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05-24-2026 · 5h 54m
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Let me down.
They won't let me out.
I'm locked up.
That's right.
The number one criminal of all time, the greatest criminal of all time.
Hassan Hassan Abou Paik are coming to you live from also stolen territory.
I don't know exactly who they stole this part of the land from
But stolen indigenous territory stolen indigenous land. We're live. We're alive and
Yeah
What can I say I
Mean it's obviously an elephant in the room that needs to be addressed and I probably will get to it
But before I get to that, obviously this time for personal news is 1123 am Pacific time and it is to 23 p.m.
Eastern time here where I'm at in New York City, New York.
Okay. And oh boy, oh buddy.
Oh buddy.
Uh, things have materialized as you guys know
Actually, normally I would say this is I'm a chud ass loser. So I have nothing going on in my life, but
This is the one instance where I won't say that I do have shit going on in my life a lot of shit actually, um
And no, it's not the news. Hold on one second. I'm gonna play this
Um, I'm gonna play this uh for you guys while I go grab my coffee
But they'll have to compete with the digital world's new rising star
far-left activist is Son Piker.
What I really want is whether it's social media influencers
or Twitch, YouTube, or Hudson Piker,
or other kind of promoters of hate.
You must always maintain revolutionary optimism, you must always continue to organize, you must
always to agitate because the quicker we can create enough pressure that causes the
american state to recalculate its suit by crack with israel the quicker we can save as many palestinian
lives possible now i shouldn't have probably said those words and i shouldn't have said any
of the words i've been saying you know what i mean um i just want to i just want to start off by
saying obviously this is the number one broadcast for loving donald trump
This is the number one pro Donald Trump podcast broadcast. No one on the planet loves Donald
Trump as much as I do. Mr. President, I love you. I think about you all the time. I love
the ballroom. I love the ballroom the most number one ballroom defending podcast. Um,
You know, I'm, I'm gonna act right. I'm gonna act right. I'm gonna act right. Okay.
Huh. Um, I'm gonna donate to the ballroom. Actually, I, I think we need to donate to the ball.
I'm going to do a fundraiser with this community for the ballroom. How about that?
Uh, federal authority segment area 51 for being outside of a head and alienate my ass.
Now, of course, maybe some of you are unfamiliar with what's going on and maybe many of you are completely aware of what's going on.
But, yeah, last night I ended the broadcast.
I was tired and I thought, oh, I'll just go to bed.
I'll just go to sleep early.
I have to wake up really early to do a photo shoot
for a magazine.
This was probably one of the craziest photo shoots
that I've done so far, by the way,
and I'll get to that in a second.
But, I, on the other hand, got it.
a text message, or rather a voicemail from a Fox News producer saying that I had been
subpoenaed by the federal government.
And I was like, that's strange, asking for comment.
And before I could even respond to the journalist, an article materialized on the timeline.
I'm going to be talking about that in a little bit.
But let's just say that kind of fucked my whole night up.
It fucked my plans up.
I still was able to do a little tub sesh, you know, getting the tub, getting the hot
tub, in the bathtub, a little bit of salt, you know, cook myself up like a lobster,
and then go to bed and wake up early. Now the reason why I had to wake up early was because
I had a photo shoot. Okay, I had a photo shoot this morning. That's what I was doing this morning.
As a matter of fact, yesterday I had a fitting for this photo shoot before I started the broadcast
and the stylist, who had also worked on Marty Supreme by the way, had so many sick pulls that
were vintage that I literally bought some of them straight up. I bought some of them off of her.
I was like, if you're not going to return these, can I buy these? And she was like, sure.
including the pants that I'm wearing right now.
And I did a photo shoot this morning.
All morning, woke up at 5, couldn't really sleep.
Couldn't really sleep at all.
Went to bed at around 12.
Wait, what? I'm glad you hired a stylist. I didn't hire a stylist. There was a stylist for the magazine photo shoot
that I'm doing that I did and
She brought racks of clothes to do a fitting yesterday
To pick out outfits for this magazine photo shoot
And I liked some of them because I'm they were vintage. There was a vintage Armani suit
Georgia Armani and
Normally shit doesn't fit me at all but she had like pulled stuff somehow that actually fit
So I was like well, I was gonna I was gonna
Purchase stuff like this regardless
And
Yeah, I bought some of it
My name is Giovanni Giorgio anyway, but it was it was a great photo shoot overall. It was very professional. There's still one more
You're perfect to the vintage armony look bro. You should try and source more
Yeah, I mean it is super cheap too like the pants I'm wearing are like at a mini guild those eggna
And I think they were like 30 bucks or something secondhand vintage reseller
It was though it was nice
But yeah, obviously some more important things going on
Some more important things going on in the world
in my world and specifically
In us politics and oftentimes my world and the world of us politics unfortunately merge
Zegna is hella expensive road the fuck yet these pants that I'm wearing right now are Zegna 30 bucks
Because when you
Are you allowed to disclose what magazine the photo shoot was for?
No.
Let's go 30 books, great pants, what more, I know.
But yeah, we'll get to obviously the elephant of the room that I will be addressing.
But that's what I spent my morning doing, and I'm not going to lie to you guys, it's
not great.
The news is not great.
Okay?
Um, I mean it's bullshit
But
Still not great that
You know, they're they're after your boy. They're up my ass
And I'll obviously get into it right now
I'll tell you all about it, but let me blast off real quick
We will free you brother. Yeah, free me free me
Huh free me I can't believe I'm saying that but
But I'm I'm you know
I'm about to be
Seemingly made an example of in America's
America, I wouldn't even say creep towards fascism, America's galloping towards fascism.
But we shall see. Great timing. The timing since the interview yesterday is crazy though.
Yeah, I saw a lot of like weird suspicions that, you know, oh, this is because of Elon
Musk. Guys, that's not how this works. Okay, the federal government doesn't, yeah, the
federal government can do things at the at the mercy of billionaires like you
love us like you love us could have made a boss call at some point but getting a
subpoena from the federal government that takes time it's an administrative
warrant not dissimilar to the ones that ice uses so there's technically no real
authority backing it from what I understand but we'll obviously you know
I don't I haven't gotten anything yet so I don't know I don't fucking know
anything I but but you know this is this is a long term process so this is not
new if that makes sense is if you think that this was like you know this happen
because of Elon Musk or something well no that's not the case right no it's not
congressional subpoena. It's from the DOJ and the treasury. The white boys got you, inshallah.
Yeah. Anyway, we're going to get into that right now. We're blasting off.
Hope you're lawyered up. Yes, I'll get lawyered up. Don't worry.
I'm Trump targets Hassan piker.
Someone wrote a script for you.
Yeah, I saw Hassan is on the stand.
Senator Kennedy recounts Dr. Jihad's cushy lesson verbatim.
Mr. Pike.
Mr. Piker, do you think somebody making these remarks should be conducting humanitarian
aid missions?
Hassan smirks and lowers his finger.
rings out in the Congressional Hall, acquitted.
Yeah.
Thank you, Thamesis, for the playlist.
God forbid a white boy get a little motion,
get legal legal on your team.
Guys, that's not how this works.
I need like a fucking, I need a team,
most likely of First Amendment,
like lawyers that are specifically,
lawyers that are, you know, experienced in federal court cases, possibly a lawyer, possibly
a lawyer for First Amendment related issues as well, and then also one that is adept and
knowledgeable on sanctions and the Treasury and OFAC in particular.
So it's not like no disrespect to Legal Legal, who is a brilliant lawyer, I assume, but very
different, very different type of lawyer is necessary in this situation.
So do not talk about what's going on before talking to a lawyer.
I mean, there's nothing I haven't, guys.
i have not had anything happened to me yet
like technically nothing has happened to me
it's just fox news is saying things are happening to me
uh...
so
and it's not like there's anything that i've done
the unfortunate reality here is
you don't really have to do anything
for this government to decide
that they want to do something with you
let chat be your lawyer
what is this you was never muslim before you was shia that's why you are brainwashed
was never muslim before you was shia that's why your brainwashed socialism
let people to be poor even kept
even capitalism democracy is a fairy tale lie
legal eagle has a huge team of like 200 plus he's not just one guy yeah i know
I don't.
Anyway.
The liberals of the politics sub are defending you.
Fed subpoena Hassan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trips.
R slash politics defending me is crazy.
Meanwhile, Tarkov's an interview to the propaganda form interview to a Moscow
amount for going to Cuba.
Didn't that surely fellow also go there was in the on that list?
But see Shirley went there the parent of talking points provided them by Trump
Nick Shirley thought he went to Cuba, but he just accidentally locked himself in a Miami, April bathroom for 45 minutes
Cuban Americans who like to make claims about government repression in Cuba are celebrating Trump going after a Sompiker and others who were part of the
Convoy that delivered aid to Cubans if you haven't been if you haven't seen their dishonesty yet
You might want to start paying attention. So let's get started
Let's get started. So I am, I'm hit in the face with this text message, or this voicemail rather from fucking Fox News producer. And it's, it's a little bit alarming. It's a little bit shocking. I'm like, what the, what's going on? Like, what do you, what do you, I'm a little bit confused, because I'm like, why does Fox News know about something that apparently is going on in my life?
I didn't know about, right?
Eric Garland.
If Treasury OFAC bothers to send you a subpoena, it's not your week.
I didn't know what OFAC was until Season 2 of Friends and Neighbors on Apple.
Just to be clear, it's not like you own the lottery.
OFAC, yeah, I know what OFAC is.
I'm very familiar with what OFAC is. You want to know why I'm very familiar with what OFAC is?
Because we fucking filed
OFAC clearances before going to Cuba.
I've talked about it extensively as a matter of fact. Our trip had to be OFAC compliant.
This is bullshit.
But yeah, the very same reason my Fox News
News got this story before anyone else, and the very same reason why the suspicions within
the subpoena, according to Fox News, are ridiculous, is because this is very clearly another intimidation
tactic from the American government. It is a way to silence dissent. It is a way to be,
it is a way to silence dissent. It's a way to actively tie up activists, dissidents alike.
It's a way to try to have a chilling effect on speech.
And some people, it seems, some likely and some unlikely people have been cheering it
on.
We'll be talking about that in a second as well.
You might need Zoram magic for this one.
Yeah, okay, dude.
Yeah, I don't think Zoram Omdani is going to be doing that anytime soon because I'm
I'm not a concerning incident that took place in the New York City region of America.
You know what I mean?
Highly doubt it.
Maybe I'm wrong.
Maybe he'll prove me wrong.
I don't know.
But anyway.
So, let's get started with the article, I guess, by the way, I said, Fox News, federal
officials of surf subpoenas, the Marxist political influencer, Assam Piker, and CodePink co-founder,
Susan Medea Benjamin, is a part of a wider investigation into whether U.S. organizations
and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in supporting Cuba's communist regime. Fox
News Digital has learned.
now very clearly they leaked the story to fox news ahead of time
because it's an intimidation operation is not like it's not
a serious investigation into serious misconduct or anything it's just a way
to
prod
and intimidate
and tie people up with paperwork
in a costly legal battle
and basically punished them it's costly for the government to by the way but
Obviously, obviously we are, you know, we're living in a in a unique, interesting time where
the government loves wasting taxpayer dollars as evidenced by the last thing that Trump did,
the 1.7 point, the 1.776 billion dollar slush fund, the government loves wasting taxpayer dime.
In any case, Fed, subpoena, a Sompiker, Medea, Benjamin over Cuba trips, investigation part of a broader
dragnet involving as many 40 American citizens who joined Marxist convoy to Havana. First on Fox,
breaking news, federal officials have surfed subpoenas to Marxist political influencer,
a Sompiker and co-pick founder, co-founder Susan Medea Benjamin as a part of a wider
investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in
supporting Cuba's communist regime. Fox News Digital has learned. Biker and Benjamin are among those
caught in a federal inquiry into whether activists who travel to cuba in march
violated u.s. sanctions laws through the financing coordination or delivery of
goods to cuba including potential contacts with the cuban government
personnel or entities on the island the administrative subpoenas were sent to
the pair by the treasury department's office of foreign assets control so not
only were we affect compliant but i'm also doubly protected because i didn't
just go to Cuba on a humanitarian aid trip.
I went to Cuba with a journalism visa.
So I actually got a press visa
from the Cuban government as well.
So this is not only an attack against activists
and people who want to do humanitarian aid work
to countries that the United States of America is starving.
But beyond that, I was there to interview people.
I interviewed regular Cubans,
in ordinary Cubans, in Cuban society.
i interviewed doctors and i also interviewed government officials and
when not only is this not illegal
but it's also out there
it's not a secret
if you go to my youtube page right now
you can see it
it's actually
right here i went to cuba this is what i saw mini doc
i pretty much
everything that i did there
And I put it into this mini doc.
Here, here I am, interviewing the foreign minister.
This is not illegal.
This is actually very legal.
So, kind of strange. Also, also, one of the things that they brought up is really funny.
The administrative subpoena is called Request for Information or RFI, seek financial logistical
and communications information revolving around the trips, the two widely bragged about
makings the island nation in march with the delegations of the new estra
america convoy or
our america convoy from a global network of communist sympathizers
activists and influencers who brought supplies the country's ruling communist
party of cuba according to the sources familiar with the matter
the investigation is part of a broader effort by official at the treasury state
and just departments occur maligned foreign influence operations inside the
united states particularly activities tied to support for political violence
extremist movements or acts the u.s. government classifies as terrorism
the scrutiny reflects growing concern among federal authorities and lawmakers
over whether foreign actors and aligned organizations are attempting to shape
american political discourse mobilized activists and so discord and normalize
rhetoric that can encourage violence or undermine u.s. national security interests
ken clippenstein believes that this is uh... tie into the uh... ns
uh... what is it ns p ns m
ns p m seven
the whole like uh... you know
counterterrorism initiative that they have
according to the american government
it's actually terrorism to be anti-fascist
it's uh... terrorism to to be anti-capitalist
and now i guess it's terrorism to uh... send humanitarian aid
To deliver humanitarian aid to an island nation that we have starved and cause tremendous suffering to
Incredible
So yeah, I mean what what could you say it's just a pure evil I guess
According to a fox's digital investigation singham has pumped two hundred seventy eight million dollars in the nonprofit groups
that have pushed pro-China pro-Cuba anti-US narratives industry prots for almost
a decade since his marriage in February 2017 a code pink co-founder Jody Evans
who's also being investigated for her role in the March trip code pink received
1.3 million from Singham after he married Evans this is Jody Evans who I
think a photo with they love this photo for some reason I don't know why she's
She's one of the co-founders of CodePink, she's wonderful.
And it's like all of this, this investigation, at least the high notes, make it seem like
they just saw stuff on like New York Post and on Twitter and were like, oh, this must
be valid.
In more in mid-march organizations in the singham network from the vencedemos brigade to people's forum a hub for communist
Causineer city where leaders of the new ester american convoy
Which included an estimated 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations organizations included democratic socialists of America a
U.S. Non-profit that promotes piker as a headline member
By the way, that's so funny. The DSA does not promote me as a
headline member
But you know fuck it
We ball. The investigation of the Office of Foreign Assets controls part of a broader
dragnet that includes as many as 40 American citizens who joined foreign nationals, including
a controversial Brazil activist, Thiago Avia, who are part of a global network of anti-US
Marxist communists and socialist additional subpoenas are expected. The administrative
subpoenas mark a serious escalation by the Trump administration against a far-left nonprofit
activist network that has spent years defending communist regimes from Cuba to China, while
presenting its work as humanitarian aid, anti-war organizing, and solidarity with
people oppressed by the imperialist US colonial power. Yeah, because that's what
it is. It's literally, it's an anti-war initiative. Code Pink is an anti-war
initiative, an anti-war movement that wants to stop American wars. Yeah. Bad
of honor means you touched a nerve. In my case, they never actually served the subpoena
and I bet your Loris can successfully move the quash. Hopefully. There's more, though.
The story gets even dumber. As reported, Fox News Digital Investigation has identified
145 U.S. nonprofits and activist groups with $1 billion in collective revenues that Justice
and Treasury Department of Digital Investigation is a part of a wider influence campaign by
Cuba's communist regime and foreign actors. First of all, Cuba doesn't even have a billion
$10
Like this is why it's very in this is why it's insane
But also kind of funny in a weird way whenever people are like, oh, I bet you're getting paid by the Cuban government bro
They don't have money
With what money?
What would it like you think they got money? Are you fucking insane?
It's one of those things where I can't tell if people are just like so used to only at advancing causes
for monetary reasons like they just can't possibly fathom the idea that someone would want to
genuinely help the Cuban population genuinely demand that we stop, you know, killing Cubans
with our economic terrorism, right? Like, what money do they have to give me money? You know what
I mean, it's very stupid. Anyway, according to public statements, it's believed that delegation
members stayed at a hotel. The US State Department has put on a Cuba restricted list. Oh, this is
what's really funny. This is not a part of the subpoena, I don't think. This journalist is just
adding this on. I haven't received a subpoena yet, so I have no idea. But let me tell you why,
Why?
Because that's not real.
We didn't actually stay at the wrong hotel.
That was just something that people made up on Twitter, except for an American citizen
who recently did violate OFAC and stayed at a hotel that America does not allow American
citizens to stay in.
It wasn't me, though.
It was Nick Shirley.
Literally, the hotel that Nick Shirley was in was actually on the state sponsor of terrorism
list. Okay? We obviously didn't stay at a hotel that the we obviously didn't stay at a fucking hotel
that the American government has made illegal to stay in. Nick, surely on the other hand,
whether because he's a fucking idiot, or because, you know, it doesn't really matter
what he does, because he's basically an agent for the state, did stay in a hotel that was
illegal firm to stay in. I personally think it's idiotic. You should be able to stay in whatever
fucking hotel you want to, by the way. I think it's a totally ridiculous restriction imposed upon
Americans and Americans only, mind you, right? Is hilarious to the mouth-breeding right-toid
accidentally violating US Treasury rules yet they're targeting the scary Marxists for literally
follow the law, yeah. But yeah, if this is the investigation that's hilarious, this is
just like headline chasing. The federal government got click baited by Twitter headlines. Yeah,
federal government targeting people because they mobilize activists so discord and normalize
rhetoric as suggested here would be a blatant violation of the First Amendment. So yeah,
not only is this a, I mean, this is very clearly a First Amendment violation.
And I don't know if this is the, this is the one that breaks the dam,
where they just like try to figure out trumped up charges to like actively prosecute people
who've done nothing wrong, mind you. But they, they just do this to,
to finally tackle fucking the First Amendment? I don't know. Where's the
court date? I don't know anything. I don't know anything because I have not
received a subpoena. Okay, I need you to understand something. I have not
received a subpoena. I don't know. There is no information that I have received.
Was it most of what you did? Yes, everything we did in Cuba was cleared with the State Department, or not the State Department, the Treasury.
This is also coming from that very same regulatory body that is coming from the Treasury. Treasury is the one that handles sanctions. Ridiculous or not.
To be you have to be personally served. So not only is this bad reporting on Fox is the most basic detailed defamatory
But they're directly out of themselves as collaborators guys
Of course, they're collaborating. What do you mean?
yet
Yes, the whole point of this is to get this article out there and the basically tell people like oh you got fucking you got some
opinions about the Trump administration. Oh you want to
You want to aid the starving children?
That we are starving the Trump administration is starving. Well, that's illegal now. Okay, we're gonna make that illegal
Or at least we're gonna try to make that illegal
the whole point of this is to
Leak this to Fox News ahead of time to start the process of like, you know threatening people
US law imposes broad restrictions on financial transactions evolving Cuba primarily through the Cuban asset control regulations in the Charitable Office of Foreign Asset Control
Those rules generally prohibit unlicensed travel related transactions that exports of goods or services to Cuba with limited exceptions for journalism, humanitarian projects, and educational programs and certain activities meant to support the Cuban people.
Again.
Did they try to sneak? Did they sneak taking these photos of you? Yes.
I talked to some people and I suspect that they they got creep shots of me in the morning
As as Kaia was peeing before I go to the gym
and then they also got
They they got creep shots of you know, someone who works with me as
well
Which was really fucking annoying that means that they just parked outside my house
All the way back in motherfucking January like months ago
And I've just been taking photos of me
Which is definitely weird. It's a violation of my privacy, but you know, it is what it is
Piker one of the most influential political shimmers on twitch has built a massive online following with a mix of Marxist politics
anti-american commentary and inflammatory statements to it that have repeatedly drawn public backlash on
March 10th Piker posted a photo himself on Instagram with a message. I'm going to Cuba
In an Instagram post from the trip, Singham's wife, Evans, smiled widely in Havana, wearing
a red and white Palestinian scarf or keffia around her neck, while standing beside Piker,
who looked seriously into the camera.
On a live stream this week, Piker said that the Justice Department's indictment of Cuban
leader Raul Castro was a sham, with no legal standing, designed to create a pretext for
escalating US pressure on the island.
Piker argued that Trump is acting like a playground bully.
By the way, no notes.
I cooked on that.
single thing that I said there is correct. Fox News Digital recently observed
Piker outside his Los Angeles home escorting his dog Kaya outside of the
house for a bathroom break early one morning. Kaya, a large breed dog that
is a mixed-bed and massive chow chow on St. Bernard, has been a beloved subject
of an online campaign dubbed Free Kaya over allegations Piker trained Kaya with
a shock collar that transmits painful stimuli as a part of behavioral training.
At one moment, Piker silently stood over Kaya, gestured with a finger for her to
return to the house after relieving herself. Later, Kaya was observed being
walked and driven by a woman leaving Piker's home.
This is insane right?
By the way, once again, this proves many different things that I have been saying conclusively,
which is that, you know, Kai goes on walks while I'm streaming, and it's really funny
that people just wouldn't believe me at all
and now
there is this it's in the fucking paper okay
i like that they see framed it like i was doing something unbelievably sinister
i like that they are framing this is like something sinister where i pointed
to the house
benjamin is made or markets and activists got fly who stages media
spectacles of congressional hearings defense industry trade conferences
and the homes of government officials yelling in invectives chance and
slogans branding yourself as anti-war but actually
running a pattern of messages denouncing the u.s. and uplifting communist
authoritarian regimes of the islamic republic of iran and the chinese
Communist Party in a Communist Party of China.
Communist Party of Cuba.
Fox's digital recently observed Benjamin outside her colorful home in Washington, DC, with
her partner and fellow activist, T. Gay Berry, who accompanied her on the trip to Havana.
What?
Someone also noticed the creep shots disprove that you use a shock collar.
It doesn't.
This has been discussed a million times over and over and over again.
There's... Yes. Not only does Kaia get numerous walks, but yes, she's not.
She doesn't have a shock collar. It doesn't even matter.
You think my fucking haters give a shit? It was never... It was never about the truth, okay?
Anyway, Pogger has been criticized as saying, America deserved 9-11.
A remark he later said it was poorly phrased, and for past comments about a representative
Dan Crenshaw, maybe he's a veteran of the loss of an eye in Afghanistan, more recently
critics including Representative Richie Torres, by the way, shouts out to all the Democrats
who are up my ass and have been up my ass, the Israel first Democrats.
Thank you.
You are giving ample, you're giving ample permission.
permission
you're giving ample permission to the fascists
that want to take away not just my rights but your rights as well
so see you in the camps i guess
more recently critics included regi torres of accused by her
amplifying anti-semitic rhetoric after october seven while piker is denied
anti-semitism is set as criticisms in the israel not jews
The larger group under scrutiny includes Isra Hersey,
the daughter of Representative Inhan Omar,
according to sources with investigators examining whether Omar may have funded
her daughters,
traveled to Cuba. Omar didn't respond to an early request for comment about our
daughter's trip.
Pyker, Benjamin Stingham, Evans and CodePink did not respond to requests for
comment.
Yeah, it's because
you literally fucking sent me a request for comment and then immediately
published.
Not to say that I would probably give Fox News a comment anyway, but
mhm
according to sources the office of foreign assets controls also in this
getting code paints dc coordinator olivia denoucci a former division one
basketball star from emerson college in boston
her unassuming girl next door persona often gains her entry into coveted
spaces
and then she disrupts with lauti at theatrics she's on a convoy led by the
brazilian
activist
of illa
a lot of this by the way does still have a lot to do with israel is not just
about cuba
but it's also about
Israel as well. Why bother reading someone's comment if you're just going to immediately tell them that it doesn't matter? Wait, what? That's what you're upset about?
Like right now?
I can't even begin to explain to you how hard you must lock in, my friend.
Please.
Anyway.
Yeah.
The Office of Foreign Aspectorial can impose civil penalties under a strict liability standard,
meaning the government does not have to prove intent.
The Justice Department, by contrast, generally must show that a defendant willfully violated
violated law in a criminal case often through evidence of concealment, evasion, or knowing
participation in prohibited transactions. In a long live stream on Saturday, Piker interviewed
another influencer, Ashley St. Clair, about having a baby with billionaire Elon Musk,
railing against Trump, defending the communist leaders of Cuba, and free-associated about
other topics in the news, including a shooting outside the White House decrying the chaos
in America. It's fucking terrifying, he said.
Good. Our citizens should be fought for America, not against her.
Sometimes I think people forget you're a real person with real things happening to you.
Yes.
I've read through all the SEC state exceptions for Cuba travel.
The main concern is whether you maintain a schedule consistent with full-time work in
journals and humanitarianism, etc., which you obviously did and we can see that given
you were live and made a documentary in like four days.
Yeah.
So just finish watching your Breath of the Wild playthrough had no clue you were a political
commentator until news on X that you've been subpoenaed.
So you know how you said once they come for you that we're cooked, does this mean we are
now in fact cooked?
We'll see.
But the author is a psycho, it seems.
Democratic socialists use the rows in their graphics branding and protest signs symbol
of their ideological belief.
Let me break it down.
Hassan Pecker is one of the most prominent members of the Democratic Socialists of America.
First of all, not a member, not an official member at least.
Maybe an honorary one, but not an official one, but fine, whatever.
I always, I've long maintained the position that I am, you know, or agnostic, although
i love the democratic socialist america the most for sure
but the state political canada all of our larkin express for a son piker
medea benjamin in the face of subpoena's from treasurer department
from their march trip to cuba impossible violation of sanctions cuba is all one
party state the communist party cuba
party the communist of the cuba pcc the only political party in cuba
democratic socialism america's a key member of the transnational network
backing the communist party of cuba
so do you guys see what what's going on here they're trying to
they're trying to get
everyone tied up like they're they're trying to get every
like left
activism
uh... network in this country
like all every all matter of like activism uh... whether it be socialist
whether the anti-capitalist
all this stuff
She said, hashtag free kaya. Hello, Hasan, the hunts surrender ego and accept one of these
offers for a new home for kaya. You curse it all the time. You were clearly frustrated
with kaya. She is in a pot of plant litter live. This is a Fox news reporter, dude. This
is the Fox news reporter that wrote this article.
That's incredible.
That's so crazy. She is in a pot of plant litter live as a dog, free to roam a home,
run meander hashtag freak hiya ironic because her literal fucking reporting if
you can call it that shows that she is meandering and and going on walks and
going to parks and shit it's like genuinely insane she's reposting
Ock 2000
indeed has some Parker Shaw the attention of federal authorities for
possibly aiding and abetting a communist regime, then he has drawn the ire of dog lovers for allegedly using a shock collar on his cute dog
Kaia. It's a public service to draw attention to both issues.
It's unbelievable, dude. What a fucking, what a time to be alive, you know?
But yeah, to which I said, of course, in this article, I said the American government would
rather try to criminalize delivering aid to a country we've starved than punish the Epstein
class.
Max Blumenthal says, an unintentionally hilarious article by Zionist nutbag, Osir Nomanie, to
but just by the house your piece mccarthy at fishing expedition
among the infractions committed by some by great midday benjamin are staying in
the wrong hotel in havana
and this
to which i replied with
we stated the right hotel by the way the government got to buy a fucking
viral twitter post on losing my mind
in that crazy
if that's like if that's one of the suspicions
that's literally not a thing that happened is just not a thing that happened
What is this?
Even if this were true the difference that Hassan regularly condemns the Armenian genocide while you worms long live for the
Latifundia days
What yeah, all of my all of my sweatiest
Ops are also having a fucking field day with this apparently
Okay.
Okay.
Um, reminder that red shirts and brown shirts going at it is actually super beneficial for lives and democracy.
And it would be the stupidest thing in the universe for lives to intervene.
To which, Cuss says, this is just explicitly, first day came for the communists, by the way.
Literally, there is a very famous poem by a German Lutheran pastor.
That starts with first they came for the communists and I did not speak out for I was not a communist
Then they came for the socialists and I did not speak out for I was not a socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew and
Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out for me
That's literally the the the major takeaway is that it doesn't stop
end with your perceived ideological enemies which I even should I shouldn't
even be your ideological enemy if we if you are a liberal and this is a fascist
administration this is your opportunity this is your moment to fucking buck up
okay to nut up or shut up this is your opportunity to say you know it's gone
too far maybe I'm not the biggest fan of son we have our disagreements but this
This is unbelievable.
This is, this is, this is madness.
And yet, and yet, these guys don't comprehend exactly what's happening.
They don't understand what's taking shape in front of their eyes.
They think this is a great opportunity to attack their own personal online internet
enemies, one-sided beefs half the time.
I think it is perhaps the greatest demonstration that a lot of these guys on the internet are
are simply led by these cults of personality, which is ironic because they say that about
me all the time, but they're just led by cults of personality that don't really care
about politics at all, don't really care about organizing at all, don't really care about
the things that they ostensibly care about, or the way that they present themselves as
caring about certain things like liberal values even.
They just have personal vendettas, and unfortunately, many of their followers also just advance
those personal vendettas.
And that's what's really interesting, because this is a turning point, right?
This is a turning point where our rights are all under attack by a fascist administration,
fascist government, and it's very clear that there are a decent number of self-identifying
liberals on the internet that come from these communities, whether it be the sex-pestiny
community or whether it be Bad Empanada as well, who are not really invested in any sort
of real political movement or even undermining the Trump agenda, and not even doing grievance
politics necessarily but just like doing grievance against individual Twitch streamers that they
don't like.
And it's very strange that their fan base advances those unbelievably selfish desires
without even realizing that they're not doing anything remotely political.
They're not doing anything remotely political at all.
They think they are.
They think this is political activism, but all they're doing is advancing the interests
of a content creator that they watch, that they're a part of a cult.
It's crazy.
I'm uncommitted to standing with the Parkes for a Sompiker.
He has done more than be lesser evil than the two evils against Trump if he wants to
earn my support.
First of all, this is an admission that you would vote for Donald Trump over me.
Okay?
I know you're trying to make a point, a really bad point, regardless, this idea that, like,
i deserve to be punished by the trump administration because you have
perceived me
uh... engaging in uh... some kind of slight against kamala harris
when i dared to criticize kamala harris's failures in the campaign and
warned
and warned
that she was going to most likely lose
right
and they're all hitting the same line i'm on committed on a song in subpoena he
He needs to stop acting like he's a lesser of two evils and it's the good.
Remember these are all liberals.
These are all liberals who claim to hate Trump.
This is supposed to be their number one thing.
The only thing they're supposed to hate is Donald Trump, right?
They don't really even care about the policies all that much.
As long as a D is doing the same exact kind of policies, they're fine with it, but they
hate Donald Trump for whether it's because of the way Trump moves, the way Trump operates.
It doesn't matter, they hate, they're supposed to hate Trump, and they can't even do that
right.
Okay?
This person says, does the Sompiger think Kamala Harris would have done the same?
Just wondering.
To which I responded with, you'd cheer it on the same, you'd cheer it on just the same
big dog, clearly.
i think the sprues of the trump add that are the true agents of liberalism and
saviors of centers of the democrats of consistently fall short of being
you need to begin to moderate your radical opinions let trump win again
which is good because he's going after you but that because he's mean to the
goat shumer
and so many of these guys are just israel first two which is very strange
by even fucking third way
at least understands
like openly cheering this on would be a bad look for them because they're adults
they're fucking adults they're there adult enough to understand
this is
a a horrifying precedent
meanwhile you got
uh... fucking the alters to my left on the bad empanada side
celebrating this
okay saying like oh yeah trump administration should actually
uh... arrest this person because he's a real zionist which
the the straight up slave of israel is not the zionist in this equation i am
right from their perspective
they're trying to uh... justify this that way
so ridiculous
and then of course the the anti-trump
Sex Pestini is saying, reminder that red shirts and brown shirts going at it is actually super beneficial for
libs and democracy and it would be the stupidest thing in the universe for libs to intervene.
Famously, fascists always stop
at the edge cases.
Famously.
Yeah, another
Hassan Piker says he's dragged away to Guantanamo by Trump's secret police, like, look.
Yeah, this is amazing.
A court of public statements is to believe that the delegation member stayed at a hotel
the US State Department has put on a Cuba restricted list as businesses directly tied
to the communist government in Cuba designated a state sponsor of terrorism.
we stated a legal hotel this whole thing seems to stem from an erroneous viral
tweet
no who did actually stay at a sanctioned hotel nick surely we know because he
broadcast from it and told everyone he stayed there
anyway
but all of these like
very annoying
centrist
on the timeline
who's only thing that they hate,
who's only thing that they fucking supposedly hate
is this guy from the Manhattan Institute thinks
that subpoenas because of your wazza cash comment?
He's been living.
Yeah, it's not illegal.
It's literally not illegal to bring cash
and give fucking, like, and purchase things
in Cuban businesses, or even give it straight up
on the fucking street if you wanna give it out to people.
It's that's literally a normal tourism function.
There's a humanitarian purpose beyond it as well.
None of this is illegal, guys.
I always find it odd that when a song got off the planet
in Cuba, one of the first people waiting to take a selfie
with them was Jody Evans, Neville Roy Singham's wife
CodePink co-founder. I don't know. Maybe because she was one of the people that was on the fucking,
she's a part of the CodePink organization. And CodePink was also there. Like they were also,
you know, putting, I don't even know the exact details, but they were also part of putting the
organizing the trip together.
What? I know usually at the work of rallying the orgs you support but in case they try
to bring you to court you should definitely consider coordinating with orgs you've been
pushing and try to publicly mobilize your community and not only your defense but use
yourself as an example that the admin is hunting down real pro-american voice like Medea showing
that your motion goes beyond being a Twitter power user that's buddies with Elon's exes.
Dude. Sometimes I welcome rotting for the rest of my life in a fucking federal penitentiary
rather than having to deal with long-term community members who have like unbelievably
snide remarks even in this fucking moment
like what the fuck you do what
you're giving me advice on something that you don't know if i'm a doing or not
okay
and then also you have to you have to slap me with a fucking backhand uh...
with the delay uh... all you technically do is just
you know hang out with illam musk's exes did
what did you do some real fucking organizing well bitch i did
okay
and guess what the government was like we're throwing your ass in jail fuck
you okay what do you want me to do
literally people
people are so funny they'll be like all this on all you do is fucking sit at
home
you asshole you don't do anything you sit at home you collect checks you say
subscribe to the piker broadcasting service
and you get your legion of uh... you know adoring fans
to subscribe
your
uh... twitch stream
all you do is sit at home you don't do shit
i go out and i do shit then they say all your performative your performative
your larping
your larping you are a shirt
you were an expensive shirt while you were doing things
uh... if you were doing real things the government will be after you now the
fucking government is after me and they're like well
the government's after you and it's good actually
well at a certain point you have to realize
you have to realize like maybe this gripe has nothing to do with what i'm
doing
or what you think i could be doing more of
and instead has everything to do with the fact that you just have been geared
into despising me from all of the fucking negatively framed clips all over
the goddamn right wing algorithms
house on the farm system to attend to your own a gift is so the agri-larsen
thank you for the five gift is so
Well
Anyway very akadibi akadibi
Thank you
It's a it's very very strange dude like these guys are straight up saying like it's not criminal, but it should be criminalized basically
That's what it is
Any chance that that unhinged
Fox News author made it up probably not
But again, I don't know because I haven't received a fucking subpoena. So I have no idea. I don't know
So there is that side of the story as well
Not an ideal way to add to your lore I know
You can't pay for this kind of publicity fam okay guys I'll be honest
I prefer not to have this publicity. Okay, if you think that this is just like it's good
I know some of you are looking for a silver lining in the situation, but
This is not good. Okay. There is no world where having to deal with like a federal case is actually a good moment. I
would
Much rather not have to deal with this at all. Okay
But, yeah, Austerity stuff says, them leaders need to speak out against this gross, dictatorial
abuse of power and the law to chill dissent, and I'm not talking simply progressives, yeah.
the
The TMZ moms thinks is because you had Elon's baby mama on they see on your side. Yeah
But yeah, that's where we're at
Problem is the dem leadership has to left to yeah, but this is one of those moments where they actually do have to say something because they understand that
I mean, who knows? Who knows? Because guess what? While this is happening, face the nation
had Josh Gottheimer on alongside Mike Lawler to talk about how there is a dual, there's
a condemnation bill on me. That's what happened a couple hours ago. CBS News faced the nation,
at a situation
where this right wing fascist government is engaging in unprecedented
actions against
the first amendment
and decided to bring on one democrat and one republican congressperson to
also attack that very same person that's targeted by the state they didn't
didn't hit me up
they didn't hit me up to be like hey what do you think about this uh... you know
this this ridiculous
uh... this ridiculous uh... attack against you
against this humanitarian aid flotilla
against the first amendment like what do you think the impact is your way to the
goals are they were like no actually
let's add more fucking fuel to the fire
and let's have
mike lala
and josh got him around face the nation
to talk their shit and you want to get to uh... the
which is not surprising me cbs right it's z bs let's be real
but it's just like
it's it's so
it's so clear it's so clear what the fuck is going on
i mean this is this is collaboration
this is
collaboration
the reason why they're doing it is because again
they don't like
that i talk shit about israel they don't like that uh... i am a loudmouth
a rabble rouser
and they want to fucking
uh... lock me up and throw away the key
issue of anti-semitism because we wanted to have you
both on together because you are working together
uh... on ways to address the rise in anti-semitism in the u.s.
uh... congressman gotheimer i understand the value in lawmakers
drawing attention to some of the
really vile incidents that we have seen in this country lately, the stabbing of a Jewish
man on the streets of New York, the shooting at the Capitol Jewish Museum here in Washington.
But what can Congress realistically do about this problem?
Well, we know since October 7th in the Hamas terrorist attacks, antler's medic incidences
in the country of 70%.
and i'm both our states of some of the top and it's meant numbers and it's
medicans and it's
in the entire country it's totally unacceptable
and what's happening now is it's far too often in our politics on both sides
right whether it's
a son piker who's a streamer on the left to canis owens on the right
who were campaigning
with candidates around the country
actually encouraging some of the most violent as medic language like a son
piker who calls in your party dogs canis owens who
your party cost we've got in your party in your party in your part your
democrat in your party it's it's a anti-trump initiative oh i'm sorry i'm
sorry that uh we're we're putting up fighters
to fight for the democrats to advance this cause against israel which 90
percent of democratic base agrees on they're on my side josh not on yours
candidates in both sides who've embraced them, who've made insane comments like
the woman in Texas this past week, a Democratic candidate who said that Jews
should be in camps, you've got Bilzerian, Dan Bilzerian in Florida who said we
should exterminate Jews, none of this should be acceptable and Mike and I
whether it's through the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act which we passed out of the
House last Congress on defining anti-Semitism and introduced again this
Congress or both of us condemning Piker and Owens and legislation. Both of us
believe deeply that we need to stand up to this and Mike's been very outspoken
as of others and our leadership on both sides needs to make it very clear time
and again that that you don't stand with these with people like Owens and Piker
and they're not welcome in our districts and and none of this language and is
acceptable either. I think it's very important.
Congressman Lawler, why do you believe that fringe candidates like the one that Congressman
Gottheimer just mentioned sense that there is a market for that sort of hate to begin
with?
Is there some kind of permission structure that has been created in both of your parties?
Well, I don't think there's any question that anti-Semitism.
Dude, dude, dude.
of all, it's ironic that he's talking about how I'm such a bad, I'm such a malign force or malignant
force in American politics. But then also at the same time he brings up Maureen Galindo,
which is not a candidate that I've endorsed. So that doesn't really make sense, does it? Like,
if this is what I like, I would probably endorse her, right? Well, I didn't.
This is just it. These guys don't have a fucking leg to stand on. They're just chirping. The
problem is, even though the overwhelming majority of the population don't believe the chirp,
don't agree with the chirp, and actually despise this kind of chirping, it still doesn't matter,
right? Because the machine, yeah, by the way, they mentioned Candace Owens very little in
this conversation.
Have you guys noticed that? They literally say Candace Owens the Holocaust in our and
move on as though like, as though, as though that's not a far, far bigger offense than
what they try to hit me with. And then the entire, the rest of the conversation is just
about me which is which goes to show the point here is not the fucking disavow
Candace Owens that's just a safe face they want to attach this bill to someone
who is actually anti-semitic so they can call me an anti-semite and they're not
even interested in the actual anti-semitism at all they're more so
interested in me a person who is not fucking anti-semitic but is being called
one because I'm anti-Israel, because these guys do not give a shit about anti-Semitism.
They care about anti-Zionism.
Buddhism has been condoned by folks across the political aisle.
And from my vantage point, it is something that all of us have a responsibility to push
back against.
of party. These candidates are coming forward. They feel it is okay to blame Jews for whatever
ills there are in the world. Obviously, you know, I experienced just last week, Rand Paul's
son screaming at me in a bar because he thought I was Jewish. When in fact I'm Irish Italian
Catholic. And regardless of whether I was or I wasn't Jewish, the idea that people feel
it is okay to engage in. I like that she's correcting him on Rand Paul's son, but no corrections
are issued when Josh Gaheimer is like, Hassan Piker is an anti-Semite. You know, that's
cool. I'm glad that you're correcting the record on Rand Paul's son. He's like, well,
he's apologized for it. Oh, okay. Nice. That's cool. Because he actually, I'm noticing a
trend here have you guys noticed I'm noticing a trend here where the actual
instances of anti-semitism are just brushed aside the actual instances of
anti-semitism are just brushed aside and everybody pisses their fucking pants
about someone who's objectively not anti-semitic fights against anti-semitism
but is uncompromisingly anti-Israel anti-Zionist. Hmm. Interesting.
Matt, he, he did ultimately, but the idea that people feel it's okay to engage in that type of conduct is shameful.
And I think what Josh and I are trying to do in putting this resolution forward is to say enough and to say to both parties,
We have to police our own. We cannot allow this. We cannot support candidates who engage in rank vile anti-semitism
You know the Jewish population is about 2% of the United States and meanwhile
It's over 50% of the hate crimes that are experienced. Something's got to give
It is pretty crazy that they're just like yeah, he called all Jews pig dogs or something. That's not the case
Like that's not a thing that happened. Okay, you just again made that shit up, but it doesn't matter
Yeah, tiny nation tiny nation you don't police Trump at all fuck off Mike. No Mike loves Trump
What do you mean? Mike is begging daddy daddy Trump to come in and and defend
Mike's chances at reelection
He fucking hates his sons.
I think it's literally because they're ugly as shit.
They're losers, but also they're ugly as shit.
And I think Trump hates that.
The Trump White House is going after left-wing political influencer and Twitch streamer Hassan
Piker, and it is absolutely ridiculous.
So in this video, I'm going to break down what happened, speculate maybe why it happened
now, discuss the right-wing influencer.
Oh God, I hope Rational National doesn't think that this happened because I had Ashley
St. Clair on the broadcast, because this kind of stuff doesn't happen overnight.
These three Fox News guests say they want Cuba to become a second Israel.
Oh, God.
It's not just that you're an anti-Zionist.
They recognize that Democrats and young people are against Israel, but they see you campaigning
with candidates who are anti-Israel and they are winning their races. Yeah, that's what
it is. I think that's what is like genuinely pushing. These guys hate fucking democracy
so much, dude. They hate democracy so much. The democratic wishes of the public can never
be met, okay? The wishes of the majority can never be heard, all right? And they do a very
good job of subverting democracy all the time. APAC does a very good job at this. They dump
tens of millions of dollars, look at what happened with Thomas Massey.
Now there is a counter to that faucet, that barrage of misinformation that actively subverts
the democratic process.
Now there is a platform for people who have these sorts of opinions, a platform that is
competitive, maybe not as sizable or as vast as the entirety of the mainstream media, but
a platform that is capable of reaching out to a lot of young voters and tying those
young voters, to politicians that actually want to listen to the demands of those young voters.
That's what the problem is here. It's not even just about Cuba. It's not even just about Israel
in general, it's about a collection of corporate interests. For the longest time, corporations
could purchase goodwill and influence by buying ads on mainstream media. And most of the people
would get their information from mainstream media. It was a consolidation, right? It was all coming
from hand selected, totally gate kept, and often times reliable vectors of communication.
At first there was a couple channels on TV, then there were more, but there was still
a selection process.
You didn't just arrive in front of a camera randomly overnight.
You elevated in your career by going through the ranks, maybe playing ball with your management.
saying certain things, not saying certain things, right?
So there was a control over the flow of information
that the public got.
The public received information from what they perceived
to be a diverse array of news outlets that would,
and times when it's necessary,
totally consolidate around a singular frame.
We saw this with the justifications
for waging an illegal war with Iraq, right?
Back in the day.
New York Times, as well as all the right-wing newspapers
and all the liberal newspapers were creating consent,
were creating a permission structure
to go and invade Iraq illegally.
And it worked to a certain degree.
And it's not just about waging foreign wars, it's also about protecting corporate interests.
There's a reason why the overwhelming majority of Americans want free healthcare, socialized medicine,
and yet they never receive it, and yet you never hear that perspective in mainstream outlets.
It's not just about Israel, it's not just about Iraq.
Foreign policy issues that are currently at the top of mind, but I'm using that as an analog
I'm using that to deliver a broader point because it goes beyond that
Right it goes beyond that. It's everything
It's labor rights
It's Medicare for all it's anything that actually hits
centers of profit
It's any institution that paywalls certain amenities certain things that are necessary for survival
The media has a a or has had a very good time
Quote-unquote educating people this way right making sure that the masses are
subservient making sure that the masses feel like
Change is not happening for one reason or another now
because of the internet and because of independent media, people can get information in real time
from sources on the ground directly and massive platforms such as my own
that are not accountable to any corporate interest that are simply accountable to their own audience
and accountable to the truth. And some don't follow through on that promise, of course, but I do.
can just cut through that noise and there's clearly a market for it. There's clearly a demand for it.
And that's a threat.
That's a threat to very powerful entities. It's a threat to billionaires who want to keep the masses sedated.
However, beyond that, I've done the unthinkable.
I didn't just stick to this platform. I started aiding insurgent campaigns. Okay. I didn't just stick to this platform. I'm very pragmatic. And I started working with within the ranks of the Democratic Party or within the primary system within the Democratic Party candidates or anti Zionist candidates who place the
interest of the population over the interest of corporate profit, the
interest of corporations and the interest of corporate profit. And they
started winning. They started winning. Okay. That is terrifying. That's terrifying
for a lot of powerful entities. That's why I keep repeatedly saying the Trump thing,
which is that they're not coming after me. They're coming after you. I'm just standing
in the way and it's true. If I just stuck to my own corner of the internet and I didn't
actively work with, you know, insurgency campaigns within the Democratic Party's primary system
to end and you know find some success there
they wouldn't give a shit
they would just say all he's just another guy who's irrelevant
he's just
truly trying to farm as much revenue as possible
if i was
the guy that my haters claim that i am
many of which are simply projecting their own
uh... lack of of moral courage or or moral clarity for the record
they're all mercenaries so they assume i am
just the same
but if i was that grifter
this wouldn't be happening
it just wouldn't be happening
we are now
at the precipice of twenty-first century macartheism this is pure macartheism
the u.s. government is persecuting prominent left-wing anti-war voices for
during the challenge the empire's murderous illegal blockade of cuba
this comes at a time when numerous reports say the u.s. military is preparing
for a potential war in cuba
this is fundamentally at odds
with the spirit
of america
this is fundamentally
at odds with the first amendment
It is completely unconstitutional and completely and utterly immoral and ridiculous.
Michael Fusco Art, thank you for the 100 Gifted Subs. Thank you.
And what's crazy about it is, it's not gonna stop with me.
It's not gonna stop with me at all.
So I, I'm shocked.
I'm genuinely shocked
that there would be so many people,
Kay Hivers and people on the internet.
They're not regular lives, by the way.
these guys don't have a base
the the pro-israel ranks
are
uh... are are definitely over represented
on twitter
the pro-israel democrats if you were to just
look at
if you were to just look at the internet if you were to look at twitter for
example
you would think that ninety percent
of the democratic party's base is israel first
you would arrive at the uh... a very wrong conclusion you would think that
every anti-zionist
is an ultra
anyone and everyone that's critical of israel is is also a a third world is
and that the democrats themselves
like democratic parties base of support the voters
are all israel first
that's what you would think
which is interesting because sometimes the alters are the ones who are making
that argument
and yet
in the real world if you were to ask the average liberal if you were to ask
your parents if you were to ask
people that you see it no kings rallies and whatnot how they feel about this
Contrary to the celebrations of some of these unbelievably annoying, supposedly liberal-minded
people, they would be horrified by it. In the real world, if you were to encounter a life-long
Democratic Party voter and ask them, hey, I know you don't like Donald Trump, you say you don't
like Donald Trump. Donald Trump and his administration is trying to actively prosecute a humanitarian
aid mission. While we're in the process of destroying this country known as Cuba, most
liberals would hear that and be horrified. They'd be like, what the fuck? That's unacceptable.
the liberals on the internet. This is it. Have fun with that, buddy. And it's me talking
about Israel saying Kamala Harris and Donald Trump would one to one do the exact same shit
in Israel, which is true. And they love posting this clip. And it's very obvious that I'm
like not talking about everything. I have said over and over again that of course there's
very significant differences between Kamala Harris or even marginal differences that are
significant for real life consequences between the between Harris and between the Democrats
and the Republicans. But this is not one of them, right? This is unfortunately not one
them and the fact that we are trying to change that and they're this upset about
it because like I'm trying to change it many of you in this community are trying
to change that reality we're trying to make the Democratic Party and an anti-
Israel party right we're trying to get people elected that will actually push
for an arms embargo in Israel that will push for accountability on Israel for
doing a genocide, right? But this guy basically proves that point. I said this clip was about
the Democrats and Republicans' unipolarity on Israel, and it's the only thing you care
about, which is why you're currently defending the Trump admin, trying to jail visitors for
delivering humanitarian aid to a country we're starving. He proves the point. Liberals that
post this clip proved the point that they only care about Israel, like straight up. They only
care about Israel, but they don't want to say it out loud. So they try to masquerade as though
they're just unbelievable Kamala Harris defenders. Like they really love Kamala Harris. They really
love the establishment wing of the Democratic Party and that I was actively arguing against it.
I was actively arguing against the Democrats and not saying Kamala Harris needs to communicate
better how different she will be than Donald Trump on a litany of different issues, including
but not limited to Israel.
But this is proof.
If you're Israel first, you will celebrate this decision.
Yeah.
Yeah, leftists trying to rally support for liberals, they've spent their entire career
attacking.
No one expected you to stand up to Trump's fascist regime.
That's what we've been saying, and you're proving the fucking point.
I voted against Trump.
Trump has not urged his viewers not to.
I never urged my viewers not to vote for Kamala Harris, by the way.
And that's a lie, but it doesn't even fucking matter, right?
I never endorsed Kamala Harris.
i the only person i urged people not to vote for was donald trump
there simply no way for you to listen or even away from the simple fact sorry
has not urged viewers not to vote for trump every day of the twenty-four
election
he just wouldn't tell them the vote for comel here's which was unwilling to call
israel's actions palestine genocider committed a day israel even with a
problem with all people that openly
none of it matters because
here's the thing
i've gone through this cycle already i didn't endorse comel Harris
i refuse to do so
Okay. Well, here's what's important.
Here's what's important.
In the past, I had endorsed Joe Biden.
In the past, I had endorsed Hillary Rodham Clinton.
And liberals still yelled at me, saying I was a Bernie bro.
And if you ask them why back then, they would say, it's because you weren't
excited enough in your endorsement of Hillary Clinton or Joseph Robin and Brandon, right?
So it's actually not about endorsements or voting at all, because if they actually
sincerely were worried about the pain that Trump is causing as I was, and I still am,
them, they would have demanded that the Harris campaign actually take the shit seriously.
Right?
But they don't care.
One of the first things that a lot of liberals did on the timeline after Donald Trump became
president was openly salivating at the prospect of getting their Latino neighbors deported.
And if you recall back then, what did I say?
I said, this is ridiculous.
You are no better than the fascist Republicans if you actually agitate and actively lean
in to the deportations regime that the fascist Republicans are implementing.
If you are anti-fascist, you should not aid and abet the fascist regime.
should oppose it, even if it's someone that you dislike, even if it's victims, are people
who you personally believe legitimately played a role in the election of Donald Trump.
They were, of course, referencing Latino neighbors that had undocumented family members who had
voted for Donald Trump, and there's plenty of them, right?
That's what they were talking about.
Oh, I know my neighbor one of my neighbors is undocumented their son or their their father a vote of her Donald Trump
And I'm gonna call ice on them. That's what liberals were saying
For me
When the admin came after Jimmy Kimmel
What did I say when the having came after Jimmy Kimmel? I said look, I don't agree with Jimmy Kimmel, but it doesn't fucking matter
It's irrelevant
This is a violation of the First Amendment
This is a chill. This is having a chilling effect on free speech because I could understand that an administration
That was attacking Jimmy Kimmel would just as easily throw my ass in prison
You know
But a lot of these guys, at least on the Internet, don't see it that way.
They think they will be spared.
They think that they won't be sent to the concentration camps, and they're wrong.
They are wrong.
So you might be excited at the prospect of your favorite cult leader's least favorite
content creator me potentially rotting in a federal prison, but you'll be there by my
side in short order.
I might be going to the camps, but you're going to be there too, buddy.
He's been posted another nine second out of Congress vote against Kamala just made it worse.
This is so this is such a
Hasan Piker wouldn't be able to say comma at what Hasan Piker wouldn't be able to say
if Kamala would do the same.
He keeps turning Democrats to save him though.
I love that they're they're literally like this is nine seconds now regardless of the
hypothetical reality where Kamala Harris would not be as bad as Donald Trump, which we have
no proof for, regardless of the unbelievable. That's not even a full sentence. Who the fuck
would believe this?
Stupid attitude to have, because one, there's no inclination that Kamala Harris was going,
was, I mean, there's all the only thing that we knew about Kamala Harris was that she was
literally doing the same exact thing that Joe Biden was doing, even if it actually harmed
her electoral chances, okay? That's number one. And number two, I maintain the position
that Donald Trump was going to be worse than Kamala Harris. You're coming to someone who
literally openly recognized that this was going to happen. I warned of this happening.
And at the time, Kamala Harris or at least any liberal that wanted the win could have
been like, yeah, we're gonna actually put an end to this. We're gonna put a stop to
what Joe Biden is doing. And they chose not to, okay? So saying that like, oh, so much
the protest vote, especially when Kamala Harris lost by wider margins than the people that voted
for someone else, is just idiotic. That's the clip. That's the reason why it's nine seconds long,
because if he were to play a one-minute length clip,
if he were to play the entire clip, many liberals would be very reasonable. There you go,
wait a minute he's not saying Kamala Harris is worse than Trump he's not
saying that that Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are the same at all as a
matter of fact he's saying that Kamala Harris did not do her job to
communicate that difference adequately to as broad a public audience as
possible
And what's also ironic about this is that these guys are trying to actively get liberals
to be in favor of the Trump administration's attacks on free speech, which will end up
harming them too.
But even if I literally did say, Kamala Harris fucking sucks, she's the worst president,
Trump is better than Kamala Harris, which I never did, because I don't believe that.
But even if I were to have said that, would it be appropriate for the Trump administration
to put me in jail?
That's the question.
That's the question people have to ask themselves.
I don't think so.
There are plenty of people who I don't fuck with at all, who I met odds with, who I'm
ideologically against, from Jim Comey to Jimmy Kimmel, all the gyms.
And I have defended them.
I've defended them over and over again when the Trump administration decided to do insane
things that put them in harm's way, that tried to, you know, take their jobs away or tried
to put them in jail.
i don't like fucking uh... jim call me at all
because
i understand the dangers of the roading
certain safety nets
i understand the dangers of the roading
certain
uh... defenses that the average citizen has against the government there are
many redeemable aspects of american life
and even in the constitution
this administration is tackling those
redeemable aspects this administration is tackling those
phenomenal aspects of american theoretical democracy
marked safe from being a disciple of a guy who would cheer on as i was a
special resume going after people who aided a communist country because i have
interpersonal beef with one of their targets
if this doesn't make you rethink who you support in your fully the clowning
yourself
you will twist yourself in the pretzel saying supporting them entry as a
makes you a Zionist but supporting Mary Maddison's bitch does not.
Yeah.
I hate posting him, but you even defended his ex-pestinese free speech?
Overdressed by free speech?
Uh, yes, I do.
Everything that he's saying here is incisive deliberately.
But what he's very clearly trying to say is that like, Dr. Miesko can lower the temperature.
That's what he's trying to say.
It's ridiculous for liberals to-
Yeah.
They will never offer me the same fucking charity, which for the record, I don't even
want.
Okay?
You are going to jail, you little bitch, smiling, crying.
Okay, chatter.
We all know my distaste for a son.
He literally has demanded Trump deport me in the past, but we really, but do we really
trust the regime that is like constantly and use law for to silence any political enemy
to launch an actual investigation or anything?
They'll just define anything vaguely liberal as terrorism next.
At least this fucking dumbass is smart enough, possibly because he's Canadian.
I don't trust him, but if so, I would never go to bat for liberals to get oppressed by
the Trump regime.
He should not receive our help.
Yeah, our help.
Bitch, you have no motion anyway.
Okay?
This is me trying to help you save yourself.
Okay?
This is me trying to pull you back to the fucking real world, dumbass.
And yeah, they're wrong.
I have defended.
Donald Trump tried to go after destiny. I even defended that when Donald Trump and his
administration went after Jimmy Kimmel. I defended Jimmy Kimmel when they went after
Jim Comey. I defended Jim Comey because I have fucking principles. It's so ironic that
these people legitimately don't have any fucking principles and spend a good deal of time claiming
that I do not, and trying to clip things in a way to suit that propaganda purpose.
Don Lemon too, exactly.
They can't comprehend someone having a moral foundation that they truly abide by, a code
of conduct that they truly abide by.
It's virtually impossible for them to comprehend this.
That's the difference.
But fear not.
This is just what you're seeing on the internet.
And not even all over the internet, because even r slash politics, which is comprised mostly
of neoliberals that usually despise me, are still very much aware of how damaging this
is for free speech, okay?
The overwhelming majority of liberals, when they see this kind of thing happening, they
don't like it, okay?
It's just the people that are chirping that have the loudest voices online, specifically
on Twitter that have this kind of attitude and they have actively radicalized themselves
with radical centrism, radical liberalism, if you want to call it that, into believing
that they have the numbers, into believing that like the party's base, the democratic
party's base of self-identifying liberals agree with them, especially when it comes
to Israel and certainly when it comes to things like this. They're wrong. They're hysterical.
in this very strange, unbelievably right-wing echo chamber on Twitter that of course is
going to turn me into a major villain. It's Elon Musk's platform. He fucking despises
me. And these guys have seen it on their algorithms so much that they're defending the Trump
administration. They're actively supporting the Trump administration, not just harming
a person that they perceive to be an enemy, but harming themselves, because when I swing
from the gallows, I won't be there alone, okay?
You will be there, they'll put you up there too.
This is not about radical commentary, this is not about communism, this is not about
socialism.
This is about dissent.
Dissent against a fascist government.
It will not stand.
You understand?
Dissent against a fascist government will not stand, which is precisely the reason why
they will punish any and all matter of dissent, which includes you as well, unless you decide
that you yourself are a fascist too.
There's a funny tweet.
I'm on Chuck Schumer's comms team, we're workshopping at Hasan Piker Belongs in Jailva under a Democratic President's Administration Press Release.
We're on our 37th draft and someone's placing an order for Chinese.
Yeah, Malcolm X, as long as Uncle Sam is against you, you know you're a good man. Malcolm X to Fidel Castro.
I was never your biggest fan as long because I personally don't like how you sometimes flaunt your wealth, but do appreciate
Chatter. I promise you I don't flaunt my wealth
Okay, this is what I mean. I
Don't flaunt my wealth other people will go to unbelievable lengths to try to identify
identify how much each individual article of clothing I've purchased without even knowing where I've purchased that article of clothing or
How I've acquired that article of clothing or whether it is at odds with my worldview at all to create this idea
That I love flaunting my wealth
You think I wanted my house to be docks when I purchased it for myself and my family. No, of course not
This is what I mean
Like right now, I'm wearing Zegna pants, they're very like they're I'm sure they're vintage,
but I'm sure when they were first sold, they were pretty expensive.
I got them for $30.
But in the future, if they figure out what brand of pants I'm wearing, they'll say they
were these are $700 pants.
I got them for 30.
Secondhand thrifted.
But it doesn't matter right? Zegna, Adamine Gildo, Zegna, Zegna.
sounds fancy like obama's fancy mustard
abyssinia's chief wash anyway let's get to uh... the latest iran deal
trump is saying it's been largely negotiated
i i told you once the ink is dried
and the troops have pulled out i'll believe it until the last moment i will
not believe it but there are some signs
that we're moving in the appropriate direction
now the reason why i say that is because
The reason why I say that is because the pro-Israel side, the Israel firsters in America, and
obviously the Zionists in Israel are fucking crying.
They're crying up and down the timeline.
And correspondent Jonathan Carl, we'll be hosting this week later this morning.
John, good morning to you.
Great to see you.
So President Trump says a deal with Iran has been largely negotiated.
Still no official response from Tehran, but what are your sources telling you about how
close a deal could be and what's actually included well it's not the
they backtracked already oh god Israel came in again I guess first time that
the president has said we're close to a deal he said it over and over again and
hasn't come to fruition but this does seem to be a genuine inflection point my
My sources in the region say that a deal is very close.
The only question is whether or not the Iranians sign on.
The president did a call with our allies in the region yesterday, and they were largely
encouraging him to approach this deal, to make this offer to the Iranians.
Here's what it is, though, Whit.
It is not an end to all the conflict in terms of how to approach the nuclear program.
It opens the straight of her moves.
The Iranians stopped blocking the strait, the U.S. lifts the naval blockade, and then
it leaves a period of time.
I'm told 30 to 60 days to negotiate those issues that still have not been worked out
about Iran's nuclear program.
Yeah, so still some critical discussions and phases ahead.
Yeah.
John, I do want to turn to the proposed $1.8 billion fund for President Trump's political
allies.
It's very controversial, running into serious opposition, including from Senate Republicans.
So what happens next with this?
Look, this was open revolt on Capitol Hill, particularly in the Senate.
You had a meeting that Senator Ted Cruz described as one of the most contentious meetings that
he had seen in all his time in Congress, where acting Attorney General Todd Blanche went
up to defend this fund in a private meeting with Senate Republicans.
And according to Cruz, the senators, the Republicans, many of them were actually yelling, screaming
at the acting Attorney General saying this was entirely inappropriate.
What's next?
Well, they've gone on recess.
Congress needs to pass this border security bill that Republicans can do solely on Republican
votes.
But that is now in doubt because there will be amendments offered to eviscerate this fund.
And if those come up for a vote, you will see a lot of Republicans support it.
So President Trump still calls it a top priority for him, but there is massive opposition among
Republicans on Capitol Hill.
Okay, we'll see how it all plays out.
John Carl, you'll have a busy show coming up later on this week.
John interviews representatives Tom Swazi and Brian Fitzpatrick about their bipartisan bill to stop the DOJ's anti-weaponization fund.
President Trump and White House officials say they are close to a deal with Iran to end the conflict in the Persian Gulf
and reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
Let's bring in Fox News chief foreign correspondent
Trey Yanks with very latest in Tel Aviv.
Hello, Trey.
Yeah, hey, Shannon, good morning.
We're getting new details on a memorandum of understanding
between the United States and Iran
that is expected to be announced soon.
A regional source who reviewed the agreement
telling Fox News, quote,
the deal states that U.S. forces will stay
in the proximity of Iran for 30 days.
The context here is that it signals for Iran
The military option remains on the table if nuclear issues aren't resolved or the interim
agreement is violated.
The source added that as part of the deal Iran will receive oil sanctions waivers.
Iran will also have frozen funds and assets released worth billions of dollars.
This is contingent on the broader deal being verified.
Now on Saturday, President Trump held a call that included leaders from Saudi Arabia, Qatar,
the UAE, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey and Pakistan, aimed at reaching a broader understanding.
A separate regional diplomat told Fox News, the call was very positive.
progress is being made, adding that regional leaders were supportive of the progress and
of the breakthrough President Trump achieved with the talks.
Overnight, President Trump announced that an agreement with Iran has been largely negotiated.
The president indicated there are still final aspects and details being discussed.
President Trump also spoke last night with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu,
but we've not yet heard any public statements from the Israelis.
The issue of Iran's nuclear program remains a key topic of conversation and is expected
to be discussed in the weeks ahead.
Janet.
All right, Frank, we know you will be on every detail.
Thank you so much for the updates.
Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News
latest on YouTube and catch full shows streaming now
on Fox One.
For all the false starts on an end to this war,
something more definitive, if still cautious,
from the US Secretary of State this morning.
This is with regards to the straits
and with regards to a process that can ultimately leave us
where the president wants us to be.
And that is a world that no longer has to be in fear or worry about an Iranian nuclear weapon.
And so I do think there's some good news on that front, but not final news on that front.
Stronger still from President Trump posting,
an agreement has largely been negotiated.
Final aspects and details of the deal are currently being discussed and will be announced shortly.
In addition to many other elements of the agreement, the Strait of Homoes will be opened.
This afternoon, Trump appearing to put the brakes on again, saying the US blockade on Iranian ports would remain in place, but both sides has to take their time to get it right.
If signed, the deal would reportedly see the straight reopened for shipping without Iranian tolls, potentially over a 30-day period, but a senior Iranian official today...
Er.
I'm having a creatine.
And then y'all tweezing nuclear rich was a no-no in Israel has a right to bomb Lebanon
Yeah, I'm drinking my metamucil
Even my biggest haters are defending me. Okay, good. At least some this actually shows like the the varying depths of madness on Twitter
I mean this guy fucking despises me. He's literally written
Extensively about how much I cape for communism and whatnot, but at least he still also maintains the
Level of intelligence ought to come across like a psycho
of
it seems like there are
This is why I said this deal was promising mostly because
The reason why I said Israel's this is promising is because
Israel was chirping quite a bit
okay
Israel was chirping quite a bit and
That Israel only chirps
When America is actually nearing a deal
like when they're actually close to closing and it's so and that's such a
like that is such a significant problem that the Iranian envoys openly
communicated yesterday by their state by their their state news media far as
news that America and Israel actually found a decent arrangement however
Israel is trying to spoil it. They openly stated that, right? Trump asked Middle
East leaders to sign a peace deal with Israel after the Iran war ends. Okay?
U.S. demands capitulation Iran's not agreeing? No. I think you're wrong. I think
Iran got what it was looking for out of this deal, which meant capitulation
from the American side, and then Israel came in and said, you can't do this.
So if this deal falls apart, it is absolutely because of Israel.
It is not Lebanon that is emerging as a weak link in the memorandum, but rather Israel.
Once again, Israel refused to be bound by any regional ceasefire and wants to include clauses
that allows it to turn the ceasefire into a swish cheese, just as it has in Gaza and
Lebanon before.
render the ceasefire void of any meaning.
So far, the Iranians are standing firm, not just because it needs to defend its standing
amongst the Axis and not appear as having betrayed them, but also because the entire
agreement won't be worth the paper it's written on if Trump, even before the agreement comes
into effect, starts to cave to Israeli pressure.
No U.S.-Iran agreement will be useful if the United States cannot reign in Israel.
This will be a test for Trump, America first or Israel first.
If you recall, for the last 86 days, what have I said?
After the second week when Iran came out with their 10-point plan for a long-standing ceasefire,
I told you I weighed the priorities here, and I weighed the most difficult elements
of this deal.
And the least difficult concession that Iran would give to the Americans, if you recall,
Because restricting their enrichment capabilities.
This is not, you know, regardless of the American size maximalist demands on this issue, this
wasn't that consequential because they had already conceded on it.
And the only reason why the nuclear grade enriched uranium even exists in Iran was simply so
they can have leverage to get sanctions relief down the line.
And that's what happened with the GCPOA.
That's clearly what they wanted to do.
said yes to that, even to the maximalist demands that the American side was making before
Operation Epic Fury was launched through perfidy 86 days ago.
And I told you that the highest priority, or the most difficult to achieve concession
from the American side would be Lebanon. And I told you it wasn't about Lebanon at all.
And I've had conversations with Trudeau Parcy on this broadcast as well. It's not that
Iran truly loves Hezbollah or sees them as Shia brothers or because they think that this
is a war for survival or anything like that. I mean, I'm sure that's part of the motivation,
But the reason why Iran wanted Lebanon to be a part of this deal was because that would mean America would have to forcibly restrain Israel because Iran demanded it.
And if a deal was reached of this sort, which I still think it will, it would be a major
strategic defeat for Israel, as Trudeau also agrees here is his analysis.
I address Trump's pending deal with Iran and the meltdown of the war mongers in this
piece.
But while Israel supporters openly attack Trump, Israeli officials may keep a lower
profile given Israel's elections and Trump's ability to hurt them politically in Israel,
but make no mistake.
If a deal is reached, it will be a major strategic defeat for Israel, and Israel knows this.
That's why they're chirping.
That's why its Hasbara agents are chirping.
That's why its biggest defenders in America were losing their minds last night.
Because this would mean that Iran was capable of forcing America to restrain Israel.
that America has not done since October 7th.
It's that simple. Israel's two wars have paradoxically strengthened Iran's deterrence
posture, exposed Israel's inability to confront Iran without overwhelming American military
backing, and inflicted incalculable damage on America's global standing and aura of
military supremacy at the same time. Support for Israel within the United States has eroded
dramatically across nearly every demographic group except older Republican voters.
Most importantly, sanctions relief would liberate Iran's economy from decades of constriction
and gradually shift the regional balance of power away from Israel and its vision of a
greater Israel.
For precisely that reason, Israel will almost certainly do everything within its power behind
the scenes to sabotage the agreement before it becomes irreversible.
FT. Oh, thank you Foundation for Defending Democracy says Harrison Berger from American
Conservative magazine. Iran War could add billions of dollars in interest payments to US debt.
Government barring costs have reached their highest level since 2007 after three months
of the conflict.
Yeah, this is this iteration this last
Conflict is
Entirely
Entirely because of Israel, okay straight up
Anyone that doesn't recognize that is either a fool or lying to you
Okay
Hold on.
Ali Hashem reporting on the major hold-ups.
Oh, yeah.
Ali Hashem from Al Jazeera English says less than 24 hours after optimism emerged around
a possible Iran-U.S. memorandum, negative vibes are already surfacing. A well-informed
Iranian source tells me there are signs of U.S. retreat on two central issues, the mechanism
for unfreezing Iranian assets and the scope of a ceasefire in Lebanon. I think even unfreezing
Iranian assets is more doable than restraining Israel. Maybe I'm wrong, but if you recall,
I said that unfreezing Iranian assets would be a tough concession for America to eat,
but the most difficult one would be to restrain Israel.
Do you think Trump will reign in Israel?
I think he has to.
I just don't know if he is capable of doing this for one reason or another.
Can you clarify Israel doesn't control the U.S. is the other way around there?
The U.S. is greatest vassal state?
No, no, no, no, no, no.
one reason or another. We are now, we have now, let Israel take complete control over
our foreign policy initiatives in the Middle Eastern region. That's it. I'm sorry, but
it's not like this is, you know, it's ridiculous to not recognize that.
On Mr. Israel is the unsinkable aircraft carrier. Obviously America controls Israel. Israel
America's attack dog. But this, this last iteration with the Trump administration has been different.
It's different. Trump one was different too. But this is very different. Okay. Trump one was
a significant shift. Trump one represented a significant shift where we went from allowing
Israel to play a very important advisory role in our Middle Eastern endeavors to one that basically
started driving the vehicle of our imperialism in the Middle East. We moved the embassy to Jerusalem,
the Abraham Accords were kick-started, all this stuff. That was new. That was unique.
And then Biden came in and Biden was also an ultra Zionist and Biden never
reversed any of the Trump decisions on Israel not even a little bit and then
October 7 happened and we saw the depravity the immorality of the Biden
administration on this issue the bear hug strategy many people criticized it
but Biden stayed the course.
Fake red lines were issued over in Oregon,
Israel violated them, Israel humiliated the Democrats,
and the Democrats were seemingly nowhere to be found.
They never restrained, did they have the power
to restrain Israel?
Of course they did.
Of course they did.
They always do, they still do to this day.
It's still a one-phone call style situation.
Then Trump too happened.
And Trump, especially in the second term, is even weaker and therefore more compromised than ever before.
And the proof here is exactly what has taken place in the last 86 days.
You think Benjamin Netanyahu didn't always want to invade Iran?
Of course he did. Numerous former presidents came out and said the same. Hillary Clinton even said the same.
Okay? This was always a goal for Israel. This was always the final goal for Israel. They've always wanted to destroy Iran.
And yet, no American president prior to Trump, Trump too, specifically, had ever taken that
leap.
Part of the reason why they didn't take that leap is because they knew that what's happening
currently was a very realistic scenario.
Okay?
Obama said as such, straight up, if you don't want to take my word for it, take Obama's
word for it, if you trust him more than me, he literally said it.
We've always had advisors and minders and people who are perhaps a little too invested
in Israeli foreign policy, maybe more so than American foreign policy, deeply embedded in
blob. And America's goals in the region have almost always been in cooperation with Israel's
goals in the region. They've never really truly been at odds with one another. Or even if Israel
actually bites off more than it can chew, it's not that big of a problem for America. America can
solve it, right? Because we're the big, bad military machine. We can come in here and we
we could fix it. But there are certain red lines that no American leadership prior to
Trump too had ever taken. And that red line was invading Iran militarily or attacking
Iran in the way that we did in cooperation with Israel. This created a divergence of
interests. A significant one that everyone around the world could see. It's a very important
distinction, which is why I say this is different. Israel absolutely controls the American foreign
policy vehicle as it stands currently. Israel is the reason why we are bleeding the rest
of the world right now. Israel is the reason why we are bleeding here in the United States
of America with unprecedented inflationary crises, with gas prices skyrocketing for everyday
Americans and all of the other things that we purchase that we get from the
Asian markets that are screaming bloody murder because of the energy crisis that
they're experiencing again because the Shredda Hormuz is blocked why is the
Shredda Hormuz blocked all because we attacked Iran.
Interests are currently at odds. Israel has and I've said this from the start a
a very different set of goals with Iran than the United States of America has.
Does the United States of America like the idea of a destabilized Iran? Absolutely.
But as the hegemon, the US has a very different level of international responsibilities, one of
which is to ensure that trade continues, to ensure that this delicate system of global
capital that we have designed is unimpeded. And if you can't militarily defeat Iran as
we have seen, we can't militarily defeat Iran, you have to negotiate with Iran.
And I think America recognizes that, plenty in the intelligence community recognize that,
neocons recognize that, that's why Robert Kagan is screaming bloody murder.
I mean, these are people who have spent their entire lives demanding that we attack Iran
at the behest of Israel or at the behest of American interests to attack Iran and to defeat
Iran and to destroy Iran.
So why are they all now saying, you got to stop.
You have to stop.
We are bleeding far too much.
It's because it's true.
Iran defeated us.
Iran defeated the United States of America.
And Iran didn't just defeat the United States of America.
Iran defeated the United States of America in this most public way possible, in an incredibly
swift matter
his expeditions was fast
in america recognizes that are at least
our intelligence community recognize that our military leadership recognizes
that they recognize that this would be dangerous from the start
Israel was able to push Trump into doing this, perhaps with faulty intelligence, perhaps by
leading into his own personal ambitions, saying, you know, this is going to be just like Venezuela,
perhaps they really greatly overemphasized how much Iran was trying to assassinate Donald Trump and
and go to them into doing it, whatever, right? But it's very clear that his own guys, our generals
analysts at Central Command. And our military analysts and our intelligence analysts warned
Trump of this imminent failure, this threat of waging war with Iran and what that could
do to the global energy markets and what that could do to American force projection capabilities.
And now we are watching it. We're watching it unfold. So America's lost and Iran is
What comes next is America recognizing that loss. And I think Trump does recognize it now. He wants to
end this. He doesn't like how long this has taken. He went to China. He had to make major
concessions to the Chinese government already. I think it's $14 billion, if I'm not mistaken,
of arms purchases that were supposed to be shipped over to Taiwan are no longer going. I mean,
And that's a huge concession that he gave to Xi Jinping.
It's a huge deal.
That is a recognition of American weakness.
So there is definitely a recognition there.
Trump recognizes it.
And he wanted to pack this up.
He wanted to end this.
And yet Israel still came in.
It seems in the last moment, and is trying to sully the deal.
Just open with saying this stuff says Curtis Mills, the Executive Director of American
conservative magazine, the anti-war conservatives, and they are actually anti-war conservatives
for the record, they're certainly against this war.
A major military achievement for Israel, the United States is not even perfunctorily referenced.
Mark Dubowitz, one of the FTD guys, FTD Foundation for Defending Democracy, for those of you
who don't know, is an Israeli cutout.
Okay.
Openly saying, the pending deal looks bad.
I hope final terms are far better than the leaks suggests.
That said, this remains a major military achievement
for Israel.
Iran's ballistic missile program,
a severe strategic threat to Israel,
has been significantly degraded and set back for years.
Now that's a lie, but it doesn't matter, right?
That's just cope.
But the very fact that an American,
an American foreign policy lobby is openly saying,
Israel's military objectives have been achieved
is fucking awesome.
You're an American, aren't you?
One of your guys is currently sitting in the American Negotiations Team, and yet here you are saying the quiet part out loud that this is a strategic victory for Israel and that's all you care about.
How interesting.
Wait, one second.
Huh, since the fall of the USSR and pan-Arabism, Iran easily is the greatest backer of Palestine
and the greatest enemy of Israel.
If Iran bent the need of Israel like the Arab states, sanctions would be relieved tomorrow
and they could breathe easier.
Do you think Iran genuinely views itself as an anti-imperialist vanguard in the Middle
East?
Is that its motivation?
Maybe not necessarily an anti-imperialist vanguard, or I mean, I think there is that
element to it.
That's what the Islamic Republic is.
That's what the spirit of the Islamic Revolution was.
Like the Iranian Revolution was that.
It was like the inception of the Islamic Republic comes from an anti-imperialist revolution
against Western superpower.
So yeah, I think that is something that motivates them certainly.
But outside of that, I mean, they look at what's going on with the Gulf States and they
don't like it.
They don't want to be like that.
So they want to maintain sovereignty.
Iran is so primarily invested in sovereignty that at times they haven't even fucking gotten
allegiances from countries that are opposed to the United States of America to the degree
that they easily could have secured.
I'm talking of course about the USSR or even in the last decade with China, right?
They want their own sovereignty.
They don't want to create long-standing allegiances with other countries that would then cause
them to be under the influence of another pole in the world.
They want to maintain sovereignty above all else.
They're very proud.
They're a very proud nation.
Things might change with the current IRGC leadership with allegiances to China.
I don't know.
I can't speak on that, but they have always wanted to have zero dependencies.
They'll have some strategic partnerships with Russia and even with China,
but ultimately they want very little dependencies.
They want to, to be self-sufficient. Ironically enough,
it is very Jewish in some ways.
And in the Hormuz Christ through diplomacy is the position,
the entire region of most of the world agree on, except for Israel.
Even the UAE joined other Gulf States and pushing for this,
despite growing tensions over recent months.
Probably wasn't a good idea for Nenyao to publicly embarrass Abu Dhabi recently.
All that said, the biggest challenge for Trump could use to be whether he can get Nenyao
under control or whether Nenyao and his friends in DC will instead seek to control Trump.
The time for Trump to show actual strength is now by telling Nenyao to shut up and shove
it.
Most of the world would applaud him.
Yeah, UAE is a joke country, yes, but it's still important.
and joke countries are saying it's the right thing to do.
Hold on. I have to send this technology.
One second.
Did MBS move away from Israel?
They do say pride comes before the fall.
Sometimes affiliates conflicts or individual nations are showing their own personal power
to attack others.
Sure.
Our deal is the opposite of Obama's, but nobody has seen it or knows what it is.
It hasn't even been negotiated.
I don't even know if it's real.
if i make a deal with iran it will be a good improper one not like the one made
by obama
which gave her on massive amounts of cash and a clear and open path to a
nuclear weapon
our deal is the exact opposite but nobody has seen it or knows what it is
it isn't even fully negotiated yet so don't listen to the losers were critical
about something they know nothing about
unlike those before me who should have solved this problem many years ago i
don't make bad deals president dj t
incredible
anyway uh... if you are understand what's like spoiling the fucking deal
uh... they say it's ninety five percent done
senior administration officially the iran deal is ninety five percent done
but still several days away to a central phases
one open the shirt of homo's to all commerce with zero threats or tolls
to
dust for dollars iran must give up all nuclear does in order to receive a
dollars
adam and gas prices will likely plummet in the coming days admin believes more
moderate voice of taken over taken power in iran
and want to deal radical elements of the i-r-g-c are often using pro iran
reporters and outlist the work
to kill deal with an accurate propaganda it's ironic because that's what the
iranian side is saying
the iranian side keeps consistently mentioning that one they are united and
two
america has given major concessions to their demands
and that
that uh... you know donald trump is just trying to say face
and to not listen to him
and that even the american mediators of told the iranian side not to listen to
donald trump
and his tweets and his statements
one of the biggest challenges with getting a deal done per senior admin is
it often takes days for iran's leaders to respond because they're in hiding and
often communicating with the equivalent of carrier pigeons
yet uh... yeah it's it's humiliating uh...
we haven't been able to open the shirt of horrors of the world's most powerful
military but it's actually them that are humiliated here somehow they're so scared
that's what it is
unbelievable cope
incredible.
Top advisor to Iran Supreme Leader US is trapped with Hormuz.
Top advisor to Iran Supreme Leader US is trapped with Hormuz and will never return to America
of before. Mohsen Rezai, who commanded the RGC for 16 years, the longest tenure in organization
history, and currently serves as a military advisor to Iran's supreme leader Moshtaba Khamenei,
told Tasnim News that Iran has secured a historic strategy of victory, historic strategic victory
against the United States as negotiations continue toward a deal to end the war.
For the first time since World War II, American superpower status has collapsed. America after
the Ramadan war will never return to the America it was before. And we have brought about America's
decline in the Middle East. This is true, by the way. This is not just like propaganda.
The US military designed the recent battle to last in the most pessimistic scenario 15
days, and deployed forces accordingly. After failing in the early days, they sought a unilateral
ceasefire to rebuild their strength, but the wrong strategy prevented their escape, and
the aggressors became trapped in their strategic snare in the Strait of Hormuz.
If the war expands from the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to the Sea of Oman,
Bobo Mondabh, and the Indian Ocean, it will take on vast uncontrollable dimensions.
The enemies, understanding the end of this dark corridor, fear entering the war, and
have turned to the negotiating table.
Iran has strong legal and security justifications for sovereignty over the Shredda Hormuz.
This management is not to block free trade, but to prevent insecurity in military campaigns.
I suspect that it's currently a little bit more difficult for Iran to also transit and
ship out their weapons to Ansarallah, which is part of the reason why the Ansarallah
have been far more restrained, because I assume, again, total speculation.
But the reason why Ansarallah has not shut off Bab el-Mandeb to apply even more pressure
to the American forces is not because Iran is so kind and so restrained or whatever,
but it's mostly because they want to keep their stockpiles ready for Iran to go up the
escalation ladder. Because as it stands currently, Iran can't easily ship weapons and missiles
to the Houthis. So the Houthis have stockpiles, but that's a card that they're not going to
play until America forces their hand. And America must know this. There's no way America
doesn't know this, right? Like, that's part of the reason why they're not going back and
do a straight conflict here. According to their source, the memorandum includes, anyway,
This is Ali Hashem describing what the issues are on the American side and what they are
slow rolling.
According to the source, the memorandum includes the Lebanon ceasefire framework, but Israel's
report of the uncomfortable with the arrangement is pushing Washington to include language
allowing it to carry out military operations in Lebanon under the justification of responding
to any threat.
Iran is rejecting that formulation and insisting on a sustainable and lasting ceasefire.
Tehran has informed all mediators, including Pakistan, that it will not sign the memorandum
unless all clauses are fully agreed and guaranteed. Pakistan reportedly suggested moving forward
with agreed sections while postponing contentious points, but Iran rejected that approach, insisting
the disputed clauses are fundamental and non-negotiable. The overall picture suggests Tehran increasingly
views Washington as backing away from earlier understandings reached through mediators.
Benjamin Netanyahu, Big Yahu, also chimed in.
I spoke last night with President Reel Donald Trump about the memorandum of understanding
the reopen the Straits of Hormuz and the upcoming negotiations towards a final agreement
with Iran's nuclear program.
I expressed my deep appreciation of President Trump for his unwavering commitment to Israel's
security, including during Operation Roaring Lion and Epic Fury when American Israeli forces
fought the shoulder-to-shoulder against the Iranian threat.
Trump and I agreed that any final agreement with Iran must eliminate nuclear danger.
That means dismantling- oh, God, look at this.
Oh, yeah, yeah, President Trump also reaffirmed Israel's right to defend itself against threats
at every front, including Lebanon.
Their partnership between us and our two countries has been proven on the battlefield
and has never been stronger.
My policy, like President Trump's, remains unchanged.
Iran will not have any nuclear weapons.
I am Tel Aviv unimpressed.
OK, Danny Dennis Citrinowitz from the Atlantic Council reports off of Phil Gordon's take.
OK.
Bill Gordon says, the fact that so many proponents of the Iran war are criticizing Trump's looming
deal is less an indictment of the deal than it is of the war.
It means they can't defend the results of the policy they advocated for so long, so
our reducer claiming that the victory would have been around the corner if only Trump
had stayed the course, which only they seem to believe.
Trump doesn't even believe that.
They are right that the deal will leave the US worse off than before the war, but fail
to recognize or at least refuse to admit that the mistake was the war and not the deal.
Fannie also works off of that saying from the Atlantic Council saying, it is also important
to acknowledge that there are people whose entire career is dependent on the continuation
of the confrontation with Iran, admitting that this strategy has failed would inevitably
force a reckoning not only with a collapse of a long held policy concept, but also with
But the fact that their own professional future may suddenly become uncertain.
Important to note.
That is why many of them will continue arguing that just a little more pressure would have
worked, that there is always one more idea to topple the regime that Iran is supposedly
on the verge of economic collapse and its oil infrastructure is about to fail.
That one more strike, one more round of sanctions, one more covert campaign will finally break
the system.
But these arguments avoid the central lesson that should already be obvious.
There is no purely kinetic solution to the problem called Iran.
Everyone understands this reality except for Israel.
Israel is doing everything it can with the unprecedented amount of access and influence
it has with the Trump administration, with the Trump regime, to sully this deal.
This deal that will allow the United States to exit this quagmire.
Once and fucking for all.
And then go back to basics to lick their fucking wounds, but they won't do it.
Anyway, let's continue.
So Iran would continue to manage the strait, calling that its legal right.
We are ready to assure the world that we're not seeking nuclear weapons, we're not seeking
instability in the region.
The source of the instability in the region is Israel.
Certainly, we and those participating in the negotiations will in no way compromise on
the country's dignity and honor.
Within the flux of changing US war aims, preventing Iran from gaining a nuclear weapon has perhaps
been the most constant, but Iran had already committed to just that under the JCPOA, the
The nuclear deal President Trump withdrew from in 2018.
Key to a final deal, the fate of Iran's current stockpile of highly enriched uranium.
In Trump's terminology, the nuclear dust that he insists be removed from the country.
Iran reported to have given a verbal commitment on the scope of its potential concessions
during 60 days of talks to come.
In the meantime, U.S. forces would remain in the region, signaling their readiness to
restart the war.
the president perhaps trying to signal his on his true social platform today.
But if that's to be his leverage, Tehran well aware that Trump will be 60 days
closer to November's midterm elections, raising the cost of restarting an
already unpopular war.
His chief economic advisor already selling the upside.
I'll let the president decide on whether he thinks the deal is ready to go this
week or not. But the bottom line is once the streets are open, then the
tankers are going to go back and they're going to refill the refineries almost right away.
Another man facing elections this year, Benjamin Netanyahu, for whom the outcome of a war he's
so long campaigned for is even more critical.
Today he posted on X that he and President Trump agreed that any final agreement with
Iran must eliminate the nuclear danger, including removing its enriched nuclear material from
its territory.
President Trump also reaffirmed Israel's right.
What is Mali Krav Apple coming out? I'm trying to get the bund in so they can do promo. Oh my god.
Later. Okay, like around 7pm, 6.30 to 7pm.
Chat Fox is talking about the Islamism. Mark says as we speak, killing myself, they're so dumb.
To defend itself against threats on every front, including Lebanon.
Teran, though, understood to be insisting that any deal with the US would also immediately
end the fighting in Lebanon, just one point among several, one which, for all the talk
of imminent agreement, key differences remain.
Well, joining me now live from Houston, Texas is Ben and Ben Tabnu, a senior director of
the Iran program at the Foundation for Defense of Democracy.
Thank you so much for joining us.
What do you make of what has happened over the last 20 years?
It's awesome. They were like, hey, we just wanted to have an agent of Israel
that nonetheless works in the American security apparatus, but is genuinely, as I've described,
with great detail, an agent of the Israeli security apparatus, an agent of the Israeli foreign policy
apparatus. This is not an American citizen speaking for American foreign policy. This
is a direct Israeli cutout. Just remember that whenever we talk about foundation for
defending democracy.
Well, it's a pleasure to be with you. Both of these things can be true at the same time,
the boundaries or the distance of the difference is actually considerably less than before.
If you remember the 50-50 between what Donald Trump used to say versus what would happen
would be either a deal or war, and now it's either a deal soon or a deal later.
So certainly things are moving in a direction that the president wants, which is some sort
of a diplomatic resolution to this crisis.
The question really is, what is the substance of that diplomatic resolution?
Here in the States, they're calling it a memorandum of understanding it's not officially
agreed to and because of that, you know, nail-biter-led process till we actually get this thing across
the finish line, it reminds me of a line from the 2015 Iran nuclear negotiations, negotiations
at a deal which the president then opposed and the line or the mantra about those talks
was nothing is agreed until everything is agreed and I think we're quite literally living
that out today in the headlines.
And as you say, it's being reported that there's not much detail at all, but what do you think
call the sticking points that will still remain in these negotiations. The straight, for example?
Well, there's the straight, but there's also phasing over the straight, whether the Iranians
pull back and allow for a demining mission immediately, or a countermining and minesweeping
mission immediately, and who is composed of that minesweeping mission? Is it just the U.S.? Is it
the U.S.
I'm sorry.
I never thought I would see the day where John Favreau has fallen on such hardship and
such hard times that he decided to join the Israeli Think Tank Foundation for Defending
Democracy.
I mean, this guy literally, this guy is a fantastic director, right?
Like he's great.
He was in Marvel.
He directed Marvel movies and was also an actor.
How did you fall off so hard that you are now working for a foundation for defending
democracy?
What the fuck?
This is international partners.
These are some of the more minor, finer sticking points because it doesn't look like him at
all.
This doesn't look like John Favreau.
Are you serious?
He made chef chatter.
He looks like skinny John Favreau.
Dude, literally, okay, here, I rest my case.
Bairly babes
It's the same guy. It looks like a mixture of him and John Kiriakou
To be that both sides of the green in principle
Reportedly to trade leverage for leverage in the straight-of-form moves the Iranians pulling back the Americans pulling back the blockade
And then trying to buy time or create perucal space for 30 to 60 days of nuclear negotiations
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The left is eating itself online and it's so incredibly depressing is the solution just ignoring it and going outside. Yes, it always is
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have been pouring cold water over the administration's
understandings over sanctions relief,
and how quickly, if at all, they can get the frozen assets.
So this thing is still not at all near done,
despite the hype in the new cycle yesterday.
Sure.
And what about Lebanon in all of this?
Netanyahu wants freedom to be able to attack Hezbollah's
targets in Lebanon.
Iran wants military action against their allies to be sought.
Can that gap be closed in these negotiations, do you think?
Well, I do think this is on the docket, shall we say.
You know, it was Iranian pressure last time.
I know I have some friends and colleagues in Washington who
disagree with me, but it was Iranian pressure last time that
got the Lebanese issue with Hezbollah on the docket that
led to the US and the Israelis flipping the script on Hezbollah
on Iran and trying to push for some kind of meeting, even an ambassadorial meeting between
the Israelis and the Lebanese in Washington hosted by Marco Rubio.
So sure, the Iranians will push for that again.
I do think the Trump administration will want to connect the fronts, connect the dots between
the various fronts of fighting.
What that will achieve, I'm not quite sure, especially if a ceasefire between Israel and
Gaza still allows.
Just finally, can I just ask, what's your sense of how long this will take?
Well, I think it could come as early as this week if there is an agreement.
But if not, again, the U.S. should be comfortable holding the line on the blockade.
This is the single greatest non-kinetic source of leverage against the Islamic Republic.
The SENDCOM coalition has intercepted over 100 vessels going to and from Iran's forts.
If the U.S. wants to get into tough negotiations with this regime over things that have been
very difficult to tackle before, I don't know how it will do so without this blockade.
Ben and Ben Tably, thank you very much for joining us and for your time today. Thank you. Appreciate it. Thank you
The to Cuba where the US recent deployment of an aircraft carrier in the Caribbean and indictment of Raul Castro
Are fueling fears that Washington may be preparing for possible military action against the island in response Havana has called the
It's so crazy that they're like our hands are in already one foot like we're already in the swamp
Deep in the cut with Iran and we're like we're trying to pack that up so we can hastily go over to Cuba
The fuck's wrong with those dude seriously it doesn't make any sense
It's just such a strange thing to do, like there are a million problems in the United
States of America, and this is what this admin is focused on.
This is what this admin wants to advance.
Cuba is even dumber than Venezuela, because at least Venezuela, with Venezuela, there's
like the world's largest known natural reserves of oil.
So at least with Venezuela, there is some kind of immediate material reason.
You could even pair that up with what we're doing in the Gulf as a long-term project to
to make the rest of the world, including China, more dependent on U.S. oil shipments so that
America's leverage against China and every other world power trying to become a regional
power or maybe a competitive superpower, like these growing peer adversary and near peer
adversaries, America might want to have leverage over them, right? Either as a market competitor
with Russia or as a sole provider of oil with China. That's not the case right now, but
it could be, right? That could be in the cards in the future and the actions in the
Gulf if it was successful would play a role in that, right? However, the Cuba thing doesn't
make any sense whatsoever. It's just like advancing boomer grievances. Boomer grievances
paired up with Trump's investment into finding an easy W here, okay? He wants something to hold
on to. He recognizes he lost in Iran and it was embarrassing. So he wants to regain the confidence
both within his base for those who even care about this kind of thing. And I think with Cuba,
not many do. Not many know about it. And amongst those who do, there's a very tiny
number of people, Miami Cubans specifically, that want this to happen. But outside of that,
there isn't really a lot of appetite to fucking wage war against Cuba, right?
There is no strategic purpose, even indecent strategic purpose, to pursuing Cuba militarily.
If you wanted to liberalize the Cuban markets, there is a way to do that. It's through negotiations.
I know for a fact that they are willing to do this because they have done this with Barack Obama in the past, ironically enough.
And Jason Hickle reports on this, and he's right, as always, love Jason Hickle.
Israel massacred six medics in Lebanon today.
This was two days ago, but Western media didn't cover it because they're too busy trying to manufacture consent for an illegal U.S. invasion of Cuba.
First, also Ben Rhodes has some choice words on Iran, but let's move on from that and let's get to Cuba.
Recent developments are pretext for a U.S. invasion and has even circulated a family guide for protection against military aggression to its citizens.
Earlier, I spoke to our Havana correspondent, Ed Augustine, who explained the tensions in
Cuba at the moment amid increased US military pressure on the island.
Take a listen.
It's kind of the oldest joke going in Cuba when the Americans come, right?
Because the government's been talking about it for literally two-thirds of the century.
Hey!
It's Ed Augustine.
That's my friend.
He's a wonderful guy.
One of the brave and resilient reporters that are stationed in Havana still that does the
tireless and often times thankless work of working on the ground and getting the rest
of the world to know what's up, know what's taking place in Havana in Cuba.
A lot of people have traditionally seen it as a bit of a pretext, a bit of, oh yeah,
We've heard that one before. What's changed in the last week or so is that a lot of the
population, even people that don't really tune into politics too much, are now taking this
seriously. The crucial inflection point was on Wednesday when the United States Department
of Justice indicted Raoul Castro. Raoul Castro is still the most powerful political figure
in the country and the human government points out that there was an indictment or there
were claims by the Department of Justice prior to the abduction of Nicolas Maduro that he
was an arch-o-terrorist and so it was in their view a pretext to-
This is what's so crazy is like I tried to explain to people like a country that can
violate all norms and all international law, and decide to set up a sham trial for Nicolás
Maduro, the head of a sovereign state, right, can just as easily do this to its own citizens.
And now we're seeing that. A lot of Americans don't understand where they're like, Oh, who
cares? Like it's fucking this guy's a tyrant is a dictator. He's cruel, blah, blah, blah,
this shit. Like, none of that matters. If that was the case, then there's a way to advance that,
okay? There's a way to, to, to file your grievances. There's a way to engage diplomatically. There's a
way to do this kind of stuff. But America doesn't, doesn't do that. America is a rogue state.
So, what happens when the architect of western-backed international rule-based order behaves like a rogue state?
Well, we're living through it currently.
that
not we should have done that in the first place now i know i know i'm not
saying it was
uh... it was appropriate
this administration to
to do any of that i'm just simply trying to explain to americans
who weren't paying attention or were paying attention or like well the media
told me maduro's a bad guy so
isn't this a good thing overall?
My warning to them was,
if we're doing that
to the head of a sovereign state,
what makes you think that the administration won't do that to you?
You're a regular person, I'm a regular person.
You know, we're just regular American citizens.
They can do that to a whole ass fucking sovereign leader,
the head of a state with a fucking standing military.
They can easily do that to you, Chatter.
to be able to decapitate the Venezuelan government.
And we will see now that oil is effectively
under US control since then.
And now they're doing it to Cuba.
An interesting note to viewers.
A few days after the President of Venezuela
was slashed, the Department of Justice
recognized that the drug organization
that he was supposedly the kingpin of
cartel delos solace didn't even exist as it was more culture just hours after the
u.s. embassy issued the urgent security alert warning of a potential massive oh
yeah rush has been pummeling rush has been deploying a rashniks as well the
bear attack Russia launching one of the heaviest overnight attacks from the air
sea and land using hundreds of missiles and drones including the powerful
I mean, that's not like a ridiculous cl- it's just reality.
US Embassy in Kiev issues security alert Russia launching heavy attack on Russia from
air sea in land on Russia. Damn, I wouldn't go that far. Good morning America. Jesus Christ.
ABC News already decided Ukraine is Russia. That's a bit crazy.
Closer POV. Yeah, here you want to see this?
the fact that he's still up the fact that he's still standing and is still
Filming is insane, by the way.
He just ate that shit.
Yeah, the Lukyanivka District of Kiev saw heavy damage with a shopping center office
complex taking a direct missile hit.
The capital came under heavy attack and at least four people were killed and more than
a hundred others injured across the country.
That number is expected to rise.
And this comes after Putin was threatening to retaliate after accusing Ukraine of carrying
out a deadly attack on a student dormitory in an occupied part of eastern Ukraine killing
21 people.
Ukraine denies hitting civilian infrastructure.
Remember, it was just over a week ago, Russia launched the largest sustained drone and missile attack since the war began,
hitting energy, water, and transport infrastructure, as well as residential buildings.
Putin had suggested the conflict was coming to an end after last night's attack.
Russia's war is far from over.
Rihanna, far from over.
Lama Hassan, thank you for that.
The gunfire overnight outside the White House while President Trump was inside the executive man.
Oh another ballroom for the record another ballroom incident
I mean this happens so frequently at this point that like people don't even give a shit anymore
Uh people just look at this and go oh, okay gotta build a ballroom I guess even supporters of trump
Even supporters of trump don't even try to defend this anymore. They just kind of look at you and go ballroom
question mark
Isn't this wild?
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I like how he's completely safe inside the White House during this whole thing and still thinks he needs a stupid ass ballroom
Yeah, let's get the very latest now from ABC's senior White House correspondent Selena Wang who
heard those shots. Then he did ballroom to stop communist wish-dreamers.
I'll stop. He's right. If they build the ballroom, it's over for me. You know, I'll stop. I can't.
I can't dare. An American president, I can criticize. An American president with a ballroom.
It's a bridge too far a ballroom too far
What is this?
That's insane, dude
Fire Selena we all saw your video very very scary glad you're safe. Good morning to you
Thanks, Geo. Good morning to you too. Yeah, it was a really scary night
I mean I was getting ready to go live for world news tonight right here from this exact camera position
position. When I heard the shots ring out, we immediately ducked for cover. The team
and I then we heard when you're telling your conservative congressman that someone just
took shots of the great big beautiful president and they just hit you with the ballroom question
marks there. Yeah. Yelling from secret service for us to immediately evacuate to the press
briefing room. We sprinted over there where we were locked down for more than 30 minutes.
The president was at the White House while the shooting incident was unfolding. I'm
told that the president has been briefed on the incident, and he's doing fine.
Overnight, gunshots fired near the White House, multiple rounds ringing now.
Doesn't this prove that the ballroom is unnecessary, just like the White House
Correspondents' dinner attempt?
Both of these, both of these attempts were failures.
Okay?
Both of these fucking attempts were failures.
so obviously
it's proof
that there is no need for a fucking ballroom that like they have the
capacity to handle this shit without the ballroom
law enforcement swarming to the scene
barricading off the surrounding area
or shooting
the secret service telling a bc news a man approached a security checkpoint
just outside the White House, took a gun out of a bag and fired shots at officers.
I was there preparing to go live when I heard a flurry of shots fired, close only for the
two sides to remain far apart.
The shots ringing out shortly after 6 p.m. My crew and I quickly ducking for cover.
Trump literally did what you said though. Trump uses shooting outside the White House
to demand his big ballroom. Netanyahu's ballroom? Oh, the Boomer Jokers. God. Boomer memes.
Why do you hate a big beautiful ballroom? This is why they're gonna arrest you because
your anti-ballroom. Honestly, if it means the federal government won't come after me,
I'll say, fucking build the ballroom, you know, I love it. Please, Mr. President.
at the White House, he was detained and involuntarily committed for a mental evaluation.
One month later, he was arrested after he attempted to enter a White House checkpoint,
telling officers he was Jesus Christ and that he wanted to get arrested.
Court records showing a judge ordered he stay away from White House grounds.
Trump was at the White House working in the Oval Office with his aides at the time of the shooting.
And early this morning, President Trump praised law enforcement and the Secret Service for
their quick action at the scene.
It was just weeks ago when we ducked and covered at the White House Correspondents' Center
as we heard gun shots ringing out.
Gio?
Yeah, you were there for both of those, and those videos truly show how terrifying this
was.
Selena Wang, thank you for your reporting.
Now, let's go to Mallon Rivera.
In Washington, on the shooting outside the White House yesterday, Maddie, what can you
tell us?
Hi.
Good morning, guys.
6 p.m. local time so for those that don't know that's usually around the time that
correspondents at the White House are preparing for their evening live shots so many of them
actually heard the shots and some of them scrambled to the ground for cover. The White
House is placed on lockdown for nearly an hour a six.
The ballroom lists White House by the way. Okay not just any White House. But a White
House devoid of a ballroom. A fact that I know is displeasing to hear, which is part of the reason
why I think Fox News is not saying it, but they should be brave enough to say it.
Okay. Fox News, be brave, be bold, be beautiful. By the way, Golden Capitrain is at level eight.
Thank you for all the gifteds.
The Secret Service spokesperson says a person came to the checkpoint near 17th Street and
Pennsylvania Avenue and per their preliminary investigation, they say as the man walked
up he took a gun from his bag and began firing at officers.
The Secret Service shot back and hit the suspect who later died at a local hospital.
Multiple sources now tell Fox News Digital the suspect was identified as 21-year-old
Nazir Bess from Maryland.
allegedly had multiple run-ins with a Secret Service and had a history of mental health issues.
He was reportedly detained by Secret Service on June 26 last year for flagging down agents and
making threats and again the next month for entering a restricted area. President Trump
was at the White House when this happened but he was not affected. The president later reacting
on to social saying this, thank you to our great Secret Service and law enforcement for the swift
and professional action taken this evening against a gunman near the White House who
had a violent history and possible obsession with our country's most cherished structure.
The gunman is dead after an exchange of gunfire with secret service agents near the White
House gates. This event is one month removed from the White House correspondent's dinner
shooting and goes to show how important it is for all future presidents to get what will
be the most safe and secure space of its kind ever built in Washington, D.C. The president
they're appearing to refer to the White House ballroom. White House Aide Stephen
Chung says the president continued working through the evening posting it's
9 30 p.m. on a Saturday night and President Trump is still in the Oval
Office working hard for the American people. He's simply one of one. The
Secret Service says a bystander was shot during the incident but it's unclear
whether they were initially hit by the suspect or during the crossfire.
Thank you, Matting.
With that, let's bring in retired Secret Service Agent Jeff James, who joins us now.
Thank you for joining us this morning, Jeff.
Based on the information that we have right now, and there have been a number of run-ins
with this suspect over the past year and a half, do we think that the obsession of this
shooter this gunman had to do with President Trump specifically or just
the presidency in the White House is there anything that gives us any
indication about that you know nothing initially but that'll be figured out and
in my career I did two years as an intelligence specialist in our intelligence
division and we would see that we would see people who were obsessed with the
presidency period not just one person that goes all the way back to John
John Hinckley actually had plans to shoot President Ford before he eventually shot President
Reagan, so it wouldn't be unusual to see an obsession with the White House and the
presidency as a whole rather than one president.
So Jeff, let me ask you.
Thank you Flying Sever for the gifted sons.
When we look at the actual location, which I believe is 17th in Pennsylvania, where the
gunman was able to at least get to, and fire off shots, wouldn't make of where this occurred
it and does it call for even more hardens? It's very funny to do this from Talladega.
Security around the White House by Secret Service. Well the first thing I want to point out is that
you know the security measures work. This person didn't get inside the perimeter but he shot through
the fence. You know the fence line from the north portico you have about 70 yards to Pennsylvania
Avenue and then this was down on the corner so you're a good you're a good couple hundred yards
away from the White House itself by the time you get to 17th Street, you know, we can't continue.
If we try to move the cordon out any farther at that point, we're starting to encompass businesses
which really lends itself to less security when you encompass a place where more people have to
come and go. So the perimeter, the 18 acres that the White House covers, the perimeters are literally
pushed out as far as they can go right in the center of D.C. there. All right. Jeff James,
Thank you for joining us and for all those details. Appreciate it.
Be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox News latest on YouTube and catch full shows.
A race against time in Southern California as a large pressurized tank filled with it.
Dude, everything is so dog shit, man.
just chaos everywhere wars death destruction no ballroom obviously that's
probably the worst thing that any president or any country could ever
withstand not having a fucking ballroom and and you know this also on top of
that right like Orange County massive fucking toxic chemical blast or a
Potential for a toxic chemical blast. There's chemical leaks that have taken place already
There's real worry that it could dish it could pollute the water supply
And there's no ballroom worst of all there is no fucking ballroom yet
Stop being a doomer it's kind of tough for where I'm standing chatter
I'm gonna keep it a bead. I'm gonna keep it a buck 50
and
if only this chemical plant had a ballroom that could
protect
it and others
contained, you know. I hear news stories about things that are happening level 9,
almost at level 10, 30 seconds remaining. Oh God, we have now reached level 10 on
the hype train, on the Golden Kappa hype train. Thank you everybody for subscribing
to the Piker Broadcasting Service, the People's Broadcasting Service, sponsored
by You the People. For You the People as always, thank you. Your subscriptions allow
me to maintain my editorial independence, which at times puts me in the crosshairs of
some very wealthy and very powerful people, whether it be the wealthiest person on the
planet, Iman Musk, or even the wealthiest government on the planet, the United States
of America.
I was already an op of another foreign government, Israel.
But now officially I can say the American government are my ops as well, at least for
the time being. You know, the country that I am a citizen of, the country that I was
born in, the United States of America. When are we getting the Piker Ballroom service?
I don't have a ballroom, that's why I'm actually under fire. Think about that. If Dems defended
You wouldn't have to be scared. Yeah. No, that's true. If there was at least a competent opposition party
If there was a competent opposition party and that competent opposition party was opposing the administration right now
I would feel a little less worried
That hasn't happened yet. I still have to hold out hope that it will
Just as everyone showed support to Jimmy Kimmel
including ourselves. Felix or Noah today Noah's not here Felix will be on the
broadcast and then we will head over to Molly Crabapple studio so we can learn
about the Jewish bond and the history of Jewish anti-Zionism.
Your subpoena ain't even getting you view shake in my head to else. Wait what?
It's a sunday chatter
Are you okay?
I'd rather have no views and and no subpoena, you know what I mean
Heated at a manufacturing plant called gk and aerospace started leaking due to a broken valve
The tank is estimated to contain 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate, a highly volatile substance used in the production of plastic.
When we pose problems, it can irritate the respiratory tract and repeat exposure can lead to organ or neurological damage.
The plant is located 35 miles from Los Angeles. At least 50,000 residents were forced to evacuate.
evacuate. Police officers came into our area telling everyone to leave and so yeah we all
went and it was kind of stressful because like where are we going to go? This is the
command center and the key players here decided the evacuation zone needs to be roughly 10
square miles due to concerns of toxic fumes or a dangerous fireball. Fire and hazmat teams
working around the clock to cool the tank on Saturday putting their lives on the line
to neutralize the chemical inside, all in an attempt to prevent an explosion.
Authorities warning of another likely scenario.
The tank could spill.
If we burn down a bunch of buildings and a bunch of homes, that's a disaster.
But if we allow this to make it to the ocean and make it an ecological disaster, we don't
want that as well.
So it's essentially one or the other?
It could be both.
Officials say they are preparing for the tank's imminent failure and urging residents to
take this seriously.
Our goal is not to just save our communities.
also to save our environment. And as for a timeline as to when this tank could
fail, authorities say they have no idea. There is simply no precedent for this,
but they are working to try to find a solution.
What a scary situation, Jacqueline Lee. Thank you for that.
And there was one good news from the court system. Federal Judge just Mrs. Kilmar Bregar
Bregar Garcia's human smuggling case in Nashville for an unprecedented and very, very rare reason.
But before I get to that, Rick Scott, my favorite senator, Rick Scott of Florida, is back on
the timeline complaining. He quote retweeted the Fox News piece saying,
a stomp hiker and coping with the cuba stayed in five-star hotels cozyed up
with thugs in the communist regime and completely ignored the innocent political
prisoners being starved and tortured they should be thoroughly investigated
and held accountable for any laws broken in doing so to which I replied with you
were investigated by the feds for doing medicare fraud if I got investigated it
would be for delivering medical supplies you demon also it's so funny to be like
Cuba, Cuba arrests dissidents and tortures them, which is why we should arrest and torture
our dissidents. When Cuba does it, it's wrong. When we do it, it's right. Buddy, we literally
arrest and torture our dissidents in Cuba. What do you think Guantanamo Bay is? Not only
do not only are you advocating for this to happen in america right now with that statement
but you also forget that we do that in cuba in guantanamo bay every part of this is hypocritical
and idiotic was your hype train top score i don't know but we're at 11 and it doesn't seem to uh it
seems that it's going to end because there's only 10 seconds remaining on the golden kappa train
So I guess for today it'll be 11
Unless people do a last second. Oh my god with three seconds remaining ten gifted subs, but it will not
It will not be enough and the hype train ends here
Hype chest open reward golden cap of her 24 hours shared
the
and
She's been going nutty mode
But she's loving that I'm in trouble
Always ahead of the curve of code pink is being subpoena and their co-founders photograph the leader of Hamas
Why do they still have a 5 1c 3 text the applicable status of been calling this out forever and only now people are catching up
Even better Scott bezes you just take away code pinks 5 1c 3. Oh
Oh my God, they're so aggressively trying to do everything they can.
Again, we are a nation of rules and laws for the time being.
Okay.
This is something that's
What is this as I said before follow Turkish money remember what I told you my CI tour source told me about Park is taking money from Turkey the
Names of all involved will be out soon seems like I'm months ahead of even members of Congress on these Islamic foreign influence operations online
For all the bravado, Asan clearly understands this is serious. I'm not gonna lie to you guys,
it's not great, the news is not great, okay, I mean it's bullshit, but it's still not great
that they're after your boy, they're up my ass. He then joked about viewers, with viewers chanting,
free me, responding, free me, free me, I can't believe I'm saying that. For all the bravado,
Asan clearly understands this is serious. Asan calls the scrutiny pure evil, then casually
acknowledges photo with co-pink founder Jody Evans who was also reportedly under
investigation this is Jody Evans who I took a photo with they loved this photo
for some reason I don't know why she's one of the co-founders of co-pink she's
wonderful he also mocks the DSA connection the DSA does not promote me as a
headline member but you know fuck it we ball
so I understand why Fox frames him as DSA Jason and I also understand why I saw
once the pushback on being described as a headline member but the connection is
not imaginary. DSA's own MPC is credited as on with helping drive the merchandise sales,
which tells you they see his platform as valuable, whether or not he wants the formal label.
I'd also remind people that I was covering his house cuba trip before he even arrived.
Wait, this is what the guy looks like? This is what Stu Smith looks like?
The red flags were visible before the delegation even landed.
What? I have a threat on National Lawyers Guild clips on this exact issue, including
their own advice for America traveling the Cuba?
I disagree fundamentally with almost everything he believes, but in perspective not one person
of the co-conspirators of Epstein or in handcuffs until then it's free of sound.
Can't believe I'm typing this consciously and hitting reply.
I'm confused as to what exactly is illegal about his behavior, whether recently or in
the past.
I can understand that people don't like it.
I can understand that people don't like it, but is there anything illegal to subpoena
him for?
Yeah.
Charging people for what seemed to be mostly being an annoying asshole left his media
figure isn't the best look for the government.
Yes, he likely broke some laws really to keep it, but this will still look like a political case.
Yeah.
Hopefully, Jake gets caught up in the investigation, too.
I like that these guys just straight up are like,
yeah, I want the federal government to literally arrest, depose, prosecute, and jail
and, you know, create like a fake criminal charge
Against people that I'm annoyed by on the internet. That's cool, man
You know, you're never getting health care life sucks dick
The president doesn't give a shit about you openly says I don't care about your economic situation at all
I must wage war with Iran at the best of Israel and you're over here being like well
You might as well just like you know kill someone that I don't like on the internet. Here's a real solution for you
Tune me the fuck out. You don't have to hear what I have to say man. Why the fuck are you?
purposefully tuning in to get annoyed over and over again. Why are you going to
outlets that constantly clip shit from my broadcast to piss you off? I don't
understand this at all. That's what I do. There are plenty of fucking people who
annoy me. Guess what I do? I tune it out.
the
of
I
Whatever you think of very valid criticisms of a Sompiker. He's the canary in the coal mine if they hurt him
They will hurt us all yeah, dude
I know all of your very valid criticisms of me is that I'm not like
Sincerely trying to change this system, right?
well
It turns out the federal government has a very different opinion on that issue than you do
Okay
Just take the W no matter how small dude
Yeah, it's just really is very funny that these people are like Hasan is the is a fake he's a phony
He's performative. He's not a real activist at all. He doesn't do any activism
Well, it turns out the fucking federal government has a very different opinion. I wish they also thought that way for the record
It would be nice
Anyway, let's get back to Kilmar-Obrego Garcia
Right now breaking news as a federal judge in Nashville drops human smuggling charges against Kilmar-Obrego
of rego garcia his case made national headlines after the trump administration mistakenly
deported him back to his home country of el salvador in march of 2025 and then was forced
to bring him back to the u.s. The human trafficking charges were brought upon his return. Fox 17
News Karen Aguilar has been on this case from the jump is in studio now with reaction as
well as an explanation of why the judge dropped these charges. Scott Kilmar bro Garcia became
the poster child for the broader national debate over immigration sparking
interest from both sides of this issue. Friday, a federal judge for the Middle
District of Tennessee dismisses Kilmer Albrego Garcia's human smuggling
charges, leading to a celebration for some and disappointment in the system
for others. Sarah, who doesn't want to use your last name as an activist for
the group Children of Immigrants with this victory. There's so much more
peace. Um, there's hope. There's joy.
So what do you live at?
Albrego Garcia's charges stemmed from this 2022 traffic stop in Cookville.
Judge Waverly Crenshaw wrote in his opinion, the evidence before this
court sadly reflects an abuse of prosecuting power. Crenshaw ruled the
U. S. Attorney's office with Middle District, Tennessee, led a vindictive
prosecution against Albrego Garcia. This comes after the Trump administration
mistakenly deported Albrego Garcia to El Salvador. The prosecution then
indicted, Albrego Garcia on the human smuggling charges in May 2025, bringing him back into
the country. Crenshaw writes, the objective evidence here shows that absent Albrego successful
lawsuit challenging his removal to El Salvador, the government would not have brought this
prosecution. Sarah believes Crenshaw dismissing Albrego Garcia's case has bigger implications
for undocumented immigrants. And hopefully there's more cases out there that will be
taken out and overthrown and more people that are able to be suffering.
The U.S. District Attorney's Office sent us a statement which reads in part,
the undisputed evidence shows that the decision to charge a brego was made by a career
prosecutor based solely on the facts and the substantial evidence that a serious
crime had been committed and deserve prosecution.
While we respectfully disagree with the decision to dismiss this case.
Arbario Garcia's attorney also sent us a statement which reads in part,
Kilmour Barrow-Garcia is a victim of a politicized vindictive White House.
We are so pleased that he is a free man.
The U.S. Attorney's Office of the Middle District of Tennessee tells me they are looking to
appeal.
We'll keep you updated on that.
Karen Aguilar, Fox 17 News, your co-grid station.
The South Carolina State Legislature is poised to eliminate, eliminate Congressman James
Clyburn's district.
And this we district things for a lot of people.
Dude, it's a full it's full frontal
It's actually insane
This is
this is a war that they're waging on
every institution
across the board like on the redistricting front, it's about denying black people
any sort of political voice on the court side, they're aggressively pursuing people, they're
doing McCarthyism. With Iran, they're replaying the failures of Vietnam, but in a much faster way.
way. This administration is hitting every piece of regression in American history in
real time in only a matter of two years. They're just straight up waging war on what remains
of American democracy, the democratic process, the courts, the people, sometimes directly
militarily waging war like they did in Minneapolis. It's actually incredible to watch. And I still
think so many people are sleepwalking through it.
House leaders, what is this? House leaders have planned a vote on the bill to create
NIL standard emit chaos of college sports as he said it it would oppose the bill unless SCC schools spoke up on the
Jeremiah in their stays and some calling for black athletes the boycott SCC schools
Republicans are furious and some D's are in a jam
This is great
The Congressional Black Caucus is using their influence here to to
Raise the salience of this issue because it's a ginormous issue. This is about rolling back the clock on
on the civil rights struggle, it's crazy.
And because there is like some degree of outrage fatigue here,
where people can't pay attention
to everything that's going on,
this is some that's just getting left behind.
Right, it feels different because this is the partisan
power grab, it's the direct targeting of one of the most,
if not the most, influential voices of black Democrats.
and Democrats as a whole really,
in modern American politics.
Clyburn has spent decades as a king maker
in the Democratic Party.
His endorsement in 2020 helped rescue Joe Biden's campaign
and cleared a path for him to the White House.
But if Clyburn's district is eliminated,
the story, it's bigger than Clyburn.
It's about whether black Democrats
will be able to elect a representative
of their choice in South Carolina for years,
for decades to come.
My family lives in South Carolina, I know this well.
Clyburn was only the ninth Black member of Congress
ever elected from South Carolina.
And as he writes in his book,
the first eight served during reconstruction,
right after the Civil War.
Then came Jim Crow voter suppression,
racial gerrymandering,
and for generations,
no Black South Carolinian returned to Congress.
That history is why Clyburn himself
has called this redistricting push Jim Crow to criminal.
because it could be decades until another black Democrat
can be elected from South Carolina,
all because of how the state,
how Republicans drew their minds.
If that happens, the state could be on the verge
of repeating a chapter of its history, a dark chapter,
that took more than a century to undo.
For more analysis like this, conversations like these,
you can check out my podcast, Clock It,
with Ms. Simone Sanders Townsend.
Captain Lincoln, the bio to follow.
And then this big week for us here,
exclusive polling from Picks 11, the Hill and Emerson College on the three most hotly
contested primaries in the city here in New York's 7th, 10th and 12th Congressional District
showing two toss-ups and one potential blowout. Our Henry Rossoff has those numbers.
In the 10th Congressional District that's lower Manhattan and Brooklyn neighborhoods like Park
Slope and Sunset Park, Congressman Dan Goldman is well behind in our poll as he seeks a third term.
Former Comptroller Brad Lander is ahead by 34 points, leading Goldman 57% to 23%, with 20% of voters undecided.
Goldman's team says his internal numbers have things much tighter.
The consensus among political watchers that Lander, backed by Mayor Mamdani, might be ahead,
but no one was expecting it to be by this much.
In the 12th congressional district, that's Midtown in the Upper East and Upper West sides,
there's a battle to replace outgoing Congressman Jerry Nadler.
Nabila's protégé, Assemblyman Micah Lasser, is leading our poll at 22 percent.
Assemblyman Alex Boris, who talks a lot about the future of AI, is at 20 percent.
Then social media commentator and grandson of President Kennedy Jack Schlossberg is at 11 percent.
He's followed by Republican intern Democrat and President Trump critic George Conway,
who's running on an impeached Trump platform. But note, still a lot of undecided voters at 32 percent.
next is new york seven along the waterfront in part
yeah i mean it's uh
bradlanders gots in the f***ing bag
on new york 12 they're all they're all terrible
boris could potentially be a unique one
he could have been a he could have been a good candidate
but he's so bad on israel
he's just so unbelievably bad. I mean, he's better than the other ones. He's better than
And he's better than the rest.
and
can't ask you dropped out yet
and New York is New York has its own real California style situation
on maybe for New York 12 they're all excited about it
The
majority of voters feel safe in their neighborhood.
In the 12th district, Mamdani supports a 66, which is lower than other districts.
I don't think they pulled her, but.
He's backing fellow Democratic Socialist Assemblywoman Claire Baldez, who's at 23%.
Velazquez is a chosen successor who has a lot of experience in local politics,
is Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso at 21%.
Councilmember Julie Juan is at 13%.
Once again, a high number of undecided voters at 43%.
The mayor is broadly popular among Democratic voters in all three of these districts,
among democratic voters in all three of these districts.
And he's putting a lot of time and effort in particular
to support Valdez in the seventh.
And now to dig deeper into those polls
and more were joined by our picks panel,
our own senior political reporter, Henry Rostov,
professor at University of Mount St. Vincent, J.C. Polanco,
and the politics reporter for New York Focus, Nick Garber.
So, great to have all three of you with us.
Let's get into these poll numbers.
All really interesting numbers here, a lot of undecided.
So, there's a lot of fill of game to play here.
The biggest surprise though I think came from the Comptroller Brad Lander and the Congressman
Dan Goldman race and just the kind of overwhelming number going for Brad Lander.
So how much of it can really start with you, has to do with the candidates themselves here?
I think quite a bit actually in this particular case.
I mean Lander's represented at least parts of this decision for a long time in the city
council.
He was a citywide official as Comptroller.
He's backed by Mayor Mamdani.
He's got a really big well of goodwill in this district where I think Mamdani is, you
You know, has 80% job approval among Democrats.
The poll also showed.
And then Congressman Goldman is a step out of touch
with where the Democratic Party is going on his position
on funding Israel, supporting Israel,
and those politics in general.
So on immigration, they kind of go back and forth,
but both have done different things that are both
in the minds of Democratic voters.
I would consider probably laudable.
But the real flash point is Israel and the well of good
well that Lander built up last year.
Yeah, I guess you see when you look at this,
anything have to do with what Henry's just talking about. There's the Mamdani
effect for Brad Lander who endorsed him right away and Kathy Holco came out for
Dan Goldman. It's kind of like you have the governor and the mayor at odds here.
Did any of that matter? It is everything. Yeah. Look, Mayor Mamdani is incredibly
popular amongst the Democrats in that district. That endorsement is gold. What
you're seeing in that poll, it's not because Goldman is a bad Democrat.
Goldman is one of the leading Democrats in Congress against the Trump
administration, he's made a career out of making sure that they hold Trump accountable.
He's with the district on abortion, on immigration, on taxes, ICE, everything.
The only difference is that he did not support Mayor Mamdani when he was just in Assemblymen
a year ago today.
Had he endorsed Assemblymen Mamdani, this would not be happening today.
That's just a fact.
So I think it goes a lot to say with the cult of personality around Mayor Mamdani and the
power of his endorsement.
I think that the only person that rivals that kind of wielding the kind of power in the party is President Trump that endorsement from President Trump and the Republican primaries go just like Mayor Mamdani's endorsements.
I mean, it's quite stunning to see someone without scandal. I mean, Goldman's been scandal pretty well in Congress to be behind by 34 points in the primary. I mean, that's, that's just a stunning fact of the matter there.
And then you have that race and then you kind of hop over to New York seven.
dude
mom donnie is the mayor of new york but also the president of new york okay in
new york city
he's the mother fucking president pretty much
i think
once again
i'm in mom donna stand right now
and i will say it
he should
straight up
all of his clout
and support
into the entire ds a slate
and not pick and choose
some of the
uh... some of the races were
uh... he doesn't mind
uh... moving his influence or moving his way around but all of them
uh... relatively unknown in claire valdesnik
uh... against the brooklyn borough president and twenty one also in a
councilman julie won
and in a normal circumstances you think the brooklyn borough president would
kind of go all the way on this one
but again the mayor here is influence kind of endorsing and going with claire
valdes has kind of launched her now to the top of the line
What do we know much about her and how does she differ from the others?
Yeah, I mean, Mayor Romani there was, as is the document, there was kind of a messy process that led up to his endorsement of Claire Valdez.
She's not, you know, incredibly well known, even in the district where she, you know, partially represents in the assembly.
She's only been in office a couple of years.
There was a question that, you know, maybe he could have come to more of a consensus with outgoing Congresswoman Velasquez and, you know, reached a candidate who they could have both supported.
Well, she, well, Velasquez herself went after Renosa.
I mean, that was her.
Totally, but I think before that there was a question that maybe they could have settled on someone like Tiffany Caban
Who's in the city council is DSA is also Latina and has been you know has has sort of deep I think these events will turn out
Positive for you a lot of people can't comprehend that even it that a Twitch streamer got subpoenaed. I mean, I don't know
I'm sure they'll figure out a way to be like no, it's actually good and he should go to fucking prison
I've seen too much of that
Yeah, Mayor Zoran, I'm Donnie Stopson, Maria Hernandez, Park and Bushwick to fire up a crowd of canvases for Clairville does on a rainy cloudy afternoon.
Clair is where we want her to be in the lead.
And for the record, Zoran is not the fucking kingmaker here.
And neither am I, obviously.
But Zoran does have a lot of clout.
clout, especially in New York, and he should swing it around in the same way that he's
doing. What is this? Here, Clairville, this is Ron. He does not want to go against those
that support him. I mean, he is going against someone who supported him, though. The outgoing
Congresswoman, the outgoing Congresswoman, Nidia Velazquez had a different hand-selected
pick here, Antonio Rinozo. So if he doesn't mind sticking his neck out here, you should
do so with Espayot in the Dara-Liza race as well.
Claire Valdes speaks explaining how New York based groups collect money to fund the ongoing
displacement of violence against Palestinians. Oh yeah, this was, uh, the not on our dime act.
What is this? Ash St. Clair, the mother of Elon Musk's kids, since now,
look busy for shocking explicit disturbing corruption, workplace abuse, and
and a mega sexuality hypocrisy all revealed out now on YouTube.
Is no one trying to primary Richie Torres?
Michael Blake is trying to primary Richie Torres.
Are you know those supported Zoran day one too? Yeah.
You got subpoenaed when? I haven't yet officially.
I haven't officially been subpoenaed.
Fox News claims I've been subpoenaed.
But I expect it to happen.
Any way.
It's in the district.
Yeah, I mean, based on the poll,
it seems like maybe not an ideal result for Antonio,
or I know so that, you know,
you would think that starting out this early in the campaign,
he as the Borough President would have the initial lead,
but not even, yeah.
I can't believe what I'm seeing in that poll.
Claribel, this is a newcomer.
She came out of nowhere.
The borough president has been there forever.
He's been now a two-term borough president
before that two-term member of the city council,
before that chief of staff in the city council.
It goes to show you that cult of personality support
of having Major Maldonis endorsement.
No other planet would this be happening.
So that just came from Texas.
Is it the case of that or is it that people don't want
what's so-called establishment
and when somebody kind of falls
That's not the case. I just explained to you not only is he a young guy, but he's incredibly progressive
I mean right off the bat on everything. He's ultra progressive
The fact is he did not get the endorsement of Mayor Mamdani, and that's just incredible to me that kind of power that Mayor
Mamdani is wielding in some of these districts. I do think voters are still wondering what to make of Valdez
Because it's not like she's running away with this thing that particular congressional race in our polling at the highest number of undecided
I think in the neighborhood of 43%. So I think the voters themselves are like, wait, I know Antonio Mayor Mondani
What's wrong with Antonio? And he's pointing to this other woman. Okay. Tell me more about her
So I think that race is the most fluid, you know, we're seeing in our polling. Yeah, I forgot about you guys
You know, it's interesting
I think that in all of these cases that we're watching third part of the third person on that poll
It's gonna have incredible influence at the end. Do you're looking in the Renault's?
Julie one has that around 11% if she sees the writing on the wall
she sees that she may not be pulling this off, then she could give her endorsement to
Reynoso and really change the...
I mean, although she makes the case, you know, that this district's a lot about immigration
issues, she's just, I'm the only immigrant on this ballot, you know, I'm the only true
immigrant story on this ballot, you know, and that's not worth nothing.
There was a big flash.
I mean, it's New York City, and I think all three are either children of immigrants or
like have a deep connection in their immediate family to immigration into this country.
So, right, isn't Claire also, Claire herself is not an immigrant, but like, I think her
parents are first generation, right?
Yeah, this guy's talking a lot of shit for wearing the exact same glasses that Claire
wears.
Oh my god, I heard he, he talks shit about me on this too.
lost it in Los Angeles. Spencer Pratt says if he doesn't win mayor of Los
Angeles, America's second largest city is doomed. Four more years LA is cooked
cooked, like done, burnt, cooked. Is Karen Bass targeting fire victims? Pratt's
aggressive social media videos. Nobody in charge will listen, I will. Reaching
millions around the world. Why I'm resonating is because people have eyeballs.
Some of the supporters see the one time reality show. Oh my god
He looks very different. He is Maga fight completely
It's actually remarkable how how much of a Timu Trump situation it is
I'm gonna be honest dude, there's a lot of outside money backing
Spencer Pratt, there's a lot of like national Maga
that wants to get like any kind of W they can they know care and bass is weak
they know there's no like viable real solid reliable alternative
so it's just a very
Um, it's just, it's a very interesting situation, you know, Pratt wins.
You finally, Pratt wins you, you finally move to New York, buddy.
I might have to move to wherever, whichever fucking federal prison I'm going to.
You know what I mean?
I can't believe how bad
American politics is because and and tim dillon is right for what he's about to say here
um
Spenser proud already inked the fucking reality tv deal with boardwalk pictures or roll cameras as he runs for mayor
Like he doesn't give a fuck about anything
And it's crazy
That there are enough dumbasses in los angeles. It seems that look at this situation and go, you know, I don't really care
Fuck it. Why not?
He is clearly a fucking calm man in every way shape and form
Trust on baby loses all of his money
Bankrupts businesses sells crystals is maga loves Alex Jones
Pro fucking ice pro Trump. What are we doing?
We
Los Angeles says like what 10% support for Trump at this point and they have a higher percentage
for Spencer Pratt who is a
Worst version of Donald Trump watered-down version of Donald Trump who will have direct impact
on
your lives
The time, despite warnings about fire weather conditions for days before the blaze, in my
interview with Mayor Bass, she claimed she didn't know about the extent of the warnings
and wished she never made the trip.
When I talked to the chief when I got home, basically the response was, well, we always
have Santa Ana winds.
We didn't anticipate them being this bad.
At least 12 people died during the Palisades fire, according to city officials.
You cannot just move on and act like, oh, I was in Ghana,
oopsie daisies, like, no, you should have resigned,
you should have admitted to your failures.
This is where Mayor Bass lives, you notice something?
In a recent ad, Pratt visited Bass's official residence
and then his burnt out life.
This is where I live, they let my home burn down.
But TMZ reports that Pratt hasn't ever lived
in that airstream behind him,
and often stays at the Pricy Hotel Bel Air,
or at a family home in Santa Barbara County.
I don't live at the Hotel Bel Air,
and I don't live in Santa Barbara.
I live in that dirt, and that's my fight.
And I had to take a minute to run for a man.
I mean, how have you killed a prince of a town called Bel Air?
Spencer mocked the TMZ story in a parody
of Will Smith's Fresh Prince of Bel Air opening theme.
It's so ridiculous that anyone is
focusing on whether my airstream is parked in my dirt
lot or I drive it to the Hotel Bel Air.
TMZ also reported that he signed a deal
to film a reality show with his family
about his political run.
Like if a Netflix, I had a Netflix show,
it wouldn't be getting broken by Harvey Levin.
I would have made my own videos.
Brett says as LA mayor,
he'd try to fight future fires faster.
Yeah, he's denying it.
I definitely don't believe it.
I definitely believe that he has inked a deal.
Remember when Spencer Pratt leaked photos
of an intoxicated Mary Kate Olsen for a few bucks?
Once it's come back, always it's come back.
Okay, that's not a few bucks, that's 50,000 bucks.
That's a lot of few bucks.
A lot of the tepid neoliberalism and the centrism has obviously opened up for the first time
ever a unique opportunity for the left to have these insurgent campaigns and win, right?
But also, we're not the only ones who are recognizing how weak the Democrats are.
Unfortunately, right-wing populists are also trying to take advantage of that weakness.
And it's created this very unstable environment where if there isn't a strong contender on
the left that everyone can unite behind, you have people like Spencer Bratt taking advantage
of that opportunity.
We put 20 dip sites around these communities because right now, if we have these dip sites,
they hit the water, boom, they hit the water, and then we also connect pools.
In terms of LA's homelessness crisis, he has to enforce the laws already on the books.
This isn't happening in Beverly Hills.
You can go have dinner there.
Why do you think that is?
Because they enforce their laws.
as many on the street are addicted to drugs. He created a new place to take...
Oh yeah, by the way, you know, Yimbyism, Nimbism, whatever, okay.
The reality of the matter is there is a third alternative,
worst in both of those different ideologies in terms of how we must build new housing units.
And that is of course,
People who claim that people are homeless not because they're priced out of the housing market
but because they're fucking drug addicts and they're mentally ill and they kind of deserved it and
that unfortunately is dispenser prep method and of course of course that's the one that's taking
That's the one that's getting a lot of attention.
It's time to radically go in a new direction with mandatory treatment and it's going to
be incredible.
This isn't a jail.
This is a place where people are going to go and have a chance to come back and say,
Pratt says his center would include treatment workforce training and be located on federal
land outside of Los Angeles.
It's going to be somewhere where people will go and they go, thank God for Spencer.
This is the greatest thing in the United States of America.
Everyone needs to copy this model.
Who pays for that?
I have literal billionaires.
I've met with 30 of them lined up.
Not to mention my plan.
They're going to pay for it themselves.
They are ready to go.
They are ready to go.
It doesn't need to be all privately funded.
But you know there's going to be all sorts of pushback.
There's going to be people in the city council that pushes back.
There's going to be folks that are homeless advocates that are pushing back.
of the bigger system is going to push back even harder.
The communities that are being destroyed,
being endangered by this giant system.
So where would Spencer and his family live if he wins?
Getty House in Hancock Park has been the official residence
of the LA mayor since 1977.
Would you live at the mayor's home, the residence
in Hancock Park?
Absolutely not.
Because we have a housing bed issue.
So I'm going to use all the beds in that mansion
for these single mothers that we keep hearing about
that are living on the street.
And where would you live?
I will be where they are very upset
that I'm not out every night in the Palisades.
But I need a fence.
We need to connect the water.
OK.
OK.
Brad has been sharing out AI-generated videos created
by his fans on his own social media.
What is the thought process for you
in terms of what you share out and what you don't share out?
The amount of things that I'm getting tagged in a day.
Like, I will, if somebody says, Volper, Spencer, Brad,
I don't say that, that's a re-post, you know, obviously I could vet things more.
One AI video shows residents throwing tomatoes at bass.
It is absolutely 150% fiction, but what's worrying me now is, is that his social media is now taking one of the-
AI famously popular in Hollywood right now, dude, I know everyone in town hates this shit.
but honestly, I'm telling you man, people are that fucking fed up and that dumb.
I think Karin Bass likes a matchup between her and Spencer Pratt.
Karin Bass on the other hand does not like a matchup between her and even Nithya, which
I think she still has a shot at defeating Nithya as well, because Nithya unfortunately
is also uniquely weak on rhetoric.
She hasn't received support from her own organization, DSA LA, to the same degree that's necessary
to push her over the edge.
I'm being very sober in my assessment here.
I'm being very honest.
But Nithya would present a challenge to Karen Bass, whereas Spencer Pratt also represents
the challenge Karen Bass, but she's just relying on the don't vote for Trump voters in Los
Angeles, if she matches up against Nithya or matches up against Spencer Pratt rather
than, uh, Nithya Raman.
Violent terms, which is the funniest thing I've ever heard coming from the
lady who allowed 12 people to burn alive and she's worrying about AI.
So can Spencer Pratt actually win as mayor of Los Angeles?
Clearly there are signs of support for him all over Pacific Palisades.
The challenge is Palisades is a relatively small part of the massive city of Los
Angeles, nearly four million residents and an estimated two thirds of them are
Democrats. Pratt is a registered Republican. In LA city elections, a candidate's political party is not listed on the ballot.
Four years ago, Bass and her allies ran countless ads on TV and social media reminding voters of her opponent, Rick Caruso's
Republican past. It worked.
Bass won that election by nearly 10 points. Do you fear that they're gonna do that same thing to you?
That there's gonna be a massive onslaught of money to tell everybody that you're a Republican?
They could they could do
Skyriding all day long. I'm about to do skyriding. So I got a
They can do anything they want every one that supports me is a Democrat
Democrats do not want naked drug addicts in front of their kids at the park in school period. Why are you a Republican?
well
you want to I
mean he's
He's anything and everything that suits his purpose
What is this, the Sompikers left his rivals already throwing him under the bus?
I bet these guys DM.
I'm completely at the disposal of the Trump administration if any more information on
Marxist communists the Sompiker is needed.
Good point.
I hit it when my rivals throw me under the bus.
That is so unexpected of rivals.
of the
weirdo dude I
Mean yeah, he's memeing right there, but he doesn't give a shit about anything
He like a lot of people ironically think that he is this sincere revolutionary
When in fact he does less than even I do and
is unbelievably toxic and
Also seemingly a
Slop merchant himself. He got a little taste of that
Drama culture and he leaned into it pretty heavily he went from writing he went from doing
Videos about how easy it is the grift to say like fuck us on
To
Doing that
leftist Lee and
Many people actually fell for it
There are decent amounts of people in this community that literally fucking fell for it
He's become the same as sex bestie. No discernible worldview. Just singular focus on on
You know improving his bottom line
He's lost his damn mind
Yeah, it doesn't even deserve
My addressing it at all. Let's be real. It's like desperate
He's so desperate begging Noah to have him on the fucking fund-raising stream, please have me on
He derails every conversation to whatever his like personal project is and he does ironically
use
With and this is perhaps like the most disgusting element he uses the the genocide of the Palestinians
To make it seem like he's actually tackling the issue from a moral perspective, but his hyper focus
clearly betrays how important this issue is to everyone, including himself.
Anyway.
He literally went from, oh, Ouvison was a sincere issue.
If Ouvison was like a real, yeah, he went from making this video,
The Sampai group session is not normal. Please seek help 10 months ago to literally leaning into that obsession
And then
And then his his fan base is, you know marginal for the most part
But instead of like trying to advance the cause of of palestinians instead of advancing anti-zionism
Uh, many in his community think that like the best possible way to do it is like direct
hatred at
Those he has put in his crosshairs
Sometimes, those who he puts in his crosshairs are actually Zionists. In many instances, they used to be liberal Zionists and Zionists alike.
Ultra Zionists to liberal Zionists. Now he's decided there's maybe a better market to carve out a niche for himself, which is to go after other critics of Israel, more prominent critics of Israel than he.
and, you know, try to, you know, eat away at that market share in his mind, I guess.
I don't think about it in these terms, but it's very clear he does.
It's very strange.
So yeah, I think he is, you know, meming.
But if he hadn't fallen off the fucking deep end, I think this would probably be a turning
point for him, where he would say, yeah, honestly, this is a bridge too far.
It's very clear that Trump is prosecuting political dissidents and doing it on the basis
of internationalism.
Any sort of real physical commitment to helping those who are in the crosshairs of American
imperialism is met with this level of, you know, federal government scrutiny.
This is very clearly the American Empire reinforcing its cruelty not only upon people unfortunate
enough to be born in the periphery, but also even people who are trying to support them
in some way, shape, or form.
But instead of doing that, because he's not in any way should perform committed to anything,
just as he spent months and months leading up to the Cuba aid convoy disparaging it over
and over again, he has redoubled his efforts in memeing about how Donald Trump is doing
the right thing.
news here. It's in my, you know, I've told this before. This is the only time I've ever
said this. So this is breaking news. Everyone's gonna freak out. When I was a hated reality
star. Yeah, I got so many death threats. I had so much security and police. And what
did they tell me to do? Get a gun. This is right. No people don't like guns, but LA was
dangerous if you're hated. So I got a gun. My wife got a gun. And then we needed CCWs.
A CCW is a legal permit to carry a concealed weapon in California.
The only people that supported a CCW was the Republican.
That was what I aligned with my safety, my personal safety, my family's safety.
I know people don't like guns, but when people are threatening your life and your own security
is telling you you need to have home protection trained, because it's not like just I went
to the, you know, go through the proper steps.
That was my...
That's it.
That's it, pure, that's it.
And he felt like that party was more pro-second amendment.
And I know that's a very hot button, but here's the thing.
I'm also going to be the mayor that puts LAPD in front of every school
to make schools safe from guns.
Who is your political role model?
Jesus Christ.
Okay, I mean, that's what you're saying.
He was a politician, he had to go in and...
Are there any modern...
Dude, he is farming so fucking hard, it's crazy.
Oh my lord.
My political role models, Jesus Christ, is wild, okay?
He does not give a fuck about any of this stuff. It's so transparent. It is crazy.
God, he's not even that good at being a crook and yet people eat it up.
And politicians that you're especially scutting or drawn to.
No, I'm not a politician, I want to be a fighter for the people.
But you've mentioned though that-
Obama, yeah, I'm most similar to Obama.
What is one word that separates you from your competitors?
Truth.
And he says the Obama comparison because they are both community advocates.
So we sat with Pratt for nearly an hour.
I encourage you, check out the full unedited conversation.
Alright, Felix is here. We're gonna be moving to, we're gonna be, we're gonna be moving to
Molycrab Apple Studio. We're gonna make haste and get over there ASAP. So I'm gonna swap over the
camera monitor real quick. And then you can take the other, you can take the
The camera everything should be charged and ready. I hope it's not fucking broken and busted because that would be
devastating
but
Yeah, i'm gonna
I'm gonna bust open the noise gate here. So we're we're gonna be using the noise gate
Sorry, it's gonna be loud for a second chatters
But i'm gonna have to use an uh the the regular mic for a brief moment while we swap over
as Felix gets in
Okay
And I'm gonna leave Felix with you for a second to say what up to the community while I go pee real quick
All right on it Felix Biedermann everybody. Hello everyone. It's been a while
all right, um
Okay, buddy, that's not your fucking name. Elex Michelson
Alex
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it's clearly not this guy's fault
parents were doing something they thought that
the pressure of having a first name that began with an a would be too much for
him or
uh...
they wanted to differentiate him but it in any event i just really
i don't like that spelling i'm going to be honest with you
uh...
what i need
and uh... what what
are you guys fans of this
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so i'm in the uh... vehicles day
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doors
uh... people like elix mickelson i'm saying
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uh...
okay
okay
well i'm going to have an open mind i don't like fuck with this too much but
we're gonna hit play
we're going to be extended for the rest of the day candidates for l.a. there
i really used to watch races in the country
okay
She should be a member of the Dumpster
He didn't even swap over to the Dex, you couldn't even see what he was reacting to
That's my style of streaming
I heard from afar what you were looking at and I thought I had to run over a pissing
everywhere
That's podcast style react content
Yeah, yeah, yeah, no, they they got the they got the experience in real time the glory
Felix Biedermann
Uh, today we're gonna be we're gonna be talking those look kind of like hitlery today. Yeah, that's crazy. Okay. Well, I'm not like
Intention saying I'm not trying to be like say hi to the to the fox news
The the fox news producers that apparently sit in my chat
Uh, and also, uh, what's the name stew smith from the Manhattan Institute? He like they got
They got a couple guys that just like sit in here now and get paid to watch me and also probably the FBI
What as well? I well, you know I
This is I never like moments like that anyone who has a career in media knows as moments like this
You never like things like this where
Multiple people you like are going at each other. Yeah, I'm friends of the Manhattan Institute
I'm friends of course of the federal Bureau of Investigation. I thought I was gonna say bad empanada and destiny
But don't you think my roommates? Yeah, I think I never talked about my personal life. Yeah, he loves white Latinos
That's his that's his tendency. I used to you know as a child
I thought about killing myself to come back as one, but they told me didn't work that way
Yeah, but you know that's life
But you just you have to get used to it. You have to get used to it. You can't
Adjudicate things for people you just got to let things play out
uh... and
well
uh... yeah but
he's
what's the deal this elix michelson guy i thought i'd like he's not his name
i like him and non-centerly spelled name is sort of a gold mine for an
entertainer
yeah he's uh... uh... i've known him for years he's uh...
in an offensive uh... fox eleven local news
corresponded he's risen through the ranks he's on cnn now he's like that
He's their like main LA bureau guy.
He looks awesome.
Like he does the late night.
He's taller than me.
Is he really?
Yeah, he mocks me.
Like whenever we stand next to one another,
he always mocks me.
He looks like, I mean,
I forgot the name of the guy in ABC, who I love.
But he's-
Oh, with the long face?
Yeah.
Yeah, he has a much more normal like face shape.
Are we ready to go, by the way?
You can, you can, oh, you've been able
to pull the camera out.
I already, yeah, this whole time
I was on the laptop camera.
yet like if uh...
if they made the movie like armageddon now he would be like the news guy
i'd love to have a look
he's very good and then you know you're you're yeah david mirror that the hands
he's so handsome
it was great i mean uh... you know what
uh... i i've been i've been thinking about how you you guys i keep saying that
there's only two forces on the planet
they've been able to defeat trump is a midst of irgc in china
uh... it's certainly not the democrats
uh... but uh...
we we think about the the new ceasefire deal that uh...
this time doesn't seem like a barack ravine special but like genuinely does
seem close
yeah until yesterday when benjamin india who made a boss call
yet both colors made but uh... yeah
where um...
did direct reference to the thing from the boosty tweet not the incident in
white house
That kind of boss call.
No, I don't know.
I mean, I, it's hard to say because like, you know,
if you're Miriam, yeah, you spent all this fucking money
for something, right?
Yeah.
But also you do, they haven't suspended elections yet
and they're just, they need to do fucking something, right?
And nothing short of like, okay, we can go back to doing,
the Trump one special.
Let's go back to doing the thing that we were doing
before that I ran against and under a different name.
Like when he renamed NAFTA, the USMC.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, that was dope.
He's renaming the JCPOA right now.
He's, I think, I mean, depending on how things go
with the car, are we ready to go?
Wait, did you put the shotgun mic on?
Where is it?
It's in the bag, that one on the ground right there.
Yeah.
He renamed the JCPOA to whatever is
going to take place with Iran.
It's a much nicer deal for Iran.
At the end of it, once he basically
imprisons the foundation for defending democracy, guys,
because I feel like that's where this is going to head.
The more Israel pushes, there has to come a point
where donald trump basically goes okay mariam gave me a lot of money okay
i'm the most compromised president uh... of all time
uh... but
also
this is this is ridiculous like i'm getting destroyed here
uh... i'm getting jay me diamond boss calls on a daily basis now
the economy is is tips up
uh... everything is is dog shit
and
the number of my fans that are trying to assassinate me have have like
my fans keep getting bored yeah my fans keep getting bored and yeah let's let's
bring both in the splitter to though
yeah yeah but actually you know what now let's just go with the fucking shotgun
mike
yeah yeah let's do that is there a less violent name for that technology yeah
well i have poor violence all right
i'm gonna run you uh... this interview while we transit real quick
on let me let me put the address in and then uh... we're gonna be heading over
to
molly crab apple studio to talk about the the jewish bond movement
uh... and i thought to myself you know philips would be
philips would learn a thing or i don't like that i've been you know
after the court-ordered sessions i'm pretty ready for this yeah this is this
is philips is uh... marjorie taylor green goes to the holocaust museum and
writes and
writes a book report my dad i don't do right i think they all would have been
believers like what justin people got to mad at him for that he was a
little boy. He also meant it in a positive way. Yeah, it's like the best thing you can be. Yeah.
Me and my brother went to a Holocaust museum. Not like the, you know, I don't know how serious
you guys are about rankings. I don't know if WatchMojo has a video like the 10 most respectful
museums, but we went to the one in DC, like one of the more reputable ones. And we,
we got this is like 1520 years ago and we were walking around and we went this is kind
of like you know basically we know all this shit like yeah we we learned all we were
fucking AP US losers what this is so great and then we heard this woman came feed from
us look at one of these giant pictures on the wall they were just stultifying images
and go, oh my god, they didn't let them
even wear makeup back then.
And we went, oh, that's who this is for.
Yup.
That's who they have this for.
It's for like that woman.
Midwestern.
Like not for us.
Midwestern moms, like that's their date.
And that is the primary takeaway that they wouldn't even let.
They wouldn't even let people do makeup.
Kim Charles would have taken Hitler out.
Oh, jeez.
Wouldn't have gone that far.
Okay, let's, all right, I'm gonna leave you guys with this video.
And we are, we're heading, oops, turned the wrong thing off.
And I'll see you on the other side, chat.
star-turned-community activist Spencer Pratt battling it out for second place
behind Bass. If no one gets above 50% on June 2nd, the top two advanced to a
runoff in November. The generosity of the homeless drug zombies that Karen
Basoulou and Nithya Raman left Rome free. Pratt is getting by far the most clicks
on his social media content. I don't want this kind of language in my city. I
don't want this injected into my politics and I hope Angelino's stand up
on June 2nd and reject it.
Free childcare, cleaner streets,
and safer neighborhoods.
Like New York Mayor Zoran Mondani,
Rahman is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America.
How do you see the comparisons between the two of you?
I appreciate his urgency on making sure
that the city is working for working people.
And I share that urgency.
And so I appreciate that comparison,
because I think that is a shared idea about what
the city should be doing.
Raman is a mother of two who got her bachelor's from Harvard,
a master's in urban planning from MIT.
Her husband wrote and produced for ABC's modern family.
She's been on the city council since 2020.
Does the city get more progressive, if you are mayor?
I think that the city, you know, I am a proud progressive.
But to me, I think the most progressive thing you can want
is a city that really functions to help people.
And on every single metric that the city is supposed
to be providing essential services.
Our city has gone in the wrong direction
instead of in the right direction under her leadership.
Our streets are worse.
We have more potholes.
We have tens of thousands of street lights
out across the city.
Bass is also under fire for her trip to Ghana
to represent President Biden in January 2025,
despite high winds at the time.
While she was away, the Palisades fire exploded,
killing 12 people, burning nearly 7,000 structures.
the fire in advance, but left
gone early when she learned
about the extent of the fire.
We the city knew the mayor
knew that historic winds were
coming. There had been a fire
there the week prior. Why
weren't trucks pre deployed to
the Palisades? Why was an
entire shift of firefighters
allowed to go home?
Roman filed to run for mayor in
the final hours of the last day
to submit paperwork. First of
shocking many in LA's political world including incumbent mayor herself what
do you make of her campaign and what do you see as the biggest thing?
I understand it because I don't understand it now this is somebody who
endorsed me publicly. She didn't really know why you were running why are you
running? You know I share the frustration that I see across the city
that so many Angelinos are feeling right now. And did you feel like nobody else is
stepping up, so I've got to.
I mean, there wasn't.
This was going to be a campaign that
was going to be between our very broken status quo
that everyone acknowledges is broken and moving
in the wrong direction and a MAGA Republican who
is out of touch with the needs of Angelinos.
This is unacceptable.
Pratt jumped into the race one year after his home
burned in the Palisades fire.
What do you make of Spencer Pratt?
You know, I'm deeply empathetic.
He lost his home in the Palisades.
he and his family have faced incredible trauma.
And I think he's running because he's frustrated
with the state of leadership here in this city.
I empathize with that.
I feel that too.
But I don't think he is presenting realistic solutions
to the problems that we're facing here.
What do you think is the biggest thing he's saying
that's not realistic?
You know, I think he thinks that our response
to our homelessness crisis is easy,
that there is one thing that you can do
that will eliminate homelessness across Los Angeles.
There isn't.
But we need to do all the things.
On the council,
Rahman ran the committee overseeing homelessness.
Bass says,
that means she's had the opportunity to fix the problem.
Rahman says Bass should have appointed a homelessness czar.
We are spending hundreds of millions of dollars
every year on homelessness.
And right now in city hall,
there's no one overseeing those dollars.
The cost of housing is immensely high here.
Rahman says she'd also appoint a deputy mayor of housing.
I would tell the departments that are right now taking years to approve new
developments adding millions of dollars in costs that we simply cannot do that
anymore. There is a deadline for permit applications for new housing that every
department must follow. If you had to pick one word that separates you from
your opponents in this race what is that? Courage because I've had the courage
to stand up and tell it when it's wrong and that is what I think the city needs
right now is a courageous leader who is willing to stand up and fight for for the people.
You can watch our full unedited conversations with all three of the leading candidates for
LA Mayor right now on my YouTube channel that includes my one-on-one with current LA Mayor
Karen Bass and our one-on-one with former reality TV star Spencer Pratt. Hear him explain why he's
running for mayor watch all three of those conversations in full youtube.com slash elix
michelson we are less than two weeks away from the june 2nd primary and the candidates for la mayor
are working hard to rally supporters and win over those undecided voters several of those
candidates fanning out across the city today eyewitness news reporter josh haskell joining us now
with how they're trying to garner support josh well mark once again homelessness is one of the
One of the biggest issues in the race for Los Angeles Mayor and we've had the unique
opportunity the last two weeks to talk with the candidates in depth about how they would
address the homeless crisis.
The candidates in the Los Angeles Mayor's race spending the day campaigning all over
the city.
Mayor Karen Bass in Westlake where Churla, the coalition for humane immigrant rights,
endorsed her.
Spencer Pratt was in San Pedro where he met with community members at a restaurant.
Nithya Raman attended an event in Baldwin Hills with former LAPD chief Bernard Parks.
Over the last two weeks, the candidates answered our questions about how they would solve the
homeless crisis.
The number one thing that has been lacking is the services.
So once we get people off the street, making sure that we address why they fell on us.
We got another almost, we got 20 more minutes on this ride.
All right, swapped it.
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What? It's just a different series from vehicles.
It's a little bit dark too. If you want to boost it.
I can't remember how.
Yeah, you just scroll down.
Yep, there you go.
Should be better now.
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Scatter.
We can hear you, we can see you.
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What's up, everybody?
We're back.
Fox is watching the stream.
Oh, they are.
They wrote an article about it.
Oh, boy.
After your boy.
A Sompiger lashes out of her fed probe into Cuba Trip.
That's like...
It's crazy.
That's...
That's barely that's not worth an article. I'm sorry like yeah, they're right. Yeah
Told followers during a lecture month with Sunday afternoon that he's being targeted for being a loudmouth and a rabble rouser criticizing Israel in the fascist United States
Fox's usual report of Saturday the church department's office for an ass control the Senate mission is to beat us the biker
It's actually kind of wild because like oh fuck. Yeah, I just know
Oh, no, do you think that's like their official editorial line that he was he was for criticizing the fascist United States?
Like they agree with that premise
Yeah, I mean they heard me say it and so they were like discerning quotations though. They did. Yeah, of course
Wait, what kind of does he use a USB-C? It does. Yeah
Can we can we use your USB-C charger sir? Is that possible?
Yes, please
yeah yeah perfect this one let's see so that are both the other one let's see
yeah this one let's see yeah that'll work okay
this angle here I would just not yeah I would just use it without a light for now yep
What's like the lowest threshold that they went right now like if you
If you like
Thank you, sir for the charger. Yeah, I appreciate it
If you like your game was too hot and you take a leak and you could hear it. Yeah, I think at this point
We're close to that, I think.
I've done, I've really been, I mean, I've been pilloried for doing that before, I'll tell you.
People said disgusting things about me.
Sounded like mental soup being poured on a woman in soil.
I've done, I've done that with, at the DNC, when I was at the DNC, I had a mic on.
And I had a real piss-gate moment where I just went into the bathroom and started pissing.
And there was like 75,000 people listening to my health and streams such an anxiety dream for me
Yeah, I had a really traumatic moment in
High school one like a
We all our friends basement that we were all drinking my friend heard me pissing in the same
I wasn't like being anti-social pissing in the same. We all pissed. It's the sink. You're supposed to piss. Oh, it's the same
perfect
perfect
But he said oh it's really like weak sounding stream you probably have a small dick and ever since then it's like I hope
No one ever hears it in case
You know what if he's right? I don't know the science didn't really make a lot of sense to me
Because
Like would a bigger dick create more pressure I don't really know
I think physicists who can tell, like, if you have a bigger dick with a smaller read chat.
We get some doctors in the chat, they can inform us.
But it did, I was down to be self-conscious about it, and, you know, ever since then I've really been afraid of...
except for the people who are closest to me, hearing what it sounds like when I do that.
But, um, I think, yeah, that would probably be an article.
they do with their own article if you, if you like, um, I don't know, would you, would
you like, uh, you'd have to be in a real crisis to be playing Valorant, right? I think, right?
Yeah.
If you were playing Valorant and you were like, fuck this sucks, and you like, rage quit,
that would probably be an article, I think.
This is like I mean, you know this term a logging. Yeah, you're familiar
And you know like I'm doing it to a bunch of people who aren't even like me if I'm doing it to normal people
Yeah, well, that's what I'm freaked out. That's that's it's Fox News has turned into a loggers at this point
Yeah, where they just like sit around on the stream and and behave in the same exact way that
that some of the least healthy individuals in society behave.
I think it's fine by the way.
They A-loved us once.
They were watching, listen, you know,
we don't do a lot of streaming,
but when we do, it's some of the best streams.
Matt Christman's positively infamous, love everyone.
Oh yes, we love everyone you know.
That was all love were considered in the media.
That was awesome.
I was such a pussy back then I was like, oh, no, this is we're gonna lose everything now. I would think it's hilarious
But like yeah at the time I was like oh, no
But now we've never
I think Fox News like got bored of us. We've only had like one article about us and then Tucker like
Mentioned us once when he was selling Fox for like not talking about his old Disney enough. I think
That was it really
Wait, Tucker Carlson, Tucker Carlson got mad at you guys for not being supportive enough of Ukraine?
No, it was the opposite. He was like, oh, it's all Disney, like got all this money to the fucking...
Uh, I don't know.
It was one of the early Ukraine scandals that was just like too boring for me to follow.
Yeah.
And it was like, it's Chop-O-Trap House talking about this?
Hm.
What's going on?
Yeah.
Why is Chop-O-Trap House not talking?
It's like, buddy, why don't you mind your own beeswax?
That was it, yeah.
I think it's like,
they don't wanna talk about a show
where there's more than four episodes of the show
or about the show Tulsa came.
Like even for them, they're like,
it's, this has been needed us to talk about these guns.
Even if we did something really crazy.
Oh my god, dude, this, I'm sorry, I've read through the entire report
and it is just a summarization beat by beat of the stream.
But with like a smarmy tone.
Where it's like, hmm, like here,
I'm gonna redo a choice quote from this, hold on.
Wait, fuck, I lost it.
Someone link it to me again, Chad, because I lost it.
But it was like, later, later, Piker scoffed that.
Did you know Mike Lawler and Josh Gottheimer went on like one of those Sunday news programs
and and did the whole like anti-semitism is on the rise because of Hassan's shit again? Oh my god they have like
like today of all days too right after the subpoenas so they're like
they're like this is our opportunity to really dig in and it's crazy because like
Candace Hollins they bring up one time in the entire thing and they just totally give the game away
Where it's like they just tied that to this to the bill. So there was like a little bit of legitimacy
To the accusations and they bring up that they're like in Candice Owens
The Holocaust in our and then they move on and never bring her up again
And then the rest of the conversation is about me
It's just like if you're just a god hammer and he's retiring right like he's no I don't think so no
I think I got mixed up with another guy another guy with like with Jared golden Jared golden
I got to mix them with Jared Baldwin, but I don't know, it's just, whenever we do like
two, uh, Megan McArdle article segments within six months of each other, I'm, I'm tanklin'.
You know, I should, um, you know, I'm a hack for this.
But they just, they're just like, same shit.
We're gonna keep doing the same Hassan content.
And they're in Congress.
Yeah.
They should be held to a higher standard of content.
I feel like their content is always mid-bought.
No, there's some good, good content.
And the ones that do churn out good content,
they get axed out like Marjorie Taylor Green.
No, Clay Higgins is still there.
Clay Higgins is still there, true.
He's beast mode.
He's the last good content Congress person.
His, I mean, talk about a guy who had a great video.
Oh my god tying it back to DHS funding. Yeah, and we're he's the way it starts. It's so artistic
It's like you're watching a scanner darkly or one of those movies
Yeah, it's like it's like a railroads and you're thinking this could be railroads anywhere
And it's he's narration comes on they could be railroads anywhere, but it is an outwards
It's I really that could be like the best content ever made by an elected official. I agree. I
In my ideal world, where I achieve all central authority, he's the only guy in my parliament.
The maker later moved on to a segment supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran in his talks with the US and Israel to end the war in Iran, mocking the Israel delegation's chirping, critiquing US foreign policy for allegedly letting Israel take control over an entire Middle East policy, and moving the focus of his monologue to a critique of the Zionist state of Israel and the rogue United States.
Like it's an opinion that Israel's a Zionist state, I love this thing, I mean
Like they put Zionist in the air court, so it's referencing Israel
Yeah, quote unquote Zionist state of Israel
Yeah, some people are saying it's crazy
Alright, that's just, that's always been the lowest form of content
Yeah
that
Back when there was money in the expense media there was like an equivalent to that when they were just you know
So his entire job was to watch shows like uh boxing friends
Yeah, medium matters
Not even that like that just actual
When blogs were like a thing and and actual media companies had blogs
media matters was like
I always felt like uh
a lot of sympathy for people who did that as a child.
Maybe I shouldn't have, but I, it just seemed like,
like they knew,
they knew that it's like, you know, you're not
in 20, even in 2016, you're not like blowing anyone's mind,
going, oh my god, they fucking lied on Fox and Friends.
Yeah, it's good to have a resource, in my opinion.
I I relied on it at the time, but I feel like I don't know what happened. Did I crack my David Brock? Yeah, did
Did
Soros money run out what happened to media matters are they still
Are they still in operation?
They've got to be right. I think so
Oh, no tons of people do yeah
Yeah, everybody, everybody makes media plays and everybody fails, you know, daily wire,
Washington Post.
Oh my god, have you seen the Washington Post videos?
Like the podcast videos that they do, they get like 12 views.
That's pretty good shit.
I've been, I mean like, imagine 12 people in a room, suddenly not so, it's not such
a small amount of people.
Any amount of interest is good.
I wish them luck building up their audience.
Yeah.
Who's on the Washington Post podcast?
I have no idea.
But they, it's very funny, because like they will,
they also do the same thing Fox News is doing.
Cause like Jeff Bezos editorial direction is very clear
where they're like just do right wing slop.
But also because they're Washington Post,
they still have to have like a level of,
I guess intellectualism associated with it.
Because they do have reporters, right?
Still like, you know, John Hudson
still breaking stories and stuff, the ones that remain. And it's really
interesting because it's like, it's, um, you good? No, yeah, I was just laughing at
something. Yeah. Um, and, and they're, they're coming to the same, uh, foregone
conclusion that just like right wingers don't read. Yeah. Like that's the last,
like readership in general is tanking. It's plummeting. Everyone's
It's in fashion and it's gonna get worse with AI, but if there's one group of people that do not care at all to
Consume media in that format is right wingers
Even if it's good even if it's like MCON
Mag, you know like who's it would say like if you were like any of the great
reactionary writers in history if you were
Or Celine today, that would be the worst possible thing.
Because you could be amazing, but no one gives a shit.
There's too many sub-stats.
Half of all articles are machine-created.
You would have to do a collab with Vitaly to get your book out there with Celine today.
And he didn't like, you know, he was French.
Who knows what that meant for him. Yeah, that would be tough. Yeah, that'd be a tough pill to swallow
It could be like a predator could mean anything to him. Yeah, I don't know. I didn't know that
Yeah, I don't like they would he would do the reverse where they would they would go after
People who have no age gap in their relationships. Is that better old? Yeah
He's like what is what what is oh, that's good that he had a 34 year old and
and 35 year old, why not Peter V?
I would love to see a debate between Vitaly
and the situation, but it's about all of that stuff.
Yeah, Foucault, Foucault was kind of like,
he was kind of like Vitaly for back then.
That's how much more of a literate culture we were.
That's how people talk about him.
Yeah.
Now I just I mean look we got chud the builder
This is this is actually something I want to hear you take on I feel like so
Ben Shapiro a lot of people think like oh Ben Shapiro lost all of his audience because he's like super pro Israel
And I think there's obviously that was like the final blow for the daily ride for sure
but
But it started before then in my opinion it started when the right wing
Like in 2016, the right actually still was holding on to like an nerdy guy, like a pseudo-intellectual
that would make like a convincing case with logic and reasoning as to why you should support
you know reactionary opinions.
That's why you know you got Jordan Peterson, like people who were, people who wouldn't
even say that they're like right-wing at that time or would try to like tackle
the issue from you know objective perspectives like they would claim to
be objective conceptual James said he voted for Hillary I did not I would
think that's crazy yeah there's so many of those guys so but there was yeah
there were yeah you're right the never Trump Republican Ted Cruz yeah or the
they weren't even never Trump Republicans a little bit they were like oh
So I'm a Democrat, but I think the best way to stop Trump is to not be woke, but also
to privatize social security.
But then I think the different eras of market demand on the Republican side moved away from
that nerdy pseudo-intellectual commentary and debate culture to, I guess debate culture
never fully went away, but it moved into the direction I entertained.
So I think that was the first blow.
people were like wait we could just have like a like a jock yeah like we can have
like a jock style guy be like you know a real representative of all of our
values of what we associate with like masculinity fast cars only fans models
and and all that good stuff and I think that was the first blow to Ben Shapiro's
audience because he could never be that guy he could never portray himself as
that at all. It was also during a moment when it I mean this was a bunch of things
just sort of pre-tape but it was a moment when everything all online media
just became like a constant game of escalation where you had to keep upping
the ante. I mean Trump was kind of that because Trump Trump crossed all these
lines that were supposed to be uncrossable in American politics and the
Conventional knowledge would be that you would you get him out of there for that
But you'll never see him again and when that didn't happen that fundamentally altered all political media and all media in general and
I don't know yet like that that type of like I
Guess entertain was kind of a watershed thing because that that type of content was largely seen as like apolitical back that yeah
And then it became yeah, and then it consumed the entirety of like right-wing culture
And that's why like they redoubled their efforts on on fomenting gender wars and like you know anti-feminist rhetoric was always a part of
You know venture bureaus commentary as well
Yeah, I think it was never the primary focus and it was never so crude right it would he would never like have a podcast where he is like
20 18 year old girls
and they're all, they're all, well...
They all have only fans, you know, they're all like, they're there to be humiliated by a deeply insecure guy.
Yeah, like some like homeschool girl going like, I don't know what geometry it is.
And Ben Shapiro screams in her face,
You're a fucking idiot!
Yeah, like he wouldn't lower himself to doing that kind of thing.
Yeah.
But then, now we're in the next stage of that evolution, where I think like,
People want even further representation. So I think that Andrew Tate was an aspirational figure bench. That was an aspirational figure intellectually
Andrew Tate was an aspirational figure
Physically in the way he carried himself and now in lifestyle wise and now I think the conservative movement has moved to
Instead of an aspirational figure to representational figures on the aspirator stick and that's what has been gold is
Has had this massive ride and and jelly roll being their Lizzo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, they want like, you know
Trailer park guys. Yeah, and even if they're not trailer park guys, right? Like it's the it's the Kid Rock phenomena as well
I people who portray themselves as
You know guys that are the everyman the everyday Tom McDonald. They know Tom McDonald is from fucking Canada. Yeah, and like
like he is, he still wears, he is a long coat of coat.
He's just like, he's a girlfriend and like,
has diabetes or something and he's a long coat of coat.
Yeah, yeah.
I read this really long profile of them.
Oh my god.
He's like really fine.
I thought, oh, that's very Canadian, I think.
But he's not like openly like it, but he is.
Oh yeah, he is.
They were canceled.
They were canceled.
Yeah, yeah.
But I like the whole, that whole thing,
the gender voting. I remember just trying to not see that much about it because the concept of it,
the basic concept of it, it really put me in this bad mood because only nine or ten years ago,
you would read an article about like what the internet is like in some, you know,
know, like, you know, Lockfield. And it's like, they have a guy named, like, Drogon the
rapist. And he's doing the same thing. He's like, oh, I find Albanians, and people get
mad at me, and I get thrown out of places. And you're like, oh, that's so stupid. I'm
so glad we don't have that. And now we just have that, it's just us.
Oh, yeah, you can, you can, uh, hide the camera, or at least put your hand over it.
to Luigi yeah that's true maybe I can point that
how about now okay that's a brilliant brilliant maneuvering it's just yeah
no it's just constantly up in the ante and I don't know where you go after this
right yeah and then no we do have like I mean this is this is like the outreach
farming is all the rage on the internet with like clip culture and this is the
conservative version of that the conservative slant of that I want to
what do you think the leftist version of farming
I
Like going up left this version of the show whatever
Yeah, like what's the leftist version of the show whatever that's a good 20 20 health insurance executives
No, you do you have okay? No, I have a great idea. It's like a bunch of like
dumb 19 year old like boys and then like
You can't actually have Andrea Dworkin because she died many years ago, but like someone who's
Like trained under her or whatever. Uh-huh, and she's just like you're a fucking idiot. You're a lose
Oh, yeah, she's not even she's not even making an argument. Yeah, she's doing the same thing. She's just yelling
Yeah, I must say Andrea Dworkin would do that if Andrea Dworkin did a gender inverted version of whatever podcast it would be a great show
Oh another another marker that like there is a real crisis of like
No need for intellectualism and the right is Nick Shirley
like if I'm James O'Keefe I'm killing myself right because you you actually had a
Relatively sophisticated hatchet operation. You had costumes and he had costumes
There was a lease a little bit of like
like there was pre-planning associated with this there was a clear ideology
goal and then all of a sudden Nick Shirley comes in no prep whatsoever just
straight up going up to kindergarten to be like I want to see the children if you
don't show me the kids inside and me and all of my adult friends here then you
must be weird and scary you must be doing something weird in there you'll
Okay, I have the Spendin' Contest with you, class.
I already, I haven't seen any, but yeah, no.
He's, I always feel bad for Tyler Olivera,
because Tyler Olivera, he's like ripping off
Tyler Olivera, and Tyler Olivera puts way more effort in.
I saw this great Tyler Olivera video,
that it was about like the smiley face killer urban legend.
Yeah, cool.
Yeah, and he tries to,
I'm going to prove that no one could drown in this river if you know what I'm talking about.
I feel fine.
almost there chat almost there hopefully we didn't lose you
Like that.
Yeah.
There's the gears.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
Okay.
I'm going to hold him in his area or else I'm going to have to get him off the floor and take him.
Yeah.
Who are these fucking chops out here?
You said it's not a story at all.
I'm going to stay here.
I don't think we've ever formally met.
Yeah, exactly.
It's insane.
Yeah.
Hey.
How are you?
Pleasure.
Hey man.
What can we show here?
Everything?
Yeah, you can show pretty much everything.
Okay.
Alright.
Like maybe not the computer area over there, but there's two more.
Are we going to take the shoes off, household?
You don't have to take your shoes off, but you're welcome to if you want to.
Well, the escalators.
I'm good. You want water Felix? I'm I always love water. Thank you.
Thank you. I'm good. I have a bottle with me. Thank you. Appreciate it.
See if this is... That's 20%. Oh, that's 20%? Yeah, that's all I got. Okay, that's not bad.
That's actually pretty good. Yeah, you want to use the hair or? Yeah, we can use it here.
cool I think I'm popping the middle
okay okay I see that's what why'd you put it on the
because I'm gonna do it
alright I'll do it in a second
no no it's good
great we need some light this is sick this is a sick one really
can you show us around
yeah sure it's um I mean it's not
we're live right now by the way
it's not like too much space it's New York but um
this is where I work and if you've ever seen
those like videos that I make where it's like my hand shot from overhead that's
the rig for the camera and there's all the lights for it thank you and this is
where Fred works and Fred is doing a toxic Avenger right now can I can we
show what's on the table not much yeah not much there yeah it's about to be a
built his spread fight scene with an evil robot.
Thank you.
Yeah, then if you want to, like, the only other thing that's the show is...
We have a book in the front.
Coming.
Wow.
And Fred fucking built this for me. This is like what true love is to have a man that can build you floor-to-ceiling bookshelves. Wow look at that
Any favorites in here? I mean so many of them. I pulled out I pulled out all of the like old-school Yiddish books to show Hasan, but
Incredible well, I guess we'll see those yeah, you'll see those you'll see those but a million cool incredible
What a legend
several
Oh, okay, let's get back in there
Beautiful work here
Incredible
Yeah, no, I mean I could sit in whichever way
I'm gonna hang my coat. Felix, you want to hang your coat here?
Oh, sorry, one second.
Alright, we'll just sit like this.
It's fine.
Yeah, you sit in the nice chair.
I did a whole art show just of my friends sitting in this chair.
We should have a higher angle. We did that with the FE interview too.
That was the editor note for me.
Got it.
Do you want to switch out this low thing for that stool over there?
Sure.
Yeah, it might be.
So many booba art. That's what people's takeaway is.
There's so many boobies in this apartment.
Here we go.
Thank you.
We're going to picture the middle, I guess.
All right, are you getting the middle Felix?
Where did you get a pen?
Oh, I'm good.
I'm good.
All right.
Well, we're excited.
You have a new book that came out.
I do.
Here, where we live is our country.
And I wanted to learn about the history of anti-Zionism.
And within the history of Jewish movements in general,
and I also brought Felix here,
so that he can also learn about this.
Sorry, it's part of my quarter order.
Yes.
He, yeah, he has, this is basically
like a combating anti-Semitism seminar for Felix as well.
Where's your ankle monitor, men?
I, you know, it stuff gets complicated.
I have that same ankle bloating thing, the trunk does.
It just blew off.
It was like, um...
Who's that?
Who's the guy in Suicide Squad? The crocodile guy?
It's like what they do to him when they turn him into prison.
Does anyone in chat know who the crocodile guy in Suicide Squad was?
Doc Ock.
That can't be his name.
Oh, no. Doc Ock was the spider.
He was an octopus.
Oh, no. We can't talk about it.
King Crock.
King Crock, yeah.
Killer Crock?
Killer Crock.
Yeah, okay, well I fucked that up in the air of art.
We got it? We got there.
It's the decor of my apartment.
Yeah.
I'm gonna move the mic to the other queue.
Oh, give me one sec.
Okay.
Where do we begin?
I, if Jake Tapper is an expert on this matter,
Zionism and Judaism is inseparable.
Why do you not believe that?
I mean, so fucking stupid, right?
Judaism's 2,000 years old.
Zionism is a 100 and some-odd year old batch
of political ideology that is currently
an implicated new genocide.
But it's not just that.
It's also like Jewish people have a massive fucking history
that's all over the world that is diverse,
that's disputatious.
in Europe, it is basically the history of the left also.
And Zionism can't claim that.
They can't colonize our history.
OK.
I mean, a lot of, so why do you think
that this is a forgotten chapter,
almost, of Jewish history when, at least in my experience,
in my development, there are a lot of formative Jewish thinkers.
And yet, I feel like in the last 100 years or so,
there's been an erasure of, or at least a separation
of revolutionary thought and Jewish culture and Jewish history.
Do you feel like Zionism is the reason for that,
or is there a separate reason?
I mean, researching the story of the Bund, right?
So the Bund was a secular socialist Jewish revolutionary
org that was born in the Czarist Empire,
place where it was extremely, extremely shitty to be Jewish. And they took part in forming
the party.
I'm sorry, I have to stop you there. Upper East side is probably the most. Upper West
side.
That's the most dangerous?
I think, well, that's what they keep telling me. It depends on which one I'm living in.
Okay.
I feel like that's a little, maybe that's a little bit more dangerous.
No, no, but, um, look, getting back on topic, uh, the boons was very important to my family.
They were paid to not associate with them.
I'm just kidding, that didn't happen. No one knew they were. But, um, no, um, look,
whether you're in Saras, Russia, or upper Manhattan, it's kind of the same struggle.
Yeah. The same, the same, the same struggle. The same stuff is going on.
I think one one's worse than the other. I won't say which. Yeah, Third Street's really
hilly. Yeah, it's New York City. You think it's gonna be all flat and then it's like,
oh, great. And sometimes you imagine there's a dirty look, but the person wasn't really
looking at you, but that hurt worse. Yeah, yeah, or like, I'll think someone's looking
at me, anti-semitically. And it turns out that it's just because of something I've
had or done. And you know, you can argue over whether I deserve it or not.
I feel like that's anti-Semiteism.
Yeah, right. I should know that it's due to my actions and my words.
But anyway, I'm going to go back to Shilin in my book. Sorry, Felix.
So, this revolutionary party, they helped found the party that became the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
They took part in the Russian Revolution. They helped lead the Warsaw Ghetto revolt.
They opposed Zionism from the very very very start. They saw it as essentially
acquiescence to the same bigots and racists that wanted to kick Jews out of Europe and
when Zionism got
in bed with the British Empire after the Balfour Declaration the boon deposed it because they thought it was fucking imperialist and because as
Socialists they were against any ideology that involved kicking people out of their homes and deliberately impoverishing them because of their race
wasn't the only Jewish person in British Parliament at the time the only opposition as well like the
lone voice in opposition to the Balfour Declaration? Yeah absolutely because if you think about it in
Europe at that time you had all of these anti-Jewish races that were saying that Jews are these
swarly oriental supercims they're about to get the fuck off to somewhere else and then you have
of designers agreeing with them.
They're saying, yeah, we are foreigners.
We don't have a place here.
We should get the fuck off to somewhere else.
So how do you feel like that identity shift happened?
Because one of the things that I find a little bit annoying
is whenever people talk about the concept of a Jewish diaspora,
because I feel like there's a hidden implication.
And you can correct me on this, and maybe I'm wrong
in my assessment.
But the hidden implication there is
that all Jews belong to Israel and every Jewish person that lives outside of Israel is actually
living in diaspora away from Israel. And it's almost like a reinforcement. Is this an evolution
or is this like a concept that always existed?
I mean, I think the concept of the Jewish diaspora pretty much always existed, but I agree with
you the way that it's used now. It's used to kind of say that you're like lesser, you're
safe because you're living in the place that you were born. I mean it's so crazy
to me like I'm from New York City like my family lived in New York for 120 years
like my mom is born in Coney Island and I love the city so much and just like the
idea that I'm less than because I live in this fucking magnificent city it's
it's crazy to me. So you didn't plan to move out when Zahram I'm down anyone?
Yeah when I was knocking on the fucking doors in the world's hottest housing
projects on the world's hottest day I was thinking like God if he comes here I'm
gonna have to flee. I was thinking it was a long game.
Well anything to break a lease. I didn't hate it when everyone was like
oh we have to we're gonna have to leave our apartments and I was like that's
that's free real estate. Dude when the billionaires started saying that they
were gonna leave their Piata tears because they were gonna have to pay some
rinky-dink tax I was like yeah open it open up the market a little bit he's
He's fixing the housing crisis.
So getting back to, so we were talking about diaspora.
You said this concept has always existed,
but now it's being purposely bastardized
or utilized to create a justification for the Zionist
project that, like, Jews are unsafe everywhere.
They're second class citizens everywhere they live.
Where, what are some of the other evolutions that have taken place that might have existed
in Jewish culture that have now been utilized to prop up Zionism in Israel?
I mean, the truth is, Jews in Europe were historically a super persecuted group.
This book that I wrote, the reason that the Boond had to form as a separate Jewish party
was they were dealing with racist laws against them, right, that constrained their futures,
that said where they could live, where they could work, where they could go to university,
and they're dealing with real violence against them.
And like my book, it's a real history of the incredibly blood-soaked first half of the 20th
century, which hit Jews and Roma people in Europe most of all.
But this very real and incredibly deadly history of violence against Jews and of genocide against
Jews is constantly evoked by Israel to justify a genocide they're now committing against
Palestinians in Gaza.
And it's so, it's so disgusting, right, to take all of this pain and all of this bloodshed
and all this trauma that our ancestors went through
and try to invoke that to go on rape and mass murder
and genocide sprees against other people?
This is like kind of like a bitch of a question
because it's like, I always hate people who do this to me
and they're like, how would you like unfuck up
150 years of this thing?
I don't always go, I just woke up, can you fuck off?
but uh...
i look i mean i don't want to go for
generalized i
did not grow up
particularly or at all religious we didn't do like uh... barely any of the
none of us for permits but
like great-grandfather
do back in the russian empire he had it so much
that he said uh... we're never doing that here
and then the other side of the family were uh...
unsuccessful uh... uh... heroin dealers
It had just come out, but they were really stupid. They were really
They were shattering stereotypes. They were really bad at it. I mean, this is what we have included for my grandmother
who's still watching, so 146
so old but
It does seem like in America and the EU that
the vast majority of like Jewish civic institutions
If they do not exist primarily to indoctrinate younger Jewish people at varying degrees of
religiosity and designism, they exist to provide some sort of cup.
This is more of like, you know, for some of them, this is more of like a 2014 thing.
They've since sort of backpedaled on it in the last three years.
a lot of organizations that popped up in the last 15 years were, you know, to try to
like, pinkwash or add some sort of patina of like, modern identity politics to it.
How do you think that could be undone?
I mean, at least here.
Do you think it's possible?
I mean, I want to complicate that a little bit.
So, we're in Williamsburg, right?
This is Satmar neighborhood.
Satmar are not Zionist and there I think like 15% of the Jews in New York City right now
It's I think the fastest growing group of Jews. Um, whatever other
How I'm you know, I'm not I'm not someone who would ever want that to great for the legiosity in my life
But these are not a group that are Zionist and they're not located in the Zionist project
And I also think that it's worth saying that a lot of these, you know institutions like
like AGL or whatever. Did I fucking vote for him? Did you vote for him? These aren't like
democratic positions. You did and you're just like...
Great job. That's all you do. I love Jonathan Greenblatt. He loves me.
I mean he does, he does actually. He spends a lot of time.
Yeah, he loves talking about me. He has like a little shrine, you know, some
pictures. Yeah, he went on MSNBC the other day and he was like, this is, you know, we
we got to put a stop to the Sompiker again.
But, you know, it is what it is.
But I think Felix proposes a really great question.
Yes, there are definitely,
I think theological arguments against it,
because like I feel like the Sopmar
and Nasser Iqarda, like the,
some of the Orthodox sects
have opposition to the state of Israel
for religious reasons, right?
But I feel like secular Judaism,
which is the most robust, the most common former Judaism in America, if I'm not mistaken.
I'm not sure about that, but I might be talking about my ass.
Okay, well, I live in LA, so I mean, actually, there are a lot of conservative Jews as well.
You know what, there's no offense to anyone in chat who is conservative Jewish, but it
is the funniest thing you can be.
I'm sorry, but it's reform, except they want all service to be in Hebrew.
So they're doing the opposite of the Reformation.
They don't really learn Hebrew, but they also don't want to understand the service.
Like red cats.
Yeah.
One of my friends grew up conservative, and I always told him such hilarious, lived-out
reform.
His name?
Benjamin Ninian?
Yeah.
What I think is a feeling is what I want to say is that a lot of this thing when people
say all of these institutions, these institutions are not democratic, these institutions are
like a lot of them they exist to give sinicures for incredibly mediocre men so they can go
and like masturbate at their Hasan Piker shrine.
And so I don't understand why we're pretending that these institutions that we didn't fucking
vote for that get money from some of the worst billionaire scumbags but that me and you had
nothing to do with why are we pretending that these institutions are like the
be all and end all of Jewish life? I mean because like I mean like who knows I am
always skeptical on issue polling right? Yeah. When someone asks how an individual
ballsy in America it goes you always have to look at how it is posed but I
think it's pretty safe to say this that among Jews in America that more of them
and break Zionism and not.
And if you even know what it means,
I mean, I feel like one of the problems
with people in general is that they're incredibly,
they don't fucking reconcile their thoughts, right?
They don't follow things to their fucking conclusions.
They feel like they have a nice feeling in their belly
and they don't think like, wow, that nice feeling
in my belly that I got from going to Hebrew school
is leading to Palestinians being dispossessed and murdered.
They don't line up the logic in their head,
which is a human failing,
but it doesn't necessarily mean that everyone who says that is
a genocidal brute
beating up an old Palestinian grandma with an ax handle.
I mean, there's not like torts, like there's degrees of wrong.
I would even argue though that, you know,
you know, there are Jews of many different races
all throughout the world, but like in America,
the majority of like you know Ashkenazi Jews grew up in liberal enclaves. I would
say that for people who are Zionists there's a more deliberate thought
process. Well now because there's been three years of a live-stream genocide
right? But even before that of wanting wanting to have your taken
eat it too. Yeah. Yeah. Well liberal Zionism is more
like it's an absolutely moronic thing that cannot stand meeting with reality.
Oh no definitely but I mean sort of like for this and this is sort of a liberal
sign this phenomenon. This thing where like if you are like an Ashkenazi like
liberal in America like you do get like the best of all worlds. You're like all
you are like you know you're white we're white we became white in America
Like, and it happened many, many years before any of us were born.
And also at the same time, if you are in academia, or you work in anything of like, uh, liberal,
anything in the liberal world, you can still, there's this card you can try and play, fifth
row of people, especially for liberal Zionists.
So I do think that, at least for that, and obviously it's a shrinking constituency because
it is so inherently self-contradictory and you just, you can no longer just keep doing
this thing of like, oh, once the settlement stopped, it'll be fine.
But I do unfortunately think that it is a more conscious thing for a lot of people.
And I think that unfortunately a lot of people do get off on that self victimization aspect
of it.
I agree with you.
I agree with you.
No, I definitely agree with you.
You mean like Shy Davidi acting like he's in 1939 Germany.
Yeah.
It's fucking pathetic.
I mean, I remember there were these crazy people that they made like an Instagram thing
that was like, would you hide me as if they were in France?
Oh, that was my favorite.
That was the best hashtag.
It was awesome because it was like, again, like very wealthy Instagram influencers, or
TikTok influencers that are like getting in and out of Ubers and being like, this is a
devastating day for me personally in New York.
No, it's crazy.
Would you hide me?
It's crazy.
It's...
I don't understand the pleasure these people seem to get out of imagining that they're
in this situation of persecution that they in no way are.
Like the only thing that might happen to them
is that they might say something deeply offensive
and fucked up and in support of this fucking project
and then someone will be like, you're wrong.
Yeah, yeah, it's so, I always think like,
do you ever get this song where you see that and you go like,
okay, like even if you were like a purely cynical actor
and you were doing this to sort of like,
just mask your sense of like racial animus
and feelings of ethnic.
chauvinism and superiority like aren't you embarrassed to like go out there and be like oh
My god, I saw a fucking Palestinian flag on a Delta flight. I'm gonna kill myself
Like doesn't that isn't that like embarrassing to do like a little bit? I mean, it's you kind of have to choose a lane whether you're going to be
Trying small being yeah, I'm going to support a state doing genocide
but in terms of like I'm fucking it right so
So this is something that I, and this is going to sound so self-aggrandizing, but Chad is
going to like scare me on this, but I think it's true.
So I think that my book is an attempt at a small contribution to that.
And part of the reason is that one of the things that Zionism did is it tried to take
all of Jewish history, all 2,000 years of this like very fucking diverse, global history
of arguing and fighting and disagreeing and say it's all theirs.
And they also try to do this other thing where they say that all of this history between
when the Romans burned the temple and when the Palmak did the Makkah, all of that fucking
history is just ash and we Jews getting gassed and they try to say that to be an Israeli
is to be strong and to live and that whatever war crimes they do are justified by that.
And you know, it's funny, so this book, you know, it debuted at number four on the New
York Times bestseller list.
It's really popular.
that are shitty book but I'm sure it didn't you know you're like number seven
number seven no you beat us I'm illiterate so I lose by default go on but
um the comments that I get because it's a popular book it's an anti-zionist book
there are all these people that are like lol the boond was gassed Darwin Awards
ha ha ha objectively hilarious. And you know this is so common that like my
socials are just, I can't even read the comment sections in my socials because
it's just like this endlessly. And if you think about it what they're doing it
just shows this total contempt for anything they view as weakness right?
Yeah. They're deflecting the fault for the murders of six million Jews away
from the Nazis onto socialists because they believed in human solidarity, because
they believe that they could work alongside other people.
And I think that there's like very,
there's something very psychologically telling
about their ability to spit on their own ancestors
in this way.
Yeah.
Isn't this also like a real issue in Israel as well?
Sorry to put you off there.
I don't know.
Like the mistreatment of Holocaust survivors in Israel.
And then also like the cultural attitude towards it
where it's not even necessarily like, oh, you survived.
So you should have some semblance of guilt.
But more so that you were weak, like there's this false understanding, this false perception
that Jews were sent to concentration camps and in certain instances knowingly went in
because they were too weak and too feeble and that's diametrically the opposite of what
Israel is supposed to represent now, like a strong nation that's unbelievably militant
and is constantly destroying its enemies.
How much of that is the guiding resentment here?
I mean, that's all of it.
They used to make game Holocaust survivors so central in Israel.
There is one anecdote I found.
It was this Holocaust survivor, I'm sorry, there was a partisan.
She actually she fought throughout the whole Holocaust and she was a Zionist and she went
to Israel afterwards and she was giving a public speech about how she had fought Nazis.
And this is like 1946, 1947.
David Ben-Glorion heckled her for speaking Yiddish.
This is a guy who spent, never did anything,
anything like that.
There's just this total contempt for the European diaspora,
for survivors, for the Yiddish language, which is just,
that was the language of Western European Jews, right?
Total contempt for it.
It was really suppressed in Israel for a time.
And, yeah, it's just this erasure of the past.
And one of the things with the boondes that's crazy,
and I think it's part of the reason
that Zionists have hated them so much,
is that they actually weren't weak.
They had armed self-defense groups
for entire history.
They fought against pogroms.
Which I condemn.
You condemn.
Of course.
Any kind of militant uprising against a militarized state
is condemnable behavior.
I just wanted to say.
I'm glad you clarified, Hasan.
Yeah.
Just kidding, of course.
Let's continue.
So they, I mean, they beat back pogroms in interwar Poland, where there were just racist
mobs backed by the state that are going through Jewish neighborhoods screaming Jews to Palestine.
The Bund fought them.
They fought them with guns.
They fought them with grass knuckles.
And they also fought in the resistance against the Nazis.
And I think that that's part of why Zionists take them so much, because it shows the lie,
right, that Zionists have the monopoly on strength.
But also, like when they talk about the boondum, when they're literally spitting on the graves
of these people, when they're laughing at their murders, the real thing that they also
hate is that the boondum believes in human solidarity.
They believe that you could fight alongside Russian and Polish workers.
They were proud Jews, they supported their own culture, you know, they supported their
own like newspapers, publishing houses, but they fundamentally believed in human solidarity
and in class, right, in working in working class organization in working class militancy.
So how does that tie into the uh like what's the attitude overall about the history of the USSR
which uh at its inception like the Judeo-Bolshevism is the is the main thing that the Nazis are
trying to eradicate or at least what they claim is uh Judeo-Bolshevism and uh there were many Jews
in the ranks of high-ranking leadership within the USSR's forces.
That's a level of militancy that Jews engaged quite successfully.
I mean, there was a lot of death and destruction in the process.
There was a lot of loss of life, but that was literally a part of the liberation of the
camps directly.
No, 100%.
I mean...
So how do they square that circle?
Is that also just something that modern Zionists-
They just don't talk about it.
I mean, or what they'll do is they'll bring up
how, you know, Stalin did anti-Semitic purges
after the war, like, towards the end of his life,
he was getting old and sick because he was fucking old.
And instead of just accepting that he was fucking old,
he's like, oh, my Jewish doctors poisoned me.
That's why I am falling apart.
And, you know, there were-
One bad experience with one Jewish guy, and then you just decide he was a red
pillar in that way. He should have talked about the dentist plot to take that on soda.
That's what I was going to say. But he didn't, you know, it wasn't just the
doctor's plot, right? Like he murdered all of these Jewish poets, all these people
who were members of what was called the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee that
organized to raise support for the Soviet Union to fight the Nazis. So
like there was real anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union, you know, in the last days of Stalin,
and a lot of like those old Jewish Bolsheviks, right, like they were, they were killed just
like all the other old Bolsheviks were in the purges. So I think that that's what the
Zions say, they say like, oh, you know, look, they believed in, they believed in organizing
outside of your little group, look what happened to them.
So it's a, they got killed, they got killed by their own guys, unlike all the Mizrahi
mysteriously died and explosions from the 1940s through the 70s.
Yeah, just the blaming people for their own murders, things like that, something really...
There's a real, like, psychosexual illness there.
So, how do we reassert revolutionary Jewish history into the collective conscious,
Especially at a time when all matter of revolutionary histories is seemingly being purged
or there's a lot of antagonism towards any kind of socialist tendency, any kind of Marxist thought
as fascism is growing. And it's not just like a...
I mean, it's certainly not just a Jewish problem either.
Oh, God, no. I mean, look at our mayor, right? The insane lunatic shit that he gets.
Oh, I thought you were going to say, yeah, he's an anti-Semitic...
I mean, what ethnicity you guys think has been doing the worst in the last five years on the count of three. Let's all go
I'm just kidding
Registry what ethnicity has gotten the most right wing in the last six years. Let's all go on three
I'm gonna get in trouble with any of my
I mean
so, you know, I've been touring around the country with this right and
I'm sure this is gonna shock you like the corporate powers that they did not think this book was gonna be successful
You know
Hundreds of people are coming to my house all around the country and it's like people like they're like some Jewish people
They're like bringing their grandparents
They're bringing their parents and they're like crying because they're like we never were taught about this
We feel like we're getting our ancestors back because you know so many young Jewish people right they were fed a
bunch of bullshit in Hebrew school about who they were but then as adults
They reject Zionism because they're ethical people at their core and they've come to an age where you can think for yourself
and they're like, fuck this, I want no part of it.
But it's like they have a hole in them because they don't actually know anything about their
own history, their own past.
And I think that that's really why so many people have been drawn to my book, because
they want to know about their ancestors and they want to know that there's like a type
of Jewishness that is not tied in with this genocidal ethno-state, something that's based
on solidarity and liberation.
And you know, when you said the last hundred years, I would disagree with you on that because
Like the last 100 years, I mean, you're talking about like Howard Zinn and the SDS and so many
like Jewish thinkers, so many Jewish activists, I mean, Bernie, you know, it's, I don't think
it's fair to say that Zionism's grip has been total or that the Jewish left has been
utterly erased.
And also the last thing I would say is like the reason there's so much opposition to socialism now
is because we're winning stuff, right? Like the reason that people are going after you
is because you're not someone who has like a boring ass podcast where he talks about praxis
for ten listeners. It's because you have a huge audience. And so I think that the
attempts to erase us, the attempts to suppress us, they're a sign of the fact that we're powerful
and that we're growing.
Yeah, there's two things I want to talk about.
One is there are a lot of anti-Zionist Jews in my audience,
and I've met them in person at the encampments that I've been to,
and one of the things that they constantly bring up,
like one of the most common gripes that they have is that
all Jewish community functions are almost singularly
united around the issue of Israel, and they feel outcasted.
And it mattered not to be similar to how you leave the Mormon church or something, almost.
And these are not particularly religious Jews either.
This is why I was saying, there's a lot of secular...
There's almost like a civic nationalism associated, where it's become this almost religious...
It serves the void that religious communal gatherings would normally serve,
where it's all singularly focused on Israel.
And also, it's almost like it's a catch-all too.
If you're secular, you can talk about the LGBT aspects of Tel Aviv.
You can be like, oh, it's the only democracy in the Middle East, which is like a racist
statement, and I miss out because a lot of lines are mis-racist.
But there are a lot of incidences used that then feel like they no longer have that same
community they grew up in from from J school to camps to you know I mean
Hebrew school all this stuff how do you how is there like are there any
initiatives to make up for that loss of community that's because you have JVP
and stuff but it's not it doesn't serve the same function as like Halal or the
Chabad house right it's not the same I mean so you know I'm not a religious
person like Felix I think like me and you actually are pretty similar like I
I was not by Smith's foot, you know, I didn't, you know, I went to public school, I'm half
Puerto Rican too, so you know, my dad's not Jewish. So you know, I'm not someone who,
you know, is a person of faith, right, who would be like practicing Jewish holidays in
that way, but I mean, all over New York, there are all of these groups of young Jewish people
that are meeting in places like, fucking anarchist spaces, leftist spaces, to just try to do
like Jewish services without having the genocide flag there, right, without having the tide
of this ethno-state to just actually practice their religion for real and I
spoken at some of those places because you know they're interested in my work
too and it's just so fucking pure you know it's so fucking pure and I I think
it's beautiful and I think that that's in terms of like the religious side
people need to rebuild religious institutions that are not tied with this
state that's doing a genocide yeah and then I guess like the other thing is
as far as the output, I spoke about this issue at Oxford University, at Oxford Union, and
this was almost two years ago now.
Israel started off saying Hamas is ISIS, and that was this big media push that they did,
and I remember thinking at the time, I don't think Hamas is going to be seen as ISIS, and
this continues is carnage to use as it did. I think Israel is going to turn into ISIS.
And then Americans are, Americans love simple narratives. Many people in the West do. And
they don't have like the same sophisticated versions of antisemitism that Europe has considering
that, you know, that was the laboratory where they concocted all of the most devious ways
of being anti-Semitic. But it is pretty easy for an American to learn the wrong lesson,
right? If Zionism and Judaism are totally separate concepts, as I believe. But when
they see Jewish institutions all universally fly the Israeli flag, do fundraise for the
IDF, most Americans who previously were just like, oh yeah, you know, choose control Hollywood,
they made Seinfeld, so I like that, will then quickly turn around and have a negative association
with Judaism because of this connection.
I mean, this is maybe not a great question for you in particular, but do you feel like
there is any sort of conversations taking place in Jewish circles in general about this
Conflation and the dangers of this conflation or is it just pure hysteria at this point where it's like no
Everyone opposes real because the anti-semitism. I mean it's fast and like I'm not in
You know, I'm not you know in those those in those spaces
But I mean, I think it's a really good point right like we're really small group most people in the world will never meet a Jewish person
It's really it's really really small group and you know
one of one of the things with just how people are is when
Members of the majority group do something that's fucked up. That's taken as like an individual
but when members of minority group do something that's fucked up,
the whole minority group gets blamed for it.
Like, I'm a New Yorker.
I was here after, I was here during September 11th,
and anyone who said,
oh no, there is no rise in Islamophobia
after September 11th, it's smoking fucking crack, right?
I mean, it's wrong, like it's evil, I don't agree with it,
but it obviously happened, right?
And when Israel is doing the most outrageously evil shit,
and when institutions are flying flag of the state
that is doing the most outrageously evil shit,
and when you're like a little fucking minority,
yes, it's gonna make people conflate that.
And it's, I mean, I wish people were smarter,
I wish people didn't do it,
I don't think it's like the most noble thing
that people do that, but it's how people are.
This is the world we live in.
I don't know, like I,
I think it certainly doesn't help matters
if like the most prominent like well-attended,
well-funded like civic and religious groups during that are saying if you
don't like every single thing you're seeing you're anti-Semitic yeah after
like three years yeah a lot of people who are like good people are gonna go well
yeah shit that I'm anti-Semitic yeah I mean this is it was shocking when Ezra
Klein wrote that op-ed and defended me and saying like you know saying his
on as a Jewator is ridiculous, but then he he paired that up with like if you keep telling
people that anyone who opposed the state of Israel is anti-Semitic they're gonna listen
to you at some point. A thousand percent, a thousand percent. No, I absolutely agree with you.
I mean I sometimes feel though like Israel really likes the increase in anti-Semitism because that
ultimately leads to more people moving there, right? And it leads to them. Or even if they don't move
I feel like there's this sense of we have to do something for Israel even if we're an American
They really beefed that up on the Hosbra side too, like the foreign ministry is straight up
I don't think they do it as much now, but the Israeli foreign ministry used to literally be like
We're waging information war
You are an American Jew, but you're waging a war of information
You have to defend Israel
If you're seeing anti-Semitism increase, sometimes born out of, in many cases, born out of Israel's actions and then like partnering down with Judaism,
then if you're a young American Jew growing up and you see that anti-Semitism increase, like, you know, you're worried when you go to the synagogue or, you know, someone paints a swastika outside of your synagogue or, you know,
or you know someone says a slur at you or something right like in it and you
start noticing that there's an increase in this you do feel a sense of like a
purpose where you're like well you know I guess Israel is the only safe place for
Jews I'll never live there but at least I can do something about it.
No I agree with you that there's a feedback loop and yeah it's just Israel
really really really does use Jewish communities outside of Israel as their
shield and as the piggy bank and they so much benefit from attacks against Jews
they so much benefit from anything that makes life more difficult for Jews
outside of Israel. Yeah so I guess the question is like is there do you see
there I mean there's definitely a generational shift here right? It's a huge
generational shift
uh... and i think that's part of the reason why
people like johnson reblatt despise me so much because but more so than like
canis allens
because canis allens is a massive audience
i don't think canis allens is like converting jews into anti-zionism
because she's you know run around with a copy of the telemotic june way that
around saying that it's not really sure like that
so like but but some of myself who has
uh... a lot of established credibility at least for the past decade in combatting
anti-Semitism, was a fairly large Jewish audience as well, and I've established trust in my
community. They hear me go out to bat and combat anti-Semitism, and they see my opposition
to Israel from a perspective that they can understand. Anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Fascism.
That does actually have a lot of impact, I think, and that's what frustrates people like
Jonathan Greenblatt the most, because Nick Fletcher is not converting his
nieces and nephews, you know. He's not having to have difficult conversations
because his nieces and nephews are watching him. They're watching people like myself
and then realizing that maybe this was a bad bargain.
I think that's very true. People like Jonathan Greenblatt, the whole
The thing that keeps him getting fed his six-figure salary, the whole sort of animus that he has
is that Jews can't trust anyone else, that they're not safe anywhere else, that you have
no comrades, that you have no friends outside of your little community.
And when they see someone who is building power on the left in a way that is inclusive
of everyone that is anti-Israel out of profound ethics.
But that combats all sorts of racism, including racism against Jews, that's a threat to them,
right?
And that's why they're going after you.
They're going after you because you're powerful.
Yes.
I mean, they're not going after people with ten listeners who are talking about the pro
or praxis or whatever.
That's kind of the sewer subject for me because I never get put on any of those like most
anti-Semitic guides lists.
He tries really hard, every time he's on my stream, I get in trouble.
I've been running my own four year consideration campaign for myself.
For a fair mission, huh?
Yeah, and they won't do it.
Yeah, and stop anti-Semitism, they won't do it.
He figured out what's her name, Leor, I think, the one...
You don't stop anti-Semitism, you just one crazy lady.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, she was that chair.
It's like a crazy lady from Connecticut who was like, at January 6th, yeah, I love her.
It's not even like, you would think it's like a well-oiled machine, like a well-finished
machine.
It's just one crazy woman.
Yeah, it just, like, it shows, I mean, it's like, it's doing something that makes the
world worse, but like, if you just like, drink on your Vyvan's prescription, you can make
a difference.
Yeah.
Anyone out there who has a Vyvan's prescription, or knows someone who has a Vyvan's prescription,
neighbor does, you know where the CVS is in your community, and you have access to even
just wine. Get started. Get cracking.
Hey, what's the other things that occurred to me though? So I look at this shit that
my Palestinian friends have gotten, which is not just like me and Facebook comments,
right? It's like, I have friends who lost their whole careers just because they existed
as Palestinian. I have, you know, people who have, who I love, who have suffered so much
because of the racism they get that isn't even just, isn't even for speaking about about Palestine.
It's just for being Palestinian in public, right? Full stop. And then I look at, like, me?
What do I get? Like, mean Facebook comments? Like, occasionally I get, like, a twitchy
weirdo screaming in my face. And I just, like, really want to say, like, if you're Jewish and
you're against this fucking genocide and this like these lunatic wars of ethnic
cleansing and expansion like have some fucking courage and speak up because
it's okay like you will survive like if you mean Facebook comments and what
Palestinians go through just the fucking existing in public would could make so
many of us crumple so it's like we're not to use our voices it yeah well let's
Let's talk more about the book, who's your favorite Jewish revolutionary?
In the book, my favorite was Bernard Goldstein, who was the head of the Warsaw Self-Defense
Militia.
He was just this total scar-faced gangster who defended the poor neighborhoods of Warsaw
against rich boy nationalist thugs.
What was one of the more surprising characters that you found in your work?
I found the, so one of my, my very dear friends is a woman named Irena Klepfitsch.
She was like a pioneering lesbian poet, and she was born in the Warsaw ghetto.
And her father, Mikhail, was the, he's a boondestine, he's a bomb maker in the ghetto.
And she told me, she was like, my aunt Gino, my aunt Gino was a, was a lesbian.
And I was like, let's tell me more.
And she showed me the picture of like the hottest fucking butch in the world, you know,
with like the shaved sides of the head and like the swoop and like the men's tailor
coat and the tie. And Gina, she pulled people off of boxcars and she had a girlfriend from
the athletic club that they're part of the Socialist Athletic Club. And I was so proud
and happy that Irina let me draw from her family photo of Gina, like looking like that
hot butt and looking like how she was, you know, in life.
Do you feel like these stories, like these historical figures, have the capacity to actually,
if people encounter them, given that there's so much, given that this part of Jewish history
has been almost purposely kept aside and sidelined in the concerted effort to make young American
Jews, Jews in the West, more loyal to Israel?
Do you feel like stories like this have that opportunity to change people's minds?
Oh my god, I mean, one of the things that's been a little bit crazy to me that I didn't
expect was that a lot of people who, obviously people who agree with me like this book, but
a lot of people who like don't agree with me also like it because it's a real history.
Like it's a real history and it's not written in like deadly dry academic prose.
It's written to like thrilling and sexy and violent and funny and it makes fun of the
left all the time because my dad's a Marxist. I grew up with this. It's like my culture.
I can mock it, you know. And so many people are coming to it and having their
understanding of their own history broken open. I think giving people back
their ancestors is something really, really valuable.
Yeah, all right, cool. Felix, you got some more?
No. All my ancestors were so disreputable.
Do you want to know about Felix's background? Aside from the failed heroin dealers, you're...
They were like some distance heroin dealers.
Your grandfos are penis, right?
Was it like in the Zara?
No, no, yeah. This is like what Pussy's people in my family were.
My like great-great grandfather or something.
I forget how many generations back, but he was in the Russian Bureau Army. He got drafted into it.
But they were like, you're such a pussy that your job in the army is to play the piano.
It was artist Felix.
I mean, it's like cool that he did that.
That was probably like, being a piano player was like being a surgeon back then.
But it is like...
It also doesn't work running too.
Yeah, no, he's like, you know, depending on, I don't know which war he was in.
If it was like the Russo-Japanese War, they really got their ass kicked in that war.
So maybe he was a really bad piano player.
He wasn't giving him the right marshal rhythm.
Or maybe he was too good and they just like, they did one train. Who knows?
My great-grandfather, he painted that painting behind me over there.
That's like everyone above it. That's my great-grandma and my grandmother.
My whole family are artists.
I mean, I'm inspired to do this book because of my great-grandfather.
I was obsessed with him just because he, because I grew up surrounded by paintings like that,
but also because he taught my mom how to paint, and my mom taught me how to paint.
And it was really cool finding out that he was also in this revolutionary group when he
was a young guy, that he joined just to get better labor conditions, like so many people
joined socialist groups.
Yeah, no.
I mean, I think like out of any ethnicity in America, like the most red diaper babies
So like yeah, especially people from the former Russian Empire
Really this is all
There's a what there was one guy who's a really he's a really weird person to be a red digger baby
Like David Holowitz or someone
I don't know if it's him, but it's a guy like him, you know like what some like it's saying yeah
Well, there's a lot of those there's a lot of those trots come neo-cons. Yeah. Yeah
That's like a some of the popular one
all the all those former Eskios guys.
I mean I just think that like this
history of socialism with American Jews
who came from like you know Zara's
empire who came from Russia it's so
many people's grandparents and great
grandparents so many of them are part
of socialist groups like just like the
workers circle that was a mutual aid
society and I think that this history
has been like so erased by Zionism and
also the anti-communism right like you
know I asked a bunch of these Bundes
Holocaust survivors I was like why wasn't your family like politically active in
America after the war and they were like my family were refugees who were
afraid of being deported you know by McCarthyism that's what I was gonna ask
that was the second question thank you for bringing that up so there is this
collaborative effort where I feel like well not so large in numbers initially
and this is not like a Jewish thing obviously but like that there were
definitely upstarts who notice the trend in American culture and American
politics during the Cold War specifically who then turned around and
played a formative role in the McCarthyite trials which in many instances
targeted Jews. And Jewish institutions. Exactly. So how much of that do you
think played a role in robbing American Jews of like their own revolutionary
background in their own revolutionary history, where there was this like
forcible excising of all communist elements in this like unbelievably
anti-communist America in the aftermath of World War II. I mean I think it was
huge right, like the execution of the Rosenbergs, you have the destruction of
the IWO, the International Workers Order, which was like a Jewish communist
cultural mutual aid thing. I mean it was like this was like raided and destroyed
right? Like counterterrorism style. I mean I think that the destruction of the
Jewish left, it's of a piece with the destruction of like the American left
in the 50s, which was very violent and it was pretty effective but never
completely effective. Yeah, anti-communism has always been fascist.
That's usually, no matter where you look, this is almost a recent phenomenon, I would
say, of liberal anti-communism that also is anti-fascist at the same time.
It's a relatively new phenomenon, I feel, as opposed to anti-communism being openly
fascist, even in post-World War II design in Western Europe as well, whether it be
Propaganda NATO and sometimes even directly hiring and appointing Nazi generals
Or or you know stay behind networks that they utilize or they found that
the most
successful
anti-communists
Were always former fascist
paramilitary groups that were disbanded after World War two only to be re-instituted and and brought into positions of power
with
with the the invention of NATO I mean I would say that there were always plenty of
Socialists who opposed you know who opposed Lenin or Stalin Stalin or the Soviet Union right like they had a pretty
Narrow vision of what they saw as legit socialism
But I agree with you that the most effective fighting forces against the Soviet Union and against
You know against up like the Greek partisans right against the Italian Communist Party have always been fascist groups
But I would say, like just a complicated, for instance, the Boon's leaders were murdered
by the Soviet Union.
One of them was shot in the head on fake accusations of being a Nazi, which is obviously fucking
ridiculous.
The other one was driven to suicide in a jail cell.
Soviet Union, when they invaded Eastern Poland, they rounded up and disappeared hundreds of
members of the Boon.
There was a lot of very real and very live hatreds amongst socialists, amongst the left,
but by the same token, fascists have always been the ones that were at the forefront of
fighting the Soviet Union.
The reason why I'm bringing this up is because I feel like it's a broader trend of, like
it ties back to anti-Semitism rising.
And I feel like there's almost this attitude amongst Zionists, Zionist Jews in particular,
if they collaborate with anti-socialist forces, like fascist forces, that they will be spared
in the Western world as well.
As long as Israel can present itself as like a valuable tool of domination in the region,
that this is the most effective way to survive, to stave off any sort of like annihilation,
any sort of extermination, like to become a part of that in-group.
I don't think that that is necessarily going to play itself out, because I can flip back
very quickly, and we're kind of seeing that with younger conservatives, and I guess my
point is if anti-Zionism is growing in the country, and you have two options, you either
associate that with anti-Semitism or you associate that with anti-fascism, I don't understand why
people would not lean in the anti-fascist direction, especially if they're Jewish.
A thousand percent agree and I mean there's a history right of this sort of class war in Jewish
communities. I think about you know in Argentina during the dirty wars when it was like 20 it was
like 10 or 20 percent of the people who were murdered you know by the Hunta during the dirty
wars were Jewish, right? But the like established well-off Jewish community did not, you know,
they were scared and they didn't advocate for these leftists who were being thrown off of planes
and Israel was even giving weapons. It was the same with Pinochet. You had so many Jewish people
who were deeply involved in Ayan de Socialist Project, who were jailed and killed or driven
into exile, but you had a mainstream community that thought that it would make them safer
to ally with Penalshade, to ally with power.
And when Prince Andrew was flying in the Falklands, that was really like the pedophile civil war.
In between, you know?
Pedo vs. pedo.
Yeah.
Yeah.
With Israel supporting the Dalai Lama, like, yeah.
You had a civil fight.
Yeah.
All right well Molly what's one takeaway that you want to you want to share with
with the the audience and thank you so much for giving us the time of day and
opening your home to us your studio. This is great this is very cool because I
have a night time photoshoot that I have to attend in a little bit. This is really
making me self-conscious about like how you're making me get created.
Do you have like the mattress on the floor? I don't believe it. No I have a bedroom now.
I find that it is propped up, it's propped up by volume two through six of Preacher.
What if the legs fell off? What if the legs fell off and I couldn't like fix it?
Well Fred built this, so we should thank him. I'm the best guy in the world.
But what's one takeaway? So you know one of the reasons that Zionism was able to see
hegemony amongst Jews in the first place was because the Western world, these Western democracies,
that always spoke about, you know, freedom, equality, human rights, they utterly fucking
betrayed Jews.
They utterly betrayed them after Hitler rose to power by making deals with him.
They betrayed them by not allowing in Jewish refugees before the war, after the war.
And when solidarity is not just betrayed, but betrayed in the most hypocritical manner,
that provides a space for violent supremacist ideologies to take hold, which Zionism most
certainly is. And writing this book, the thing that I really kept to was that solidarity
across difference is the only thing that can save us. It is the only option that we have.
It is either solidarity or it is barbarism.
Okay. All right. And the book is here where we live is our country. Where can people find
it?
pretty much any bookstore right now or buy it from bookshop.org I fucking hate
Amazon but buy it from bookshop.org buy it from an indie buy it from
powells.com and I always say that the boond love nothing more than being right
and telling other people that they were wrong so buy an extra copy for someone
who is fucking wrong in your life. Alright, alright everybody thank you Felix
Thanks, Peter, man. Thank you so much for accompanying me on this journey.
It really has been 15 years.
We've known each other for 15 years.
We go so far back, we go back into left-book days.
I think we go with several
Twitter screen names for you that got closed.
Oh, yeah, no. I was getting sniped back in the second Obama term.
But it's we've known easily 15 if not 16 years, and yeah, this is the first time we've ever met in person
Yeah, yeah, that's why I gave you a hug. It was like I feel like I knew you know, even though we hadn't met
We've been through we've been through so much together
Oh my god, yeah, no
There are people in chat who like we're not even born yet
When Edward Snowden. Yeah, there are there a lot of there are
Our most of Hassan's jet is nine-year-olds.
I've been told.
It's how they behave sometimes.
All right, well, everybody, Felix,
what do you want to promote, by the way?
Just check out the Concept of Podcasts.
Okay, in general.
Yeah, just check them out.
Check out the Concept of Podcasts in general,
and I will see you guys tomorrow.
All right, everybody, thank you so much for watching.
I'm turning on my website.