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05-15-2026 · 7h 16m
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Asan Piker Socialist Communist
Radical Left Influencer
Asan Piker Dirtbag Left
Asan Piker Pro-Terrorism Pro-Hamas
Asan Piker Asan Piker
Hassan, Hassan, Hassan, Hassan, Hassan, Hassan, Hassan, Hassan,
Haker, going on this vulgar rant, mocking wounded war vet for losing his eye, fighting for our freedom.
Have you ever heard someone mention the stri sand effect and wondered what they were talking about?
This phenomenon is named after actress Barbara Strysand. Sometimes when you try to cover something
up, you end up bringing more attention to it than if you had just let things be.
The Assemblyman will not denounce Hassan Piper, who said,
America deserve 9-11, dude.
The Assemblyman just said in his response, Hassan Piper says,
America deserve 9-11.
There you go. There you have it.
My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.
Now to the Michigan Senate race, where El Sayed is campaigning in Michigan,
appearing on stage at two Michigan campaign rallies.
He's coactively campaigning alongside Piker.
The man who said Hezbollah's flag is his favorite, because it's dope.
Why would you align yourself for a raging anti-Semite price?
Who has defended Hamas terrorists?
Calling them the lesser of two is Israel's compared to the government's evils.
Converse.
Lesser of two.
That's what I find a bridge too far.
When I went up to my good friend Chat and said,
Hey, can you walk me through some more controversial statements of Asan Piker?
Even chat TPC went out of its way to soften the edges of the sun and give me context.
Thanks for no thanks chat TPC.
The Sompiker is campaign poison. Placing yourself on the wrong side of a 90-10 issue
is only going to make you look bad. It's going to be good for me. It's going to be good.
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Okay. Striga's almost as old as the average congressman says hop offs with 95 consecutive
streams. Cust free Friday. Let's go. Um, not exactly sure if we can do that. I'm not exactly
sure if I can promise that to you, but what Tommy says, God damn with the 50 bones. Okay.
Okay. Okay. Very nice. I don't see subnautica in the title. Uh, yeah, we're going to be diving.
We're going to be diving into some risky waters in a little bit.
But for the time being, this is part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news, about what's going on in the world of the
house and I'll be plikering between the time period where it presses the stop
shroom button presses the start shroom button so help me God that's what I'm
gonna do you already know what's up okay whoo give me the old college try sure
already cussed maybe ladies and gentlemen it's time for my personal news
This is the part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news about what's
going on in the world of wassana, so I'm going to play a game between the time period where
I press the stop streaming button and press the start streaming button.
So help me God.
That's what I'm going to do.
You need a forest green tie with the outfit.
This is a dark green, but I think it's fine.
Finally gifted from this third generation union baby AFL CIO nice.
Thank you.
What Tommy says.
dragon fairy for the five gifted as well 50 bones so where was I will you say a
bad word for me please your choice poop a lot of text millennials that is
switching or are keeping an eye on socially because even mom down here the
Best bro, I've been a socialist 2015. I'm 32 by the way. Hell yeah, phalenials rise up
We're gonna bring about the socialist revolution in this country
Folks folks folks folks folks
We got a lot going on in the world
All right
But personal news wise this part of the broadcast where I tell you I ended the broadcast last night I watched a little bit of invincible
It was pretty good.
And then after I watched Invincible, I passed out, woke up early.
You might already know I woke up early because I was on a Twitter storm.
Thank you, Druko.
I got the blast off memes.
Just FYI, you might need to contact your Twitch rips.
They're censoring your VODs.
Your VOD yesterday was mudded when you were discussing the Israel rape story.
around 557 and you'll see the red area. Oh, that's interesting. That's good to know.
Jensen out China maxing you, you fraud is true, dude. It's true, but honestly,
I mean, he's literally Chinese. So it's a little bit difficult to,
it's a little bit difficult to out China. Oh, thank you. Just want us fun.
All right. Thank you. I got I got straws
Getting getting out China max by by a Chinese man is normal a Chinese American
Know is the copyright song dummy tick-tock opinion, okay
Can you pull some strings with presidency? I need a BYD real bad. No, I can't do that.
Are we reacting to all six hours of the new Drake albums? Wouldn't that be funny if I just
dropped everything today and I was like, guys, we're going to do something very different.
I know that many know me as a Drake hater, but actually I've been drinking and I've been driving.
And on that note, we are now going to do a six hour Drake and drive session where we go through
all three of the new albums, Iceman, Habipti, and I don't know what the other one was, I forgot,
but there's three new albums that Drake came out with. Recording artist Drake, Toronto rapper,
and recording artist Drake has come out with not one, not two, but three new albums where
he called out DJ Khaled for being silent about pro-Palestinian advocacy, despite being a Palestinian
himself. Made in honor with his mom on the album cover. Genuinely shocked, Trump didn't invite
Drake to the summit.
You should watch the showbillers bond hearing and hit his reaction with a
Faw. Sure. Nice try. You don't know what music even is.
A lot of people are talking, but are many people listening? What's going on?
Is music different nowadays? Why is music making me shake my hips?
lyrics that talk about gay sex is this song for you is it for me I certainly
don't enjoy it so who's this song for
certainly not for white people what's going on
Drake blessed Ock with an OVO chain. Yeah. He, he, it's nasty. It's nasty business. Anyway,
Nithy Ramon interview later, China, maxing Trump. She summit ends China meetup with CI
meetup in Cuba.
If day 77 straight closes real soon, New York times, the Ramon interview, get in now massive
day. Aiden got a shout out. Yes, Drake will glaze his, uh, glazers like it's the ever
glaze. Okay. He is not or he is obviously going to show love to his like rapacious dick
riders because he doesn't have many of them. Okay. But that's what it is. Anyway, but I,
I only covered one element of the Drake situation, and I do think it's appropriate to call it
what it is, regardless of his corniness, regardless of his cornball behavior, regardless of everything
he has done.
I call balls and strikes, ladies and gentlemen.
I see no reason to pull back on the truth.
I only say the truth and nothing but the truth.
help me God. And on that note, let's get started, I guess. This is what I tweeted out last night.
It actually went viral with 61,000 likes. So as much as I criticized Drake, he was one of the
first major artists to sign on to the Artist for Ceasefire petition, literally 23 days after
October 7th. Okay? It's true. It's actually true. And I said it back then as well.
Feels performative to me. Guys, I'm sorry, but you're out of your dang mind if you think
think that this performance was not one that was worthy to praise.
We're talking about 23 days after October 7.
Did you forget what kind of environment we were in at the time?
People were getting fired for literally posting.
People back then were getting fired for posting Holocaust scholars.
Israeli Holocaust scholars, and the articles that they were writing for the Jewish newspaper,
the Jewish currents, okay?
People were getting fired for being like, here's an interesting article that I read
from the Jewish publication, The Jewish Currents, written by a Jewish Israeli Holocaust scholar
about the close comparisons between what Israel is doing in Gaza and, you know, previous
genocides.
I'm going to focus, we're getting far for reposting articles.
Yes, and this was also pre-Kendrick brief.
So what do you mean?
I'm not gonna glaze them for that.
Guys, Drake is the king of hopping on trends though.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Y'all are, okay, y'all are being haters, okay?
And I am a hater.
It takes one to no one.
And as a Drake hater, there is a degree, there is a degree of hate that is appropriate, and
then there is a degree of hate that goes far beyond, okay?
Being at his level of celebrity and openly signing on to an artist for a ceasefire petition,
23 days after October seven is a very bold move. Okay.
Balls and strikes, folks.
Pause trying to get the shout out on the next album.
He will never shout me out and I will never be, uh, in,
in the good graces of Drake because I think guys like Drake value dick
riding more than anything else. And there's, oh,
I only ride the dicks that are worthy of being rode like LeBron James.
Um, and that's pretty much it.
Okay.
With the exception of LeBron James, I, I ride very few dicks.
I bounce on it when it comes to LeBron though.
But even then.
What is this? UK Jewish groups call on government to prevent Hassan Piker from entering the
country. Far left shrewd, describe as having a record of promoting rhetoric that includes
anti-Semitic themes, denial of well documented atrocities, a pair of support for extremist
groups. UK Jewish groups have called for the government to ban the entry of a notorious
far left US political commentary with troubling positions on Hamas and has below, who's also
described Orthodox Jews in bread like in Zionism to Nazism. Incredible. Fucking hell,
mate. It's time to work guys, I swear. I swear it. I've, I've swore it. Yes. Fucking hell,
we can't let this guy in. We can't let him in. Yeah. We can't do it. Oh, he's fucking
far left. Yeah, he's a communist. We can't do it. It's not allowed based the standard
that they set for the kind West Band was this presence wouldn't be conductive to the public
good due to anti Semitism. Yeah, there's a big difference though. I'm not fucking anti
Semitic. Okay? Like, you can be unbelievably sensitive to the needs of your emotional support
apartheid state, but you can't fucking be like this guy. This guy is a fucking anti-Semite.
He's far left, yeah? UK Jewish groups are calling on it. Let's fucking go.
Hassan Piker. UK Jewish groups have called for the government to ban the entry of a notorious
far-left US political commentator with troubling positions on Hamas and Hezbollah, who has also
described Orthodox Jews as in bread and as likened Zionism to Nazism. Kassan Piker, a far-left
streamer, a lunatic and political commentator was due to appear at an event in June for unheard
magazine in conversation with far-left economist Yanis Verifakis and a former associate editor of
of the Financial Times, Wolfgang Munchow. The magazine described this as a special live
recording for the Econoclast podcast in which he verified that Munchow would challenge Piker
on what the ascendancy of the online left means for America and the world.
Piker was millions of followers across different social media platforms along track record
of highly incendiary comments. He described the allegations of extreme sexual violence
carried out against Israelis on October 7th as rape fantasies, subsequently going on to
say it doesn't matter if the rapes fucking happened on October 7th. Like that doesn't
change the dynamic for me. The Palestinian resistance is not perfect. He has described
how in his opinion Hamas is a thousand times better than Israel, describing it as a militant
resistance comprised of orphaned soldiers born into a 77 year occupation. And he said
that he is a lesser evil voter, and therefore I would vote for Hamas over Israel every single
time.
The AGL, America's most prominent organization combating anti-Semitism, has described how
Piker's record for support for designated terrorist organizations and derogatory rhetoric
about the Jews represents a dangerous pattern that millions of followers are exposed to
regularly.
His growing involvement in electoral politics and mainstream media amplifies these messages
far beyond fringe spaces.
Piker has also described how he does not have a single issue with Hezbollah as a form of
militancy trying to incur penalties on the genocidal state of Israel.
He has also described Hezbollah's flag as his favorite.
Look it up, I'm not even kidding, it's actually a dope flag, it's got an AK on it and a fucking
hand holding it up.
He has described how he believes any kind of fucking Zionist tendency should be treated
in the same way as being a fucking rabbit neo-nazi and has described Zionism as a mental illness.
No notes so far.
Okay.
Why are you still going?
His bollard!
No notes.
Bionicle commercial vote.
UK is not letting anything good in, starting with the food.
Right, both Hamas and Hezbollah are prescribed as terrorist organizations in the UK, the
majority you choose, both in the UK and worldwide, are Zionists.
A spokesperson for CST said, the Sunpiker is a record of promoting rhetoric that includes
anti-semitic themes, denial of well-documented atrocities, and apparent support for extremist
groups.
entirely unacceptable, particularly given his large online following.
At a time of record levels of anti-Semitism in the UK, it is vital that all institutions
including event organizers act responsibly and consider the potential impact of this
kind of rhetoric.
The UK should not be a platform for individuals who spread hatred or legitimize extremism.
In a similar vein, a spokesperson for the JLC said,
but Sampaica should not be allowed to enter the UK
to spread his seven October, wait,
do they say seven October denialism in the UK?
Cause that's really funny.
Like they don't say October seven, they say seven October.
Wait, but 9-11, do they say 11-9?
Do they say 11 September denialism?
if someone is like a 9-11 denier, you can't do that. That's a joke, right?
Is that what people say? Do they not say like, when you say 9-11, like for example, in the
UK, they don't even use my quote about America deserve 9-11, fuck it. I'm saying it because
they're like, it doesn't make sense. That's a hack bit, bro. No, it's not a bit. I'm literally
just observing something. We're like, they're like, there's nothing particular about
there's nothing particular about 9 11. So when he said America deserve 9 11,
we didn't read it as September 11th.
Because they do day month.
What happened on the 9th of November?
I knew someone who said that with America Before Now, let me see thought it was September
2011. Okay, let's continue.
This October 7th denialism and apparent support for terrorist organizations to a British audience
in a climate where Jews are being stabbed on the streets of London. This rhetoric is dangerous.
This is not conducive to the public good and the government should ban him.
Other comments made by Assange include comparing an anti-Semitic Houthi pirate to Anne Frank
and reacting to the appearance of a Vietnamese pro-Trump guest on the BBC in 2020 by calling her a South Vietnamese
motherfucker, whatever, like Christian supremacist psychotic fucking refugee living in America now and
able to talk that shit on stream telling her to go back and live in fucking South Vietnam in the same conditions.
The American Jewish Congress has compared what it is described as Pikes extreme far left anti-Semitism
with the far-right anti-Semitism of white supremacist influence and Nick Fuentes,
the Home Office has been contacted for comment.
I wonder if this will work, because UK is more cocked than Canada.
Yeah, if it's up to Shabana Mahmood, Shabana Mahmood will be making the final decision.
and I might be actually good. They might actually legitimately ban me from entering the country
of UK, which is pretty crazy to think about. That's never happened to me. I could see this working.
It would suck because I was really excited to, I was gonna do South by Southwest.
And then I was gonna do this meetup with Yonah Svarafakis. I was gonna actually meet up with a
bunch of different people in the UK as well. It was like looking forward to it. Some guests
that I won't reveal who have, who have wanted to. If you were such an anti-Semite, wouldn't
you be comparing someone to Anne Frank to be a negative? Yeah, that none of that stuff makes
sense because I'm not anti-Semitic. This is under the labor government as well. Yeah,
But this is the labor government that we know is the current labor government is crazy.
I wonder if this allows me to actually, I wonder if this allows me to actually sue
because like England has like very different.
I wouldn't be surprised because they banned a bunch of races coming in for tomorrow's
Tommy Robinson March.
Yeah, except I'm not a fucking racist.
So there's no like a little bit of column A, a little bit of column B shit here.
You can't just be like, hey, we banned a bunch of like white nationalist like racists from
entering the country.
So now we can ban someone who is an anti-racist, okay?
It doesn't swing that way.
Sue the king.
The king must allow me egress.
You must allow me entry into the country.
I am an American Envoy coming from the United States of America.
Pull up in a boat.
Yeah, we've banned Tyler the crater over his lyrics, bro.
It was fucked here.
Send the nukes now guys.
Guys.
It doesn't work that way.
Okay.
I like there are distinctions people make.
I'm not Kanye West.
They're talking about a guy who is literally, firmly, a part of the American political system,
okay?
Like, sure, on the one hand, I'm a fucking Twitch streamer, right?
But also on the other hand, I'm a Twitch streamer that is working within one of the
two major parties.
So I think that gives a tremendous protection over this kind of ridiculousness.
talking about a guy who's like getting fucking favorable coverage in the New York Times. I've
written an op-ed in the New York Times, you know what I mean? It's like there's a degree of
legitimacy that is afforded in that situation that causes people to not be so aggressive in
making initiatives like this because this will backfire on them, right?
So it like the UK ban in Kanye West, sure Kanye West is unbelievably famous, but it's also,
I mean, he's an unambiguous neo-Nazi, right? Like he has said, he has said openly neo-Nazi things.
It takes a lot, it takes a lot for a country to decide to ban someone like this. I do think it's
it will backfire. I feel like the Australian government will not let you enter. I mean,
it'd be crazy. They would be setting up a very interesting precedent for me to not
not enter many Western countries. If England bans me, then there's more legitimacy for
Canada to try to do the same, like the same groups in Canada to try and do the same. There's
more legitimacy for Germany, certainly Australia, which I also plan to visit at some point.
It would be a precedent-setting moment.
Just change your name and wear a heat.
Does the truth matter if a bunch of Jewish orgs say you're anti-Semitic and the government
just listened to them?
Shabana will rubber-stamp the request.
Yeah, we should fight back against this for sure.
I mean, we should make a big fuss about this.
we can muster up the forces to get some people involved ahead of time. I'll work on it, but
these guys are very responsive at the end of the day to inviting any kind of controversy.
It's a totally ridiculous thing if they were to do that, so.
Who knows?
Who knows?
Who knows?
Who knows?
Maybe it'll, maybe it'll work.
I mean, but I, I don't know.
I'm not so certain that this will work.
I think this is just like low motion for them at this point, but it will become a big problem
for them if they actually entertain it.
though. But you're also kind of like don't fight too hard. I kind of like not leaving
my house. No, no, no, that's not, that's bullshit. That's bullshit. Dude, stop sending me the
I visited the best city in North America, Montreal by not just bikes, a 51 minute video
from the 22nd of December 2023 that has 2 million views, okay? Do you think this is the
appropriate time and place for me to watch a video from not just bikes? I love not just bikes,
right? But do you find this to be the appropriate time to be like, hey, I know you're currently
talking, I know you're currently talking about this thing that's like fairly, I mean, this
thing that's like pretty ridiculous could become a major controversy. But I really,
really, really want to make sure that you watch my favorite not just bikes video, no,
I will not be doing that. Okay, I will not be doing that in this moment. But what I need
from you guys is to put a little bit more motion behind this tweet. So yeah, here it
Blast it, blast it, blast it.
A guy who really loves Montreal, a guy who really loves Canada is like, honestly, we need to get you to watch this.
We need to get you to pay attention.
Happy article from China.
Wait, what?
Positive article from China?
MRC Daily Show promotes movie that promotes joblifting.
A Sompiker from 12 hours ago, what the frick? Chinese and Americans are more in
common than differences. This is an old video of mine that they're reposting, I
think. It says China's on the map. Where do your financial supporters come
into play in situations like this? My financial supporters, my financial
supporters are you. What do you mean? I have no financial supporters. I only have you.
My audience is everything that I have. Without you, I have nothing, okay? What the hell are
you talking about? Every dollar I've ever made comes from voluntary subscriptions. It's
not a joke. So when people decide like, fuck this guy, I'm not going to be a part of this
community anymore, I'm not going to give him money anymore, then that's it. It's over.
This doesn't mean you can, you know, extend or this doesn't mean you can overextend and
behave in a weirdo like fashion, but that's it. I don't have anything else. I have friends.
I have some people with political power that I work with. I have, you know, that's pretty
much it though. I don't have any fucking powerful corporations that would go out the
bad for me what the fuck would they ever do that
nothing matters anymore though i mean on the one hand
the u k's entertaining banning me on the other hand kinda was unlikely new
concert planner live nation israel
I guess the only, the only company that the only corporate sponsor I've had in the last
couple of years is like Ubisoft.
That's it.
And they're Canadian.
So, you're part of the reason why I became an organized communist in the Communist Party
of Norway.
Thank you.
Of course.
Thank you, Chatter. Thank you for taking on the lessons that you learn here and actually
putting them in action, okay, instead of just like digging around and posting on Twitter,
because that's the goal here.
You're a sponsor, right? Yes. Yes, Ubisoft is the only, Ubisoft is the only company
that I've worked with in the last couple of years.
Ubisoft is French, no Canadian, my bad.
Ubisoft.
Surveillance date in full swing?
I haven't seen my TED talk.
I've seen bits and pieces of it.
I've been meaning to watch it on stream.
It's brilliant though.
I'm so, I'm so proud of her. I mean, she is a shining beacon of light in an otherwise
incredibly dark corner of the internet. So that's how I feel about that. Yeah, it's
nine minutes stop being a lazy bitch. Yeah, it's laziness that has prevented me from watching
Maya's TED Talk famously. Is it worth asking celebrities why don't speak out against genocide
especially when they're so famous they can't be cancelled? Sure. Did you see Tucker,
Gryll Kevin O'Leary on the data center. I did. I did. Okay. Do we have a, do we have,
oh, we have the thing. Okay. Well, let's start, let's start with Drake. How about that? Let's get,
let's start and then we'll get in, we'll get in the motion in a second. Drake did this,
DJ academics, yes.
He is one of the most streamed artists in history.
I'm talking about Drake now.
He's back with not one, not two,
three albums which dropped at midnight,
including the highly anticipated Iceman.
It's his first new music since his explosive public feud
with fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar,
which y'all remember took center stage
at Super Bowl 59 in 2025.
Drake is back.
The Canadian rapper dropped not just one, but three new albums including Iceman along
with Habib T and Made of Honor.
It's his first new music since 2023, since a bruising battle with fellow rapper Kendrick
Lamar.
Now he's clapping back.
What the hell is that fit bro?
That's crazy.
What the hell?
What the hell yante?
What the hell?
Oh my god, no way.
Is that a denim?
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I mean, it's true he is, but, you know,
Yeah, this is a real toe-tapper.
After a whirlwind to this kind of bars, like I'm not going to laugh, but also after a anyway, uh, it's dog shit. I mean, he's true. I mean, he's right.
He's right. Today's the 70th anniversary of the knock. But by the way, um, the, the ethnic cleansing that, uh, Israel engaged in before Israel was invented.
one of the worst inventions of all time for the record. I mean, the West has, like, uh,
ingenious ways of doing harm to indigenous populations, but this is also, it is up there,
you know? The ongoing, never-ending sequence of violence. It's unbelievable. Um, but yeah.
Robb says, Today we recognize the Nakba never ended. The genocide in Gaza and the horrific
erasure of communities across Palestine 119 must end now in Congress, which you will
never shoot to leave an Inhan Omar in a resolution to recognize the Nakba and reaffirm Palestinian
refugees right to return.
He's not woke on Palestine in any meaningful way. He just brings it up as a God chance
calling out someone in power because he's afraid of consequence, not defending Khaled. He's a
short moot. No, the reason why I said it, the reason why I said, uh, he, dude, dude, dude,
listen to me. Okay. This is, I need you to understand something here. He absolutely did
something that many people were too afraid to do. Okay. That's it. I don't even like Drake.
I'm just being fair. I don't like Drake at all. I'm just being fucking fair
All right, there's no reason for me
To to not recognize that I know a lot of people only care about like
Um, how corny he is or or his like weird behavior around the youth in general
Um, and it's understandable. I myself have brought that up. He's obviously a huge
I mean, he's sponsored by fucking steak, right? Those are my main ops.
But the reality of the matter is at a time when it at a time when it was unbelievably important for people
with with
tremendous influence to speak out against atrocities
He did I
Don't think it I don't think it serves any good purpose to deny that reality
It said as much as I criticize Drake
He was one of the first major artists to sign on to the artist for a ceasefire petition literally 23 days after October 7
That matters that shit matters a lot dude
Come on now that could have given a lot of people courage for example. You have to you have to recognize that
I
Mean he got attacked a lot for it too
And the fact that he's Jewish gives him like a little bit more influence in this space as well
What is this ice man was a nice man
now I'm hot and cold I want to stop the show
I want to call the ice man was a nice man now I'm hot and cold
I want to stop the show
Why are we doing this?
Why are we doing this? Why are we? Yeah, I know, man. I know. 50% chance he says, I'm
the ice man. No more Mr. Nice. This for May 8.
Trump's the exact thing that liberals are mad at you about breaking US President Trump
on Friday warned Taiwan against pushing for formal independence after you discuss the
flashpoint issue with this Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing.
Ooh. Ooh.
Anyway, I don't even want to get into all of that right now. We'll get into that in
second actually. All right, we're moving on from fucking Drake. Who cares? There's Cory Booker having
a conversation with David Pakman. And in this conversation, Cory Booker backs away from calling
me an anti-Semite apparently. Let's take a look at this combo and then we'll get into the China summit
further to the left. It's become very popular to ask elected officials, would you go on Hassan
piker's stream now i want to kind of just make clear how son and i don't really get along he
recently alleged that i have an apac handler something that he said without evidence which
actually really affected my show i i think the only reason he said no i i've jokingly referred
to david pacman is david apac man but did i say he has an apac handler i don't remember i don't
think I did. I've also always been pretty cordial about David Pagman,
contrary to what my community says.
I guess like people also were yelling. I'll defend David on a chorus-wired article,
but pretending to not know APAC is a bad look. Like, does he think we're dumb enough to not
know he knows what APAC is? It is one of the most well-known powerful lobbying groups in the U.S.
and has been talked about plenty in the last decade. But pretend that he doesn't know what APAC
for attending doesn't know what a pack pretending it could be pronounced ipag just insulting anyone
who follows this channel all these years we defend this dude against a pack affiliation
accusations and he insults us for pretending not know how to pronounce it like i don't
think david pacman is like funded by apac for the record i've never stated that i don't think that
that is the case but obviously like this is an area where he is heavily biased right is right
yeah i'm always so fucking nice i think this is probably a situation where pacman is attributing
your community's words to you i'm always so nice about david because he's always been like somewhat
cordial with me in spite of our, a very obvious, like glaringly obvious differences in opinion.
So I don't know why he's like attributing a loss of revenue to me, trying to say that like I
defamed him in a way that like actually impacted his, his, you know, his finances.
is very strange. Yeah, my community is not nice and I yell at my community all the fucking
time, but there's obviously so much that I can personally do. If you are, you know, if
you are in defense of Israel, or at least like awfully quiet about the atrocities of
Israel, then yeah, people are going to make up their own minds, right? Israel is an area
where he is heavily biased. That bias both stems from his own personal opinions about
the state of Israel, but it also stems from his personal opinions when it comes to American
foreign policy. Like David, regardless of his socially progressive attitude for years
and years, has had a lot of differences of opinion from someone like myself when it comes
to American foreign policy. And he lands on the side that almost always is on the side
of the United States, that rehashes and repeats whatever the State Department line is on a
particular matter. Okay, so there's multiple reasons. He
responds, he says, guys, give me a break. I'm not pretending to
know I'm not pretending to not know what a pack is. I'm just
unsure on the pronunciation. It's the same as how I get mixed up
with the first O in sorrow is pronounced or how the first a
in Laura is pronounced. I mean, that's, yeah, I don't know about
all that. I think that's I just like, it feels as though he was
just saying that to be like, I don't know, what is this a pack
thing? And of course, there are a lot of videos where he's saying
APAC correctly. Like, I mean, that's number one, like, he is a lot more knowledgeable
on this issue than he lets on is what I mean. Of course he is. He's been doing this for
20 plus years, man. I guess like people also were yelling. All the fan David on a chorus
wired article, but yeah, so that's a little crazy, right? Like, it's pretty obvious I
did not say he has a APAC handler or anything like that. Um, I don't know. I mean, maybe
Maybe he's, have I joked about it?
I can't even, I can't even think of, I can't even think of an instance where I've like
made a joke that he could have taken seriously, because I'm, like I said, I have a policy
of like not being as disruptive to people who at least offer me some level of charity.
I'm not, I can't, I can't be out here fucking burning bridges nonstop left and right.
I don't really have a lot. You know, I don't really have a lot of allies.
I've definitely joked about calling him David A. Pac man.
His brother works for the ADL. No, I know, I know that. I, I, I'm aware of that.
I've, that's entirely different than claiming that someone has an APAC handler.
As a matter of fact, if you look at the commentary there, you know,
clearly, if you look at the actual fucking comes, I'm saying like, no,
This is his own personal biases, I think.
It's not, you know, he's not getting paid for this opinion or something like that.
That is, I'm Jewish.
I've never had an APAC handler taken a dollar from APAC or anything like that.
But I recognize that he has a huge audience that is further to the left of
where you are and where I am reaching to the middle.
I understand.
Is there value in trying to reach that young, further to the left anti-capitalist
audience that he has built for better or worse?
A leader should reach out to everyone.
Oh, the lives are trotting out their entire
panoply of tactics.
Yeah, I sit down with people in New Jersey from all
Bro, stop trying to make friends with people who don't fuck with you guys guys.
I'm sorry.
Okay, I'm gonna keep doing what I'm doing.
Okay, it's just maybe this is going to make you really upset.
But I think a lot of people genuinely consider being the most anti social
person possible.
As as the peak of like moral activism. No, I have to I have to literally
Maintain a a neutral posture against those who I oppose. Okay, that's it
That's it. You can't you're never gonna convince me not to do this because you don't see
you don't see the success of
of not burning fucking bridges because you consider burning bridges and not being diplomatic with
other communities with other massive communities as like the peak of activism. And it's very
frustrating. If I listened to you dumb fucks in my chat, I would have never been able to sit in front
of massive liberal audiences like the Podjons and, and, you know, spend 45 minutes defending
the humanity of Palestinians and why they resist militarily. Okay? You don't think about that,
though. You only see the successes and you take it for fucking granted. You don't understand that
that obviously requires a delicate touch. The idea that people can change their minds is important,
is important to me, okay? And I will continue behaving in this pragmatic manner.
Like look look so what song go fucking hang out the milk boys in Israel then see this is what I mean
this is what I mean okay it's interesting because that's not a thing that clearly I still have some
red lines don't you think and that's not what I've done okay that's not what I've done at all
You're being unbelievably annoying that this past week man take a fucking week off seriously
Nasty chastity you have been so fucking unbearable this past week. You really need a couple you really need a couple claps
Okay, Jesus Christ
Oh
Dude you talk about how important it is to maintain a
a pragmatic and diplomatic relationship with other communities that are, you know, aligned
with you on certain issues, but not on others.
Well, guess what?
Why don't you go to Israel and kill Palestinians then?
Why don't you just nuke Gaza then?
I don't know, because those two things are on entirely separate fucking planets, dude.
You know?
Perhaps that's the reason.
Oh, dude, you think people have the capacity to change their minds and it's important to
be fucking charitable to certain people, especially if they have, you know, massive communities
that will listen to what you have to say charitably instead of just fucking burning bridges left
and right and being an anti-social freak.
This is like the fashion conversation.
This is like the fashion conversation, okay?
It's the same principle.
Anytime I talk about fashion being a part of the arts and being valuable to any degree,
a lot of people who don't give a fuck about it, sit on a moral, sit on a fucking moral
high horse and just go, dude, it's unethical, fuck you, I'm the most ethical, I only spend
my money on Warhammer figurines, right?
And that's what's, it's because you don't fuck with it, that's it.
why you're doing the same exact thing here where you're like, well, this is a pragmatic
alliance that you think is appropriate. I don't. Okay. Well, why are we having a conversation
about Marjorie Taylor Greene being a part of the coalition then? Tucker Carlson, it's
always the same dumb fucks. It's always the same dumb fucks. It's like, bro, attack, attack
the Podjons, but also at the same time, align with Tucker Carlson. Well, fuck no, I'm doing
the opposite, okay? I would much rather align with the Podjons and also be unbelievably
critical about Tucker Carlson.
Anyway, I'm my point is not to like be fucking best friends with David Pacman either, but
you guys don't have a way to understand it.
I'm sorry, somebody deserve it.
I tweeted to him 900 times that you said he had a handler.
There's a very valid reason for this.
I've been telling you to go back to gaming for most now and dropping pride matter right
it was going to get really good as a real stab to the heart. I don't regret it.
I'll do it again. Even if it means burning your relationship with center,
right? I figures like him. Yeah. No, I wasn't even saying that like,
what's really interesting about this is if this was me literally being like,
I've been unbelievably gracious to David Pakman in spite of our
ideological differences. And he's still fucking, uh,
you know, saying ridiculous shit about me on his show to Corey
Booker, who has, you know,
compared me to unfavorable, uh, far right figures, right? And it's really interesting.
But of course, the real conversation has to turn into, uh, how, uh, I'm, I'm too nice to David
of a Pacman because I'm not demanding he go to prison or something.
You know, you just want to see blood. You don't think about stuff like pragmatically.
You're too passive and other people are fans of yours. See that you're creating permission
structure that puts others in harm. It's the passive permission structure that you're
creating that people have a problem with? Yeah, no. Um, locally describe,
locally describe how, uh, I've created a permission structure by criticizing David
Pacman's opinions on Israel over and over again, without saying he has a fucking APAC handler,
which he's now lying about. Again, I choose my words carefully when I talk about these sorts
of things and there's a reason for it. David Packman is not my friend. I haven't talked
to him privately or personally in years. It's been half a decade. Okay. These chats literally
spent four hours shooting on you and other streamers chats. I saw this chatter do this
earlier and then come in here and they try to make every conversation about how you're
the problem. I know, um, you're never going to get a perfect figure. You're always going
to fall out of love with every single person that you, uh, ordain as the movement leader.
And then for the rest of your lives, you're going to say, Oh man, this is a real problem
with the left. Why can't we have any fucking movement leaders? I don't know, brother, because
you got the knives out every time. You can agree with me on nine out of ten issues, okay?
But on the 10th one, where we have like a slight disagreement in tactics and you go,
you should be killed. You should literally go to jail. You should be the most jailed
person in America. I now agree with the Republicans on this, okay? I now agree with the Republican
party on this maybe you should be deported and denaturalized. Charitability. Have a
little bit of charitability especially for someone whose community you've been a part
for like fucking years and years and years, you know? Jesus Christ.
All across the political ideological spectrum, especially looking to sit down with people
that I don't agree with, they've made a better senator, they may be a better leader,
it may be a better public servant. So I appreciate the way you approach this question because I
remember getting kicked off when I was running for president and we actually banded together
and all said enough of these like raise your hand if you believe that which was just lightning bolt
questions with no nuance and no discussion. I am seeing the crisis we're in because again in the
central ward of Newark, New Jersey, there are so much frustration with politics as usual. We need
a revolution like we had in the time of the New Deal, a revolution like we had in the time of
LBJ in the 1960s, every time we have a generational movement. And this is a time where enough of
the baby boomer generation has given us so much, but I don't think we should have this
should be the last baby boomer head of the Senate. I guess my point, by the way, I guess my point is
that like what I want from at least my community is a little bit more fucking grace and a little bit
more charitability, especially when I'm fucking eating it, man. I don't want to duke it out in
here with you guys too, especially with long-term community members like, do you not see what's
going on? Do you have no care or consideration for what's happening beyond your immediate needs
and your immediate worldview? Do you not see some very powerful forces uniting to try to
de-platform me? We just went through a fucking article where there's like Jewish advocacy
organization trying to bar my entry into the UK man. Like, how do you look at all of that and say,
you know what, this is the moment where I lean into these forces and try to fucking hit them
from the left flank as well. I feel like I've done enough work in this space for you to have
a little bit of charitability with what I have what I'm doing right you know
I just I don't know
this is a huge problem with the with the broader left anyway we're so fragmented
We're so unbelievably fragmented and we just like sit around and we think why are we so fragmented this is why
This is a big part of it people don't think about like
Movement building or organizing with people that you don't fucking agree with
99% of the time you just go nah fuck this guy and you can literally be a fan for years and years, right?
You can be a fan for years and years and you'll be like I didn't like the way you conducted yourself here
And I actually don't care about why you did the thing that you did
I just now
I've now decided you're my enemy. You're my ideological opponent
This is how people find themselves in like weirdly, you know tinier fragmented splinter groups and and communities
that spend every fucking waking moment instead of attacking the forces of
capital instead of attacking much more powerful entities in this country that
are cancerous to both discourse and and cancerous to the democratic process but
instead attacking people like myself
it's opportunists I care about other people around us no you're you're gonna
a fucking woke lead do the same thing, okay. Look, look, and then now you're saying it's
because this is why DSA, I care about other people around us, including the most marginalized
and it's not just Pac-Man. If people have done harm, they have to apologize and prove
that they've changed. It's like, what are you, who, who, what are you referencing? You're
making vague generalizations right now. Okay. You're making vague fucking generalizations.
This is why like DSA and other left space are incredibly wide. The attitude make people
not want to join. Okay, man. I just, I don't know. I don't know how to, I don't know how
to answer your vague generalized statements that I largely agree with. Yes, if people
are doing fucking harm to black and brown people, they should apologize for it if they've
actually, you know, learned and changed and rehabilitated. You're just being fucking disingenuous
when you bring this up because the implication here is that I'm doing that. The implication
here is that I'm playing a role in this, okay? And then you tie it to like this generalized attitude
that the broader democratic socialist of America movement is actually not responsive to the needs
of black and brown people. And now you've become a spoiler. Now you've become a wrecker, okay?
Like, where are we at here? Do you have your own movement? Okay, build your own then, you know?
Like, do you think this is an appropriate read on the current predicament?
The overwhelming majority of DSA affiliated or DSA endorsed Congresspersons in the Democratic
Party are black and brown, dude.
Like you, you can barely find a white guy in that movement.
And you're over here talking about how like, oh, these, uh, DSA hate the POC, the USA hate
People of color they hate the needs of people of color. How are you any different than these fucking?
Like DNC aligned k-hive movement guys who spend a good deal of time
Basically every waking moment shitting on the left flank over and over again
You literally have become that person at that point you understand that right like think about think about
What you're saying
It's it's just disingenuous
And I think the reason why we're having this conversation is because I will be talking
to Nithya Ramon later today, and a lot of people are frustrated about this.
They don't even know what questions I'm going to ask her.
They have no idea what this conversation is going to look like, but they've already automatically
decided.
Here he goes again.
I'm a very privileged person, okay, and I try to use that privilege for good.
This is a big part of what I do.
Obviously, I also, on the receiving end of a fuck ton of Islamophobic sentiment as well,
Okay. But by and large, I'm a very privileged guy. Okay. And outside of that privilege,
I have a worldview that I have described over and over again to you, that I lead with charity.
Okay, I lead with charitability. I lead with the notion that people are always victim to broad systemic social forces
I generally agree with the onion takes I do disagree with one aspect
Would you said I feel like this isn't a problem with the left but more so a problem with chronically online space in general
That is nothing to do with their political alignment people online tend to be inflammatory irrational for some reason. Yes, you're absolutely correct
that it is extremely online behavior.
Meanwhile, this is, if you wanna know
average online person, this is their attitude by the way. It's so funny that people will be like
people that don't talk to a normal human being for most of their, for throughout most of their day,
don't realize that like the broader online space, like we're in an incredibly comfy zone here.
It's actually unbelievable that there is this many woke people, this many educated people, this
this many invested people that lead by empathy,
because this is usually the rest of the internet
is like this.
He's Jester Maxing.
Stop Jester Maxing.
Why are you Jester Maxing now?
Gay Mario, LGBT Mario based.
Stop Jester Maxing.
Brown clown.
You're a brown clown, bruh.
You looking rough.
LGBT Mario, yapping about nothing.
Mutt man, brown clown.
I don't even know what Mutt man means,
but I assume it's some fucking racialized thing.
Jester Maxing, mongrel.
you looking rough bruh mump man
as usually did the average person on the internet i hope you guys understand
but that's the that's the space that we occupy that's the space that we're in
okay we're in a fucking hug box
all right
most of these people are obviously twelve years old anyway
But that's just the average person doesn't have any care or consideration for any of these things. Okay.
The last baby boomer president, a new generation is rising in America that needs to have a powerful, revolutionary set of ideals to redeem the American dream.
That's what I'm fighting for. It behooves me to listen to people that I disagree with because they make me better.
can make my arguments sharper or as I've seen in my 25 years in politics actually help me evolve
as a leader to have better ideas. So on the specifics of getting in front of that Hassan
audience, valuable not so much? I think if you are saying and I've said this to my team, remember
I went in and took a job this year to help my caucus who the average age is I think it used to
be 70 something in the Senate as a whole to say we're doing a terrible job communicating to young
people. In fact, I think that one of the reasons why Donald Trump
won is because he was getting on discord and twitch and
mixed arts and podcasts and platforms talking to young men.
And we weren't even our presidential team was not even
on those platforms at all. They had a complete echo chamber
with just their views. I got my team to get more on TikTok when
other people did not realize that younger voters, that's how
they get most of their news. And I've watched my caucus because
I can measure this all more than seven X. If you get out of
Twitter, four X with glitter, the amount of engagement they have,
I've seen how their engagement with younger voters
has increased.
I've seen them go on, you and I both know,
in the creator economy, there are thousands of people
that talk to young voters.
And I've seen my colleagues get on more and more
of those shows.
So absolutely, yes, we have especially
had a communications problem that for the 43 of us,
I'm trying to push my team to go more and more
to talk to younger voters who we need, not just
to hear our message, but we need to be inspiring them
to get on the field and begin to lead
the democratic party in the United States of America from cynicism to activism so that
we can have a better nation.
Without Malice Booker never answered the question. Yeah, he is. He's he's so he's such a politician.
He's so good at that. He it was really funny because he was asked a direct question about
me at with with John Favreau and or not John Favre, but with John love it. And he did the
exact same thing. He just he loves the filibuster, bro. Just say it with your chest, man. If
You think I'm a fucking vicious anti-Sem I just say it, you know, so it's so disingenuous
Anyway
I hate moments like this that just rip apart unity, okay, we don't have the time
time, or the movement to just like, you know, push people aside and just say, fuck unity.
We just don't have it. Okay. We're, we're staring at, we're staring at a fascist country
right now that is actively trying to take away people's civil liberties, taking away
the devoting power that black people have in the South with their redistricting efforts.
And we're over here being like, oh man, you know, I just, I don't like that you're being,
um, you know, I don't like that, that in the past you were charitable to certain people,
you know, and they fucked you over, over and over again.
I think you should be way more mean.
Well, I gave you a good example of, of being charitable to certain people that I have significant
disagreements with and how that's actually been somewhat successful in, in, uh, allowing
me to, to have some fucking allies in this space.
know, I have to have allies in this space. I'm sorry, guys. This community is constantly
growing and constantly getting smaller as well. There are, you know, a lot of people
who check out. So we have to fucking filter in new people in the process. And if I had
your attitude, if I was constantly, if I was constantly kind of shank people left and fucking
right, especially in the independent media sphere, then yeah, this community would become
a much more marginal, a much tinier one, okay? Now, obviously, this doesn't mean we should
be aligning with fucking like neo-Nazis or some shit. I make that calculation on my
my own and I just am basically telling you, you know, you have to trust me on this sometimes.
You understand?
I do this because I understand the urgency, okay?
Anyway, purity politics is toxic.
Unbelievably toxic.
And it's really funny because everyone also,
You know what's funny? Everyone also hates it. Even people who are its most
vociferous defenders, they are the people who hate it as well. They just do it to
other groups. Everyone does it to a certain degree. I mean, I'm certainly,
you could say, I'm doing it when I say, yeah, I don't want to fucking align with
neo-Nazis on the issue of Israel, right? You'd be like, oh, that's purity politics,
right? At the end of the day, they're against Israel. Well, the reason for why
is because I don't think they actually are against Israel. They want to do Israel here in the United States of America and
they're not actually against Israel. They're just using the issue of Israel to foment anti-Semitism and some people fucking fall for it.
Right?
a lot of pockets in this community becoming more and more insular and we're creating
many echo chambers that go out to other streams and splinter discourse etc. I try to act like
their view is the over and try to act like their view is the overarching community views
we must always keep in mind what Hassan's goals for his own community are. Yeah.
Some of this stuff comes from being in this space for a long enough time, by the way. That's the
other thing. Some people come in, they're new, they develop their world view. It has a lot of edge
to it. It's the zealotry of a recent convert, okay? And then they quickly move. They're like,
nope, I have these opinions. Now I think every single person that doesn't subscribe to my worldview
100% are my enemy. And I'm actually going to spend a good deal of time attacking this community
that I was a part of that actually played a formative role in my understanding of the world.
You know,
if you spend a good deal of time being on the left, organizing, sharing space with others,
who you might not fully agree with, slowly but surely, after the successes and the failures that
that you experience side by side,
you start being a little bit more understanding, okay?
You start becoming a little bit more understanding
of the differences in opinion that you might have with them.
It comes with time.
That's why I don't speak a good deal about those
to my left who disagree with my worldview
or think they disagree with my ultimate goals.
I can't stand when people actually make assumptions about what motivates me,
what guides me when they think that there is some ulterior motive to my actions
when I'm unbelievably forthcoming about them, right?
But yeah, there's going to be instances where we're not in full agreement with people.
What do you think about the D program guys?
I love them.
Love those guys.
I think the most basic concept here is, you know, you catch more flies with honey than
vinegar, right?
I don't know.
I think it's that's the statement, right?
to run. Think of it as 10 gifts to sus. All I'm saying is remember how appreciative you
were at some point when I was understanding of your ideological shortcomings. Okay, remember
that there will always be there will always be an area where you or myself will have ideological
shortcomings, blind spots born out of privilege, the privilege of even being a first worlder,
right? The privilege of living and growing up in the Imperial Core. That's an unbelievable privilege
that you have over billions of people on this fucking planet that don't have that same fortune.
They weren't born here. So there's a lot of blind spots that come along with that and you got to
work at it, you got to chip away at it, okay? And regardless of my worldview on imperialism,
empire, anti-imperialism, I'm still pretty understanding of people who demonstrate that
blind spot because I understand that most people starting position here is that blind spot.
For the record, I'm not coming at this with hate and just pushing my I've been here for a long time
right now we don't need to be normal we need to be better we can't have this attitude of telling
people to just suck it up that's all I have to say into my last message about being ultra anything
dude dude specifics specifics okay specifics I can't argue against vague generalizations okay
Give me a fucking specific grievance that you have with something I've done and maybe we can have a productive conversation
I can't like how is this any different than the fucking
Magdy J woman on Twitter who says I remind her of her ex boyfriend
You have had issues with whatever, you know
Personal anecdotes that you have with people of the leftist variety white leftist who didn't listen to your fucking grievances or something
And you're just letting it be known here. But the problem is, you're literally fucking describing something,
you're describing a vague generalization and attributing it to me, okay?
Instead of vague posting, talk about a specific thing that you have a grievance with, and maybe we can address it, okay?
Because right now, and I'm being as charitable as I possibly can, you're just kind of derailing,
because you've had bad experiences and you're attributing that to something
that I have said here. Okay? This isn't about being ultra anything. This is about
making our space better, making the movement. This is what it means to be on
the left, to be better for the people that we claim to hear about. Yes, I've heard
this a million times over, okay? I know.
Anyway, stop yelling at Cuscus either, because I know whenever I bring a chatter up in here,
everybody starts fucking piling on, and that is also ironically against what I'm trying
to do.
Okay?
Remember when I told everyone else in here as well that we gotta be charitable to people?
Okay?
Everyone has their own specific grievances.
We've got to be low cortisol anyway, let's continue and let's get to China maxing now.
him two days of meetings, President Trump departing China with great fanfare. The Chinese rolling
out the red carpet until the very end, before leaving Trump touting his close relationship
with Chinese President Xi. The president and Xi touring the gardens inside the Communist
Party headquarters. But questions remain about what progress was made here. The president
came to Beijing hoping to convince Xi to use his influence over Iran, one of China's closest
allies to open the Strait of Hormuz.
We can discuss Iran. We feel very similar to Iran. We want that to end. We don't want
them to have a nuclear weapon. We want the straits open.
But it's unclear if Xi agreed to pressure Iran.
He said he's not going to give military equipment. That's a big...
It's pretty awesome that Donald Trump's first statement, Donald Trump's first statement
leaving China was, you know, Xi Jinping has a beautiful ballroom.
Incredible.
His takeaway, his takeaway from the entire trip, this trip of massive geopolitical consequence
is the fact that she should ping also at a ballroom. Yes, that's right. And it was a beautiful one.
It was a beautiful ballroom and we need it. We need one that's even more beautiful. Everything
ballroom. He said that today. It's a big statement. He said that strongly. But at the same time, he said,
you know, they're bad. President ballroom, dude. President Trump says the White House
ballroom opened around September,
2028 China has a ballroom and so
should the USA.
Not even a joke.
He did that shit, bro.
He did that.
He tweeted that shit.
He truthed that shit from the
goddamn plane.
He got on the plane.
Wheels up.
Wheels up.
And he was like, they got a
ballroom and a garden.
We got to do both.
Yeah, it's awesome. It's like, China also has high speed rail, connect high speed rail to the ballroom.
He won't ever do anything good. That's the problem. He won't do anything good. He won't look at China's
like unbelievable gains in infrastructure and development and go, we got to do that here. Okay.
He only cares about dumb flashy shit. Dumb flashy shit that's in his own interest. That's the reason
he has a lot of respect for how she has a tremendous command. And not just she, but like
the party has tremendous command over, uh, like cultural forces too. He loves that. He's like,
yep, that's right. They control it. The media, they know how to act right in China. We gotta do that
here. My media, very, very bad. They do a lot of back talk. I don't like it. Look at she. She
would never allow that to happen. It's stuff like that. It's always the wrong lessons that he learns,
you know. China has a ballroom and so should the USA. It's under construction ahead of schedule.
and will be the finest facility of its kind anywhere in the USA. Thank you for all the
support I have been given in getting this project going. Scheduled opening will be around September
of 2028. The man I am walking with is President Xi of China, one of the world's great leaders,
President Donald J Trump.
It was jarring to see how well behaved he was and it turns out he was well behaved because
of the ballroom.
Okay.
I'm surprised he didn't say look at the big beautiful wall they built.
We must build a wall.
All the same.
We must build an even greater wall.
I will build an even greater wall.
greatest wall of China, the greatest wall of China. China. There was also this thing as well,
liberals have lost their dang minds. I said, Democrats, do not engage in China,
Hockery, please do not repeat your mistakes. The best and only path forward is peaceful
coexistence and cooperation. Now, what's interesting about this take is that I don't
know how the Republicans reacted to it, but I can tell you that there were a lot of
of American Enterprise Institute, think tank backed people that were very frustrated with
this take, and also liberals got real mad. Translation, please, please, please just let
China invade and annex Taiwan without protest. No, actually, I didn't say that. I didn't
say that at all, as a matter of fact. Where did I say that? Oh, that's right. I did not
say that, okay? I said peaceful coexistence with a peer adversary is probably a lot more
productive than engaging in endless military quagmires. So I said, why don't we send you
to the front lines right now? There's already one war America started that isn't going too well.
Liberals fucking hate this shit. They're, the liberals are looking at this going, nope,
the best part of this, the best way to go forward is by endless saber rattling against China and
dumping good money after bad. It's not just my assessment on the, on the stupidity of trying
a wage war with China. That is the assessment of a former CIA China analyst that was interviewed by
famous neocon Max Buu. Okay?
You seriously don't think Xi Jinping should invade Taiwan, bro? Like, why don't we send you to Iran,
then? I love that. It's like, well, I've pictured you in this funny way. So you've lost the argument.
it. Yes, the animate profile picture will step in for an island that's been recognized
as a part of civilization of China for thousands of years. I'm literally Taiwanese. So yes,
I will defend my friends and family if it comes to it. And yeah, bro, it was promised
to you a thousand years ago. You really want to use that as an argument. Okay. Okay. Get
the work. There's one, there's no war in Taiwan currently, but there is one war that America
Waging against Iran go go defend the American interest there
Okay
It's so strange it's so strange these people do this shit
Start with Iran
Huh I'm Taiwanese I'll defend I'll defend Taiwan if it comes to it. No you won't all you'll do is fucking chirp
You live in the United States of America, okay?
Yeah, go fucking die on that hill if you want to die on that hill.
I'm trying to fucking prevent imminent collapse.
Or if collapse is imminent, I'm trying to make sure that we manage the retreat of American
Empire rather than fucking give in to some of the dumbest warhawks here.
You're a fucking keyboard warrior.
You're not doing shit.
All you're doing is reddit posts, okay?
Anyway, anime profile lip saying she will defend Taiwan against the PLA.
There's no such like imminent threat by the PLA either.
You don't think China will collapse from invading Taiwan?
No, fuck no.
What are you stupid?
this is Trace still here. Of course, I don't think that. What are you saying, man? No,
I don't think that. Is that also even a good thing in general? Is that a good thing for
Taiwan? Is that a good thing for mainland China? Is that a good thing for the world?
No, none of those things are good.
And yet, that is the driving decision behind America's strategic ambiguity with Taiwan.
That's literally what it is.
My man, please, we read the reports all the time.
But if you are incapable of reading, please stop being, if you're illiterate and you are
incapable of reading the words of some of the top minds that are involved, that have
dedicated their entire lives to analyzing the movements of China, the Chinese military
capabilities and whatnot, who are saying this is a fucking dangerous idea, and America's
first response to any sort of Chinese military incursion would be to literally retreat thousands
miles away, away from striking distance, okay? Not to say that that's even a likelihood.
I'm not even saying that's a likelihood. And he's not, the fucking CIA guy's not even saying
that's a likelihood. They're simply saying that if that were to happen, which is not likely,
But if that were to happen, we would just retreat.
Xi Jinping has consistently said over and over again that they want peaceful reunification.
That's what they want. Okay, it will happen is what he said. Okay, it will happen no matter what.
But yeah, people turn around and they're like, nah, you don't understand, bro, any day now
they're going to fucking invade.
Maybe they do.
Maybe they do.
But even in that unlikely scenario, America's investment in Taiwan has nothing to do with
maintaining the autonomy of the Taiwanese, okay, demanding sovereignty and dignity for
or Taiwanese existence, it has everything to do with trying to fuck up a peer adversary.
That's it.
And considering that we're currently engaged in one major military quagmire at the behest
of our other, you know, foreign ally, the most consequential foreign ally, Israel, and we are
capable of seeing how badly that's turned out for not just America, but for the entire global
energy markets. What makes you think we have the capability? This is a real serious, sober
conversation that we have to have. God damn, it's so stupid, we just can't have a sober
conversation.
I don't know, I don't know how like you think this would work out. It reminds me of, because
this is reactionary. It reminds me of the way that Republicans look at like abortion
bans, right? We'll be like, I want it cuz it's murder. I'm like, okay, that sounds terrifying.
Can you walk me through the steps of how you would ban abortion? What that would look like,
okay? And when you walk through those steps piece by piece, you realize this is a ridiculous
position. How do you foresee this going? Let's say China's like, fuck it, we ball. We're
gonna go militarily invade Taiwan. What are the steps we're taking? Will this be good
for the people of Taiwan? How will this be good for the people of Taiwan? Explain to
me how we are waging war tens of thousands of miles away and how this is going to be
good for China, how it's gonna be good for Taiwan, how it's gonna be good for America.
There is literally no, like, winning condition here, okay?
There's none.
It just doesn't make any fucking sense.
We can't even fucking beat Iran.
Iran is a middle power, a regional power.
And through asymmetric warfare, a country that we have dominated economically is capable
of holding us back, holding our forces back, and you're over here thinking, you know, we
have to wage war to shine it out.
And I can't have a sincere conversation with you without you coming across or without,
without you claiming that I'm like fucking Adolf Hitler or some shit.
It's ridiculous.
What are we doing?
And this is not the first time any time any time I say hey, let's give peace a chance
There's a million liberals on the internet
Who will become unbelievably fucking reactionary they do this with Ukraine as well
You know
Bro, what? We're talking full scale warfare. They would law some. Do you really think most
of the CIA think that way? You don't think China will collapse from invading Taiwan?
They would law some. Do you really think most of the CIA would think that way? Bro, what?
We talking full scale warfare. Iran is not full scale warfare. It's not. Oh, oh, how
you just got to be Pete Hegs in the chat, right? It's because our, our, our war fighters
are not saying enough slurs, right? Like we, we haven't done full skill warfare, big dog.
What do you mean? Two billion dollars a day. Multiple carrier teams, aircraft carriers,
strike teams, destroyers, deploying half of our standoff munitions that we have for peer
and near peer adversaries like Russia and China, because we haven't established sufficient
air superiority that gives the American and Israeli Air Force enough confidence to fly
over and deploy gravity bombs, guided and unguided gravity bombs that we haven't virtually
infinite supply of.
And you're over here, talking about, it's not real, it's not full scare, a war with
China means full draft.
What do you mean, dude?
What are you saying right now?
You think that's a good idea?
You want a full draft?
With a nuclear superpower?
You want to go to war with a nuclear superpower and you think a nuclear superpower with unbelievable
productive capabilities that actually can just stop our production, our defense production
overnight with export controls.
You will never be able to build another fucking missile in the United States of America if
China tomorrow says, no more.
You can make the same argument about the courts that comes from the United States of America
or the semiconductors, certainly.
But who has more leverage over the other country?
Trump recognizes that and he's a fucking idiot, so why can't you?
No, I'm saying it was a war with China, it's all hands on deck, no little tip-tap airstrikes
big dog.
There is no war with China, you fucking moron.
You wanna know why?
Because it's a nuclear armed nation.
It's a nuclear superpower, just like there's no direct war, just like there is no direct
war between Russia and the United States of America, because Russia is a regional power
with nukes now you want to go toe to toe with a nuclear armed superpower what the
fuck are you talking about god americans are so fucking stupid stop being
stupid please I beg you I beg of you stop being a fucking moron what the
fuck are you talking about of course that ain't good war hasn't happened but
you try to make it look like China only look China only China will come out on
top, do you think that the American government would be dumb enough to institute a fucking
full draft and go to direct war with a nuclear armed superpower that we rely on for our manufacturing
not only across the board, but certainly in the defense industry as well to defend Taiwan?
What are you saying?
It would be nuclear holocaust.
the fuck up? America could not defend Ukraine as a proxy against Russian incursion. What
the fuck makes you think America could defend Taiwan against China? It's so stupid. This
is just realistic assessments, by the way. I'm not saying this is good or bad. I'm not
saying it's good that China is going to militarily invade Taiwan. I don't think it's good. I
I think it's a fucking horrifying endeavor.
I think it would be unbelievably bad, okay?
But understand that in the unlikely scenario where that happens,
turning Taiwan into Ukraine is not gonna be good for the Taiwanese population.
That's number one and number two.
We're not going to fucking war with China.
What kind of an idiot are you?
What are you talking about?
At most, it would be a proxy.
Taiwan will be used as a proxy in the same way that Ukraine is currently being used as
a proxy to extend some kind of proxy war with Russia.
Another adversary, a near peer adversary, not a peer adversary.
And before you know it, we're going to become the near peer adversary to China.
It's so crazy that I'm like, like, I have to constantly deal with like unbelievable
amounts of American exceptionalism, which is like peak cope.
Yeah, look at that, dude, China's shipbuilding capacity is 232 times greater than that of
the United States.
This is even a worst-take Russia-Ukraine war.
I could understand you missing the mark, but it's a guarantee fact that China will reunify
Wait, what? I don't disagree with that. I'm just saying that it's most likely not gonna be
is most likely not gonna be a military conquest. And beyond that, beyond that, even if it did get
to this unbelievably unlikely and very bloody scenario, it's not going to favor the Chinese,
is not going to favor people living in Taiwan. It's not going to favor America. America's not
going to come out on top. If it's not on top in Ukraine, it's not going to be on top of Taiwan.
It can't even be on top in Iran. And America's directly waging war there, directly.
You ignore the fact that Europe and the US would cut off relations with China. I feel like you have
pro-China bias, which is understandable, but there aren't this unbelievably powerful nation
that nobody can stop. Dude, what are you talking about? This already happened. Chatter.
What you're describing already happened. It happened with a much less powerful country,
an energy provider nonetheless, but still a much less powerful country. The country known as Russia,
it already happened with Russia, okay?
Okay?
A war would just crash the global economy, result in hundreds of thousands of deaths,
and I don't think it's ever feasible to think about.
I don't disagree with you.
I've never understood a double standard when it comes to community support for Chinese
militarism.
No!
It is not!
It is not a support for Chinese militarism at all!
What are we talking about?
This is once again, people refusing to comprehend analysis and assuming that analysis is endorsement.
I'm not endorsing China militarily overtaking Taiwan at all. I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying it's devastating for the entire fucking globe.
Saying there's Chinese militarism taking place here is also ridiculous because it it it is your assumption that they want to militarily take Taiwan.
There is American militarism in Iran and we've seen how that fucking played out.
So now we have two examples. We obviously have the example of proxy wars against a near peer
adversary, such as Russia, regional power, right? With Europe cutting Russia off. And that hasn't
stopped Russia from enforcing its illegal annexation initiatives on Ukrainian soil, okay?
Okay?
Chatters are arguing with me when this is something that Marco Rubio, a fucking China
Warhawk, has also come to recognition with, have come to terms with.
What are we arguing about?
Why is it that fucking liberals constantly find themselves outflanking the goddamn Republicans
at times, even when the Republican communicates on this issue, are seemingly more realist
than you?
How is that possible?
That's Marco Rubio, Marco Rubio coming back from China, Mr. Rubio saying, yeah, China
probably wants peaceful reunification to be a real dangerous take if they were to engage
uh, Taiwan militarily.
Yeah, that's not Marco Rubio.
He's Marco Lubeo now.
Yeah, also, you know, this Chinese, this Chinese militarism needs to end, dude.
Why do we have?
Why is China existing so close to our military bases?
Have you ever noticed how fucked up it is that this country exists so close to all of
our fucking military bases, which we of course have a God given right to put all around China?
Obviously, that's normal.
Military bases all around a foreign adversary is normal.
feeling bad about that or feeling, uh, you know, worried about that abnormal fucking bullshit.
The left can be so fucking annoying, but annoying as well. Make me take the eyes
off the goal of being mature enough that it is an adult feature. People need to get with you.
If you find yourself being outflanked by Marco Lubeo, newly minted Chinese man,
And then you've got to really reconsider your worldview.
Trump, who brought along with him over a dozen top American business leaders, also touting
what he claims are, quote, fantastic trade deals, saying China will be buying American
soybeans and 200 Boeing planes.
But the Chinese have not confirmed these commitments.
He said, I think it was a commitment.
Holy shit, it's the same with Iran. What's going on? What's happening?
There are countries all around the world that have a different way of seeing the world than we do.
This obviously must not go on.
What's going on?
Countries like Iran happen to exist so close to our military bases.
Well, everyone knows that our military bases are defending principle democracy,
the principles of liberalism that our founding fathers fought long and hard for.
What's going on? Why are these countries so close to our military bases? What do they
want from us? What do they want to do to our military bases? What are these countries
wearing? Should they be bombed now or should they be bombed tomorrow?
That was sort of like a statement, but I think it was a commitment. It's a great thing.
Throughout the trip, Trump laying on the flattery.
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.
President Xi striking a more serious tone.
When our two sides cooperate, both benefit, he said, and we confront each other, both suffer.
China and the United States should be partners instead of rivals.
But according to Chinese state media behind closed doors, she delivered a stark warning
to the American president.
Do not interfere in China's efforts to take over Taiwan, threatening if handled improperly
the two countries will clash or even come into conflict.
Taiwan is an independent democracy, but China says it belongs to them, threatening to take
it by force if necessary.
This morning, the White House says their position is unchanged.
Now we do expect to see these two leaders together again soon.
President Trump inviting President Xi to visit the White House
at the end of September.
And Xi is about to welcome another big visitor here
to Beijing, Vladimir Putin.
Rebecca.
Yeah, more to come there and our biggest trading partner,
one of them.
Mary, thank you.
This is a quiet mountain.
This is the year of the emperor.
Look at these trees.
This is so awesome. Watching him, what he said, what he said here is so funny.
He's like, he's like a jealous lover, okay, where, where he will be like, did you, did
you bring other leaders here?
Do you kiss them?
Do you kiss them in the mouth?
Or is it just me?
me is just for me she say say it's just for she those two trees is just like you and I
you know Trump ain't retaining any of this info no no no he is he is he is this is the
the most presidential he's ever been.
He's laughing, he's like, yes, of course there are trees that are hundreds of years old,
man, that's just not even a China specific thing.
That's just a tree specific fact, okay?
Yes, trees do live that long, even in the United States of America as a matter of fact.
He literally laughed. He's like, yes.
Wow. Wow.
Even in China.
Even in China, they got trees that have been around for thousands of years.
Can you believe it?
It's so funny.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
fucking is a little trip. Yeah, this is a, this is a big deal, by the way.
Uh, Zhongnan High is, uh, is obviously where, uh, is obviously where, uh, you know, Chinese
leadership works, right? This is where he lives, where he works. Um, it's, it's a big
deal to, to have the American president there, especially after the United States of America
once again, showed that it has no respect for international law, and no respect for rules
of combat, norms that have been followed since before there were nation states.
When Trump went in and fucking kidnapped the sovereign leader of a sovereign nation state,
Venezuela, from his home, that was obviously a big deal. I believe that,
that, you know, I'm sure the Chinese saw that and did not appreciate that. And then when
the United States of America and Israel killed the, the, the head of state, the Ayatollah,
uh, uh, Humeine, uh, Hameine, that was also a big deal. Ali Hameine. Uh, that was another,
that was a, another violation of, of all norms internationally. So the fact that they are
still letting him into this place is pretty crazy.
After Trump showed great interest in the garden, she offered to send them rose seeds from the
This was great here. Look, look, look, this is fucking awesome. It's genuinely hilarious how Trump, how eager Trump is to feel like he's true to special
But China there's a Chinese saying pink shot literally killed with praise and normally something you do to someone Trump might be the first leader
Who actively requested?
Yeah, he literally asks ask the president other prime ministers and presidents does he bring them here
can you tell me I'm special can you tell me I'm special
Wow, he loves it. He said, yo, we had Putin in here. Oh, he's like, that's great. Man
Putin, man Putin kissing. Oh, this was awesome. This was a classic dude. Just two besties.
By the way, he fucking loves Shinzo Abe.
Okay?
Rest in peace to the goat.
Wow.
I'll touch it.
That's great.
I love touching.
I love grabbing the trees.
But the one thing I want to touch is not just your hand, but your heart.
She, will you let me touch your heart?
Why can't we kiss under the 280 year old tree?
the Qianlong Era from the Qing dynasty. Why can't we kiss under the tree?
It's 280 years but my love for you is stronger than the bonds that this tree
has with God's Green Earth.
So they live in...
They live in...
They live in here.
How many of them?
It's pretty old.
It's getting pretty old.
It's pretty old.
It's getting pretty old.
It's getting pretty old for a tree.
It's getting pretty old for a tree.
It's getting up there.
Wow.
Oh, he's so fucking stupid.
He is the perfect representative for our stupid ass country.
I'm sorry.
There is perhaps no better representative of American lack of curiosity, American exceptionalism
the Donald Trump.
Yeah, so he's here US delegation got a shit ton of gifts from the Chinese delegation and
they dumped all of it before boarding Air Force on leap Beijing.
The entire US delegation dumped every item given to them by the Chinese hose gifts badges
pins commemorative items and trash bins on site.
See this.
See I don't do that.
Okay.
They have no respect.
protocol though. I do understand why you would do that. This is the one time where it's somewhat
understandable. Come on, man. Of course, you're going to do that. The assumption is going to be
that it's, there's hearing devices or stuff like that. That's the reason why they do it.
But they should have just given it to me instead. I'll take it.
Nothing of Chinese origin got on the plane, the delegation had already left personal device
at home and used clean burner phones throughout the trip.
One is wheels down and Donald Trump has landed for a meeting most important.
On train, on technology, on the war in Iran, avoiding a war over Taiwan.
There is much to discuss with Xi Jinping.
He traveled with US business until a team America of Superstar CEOs on social media
He said he'd be asking his Chinese host to open up his country so they could work their magic
It's an olive branch from a president who waved a big stick on China China China China China is on the March
having a little squabble with China because we've been
and freedom very unfairly, if Jannan needs us.
Xi Jinping doesn't need to worry about the next news cycle.
He will play the long and strategic game.
Both might want a more stable relationship,
but real trust in the context of the systems
that divide them, well, that might never be possible.
Side by side, superpowers together again
for a meeting super important.
Yeah, you can, Donald!
Behind the US political line-up were the tech bros that Donald Trump brought on tour.
Elon Musk on video duty.
For Donald Trump, the treatment was VIP from the man he styles a BF.
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 would say the truth.
But it's an honor to be with you, it's an honor to be your friend.
Look, they didn't hold back on the pomp, the ceremony, and I'm sure you and everyone else noticed just the attention to detail.
even the music was timed perfectly with the steps between the car and the
handshakes and then they came around and they inspected this order but we
said didn't we that Trump was maybe walking a bit too quickly.
I was interested in the location actually gentlemen's square in 1989.
Do you think after visiting there Trump was staring out the window the plane
melancholically? Absolutely. 100%. 100%.
Like nobody understands me like she understands me. It was a massacre there
and Trump would have driven down the very street Chong An Avenue. The very one
where a tank man suit with his plastic bag so a haunted history but I suppose
this is very much about the present. And I think that's so many flattered Trump. I think
the Chinese have watched and learned how to operate with the US president. He was full
of flattery. We heard it there. You know, that liberal, lyrical hype talking about the great
relationship. I mean, for me, the body language, there was no honk, no form of handshake, which
I suppose was a reminder that this is a strictly business print.
You know, shooting ping is a difficult man to read.
You know, I think on balance, he's pleased,
I think he's on balance enjoying this,
pleased to have him there.
And I think that was reflected
in some of the opening words as well.
We should be partners, not rivals.
We should help each other succeed and prosper together
and find the right way for major countries
to get along well with each other in the new era.
The Xi-Trump show rolled onto Beijing's Temple of Heaven.
when news broke of the negotiations they left behind.
A Chinese readout showed that she had talked Taiwan
and had talked tough.
Amidst questions over whether America would defend the island
from Chinese attack, Beijing's readout of the meeting
quoted Xi as saying,
handled well the two countries can maintain stability.
If handled poorly, the two countries will collide
or even clash.
putting the entire US-China relationship in an extremely dangerous situation.
It was pointed threatening language, delivered face to face.
It is a touchy subject and it's sure.
Over your shots, sir.
It's great.
Great place, incredible.
China's beautiful.
huh son of a be like I love his face bro I love his face at that moment he's
like you fucking piece of shit oh just fucking mugged this is a this is a
a mugged edit moment right there where it's it's fucking awesome
here
Unbelievable aura loss in front of his new best friend.
Unbelievable aura loss in front of the dear leader Xi Jinping.
What's that Beijing?
I have so much respect for the American people, so when I say this I'm specifically talking about this curly, frivy human.
He is just not that into you.
Um, you know, I don't believe it. I don't believe it. He's never taken anybody else to this garden. Just me and Poo-Dee.
Just me and Poo-Dee!
Two besties
Two besties, I love him and he loves me
Did you talk about Taiwan?
President Xi said there was a risk of conflict with the US
I think if she told Trump that Taiwan gets their electricity from China and said they were ungrateful for all our help
Trump would be all for the reunification. They treat me unfair
The EU treats me so unfairly and guess what she told me he's my best friend. He told me that Taiwan
Has been treating mainland China very unfairly
Very unfairly
We're gonna put an end to that
of the foreign sales to Taiwan.
I'll make a contamination of the next generation.
You're not necessarily going to go ahead with your proposal.
I'm going to make a contamination.
I'm going to see how to speak to the person that right now, as you know, you know who he is.
He's running Taiwan.
That is so interesting because that is simultaneously quite careful, but also quite loose language.
It appears that he is talking, saying that I'm going to need to talk to the president of Taiwan, Lai Ching-Duc.
Now, that's complicated because, theoretically, the US doesn't officially recognise Taiwan
as an independent state in any sense that they would be talking leader to leader would
absolutely infuriate the Chinese.
But he was quite careful not to directly say, I'm going to speak to the President of Taiwan.
So look, some real sort of murkiness about whether that all-important arms deal will
go through.
Please welcome President Xi Jinping and President Donald J. Trump.
Talks and tours ended with a state banquet.
This region and the world, it's a special world with the two of us united and together.
America has a one China policy they just don't tell you which China law.
No, no, they do.
They do tell you.
They tell you it's mainland China.
is not, you know?
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.
The U.S. had both sides agreed common ground on Iran, that the Strait of Hormuz should
remain open and that China was opposed to its militarization and the charging of tolls.
It sounds like the support Trump wanted, how far China leans on its friends in Tehran,
will be the test.
On trade, the Americans said they discussed ways to enhance economic cooperation and expand
U.S. access to Chinese markets.
Its summits speak to signal progress, albeit slow and short on detail.
feels that Donald Trump really stayed on script and on message there. And I think although
neither of the leaders really said anything to reflect the vast, vast, vast differences
that exist between them and the vast difficulties and the many thorny issues that I'm sure were
discussed over the bilateral table, I think it's interesting that both of them chose to
focus on what unites them. They chose to focus on the kind of the grand responsibility of
managing that relationship. I love that. I'm sorry. But the sunlight is not doing you any
favors, my man. Unbelievable. This lighting is making him so much more, so much more bald
than he actually is. Because on the kind of the ground responsibility of managing that
relationship. In the end for all the images of collaboration I think both
were keen to show the world they were willing to work together. When it came
to the difficult geopolitical challenges they face in the Middle East
and the Taiwan Strait there was a real sense that they were talking at each
other rather than with each other so different was the emphasis in the
official communications but in a way that points to the bigger picture the
context that a two-day summit was never really going to change. These are two rival superpowers.
They are on a more equal footing than perhaps they have ever been. They both want to bend the
world to their will and they are both content. Yeah. Trump discourages Taiwan from going independent
and he's not looking to travel 9,500 miles to fight a war.
Yeah, no, Democrats should definitely warm longer in this situation. I think that'll be the
smart choice. Once again, when Trump moves in the direction of isolationism, and the
answer to that from the Democratic Party is no, no, no, we have to do NATO. We have to
do liberal interventionism, okay? NATO Atlanticism, we have to bring it back. It's unbelievably
stupid, okay?
Democrats just literally go great. Hopefully you can hold, hopefully you can hold strong
on this position. It's okay. Democrats concede on unbelievably right wing framing all the
fucking time to Donald Trump. They concede when it comes to the idea that immigrants
constitute a national security threat, but they never concede when it comes to something
That Trump is saying that is actually fucking good. Okay, it's good. It's smart
Do you us can't afford to deal with housing oh Bernie went on Ms. Welch
Ouch.
Oh, sorry, that's the aura edit.
with the only other power that might be able to stop them.
For America at least, that is a new reality.
And maybe, just maybe, the power dynamic has shifted.
There you go, wheels up for Air Force One at Beijing International Airport.
Donald Trump's two-day trip comes to an end.
Whatever, I'm being here.
I'll be there.
I'll be there.
It has been a trip most important for the US President,
Re-engaging with the Chinese, two superpowers, shaping a new relationship.
On what terms, that would be the question.
The headlines are all about cooperation, partnership in mutual respect.
But make no mistake, this is a relationship that's wrapped in suspicion.
A couple of years ago, when President Biden met him in San Francisco,
he was asked if he thought President Xi was a dictator.
Do you think President Xi is attempting to help?
I think that, uh, President Biden was an incompetent president.
Uh-huh! He won't say it!
He won't say it.
Dodged! Dodged!
He said, keep my wife's name out of your mouth. Yeah, he fucking...
Bro, that's...
He, he literally, oh God, he's such an interesting guy. I fucking hate him so much. But like,
there are so many different versions of evil in American politics that like, there are these
unique moments where Donald Trump comes across as the heterodox thinker that is genuinely more
more appealing to the masses, where he's just like, I don't care. There's plenty of bad
guys, we do bad things too. This is his, we have killers too moment. If you remember when
Trump was doing a Fox News interview, I forget with who, in 2015 or 2016. And he was asked
about Vladimir Putin. And he was like, well, don't you think Vladimir Putin is like a
ruthless autocrat, he's a brutal guy, they've done brutal things. And he, with Bill O'Reilly,
Yeah. And he went, we have killers too. Don't you think we have killers too? You think we're not brutal? And that is, one of those moments where Trump comes out and just says something that clicks with a lot of people, right?
It clicks with a lot of regular people. It literally triggers the liberal intelligentsia in an insane way because they go, this is against all norms.
And you are not supposed to say that at all.
But the average person, here's Donald Trump, go, you think we're so innocent, right?
You think we're so innocent?
And the average person goes, yeah, you know, he's kind of right.
That is what was so fascinating about Donald Trump.
His tendency to say things that many people intuitively have the capacity to comprehend.
But things that liberal intelligentsia never, never says, okay?
Both on the Democratic Party side and certainly on the Republican Party side.
It, it usually had a tendency to cut away from the noise that you are, you're used to hearing.
Okay?
And he's doing that here where he's like, why would you, why would you make me do this?
Why would you make me do this?
Why would I say it?
He gave us the Iran nuclear deal which allowed Iran to have a nuclear weapon within a matter
of years with the fact that I terminated it.
If I terminated that Iran would have a nuclear weapon then it would have used it within probably
two years ago.
Make no mistake.
Make no mistake.
When Trump, make no mistake, when Trump also has like moments of brutal honesty, he can
be very vicious as well.
Like when he says, you know, what's the difference?
Like he had a moment where he had a really honest moment, also in the 2016 primaries
where he was like, would you, he was asked like, would you, would you punish women for
getting abortions? And he was like, yeah, I would. And from his perspective, he was like,
what's the difference? Yeah, of course, we're punishing women for getting abortions anyway.
Like he didn't realize that the appropriate way to communicate around that issue, the
appropriate way to dance around that issue is to say like, oh, of course not, we should
be punishing the killer doctors, right? Like they're the ones who are doing the baby murder,
not the innocent poor women. And, and obviously a lot of people yelled at him for that, but
that was the point. And, and then sometimes that viciousness is of course, that viciousness
causes him to say the quiet part out loud, like with Gaza, where he's like, yeah, of
course, we're gonna, we're gonna take all the real estate in Gaza, it's beautiful real
real estate, it should be ours. We should manage it. Like he's saying the quiet part
out loud in that situation as well. That's the ultimate goal, right? He doesn't do the
intellectual varnish. He doesn't add the intellectual patina that you hear, dude, stop
sending me the Ethan Levin's two tweet. Okay. Yes. He fucking drank alcohol. It's a disgrace.
Okay. It doesn't matter. Who gives a fuck? Okay. Jesus Christ. I don't think he even
drink alcohol is probably apple juice. Okay, calm down. This is not like a big break off
point from the Republican movement and Donald Trump. Okay?
Going with the beat of bombers nine months ago.
He will call Maduro a dictator because he doesn't respect him and knows that their powers
in fear to the US. It's different with China. He wants something from Xi. He isn't dumb
to call him a dictator. Exactly.
We have a nuclear weapon and nobody would be able to talk to him.
By the way, they would have used it already.
Do you think President Xi is a dictator or not?
I don't think about it.
He's the ruler. He's the president of China.
I don't think about it.
You said they would have to deal with what you have.
I respect them.
He's very smart. He loves his country. I respect him.
Whether it's a dictator, that's me or a figure out there.
What's the President she's saying to you about Taiwan and are you still going to approve the arms sale?
So President Xi and I talks a lot about Taiwan.
He thinks he cannot have anything to do with what they're doing.
He's against very much what they're doing.
We talked about Taiwan, we talked about Iran, and I think we have a very good understanding
about Taiwan.
You just don't want to see a fight for independence, because that would be a very strong confrontation,
and I heard about it.
I didn't make a conflict, but I heard about it.
I have a lot of respect for it.
On a red, it's very interesting, you feel strongly that you can't have a new weapon.
You said that very strongly, you can't have a new weapon.
And he wants them to open up the straight.
But as he said, they closed it and then you close them with a smile.
And sure, we control the straight.
And they've done no business, literally they've done no business in the last two and a half weeks,
which is approximately $500 million a day.
So, we have, uh...
Troubles about to say was she said Taiwan cannot have anything to do with a nuclear weapon?
Nah.
Heh heh.
What if that's what works?
What if that's what works with Trump?
And Americans broadly, he's like,
She told me Taiwan is days away from having a nuclear weapon and I understood exactly what it meant and I thought, to myself, we should join this fight with you.
Beautiful, she. We should blow up Taiwan. Taiwan is going to have a nuclear weapon and we can't let Taiwan have a nuclear weapon just like Iran.
The Democrats want Taiwan to have a nuclear arsenal.
We must stop Taiwan.
We must stop Taiwan.
Taiwan is a break-off province.
It is a part of one China, which I love, a beautiful China, a singular China.
We must not let this breakaway province receive nuclear weapons.
We must put an end.
This is why I'm giving one of our aircraft carriers to Xi Jinping to strike Taiwan hard
and make sure that they will never develop nuclear weapons ever again.
and I heard them out.
I didn't make a comment on that.
I heard them out.
I have a lot of respect for them.
On a red, it's very interesting.
You feel strongly.
They can't have a movement weapon.
They said that very strongly.
They cannot have a movement weapon.
Anyone can open up the straight.
But as he said, they closed it,
and then you close them with a smile.
I'm sure we control the straight.
And they've done no business, literally they've done no business in the last two and a half weeks, which is approximately $500,000 a day.
So we're doing very well on all fronts.
That's what we consider lifting the sanctions on Chinese oil companies and by Iranian oil.
Well, we talked about that and I'm going to make a decision over the next few weeks. We did talk about that.
Do you think she feels stronger in these dealings with you than you did the last time?
The great relationship last time until COVID came along, I blamed them for that.
I said it was Wuhan and it was, I was right.
And then I looked at it, it was the strain on everybody coming.
And, you know, it affected our relationship at the time.
But we always had a great relationship before that and after that.
Now it's as strong as ever.
I mean, I went over to where he lives, which is something that rarely happens to me there.
I don't know, it's amazing.
People have never seen anything. It's amazing, actually. We had lunch.
We have a great understanding.
I mean, it's a very positive thing that these two nations are going to go on.
This president on Taiwan, he said we're going to check with the president.
You fucked for sure. Oh, yeah nasty business dude back walls blown out
sexual style
I didn't say anything about it, but certainly put that up, you talked about that, obviously.
So what am I going to do then? I don't want to talk to you about it.
Because I haven't agreed on whose side to 1988 to.
Now, we discussed the arms sales.
Now, what's the different points?
We discussed the Taiwan, you know, the whole thing with the arms sales.
It was in great detail, actually.
And I'll be making decisions.
What's the other three points?
I think the last thing we need right now is a war. That's 9,500 miles away. I think that's the last thing that we'll do very well with the U.S. defense.
I want to say that there's only one person that knows that, you know, it is me. I'm the only person. That question was asked to me today by the President.
We'll see where this goes. Did you miss that? 1982 is a long time ago, not discussing weapons
to Taiwan with China. I think he might cut off Arbzels, Taiwan, which is pretty crazy.
But certainly, you put that up, you talked about that with me, obviously.
So what am I going to do? I don't want to talk to you about it.
Because I haven't agreed to go to the site in 1982.
Now we discussed arms sales, too.
Now what's the difference?
You've discussed the Taiwan, you know, the whole thing with the arms sales.
It's a great detail, actually.
And I'll be back in a minute.
What's the difference?
I mean that right there is like, it does remind me of only Nixon can go to China as a statement.
Only Trump, only Trump has the capacity to just be like, yeah, I think it's kind of
stupid to fucking try to wage war with a massive nuclear armed adversary that is responsible
for 30% of our trade, you know?
Like I'm thinking of Barack Obama saying something like this, which is true.
This is a normal statement to have, okay?
It's a normal statement to make.
Trump is very good at communicating these opinions.
He's very good at being like, he's very good at posturing an isolationist framework, even
if he doesn't follow through on it.
But if it was like Barack Obama, who said it, right, he'd come across like, you know,
you would, you would come across as though he's, is out of his goddamn mind.
People would just fucking rip him to shreds and be like, how dare you?
What the fuck do you mean?
You're not going to keep arming Taiwan.
What do you want every Taiwanese person to be fucking ruthlessly slaughtered by the people's
Liberation Army is that what you fucking want whereas Trump could just be like, why are we going to war with a massive country?
Doesn't make any sense. Why are we going to war?
9,500 miles away
There's only one person that knows that, you know, who this being, that's the only person.
That question was asked to be today by President Sears.
Too much Trump, Glaive-man.
I mean, look, the reason why I'm saying this is because while I don't trust Trump to follow
this as a serious commitment, it's important to understand what moves and shakes Donald
Trump, okay?
It is incredibly important.
It is incredibly important to understand what motivates him.
It's incredibly important to understand what the differential factor here is with the reverence
that he has for China and why he's saying these sorts of things.
Because Trump will always hit certain lines that liberals hit in perpetuity when it comes
to foreign policy.
You know, Israel is a very valuable ally.
We have to do whatever we can to defend Israel's interests.
We're going to wage war with Iran at the behest of Israel.
These are things that he has openly fucking said.
And it's important to understand like what motivates him in those moments and why he's
treating, why he's treating Xi differently.
Hassan can't stop.
LaVicina Chuang behaves so well in China.
He's been, he's been wild for 10 years and finally acts presidential in China.
Don't you get it?
it safe. There's no madness because there's no need for random moves to dodge bullets.
You can't, you can be the top clown among clowns, but you can't be the clown among top players to
the intricate and solemn ceremony itself is a massive behavioral constraint in the early
Han dynasty. The lords of Peking County were shouting and making noise in the court without
restraint, even drawing swords and striking pillars. But after Xu Shuntong established court etiquette,
all of us became reverent and awestruck. Liu Bang said, only today do I realize the dignity of
of an emperor. China has refined the system for rights for three to four thousand years
handling policies for emerging nations effortless. You mean there's something dirty in the White
House? Has a ghost stolen his soul? It's time to invite an expert. Traditional Chinese medicine
is still potent. Donald Trump to Eastern great power, respect. Donald Trump to other countries,
Y'all got no cars to play.
Donald Trump is in the business of recognizing America's capabilities to a certain degree,
though he obviously can still be motivated by foreign countries like Israel, right?
Well, he's in the business of like maintaining American dominance,
maintaining American hegemony to the best of his ability.
And I think he realizes that this is just not fucking working, you know?
I don't talk about that, but he's done it in the United States or the MSS has done it.
about attacks that we did in China, you know, but they do, we do too, but it's like, yeah,
we do it too. They do it to us, we do it to them. It's crazy to fucking hear Donald Trump
say things that I've said in the past that draws so much anger and resentment from the
average American. And now liberals, of course, will continue with their anger and resentment.
Republicans might be more understanding of where I'm coming from, I guess. Who knows? We'll see.
I mean, this is also very correct. Trump will inevitably flip on everything he said during
this trip as soon as China Hawks get his ear, possibly the most malleable guy ever. I mean,
I don't know. The reason why I say, the reason why I say I don't know about that is because
she does have him dignitized a little bit. You're right, Chatter. There are certain places,
There are certain moments where he'll put his foot down, like he does this with Vladimir
Putin too.
So who knows?
He's susceptible to flattery, yes, but you know what he's also, you know what he also
respects power. And it is very obvious that a guy who has postured against China in ways
that are far more consequential, far worse than like the average China hawk, it's not
just the peer-to-beer relationship that he has with Xi Jinping. I think it's a recognition
of China's strength that Donald Trump is, in terms with, I mean, he's coming to terms
with, sorry, I can't even talk.
And this is part of the reason why I think he might be more resistant to people that
try to agitate against China.
But who knows, we'll see.
What do they do?
And we're doing things to them, I told them.
We do a lot of stuff to you that you don't know about it.
You're doing things to us that we probably don't know about.
But we do plenty, it's a double, it's a double excuse.
And again, on President Sheen,
President Sheen made any firm commitment
to put pressure on the Iranians to reopen the Strait of Hormuz?
I'm not asking for any favors.
Why the fuck does Trump have this capacity for self criticism when it comes to things
like Russia or China, but not for Iran?
Because he thought, well, two reasons.
One is real.
He is unbelievably pro-Israel, right?
Money.
I don't know
Boomer fellow Semitism that could be part of it, you know, he might think like, you know Jews have
Incredible espionage powers magic money powers, right that sort of thing that he might believe
But
With the Ron I think he he bit off more than he could choose so now he's kind of stuck
because it's a it's a middle power that's like embarrassed him humiliated him. Right?
So there is that. You see what I mean? There is this there's this miscalculation. He thought Iran
Iran did not have the capabilities because he listened to the Israeli side far too much.
He thought Iran did not have the capabilities to withstand an American attack, an Israeli
and American attack.
I think he, if he knew, if he recognized the amount of control that Iran could enforce
ahead of time, he probably would have dealt with it differently.
But it's very clear that he thought the Iran situation was going to be identical to Venezuela.
he thought he could just go in, kill the leadership,
new leadership comes in, much more pliant.
And now he's just stuck in this bind with Iran.
So he has to consistently posture.
Consistently posture as though he has some kind of
leverage in this deal.
This is a live take, but I really just want to be able to analyze politics that consider
the petty lifelong grievances and attitudes of an 80-year-old closet case. Yeah, but if
you think that that's like Donald Trump alone on that, you're wrong, right? I mean, why
the fuck do we still have resentment towards Cuba? That's literally boomer grievances.
So in some instances, I would go so far as to say that a lot of American foreign policy
beyond, you know, material, uh, beyond the, the material assessments of like why we must
dominate other countries and turn them into colonies and extract their natural resources
can sometimes be as simple as boomer grievances, boomer warhawk grievances, boomer ideological
grievances. So yeah.
No, I mean, the President, she and I, we got many things, and we agree very much on trade.
We're going to be doing a lot of trading. Our farmers are going to be taking it.
And our farmers are going to be very happy with what we do.
He will put pressure on them. He will try and get them to take it.
He will put pressure on them because I don't need favors.
I think he will. I think automatically he'd like to see it open up.
He gets about 40% of his energy or soil from that."
This is very funny.
Taiwan released a statement in response to Trump's comments.
Taiwan responded to President Trump's hesitation on Friday to back a U.S. arms sale to the
island following two days of meetings with Chinese President Xi Jinping.
The island's foreign affairs ministry emphasized that the U.S.'s long-standing and consistent
policy towards Taiwan in a statement released Friday morning.
Regarding the arms sales to Taiwan, there's not only a security commitment to Taiwan explicitly
stated in the Taiwan Relations Act, but also a joint deterrent against regional threats
the ministry said.
Taiwan appreciates president Trump's continued support for cross-trade security since his first term with the previous announced arm sales reaching a record high
The statement continued. He's gonna get so mad. He's gonna be like shut the fuck up
They're gonna piss off Trump Trump's gonna be like wait a minute what why are you revealing that we did record high arm sales you stop it now
Close cooperation between Taiwan and the US always been a cornerstone of peace across the Taiwan Strait the Trump admissions have faced
bipartisan pressure for Congress to follow through on a $14 billion arms deal to the island,
a move opposed by the Chinese government. A group of eight Republican and Democratic senators urged
Trump in a Monday letter to move forward with the sale. The president told reporters Friday that he
and the Chinese leader talked a lot about Taiwan. She's government refused to recognize Taiwan's
independence, claiming it's part of China. Someone should tell the people at the Hill
that that's the American State Department's position as well.
No, that's literally the, like this is what's so fucking frustrating about this conversation
is that like the media will just straight up be like, whoa, I don't do, why doesn't the
American, why doesn't China recognize Taiwanese independence?
Bitch, why doesn't America recognize Taiwanese independence?
Perhaps there's a important question to ask there.
Yeah, why does Taiwan not recognize its own independence?
Like, what are we doing?
I hate having this conversation with people who literally don't know basic facts about
this relationship between China, the United States of America, and also Taiwan.
Trump must not sell out Taiwan, period.
Jason Smith says, Chuck, it's the policy of our country to acknowledge that there is one
China and Taiwan as part of China.
If you are not familiar with our laws, please consider taking some courses at your local
junior college.
Only about 15% of Taiwanese citizens want to declare independence. I know, I know the
polls better than you do. I promise you that's actually an increase for the record as opposed
to previous years, but this is not about the, the democratic wishes of the Taiwanese population
or at the, or rather it is about the democratic wishes of the Taiwanese population, which
Which is status quo. Status quo. Status quo is the overwhelming majority position in Taiwan.
Okay? That's it.
Yeah, it's gone up from fucking 10%.
Okay, but little, but like actually why though, why do countries like China and the US not
just say happy trails to police like Taiwan and Puerto Rico, what's the benefit of clinging
on?
Well, with Puerto Rico, I think it's just, it's, I don't even think it's like a, like
matter of national security for America, like the fear, its resources, its money, its empire.
But with Taiwan, with Taiwan, it's not like a, the similarities between Puerto Rico and the
United States of America don't exist with Taiwan and China. For Taiwan, it's Chinese nationalism,
okay? It's the idea that this is a breakaway province that was initially designed
with a separatist movement that that lost the civil war and instead of you know
recognizing that they were the same people they chose to they chose to enforce
their own wishes both upon the island of Taiwan but also certainly around the
world until Richard Nixon. China is incredibly, incredibly aggressive when it comes to any
move in the direction of separatism. Most countries would be that way as well, but China takes
an exceptionally heavy hand when it comes to anything that it declares as a separatist
movement. I don't understand it personally. I understand it from a matter of national
security concern, right? If the Chinese position literally was dog, why the fuck would we have
a launching pad for a foreign adversary that has literally put missile bases all around?
Why the fuck would we allow for a country to basically stop Chinese ships from transiting
into the rest of the globe?
Because Taiwan is like the last piece of that puzzle that belt that stops, you know, if
there was ever a blockade, like Taiwan will play a formative role in defending that blockade,
stopping Chinese ships from reaching the rest of the world. If the Chinese position on this was,
we value the TSMC, we value the industrial output of Taiwan, we also value our national
security concerns, and Taiwan obviously is a major problem from that perspective. I'd be like,
that's an understandable position. But the Chinese position is not just those things.
Okay, the Chinese government's position, as a matter of fact, is different than those
real politic concepts that I'm describing here.
The Chinese government's position is, those are Chinese people that live there.
We are united as one China.
This is a remnant of the century of humiliation that we've overcome in every aspect.
This is the final piece of the puzzle.
We will not allow it to remain a break-off province.
That's it. Yeah, it goes a bit further than just the geopolitical calculations, in my opinion,
if it was, China could propose a Russian-style demand on Taiwan, which is a non-aligned neutral
state. But it does go further than that. They see Taiwan as being separate as the last remnant
of humiliation by other countries. Yeah, I think so too.
It makes more sense for them to literally say, what the fuck are you talking about?
This is an island that's like 100 miles off our coastline. Why would we allow it to become
a military base? No country would allow that to happen. This is a massive national security
concern.
If they said that, that literally makes more sense. Liberals would probably be a little
bit more understanding from that real politic perspective. They don't say that at all. They're
They're like, nope, those are Chinese motherfuckers, those are our people.
Those are our people, we will unite with them, it doesn't matter.
And that actually kind of makes sense when you factor in, when you factor in the notion
that China has not engaged Taiwan militarily, when there have been plenty of moments to
do so.
There have been plenty of opportune moments to do so when America's hands were busy.
Right now is a moment for China to engage Taiwan militarily.
This is every single day that goes on, every single fucking day that goes on, China could
just literally, China could have just invaded Taiwan militarily after Russia invaded Ukraine.
And then they would have had a tremendous, they would have, they would have had an opportunity
to do so if they, if this was in the cards, if this was their goal, China could have certainly
done this after October seven, when America's attention was spread both in Ukraine, but
certainly with defending Israel, China could have done it after America started bombing
Iran and realized that it had to expend all of its standoff munitions in Iran.
There have been a million different instances where China could have done it.
And if you think the reason why they've shied away from doing it is because they worry about
like American considerations. It's going to be really difficult to defend this on the international
stage. They don't give a fuck. No country actually cares about that. No country gives a shit about
it. China certainly doesn't care. China only cares about stability, but they also understand that
they present a significant amount of power when it comes to international trade, that they can
overcome whatever kind of like mean consideration people have. Look at what they've done in Xinjiang.
They didn't give a fuck, right? Did they care about international perspectives? Fuck no. They
They were like, there are separatist movements brewing in Xinjiang.
We are going to hit the maximum, the maximum cruelty.
And they destroyed what they consider to be a separatist movement in Xinjiang.
They used tremendous amounts of cruelty to stop it.
They did drag nets.
They did mass surveillance.
They did concentration camps, like reeducation camps for a lot of fucking people, right?
So guess what? They clearly don't give a fuck about Western perspectives when it comes to
dealing with what they consider is a threat to one unified China, right? And to be fair,
it's not maximum cruelty in comparison to Israel, obviously, or whatever America does.
I, I don't, I'm just saying it's maximum cruelty from my perspective. It's like very cruel
and, uh, what China did in Shenzhen. And I think totally unethical, but they did it.
They did it. And they didn't give a fuck about what the Western world has to say and look
where we're at now. It's not even brought up in these serious conversations for good
reason because they, the way it's seen is like, okay, the problem is dealt with. They
were very fucking ruthless to the people, but it's still China. We have to deal with
We have to trade with them, right? Right. It's just a talking point from the perspective of like some China hawks
And that's it
There are no serious mechanisms of enforcement against China. Why? Because it's fucking responsible with 30% of trade in the United States of America
Okay, so the idea that like hypocrisy is a tool that that
Countries care about or use when they when they deal with the rest of the world is is bullshit
Hassan is paid by China? Yeah, China pays me to say that what China has done in Xinjiang is unacceptable.
That's what they're paying for in terms of propaganda, right? That's what they're paying for, you think?
That was a joke, okay.
What is this? Americans have a similar free Tibet attitude? No, they don't. They gave up on that shit a long ass fucking time ago.
So no, they do not have that similar attitude at all
Like the CIA gave up on Tibet in like the fucking 50s you're you're crazy
There was a brief moment in the 90s, but it's not you know
Anyway, getting back to the issue at hand, the reason why I brought up Xinjiang and the actions
that China took in Xinjiang is to show you that they actually are very cold with their
calculations. When they think something is a necessity, when they want to deal with the
Separatist movement from their perspective, they will take initiatives that the Western
world will understandably criticize, but they don't give a fuck. However, however, with
Taiwan, they haven't done that. Why have they not done that in Taiwan? Why haven't they
militarily invaded Taiwan? Well, the consideration here is not because the Western world will
get really scared and really upset. Or the reason why they haven't invaded Taiwan is
because they're genuinely terrified that they can't take over Taiwan militarily. The reason
why they haven't done so in Taiwan, is because they think there is a pathway towards precefully
reunification, okay? That's it. The Chinese perspective on this is we will reunify Taiwan,
we will ease the tensions across the straight, but we will inevitably reunify with Taiwan,
we can wait it out. Okay, that's it. And a major role here is the understanding, a major
role just playing here is the understanding that the people of Taiwan are Chinese, they're
Han Chinese, they were one people and we will inevitably be united.
I mean China only recently gained the ability to do so the longer they wait the better chance
they have, and there's a chance of peaceful reunification. Yeah. Especially since Taiwan
valuably dramatically decreasing with TSMC going obsolete. Yeah. I mean, it's not, it's
not going obsolete right now, but I promise you it's beyond microchips. I promise you.
We get none, we don't need it.
Mr. President, on social, you said that presidential change had a reference to the fine of the
US, and if you're in a state-
China is reducing its reliance on Taiwan in anticipation of potential conflict in the
future just like the US is, but Taiwan is also still too valuable to trade, to disrupt.
It's just heading in that direction.
What is this? Is there any credence to the comparison between Israel, Palestine, and China and Taiwan?
Is it truly an honest question as a pro-Palestine advocate? No.
The comparison that Mao made was that Israel is
America's colonial vestige for the Arabs in Taiwan is America's Israel against, you know, the Far East
against China
That's a comparison you can fucking make but beyond that like
Israel's
ambitions like or Israel's ownership over the land known as Israel is is
There's no real historic time and place that you can point to.
And also China currently doesn't militarily occupy Taiwan anyway.
Yeah, also Taiwan is pro-Israel.
So answer my question please.
I just did.
What the fuck?
Not only is Taiwan pro-Israel, okay?
Is China not pro-Israel?
No.
Not like Taiwan is.
Made a statement.
Like Taiwan is pro-APAC, dude.
You've been from him.
There was somebody, but they talked about the decline.
But he said today, and he said it very publicly.
He said the US was declining for the last four years.
And he said, what?
He said, what?
What?
What?
What?
What?
What?
What?
years and he said what president Trump has done. Show me a Taiwanese who wants to be Chinese.
God, I don't know why you say that. Do Texans want to be Mexican again? Again, not a comparison
that is apt in this circumstance, but Taiwanese people are Chinese. Okay. The distinction is
like they're Chinese. They just ethnically are Chinese.
Yeah, Taiwan is literally named the Republic of China.
are Pakistanis and Indians the same? Brother, there's a major distinction between the population
of Pakistan and India, like a huge religious distinction, for example, okay? The broader
population. Obviously there's Muslims that live in India as well. Sometimes, sometimes it's hard
to make comparisons.
I mean they are, in my opinion, there's not many cultural differences ultimately between
Pakistani people and Indian people. I mean, there's like, or there are rather a lot of cultural
similarities, not dissimilar to the lack of distinction between Armenians, Turks, Greeks,
and everyone else that lives in the fucking region or Georgians, right?
You are baiting on all the dumbasses.
Like, there are a lot of similarities between these cultures, okay? There are a lot of similarities
between these cultures. There's a lot of similarities in the language, but there are also significant
distinctions as well. Many Pakistanis and many Indians were from the other country as well before
the partition, just like how many Turks lived in Greece and how many Greeks lived in Turkey. Yes,
including my fucking grandparents, literally, literally my grandparents. So yes.
last 15-16 months has been virtually a miracle he said we have the hottest he said we have the
hottest country anywhere in the world he said we have the hottest country I believe in
he would never lie to me look at Joe Biden he said we have a declining a seriously declining
country which we did with people pouring in from all over the world from presidents and everything else
He said, what President Trump has done has been a virtual miracle.
It's the hottest country in the world, and it is.
Thank you so much for sitting down.
Your first interview, we appreciate it.
Wow. They rolled out the red carpet.
I have video of when Barack Hussein Obama came to China.
It wasn't as much pageantry.
From your perspective, that welcome.
What did that, how did you interpret that?
Well, we have a relationship, he and I,
and we've been working together a long time.
We've gotten along well.
When I first came here, China was really taking advantage
of the United States.
He understands that.
And now we do great with China,
and we have a very good relationship.
We have a friendship, really.
He's a tremendous leader.
He's been here a long time, very powerful, very strong.
There's no doubt about it.
And we just have a good relationship.
I didn't actually see other people arrive here
that not treated so well, but we were treated very well.
So that was meaningful for you?
Well, I mean, if I got out of a plane
and nobody was there to greet me,
I would say that wouldn't be so cool
because it's really respect for our country.
Our country is respected, look,
we're the hottest country right now anywhere in the world,
but he and I know each other well,
I think beyond maybe that,
but we certainly got a very nice greeting
and today was beautiful.
Mr. President, if there was any meeting
that I think I want to be a part of,
I would love to have been in that meeting.
Rather than me start with a bunch of questions
about this and that,
and I do have a specific question.
In your own words,
how did this meeting go?
Because I knew you were there a long time.
It was a long meeting.
It started off interestingly
because they're very organized people.
And as you know,
we have about 30 of the biggest business leaders
in the world.
And cleared my throat for him, and he received my throat with grace.
Yeah, one of the funniest parts about this was a statement that Xi Jinping made, a statement
that in the room Trump did not understand, but got very frustrated by after someone
explained it to him. Okay. And the part that was about America's decline as an empire.
Lauren Ipsum only, wait, what 26.9% support maintaining the status quo? That's literally wrong.
I don't know what poll you're talking about, but this is an absolute misread of the poll.
I think you're being fucking disingenuous. It's 60 plus percent is like 69 percent main wants to maintain status quo
Hold on you got a boomed because you sent the link without subscribing
Okay
Yeah, you're fucking wrong nice yes, and you're absolutely wrong
This is a this is a if you're if you're actually hitting if you're if this isn't you know honest
read of a real poll that you saw, then it's probably a totally fucking random poll that
Americans and Taiwanese favor the status quo. Majorities of Taiwanese and Americans support
the status quo. A majority of Taiwanese, 60% say Taiwan should maintain the status quo either permanently
or for the time being, while deciding on independence and unification based on future circumstances,
26%, 27% prefer independence either as soon as possible at 5% or in the future while maintaining
status quo for now, 22%. Finally, 7% of Taiwanese prefer to seek unification either as soon
as possible at 1% or in the future while maintaining the status quo for now, at 6%. Okay?
while at the end of that bargain, there are more Taiwanese people that want independence,
the overwhelming majority say at 60% that they want to maintain the status quo.
I don't know why, I don't know why people still fucking hit ridiculous lines. What is this?
I think Chatter saw this. Taiwanese preference of a political future.
Yeah, I don't know where this, I don't know what this poll is.
But it seems to me like an outlier.
These come up every stream, so just have it bookmarked at this point. I know it doesn't matter though
It literally doesn't it literally doesn't matter that I bring this up every fucking day
An official survey finds over 80 percent of Taiwanese people would prefer that Taiwan and China's relationship remain basically the same
The survey was commissioned by Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council, which managed its relations with China.
Okay, this is the Taiwan Mainland Affairs Council.
Over 70% of respondents disagreed with the statement that Taiwan is part of China,
while around 65% believed China's infiltration into Taiwan has become increasingly serious in recent years.
It was eight months ago.
Did you compare Taiwan the size of New Jersey?
Anyway, the KMT also holds the most seats in Taiwan, are trying to soften policy towards
China while people in here are, they might not say it advocating for war between two
nuclear superpowers.
No, they are doing that.
They are doing that.
No, they're openly doing that.
up. There are politicians in fucking Taiwan that are moving in the direction of better
relations with mainland China. And there are Americans, sometimes of Taiwanese descent,
or Americans in general, that are certainly not Chinese and not of Taiwanese descent at all,
that are saying, no, like, what do you mean? You have to bleed for this shit.
it. It's so easy to fucking prime an American with a couple lines about liberty and sovereignty
and dignity to get them to literally be like, oh yeah, I don't really give a fuck about
what happens. I just want war.
I mean, for the also the camp leaders with the Beijing and
Menchie last month, they just want to hang out in the status
comment. Yeah, you know what I said about that. By the way, I
I said, wow, this is interesting, peaceful reunification might actually happen, okay?
How interesting, I wonder if America would allow it to happen.
And every single person literally treated this as treasonous, as though I'm like, not
abiding by the wish of the Taiwanese, I want every single person in Taiwan to be killed.
No, I think you want every single person in Taiwan to be killed.
As long as it helps you feel like America is the most powerful nation on the planet.
Yeah, USA number one, baby.
That's it.
Biggest.
Everything.
You know, I mean, you name it from chips to planes to everything.
And they're all here.
I didn't invite them.
They all wanted to come.
And they're all here.
And I suggested that.
that we've always thought the meeting,
I'd like to introduce them to you.
And they were surprised because it wasn't scheduled.
And they looked around, they said, well, and then, you know,
we had everybody, I don't want to go into names
because I'll leave some out.
But there were a lot of guys.
Tim Cook, Elon, Pbos, you know.
We had everybody.
The head of the video was here.
We had just everybody.
and men and women, all great business, the best.
And they said, okay, and they spoke a little bit
and introduced themselves, it's interesting
because they do business in general,
some do business here, but probably like to do more.
And I'd like to see them do more,
that would be good for trade and trade balance.
And they were fantastic, I'll tell you,
they really had a good time.
Once they, once the Chinese leadership,
because it was President Xi and many other leaders.
Once they got used to the fact that we're a little off schedule
here, and we're talking about a subject
that wasn't even thought about.
But they were outside.
I said, I think we can get them in five minutes,
because they were literally a few minutes away from the room
where we were in the Great Hall.
We were in the Great Hall.
And they came in, and they did fantastically well.
It was really good.
I think it was, he actually said, well, that was very good.
That was a good idea.
But it was very different from what the schedule had.
And then we went on, and we talked about a lot of different subjects, and I think it
was all good.
Let me ask you this.
You know, you always say that you have a very good relationship with President Xi.
And you say the same thing about Vladimir Putin.
You're America first.
You seem to always understand he's going to be China first.
Yeah, totally.
And so...
He is.
He's China first.
He wants to make good deals.
But having a good relationship is a good thing, not a bad thing.
I explained to people, you know, it's great when you have good relationships with very
powerful countries, and powerful economically as well as, you know, we have the most, I
built, in my first term, the greatest military in the world.
We have the greatest military in the world.
We proved that with Venezuela.
We proved it with Iran.
Iran's wiped out militarily.
Just a question of time.
And, you know, we gave them a break by stopping a little while.
We have a blockade.
They have no boats are going in no boats are even thinking about we talked about it today. It's very interesting, but they're impressed
We have a great military. We have the greatest military. We've ever had but we have the greatest military anywhere in the world
I built it in the first term a little was given away by
Biden to Afghanistan and
As much as it was it was a lot, but it's a very little bit. I didn't what we have
so we have a country that is
respected our country two years ago if
If Biden came here, I don't even think he would get a meeting with President Xi.
I don't think I'd even meet with him.
I don't know if he'd be able to focus long enough in the meeting.
You know what?
He wouldn't come here.
But assuming he came, I don't know that he'd even have a meeting.
It's amazing, actually.
A lot of people, I noticed even with the business leaders, the biggest businessmen in the world,
and women, a couple of women, and most of them almost all, but most of them never met
President Xi.
This was the first time they met him.
So they found it exciting.
They all performed very well.
They all spoke.
And I said, it's a little different position for them
because they're hot stuff back in our country.
But here they are, they're standing in front
of this massive country, the leadership.
But they really performed well, I thought.
You have, in the past, described President Xi to me
as very tough all business.
You're not describing the type of business
that he normally used to do.
Do you think that your relationship has evolved
to the point where, oh, he can go along
with your spontaneity?
I think he's a warm person, actually,
but he's all business.
He's, at the end of the day, there's no games.
There's no talking about how much the weather is.
Oh, let's look at the stars.
Let's look at the sun, you know?
No, he's all business, and I like that,
and that's a good thing.
No games.
I said about him, and I can say it about some that is complementary frankly for the most
part.
But I say about him that if you went to Hollywood and you looked for a leader of China to play
a role in a movie, central casting, you couldn't find a guy like him, even his physical features.
You know, it's tall, very tall, and especially for this country, because they tend to be
a little bit shorter.
You look at the military.
I mean, the military today was incredible.
That military marching was incredible.
But no, if you went to Hollywood, you wouldn't find that.
You're not going to find a guy to play the role.
He's good.
And he said, you know, I mean, I'm going to be honest, dude.
I don't think Trump is going to commit to any of the shit that he's saying here, but
It's not bad, like it's hard for me to look at what's going on, it's hard for me to look
at what's fucking going on here and act like this is like a bad way to go about it.
This is a genuine improvement to our previous posture against a country that is responsible
for 30% of our trade.
Okay?
At the end of the day, this is what I care about.
Not war.
Not war.
Not war.
Just peace.
Just peace.
Just peace.
Forever.
Forever.
Forever.
Peace forever.
No crazy war.
No crazy.
Not crazy, not crazy.
Not crazy war.
I'll get criticized.
They always criticize me when I say good things about certain leaders, but.
And this one, but he's a leader for where was his energy when he slammed the tariff button?
I think this energy came because he slammed the tariff button.
Dude, your only time will tell.
But judging by his current actions in China.
I get the feeling in a couple of months, you might be talking about Iran this way too.
Okay.
Cause he already hit that button with China.
And then it turns out China did have hands as I told you, right?
Cause he overestimated American economic power and, and he thought he could force China to
submit China didn't back down.
China actually fought fire with fire for a little bit.
Okay.
And then look at the way he's talking about China.
Give it a couple of months.
He might be talking about Iran in a similar fashion as well, because if you remember in
the beginning, remember in the beginning, he was talking a very different game about
China.
That's how you're doing Chinese propaganda when you say we shouldn't go to war with
China.
I know that's unironically what a lot of liberals attitudes have been so far.
unbelievable. There was one guy who's like an Osint guy who straight up said, oh,
Hassan probably got peaceful, you know, that's like a peaceful coexistence from
reading too many Chinese think tank newspapers or some shit like that.
Where was it?
Like this, this is what I said.
Peaceful coexistence is a cooperation.
I wonder where I've heard that buzzword before, several times a week for years.
What a quirky choice of language.
It seems to be pretty damn revealing.
And I said, all right, legitimately think that we should peacefully coexist with one
of our largest traded partners.
This is not exactly a new mentality in international relations.
It's a fine mentality.
I hope that it can apply to Taiwan, but I do know Beijing, MFA blobs, we speak when I
see it.
And boy, does that phrase sound familiar.
obvious blob speak as calling Venezuela's invasion a limited operation to support a democratic
transition and regional stability.
Is not, is not MFA blob speak. It's just literally a normal phrase to deploy here. It's one that
is my own personal opinion. He's saying I'm like repeating verbatim. The Chinese government's,
You know, Chinese intelligence, I'm repeatedly, I am saying what the Chinese intelligence
wants me to say.
That's the implication here, right?
the argument that he's presenting. And he's using Blobspeak, which is oftentimes utilized
against people like, you know, people in the CIA circles, as though like there is any sort
of foothold that MFA has amongst the American intelligentsia.
It's an unbelievably, dare I say, hysterically paranoid position to have.
What is Blob speak supposed to mean?
Blob is the foreign into, uh, Blob, Blob here is supposed to imply the, the net sex
side, okay? National security think tanks, the American foreign policy apparatus. That's what
the, that is what is oftentimes referred to as a blob, okay? It's the, it's,
I think it was like, who, who initially, yeah, it's the, in Washington, DC, here's the AI overview
for you. The blob is a derogatory affectionate nickname for the bipartisan elite foreign policy
establishment of first the entrenched network of government officials diplomats military
experts think tanks cars lobbies who dominate u.s.
form for a foreign policy
uh... relations whose first popularize
it's it's a ben roadstake it's first popularized by the obama administration
uh...
it is a term to describe the group think
within beltway that favors military intervention
and it's ironic that that guy is deploying it towards me saying
this is blob speak
for mfa backed lobbying groups
when in fact
it's me cutting away from the blob
which is the unit party attitude towards china which is
uh... saber rattling increase a beretta link
and claiming that it's uh...
it's made uh... getting uh...
uh... chinese ministry of foreign affairs
you know uh...
mfa ministry of foreign affairs for china
mfa
ministry god damn no it's not multi-factor authentication
uh... authentication and it's not a fucking master of fine arts
ministry of foreign affairs
for china
chinese
for ministry of foreign affairs
uh...
he's led
fuck! almost 1.5 billion
Sometimes I want to quit all together. God damn. I don't I can't tell if Chad's gonna be fucking funny or they're just like genuinely that's stupid. Holy fuck
in people
For a long time and he's respected
It says sort of interesting when the fake news that he said
They'll say
President Trump said that presidency was a brilliant leader. That's a terrible thing. What am I gonna do? You know what it's a
You know, you saw the response, you saw the, and here's the thing, those business people
are here to make deals and to bring back jobs, they're bringing back massive, you know,
the Chinese are going to invest hundreds of billions of dollars with those people that
were in that room today.
That's where they came.
That's where they came.
It was really an honor.
Every major, just about every major business leader in there.
Well, I mean, the list was impressive.
So maybe to give people some insight into how you act in these situations, you're representing
our country, you're the president of our country, and we get to watch you on a regular basis.
Something that the media did not get a lot of access to when Joe Biden was president,
but we watch you.
He never did it.
Well, I don't know.
And when he did do it, it was a disaster.
Almost 100% of the time.
It was a disaster.
Pretty much.
It was a terrible thing for our country.
be represented like that. Our country was left at. Two years ago, our country was left
at. We felt like a stupid country. We were scorned, we were mocked, we were taken advantage
of and trade and every other way. I mean, look at what happened with Afghanistan. We
left all that, you know, billions of dollars of equipment behind. Could have taken it.
It was just unbelievable. There's no reason to do that. Just all of a sudden, they'd
believe it. No, we were country with the highest inflation in history. You know, when they
talk about high prices, I inherited the high prices. I'm getting them down. I've got them
down incredibly. In fact, if I didn't make the little excursion to the country of Iran,
I had to do it. We just hit the highest stock market ever, which by the way, now we're the
highest, we're now higher than we were before the war started. And oil went up very little
compared to what most people, even including me,
I thought it would go up more, but that was okay
for a short period of time because we cannot let Iran
have a nuclear weapon.
They're crazy.
I'm gonna get to that.
You can't let them have a nuclear weapon.
They would use it.
There'd be no Israel, there'd be no Middle East,
there'd be no Europe, and they come at us too,
because you know why?
They're crazy.
I'm gonna get back to Iran.
Let me go to the media and Donald Trump
than the person and give people insight into the guy that sits in the room across from
the leader of China, 1.5 billion people.
We watch you almost daily with the media and I think you enjoy it.
You bring them in, they have gaggles, you keep them there for a long period of time.
Is that that I enjoy it?
You don't enjoy it?
No.
You seem like you do.
Well, every question's a kill.
You know, they're always kind of for the kill.
Every question, you see these people with a hatred.
I said, you have such hatred when you ask the question.
Why?
Because I have a strong border?
Because I have a good military?
Why do you have such hatred?
The whole thing is crazy.
It's not that I enjoy it.
It's that I can get the word out,
because I don't get the word out.
I mean, look, Fox is great.
And we have some that are good.
But overall, if you read the New York Times,
you actually think we're losing or not doing well in Iran.
They have no Navy.
They have no effort.
It's all, it's gone.
It's just a question of time.
If we want, we stopped.
Could have gone for another few weeks.
It would have been over.
I did that at the request of a lot of leaders
that are friendly with them.
It's not gonna matter for them.
They're finished.
Now they can make a deal or they get annihilated.
I don't wanna do that.
But we have the greatest military.
And you know, when you...
I'm going to make another comparison between the tariffs faucet that he opened up on Liberation
Day and the way that he was communicating about China when he started the Liberation
Day shit versus how he talks about China now.
Think about that.
Until the Liberation Day kickoff was taking place, he kept saying over and over again,
PAH!
China's got nothing.
We're destroying them.
We're destroying their economy.
It's over.
I don't want to destroy their economy, but I will.
Right?
That was only a year ago.
A lot changed in that year.
A lot changed that year when China didn't back away, right?
Trump is like an animal.
Sometimes you just have to literally be louder and stronger than the animal to help the animal
understand who's the big dog in the room.
When liberation day failed and he backed away from the maximum tariffs, no, Trump is not
an animal.
Haves like a fucking animal
These guys all do so does Israel for the record don't assault animals. No, I'm just saying like they have a
They have a might makes right law the jungle view of the world. It's very clear
When China turned around and said place
To Donald Trump on the tariff shit
Look at the way he's behaving now. Look at the way he talks about China now. Let's be
fucking real. Iran is doing the same thing right now. So I genuinely think regardless
of the Israel part of this equation, which is not insignificant.
I think that Donald Trump's attitude on Iran and the way he communicates on Iran will shift
a lot.
They placated the American president with an old tree.
Very important.
When you do news conferences, you're getting the word out that you're not going to read
in the New York Times.
And I read these things.
I see some of your other networks, the way they cover it.
They will take a massive military victory and make it like we should have done it faster.
So one thing they couldn't complain about was Venezuela because it was over in one day.
So we're comparing it to.
So here's my question.
Here's an example.
Vietnam lasted for 19 years, right?
I think Iraq was 10 years.
Thousands and thousands of people killed there, many, many thousands in Vietnam.
And we have sadly, we've lost in two wars, we've lost 13 people, 13, that's 13 people
too many.
13 as opposed to 75,000 as opposed to 50,000 as opposed to numbers that are staggering.
Think of it, when 19 years in Vietnam, where every war where four years, eight years, nine years,
Iraq was 10 years, where all these wars have never, like a couple of months,
and the Navy's gone. They have 159 ships. Every single one of them is now
happily floating. We're not floating on the bottom of the sea. No, everywhere.
They have no Air Force. They had a nice Air Force. They don't anymore. They have no Air Force.
They have no anti-aircraft. Now, they probably have. I mean, we know everything they've done.
They built it up a little bit. We'll take it out in one day. It'll all be gone.
I hope they're watching because all of their anti stuff anything they put up
We know exactly what they put up, you know, they had a little respite
And so they're trying to get a few things together that's taking some missiles from under ground
We know exactly what they're doing. It'll all be gone in one day
Everything they've done for the last four weeks will be gone in one day
But but when you read some of these horrible papers if you watch CNN as an example
Oh, that are the one. The, uh, we used to go to MSD and see now it's MS now and they
got rid of it because it was such an embarrassment to get snow ratings, uh, CNN was
Dumbledore Crats is bad. He's lost his fastball. I'll say it. It pains me to, to
recognize this, but kind of like watching LeBron in the playoffs. You know what I
I mean, every now and then, there's, you know, every now and then there's a turnover and
you're like, that's, I've never seen that.
I've never seen that from my goat.
Just been destroyed.
You were pretty funny the other day.
You were in the Oval Office and you go, you know, I think whatever I want to do, I'm going
to see the opposite.
Then I'll, then I'll get what I want.
It took me a while to get it.
But by the way, there's probably some, no, no, I'm going to announce what I don't want.
I'll be able to get it, they'll immediately like, I'll say, we will not build a wall.
We will not under, because I built over a thousand miles of wall, people don't even
talk about it.
We have the safest southern border in the history of our country.
We have the safest border in the world other than North Korea, and I tell you, North Korea
has a pretty safe border there, they've got five fences that are fully electric.
You got that border.
That was, there's never been anyone who's one person that got through, but he ended
of dying about 10 feet as he got through.
Alright, thanks for watching.
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I check out your new podcast by being on it, Sean.
Why the fuck did you push it back, Sean?
Alright, we continue my interview with President Trump for the full hour.
Now, of course, this was right after his all-important meeting with President Xi as
as we continue our interview.
Let me go to the issue of trade,
tariffs, intellectual property theft.
I'm sure, especially with all those big business people
you brought in, those are big,
any progress you can report.
Yeah, I mean, it is progress,
but I also tell people that, you know,
I was in an interview with a very bad,
you know, stupid reporter who works for CBS,
you serve a 60 minute stupid person,
just an average person.
You could take anybody off the street
and it'd be as good as she is, you know, just very average.
And she asked me a question.
She's talked about China and this and that,
that they steal this and they steal that.
And I said, you know, you do it to them too.
They spy on us.
I said, we spy on them too, I guess, you know.
So some people thought that was cute.
Other people said, you know, you don't have to say that.
I said, I sort of do.
No, we have, we do things and they do things and that's the way it is. Now with that being
said, I spoke to him very strongly about them and I'd like to see it taken care of, but
they've been doing that for 50 years.
We see a change with, I know we're supposed to be improving with trade.
$50 is way down coming into the country for two reasons, the borders.
Sean's coming after the white Chinese title. Yeah, I saw this. Oh my God. He's at least 10% more Chinese. Yeah.
He's becoming more Chinese by the moment, dude.
He wants to be just like me, bro.
I mean, let's be real.
Could you please check logs?
Check this out when mom find the poop sock, take an hour off.
Really reconsider the things that you're doing.
but it's also down because they're sending less.
You know, we taxed them.
I gave them a 20% tariff, and because of Fenton,
I was like a, it's like a penalty.
Nobody ever did that.
You didn't know that probably.
I gave them a 20% tariff because they're sending Fenton.
It's a huge amount of money.
I actually said, you know, the tariff
is costing you $200 million,
and you make $200 million, much less.
It's more percentage from the sale, I think, from the sale of the fentanyl.
And so fentanyl is used for a lot of different reasons, but the bad reason probably outweighs
the good, you know.
The fentanyl is used for a lot of you, going to fentanyl.
It's used for a lot of different things, including operations, et cetera, et cetera.
But it's been a disaster.
But as you know, I put on a charge of 20% of tariff and 20% that's it.
Nobody else would do that.
And we do well with China and I think we'll both do well.
These people really what I'd like to see, I'd like to see China doesn't open the country.
It's massive.
It's a massive, it would be unbelievable for our companies if they opened it.
And I think it would be good for China to.
The indication they will open.
Well, they're going to open some of it.
Yeah.
They open it in stages.
him open it. But you know, they guard their country and they, he cherishes his country.
He wants to tell you, you know, he wants China. Is this not going to be coming up on the Dino
Badala show? Yes. What is rep Bonnie? I will be. Yeah, we got some serious XM boomers in here.
We got some Dino Badala heads. I think you guys will like my appearance on it too. I was
at a really, really good conversation.
To be, you know...
What does he want from you?
What does he want from us?
I did it earlier this morning.
Greatest phrase of all time.
What does he want from us?
Yeah, the similar.
What does he want from the US?
A lot of things.
We talked about it.
We talked about a lot of things.
Too many things to discuss, but a lot of things.
We had a very good meeting, but we want things from them.
thing he agreed to today is going to order 200 jets. That's a big thing, Boeing.
Boeing. 200 big ones. That's a lot of jobs. It's a lot. Boeing wanted 150, got 200. He
said sort of, I think it was a commitment. I mean, you know, sort of like a statement,
but I think it was a commitment. It's a great thing. It's a lot of jobs. Boeing's doing a
good job, they're catching up. They're catching up. The requests were a lot, and our requests
were a lot. We requested for a lot. We have Visa, which is not allowed to trade, and they
were there. It was a big company, and other companies were allowed to trade. And I said,
what about letting Visa? We had to have a Visa there today, by the way. Visa's a big
guilt. I said what about using Visa in China? For some reason they were black
bald and maybe that'll come off. So we had a lot of you know we were in there
for a few hours right? Do you think you made progress? Did you feel like
that the give and take like well for example you're not going to sign this
big agreement after hours meeting but do you feel the foundation was late and
for great success. Better than last time. You know, last time we signed like 36 deals. This
time it's much bigger than that. Um, talked about soybeans for our farmers. They're going to do a
lot of soybeans for our farmers. They're going to spend a lot of money. They're going to build
factories on U.S. soil, soybeans for our farmers. Interesting. Again, another moment, another
incredible Trump move, by the way. Just eviscerated soybean production in the country. When China
was like, I bet, thank you for the Liberation Day, we're now going to buy all of our fucking
Soybeans from Brazil and Argentina
Going up on the Dean of a dollar show rep body at Hassan the Hun what just happened with Liz meal and V. So far
Speehar that's right challenges copy pasted this fucking serious XM
blue sky aggregator, I think.
They're going to be buying a lot of our farm product, which is great.
You know, they have an unlimited appetite as the expression goes.
They can buy as much as they want.
When you have that many people, they need it.
And we have the best product.
We're the best, some of the best of everything.
and they'll be doing that.
Very farmer to me is very, you know,
I must have gotten 95% of the farm vote.
And by the way, we just signed the farm bill
or we just approved the farm bill in Congress,
which a lot of people thought was not gonna happen.
You know, the Democrats are against farmers, you know?
I say, how can they be against,
add that to the men and women's sports.
And the Democrats are against farmers.
Can you believe it?
So anyway, they're defective.
I came up with a new name.
I don't know if I should, I don't know what's going on with this.
Democrat. Oh God. No. No, don't do it.
She on Hannity is doing his best here and is not working.
She on Hannity, Marco Lubeau and she on Hannity.
He said, I did.
It's do you want to get rid of the B?
So you're only changing one letter, right?
He goes and the U comes.
You know you take up more space in people's heads than any one person on the face of the
earth, right?
You live rent-free.
And he's talking about a guy named Jim Jeffries, he's a very low IQ individual, and I talked
about him, he's a dumb guy.
Sean Kwan!
I said, oh what a great name.
It is.
So, let me ask you this, the issue, and you've been asked about it, and you've spoken about
it, and that is China's support of Iran.
How big a discussion was that today?
disgusting. I mean, when you say support, they're not fighting a war with us, right?
I think 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. I 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 that. He'd like to see Hormos straight opened. I said, well, we
didn't stop if they did it, then we stopped them. You know, sort of interesting. He
joke. He said, you know, so that if they stopped it, then you stopped them. But they'd like
to see it opened. But they actually closed it. He didn't like the fact that they're
charging tolls. I don't know if they are not. I don't know who would pay them. I mean, whether
they put the money, the country's decimated, you know, they're charging tolls. Where's
the money going?
Do you think President Xi and China have the ability to influence the Iranians, considering
they are one of their base customers?
Look, he's not coming in with guns, he's not coming in with radars, they're not coming
in shooting.
You know, somebody said he's been very good.
They get a lot of their oil, 40% of their oil from that location.
So what has happened, and one thing I think that we're going to make a deal on, they've
agreed they want to buy oil from the United States, they're going to go to Texas, we're
We're going to start sending Chinese ships to Texas and to Louisiana and to Alaska.
And I think that was another thing that was agreed to.
That's a big thing.
What about liquefied natural gas?
It's not that much longer.
Gas too?
Yeah, everything.
Energy.
Energy.
That's the one thing.
They really need energy.
That's the one thing.
They have an insatiable appetite for energy and we have unlimited energy.
You know, we've now under me, but we now produce more than if you combined Saudi Arabia and
before the war, if you took Saudi Arabia, Russia, put them together, we're doing twice
as much oil and gas as they are.
Think of that.
It's amazing.
That was a cold drill, baby drill.
Well, I mean, when you really think about it, if they have a problem with Iran and they
They need the straight more than we need it open.
We don't need it at all.
We don't need it at all.
We don't need it at all.
Fair enough.
So, I mean, you could make the case, you know, like, why are we even, we're doing it to help
Israel and to help Saudi Arabia and to help Qatar and UAE and, you know, Kuwait and other
countries.
Bahrain.
It also helps China.
We're actually, I told them today, I said, you know, we're helping you and we're helping
you in another way, because I don't think they want, I don't think China wants to rent
to have a nuclear weapon either. I said, just don't call crazy. You don't need them having
a nuclear weapon. What did he say? What did he say? Well, I was not going to respond to
my charge. Pretty cool.
Drumpf, the number of bear is now airing on Fox news. Oh hell yeah. I have a sneaking
suspicion. Bear got China pills a little bit.
ones big beautiful Boeing planes 200 that's a lot they caught him with a
commitment that they caught Bayer playing ping pong with the locals dude
it was apparently whipping ass too which agree yeah if they do a good job we
could go up to 750 and that's obviously a lot of investment going back and forth
you know some Democrats even some Republicans had some concerns about
Chinese manufacturing on you is that happening well if they don't want to
pay tariffs, it could happen, just like it's happening with other countries and
companies. We have now more money being invested in the United States than any
country at any time in the history of the world, including China, which is
probably a second from about 10 years ago. We have 18 trillion dollars in 11
months, not the 12th month hasn't come in yet, the numbers. We have 18 trillion
dollars. If China wants to come in and wants to avoid tariffs, if they build
here, for the most part they're going to be hiring American people. If they want
to avoid tariffs they're going to build in the United States.
How about concerns about China operating inside the US?
Look, we have Japan is building massive Toyota, Honda,
all of them.
I mean, they're building massive plants all over the country.
So if China wants to build for their cars, now,
I will tell you, I put 100% tariff on Chinese cars
because I didn't want them coming into the country.
If you take a look, only because they swamp you.
They'll destroy your auto industry,
and that's what's happening in Europe.
And now they're saying, we have to do a little bit like Donald Trump.
Europe is being killed.
They're being absolutely swamped by hundreds of thousands,
millions of Chinese cars and Mercedes and BMW and Volkswagen.
They're getting killed.
So if you notice, we haven't had that problem.
You know why?
Because I have 100% tariff on cars made in China.
And even though the Supreme Court ruling,
you're going to still continue that tariff.
The ruling was just on a specific type of tariffs.
And you're going a different route.
Correct.
They have the right to do the same tariff in frankly a little bit more complex way,
but it's actually a better tariff.
It's actually a more stringent tariff.
I want to ask you about Iran and AI, but China made clear that Taiwan is very important
to them.
After your first meeting here, President Xi's spokesman put out a statement to the media
through the media saying this, the Taiwan question is the most important issue in China.
That's a good way to ask those questions.
It's handed 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
You were still inside the meeting when that came out that sounded almost like a threat
Well, it was a communicated that way behind closed doors and no it wasn't not at all
But it has always been their most important issue and it's not a takeover. They just don't want to see this
Place will call it a place because nobody knows how to define it, but they don't want to see it go independent
they don't want to do it. And, uh, I think they probably would do something pretty harsh
and then they would be met harshly and bad things will happen. Uh, so, no, it's, it's
not that.
Secular talk. Give me better coverage of news these days. Disappointing than me. Why are
you pitting against boy? Are you pitting me against secular talk? Well, fuck. I love
secular talk.
No, no, no, 11 years, 12 years.
It's always been the biggest thing for him, Taiwan.
Now, with me, I don't think that-
I swear to God, people just get fucking bored on this stream, bro.
They get bored and they just want to make drama for some fucking weird reason.
So fuck.
Yeah, that's the woke commandante Che Guevara, dude.
I'm not.
Okay, so why the fuck did you say this then?
I'd like to see it stay the way it is and I'll put it on my hair make a little news
I'd like to see everybody making chips over in Taiwan come into America because to be honest with you
I think it's the greatest thing you can do because it's a heated situation. There's no question about it and
As you know, we have massive amounts of chip companies now from Taiwan already coming in
we expect to have 40 to 50 percent of the world chip business by the end of my term and
I think it should be the more than that.
I think all of those chip companies, if they're smart, they're going to start heading to Arizona
and the places where they're building that's going to solve your problems.
Should the people of Taiwan feel more or less secure after your meetings with President Xi?
Neutral.
Has the policy changed at all?
No, nothing's changed.
The US policy?
No, nothing's changed.
I will say this.
to have somebody go independent and, you know, we're supposed to travel 9,500 miles to fight
a war. I'm not looking for that. I want them to cool. Go ahead. Explain what you mean, dumbass.
What fucking drama has taken place in the last four hours on this broadcast? Where has there been
drama in the last four hours of this broadcast? Go ahead. No vague generalizations, no vague
statements. I'm done. I'm done with this shit. We're just, if you don't, if you do vague posts,
if you vague posts in this fucking chat, I'm just gonna start banning people. Okay?
What is the excess of drama? Where was the drama? We've mostly covered the Trump
Beijing summit so far. Say like is maybe too strong a word because he thinks I could do it
with just the signing of my signature, unlike Biden who couldn't sign his signature.
No, I'm holding that in abeyance, and it depends on China, it depends, it's a very good negotiating chip for us, frankly.
It's a lot of weapons, it's $12 billion, it's a lot of weapons, but, you know, when you look at the odds,
China is a very, very powerful big country, that's a very small island.
It's, uh, think of it, it's 59 miles away, 59 miles, with 9,500 miles away.
Bro, still vague. The drama you're supposed to cover about people complaining about you. Still vague, bro.
Oh my god, I'm gonna lose my fucking mind.
Take a second off, reconsider, come back with actually, like, the exact thing you're talking about.
Uh, developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing,
because if they were to put tariffs on chips coming in, they would have never left.
Everything was about Intel, and everything was about our chip companies. They stole our chip industry.
So I've said that for years. I said, you know, for years they stole our chip card.
If we would have had one of our presidents just say, we're going to say,
I'm going to put 100% chip. You can leave, you can build in Taiwan,
but we're going to, you sell it back into the United States.
We're going to put 100% or 200% tariff.
We would have never lost the chip. We lost the chip industry.
It's all coming back. And I do say this.
Taiwan would be very smart to cool it a little bit.
China would be very smart to cool it a little bit.
They would want to both cool it.
On AI, was there any agreement about any kind of guard rails
that China and the US might agree to so that AI doesn't go crazy?
Well, we talked about it.
Yeah, we talked about it.
Look, AI is mostly a great thing, mostly.
And we're leading China.
We talked about that.
We're leading China by a lot.
I gave the right for AI to build their own electric producing
plants.
That's a big deal.
They can manufacture their own electricity now,
which we could never have gotten from the grid.
And now you have these very rich companies
headed by lots of geniuses building electric plants.
Because of that, we are leading China by a lot
in the AI race.
Now, it's mostly the two of us.
Other nations are in it, but mostly.
And whoever wins the AI race, and we're going to win it.
I mean, if we're smart, we're going to win it.
If we're not smart, we're not.
But we're leading by a lot.
We talked about that last night.
President Hsu was very surprised at how well we've done with AI.
Because they thought, when it started,
they took this gigantic lead.
And we now have caught, we are substantially ahead of them in AI.
But do you think there'll be some buy-in, set up guardrails?
Well, I think there could be.
We talked about it.
But at the same time, we're competing.
So it's a little hard to say, oh, gee, let's put on,
we're competing with each other.
And we're going to put guardrails.
It really doesn't work that way too much.
But A, if you look at medicine, some of the things
are coming up with medicine.
Some of the cures they're coming up with
that people would have never gotten there.
It's going to be mostly a good thing,
but we want to have some progress.
You said that President Xi said he would offer assistance
on a ride, and specifically.
I also said, we don't need assistance.
Didn't ask for it.
You said that he was offering it, specifically
to open the Strait of Ormuz.
What do you think he will do?
I think he's been very nice about it.
He gets 40% of his oil there.
He didn't send anybody.
He didn't send ships.
He didn't send ships with big fat guns on him that we would have had to repel.
We would have.
The good thing is where I built during my first four years, the most powerful
military in the world.
Wait, is he saying China didn't send it like one of its few aircraft carriers
or some shit?
Let's see, about 48 minutes.
I think it was 48 minutes and 13 seconds and it was over.
And it's a strong country with a strong military, but it went very quickly.
And now, by the way, we have made a fortune with their oil.
And so they've made more money in the last eight months than they've made in the last
10 years.
And we're really participating in the profit.
Ben as well.
It's been wrong. It's a different kind of a thing, but we're doing probably almost as
well as I don't know how you can do better. They have no Navy. They have no air force.
It's all destroyed. Their air force is destroyed.
But you have to look in a big game. They're talking about big games.
You know, Iran's foreign minister said the street is open to commercial shipping only
if they cooperate with the Iranians. They didn't talk in a big game. You know, he's talking
about a big game.
They put it a rocky photo that has even more aura.
we're losing militarily. Think of it. There are 150 gunships. Everyone is now on the bottom
of the sea. Every one of them is gone. They had mind droppers. They call them mind droppers.
Nice thing. Who has 22 mind droppers? The mind droppers are over there. Now they have
what they call fast boats. You know, they are runabouts like you'd buy for your fantastic
son if you wanted to buy them a nice boat and they put a machine gun on it, okay? Most
of them are knocked out. We knock them out just like we knock out the drug dealers.
You like to talk about cards.
It seems like they're playing with a bad deck to your point, but they're still playing.
No, the only thing they have going is a fake press.
They know how well we're doing militarily.
And then at the request of a very nice group of people from Pakistan who are very close
to Iran, I didn't go that final, they said, could you stop?
We're going to make a deal.
And we really had the confines of the deal.
No nuclear.
They're going to give us the dust, nuclear dust.
all the everything we wanted and every time they make a deal they the next day
it's like we didn't have that conversation and that's taken place about
five times there's something wrong with them actually they're crazy and you know
what because of that they cannot have a nuclear weapon because of China agrees
with you on that and he agrees with me on that he agrees with me that he wants
to see it end he'd like to see it end he would like to help if he wants to help
That's great, but we don't need help and you know the problem with help when somebody helps you
They always want something on the other side. That's the way help works hard to believe
But it was one year ago today in UAE
Interviewed you and I asked you about Iran
Get to a solution there. Oh, we'll get
100% you think so well, we're gonna have a solution one way they have it's either gonna be violent
We're not bad. I far prefer nonviolent
Obviously, you've explained why you did what you did because of the nuclear threat for a while.
It's obviously not Venezuela. It's different.
But you did say it was going to be fairly quick.
Venezuela was sending drugs in at a level that was terrible, and they did something that was a terrible mortal sin.
They emptied their prisons into our country. Okay? It was terrible. And that was different.
This one is, I guess you could say worse. It's always pretty bad. You don't get much worse.
Emptying your prisons, drug dealers, and murderers into our country. It's pretty bad.
But you could say this is worse. In this one, they are trying to make a nuclear weapon.
I've stopped it twice. They would have had it two years ago.
They would have used it already on Israel and the rest of the Middle East.
Look at all the missile shot at people that didn't think they were even involved.
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, look at all, I mean, Bahrain, Kuwait, they got all shot at.
Nobody thought they were even involved in this thing.
They would have used a nuclear weapon on the Middle East.
One thing I'll make clear right now, they said, very specifically, because I deal with them.
I said, we're taking the nuclear dust.
They said, you can have it.
I said, we're going to go get it. We're not going to let you take it. They said, we can't
take it. We don't have the capability of taking it. I said, why? I ran is demanding us demanding
help from us literally collapsed on it. A granite mountain, just like China said, I'm
the hottest president. She said it, not me. And he said the truth. He said, I'm so sexy.
And Iran is always saying, can you please come and take this nuclear death? You know, it's
important. It's probably good enough for a different reason though. Space Force, which
I created, has got cameras, nine different cameras in space on that side. We know everybody
that moves there, we can read the name of a person. We can knee if his name is Mohammed
something, and most of them are Mohammed, you can guess about 50% right. We can read
his name right in his tank from space. It's the most amazing thing. Anybody that goes
near that space, we have a tag. They haven't done anything there. And if they did, we would
hit them very hard. So two days ago, in speaking to the Iranians, they told me it was hit so
hard. They actually said, I must say, that there's only two countries that could get
it, us and China. They said, us and China, that they don't have the capability of getting
it because it was so obliterated. The term I use was obliterated. The fake news said,
Oh, maybe somebody can get it.
Look at the community note on this one.
They wanted to get it, they couldn't.
Hassan actively pushes Chinese imperialism.
Did ICCP involvement in Uyghur genocide
and promote militaristic takeover at Taiwan?
Wait, what?
What does this have anything to do
with what I'm saying here?
Like, community notes are supposed to be meaningful
about the thing that I'm talking about, okay?
I'm not making an assessment on support
for unification here at all.
I mean, okay, man, great.
Yes, I'm a Chinese imperialist, dude, totally.
That's what this is.
God, just, I hate that the most,
The most like annoying thing that has happened beyond Twitter being a fucking neo-Nazi shithole,
which is the ultimate most annoying thing, is that the liberals that fucking remain,
the liberals that remain on the platform are also some of the most unvarnished, imperialist,
since liberals. It's just so fucking frustrating. It's very rare to have the entirety of the
liberal and left coalition united on Twitter. Everyone has knives out for one another. It's
intentional. I just fucking hate everything, man. I was in such a goddamn good mood, too.
I was in such a good mood when we first started and now I'm in a horrible mood.
Bro, the lives on blue sky are just as bad.
I guess it makes sense.
Look, I'm no stranger.
DGG is super active on community notes and they've effectively taken over the
community notes subreddit.
Great.
Um, fantastic.
Good for them.
Uh, I don't know what else to say.
Nobody gives a fuck about community notes on on Twitter other than the people who are making the community notes on Twitter that Lilith chick is a
Deorbiter by the way, that's why they're hitting you so hard. No, I know. I know. I know. I know. I know. It's fine
You know, we're gonna send her ass in the front lines. She's going to go in and
Militarily open the straight of hormones. Okay, that's what she's gonna do again
These people are fucking motionless in the goddamn real world, which is precisely why they try to generate motion by
Algorithmic boosts in a platform where the billionaire neo-nazi owner of the platform openly despises me
Okay
Trump double down on the I don't care about American financial situation
250 dollars, you know it was 99 dollars yesterday 99 dollars a barrel. I thought it might go up to 200
I was okay with that. Not that I wanted it, but you cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. They will use it
Wipe it out the Middle East wipe it out. It'll go to Europe. You know, they have a missile that goes to Europe
You saw that okay. They have a missile goes to Europe
I have done Europe a very big favor when you tell somebody you'd have to pay a little more not that much more
I can't rewind the gas saline
You can rewind the broadcast by subscribing to the Plank of Broadcasting service for six dollars or for free
but I can't rewind the Fox News live broadcast, unfortunately, but we'll see
Aisin probably post this. That's fine. And that question was a fake question, and
they didn't put my full answer. I totally care. Look, I inherited high prices, and
they came in with the word affordability. My first press conference, two days in,
and Biden didn't do press conferences. He'd go for years without them, because he
was incapable of doing it. He was an incompetent person. But my first question
was about eggs. Eggs are quadrupled. What are you going to do, or should I say eggs?
They're going to take you to the decoy. They're going to take you to the farm. Be kind.
Rely on it. By the way, I did take care of it, but
they came up with a word, because they are good. They're rotten with policy.
They're horrible politicians. In many cases,
we have a new name. They're Democrats. I call them Democrats, not Democrats.
He's really going on it.
Omar saying World War 11, she said World, she was referring to World War two.
She said, World War 11, these people are destroying our country and we have to stop.
And you know, President, she said something yesterday.
He talked about, and he wasn't referring to the last 15 months, he talked about America's
a nation in decline, and I said, you're right, but he wasn't talking about it because he
He said, what you've done in 14, 15 months is a miracle.
When you hear Trump voters, Alex says, I voted for you three times.
He just, he can't handle the costs.
And he's not for this foreign conflict.
I hate it, bro.
He's not for the foreign conflict, but Roy in Pennsylvania, he's a retired farmer.
He can't handle the fuel going up.
And he's just, he says, he's going to come back very fast.
Well, look, I'm disappointed.
I'm just talking about what they said.
But when you say to them, Roy, Alex, we got a problem.
We just hit the highest stock market price ever.
By the way, then when I went in, now, again, with the war, it's higher than it was when
I went in.
Think of that.
The 401Ks, they're all time high.
There are more people working right now in the United States of America than at any point
ever in the history of our country.
The Treasury press, a mistake that you won.
While champagne flowed on the trading floor and President Donald Trump celebrated record
highs, pessimism spread like wildfire outside Wall Street's doors, straight into the kitchens
of average American families.
There is this sense that something is changing, whether they can hold on and believe that
you're going to get them too.
You know, I have to do what's right.
I said to my people, we just hit $50,000 on the Dow.
That wasn't supposed to happen for five or six years.
I did it in my first year.
We just hit 7,000 in the middle, so that wasn't super.
That was even less of a chance of the end of down.
We just have, we have, we just announced 401Ks
are at the all time highest that they've ever been.
All these things happened and I said,
I'm sorry to do this to you,
but we have to stop this group of very crazy people.
Now those people are gone, they've been eliminated.
The second group has been eliminated
and some of the third group, in a way,
We've eliminated so many leaders that it's almost,
I'm trying to figure out,
who the hell are we dealing with, right?
We weren't dealing with them.
But, well, we're dealing with people that I think are right,
but they're afraid to make a deal.
They don't know how to make a deal.
They've never been put in this position before.
So you're gonna hold out until they do.
Well, I'm gonna do what's right.
I have to do what's right.
But the straight should be open, right?
It should be open.
Look, see, to stop the straight is very easy.
All they have to do is say,
we drop the mine in the straight someplace
you know so you're a little disadvantage but that's okay
uh... the straight will be open they will not have a nuclear weapon
and the world will go on and you will see
gasoline prices drop
energy prices generally drop
like nobody don't forget
they have a lot of boats that are loaded up with all that are going to bring the
oil out as soon as this is over and i think
this interview is kind of interesting because like brett bear is kind of
cooking him a little bit more
many many years with the straight
like you know they've used this this is definitely a more contentious interview
than what you would expect from fox news and i wonder if it's because they got
the boss call because he's been too positive on china or if it's because
like they're starting to get annoyed with his lack of interest in in affordability
sometimes yeah because he's starting to ruin because he's gonna have like down
ballot consequences report from beijing what the president of the states continues
you know what i mean
Or maybe he's mad about the parking ticket in China, or maybe he's now a swagged out
white Chinese boy like me.
Yeah, we got the, we got the Brett Bear clip here ready to go.
Let's take a look.
It was right when I was looking at some dumb shit again.
But here it is.
In Democrats and political pundits the people get it jumped all over this table
that you made the other day you were asked on that when you're leaving
The only thing that matters
They can't have a new
That's right. That's a perfect saying. I'll make it again. You can imagine how many people stop the soundbite at.
I don't think about america. That's my answer situation. So I mean that doesn't it's not even a like
No, the the entire statement in and of itself is
I think
Random hallucinated fear
Is far more constant that random hallucinated fear that uh, the israelis have been uh promoting for
for a generation at this point, is far more important to me than the immediate financial
circumstances of American citizens.
That's the full context here. Okay. Obviously I'm framing it in a very negative manner,
but like ultimately you're saying, Iran having nukes is far more dangerous than Americans
having to pay more for gas. Okay. That's what you're saying. I promise you, if you were
to go out in the real world, you would be shocked with the responses by average Americans.
Because American selfishness at the end of the day is the primary focus, right?
If you were to ask Americans like, hey, Iran gets to have a nuclear weapon, but you get
cheaper gas as a consequence of that.
I don't know what Americans would say.
I think pretty realistic framing when our own intelligence said Iran was not a threat,
be honest. Yes. Well, I'm just saying like, even if, even if you were to ask Americans like,
Hey, do you think it's a, uh, uh, you know, cheap gas, but Iran gets to have a nuke,
which they can threaten Israel with. You don't want to know what America's have to say about that.
Okay. Oh boy.
Americans be like, give them 10 nukes. Uh, can I give them some nukes of my own? Is it possible?
the
I had the big hail of gasoline.
That wasn't me.
There is a woman online who looks exactly like that.
Who had a Molotov cocktail.
No, everyone was pro-dose until they saw the fact that they were just removing inspectors,
generals that were investigating Elon Musk, for instance, or cutting civil service jobs
that you then had to give back to people because that's how the government actually runs.
The idea of the Trump administration running the intervention into fraud is so utterly laughable
when you look at how much they are profiting
off of their positions and off of the American people.
Trump literally did say,
I don't think about the financial situation,
I don't think about anybody, that will be in all of the ads.
But wait a minute, let's give some context to that.
Because he was asking about the war.
Right, and then he said,
he's making sure they don't have a nuclear weapon.
Right, and then people heard that
because they don't like this war.
They don't think he's listening to them.
They don't think he cares about their cost of living.
So they heard the part where he says
they can't have a nuclear weapon
And also I don't care how it's hitting you at home.
I don't care about your gas.
Yeah, I mean, it's pretty airtight.
My queen, my queen, Jessica Tarlove.
Jessica Escaped from Tarkov is correct.
Pryce says, I don't care about how much you want.
That's not what he said.
That's not what he said.
But I think, Conta, no.
That's not what he said.
What is it?
It's what you heard.
I don't think.
what you heard. Is that what he said?
She's yet to escape from Tarkov. Dude, is he doing like, is he just leaning into the
clip comp? Is he trying to see how low the bottom can go? It's genuinely shocking. This
This is a question where president, she said, America's a nation in the climate.
And I said, you're right.
What the fuck?
She said something yesterday.
I mean, I know, I know he's going to say, Oh, he meant like Brandon and I'm bringing
it back.
Right?
Like he, that's his like way of dancing around the issue, but I don't think that looks good
at all.
He talked about, and he wasn't referring to the last 15 months.
He talked about America as a nation in decline.
And I said, you're right.
But he wasn't talking about it because he said,
what you've done in 14, 15 months is a miracle.
When you hear, you know, President-
Oh my God.
Is this real?
The Ham 88, think it was a 50 bones.
Is this a fucking real photo?
That's the...
Donald Trump and Xi Jinping might have looked like friends, but behind the Chinese president's
words was a pointed message and a veiled threat.
That might sound bland and inoffensive, but what Xi means is that America is declared
declining and China is rising.
That's the change he's talking about.
And the first time he used that phrase in public
was in Moscow in 2023,
when he met his friend, Vladimir Putin.
The name of the government has been mentioned
in the last few years,
the name of the government has been mentioned in the last few years.
Fajid, who have repeated this message,
which effectively means,
I'm rising and you're falling,
directly to the President of the United States,
was a sign of confidence, even arrogance.
Huh?
Or it's an accurate reflection of reality,
which I think is probably more, you know,
is a more honest assessment.
It kind of is what's going on, right?
I don't think it's arrogant.
I think it's a reflection of reality, but also, I guess the unique, here's the unique
moment.
Chinese envoys, Chinese heads of state, don't just make blunt statements like this, even
if it's like, they're very careful with the language they use, right?
It's the opposite of Trump.
opposite of Trump. I would go so far say they care about every little minute detail of diplomacy,
the seat that Trump sits in versus the seat that she sits on that elevates the status,
shit like that, that I don't think Westerners care about all that much. They do care. It's very
very delicate. So the fact that Xi Jinping said that statement in front of Donald Trump,
that's pretty big. That means they're not worried about saying that statement in front
of Donald Trump. Trump is glazing Harry Emden now, Harry Emden.
I believe that's important because the Democrats cheat. This will keep them from cheating. It
it'll make it much harder for them to cheat without cheating. They can't win because they
have things like open borders where criminals can pour into your country. Men playing in women's
sports. Sorry to take this. These are 98% issues. You know, they, the fake news is, oh, these are
80, 20. They're not 80, 20. Transgender mutilization of your child. Mutilization.
all right whatever um yeah getting back to uh getting back to this video
and she went further by using the word accelerating what he meant was that under your leadership
donald trump america's decline is speeding up and so is china's rise and then came the coded threat
I don't think this is a threat. Dude, Westerners literally, oh my god.
Buddy, buddy, I just, this is the audacity of western exceptionalism once again.
It's quite literally written by a western analyst to describe what has happened through
historical cycles where rising powers of butt heads with diminishing empires, this is rising
powers, butting heads with diminishing empires is just a historical reality, okay?
What he is saying is, let's not do that.
That's not a threat.
That's a warning that this might happen because America keeps accelerating.
You only perceive that as a threat if you are still arrogant enough to not recognize
that America's power is waiting on the global fucking stage.
He wants to avoid that outcome.
It is very consistent with the way China has communicated, even on the calming of relations
in the Taiwanese Strait.
This is literally our attitude towards China being the spoiling party, refusing to recognize
that there could be fucking some kind of peaceful cooperative path forward.
It's so strange. We are the ones who are being arrogant here. We are the ones who are
demonstrating hubris. We're the ones who are behaving in an arrogant manner. We're the ones
who refuse to see that like our global power is diminishing year over year.
China wants more stability, that's what they want.
So Xi was effectively telling Trump, live with China's rise and America's decline.
That was his stark message for the established superpower.
No, what he's saying is America is diminishing, America's power and forced projection capabilities
are diminishing around the world at a time when obviously China's global power has increased
tremendously. This is an objective reflection of facts. We must always seek truth from facts.
Okay. Let me give real Chinese with you for a second.
The credo. It's just objectively true. And instead of waging unnecessary wars,
saber-addling and trying to reassert American dominance when it's an inevitability that
American dominance is going away, which will be costly, deadly, and totally unnecessary.
Let's avoid that trap and let's chart a new path forward where we can work with one another
rather than wage war against one another
of course the frustrating part about this is that uh... will one donald trump
didn't understand what that was
and then to turn around and said
all know he met like america's power was diminishing under the brandon regime
but now we're good
this ever been in last night's uh... event was incredible actually
Mr. President, we appreciate the time.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
You only think this is a veiled threat or a direct threat if you only think that's a
direct threat if you only have one understanding of conflict, that the way that great powers
with one another is through conflict. That's it. It is a very, very, what? I just really
love fart. Why are we doing wars with fart together? Check this chatter's log. It's important.
Okay, you take the 30 minute, you take a 30 minute break from chat. And then the other
to a chatter takes a day off oh my god he gave hours upon hours to shun hand
it's even more with president trump we held this interview right after his all
important meeting with president she's all important meeting from Beijing China
if you were to take some headlines out of this summit America I'm sure watched
the reception and I'll do a side-by-side dude what the fuck I already I already
banned you for the day and you came with another fucking sock account for chatter
I know I know the TOS I or the waterboarding thing okay please stop
Spamming it. I know I've read it. I've read it a million times. You literally spammed it a million times over the last
Month almost since I said I was gonna fucking debate Sean Hannity. I know you keep trying to get my attention
I have seen it. Okay. I saw your message. I got it
And then I gave you a day off because you keep spamming it for a month now and then you came with another soccer count
Yeah, this was the only interesting part about this vid. This is a very interesting part where, I mean, this is
this poll quote from South China Morning Post, even Xi Jinping, the president, has reportedly referenced Game of Thrones in the meeting saying the world should not descend in this situation like the show warring kingdoms of Westeros.
Yeah, I didn't like that. I hated that when he said that.
I don't like to think that Xi Jinping is consuming western media that much, okay?
Why would you want America instead to survive? How will that bring upon liberation?
Because I am a human being that recognizes that human beings have a finite amount of time on God's green earth.
I want this transition away from American unipolar hegemony to multipolarity to be as...
to have the least amount of violence as physically possible.
As an American citizen, I don't want to experience the maximum amount of bloodshed, okay?
Because America could either retreat from the rest of the world in a peaceable manner,
okay?
Or they could try to stop the hemorrhaging by accelerating the bloodshed, which would
contribute to maximum amounts of pain for not just the United States of America, but
for nations in the periphery.
I've made that very clear.
I recognize that
the end of empire is here.
But I also understand that when
when empires die, they do not die quietly.
It could also excel as a system instead of being dismantled, it could also
accelerate its own demise.
Yes, but that acceleration means death and destruction for nations in the
periphery.
I mean, dude, if we consider the increasingly belligerent acts that America is engaging
in, to be a part of that explosion, okay, the contradictions unsustainable, the crimes
are irredeemable, I don't know, man, dog, you're living through it.
What do you think allowing Israel to do whatever it wants to the Palestinians is, okay?
That's what it looks like when you don't try to retreat, when you just allow empire to
advance its contradictions.
That's what it looks like.
Gaza is what it looks like when we let loose.
Okay?
Do you think it's worth it?
Or do you think there's a better solution?
What it looks like is 160 dead schoolgirls in Minnab.
That's what it looks like when you just say, fuck it, let's accelerate the contradictions.
I'm not willing to entertain that.
I live here.
I'm a human being on God's green earth.
Currently, my assessment is trying to educate people to the best of my ability that this
is done, okay, it's done so, and we have two options out of it.
One is to let the contradictions worsen, and the other is to say, look, this is over, let's
retreat, in the most peaceful manner possible.
Yeah, the air in Tehran is currently saturated with petroleum fumes and will be the case
for a very long time.
Which of these two alternatives is better?
Yeah, exactly, but do you think after all that IR won't just loop back what?
If not fully dismantle way, what are you international relations?
Dude if we both see American Empire declining as an inevitability which it seems like we do and there's two options here
One is a strategic retreat
What is the strategic retreat from the rest of the world in as far as like our our military
ambitions? Like if one option is Nazi Germany and the other option is like what the the
United Kingdom did in the post World War two design were slowly but surely it had to retreat
from his colonies, even though it tried to maintain as much power as possible. If both
are deadly, but one is less deadly and then the other, I will take the less deadly option.
Okay?
Because Nazi Germany is what it looks like when you exhaust the contradictions.
Do you not think that it won't just go back to what it was always done some
decades later if not fully dismantled?
No, it's over.
It's over.
It's done.
I also don't want to live in a fucking failed state either. I don't want to live in a failing state even though I currently live in one.
My job is to try to explain to people that we are living through a failing state and that the acceleration is consequences are disastrous because it leads to fascism.
fascism. Because, yes, exhausting the contradictions either leads to socialism or barbarism and
considering that there will not be a spontaneous revolutionary movement that arises from the
ashes of American liberalism as we're currently watching that unfold, the transformational
side out of the two-party duopoly we currently have is actually the Republican Party. They
are transforming themselves under the leadership of Donald Trump into a fascist party, into
a illiberal party. The Democrats on the other hand are still hopped up on fumes where liberalism
can be salvageable when it clearly is not an exchange or in retaliation against that
transformational change taking place in the Republican party where they're transforming
from a liberal party to an illiberal fascist party. The Democrats should be transforming
themselves as fast as possible to a socialist party, a communist party, a party that actually
understands that the liberal system is dying.
Okay?
But they're not doing that.
They're fighting back aggressively against that change.
And that's fine.
They're a bourgeois liberal party.
Obviously, they're not going to transform to a socialist one.
We will try to use the readily available options to the best of our ability until those options are completely destroyed.
Anyway, let's hear what Trump had to say about the 5,000 foreign Chinese students now by
By the way, which is of course something that he also brought up to, something that he brought
up to Laura Ingraham a while back as well.
I'm in Beijing if I wanted to buy property near one of their military installations.
I don't think President Xi...
No, you wouldn't mind.
Yeah, look, it's not that I love it.
You want to see farm prices drop, you want to see farmers lose a lot of money, just take
that out of the market.
But they've had a lot of land for a long time, Obama did nothing about it.
Here, for the chatters that keep asking, exhausting the contradictions, what does it mean?
In simple terms, okay, I mean, capitalism as a system is built upon a contradiction,
okay?
It's built upon class violence.
built upon, I mean, every piece of history thus far has had contradictions in it, has
had warring clashing classes. Okay? That's always been the case. Lord's feudal, Lord's
under a feudal structure have warred or clashed with the peasants. Okay? And obviously, industrial
capitalists have clashed with the proletariat. What that means in simple terms is your bosses
have a different goal than you do. Your bosses that are advancing the interests of your employers
have a very different goal than you do as the employee.
As the employee, one contradiction is that you want to make the most amount of money
uh... working the least amount of time
your employer on the other hand
wants you to work
the most amount of hours
for the least amount of pay
this is always been the case throughout history
okay
is always been the case
every piece of history every piece of historical development that is taken
place taken shape around the world
has been
when those contradictions have met one another in clash
oftentimes
uh... progressive historical forces even if it's bourgeois forces warring
against the
uh... the the monarchs for example have advanced history in a progressive manner
this is the french revolution for example where the bourgeois elements in
society
have
uh... advanced or progressed history in a direction where they uh... eliminated
by way of a bourgeois revolution and same with uh...
the landed gentry in the uh...
the slave owning class as well within the american revolution another
historically progressive revolution
even if it wasn't a
proletariat revolution
right even if it wasn't a workers revolution was still
a historically progressive revolution nonetheless against
a uh... the maintenance of a colony
right against the british empire
when these forces clash with one another one side wins out over the over the
other and it's a complete domination of the other class
we currently exist under a system of global capitalism where clearly
the the
uh... the employer class okay
the bosses
and the forces that defend the bosses
are the class that won over the working class
seems a little reductive
bro literally said
carl marx is at carl marx basically one of the godfathers of sociology
is reductive what i'm describing to you is literally just
the opening statement okay
that's incredible
This is not reductive, it's descriptive.
It's descriptive in a way where it forces people
to recognize how history has evolved.
Stagism is reductive, okay.
Oh.
What is this? There's a great interview with Jackson, Jason Hickle on this very subject.
What's the role of capitalism?
Oh, this is imperialism, the high stage of capitalism, described by a London School of
Economics professor in modern terms.
Anyway, listen, listen, listen.
This other one was really good too, Clara Maté talking about capitalism not being natural.
This is, we're not going to get into that currently, okay?
Getting back to the point I was making, getting back to the point I was making, the acceleration
is take the chatter hat was basically just let the ruling class eat up everything until
society implodes on itself because state capacity has been sold off to the highest bidder.
But I was describing contradictions, okay?
Because the chatter asked me, what do you mean by contradictions?
What is exhausting the contradictions mean?
Okay?
the contradictions, or at least like letting contradictions run its course, is when the
pedal gets to the metal, okay?
When speculative, when speculation-based market forces meet the reality of a hard limit of
a physical substance, a contradiction that's being exhausted in real time would be the
realization that there is a bubble in the energy markets, right?
That would be the exhaustion of a contradiction.
When you run out of runway, because the strategic reserves are out, and there's no more oil
transiting the shade of hormones, and you're an Asian economy, an Asian country, that desperately
needs more oil to be transited to your ports, so you can continue.
You are so engaging in revisionism.
Please do not do bourgeois revolution revisionism.
The American Revolution was a direct result of the British threatening slavery.
I love you, man.
Thank you so much.
You're right.
I too also think it's revisionist.
progressive historical forces in this regard were the British Empire. I hate
this stuff. I hate this argument. First of all, there's many
different schools of thought in this interpretation and this analysis of the
American Revolution. I'm not even hitting like the AOC version of events
where I'm simply stating that it was actually really good and everyone had
honest and decent, you know, anti-imperialist goals in the American Revolution. Okay.
This is one school of thought that you have, or that you're, you're, you probably watched
a fucking YouTuber or something, do a shitty job of summarizing. Okay.
He just said it wasn't a proletarian revolution. I know it wasn't. I said it was a bourgeois
revolution. He's saying it wasn't even, I don't even understand, you're, please do not
do bourgeois revolution revisions. The American Revolution was the direct result of the British
threatening slavery. You are so engaging in revisionism. I don't know if you're saying
that the... you have not read the counter-revolution of 1776.
No, I took a push this year.
Okay.
APUS history.
Yes. The reason why every other historic revolutionary figure has glazed the American revolution
is because there are elements of it that were a progressive historical force in comparison
into being a part of British colonial rule,
regardless of the overarching goals of the founding fathers.
others. In any case, another chatter asked me about, another chatter asked me about the
exhausting of the contradictions and I'm giving you one example of it. I don't even know how
we got here. Yes, I know the Chris Ravralli is live with AOC, I know.
You keep showing up for me, and you keep showing up for each other, and that's why I'm running.
That's why I'm running.
Oh, I'm the one of...
Because you're my neighbors.
And that's what neighbors do.
And it means so much because it's been a challenging 10 months.
Yeah, I said it.
I've been running 10 months.
It is meaningful because this is an affirmation that I'm walking in my purpose.
No, I did max out the YouTube volume.
It's not working.
And I said purpose not position.
Big difference.
Purpose transcends whatever moment you are in.
When I won the same night as What's-His-Name on 2016, it was a mixed evening.
And then a month later when I took office, we had What's-His-Name in the Oval Office
and I was going into the smallest Democratic minority in 60 years and I thought, is this
what winning feels like?
This sucks.
I expressed to my mom I said Howard Zinn didn't read chatters if you're class
No, how did the chatters thesis is the is the one that other
Chatters are also bringing up which is the horn thesis
The idea that and it doesn't even it doesn't even necessarily contradict what I'm saying to a certain degree
Which is the idea that
Yeah, this is what we're talking about which is the idea that like the the founding fathers
were not primarily invested in, in ridding themselves as, as, uh,
ridding themselves of colonial control, but they also were invested primarily in defending slavery,
chattel slavery. The only argument that I have, the only argument that I have against it is that
that it was a historically progressive bourgeois revolution because at the end of the day,
while they still primarily invested themselves in the continuation of chattel slavery, they
also were trying to rid themselves of colonial control.
The British were still slavers at that point.
They only banned it the practice in the homeland.
I don't have, and maybe I'm wrong on this, but I don't have a firm belief that under
the commonwealth, if America has something slavery is okay, you have to be the most fucking
insane person on the planet to make this statement.
Either you personally believe that under the Commonwealth, that slavery would have absolutely
been abolished, and it simply would not have continued, and Westward expansion could not
have continued under British control with British domination, which I don't think there's, which
I don't agree with. Okay. But I think it would have just, it would have been all the same. It
It just would have been controlled by the British Empire.
That's my assessment.
My assessment is that it still would have taken shape
in a similar manner, and the Founders,
the Founding Fathers, instead of fighting
against British colonial rule,
would have basically been the Comperdors,
The ones that collaborated, the ones that would have chosen to collaborate with the monarchy would have still maintained the exact same system, if not worse.
I said, well, if I run without integrity, I've already lost.
lost. There's only one way to run. There's only one way to run. And it's in community.
And it's in movement. Yeah, I mean, look at Canada. Exactly. Look at Canada. Look at Australia.
Look at, look at relics of British Commonwealth and British colonial control. And you will
see very similar atrocities take shape otherwise because right now there are a
lot of people closest to the pain who are afraid for very good reasons our own
government is seeking to destroy us our rights our institutions all of those
things like here simply put are we doing British colonial control and slavery or
Or are we reading ourselves a British colonial control in maintaining slavery?
I say one is still more progressive of a historical force the abolition of monarchy over the other.
Okay, slavery still remains intact in both of those circumstances.
Or at the very least, it remains intact for a period of time to be fair to the British
did abolish slavery before the Americans did. Let's be real.
Don't you see our our power? Our power is immense. They're
afraid we're going to do the same thing to them that they've
done to us. But this is about so much more than vengeance. Don't get me wrong. I got
a little space in my heart for vengeance. I do. I'm here for justice. I'm here for
justice. I'm here for justice. And if you're an enemy of justice, I'm not disagreeing with
this. Chatters. I'm not disagreeing with this assessment. I don't I'm not saying that the
fucking founding fathers were were know the argument is are are American forces still
slaughtering indigenous people, and then paying taxes to the fucking British monarchy, or are they
slaughtering indigenous people with their own personal autonomy? One would be a more progressive,
historically progressive force than the other. That's the only argument that I'm making. This is
also not a moral assessment at all. Historically progressive forces does not mean automatically
good. And certainly not good by today's standards regardless.
Have you ever thought about developing your own ideas and mentality other than
sucking off Elon's platform? You're a Jew. This guy says, okay, nice.
Just to try to understand, the Slavery Abolition Act didn't go into effect on British cons until 1834, like Jamaica, there would have still been slavery in the U.S. regardless.
our city and we will build and rebuild as many times as possible because freedom is a place
we make together.
All right, folks, I am very pleased.
This is a surreal moment for me.
I did not think I would ever be in a position to be a-
I was not disputing this argument that America was still unbelief. America was a settler colony regardless
Am I right? Is she your bonus rep too? She's my bonus rep. I got a few
But this sister is um extra special also
Watching every left common enter because he's trying to solo you. Yeah, I'm uh, I can't watch this for the time being because um
in the next 20 minutes. Don't engage with this garbage, this is just the latest bad empanada
talking point. What's the bad empanada talking point now?
Yeah, I'm gonna have Nithya ramen on in a brief moment. The American Revolution thing, oh god,
it's so fucking annoying every time dude
anyway I went wait is a OC coming on now
how many people are in attendance do we know are we ready yeah be cheaper it'd
be better if you move to a nation in the periphery so you could live cheaper and
reap their resources I think it's not bad empanada is wrath bone yeah I should
move to a I should move to a nation in well yeah a nation in the periphery and
and still make American wages, this will be the most ethical way to move here.
people. Can we get a sneak peek on the points you're going to bring up with
Nithya? Why the fuck would I do that? Literally think. Why the fuck would I do
that right now? Think for a second. I wouldn't even give that information. I
would not give that information to their team. Why would I give that to you? Are
Are you a staffer?
Documents.
Our Declaration of Independence.
And they were also carving out a cornerstone of what it means to be an American, the promise
that each and every one of us was born to be free.
since then Philadelphia, every generation of Americans has inherited the responsibility.
Guy says, why won't you just change up the questions a little bit?
Sure. Let me just like leak the, let me just leak the info here and then in the next 10 minutes,
change up all of the questions just so you can get a fucking 10 minutes sneak preview because
you couldn't wait. Oh my lord, what are we fucking doing today, man? I started off today
with such a good mood and it has been fucked. Okay, can you guess how many from this pig?
Please ignore the tweet of the Chris Rabbrale with AOC. These people are not Democrats. This is
the unhinged party comparable to the most extreme far right. I mean, it doesn't
Controversial opinion, I should have went to this. I mean, I didn't know that this was happening
But we do we would have fucking I
Mean it's good. It's good that there's older people here though
I was expecting to be annoying about Nithya. No, I know. Oh, people vote. Yeah.
Billy Boomers are a good demo to have. Don't ignore my message. Don't be in a bad mood today.
I'll make you the daddy. I'll make you feel better. Thank you
First big take him for the rally started you can see people coming in
I want to know I'm sure someone will say it at the Chris Rabb rally a Muslim guy just called sure if she design is Muslim
Minish true
Tree Street is a Muslim. He also is a Zionist
Who do you think is a stumping for Sharif Street?
Corey Booker.
What's Corey Booker's perspective? Why is he doing that?
Why is he fucking doing that?
There's an expectation.
There's a goal there. It's because they're worried about Chris Rabb.
Also, this is dope. Today marks the Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the
expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1948, or 49, during the creation of the
State of Israel in the year that followed. Kanae is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared
her story with us. One of home tradition, memory over generations. This is beast mode for the record.
people will people will say that that's a marginal it's inconsequential those
people are stupid that is fucking beast mode okay a New York mayor recognizing
the knock but is is an incredible move in the right direction okay
Zara Mamdani becomes one of the first mayors in the U.S. and among the small
handful of prominent U.S. officials generally to recognize the knock by the
mass expulsion and forced displacement of 700,000 Palestinians.
Anyway the thing I was going to bring up was also the fact that
It's not Twitter that ruins my mood, by the way.
What ruins my mood is chat sometimes and the way that chat behaves.
And I'm obviously not going to stop, okay?
Just because chat ruins my mood.
Yeah, it's the expulsion of 700,000 Palestinians and the death of 15,000 Palestinians.
So, anyway...
Uh, the other, where is it, what was I gonna show you?
Oh
The two things I want to say by Shreve Street and
Who's a what a little baby annoying shut the fuck up
Did it hurt to hear it?
So you chose to be the thing I'm talking about?
Thank you for proving my fucking point.
What's going on with people today?
Um, I don't know.
Anyway, Chris Rabb is apparently doing really well in the polls as far as we know.
Okay. And that is part of the reason why Senator Cory Booker will rally with Sharif
Street PA three candidate in Philadelphia, May 18th. AOC is rallying with Chris Rabb
today. And, and so he's doing a get out to vote rally on Monday, May 18th. Now it's interesting
that to, you know, have Cory Booker be the special guest. I don't know how much motion
Cory Booker has in Philadelphia. I don't even have, I don't even know how much motion Cory
Booker has in general, right? AOC is a much larger draw in, um, AOC is a much larger draw
overall amongst the Democratic Party. Uh, we'll see how, how much motion Cory Booker
has in, uh, in, uh, Philadelphia. But this is a last desperate act from, uh, the pro
is real forces within the party to undermine Chris Rabb, who is the anti, who is the obvious
anti genocide pick here. And they're so worried that they are desperately trying to, they're
desperately trying to give a little bit of boost to Sharif Street. Obviously, Alice Stanford is
gone dead in the water in some respects as well. Philadelphia Inquirer shows.
Okay. Anyway, Shreve Street is facing back rush over resurface,
resurface attempt to gerrymander Pennsylvania 2022 congressional map for Republicans while
creating a seat for himself. Josh Shapiro, who called the gerrymandering attempt shameful,
is now urging unions to backstreet. If you remember, Josh Shapiro was quietly telling
unions to back Shreve Street and to also back off from attacking Stanford because he was
worried that they would split some of the more conservative voters in the district because
they were worried that that split would favor Chris Rabb. Ryan Grimm says, truly a wild moment.
Sharif Shreve worked in 2022 with the PAGOP to reduce the number of dem seats in exchange
for getting one drawn for himself that he thought he'd easily win.
He failed, and now he's running for one of those seats he tried to get rid of, facing
Chris Rabb and Alice Stanford.
That's where we're at currently.
That's the situation.
i know ios he's uh... speaking at the chris rabrily uh... currently i'm not
going to be able to
watch it in real time because i have
uh... nithya coming here uh... very soon
and uh... i'm gonna be having a conversation with her
also
uh... some bad news supreme court is tossed out an emergency request from
virginia officials to reinstate the congressional map that would benefit
democrats in this year's midterm election
okay
Here's the Philly's upcoming primary are gonna tell us a lot about where the city's
Democratic Party is headed. Will voters embrace the progressive challenger stick with the
establishment or reject career politicians entirely? I'm talking about the race for Philly's
third congressional district. A seat in the U.S. House of Representatives is up for grabs
after Representative Dwight Evans announced he's retiring and whoever wins the May 19th
open primary is pretty much guaranteed the job. Philly's third congressional district
which stretches from South Philly to Chestnut Hill.
It's one of the most democratic in the nation
and no Republican has filed a run.
That's left voters with three democratic front runners
and three very distinct political styles.
First up, Chris Rapp, a five-term state representative.
He considers himself a democratic socialist
and says he'd be a member of the squad
if he got to Congress.
Think of him as the guy who wants to dismantle
the political system.
Next, there's Sharif Street,
a state senator and the establishment favorite.
He's got the support of many elected officials,
including Mayor Parker.
His approach is more moderate.
He wants to work within the system
to find compromise and common ground
with folks on both sides.
Then there's Alah Stanford,
a first-time political candidate.
She's a pediatric surgeon who came to prominence
during the pandemic.
She says she'd bring a fresh approach to politics,
one based on responding to people's needs
and not telling them what's best for them.
Stanford may be new to the scene,
but she's got a big advantage.
If you've seen TV commercials about her,
They were probably funded by 314 Action Fund, a super PAC that backs pro science candidates
and has spent more than $3 million to back Stanford.
But that help has drawn some backlash from people, including Chris Rabb, speculating
the group is funded by APAC, the controversial pro-Israel lobby.
314 says that isn't true, but some of their money is from what's called dark money sources,
meaning they don't have to disclose the names of their donors.
That's all swirling as Israel has become a major flash point in the race.
like rap, street and Stanford have more centrist views on the Middle East. And notably, they
don't say Israel's actions in Gaza amount to genocide. Ultimately, the third congressional
district seat will come down to who can energize voters to cast a ballot. We've got more on
the ultra competitive race, plus info about everything else on your ballot for the May
19th primary at inquire.com slash voters guide. The results of Philly's upcoming primary
are going to tell us a lot about where this. Yeah, three, three, one, four action fund
also endorsed Adam Hamawi, which is strange. Yeah. Three, one, four action also pulled
back, I think from the Stanford, uh, from the Stanford funded ads as well. And I think
part of the reason why they did that is because they realize again, they're engaging in vote
splitting and that's what it is.
Splitting favors, Rab. Yes, I know. Why would a pack support him? I don't know. It could
be to blur the lines on what is it like a like a a pack aligned a pack adjacent group.
You know what I mean?
Hold on.
You got him?
So 314 is actually legit?
You could deny an endorsement, yes.
redistricting hearing in Louisiana had an incredible citizen, redistricting hearing
in Louisiana had an incredible citizen shit on the GOP. Is Nithyan adversarial failure?
No. But there are some questions that I do have about her background. There are top
three candidates right now in the in the open primary system that exists in
California elections for the mayoral race. Nithya Raman is one of the two DSA
affiliated DSA member candidates that are running for the position of mayor.
Nithya Raman is an LACD council member from district four which features which
covers Silver Lake, Los Feliz, Hancock Park, Miracle Mile, much of the Hollywood Hills
and Sherman Oaks. She is an urban planner. She's DSA affiliated. She's Tamil with family
from Kerala, India. And yeah, she's an immigrant. She's a mother of twins who has emerged as
a bold progressive voice in Los Angeles politics. She was born in Kerala, India in 1981 and
raised in the United States, she's earned degrees from Harvard and MIT.
Before building a career in urban planning, her political journey began in, what is this?
Her political journey began in 2017 when she co-founded a homeless
nonprofit in response to the growing crisis in her community.
In 2020, she shocked the political establishment by defeating incumbent David
Ryu to become the first council member elected with the SA support at the time I
supported her run.
Okay. Now, serving as a Los Angeles City Council member from District 4,
Rahman is challenging incumbent Mayor Karen Bass. In the 2026 mayoral race, positioning
herself as a candidate for urgent change on housing, affordability, and climate action.
polls have shown her neck and neck in second place with Spencer Pratt.
Karen Bass, the incumbent, is sitting at 30%, which goes to show you how unpopular the incumbent is,
how unpopular Karen Bass is. Okay, Spencer Pratt, the Timu Trump version,
former reality TV star is at 22% in second place in Nithya Raman at 19
place or at 19% in third place within the margin of error. Ray Huang
unfortunately who I you know had worked with initially before Nithya Raman ran
or decided to run is currently sitting at, I guess, you know, sitting around the
same place as like many of the other candidates that unfortunately fourth or
fifth place at 4%. Her polling position has only increased from 3% to 4% in the
same time frame. She's had some trouble fundraising as well in the process.
This is, according to Emerson Polling, okay, Emerson College Polling.
Obviously, Burnithia, her background in LA politics, plays a role in her having more
name recognition, okay?
Spencer Pratt on the other hand, is seen as like this insurgent candidate who has been
able to fundraise quite a bit because there's always some right-wingers that want to fund
whoever the right-wing candidate will be.
Carambass defeated Caruso last time she was running for the mayoral seat.
Spencer Pratt is a demon and there is some suspicion that Carambass is kind of elevating
Spencer Pratt as well, as opposed to Nithya, because in the top two primary system, in
the general, if Karen Bass is running against Spencer Pratt, regardless of her unpopularity,
Most people will vote for the liberal, even though if we're real, Karen Bass vs. Spencer
Pratt is not going to be such an easy win for Karen Bass either.
However, given that people clearly want change, if Karen Bass was running against Nithya Raman
or Ray Huang as well, certainly, the likelihood that Nithya would win is fairly high.
I don't know what a Karen Bass versus Spencer Pratt matchup
looks like in comparison to a Karen Bass versus
Nithya Raman matchup.
But those are, that is the honest assessment
of the race as it stands.
Now, of course, I have a lot of questions for Nithya.
someone who I've appeared alongside in the past at local events. And the reason
why I have, you know, a lot of questions for her is because, during her tenure,
during her tenure in office, which by the way I'll give you guys a little bit of
of insight into how the Los Angeles system works.
It's not the same.
There is no centralized power for the Los Angeles mayor
in the way that it exists for the New York mayor
for the record.
So this is not like a similar system at all.
City council members as a collective
have a lot more power than the mayor does.
The mayor's office is reduced in its capacity.
Of course, the mayor still has a lot of control
over certain things.
However,
However, having said that, the totality of council members have tremendous power over
budgeting and everything else in a way that the Los Angeles or in a way that the New York
Mayor is not burdened.
Okay?
Yeah.
So the mayor has to work with the council
LA has LA has a weak mayor system. Here's a dsa la video from friend of the show is fake explaining
It's not real not in the wait. What is this the right one?
I just mean it's a political ad we're on a soundstage. I'm walking around in the little circle. This is d. A. G. R.
Okay, you're over it. So are the dsa candidates. I want to talk to you about Los Angeles doesn't work
like a city like New York that has one central strong mayor's office.
That power is kind of shared between city council, city attorney, and the mayor's office.
A little bit less Zoran, a little bit more Voltron, which is why you need a nice buffet
of DSA candidates like Marissa Roy.
She's a civil rights lawyer running for city attorney.
It's just one of those spots on your ballot that you look at as your eyes glaze over.
Your mind foggy like the victim of a wizard's curse, stripped of its memory!
City Council can pass the laws, but they don't mean anything unless the city attorney enforces
them.
Marisa Roy has beaten big corporations, thank you, plus she's sued the Trump administration
and won.
And then there's Renice Hernandez.
She led the charge to reallocate city funds away from punishment and into cares.
Her unarmed response teams had answered over 15,000 calls, only 3% needed LAPD backup.
Estuardo Mazariego is a father, an immigrant, and a ground up organizer.
As Suarez works to empower tenants in South Central and across the city, lobbying for
better legislation and developing leaders in communities too often ignored.
Fiza Malik has spent the last 15 years protecting renters, immigrants, and everyday Angelenos.
From expanding tenant protections to winning policies that help working families stay in
their homes, she'll build a west side that welcomes everyone.
Even the guy on the boardwalk with the bearded dragon who hasn't worn a shirt since 1984.
You know what?
No.
the guy on the board welcomed the bearded dragon who hasn't worn a shirt since 1984.
Next up, Hugo.
Hugo Soto Martinez is the only renter on City Council.
Uh-oh.
Hugo will mention cinema's gonna lose mine.
These rents are higher than David Crosby at the Tower of Babel, okay?
That is really nice.
We can't forget about Dr. Rocio Rivas.
He immigrated to Los Angeles when she was two years old.
Her life's journey from teacher's assistant to vice president of the LAUSD School Board
is guided by one belief.
Every student deserves a high quality, equitable education.
But just because she's a doctor
doesn't mean she's that kind of doctor.
Ha ha ha.
I'm so sorry I showed you that thing on my foot.
I mean, it isn't this, right?
It's just, hey, where are you going?
For more information about this fight for Los Angeles,
go to shakeup.la, where you can find info
about our awesome slate of DSA candidates.
The future's in your hands.
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Shakeup.LA. Ooh, didn't Ty Fung's open?
Um, a lot of the, uh, a lot of the DSA candidates, uh, once they get into council often will, um,
will, will fall out of favor with, um, even members of the DSA as well, because they make a lot of
decisions in the complex political nature, especially because there's a give-and-take
and a push-and-pull within council politics. Slate is four city council candidates. What
do you think the fucking New York DSA slate is? The New York DSA slate also has the council
candidate version of that. I interviewed them when I was in New York City. It's an incredibly
fucking important part of this is more important than the fucking mayoral seat. You know that,
That's what I was describing to you, that like the reality of the matter is there are
a lot of moving parts within the mayor system in Los Angeles and this is like getting multiple
council members into office that are DSA aligned or DSA backed or members of the DSA are perhaps
more important, more consequential. Now, of course, if the mayor is like resistant to change like
fucking Spencer Pratt, who knows what he could possibly do. But anyway, these are some of the
the questions that I will be posing to Nithya as well. And she's here right now, I think,
and we'll have her in here in a moment. It's like how Chicago being Mayor Sluks asked
because you had to deal with the Alderman system, so electing good Alderman is more
important than Mayor Lowkey. Yeah, I agree. Speaking of which, Bernie just endorsed the
entire DSA, New York City, I believe, not all the congressional races. I think the
The congressional race endorsement structure is different for Bernard.
Okay.
Hold on.
Where is the...
Can you send me the dock link too?
Thank you.
Hello.
What's up?
Yes, of course. It's so are you. All right. Yeah, let's have you right there.
Ugh. All right, Nathaniel Rahman, everybody. I already gave your introduction while you were coming in.
So we're just going to dive right into it. So we have a very important mayoral race coming up.
you're a council person, what made you decide to run for mayor in a system where the mayor
is technically weaker than the collection of council members?
Well, the mayor has a lot of power here in Los Angeles. I think it is a weaker mayor
system than in a city like New York or in a city like Chicago, but the mayor here does
have a lot of power. The biggest power that they have is essentially managing all of the
departments. They get to hire and fire department heads. They get to set their priorities. They
get to make sure that they're actually doing their jobs. They create the first draft of
the city's budget. And then the council takes it on and kind of wrangles with it as well.
But the mayor does have a lot of power and a lot of those powers were given to the mayor
during the last charter reform process, and I want to make sure that we're actually using
those powers to advance better goals for Los Angeles.
And I was looking at this mayoral election and, you know, disappointed by the lack of
choices that would have brought us in a better direction and, you know, decided to throw
my hat in the race.
Okay.
So you've distanced yourself in the past from Zoram Umdani.
I want to ask you, I mean, or at least like according to this forward magazine article,
but I don't know if that's still the case.
This is what the forward magazine article said that, you know, can a democratic socialist
who affirmed Israel's right to exist, can she be L.A.'s next mayor, and if Yoram and
thinks she can win over cities, Jewish voters, step one, convince them she's not Zoram Umdani.
We can start there or I mean I was going to ask you like the Zoran method like what are
your top five policies?
Yeah.
Why do you think the forward magazine has this kind of assessment?
I think it's just because I am different from Mamdani.
I have been a city politician for the past five years and I have a record that I ran
on that I'm running on right now.
You know, I have led in LA the largest expansion of tenant protections in the city in 40 years.
I actually led the process through which we lowered allowable rent increases and rent
stabilized units here in Los Angeles for the first time in 40 years.
Increases went from being, you know, up to 10 percent to now being capped at 4 percent.
I took away the extra 10% surcharge that landlords could pass on to tenants if they had a second
kid.
You know, this is how our system was built here in the city of Los Angeles.
And I've really worked to try and make it a fairer one for working people, for low-income
renters, for people who are really struggling here.
And that's been the core of my work at City Hall.
Okay.
But let's do the Zora method.
What are your top five priorities for Los Angeles and how would you go about implementing
Well, I want to address the cost of housing, and I want to do it in two ways.
I want to make sure that we're protecting renters better.
We have a lot of laws on the books.
Our city departments are not oriented around protecting them.
I want to create an office of tenant protections in the city, and I want to make sure that
everything that the city does when a tenant reaches out is really about making sure that
people can stabilize and stay in their homes when they're facing unfair evictions.
I also think we need to build a lot more housing here in Los Angeles.
I don't know how much you know about the history of LA, the history of housing politics in Los Angeles, but this city has pushed back against the construction of new housing and in ways that have made it more segregated, wealthier neighborhoods have pushed back housing a lot.
And we have a shortage of something like 500,000 units of housing, especially affordable housing.
I believe, you know, housing really should be a right and people need to be able to afford to live here.
The city cannot build the amount of social housing, public housing that we need.
And I want to make sure that we are able to generate more units so that the cost of housing actually goes down.
down. So for me, this is really at the core of what I want to do here in LA. I also think we need
to address homelessness with services, with shelter, and make it really effective so that
people don't lose faith in our system right now. I think a lot of people are looking at our responses
to homelessness. This is a city that has taxed itself three times in the last few years to pay,
to address the crisis on our streets with compassion, with care, with shelter, with housing.
If we don't make that system work for people, you know, I think people lose faith in government
and I really believe in government and it has to work.
We have to show that this approach of offering shelter, offering services can work to address
the crisis on our streets.
Otherwise, people will turn away to a much more carceral, much more, you know, enforcement
focus system that I think is really bad for Los Angeles.
Um, out of the, uh, the top three candidates, uh, you actually have a lot of experience,
um, with, uh, homelessness initiatives.
Uh, you have a lot of hands-on experience.
One of the most frustrating things that I saw on that debate stage was when Spencer
Pratt was talking to you about how, oh, if you want to fix homelessness, if you think
you can like communicate your way out of, uh, homeless people being homeless, you should
go talk to them.
And yet out of that debate stage, you were the only person who has actually had a hands-on
approach on this, I wish you would have brought it up in that moment to be like, I actually
have.
Well, I tried.
I was shut down a lot of that debate.
I actually have, you know, literally communicated with homeless people and have had a very successful
initiative in moving them into a permanent shelter as opposed to these like patchwork
solutions that are usually offered.
Spencer Pat wants to respond to our homelessness crisis, I think, in a way that is really grounded
in making people feel afraid and in kind of engendering fear of people on the streets.
And I think we can address this crisis effectively and we can address it with real policies that
work and that is sheltering people, that is housing people, that is making sure that people
have mental health services and substance use services.
We have to do that work if we really want to make sure that we're addressing homelessness
directly about like what you have done for people that might not know as far as like your your initiatives like
Because I remember where there was a very successful one where you guys went into a lot of the homeless encampments and
Established a point of contact in a relationship with these people
Instead of just like engaging in these mass sweeps that are oftentimes very damaging where you know
There's a lot of destruction of property and the like it was a much more humane method and was much more successful
Can you talk about that a little bit? Yeah, so across my district
we have actually reduced street homelessness by 54% in just a period of three years.
And we did that not by pushing people across the sidewalk to another sidewalk or pushing
people into another neighborhood, but by going to them in camp and by encampment, person
by person, offering shelter, offering housing, moving people indoors.
And then once people are indoors, then you can clear the sidewalk and, you know, get
rid of the trash in those areas stay clear because people's homelessness has
actually been addressed. I think that is the most important aspect of this is
that we have to address homelessness. You can't just push it around from place
to place that doesn't work. It's never been proven to work. This is the only
evidence-backed solution and it is also the only human solution and it is what
we've done in my district and it is that system that I want to bring citywide in
a much more effective way than we're doing it right now.
Yeah, housing policy and homelessness
are intertwined with one another in a very important way,
even though a lot of people like Spencer Pratt and even,
no, not right now, a lot of people like Spencer Pratt
and even others like even Karen Bastu, a certain degree,
don't often make that connection.
Los Angeles has the fewest homes for adults in the country.
18, 24 year olds are the fastest growing demographic
in among the homeless.
There's been a 64% increase.
So you've talked about increasing housing construction.
Your propositions are about tripling
annual housing construction.
There are some critics of this though, however, obviously.
There are some NIMBYs, some critics of this say
that this benefits the developers
and it will gentrify communities.
How do you ensure that the housing boom
still serves working class Americans
rather than wealthy investors?
Well, first I wanna make sure that new housing
doesn't displace existing residents.
That is really important.
That's why you need to do protection and production
side by side.
That's why I've been so focused on making sure
renters are protected throughout my work.
And I want to make it a core focus of my work
if I'm mayor as well.
But I also think that you can build new housing in ways that
actually benefits communities and doesn't actually
accelerate displacement.
So you can create plans for cities that ensure that working families are safe by making sure
you're planning in ways that creates more density in neighborhoods that are wealthier,
that have historically resisted it, while limiting new density, limiting new growth
in neighborhoods that are really suffering from gentrification and displacement.
And you can embed that into your plans for the city.
You can embed kind of protection of working-class people right into the plans that you have
for where you want to build more housing, and that's exactly what I've pushed for in
my time in council successfully and exactly the vision that I have for building more housing
going forward.
I also want to be very clear that the market will not provide housing for everybody.
Not everyone will be served.
There are going to be the lowest income, Angelina knows the people who will never be able to
afford what the market is providing them.
And that is where I think the government needs to step in.
We have to build public housing.
We have to build social housing.
We have to build affordable housing.
All of this is part of my vision for how we address our housing crisis, but we have to
do all of it if we want to actually get us out of this moment of crisis here in Los Angeles.
You mentioned public housing.
Are you in favor of socialized housing, then?
You're in favor of public housing?
I love public housing.
I had phone banged for HHH, which was actually an expansion of supportive housing, which
is, I think of as public housing.
And I campaigned for Measure ULA, the mansion tax, which is giving the city a source of
funds for building new housing for the first time, and we're building affordable housing.
We're building social housing.
We're building exactly the kind of housing
that is free of market constraints
that can serve the needs of those people
who aren't being served by the market.
Okay.
You've blasted Karen Bass's Insight Safe Program
that has designed to reduce homelessness.
Can you explain a bit about the program
and why it's had its problems?
Like the $85,000 per year price tag
for a simple motel room.
There's some other stats we can get into as well.
40% return to the street.
Yeah.
$225 a night in motels, only $1,243 to the 5,800 participants
served, moved into permanent housing,
and it's $110 a day for food,
but people were served instant noodles.
Yeah, it is, I think the program at its core
is something that I think is important for LA.
Like, let me just be very clear.
I support efforts to shelter people
in housing that is dignified.
And the Motel program is one pathway to doing that.
But the way that the program has been designed
and the way that it has persisted in its design
for many years is that it is too expensive
to address the scale of the crisis.
And we are leaving people on the streets
because we're not doing the work
to actually generate the kind of shelter that we need.
We cannot do that.
We cannot allow people to suffer
on the streets of Los Angeles.
This is the moral crisis of our time.
And we absolutely cannot waste money
on two expensive solutions
that don't bring as many people indoors as possible.
I wanna do the work to actually build a system
that's effective at sheltering people,
that brings people indoors into options
that are more cost effective
and that are actually better at keeping people housed.
This seems to be a consistent problem
with a lot of California projects statewide
and certainly is an issue in Los Angeles as well.
How do you address corruption that takes place
in certain programs such as this one
where clearly there are incidences at least,
friendly NGOs and even friendly
for-profit institutions that take on government contracts.
And instead of trying to create
the most efficient system possible,
It simply serves to pay the people that are friendly with the government, or at least
are lobbying the government.
Is there a way to address this corruption inside of Los Angeles?
Yeah, I mean, I think that's why I've been really focused on oversight.
I think oversight is really important, and it's not because I think government is corrupt
all the time.
Like I really believe in government.
this job because I want this city to work for the people of LA and programs that are too expensive
like this instances of corruption that show up every time that happens residents lose trust
in their city government and that's bad for Los Angeles that's bad for this city and I've really
pushed on the issue of homelessness to make sure that we are creating a system of oversight
that really works, that we know where every dollar is going, that we know how
the money is being spent, how many people are being brought indoors, what kind of
services they're getting, and if we don't do the work to build that system,
people will lose faith in government and I worry about that. I don't know about
you, I mean you've lived here for over a decade now, right? And I don't know how
you feel about the city and the city government? But I feel like people have a sense of alienation
from their city government right now. People have a loss of faith. And I don't know whether
you're seeing that reflected in your experiences with Los Angeles, but-
Definitely. I mean, I think there's a lot of issues with Los Angeles City government.
Okay, I have a question for you. So we've talked a lot about these initiatives. We've
talked about corruption and you talked about a bloated budget in certain
instances. You've been critical of Karen Bass in the way that she's used the
existing city budget in the past. One of the questions I obviously have is, can it
be his analysis as well? This was a huge problem where it seems that the
police budgets have increased over and over again. And part of that was in an
effort to justify additional budgets for the police, a police union budget that you've also
criticized. Karen Bass actually took away some of the funds from the technicians that were responsible
for fixing the fire engines. This led to less fire engines being readily available in the wild
fires as well. So there were obviously a lot of criticisms of Karen Bass, some stupid, some silly
And some valid do you agree with the assessment that the police budget is is
ginormous and is eating away at
Some of these necessary social services some of the necessary services like even
Uh, you know the lights not being turned on at night in many uh, many streets
Yeah, I mean the the size of the police budget is driven
you know
people talk about our our
budget but it's really the size of the police budget is driven by the contract
and the size of the contracts that are signed and the mayor is the lead in
negotiating that contract and then the council has to approve it and in 2023
we approved a new contract for LAPD which I spoke out against I pushed back
against which gave the PD more money than the city had and that along with
with other knock-on effects led to a billion-dollar budget deficit in the city last year, billion
dollars.
We were about to lay off 1,600 workers in response to that budget deficit.
We barely avoided those layoffs.
What we did to avoid those layoffs was to cut every single city service down to the bone,
every single one.
We cut things like pothole repair and graffiti removal and streetlight repair, and now we
We have 30,000 broken streetlights across the city and the average repair times for
broken streetlight in Los Angeles.
The second largest city in the richest country in the world are a year on average to fix
a broken streetlight here.
We didn't pave a single mile of street the first six months of this fiscal year because
we just didn't have the money.
And I think these kinds of issues are hugely problematic for our ability to deliver not
not just social services, but even just the physical infrastructure and the physical services
of the city. And, you know, it is driven by that, by that contract. So now the city's
struggling. We have a, we have a really big problem.
So I do have a tough question here for you on the police budget. I'm sure you're ready
for it. But around the same time as Black Lives Matter is taking place in the George
Floyd protest that protests were happening in 2020, you openly called for defunding the
police. You have since then said that you do not want to defund the police, whatever
heard that might mean obviously for many at the time,
there were different attitudes.
I wanna hear what you meant when you said,
defund the police.
For me, it means taking away some of the expansive
police budgets and reappropriating it to social programs,
homelessness initiatives and the like,
and also allowing there to be crisis managers
that go to specific cases like domestic abuse
and instances like that that don't require immediate armed police response.
Your platform called for transforming Los Angeles Police Department into a much smaller
specialized force.
However, in February, 2026, two days after the launching of your mural campaign, you
told NBCLA, we need to maintain the size of our police force.
Was it, you know, a wokeness rising up everywhere in 2020 that led you to say that?
Did you mean by defund the police?
And why has your assessment changed since then?
After being in government for the last five years plus,
I think it is really important to make sure
that we are able to respond to calls for help from the public.
If we don't answer 911 calls quickly
and with the right people showing up when you call,
I think we, again, we lose the faith of Angelina's
and that really concerns me.
Right now, I want to have a very honest conversation
about how we deliver that.
We don't have an alternative crisis response system
built out citywide.
I've pushed for increases to that.
We have actually increased that.
I've done that in partnership with other council members
and I'm really excited about that.
But what we need is a citywide unarmed
crisis response system that I want to build out as mayor
and I want to fund as mayor.
But we only have that in patchwork pieces
we absolutely need to be able to respond to calls for help and right now LAPD is our only
response system. And I think that we we have to be honest with our constituents and with
the public even when you know it means maybe saying different things than you said before
about how we actually ensure that we're able to respond to calls for help. I think over
I as mayor, I have a different vision for how we actually build out that unarmed crisis
response system.
Right now, it's a patchwork.
It's only in a few neighborhoods.
It doesn't integrate with our 911 system effectively.
So if you call for a mental health crisis worker, you can be on hold for 50 minutes.
And then it takes even more time for somebody to come out.
I don't think that's a crisis response system.
You have to have it work with 911.
And that is the system that I want to build out.
And my dream is for a system of public safety in Los Angeles, where when you call for help,
someone picks up the phone quickly and the right person shows up when you call, it can
be an armed officer when you need one, and then it can be that unarmed crisis response
person when you need a mental health responder, homelessness response, whatever it may be
that never requires an armed officer and may be safer and better if an unarmed person
comes up.
So, let me just get it out of the way.
I'm not a police abolitionist.
This is very frustrating for some of my anarchist fans to hear.
I believe that police serve a necessary role.
The problem with policing is not the existence of police necessarily.
Some unit has to maintain the presence of law and order.
However, the problem that I have with Los Angeles Police Department and police departments
all around the country is that they don't really do their jobs.
They don't do their jobs efficiently, or sometimes they don't do their jobs at all,
when they're doing their jobs, they do it in a very violent manner. Obviously, the L.A.
Sheriff's Department has a litany of other complications. The question for you is, and
this is an obvious problem for Zoran as well, has been plaguing Zoran's mayoral administration.
How do you plan to at times hold the police accountable, make the police force a more
efficient force that actually serves the interests of all Los Angeles knows and not just, I
I don't know whoever whose interest they're serving currently but serving their own personal interest. Yeah, I think that that's I would agree with with some of the critiques that you have of LAPD and I think accountability and responsiveness are really important and I think that starts with leadership.
I think it is embodied in who you pick for the police chief.
And I would be appointing a very different kind of chief who
understood how important it was for
LAPD to be responsive to the needs of immigrants in LA,
who understood how important
these issues related to accountability and transparency are.
I don't think we have that in our current police chief,
and that's one way in which I think you change
how those exact questions that you asked about
are answered in Los Angeles. There's also a police commission in place. And the mayor's
appointees actually form that police commission. And I would want to pick individuals there who
are driving forward towards those exact goals that you talked about, towards greater accountability,
towards greater responsiveness, making sure that the needs of Angelinos are being addressed by
our armed police response when needed. And I think that's really where that's really what
what I would be doing. These are the tools that are available to the mayor that we don't have as
council members that I would want to use for those goals. So for the record, in 2025, I've had
altercations with Los Angeles Police Department, including them shooting rubber bullets at me
when we were at the ICE protest. You voted in favor of a $5 million loan to pay those police
officers over time. What was the decision making there? Is this just the cost of doing business?
decisions politics? Is this something that you stand by?
Well, you know, when people work overtime, the city has to pay them. They had already worked
that overtime. When people work that overtime, their paychecks from the city. And when they don't
get paid, they sue the city. And then we end up paying them not just their overtime, but also
the cost of the lawsuit. So, you know, I'm not making decisions about overtime. I don't make
decisions about deployment. But once that is happening, once people have already worked
their jobs, that's part of the contract that all city employees sign with the city, which
is that if you are asked to do a job, you get paid for it. And if you don't, you get
to sue the city, make sure that you're paid. So that was just a very practical response
to the situation. Like I said, the biggest impacts for the LAPD budget, the graphs that
Kenneth Mejia is, is controlling Mejia is putting out have to do with the size of the
contracts and I think, you know, when we talk about how we actually impact these issues,
I think thinking about that contract process, thinking about how you actually have a real
debate about what you need to maintain the size of the force that, you know, we need
for Los Angeles versus how much money we actually have to spend on police versus everything
else that we need to pay for, that's, that's the conversation, that's the place for that
conversation.
Let me ask you, Shreddup, do you think that it's the headcount that is a problem?
Because that's what Karen Bass claims.
I think Spencer Pratt claims that as well, and that it needs to be there needs to be
more law enforcement officers that we hire.
Or do you think the real problem is that we're not utilizing the existing massive behemoth
of the Los Angeles police force that we currently have appropriately to efficiently engage in
response?
I think deployment is a huge issue that we don't have a lot of good answers to.
There was a study conducted last year from Rand that the police department actually commissioned
that talks about exactly this question
and found that many officers who are supposed
to be deployed out in the field are actually doing
secretarial or administrative work,
even within our existing police force.
So they talk about the fact that we don't have
enough police officers, but they're not deploying
all of our police officers in the way that the police chief
wants them to be deployed.
That's challenging.
I think we really do need to think about deployment,
how we're sending people out,
where we're sending people out to,
and how we're ensuring that that deployment
is generating the greatest safety.
Here's the other thing that I really want to underscore.
A lot of calls that police officers are answering right now
don't need to be responded to with armed officers.
And if we don't invest in our alternative response systems,
we will never be able to take that call load off of LAPD
and actually manage deployment better
for where armed officers are actually needed.
This is why a citywide on armed response system
is so important.
This is why we need to have it
not just in a couple of different neighborhoods
but really across the entire city.
And this is why it has to be integrated
with our 911 response,
not a system through which you're waiting
an hour plus for someone to come out.
Yeah, I agree with you for sure.
So you're saying that you're in favor
of maintaining the current head count
but also lifting some of the burden in the workload
that cops are currently engaging in an effort to make them a more efficient force that can
deal with solving crimes and things like that.
Yeah, you need to be able to investigate. You need to be able to solve crimes. You need
to be able to address rings that are doing a lot of the bad things that we're dealing
with.
All right. Let's get to ICE a little bit. We got to talk about that. Trump deployed
700 Marines to our city. Federal agents and unmarked vehicles arrested and disappeared
over 10,000 Los Angeles last summer, including US citizens holding people in basement cells
in the Royal Federal Building.
You called the raids cruel and unconstitutional.
As mayor, will you commit to refusing any LAPD cooperation with ICE for any reason and
to even prosecuting agents who break state law?
And do you believe I should be abolished?
I do believe I should be abolished, absolutely, and I would absolutely commit to no cooperation
with ICE, between LAPD, not just LAPD, any city department,
any city database, none of that should happen.
Sharing information with federal law enforcement
just simply should not happen, federal immigration
enforcement.
I'm proud to have been one of the coauthors
of the Sanctuary City Ordinance here
in the city of Los Angeles because I believe this so strongly.
I am an immigrant to America myself.
I'm a naturalized citizen.
And so this issue is really personal to me. It's really personal.
It is something that I think strikes at the heart of what this city is.
This is a city of immigrants and we have to be fighting and,
and, and really demonstrating to our residents that we stand up for them and
that LAPD shouldn't even be appearing to cooperate with ICE. I think that again,
it really undermines trust in the city. And I think it's bad for LA.
If that's the case, we really have to be much more
forceful about this.
What are some immediate provisions you have in mind
that could potentially address the friction between
ICE and local law enforcement,
or even create necessary friction?
One of the things that I suggested to Jacob Fry was,
I mean, it's a pie in the sky idea,
but the potential ticketing of ICE cars,
ICE CARs if necessary because they do love parking illegally regardless. Is there any
such enforcement that you have in mind like the violation of mask bans for example?
Yeah. I think making sure that when there are city or state regulations that are trying
to protect Angelinos, including the state mask ban, which is right now by the way, the
courts deemed it unconstitutional. And now the state is working on a new one. Our chief
of police said that he wouldn't enforce it. I think we have to enforce laws that are
in place to protect Angelinos. The state and the city are working towards putting those
in place so that we have more of these protections. We absolutely should be enforcing them. That
That may look different from what, you know, from things that might be dangerous.
So for example, on the mask ban, our city attorney may need to play a more important
role, because that kind of violation is a misdemeanor, and the city attorney can actually
go out and prosecute people for not following those rules and regulations.
We can actually make sure that we're stepping up and prosecuting actively when federal law
enforcement is not following local regulations and I think that's what the city needs to be
thinking about much more. But I also want to say that in the response to ICE locally here,
community groups often took the lead. And I would really like to see a much more robust
organizing backbone from the city and from the mayor's office. Across Los Angeles, we've seen
differential impacts of ICE raids which are still continuing. Lots of activity
and money coming into certain places, donations, all of that, and in other
places lots of raids with not a lot of support. I think the mayor's office
should act as kind of that backbone for response and make sure that resources are
being directed where they're needed, make sure that we're doing active, know
your rights trainings in multiple languages. This is a city that has an
incredible diversity of people.
We have to be able to go out there and talk to all of them
and make sure that they have the tools they need
to stay safe.
And that can and should be anchored in a mayor's office
that sees this at the core of their function.
All right, we're gonna get back to housing.
And I have some more questions for you on that front.
Voters passed the mansion tax,
which you said you were in favor of,
to fund affordable housing and tenant defense.
In January, 2026, you moved the carve out a 15 year exemption for developers, United
to House LA called that a boogeyman for tax breaks for developers.
Are tenant organizers wrong or are you giving developers what they want under the YMV label?
Well, you know, I actually think that what I was trying to do was protect measure the
mansion tax.
I think it's really, really important to have that money in place.
And the mansion tax is facing some very real threats.
There is efforts in Sacramento to put an elimination of the mansion tax of transfer taxes entirely
on the ballot.
It's now on the ballot.
And we're going to have to spend a lot of money to ensure that that measure doesn't
pass.
And the biggest driver for that measure being on the ballot was LA's mansion tax and opposition
to it. I thought harvying out this 15-year exemption for new multifamily housing would
actually make it so that the state-level initiative wouldn't have gotten on the ballot, got a
lot of funding from people who were frustrated that the city wasn't taking action on these
issues. That being said, I also do think that we need to be building a lot more housing.
The city and the state and the federal government are funding public housing, social housing,
affordable housing, we're building to our fullest capacity and guess what we're
building every year here in LA. A few hundred units. That is not enough. We need
more housing to make sure that working-class people can stay here. We need
more housing to make sure that young people can come here and see this as a
city of opportunity. We absolutely need more housing. We have to make sure that
the market is building what we need, whether it is housing for families,
is whether it is lower cost housing, not just $5,000 studios, and we can generate planning
laws that do that. But I will never back away from the statement that we need more market
rate housing as well, because the city simply cannot fund all of the housing that is needed.
All right. You're an urban planner. We have some big events right around the corner. Measure
HLA, Healthy Shreys Los Angeles, was passed in March 2024, but only saw 400 feet of complaint
of compliant bike lanes built in the year that followed.
We've also lost over 260 of our neighbors
in traffic crashes since HLA took effect.
You authored the transit signal priority motion.
You supported the mobility plan 2035
and we're one of the only six council members
to endorse the Healthy Shares Los Angeles initiative
measure.
As mayor, what happens to LA dot leadership
and the council colleagues who spent a decade
slow walking the transit network,
Los Angeles has already voted for and also paid for and this extends to virtually every other ballot initiative and measure because as we all know
People in Los Angeles and even in the state of California broadly will vote for the most advanced most progressive ballot measures
And then unfortunately city government and state government fucking stops it dead in its tracks for decades until people say what the fuck happened
How do you how do you fix that? Yeah, well, I really believe in in better transit
I really believe in making sure that people have an alternative to their cars and by the way, this is and this is a
Economic justice issue, too
We shouldn't have a city where you have to also have a car in order to get around. I think it's totally possible to build out a
Public transit infrastructure and a walkable bikeable infrastructure that allows people to have options
that doesn't force people to buy a car in order to just get to their jobs.
But we're not doing that right now.
And a big reason is because our departments are not delivering on these outcomes for people.
I have a pretty clear sense of how we can change that.
We need to do better coordination.
It isn't just the Department of Transportation that's responsible for delivering these outcomes.
It's the Bureau of Street Services.
It's the people who build our sidewalks, it's the people who plant our street trees and maintain those.
We have to be able to, in order to deliver on the big, ambitious goals of HLA,
ensure that all of these departments are working together in a cost-effective way,
such that we can actually build out the mobility network of our dreams.
And I'm pushing for exactly that kind of leadership across these departments and changes in our processes that will ensure that we're building that transit infrastructure.
There's also ways that we can invest in transit infrastructure that are not crazily expensive, that won't break the bank, that can actually generate much safer streets.
So for example, in neighborhoods, you can put in very low-cost interventions like ballards
and roundabouts within neighborhoods to create a neighborhood network of calm streets, not
on your arterials but inside a neighborhood where it's much, the traffic is slower, where
it's safer for families to walk or it's safer for kids to bike.
Like that's the vision that I have for Los Angeles,
and we can build that out with relatively low cost
interventions, and we should be doing that.
I think that's what a lot of families in LA want.
What's your vision for a more robust public transit
that's readily available?
I know you've talked about buses quite a bit.
Obviously, we have somewhat of a metro system,
but it's, I mean, the problem with Los Angeles
public transportation is that it's unreliable,
And you can't have a public transportation system
that's unreliable, buses don't come on time.
And the routes don't go to every different part of the city.
What's your plan to address that?
Or is there even a plan to build out a more
a bus public transit system?
Yeah, so our public transit system
is largely controlled by Metro, which is a regional entity.
The mayor has four appointees on Metro,
the mayor seat and three other people.
And I want to use our Metro contingent
to push for speedy completion of the projects,
the big transit investments
that are going to be the most transformative
for the city of Los Angeles,
to ensure that we have the connectivity
and the big investments
that can actually transform our capacity
to get around LA using transit.
So that will include the Sepulveda Transit Corridor,
which can help get us off of the 405,
which can get us from the valley to the west side
in less than 15 minutes.
It's absolutely incredible.
We have to be pushing for these kinds of big transit
investments to be built.
That means making sure that we have a plan for investment.
That means making sure that we are pushing as a delegation
to prioritize these projects
and not letting other lower ridership projects
take precedence.
And I'm really excited about doing that.
We have underutilized our role on Metro
to get what we need for Los Angeles
over the last few years.
And I want to change that.
I want to be a leader at Metro again,
and I want to deliver a system of transit
that really works for us in LA.
But can I talk about one other thing, which is,
I think bus transit is really important.
These big train projects are fun,
they're exciting, they're important,
but most people who take transit
actually take the bus.
And I think making sure that buses are more frequent
and making that a priority for Metro,
fighting for that as a priority for Metro
is something that I think is really important
for us to be doing.
I'm also really proud to say that for the first time,
because of something that I led on City Council,
the RAISE LA program,
we're actually building out bus shelters across the city.
Have you seen those new kind of pale green bus shelters?
I have not.
Well, they're all over LA.
We're building hundreds of them now
and in the future we'll be building thousands.
And that effort came about because we took
the advertising revenue from those bus shelters
and put them right back into building more bus shelters.
And so now with a steady revenue source,
we're actually building out transit infrastructure,
including shaded bus shelters that are gonna make,
getting around on transit so much better
for people and I'm really proud of that work.
Okay, hell yeah.
Well, this also ties into what I'm about to talk about.
One of the things that you would be overseeing
as mayor in 2028 would be the Olympics,
the man in charge of organizing the event.
Casey Wasserman recently sold off his talent agency
due to his connections with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislain Maxwell.
He had sent gross flirty emails to Ghislain.
A few months ago, he was pictured meeting
with wanted war criminal Benjamin Indio.
You've called for Casey Wasserman's, or you, sorry, yeah,
you call for Casey Wasserman's resignation,
but then you proceeded to say you'd work with him every day
once the board kept them.
How do you envision working with someone every day
like Casey Wasserman?
And do you view this as a capitulation
or is there any other alternative here?
I mean, the reality is that the Olympics are happening
and that the LA28 board has the power
to pick their leadership.
If I were mayor, my goal would be to make sure
that the Olympics are being executed
in a way that benefits Angelinos and doesn't harm them
and that we have the best possible event that we can have.
And I will do whatever it takes to do that.
That is what you have to do when you're in leadership.
You don't always get to pick your partners.
You don't always get to pick who you're working with.
You have to do what it takes to deliver
for the residents of Los Angeles.
That's what I want to do.
Okay. As far as the Olympics taking place, is there an opportunity here to justify additional
expenditure on a more robust public transit network, given that traffic density will be
completely out of control and it's virtually impossible to pack people into small areas like
where events are taking place? The only reason why this kind of problem
doesn't take, the only reason why this kind of problem doesn't exist in places like New York is
because of adequate public transit. Is there an opportunity there to justify additional budgets
for Metro and also specifically for bus lanes as well? Well that was, I think we can definitely
invest in getting around, especially allowing for buses to get around through dedicated bus lanes
during the period of the Olympics. And I think there's an opportunity to ensure that the investment
that we're doing for the Olympics is actually, when appropriate, being preserved for the long
term. So it's not just an investment that we're wasting, not wasting, but using and then taking
away that we're actually building permanent infrastructure that can last for the city of
Los Angeles afterwards. And that would be a very exciting thing to think about as part of our
investment process. But I will say that the reason why we have had money for things like
like the D-Line expansion, why we have some money for things like this COVID transit quarter
is because we, as a region, passed Measure M, which was supposed to build a bunch of
projects, public transit projects before the Olympics.
Not all of them, many of them have not been built, but we've made some progress here.
And I think the Olympics as an organizing principle for investments is an exciting one
that this region did can do better.
Yeah, and I want to make sure that we're using every last dollar to result in
lasting impacts. Okay. You voted no on the host city agreement over taxpayer overrun liability,
but then in October 2025 you voted 14-0 with the rest of the council the wave planning zoning
and environmental review for Olympics construction with no binding anti-displacement protections.
What are some of the plans that you have to make sure that homeless people are not, you know, being swept ahead of the sporting events?
Because we know that this is one of the major things that cities end up doing.
The beautification initiatives oftentimes is just to, you know, move homeless people around, engage in sweeps and things of that nature.
nature. You know, that's, I think that's part of why, that's part of why it's so important to
actually build out a real system of homelessness response that's effective. We have to be able
to bring more people into shelter and indoors. And I want to compare, you know, the situation that
there is in New York City versus here, here we have a third of the shelter beds that we need
for our total homeless population. New York has 100% of shelter beds that it needs for its homeless
population and has very little unsheltered homelessness as a result. Here in LA, two-thirds
of our homeless population is on the streets. They're experiencing unsheltered homelessness.
We have to do better at getting people indoors in advance of these big events because we
will have a situation where I think there could be real risks and I want to avoid against
that by moving towards an effective system of safety and care that brings people into
the shelters that they deserve to be and that they need to be in.
Okay. I'll give you a softball now. Reality Star Spencer Pratt is currently pulling around
22% potentially squeezing you out of a runoff. He's running as a mega Republican in a deep
Blue City. He has talked about how much he likes ice. He's denied Sandy Hook's existence
at some point. I believe he's praised Alex Jones. He's appeared on Info Wars multiple
times. He's a crystal mommy, which some people are. It is what it is. A lot of those guys
have turned into Magna Republicans for some reason. Aside from lying about where he's
been living after his house burned down. We found out and shout out to TMZ. He was living
in, uh, was it Bel Air Hotel, I believe? Uh, even though he claimed he was living in a,
in an Airstream. Um, Pratt has been pumping out AI slot pads. Despite AI, uh, despite
LA being the global center of creative media work, what's your plan to protect creative
jobs when Hollywood, uh, in Hollywood, when rich dickheads like Spencer Pratt are too
eager to automate away all their work with AI?
Well, I think we need to be fighting for Hollywood.
We've lost tens of thousands of jobs here in L.A. over the past few years, and the city
has been very quiet about watching these jobs walk away.
It's been really, really frustrating.
We saw a little expansion of the tax credit from the state level.
I think the mayor, if I'm mayor, I'll be the loudest advocate for a tax credit that doesn't
have a cap that ensures that we're accommodating things like above the line costs that is guaranteed
years into the future. Netflix built a studio in New Jersey. They should have built it here.
The tax credit can be the thing that really ensures that we can have that investment happening
in LA. LA's leadership, our mayor, needs to be the loudest advocate for that. That's
what I want to be doing. We absolutely have to be fighting for that. I think we can also
make it easier to shoot here, we can make it easier to make sure that costs are lower
here for people who are working here, take away all of our red tape, but we have to be
out there fighting for this industry and I think it's incredibly, incredibly important.
I'm also really worried about the potential for job loss from these mergers.
We've seen what's happened across different companies that have merged and the numbers
of jobs that have gone away.
I'm glad to see that the Attorney General is suing this merger.
I'm not sure how successful that will be, but I think that kind of proactive pushback
against this kind of corporate consolidation is really important, and you know, I have
some real concerns about this.
Okay, now for the elephant in the room, a tough one, but a few weeks ago, you posted
multiple statements, rightfully acknowledging the Armenian Genocide and celebrating the Armenian
diaspora in Los Angeles. As you might know, the word genocide was coined by Polish Jewish
lawyer Rafael Lemkin in the early 1940s during his studies of the Armenian genocide with
the intention of criminalizing it and preventing the ongoing holocaust from ever happening
again. Do you agree with the dozens of human rights organizations, including Amnesty International,
Human Rights Watch, that Israel has committed a genocide?
I do, yes, said that.
In your 2020 DFI LA questionnaire, you said you don't support boycott divestments in
sanctions, BDS, and that you support Israel's right to exist.
Has your stance changed since then?
And do you believe Israel has a right to exist in its current form as an ethno-state that's
currently being investigated for genocide at the International Court of Justice?
You know, I do believe that Israel has a right to exist.
I want to see countries that are operating without apartheid, with equality in their borders.
I come from a country from India, which is now operating through Hindu nationalist principles,
and I'm deeply critical of it, and I'm critical of that when it happens everywhere.
We believe that Israel is an apartheid state, then.
I think that they're not treating people fairly, that they're treating people unequally.
I do believe that, and I'm critical of that.
But I'd, you know, I'd, yeah.
Okay.
In February 2024, the SLA censured you for accepting the endorsement of Democrats for
for Israel LA, a group that has openly opposed a Gaza ceasefire, knowing what we know now
and seeing the videos of Gaza in ruins, do you disagree with that endorsement?
Would you still seek it out at this point?
What's your, has your attitude shifted and if so, why?
Yeah, you know, I, I wouldn't seek it out now.
I've spoken out against the violence in Gaza.
I was the co-author of a ceasefire resolution at City Hall.
Never was voted on,
but I co-authored it and put it forward.
I was actually the first person to talk about
the violence against Palestinians in the building.
I remain deeply, deeply concerned about
the violence across the entire region.
That being said, I do want to acknowledge that being mayor,
my role is not one that has foreign policy power.
It's really one that is about Angelenos,
and making sure that Angelenos are safe here,
that we're pushing back against anti-Semitism and Islamophobia,
both of which have increased in the wake of what's happening.
And I think this is the role of the mayor.
This was my role as council member and one that I'm very focused on,
and I want to make sure every person across Los Angeles feels safe expressing their beliefs,
feels safe protesting,
and something that I will continue to focus on if I'm mayor.
Yeah. The reason why I'm asking this question is because you're right.
There are people who like Israel living in Los Angeles,
people who don't like Israel living in Los Angeles, the overwhelming majority at this point, I believe,
especially in the Democratic Party side, is totally on the side of the Palestinians'
poll show over and over again. But local politicians, yourself included, do have a tremendous amount
of power in terms of what kind of activism is allowed on US soil in Los Angeles and what kind
of activism is not allowed. The reason why I say this is because, and this is, I'm sure you know,
the there was the the DSA open letter. You co-authored a city resolution that made anti-Palestinian
LA United School District resolution a city council priority and was used to shut down the
United Teachers Union of Los Angeles' members historic BDS resolution vote as a result of a
smear campaign. What do you have to say about that characterization? Is there like has there
change, has there been some change in your analysis of the situation? Do you feel like
those decisions in the past might have been wrong? What was guiding your framework at the time
and what has changed is what I'm trying to arrive at? Yeah, you know, I think I have become more
aware of these issues over my time on City Council. This wasn't where I had organized
before. My organization background was really around housing and homelessness issues. That's
how I came to the DSA originally. I like Bernie Sanders and they were the only organization
locally talking about renters rights. And I appreciated that. That's why I got engaged on
this issue. And, you know, I think my work on the city council has changed, especially after
we've seen the horrors in Gaza. And, you know, I feel like I know more, although I will confess,
this is still not my area of expertise. I'm still really focused on the issues facing Los Angeles,
and we'll continue doing that. Okay. Well, the reason why, the reason why a lot of people,
myself included, see this as an important moral test is for the obvious reasons, some of the reasons
that you also acknowledge. But the other reason is because it's a pretty reliable litmus test to
try to figure out if politicians and people who are seeking out positions of governance are responsive
to the needs of the masses, especially considering that this is now the Democratic party's overwhelming
majority position rather than beholden to corporate interests. This is the reason why it's a very
effective litmus test and that's the reason why I'm asking you about it. And the honest
transformation that may have taken place in your worldview, so it doesn't come across as simply
someone like, for example, Scott Wiener, who very actively pushed for
for a lot of pro-Israel provisions, and then now is trying to claim that he actually recognizes
that there is a genocide that has taken place because he has a congressional seat that he's
trying to win at a time when everyone is on board.
So if there has been a difference in opinion or a change in your mentality, what has been
some of the things that you saw that that made you reconsider your previous position?
You know I I spoke out about this issue in in the ceasefire resolution and in city council
because I I saw the violence in Gaza and and was moved by it and I think that a lot of people
across the country have had that same evolution. And it is, you know, it is, has been one of
the biggest issues animating this country, especially in the last election. And, you
I think I've moved with the people.
I've learned more and I'm committed to learning more as well.
While also acknowledging again that the mayor's seat is
not primarily one that is focused on foreign policy issues.
I think it is really a place where people are looking
to the mayor's office to ensure that we have a safe city for everyone and to ensure that
their ability to speak out about these issues and to work on the protests. For example,
the rights of protesters are really important. We have to make sure that LAPD is responding
in better ways to these kinds of protests.
People have to be able to exercise their first amendment rights.
I think these are the kinds of things that,
these are the kinds of places where I think it's important,
and these are places where I have spoken out in the past as well.
When there was, I think,
a lot of violence in UCLA,
I called for an investigation into what had LAPD done in
that in response to that protest encampment.
And I think these are places where I have pushed back really on these questions already,
and places that I would continue to think about where the city can do better going forward.
Okay. Question about where the city can do better.
In June 2024, you co-introduced legislation calling for an immediate impermanence
ceasefire in the immediate and unconditional return of all hostage in the same month, Karen
Bassenjoe Biden condemned local protest against stolen Palestinian land sales taking place
in the Otis Taurus synagogue.
How do you view the connection between these two actions and will you vow to end the illegal
sale of stolen West Bank land in Los Angeles as a practice that is also taking place in
New York as well as a big point of contention?
A lot of people, including Zoran at certain times has fallen short of abiding by what
he had previously said he would do.
What is your view on this?
Like protesting outside of a synagogue is oftentimes the only thing that the media covers
when in fact what's taking place inside of the synagogues, places of houses of worship,
not always of course, but whenever there is a protest it's usually because of these settler
fairs that are taking place which are illegal. Do you, is there anything that you plan on
doing about this at all? Do you have an opinion on these land sales that are taking place,
settler fairs that are taking place inside of synagogues?
I mean, I look the, what is happening in the West Bank and what's happening with illegal
settlements there is deeply troubling. I will confess that I don't know that much about
this particular issue so I don't want to make a commitment to something that I'll do as mayor that I don't know that much about. That being said, I, you know, and as I said in that article, I really value the ability of people to exercise their first amendment rights here in the city of Los Angeles.
And I want to make sure that religious institutions and people in them feel safe while also honoring our first right to, you know, our first amendment, right to protest.
That's going to be a difficult thing to balance in a very, very troubled time here in Los Angeles.
What I make a commitment to doing for everyone in the city is to ensuring that I'm willing to engage with all of our partners.
You know to to to ensure that we are moving forward while guaranteeing both of these things and I think it's possible to do that
But it requires deep engagement requires work. I've always been willing to do the work
And I'm committed to doing that going forward as well
Okay
All right, sure, let's I'll just move on from that then this there's you know, there's a lot of
like
Israel's a foreign country
However, there are a lot of connections with local governance, a lot more than many Americans are comfortable with, a lot more than many Americans are aware of.
One example is that the Los Angeles Police Department does train with Israeli counterterrorism experts.
There's a practice that was a post-911 practice that has played a major role in some of the
practices at LAPD alongside numerous other local law enforcement organizations, utilized
like the Kedling and Corraling practice that many protesters have often criticized.
While some of the costs of this counterterrorism expertise is covered by outside orgs, do you
believe that our police force should be using our taxpayer dollars to go train in a country
that's actively committing and internationally recognized genocide by the very same forces
that are committing said genocide.
You know, I would say here that I don't think LAPD should be training in ways that are like
those of on a war, on a military terms.
You know, that troubles me.
I think we shouldn't be treating this city as if it's our enemy.
That's not what LAPD needs to be doing.
The commitment that I make today and always is really to ensure that LAPD is receiving
training to be able to keep people safe and making sure that we're not militarizing our
police force I think is really important.
We are not at a war with our people.
We are here to keep the residents of Los Angeles safe,
and I wanna make sure that we're training people accordingly.
So do you oppose that private grants and donations
would still send police to train in Israel,
or is that something that is outside of your purviews, Mayor?
It is a little bit outside of my purview as mayor,
but again, I would be pushing for better responses here
that ensure that LAPD's training is appropriate
for what their job is here in LA,
which is the safety of Angelenos,
guaranteeing the safety of Angelenos,
responding to people who are dealing with situations.
That's the kind of training that they need.
Okay.
Last but not least, you jumped in this race
at the very last second, right before the registration deadline.
I believe it was a week after I had done something
with Ray Huang as well, who's another DSA member who's running for mayor as well. She's pulling
at 3% or 4%. But you've previously endorsed Karen Bass, who's someone who's referred to you as an
ally. What are the decisions that led you to run for mayor, as opposed to retaining your seat or
fighting for. Yeah, you know, I am, I am, I'm, I'm upset right now with the state of Los Angeles,
and I feel like our mayor has made decisions that have betrayed working class Angelenos over and
over again. In return for political donations that are now funding her campaign, whether it's
on the loaded police contract, which now the police union is funding millions of dollars,
over a million dollars against me in this race to make sure I don't make it into the runoff.
Whether it is expanding our kind of use of Airbnb here taking away from our housing stock,
which is also now donating to her campaign, or whether it's investing in things like our,
you know, $3 billion convention center expansion in return for support from
from downtown business interests who are now
funding her campaign.
All of these have taken away from our capacity
to be able to provide basic services here in Los Angeles
or working people here in the city.
And it, as a someone who is a representative of LA
who is here because I want to fight for people
in Los Angeles, watching that happen
has been really, really frustrating.
And the only credible opposition that she had
in this mayoral race was Spencer Pratt,
a mega Republican who believes 9-11 is an inside job.
And what is scary about this individual is that I think that at a time when people have
lost trust and faith in local city government, that kind of energy, that kind of negativity,
kind of, I don't know, rhetoric can have real purchase here in LA. I think that's bad for LA.
I think we deserve a better option. Let's have a real conversation about how Los Angeles can get
better and I want to be a mayor that builds a better city. I know, look, I'm not here in this
seat running for mayor who is going to have 100% agreement from every kind of
Uber left person here in the city of Los Angeles. I know that I've been criticized plenty, but I've also brought about
through the work that I've done on the Housing and Homelessness Committee, some of the biggest material improvements for
people who live in the city of,
live in the city who are being priced out of the city,
who can't afford to live in the city, and I've been laser focused on making those improvements time and time again.
That's the pitch that I'm making to the city as I'm campaigning for mayor is can we build a city that works better for the people?
Can we build a city that's not focused on political gain, it's actually focused on material gains for working people here in Los Angeles?
Can we make our city machinery work for the people of the city?
I think we can and I have the experience and the know how and the frankly the work ethic to get it done.
You don't have to agree with me on every single thing that I've done on City Council or every single position I've taken.
You don't have to agree with me that I'm in the exact right position for all of your issues.
But I do think that the vision of Los Angeles that I have which is more hopeful, more just, more fair,
That is a vision that I think a lot of people can get again and should get behind.
Otherwise, we have a very bleak future ahead.
Do you think that's why in October 2022, Nuri Martinez, Kevin DeLeon, Ron Herrera, and Gil
Siddio were caught on tape plotting to gerrymander you out of office because you had organized
renters and homeless people.
You demanded resignations.
What in your platform breaks it and brings about transformational change for the city's
politics?
as opposed to everyone else.
What, sorry.
I said, what is your platform actually breaks
and brings about breaks from norms
and information change?
Here's the thing, the, that process,
the very, that conversation that they had
behind closed doors was about redrawing the lines
to benefit themselves.
It was about personal, political gain.
And I put independent redistricting on the ballot.
Angelino's passed it, stood up against corruption as a whole.
And now the city is better off for it.
And my platform is full of exactly these kinds of changes,
ways in which we can reorient the city away
from the police union lobby, the landlord lobby,
the Airbnb lobby, and really make it a place that's
working for people.
And I think that's really, that is the goal of this work.
That is what I wanna be doing.
Okay.
Rapid Fire, last question I have for you,
Rapid Fire Round is, do you support Medicare for All?
Yes.
Universal Child Care?
Yes.
Abolishing ICE?
Yes.
Race Taxes on Billionaires?
Yes.
Ending Campus Sweeps in LA?
Well, I think we, depends on your definition of Sweeps.
Okay.
Yeah, I think we have to be able to do cleanups.
We do them, mainly.
work, we do it with outreach workers. It's very similar to what Mumdani touted in his change.
I don't think we should be violent. I don't think we should be arresting people, but cleaning up,
cleaning up and making sure that we offer hygiene is really important.
Okay. I'll stand by that. $30 citywide minimum wage.
Oh, interesting. I supported the tourism worker wage.
Yeah, and LAPD's pay trips to Israel
If not on our dime, okay, yeah a free Palestine free Palestine. Yes
Okay, if you like what people heard about you today, how can people get involved with the campaign?
What can they do? What are some areas of needs for you right now?
Well, get out and vote people need to vote the election is happening on June 2nd
And I think we there is only one way in which we keep Spencer Pratt out of the runoff
And that is by voting for me
I am the the most viable candidate here an alternative to our broken status quo or a Maga Republican
and
People have to get out and vote
Okay, if you're all and everybody
Here's some information, the primaries on June 2nd,
the generals on November 3rd,
voter registration deadline is in three days, May 18th.
Pulse open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m.
and early voting is between May 23rd and June 1st.
Thank you for coming on, Nithya.
Thank you.
All right.
Hope you remind people to vote a lot more.
Oh, yeah, I will, of course.
Because this is important, this is important.
of course. All right. All right, I'm gonna, I'm gonna walk them out real quick. And also
I'm gonna go P Chatters. And then we will continue with regular news coverage. There's
some stuff I wanted to watch, including but unlimited to this I'll just your English piece
of money, of finance, of our international trade system, and especially how does it link
to what we're seeing in Iran?
There is universal...
All right, you can take it out for your moment.
...US dollars, because that's the currency in which oil is traded.
What this means is that the U.S. can print money and purchase real goods from the rest
of the world effectively for free.
And of course, Iran and any other sovereign-seeking movement in West Asia rejects this arrangement.
want to be able to sell their oil and other resources in whatever currency they choose.
But this is a very serious threat to U.S. imperial privilege.
With Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu partnering in wars across the Middle East,
could the root cause of today's conflicts lie in capitalism itself?
And are these wars, in fact, the continuation of centuries of colonialism and economic policies
that favour the interests of the richest and most powerful nations?
I'm Varsha Gendikot and I'm a littler. I lead the Progressive International and I also serve
as the executive secretary for the Hague Group, a forum for governments coordinating legal and
diplomatic action for Palestine. This week on Reframe, I'll be speaking to Jason Higel,
a political economist and prominent critic of capitalist imperialism.
Author of two books, Less is More and The Divide, he explores what it would mean,
politically and economically, to redistribute the world's wealth and save the planet.
Jason, welcome to Al Jazeera Reframe. Thanks very much. Nice to be with you.
I want to begin by asking, in the first few months of 2026,
The United States government has kidnapped Venezuelan President Nicolas Manduro,
blockaded Cuba from receiving a single drop of oil, threatened to invade Greenland,
proposed luxury towers to be built on the rubble of Gaza, and now begun a catastrophic war in Iran.
To most people watching, this looks like utter chaos. Some might argue it's a
sudden dramatic escalation of imperialist violence. How do you see it? What's actually happening?
Now, I think that the key thing to understand is that this is not just like random violence.
It appears to be chaotic, but I think we have to understand the key structural determinants
that drive this kind of expression of violence.
And to me, it's very clear this comes, this is an expression of particular dimensions
of the capitalist world system, right?
Now, the thing about capitalism is that it's always been structured as a world economy
with capital accumulation and growth and consumption in the core states, what we call the west
the global north. Okay. Before people, you know,
let me explain something to you guys. Okay. I wanted to give a tough but fair shake to Nithya
Raman. Okay. I don't, I wasn't here to disparage her. I think there were a lot of questions
that she answered thoroughly. It's very clear that she is a very passionate person when it comes to
city planning, when it comes to combating homelessness. Okay. My assessment overall is that given the
three candidates with viability. Given the three candidates with viability, she's obviously
a million times better than Karen Bass and certainly better than Spencer Pratt. Okay?
I need you to understand something, though. You guys treat it like it's fucking blood
sports and it's not good. Okay? That's not good either. I missed the parts of the
interview but I didn't like the only trunks I heard. Should I rewind? I don't
live in LA. Yes, you should subscribe and so you can rewind.
The one thing you've been on a rib about the genocide, she completely dodged. I
I mean, she recognizes that it's a, she, she recognizes that it's a genocide.
She recognizes this Israel's an apartheid state.
Um, if there were a lot of chatters, yapping for hours about how you were going
to do easy self-procursions on her, uh, you need them to sign this.
I mean, look, this is not like a, again, a tough, but fair, I think.
Okay, and I don't like that. I don't like that you guys are are treating us as blood sports either
Okay, I think it's a fair these were fair questions that needed to be addressed
At least from my perspective
She had no point said it was a genocide from when I saw she dodged it every turn. No, she did say it was a genocide. What are you talking about?
You did. Similar perspective to Tom Steyer. How would you answer the land sales on worship
properties if you were in her shoes? I would move to ban illegal sales. What do you mean
the city. It's literally illegal. You can't sell stolen property. It doesn't matter if
it's being, it's being conducted inside of a house of worship. I would apply pressure
to groups that were doing it as well.
Like I don't think she's
Anyway, I hope this was, uh,
I didn't hear her say that, but I know people are saying she did, I believe she did not
deliver the line.
No, she did.
She recognized it.
Oh, I wanted to see the crowd at the, at the rab rally.
Nice.
Great.
A lot of motion.
Are you more or less favorable to her after that?
My assessment on, on Nithya did not change at all.
Um, I, my, my assessment on it didn't change at all.
I think like the, the tactical decision, the tactical voting decision in the circumstances
that absolutely, uh, try to get her in the second place.
If Ray Wong had a shot at getting there, I would, uh, I would have a different calculation,
but she does not.
Definitely.
Um.
Hold on.
Uh.
Uh.
Uh.
Uh.
Um.
Um.
Um.
Um.
Um.
Um.
Um.
Um.
I am in this photo somewhere. Nice. You have ranked choice. I'm confused about the second
place comment. No, there's an open, there is an open primary. There's a, I feel like
the Zoran template answer as a state with equal rights should be easy to adopt for these
candidates. I know. There is, we watched you interview candidates and politicians for numerous years.
I know Felix was the deer in the headlines to secure to answer questions. Honestly,
it's not a hateful response to her interview, but I feel like she lacks confidence.
I think she's a nerd. She's a housing nerd. That's not a bad thing necessarily.
So, the primary in California is an open primary, for those of you who don't know, it's an
open primary system. And because of that reason, you can have either two Republicans in the
top two slots, which then move on to the general, you can have two Democrats in the top two
slots, which move on to the general, or in certain instances, one Republican and one
Democrat that is in the top two slots that move to the general.
I think not every progressive candidate can have Zoran charisma and that's okay. Yeah. No, this isn't this isn't even that
I mean Zoran happened to be also
Very knowledgeable on this one particular issue that became a major fixture of virtually every fucking
campaign in
2024 and onward right
Stop comparing everybody to Zoran
Um, but yeah, I think that she wanted to sidestep a little bit.
Look, I didn't, I didn't grill her as hard as I could.
I'll just say this.
Like there was, there's definitely, there's definitely a lot more that I could have said
in that situation.
And there were plenty of instances where I, you know, dropped it because I do think that
uh... israel politics unfortunately is
unbelievably interconnected with los angeles politics
and she herself has played a role in that as well
you know
I'm not even going to be in care as much as you know, you guys are being look out of the three top three contenders. It's she is absolutely better than the other two.
Okay, that's it. She's better than the other two.
Anyway, Annecy has a good speech with her ally about A-PAC.
A-PAC, defense contractors and their allies.
They want votes for war and silence,
while American tax dollars go to the genocide
and displacement of Palestinians and the invasion of Iran
as the global economy descends into chaos.
Because somehow, in Washington, I will tell you firsthand,
There is always money for conflict and war and military escalation in the interests of the powerful.
And yet, there is never the blank check that they find for that.
There is never enough money for healthcare, housing, childcare, wages, infrastructure, bridges, water, air, power, electricity, none of it.
it's very good very, very good
and shot a fuck a pack
man who got the most votes is now getting the most money spent against him
it's a badge of honor really red crab
you should take it as a compliment
I don't think, I think she could be molded, she could be swayed, LA's not an ultra-left
place of being ultra-left.
I actually heard her in the primaries and I don't see it as these old speeches were
not as powerful as the time to get there with Woody Taramo.
Not much money in opposition out of charity.
They spend that money because they expect something in return.
One thing I will hand Nithya is that New York City mayor is objectively a more foreign policy-oriented
mayorship than LA United Nations more of a melting pot. No. LA politics, come on, megafaunics
here in San Francisco, but you lived here, you should know better. LA politics is absolutely
fucking dominated by. LA is a place where there is a tremendous amount of pro-Israeli
initiatives that take shape, right? It's just, you know, it's not even, it shouldn't be the
case. It shouldn't be the case at all, but like, why do you think there are bills that
are advanced like the adoption of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism that dictates
the criticism of Israel is actually criticism of Jews, anti-Semitic. Like that has a tremendous
impact. It could lead to prosecution. It stops people from being able to protest against
Israel. Right? How dare you question the mega penis? Okay, chill.
There's this video that's been going viral, I saw it last night, I think many of us seen
it of a young man who was testifying against redistricting out in the south.
he said something very true, that MAGA is the last dying breath of the Confederacy.
And it could not be more true, but in response to a Confederacy, we have this moment here
of liberation, abolition, and revival of the values that make this country actually great,
actually aspirational and actually audacious as an example for the world.
It's in places like Philadelphia.
And we have every freedom that we have today because somebody in each
generation refused to accept the world as it was.
Somebody kept going when the odds looked impossible.
Somebody decided that the promise written in this city belonged to them too.
And in this moment Philadelphia, that somebody is you.
I'm legitimately disappointed you'd be willing to say raised campaign is there
without having to sit down to this when she's clearly the better candidate.
That's all this sucks, man. I'm not trying to duke it out.
do could I would just have better options. I mean, I supported raise candidacy from
the start. And she made a lot of, I mean, she had a lot of different opportunities like
what do you want me to do? Again, I'm not, I'm not magic man. Okay. I'm not. I purposely
didn't tilt the scales in anyone's favor up until this very last moment it's like
people present me as this fucking kingmaker but I'm not okay also I'm not
a campaign manager either
do you vote or no yes of course I vote what the fuck kind of question is that
I'm not, I'm not a kingmaker.
But it clearly, there was a lot of opportunities where I did not, yeah Zoran's campaign is
the reason he won exactly.
Gabor Monti thinks you're powerful enough. I don't think I'm powerful enough.
Like I've seen the initiatives that are taking place right now.
There's like people, uh, like it's just...
Zoran didn't win because he's hot or has good ideas. He won because the New York USA went
all out on canvassing. I mean that played a role in it too. Everyone played a role in
in it. Everybody played a role in it. Okay?
Anyway, it's fucking frustrating where everybody constantly compares every candidate that they
have questions for to John Federman and candidates that they like to Zoramumdani.
Both are annoying.
I'll say it like this.
I hope that Spencer Pratt doesn't make it to second place, that's number one.
And if Nithya does, I will do everything in my power to make sure that she is chosen
as the next mayor of Los Angeles over Karen Bass.
Okay?
You could be a modern Lenin but you would confine yourself to a smaller station for
playing humble.
Okay you guys are insane.
Sorry, you live in LA. I feel so bad your positive shit.
Anyone has the weather? It's fucking fantastic.
It's 65 degrees in the sunny right now.
20,000 people in a Twitch chat is not deciding the LA Mayor's race.
I mean, this isn't just 20,000 people.
There's going to be clips off of this.
Okay, let's be real.
I didn't say I have no motion.
I didn't say this community has no motion.
We do have motion. It's just, there's no way to make up a fucking, you know, 10 point
swing in a matter of weeks like that. Okay. Like even with Abdul, part of the reason why
Abdul saw a 10 point swing, because he did, okay, is not because, not just because like
my community was really pushing for him
and they saw him and there was like all of those people
uh... in michigan that were really invested it was because of all of the
accompanying
media coverage that came along with that
it was the door knockers the phone bankers the fun
with the funds raised but then it was also the additional media coverage that
came along with that that tied
uh... that that brought a lot of eyeballs to obdles
uh... campaign
Do you understand?
I have no doubt in my mind that the map's going past.
If y'all can give us less than zero seats, you would do it.
Y'all do this under the orders of somebody that said the civil rights act was
harmful.
My Trump was wrong about everything.
That's awesome.
People that it calls reverse racism.
RFK said that black children are overfilled on anti-depressants and that
they need to be reparented on different forms.
all of them. Pete Hexeth constantly brings Doug Wilson to the Pentagon to give
a prayer service. Doug Wilson is the same pastor that said that slave owners were
on strong spiritual ground. I don't have no belief in no morality on anybody that
followed Donald Trump. If you wasn't with this map you wouldn't be underneath
this president, you wouldn't be in your party. You would stand up, you would stand
against you and speak out about it. So as far as I'm concerned, if you hear as one of these
Trump Republicans, you already showed us who you are. You showed us what you want to do. And I
believe the country as a whole is rebuking your party. Y'all are in a death spot. That's why
y'all have to redistribute. That's why y'all have to cheat. That's why Trump got to go to Texas and
say he entitled to five more seats. It's because y'all know what y'all are doing is a pouring.
We letting our people die in Iran based on false pretence that Tulsi Gabbard and
Joe Kent say it ain't real. Y'all okay with all that? So I'm positive y'all
gonna be okay with the match. But the beautiful thing is the children that
y'all have made and the people that's younger than y'all don't support none of
this racism that y'all want. The Maga party is the last breath of the
confederacy and I'll be happy to see millennials and Gen C burial. There will
be no more of your party. The midterms gonna come. Y'all gonna get wiped out.
Trump gonna get dragged out of the White House and I'm gonna love every second
of it because y'all loved every second of the suffering that he calls that
everybody in this country and worldwide. We starve in Cuba. We bomb Nigeria. We
He holdings in Bobway and in Zambia hostage for the minerals.
We don't want to give them aid support.
The pro-lifers that say all life is special, y'all legging kids die of AIDS.
What part of your Bible say that?
Point out the scripture.
I think everybody would love to see it.
And we would love to see y'all in the midterms.
I have no doubt in my mind that the map's gonna
What?
The American right is more Islamophobic now than they were even after 9-11.
This is an all girls Jewish school, my Instagram all for prayer and free speech or wide open
to grown men.
You need to do this right outside of a school full of little Jewish girls, is that now what
Mosser for is this intentional mayor, mom Donnie at New York City mayor, any words?
Bro get your speaking skills better, you could cook just like him.
This wall is besides the entrance to their mosque.
Yeah, I don't care about your lock-shatter, I'm sorry.
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them from entering the country and shutting down public events whether we agree with them
or not.
media influencer son piker must be banned from britain state jewish leader says the
jewish chronicle piker is more than 10 million followers and repeatedly refused to condemn
him ass downplayed accounts of sexual assaults committed on active seventh made offensive
remarks about jews you know what's really funny i saw fuck i didn't i didn't even know
I don't know if I should give it to this, but this kind of stuff takes place all the time, every single day, and there are still people who I never would have thought I would consider operating from a place of just like pure jealousy, pure envy.
But there are some content creators to my left, I will not be naming them, that literally imply whether it be certain political organizations or certain political organizations that claim to be leftist when they might not prove.
for certain content creators that literally look at a barrage of unbelievable amounts
of fucking Hassan is actually a terrorist who should be banned from entering the country
of the United Kingdom and will turn around and say stuff like he's fake.
He's actually sheepdogging.
He's actually being managed by the Democratic Party.
He's actually, the Democratic Party is doing this media operation at the behest of a Sompiker.
And it's just like, dude, just say you're jealous, okay?
What do you want me to fucking say here?
Like you just don't have, you don't get this level of smoke, because ultimately people
consider to be fucking irrelevant in the grand scheme of things, okay?
That's it.
What are we talking about?
What are we fucking talking about?
You think I love this shit? You think I like having discourse around whether or not I should
be fucking banned from entering a goddamn country? It's so fucking annoying, but it's
also annoying because people believe it, okay? It's annoying because there's dumb fucks out
there. There are dumb fucks out there who legitimately go, yeah, you know what, you're right. I'm
a conspire. I'm a schizo-communoid, okay? I love parapolitics. I'm a schizophrenic communist
who genuinely thinks any and every person, every person that gets a little bit of fucking,
a little bit of prominence or has a community that is like relatively sizable, must be an op.
I think there, everyone is a op. Everyone's a fucking op. Everyone's a op of the CIA.
Everyone's a op of the Democratic Party. Some of you in this community do it as well. Okay.
I'm a skit so common I'd love parabolic sounds like a discoliseum line.
I mean there are some people who just are like that.
I heard Bill Maher mentions you tonight by name with a photo on the show.
Nice.
So fucking tired.
Oh,
I hate this shit so much, bro.
Anyway, I'm done. I'm done for today. I'm done for today. I'm done.
Um, Dr. Jihad is tired. Okay. It's fucking 6 30. I haven't eaten yet. Um, I'll be back
tomorrow. There's a lot more to cover. Okay.
God.
See you tomorrow. Bye bye.
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