biggest issues is to just straight up ask people like the haters of mine to be like well
What's your thought? What are your thoughts on like the annexation of Crimea?
This is a big point of contention that people bring up like do you have any
Information to back up your point. Do you feel like a sauce position is different than Barack Obama's at the time?
Do you have a significant disagreement with Barack Obama?
Like what are your opinions on Chinese history you talk about you know a sauce perspective
They don't have anything. They're just repeating the takes that they get verbatim from fucking Reddit.
They're larping as people who are knowledgeable on these issues when they have no knowledge whatsoever,
but as long as they can stick to drama, as long as they can keep the conversation around drama
and manufacture drama where no such drama may exist, then that's fine.
And the reality of the matter is, none of them have to have convictions, all they have to do is just repeat, you know, well-established focus on narratives.
It's much easier to defend a position when you don't really have any convictions whatsoever.
It's much easier to disparage someone than it is to try to to build an affirmative vision of the world
Okay
It's also politics is somewhat boring for the average person
I know that this is a hyper autistic community that really loves politics
So it's hard to get that point across to you guys somehow or sometimes but
It's, uh, for the average person, they hate politics, it's boring, it's annoying, they
don't want to like think about these things.
Let alone politics outside of the duopoly that currently exists, Democrats versus Republicans,
they, that is not an issue that they've ever broached.
Let alone teaching Americans about international relations, especially from a Marxist framework.
Oh boy, now we've reached the seventh layer of hell
So
You know, it's it's much easier to just be like this guy is bad
He's responsible for all things woke all things that have dominated your lives
And lean into the well-established
reactionary attitudes that many young men have for example and
And and move on but what do I always say just do good work?
That's all that fucking matters. Keep your head down and and you know continue building a movement as I have done over and over again
So yeah on that note Nate Bluin
who is
Utah State Senator in district 13 is in the building
Okay
He's running for US House in Utah one, which is a newly
the newly redrawn district at Kamala-1 by 24 points. He's a Utah State Senator. This
is centered right in the heart of Salt Lake City after more than a decade of Republican
drawn gerrymanders. What's going on? You can come in if you want. Here, I'll keep
doing the intro while you walk in. But yeah, after more than a decade of Republican drawn
gerrymanders the utah district court in late twenty twenty five
throughout
the g lp's congressional map and ordered the adoption of a more
representative map
the move turned what used to be a uh... for blood red districts into a
salt lake county center district that comma hairs would have carried by twenty
four points
blueness position himself as a bernie jason progressive
focusing on climate change foreign policy in the affordability crisis
he's earned a perfect rating from the seara club and dorsen track a pack
and the congressional progressive caucus pack highlighting his commitments to peaceful foreign
diplomacy passing the Green New Deal championing Medicare for all and taking on corporate monopolies
named blowing. Thank you for coming. Thank you for having me. Yeah, very, very interesting
times to be indeed to be running for office. Hold on. I'm going to do something real quick.
If you want
What's up meeting the dog out there is great. Oh hell yeah. Yeah, kaya. She's she's wonderful
All right suit game on point better than yours. Yeah, this is the one day where I'm not
I know and everyone is freaking out about it. Okay
so first of all, how do you how do you feel being in
in Los Angeles, California, so far away from home.
It's a beautiful day.
I mean, it's been 90 degrees in Utah already,
which is too hot for this time of the year.
So it was nice when the fog blew out this morning
and we got blue sunny skies.
And I look forward to getting out for a run later on.
Okay, all right.
You're still dressed like DeNiro.
Okay, that's true.
I do go through, but when I wear suits,
I'm DeNiro from Casino.
And then when I wear, you know,
This outfit is a denier from Taxi Driver.
Okay, let's watch your ad real quick.
It's Bernie Sanders as well.
It's a Bernie Sanders ad.
And then we'll get to the questions that I have for you.
Hey, Blu and I currently serve in the Utah State Senate.
We've seen Utah transition from a place
that was very affordable to a place
that's making it tough to decide between paying
for childcare or a mortgage.
And so I'm running for Congress to address those issues.
We need lots of the equivocating
about important issues to people's lives and more action
that's actually gonna be moving the needle in a way
that helps people address the things that are hurting them.
And that might be tariffs that are raising costs for folks,
raising the minimum wage, have Medicare for all.
These are policies that are gonna have material impacts
on the lives of our constituents.
And we need to go and tell them
that that's what we're gonna be fighting for.
We're not taking any corporate money.
We're not taking any PAC money.
It's good to know that we still have politicians
out there who are working in our interests.
Having his endorsement after getting involved in politics
because of him in 2016. It's like a full circle moment. And he's turned out a lot of people
here in Utah. Every time he's come to Utah, we've filled the house that willingness to
step in and throw his weight behind me as someone who's going to be a champion for
the working people and standing up against Trump against the billionaire class that
is pitting us against each other. And that means a lot.
All right.
Hey blue and everybody so let's get right into it new district awfully beneficial
For for Democrats all of a sudden
How does having a safe blue district fundamentally change the way you can campaign and why is it so important?
That voters don't just settle for a corporate moderate when they finally have the chance to elect the real progressive
It's been incredible to see how this seat has rallied people that to you know
Let Utah know that we have an opportunity to put someone into Congress who is really going to fight back against frankly the supermajority in Utah.
We have a legislative supermajority that I've gone up against time and time again and to see what is what's coming from from outside right now is just incredible.
So Utah is a state where, you know, we've seen Republicans just lead everything and to have Bernie come to town several times in the last few years and to show
how much people stand up and rally behind him on issues like, you know, workers' rights and really fighting back against all the corporate power we're seeing that the Republicans are exercising right now.
It's been incredible to see how folks are reacting to having such a safe seat here.
So you're not taking corporate PAC money, including support from APAC.
Correct.
Ben McAdams is raking in massive amounts of cash from corporate packs and establishment donors.
We know APEC bundles millions of individual donations to hide their influence and crush
progressives. What's your message to voters about how pro-Israel money and corporate dark money
completely warp our democratic primaries and how can grassroots campaigns survive the
financial onslaught? It really, it's been incredible to see how that does influence
things in this race. So I mean, running as a state senator, you know, I'm used to small
dollar donors just kind of funding things and reaching out to people I know and you know getting
support that way. But when you're up against like a juggernaut like we see in this race,
it's a whole different ball game. And when you have the background as a former member of Congress
as McAdams does and the relationships in DC and with all of these lobbying groups and
all the votes that he has taken in the past that they expect that same thing out of him.
and I don't have that luxury because I'm not going to take those same votes that he would.
It makes it challenging, but I think we've raised $600,000 something along those lines at this point
from I think over 10,000 or around 10,000 individual donors. Bernie Sanders was incredibly
helpful in that. I mean, the day he sent an email a while back and you just see these
donations come flooding in in like $7 increments. And that allows me to focus on
like what's actually concerning to people, not trying to pass another tax loophole for
a private prison company or a defense contractor like we're seeing too much of these days.
So I think that's really the message there is we need to get that sort of influence out
of our politics because it is just completely steering us in the wrong direction on so
many different issues, whether it's genocide in Gaza or the crushing housing market right
now.
Those things are all related to the money and politics that we see.
So you have a tweet about your opponent, Ben McAdams here that I'm going to pull up
and read real quick. You say, Ben McAdams won't acknowledge the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
Instead he believes the atrocities have ended. Pestinies are still dying while hawkish politicians
like Ben who are funded by defense contractors, oil executives, or conservative pro-Israel
donors vote to continue America's broken foreign policy. The people of Gaza have
been the target of a genocide. They still are. And they will continue to be our leaders.
Be if our leaders do not take immediate action to stop it. Why should the people
you talk care about the people of Gaza, the people of Palestine, how does America's relationship
impact your potential constituents? I mean, that's the multi-billion dollar question. Like,
why should we care about this, right? And we should because it is, first of all, it's just
death and destruction. It's just for no good reason beyond the conquests of Israel and of
America, but it's also directly impacting our ability to pay for Medicare for all to pay for
housing support for folks for our schools. Utah in particular is like 58th or 49th in the country
as far as per capita funding for students. We should be spending that money here at home.
We should be rebuilding our ability to do diplomacy and humanitarian aid and welcome
people back in. You don't feel patriotic when those dollars are going to Israel
instead of students here?
It's wild.
So the America first language is so interesting.
Like I've never been someone who would say America first,
like in that real patriotic way,
but having conversations with folks
who would consider themselves pro-Palestine,
that's what they are saying.
Let's deal with our country first
rather than going into another country
that is being just demolished by our bombs
and focus on what we can do here.
So that's sort of you know patriotism that I am seeing is actually really exciting
I think it's the right sort of America first. Let me run this by you. Okay, so
America
Wastes
100 billion dollars destroys, you know, tens of billions of dollars the assets in the region to advance Israel's goals of
Continuing along with the greater Israeli project
shooting up schools blowing up schools
and then the world is embroiled in an energy crisis. Gas is now more expensive for Americans,
but at the same time, Israel is now uncontested in the region, right? Doesn't that feel good?
It doesn't feel good to me. Okay. And I don't think it feels good to so many people here,
yeah, here in our country and certainly in that region as well. And I mean,
I I felt that my beat-up old Subaru the other day with a $60 tank of gas and it certainly hits us all
I mean it's ridiculous thing to yourself in that moment. We're doing this for a good reason. I know
Okay, I did not all right. Well, it seems like you're kind of unpatriotic, but let's move on. So
You're explicitly supporting the block the bombs act. Yeah, why don't you like bombs? I
Remember getting well, I don't remember I have pictures of myself I can prove
I was getting carted around to pro-peace protests back in you know the early 1990s
I grew up in New Hampshire my my parents carted me around these sort of things
What about bulldozers that are used to you know destroy policy at home stop it
I mean yeah, that stuff is just like let's let's whatever we got to do you know whether it's sanctions whether it's
Just finally taking accountability for what we have done. I think it's critical that we address those things. Okay
How do you plan on ending America's violence abroad? And what do you plan to do with the money that we're not spending on bombs?
Yeah, so what how much are we spending? What's the number like daily? Do you know?
I mean it was like a billion in Iran. There was a billion in the most conservative estimate in Iran alone with all of the
You know the naval assets moving around that's before we even factor in like how many of
Those assets have been blown up in the region. I believe it's more than two billion a day
We're on now on day 76. I believe yeah
So like a trillion dollars a year or something
I mean we have a trillion dollars in expenditure Donald Trump was actually wanted to increase that spending by 50% to 1.5
trillion dollars a year there have actually been people like Robert Kagan
And and other analysts that are you know neocons themselves that have said this is a waste
Yeah, and that we're not conservative of them. Yeah
Yeah. I mean, there is a conservative anti-war tradition.
MConn Magazine is like one of the primary advocates for a more peaceful direction, which is interesting.
We look at Thomas Massie and some of those other folks, they get it.
So, let me ask you this though.
Do you believe that you should be providing Israel with defensive weapons?
No. I think we should, at this point, with the lack of accountability, the lack of any willingness to take ownership over what's happened over there,
I don't think we should be supporting that with with any sort of aid at this point
And I think I think defensive aid, you know allows them to
To kind of sit on their laurels and and you know wait for things to happen
And and that is that's its own form of violence when you look when you look at it that way
You got a lot of cameras there
How many do we have three cameras? Oh, there you go. Okay. I
I
Saw someone mentioning my name earlier mother was kebekwa and that is that is the part of my heritage comes from the French Canadian
lineage there
Okay, oh nice. We got some snacks. We bought you some snacks as well. Nice. Thank you. I got a banana and a cliff bar
Yeah, that's we've heard that those are your your favorite
Yeah, you guys do a good job of doing your research favorite things that to consume my campaign team is dying right now
Yeah. Hold on. Let me also fix this real quick. Sorry. This is a little bit unprofessional, but
this is the unfortunate reality of, you know, doing a one-stop shop, one-man show.
Sometimes you have to deal with these technical problems.
Right here. I'm glad it's on me.
As they come along. Okay. All right. But so let's continue.
you. Alright, so we've talked about your perspective. Utah's SB 186 prohibit state contracts companies
that boycott Israel in your state. SB 97 builds on this bill prohibiting contracts with companies
that boycott the fossil fuel weapons or mining industries. We've often seen this play itself
out on the federal level as well where like Project Esther has featured, this was a part
of Project 2025, it was a utilization of the anti-Semitism, like the cynical weaponization
of anti-Semitism, the silence, any sort of dissent in American politics that then goes
far beyond. Once the initial anti-boycott bill is set, then they can use it to extend
that prohibition to people who want to boycott fossil fuel weapons or mining industries.
In your opinion, why does Utah have these weird bills specifically protecting both Israel
and all these other industries?
Utah is one of those weird test states. It's like Tennessee sometimes Texas where like out, you know, Alec
Yeah, I mean they bring they bring bills to these Republicans and they you know run them in Utah and see if they can get them to pass there and
It's you know, it's pretty nonsensical and I don't think there's a whole lot of thought given to it
I don't think the people that are running these bills actually kind of understand what they are doing or the message
They are sending it was it was really interesting
I put forward a bill at the end of this past legislative session to repeal SB 186, which
passed before I was in the state Senate.
So basically getting rid of Utah's anti-BDS law.
And I had a Republican lobbyist actually come up to me on the last day of session and
basically said, like, where did that come from?
And thank you for putting that forward because he had had to sign some of those contracts
that had that language in them, which he and I as well saw as a violation of free speech.
So you don't think it's America first to have to sign a loyalty pledge to the State
of Israel to say that you will never disparage the good name of the State of Israel to work
with the State of Utah?
No, I do not think that is America first. I think that is un-American. And I think
During his time in Congress, I know my opponent, Ben McAdams, had some statements about some
of those BDS laws and has been supportive of that sort of thing in the past.
What do you have to say to the Republicans that claim to uphold the First Amendment and
the Second Amendment, oftentimes, to say, my Second Amendment is there to project the
First, but then our willing servants, when it comes to corporate interests and the
interests of foreign lobbies like this?
I mean, when I hear people talk about the Second Amendment is if we're going to
rise up against our government. I mean, it's wild to see all of the money that we just talked
about being spent on weapons and the surveillance being done. And I think it's a misunderstanding
of what that was supposed to be back in 1776 or 250 years ago when all those things were
put into being. And so it's shocking that these people don't have, I think, a throughline
on these pieces of policy. And I've watched people get, you know, beat up by cops just
in recent days here in Utah and for basically for exercising their First Amendment rights.
And, you know, it's, it's frustrating. It's frustrating. We deserve it. Yeah. Who deserves
what? What are we getting beat up by? No, I don't. Opposing.
In that case, or in a nice. Yeah, it was, it was. It's nice now. No. Oh, that's
right. What about, let me, let me present. What is the N national? Yeah. So what
Yeah, yeah, like the you know national socialist party. They slept on national in front of it
Does that change your perspective at all now that you have to call it nice instead of ice
I think I like it even less now. Okay, that's possible. Okay, so you you hate nice
Okay, got it
that's fair to say
Why don't you care about the bottom line of of you know?
polluting these like climate change, contributing, polluting industries,
like fossil fuels or industries that specifically are designed around finding new ways to kill children.
Yeah, I mean Utah has been again ground zero for like some of these bills. This year a bill
was passed that basically disallows state regulators from taking a single step beyond
what the federal government allows them to do as far as environmental regulations.
And I mean, yeah, it's just a giveaway to you've probably heard about this data center issue was just about to bring that up
Yeah, it's it's it's a it's paved the way for the next year. I saw Walter Masterson yesterday and he says hi
Oh hell yeah, Walter's in Utah. Oh, yeah
Kevin O'Leary
Mr. Wonderful. Yeah, Canadian. Yes, not even American not even a billionaire by the way
Oh, yeah, you know that he's not only about 400 million. So Kevin O'Leary was able to bring together 15 billion dollars worth of invest
So far so far
To to build this AI center this this facility this behemoth of a facility
That is is
unbelievably large
I believe the choice was not up to the good people of Utah, but three
individuals that ended up saying yes to building this facility. Why do you hate
data and AI? I love the way that these questions are framed. 40,000 acres.
40,000 acres. No one's living there. Isn't it much better to make this
behemoth and stand up and pollute the water supply? Yeah, it's 40,000 acres,
potentially 9 gigawatts of new natural gas-fired energy generation,
which would be the largest natural gas plant in the United States, one of the largest in
the world. And I would just push back on that a tiny bit, because what kind of happened,
I think, was the county commissioners, they should have voted no, right? That's clear
to me. But they were put in that spot by state leadership, who basically said, you
guys get to make the decision on this, you either vote yes, and you get a seat
at the table, or you vote no, and we'll just cut you out and do all this stuff,
all these incentives, and your county will have zero voice in this. And so don't
We feel like that's how democracy should be run.
Yeah, wealthy corporate benefactors buy politicians and then enforce their will upon the public.
I do not think that is how democracy should operate.
I'm sorry to disagree with you on that one, but very communist perspective, very, very
anti what the people of Utah clearly want, which is a mass surveillance facility designed
in their backyard.
So we're talking about a 7,500-person ice facility.
I knew one of these ice detention centers in Salt Lake City
and then 50 miles up the street, this gigantic data center.
And I'm like, we need to be looking at these together
because of that data center.
We already have an NSA data center in Utah
that they use to probably track all of our communications.
And now we'd have this one and facility.
Sorry, I'll have to get used to that,
just like Department of War.
So it's shocking what we're seeing here.
And, uh, you had to see Kevin O'Leary come in and just, you know,
call the people of Utah idiots to say, we're all busted.
And that was Walter's point yesterday.
It was like, he's coming in from Florida or from New York.
And then Canada by way of New York.
Yeah, she is.
Oh, he's Canadian.
Yes.
Let's not forget.
Kevin O'Leary is a Canadian.
Oh, no, but, but Walter, Walter came in and that was the point he was making.
He's like, let's put this in Kevin's backyard in Florida.
It is nice home down there.
And I agree with him. Let's do it somewhere else. Actually, we shouldn't. I want to clarify that.
Let's just not, let's take a pause. I've been a fan of a moratorium. Let's actually like
figure out what the right path forward here is before we just crush a bunch of land and
you know, use a bunch of workers to kill jobs for other workers like this is going to do.
Okay. Let's get a little contentious now. I'm going to stop being sarcastic. Okay.
Okay.
So, in January 2024, you shared an email written to you by a constituent that recognized Israel's
violent actions while also maintaining the importance of a strong U.S.-Israeli relationship
and a two-state solution.
You stated that it summed up your own thoughts better than you yourself could.
How have your views changed over the past couple of years of Israel's genocide of
Palestinians?
I think, and that's it, yeah, that's, I'm glad, I'm glad we're like looking
back on the past because it has been eye-opening just to see how horrible things have been
there and certainly it's not a new phenomenon, but to get to work with people who have directly
been involved in advocating for Palestinian liberation and just generally like a more
peaceful society.
I think it's been eye-opening to see how much death and destruction has happened and to understand
our connection as Americans and as a country, the contributions we've made to that destruction,
I think is what I would say moved me from generally supporting a peaceful solution
and not really knowing what that meant to still, I'm not the expert on this,
But I certainly believe that the scales have been tipped in Israel's favor for a very, very
long time and that we have been at the forefront of doing that and that the people of Gaza
and of Palestine at large need to have a full seat at the table as any sort of situation
moves forward.
So, my position as a candidate is I don't think it's my job to determine what happens
over there, but certainly to provide a level playing field for all of those people to come
to the table. And if that is a one state democratic solution, which I think it probably
is, but I don't want to impose that on them. I want them to come to that decision and
for us to act as, you know, neutral mediators if that's possible, which I think probably
many people would say it's probably not possible.
Yeah. So if there was a feasibility for this, would you advocate for a single democratic
state with equal rights for all?
Okay. All right. It's good to know. Beyond the Middle East, you've also been a vocal critic of the US
using economic warfare like sanctions to punish countries in the global south explicitly calling
out US posturing towards places like Cuba and Venezuela. Can you explain why brought economic
sanctions are fundamentally a form of violence against working class civilians and why the
US needs to abandon this regime change playbook? Yeah. I mean, I've been to Cuba. My wife
I've been to Cuba and it's it's an incredible place with incredible people and it was sad to learn I guess today that they've like run out of
Fuel like entirely and that's you know, that's on us. I mean, they're 90 miles off the coast of Florida and we
This allow them from receiving so many, you know vital goods and so it's it's clearly
I don't know. I don't know what interest that serves. I don't know who who that's doing any good for it's not helping us here in America
it's certainly not helping them and
And I think we have done this for far too long. We've gone into these countries and we've tried to overturn their governments or not even had a good reason like in Venezuela.
I mean, there is no clear objective there in Iran. There's no clear objective aside from what Netanyahu and Israel have directed us to do.
And you know again that comes out of our pocket books, you know here in America it comes out of our ability to pay for things that are
Are my constituents deserve I think and and it certainly just significantly detracts and and you know kills people in other countries
Who have no?
Yeah, who do not deserve the harms that they are seeing
So you you're in favor of
of abandoning the old tricks and you're in favor of abandoning regime change as a primary
goal for the American foreign policy apparatus.
Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, I think we've seen conversations around shrinking the military
budget, certainly support that they should be able to pass an audit before we give
them more money. And I would say we shouldn't give them more money, but we should certainly
be able to account for where that spending goes and to use it on regime change and to
use it on destruction. Let's put a very small fraction of that because I think it would be
much cheaper to preserve peace around the world and democracy if that's what you're
asking for. You know, through diplomacy and humanitarian aid, then it is to do it with
with with with actually I've got it here I've got a can I give you something yeah
of course ties in this is a this is a this is a Utah State Senate coin with
your I think one of your favorites on it oh wow
he's too strength look at that there you go Reagan we maintain peace through
strength you have some states official Utah State Senate coin there look at
that that is a I think not not the foreign policy that I would advocate
for. Okay, so why do you hate America? Well, yeah, I, I think, yeah, I think, oh, the term
American exceptionalism is one I've always just had such a hard time with because it seems like
that's what we're talking about here is just like our ability to go wage war and death in other
countries. And I mean, to me, it's welcoming people in and trying to, you know, return that
to the rest of the world through humanitarianism and diplomacy. And I think all the things
that actually create a more peaceful world, not the peace-sustained narrative that too many people,
but in both parties, right, tend to believe. Yeah, liberal interventionism certainly is a real
problem in the Democratic Party as well. Speaking of which, Donald Trump went to China,
he's still in China, he's doing this historic Beijing summit, and he's actually been very
presidential throughout the entire process. I miss that. He's shown a lot of reverence
to Chinese leadership and to China as well. Very different than the way he's
communicated about this issue when he's in the United States of America. One of
the things that I've seen from the Democratic Party in exchange for that
or in return of that is of course or in response to that has been to
increase a hawkish attitude in their communications about China saying that
Donald Trump is going to concede to Xi Jinping's demands and that China
should be a foreign adversary. Do you feel like that is the appropriate response or do you think
that the appropriate method here in terms of American foreign policy is to completely redesign
and try a different path forward with China? Yeah, that's a, oh man, I think our approach to China
as just a pure adversary is is harming us and I would love to see us actually try to find
ways to cooperate with them rather than to talk about Taiwan as this wedge in the middle that I
think is potentially going to be a really divisive and destructive issue in the coming years.
I think find better ways to work with them as probably not ally is not the term I would use,
but as a trading partner and as someone who is seeing all sorts of investment and advancement
in different spaces where the U.S. is falling behind because we've abandoned innovation and
science here in our country. And so, and we should take that back to be clear. I think that's,
I think that's something I want to see us rebuild is our ability to, like, actually
lead the world in things where we can and where we have over the years and where China has
picked up a lot of the slack as our government here, you know, with Trump at the helm,
has, you know, really, really punched down on science and punched down on
and university researchers and universities in general.
I mean, the climate on campuses is horrible right now.
I talked to so many professors and folks
who know people who have gone elsewhere to teach.
I know there are people who are getting PhDs
and then going overseas.
And yeah, I would say let's rebalance that system
and try to find a more collaborative approach
to both China and other foreign policy issues.
Okay.
Utah, back to your first congressional district, has new boundaries, includes nearly 9% more
non-white constituents than before.
At the federal level, how do you plan on protecting all of your constituents from ISIS paramilitary
forces who are ripping families apart?
Yeah.
100% on board with abolishing ICE.
That is an organization that has become poisonous.
Maybe it always was poisonous, and we've just seen it more recently, but it's not
that old.
20 some odd years old
It had the propaganda they have put out the the videos of people marching across tarmacs and chains
And I think I saw one with like a spongebob cartoon edited in and I'm like what are we doing here?
They have lost their social license to operate
they are tearing people apart and we need to both get rid of the agency and
prosecute the folks who have
Perpetrated those crimes, you know whether that's Christine Ohm the president for sure is is you know part and parcel to that
the people who shot
Alex pretty and Nicole good. I think I have that name right
It's yeah, it's sad that we've allowed it to go this far and I think there's a way to
Enforce whether it's immigration or just you know general public safety
in a way that actually targets people who have done bad things rather than
targeting an entire population, basically racial profiling, which is like legal now
apparently under the Kavanaugh rule or something I've heard it called. So yeah,
it's it's disgusting that that's what we've seen happen. And I mean just for one example in
Utah a couple of weeks ago we saw a young person he was about to graduate from the
University of Utah. I think the next day he was headed to I think his first day at a new
job and he was about to propose to his girlfriend and he got pulled over, I think for a traffic
stop or something yanked out and taken across state lines to a county jail that ICE contracts
with just for, he was, he was brought to the US at one year old. So he's been here for 20 years
and didn't have documentation and now he's I think still sitting in a, actually you might
have gotten on bond. Technically eligible for DACA too. Right. He should have a clear
pathway to citizenship. Yeah. It's devastating. Yeah. So the last question on ice, I would say,
I would ask is there's tremendous success in this, but as far as neighborhood watch initiatives,
do you support folks independently tracking ice to protect their neighbors? Oh, absolutely.
And engaging in, okay. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you think about like the Black Panthers and
those sorts of movements. I mean, absolutely. It's heartening to see people watching out
for their neighbors. Those are individual decisions, right? I wouldn't direct people to go out and do that
if they're uncomfortable, but I think for folks that are willing to go out and play that role,
I would applaud them. All right, let's talk about a controversy that's near and dear to my heart,
something that I've also personally have a lot of experience with. This is going to be a tough
one. Drink your water first, okay? You know what's coming. You're the subject of a recent
scandal. Yeah. In 2011 when you were 20 around 20 years old, you made a lot of shit posts online.
Yes. Which is a crime that is of course worthy of an unlimited maximum prison sentence.
You've made a lot of jokes. Some of those jokes were not well received. Now, I'm not going to
do the same thing that every media outlet or every interview will plague you with for the
for the rest of your life, most likely something that I'm, again, very intimately familiar with,
to demand you grovel and apologize. You've already done so on numerous occasions, and, you know,
talk about accountability and whatnot. I don't think that's interesting.
I think it's more interesting to ask you how you feel as a younger candidate,
what the future looks like for shit posters who are running for office.
Do you think that people should be quote-unquote held accountable over and over again for things that they've said rather than actual political accountability for things that they're doing?
I think this ties into people being afraid to talk about issues that actually matter
in the present day, like Ben McAdams voting against increasing the minimum wage.
Like him voting against a war powers resolution on Iran that actually Mike Lee somehow supported
back in his term.
Like he would rather, his campaign, you know, the folks who put this out there, whoever
that was would rather talk about two-decade-old dumb stuff that I said online that I have
fully apologized for, that I took accountability for. I don't stand behind any of it. It was
a different time in my life. And frankly, I felt sick when I read those posts. I was
like, oh, man, I did say those things and made me physically ill. And what I would
put out there to folks, we put out a sub-stack. I put out a sub-stack post, walked through
how I'd evolved on some of these things.
There was nasty stuff I said about the LDS church,
which certainly has a very large population in Utah.
And I've married into a family that is LDS.
And so having to be in close quarters with those folks
and understanding how their faith shapes
many attributes that I really admire in them,
I think has moved me along,
but I would say it does really concern me
for politics, for business, for leadership
other scenarios where someone evolves over the years but said something stupid, said many stupid
things in the past. What do people want for accountability? I guess that's a question I have
for folks is like, what does that look like? What do people want to see out of younger people
seeking positions of leadership? What makes them feel comfortable acknowledging that we've moved
gone, that sort of thing, that we've grown and become bigger and better people. And yeah,
it's, I think it's going to become more and more prevalent. Of course, we saw the Grand
Platinum situation and how that shaped the race. And so I think it's up to the public,
I think in a lot of ways to say what is acceptable, you know, when is the statute
of limitations run out? You know, what sort of apology do we need? And, you know,
those are questions I've tried to answer. But I think for a lot of different people,
has a lot of different responses. What do you think is worse? Shitposts and things that you've said
that sometimes, especially without the, especially with the negative framing can be beyond controversial
that you don't mean or greenlighting the genocide of Palestinians. I would have to go with the
latter there. Yeah. Okay. The genocide. Yeah. Okay. That's bad. What do you think is worse?
things that you might have said or things that the current president is saying from the bully pulpit.
Yeah. I think what we're seeing coming out of the presidency on a normal basis is horrific.
Okay. I'm going to play a sound bite for you. I want to hear what you have. What do you think
about this? Legalized comedy. How does that make you feel? Legalized comedy.
Yeah. I think we should legalize comedy. I think there's a lot to be said for that.
Okay
Just I want to you brought up grand planner. So I gotta ask you don't have any tattoos with skulls
Right on you anything you want to go through the whole list. Okay lightning
Ancient Hindu or Buddhist symbols. I not only do I have none of those things I have no tattoos
Okay, which probably makes me way less cool than than other people than my wife who has tattoos
There's not going to be any cover-ups of tattoos in the near future, folks.
Okay. All right. Well, let's get to some different things. I do think, well, actually, you know what?
The last one I wanted to say is, look, I think that we are in a very different time
politically. I think in some ways, in a post-Trump era, there is no real
uh, there's, there's no real, uh, gracious way to, to receive people, uh, holding themselves
accountable. Uh, and this is my own personal opinion. I feel like we should, uh, give a
lot more respect to people who do say, look, you know, these are things I said, it was
really messed up. I don't agree with them. It doesn't represent who I am now. Um, and,
and be a little bit more understanding of the, the evolution that people have had here.
Um, especially because in the post-Trump era, like no one ever apologizes, right?
Donald Trump has never apologized. He only doubles down and it's actually beneficial to just double down.
Yeah. If I was, if I was privately offering consultation to a politician and they were like,
hey, these posts came out, what should I do? I'd be like, just fucking double down.
Yeah. And then you're like, listen, you just be like, look, some of this stuff doesn't
represent who I am. But like, I'm obviously joking. And I think there's more serious
issues to focus on? Yeah, I agree. Let's try to raise the minimum wage. Let's try to protect
reproductive freedom. Let's try to end genocide in Gaza. Those are what I want to focus on.
Yeah. All right. Well, another area of focus on energy. Yeah. You're unusually concrete with
your advocacy for geothermal energy storage and grid enhancing technology and making data
centers pay real community costs. So talk to me about your background in green tech
and how these industries have the potential to create new high paying jobs in Utah.
I'm so excited to be talking about geothermal. This is my favorite.
Geothermal, I was actually talking about this in an Uber earlier with someone, if you can
understand where I'm coming from here. I worked for a trade association focused on large-scale
renewable energy several years ago before leaving that job to serve in the legislature,
and was promoting large-scale wind, solar, battery storage, the projects that are really
defining the Green New Deal in many ways, which I support and playing into that.
And Geothermal in particular is super cool because in actually California is one of the
other major geothermal producing states, but Geothermal is basically leveraging the heat
from underneath the ground and creating steam and spinning a turbine.
And so it powers the grid the entire day, 24-7, 365, and it is really cool.
This new technology they're using is basically they're drilling, they're fracking, which
sounds bad.
I don't like fracking when it's natural gas because they're using all these nasty chemicals
and stuff.
But you can actually take the workforce from the oil and gas fields and transition them
over to doing very similar jobs in the clean energy space and in geothermal, which
is going to be really beneficial to backing up the wind and solar that we eat on the
grid.
So I love this story.
I think both like Mike Lee and AOC have run legislation on geothermal energy
You should love it. It's the one thing that he does maybe that that we should support
Okay
We already talked about Kevin O'Leary and the massive fight happening in Box elder County, but I
I want to ask you another question on this. You've called for a total moratorium on these
data centers as Bernie has as well. How do we stop tech billionaires from draining our
public water and skyrocketing our utility bills just to power their AI slop generators
and their mass surveillance facilities?
We've got to get money out of politics. I mean, you've got to stop letting these
people own our politicians and our system, right? I mean, it's not going to stop
until that's what we see happen. Until we work around Citizens United, hopefully get
a Supreme Court that'll overturn it at some point, that'll overturn that decision at some
point. That's the way to do it, is we need to balance the system in a way that actually
works for our interests, not for the billionaire interests. And I don't think we will ever
see the real change that we need until we actually address those sorts of things.
In the state Senate, you introduced legislation to impose a 1% additional tax on Utahns, making
over $1 million a year to fund education and refund working families.
Why do you hate the rich?
I think they are doing just fine and that I see people struggling every day that I
talk to in my role as an elected official now in the campaign, because they now have
to pay 1% extra.
They've got to get that B on the front for them to really be making it, right, to be a billionaire
at this point.
Yeah.
I mean,
I'm just not that worried about people who are pulling in over a million dollars a year.
They can take care of themselves.
And I feel like government's role is to take care of all of us.
And that means, you know, taking a little bit more from people who can afford it
and spreading that out a little bit.
I don't know what that makes me, but
Nate Bluon doesn't care about POC.
see people of capital. I can see the attack ads right now. I love it. Nate Bluwin cares
about the poor too much. Oh, that's a good one. No, no, that's an attack ad. Yeah, I
can see it. Yeah. All right. In Utah, I think that would play. Okay. Yeah. There are toxic
dust storms growing. You just need more common in Utah. Part of that is due to the drying
of the Great Salt Lake. As these storms get worse and worse, has there been any interest
in drawing inspiration from China's anti-desertification techniques that have drastically improved air
quality around these large deserts? Here, I'll show you one video I want to see. Imagine
a forest system stretching 4,500 kilometers across an entire continent, covering more
than 4 million square kilometers, an area larger than India. This is not a future
Since 1978, China has been attempting exactly that, building an artificial green barrier across
its northern frontier to stop the Gobi Desert in its tracks, known as the Three North Shelter
Belt Program.
This is not a conservation effort.
It is a 72-year ecological mega-project.
I mean, it's literally what they're doing.
I mean, it's propaganda in the sense that it's showing what China has done so far.
The reason why I bring up China is twofold.
One, I mean, I did notice your reluctance where you're like, oh, we shouldn't treat
them as an ally.
But also, the reason why I bring it up is because you're a green energy guy.
You're a renewable energy guy, and it's obviously one sector where China is leading and
has made tremendous gains in not only these anti-desertification techniques, but also with
solar panels and wind turbines.
And then that's the reason why I was asking about this, because there could be a more
cooperative approach where we learn from some of these techniques instead of immediately
saying, oh, well, these are the bad guys.
been taught that they're the bad guys. So we shouldn't learn anything from them. What's
your opinion on that?
Yeah, and I think that's what I was trying to say. If that's not what I said earlier,
is that we should learn from them. They have built, particularly on, and it makes sense,
transmission lines that require planning across many different jurisdictions. So when
you have a government that can do more central planning than ours can, like in China,
by my understanding, you can build these big thousand mile long transmission lines
that help us move energy from where it's produced to where it is consumed.
And so yeah, I think there are, there's a lot we can learn from those sorts of, from China.
It's funny, the state of Utah has sent people to Israel to work on water issues and try to
learn from what they're doing. I just wanted to throw that in because I don't know what
they're actually doing that's different than us, but it's certainly a place where we need to
do a lot of work and certainly not take more out of the system like you're seeing happen with this
data center issue. And I don't know, did you hear about Donald Trump offering us a billion dollars
for Great Salt Lake? No, I did not. What is that? A billion dollars for what? Yeah, basically to
like, you know, secure water rights and try to, you know, maybe build some infrastructure. And
it's not 100% clear what that billion would be for. But like, actually, we need like a billion
in a year for several years to get enough water into the lake to actually get it to a
sustainable level, which is still hasn�t been at all.
I don�t trust Donald Trump as a great conservationist.
I don�t either.
I�m a little reluctant.
I feel like there�s some that he gets in return for that.
The timing with the announced ice facility in Utah was very conspicuous.
It was like a billion dollar commitment to Great Salt Lake one week and then next
week, 7,500 person ice detention center in Salt Lake City. Just saying. There's another
massive local controversy. The state plans to spend $1.4 billion of taxpayer money to
build an eight mile gondola up Little Cottonwood Canyon, which environmentalists point out
largely serves a taxpayer funded luxury ride for a couple of private elite ski resorts.
How does this gondola project represent the broader issue in America of privatizing
public lands and using working-class tax dollars to subsidize corporate profits.
It's a great representation of that. I haven't talked to very many folks who do support, aside
from the governor and a few people who would stand to benefit substantially off of this
thing. It would benefit essentially Alta, Ski Resort, and Snowboard Ski Resort. Oh,
there you go. There's Alta. It's this boondoggle. I mean, the cost of just skyrocketed
as you've seen the infrastructure costs go up and you're hearing about how it's going to demolish
folks who rock climb in the canyon, their routes would be under this thing. And so I was actually
at a meeting last night hosted by like Sierra Club and some other local conservation organizations
about the roadless rule, which Trump is trying to rescind, which protects spaces like we have
up in the canyons outside of Salt Lake City. And the reason they hosted the meeting is because
the federal government won't host those meetings. They're not hosting the public input meetings,
they should, to actually hear what people think about these things. One thing more specific to
like the idea of the ski resorts and such is these are cited on public lands. So, Alta,
Snowbird, they lease forest service lands. And Deer Valley, for instance, up in Park City,
Utah, a lift ticket will run you about $350 a day. And they're on forest service land.
we should be using the leverage as as you know the the people who own that land to require them to like
Cap ticket prices and like that sort of thing. I love to see that happen
There's been some discussions about that from you know using the leverage that the federal government has to actually make skiing affordable
That's a very niche issue. But yeah, this is the most Utah conversation of all time. Okay. I like it though
um, Utah's republican supermajority is past uh past abortion trigger bans
Bands on gender-affirming care, anti-DEI laws, school vouchers to raw public schools, and
a redistricting law that a court just threw out is unconstitutional.
You voted no on essentially all of it, and they've all retaliated by cutting your mic
when you've tried discussing it.
How bad is the situation there on the ground in Utah?
Do you think it's indicative of where the far-right reactionaries are heading across
the country?
Yeah, it's been frustrating.
So literally the first week I served in the state senate back in 2023, I had an intern
who was trans and he had gone through gender affirming care just a couple of years before
and the first week of bill on basically placing a moratorium on gender affirming care for
minors came through and I stood up and used his words that he had wanted to actually
give like a speech himself and there's not a place that that's allowed to do in the
process.
So I will you know, if you want to
Express yourself I will be happily read those words on the Senate floor and yeah, they did not like that
The the Republicans did not like that and I think it led to four years of of getting kind of
Blackballed from moving legislation for which is fine because I feel like we do not speak up enough
And this is a problem with Democrats in Utah
It's a problem with Democrats nationally is that we see these sorts of issues and we back down and our instinct is to compromise
compromise and all that stuff and I just don't think that's right. It's been so disheartening
to see us not take tough stands time and time again.
Why do you think Republicans nationally, and this bleeds in the local politics quite a
bit, hyper-focus on culture war issues, do you feel like it's because they're reluctant
to do anything that will materially improve the lives of the working class in their
own states? So they just try to throw red meat in front of the base over and
over again as they increasingly become more and more reactionary.
Yes, I think that's a big part of it. I will say it was interesting this year because I
think even some of the Republicans in far right Utah are getting sick of it. Maybe that's like
one of the only...
You mean the voters?
No, the legislators. Towards the end of session, I will not normally give them credit
for anything, but there were some bills that came forward that they were like,
We're not going to deal with that. We're just going to use the process. At some points,
they turned to me, actually. I remember one of the pretty far-right Republicans slipping
me a note that said, kill this bill. I made a motion on some far-right guys. I think it
was a voting rights bill or something to hold it and to kill it in committee because they're
sick of it, too. And they would like to, some of them. There are many of them who
this is not the case for. But yeah, I think there is just that aspect of division though,
and like wanting to keep people divided so that their donors can keep contributing and keep getting
what they want out of the system. And when people are focusing on the issues that, you know,
the book banning and the flag, we have like flag bans in Utah where cities are not allowed
to fly pride flags or things like that. Yeah, it's because, you know, they want to they want
something for people to pay attention to rather than the things that actually matter.
Um, in 2014, Republican County Commissioner Phil Lyman organized an illegal ATV ride through
Native American archaeological sites in recapture Canyon, just to protest the federal government's
regulation of public lands. He went to jail. Yeah, he got pardoned by Trump and
recently threw a fit after losing the GOP gubernatorial primary. As someone who advocates
for protecting public lands, how do you even begin to legislate and protect the environment
when the right-wing politicians in your state act like literal cartoon villains?
And he's running for Congress now. The lineman is running for Congress and he could win. It's a
possibility. It is not easy. They use this language of we need to take our land back
and it's like, there's no back there that was never land that Utah had a claim to.
People, you know, don't quite understand that. Like, these are lands that Utah actually
dismissed essentially when we took our statehood back in 1896 or somewhere thereabouts.
And so, there's just no real historic basis for any of this, and you're seeing the state
spend millions of dollars on lawsuits and PR campaigns actually to promote these sorts of
things. At the federal level, I look at my larger role, if I'm elected as working against the rest
of the delegation in Utah. The other would be a six-member delegation for reps and two senators.
To have a strong voice in it that's going to speak up against the public land grabs and that
sort of thing, I think is absolutely critical. I'm not looking for common ground with these
folks on these sorts of issues or many others, honestly, because I think we need to be stronger
and are in our positions here. But there are so many pieces to this where public lands are...
You don't get them back. You don't get them back. And there's a bill in Congress called the
America's Red Rock Wilderness Act that would... It's a very Utah-specific bill, but it hasn't had
a Utah sponsor in decades. It still hasn't passed. It's just been kind of changing over the
years. Right now, it's sponsored by Melanie Stansberry out of New Mexico. But I'm
I'm committed to sponsoring that in the next Congress, if I'm elected.
That would protect hundreds of thousands or millions of acres of wilderness land in Utah.
That's what we need to do is go against the rest of the delegation in the state because
they are going to keep trying to privatize and sell these things off to people to make
a profit.
You hate profit, it seems.
All of this land could be better used if they turned it into a Walmart or a data
center.
Or a mine.
Yeah, I know I think that's great. Yeah
I disagree respectfully, okay
Your main opponent this primary is Ben McAdams
He used to be considered one of the most
Conservative Democrats in Congress and when he wrapped a redder district he called himself pro-life. Yep. He voted against raising the minimum wage
Now that he's running in a deep blue district
However, he subtly claims to support abortion rights and a higher wage
Do you feel like McAdams is truly a born-again progressive?
Or do you think
Someone like yourself who is challenging him from the left has pulled him further to the left
Would you chalk up as rhetorical changes to opportunism or do you feel like he's actually all of a sudden had to come to Jesus moment?
woke Jesus
Well, Jesus, he was he was expecting a very different seat. We all were expecting a very different seat here
So this decision on this map happened. I mean overnight like I remember that night
It came out at like 11 o'clock and you know, I was expecting a district that may or maybe two
Kind of a light blue or like a purple district in Utah and we got a district that Kamala Harris would have won by 24 points
So very blue seat
McAdams was running, you know regardless and he was hoping I think to run for a much
more moderate seat because that's the record that he has and he has had to run away from that record
I'm running on my record. I'm running on what I've stood up for in the state Senate
What I've, you know, basically always believed in and I have a track record to prove it
I have, you know, votes to prove it and
Yeah, to see him. I don't think he's actually said he
necessarily wants a higher wage
He's just defended his vote on
Like a regional minimum wage, which is funny because the Progressive Caucus was like just fighting against that because it was just a way to
It takes a momentum away from the actual opportunity to pass a higher minimum wage.
So I think it is a change of heart for him, but in many ways it's kind of what he's been
able to do throughout the years.
He represented a state senate district and then the county, Salt Lake County is the
mayor and then Congress, and he's running for Congress again, and he's always been
able to change his position to match the district.
To me, we should be electing people who are true to their convictions, and we know what
they represent.
And if they represent the district well, that's great.
And if they don't align with those values, don't run in that district.
I think that's the moral.
I'm fine seeing more moderate people running in more purple districts, although I love
that Oliver Larkin is testing some of those theories in Florida.
You know, let's even Graham Platner and right and a state that obviously Trump won
Obdol say it's running in Michigan and he's you know doing a really good job so far
So I don't even think that people need to be running on more moderate positions. I agree
Purple dishes. I think what people want, especially the base
Certainly the Democratic Party's base, but even beyond that what people are looking for is moral conviction
Yes, we're looking for our people that they can trust right
It's hard to trust someone who's flipped back and forth on some of these positions several times at this point
All right, so I have a couple of last questions
One is the the Zoran method Zoran has five priorities
That that he wanted to be identified by what are your top five priorities for Utah's first congressional district?
And how would you go about implementing them?
All right
So these won't all be in in order of importance
But I think the first one is which is un-rigging the system for people and that means getting money out of politics and finding workarounds to
Citizens United until we can get that overturned with a favorable Supreme Court and then
banning gerrymandering and empowering voting rights again and bypassing the for the people act
So that's that's number one because I don't think anything else changes
like I mentioned earlier unless you can really address those issues because everything else flows from having a system that actually
Values the input of voters and not big donors
To Medicare for all you know enough said I think
Housing affordability and really focusing on making sure I think that's a human right
I think having a roof over your head is a human right
We should repeal the Faircloth amendment and you know make sure the federal government can actually start investing in and building
Public housing again, and we need to take on the corporate power
That is driving up rents and home prices through algorithmic pricing. I would call it corruption or collusion behind the scenes
So I worry very much about that
Um, we need to abolish ICE. That's that's another one on there for me is is abolishing ICE and
rebuilding an immigration system that actually has a pathway to citizenship for, um, for,
you know, everyone who comes here with good intentions. And I think that also plays into
rebuilding our, um, our standing on the world stage. You know, we need to stop
enabling genocide in Gaza. I think those things all play together as part of a
bigger picture need to rebuild our image and play a better role in the world.
We need to pass a Green New Deal. I mentioned that earlier. I think that plays into the
data center aspect here. Let's stop creating these jobs just to then overturn other people's
jobs in the future. Let's create a new system that actually empowers people to do important
work in the clean energy space in so many other spaces that are going to make the world
more livable for people and in a bunch of different ways and I think those are those are all critical
pieces that I would address. So that's that's what I want to get to work on when I get to DC.
Okay, rapid fire round. I'm going to ask you, do you support Medicare for all?
Yes. Universal child care. Yeah.
Abolishing and prosecuting ICE. Yep.
Abolishing private prisons. Absolutely.
Raising taxes on billionaires. Absolutely.
Raising the minimum wage. Yep.
Banning the predatory student loans. Yep.
Implementing the Green New Deal. Yep.
Ending citizens united. Yep banning congressional stock trading. Yep ending america's war on iran and these are easy
Yep ending america's embargo on cuba. Yep ending aid to israel. Yep a free palestine course
Okay, yeah, uh, that's great. Uh, the primaries june 23rd 2026 macadams led your own internal poll 36 to 23 with 25
undecided
um, you qualify with a ballot via 7 000 signatures
you're being outspent 4-1. I think you also had an informed voter, you had an informed ballot as well
where you were actually doing better than McAdams. You're being outspent 4-1 though and you have
the backing of Bernie Sanders, you have the backing of some other prominent progressives. For
people hearing you for the first time today, what do you want them to understand about your
convictions, and how can people contribute to your campaign?
Yeah. So check out NateForUtah.com, NateFORUtah.com. That's where you'll find all our stuff. I'm
at NateForUtah on most of the social media channels. This is such an important seat
because it is a seat where we have a real choice in a state that I don't think anyone
expected to be kind of on the map this year before November of last year. And so
I'm running on my record. Like I mentioned, I'm running on taking on the power of
the Utah legislature that I've done in the last few years running on taking on those
big interests that I think both Democrats and Republicans have failed to challenge.
And I have an opponent who is not focused on those things, who is focused on I think
just preserving the status quo.
And that is just not what people want right now.
And, you know, he's served in Congress before he has the name ID.
He's had the money.
But we've had the momentum.
I mean, you talked about being outspent four to one.
We spent well over $100,000 gathering signatures to get on the ballot.
We spent like $15,000, so we mostly did that with a volunteer effort that shows that we've
built a strong campaign that can actually win here and represent progressive values.
And DC represent really focusing on actually addressing the material conditions and concerns
that people have in my district.
And I think that's what people are asking for is someone who's got a track record,
who's got a history of addressing those things rather than really catering to big donors
and the wealthy oligarch-type folks who have had far too much power in our country for
far too long.
In person voting, the voter registration deadline in person is June 23rd by mail, is received
by June 12th, and online is June 12th as well.
In person absentee mail in ballot return deadline is again June 23rd, and by mail
received by June 23rd. Early voting is available to all voters, uh, at least for the time being.
Trump decides to take that away, even though Utah is a deep red state. And early voting
start and end dates are June 9th to June 19th, and the polls are open on election day from 7am
to 8pm mountain time. Thank you, Nate Blu, and so much for coming on.
Thank you, Assange.
Wonderful having you.
Appreciate it.
it. And yeah, all right, I'm going to get back to, I'm going to get back to the broadcast
right now. Hold on. All right. Okay. One second. I'll say I'll, I'll, yeah, we'll do
a quick photo real quick okay oh thank you thank you so much okay all right we're
gonna get back to the Beijing summit right now and I'll be back in a second
is our chief geopolitical rival and that China is in fact quite focused on
competing with the United States and catching up to us and are we in a
situation now where even European allies are now looking more to the east than to the west.
I think a lot of countries now have a very jaundiced view of both powers, right, and see
neither necessarily as a paragon or as an exemplar that they want to follow the lead
of. And I think this was very consistent with Prime Minister Carney's speech from Canada
earlier this year, right, where the middle powers feel like they have to look out for
themselves.
This meeting was postponed from early April, presumably in the hope that tensions in
the Middle East might be solved by now. After the bilat, Fox News host Sean Hannity asked
Trump, did China's support for Iran come up?
I mean, when you say support, they're not fighting a war with us, are they?
No.
He said he's not going to give military equipment. That's a big statement. He said that today.
That's a big statement. He said that strongly. But at the same time, he said, you know,
they buy a lot of their oil there and they'd like to keep doing it. He'd like to see
see almost straight open.
And so in Beijing, it was the three Ts, Tehran, Taiwan, and perhaps most of all, trade. With
an invite for Xi Jinping to visit the US this September, has a lifetime of Trump's trademark
China threats dissolved away.
President Xi and President Trump will talk about the most important issues in the Taiwan-US relations.
Once the two countries are settled, they will be able to maintain the overall stability.
If the two countries are not settled, they will even get into conflict,
and will push the entire Sino-US relations to a very dangerous place.
Taiwan-Taiwan peace, the water is not easy.
Protecting Taiwan-Taiwan peace is stable, which is the biggest contract between China and the US.
The US, on the one hand, is stubborn and on the other hand, is dealing with the problem of Taiwan.
We are resolved.
Wait, what secret service stand-off Chinese security allegedly blocked arm-secret service agent from entering Trump's Xi event in Beijing, triggering a stand-off that delayed the entry for over 30 minutes according to reports?
What the fuck?
Bro, it don't work that way. It don't work that way. Okay. You don't get to do that.
Another standoff was with the media. American press got into heated arguments with the Chinese
police. Hold them back in a side room during President Trump's Temple of Heaven visit with
Xi. Do you understand? We are in the motorcade with the president. Chinese reporters security
on our side do not allow you to leave this building.
report is we got a movie that go go we got a move
then they're allowed out of the room americans uh... says do not
run over anybody do not do what they did to us all my god
We gotta go.
Go.
Let's go.
We're going.
We gotta go guys.
Let's go.
He's right...
We have to go.
We gotta go.
We have to go.
We have to go.
U.S. press.
We are going.
U.S. press.
We are going.
Just in, altercation is reportedly captured by rush hour director Brett Ranner who is
with Trump's delegation to scout locations for rush hour 4.
I think it's ridiculous.
This is ridiculous that they straight up fucking put, they should have put an Epstein
affiliate in this fucking delegation. They are forcibly intercepting. They're forcibly
bringing, they're forcibly bringing the Epstein delegation into China. Also, it's kind of
wild that these guys have this kind of attitude in a different country I have a
little bit more fucking humility man Americans think everywhere is America I
swear to God very Israeli mentality
What is this look at our Dems bro. I mean this is Democratic wins man who gives a fuck
Anyway, that's interesting. Apparently numerous standoffs taken place here. Okay.
Opposed Taiwan independence is as firm as a rock, and our ability to crush separatism is unbreakable.
There is only one China, and Taiwan is part of China.
This is an undeniable historical and legal fact that cannot be denied.
Taiwan has never been a country.
It was not one in the past, and it absolutely will not be one in the future.
No matter how many times Lai Qingte repeats his lies, a lie told a thousand times remains
a lie and can never become the truth.
Trump bent over and showed whole he's going to give him Taiwan, Lama Fail.
I mean, the American position, even from the Nixon era when China was an obviously a far
weaker predicament has always been to recognize Taiwan as a part of China while simultaneously
engaging in the active strategic ambiguity.
There's never been a State Department position that is straight away from the perspective
that Taiwan is a part of China, okay?
From the inception, the Republic of China was a separatist state.
Now, obviously things have changed, right?
Things have changed quite a bit, and people change, policies change, Taiwan is not what
it was initially.
the KMT itself is now the party that is much more open to if not reunification, if not reunification
but a party that is more invested in normalizing relations with China or developing better relationships
with China, okay? As opposed to the American cutout, which is the DPP. As far as the Taiwanese
populations opinion on this, they want status quo overwhelmingly. They want status quo overwhelmingly,
which is an opportunity for them to continue trading and continue having good relations
with China, while also having one foot in the door with the Western world.
As far as the Chinese perspective goes, they see Taiwan as a part of China as the ROC saw
mainland China as a part of the Republic of China.
So, you have the PRC on the one hand, and you have the ROC on the other hand, the
the RCCs not only the mainland, but also additional territories historically as a part of greater
China, the PRCCs Taiwan as a part of mainland China.
My attitude on this is to not disrupt the current relationship that we have with China
and to allow peace to continue.
If I was living in Taiwan, I'd have a very different attitude, in my opinion.
If I was a Taiwanese national, if I was living in Taiwan, I'd be perfectly on board with becoming
a part of mainland China.
But I do understand why the younger population, especially, have their worries about having
their state apparatus sucked up by the Chinese government, and they're worried about state
repression and things of that nature in the same way that people in Hong Kong were resistant,
regardless of the different situation with Hong Kong's ownership, inevitably being
given back to the People's Republic of China.
I do believe, oh, don't run them over like they did to us, refer to this incident today,
New White House aid trampled by Chinese journalists during President Trump's meeting with President
Xi Jinping.
Fox News Peter Duce also reports that there have been heated and physical clash between
the US Secret Service and Chinese police.
journals reportedly knocked over and stepped on a White House aide who was left bruised
and shaken. The staffer was not seriously introduced to reports that there have been physical clashes
over heated arguments during the trip. It's worth pointing out that there have been some
heated and physical clashes to the Secret Service and Chinese police at basically the
back doors of these events, including one very physical standout where a Secret Service
officer was being prevented from taking his weapon in as a part of the protective detail.
But things have been ironed out as far as we know. The schedule has not changed
because of that.
Some heated and physical clashes between the Secret Service and the Classic Americans.
Dude, what do you mean I can't bring a gun to this meeting with global leaders?
That's my emotional support gun, buddy.
I'm bringing it everywhere with me, okay?
you can't tell an american they can't bring a gun somewhere okay they're gonna
want to bring the gun
it's an emotional support service weapon you don't understand chinese police on
the
at basically at the back doors of these events including one very physical stand
off where a secret service officer was being prevented from taking his
weapon in as part of the protective detail but
things have all been ironed out and as far as we know the schedule has
not been changed because of that, Martha.
Yeah, well, it's tense meeting.
I think that is, that's pretty clear.
Peter, thank you very much.
We are missing history happening out there
because you have us locked in this room.
Look at this weird-ass confrontation of 159.
I think a lot of Americans have this attitude that is unironically orientalist, that like
all Asian people are meek, right?
Part of that is because of Japanese culture and the way they've experienced Japanese culture
where Japanese people are very, they're terrified of being rude.
If you recall, I've talked about this before.
Japanese people are the opposite of that. Okay? It's not Americans think, oh, Asian people,
they're submissive. Not to say that, like, all Japanese people are that way either, but
people, like, that's the attitude overall. So, when they come to China for the first
time ever, they get to realize, like, oh, that's not how it is here at all. And I've
personally experiences. I've also talked about it as well, where Chinese people culturally are
the exact opposite of Japanese people culturally, where they're very loud, they have huge personalities,
and they're much more direct and much more confrontational than Japanese people are.
Yeah, if Americans can understand the distinction between people from Iowa and people from
Wisconsin, I'm sure they can understand the distation between Chinese people, Japanese
people, and people from Thailand and South Korea, you know, it happens.
What is this? There is a weird altercation to place here, you said?
What is it? Swedish police absolutely hate USU service. They're such assholes and snuggle
their guns even though they're told they can't have them and it's illegal, etc, etc.
One million views just happened in Trump 1.0 in North Korea, two White House aid fought
with North Korean security to let US pressing.
info what is this dude this is fucking crazy we we oftentimes I mean I don't know
what the what the situation is like I don't know what the expectation is in
these sorts of events like maybe they tell them ahead of time that it's okay
and then like wires get crossed I'm trying to be as charitable as possible
But this seems like an insane thing to do. And I feel like only Americans can get away with behaving like this.
Okay?
She literally sets a pick.
Pushing with her full body.
body, the North Korean security detail to forcibly allow it was seen as an admirable moment
by U.S. media.
I just think someone that I show speed does a better diplomatic job, and I 100% agree.
Like I feel like if any country, any country's like staffers behave like this on U.S. soil,
I feel like our police would shoot them like our police would be like, what do you mean?
You're you're touching me right now.
We do worse shit to our own press on US soil.
Okay.
It doesn't make any fucking sense.
only let North Korea media in there and kept the US media out. So that's why she came back
to force them in. Yeah. That's why I was trying to figure out like, is it, is it, uh, you know,
is it fucked up for the security services to just like do something? Or is there like
a separate press pool for the Americans? You know what I mean?
They build a ballroom in North Korea after this, by the way.
Do you remember the Turkish street a couple years ago?
Yeah, I do remember.
They beat the fuck out of someone on US soil and they were allowed to do so.
Also, there's been some noisy and physical disputes between members of the US and Chinese
delegations.
We experienced some of that firsthand yesterday, leaving that welcome ceremony.
I was ordered onto a bus that then immediately left with nobody on it except for me and a
driver that didn't know I wanted to get off.
When is the next crash out?
I don't know.
Maybe soon, Chatter.
Are you a baby or are you an adult?
I like that. I like that we're over here watching, uh, China completely rewrite American hegemony
and this guy's like, I'm a baby and I only respond. I only respond to drama on the internet.
They, the press will fuck you up in order to keep her get access. I wish our press
This was that aggressive in the United States of America for American related instances.
Also this would have been really funny.
They just ship off Peter Douchey.
I mean they would have done a great deal for American prosperity.
They would have given us a big W there.
after lots of shouting and pointing on the bus and off the bus we got where we
needed to be. Secret service. Just drove his ass to inner Mongolia.
They had a little back and forth too. They did. At a separate event they didn't want to let one of the
president's protective detail members bring a firearm and more shoving more
shouting but they figured it out. Yeah that doesn't work Peter as always thank
And there have also been some noisy and physical disputes between members of the US
Yeah, we took we took out we took out Peter douchey the assets the assets being packaged is shipped I repeat
Peter douchey is being shipped
to enter Mongolia, they're gonna exile his ass.
We told you we wanted you to discuss it when you were here, I applied before you were here.
An hour ago, we got you.
And we told you.
Good to know they're being just as dramatic with their reporting on you being arrested
in China with the press being pushy.
I know.
That's true. If you recall, I was gulagged in China, sent to the fucking mines in faraway, distant lands
with the altercation that I have with the police in Tianmen Square. That's not that far from this, either, where these guys are.
No, I want to go right where we were to catch the president's walking out of the temple
of Earth.
This guy right here.
Yeah, I got deported day one, one frame.
Anyway, let's continue.
Donald Trump swerved a potentially awkward moment during a photo call with China's president when a member of the press asked about the issue of Taiwan.
He was so mad.
Dude, imagine asking about Taiwan next to fucking Xi Jinping.
It's so awesome.
He's like...
He's like, dude, you fucking piece of shit.
He's like, maybe Trump was the one who was telling the fucking Chinese security to beat the shit out of the American press pool a little bit for him.
Warm him up for me.
Warm him up for me, these sons of bitches. Teach him, teach him how to act right.
President Trump?
President Xi stressed to President Trump that the Taiwan question is the most important
issue in China-U.S. relations.
Talk to me about that moment.
Well, they certainly feel that way and they always raise that issue, and we understand
they raise that issue.
our perspective, any forced change in the status quo and the situation that's there now would
be bad for both countries. One of the things that Chinese...
Dog, that's their position. As China's power grows, especially against America, the status
quo conversation will shift to benefit China, okay? It's very funny that they can't even
like posture. They can't really posture at all right now because they don't have any
fucking leverage. And to be fair, and I say this sincerely, America doesn't give a fuck
about Taiwanese independence. Okay. Anyone that legitimately thinks America gives a fuck about
Taiwanese independence, America has never given a fuck about Ukrainian autonomy either.
Okay, that's never been the case. It's more so what kind of purpose these countries or
or or advancing the interests of like, uh, uh, using Taiwan as an entry point in the
China, like they don't, that's it. That's the only thing they care about is what these
place can do for America's adversaries. Okay? It's unironically so ridiculous that America
might even drop its support for Turkey, the second largest NATO country at the behest of Israel.
There's only one country that we actually care about, okay? Every other country is a missile
sponge. Every other country could become a missile sponge.
For America, the interest in Taiwan is obviously semiconductors
and also a launching pad.
How is every right extremist meeting the CCP and not the leftist not just in the USA,
Modi met with CCP, Trump went with CCP, is it a pattern or do I need the church grass for real?
What are you talking about? I've tried to explain this to you before.
China does not care about ideology. China has never given a single shred of a shit about
what the ideology of its major neighboring country is, okay?
And it's governing party. They don't give a fuck.
China works with America.
There is no pattern beyond China trade maxing and developing better, developing better relations
with its neighboring nations and even the United States of America, the size which we agree
is strategic stability in our relationship, a constructive relationship but also one.
In that sense, the pure isolation is where their attitude is we don't give a fuck
as long as you don't harm us and our way of existence.
The the greatest example I can give you about China's lack of interest in like
maintaining some sort of communist ideology around the world is obviously Cuba.
One example that I use in their own backyard is obviously the Philippines,
but certainly in Cuba as well, right? They do not care at all. As a matter of fact,
they're totally willing to write off
They're totally willing to write off what takes place in Cuba,
as long as in exchange for better ease of tensions in the Strait of Taiwan, right?
The Taiwanese Strait. Having said that, of course, they'll meet with Claudia Scheinbaum as well,
obviously. Xi Jinping met with Mexican President Claudia
Sheinbaum. Xi once again congratulated President Sheinbaum
becoming the first female president of Mexico, said that
his visit to Mexico in 2013 left a deep and strong impression on
him. China and Mexico have had a time honored for a
tradition of friendship. This was in 2024, November 18, 2024.
So, there are allegiances, I'm sure there's like, I mean, China and Mexico have like a
very, very solid relationship already, but there's only interest, there's only Chinese
interest.
There's no like ideological, there's no, there's no underpinning ideological purpose
that China cares about.
that establishes strategic stability so that we don't have misunderstandings that could
lead to broader conflict.
And so we always reiterate the point.
We hear them when they say this.
We always respond by saying anything that would compel or force a change in what we have
now would be problematic.
And we would certainly, our policies on that have not changed.
It's been pretty consistent across multiple presidential administrations that remain
consistent now.
Did President Xi request to President Trump not to sell weapons to Taiwan?
that topic may have been has been discussed in the past it's absolutely that
is the main Chinese demand is to restrict weapons transfers did not feature
primarily today's discuss doesn't that make you mad though they could be a
counter they could be a counter force but they won't um it used to and it's
still to a certain degree does it annoys me but at the end of the day I'm not
fucking Chinese okay that's it like I'm as an American I'm trying to fucking make
changes in the United States of America some people will say oh that's
copper whatever or this is defense of China but it's like I'm not I'm not
Chinese you know I'm an American citizen it's like I can't expect other
countries to out of nowhere play the role of like global fucking savior you
You know, it sounds a little, it sounds a little ridiculous, you know.
It's also, it's ridiculous when fucking America is demanding China's aid in opening the
straight-of-hormose. It's even more ridiculous than that, right?
But even Chinese development and Chinese prosperity,
even China becoming a force to be reckoned with in the global stage,
is unironically reasserting stability and the need for stability in the global
stays so it's like if it even causes America to second guess its endless
adventurism, its endless military adventurism overseas then they're kind of
doing a better job than I have right. So even as like a like a counter balance
that is outright refusing to tilt the scales in any way shape or form it
It's still doing more than I could.
Yeah, oh no I know New York Times is actually kind of waging war we're gonna
get to that it's really good Chuck Schumer of course Trump must not sell
out Taiwan period.
We know what their position on that is already, remember Congress plays a role in that process
as well.
And we have sold them weapons in the past that's existed as recently as December, which they
were very upset about.
And that's a decision the president gets to make as Congress appropriates and as Congress
decides what to do with those topics we will respond accordingly.
But nothing has changed in the way that US views a relationship with Taiwan, it will
defend Taiwan as has been US policy on the issue of time.
How does this change?
Wait, what?
You're not a whole ass country of course can't do as much of them.
How does this change what you think they should do?
Wait, what do you mean it doesn't?
Don't fuck?
I've been pretty clear about what I think China could do and what I think China
should do, but that chatter has something different.
I have been very clear, I think China should play a more formative role in intervening in
global conflict.
It's unbelievably disappointing.
But also at the same time, I'm talking about, as far as nation versus nation, I think about
what my country is doing. We are the ones who are responsible for all the fucking instability.
It sometimes feels a little weird that we're just like, why won't China fix what we are
doing? I guess it's more so a recognition of our inability to enforce the democratic
wishes of the majority. They don't have enough power projection capability of the US or USSR.
They absolutely could do a USSR level of power projection. They could do more than USSR's
power projection. They are projecting power. Trade is far more consequential and a far
stronger tool in this day and age for China to implement whatever wishes, whatever design
they have. Taiwan is unchanged as of today and as of the meeting that we had here today.
It was raised. They always raise it on their side. We always make clear our position and
we move on to the other topics. We know. I think the major reason why China doesn't
do shit on Cuba is because they want to continue with status quo in Taiwan and they
know that if they were to move on Cuba in the way that like the USSR has, then
America absolutely would agitate in Taiwan. They probably fucking put nukes in Taiwan potentially.
And then there's a dangerous predicament. There's dangerous instability. Whereas currently,
as long as China continues staying the course and showing itself as a great stabilizing force in
the around the world, whereas America is showing itself to be a belligerent fool that's like
disrupting the previous design of international trade that America was the architect of.
From the Chinese perspective, if they stay the course, peaceful reunification is an inevitability.
Why would they disrupt that? Their highest goal here is to unify China. That's it.
Their highest purpose has been to reunify China through peaceful means.
It is our own design that this would be done through military means.
Since the age of Mao, it hasn't been something that they're interested in engaging militarily.
Where they stand, I think they know where we stand.
Do you think China wants to invade Taiwan?
Well, I think China's preference is probably...
Look, look, look.
Damn.
Oh, so you don't think China wants to invade Taiwan militarily?
Hmm.
Interesting.
For the Secretary of State to say such a thing.
I wonder if Marco Rubio has ever said China wants to invade Taiwan.
Let's see, how do I go through news hits to not look at the Marco Rubio's takes from
an hour ago, this exact same thing. But instead, tools, custom range. Let's look at from
before. Let's look at it since like May 25th. Let's go. God, most of us are so recent.
I'm a numbers guy. I want to grok it. We got to grok it.
God, why is it so tough? Why can't, why can't this be faster?
I wish I had a Vini so we could come in and grok it, be a numbers guy.
Vini, I need you to be a numbers guy.
What is this? Like, is this how you do it before 2024?
Oh, this is a good one.
Why was Marco Rubio sanctioned by China?
Beijing's human rights abuses include a crackdown on pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong, the
treatment of Uighur minorities, and John the Sanctuary's imposed toy-toy during his
times as you a senator were direct responses advocacy for legislation holding China accountable
Marco Rubio Trump's top pick for cabinet job claims China will invade Taiwan by 2030
Florida senator made his comment at a confirmation hearing to help decide if he is
suitable for secretary of state and then everybody unanimously fucking endorsed them by the way
so that was cool Donald Trump's pick for attorney general also face screwing over his
stance on the January 6 riots. He told the committee he believes China is America's biggest
threat and blamed the growing risk on America's shift to globalism. Laying out how he will
implement Mr. Trump's American First Vision, he said the United States must begin placing
its core national interest above all else. He argued Washington must step up to compete
with Beijing and slam the Chinese government's human rights record if we don't change course
we're going to live in a world where much of that matters though is most daily.
From our skewer to our health, who would depend on whether the Chinese allow us to have
it or not. Oh no. We might be living in that world now. I'm not crazy. The US will have
to deal with the Chinese invasion of Taiwan before 2030 unless there are dramatic changes
Mr. Rubio claimed. Hmm. Huh. That was January 2025, Thursday 60th of January 2025. Let's
Let's see what he has to say now.
They have Taiwan willingly voluntarily joined them.
This is Marco Lubeo, that's true, that was Marco Rubio, this is Marco Lubeo.
That name change also came with a brain change.
Well, I think China's preference is probably to have Taiwan willingly voluntarily joined
them.
In a perfect world, what they would want is some voter, a referendum in Taiwan that
agrees to fold in.
I think that's what they would prefer.
Ultimately it's featured prominently in President Xi's...
Yeah, they did a name change is Lubeo Marco not Rubio, but Lubeo
Mandate and the time he's been in office
He's made clear that what they call reunifications what they call it is something that has to happen at some point
We think it would be a terrible mistake to force that through force or anything of that nature
It would there would be repercussions for that globally not just from the United States. I love that. He's dude. What does that mean?
Hmm
What does that mean? Oh
Oh, we think it'd be a mistake militarily, okay, I mean I think China also
China also agrees
That it'd be a mistake to invade Taiwan militarily they you're interesting. He's so cognizant
Marco Lubeo
We kind of leave it there that sort of ambiguity's what I think
Has defined our care the way we characterize this issue and the reason being a strategic ambiguity is we don't want to see conflict
We don't want to see something disruptive happen because I think it would be very disruptive for the world and for both countries
I know you're watching China. You don't think they're ramping up their military to do something dude American media is so blood
There's like but don't you think
Don't you think don't you think that they want to fucking kill every Taiwanese person, huh? Come on
Come on, they're ramping up their military, come on!
Well, I think they're ramping up their military in general, I mean, this pace of growth in
the Chinese military over the last 10 years has no precedent, just what they've done
with their navy alone over the last, they put billions and billions and billions of
dollars in their system, so it's, you know, you look at it and it's hard to ignore
how fast and how big, so I don't think it's just limited to Taiwan, I think they
have ambitions to ultimately be able to project power globally the way the US does now,
They're not, they're still behind us in that regard.
But there's none the less,
they are investing a lot of money.
They are right now the world's second most powerful military
without a doubt.
US Senator Marco Rubio has introduced a bill
to speed up weapon sales to Taiwan
and strengthen bilateral military cooperation.
The bill is titled,
The Taiwan Peace Through Strength Act of 2022.
This is for Mosa News.
Yeah, so when through here,
remembers and rubio to the front lines on the war starts good stuff ccp out of the roc
who it calls on washington and us defense contractors to fast track arm sales to taiwan
it also asks the us to establish he has tweeted a million times about taiwan times are changing baby
If China is willing to target our space-satellized electric grid, if we intervene to defend Taiwan,
why would they hesitate to first-order bite-dance-use-tik-tok to manipulate U.S. public opinion against
intervention?
No one wishes for armed conflict with anyone.
Nothing good about war.
If God forbid, we are ever in a war with China.
China will use cyberattacks to try to take down our electric grid.
China will use space weapons to try to destroy the satellites we have in space.
China will use these missiles to try to sink our ships and kill Americans.
China will do all these things, but somehow we think they're incapable of using a social
media app with 150, 200 million American users.
They would never use that against us.
They'll sink our ships.
They'll shoot down our satellites.
They'll shut down our grid.
But they would never use an app that they can-
George, open!
Come on.
Of course they will.
Of course they would.
They put scary music on it too.
This man has been a Taiwan obsessive. Okay?
He has been obsessed with Taiwan.
For years and years now he's like,
oh well China doesn't want to take Taiwan militarily.
It would be a real mistake.
It would be so disruptive.
Please don't do it China.
Well, good thing that they were not invested in that at all, so...
Mr. Cook, how was the meeting?
It was marvelous.
Thank you so much.
It's so great to be back in China.
Okay, thank you.
The view was incredible.
Tim's not even the CEO no more, and he's still coming to these meetings because he
just fucking loves China.
Straight up.
It's not even a joke.
like when he says it's marvelous it's great to be back here I believe him
sincerely actually she was so gracious so welcoming and welcome all of us to be
part of China it was an excellent thank you we've made the argument of the
Chinese and I hope it's compelling and they'll have a chance to do something
about it at the United Nations later this week when there's a resolution just condemning
Iran on what they're doing with the streets. Look, there's three things. The Chinese have
ships stuck in the Persian Gulf. Because setting up a system that says we're going to let certain
ships through, but others not, it's easier said than done. And you saw a Chinese, not
Chinese flag vessel, but it was Chinese cargo got hit over the weekend. I'm sure Iran
didn't do it deliberately, but they did it. It happened. And so that's why these
Chinese ships are stuck in there. The second is, I don't think that China is a huge source
of instability. It threatens to destabilize Asia more than any other part of the world
because it's heavily reliant on the straits for energy. And the third reason is because
China's economy is export-driven, meaning their economy is fueled not by what they
consume domestically, but by what they make and sell to other countries. Well,
of all the countries of the world, economies are melting down because of this crisis
in the straits they're going to be buying less Chinese product and the Chinese exports are going to drop
this part is true
this last part is true
precipitously so it's in their interest to resolve this we hope to convince them to play
a more active role in getting uh Iran to walk away from what they're doing now and trying to do
now in the Persian Gulf all right thanks for watching it's more so a calculation of like
Like how much can they make America bleed and suffer for their mistake?
And what that does for their long term goals, that's the only thing they care about.
In some respects it's been really interesting watching Donald Trump behave this way.
It's been really interesting watching Donald Trump behave this way because like, obviously,
it is in the interest of China to maintain global stability.
And America is trying to take advantage of that by putting a gun to its own fucking temple
and being like, I will literally pull the trigger and I will collapse everything.
Guess what?
You want stability?
Well, I don't even care.
I'll fucking, I'll flip the table.
I'll kill myself. I'll fucking kill myself dead. I don't give a shit. I'm crazy. That's how America has been operating. That's the
That is the American foreign policy under the second Trump term
They're literally not saying like I have a gun. I'll use it on you. They're saying I'll have a gun. I have a gun
And I'll use it on myself
Okay, and it will be horrible for you as well because you need to have
have, you need to have stability. When Israel was attacked. So Nicholas Kristoff wrote a
of the New York Times opinion piece on Palestinian victims of rape in Israeli concentration camps.
Okay. This is gruesome, but it was well resourced. And I didn't get to, I didn't really cover
it too much. I've been meaning to get to it, but it's nothing that you haven't heard
before I've been covering the systematized form of rape that takes place in Israeli concentration
camps, Israeli prison facilities, for quite a while. It's new for the New York Times audience though,
and I guess it's significant from the Israeli perspective because they hold New York Times as
like a very important standard to change American liberal consciousness, to change like the
broader attitude by the media. The reason why it was opinion, let's be real, the real
reason why it was in the opinion section is because they're fucking terrified. They wanted
to put it out, but your times is so unbelievably pro-Israel.
This is a huge deal.
This is a huge fucking deal.
Okay.
Part of it is also because Kristoff is an op-ed board journalist.
It would be journalistic malpractice to not note that Kristoff is hired as an
opinion writer.
Anyone who understands journalism knows this.
No.
I think,
I think the standard for screams without violence, which did not run in the opinion editorial
segment, but it was literally a straight reporting from the New York Times that had no investment
in the truth whatsoever as we found out because it was like completely ripped apart.
There was very little standard held up so much so that there was internal editorial
discussions on it, in comparison to the Kristoff piece which absolutely had an infinitely higher
standard of evidence, regards to Kristoff's background as an opinion editorial writer could
have made his way somehow to regular New York Times reporting.
But once again, things are changing.
Screams.violence, the app way to put it, oh, I meant screams.word, sorry.
Things are changing.
The New York Times writing this report is an incredible change of pace.
On October 7th, 2023, officials were quick to condemn the sexual violence of Hamas.
You've heard of the rape of Israeli women?
Where the hell are you?
Women raped, assaulted, paraded as trophies.
You used this rape as a weapon of war?
Sexual violence as a weapon of war by Hamas?
I went to the West Bank to talk with Palestinians who experienced sexual assault first-hand
by Israeli soldiers, settlers, and prison guards.
Their harrowing accounts, backed by lawyers, surveys, and international reports, suggest
that sexual violence by Israelis against Palestinians is widespread.
And that raises the question, where is the revulsion against sexual assault now?
I don't see any evidence that Israeli leaders order rape, but they have built a security
apparatus where, according to a 2025 United Nations report, sexual violence is a major
element in the ill treatment of Palestinians.
Prime Minister Netanyahu has called accusations of sexual violence by Israelis baseless, but
my reporting suggests that sexual violence has greatly worsened under Netanyahu in recent
years.
What exactly does this look like?
Here's what I found.
This is Sameh Al-Sai, a freelance journalist for international news organizations.
I spoke to a farmer who recounted how 20 settlers rampaged through Palestinian homes and used
a hunting knife to cut off his clothes.
We covered this.
So I need you to understand something that's very important.
A bunch of these stories we covered, a bunch of these stories were also known to us fairly
early on because some of them are before October 7.
And the reason why we know is because there was a State Department employee who actually
resigned publicly after October 7.
And one of the reasons was because in the past, when Atamir, which is the Palestinian
human rights organization that specifically works with Palestinian prisoners in Israeli
concentration camps, had released a report about systematic sexual violence of Palestinian
hostages in the hands of Israeli occupying forces.
And when Israel found out that this report was being
delivered to the American State Department,
the American State Department said,
all right, we're not gonna do anything with this report.
And then Israel turned around,
raided their facilities,
and turned them into a terror group,
which the American organization also
The American organization, yeah, here, 13-year-old Palestinian boy was raped in an Israeli prison
when the U.S. State Department, or not 13, 15, he got the number wrong here.
When the U.S. State Department raised the incident with the Israeli government, the
Israeli government stole DCI Palestine's computers, but it wasn't, it wasn't Adam
here, sorry, it was Defense for Children.
Defense for Children and Palestine's computers and declared them a terrorist entity for
daring to bring the incident to light. This was talked about fairly early on. This was
December 4th, 2023.
And the incident that he's referencing is from February 2021, when Defense for Children
Palestine published a report of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy, where he described an Israeli
interrogator raping him with an object while he was detained.
rated their facilities and declared them a terrorist organization. America dropped everything.
I mentioned sexual violence. I was part of the human rights vetting process for arms going
to Israel. And a charity called Defense of Children International Palestine drew our
attention at the State Department to the sexual assault, actually the rape of a 13-year-old
boy that occurred in an Israeli prison in Moskva Bia in Jerusalem. We examined these
allegations. We believe they were credible. We put them to the government of Israel. And
you know what happened the next day? The IDF went into the DCIP offices and removed
all their computers and declared them a terrorist entity. I think it is vital that atrocities
not happen to anyone, not sexual violations, not any kind of gross violation of human
rights. You mentioned sexual violence. I was part of the human rights vetting process
for arms going to Israel. Yeah. This was very well known before October 7. And not only that,
I mean, I obviously covered this at the time, but those might remember.
Part of the reason why I left over Zenda was the disagreements that I had with Ethan Klein.
And one of the things that I brought up in our conversation was exactly this.
I told them something along the lines of, well, sexual violence is commonplace in
uh... any sort of
uh... military action
at the time
this was right after october seven we didn't have any
direct evidence
firsthand victim
uh... accounts
of any sexual violence taking place on october seven
there was tremendous amounts of evidence of
systematic sexual violence taking place in israeli facilities
against palestinians
and if you recall at the time
a lot of people got very mad at me
there was an entire group that was
actively trying to
uh... claim
that the israelis were too racist
to rape the palestinians
sex-pestinese community did that
they had the audacity to say israelis are too
racist
who actually engage in sexual violence against the palestinians
Is those sexual violence has anything to do with, you know, attraction?
Anyway, this is fairly commonplace and also certainly well-known.
So, when Kristoff came out with this report, it wasn't all that unique.
Where he came out with this report is, however.
Okay?
It's unique because New York Times, as I said earlier, earlier in the day on Twitter, is
actually more pro-Israel, the New York Times editorial board in its coverage, in its
defensive Israel is unironically more more pro-Israel than Haritz is.
Any chance you get Chris top on stream?
Probably not.
I mean, there are still, let's be real, okay?
Him doing this reporting at this stage means he'll come on the stream in like two years,
three years.
In the timeline of how these guys actually follow our reporting, follow our coverage,
I suspect them to come on the stream and agree with the statements that I've made on, statements
that I've made recently, you know, the Hamas is a thousand times better than Israel.
That's still a bridge too far for many libs.
If you say I report anything correct about Israel's depravity, you have serious supporters
on here doxing your family for days, branding you an anti-semite, demanding you lose your
job, but polite societies largely moved on from these hysterics.
But the other statement, where was it?
Oh, I said, Mark Halper is that if the near term is so confident, Nick Kristoff is reporting,
why aren't they publishing multiple front page stories daily following up on it?
I said, it's because the near term is objectively more pro-Israel and it's
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I don't know is Nick Nick is a Christian name isn't it I don't fucking know
Bro has Christ in his name that's very unlikely
I don't know I don't I never know these things
But uh Nicholas Kristoff weren't you on his podcast no I wasn't
When I visited and this is Mohammed Matar a
Nice Christian, okay
Rand Paul some moment no I was gonna say it first of all I don't think he's I
don't think he's any in any way shape or form anti-semitic regardless but I was
gonna say it's it's it's even more ridiculous if they were claiming that
a Jewish writer is as
Um, is even more ridiculous to state that.
Also, close your eyes and imagine who's speaking.
Tell me if it's not Brad Lander.
Palestinian Authority official.
Says he was with two other Palestinians trying to protect a Bedouin village under attack
from settlers.
When the settlers seize them, strip them, beat them, and he says one tried to
rape him with a stick, and he actually has some evidence of this interaction with the
settlers in the form of a photo that the settlers posted to social media.
One woman, 23 at the time of her detention, told me that she was regularly strip naked,
forcibly bent over and groped all over her body by male and female guards.
One journalist said he had been held down and raped by a dog, a claim backed by other
accounts from prisoners who report they underwent the same thing.
I'm appalled by this pattern of abuse, partly because our American tax dollars subsidize
the Israeli security forces, I fear, that leaves us complicit.
The United States has the leverage.
And we could use it to insist on an end to the impunity and to demand that Red Cross
visits be restored for Palestinian detainees.
Look, whether you consider yourself pro-Israeli or pro-Palestinian, here's one thing we should
be able to agree on, we're anti-rape.
The horrific abuse inflicted on Israeli women on October 7 now happens to Palestinians, day
after day after day.
Now.
When Israel was attacked on October 7.
now. Anyway, it's crazy. Yeah, where was this New York Times year ago? I'm confused why
New York Times now switching up. Um, so, on the one hand, I'm fucking annoyed. I'm
I know I did it took so long for the New York Times to write something like this.
On the other hand, Nick Kristoff is getting his ass beat on the timeline non-stop.
And so is the New York Times.
I totally understand why a lot of people have presented The New York Times as public
enemy number one.
It makes total sense.
Some of the, some of the propousers in the crowd believe that this is the New York Times
reputation laundry to make themselves seem as a more credible institution once again.
Yeah, you've been talking about this and people disbelieved you.
I mean, listen, that's a huge claim.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, I don't want to fucking re-litigate this shit.
So this still, I'm both sides piece about the talk about claims October 7. Yeah.
Man I talked to Nick before he's making this opinion piece and after he left the
West Bank he didn't want to spoil it and I can see why. Brother that's not him
spoiling. He was probably worried about fucking the Israeli security finding
out about what he was up to.
Pretty sure you can't actually conduct investigations like this without the
Israeli government basically putting a stop to it.
Even I are both Americans who have lived interesting lives abroad, but unlike him I've never had
the occasion to write a weepy 2100 word essay about why the sexual torture allegations against
my buddies are no big deal.
The second post veers into absurd conspiracy theory.
Climbs-Crystal was tasked with covering for Hamas crimes by getting ahead of the new
Israeli 10-7 report on violence.
This is what passed for rigorous, high-level thinking at Barrywise's free press and
now CBS.
And yeah, they're attacking his their review bombing his family farm
Yeah, I mean it's just seven so far, I don't know if it's like I
Don't know if you there actually actually review bombing it that much but
But, yeah, Israeli defense minister called 18 year old Lemenya Maul a terrorist for waving
the Palestinian flag.
They're getting more and more aggressive.
They're getting more and more insane.
Okay.
Yeah, Godheimer Mosque was calling the Jewish community to go on the offensive against
anti-Semites and anti-Israel attacks.
No defense, only offense.
Godheimer said at an event commemorating the 78th anniversary of Israel's founding.
I'm sick and tired of people apologizing. This is May 14th.
Um, so...
Anyway, now the Israeli government...
Now the Israeli government...
Is suing the New York Times.
Kostov calls out Israel's use of rape and sexual violence against Palestinians.
He goes on to detail harrowing stories that he heard from 14 Palestinian victims who were
assaulted by Israeli soldiers, settlers, security agents and prison guards.
But none of this is new.
Israel's systematic use of rape and sexual violence against Palestinians, including
children, has been widely reported by international rights groups and media.
And it is often a subjective debate.
Akhmiz, you're going to leave the country.
You're going to leave the country.
You're going to leave the country.
You're going to leave the country.
You're going to leave the country.
Yep.
That was an emergency Knesset meeting that they conducted
after the Israeli prosecutors detained six Israeli concentration camp officers
from St. Taman.
And this fucking Israeli politician said, yes, you can anally rape Palestinians as long as
they're Nukba.
They're all Nukba.
They're all special forces.
They're all Hamas's special forces, and therefore rape is legitimate.
After this emergency Knesset meeting, the Israeli society's most far-right elements
a January 6th style riot outside of the facility where these guys were being held
to six rapists. They were able to free them. It was a successful January 6th
style pro rape riot. One of the main rapists was brought on TV.
Okay. One of the main rapists was brought on television, Israeli television. He had a
balaclava on for the week leading up to this event. He always would, would refuse to identify
himself. He came on television. It was a big fucking moment where he took his balaclava
off and became a television star.
He was praised as a hero.
Everything I'm telling you sounds insane because it is insane.
But none of it is a lie.
The Israeli prosecution dropped that case a couple months ago.
Benjamin Netanyahu personally had the six rapists on a press run where he openly apologized
to them for even having to go through prosecution.
Lots pro-Israelis mad at the New York Times publishing a detailed report on the systematic
of Israeli custody as if we didn't all see the guy who was filmed raping a prisoner get
turned to a national celebrity on Israeli TV.
Yeah.
Hunter's power warrior, Mayor Ben Shitrit is his name, who was investigated on suspicion
of rape no less, arrives this evening to open up everything about the Sudeh Tayman
affair.
There are CCTV footage of Israeli occupation forces raping Palestinian prisoners.
There are instances where Israeli concentration camp guards go on Israeli television and openly
celebrate how they train their dogs even.
None of this is a secret.
Get your-
None of it is a secret.
And for the last couple of days since this article was published, the Zionists have been losing their fucking minds on the internet.
Claiming this is blood libel. Claiming this is unacceptable.
He's really lying.
Let's take a look at Prem also breaking the story down.
The Terry is dropping charges against five soldiers who were caught on camera raping a Palestinian detainee.
Sounds horrifying, right? The whole story is even worse.
When nearly two years ago, Israeli police detained soldiers suspected of sexually abusing a Palestinian
at this notoriously brutal prison camp called Stay Taman.
In response, mobs of Israeli rioters and lawmakers stormed a military base and a military court
in support of the soldiers.
In the months that followed, the soldiers were welcomed to court with the chance of
You are heroes and for the record if they were it if you were in here you saw all of this happen in real time because I covered it in real time
But a question I have for you is this if you're new here
Doesn't that shock you that this information you didn't hear about it at all if you hadn't if you weren't watching me back then
You probably didn't hear about the story at all. Isn't that fucking insane?
And we love you.
Some were even welcomed on national TV.
Meanwhile, top Israeli officials were seeking to both defend the soldiers and instead punish
Yifat Tomey Roshan, the ex-military advocate general who leaked the footage of the rape.
She resigned after admitting that she leaked the footage and the Israeli government went
after her, detaining her and investigating her and at one point even putting her under
house arrest.
Her case is still open, while the case into the alleged rapist soldiers themselves is
now closed.
It's important to underscore that this case in particular was pointed to by US officials
and other pro-Israel defenders as proof that the government of Israel could be
trusted to investigate itself.
And now the case is closed and the charges are dropped.
All the while, top officials like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel
Katz called it blood libel to investigate soldiers caught on camera raping a Palestinian.
Katz even openly said that the role of the Israeli military's legal system is to protect
and safeguard soldiers and not to, for example, hold them accountable when they commit a
crime on camera.
As the U.S. and Israel open up their war on Iran, it might be even harder for them to rally
public support or claim some sort of moral cause when one government is led by the Epstein
class and the other is led by officials who have now just defended right this soldier.
Yes, I thought Nader's statement was very revealing in one way.
he announced today that he was directing his aides to consider a lawsuit he said we will
fight these lies in the court of public opinion and in the court of law now maybe it's just
a coincidence but he listed court of public opinion first and to me this legal threat
is largely about telling people in the court of public opinion telling Israelis telling
folks all around the world that the country rejects these allegations refutes what was
Yeah. How much more manipulation? How much more?
My dog took care of some nookbuzz in Sudeitayman. Judeo-Nazi settler, soldier Al-Khanna Federman.
is from BN was on channel 14 is hop out through your team tonight and brought his gun and dog within the same dog
You can see in the quota tweet. I had to think when he'd done the poor abductees is today came on
BM is a
BM used to be an Israeli
For those of you don't know I really hate you was a Israeli he left Israel. He's a major anti Zionist
Israeli Jew punk guy who fucking left he left Israel moved out of Israel
To consider meaning this is just a PR flex in a real bad one of that just this week and y'all order to continue
to ban on outside entities such as the Red Cross finally being allowed in to
communicate with inmates. There are almost 10,000 prisoners, many held without
charge, many deaths have occurred. The last thing that Y'all wants is
transparency.
Anyway, as I was saying, Benjamin and Y'all has since then ordered, aside from
Nicholas Kristoff, being on the receiving end of unbelievable lies and
and heinous smears
Including from I guess our now shared enemy representative Josh butheimer
What the fuck near times Nick Kristoff amplifies proven homosophilia sources in their propaganda
Well, the near times to the gloss over the systematic sexual violence rape and mutilation of mosca minute on October 7 now fully documented in the new civil
Commission report wish you'd expect better from the paper record particularly with allegations as seriously as the
If this is the furious coordinated backlash Christoph was getting from one piece, imagine
what the Israeli impersonal journalists on the ground face every day.
Also true.
Netanyahu released a statement, by the way.
Today, I instructed my legal advisor to consider the harshest legal action against
the Naira Times and Nicholas Christoph.
They defamed the soldiers of Israel and perpetuated a blood libel about rape, trying
to create a false symmetry between the genocide of Theresa Hamas and Israel's
value in soldiers. I like that the blood libel is that there is a false symmetry. Buddy, Israel
in its totality have done infinitely worse shit than October 7. Israel as a matter of fact,
the Israeli occupying forces as a matter of fact have done thousands of October 7 to
the Palestinian population. There is no fucking symmetry. What the fuck are you talking
about. We will fight these laws in the court of public opinion in the court of law. Anyway,
so yeah, they're trying to sue the New York Times, which by the way, it's not going to
happen. I mean, they could try, but that discovery process would literally destroy
Israel.
Discussion on television.
And even comedy material.
And even comedy material.
This time, however, it was reported by the New York Times.
America's paper of record that has time and again overlooked and cast doubt on Palestinian narratives
Israel is quick to react official Israeli accounts and pro-israeli figures
Slam the peace flooding social media feeds with criticism of the article its author and the publication
Israel's foreign ministry accused Christoph of blood libel of
Inversing reality and spreading baseless lies Israel's ambassador to the US Michael Leiter
Also accused Christoph of lying.
And by the way, this isn't the first time the New York Times has disproportionately bashed Israel.
Oh, it's an addiction.
This is characteristic of the same paper that disseminated baseless accusations of starvation.
While Israel denies accusations of sexual violence against Palestinian prisoners,
the government has not allowed the Red Cross to inspect the condition.
Bro, they're a Nazi country. I don't know what else we can say about this.
They're a fucking Nazi country. They don't think the Palestinians are human beings
So from their perspective, it's like perfectly valid to rape them sometimes rape them to death. Okay
I'm not like that. It's just what it is. Okay
Israel is a fascist Nazi style country and they absolutely do not care about
Palestinians. They don't see Palestinians as human beings the entire
The entire ideology, the ideological framework, where Zionism operates off of, is the exact
same fascist ideological framework, the ethno-supremacist ideological framework that Nazism operated
off of.
That's it.
That's it.
It's just the truth.
And for some weird reason, most people see this reality now.
But, Israel still thinks it can get away with defending themselves against this kind of statement.
Yeah, Israel's prison system has been so under-covered precisely because it's a perfect distillation
of what Zionism is in practice as a state apparatus organized around domination, humiliation,
dehumanization.
Now that a mainstream media outlet has finally covered what's happening inside Israel's
defenders are understandably treating it as a grave threat.
Yeah, because in a just world, it would be, right? In a just world, this would bring down
the entire government. Because this is a moral stain on an entire country, okay? Just as Guantanamo
Bay was a moral stain on our entire country and what we've done and what we still continue
to do there. I mean, this is a far more systematized version of ethnic domination,
course than even Guantanamo Bay is. So, you know, do with that calculation what you will.
But this is, I mean, this is not all that different to, and again, what the Nazis were doing.
It's not.
I don't know what else to say.
What can you say, man?
Very cool.
We got a rape colony over there.
And then people turn around and say, this is blood libel.
And there are so many, like, I'm a serious reporter ass motherfuckers out here
that are showing their asses over and over again.
And of course the ever litigious Israel is is threatening to sue yeah, okay suck my dick they can't do shit
This is funny as well Godhammer tweeted an implication that New York Times paid by Hamas then tweeted the same thing a few hours later with that line
Remove but both tweets are still up
It's almost as if the New York Times on Hamas' payroll.
Dodd-Heimer, not even a week after he wrote an article in the same New York Times opinion
editorial page about me being an anti-Semite, accuses the same newspaper about being on
the payroll of Hamas.
New York Times has been an unbelievably important tool in laundering the reputation of Israel
as Israel waged a genocidal war, conducted a genocide against the Palestinians.
time still to this day is rarely doing good journals and when it comes to issues that
pertain to Palestinian existence.
So of course a lot of people are very frustrated with the New York Times.
But having said that, it's a moment for critical support for Nicholas Kristoff, at least.
Anyway, spokesperson for the New York Times responded, there's no truth to this at all.
To David Schuster, TYT guy apparently.
I don't even know who the fuck this guy is.
Hearing from longtime friends of New York Times, there are already discussions, including
up the mass head about retracting Nick Kristoff's column.
Fucking bullshit.
dude why why is it that it's just like Israel defenders they have one speed
lie cry and sue okay lie cry sue so fucking hysterical every single time dude
every single fucking time
I often wonder, like, I often wonder if the Nazis were also this, like, invested in self-victimine.
I guess they were, because they were saying they were blaming Jewish people for everything,
right?
But like I wonder what techniques, like did they use standpoint epistemology to this degree?
Like were they constantly claiming the victim or were they trying to present themselves as
a powerful force, cry-bullying non-stop?
Because like modern-day fascism I feel like is unbelievably soy in many respects.
And they fascism is Israeli fascism.
And the Israeli variant of fascism that is like woke fascism, if that makes sense, constantly
seeking out, you know, identitarian positions, claiming that you're in an ever-present position
of victimhood, that everyone is out to get you.
We see that in America as well, not just from defenders of Israel, some of which
happen to be liberals already and vote for the Democratic Party, but defenders of the
The Republican Party, too.
American fascism, mega-fascism is very similar, the idea that white people are under attack.
Constantly crying, constantly complaining.
Constantly punching down, constantly punching others, and then claiming that you yourself
are the victim.
very interesting. Yeah, I mean, yeah, there it is. A study in
empires Germany, the aggressor nation, question mark, 26% of the world, the British Empire
Great Britain. World War Two propaganda map comparing Germany's
territorial expansion to that of the British Empire. Saying Germany's small nation, why
can't we do a little bit of a genocide? Why can't we do a little bit of territorial
expansion Germany tiny nation. Where else have you heard that? Israel, tiny nation surrounded
by scary countries.
And if they do make it out of detention, inmates come out looking like this.
Israeli soldiers were even caught on camera gang-raping and torturing a Palestinian prisoner
in the notorious Slitiman detention facility.
And while Ambassador Leiter claims that
Any complaint of unlawful conduct by Israeli authorities should be submitted to investigative
bodies.
and as is customary in a democratic society, those complaints will be reviewed thoroughly.
The soldiers from Israel's Gen. 100 returned to reserve duty after charges against them were dropped.
In fact, solidarity protests took place when the soldiers were detained for questioning.
Meanwhile, the whistleblower who leaked the video was arrested
and no internal military investigation into the incident has been carried out.
Instead, one of the soldiers, Mayor Genshi Treet, has garnered a large online following.
And made multiple appearances on primetime television where he is sometimes introduced as a hero.
Only democracy in the Middle East, by the way, guys.
Israel is everything that we claim here in the United States of America random Muslim nations are.
As a matter of fact, the closest comparison to the way Israel behaves with regular frequency is ISIS.
Okay. Hamas is not in any way, shape or form, close to ISIS. Israel is.
Hamas is actually in Gaza fighting against ISIS and ISIS affiliates,
ISIS affiliates that are aligned with Israel.
Listen to this ugly talk. It's disgusting.
What the fuck is this?
You're gonna be pissed about this commentary?
Oh my god.
The pro-Israeli crowd is gonna get mad at me.
It's another day that ends with a why, huh?
No report.
Yeah. Natalie Karach, the New York Times continuing to publicly back Nicholas Kristoff's explosive
investigative opinion pieces. The papers newsroom has notably yet to follow up on the shocking
allegations at the center of the controversy. New Chickashit innuendo smear thing is hand
ringin' about the New York Times newsroom, supported the, uh, supposed lack of follow
up reporting on Kristoff's column. I don't think Natalie is doing that, by the way.
Which needs to happen within a week or it's scandalized and vaguely implied to be evidence of the paper lacks confidence in the story, good shit.
I don't think Natalie's doing that.
Dillon Byers, fair point on Nick to Kristof this course. Sitting aside to debate over integrity
reporting if the claims on the piece are true, basic editorial judgment would result in follow-up
stories on the New York Times' news side. Presumably those stories are in the work.
They're not why not weird why not I
Can tell you why not
The reason why they're not doing it is because they're fucking pro-Israel, but now they've been pushed into this position
They've been pushed into this fucking position
There's no truth to this at all Nicholas Klerstahl as a two-time Pulitzer prize winning journalist
who's reported on sexual violence for decades and is widely regarded as one of the world's
best on the ground.
The report is documenting and bearing witness to sexual abuse experienced by women in war
and conflict zones.
He traveled to the region to report firsthand on the stories of past and his suffered abuse.
His article collects accounts on the victims' own words backed by independent studies.
become moan robonis is very big on part of the israeli national ethos policies
ago government officials right in support of it prominent journalists and
commentators shout and scream in support of it in television programs public
figures demanded and communities devote skits to the joys of raping palestinian
prisoners this is literally it sounds like an insane anti-semitic conspiracy
but it's straight up fucking true this is what israel is
New York Times columns also says the Israeli Prime Minister has threatened the file of
libel lawsuit against the New York Times regarding the Nicholas Kristoff's deeply reported opinion
column on sexual abuse by Israel's prison guards, soldiers, settlers, and interrogators.
This threat, similar to one made last year, is a well-known political playbook that
aims to undermine independent reporting and stifle journalism that does not fit a specific
narrative.
would be without merit. Go to hell. Fuck you for defending Kristoff and publishing libel.
If you want to understand why there is a massive double standard, look at the lack of verifiable
first-hand accounts that claimed without any evidence with tremendous amounts of retracted
evidence that Hamas engaged in directed systemic mass rape on October 7.
second-hand accounts were later proven to be incorrect. That was in the fucking
paper of record on the news side. This comes years after well-documented direct
firsthand victim testimony. And the New York Times is still, you know, they're
defending Nichols Christoff, but not writing a report on it, not following up
on this article that is because they are pro is real
Um, drop site news as AOC about Prime Minister Nenyao threatening to sue the New York Times
over the reporting about the systematic written presence and also getting to choose his interview
Well, I mean, that CBS situation is just a violation, I think, of any journalist's standard.
So I do not agree with that very wisely.
You know, elected officials, you should be held accountable by journalists, not the media.
Once again, they're backfiring, by the way.
I do want to tell you something.
This is going to backfire in Israel.
They're so aggressively posturing right now.
They're so aggressive.
You're cleaning your teeth on camera, first of super days now, toothpick. Who are you?
A cool guy. Also, I use a toothpick all the time.
Ironically enough, I think the bigger the controversy they create around this, the more people read about it.
I've never heard of something like that happening, so I can't name a president, but, yeah, I
What are your thoughts on Prime Minister Netanyahu threatening to sue the New York Times over their reporting about the systematic rape and prisons and also getting to choose?
Anyway.
He also asked Randy Fine some questions and Randy normally loves talking about Israel.
This is his favorite subject to discuss.
So let's take a look.
I'm sure he'll have some choice words on this New York Times reporting.
What's in the New York Times about the systematic rape in the Israeli prisons of the Palestinian
detainees?
about something other than Israel.
I don't even know why they let foreign agents like you even do this.
On the reporter and the main thing you talk about,
the main thing you talk about on every media appearance that you do is about Israel.
So I'm asking you about your main issue.
It's not my main issue.
I answer the questions people ask me.
That's what I'm asking you.
You didn't answer it.
I'm asking you about a New York Times report.
Is that real reporting?
No.
New York Times isn't real reporting.
No.
Okay.
It was a New York Times report. Yes it was. No, it was a New York Times report sir.
Just want to get a...
A PIGGOT.
I can't tell if it's a... Oh my god it is.
He's wearing a Make America Great Again Keepa.
Anyway.
Disgusting.
Tariq Kineshawas says, more importantly, this is also a test of how influential the Israel
lobby is at this point.
They're making such a deafening hullabaloo right now because they're desperate to make
an example of Kristoff to deter any further coverage on this issue in mainstream press.
Of course, most of the accounts of Kristoff's article have been reported by Palestinians
of the Israel lobby, their voices don't matter because they can be smeared as illegitimate
or hamas.
But when Mason outlets start sharing these reports, that's when they worry.
The Atlantic magazine is a joke for keeping this person on staff.
He's been denying a crime that occurred during the Holocaust, but I suppose Holocaust
The Nile and defensive Israel's the only time is allowed by Jeff Goldberg.
Yeah, David from.
Meanwhile, the Jewish rape dogs hoax has been refuted not because of the slur against Jews, but because the American Channel Club attests.
It's an impossibility for dogs.
Dogs do not naturally behave this way. They're abused into it. That's what Ingrid Older Rock specialized in.
Dude movies about this were nominated for Oscars and some of the most notorious chapters of Chilean history are about this
Unlike argument holocaust and ours enjoy the block. I have friends at the Atlantic and I know not everyone over there sucks
But Jeffrey Goldberg he definitely sucks are keeping people like this on the payroll
Suddenly you guys turn into David Irving the defend is real shame on you and your ancestors are weeping
In my other thread, I pointed out Barbie went on trial after the Holocaust and people testified to what he did with the dogs.
Yeah, that's another unbelievably ironic moment that, like...
Besides that, you know, there were other punishments that were due to you.
They were, especially, they were, you know, those dogs.
There were dog dogs in the camp. They were very huge dogs.
We were afraid of those dogs more than the Germans,
because they were trained to make, you know, to make, like, sex with girls.
So if they want to punish you, they will take these horrible big dogs
and they force you there to make whatever.
In any case, it happened, there was a French lady,
and she had a beautiful daughter of 16. She was really beautiful.
And then, you know, they forced the girl, I don't know what she has done wrong.
By the way, becoming a Holocaust denier to justify heinous crimes and genocide against
the Palestinians is what Benjamin Netanyahu is known for.
He's done that.
He's not a Holocaust denier yet, but he is a Holocaust revisionist.
And he actually recently did that, as I showed you, where he claimed on CBS's 60 Minutes
that uh... you know hitler
wasn't such a bad guy he never said he wanted to
uh... you know
he never said he wanted to invade uh... uh... britain in the u.s. he never said
death to america death to
uh... great britain
in chile the use of dark serrated people is sadly well known because of
the penitent government's tenure
There was an Oscar-nominated film that was made about the woman who engaged in this torture tactic.
I'm sorry?
She was called Woman of the Dogs.
And for the record...
Yes, her parents were Nazis and are authoritarian upbringings why some people specialize,
or some people assume she became a torture under Pinochet.
Which makes you wonder what's going to happen to all those kids who marched through Jerusalem today chaining death to Arabs.
It is a rear.
I presume the idea will not exempt them from service.
Speculate.
Yeah, and of course, the last piece of the saga is Irish roll our stole reports.
Nick Kristoff's father fought for the Nazis during World War Two, something he admitted
in his 2024 memoir Chasing Hope when I was growing up and other kids talked about their
deaths heroically battling the Nazis I kept quiet. I didn't want to admit that my father
had actually fought for a year on the same side of the Nazis.
So now they're saying, Nick Kristoff's father also wrote a letter to the editor of the
times in 1989 defending Paltobie, the intelligence chief of pro-Nazi militia in Vichy, France who
was convicted of killing seven Jewish hostages.
This information was not revealed to people due to deep background investigations.
Nicholas Kristoff himself revealed this information and the deep shame he has for it.
What the fuck does this have to do with Nicholas Kristoff?
But of course it's always one speed.
Zionists will grab on to anything they possibly can.
There is no depth they won't sink to in an effort to defend Israel.
These guys are knowingly playing coy with you.
They know why they haven't published multiple front-page stories from an article released
days ago, they know hundreds of more that they didn't release these articles right after they
detected New York Times for being a hasty. They just want to stop any criticism of Israel.
Anyway, let's get back to Chad Bianco. This is the last California governor is going to go down.
That is why all of these costs are going up. So when you eliminate the regulation,
you eliminate the excessive business taxes that are forcing people out of this state,
then you can fix government.
You do not fix government with the same tired old policies
of bribing you with free things for an election.
And then four years later, we're going
through the same conversation because nothing changes.
You've got to vote for something different.
Mr. Bianco, could you explain how you would keep people
on their insurance plans with health care
premiums going out?
Number one, we wouldn't have to worry
about health care insurances going up because of Washington.
if California managed its finances.
We want to blame everything about California.
Donald Trump was named 10 times in the opening statements.
We want to blame one year of Donald Trump on 30 years.
We're going to fix the financial problem in California
caused by all of these, the waste, the fraud, the abuse,
the excessive fraud, embezzlement, and abuse
in our medical system that allows that
to happen in the first place.
You've had a 60% increase in your budget since you've been sheriff.
Thank you, Mr.
Viera, go ahead, Brian.
Mr.
Bacera, Mr.
Bacera, the Trump administration announced just yesterday it will withhold 1.3
billion in Medicaid payments to California over hospice fraud.
As governor, how would you crack down on healthcare fraud in the state?
You have one minute.
Brian, the same way I did it when I was attorney general, we established
Bureau that dealt with Medi-Cal fraud, working with the federal government.
So we're just taking what Trump's saying at face value now.
Because Trump took a trillion dollars out of the health care system, out of the Medicare
or the Medicaid and the Medi-Cal system.
Trump is now trying to deprive California of another billion dollars in health care
for Medi-Cal.
He doesn't have the right to do that.
You still have to prove that there's been fraud and abuse.
He is in advance taking money even though he hasn't proven in court what he's done.
So we should go after him.
way I had to do over 120 times when I was Attorney General, we will fight to get those
tax subsidies under the Affordable Care Act back for California families. We will fight
to make sure we get the money that we sent to the Federal Treasury for MediCal in California
because otherwise 3 million Californians are in jeopardy of losing their health care.
We won't let Trump get in our way. And whether it's that Trump gas tax because
he's re-increased the price by going to war in Iran or whether it's a terrorist
that are taxed we're gonna fight against strong thank you to the sir on on the
issue of health care do you believe in single-payer health care
i absolutely have said over and over yes i do yes i'd
but it just be consistent
uh... i have a medical for all is a form of single-payer for more than thirty
years i have been a proponent an author of legislation for medicare for
medicare for all which is a form of single-payer
and i've done that over and over now what i will tell you is this right
what we have to do, because people in California
don't care what you call it.
At the end of the day, what they want
is access to a doctor when they need it
and a bill that they can afford to pay.
And that's what we'll do.
And when I was secretary, I advanced more coverage
for more Americans than ever before, and we lower prices.
Thank you, Mr. Bissera.
Mr. Hilton, as someone who has lived in UK
under a single-payer health care system,
you have been highly critical of it
and said as governor, the only other way
to bring health care costs down
is to stop covering illegal immigrants.
What do you say to voters who believe
healthcare is a right and not a privilege?
You have one minute.
Well, I don't think it's fair that California taxpayers
who can barely afford their own health coverage
should be paying for the healthcare of citizens
of other countries.
And if you look at the record of Havier,
it's exactly what Chad was just saying,
that you cannot believe that any change
will come from these people.
he as health secretary dismantled the unit in HHS that was supposed to crack down on fraud,
billions of dollars of fraud as a result of his rule as HHS secretary.
And there's another point I think we have to acknowledge.
We learned today that Javier implicated in this corruption scandal, today we learned
that he knew about illegal and improper payments
from his campaign account to his former chief of staff.
Honestly, it pains me to say it,
because I like you personally, Javier,
but you shouldn't be on this page.
You shouldn't be in this race.
You should be preparing your criminal defense.
Thank you, Mr. Hilton.
Mr. Bessarro, you'd like to respond?
You have 30 seconds.
Sure, with friends like that, who needs enemies, right?
First, it's hard to respond to lies.
We did not dismantle.
We actually increased oversight.
In fact, what we did was we increased oversight over nursing homes because nursing homes had
been the place for more deaths occurred as a result of COVID.
So we actually increased oversight.
And what I will tell you is this.
The record speaks for itself.
Steve, under my watch, we went to more than 300 million Americans who had health
care coverage.
That was far beyond what Donald Trump, your daddy, gave us.
we are going to continue to move forward in California.
Mr. Bessera, would you like to respond
to the federal charges that he had brought up?
If you're elected into the top two election runoff in November,
can you guarantee that will not be a distraction?
I can, because as I've said from day one,
I was not involved in the wrongdoing.
I had nothing to do with that.
I did nothing wrong.
And don't take my words first.
Take the words of the US attorney
who said no candidate running for governor
has been implicated in this particular matter.
So Steve, you may not want to accept it,
but the truth is what it is.
You don't get to make up the facts.
The facts are the facts.
Your chief of staff has edited, Abbey.
Rich, let's talk about it.
It's your chief of staff who said that you
knew about these payments.
Let's talk about the rule of law.
If I can respond to that.
If I can respond to that.
Jesus Christ is fucking bell.
The district, the prosecuting attorney in the US
attorney's office is the one that handled this case.
Steve, unless you've told me otherwise,
I don't think you've gone to law school, but the U.S. Attorney did say, and Katie, to your
point, then the U.S. Attorney has said no candidate, including me, running for governor,
has been implicated in this case.
And they looked at all the facts and decided that...
It's Thayer and Becerra that are the top candidates.
And on the Republican side, it's the fucking British dipshit.
Let me just say this.
Javier, you're saying some of the facts.
Let's go to the videotape.
Let's trust the people who are saying it.
When it comes to single-payer, you went and talked to the largest
lobbying group against single-payer in the state of California.
And the head of that group the next day said,
you very clearly indicated you were against single-payer.
And I told them I was forbidding your call.
They didn't just say it.
They endorsed you and they gave you the maximum amount of money
that they can give a candidate.
So are they lying?
They clearly gave you the money, they clearly gave you the endorsement, and they clearly stated
that what you said in this quarter.
So respectfully, Mr. Becerra, your quote at the end drifted off a little bit from the
words.
What the quote was was that you had not been mentioned in the charging documents, that
is in the indictment of Dana Williamson, your long-term chief of staff, Sean McCluskey
or Greg Campbell.
But as you know, that does not preclude, because you are also a trained attorney.
You know that does not preclude an indictment from being issued against you.
We do not know what Dana Williamson said about your involvement, and the government will
have the ability to do that.
I mean, they're all fucking knifing him, which is good, because he sucks.
I'll let the lawyers battle that one out.
Sorry for the basera heads in the chat, but he's ass.
He's so as former Biden administration officials have been like he's ass like what do you want?
Other Democrats are like he sucks
KTLA cooked his ass when they asked a couple questions and he started crying on camera and then they released the footage
$32 billion worth of god. I hate this guy so much. Oh my god. Oh my god
Why are there 17 candidates on fucking stage?
age. People are voting for Javier. Why do you keep posting this by saying people are voting
for Javier? Why? Okay, they're not voting for Javier. I don't know what the fuck you're
saying. Hannah, when our second poster reporter on the hundreds of thousands of migrant kids
exploited during Javier Bessar's term as HHS sector, she's a reputable source. A story
of mine from 2023 suddenly became a major issue in the California governor's race.
Okay, with the final debate tonight, I try to set the record straight on the front
run his role in the migrant child labor crisis and whether he lost 85,000 kids.
The Times wrote the story that has become a dominant line of attack is Javier
Becero. Here are five things to know about it.
Why did you say people are voting for Javier?
Oh, because you're saying he's pulling high.
Oh.
This is the start of our interview with Javier Brasetta in Highland Park.
By the way, this is a profile piece. This is not a gotcha piece, right?
Look, I think we're... these questions are fair. It's in order to learn about you as a candidate.
So, why is it about the profile?
I don't know how you define profile, but I'd like to begin the interview.
The way I describe profile is, you talk about all the things that I've done,
things i want to do and along with some tough questions but not only tough questions
this is the start of our interview with Javier Bresetta in Highland Park
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We know that Javier Becerra likely broke state law. And now he's at the center of an ongoing
criminal investigation. Democrats cannot afford to wake up on June 3rd and discover we got a
criminal on our hands. Javier Becerra should not be our governor and we can't risk having him
as our nominee.
Former Bissera, Stavristomi Bissera and McCluskey were such a close team that they had a hard
time imagining Bissera working in government without his long-time staffer.
Bissera's closest ally pleads guilty if he makes it into the top two he will be absolutely
clobbered by his opponent, Bissera is a liability to Democrats and near guaranteed
Republican win if it comes to that.
And Democrats are so worried about fucking Tom Steyer as an uncontrollable, unaccountable
to the party billionaire, even though he's a fucking billionaire and therefore has like
tremendous buy-in to the system, that they will literally present Javier Becerra, who half
of the party who has worked with him has said, he sucks dick, become the Democratic
pick in the top two system, in the top two primary system. California machine
politics is so fucking awful. California machine politics is so unbelievably
gross, so invested in winning or losing by their own design as long as they
fucking maintain, as long as they maintain their power, their grip on power
that they will literally they will literally fucking allow
Republican to win as long as it's not someone with a D next to their name that
they don't have any fucking control over someone with a D next to their name that
is saying like we can do single-payer in the state of California we can
actually hold some of these you know major energy providers accountable in
the state like PG&E. They did it with Cuomo. They're doing it again and again and again
and again and again and they're going to keep doing it again and we just have to beat them.
There's no other way around it. I know you guys want to say like, you know, just check
out of the system when really realize that this system doesn't fucking work. It will
always, it will always hurt your feelings. It will always betray you. It will always mess
you up. Okay. But I'm going to keep fighting for it. I don't have a lot of confidence. I
I don't have a lot of confidence in the way that the current democratic process works.
Remember what Maté said last night?
Yeah, threads of change, not crumbs of hope.
The difference between California has a lot less blue than New York City stars, far
less charismatic than Zaron and face real issues of the billionaire status.
Becerra is a far less, Becerra is far less offensive than Cuomo and also there won't
be a Republican to split any votes.
Should be feasibly winner for a star because Becerra is just so weak of a politician and
also lacks the standing and credibility that where Cuomo's own real strengths, but he'd
be starting off as the underdog in my opinion.
Most Republican voters just really are doctrinally conservative and will choose an establishment
them over a progressive one on the base of ideology.
If they could hold their nose for Cuomo, they'd do it for anyone.
It is what it is.
But that said, the counterpoints here are that there is a big difference in style running
as a progressive dem, as opposed to an out and out socialist while Becerra is a creature
of the dem establishment as opposed to Colmo's weird, tough on crime, outsidery thing.
Yes, the Sacramento machine absolutely prefers Becerra.
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How do you think of a Sarah versus Steyer general plays out like the latest poll shows?
I think that's not a very good scenario for Steyer.
Could be an interesting one.
But if it's Steyer versus the Republican, then it's a wrap.
Is the debate over? Is it a commercial break? No, the debate's not over. It's a commercial break.
Ever own their own home. We need to build outwards, not just
upwards with apartment buildings shoved into suburban neighbors. You know that only 6%
of our land is developed in California. We could increase that to 7% and there would be room for 10 days.
How do you feel about the Butchware candidacy? Write in as a candidacy as a Californian. Good luck.
think big again back to the days when we used to build amazing things in
California the suburbs of Southern California the state water project we
should be thinking about how we restore the ambition the abundance of California
Mr. Hilton thank you miss Porter some of your opponents have stated homelessness
is not a housing issue but instead a drug alcohol mental health issue as
As governor, what do you do to get people off the streets who refuse service and do you disagree with that statement?
You have one minute.
So homelessness comes in a variety of forms.
Homelessness includes families that are crowded together, three and four, into a one-bedroom apartment.
We heard those stories during COVID.
Those people didn't go away.
They're still overcrowded.
Includes foster youth who are aging out of foster care and often couch surfing.
Students on our campuses who are living in their cars.
But yes, people who are chronically unsheltered who live on the streets very often have severe
health, mental health and substance use issues.
Being on the street is a big risk factor for developing those things if you didn't have
those problems already.
We need to provide treatment for people and we need to provide a process.
Simply putting someone in jail and holding them for a day or two does not give them
any meaningful treatment.
Sure, they're not there tomorrow when you drive by, but they'll be there two days later.
You need to have a pathway into treatment.
I think we should revise the care court to be much more effective than it's been.
Thank you, Ms. Porter.
Mr. Bianco, Riverside County, you've actually recently seen the number of unsheltered drop
19 percent.
And many credit a collaboration of the county and the 5,000 active nonprofits in your
region.
But you have said, as Governor, quote, every single bit of money going to nonprofits
and NGOs for homelessness ends the day I take over.
So the question is, how would that impact your county?
You have one minute.
It will impact them for a few minutes
while they reach out and say, this is what we're doing,
and you're going to cause all of these people
to be put back on the street,
and then we'll give them their money back.
And then the thousands upon thousands upon thousands
of NGOs and nonprofits that don't come asking
for their money back and showing us
how many people are gonna be affected
will arrest all of those,
because that's where the waste, the fraud,
and the abuse is happening in the homeless industrial complex.
This is not about homes, it's never been about homes.
We take a different approach in Riverside County.
We actually offer them the mental health
and the drug treatment that they need
and the alcohol treatment that they need.
We do it very different and it involves arrest.
We put them in the jail, I don't want them there,
but that's the first start.
And then we get them into the housing,
the transitional housing, we get them into the care
that they need, we get them into mental health treatment,
we get them into drug and alcohol treatment
So we can help them get rid of their addiction,
get rid of their mental illness,
state that they find themselves in,
to get them back to the homes and family
that they already have.
Thank you, Mr. Malgo.
Mr. Steyer, care court conservatorship
and involuntary treatment reforms
have produced uneven results across counties.
Would you sign a law expanding
involuntary commitment criteria?
So let me say this, nobody gets well on the street.
The people who show up on the street,
only one in seven of them have a serious mental health issue.
So my job, as far as I'm concerned,
would be to keep people off the street
by giving them rental assistance,
by getting them off the street as fast as possible
into emergency interim housing,
to places they want to go.
And after repeated addresses,
yes, I would ask people to get up,
I would force people to go into treatment.
But let me say this, I want to talk about housing
because housing is the biggest problem
in the state of California
and people aren't being realistic about it.
Yeah, we need permit reform and I'm gonna do that too.
That was, yes, we need zoning reform.
I'm cooking for both of them.
That's an incredibly impressive answer.
We need to construct houses differently
because it's far too expensive.
We have tens of thousands.
Bro said housing first.
Mostly, I will call a special.
Bro thinks we're in Finland.
Corporate real estate tax loophole.
So we can use that money to get the cities
to actually agree to build housing.
That is the big problem.
They are dragging their feet and they don't want it
because they can't afford the people
who are gonna live in those houses
And anyone who's not talking about that
isn't talking realistically about how we're gonna build
a million houses in the next four years.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Rosa, we're gonna make California Finland again.
California's are frustrated about how intractable
a problem homelessness has been.
What is the quiet part that politicians aren't saying out
loud about why this problem has been so intractable?
Well, San Jose has created the model
that the entire state needs to adopt
and as governor I'll hold every city
and every county accountable for doing its part.
In fact, half of the candidates on this stage
have come to San Jose to see our success
with interim housing.
We're investing in prevention,
so fewer people become homeless.
We're building shelter and interim housing.
We're building treatment capacity,
and when it's available,
we are requiring that people come indoors.
And we don't have to throw everybody in jail
like the sheriff would do.
We actually petition to get them into drug courts,
mental health courts, and Katie's right.
The care courts need to be more robust
and get more people into treatment.
But just back on housing,
I have to disagree with Javier Bacera again.
His big plan on housing costs is to cap insurance,
which is how we lost the insurance companies
in the first place.
That's not gonna work.
And he didn't have a housing plan until a week ago
that he couldn't explain at the forum
with the New York Times
how it wouldn't actually raise costs.
It's not a credible plan for bringing down costs.
Mr. Bacera, I wanna give you a minute to answer,
but we also want to follow up on that
and ask what the revenue plan is.
So once again, it's amazing how people don't read plans and they try to interpret what other people are saying.
What I will say to you, Matt, is this, we know what we need to do to try to construct.
We have to reduce the regulations that are keeping developers from being able to pencil out projects.
We know that local governments are very afraid of trying to move too quickly.
But Javier, your party increased the regulations.
If I could just finish, Steve.
finish Steve and so what we have to do is believe in what he's saying his party
increased those regulations. Mr. Bissera, please finish. So it's not rocket science.
What we do have to do is take advantage of what we know can be done quickly.
There are 40,000 shovel-ready projects, affordable units ready to go if we
could just help find the financing. When I declare that emergency state of
emergency when I get in we will find the money to get those projects on the
way. And I will tell you this, if you don't believe that we can deal with high home insurance
rates, Matt, then you shouldn't be ready for government.
We're actually bringing families. I'm going to ask you really quickly. You didn't answer
the question. I'm sorry. The point I was making, most families, California voters, gentlemen,
California voters want to hear everyone's perspectives. So I do want to actually give
Mr. Vera Gossa an opportunity. But what is his revenue plan? If I could just finish
the sentence and say, raise your hand if you want to do this plan.
Mr. Bissera.
It'd be easy to respond if I didn't get interrupted every time I was trying to do it.
Go ahead and finish.
And I'm going to go to Mr. Vera, go set, and then we will move on.
Thank you.
So I think it's unfortunate for candidates who believe that home insurance costs, casualty
insurance costs are okay.
And not try to take this head on, grab that bull by the horns because too many
families are not able to afford their places their homes because how home
insurance rates have gone sky-high I will tackle that and watch it is thank you
mr. Becerra mr. Virgos I want to give you 30 seconds well first of all let me
be clear we've spent 24 billion dollars on homelessness in fact from Sacramento
and homelessness went up everybody the fact is there is waste and fraud the
The fact is we've got to do something about it.
Yes, we can streamline permitting
and do some of the things that you said, Mr. Steyer,
but at the end of the day, it takes leadership, everybody.
There's no one on this stage that has the record
and both as mayor and speaker to do a lot of this.
Just pie in the sky.
Mr. Steyer, we're gonna give you 10 seconds.
10 quick seconds, let me say this.
There's no one else on this stage
who actually has a plan to get the cities
and counties on their side.
There's no one on this stage who has a plan for finance.
My wife and I have financed 17,000 low income housing units.
And there's no one on this stage
who knows how to build houses for a third less, which we do.
We're actually-
Thank you, Mr. Seier.
Thank you, candidates.
Let's get back to Juliet in the studio
with our next topic, climate and the environment.
All right, thank you.
So California has been a leader
when it comes to investing in green energy
and preventing climate change.
But at what costs, Max Darrell gives us a look.
What?
Whether on the coast, in the mountains, in the valley, or on the bay, where Emma Greenbaum takes...
What the fuck is happening in this debate?
Also, but at what cost is really funny?
Director for Climate and Landscapes at the Exploratorium.
Our whole way of life here would change if nothing is done about sea level rise and nothing is done about climate change.
An educator, she says California is looked at as a leader globally with its approach to climate.
I'm fucking bored. What's wrong with Katie Porter other than being a monster to her staffers?
She wants to do insanely stupid race to the bottom like
No taxes on anyone under no tax on anyone making up to a hundred thousand dollars style initiatives
Like just non-starter stupidity. Um, she used to be good
She used to be good, but she's she's just
She's pro Israel
like Tom Steyer for all of his
You know, wishy-washy behavior around
Israel is far better than the rest of the fucking top-line contenders the only exception of Tom Steyer
And the issue of Israel is obviously two guys neither which are on the stage right now
one of which is not even on the ballot question is do you believe climate change is happening and as
governor how would you approach california's current environmental policies you have one minute
well unfortunately for her there are no other states in the country what in present day it's
when i was because they looked at us and they said hey they're destroying their state we're not
going to do that that is the reason why we can no longer afford to live in california
Do I believe in climate change?
Of course we can say that temperatures are increasing.
Wait, what?
Oh my God.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, because he's gay.
He's lowkey gay because he's lived hard in.
It's not going to happen.
Am I naive enough to believe that human beings can affect it?
No.
What California has done in the last 30 years in climate change and taking care
of the environment with CO2 and everything that they're doing was eliminated with the
Palisades fire.
We have to be realistic about what we are doing, how we are going to compensate for the
Earth's environment changing, and stop destroying California with unbelievable excessive regulations
that are truly environmental activists related that are destroying our state's ability
to do everything, including housing.
Thank you, Mr. Bianco.
Mr. Hilton, as advisor then Prime Minister David Cameron,
you're credited as the mastermind of his green campaign,
but you said if elected,
you would dismantle California's climate policy.
So I'll ask you, do you believe in climate change?
You have one minute.
Yeah, and we need to have common sense on climate change,
not ideology that ends up being counterproductive
and exactly as Chad said,
hurting every small business and family
and everyone in California.
I'm an environmentalist.
We love our beautiful, natural landscapes, our climate here in California.
We've got to protect that.
Clean air, clean water, of course that's right.
But look at some of the things that we're doing in the name of climate change.
The wildfires that occurred in the Sierras in 2020,
because the forests weren't managed properly.
The CO2 emissions from that one year of megawildfires.
He went from low-camontories to the hog geo-pain, it just doesn't work.
In the previous 20 years, look at what's going on with our gas prices,
the highest in the country because instead of getting oil and gas from our own oil production
here in California, we are shipping it 7,500 miles in giant super tankers spewing out carbon
emissions in the name of climate. We are increasing.
Why does he sound like that British pro-passline YouTuber that likes it? Do you mean Chris
Kanzler? Oh my God, he does sound like Chris Kanzler.
Rising utility bill. He has a similar like almost whiny intonation, which I really
love Chris Gonsler obviously. He's great. Yeah, this is the key question. It's why I find it such a
head structure that Steve Hilton talks about protecting the environment and then his housing
plan. I actually like Chris' style. It's really great for the climate, for fire risk, for our daily
like he does this like up speed thing. Chris has a posh accent. Yeah, he does. I really,
I really like Chris's commentary. His cadence comes across like, uh, it's like up speak.
I don't know how else to explain it, but it's awesome. But I like it. I like it.
I'm just, I'm also not used to hearing that tone and that accent. Uh, say such truthful things
for harnessing the investment of big tech companies to hold them accountable for paying
for grid upgrade. Okay. I just dude, Matt Mahan has the same vibes as Pete Buddha judge. Okay.
Just like, like, there is something about guys like this that just rub me the fucking wrong
way. And I don't know how to explain it. I mean, with Pete, he has like terrible policies
with Matt. He has like whatever, right? He's also like a moderate centrist, a Democrat.
like, there is just a way that they fucking carry themselves where they, there's a way
that they carry themselves where I'm just like, dude, you are trying to be so well put together,
it just comes across as so insincere. There's just something that like, I just cannot trust
you. I cannot fucking trust you at all.
are on the roads in California the proportion the idea that that's kind of
actually half of the vehicles purchased in Santa Clara County are EVs. You actually know the number man, statewide. Yeah, how many Steve? Do you know? About a million.
It's another percentage of our vehicles on the road. 10%. Yeah, it's 7% and he wants to power our quid with that. It's a lot of batteries Steve. This is what you get. Tell me the math on the batteries.
Thank you, Mr. Holt, we get from ideologues who are not practical.
It's actually called innovation, Steve.
He's my ex's best friend.
I know him, Matt Mahon.
How to make things work.
Yeah, Matt Mahon terrifies me.
It's just in ways that I cannot describe.
I feel like Katie Porter is just fucking giving up.
Matt Mahon is backed by Palantir.
That makes so much sense.
He went to the same all boys' high school,
Catholic High School, I went to probably learn that from the speech and debate law.
It's not a worst set of candidates. I can't believe I'm saying this, but like,
every time I hear from Tom Steyer, I, I'm like, yeah,
he's a billionaire, but I kind of like what he's saying.
And you try to have climate thoughts about it.
We need to think of it. This is going to take a lot more energy,
which we know it will electric vehicles are also projected to take a lot
more energy in the future.
But even my assessment of him was that he was
transmission in the ground, so yes, it's absolutely...
He was very responsive when I had that conversation with him as well.
It's going to take water, it's going to use energy, then you should be prepared to pay for it.
And his policies are fucking awesome.
It should come out of your profits, not out of California family's pocketbooks.
I just want to use my remaining nine seconds.
What is Mr. Pacera's Revenue Plan?
Oh, God. Oh, she's so quirky. She brought her whiteboard.
Excuse me.
And I will come to you, Mr. Virgoos.
Because the last one I got 30 seconds, I won't...
I'll talk to you.
Mr. Pacera, I was about to ask you how you plan to regulate AI energy throughout the state and the specific steps.
We see that. She's trying to be Dr. Jihad.
...if I can respond to Ms. Porter's question.
So I get a minute...
You are not Dr. Jihad!
30 seconds to respond to Ms. Porter.
Let's start with a minute.
Okay, so I'll respond to your question.
And if you give me 30 seconds,
I'll respond to Katie's question.
So on artificial intelligence,
we want to make sure that
when artificial intelligence is based here,
and it should be based here
because this is the home of artificial intelligence
that it is doing more than just taking care
of its own needs.
It is helping take care of the needs
of communities that are in California
because it is an industry
that is gonna offer us great opportunity
At the same time, we wanna make sure
we're offering the protections that our families need.
Our children, our workers, we have to make sure
that as we harness AI, we do it before AI harnesses us.
And so that means taking advantage of working with them
to establish a clear set of rules on how they will operate.
They will provide resources to have the infrastructure
that they need, but also expand that
to provide the California people with a little extra.
And we'll do this without imposing that type of regulation
that would move them over to places like China.
Mr. Becerra, you have 30 seconds to respond to Ms. Porter
and then we will come to Mr. Becerra.
I really don't like Becerra.
As the only person who's actually done tax policy,
because I sat on the Ways and Means Committee
for 20 years in the House of Representatives,
I can tell you what we will do, Katie.
We will make sure that we change the tax code
so we don't just tax doctors and nurses
and firefighters and teachers at rates that are higher than billionaires like Tom Steyer.
What we will do is make sure that everyone pays their fair share.
That won't be so difficult.
If you look at the governor's budget from today, in fact, he actually calls for getting
rid of some of the corporate welfare loopholes that are allowing corporations to pay less.
We have the resources to go out and create the revenue we need, and we'll make sure
that everyone is paying their fair share.
Thank you, Mr. Becerra.
I defer to my colleague.
Can I say I want to talk about the climate.
I'm the person on the stage who's working on that.
So I'm not going to let this go without speaking.
I was told that.
I have a new one.
One second first.
You can respond to it, but let me ask you a question first.
What is the biggest environmental challenge right now facing California
and what steps would you take to alleviate it?
You have a minute.
First of all, let me speak to the record, everybody.
When I was speaker of the assembly,
100% environmental record.
I'm the author of the Carl Moyer Act,
which was the biggest effort to clean up the air
since the Clean Air Act until AB 32 and SB 32.
When I was mayor, I said, dream with me.
We'd make LA the greenest, biggest city in the country.
We went number one American city reducing carbon emissions,
number five in the world.
Reduce our water consumption at 1970 levels
when we had a million less people.
And the port, the biggest port in this state,
the biggest in the country,
is the greenest part in the world.
But folks, anybody that thinks that the climate deniers
have a policy that works or the ones that believe
we're just gonna go all renewables,
that's not gonna work.
We need an all of the above energy policy.
Almost anybody that knows anything.
All right, I'm fucking bored, I'm sorry.
Seven hours and 20 minutes, I'm done.
I'm done, dude.
We'll look at some of the highlights tomorrow. I know I fucking say that
But
half-day, baby
half-day, Hossie
You guys are not even into it. I'm certainly not
No, we won't okay. I'll try to look at some of the
I'll try to look at it. It's just like
it's so
Anything California related is always unbelievably disappointing.
Speaking of California related,
I will have Nithya Raman on the broadcast tomorrow.
And I'm going to be asking her about her positions, her debate performance,
and what she's done so far in her position.
And I think it'll be an interesting conversation
But yeah, and that's all I got for today
It's all I got for now
Love you guys
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