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Have you ever heard someone mention the Strysand effect and wondered what they were talking
about?
This phenomena is named after actress Barbara Strysand.
Sometimes when you try to cover something up, you end up bringing more attention to
it than if you had just let things be.
The Assemblyman will not denounce Hassan Piker, who said America deserved 9-11, dude.
The Assemblyman will say to his response, Hassan Piker says America deserved 9-11.
There you go. There you have it.
Our friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.
Now to the Michigan Senate race, where El Sayed is campaigning in Michigan,
appearing on stage at two Michigan campaign rallies.
He's coactively campaigning alongside Piker.
The man who said Kazbala's flag is his favorite because it's dope.
Why would you align yourself for a raging anti-Semite price?
Who has defended Hamas terrorists?
Calling them the lesser of two israels compared to the government's evils,
lesser of two that's what I find a bridge too far.
When I went up to my good friend chat and said,
hey, you walk me through some more controversial statements of Hasan Piker,
Even ChatGPT went out of its way to scoff and beat the eddies of Hassan and give me context.
Thanks, but no sex.
No.
ChatGPT.
Hassan Piker is campaign poison.
Placing yourself on the wrong side of a 90-10 issue is only going to make you look bad.
It's going to be good for me.
It's going to be good for the candidates that I work with.
Turns out it was true.
Abdul El Sayed at 27%.
Oliver Larkin.
May I ask you a question, everybody?
Yes, you may.
Welcome to the broadcast.
Thank you for having me.
Oh my gosh!
What's going on, man?
Dude?
He's trying to get to that.
Wow!
Let's go!
What's going on, everybody?
I hope everyone's having a fantastic evening, afternoon, pre-noon, no matter where you are in the world.
you are in the world. I'm a son, Piker and this awesome. I broadcast coming to you live
from sunny California, Los Angeles folks were live and alive. And I hope all the boys,
girls and MBS are having a fantastic one because today's a beautiful day. Today's a wonderful
day today is a Wednesday hump day, Wednesday, June 17th, 2026. It's boots Riley day. You
already know what's up. I'm looking sleek. I'm wearing the freaking black suit. I normally
don't do that, but I'm wearing it today. Looking like MIB agent. Okay. Big day today. Big day
for socialism. Big day for us all. We'll be talking about it. We are live. We are alive.
And I hope everyone's having a fantastic one. Anyway, this is the part of the broadcast where
I'd tell you about my
Personal news about what's going on in the world of a song house. I have a piker and there's not really much going on in the world
Of a song house. I have a piker. Let's be real
Has someone died no what the one time I wear a black suit someone had to have died is that what it is?
You can't be wearing a black suit
Did you game offline I know it no of course I didn't game offline I didn't game at all I went to sleep last night
dialogue leak PSL drama I already covered dialogue leak last night black
suit and black tie it's a green tie I don't understand it was just it's not a
black ties a green tie
Anyway, I mean, or sorry, this is, this might look like a dark green tie, but now with the
official government, the new government mandate, this is actually an American flag blue tie.
What used to be green is now known as American flag blue, a very specific type of blue, the
bluest of blue.
Okay.
I just wanted you guys to understand.
I don't want you to be confused.
I don't want you to think that the tie I'm wearing is green.
I was testing you.
I was testing the American Patriots and guess what?
Many of you failed.
Okay.
Wait, what the hell?
Okay. It did work. All right. It didn't work initially.
Algae, teal. No, it's, it is blue. Guys, I don't want you to go to jail. Okay.
I don't want you to go to prison. If you say this is green,
you might go to prison. Um, and, and eventually we'll,
we'll clean up the algae on the tie and it'll be American flag blue.
Once again, as it was destined to be, I'm of course referencing
Black suit with black ties. Usually when someone died, it's not a black tie. Fuck. You guys
are going to make me change the tie. I swear to God, you're going to make me change the
tie. It's green. This is a green tie. It's not a black tie. It's a blue tie. It's a,
it's a green tie, but it's supposed to be blue. It's blue. It's a blue tie.
Uncle care to comment days Middle East. Yeah days men a cover. They call me the
cover girl. Yeah it came out and it was a banger shot by Dean
who also shot our friend Mahmood Khalil
Did you not replace your type pump?
No, I didn't.
And that's what's fucked up.
Okay, we'll do all of that and more.
Okay, days men.
But where was I?
Keep the fit.
It's fire.
Thank you.
Okay.
Okay.
Folks folks folks personal news wise. I'm a shut-ass loser. I worked out this morning. I did
Free speech Fridays for Taylor Lorenz. We talked about all of the things that are going on and now I'm terrifying it is
And and that'll be out. I assume on Friday is you know, free speech Fridays as the name implies
Other than that not much going on in my life shut-ass loser style. You already know what it is
We'll dive right into the news. Sorry for the delay. It's 11 30 a.m. Pacific time and
Wait Zoram Humdani is on Minoxidil that's so funny. I told him to take it
Is that a sponsor?
Are you really?
Is that a sponsored ad read?
When since when it's like six months ago six months ago
started to say I was like, this is not, my God, I told this motherfucker to get on it and he got on it.
Oh my God. That's literally that. I mean, I'm on it too. And we literally had this conversation.
We had this conversation on camera. That's so funny. I'm glad. I'm glad that we're saving
the New York mayor's hair. Cause if he started fucking balding, he'd look like, I'm sorry,
he'd look like an onk. And a big part of his appeal, aside from the, the wonderful policies,
is also the charisma to back it up. And if he, um, if he, you know, if he starts balding a little
bit, it's not going to, it's not going to be great. Okay. So I'm glad he's, he's, uh, he's doing the
damn thing. I'm glad he's doing fish waking up in the reflecting pool today. Oh my God, dude,
The reflecting pool saga has been hilarious. It's so perfect for me. It's like one of my
favorite stories. It's certainly one of the best stories that has come out of the Trump
administration. It's very ballroom. It's very UFC in the front lawn. And it is even funnier than
that because it's been such a spectacular flub. It's been such a spectacular failure and like
the Republicans are having a hard time dealing with it. In any case, ladies and gentlemen,
do we have a blast off meme? Because I want to go right into it. Okay. I want to go right into
it. I want to get right into it. We have so much going on. Got to talk about the menna,
dazed menna cover. Yeah, it's go trash it. Adam cooked your ass again.
10. Wait, why?
Well, come to the beautiful
pop before we begin.
He asked me to be honest and I was like, I can't.
I don't know enough about soccer.
I just straight up was like, I can't be doing this
because I don't know shit about soccer.
The SA wins in DC.
Yeah, we'll talk about that, too.
Can we carry the flame to start the stream?
No. Unless we get to level 10 hype train,
You know the deal. You know the rules and we just did a hype train and we did not get to level 10. So it's not happening. Okay
It's football mom and you could have talked about fennel. I'm an equate. No, I told him
The other day I was like I am a fan out about your fan
Since birth because I have to be but I just I'm not knowledgeable enough. I'm not like keeping up with what the fuck's going on
You know what I mean? Like
All right, you know what?
I'm just gonna, instead of blast off memes, I'm just gonna blast off with the dazed men
of cover photos, like, you know, that's what I'm gonna go with.
Is it coming out?
You think?
I mean, look, I will be at the Turkey America game, Turkey USA game, and yes, I will be
Shamelessly, shamelessly supporting, obviously, Turkey over the United States of America,
you know, no disrespect to anybody else, but like, I have to do that. Obviously, it's the
Turkey should be considered as the underdog team in this circumstance. And later get in
now alright days men a covered dsa dc victories hog watch israel trump at g7
ceasefire details look good for iran throng ability if epsnese fury day 110
victory
I've been watching the world cup my family is my dad and brother very in a soccer
I've noticed an unsurprising trend of missing slash ignoring fouls committed by European teams against African and Middle Eastern teams. Hmm
Yeah, I mean
You're gonna throw up the great wolf. Yeah, bro JJ J. I'll spy duck let it off us us us us us
I'm gonna get real Turkish with it
I'm gonna get more Turkish than I ever have
have. The mustache is already ready for it. But anyway, we're blasting off. We're live.
We're alive and we got a lot going on. We got the day's men a cover. Obviously, it's
It's giving blaze, you know, and yes, I have the playlist here already, the Macy's, I got the playlist here already, King.
Hydration break everyone.
Anyway, I cannot believe it.
Yeah, I already have that.
Are you really?
Is that a sponsored ad read?
When? Since when?
It's like six months ago.
Six months ago?
I just started to see it. I was like, this is not...
That's the job. The job does that.
It was like pre-job.
Just mortality.
I'm just like trying to push off Turkey.
It's coming soon. You know, I have all these trolls who will hit me and they'll be like,
are you just mad because you're a male pattern baldness?
I'm like, damn.
What? You got issues with that?
I don't think it's there yet.
But definitely, like when people say like racist stuff or the baldness stuff, the baldness stuff gets me.
No, I feel that yeah, that's what I do. What's what is finaster is that is the only FDA it's a
It's for prostate cancer. It's for prostate cancer originally, but it is the only FDA approved drug as far as I know that you can take that
Stop I use it. I use finasteride and minoxidil
Damn, I haven't I just worry about this stuff. I don't do anything. Yeah, the more you worry about it the worse
it'll get. You think it's true? Why are you always looking at your phone during
interviews? Dog, we were setting up the interview, okay, and it's live. I'm on
an oxidizer. I'm with Zoran. I'm trying to push out Turkey, but I think Istanbul is
in my scalp's future. Yeah. Well, for some, you know,
Also is so funny when chat is to be like, why are you looking at your phone? I'm looking at you, man. I'm looking at you
You in the chat
Why are you freaking out? I'm looking at you in the goddamn chat. You feel me?
With the heliante, I've never seen a group of people who on the one hand
Always feel like I'm not giving them enough attention
But then also some of you like you feel a sense of abandonment when I don't look at chat
But when I do look at chat you go, why are you looking at chat? Look at the person you're interviewing
Hello
It's like oh, I want to be perceived at all times, but I also don't want to be perceived at some times
Anyway, but yeah, we got it all we're gonna be covering it
So much
You're so valid right now. Thank you
Thank you. Yeah, let's get started with the day's men a shout out to Dean. Dean also shot.
Dean also shot Mahmood Khalil, our friend, our brave warrior, Mahmood Khalil. And this
was a this was a very cool. This was a very cool opportunity. And I'm very stoked on what
the final product look like. Yes, shot, shot him like with a gun, dude. Children.
Your best suit and your best. Yeah, this was the person who styled this also styled. You
might notice the suit that I'm wearing here because I've been wearing it nonstop since
I got it from her and I even got a tailored to extend the length of the arms as well.
So shout out Ginger who also styled Marty Supreme.
But you know there's an interview component but I think a lot of you just want to see the
Mexico filtered ass photos but I mean this is my favorite I think. This is my favorite.
Sergiotta Cini, Polo shirt Lacoste, track pants and shoes Nike, it's giving 2019 Hassan.
Yeah, Dean was adamant about the track suits. He really loved the, he really loved the track
suits. So he was like, we got to go all the way on the track suits. So we did. And, and that's,
That's that's what he did he went with that he went with the tracks I
Really I love this one too this one has crazy shoes too
David Owen went vintage trouser stylus own
Blazer Jojo Armani
You're a toothpick guy. Yeah, they gave me the toothpick and it changed my vibes entirely.
I swear to God, once I put the toothpick in my mouth, I became a different person. Like
that, that meme, like a toothpick can change your life is so real because it did. It changed.
I look like a Grand Theft Auto 5, like a screensaver character, you know what I mean? Like, it is
true. I do look like that and I felt like that. I felt like I was ready to do like I was, I was
ready to beat on some motherfuckers. You know what I mean? I don't know why I put the toothpick in my
mouth and everything changed. I was just like, yo, I'm like, I don't know who I have become.
You look like you drive a Ugo.
Thank you, I guess.
They love hitting me with this one shot where I'm laying, by the way.
There's going to be another one for that too.
A great BTS shot.
Okay.
Why does he look like a Polish uncle all?
I think this looks good.
This is a fit.
This is a good look.
I am Italian.
Okay.
I am Italian.
just how it is. Anyway, Mafia Core, Goon Core. You look like a York Will trash boy like
Timmy Chalamet. That poses for you, us, not for you. Have you considered keeping toothpicks
on to help mask during difficult to manage moments. Yeah, no, that's who I am now. The
toothpick has become a part of my personality. So, I'll probably be ripping it more frequently.
First Mongolian, then Turkish then Italian, Mr. Worldwide, I guess I'm everything, dude.
ambiguous guy. You look fucking amazing. My jaw's on the floor. Thank you. No one cared
who you were before you put on the toothpick. It's true. It literally is true. It's straight
up true. I have some nicotine toothpicks. They want us to like promote them or something,
but I didn't really like to taste that much. But yeah, get with Bricky to get the Notara
pine hookup. Anyway, all right. All right. All right. All right. All right. It's giving
this. Come on, man. Come on. I've gone. I have upgraded so much. An entire closet revamp
is suits. It suits meta. Suits meta is a different me. Okay. We're living in a different planet
now. Okay. I'm a suit guy. I'm a toothpick guy. I'm a numbers guy. I'm a numbers guy. I'm a suit guy.
I'm also a a toothpick guy. And I when I put the toothpick on in my mouth, I become like a
different guy. I become the type of guy that says I'm a numbers guy. But also, I like Donald Trump.
Donald Trump is the best president that we've had so far.
I'm over here thinking to myself, I'm gonna chatchapity it, I'm gonna grok it.
I'm gonna grok it, I'm gonna chatchapity it.
I'm a numbers guy.
Okay?
Okay?
Look like Asmald got his new orders
From Elon dude, he's been he's been doing the worst fucking propaganda. I saw something where he was like
He's like talking about how Israel is I saw I saw him talking about how like all the Israel stuff is actually not based anymore
Israel stuff is actually not based at all anymore
He's like as we go panics it quickly closes on his video after he was gonna son described him perfectly culture war narrative
Try to divide the working class
Because at the end of the day the working class is the biggest
Base of support. That's just the reality and all matter of culture wars and you know culture war narratives and arguments
Actually try to divide and successfully unfortunately divide the working class. We need to get don't ever listen to this
Yeah, yeah, not based. Okay, no divide the working class. Oh my god. Oh my god. He doesn't have a
listen. Leftist in our con is on piker is dog slave. What a year. Yeah, dude. I know here's
dog slave is on piker admitting that he works at the nation democratic party giving them on
on giving them on advice on how to mislead the youth.
This guy gets so, that empanada gets so horny
to just fucking skit so post about me
that he just forgets how to fucking type sometimes.
If you're willing to, like ask,
ask somebody like us on what culture war issue
they're willing to relent on.
Are you willing to relent on having men and women sports?
Are you willing to relent and dog?
you just did the argument. It's so funny that he just straight up did not understand the point
that I was making. The point that I'm making is all of this stuff about transgender people,
transgender athletes, existing in society, they're immaterial, okay? They're obviously important for
trans people, but they're not important for people who aren't trans. You and others like you use or
drive the salience of these issues to the forefront of the conversation, to divide the working class.
When in fact, if we were arguing on whether or not the working class deserves more autonomy in
their workplace, deserves more control over their productive output, whether they deserve
healthcare, for example, the conversation would not favor the right at all. But the right knows this,
which is why they have to constantly be like, no, no, no, we have to talk about trans people,
whether they should be allowed in fucking, you know, civilized society or not.
And then he immediately doubles down and goes, yeah, don't listen to this guy. He just wouldn't,
yeah, yeah. The argument is, would you be fine with trans people existing? But also,
if that same party was offering you fucking health care. And I think many people would say yes to
that, right? Because the reality of the matter is, if you're a cis guy, why the fuck do you care
if trans people participate in like high school athletics or what, or not? Like, why would you
care about that? What is that done to your life that Donald Trump has actively destroyed it,
right? Donald Trump has successfully implemented these initiatives where he's banned transgender
athletes from participating in NCAA competitions. Has that made your life a little bit better?
Is rent cheaper now? No, of course not. Do you have health care? No, of course you don't, because that's a deflection.
That's a deflection from the real issues, and that's precisely the point I'm making.
Of course, Asmongold doesn't want his audience to hear that conversation, because then they'll be like, wait a minute, this makes sense.
So he has to constantly, he has to constantly make sure that their audience is like going
back to the important matters, you know, the, what is this?
The breakfast club glazing you?
What do you mean?
Is that like from, do you just link me Netflix?
That's crazy.
By the way, everything is quote unquote transaction when you're dealing with a child.
But I also, this gentleman just said, the reason I disagree is also how you raise your
kids, right?
What does this have to do with anything? Well
Anyway
Why is he even doing that for what's the point? I mean he just has to hit he just has to hit these divisive narratives
He has to go back to like
He has to go back to his fucking roots, you know
Telemundo has noticed you wait. What is this Telemundo will launch the mini series El Turco on Monday as a part of the Network's triple premiere night
Oh hell yeah, Turks on top Turks on top Turks on top. We're back boys. We're back
We were not the table any longer and that was devastating Islamabad became the table
It was no longer Istanbul. That was the table and and all of a sudden we're back
Not only are we the table with the chairs?
We're the table cloths were the plates on top of the table El Turco
Okay, to the bottom to the bottom to the bottom. That's all I'm saying
Why isn't your hair that long?
because it just didn't look good.
Just didn't look good when it was like that.
Yeah.
Asmigol panics it quickly closes the song's video after realizing Hasan described them perfectly.
A culture where an heir tried to divide the working class.
Asmigol, don't listen to this man.
Don't ever listen to this.
Men in women's sports.
Yeah.
Turkey is the table.
Anyway, so good stuff there. Speaking of which, I also had another interesting experience
last night on Twitter. There's this guy, Brandon Buckingham, who's like a massive, I don't know
if he still is, but he used to be a massive fan of Sam Hyde. He's a pedophile, neo-Nazi,
right? And he tried to do like a call out post on me and I saw it and I was like, sure.
I mean, I'm, I'm fucking down to, to aid in this endeavor.
And then he just didn't respond to me, which I think is very strange, right?
So he very, he once famously tried to, months after the fact, uh, he tried to
approach me at, uh, a moist critical event.
And, and, um, you know, he was trying to fucking talk about Sam high.
And I was just like, yeah, man, I don't, you know, I don't fuck with pedophile Nazis.
Like I'm not trying to be around them.
I don't know why you're defending them.
right? And he was so purple red when he mustered up the courage to, uh, to finally come up to me
to talk about his, you know, the guy he's wearing on a shirt is a pedophile neo-nazi.
Um, that, uh, he never actually got what he wanted out of that, uh, out of that back and
forth interaction. So months later, he just lied about it. I spoke to this guy who told me he would
rather steal hundreds of thousands of dollars from child cancer research in exchange for not
being in the same room as someone he's suspected of being a Nazi, all his friends agreed. Which is
funny when myth actually came in with a kill shot because he's standing right there. This is right
after creator class. He goes, it's funny how you were talking about making amends and being
chill in regards of our differences and beliefs. And two months later, grew the balls of tweet this.
Bro was red in the face and stuttering while talking to us too. Funny, right?
And, and since then, you know, he has, I'll give him credit. Oh, he responded 20 minutes ago.
Okay, good. I'm glad. I'm down to do it. Anyway, yesterday he posted this, he said, my friends
in Lebanon and Palestine believe that Sampaiger only talks about their conflict for personal
gain. He has made millions speaking on their suffering while sitting in his ivory tower.
It's time a son flies to Lebanon to help people in need. I helped dozens of families with
only $10,000. I imagine the difference you can make if he actually cared about people
dying in the Middle East, boarded the flight and brought them aid himself. Now, I think
What's really funny about this is, is a white boy telling me a Turkish guy that, uh, I,
I don't, you know, I don't, I don't travel to the Middle East.
I don't know anything about the Middle East.
Um, and, and, you know, it's fine.
It's very clear.
It's very clear that he was trying to like bait me into some, some kind of thing.
And it didn't work.
Cause I was like, sure, you know, I did it.
Why can't he, for years, he has morally granted an active, like these people
matter to him.
his audience thinks he cares, but why want to go to Lebanon and help? I, I know hundreds
of families being bombed desperately need the money, Hassan, enough role playing, take
action. I can connect it with the families in need in South Lebanon, less than 1% of
your money can save thousands of lives. Will you help them?
So I just responded with, we have our disagreements, but I appreciate your coverage on Lebanon,
which I did. He made a video, he went to Lebanon, he made a video about Lebanon and what Lebanon
was going through. And I thought it was, you know, I thought it was pretty good, especially
because he has a very different audience than I do. And that audience, seeing the plight
of the Lebanese population, uh, because of, you know, Israel's relentless bombing campaign
is a good thing. Right? So I'm always willing to let bygones be bygones. So I said, look,
we have our disagreements, but I liked your Lebanon, Lebanon coverage. Uh, send me what
orgs you're working with. And I'll gladly send money and even set up a fundraiser. I've
worked with, fun, worked with and fundraised millions for an era, PCRF, Red Crescent,
Conra and Heel Palestine in the past, which is true, right?
I'm in Lebanon.
I very much appreciate Hassan Khan's coverage of what's happening here.
He's been a crucial voice in the last two years.
I also appreciate your Lebanon documentary booking him show and I'm down to offer any
help to raise money for my country.
So I don't know if he's like still a Sam Hyde fan or not, but it is kind of strange.
is, this is a very like YouTuber way of approaching the subject, implying that I haven't fund
raised actively.
Implying that I haven't fund raised actively for Anira, which also works in Lebanon as
well. I recently had a conversation with someone from Anira at one of these events I went to,
where they literally said to me that we were, this community was the first major fundraiser
because we came in hot like right after October 7, when no one else wanted to touch the fucking
subject with a 10-foot pole and immediately started fundraising for the Palestinians.
And I'm very proud of that. We fundraised on numerous initiatives, but the first one was
for an era, Palestinian Recrecent and PCRF.
So like that was to the tune of a million point,
a million two, I think it was like a 1.2 million dollars.
And it's, it's, you know, one of the,
I think it's one of my best accomplishments,
one of this community's most important accomplishments.
And it really helped apparently,
according to the people that work at these organizations,
because no one else wanted to do it at the time
because they were worried.
But of course, when I go to places and deliver humanitarian aid directly, then people say
it's performative.
So I don't know why he's like, I don't think this is a sincere request, but I'm gonna treat
it as though it's a sincere request because I think there's no reason to, what do you
call it?
reason to like take this stuff at face value and then not make something positive work out of it.
But it is what it is.
The thing that makes it weird is you chose to do it in a reply to a click of you talking
about getting gaped. Yeah, I don't care. Whatever. We boulder through. But yeah, I think it's
kind of gross to be like, um, my friends in Lebanon and Gaza hate you, like to use Israel's
violence, to use Israel's violence as a, as a talking point to like advance some kind
of fucking YouTube meta is somewhat childish. Um, and of course, you know, people will lean
into this and then be like, oh, he's right. Hussan is hated by the, the Palestinian people
and Lebanese people. They think he's fake. They think he's phony. And this is the type
of thing that I have seen from not just this guy, but like even people who consider themselves
to be fucking leftist. And I don't really understand where this attitude is coming
from. Why do we feel so comfortable in the Western world to talk about these issues as
though they're, you know, as though they're done already, like people are still being
murdered, right? Every single fucking day. There's Palestinians being murdered in Gaza,
every single fucking day. There's Lebanese people being murdered in Lebanon, every single
fucking day by Israel. And, and the idea that this is like, uh, advancing something sort
of like YouTube beef is really, really stupid. Um, but, uh, this isn't him being genuine.
Yeah, I know, I know, I know it's not him being genuine. He's trying to make it into
a drama thing. And immediately, Ethan Klein also seized on the opportunity. Ethan Klein
constantly wants me to be physically in the proximity of Israel's drone strikes. I don't
know why. I don't know what's going on with that. Remember when he was like, why don't
you go to Gaza? Oh, that's right. You can't go to Gaza. You're a fucking bitch. And now
he's like, why don't you go to Lebanon, Hassan? It's pretty crazy. It's pretty strange that
Ethan Klein will take any initiative. He'll never just like fundraise for these issues
on his own. He'll only do it if there's a YouTube drama attached to it. He'll only do
it if he can get me to be in physical proximity of Israeli drone strikes and Israeli bombing
campaigns. I find it very strange. I'm not going to say he wants me to be fucking murdered
by the state of Israel. Actually, I will say that. I'm pretty sure he just wants me to
be in that situation so he doesn't have to think about me any longer, which is, you know,
easier ways of of no longer thinking about me which is I don't know you can
just like live your life
it's odd it's odd that his talking point always is why won't you go and be in
physical proximity of the Israeli state so they can fucking assassinate you.
He praised them bombing Lebanon recently, so yes he does, oh my god.
Anyway, I would bet a lot that he's talking ahead and getting told to push the idea of
you traveling even if he doesn't personally want you to get blown up.
Yeah, I don't know. But in any case, in any case, strange stuff, strange stuff all around.
When YouTubers get involved in stuff like this, it just turns into something so gross
in my opinion. Don't know why. Yeah. Oh, here, this is the, this is the one. Ethan Klein
offers $10,000 for a Sompiker to Sompiker for Charles Lebanon. Ethan recently supported
Israel's bombing of Lebanon, which has now killed over 3,500 people and injured 11,000.
They started launching rockets again.
That's right. Yeah. I always don't understand the conversations where it's like, why is
is real doing all that. But there is a reason. So like if you want to act.
By the way, these are the very same people that were cheering on the Trump administration,
potentially prosecuting me for my trip to Cuba. So I don't think these guys actually want me to go
in and help the Lebanese population at all, okay? Just saying, I don't think any of these guys give
a fuck about the Lebanese people. I don't think they care about what the Israeli government is doing.
I'll be charitable to Brandon Buckingham. He did go to Lebanon and he did actually humanize
the victims of Israel's violence in a way that you normally don't see from content creators. So
I'll at least give him that, right? But I don't think Ethan Klein cares about the Lebanese population.
Here he is talking about how valid it is to fucking blow them up. How valid it is to destroy
Dahia. How valid it is that Israel's blowing up Beirut again, right? Something that he's been in
defensive over and over again. The very same podcast that has also celebrated when the
Trump administration, the fucking fascist Trump administration, decided to prosecute
me potentially, right? For my humanitarian aid trip to fucking Cuba.
So obviously, I don't think he wants me to go to Lebanon because he sincerely cares about
me helping the Lebanese population where he's on the one hand defending their bombing, right?
i think he
wants uh... uh... a kinetic situation to take place in the hands of either
israel or maybe the trump administration
it's fucking gross
it's gross it is the grossest most narcissistic
most selfish mother fucking thing it's
israel behavior by the way one hundred percent spiritually israeli
i'm gonna let the i'm gonna let a larger more powerful force take care of a
problem for me in this circumstance
israel always relies on america here's the incline relying on the state of israel
have a real conversation about being shot at from all directions
police lebanon and iran
well for a long time it was just your own
and uh... like i had not a long time
bill has what just recently got into it they were staying at it yes i mean you
say long it's not that i mean since this whole
shit with your on-starred air for years it was from god so
yeah so i'm just saying like
i'm pretty sure if the of on if there was a rock is going from mexico he
wouldn't be like
you know what's with america bro and why why can't we just leave mexico alone
israel only invaded lebanon we started launching rockets again
that's why i i always
don't understand the conversations
wrong
israel never stop
uh... murdering lebanese people with drone strikes uh... even before has
been less than a retaliating it's wrong it's bullshit
as well i just retaliated
uh... when the iranian campaign started
israel blew up iran
even in this last year too
i can't get any security assurances
it is it israel is worried about last year the client is recorded over two
thousand people including fifteen uh... thousand plus children is real cool over
two hundred journal is rebooked to see some of the two hundred children
genocide is a joke to them
yeah they did literally think
They literally think that like, uh, Israel wouldn't fucking assassinate Westerners that
are able to get into Gaza.
Like they're so fucking insane.
Who would protect me in that situation too?
It's not like the American government would turn around and be like, wow, how dare you
kill an American citizen who's there to, um, to do journalism, right?
How dare you do that?
It would never, not in a million fucking years, okay?
Why the fuck would they?
Of course they wouldn't. The American government would be like, oh, thank God, thank God, you did it.
Now we don't have to deal with the fucking legal repercussions ourselves.
Anyway.
So.
Having said that.
Um, there is, uh, there is, uh, uh, a couple Asmongold takes that I want to, I wanted to
look at.
One was he is now decided on the one hand he's like, Nick Flentes is based, right?
Uh, and that he's a funnel for Nick Flentes on the other hand, he keeps telling his audience
that, you know, this Israel stuff is boring and silly, and no one should talk about it,
and no one should consider it. I don't think he's like intelligent enough to recognize what he's
doing. So I suspect that he's just seeing on his timeline, like the people that he cribs,
the people that he fucking steals the talking points of, that they're also trying to navigate
this space where they're like, yeah, don't talk about Israel anymore, you know? And I assume
that's what's going on here. This is the other take that I saw that is really funny. Let's take a
look at what he was saying. It's not the top 2% of wealth that's oppressing you. It's the bottom
2%. Intelligent and smart people. The problem, you're not, people are really not going to like this.
You're not being oppressed by the top 2% of society. You're being oppressed by the bottom
two percent of society and the bottom two percent of society have caused all of the all
yeah it's not the wealthiest that controls society it's actually the poorest okay brilliant take
dude this is the real this is the real working class whisperer right here that's awesome the
manifest problems in your lives are caused by the bottom two percent in society.
Yeah. Careful, the most impoverished powerless people in society are the ones that are pressing
you and causing all the problems is certainly a take. Correct. They are functional animals who
should be institutionalized via either prison or mental asylums. I think there's something really
funny about Asmongold and his audience because they are in the bottom two percent of society.
Like, Asmongold obviously is in the top 2% of wealth and the top 1% of wealth, right?
But he larps as though he is an everyman, right?
He larps as though he is in the bottom 2% of society and his audience is literally in
the bottom 2% of their own respective nations, like a bunch of shut-ins that don't really
do anything and are just like angry and want everyone else's lives to be fucking dog shit,
too.
It's really funny that he just gets to present this narrative where there's like those who
are even lesser than you that are actually the people who are responsible.
I mean, it's a typical take from a one percenter.
Asmongold is a one percenter.
He larps as though he's not, right?
He dresses like shit.
He doesn't shower.
He lives in filth.
And a lot of people think that is the, a lot of people see that and think, no, this is
a real one.
is a real one. He doesn't own multiple businesses. He's not like a multi-millionaire, right?
Except he is. He is another multi-millionaire telling you that people like you are the reason
why you're failing. It's not the wealthy people that have designed this system to ensure that you
don't actually ever make ends meet. That we don't have profound amounts of wealth and productive
output out there that could be used in a more productive manner to make sure that there are
There are more egalitarian outcomes for people like yourself that no one should fucking suffer.
No one should fucking suffer and barely make ends meet when they got one single fucking
job.
People should be able to take care of a family and own a home on one income.
Okay.
That's how it used to be.
And that's how it should be.
And yet the systems design led by parasitic capital, parasitic forces of capital has made
so that you have to do gig economy work, that you have to work longer hours and basically
become a fucking servile little slave to super wealthy people or upper middle class people,
okay? And then barely make ends meet in the aftermath of all that and can never own a
fucking home. You have to literally be a permanent renter for the rest of your life.
And then these guys turn around and say, it's actually the bottom 2%, that's fucking your life
up. He's a rich guy telling you, the average Joe, that you and others that are maybe worse
often you are the reason why society is busted. It's not the wealthy, don't look up.
You know how people say like it's not a left-right thing, it's an up versus down thing,
it's a top versus bottom thing, right? That's true. Asmongold is doing this brilliant thing
where he goes, it's not left-right, it's top versus bottom and the bottom is at fault.
Incredible. They can't be rehabilitated. They can only be removed from society.
The biggest weakness of Western society is the lie that all men are created equal.
Yeah, this is how you stay oppressed, by the way. This is how you stay oppressed.
If you are in his audience and you listen to him say this stuff and you go,
yeah, that's actually base. It's actually the homeless people that are at fucking fault.
That's how you stay oppressed. It's crazy. I mean, yeah, it's Nazi shit, but it's
also wrong, right? I'm not just gonna sit here and say, oh, that's Nazi commentary,
and then let it sit like that, because at this point, unfortunately, people do
actually, you know, love the Nazi shit. It doesn't have that same stink associated
with it nowadays. So you have to also explain why it's wrong. Okay. Anyway, it's not the
Chad's fault. Women won't date us. It's the betas doesn't even make sense from an insult
perspective, of course, it doesn't make sense. It's just fundamentally flawed thinking. Who
do you think has more say in what happens in society, fucking Peter Thiel or the random
homeless person that's like lost their damn minds after being devoid of housing, devoid
of shelter for like a decade? The homeless person needs help. And the system that doesn't
help that homeless person is designed by the likes of fucking Peter Thiel and Elon Musk
and I guess they're brave propaganda warriors like Asmongold.
Any time Asmongold tells you it's actually the working poor that are in these horrible
circumstance that could become homeless at a moment's notice is the most powerful entity
and is the reason why people are fucking suffering and why people are failing.
Every time Asmongold says that, and people believe it, they lose track of who's actually
controlling this structure, this organization of the economy, and it's certainly the capital
owners.
He's basically doing, in both that content and in that commentary right there, what
Asmongold is doing is exactly the same thing people do all the time.
Don't talk about class war, only talk about culture war.
It's no different than what he's doing here, where he goes, I bring up the fact that culture
war narratives try to divide the working class, right?
And there are a lot of culture warriors that desperately try to tell you, like, oh, it's
the trans people, it's the transgenders that are ruining your lives.
And it's not.
Transgender people have no fucking say in your, transgender people have no say in you
not being able to take time off from your work, you not getting the wages or the necessary
benefits that you actually earned that you deserve, right? It's not undocumented migrants
that are doing that to you. It's actually your bosses. It's the forces of capital that's doing
that to you. And these guys literally go, no, no, no, no. Remember trans people.
Remember transgender people. Isn't that scary? That the working class is experiencing. Because
at the end of the day, the working class is the biggest base of support. That's just the reality.
And all matter of culture wars and culture war narratives and arguments actually try to divide and
successfully, unfortunately, do divide the work of us. We need to get don't ever listen to this the culture war
He doesn't have it listen. You see don't ever listen to this culture war transgender transgender
It's really willing to like ask ask somebody like a son what culture war issue they're willing to relent on
Are you willing to relent on having men and women sports?
Are you willing to relent remember trans people exist guys remember dude dude?
I love you my one Albanian chatter
Okay, my one Albanian chatter you need to stop spamming brother, okay?
I'm not gonna get into the flamingo revolution right now. Maybe later. Okay. I love you. I love Albania. I love Dua Lipa
Okay, Albania mentioned
Okay, I know the fucking Kushner's are
Are are trying to seize an island to turn it into like little st. James off the coast. I know
Okay, I know I'm aware and the Albanians are rising up. I know
Goddamn dude
Look at this
Holy shit, I'm gonna get to it man, I'm aware Albania rise up Albania number one
None of this would happen if the Ottomans were still in control.
I'm just saying, the Ottomans would have never allowed Jared Kushner and Ivanka to go and
purchase a piece of Albanian territory and Albanian land to turn it into an Epstein Island
style situation, okay?
The cultists love Asmongold now.
You are, Asmongold calls us on an invasive species infecting the Democrat party.
You are not a Democrat.
You are not helpful to Democrats.
to infect the Democrat policy with Middle Eastern identity politics.
You are not a Democrat.
You are not helpful to the Democrats.
You want to infect Democrat policy.
Yeah, with, you know, with, with divisive issues like that the overwhelming majority
of people agree on, which is, let's not give money to Israel any longer.
Let's fix our fucking potholes at home.
When Donald Trump says this shit, everybody loves it.
This guy love talking about it.
And Donald Trump was saying it, but when I say it, I'm saying it in a Muslimic style,
I guess.
You are the enemy from within, he says.
Yeah, dude.
Listen to the words that are coming out of my mouth.
What am I saying?
I'm saying, hey, wouldn't it be nice if we had nicer things?
We have the money for it.
Why is it going to fucking Israel?
Why is it going to endless wars overseas?
Not just in the fucking Middle East and Latin America too.
Why are we doing all this shit?
for a small group of people that are profiting off of this death and destruction, but it's
not good for the average American. Can we please get fucking healthcare? Free healthcare, please.
That's my argument with Middle Eastern identity politics. Yeah, he can't fucking turn this into
a brownoid argument, right? He can't because a lot of white people, a lot of white people agree
with me on this, okay? Myself, I am white as well, but a lot of real whites also agree
with this. It's fucking stupid. He is trying to do the same thing that like all of those
weird edgy accounts that are weirdly pro-Israel, but will say anti-Semitic shit are doing,
right? They're trying to turn this into like, oh, it's brown coded to care about what Israel's
profound level of control over American foreign policy. That's a brownoid thing.
We should be servile to the needs of Israel.
That's what the real whites care about, is that the argument that you're making?
Twitch streamer, Asmongole, also known as Roche King, commented on his live stream that he
wants Israel to continue bombing Lebanon.
Yeah, it's, it's brownoid dude.
It's brownoid.
Uh, it's, it's brown coded to, to say, Hey, uh, maybe America should get to dictate what
Israel does and doesn't do because America is the fucking superpower in this equation.
That's the reason why they don't want anything to do with you.
You're an invasive species into the liberal and Democrat movement and party.
You seek to sub... It's so funny that Asmongold is saying this when he is literally eating Donald
Trump's dick and balls on a daily fucking basis. And there are liberals out there who will hear
hear him say this and go, hey, this fucking neo-Nazi that we supposedly despise is actually
really cooking up a solid take here.
Yeah, guy who fucking despises your movement turns around and tells you what's best for
your movement that he despises.
Ultra right-wing content creator with 95% extremist right-wing audiences for sure worried
about the Democratic Party who buys this, for fucking sex pest in his audience, dude.
That's who.
They're like, hey, this fucking rabid, uh, uh, transphobe who literally says the most
unhinged anti-immigrant shit, who is the biggest dick writer of Donald Trump, actually
really cooked with this.
Okay.
He really cooked with this tag.
He's right.
But once again, he'll never have this conversation with me personally.
He can't do it, because he's fucking terrified.
Because he knows that if we were to have a one-on-one conversation on camera, he would
look like a fucking idiot, because he is a fucking idiot, and his audience would probably
turn on him after that conversation.
They would go, okay, maybe you didn't know what the hell you were talking about.
So he has to keep making it seem like he's farming drama, when in fact, he's just a terrified
little right-wing propagandist actively telling his audience that things are gonna be fine,
that Trump is great, that you shouldn't worry about Israel's level of control over American
foreign policy and even American domestic policy. He's just trying to tell him a little lullaby,
right? Go back to sleep, little one. Don't worry. Remember, it's actually the undocumented migrants
that are stealing from you. It's actually the homeless people that are fucking you over. It's
such as the transgenders.
Transgender, transgender, transgender, that's it.
Okay, Donald Trump eradicated trans athletes.
Donald Trump literally made it illegal to be trans
and an athlete in the NCAA.
Did your life get better?
That was literally a year ago.
That was two years ago.
Did your life get better since then?
Did you experience any fucking material improvements
in your life?
No, of course you didn't.
Is that fixed in the fucking gas prices?
Giving Israel more money?
Is that going to fix your gas prices, giving Israel more money?
Is that going to actually improve inflation?
Is the cost of living more manageable?
We've been giving Israel $10 billion a fucking year on top of everything else that we've
been doing, $300 billion since the inception of the nation state over the course of the
last 80 fucking years, right?
Have things gotten better in that process on that timeline, especially in the last two
two to three years have things gotten better
has ice improved your lives you know musk is a fucking trillionaire
what good did that do for you
did it do anything for you that's positive no of course not
and take them over and co-op their platform for your own
by using these big you know like a emotionally charged issues
force your policy down everybody else's throats
You are not a Democrat.
You are not helpful to the Democrat.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Twitter, Rasmagol, also known as Roche King, commented on his live stream that he wants
to be able to continue bombing Lebanon.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
Why would he care about what helps with the Democrats?
He doesn't.
he doesn't actually
he does not
he's trying to present uh... the israel palestine issue as a as an issue that
only brown oids care about okay
he's trying to uh... be the edgy boy
he's trying to be the edgy boy that
uh... that that uh... tells his edgy audience like this is real stuff is just
like brown coded it's only middle easterners and brown oids to give a
should about this like you shouldn't fucking care about this. Okay? Yeah.
Magga right wingers, real white guys don't care about this stuff. It's like,
do they, do they not? Because I feel like you're a little terrified, you're a
little terrified approach in that conversation, you know?
you keep saying that word yes dude I'm allowed to say it he's referencing me in
that with that word what do you want me to fuck shut the fuck up okay oh my god
you're saying brown lead yes dude yes I am I'm saying it
Itch has motherfuckers in the chat.
Oh my god this dude is still spamming the flamingo revolution.
Brother, brother take a fucking day off dude.
Jesus Christ.
I said I was gonna fucking get to it, but you're literally spamming it.
Clearly, you're not listening to me.
You're just in here like a chatbot.
Netanyahu informed Trump that Israel will not pull IDF forces from Lebanon and does not
consider itself bound by the Lebanon Clause and the U.S. Iran agreement.
Okay, you know what? Like, I, the thing is this has always been my stance on this. You
can negate, you can never negotiate with these fucks. You just go in there, you bomb the
shit out of them, and you leave them. If they want to kill each other afterwards, go ahead,
be my guest. But the amount of like, why are we trying to micromanage Israel? Yeah, why
Why are we doing this base, baby?
After he told him that, he said, did the Albanian government buy you?
Oh, so he did actually fucking, he did actually hear what I was saying.
He just didn't give a shit.
No, man, the Albanian government didn't buy me.
Why the fuck would the Albanian government buy me?
Why the fuck?
Oh my God.
So stupid.
All right, whatever.
Yeah, I think he should keep bombing them, by the way.
I think, I think, I think Israel should keep bombing Lebanon because Lebanon has terrorists
in it.
in it and that like again they're firing rockets into Israel they are they're
firing rockets and I hope he kills every single fucking one of the Hezbollah
members in Lebanon every single fucking one and only then will the people there
have peace that's good yeah and never yeah yeah it's based if Israel defies
America. Yeah, it's base, guys. Hey, guys. Okay. Is this guy getting paid? Like, what's
happening here? Is he getting paid for this propaganda? Because at least he should get
paid for it, right? Because if he's doing this kind of unbelievable propaganda for Israel,
and he's doing it for free, he's the biggest fucking moron on the planet, okay?
Please watch the video I linked. It's so on point. I'm probably not going to do that. I'm sorry
What what is this okay now I'm clicking on it
Negotiate with terrorists exactly Lebanon's a semi-western country it is it's disappointing if
They're being taken over by these freaks. So uh, yeah, that's it remember the pager attacks I do
do.
Now, APAC funded.
Haha, right.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Haha.
See, even his audience is like, bro, what are you saying right now?
Because like, here he is.
So he's obviously a mega dick writer, right?
Like that's all he does.
And now that JD Pondon has decided, actually, we're moving in a different direction.
This war has been lost and we have to fucking manage this retreat.
And a part of that means restraining Israel.
Now he's actually outflanking Donald Trump.
He's now going America first.
Actually I don't care about America first.
It's America last now.
Here he is lambasting.
Yeah.
You think this actually, you think for the record, you think that this back in November
2025 is indicative of his current position, because this only shows inconsistency. Someone
rolled a clip of him literally saying Israel is not really important. I'm not going to
talk about Israel's control over American foreign policy any longer, because he recently
pivoted, and I noticed it and I called it out. He recently pivoted as the Hasbra budget,
five X in real time, which is part of the reason why I'm saying, you know, maybe he
has, uh, you know, maybe he's getting a piece of that, Hawesboro budget, because recently
he started saying, Oh, uh, especially with this, like Iran, uh, United States conflict,
like we should just like lay off Israel.
We should stop.
We should stop talking about Israel.
And it's actually based if Israel continues bombing Lebanon, defying Donald Trump's orders.
Right.
How is that America first?
And this is a thing to me, right?
I see this and I think to myself, why the fuck would I vote for this retard?
This literally, this is from 2025.
His newer take is actually Israel should defy Trump's orders.
Israel should ruin the ceasefire that Trump actually worked hard on.
So, which one is it?
He literally has said over and over again, he literally has said over and over and over
again recently that talking about Israel's involvement in American politics is actually
boring and it's actually crazy.
It's causing people to be schizophrenic or whatever the fuck.
There's no way this Chud doesn't want Esmol, right?
Okay, fuck that video.
I'm looking for a specific video where I heard him recently say, I heard him recently say
something along the lines of like that the anti-Israel politics is, you know, something
that we shouldn't be even talking about any longer because it's just like fucking boring.
I think I saw like a sneak over a reaction to it, but it was literally this outfit that
he was wearing. So it's probably from one of these clips.
Like it's all, it's all, it is real Israel. So bad. These people are trying to blow you
up too, bro. Like that's it. And we can't have Lebanon will get a Gaza by the end of
this though. That's not my problem. Like what they do over in the Middle East, like
whatever they want to blow up, whatever they don't want to blow up, it's not my fucking
problem. I don't care. I just don't want to have any terrorists. That's it. That's the
only thing that affects me as an American. Like there are no terror cells in the Middle
East.
It's also weird that it's super pro-nick flint as in yet now as being pro-Israel because
he has no positions. These are not like well thought out positions. He's just literally
reacting to stimuli. I think this was it. Yeah.
To inform Trump that Israel will not pull IDF forces from Lebanon and does not consider
itself bound by the Lebanon Clause and the U.S. Iran agree.
So you're about peace and then he starts laughing because Israel wants war.
Okay, you know what?
The thing is, this has always been my stance on this.
You can never negotiate with these fucks.
You just go in there, you bomb the shit out of them and you leave them.
If they want to kill each other.
He's saying base Benjamin Netanyahu.
He's saying base Benjamin Netanyahu for defying Trump's orders, by the way.
afterwards, go ahead, be my guest. But the amount of like, why are we trying to micromanage
Israel? Yeah, yeah, why are we doing this base, baby? Yeah, I think he should keep bombing them,
by the way. Someone who shot said, I want to see, I don't care about Nico's commentary on this,
I want to hear what as a goal has to say
Not not like again there literally starts a name now and then they're like oh we need to kill these terrorists
You created that like again. They're firing rockets into Israel. They are they're firing rockets and I hope he kills every single fucking one of
the Hezbollah members in Lebanon, every single fucking one.
Yeah, he is trying to present it as like, based, right?
He's, okay, so it is this clip.
He is basically trying to present Benjamin Ennyahu defying Trump's orders as based to
his audience, when in fact, it's literally spoiling the fucking ceasefire deal that Trump
put together.
So his highest priority here is to defend Israel.
be stupid enough to be. This kind of pro-Israel propaganda for free. He's finally found something
he disagrees with Trump on. Why is your neck slouching? Is the suit sticking up? Is the
suit sticking up?
Anyway, um, all right on that note, let's get a let's move on from this and, uh, let's
talk about the White House press conference that, uh, Donald Trump, he held a press conference
This is a G7 and we'll cover this.
Accomplish everything and much more.
Ending the current conflict, reopening the Strait of Hormones and preventing Iran from
ever obtaining a nuclear weapon.
That's what it was all about.
That was about 99 percent Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon.
They can't develop it, buy it.
They can never have a nuclear weapon.
at the same time with this announcement or close to it,
as people started to think it was going to happen
when Iran was making some very positive statements.
The stock market has surged to record highs,
picking up thousands of points
over the last short period of time, thousands of points.
And oil is dropping like it has never dropped before
at levels that went in numbers down $7, down $8.
Didn't ever see anything like that.
But if we didn't do this deal, we
could have dropped more bombs for another three weeks,
two weeks, four weeks, two years.
You would never have the harmless straight open.
You would never have success.
Your market would have, instead of going up at levels
that nobody's ever seen before would go down at levels
that nobody ever saw before,
maybe except for 1929 or whatever.
And you know, all the tough guys,
tough guys don't realize that this wasn't a three month deal.
This was years in the making.
You know why?
Because I was the one that killed General Salamone.
If I didn't kill General Salamone,
we probably wouldn't be talking right now about this deal
because he was a mad genius.
We never were able to replace them.
But a lot of people forget that.
The tough guys, you know, the tough guys that would drive the country right down the tubes.
The past two days have provided a chance to discuss the details of this historic agreement
with many of our closest friends and allies, including the G7 nations and many presidents
and prime ministers, as you saw.
Prime Minister Modi was here.
We had a long talk.
He's a great guy.
They are thrilled that we made a deal.
Every one of them.
There's not one nation that came to us and said, please, sir, keep dropping bombs on
them.
Please keep dropping bombs.
The stupid people say that.
But I'm thrilled to report.
And by the way, those last two days were brutal, $200 million worth of bombs.
And you know, it is expensive too, by the way, aside from everything else.
They knew I was coming for a third night.
We informed them we're coming for a third night.
They didn't have their Navy, it sunk.
They didn't have their Air Force, it's gone.
Not one plane.
They didn't have anti-aircraft equipment.
So we got free rain.
They didn't have their leaders.
But they have a new group of leaders that I think is,
actually I think they're smarter.
I think they're very smart.
I think they're far less radicalized.
And I think they're really good.
They love their country.
You talk about regime change.
Nobody will say that.
But I guess it's, look, one set of leaders is all gone.
The second set of leaders is all gone.
Their third set of leaders a little bit gone.
But for the most part, and frankly, I think that's
regime change.
I think they're going to behave much differently.
I think they see a different way of life
that they were never exposed to.
So the one thing I didn't want to see is,
I didn't want to see economic catastrophe.
If you kept this going, that could have happened.
But all I know is every time we talk about
the possibility of people-
That's right, dude.
Here at the Austin Abbey broadcast,
the most dynamic broadcast of all time,
when I get bullied by my audience,
outfit change, just kidding.
I just got these tailored and they just came in
and I wanted to wear this anyway.
wanted to wear some cool reboots. This one was famously very big on me and I got it changed
up so now it fits.
Fox News article about you, Hassan Piker claims Israel has no right to exist in his current
form. Yep.
Lefler-Schimmer compared the question to asking whether Nazi Germany or apartheid South Africa should have continued.
It's existed for far longer than Israel has. Israel only existed since 1948.
The archaeological record concerning Israel would disagree with you, Mr.
Piker, hypocrisy hunter. Piker is a despicable misintrope. I write that knowing all misintrops are despicable.
He's earned a badge of that for which I do not have a better descriptive.
Strange how Piker brings up all sorts of historical atrocities. It never brings up October 7th.
I really thought that there would be, uh...
What is Western Journal?
Oh, thank you.
The fuck is Western Journal defending and advancing Western civilization?
Okay
Are you the manager of the base department? No, this is the type of stuff
This is the type of commentary that I always that I expect the Fox News audience to like low-key be on board with when they when they encounter it
Why are you posing for days when my wife can freely read it, sorry
RIP to your marriage big dog
RIP to your marriage big dog
The stock market shot up like a rocket ship
It never went down
They didn't like it the people you know the stock market is more brilliant than anybody there is including
The people on the stage other than me of course
Let's see, I don't know, what do you think Scott, is the stock market more brilliant
than you?
No sir.
Oh, that's a terrible statement.
The stock market is quite brilliant and every time we said something amazing, like we're
going to settle, it would go up and every time we said something negative, like guess
what, we're not going to be able to settle, it would go down very big Peter, very, very
big tells you something and you know I've studied presidents some good some bad some
great not too many are great and some really bad we had born just recently and
the one president I did not know by and bar who's saying Obama I didn't want very
bad who knows what would have happened but bad things happen so the past few
Two days have provided a chance to discuss the details of the deal with the closest friends
and allies, the heads of countries.
They were all here, a lot of them, far more than the seven, as you know, a lot of them.
And they put out a statement.
I think President Macron, who did a great job, by the way, they did a really fan him, Bridget,
they did a great job.
But they all put out statements saying they love this deal because they want to see it
over and they love the fact that the hormones don't forget if we were going to
drop bombs let's say we want another month other two three months maybe weeks
could be another three months could be whatever what do you have left that
maybe nothing but you don't have this rate will never be open because people
that own billion dollar ships these ships cost a billion dollars they're
like sailing ships or having their ships participate when you go up the coast and you go through
the strait and there are rockets flying over your head. They want to protect their billion
dollar investment. You wouldn't have oil for maybe years. These are stupid people. But
nobody was tougher than me. Nobody hit Solomon. You know, when I hit Solomon, people thought
that was the biggest thing to happen in the Middle East for 50 years. That was the biggest event.
He was the boss of Iran and respected, but he was a mad genius. He was a genius, the father of the
roadside bomb. When you see young men, and in some cases women, mostly men, walking around without
legs, without arms, with a face that's been blown to smithereens, it's Solomoni 95 percent. 96.2,
they say or something 95% that was salamany did it happened to come from Iran and I blew
him up you remember that I blew him up in the valley of death he got off his plane and
we followed him and at all fairness oh my god he's mr. Ramble dude holy fuck oh my god
It's always what is bro yapping about dude. It is yaps city. Oh my god. He is a grade a yapper brother gay
Okay, grade a yapper gay
gay as hell
Enough give us the fucking take on the mo you man come on now
Now, we just want to hear what you have to say about the memorandum of understanding.
We do not care about how awesome you are at murdering people overseas.
There's real drama here, folks.
There's real drama here because the Iranian side has an understanding of the memorandum
understanding that is apparently different than the American side's understanding of the memorandum
of understanding, which isn't actually a real ceasefire negotiation, but instead a memorandum
of understanding that is supposed to be signed on Friday in Geneva that will then kickstart the
process of, that will then kickstart the process of ceasefire negotiation for the next 60 days that
That will then, at the end of that 60-day ceasefire conversation, will create hopefully
long-standing peace.
Well, this memorandum of understanding has turned into a memorandum of misunderstanding.
And I think part of that is because there are a lot of L's that the American side is
supposed to take here.
And of course, they don't want to take the L visibly, publicly, it's uncomfortable.
They lost.
lost. The American side lost this battle. It is an unambiguous defeat. There has never been a moment
where you attack a smaller country, a middle power, a regional power, and then they gain more
leverage and then you don't abide by their fucking demands. They have more leverage now. They closed
the Strait of Hormuz. They made the markets scream. It's over.
Of course, CNN has read the official MOU. US releases official agreement with Iran. Read the
14 point text, but we shall go through it and see what the language looks like, what the concessions
are on the Iranian side, what the concessions are on the American side. But I don't care
about this other shit that Donald Trump is talking about. I mean, of course, he'll say like Obama
did the JCPOA, he set palts of cash to Iran. We're not doing that. It's a far larger number of,
it's a far greater amount of money that we are giving to Iran now, which they do deserve for
the record. They do deserve reparations. That's how it goes. If you start a war and you lose that
war, then yes, the other side that won the war gets to make demands that you have to listen to.
The problem here, of course, is that Donald Trump has real red lines. One of them is clearly
a full-blown invasion, right? He doesn't want to have that be his legacy. He has always been
in, very restrained when it comes to additional troop commitments, amassing enough troops
and actually fucking full-blown invading another country.
We know that he doesn't like that.
We know he does not like that, okay?
What he likes is fast and swift aerial bombardment campaigns, in and out assassinations, decapitations
or kidnappings of sovereign leaders, nations, or sovereign nations leaders, and then doing
regime change and then getting favorable contracts, extracting natural resources and advancing
the imperialist cause, but in a much swifter way, okay?
He is not going to commit, as far as I can see, to going up the escalation ladder.
Israel certainly wants him to go up the escalation ladder.
Israel certainly wants Donald Trump to invade Iran.
Boots on the ground, military warfare, Trump doesn't want to do it.
So if he's not going to do it, he has to concede.
There's no guarantee that America would win this war if they actually invaded Iran militarily
either.
As a matter of fact, I would go so far as to say this would be death and destruction galore.
And I don't think it would actually piece up Iran in the way that Israel wants to.
It would just destroy the refining capabilities in the region that is 20% of the entire world's
oil and gas supply.
It would ruin the markets.
It would ruin the only thing Trump cares about.
You would be molesting the money a little too much at that point, and he'd start getting
boss calls from Jamie Dimon and numerous others to be like, cut the shit out, you fucking
idiot.
He knows that.
He knows that it's beneficial for him and his buddies as long as he can maintain this
back and forth.
Is there a ceasefire?
Is there not a ceasefire?
Maybe we can make some money here and there in the process, but there's a level of money
molestation that he cannot abide by, that he's not willing to commit. It's clear
that he wanted this to be fast, he wanted this to be swift, and when it turned
into a military quagmire, he wanted to pull out. And he has pulled out in the
past with the Ansarallah movement where they started Operation Prosperity
Guardian as Felix Biederman likes to call operation Amazon Guardian Amazon shipment Guardian
They blew up Zana they blew up Yemen it didn't work
It didn't actually deter the Houthis from piecing up American
Naval assets in the region and he had to literally cut a side deal with them where he said you can keep shooting
Israeli ships if you want but just stop shooting our ships and we'll stop
blowing up territory in Yemen, right? Can you explain the Jamie Diamond
connection? Could you use a refresher? Jamie Diamond is just a hold over here.
I'm just using him as like one, you know, I'm using him as a stand-in for the
forces of capital. Very wealthy people, very powerful people who have famously
given him boss calls in the past to tell him to cut the shit out because they're
actually hurting the markets, right? A little bit of instability can be beneficial for these
power players who can move around, move their assets around with ease. That volatility is
obviously not good for you if you're a regular working stiff, right? But they can make money
when the market is maybe a little unstable, especially if they have knowledge of what
Trump is going to say and do ahead of time, trading on non-public information, but too
much instability, too much volatility, too much warfare, and no one's making money.
Okay?
And it's clear from what we've seen thus far from Trump's past performance that invading
Iran with boots on the ground, military warfare is going to yield too much instability.
Iran is not, Iran is a stable actor in this situation, but Iran is not an actor that you
can control.
So its retaliation, its continuation of blocking the Strait of Hormuz would not be beneficial
for a lot of the regional partners, a lot of the partners in Asia. Clearly, the Gulf doesn't
want this, the GCC doesn't want this, and they're willing to bribe Iran to stop the pain.
That's where we're at now. That's what's going on.
Now, of course, there's one party that hates this, and that is the Israel
firsters, okay? Those who don't care about international markets, those who very
clearly don't care about Iranian lives, those who don't care about the lives of
the people living in the Gulf, the people that don't care about the global
markets at all. People like Ben Shapiro. Let's take a look at his reaction.
That said, this MOU appears to be just from the tax, a disaster that does not
achieve any of the actual signal goals that were set by the administration at
the beginning. There are effectively five goals that were set by the
administration at the beginning. One was ending the nuclear program, not just
nuclear weapons, no nuclear enrichment, zero enrichment. That is not in the
deal. Philistic missiles ended. That is not in the deal. And the president
today suggested that ballistic missiles should actually continue to be held by the Iranians
because the Saudis are allies also hold ballistic missiles. Then you have the support of terrorism.
That is not part of the deal. Anything that looks like an attempt to end terrorism, a
permanent opening of the Strait of Hormuz toll free. Not only is that not in the deal,
the deal appears to have a provision allowing Iran and Oman to attempt to toll the straits
after 60 days. And then finally, the idea that Iran would receive some sort of sanctions
relief after all of those things happen, we are already seeing from day one relief in
their ability to ship oil out of Iran.
In my opinion, the vice president of the United States, the chief negotiator on this particular
project has not well served the president.
So that said, this MOU appears to be just from the text, a disaster that does not achieve
any of the actual-
Yeah.
Notice that the MOU didn't say crime should be illegal.
Yeah, that's funny.
Yeah, he's very, very upset.
And he's not the only person, right?
There are obviously other people who are on the opposing side, supposedly, of the ideological
spectrum that are going on MS now, formerly known as MSNBC, and also railing against this
deal.
Here is MSNBC and full-blown meltdown over the Iran deal, okay?
the fuck out. Like I said, a lot of people are going to show where their allegiances
are. The word repentance is misused and misinterpreted by Christian nationals. Okay, I don't care.
Kind of settlement. Other than, here is a never Trump Republican who's freaking out
over Trump restraining Israel or even potentially demanding restraint from Israel. If you only
care about Israel's greater Israel project, it's expansionist project.
Of course, you're going to be very frustrated that Donald Trump is actually telling Israel
for the first time ever.
In the last three years, you can't do this anymore.
The Iranians got what they wanted, the Americans didn't, and that's where we're going from
here.
And then Higar, what does that mean for the Lebanese?
Yeah, it's a disaster actually in so many ways.
So Tom mentioned here.
disaster. It's a disaster for the Lebanese that Israel can't kill them. Okay? This is a disaster
for the Lebanese. If Israel can't kill more Lebanese children, then how can Lebanon be free?
If Israel doesn't take over more Lebanese territory, violate Lebanese sovereignty,
how can the Lebanese feel free?
Yes, this is correct, by the way. Ryan Grimm has a very good take on this. By humiliating
Netanyahu, Trump is very clearly redirecting humiliation that otherwise would be Trump's
onto him. Never underestimate Trump's ability to dodge responsibility, a true master at
work. It's extra smart because the teeth gnashing from the pro-Israel camp will be so deafening
and relentless and absurd, it'll drown everything else out. And the majority of the planet live
it in any hour for talking Trump into this is happy to pile on.
That's literally the point here. Donald Trump is abdicating his own personal responsibility
after being goaded into waging this war against Iran and losing this war. He's abdicating
his own personal responsibility in the matter and offloading it to Israel. And Israel is
obviously willing to be the pinata in this circumstance. Its loudest advocates are also
willing to be the people who cry the hardest because it's sincere. They are actually mad
because they're used to getting everything that they fucking want.
Do you understand?
They're used to getting everything they want and their envoys in the western world,
People who obviously place the interests of Israel over the interests of America,
over the interests of Americans will also chirp just the same.
This is a unique opportunity to openly point to people who are Israel first.
Obviously, there's been plenty of other opportunities, but this is
so clear. This is where you can even get MAGA on board because they love Donald Trump.
They only like Israel because Donald Trump loves Israel, okay?
Maybe some of them also have some kind of theological justification for demanding Israel's
endless expansions.
Sure, you know, the white evangelical Protestants who believe this will trigger the rapture.
But ultimately, plenty of MAGA only care about Israel because they're a beautiful president.
Their cult leader cares about Israel.
So now the cult leader doesn't care about Israel as much, at least in the way that he's
communicating.
Now, you can actually see the cracks.
Now you can actually drive a wedge between those who've been pro-Israel thus far.
Anyone from this moment on that turns around, anyone from this moment on that turns around
and talks about how Donald Trump is failing Israel will reveal themselves to care only
about the interests of Israel and does not care about the interests of America or Americans.
You cannot justify further incursions, further expansion in this moment, when Trump is very
clearly trying to manage this retreat.
This person is going to try and say, it's actually beneficial for the Lebanese population.
If Israel keeps murdering the Lebanese children.
That the Israelis are now being held back.
And it sounds, a lot of people, it sounds like a ceasefire would be a good thing, right?
Normally that sounds like something you'd want in Lebanon or anywhere.
The fact is that if we focus on Lebanon specifically,
it's not a seat, there's no, there's no deal.
There's, it was, everybody was told to stop shooting,
to put their arms down.
We've now told one of our most important allies in the world
that they, we don't want them defending themselves.
The strike that Trump condemned over the weekend
was a strike that was after a terrorist
that has both terrorists wanted by the United States
for having killed five Americans,
kidnapped and killed five Americans, Muhammad Dukduk.
And here we are telling our ally
that that strike should have never happened.
because the Iran regime gets shaky about it,
because they're the ones suddenly that have the strength
to negotiate from a position of strength.
In Lebanon specifically, when you have a ceasefire
that doesn't detail how Hezbollah's gonna get disarmed,
who's doing the disarmament, what happens with Israel,
what are the terms of their withdrawal,
what's the relationship between the Lebanese
and Israeli militaries, what is the role of the US military?
It's a disaster because it emboldens Hezbollah
to go out there, and by the way,
they already are going out there,
saying you see it's the Iranians that. Guys, you have to understand this is not Fox News.
This is MSNBC, now known as MSNOW. This is what I mean when I say there is a bipartisan
propaganda effort to greatly overemphasize Israel's importance in the region and place
Israel's interests above the interests of Americans. Like this is happening on the liberal side.
This is supposed to be the furthest left mainstream media outlet. There are some wonderful voices on
MSNOW as well, some that I like quite a bit, you know. Chris Hayes comes to mind. But then there's
also this. This is what I mean when I say it's fucking uniparty. This is not the Ellison's
Purchasing MS now, MS now is not purchased by the illicens.
Brought us peace. It's us who are bringing you peace. No one in Lebanon believes it,
but now they're going to the extent of threatening coups against the government,
saying that the Lebanese government that did everything it could to separate itself from
from the Iranian regime to pursue.
Yeah, this is the problem with MS now hiring a lot of never Trump Republicans, former anti-Trump
Republicans.
A lot of former anti-Trump Republicans were NATO Atlantis themselves and thought that
Trump would be too volatile and too dangerous to American imperial hegemony, which I guess
they weren't technically wrong on.
But in moments like this, they find themselves directly at odds with the base that they're
trying to propagandize to.
This causes more enmity.
This causes MSNOW to lose even more relevance and more credibility.
Peace talks because they know it's in their national security interests to say, you know
what, this government doesn't represent us and we don't want any kind of peace talks
with Israel.
Yeah, the MSNBC female guest is saying that MOU is horrible for the Lebanese is named
Hagar Shimali, her specialty being a think tank fellow at the Atlantic Council and a
former Obama comms and that's a staffer also runs a terrible political satire channel on YouTube
First they heard from the never Trump Republican then they heard from a NATO Atlantis is both of them are united on
Let Israel kill more Lebanese people. This is good for Lebanon. This is good for America. Israel's our most important ally
Why are they saying this?
Why are they saying this? Well because they want to fucking punish Trump
They want this deal to not go through because their primary interest is the continuation of the Greater Israeli project
The mainstream freak out over the bad deal misses the crucial point
It was a bad war which the US and Israel decisively lost the so-called bad deal is a byproduct of that loss
You have to reckon with the fact that it was a bad war and lost war and your or your analysis of garbage
Yes, of course, it was a bad war, this guy says. Or rather, it was a war that Israel was decisively
winning until General Bones Spurs insisted on joining and then got bored and screwed it up,
like he screws everything he should have let Israel fight on their own without holding them back.
There is no world. This is utter fantasy, okay? There is no fucking world where Israel gets to
fight these wars on its own. Israel's never fought a war without unlimited western support.
It's fucking bullshit as I've stressed this over and over again. When Israeli fighter
jets F-35 or F-22 fighter jets are flying from Israeli airfields, they are fueled by
American jet fuel. Those fighter jets are American fighter jets. Sure, they might have
Israeli operating software in them, which is unique to Israel and Israel alone. No other country gets to have this kind of extra
autonomy in this process. But those Israeli fighter jets are dumping, those are actually American fighter jets, and they're dumping
American unguided and guided munitions. And in the process of flying
They don't have F-22s, only America has F-22s until they merge their military and then they'll have F-22s as well. Apologies.
When they're dumping munitions on Tehran, those are American munitions, okay?
Those are American unguided bombs. Those are American guided munitions that we panic shipped over to Israel.
In the process of flying from Tel Aviv to Tehran, because that journey is too long,
or fighter jets to commit to, on one tank, they get refueled by American Stato tankers.
Their targets that they identify are targets that they've identified with American intelligence.
There is no point where Israel can wage a single fucking war without American go ahead and without American munitions
Without American jet fuel and without American military hardware
So when people say oh let Israel restrain let Israel commit these war crimes unrestrained
Why are you actually impeding on Israel's ability to defend itself?
What many people fail to comprehend is, Israel can't do a single violent act without America's
go ahead.
Okay?
It can't.
Israel is not a sovereign country in that regard.
Israel is not an autonomous country in that regard.
Israel has only been able to carve out that sovereignty, that fake sovereignty, with an
unbelievably sophisticated influence peddling operation in the Western
world. A pedal influence peddling operation that it's gotten the bandwidth
to commit to because of its importance as an unsinkable aircraft carrier and an
important and reliable Cold War ally during the Cold War. That's the reason
And why Israel has to dump millions, if not billions of dollars, into Hasbra?
That's the reason why Israel has to constantly try to stamp out its prominent critics in
the Western world.
Because if this tide turns, as it has already, okay, if this tide turns, and American elected
officials start turning on israel because they you know they they say enough is
enough
then israel doesn't get to do any of the violent belligerent things that it
does
so i laugh whenever people say all that israel fight its own battles
she here response how exactly but israel alone would award that israel in
u.s a working together lost that makes no sense of israel were capable of
fighting alone they would have
there's a reason why netanyahu has been pushing u.s presidents to fight this war
for 40 years.
Dude, if we could get a market deal with Iran, Israel literally has no bearing
or importance to us whatsoever.
No, there's a level of racism at play here.
I don't think Americans will ever fully trust Iran, right?
There's Orientalism at play here.
It's the same reason why Europeans don't fully trust China.
They'll try to secure better economic relationships with China,
but they'll never fully commit to being in the sphere of influence of China.
They don't even commit to leveraging a better relationship with China
against the United States of America.
So there is a level of Orientalism at play.
And that's the same reason why America will never trust Turkey or Saudi Arabia
or the United Arab Emirates or Qatar,
even though these countries are much more valuable
militarily, Turkey is, or much more valuable
because they are resource rich nations,
Saudi Arabia and the rest of the GCC
and also have billions of dollars that they dump
in the direction of American initiatives,
sometimes directly giving those billions of dollars
to Jared Kushner or Donald Trump.
And yet, America still obviously places a higher emphasis on protecting Israel and abiding by Israel's wishes, right?
There's a reason for that.
In any case, again, after all the talking point of Israel being the Middle East's greatest beacon of democracy,
Israel knows that if Middle Eastern countries were more democratic, they would be more antagonistic to Israel.
Israeli foreign policy requires neighborly authoritarianism, which is true. Yes.
It's extremely disturbing that hardcore pro-Israel commentators seem to be overwhelming, seem to overwhelmingly lament that there isn't a brutal Sunni minority regime
suppressing the Shia majority in Iraq and a brutal Alawite majority regime suppressing the Sunni majority in Syria.
Israel does not care about democracy.
democracy. Israel's an apartheid state. It's not a fucking democratic process. You can't
have a democratic apartheid state. You can't democratically organize around doing a genocide
to the indigenous population. Democracy doesn't mean anything at that point, right?
This is a crucial point, and the reason why all Western rhetoric about democracy promotion
ring so false. And in spite of the $100 billion that we burned here in the last 100 days,
probably even more than $100 billion, maybe $200 billion, right? $100 billion is the
conservative estimate. Billions of dollars of radar installations that are gone and
probably will never be replaced. A destruction of American force projection capabilities,
complete collapse of America's force projection capabilities. Other allies far away from this
region and the Asian theater, for example, are recalculating their allegiance to the United
States of America. We blew all of that at the behest of Israel. Now, I don't personally think
this is bad thing. I know that this was an inevitability. I've been saying this for years,
that America is declining as an empire. It's an empire in decline. And we must manage that
decline, right? This was the heart of the speech that I delivered at Yale Union.
Donald Trump is the accelerant, because Donald Trump
Trump leaned into Israeli nonsense.
He listened to Benjamin Netanyahu, he didn't listen to his generals, he didn't listen to
his own intelligence community, he listened to Benjamin Netanyahu, he was so high off
of what he thought was a major victory in Venezuela and he thought he could recreate
it.
But to give him credit, even though this is a classic Trump moment, he fucks something
up, he ruins it, he molests the money and then he turns around and stops the money molestation
and we're supposed to sit there and celebrate this decision, but to give him credit, he at
least was not committed to full-blown invasion, a complete destruction, a complete cratering
of American force projection capabilities, and maybe the American domestic economy as
well.
But let's hear from another Israel first, or in what he had to say.
enemies are our enemies. I often say the reason they hate Israel, because Israel is small and
Israel is close to where they are. And so I believe standing with Israel stands with a country that
largely shares the same values that we do. Does that mean I think we should put the interest of
America over Israel? No, but I haven't seen an instance where that indicates.
Do you say does that mean we should put the interest of America over Israel? No.
No, does that mean we should put the interest of Israel over America?
Okay, I want to make sure.
If I if I misspoke fucking got him
We got him boys a gut punch to piece through strength pablum
You know
Yeah, Trump leaves the door open Iran enriching
Maybe the only good thing to come from this disastrous war with Iran is Trump nuking the hawkish FDD worldview and suggestion that you can bomb your way to peace
Yeah, I don't think we're gonna stop doing that. I think America is belligerent and it's going to get even more belligerent
Until until we forcibly excise
the influence of Israel from our foreign policy vehicle from our from our domestic policy
This is not going to change. It's going to come back
Look at what APEC is doing, subverting democracy actively. Okay? That's it.
There are far too many loyalists that actually care more about Israel's interests here,
that try to present an argument that abiding by Israel's needs is actually good for America in
the long run, that will continue to escalate, that will continue to agitate, that will continue to
try and get America to commit troops to fighting Israel's wars.
They got a little taste of it. There was no restraint for the last three years.
So of course, without any punishments, without any accountability, without any
reconsideration of what this allegiance looks like, they're going to keep pushing.
It's, it's so, this is it. I mean, this is the major problem.
Yes, we would still be belligerent without Israel. 100%. I'm not saying that we won't
be. It's just that when it comes to driving our menna foreign policy, Israel is in the
driver's seat, okay?
I'm not gonna say America wouldn't be belligerent without Israel. Of course America's belligerent
without Israel. I mean, Venezuela has very little to do with Israel. Let's be real, right?
though, you know, they got a piece of that ordeal as well. They, they rerouted Venezuelan oil to
Israel because they always got to get a piece, obviously. But that wasn't done. The Donro doctrine
is actually supposed to be a new version of the belligerent foreign policy and American imperialism
that maybe draws his forces down from the rest of the world and hardens its own backyard, right?
That is not completely about Israel. Israel only plays a role in the MENA aspect of this, Middle East and North Africa.
What the fuck, dog fucker?
Young Republican Connor Ernest has admitted to having sex with a dog. Oh my god, what the fuck?
Fuck.
Brother.
Groyper, by the way, what the fuck?
Oh my God.
Arrest, arrest, arrest, prosecute and reeducation.
Throw them under the jail.
Here is Trump also talking about Iranian nuclear enrichment.
We've been pretty tough on that.
You know, it's also, it is a little hard though when you say that somebody wants it.
Other people have it. Other adjoining states have it.
And you're not letting them have it for purposes of electricity or things like that.
It's always a little tough. You have to use a little common sense, please
Yeah, we'll have them. We'll let them have a little bit of nuclear dust
Um, our nod says this video probably more than any other illustrates the extent which Israel's regional strategies resulted in strategic defeat
They had one big enemy Iran and one big friend the u.s
And these two are now negotiating a deal while Israel is being told it's an inconvenience that should be replaced by a former al-Qaeda commander
Because he's more human and kills less civilians. If that's not a strategic defeat. I don't know what is
President Trump publicly rebukes Israel over its war against Hezbollah.
Israel's fighting Hezbollah too long and too many people are being killed.
Trump said he opposed strikes that destroy apartment buildings filled with civilians
and revealed he urged Israel to let Syria take the lead against Hezbollah instead.
If Israel can't do the job without killing everyone else, he'll do the job.
Syria will do the job.
i mean that that part
that part of the fucking equation is also still very stupid right
someone's gotta kill these shea muslims in lebanon is not exactly
uh... a a longstanding commitment to peace and stability in the region
turning around and being like we gotta get uh... joe lani to do it is is insane
anyway this is another uh... key moment from his speech
uh... uh... specifically about iran's ballistic munitions capabilities and and
uh... any kind of like uh... drawback on iran's ballistic missiles program it's
not gonna fucking happen i told you this already was a silly red line
uh... that was never going to be enforced and i think it was israel that
demanded the enforcement of this red line red line
in an effort
to to
put forth
poison pill
provisions in this memorandum of understanding or any kind of ceasefire
commitment
that they knew iran would never say yes to because no fucking sovereign
country on the planet is gonna say yes to that
why would they say yes to that
it's ridiculous
so we'll be
working on a parallel effort with the gulf nations to address
non nuclear issues such as the conventional ballistic missiles which
will be talking about
and support them and they have to have some because other people have some
You got to have some. Yes.
Yes. Oh my God.
He's like, listen, I'm Shia Muslim.
I am Shia Muslim.
And I have seen the light of Allah and have realized that I have always been Shia.
Masha Allah, I have revered it.
Incredible.
incredible I mean it was always stupid to begin with
look at Marco Marco Lubeo in the backdrop going oh man he's just fucking
saying they can have ballistic missiles not great you shouldn't give them even
he's not smirking no more Howard Budlick usually smirks in the background like hey
Yeah, yeah.
One, and I have guys, I like some of these guys, but I don't think this, I don't think
they're smart.
Sir, you shouldn't let them have any missile.
I said, well, what am I going to do?
Am I going to let Saudi Arabia have missiles, but they can't have them?
Yes, sir.
Can't, doesn't work that way, you know?
It doesn't work.
AHHHHHHHHH!
UGH! I hate this pedophile, but let me tell you something, okay?
Only this pedophile gets to say this, okay?
When I say it, everybody fucking yells at me!
But it's true!
So I hope, now, some of these dumbfucks in the cult can be like, yeah, that makes sense.
Yeah, only Nixon gets to go to China straight up only Trump gets to go.
Yeah, of course, they're gonna have fucking ballistic missiles.
What are we talking about?
It's a sovereign country.
What are you gonna?
Would you be down to fucking restrict our own defensive capabilities?
No.
Yeah, no shit.
Marco Lube out with the thousand yards there wondering how long is it going to take?
In this news conference, Trump said that he has a hard time telling Iran that they can't
have ballistic missiles because Saudi Arabia has them.
And it's hard to tell Iran that they can't have a civilian nuclear power, civilian nuclear
program because others have it.
He's right.
He's fucking right.
so stupid it's such a stupid stupid fucking uh a goal to try and advance and we've only
seemingly advanced this goal because we're the united states of america and we've told ourselves
that we get to tell other countries what they can and can't do
straight up
for far too long we have gotten to dictate we have decided what other countries can and
can't do. Okay? And now that time is changing because Iran fought for its own sovereignty and won.
Check logs after spiel. JD Pondon supports Hassanabi doctrine. I mean, this is the type
of truth that Donald Trump would never reveal if Iran hadn't fucking won this war, okay?
If Iran had not won this battle, Donald Trump is not gonna be like, yeah, they can't have,
yeah, they get to have defensive munition capabilities, ballistic missile capabilities
because they're a fucking sovereign nation. They fought, they won, okay? They fought their,
they fought for their sovereignty, they won their sovereignty. I can't even talk. They
fought for their sovereignty, they won their sovereignty. So now of course they get to
fucking keep their missile program, you know?
Work that way. Missiles are the problem. Missiles, they heard a little location, but they don't
blow up the planet. So we'll be working on a parallel effort with the Gulf nations to
address non nuclear issues such as the conventional ballistic missiles, which we'll be talking
about and support them in that.
They don't want that smoke launches a production here in the mountains. Matthew says the Trump
supporters are melting down over this deal. They're attacking him now.
President Trump opened the nuclear enrichment for Iran. Wait, this is not the link. This
is not the right link that you're sending me. I don't think, I mean, this will be an
important test. This will be an important test in the resilience that Trump's called.
Will this actually break the Trump call to part? Or will they for the first time ever
actually accidentally find themselves on the right side of an issue? Because Trump is now
on the right side of an issue, because this is categorically very Trump. He did this with
the Ansarallah movement. And I remember, if you remember, I talked about this, right?
Like Trump, to give him credit in all of this madness, is the type of guy who's not ideologically
bound by anything. He's just invested in his own personal goals, right? He is unbelievably
self-interested. And as someone who's unbelievably self-interested, an ideological man in this
sorghum stance would probably commit to going up the escalation ladder. Trump is a selfish man.
Trump is a selfish man who has thrown his closest allies under the bus when push comes to shove.
right now that ally being shoved under the fucking Iranian bus is the pro
Israel lobby so we shall see but it's incredible to watch so many Israel
first there's crash the fuck out. I mean, we already covered this, but yeah, Ben Shapiro
saying the MOU is a disaster, right? At least some of his most servile little piggies, at
least some of his most servile little piggies are smart enough, like Lindsey Graham, to stand
on this delicate tightrope that they've found themselves on in the past. Obviously Lindsey
Graham loves war. He nuts off to it. That's the only thing he cares about. But he also knows
that he has to be Trump's inside man. That's the reason why he is committed to this weird statement
where, where he's like, well, you know, I haven't seen the full details of the MOU,
but it seems to be fine. It seems to be all right. I trust Trump. He's realized that he has to stand
on one side, and that's the Trump side. Whereas there are others who are not bound by that same
interest, who are bound by a much higher priority. Ben Shapiro's highest priority is Israel. We've
We've known this already, we've talked about this already over and over again.
As a matter of fact, Ben Shapiro is the one guy that most people don't even try to cry
and say, I'm being anti-Semitic when I say he's Israel first.
It's actually interesting, he is so transparently Israel first that even other people that normally
would say, dude, you're just saying a Jewish man has dual loyalty with the fuck, they don't
even do that for Ben.
They'll do that for Jake Oshin's loss. They'll do that for others, but they won't do that
for Randy Fein and they won't do that for Ben Shapiro. Interesting.
There's a couple guys out there in the Israel First crowd that even the other pro-Israel
mouthpieces and advocacy organizations won't claim you're being anti-Semitic if you
You just openly call out their highest priority and their highest loyalty being to Israel.
Mark Levin's another one, Randy Fein's another one, Ben Shapiro's another one, right?
It's very funny.
And it's because it's just so transparent.
Like he just does not give a shit.
He does not give a single shred of a shit about what's going on in the Mary.
He's just like, this is my highest priority.
Let's take a look.
Let's take a look at what he's saying.
that Muhammad Khalibov, who will apparently on Friday be literally in a photo op with
the vice president of the United States. I cannot express to you how stomach-turning
that is. I don't care who the vice president is. I don't care who the president is. Leaders
of the United States of America in a photo op with a mass-murdering terrorist supporter
like Muhammad Khalibov shaking hands six months after he blew away 42,000 innocent people
in the streets. And weeks after his administration was firing missiles at literally all of our
allies in the region and continues to support every terrorist group in the region and is
currently continuing to control the streets. Like right now, it is not fully open for business,
unless the Iranians have quote unquote decided it is. The idea here is that somehow this
administration and the deal that has been cut.
Weekends, Hezbollah, I'm not seeing it so much.
I'm not seeing it.
Maybe it's there and we haven't seen the MOU
for the thousandth time.
We haven't seen the MOU.
That's not because of me.
I would like to see the MOU.
I think you would like to see the MOU.
Tell!
42,000.
Dude, it's so funny.
Laura Loomer yesterday or two days ago said 100,000.
Yeah.
IRGC has killed one billion Iranians.
That's right.
They have a new type of weapon that only kills its own civilians.
It doesn't harm any of the buildings.
It doesn't disrupt regular business.
It just kills Iranian civilians, and they've killed them by the billions.
We are on track to becoming an Islamic country, sad to see, savor these hilarious meltdowns
while they last.
It's been a rotten year and there'll surely be more misery to come, says Margames.
He's right.
I am savoring it though.
I mean, it turns out, you know how these guys love talking about like liberal tears?
It turns out Zionist tears are so delicious because pro-Israel people get everything
they want all the fucking time. And they're so goddamn spoiled. They're so arrogant. They're so entitled.
So when things don't go the way they want it to for once, their meltdown is fucking hilarious.
Of course, my senator, Adam Schitt, is obviously outflanking the Trump administration from
the right here.
Let's finish the Ben Shapiro tears, and then we'll get to Adam Schitt, also known as Adam
Schitt.
I think we'd all like to see the MOU.
If Israel is not a party to the actual talks, which they are not, they have not been included
in the talks.
Israel is not a signatory to the agreement which they are not. How in the world could
you tie Israel's hands when it comes to self-defense in Lebanon while Hezbollah is firing rockets
and drones over the border at Israeli citizens? Shall we say that this is not a popular MOU
from what I understand in Israel? Again, Israel, they were flying jets alongside American
jets during this whole operation. Iran was firing at American soldiers during this whole
operation. So, playing havesies is a bit strange. If we release funds, or if we tell our Arab
Gulf state allies to release funds to Iran, it doesn't have to be American taxpayer dollars
that is us releasing money to Iran. If you unfreeze money to a terrorist group, that
is in fact money going to a terrorist group. It does not have to come from America at sleight
of hand. It's rhetorical sleight of hand. I was not earned the impression that you and
I would be paying taxpayer dollars to go straight to Iran, but if we press people to release
money to a terror state, in order for them to continue to toll the straight and to exert
control whenever they feel threatened, or for them to rebuild their ballistic missile
in nuclear capacities, that is a gigantic mistake.
To go back to the five standards of a good deal versus a bad deal, a bad deal would look
like continued nuclear development.
A bad deal would look like continued ballistic missile development.
a bad deal look like funding of terrorism abroad continuing
a bad deal look like continued iranian control over the straight and pulling of
the straight
and a bad deal look like more funding going into iran
hold on i have to do something real quick um...
some scheduling things apologies
i have to make some decisions on when to travel potentially
to new york
new york
again. Yes, I'm sexting. I'm about to interview Adam Smith. Oh, I know him. Who's the highest
ranking Democrat and serves the rank as the ranking member of the House Armed Service
Committee. Is there anything you think I should ask him or push him on? Yes. Merger of the
Israeli military for sure, definitely hit that subject.
And then also ask what his take is on the Trump MOU.
And if he hits like a right wing, if he outflanks the Trump administration from the right, ask
him why he's doing that.
This is a bad war that Trump obviously started.
And there's an alternative out there with the JCPOA that the Obama administration had
accomplished.
Isn't it better to end the hemorrhaging here? I mean, America's force projection
capabilities have been diminished, have been destroyed. Shouldn't we reconsider our foreign
policy as it pertains to our foreign policy and the guidance that we get from Israel?
Brother, we all know Adam Smith, he's the father of neoliberalism and its history of globalization.
First of all, Adam Smith would be fucking woke in comparison to what neoliberalism looks
like.
He's not, what does he say is a father of neoliberalism?
Okay, you're wrong.
That is not an appropriate interpretation of his work at all.
I mean, his work was also profoundly important for Marx as well.
The one time I don't write joke.
Okay.
Yeah.
Adam Smith looks like a fucking Maoist when he talks about rent
seeking behavior from landlords.
Okay.
Adam Smith is basically a Maoist.
Um, anyway.
Yeah.
Neoliberalism is a bastardization of Adam Smith.
Marxism is a continuation, the appropriate evolution of Adam Smith's work, ironically
enough.
All right, but yeah, no, that's a good one.
Milton Friedman makes Adam Smith look woke.
Adam Smith is woke.
He's literally woke in comparison to fucking neo liberals, 100%.
I still, I still find something shocking almost every time I read Adam Smith, like the part
where he says, oh, by the way, capitalism is obviously coercive against workers.
It is not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties must upon all ordinary.
Yeah.
Ask a liberal.
Ask a liberal about Adam Smith's opinion on renseki behavior and landlords.
Okay.
They will literally stare you like, what are you talking about?
up.
That motherfucker hated landlords, bro.
It's not, however, difficult to foresee which of the two parties, must, upon all ordinary
occasions, have the advantage in this dispute, and force the other into a compliance with
their terms.
The masters, being fewer in number, can combine much more easily, and the law, besides authorizes
or at least does not prohibit their combinations, while it prohibits those of the workmen.
The law favors the side of capital owners over the side of the workers.
WALK!
Yes, capitalism was a historically progressive force during the time of Adam Smith, at least
according to the Marxist view of history.
It is, and it was, and it's true.
That's why Marxism is seen as an evolution off of Adam Smith's work as well.
Yeah, what are the common wages of labor?
Depends everywhere upon the contract usually made between those two parties whose interests
are by no means the same.
The workmen desire to get as much, the masters to give as little as possible.
The former are disposed to combine in order to raise the latter in order to lower the
wages of labor.
We rarely hear, as has been said, of the combinations of masters, though frequently of those of
workmen.
But whoever imagines upon this account that masters rarely combine is as ignorant of the
world as of the subject.
These are all ways and everywhere in a sort of tacit but constant and uniform combination.
Not to raise the wages of labor above their actual rate.
To violate this combination is everywhere a most unpopular action and a sort of reproach
to a master among his neighbors and equals.
The comma spoke like this. People would have said she's Marx reincarnate. Guys, I don't
know how to explain this to you. That is literally also Marx's. The master slave dynamic, okay,
is literally dialectics. That is, it is Marx's. He said the exact same thing. Marx was a continuation
Adam Smith's work. This is basic. This is Marxism 101. That, that literal text is identical to
Marx's interpretation, because Marx's interpret, Marx, Karl Marx's interpretation. Yes, Master
slave is Hegel. Yes, I know. I'm just, oh my god, I know, chatter.
Master slave dynamic, the master slave dynamic is Hegelian, which is also, again,
And profoundly important for Marxist interpretation, what do you think the class contradiction,
what do you think the friction between the classes is?
I said, is it dialectic?
It's dialectical thinking.
In any case, a lot of people don't realize that like,
there is not a lot of moralizing in Das Kapital.
It's just a straightforward description
of how capitalism works.
The moral values that we add on
that we add on to this description of how capitalism works comes from the fact that
we as human beings kind of look at that dynamic and think, well, this is a little fucked up, right?
Yes, the moralization comes from our natural response to a system that is very clearly designed.
Yeah, it's not even prescriptive in general. No, it's not. It's just descriptive. It's pure
descriptive text, most people have never read Das Kapital. And that's the reason why they endlessly
pontificate on a text that they never read. And it's understandable. It's, you know, not the easiest
read, okay? But that is, unironically, the reason why people fail to comprehend it. That's why so
many people go, wow, I don't understand. Like you're applying dialectical thinking to, to modern
events and your interpretation of world events, and you come across like, you know, you were,
you come across as prophetic. It's not, it's not prophetic. It's just, I'm looking at the system
and it's in its grand design. This is why it's also very important to read. It's very important
to read. Das Kapital is very important to read Marxist thinkers. There's a reason why the meme
of like Mark's never wrote about this is stupid because Mark's definitely wrote about it.
The thing that you think he did not write about he certainly did.
Anyway, Senator Adam Schiff, let's talk about that now. Outflanking Trump from the right,
as expected. Again, major APAC guy, $5.6 million, a lapdog for Israel. Wow, Iran gets sanctions
the release of frozen funds, the ability to export oil in a $300 billion reconstruction fund.
The US gets a reiteration of vague promise of Iran won't develop a new card to imagine a more
thorough capitulation. Now, people will read this as him trying to shit on Trump, okay?
But if you were actually invested in stability, you wouldn't be shitting on Trump on this.
Or there is a better way to shit on Trump on this issue, but that requires you to shit on Israel,
Okay, and these guys don't wanna do that.
That's the problem.
You could literally be like, Trump, you are so fucking stupid that every single Democrat
and even previous Republican leaders did not listen to Benjamin Netanyahu when he begged
them or demanded them to go and strike Iran.
This was the reason.
You did it.
Now this is your fucking failure.
I'm glad that you're finally trying to negotiate this res, uh, this, this, uh, settlement.
But ultimately that's the failure.
The failure is that Trump was goaded into taking action by Israel, but these guys don't
want to fucking say it.
Ironically enough, because Donald Trump doesn't ever like to take responsibility, I mean,
it's, he's allergic to taking responsibility.
He is moving the conversation over to Israel's direction.
But these fucking idiots don't see Trump doing that.
Love to criticize Iran Hawks while embracing all of their central premises, namely that
Iran is ontologically evil and sinister.
This truly is the Super Bowl for guys who are president of their college debate club
who believe in nothing beyond vapid biologic gachaism.
Chris Murphy, all the Iran Hawks said that the way to get rid of Iran's hardline regime
nuclear program missiles and support for terrorism was to go to war with Iran.
We went to war with Iran and the hardline regime nuclear program and missiles and terrorism
aid are all still there.
Wow, Iran is more hardline than ever and is seeking nukes and supporting a sprawling
network of terrorism.
Someone should do something about those really evil people with whom Democrats ostensibly
support a peace settlement.
This just like how Murphy, this just like how Murphy went hard right on immigration
to own the republicans and doing so promoted all their key premises.
Does Murphy believe in anything?
Does he have any first principles or critiques of any of the underlying logics at work?
This is one of my biggest issues with the Democrats.
The Democrats love pivoting to the right.
And when they do this, they don't actually hit Donald Trump.
They don't actually criticize Donald Trump.
They legitimize the underlying premise of the entire Republican movement.
Okay?
When you turn around and go, Taco Trump, Taco Trump, you chickened out, you pussied out,
you don't actually end up winning that argument.
You just legitimized why he did that thing in the first place.
And let me tell you, if sanctions relief has to go through Congress, you will see a battle
unlike ever before where all of Israel's lapdogs in Congress from the Democratic Party and
the Republican Party will actively try to piece up the sanctions relief to the best
of their goddamn ability, okay?
You can shit on Trump by saying this is a worse deal than we could have gotten otherwise,
had the US and Israel not gone to war.
It's worse for the US than the JCPOA was.
And it's Trump's fault, we have to accept this deal, but we do have to accept it at
the end of the day for peace.
Like Rokana said, yes, Rokana has been the most singular force in Congress that has actually
said the right things here, okay? It's totally ridiculous. It's totally ridiculous to be
like, yeah, Trump is a fucking idiot. You shouldn't have gone to war with Iran, even
though they're obviously the big bad. They're the ultimate villain. They're the enemy. They're
the enemy. They're the biggest enemy that we've ever seen. Okay, then Trump was doing
something just. Trump was doing something honorable. Trump was doing something right.
He just failed to finish the task.
So what should Trump do next?
Go back to war?
Is that the argument?
Because whether you recognize it or not, that is the argument that you are laying down.
When you say, and we did this, we played this song and dance with Venezuela, if you recall,
it was very fucking angry at the way that Democrats talked about Venezuela, where they
would be like, Maduro's an authoritarian monster who's killed 17 million Venezuelans on a
daily basis.
constantly murdering Venezuelans for fun. He's drinking their blood, but we should follow
international law and Trump didn't.
The fuck is that? Okay, then yeah, it's awesome that Trump went beast mode. Who is gonna hear
you legitimize why Trump did this illegal act and think it's bad that Trump did this
illegal act? When you're saying it's technically good that he did it, you just think that the
The process was violated.
Holy shit.
Have you submitted your application to Strumer University?
That's a real question.
No, I have not.
University sponsored by Nike sponsored kison at is I don't think going to give me an opportunity
to educate streamers on politics on on you know geopolitical conflict around the world.
I don't think they're gonna I don't think they're gonna let me be a professor at streamer university
where I talk to a bunch of 18 year olds
about how Israel sucks and how American militarism must end. That would be awesome, though.
I have jokingly talked about it, but like crisis PR, definitely something in my wheelhouse.
What to do when the entire world is seemingly out to get you? I have a lot of experience
in this field that I could teach a lot of streamers what to do in this process, except
now that I've said this, someone will clip this out and be like, Hasan wants to be on
Schrumer University. It is not going to, it's complaining that he's never going to be on
Schrumer University. And then they'll try to make a fucking drama cycle off of this
as well. However, yes, this is something that I'm a tenured professor in.
I polys I 101 with Dr. Jahad.
You'd be great at teaching crisis control, yes.
Crisis management.
I mean, Trump is great at crisis management, ironically enough.
He just boulders his way through it.
He kind of, he kind of is the method, low key.
Phantom is teaching that course and he apparently has a PhD in international religions.
I mean, Phantom, Phantom says a decent amount of time in this community.
Okay.
So he could teach that course, I think.
Don't you dare disrespect whanham.
You can teach taxes.
Taxes 101 with phantom.
Anyway, where were we?
Yeah.
So David Austin Woff says, Sips coffee, well at least the Iran deal pretty conclusively
demonstrates that Israelis do not in fact control you as foreign policy.
Ho ho ho!
Spoke too soon, Matthew Petty says, actually the next 60 days are going to be an exquisite
lesson in exactly what lovers of power the Israeli government does have in Washington.
Anyone who thinks that any government has godlike powers, an idiot, but Israeli leaders
clearly have ways to pressure American counterparts when they don't get what they want.
And they're signaling very loudly that they're about to do exactly that.
Will they succeed?
Who knows?
What I can tell you is that we're going to see high drama that is nothing like any other
foreign policy debate, and you're going to discover dirty tricks you didn't even think
were possible.
Yes.
100 percent.
important to highlight, by the way, this is an insane poll for the record. Our boy is cooking.
Optalized at 42% plus 15. Haley Stephens at 33% plus 15. Mallory McMarro at Womp Womp, 7% minus 10.
Mallory McMiddle ground into Mallory McIsrael must really be Mallory McMisrable right now. Yeah
Yeah. I could see Mallory McWarrow dropping out and endorsing. I hope she doesn't endorse
Haley Stevens. It'd be beast mode if she endorsed Abdul.
It's important to highlight that the reason why the United States is surrendering is because
Iran controls a vital waterway for the global economy. They might not have a nuke, but their
control over the street is effectively the same thing. Trump ran the Global Strategic
Reserve dry, trying to destabilize them. Now he needs to bribe them to get things back
to the status quo ante. The material strength is why Iran is getting the concessions they
have. Absolutely. As I said, there are straights of Hormuz all around the world for those
with eyes to see. Okay. Every country has its own straight of Hormuz. This is why labor
power is so important because Iran didn't just, Iran didn't defeat the United States
America's forces militarily, Iran has no capacity to defeat the American forces militarily.
What Iran did was show or rather take advantage of how fragile the international market system is
because when capitalism is everywhere, when capitalism is all around,
and it's a fragile system because it needs permanent stability with one hegemon making sure
that no one acts out, right? That necessity of stability can yield tremendous opportunity
for those who are under attack. That's precisely what happened. Iran didn't destroy the American
military machine. Iran hit centers of profit. Iran struck global capitalism. That's it.
That's it.
It's a very important lesson to learn here.
One that they do not want you to know, that united, labor has all the power, okay?
All of it.
And it doesn't actually take a general strike to stop this system in its entirety.
It does not.
That's why I've always said, like, the Longshoremen's Union is probably one of the most powerful
unions in the country, teamsters, another unbelievably powerful union, railroad workers,
all they would need to do is take advantage of the leverage they have and strike in a
moment that is inopportune for capital owners and maybe even the rest of society, let's
be real, but an opportune moment for them.
We just haven't had the confidence in decades to recognize that we have this power.
That's it.
Capitalism is a delicate system.
It's unbelievably fragile.
We have so much more power in our hands within the labor unions, within just the power that
labor has altogether, that if this is the thing that capital owners fear the most, if Americans
were more class conscious, they could seize so much more power in the workplace.
Not just like better benefits, I'm talking about political moves.
they were like, Hey, we don't like, for example, that JFK is transiting Israeli weapons through
a civilian airport. We don't like that at all. We want to put an end to it as here it
is. Friends of the show that you have seen are introducing break the chain and New York
City DSA arms embargo campaign, our target JFK. We're proud to say with the DSA candidates
running to put an end to the U.S. war machine endangering workers at home and fueling mass
death abroad.
Every day civilian aircrafts take off and land here, carrying more than just passengers
and luggage.
JFK is a linchpin, and is applying directly fueling the killing of children in Gaza, Lebanon,
Yemen and Iran.
It endangers the lives of unknowing residents, workers and tourists who pass through this
airport every single day.
FOIA documents confirm what we've long suspected.
weapons bound for Israel don't travel through some separate, secure military transport.
They move through the same civilian airports, the same runways as every other flight.
Explosives, detonators, fuses packed into unmarked containers.
In October 2025, a nitrocellulose explosion at a munitions factory in Tennessee killed
16 people and it leveled the entire facility, one of the same materials being shipped through
JFK.
Every New Yorker who works in or flies out of this airport deserves a peace of mind knowing that their safety comes first.
That's why we're demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel, to begin the just transition from a war economy to a peace economy.
Our cities resources, our labor and our infrastructure are captured to feed a global machinery of war that benefits a tiny elite of billionaires.
of billionaires, while our communities are told to accept crumbling hospitals, underfunded
schools, and neglecting public transit as just the way things are.
What does that actually look like?
It looks like this.
We see the cost of the war economy right here in our crumbling public transit.
Since 2023, the federal government has spent almost $34 billion of fighting on Israel's
behalf in the Middle East.
That same money could have been used to replace thousands of outdated subway cars made over
over 60 stations accessible, they're paired over 150 subway stations.
It looks like this.
With the 34 billion spent on Israel's behalf, we could fund the Green Healthy Schools Initiative
three times over.
Another billion dollars to install solar, replace fossil fuel boilers, and upgrade HVAC systems.
So how do you break the chain?
You show up, sign the petition for an arms embargo on Israel, fill out the onboarding
Join the committee and organize your union to adopt the Break the Chain Resolution.
They have cases like people, not bombs.
Invest in public transit.
Invest in green public schools.
Get involved, Break the Chain.
break the chain.
Oh, by the way, this poll that we were just looking at with Obdual,
Adam Renn, scoop, a prominent Michigan pollster is accusing State Senator Mallory McWarrow's
Senate campaign of pressuring a state Capitol News outlet into killing a survey of the heated
Democratic primary.
Their suspicion, which they said, MIRS confirms that the poll allowed anyone to take it through
an open link rather than having access control to ensure a random and representative sample
of the state.
The poll was conducted through a methodology known as Text the Web, in which random voters
selected to receive a text message link to survey fill out. They're saying that
they're saying that the poll was open-ended and therefore it's not valid and that's why they
wanted to try and bury the poll.
you see guys I don't want to talk about progressive victory I don't care I don't care like that's
it's crazy we got far bigger shit to talk about here okay yes I know in a last-ditch effort
Destiny's fucking DGG has like a like a ground game thing that they are like trying to create
which seemingly mostly just focuses on whatever his own personal fucking project is and they're
attacking Clair Valdez and Dalia Lisa and and yes who gives a shit fuck them like okay move on
you know yeah they're like oh these guys are pro Russian imperialism or something they're just
trying to fucking, they're trying to rat fuck these two campaigns. Okay. It's ridiculous.
It's ridiculous. Progressive victory, right? Progressive victory is not the DGG one, but
they're aligned on this issue. But they are utterly irrelevant and immaterial in this fucking
New York congressional race that's taking place. So it has no motion. You're just giving
it more fucking clout for some reason. Yes, progressive victory broke off from destiny,
but they're using this like, they got bullied or pressured into, it feels like it's, they
got bullied or pressured into like taking this weird fucking stance where they're like,
we need to know about this. I don't know. It's just, it's a waste of time. Okay. It's
a total and utter waste of fucking time. Who cares? We're talking about much more powerful
forces that are launching unbelievable attack ads right now at these two
candidates for their israel position i'm not gonna fucking sit here and and
talk about the minutiae of their their ukraine perspective of these two
candidates they're not pro russian imperialism or whatever the fuck these
guys are presenting okay
Go volunteer, go doorknock, go do something valid, go do something productive.
Anyway, Boots is going to be here soon, by the way, and Caroline's going to be here soon.
And I'm going to, I'm going to obviously talk to Boots Riley, famous communist director
about I Love Booster, his latest movie, and, and, you know, his work and his career. But
let's get back to Adam shit for now. I don't know if others see what's going on here. I
don't know what to tell you. This isn't just Dems dinging Trump for political points. It's
them narrowing political space to support and end the hostilities because they, along
with our APEC donors, simply like open-ended hostilities with Iran, says Adam Johnson.
He's right. All these terms are eminently reasonable. Why are basic possessions after
the U.S. sneak attack then killed thousands, destroyed hundreds of billions of infrastructure
being scandalized and macho baited? The U.S. attempted regime change and failed. This is
the price and it's sensible. I agree 100% with Adam Johnson.
Now the talking point from Jeffery's and Schumer is the deal should go before Congress when
neither Jeffery's or Schumer uttered a single word for eight days while Trump amassed his
attack on our model last February.
They want a fucking, they want congressional approval for an MOU when they did not want
a congressional approval for the war launching.
Weird how that fucking works.
And I'm telling you right now, the reason why they want to do that, the reason why they're
doing that is because they want to fuck it
they do not want sanctions relief
because israel does not want sanctions relief for iran iran's economy
is massive
if sanctions relief came to iran and america had normal trade relations with
iran
this would
destroy
the the amount of influence israel has in the region
why the fuck would you need israel to to
stamp out iran all the goddamn time
or do whatever it wants to do in the region
if you can directly talk to iran
that's it
the m o u going to congress only a demand is you want to fail
no one with two brain cells things that you survive congress or both parties
are open the hostile to it
despite some dems nominally supporting after calling it neville chamberlain
for the power of a billion
if you wish to believe
that it's a simple good faith effort by murphy and co
If you wish to believe that it's simply a good effort by Murphy and Co. to do two things
can be true at the same time routine, then go ahead and believe that.
But when 99% of the rhetoric is hysterical demagoguery, then I think it's clear what's
going on.
Would you ever cover Canadian politics?
I'm not Canadian, but just the thought.
That's funny, Chatter.
not right now. A-PAC Klobuchar, with 300 billion, we could end homelessness, fund cancer research
for 40 years and give every child a pre-K for over seven years. Instead, Trump is sending
it to Iran.
This is not America first, not even close. The same people that did not oppose, that
were noticeably quiet when Trump sneak-attacked Iran at Israel's discretion
are now chirping loudly about what it takes to end this war.
But has the better word? Yes, I changed it.
Interesting.
Very interesting.
Yeah, funny to see conservatives suddenly realize the difference between giving Iran
free money and unfreezing the assets it really didn't click for them in 2015.
Oh the coup. Boots you get big ups from Boots if you brought up his leftist
rep group. Yeah, I used to play this all the time.
Galabap spoke today about strengthening relations with China.
Iran's Galabap on China and others. We need some blocks.
I'm saying clearly those blocks must be formed in a way they're already being
formed. Whatever block is formed, there are two definitive countries,
the different definite countries in it. Don't doubt it.
China and Iran,
I'm moving along this path with strength in all its dimensions in terms of
Technology, economy and politics. It is us who must make China believe which it will that we are not a customer or just a business partner
We are truly a partner to them a partner in every sense. Oh my god. This is music, dude
This is music to my fucking ears
Okay, this is music to my goddamn ears is what I've been saying
We must carefully recognize our friends and enemies and move forward of course we have our dignity our independence our perspective
We know our friends as well
China has more important relations with the Gulf than Iran. I know, but you think China's not going to benefit from also tying up the other side of that equation?
This is what I mean. I think that these, I think that Israel bit off far more than it could true and showed the Gulf nations that America and Israel are not reliable partners.
Those Gulf nations already have leveraged commitments and leveraged relations with China.
They can just as easily lean in China's direction.
Anyway, the context here is that Xi Jinping visited Tehran in January 2016 in the same
month the GCPO has implemented during his visit, China and Iran signed a comprehensive
strategic partnership agreement.
But as Iran benefited from sanctions relief, Iranian firms overwhelmingly sought ties with
European customers, suppliers and investors.
Chinese business leaders and officials felt jilted.
It was strategic error by the Rouhani administration not to prioritize relations with China.
Ghalabov is signaling he's not about to make the same mistake, even as he appears to sign
the MOU with the US, which is good.
Is this really a loss for Israel?
They're still in Lebanon.
Is this a smaller win?
No, no.
Dude, what are you kidding me?
American normalizing relations in any way, shape, or form with Iran is a ginormous, it's
perhaps the most existential loss for Israel, okay?
Are you kidding me?
That's why they're fucking losing their minds.
I think Jesse's gonna have to take back calling Tehran Tarlav for talking about what was in
this MOU is actually exactly what's in this MOU.
Here's a head or something like that.
As I said, mixed reception, what are your thoughts?
I think it's not even really mixed.
It's just pretty negative, seemingly.
Jesse hasn't gone yet.
I think Jesse is even going to have
to be a little more reasonable and maybe take back.
Reasonable?
Me?
Oh.
Calling me Tehran Tarlav for talking about what was in this MOU
that actually is exactly what was in this MOU.
Ben Shapiro on with Martha a little while ago.
This MOU appears to be a disaster that
does not achieve any of the signal goals that were
step by the administration. In my opinion, the VP, the chief negotiator, has not well
served the president. Bill Cassidy, the worst foreign policy blunder in decades. You say,
Trump joking, I'm going to blame this on JD. It's a loaded joke. Right, like that he's
going to end up the fall guy. And I hope that he heard you yesterday when you said, don't
take that picture standing next to a terrorist.
Oh, I don't think they are taking my advice.
Well, you would be well served to take Dana's advice. Trump, they might look 60 years ahead.
I'm going to put this on the screen.
Dude, are the Dems going to try to kill this?
They would lose the midterms.
Enable this before tomorrow's stream.
Yeah, I'm not going to do that.
Okay, right now you're crazy.
Okay, boots is here.
Okay.
I'm going to, I'm going to set up the mics real quick.
We're gonna have a,
the boots and boots Riley and Caroline Kwan.
Okay, hold on.
Hold on.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
Hey.
Are we Bible?
Oh yeah, we've been live. Yeah.
Yeah.
All right, Booz Riley in the building,
Caroline Kwan in the building, ladies and gentlemen.
What an honor to have you here.
Director, communist extraordinaire,
someone that you have probably seen the works of,
hopefully, I love Booz who just came out.
We're gonna be talking about that.
We're gonna be talking about your experiences,
your politics, your worldview.
Your music.
And your music as well.
we got it right here. I already I already had it ready to go ready to rip.
Okay. The cool five million ways to kill us.
And one thing I will say about this, we can play it, but the guy that made this,
I didn't make this video and there's a thing he does on, uh,
where on then the reason why I've never shared this, but, you know,
since people want to hear it, that's, that's fine is that he does a thing on
the picture where it says, ugly is even skin deeper.
He shows Africans and I was like, he made this like 20 years ago and I messaged him.
I was like, take that out and I'll share the video and he never would.
And let me let me move a little bit video, move a little bit to the to our right.
So that we can make this an angle work.
Sorry.
This is a little scrunched up.
Um, okay.
that's good to know are not necessarily those of them
Find me a way to get a C.E.O.
Slap him up and shake him up and then you know
Let him up and float and bait him with your dough
You can do it Trump or you can just go
Get out of this way
Find me a way to get a C.E.O.
Slap him up and shake him up and then you know
Let him up and float and bait him with your dough
You can do it Trump or you can just go
Get out of this way
I'm just gonna try to find it before you wait
I'm gonna jump the bait and how to get a percolate
You're working you up, we happy just to work a day
But I'm gonna slap into my blood as I suck a lake
I'm a white chalk scissor, but I'm such a pistol, rollin' dope fiend, Reynolds to your
residential, focus, buck, even Reynolds with none you test, finna teach, pick, class, for
the help, could it?
What did you say?
Oh, I feel that.
my old pictures, my hair was a big part of it.
And by the way,
afros are seeming like they're like the regular thing.
But when we first came out in 1993, nationally,
people were like,
what the fuck is your hair like that?
And in fact, we used to have a song,
we had a song called,
fuck a perm.
And because everybody would see me
and say you should perm your hair.
So we had this song called Fuck a Perm.
And when we were touring in 93, we knew,
as soon as we hit the stage,
because we were opening up for like Scarface
and various folks.
And we knew somebody was gonna be like,
man, what the fuck is your hair?
And they'd be like, cut your hair.
And so we'd wait for that point where somebody said it.
And we'd be like, what did you say?
And we let them say it into the mic.
and then they chica chica.
And we go into this song called,
Fuck a Perm.
And it always worked, it always blew the crowd away.
But that's how it was different.
And then people, then it, you know,
because you might think, oh, they had them in the 70s,
but when you're like 20 in 1993 or in your early 20s,
that is so long ago.
So my hair was so much a part of my identity
and then my face started changing.
So I was like, damn, what do I do?
And then last year, I retired them.
I was like, no, fuck it.
I'm going to just get used to whatever is the changing nature of my head and and and all that.
But then I had to sell the movie.
I was like, let me put these hats back.
I think you should own the big hats as opposed to Pharrell,
who is a friend of the IDF from what I understand.
Oh, people don't know that.
Anyway, but who's Riley?
Thank you so much for coming on.
I've been a long time fan of your work and a sympathetic ideologue to your world.
Thank you.
I love that moment where I think it's Amy Goodman that says, like,
you know, what did she say?
She says you're like a socialist.
She says you're an anti-capitalist.
Yeah, an anti-capitalist is a way for one at the very least
to not talk about what the world is that we want to create, but to to kind of just be like,
I'm against people buying stuff from corporations or something like that, which is some,
which is more very can be very, very liberal.
And sometimes it's just anarchists being like also with suffering from some
of the anti-communism that we've been fed as we grow up.
So they just they don't want to say communist.
So they want to say anti-capitalist, but it leaves the door open for all sorts of shenanigans.
But you've been a communist since 15, like an avowed communist.
You do not shy away from the label.
I joined, and let me be specific, because now I would say communist with a little seat,
but I was communist with a big seat because I joined an actual party,
which is what is actually going to be necessary for us to make a revolution.
is for there to be parties and I was in a party called Progressive Labor Party.
I joined when I was 15 and so I had this same goal in my life and at a certain point,
I decided that wasn't the route for me to get there was that particular party.
But yeah. Yeah. Um, great. I mean, I, I, uh, admire your, uh, courage, even though it's,
it shouldn't be courageous to say the truth. But, uh, unfortunately, that's what it takes
sometimes, uh, in a country like the United States, especially the heart of empire, uh,
to stand boldly and proudly and, uh, and, and what you're making art. I wanted to,
I wanted to talk to you about agitated propaganda because in many respects that's precisely what
I try to do as well in a very different format obviously is not an artistic expression usually.
There is a performance element to it to what I do as well but I think one of the issues that I see
one of the major problems that I see in America is that the American working class lacks class
consciousness. And that is by design. It's a design of the system, obviously. And it is a war that
the capital loading class has waged and quite successfully, if I may so, myself. And I think
that art plays a formative role in agitative propaganda. Do you also agree? Do you feel like
you're at your line work? I'll put it like this. I was an organizer. And when I started to see
How art could be used?
That's when I decided to do art. I didn't like I wasn't like I want to be an artist and what could I talk about?
You know, it was it was only because of that and and
you know and and and so that
That direction and and and also it came from me seeing how much culture
actually affects how people see how the world is made, how people see
they think they are in relationship to the economic system we're in.
I had a point where after we made our first two albums, because when I went into it,
I was like, ah, we're going to do two albums, we're going to go multi-platinum,
and then we're going to spend that money on revolutionary headquarters around the world or whatever.
Well, we didn't go close to platinum and and we had how to kill your landlord. Yeah, but here's the thing and you know, and I was the thing is, is that the the art and even the ideas that I express are ones that I was seeing that people liked and people were attached on to and I've had many, many.
What you see that I've done is in the face of a lot of people working against me, right?
But there's contradictions where, you know, there'll be somebody at a radio station that loves the music, but then they're told by someone else, oh, we're not playing that, right?
And, you know, there's been all of those things where people come to me years later and say, hey, your song was the most requested song on our station.
and they just wouldn't play it.
So I think I naively was like,
well, people are going to like it,
it's going to grow.
And so our first album was Kill My Landlord,
our second album was Genocide and Juice,
and we had this song off Genocide and Juice
called Fat Cats and Bigger Fish.
And Fat Cats and Bigger Fish was as much of a hit
as we could have had.
It was somebody snuck it onto the radio late night,
this girl, Mona Lisa Murray, she knew some folks,
big boy at Power 106 put it on,
and then it was just getting requested and playing
all day in LA and in Chicago.
And in LA and Chicago, it was selling 5,000 copies a week
because of the radio play.
Now, often when they do radio play,
it doesn't have that sort of traction.
And so record labels, other people were telling me,
oh, that's the platinum formula.
If you can do that, you just duplicate that other ways.
That's what EMI is going to do, we're on EMI records.
Anyway, EMI bought the record whole hog from the,
the indie they were working with, Wildpitch.
And we got excited, we're like, they bought it.
They bought the second half, they were 50-50 partners,
they bought it, so, and we're doing well on the radio.
So obviously they're about to take it wide.
And they bought it in the next week,
they were like, we're not working it.
So I got depressed.
I was like, so they bought it to kill it.
They bought it to kill it.
And so I was like, damn, what am I doing?
At that point, I was 24.
And I was like, I've been wasting my whole life
being an artist.
Like, what am I doing?
And I stopped and we made an organization
called the Young Comrades, which was a black organization
organizing in the black community, but with a class analysis, right?
And with the idea of getting that out there.
And that imploded for various reasons after a few years, but during that time,
that's when I worked telemarketing because I knew I could, I was good at that.
And I could do that one day every two weeks.
And, you know, I didn't have kids yet, so we were doing that.
And then fine, but, but my point is, I'm sorry, long way around to saying, while
we were doing that organization is when I especially saw what I had left behind, that
people were joining or not joining campaigns, sometimes based on a song lyric or something
they saw in a movie or something like that, because people are taking in information all
the time. That's our, that's for most people, that's their literature, right?
It wasn't there that group in Baltimore that saw, started to bother you and then organ.
Oh, yeah. So many, many years later. So, um, yeah, uh, we started to bother you. I, uh,
during this, this big strike wave that had, there was a strike way from 2020 to 2024 depending
on when you want to count it. Um, that was measurably the largest strike wave in US history
since the 70s with thousands of of work stoppages and strikes and not necessarily through the
the known unions. Yeah. Yeah. It was there were wild cash strikes in like Oklahoma, for
example, that were not like sanctioned technically. It was an explosion born out of the material
conditions that people were saying enough is enough. Like we have to do something about
And they had just a man. Yeah. And a place that tracks that people can go look as paydayreport.com.
They were keeping track of it. And so during that time, I was getting dozens of messages where
people were like, we didn't, some version of this, like we didn't think we were going to be able to
organize this workplace in order to have a strike or B form a union, something like that.
And so many stories where they're like, but we played everybody sorry to bother you.
And then they were willing to have a strike or have a union.
And then one specific anecdote was in Baltimore. There was a couple of people came and told me
when I went there that they had a 60 person workplace and they were going to do a show of
hands vote on whether to have a union or not. And they thought they were going to win.
But they thought it was going to be by the skin of their teeth.
They had organized pushback.
And they said, wouldn't everybody was supposed to show their hands to say whether they wanted
a union or not to say, yay, somebody in the middle of the crowd yelled, Equusapiens, let's
be out.
And then everybody laughed and every single person raised their hand.
And so those organizers were like, wow, you know, in that case, they hadn't played it
for them, but everybody laughed because they knew the movie.
So for those who don't know,
Sorry to bother you was your directorial debut in 2018,
starring the Keith Stanfield.
And I read a story about how you got the script to him.
This is after he had done Get Out.
Social commentary was really big in horror.
He was on the rise and him,
getting him to be a part of your film,
which you come into Hollywood,
which I would love to talk about your experience
as one of the few self-avowed communists.
Like you do not shy away from that label,
you probably bear that label.
Trying to get a film made that is a radical critique
of the capitalist system, but also with your very,
you know, idiosyncratic style, you love surrealism,
you love dark comedy.
So like what, can you talk about that process
to making films?
Overall in hindsight, this is what I can say.
A lot of people, one, there's contradictions
within all spaces, right?
Not if the movie talks about that, right?
But the latest movie.
But so here's a story I like to tell
that's not necessarily my story to tell, but I know it.
Also, Rage Against the Machine,
they were gonna do a music video for Sleep Now in the Fire.
and it was going to be directed by Michael Moore.
Their whole idea was, hey, we're going to go on Wall Street,
play loud, get arrested,
and that's going to be the music video.
So they go, they play once, nothing happens,
some security doors close, they play again,
and people are kind of looking, nothing's happening.
The third time they start playing,
they start hearing this noise that goes,
They don't know what it is, it's just getting louder.
So they play the fourth time and it's getting louder.
And then three blocks away, coming from around the corner, they see a horde of people in
business suits coming toward them. And they're the ones that are going and they're getting
closer and closer. And as they get closer, they're still playing as they get closer,
they can tell what that noise is. It's that horde of people in business suits who obviously
work on Wall Street saying suits for rage, suits for rage. And there's that contradiction.
saying it in the in the thing they're saying we're suits we work on Wall Street we like what
Rage against the machine is saying and I think that that has to do with in general that most people
in the world and even in the United States wish that the world was different they want the world
to be different they uh they and if you told them the ideas of communism which I often will
will sum up in general as the people having democratic control over the wealth that they
create with their labor, right? And real democratic control. So if you told them those ideas, most
people would be like, I'm down with that. But also most people, because they have not seen
a movement, they don't know what the plan is, they would be like, I don't think that can happen.
And I wouldn't like there to be a different thing, but I don't think that can happen.
And they're like, plus I went to school and now I got to get a job.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I'm in the machine.
So I just have to keep following.
And so there's a lot of people and then there's other people that are even more naively in
that machine where they're like, oh, it's just a marketplace of ideas and I, you know,
blah, blah, blah.
So, so there's all sorts of things.
And then you have the hard core ideologues.
They're like, fuck that, stop this.
So at that point when Sorry to Bother You was getting made,
I think the politics, because a lot of people didn't know
the difference between a strike and a protest.
I think there were people that on the outside
that mistook the politic for being liberal.
And so it was granted a little bit of grace in certain ways.
And then there were people on the inside that were telling me the same way, like I'm really
a radical, I just have this job, I blah, blah, blah, I did this in college, blah, blah,
blah, and luckily now you, because usually, you know, there'll be like, luckily now I
can work on something I believe in.
So we have that combination of things going on.
And at the same time, when I wrote the movie, Trump, yeah, when I wrote the movie, Obama
was in office.
When the movie got made, Trump was in office.
So there was this idea of like, oh, we need like, quote unquote, protest movies.
So all of that combined with the fact that most people that read the script also got
distracted by the horse dicks.
Which, yeah.
And so that was the most, that was the talk, like nobody, like the horse dicks, then there's
strikes and radical resistance. So like that was just more explosive and, you know, and so that
that it kind of got in there, it got in the world. And we actually didn't have as much pushback
against that as we do with this one. Do you feel like surrealism aids in, in maybe sheltering
that message a little bit. Not dampening it in any way, but allows big production houses to
be more comfortable with a much more radical message. And I would say that in Sorry to Bother
You, it was very apparent what the overarching message was. And I think it is very apparent
in I Love Boosters as well. Do you feel like this is your artistic direction or is there
any tactical necessity for using this package?
I don't think the ideas are snuck in in this, like, you know, but, you know, what I will say is that,
okay, our first album, Kill My Landlord, was kind of a pamphlet on tape, right?
Like it was not the fact that the ideas were way out,
but it was what I thought was important for people to hear.
I thought certain words were important for people to hear.
I thought, but what I learned by the time
I got to genocide and choose
is to make more emotional connection
with this emotional thing you're striving for.
Like, realizing that when people hear a song
talking about, I got all this money and I'm blah, blah, blah, this.
Sometimes they don't believe it, but even when they do believe it, what they're hearing
is this person is free.
This person doesn't have to worry about being homeless.
I want that, and that listener has not come into contact with the movement, and that's
radicals fault, right, for that.
But so what I realized is that in my, I started realizing, okay, I need to connect
my emotional connection to I need to draw a line from my emotional personal
connection to my idea of how the world works and that is an over the course of
30 years I hone that to the point where you know that it comes into certain
aesthetic choices it kind but it's not really about sneaking it in it's more
about having people experience that emotional road, that emotional trip to get to a certain idea.
I saw Boosters and Theaters. I brought a friend who I knew she wasn't familiar with her work and I
didn't tell her anything. I just kind of wanted to gauge her response and you know the film opens up
And it's so colorful and zany.
It's very loony tune style energy.
And I could just see her sitting there like, oh, my God, what am I watching?
But then what about along for the ride?
What about the moment?
Now, I don't want to spoil anything for people who haven't seen it,
but there is there's a moment that is quite.
Impactful.
Oh, it's it's almost like the horse.
There's this movie.
How did your how did your friend react?
if you know what I'm asking.
I mean, laughed and also kind of just went
is really happening on screen because there's so,
you know, there's so much that you put into your films.
And I think people have,
I think audiences have gotten used to watching a lot
of the same repetition.
And I think there's, you know, this whole relationship
of like, how do we get people into theaters?
We'll give them something worth seeing,
them something exciting, innovative, original. So even if you don't necessarily like everything,
or if you know it's a little confusing, it's still engaging. It's still, you know,
it's something that you haven't seen before and certainly not in today's landscape. So at the
end of the viewing, I was like, what did you think? And she goes, that, I mean, it was awesome. And
And also, then she was asking me some more questions about like dialectical materialism,
which let me just say, having Iza Gonzalez chain smoking a fake with her like 90s style
thin eyebrows, giving a speech on dialectical materialism is so awesome.
And it's such a great way for people like my friend and others who they're not going
to go watch like a professor talking about, they're not going to go necessarily read Marx
to start off with.
So that's their introduction in this film
that is so joyous and colorful.
And I think that's a really,
I think that's something about your work is that it's not,
I think it's easy to lean into cynicism, you know,
especially as we are looking at this world
and trying to push for change.
Like it's easy to get cynical,
but I think with you, there's such a radical optimism
and especially boosters.
I felt like that was your most, most joyous work because I've seen Virgo as well.
Yeah.
No, I think so.
What I did when I was 15, what I was doing, what made me join the progressive
labor party was they had a program with the anti-racist farm workers union in
McFarland and Delano, California, central California Valley, where we were
organizing farm workers. It was a group that had broken off from Cesar Chavez because they
were communists and they formed their own union. And I went as a teenager to help them.
And they were, you know, they had been students in 1968 in Mexico who had left to save their
lives but didn't want to just become professors. They wanted to carry on the revolution and
And so they went to the central California and started this thing.
But the point is that through that, they weren't just talking about organizing at this one
ranch or organizing even the whole valley.
They were talking about that in connection with how this sort of a movement can build
and spread and become the class struggle, the class conflict that we need in order to actually
make a revolution.
So also during that, I realized that you could come and scare people about everything that's
going on, talk about how fucked up everything is, and people will get mad, but that doesn't
make them want to do anything that makes them feel righteous in not doing anything sometimes.
And what I understood early on was that people need to be able to see a way to win
in order to get involved with stuff that the that optimism and and real optimism not just like
everything's going to be okay one day we will prevail blah blah blah but something connected to
And that has to do, organizational wise,
that has to do with engaging in winnable campaigns.
Engaging in, but not just leaving them at reforms.
Engaging in winnable campaigns in the context of saying,
this is part of a step of how we get
to a revolutionary movement.
There has to be a radical vision
and an idea of how this is,
because otherwise you just do those winnable campaigns
it just turns into reform after reform and you and you get burnt out. So people do get burnt
out on those reform movements. They do get burnt out even when they feel that they're radical
and they're showing up at demonstration after demonstration and we've lied to them many times
radicals and radical organizations unconsciously lie to people because we've been since the beginning
of the new left saying we took it from demonstrations used to be whole industry workforces coming
out, you know, here are all the miners, they're basically demonstrating that they could shut
this industry down.
And then by the 60s, and I won't go through my whole spiel on that, it turned into the
demonstration being the be all end all and it being about spectacle and so
definitely things that I'd been a part of in the 80s 90s and even early 2000s
were like let's get a bunch of people on the street and then it'll and now don't
get me wrong spectacle is necessary for people to see that other people agree
with them but without a plan people just get burnt out people like them for the
the, the, uh, against the Iraq war, we had 10 million people in the street. Yeah. Yeah.
Right. It didn't do a damn thing. But I think we didn't have, uh, mass militant radical
labor movement that could shut down in. I think that's the, the most important aspect
of this is that, um, obviously it takes all fronts, uh, uh, to, to develop a mass movement.
You do need to protest. Yeah. But then you also need labor, you need labor militancy
And you also, I mean, you even need some semblance of even like the the electoral route within the bourgeois democracy that a lot of people, I think cast aside as like neutering these sorts of movements.
And I understand that argument, of course, but it doesn't hurt to have people that are in the halls of power that can at least ease up the tension.
It's not the end all be all, and I never think it is, but one thing that we're working on,
or at least I've been working on now, and maybe you'll disagree with me on this, is
by way of the Democratic Socialists of America trying to elect anti-Zionists in the positions
of power, not to say that radicalism won't get effectively neutered in the process, but
at least trying to, trying to have like some workings of a movement within the halls of
power and then using the platform of elections to at least spread the messages far and wide.
Because I think regardless of my criticisms of Bernie Sanders, his 2016 electoral run,
this insurgent campaign that he launched against Hillary Clinton exposed this dynamic between
uh... democrats that were uh... very clearly uh... invested in the
continuation of neoliberalism and and
not any different than the republican party was when it came to material
changes
verses
a democrat that uh... did not shy away from the moniker of socialism which i
think
restarted
or are uh... uh... created a resurgence of a socialist movement that went far
beyond what bernie sanders was advocating for
I would say this, that definitely there's times in my life
where I was like, and I do still believe this,
but just that I think it's all about the energy
of the folks involved.
Like sometimes what we would go through is this cycle
where we're building this movement.
And at one point, let's talk the early 2000s,
you have this anti-war movement that built up
and people were getting to a place
like what do we do and considering shutdowns,
things like that, and then an election would come up.
We got to get Kerry in, things like that.
And then people would be lying,
people radicals that I knew were lying to people saying
Kerry was anti-war and saying
because they just had to do it to get Bush out.
So, but the point is, is that all this energy,
those movements turned into just electoral movements.
And the thing that was interesting to me is that I don't remember which campaign it was
that where I did say that people should vote for Bernie, it must have been the 2020, yeah.
And that was because I talked to some folks in the campaign and the whole idea was to
call for it as a way to fight, to get Medicare for all, was going to have to be from those
platforms, from a presidential platform, the call for people to strike and shut down the
areas of folks that weren't going along with it.
So I thought of it as a way to heighten the conflict and I do what I would say is this
is that I think that in some cases it can be pulling energy away from the radical militant
labor movement that we want.
But sometimes there could be a way for it to help out such as the, you know, getting
rid of some, you know, Taft-Hartley, things like that, those could be ways that could
open up. The thing that I would, that I think would need to be, that it would, how it would
need to be put out is the thing that doesn't say, because the problem with elections sometimes
is you say, this is the answer.
Yeah.
Let's get our thing and, and, and, and, and, and I've seen even radical organizations
and so I'm a little bit more open to that.
But what I will say is that the only way for that
to really be able to be things to be in tandem
with each other is with an actual party,
with an actual revolutionary party.
And I do see that there are inside the DSA,
there's more radical sections than others.
But I think that we also, we need parties,
need people that are dedicated to figuring out this as a strategy and that being part
of a larger strategy.
And if the primacy of organizing that mass militant radical labor movement can be out
there, then even those politicians can have a little bit more power to do those things.
I'm not, like I don't think voting for Kamala Harris or voting for Joe Biden over Donald
Trump is somehow going to make it easier to organize. I don't believe that at all. As a
matter of fact, we've seen that the contradictions heighten when you have reactionary politicians.
It's just that my assessment of the situation is that if you do have someone who is unafraid
of calling themselves a socialist and actually abides by real socialist values, real socialist
principles, the electoral route is, it's basically flipping the script and using elections as a way
to reach a mass movement, using the viability and the legitimacy under bourgeois democracy
to reach the masses and maybe foment some kind of class consciousness,
understanding that it's not the end all be all. As a matter of fact, it's not even the most
consequential aspect of organizing.
Well, and since you talk about fomenting class consciousness, I think that sometimes electoral
politics is the thing that confuses people on class consciousness, on a class analysis.
Because the question is, is how does power work, right?
Yeah.
And how do we express our power?
And like you said, the main way that the working class is going to be able to express their
power, you didn't say this, but I think you were going there, is through withholding labor
and through being able to shut down sections of industry, whole industries and in order
for us to get there.
I think often what's sold to us is in order to even win the election, you've got to get
a lot of people often to say, this is a game changer.
This guy's a game changer.
And so therefore, I got to, you know, like that, and it becomes a letdown afterward because
people have been spending that time not doing a, not organizing on their job or anything
like that.
But if you're saying that there's a way to do both, then I'm all game for that.
That's my method of change.
This is controversial amongst many leftists as well who will routinely criticize me and
say that I'm like dampening revolutionary potential and I'm an impediment to more revolutionary
politics.
Which I think I've seen criticisms of your work where people complain it's not revolutionary
enough, similar with Hassan where they're like he's not left us enough.
But the idea I think is that having this funnel where Hassan is not the revolution, you know,
art, no matter how radical it is, is not the revolution itself.
But I think there's the purpose of inspiring that collective action of like appealing to
a wide audience to the mainstream to inspire that organizing that collective.
Now here's what I always say is like if you do have a mass militant radical labor movement,
it doesn't matter who's in office, you can make them do whatever you want.
So that's why that's primary to create.
So, for instance, you know, well, obviously, you've talked about the, the shut, the port
shutdowns, the general strike, if you will, in Italy, right?
That was it.
And now, however small the victory was there, that was somebody that was, you know, as right
Right wing is Trump being forced to at least send a naval ship out to pretend to protect
the flotilla to Gaza.
Now, if you just had a radical politician in there without that movement, you wouldn't
be able to get anything happening like that.
But also, you could have a right wing politician in there and have that movement and you can make, you know, whatever happens.
They have to be responsive to this pressure and the most powerful, the most powerful tool that that labor has that regular folk have is their power to withhold their labor.
Yeah.
I've said jokingly earlier today that there's a straight of hormones everywhere for those with eyes to see.
I said that, man.
Oh, you said that too?
Yeah.
Oh, hell yeah.
Yeah.
OK, let's go. I didn't. I didn't. Well, we both said it.
Yeah, here's because because like what Iran was capable of doing.
And now that there's this MOU being signed, we'll see how that goes.
Obviously, like it wasn't artillery shells that gave the U.S. pause.
It was stopping the cash flow.
Yes. And it exposes the fragility of this international design
because capitalism requires a a hegemonic superpower
to keep everything as stable as possible. Although that stability is obviously very unstable
for those who live in the periphery and even the working class that we would consider living
in the heart of empires, their labor aristocracy. No one is actually getting a good deal out
of this bargain with the exception of parasitic capital, international capital. And they are
the ones who are benefiting from this. And I think, like, I try to use moments like this
for agitator propaganda to show that like, yeah, Iran didn't win this battle because
they were capable of defeating the the mightiest force that anyone's ever seen the US military.
They were not capable of defeating the United States militarily, but they were capable of
doing something much more powerful, which is to harm the the centers of profit.
Yeah. And, you know, take, like, punish international capital whenever the American or
Israeli forces were to strike deep into Iran, hit a bank, they would turn around and say,
we're going to start striking American banks in Saudi Arabia or in the United Arab Emirates.
And I think that was what really accelerated this process. And, you know, obviously,
stopping the transiting of all oil and gas from the Shidahor Mosul, just 20% of the
of the world's energy forced a lot of these countries to tap into their strategic reserves
and they were almost about to run out at this point.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, that's the thing.
And those are the kinds of ideas when you say that, like when you point out that Strait
of her moves being blocked is what gave the US pause and that we could do that same thing.
People see that as a possibility.
With Occupy Oakland, for instance, a lot of people when they hear about the Occupy movement,
they hear about New York and stuff, but Occupy Oakland was a little different in the sense
that it was started by radicals.
They saw what was happening in New York, they were like, let's do something here using
that same name. And so there was a general strike call for it. It wasn't a real general
strike, but because that idea was put out there, and there was a week to do it, and
it was put out there in a huge way, a lot more, I saw a lot more people out at that
than I had seen at anything before, because I thought it was something, a way to win.
So we had 50,000 people, you know, gather in a week, and I mean, after calling for it
in a week, 50,000 people gathered under the banner of death to capitalism because they
thought that shutting down the city actually could get some power.
Now it was a one-day thing, it was symbolic, it wasn't going to get a win, but it was something
that seeded an idea in people's heads. And we're seeing that with obviously with what
happened in Minneapolis. So now to the electoral thing, if what you're telling me is that,
so I look at it back, I go backwards, okay? What we need is a world in which the people
democratically control the wealth that we create with our labor. Now, that's going
to take, which is communism, and that's going to take a certain kind of struggle in order
to get there.
Now, what we know from the USSR and even Cuba is that they had to have massive strikes.
It was not only part of how they won, but it was part of how the working class was able
to be educated and able to participate. And so for folks that don't, you know, there were
tens of millions of people involved in strikes in the USSR from the early 1900s to 1917.
A lot of people don't talk about in Cuba. It wasn't just Fidel and Che and them coming
in, there was there was a general strike happening.
There were also, yeah, there were communist groups in Havana that were participating in
sequence with general strikes, even though obviously there was the militancy aspect of it from
the, you know, the 13 that remain. Yeah. Yeah, it takes every force in my opinion. Everyone has a
role in this process. And all of those things where like sometimes people will break down
revolutions and be like, this person was, you know, you know, to the right of that person,
they were both all radical, but this it took all of that in order to make a mass movement.
And I think there's ways to do it more strategically and more in line. But you if we're talking about
getting, you know, hundreds of millions of people involved in something, then, you know,
far be it from me to be like, I might say that that's not where I want to put my energy,
but I'm not going to be like, that's a bit, you know, that's not, especially at this point,
because right now, there's a lot of, you know, I'll tell you what, like when I was became a
a communist when I was 15, you know, like I, there were very few in the United States.
And it's such a good thing to see that now there's like, if you look online, I don't
know, maybe there's millions, but I don't know people that call themselves that.
But what we don't have are parties and organizations that people are in.
It's just kind of like I subscribe to that idea and they're maybe in their house by themselves and not connecting.
And so we need things for people to get involved in. We need and and winnable things winnable actions for folks to get involved.
What do you I do have to ask you this question? It's hard to cut you off, but what do you think about Zoran?
Um, yeah, so here's the thing and this this goes with and and I haven't been following honestly
I haven't been following what's happened since he got elected because I've been in this cave
of getting this done. But I think here the big lesson is, and this is what I've always said,
and I'm sure you said this, like when Trump got elected, a lot of people, even radicals,
got very depressed, like because it was like, oh, half the country is fascist or whatever.
But I've always said even before Trump that most people don't vote and most people don't vote
Because they're to the left of the Democratic Party
Yeah, like if you're right, they don't have the political expression. Yeah, they're not gonna use the words
Yeah, you would never they would never be like I'm a socialist or I'm a communist or anything
But like they're they'll express if you were to ask them like would you like a democratic workplace?
It'd be like where you get to work and you control your own you control your own productive output
But they'd be like, yeah, that makes a total sense, agree to the ideas.
Yeah, if you don't want the label, yeah.
If you're to the right of the Republican Party, you're still voting Republican.
So we can say that.
And then a good number of the Democrats are that voted
Democrat are just holding their nose and they are to the left of the Democratic Party as well.
So most people are if you got to look at their politics,
it would be defined as radical, it'd be defined as radical left.
Now there might not be involved in the actions that make them that but that that's what they
believe. Yeah. And yeah, and that's a large part of what I do with my art is that, you know,
after that first album, it was all about I'm putting these ideas out there. I don't care
what words I'm using. I'm not talking to the if you listen to my stuff. A lot of people said that
our stuff wasn't political even in the 90s because I wasn't talking to people that thought they were
revolutionary. You know, we have the exception like the guillotine and things like that.
But a lot of my stuff was just talking to people where they're at. Now, with Mamdani,
it proved that everybody wants, one, it proved how against Israel most people are. And how
much people hate the genocide that's happening there. So that's one thing. But it also proved
that people want these ideas. People want a world, they might call it socialist, they
might call it whatever, but they want this world that has been demonized. And so someone
coming out and just being straight about that, got people to vote that never would have voted
before, got people to vote that, you know, so, that shows where that is.
Now, I'm hoping, again, like I said, I haven't followed like what's been successful so far.
But I think that that is, it is a launching point that has changed how people think about
the world around them, right?
And that is really important because what I've seen happens is we might have these ideas
about having this different world or about what we believe about it, but we mitigate
what we think is possible based on what we think everyone else thinks, right?
So all those people that went to work on Wall Street, they didn't think it could happen.
They didn't think anybody would believe, they might have believed in some sort of vague thing
like Rage talks about and could have been one to a revolutionary party, but they didn't
think it could happen.
And that has to do with what they think everyone around them thinks.
And so I think that there actually was a sea change that happened with that election where
a lot of people around the country were surprised that there would be people open to those politics.
And so just from that standpoint alone, and I said that at the time that that would be a victory
Be from from people just saying wow someone
That that calls themselves a socialist and has has these policies has these ideas
Wins it changes what people think can happen. Yeah over the world
Yeah. Can we talk about what we mentioned briefly earlier? So, your role is as an artist in the system and obviously you don't just leave things at your art. You expand upon your ideas and your beliefs as you are now, but I wanted to discuss the kind of the paradox of creating
communists are in a capitalist system. I know there had been a little bit of noise
when you were promoting boosters about Annapurna's involvement. And look, boosters is a $20 million
budget. You intended this to be seen by as wide of an audience as you can, right? This is a film for
really a film for Normie. It's not somebody who's, you know, read Angles and Marx. And this is a,
you know, for a wide audience to be exposed to these ideas. So talking about, yes, you are making
communist art in a capitalist system because capitalists have the money like that is that
is where you get funding from. And here's a and just to because I'm sure most of the people
watching know what the noise is that you're talking about. So just to put it out there,
like the nature of US capital.
The reason that Israel exists is
so that US hegemony can have a stakehold in that region.
So when you're talking about when you're talking about hedge funds,
when you're talking about huge capitalists,
they've usually got a stake in in in in as far as investing.
Yeah, investing in the infrastructure of Israel and investing in military weapons, things like that.
It's so when you look at, for instance, the main stakeholders in everything, and because we're
talking about the entertainment industry, you're talking about the main stakeholders in all of
these studios, things like that. There's a couple big ones. One is Vanguard, which is
is a fund that invests in things with capitalists. Another one is BlackRock. They are major stakeholders
in Netflix, in every major theater chain, whether it's Cinemark, AMC, all of these things.
before Ellison bought Warner Brothers and stuff, they were the major stakeholders there.
And they, for instance, each of those have given something like $10 billion to the infrastructure
of Israel.
So backing up, when we first signed to EMI, Wildpitch EMI, EMI was this huge, and then
we're talking about 1992 when we signed it there. EMI was a huge corporation that had
its hands everywhere, right? And, you know, because I've decided that what needs to happen
is we need to create this mass militant radical labor movement in order to have a revolution.
I never subscribed to the liberal idea that you get involved that bet that we just need
better capitalist there that we need to get have the bed and capitalists or we need to
we need to my whole thing was it all has to go.
So a lot of the times, you know, we would always hear like all sorts of stories about
this capitalist is the worst one that capitalist is the worst one because it hides the evils
that the rest of the ruling class does. And that it's just normal, like when we did Sorry
to Bobby, people kept being like, oh, it's about the tech industry. And I'm like, no,
it's about capitalism itself. Like there's Steve Lyft and Sorry to Bobby was not a tech
person. He actually manufactured goods, right? So coming out of being an actual revolutionary,
I never had the the sense that, oh, what what I'm trying to do is figure out how to have
collectives and work with something.
No, I'm trying to get on the channels that everybody is on.
When we had that almost hit when we were on the radio in L.A. and in Chicago, it was almost
certainly going to be played next to a Coca-Cola commercial.
Right.
It was oh, you know
My point is I'm trying to get to the people that I can get to that
I can't get to on my own through slimy my tapes out of the trunk of my car, right?
I'm trying to trying to do that so
But what's interesting is there's been a weird attack on
This movie and so I want to say that first about the general idea like every movie
So every movie that was out in the theater when ours came out had
was connected to more investment in
Much more investment in Israel than ours matter of fact
our movie got attacked and
passenger didn't get attacked passengers wholly owned by Larry Ellison
by by by
Paramount Warner Brothers
I'm obviously not saying they should but the it's in interesting that
This is the movie that's about this that has the attacks thrown against it
but but and and not any of the not any other
Hundreds of other TV shows that all these folks watch not any of not even I mean I think are we on YouTube right now?
Okay, the reason why I'm smiling is because this is the exact same
that I hear all the time from people. Can I ask you a question?
Well, let's say this, YouTube gave $32 billion to cyber security for the IDF, right? And through
facial recognition for the IDF so they could recognize people and figure out how to bomb
people in Gaza, right? And so, but let's take it back real quick with the Anapurna thing.
Anapurna bought, sorry to bother you, at Sundance Festival and put it out.
that with this, I did a deal with them, and they developed the script with me.
They paid me money, so I had time to write. Then I got Neon to finance the thing,
so I don't want to, a lot of credit is being taken away from Neon.
Neon financed the movie. The amount that Annapurna put in was less than 1% of the budget.
Now, Anna Perna, let's talk about, and this is only to talk about how weird the attacks
are because they're not attacking this stuff that is a lot more connected, but they're
attacking this and I think it's because of right wing bots seeding these certain arguments
against the movie because of what the movie says, and then people unwittingly taking them
up because so, uh, so Anna Perna was started by Megan Ellison. Megan Ellison got an inheritance
years ago was all in all the newspapers. She got like a billion dollars inheritance with
that. She did Anna Perna. So the money doesn't go to Larry Ellison, but she, she did that
Either way, my point is it's weird that.
That even if you were going on the Larry Ellison thing.
That you would be choosing this one as opposed to all the other ones.
You know, I think it is because you're one of the few, like, you know,
you get a lot of that criticism because you are one of the few people doing what you do.
And so that is.
Directed at you in the same way that and the only reason
I'm one of the people, few people doing what I'm willing to do.
The only reason all these folks know about me, whether it's from the music
or from Sorry to Bother You.
I mean, Sorry to Bother You, they would have had more of an argument
because it was fully funded by Annapurna.
Funded by Annapurna.
And as a matter of fact, a lot of the people that, you know, fell into agreeing
with with with with that idea, uh, stated that they got radicalized
by the movie, Sorry to Bother You.
Yeah, 100%.
So here's a couple of things I want to say. One, capital owns all methods of distribution,
and we don't have the luxury of saying no to any method of distribution if our goal is to
engage in agitated propaganda. That's number one. Obviously, people will hear someone like
yourself say this or someone like myself say this and go, well, you guys are successful,
and you're just trying to defend your success. And I think that comes from a place of cynicism
only born out of your your awareness of how impossible the forces of capital are to defeat.
And I do think that there is this this cynicism that breeds this nihilism that breeds amongst
people. That has to do with not having a class analysis. The reason the only way we can defeat
the capitalist is through is through having the working class overthrow the ruling class.
There's no other little thing that happens that somehow makes them weaker or anything.
And I purposely put myself on those channels, like, you know, we're using Twitch.
There's a bunch of other folks using YouTube.
You could use some other thing.
You could probably have your friend do something and you go on a website and get,
but it wouldn't get to the amount of people.
It doesn't.
And so that's why people use YouTube, which that's why we use all these.
Here's in all of my many years of doing this when I was much poorer to having a lot more financial success
overall, I think
what I have seen is
That people recognize how powerless they are overall in the face of these like unchangeable systems
and I think because of that they sit around and and want to
to criticize those who are ideologically closest to them, because they feel like we will listen.
And we do listen because we want to hear constructive, we want to hear constructive criticism from
our closest associates, our closest ideological allies, and we are responsive to that. And
that gives people a sense of power. That gives a lot of powerless people a sense of power,
and I think that's exactly what I think.
I think also though, here's the thing, and I would, I don't think it's only cynicism.
I think it's a misconception of power, right, as well.
I think it's, I think, so one of the longer critiques that I usually have is 20s and 30s.
There was all of the, there were a million card carrying communists.
There were, you know, like I said, demonstrations where here's a bunch of people that will shut
down your minds.
bunch of people that will shut down the steel industry. Here's a blah blah blah. There was
a united front against fascism in which the biggest radical organization in the world
in order to get the U.S. to fight Hitler, they went underground. And when the war was
over, people were still underground. So all of a sudden, these folks weren't communists
anymore. They had been open, many of them, but they were progressive. And so then you
were able to have the House and American Activity Committee come in in the 50s and be like,
look at all these people that are saying they're progressive, they're really communist.
And they had been hiding, whereas had it been 15 years before, people would be like, I know
they're communists. They told me they were communists when they brought all these people
to help me not get evicted, right? So then you had a breakup of the biggest, the biggest
radical organization in the United States, however many members, they broke up over those
sorts of attacks, but also over their unresolved feeling like the critiques of Stalin weren't
handled well. Now, they broke up and they formed a bunch of different little organizations
that became the new left. One of those organizations was Progressive Labor Party,
which I later, 20, 30 years later, joined. And the new left had a different take on it.
They were like, fuck that. We're revolutionaries. Fuck that. We're radicals. But they stopped
organizing on the job. And I'm speaking in generalizations and leaving out a lot of shit.
They stopped organizing on the job and moved to universities and cities only and left all
all these places behind where in the 20s and 30s, places like Utah, Montana,
uh, these were, these were hotbeds of communist activity, Alabama, right?
Hotbeds of communist activity.
All of a sudden, not all of a sudden, but through this time, it then became
about students.
And for the first time in the sixties, you heard the students are the
revolution, the youth are the revolution.
That had not been historically accurate.
The only time that was accurate was contemporaneously in China, with the, with the, with the, with
the, yeah, with the, yeah, so, um,
Cultural revolution.
Cultural revolution.
So, but, but, so that made everything be about spectacle, because you can have a strike
at a university, but it's not the same as a strike at a factory.
And so it became about spectacle.
Now, because of that, you had a lot of radicals that were in a movement that was about spectacle.
And if you're at a university, the thing you're going to do is become a professor, right?
You're going to write books, and you're going to be, you might be radical, but your whole
thing is I need to write a book that says something different than this other book said,
and it's not based on actual practice.
It's not based on where are people at and how do we do it?
And so you have all these things developing, at the same time, you have this nonprofit
complex that came up since the 40s that was guiding what was thought of as left.
And in order to, as they stated, keep the politics inside.
So out of that, one thing you started seeing happening was instead of strikes boycotts,
right?
Now in some things, some cases boycotts can be effective.
Yeah, but it shifted from production to consumption.
And so we have all of these ideas out there that are moving the power base away from the
point of exploitation, which is on the job, to this idea that it has to do with this other
thing of who you're involved in.
Like I put a statement on one time of being like, well, if somebody decides to go work
for blowing in order to organize the workers there, then they are working with an evil corporation
in order to organize. And somebody was like, oh, see, boots would take a job at blowing or boots
thinks it's okay to take it. And so a lot of that is also sort of more of a, because and I want to
be clear, because there are there are some communist anarchists, but then there are also some more
libertarian anarchists. And this sort of idea that kind of came out of the 80s with the punk scene
that was very much against class struggle, against what actual class struggle was.
And we have all of these ideas that has led to confusion about what, because some things
are interesting projects, like people would go make communes and be like, we're going to live
collectively or we're gonna do a prefigurative thing and we're doing this this way. And that's
interesting as a way to talk but it's not doesn't build the movement that we need.
So when we're talking about all this stuff and so then you have all these sort of liberal things.
Slavo Gizek talks about it a lot like where you could go and you could buy a Starbucks thing
And it says, you know, made from fair trade coffee and you feel like that's better than
this other thing and you feel like you're doing something.
So we have this politic that has moved us away from actual class struggle into a liberal
politic that says that, you know, hey, if you use Hulu instead of Netflix, then you're
doing better, you know, or something like that.
And it's also because we don't have a movement that anybody, that people can plug into.
So you got to subscribe to some idea that says you can do something about things.
And because we don't have that mass militant radical labor movement, or we, and the parties
that are forming it, people subscribe to these ideas of the lesser evil in capitalism.
I think Virgo, I'm a Virgo really, you know, I appreciate how to explore corporate savior
head and like the performativeness of corporations and I think you're right and I overall looking
at the cultural scene, it does really feel as if there has been an overall chill, not
just from Trump's second administration.
But when you look at artists in the 60s, you know, from Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger,
to filmmakers like Jean-Luc Godard, they were much more explicit in their Marxist,
Leninist, Communist ideas that they're putting into their art.
So I feel like there is the fact that, excuse me, but one battle after another being the
biggest film of the year, people holding that up as like a revolutionary movie, no it
wasn't in my opinion. But I think what I was a movie, though, to be fair, I liked it.
But it's politics. We don't need to get into that film. Okay, look, all I'm saying is it
was fun to watch. Definitely. But but the politics of it, yes, left most to be desired.
Well, it's interesting because since I'm such a PTA fan, I read the book first or I didn't
finished the book, but I was trying to because it's a long book.
Yeah. But I started getting worried because the book is
way more right wing than than the movie.
And so I see what he did there in the book.
Everybody's a snitch.
Every hero either you're supposed to relate to the snitches
and and and it's just more and and the book is actually a critique
of of of the weather underground.
And a lot of the Weather Underground folks are my friends and I even wrote the forward
on one of their books, but I'm always clear about my critique, being a similar critique
that the book had about the Weather Underground.
And so, but the writer of the book is a lot, you know, it's just like nothing matters.
you know, whatever it's all that and and you know, the book also has like UFOs and Godzilla and all that kind of stuff.
And it's more like kill Bill than the movie is. Now, what I see that he did differently there was,
was a, was take that critique and make it be more recent, which doesn't really, because I'll say this,
the Black Panthers had that same critique of the weather underground, right?
like a lot of revolutionaries had that same critique.
So you know, there's a lot of things and I think there were there were things anyway.
I is that's there could be a whole podcast show on that.
No, I mean, there were things that I liked about a lot of things that I liked about it.
But I see how the transposing of the time and the changing of the main character to
be to have the daughter to being black and that that changed the politics of it.
Yeah. What did you think? Did you watch Eddington? Yeah. What did you think about Eddington?
Its politics as opposed to just on the politics. I think there's a lot of things that and I'm
I'm a Ariester fan in general, but I think just the sort of nihilism that is in everything
and that becomes kind of supposedly smart, you know, right?
And that, and the one thing though with the data centers was what really stuck out to
me how the film opens and ends and it's like, hey, tech, big tech, like as we're all sitting
here arguing, big tech.
kind of like says you can't do anything about it. That's its point of view because like it doesn't
matter however you do. I think the through line here is that neither of these works have any Marxist
Leninism baked into them as an alternative or as a solution. And that's our fault. Or I would say
or is what I always say is because discipline and always been critiques of hip hop that people
will have revolutionaries will have blah blah blah and I'll be like look if we make that movement
and in this and I keep summing it up as a mass militant radical labor movement. If we make that we
create the artists. We're having artists that are created in a world where there wasn't a movement
that shaped their politics right that where we where we and and I always blame it on radical
movements because we I always say that we ran away from class struggle for 50 60 years.
And and I will say that it's different now. I'm seeing that a huge change happen in that and
And and that's what creates the that's what creates the artist
Did you watch no other choice?
Park John Wilkes film from last year. I'm trying to remember which one that is is like
a bunch of people
It's work. Yeah, it's fire. Yeah, I didn't see that I started
It's great. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that. That was one of my favorites of last year.
And I think a lot of maybe what people were looking for in Eddington or One Battle, I found in no other choice with commentary on not just the tech, new tech era that's being forced upon us, which I also would love to talk to you about.
because we got Marty Scorsese out here investing in AI companies.
It feels like things changed from when we were striking a few years ago.
And AI was a major concern, which it still is.
And a lot of people who were saying fuck big tech, fuck these techno fascists.
And now there's been such a change of tune.
Well, I'll say one thing that I did see happening at the time is this idea
of experts and you see it in all sorts of walks of life.
So when we were having the WGA strike
and where it was like we're going against the tech companies,
we're putting in a demand against AI,
there was a lot of people going around saying,
well, we should really be talking to the experts.
And who are the experts?
open AI. I'm seriously like people were like, let's talk to this person from open AI.
Let's talk to that person because they're actually critical of AI and we should be
talking to them because if you're not one of them, then boots, you don't know what
you're talking about. Right. So, so I think a lot of people got swayed between now and
then there was a lot of work. A lot of times when we think about these movements that we're
creating. We forget about the fact that there's counter movement happening and
that people are organizing against these things and that the continuing motion is
the only way the only hope we have against that because yeah, people get
organized onto the other side.
And you know what? It was Daniel Kwan. I think he said we might not know tech,
but we know art and the industry that we work in.
And I think, essentially,
what's very frustrating is seeing this just total bending down.
So many filmmakers,
otoors, creatives who keep repeating the same script of like,
well, it's here, nothing we can do.
It's the future.
If you can't beat it, join it.
Rather than any just any opposition or even just a hate
A few years ago was NFT, right?
Oh, it was I know it was it was like the same people who are
Hawking NFJs who are now using the same script for AI.
Yeah. And and and and and look, I was around in making music
and in the Bay Area when the first calm boom happened.
and it was all people scamming.
It was all people scamming with this air of expertise.
And matter of fact, our fourth album, Party Music,
came out on one of these niche music.com
and then it got sold to Warner Brothers.
But they were just using money
And they then everybody was like, oh, you're not smart.
If you're not dealing with the experts, same thing with 2008.
Uh, the crash before that you had all these people talking down specifically
to black folks saying, Hey, if you're, you're not, uh, what, what, what they say,
economically literate, or you're not, uh, you know, you're not financially literate.
If you're not buying a house and when I would speak out about it, I would speak
about it publicly and I'd be told that I wasn't, you know, I wasn't an expert. I don't know what
the fuck I'm talking about. And all of those people are the ones that were getting people to
buy houses in that whole market. So we have all of this happening. And that's one of the gains
is to have to be like the experts say and that it's inevitable. And that's the way that that
things are, but we see this all the time and it's like our memories are shortened because
we're gaslighted into being like, this is a new situation that has no connection to
all this other stuff.
I'll tell you what, I've had people come up to me and say, for instance, that they were
on the crew that made those Google VO commercials and that they shot all that shit.
You know, the one the commercial where they're like, it's interesting that I'm not a real person,
that the no real persons were used in this, that they actually shot that stuff and they had to sign
NDAs for that. It's the same kind of scamming that was going in that first dot com boom.
They've just figured out how to pass the ball. It's the pyramid scheme, you know,
But they figured out how to keep it going and they got a trillion dollars in it and they can get more investment
If they can just keep the lie going. Yeah, you know, no, it's it's one scam after another
That they build on and then once it's burned like the NFTs were no one even thinks about it any longer and they move on to the next thing
That's that's just straight up what it is. I mean a lot of these AI companies like literally higher
laborers in the third world in developing nations to actually monitor and and drive these vehicles for example
for pennies on the dollar and then they they presented as this like
This this profound accomplishment
When in fact, it's just I guess the the new technology is allowing new methods of exploitation
And actually it's it's not that new it's just the like it's allowing us to
dream about some other world and not see the exploitation that's happening.
So, yeah.
I want to ask you about what you have planned next because obviously all your work from music to film, it's all rooted in your communist ideology.
But I think looking at, looking at, sorry to bother you, I'm a Virgo and now I love boosters.
seems as if you kind of have a specific approach to like one particular mechanism or industry,
you know, with, sorry to bother you, it's the telemarketing industry, which was also a telemarketer
evil boosters, which is about the, you know, fast fashion and out couture and stealing from
but also the tie into I think the NGOs as well. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Which I thought was very,
which I thought was very cool, like the whole the angle of it being the Democratic.
Well, it's funny because, yeah, it's I mean, yeah, I mean, I think some of those people are
coming after me right now. Yeah, I was going to say, you you you rip quite a bit into something
that I'm very critical of that liberals also despise whenever I bring it up, which is like
like the ways in which liberal groups or like democratic party-aligned groups will actively
try to harness some kind of revolutionary movement or present themselves like changing the world
in a meaningful way when in fact what they're doing is trying to engage in social conditioning
and manipulate as many people as possible.
And so here's the thing, I do have that in there, but ultimately, I try to get to the
class struggle because when I was in the PLP, sometimes there would be people that we thought
were please, right?
And you know, what do you do in that situation?
And what I learned that they did was like, okay, we'd be like, okay, this and it'll be
based on the things that they're doing, but it'd be like, okay, we think this person is a cop.
Let's have them sweep the floor instead. This is what you're okay. You're going to be passing
out for. So the idea is you got to keep moving. You can't be like just paranoid about this might
happen. That might happen. This person's working against me. You got to assume that they're working
against you. And, and, and, and you have to have, you have to be working on the thing that actually
changes the whole thing. You have to be organizing because only when we're not actually organizing
is that, well, when we're not actually organizing, those sorts of tactics are more effective.
But if you have a connection to your base, if you know people, if you can walk outside
and you've spent time organizing your neighbors into something, organizing your coworkers into
something where they know who you are and not just talking to them about politics, but
what we would call base building like hanging out. Those are your friends and you work with them. Then
it's harder for them to do stuff. So when folks come after me, there's enough people that like
know really what I'm about because they've worked with me in real life or seen what I'm doing. And
so I worry a little bit about that part of my work where like that you just pointed out where
where we're like, it's kind of like,
there's a little paranoia in there
because there's paranoia in real life when we're doing it.
But I try to push it through to, you got it,
we got to, we have to organize and build class struggle.
And that's the only thing that's going to solve it.
It's not going to be like uncovering,
like, you know, him uncovering the plan
and sorry to bother you did nothing, right?
But the only thing that was doing something
was building for this class.
Caroline, I want you to finish your thoughts
I interrupted you rudely because I'm a misogynist but asking if you had anything planned next if
there's you know you just tackled the fast fashion industry and you know corporate theft of course
which is all apart which is capitalism what are you working on right now or so I I mean I already
sold two scripts that I'm supposed to be doing.
And then I sold an idea that I'm that that that I'm writing.
So those that's what's in the work.
I don't want to say what they are, but spoilers.
But though that's what's happening.
I mean, there's a little, you know, what's good about this, you know,
to be upfront with with I love boosters.
We got we got kind of thwarted at the gate.
We got all our screens were less than half of what we needed to be.
You know, the the social media spend on ads,
they were seeing they weren't actually getting out in the same way.
There are other movies stuff got out.
So we were getting me thatlessly, also marketing.
Yeah, but it does kind of go to some of the same people.
So, you know, like it's, you know, so anyway, the the the movie,
This movie is not it's not it's not a blockbuster hit,
but it's still we're at about 10 million right now.
And it's going to, you know, once it goes
internationally, we'll do more, all that kind of stuff.
So it's a it's a it's a slog to do it.
But it also means some of my ideas that might have taken more of a budget.
Now it's kind of looked at like, OK, this is the budget range.
And so all that is, is just more confines to work with.
And sometimes that makes for great ideas.
So for instance, with I Love Boosters,
a lot of this, it should have been a much more expensive movie.
And one of the reasons it looks so awesome
has to do with us figuring out how to make the few shots
that we have work and look awesome.
So, you know.
You have to get creative with the creative elements.
I have one question for you
that perhaps might be somewhat controversial, but I'm going to ask it anyway. What's your
perspective on socialism with Chinese characteristics? Because I did see labor exploitation being
prominently featured not only in the United States, but also in China as well. And there's
a real element of that, which was still tied back to, which was still tied back to American
Yeah, if you see, yeah, exactly.
It's it's workers of the world against the U.S.
capitalists right there.
And if you see in the movie, the the factory owners stole the the device.
This is whatever.
Spoilers, spoiling it.
This factory owner stole the device from the Chinese government.
And there is and there is a line between the factory owners and the Chinese government.
And I do, you know, look, I, if you listen to my music, I talk about Mao and those ideas a lot.
And, you know, yeah, exactly, the east is red. And, and, and look, I, so it is a way to talk about how
how workers in China and workers in the U.S. have more in common with each other than they
do with the billionaires of the U.S., right?
And I don't think that you could look at the movie in an anti-China way, and that's definitely
not the, that's not the ideas that I had in there.
Yeah, and and so we had and they're in real life
There is a there is a conflict between the Communist Party of China and the Chinese business owners
That are there. Well, you know, do you believe that China is still maintaining?
a
Decadent ship of the proletariat and well, here's what I would say so a lot of people will
So there was an interesting part of that discussion when the Annapurna thing came up, which was
is Boots Riley making communist art?
And my answer is I don't give a fuck.
I don't care what you call it.
What I'm trying to make is something that gets people to want to make a revolution.
Uh-huh. Right. Would you say black cat, white cat, as long as it catches the rat?
Oh, I don't know. Is that what? Because one of my favorite.
Okay. Yeah. I don't know that one. Uh, yeah. No, I would, I, I, here's the thing. There's,
there, you know, I, we could talk about the disagreements of the way China went and what,
and I have a, there's a, there's a critique that I have that, that, that, um, you know, and here's
the truth. A lot of what folks in Tiananmen Square were protesting for was to be able
to be managers of sweatshops, right? So that was a, that's a, that was a real conflict
that was happening there. They were, they put it as freedom and democracy, but the specifics
of the reforms that they were asking for were, were those things. So there's conflict, but
That doesn't mean I mean, I would say this that in China, they're way more free
than we are right now.
You have even some of the the lap dogs of of anti China propaganda,
like what's that that artist I way way even even admitting now that that the US
is sensors way more than China does.
He's back now.
He's he's he's on he's on the he's on the Chinese side now.
OK, yeah, that's what I'm saying.
So, so, uh, you know, the, the, the, the thing is that they, they have, they have healthcare.
They have housing.
If you look at when you see the child, you know, and there was a struggle around
that just because certain people have ideas of what does housing look like in China.
Now, I happen to subscribe to all the Instagram things where they're like, let
me show you my house.
And then, you know, that, so I was like, no, this is like, they've, they've, they've
gotten an apartment, you know, it's, it's, it's, so.
In the sense that I think we see that there is exploitation of those workers because they're
in a capitalist exchange with the U.S. fashion designer, that exists.
But they're not in squalor.
The question is, and the same thing with us, we might not be in squalor, but we have a
a struggle to be had over the wealth that our labor creates and the power that comes
from that.
The power that that that, um, so when I say our, I, I'm not in the working class anymore.
I'm, I'm used to speaking from that term, you know, but I'm saying the U S working class
the, uh, but, but, um, now.
So yeah, I think that there are a lot of things happening in China that have to do with them
trying to survive in a world that's launching in peerless attacks at them.
And similarly, what are they getting for their people and where's the road that they're
going to?
That's really the question rather than where is it labeled as?
You could be like, technically it's this and it's that.
Yeah, I don't really care.
No, I've only been to Hong Kong.
We just we just we just recently went and it was an incredible experience.
I mean, I it is a lot of it was a really interesting moment for me because it's
a lot of my commentary obviously revolves around anti imperialism.
And I talk extensively about like the ways in which Americans are
propagandize about like everyday Chinese existence and what the what the Chinese Communist Party,
the Communist Party of China represents and seeing that in real time is truly it was a profound
experience I would say. And one of the reasons that China is picked in the film that that is
is because where we are is we need to know that we have,
that I couldn't pick another Asian country
or something like that,
but it's more that in the sense that we do talk about
heightening the conflict and accelerating the situation,
that comes from us having a knowledge
that there is needs to be solidarity between them.
Yeah.
I don't know how involved you are in the casting,
but I love Poppy who's amazing.
I also had read that you were one of the first people
who reached out to Melissa Barrera
after she faced consequences
for speaking out early for Palestine.
You offered her a role in Boosters.
What is kind of your process in working with people
and now two films that you've done in a series,
are you drawn to people or is it kind of a necessity
that you align with them,
that they understand fundamentally
what you're trying to do?
Or, and you've worked with LaKeith now twice.
I think people have obviously they have to be down
and it's not like what, you know,
and they have to be at various levels.
I mean, doing music,
you'll see all the people I've done songs with.
most of them would not call themselves a communist or even a socialist at all.
But there has to be some mutual respect there.
And I've never, so I don't only work with people that have that same viewpoint,
but that being said, for someone to be involved with my work,
there's a lot of places they could go to get a lot more hype around in their career.
So, they're making a choice when they get involved with the Boots Riley project and part of that choice is, at the very least, I see what he means.
And I think that's a good thing. They may not want to take that into their own life and do something with it, but they're exploring, they're interested in that.
So, you know, and really I have to make it work.
I mean, I think, you know, it's great that Poppy has a lot of similar ideas as I do,
but it also wouldn't have worked if she wasn't just an amazing actor, right?
It was, you know, so I have to, you know.
I will say though, I don't even necessarily know though if, sure, Kiki Palmer, Demi Moore,
You know, these are people who are not short on work,
but there are definitely people who you have in your cast
who have been blacklisted for speaking out on Palestine,
who I know either reading interviews with them
or just understanding the state of Hollywood
are not getting as much work
because of their, you know, their politics
and because of the movements that they are publicly
expressing support for. So I do feel like your, you know, a boots Riley vehicle is kind of one of the rare
opportunities in Hollywood to be a person who is
outspoken who is not afraid to stand up to the Zionist machine, but
may then be facing
issues with getting opportunities.
So you're kind of a rare haven for that. Yeah, I mean the thing is I don't work that fast.
So it really is not an answer.
It's not really an answer, you know?
But I think, yeah, the other thing that I'm seeing is,
you know, there's still a lot of pushback for this work.
And because there's this veneer that there is no censorship,
it happens in different ways.
So I think that just out of sort of a,
of survival, there has to be other ways to get information.
We're all stuck to the internet
and it's so controllable who sees our stuff
and we have to have a way to get things out
that cuts around that and does things in real life.
Like I'm talking about flyers up on walls.
I'm talking about snail mail.
I'm talking about things like that
because it is getting siphoned
And they can make us feel that it's not because, you know, you could you could have an algorithm
that pushes the same 200 people around you. And it seems like, wow, this is everybody.
But it's way out there, you know, I, you know, with this movie, I got scared in April because
I went to Philly and I went to this place called Second Street, which is like a vintage shop.
And the staff was like mainly black one white girl and they all had their friends there, too
and
This is April and I'm like
Hey, you guys gonna see I love boosters. They're like, what's that? I was like, it's a movie. You never heard of it
They were like, no, and I was like, do you like Kiki Palmer? They were like, we love Kiki Palmer
They knew nothing about it. I played them the trailer on my phone. They were like, we're gonna see that. Can we go see it tonight?
like the idea that it's, you know, things are being, we can't, you know, naively think that
it's getting out there and that we can do these things. That's another reason,
that's another reason that on the job organizing is important, because you need to talk to people
in real life. You can't just like be like, I posted a thing, does everybody want to come to this?
You know, you know, yeah, talk to people and get out of there.
And and and so.
I don't think the things that you said are true that I'm hiring people,
but I'm not hiring them only because of that.
Like, sure. Yeah.
And and Marissa Barrera, Melissa Barrera didn't work out.
I don't really like to talk about that because, one,
Asa Gonzalez did an amazing job and the movie is the thing that it is.
You could always talk about with all the roles, like all the different versions of who it is.
And it's a little bit not cool for the person that is playing the part.
She only stated it in an interview to give you credit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, no, I definitely.
I'm just saying that's why I don't really talk about it.
Yeah, it is unbelievable.
Shout out again.
Thin eyebrows.
dialects, realism, change.
And it was either the thin eyebrows or a unibrow, because I was like, we got it.
Well, it would have been super bad. Yeah.
Yeah, I do think that it's interesting.
It gives insight into your worldview a little bit about the importance of salting
and the importance of union organizing, because like
not to spoil anything too much, because I do want people to go and watch it.
It's a brilliant movie.
I feel like if you're subscribing to a son, Piker,
and we're like five weeks into this movie being out,
they're probably not going to go see it if they have yet.
But they might not have actually heard about it, because we're talking about
like maybe possible limitations in terms of marketing.
Everyone is a student. Yeah.
But what I was saying is like there's it's very obvious that there's like
a a right way to
Directly solve the problems that everyone is experiencing and then there are other ways that they keep trying to get around to and it's it's very clear like what direction you point to as far as life definitely success.
Yeah, yeah, definitely this class struggle is organizing on the job. It's a thing that that until recently was not being done much on the left and I don't mean to think that and and just from what I know of it.
It's definitely not easy.
It's definitely not anything.
This is one reason why there's a certain device that helps us get
past a certain thing so that we can see one direction.
Honestly, and I think we could talk about this.
I think one critique about it was that it only shows this direction.
it doesn't show like the quote unquote final goal of a new world, right?
And it's interesting because I've sat around and tried to figure out how could I make a movie
about, you know, us having a socialist or a communist world.
How could I do that?
And, um, and, and really tried to figure it out.
And a lot of times it's like, how do you, how do you show that?
How do you show that everybody has healthcare?
Everybody has a place to live.
How do you show that?
And I will conflict.
Still have one.
You will have conflict.
There's always going to be conflict.
There's always going to be struggle.
And you could figure that out.
But how do you show that the world has all these things fixed?
And it occurred to me that the reason it's hard to show that
is because in all the movies that we've seen growing up,
the world is already like that.
Like people don't have a problem getting health care.
Everybody has a job.
Whether they get education or not,
just has to do with whether they're motivated,
things like that.
And and so there's there's a there's a a thing that has to happen,
but you're right, the conflict that happens is is a way to do it.
Star Trek for decades, they're living in a communist world.
Yeah. Mm hmm.
It doesn't.
I love pointing to that.
It doesn't necessarily inspire anybody to make a revolution in like all of that
stuff, because it kind of looks like what is it?
Well, it's also a backdrop.
Yeah. I mean, that's what it would really be. We'd go on with our life, but have this have all these things taken care of.
So it's what if it's a little bit what if the friction there was presented from the perspective of of people who are trying to foment a capitalist counter revolution?
I've been thinking about that. Yeah. Yeah. In a communist world and then and then the whole point of it is like where they just get up at the end because they realize that they were wrong.
Oh, oh, I mean, there you go. I'm not a screenwriter. I'm not a very, I'm not a very creative person at all. This is all like you should turn your podcast into like a radio show. And you tell that story and have like sound effects.
Oh, that's true. That that actually is brilliant. No, I was going to say, this is a radio show for the most part for a much newer audience. One last question. And thank you so much for giving us so much of your time.
Um, uh, one last question I have for you is it may be a little bit silly, but, uh, how tapped in are you with, uh, this upcoming Genesis Gen Z and, and Jen Alpha?
Cause like a lot of the outfit design that you had in the movie was, I mean, it nailed it.
It, it nailed it a lot.
One, we have to talk about Shirley Carrotta, who's our costume designer on this.
And one, she is tapped in.
But two, I like to remind Gen Alpha and Gen Z that they're just doing the shit we do.
Yeah. And and whether it's words or, you know, like, you know, crashing out,
I'm like, we said that.
You know what I'm saying?
Um, you know, it, it, so it goes a little bit, but, but I should talk about, you know, with costumes, Shirley Karada, she, um, you know, she's not only a costume designer, she's a stylist in the sense that she's not just like, I'm going to design and build all this stuff, some of this stuff.
She's like, let's borrow that from that person.
Let's get that from.
So, so if you look at the end of, of I love boosters, there's a whole thank you
list to all of these who designers that link, uh, Shirley stuff, just because she's
so cool.
Is she from the Bay area?
No, she's from LA.
So yeah, matter of fact, she has, they have a shop called Virgil normal.
You could go there and get all sorts of who hips your stuff.
And then I lied.
wasn't the last question. The other question I had for you is about what kind of dovetails into this.
There's a lot of apathy amongst younger generations. And I think part of that is born out of the fact
that at least my generation participated in Black Lives Matter protests in the aftermath of George
Floyd's murder, George Floyd's assassination. And then they plugged their nose and they
voted for Joe Biden, right? Many of them. And none of the changes that were, none of the
demands that were being made were actually listened to at all. As a matter of fact, the
first thing that the Democratic Party did was it can't wait. And that was a way to take the
very reasonable and just demands being made by the decentralized protest movements that came
together and turn it into something much more manageable and much more appropriate, permissible
within the confines of the system. And even then, they couldn't even advance that agenda.
Yeah. And I think that absolutely creates tremendous apathy, because you teach people
that you're supposed to protest, you're supposed to go out and vote, and then all of a sudden,
that, you know, change, that's how change happened. And when they see the change is not
happening that way. Instead of looking for more radical means or more revolutionary means,
they kind of just decide not to participate in the system at all. Because they say, look,
I still got to make ends meet. I still got to get a job. But obviously, you know, this stuff is not
working out. The question I have for you as a black revolutionary, as someone who's been in the
the communist movement as someone who's organized on those terms as well. What do you think about
where Black radicalism could go in this country right now? That's why I ask you if you're tapped
into Gen Z and where they're at. Do you feel like there is an opportunity now more than ever,
especially with the disillusionment that many young Black men and women are experiencing?
Do you feel like there's a way to organize in this, there's a way to bring people back
into participating in this process through Communism, through Socialism?
So here's the thing, I wouldn't describe that feeling you're talking about as apathy.
I would describe it as them being frustrated with the fact that these methods didn't work
and not seeing a way to win.
They don't believe in the system.
They don't believe in that.
And the answer to it is kind of how I've been saying,
I don't mean to keep saying it, is a mass militant radical labor
movement.
And we're seeing the beginnings of that already.
It's not just that I'm saying there's
this thing that needs to be created.
There's the beginnings of that when we talk about that.
when we talk about that, that strike wave that happened,
and when we are talking about the things that are going on,
people are organizing on the job,
people are forming communist organizations.
Forming and black folks are forming communist organizations,
are joining communist organizations.
I see people seeing that we need a way to win.
And that can also, some of those organizations can also turn into frustration and burnout when they are not connected to actual campaigns, winnable campaigns, because the key to all of this stuff is we need to have winnable campaigns.
Sometimes even under the banner of making a mass militant radical labor movement, people are like, we need a general strike.
And like, okay, but did you organize to get people involved in something else first, like, on the job?
So, part of these things where people are organizing on the job, where they're trying to get a pay hike, where they're trying to get benefits, things like that.
They are not, that is not revolutionary,
but it's part of a revolutionary strategy
because people have to understand how class struggle works,
how organizing on the job works.
So we have to have some things where people win,
they organize, they reorganize,
and they fight and they go to something bigger.
So-
Yeah, they see those victories.
They see the fruits of labor organizing.
I think a big thing that happened for me and I would be a different person if it didn't happen is after I joined Progressive Labor Party when I came back to Oakland High, we organized a student strike against year-round school.
Now it's easy to get kids to walk out of class to protest year-round school.
That was like they just handed that to us.
And but we we won so quick.
We walked out, we marched down a couple of miles to the school board.
They came out scared and read a statement and said, OK, we're not going to do this.
And so a bunch of us got drunk with power.
We were like, is this how easy the shit is?
But that's good.
That's that it's a muscle that you're training.
It's it's also important to have that kind of confidence because when you build on that somebody said student organizing doesn't work
I didn't say it doesn't work. I said that it's not the same kind of a struggle
Yeah, you don't learn the same thing. Well, here's the thing. Yeah, you just said that it was very easy to get
students to
You know skip school for the day
Yeah, but the reality of the matter is a work stoppage especially if
if there is sufficient sufficient funds to maintain.
A work stoppage is to at its simplest goal is to to show your power.
Yeah.
And then to teach those involved.
Yeah.
Like what their relationship is to power.
Yeah.
What their relationship is to the system.
And when you lose or win, whether you lose or win, you start ending up
understanding like, oh, the police aren't just mean because they just happen to be assholes,
but this is their relationship. Why are they protecting the boss? Why are they doing it?
You have basically a study group of thousands of people, not only the people involved, but the
the people watching and you know and it has a lot of yeah that's a lot of what
that power is and yeah and it's not here's the other thing when you ask
someone to get like if you're like hey can you come to this rally that's on
Saturday people can say yes or no they agree or they don't agree but there's a
different process going on when you ask someone to get involved with something
where they are taking a risk on something like you might not they might
say no they might but they're calculating right then what the struggle is
whether they want to take it and you also end up having to learn how that's
also a difference in my art than other because I've done that the way I come
that people is different. Right? I'm not like I'm not like you disagree with me. Fuck you.
I don't need you blah, blah, blah. I'm like, I hope I can get that person on my side. I
might decide I'm not going to get it might not be worth my time. So I'm moving on. But
you know, you have a different way of working with people.
I would say to you as far as the way that it's also pressure put on the youth where
It's like, oh, the young people will save us because it's too late for, you know,
I used to hate that when I was a young person.
I don't think that we should be,
there wouldn't be all these old people that idea that the young people will
save us because this is collective action of all of us also.
Yeah, exactly.
You know, it's 60 year olds who are also because of capitalism still working
in bin factories.
And they also have younger relatives as well.
And they see that they're still at home.
For example, this is like, at least in my experience, like,
I talked to when I go to these like no Kings protests, right? It's a liberal protest like
but it's actually remarkable how many older people, retired people or even like financially well off
people have an immediate connection to someone who is struggling that actually did all of the right
things. You know, you went to college, you got a job, you're supposed to be able to make ends meet
and yet they're struggling financially and I think that has caused some people to recognize
that, while their financial situation is far better off, they understand that their immediate
relatives are still struggling when they shouldn't be. And that is another point of radicalization.
There is definitely a generational divide, because boomers have a lot of the wealth still. But by
and large, there are still people who recognize that the system is not working for them. And there
There is an opportunity there to harness some sort of revolutionary potential.
Yeah.
Well, Boosterly, thank you so much for coming on.
Are there any, are there, is there anything you want to promote or any, any final words?
The thing I want to promote is go see I Love Boosters now.
Here's the truth about we're moving on.
We're in 150 theaters today.
Today's Thursday or Wednesday?
Wednesday.
Today's Wednesday.
By Friday, we're only in 64.
So you need to see it.
It may not be where you are at that point.
You know, there's the so hopefully, you know, maybe we'll be able to keep it in theaters
at a low number because the places that it is right now, it's like packed because we're
in like L.A. the Bay Area, New York, Chicago, Atlanta.
But yeah, we got to do that.
The other thing I want to say is this shirt that I'm wearing, this is a David Siqueiros
who was a communist, a Mexican muralist, a communist painter.
One of the, I wrote a song that was someone in the chat's relative, they were bringing
it up in the chat.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
Cool.
Yeah.
He, I wrote a song called, you are not a riot.
That's a, that's an RSVP and answer an RSVP from Davis carols to Andy Warhol.
So check that song out.
And, and, and the, yeah, so, and, and, and, and it definitely he had was a controversial
figure in the sense that he did try to kill Trotsky and, um, he didn't, though.
And, um, but he was somebody that was very, uh, his passion for his art, because basically
that was a communist movement was this and this was somebody in his mind was going against
But my point is, is that he also was famous for going to the Venice Biennale in the 50s
and pointing at all the abstract artists and being like, you're a CIA agent.
You're CIA.
You're CIA.
Turns out he was right.
Turns out he was right about and maybe not specifically directly with that, but that's
where the funding was to take it away from maybe he was right about other things as well.
know as much to think of. But yeah, all right. Thank you so much. Okay. Thank you. Thanks
for having me. Nice to meet you. Great to meet you. Caroline Kwan, everybody. All right.
Does it turn off or do I just walk out? We'll take a photo real quick. I'm gonna get back.
Okay. Yeah. Did you see this? I was somebody just Fox News. It's a soft like real is no
right to exist in this current form. Do you want a soda or anything before you got it?
I got many different diet, many different diet Dr. Doos. All right, I'm going to now run the G7
when we go outside and take some photos and stuff and I'm going to walk out Boots in Caroline, but
we'll be back. How do you not just look at yourself when the thing is on? I do sometimes.
I do sometimes sometimes I do that he can see how fast this chat is moving
He will he reads it all yeah, he pulls people everybody for saying thanks
One of the biggest events to happen the Middle East maybe ever
They say 50 years, they say 100 years.
I was with the prime minister of Pakistan,
he said it's maybe the biggest event that
has ever taken place, nobody could believe it.
So that's when it started, it didn't start
like three or four or five weeks ago.
And Obama wouldn't do it.
What Obama did was he-
Unpaid publicists for fear, I get ones that you can take.
He loaded up a plane with $1,700 million in green cash
green cash from banks all over Washington, Maryland, and Virginia, they were stripped
of all their cash. They had no cash to do payrolls. It all went into a Boeing 757, a
wonderful plane, and they flew it to Iran. And they gave it out to people, they brought
people, they thought they were going to get it done. Then they gave billions and billions
of dollars after that. And they got a deal that was a road to a nuclear weapon. I get
so angry I guess I'm allowed to get angry when I watch these the Democrats they
talked about it all the time we had this deal done you had a deal that was
going to give them legally a nuclear weapon and if that happened Israel would
have been blown away and at all fairness to be bin Netanyahu happens to be a
good man gets a little excited sometimes but he happens to be a very good man
we've had an amazing partnership he's been an amazing Prime Minister we have a
a little dispute over Lebanon and I say you can do a little softer touch, baby.
You don't have to knock down a building every time somebody walks into it that's
from Hezbollah. But it's been an amazing partnership, but he will say we're the
big partner and he's the very small partner and that's true. So he came to
the country and he begged Barack Hussein Obama the president not to do the JC POA.
He said it could be the end of Israel, and it would have been if I didn't come along.
And Obama didn't listen to him.
Bibi actually went to Congress and pleaded with them, and he got nowhere, and they had
this horrible deal.
It was horrible for Israel, horrible for Israel, and that's where it stood.
And then I came along and I terminated that deal.
It had very little time left, you know, it was a short-term deal.
with countries, you need hundreds of years. You don't need eight years and nine years.
This isn't like you're signing a lease on a candy store in the corner. You need hundreds of years.
This was a short-term lease. It expired long ago. Had I let it run, it expired. You wouldn't
have been around. A lot of people wouldn't have been around. But Israel would have been terminated.
I think the whole Middle East would have been terminated. You saw that when everybody was
We shot at all these missiles.
They were aimed at these different places,
Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE.
Think of it, Bahrain, Kuwait.
They got hit.
Nobody thought that was, even I,
I didn't think it was going to happen.
They didn't think it was going to happen.
They were going to take out the entire Middle East,
including Israel.
And if they had a nuclear weapon,
they would have used it within moments after getting it.
So I made it very tough for them when I terminated
the Barack Hussein, Obama catastrophe.
JC, POA, one of the worst deals.
NAFTA might have been worse, but that was worse economically.
Just it was really dangerous, what he did.
He gave them everything, including a lot of money,
which we don't give them, by the way,
just in case you have any questions.
We'll be giving this out so you can read it and you can see.
And it's a memorandum of understanding.
If it doesn't get done in 60 days, it's all right.
go back to bombing. You know, I don't want to do that because it's so good. But we won't
have to because we're never going to let them have a nuclear weapon. But they've agreed
not to and you'll see that very clearly in the agreement.
But then the second phase of that was they were building or they were enriching material
as they say. I call it nuclear dust. They were enriching material under granite mountains.
for those not in the construction business, granite being a very strong, least strongest
stone. It's not as pretty as marble, but it's much more, it's much stronger, it's a lot stronger.
Like the new granite I put on the stairs of the White House going to the Oval Office, the black
granite, it's rated one million years plus. No marbles rated that, marbles rated a hundred years
if it's outside. So these are granite mountains and the B2s came along and they hit those
air shafts in the dark at one o'clock in the morning with no moon. They had a beam going
right up everyone. Those guys did a job and then they were criticized by certain members
of the press like CNN for possibly not doing that much damage. And it turned out that the
damage was far greater. Those mountains collapsed right on top of everything. Nobody's going
to get that for a long time unless we want to get it, we'll get it, but we're the only
ones that can.
And they say China has the equipment to get it and we have the equipment to get it.
And it's actually not valuable, not a lot of value, but we'd like to get it psychologically,
but nobody's touching it.
We also have cameras.
That's what Space Force is.
We are the best.
We are the greatest military in the world, by the way, but I'm proud of Space Force because
I started it.
We have Space Force cameras on every single door, every single, well, there are no doors
It's been pretty well shattered, but every area of that if somebody walks in and he's got a badge with his name on it like
Mohammed something
Which is about a 50-50 guess Mohammed something they can tell the name
They can give you a serial number they we can see things you wouldn't believe the quality of the stuff that we have
That's why we've been so successful. That's why our blockade
We'll go down in the annals of history as being unbelievable.
Nobody's ever seen a blockade like that, just like a steel wall.
So what happened is we then terminated that, and I call it the nuclear dust, and that was
the end of that.
But if we didn't hit that with the B-2 bombers, or if it wasn't successful, they would have
had a nuclear weapon, a nuclear bomb, at a very high level, not the highest, but it
would have been a very high level.
We have much bigger, but we hope that we're never going to have to use it.
We have the most.
Russia has second.
China is very far behind, but going to catch up, unfortunately.
You know, they're catching up, but we have the most.
We have the most powerful, but we also have the most.
But Russia's not far behind, and then you have China in third place, but they'll within
five years, they'll be probably even, and we ought to make a denuclearization deal.
It'll be so great.
We don't need all of that.
We don't need to be able to blow up the whole world 300 times
over.
It's terrible.
It's really if we could do a denuclear deal, I'd love it.
And one of those, too, is very willing to do it,
I will tell you.
The other one is less willing to do it.
And you need all of them.
So the deal we reached with Iran on Sunday
will be signed shortly, tomorrow, maybe the next day.
Thank you. Subject deals, all my, my whole life is all about deals.
That's all I ever did is make deals and crazy things happen with deals.
I've gone into deals where it's a guarantee.
No way it can not be signed. And it doesn't get set.
And I've gone into deals that you have no chance of making and they go like that.
Well, since then, since he said this,
apparently a deal has been signed digitally. Did I get that right? I was hearing some rumblings
in the chat that I suspect in an effort to President Trump personally sign a copy of
the agreement during a dinner with the President of France and the Palace of Versailles, a
photo of the signed agreement was sent to the Iranians and mediating countries. I genuinely
think that the reason why Donald Trump signed this early and personally is because they
don't want to fuck it up.
Because they recognize, this is giving me a lot more confidence that this is real.
Because I think the stakes are far too high.
And I think that he recognizes that they're going to try and fuck it up.
The lifting of Iran's oil sanctions begins today, Iran's foreign ministry says, okay.
I'm gonna be honest.
That's my goat.
That's J.D.
Pondam, baby.
I mean, straight up.
Straight the fuck up.
And this, this is a nuclear bomb in the, this is a, this is a fucking Molotov cocktail
that has enriched uranium in it, and the coalition that this administration has put together.
He really, he really is the guy.
He really is the guy, look, I'm not singing his praises, okay?
He is a horrible monster and a true piece of shit.
But I think this is one of, this could be.
If they follow through on this, this could literally be, first of all, he deserves to
suck out the algae.
I'm, if this goes through, I'm telling you that pool is blue, okay?
The, the, the fucking time I'm wearing, American flag blue, okay?
Just make no mistake.
Make no fucking mistake.
I don't think any other ideologically minded American president would actually do this
shit.
This is, I mean, this is shocking, truly shocking.
He can have his ballroom if this goes through.
Now of course, he fucked it up initially, but in the, but because he fucked it up initially,
I think no other president, after fucking it up initially,
no other president would actually fuck it up this hard.
But also, if someone else fucked it up,
no other president would do this.
I'm just, I don't know.
I don't know what else to say.
are still obviously many days ahead, many, many days ahead of us where this, where I
think Israel will go full tilt. Okay. I suspect the Israel lobby will go bananas mode. Breaking
news according to the Israeli website Hathashat Buzman Hezbollah is carrying out assassination
Operations against what? Senior Israeli army officer after targeting the commander division 401 of the commander brigade 300 has blood that made an explosive divide targeting a
Battalion commander who is seriously injured what?
The Iranian version of the text is even crazier
So there's still at two mo uses that what it is like we're
It's still at two mo you situation
Any president will do because Iran hold the world capital in their hands and the end capital
always wins. No, I think they would try to, I think they would escalate.
No, the American, no American versions from an unnamed American source.
New, I'm watch media has been granted access to the text of the Iran US Memorandum of Understanding
by a senior Iranian political source, although the document has been published by US media over
the past hour, citing an unnamed American official who read the test of journalists.
Amwaj Media is taking the step of publishing a version provided by Iran so as to assess whether
there are discrepancies ahead of the signing ceremony in Switzerland.
Okay, let's see. Let's see. Oh my god. Oh my god. This is
This is a this is what a what a fucking time man. I mean this is the weeks where decades happen, right?
I mean this is what else can you fucking say about this?
What else can you fucking say about I don't want to get to
I don't want to
To get too excited
But, it kind of seems like this is a very different world as of today, you know, a multipolar
world.
Senior U.S. official disclosed what the official said was the full text of the deal between
the United States and Iran to cease hostilities, open the Strait of Hormuz, and start nuclear
talks.
to the agreement, as read out loud on a conference call with reporters on Wednesdays below. The
official spoke on condition of anonymity under the ground rules set by the White House. Reports
from the New York Times have annotated the memorandum of understanding with the analysis
of underlying issues.
The United States and the Islamic Republic of Iran have jointly agreed in good faith
on such and such date on the following. The U.S. and Iran and their allies in the current
war by signing this MOU declared the immediate and permanent termination of military operations
on all fronts, including in Lebanon, an undertake from now on not to initiate any war or any
military operation against each other, and to refrain from the threat or use of force
against each other, ensuring the territorial integrity and sovereignty of Lebanon.
You can't have it any clearer than that, folks.
Wow.
Wow.
That is the American side.
This is the American revelation, oh my God, someone checking on Mark Levin.
That's frame one, dude.
That's fucking frame one.
The final deal will confirm the permanent termination of the war on all fronts, including
in Lebanon and other provisions of this paragraph.
Trump already violated the first point and was asked about it.
The aircraft of the Iran Memorandum says no use of force but also no threat of a use of force.
You talk about bombing Iran if they didn't comply.
Was that a threat? Would the Iranians see that as a threat?
If they don't come through, is there a threat that we bomb?
You can call whatever you want but it'll probably happen.
Thank you. I will see you at your site.
Oh, oh, that's so funny. That's fucking hilarious, dude. I mean, yeah. Yeah. And you're gonna go back and tell the New York Times, you're gonna change your whole way of life.
Okay.
Do you see the 60 days of power deadline for final agreement?
No, I don't.
Could take long, but you could extend.
You could extend this, too.
I don't view it as hard, yeah.
You don't think that it's a hard deadline for-
This is as long as they behave-
That's not a threat, that's a promise.
That's a promise, believe it, believe it.
I will do it.
I love doing it, and I will do it again.
I will do it again.
Gallibab is now acknowledging that Iran needs to get closer to trying to go forward.
I already covered it.
Is Israel missing from the paragraph?
No, Israel is all over that paragraph, baby.
What the fuck do you think this is about Lebanon?
That's just in all allies.
It says and their current allies Iran and their current allies
Anyway, the references Lebanon here amount to remarkable rejection by the United States of Israel's concerns about the threat being posed by his below
Wow
Well, I gotta fucking I gotta see what CNN is saying about I gotta see what Fox News is saying about this. I mean, wow
Okay, dude Jesus cyber criminals
He's got them ads dude ads upon ads upon ads dude
Okay, well, Fox, I mean, CNN is on ad break right now. This year old tweet feels relevant.
I know he's transactional with everybody else in the world, but he won't be like that with me.
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FTD guy says, I have my criticisms and concerns about the MOU and negotiating path ahead, but
many of the attacks on Steve Wickham, Jared Kushner are unseemly.
Both care deeply about America's security and security of our allies, our great patriots
and our major diplomatic achievements to their credit, whatever disagreements one may have
over strategy or tactics.
And I have many, neither is naive about the threat posed by the Islamic Republic.
Uh-oh.
I don't like that.
the FDD guys are defending the MOU. I don't like that one bit.
What the hell yonte, man? What the hell? Okay, okay, okay.
Israeli defense minister cuts the soldiers. You are fulfilling the vision of the prophets.
Only one only has to open the Bible and read about what it is based on.
We have already been in these places. We have already done these things.
We will continue to do them. Okay, fantastic. Lebanese government
believed that they can somehow negotiate their territory back in exchange for normalization.
seems to misunderstand the worldview driving the Israeli government. The
series already learned their lesson about that. Yeah, these guys are, are truly
fucking the same. Mark Levin is not doing all right. RIP.
Okay, let's see what the, what Josh Holly is saying.
Well, let's see what happens here. I mean, as the president just said, there's
nothing final. This isn't a final agreement. This is a negotiation. This
an agreement to negotiate further. I think the fact that the president's getting the
straight reopen that he's got their nuclear program buried, those are big achievements,
Brian. I think those are good things. And it remains to be seen whether we will actually
give them any money. I thought I heard the president say earlier today, we're not going
to give him a dime. I certainly don't think that we should. And I bet President Trump
and the vice president, as he continues these negotiations, will hold that line.
But Senator, they are allowed to sell oil, and they have more oil than just about everyone,
including iraq and that'll be the first time in decades they're able to sell oil on the open market
they're usually using ghost fleets and rusted out tankers to deliver it to terror to our our uh
let's say our rivals like china and right china your thoughts about china china everyone agrees
there china and right china it's awesome we'll have to resume oil and petroleum sales i about
your last guess, I thought the ambassador had a good point there about potentially using escrow
accounts, ways to track, to see first of all, if they're living up to their other obligations
under the memorandum before we've released any of that sales, before we allow them to get their
hands on the money and then using accounts that will allow us to ensure that they're not spending
that money on terrorist activities, on nuclear enrichment and so forth. There's a lot to be
worked out here for sure, Brian. And again, I haven't seen the final text nor yeah, there,
Their argument I guess is that they haven't seen the final text so they don't know.
Well, okay, so the text is out.
Let's see.
A press call later, a senior official saying that they're going to be evaluating good behavior
trying to get Iran to change.
Quote, we're putting all of our expectations on the table.
They put their expectations on the table.
We're going to just work together and see if we can do some things to build trust.
We're going to do our best to see if we can get them to change.
I mean, that is a big change in how they're talking about the Iranian regime.
Yes, definitely, especially when all the experts say that this regime is worse and more hardline
of the regime prior than the father of the current leader.
Look, this is a great deal for Iran.
Iran comes back richer when you look at items-
Yeah, that's what happens when you lose, man.
I find it so strange that these guys are like, wow, I can't believe it.
I can't believe Iran is getting so much out of this deal.
It's like, yeah, because they fucking won.
I know that's a really hard thing to come to terms with, but like, yeah,
America lost this fucking war.
Iran won this fucking war.
I know Trump is never going to say those words.
I don't expect them to, but like, here's a really cool solution to all of these
problems
diplomatic negotiations with iran instead of bombing iran and forcing them
to fucking close the strata hormones that collapsed the entire energy markets
for a hundred and ten days
every single person
that's now complaining about how this deal is so raw for america and so good
for iran
or the exact same people that were agitating over and over again claiming
that this will be easy claiming that this will be awesome claiming that we
have to abide by Israel's interest we have to blow up Iran
it's so fucking stupid
and me on the other hand what was i saying this is what i was saying
not war, not war
just peace, just peace, just peace, forever, forever, forever
peace forever
No crazy war. No crazy. No crazy war. No crazy war. Please, please, please.
That's what I was saying. You guys were like, yes, war, no peace.
Seaguarra.
And now you got what you wanted.
And pussy too.
That's right.
Six, seven, 11 in the 14 points.
They get money 300 billion. Yes, our taxpayers don't pay for it. You have sanctions lifted
You have assets that are going to be unfrozen. What do we get? What do we get Brett?
We get a straight that was opened before reopened. We get a okay
Is this a Democrat consultant with the fucks going on here?
Temporary hold in in no tolls and in addition to that what are the Iranian people get they haven't had a regime change
And where is the verification, the specific verification within these 14 points of this
MOU to make sure that Iran is more than just promising that they're not going to have any
nukes.
And by the way, they can temporarily have nukes and the president today said it's okay
for them to have missiles.
This is why you have bipartisan support against this.
This is why today, I, Leslie Marshall, agreed with Nikki Haley, Mike Pence, Trey Gowdy,
I could go on.
Oh, she is a Democrat.
It's a bad deal when when people.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay, great.
So many, so many fucking, um, yeah, bipartisan support, yeah, bipartisan pro Israel support.
These people all agitated and defended Trump starting this war at the behest of Israel.
And now they're crying that Trump is stopping the bleeding, shameless, shameless ghouls.
Y'all smoking lead, if you think Iran is going to negotiate their missiles or any part of
their military, for that matter, I mean, I've been saying that since fucking day one.
It was a clear, poison pill that Israel demanded, okay?
Why the fuck would America care about the Iranian ballistic missiles trajectory being
limited to suspiciously not Israel, okay?
Like, if we're thinking about Israel as a totally separate, totally sovereign country,
and America is a totally separate, totally sovereign country, which is not, right?
like from that perspective it's like yeah we just we just don't want the
Iranian ballistic missiles to be able to reach Israel what the fuck what do you
why the fuck would America care about that if these are two totally separate
nations right it's so stupid yeah also Trump did make that joke classic Trump
not a joke at all by the way this way if it works out I'm gonna take the credit
if it doesn't work out, I'm blaming JD. You better be careful, JD. He's going to turn
his plane around and get the hell out of here. Yeah, I like that idea. I think it's a good
idea.
Yep. Yeah. You would be well served to take Dana's advice. Trump today watching his press
conference at the G seven and just a number of comments that he's made over the last several
days. He's not joking.
Quite over this that he wants to move on. I don't know if it's about Cuba or where
he wants to go next. But he's like, this didn't really work out the way that I wanted.
The MOU looks like, you know, all carrots, no sticks there. Like you said,
salo oil sanctions relief, 300 billion investment fund, the ballistic missile program left alone,
the proxies left alone. Thank God that we're going to respect their territorial sovereignty.
So it feels like Iran is probably thinking we just won like the geopolitical power ball
of the century. I glad you liked that. I thought of you when I was coming up with it.
Yeah, like what it's great.
You went all in my country got
destroyed.
They didn't.
Obviously though, Greg, I mean
if you engage with I know you
don't like the details, but if
you engage with the MOU and you
listen to people who supported
Trump wholeheartedly in this,
who thought that this was great
that this is exactly what we
needed because they had.
I don't listen to them, but
why not?
Why is it because they're
listening to let you finish
now destroy you later.
other man. No, no, no, no, no, because she wasn't done. Oh, do you want to say anything?
Oh, this is new too. Is there a poll? Yeah. Yeah, no one likes it. Okay. I don't try.
Do you think there's really lobby would allow Trump to pivot to Cuba?
I mean, I don't think they give a shit about Cuba at all. I think Donald Trump will look for a W
here after this is over, but it's not over yet. You know, shouldn't CNN disclose that McGurk is
a partner in Lux Capital, which invests heavily in Israeli military firms. He has a direct financial
incentive to maintain perpetual war and hostilities and oppose the MOU. Lux Capital explicitly seeks
profits off of regime change. Of course, Brett McGurk once again showing a uniparty. Okay. These
These are the moments where that uniparty argument becomes obvious, right?
I know many liberals get mad at me when I say this, but there are a lot of people who
are invested in the continuation of this war, right?
It's very clear, and they're unafraid to say it.
I mean, Brett McGurk is one of the best examples of the uniparty in terms of foreign policy,
the uniparty in terms of Israel policy.
He worked for the Biden administration.
He was one of the architects of the Gaza genocide within the Biden administration, and he has
spent a good deal of time since the Biden administration defending Donald Trump's actions, until Donald
Trump actually signed a fucking memorandum of understanding to stop hostilities against
Iran, to go against Israel's immediate interests.
All of a sudden, let's see if he's on board with this or not.
I want to start by asking you what stands out to you from this draft memorandum, this
a memorandum of understanding, as it's called.
Well, I've been going through it this morning.
I think if I want to make the most charitable case,
there is an article 9 which says that everything is status
quo.
So if you consider the military operation last June
kind of knocked out the nuclear program,
Iran is not enriching uranium, you could make the argument
this basically freezes that.
So Iran, therefore, cannot enrich uranium.
That's not insignificant, and that's
different from when we were negotiating at JCPOA
when they were enriching and had a vast nuclear program.
However, the crux of the deal, as you just said,
is reopening the Strait of Formuse.
And it's kind of like a jigsaw puzzle.
Certain articles unlock others.
I've kind of gone through it carefully.
Basically, Iran is committing to not fire at ships
so that ships can go through the Strait of Formuse.
They're really making no other commitments
in this entire text.
I don't see any other commitments from Iran.
The US is committing to actually very significant concessions
that Iran has always really wanted.
And particularly in the immediate term,
with this exchange to open the straight, uh, we commit to waving all oil sanctions, uh,
banking sanctions, trade in the petrochemicals. That's basically returns to what was in place
under the JCPOA under the Obama era deal. That's massive revenue for Iran wolf up to
16, maybe more billion dollars a year. According to some experts have looked at this. That's
a lot. That's the kind of thing you do once you reach a final agreement. So that is quite
I can't get over the fact that numerous Israeli officials literally said Donald Trump has
a bunch of, in their words, they use the slur, an anti-Jewish slur in the negotiation team.
So of course they would do stabbing the back myth to Israel.
What an incredible moment where it's a full circle moment of fascism going from Nazi Germany
to Nazi Israel. It's crazy. There was a high-profile commentator close to Benjamin Netanyahu,
which is straight-up said, you know, there were a bunch of Jews in the negotiation team
that did the stab in the back to us. Israel's going to make a stab in the back, man, the
Trump's so insane, it'll make 1920s. Yeah, this is what I saw. I saw this. This was hilarious.
Then there's a provision on frozen assets, and it's written carefully to suggest maybe that's not
immediate, but there's an article of the agreement that says the talks, these 60-day talks.
I googled Jew boys and it showed up Jew boy burgers. I've been there in Texas. It was delicious.
And also they didn't say Jew boy. I think that was the Hebrew to English translation
They said a different word box in phase two will not say word until the frozen access are are released and in the provision
Iranian something yeah, Jew boy burgers is dope. There's a lot of Hassanabi has that work there. That's to designate is back stabbing anti-semitic
No, dude. This is the the stabbing at the back
myth that like
Jews
stabbed the Germans in the back during World War one. And that's why they must be dealt
with. Like that was the whole point to the beneficiary is for those funds. Just to explain
this because I've done this work. When we did a hostage deal back in September, 2023,
we were dealing with a small pot of $6 billion of frozen funds. And we said Iran could have
access to those funds for non sanctioned humanitarian designate designates. The Iranians always want
to say, we'll determine where the funds go.
And we, as the US, said no, only limited beneficiaries.
This agreement says, orangested say who the beneficiaries.
That's a significant concession, the kind of thing
Iran always wants, the US usually doesn't give.
So we seem to be giving a lot up front in exchange
for ships crossing through the strait.
And long-term management of the strait also
is not identified here.
So that's just a quick brush.
There's a lot in here.
But I mean, that's the bottom line.
We're giving an awful lot to open the straight of her moves.
Everything else has kind of kicked down there.
And what jumped out at me was Article 5, which specifically
cites $300 billion to be made available in exchange
for what they're supposed to be doing.
In other words, paying them to get this deal done.
Well, Article 5 is linked to the final agreement.
But here it's also.
And if it's specific in mentions, they'll get $300 billion.
It is going!
It's a lot of money.
That we will establish.
So another, I think I would take issue with this text,
is that the US says in a final agreement,
it says what we would do in a final agreement.
There'd be a $300 billion reconstruction fund for Iran
that we will establish within 60 days.
We also commit any final agreement
to lift all sanctions on Iran.
That's what it says.
That would mean not just nuclear-related sanctions,
such as what was in the JCPOA,
but terrorism and human rights sanctions and everything else.
We commit in a final agreement to lift all sanctions,
including giving Iran a clean bill of health
under the IAEA, which relates to its prior weaponization work.
Bottom line, a lot of these issues are what,
if you sit with Iranians, they're always asking for it.
We've never given them.
And we say in a final deal, we will lift all sanctions.
Now, a final deal is contemplated
only to be a nuclear deal, okay?
If we are talking about a comprehensive deal
in which Iran agrees they're no longer
gonna support Hezbollah, these groups are on the reach
not going to support terrorism, but that's not a specific commitment to stop supporting
Isbala or Hamas or the Houthis.
Not contemplated at all.
Now Iran could be telling US negotiators something privately, but they often do that.
Well if they'll say, an Iranian negotiator will say, I've had this experience.
Look, here's what we're going to do.
We just can't put that in the text because we have our hardliners and everything.
But to the Iranians, the text is what matters.
in the text, they will read it very carefully, they will hold the U.S. side to it, particularly
because there's a document signed by the president or the vice president. This will be the text
that we have to live by. So, still some open questions?
Is the text they're going to sign Friday?
Yeah.
The exact same text that they digitally signed the other day?
The president's alluding today to maybe not, maybe it's not fine. There's so many open
questions that the rollout of this has not been, I think it's not going to smoothly
is as the White House might have liked, let's just put the text out there so we can see
what's going on.
Well, we have the text out there.
So yeah.
So we can see it on the right.
Well, we're like saying that they didn't willingly write it.
Right, we got it from the U.S. official.
So see, Iranian media actually this morning, Wolf, is backing away from possibly sending
a representative to the signing on Friday.
So even between now and Friday things could change.
We'll see.
Look, I want the Iranian nuclear program to be put in cement, locked in cement forever.
I want Iran's character to change.
We're not supporting Paris and doing all this stuff.
I'm seeing no indication that this
will achieve those objectives.
If anything, that core of that regime
remains very much intact.
And I suspect President Trump will
be dealing with this challenge throughout the rest
of his term and his success.
So it's a wicked problem that every president
has dealt with since Jimmy Carter.
Yeah, all right.
Dr. Kirk, thank you very, very much, Pamela.
All right.
Want to get a treatise?
I fully understand.
Total 180 on Iran, we have to unfreeze their money so other countries invest in the U.S.
What?
Taken.
Oh, Sarah Longwell of the Bulwark is very frustrated, uh-oh.
Can you explain, though, what the difference is between giving Iran U.S. dollars and unfreezing
U.S. dollars for?
Well, the unfreezing is the easy one.
I think Trita Parsi became the most important analyst in Washington, D.C. as of today.
straight up for the record. Literally everything that he said, everything that he said, Donald
Trump is following to a T. Now, I have my disagreements at times with them, but, and I, again,
I have no, no faith in this yet. Okay. Remember, this is, the ink is not dried yet. Okay. They
haven't even fucking technically signed the memorandum of understanding yet. So like,
are still going to be a litany of complications along the way. I don't know
what it will look like. Where the f***ing light coming from? Jesus Christ.
Anyway, oh ye of little faith. No man, I'm sorry. I just know how Israel is and I
know how America is. And to answer, we have taken a lot of their money and we
have their money. We have taken their money. It's not our money. It's their
money and we froze it at a certain point in time I guess we're gonna have to
give it back you know if we didn't give it back nobody would ever invest in the
dollar again if you took their money because I thought about it you know I'm
not the most perfect person I said to Scott Scott what do we keep their money
what the hell are we giving it back to them but you know people from lots of
nations some nations we don't agree with they have their money the dollars
become very strong under me. And they don't want to have a little conflict with somebody
and end up having the United States just take their money. So if you do that, you really
don't have a system.
Trudeau says, I fully understand. It is extremely disorienting when Trump actually makes sense.
But what he's saying is true. This warning that the overuse of financial sanctions would
cause of Russia away from the dollar was first started by Jack Lou under Obama.
In a major 2016 speech, Lou warned against sanctions overreach, arguing that excessive
use of sanctions could encourage countries and companies to avoid the U.S. financial
system and the dollar.
You know who actually caused this to happen fully?
Because like the BRICS conversation started becoming a reality.
I've talked about this a lot as well.
It was Russia.
It was Joe Biden.
When Joe Biden hit the mother of all sanctions on Russia, you had a major energy-providing
country, a major power around the globe.
You forced them to literally get off the dollar system, okay?
You did.
And on top of that, we had already designed the global sanctions regime in a way where
Basically, there were countries that were forced into a secondary market.
So, yeah, we did that.
We literally did that.
We forced countries to operate outside of the dollar system when
American imperialism's greatest weapon has always been swift.
The petrodollar, the fact that all trade at some point happens off of the
American dollar and we control it.
The more we condition use of the dollar and our financial system on adherence to U.S.
foreign policy, the more the risk of migration to other currencies and other
financial systems grows.
This is it.
Well, if Yanis is so great, why have I never gotten a knife in CS?
That's not his fault, I don't think.
I mean, I guess technically it is because he built the economy in Valve, but I just
I don't know how to answer that question.
Here it is, the beautiful ink being dried on the beautiful e-sign, the docu-sign.
If you recall when Jeff Stein wrote that report for Washington Post, I covered it extensively,
the impact of the sanctions and the nations of the periphery, but then also the impact
of the sanctions on the U.S. economy.
If you recall, I said back then, if you sanction the rest of the world, and if you sanction
everyone, you're technically not sanctioning them, you're sanctioning yourself.
And that is what America has done.
Because it was so easy, you just go to the fucking treasury and you're just like, this
guy is bad.
This is a competitive product.
Sanction them.
Boom.
It's done.
an easy tool that capitalists used and abused, and numerous other, you know, American-formed
policy, American people within the blob within Washington, D.C., deployed these sanctions
against all of our so-called foreign adversaries enemies.
we ended up sanctioning ourselves
what did you expect
you like the migration away from the dollar in the weakening and sifter do
you hate swifter do you hate those things of course i like it
why would i hate multipolarity
I think multi-polarity is going to force America's hand, especially given the limitations that
it's recognizing it has, with a bloody nose.
Multi-polarity will force America to be far more restrained around the world.
I think any initiative that forces America to cooperate with other countries rather than
constantly fucking wage warfare is good.
It's good for the labor aristocracy.
good for the nations and the periphery. This has always been my position. Do you want me
to repeat it?
That's how I feel about it.
Hey look, it's another liberal who mysteriously transforms into Benjamin and Yaho and making
demands on Israel's enemies. Kenneth Roth, former human rights watch executive director,
says the apparent ex-Trump's deal with Iran reflects his weak negotiating position after
his counterproductive war of choice. Nothing barring fees for ships, passing through the
show to Hormuz, key nuclear issues kicked down the road for later negotiations. Nothing
on Iran's ballistic missiles or its support for proxy forces. Why? If you're the fucking
former human rights watch executive director, what the fuck do you mean? Iran's ballistic
missiles program do you make these sorts of considerations for every other
country america's ballistic missiles program no it's a sovereign country this
shit pisses me the fuck off what are you benjamin men yeah who are the fuck
do you care about this well what do you mean what do you mean iran's ballistic
missiles program iran's funding of proxy groups like that's only a
a consideration inside of the blob that's only a consideration within the the American foreign policy framework.
What the fuck are you talking about?
It's so stupid!
Yeah, everyone is a little fucking consultant for the State Department all of a sudden.
Hey look, it's another liberal who mysteriously transforms into Benjamin Anyao and making demands on Israel's enemies.
The key lesson of this war is that one ballistic missile has more anti-fascist capabilities
than five billion Ken Ross.
What is this mentality amongst liberals where they turn into bigger hawks than Donald Trump
when it comes to the one singular instance where Donald Trump in a classic Trumpian fashion
fucks everything up.
And then Donald Trump in the classic Trumpian fashion tries to fix everything in a way
that no other American president ever would. It's so funny, they go, they see this and they go,
okay, he fucked everything up, which we were critical of, but we also kind of were in support
of. And now that he's fixing it in a way that only Trump could, in a way that only Trump would.
Only Trump goes to Iran and says, full bill of sanctions relief, you got it, King, you fucked
us, okay? I will never openly admit this, but let's be real, I don't want the continuation of
those war because you're kind of destroying the global energy markets. We're kind of destroying
the global energy markets together. I'm just put a fucking Trump tower in Tehran and I'm good, okay?
That's Trump. That's fucking Trump. But if you're upset, if you even fake criticized
Donald Trump's initiatives from a process perspective, right, as a Democrat or as a liberal,
Then you have to literally look at the situation be like no, it's good. It's good. Yeah, he took an L
It's good. We took an L. It's fine
If we can create a just peace if we can negotiate a ceasefire going forward. Thank God. Thank God for that
Agreed the reality at what is this are you the most interested in closet ammo use about the removal US forces near Iran and what that's
That's what they specifically entail.
Agreed, the reality on the ground is that many of the bases that Iranians will push
for us to abandon are uninhabitable anyway, according to the New York Times, restaffing
and repairing them will take years across billions.
And for what?
The insanity of maintaining those bases was revealed before the war, even began as SENTCOM
was forced to abandon them, evacuate tens of thousands of personnel before launching the
initial series of strikes on Iran.
Those bases didn't protect the Gulf states they're located on the territory of and made
those states targets in a war they were incapable of fighting.
undeniable that the US was massively overextended in this region before this war.
If the Department of War is rational, they'll take this as an opportunity to reduce a costly
and strategically nonsensical commitment. As I've said before, there are other ways to sell this.
The Gulf States need to pay their own defense. That's a very Trumpian line, by the way. I can
totally see him saying that. It's true. Trump could turn around and be like,
they gotta pay for their own defense. They've been so selfish. They've been selfishly demanding us
us into, they've been selfishly pulling us into this war, all right?
But it's a diplomatic minefield. Whatever the admin says, rebuilding basic NSA Bahrain
will require hundreds of public contracts filed well in advance. So we'll know if that's
their intention. It's just, it also makes no sense, okay? Why did you park all your assets
right around your your major adversary
with no
interest in ever defending them it blows my fucking mind it's american imperial
hubris through and fucking through
okay
i guess they interviewed the iranian f five pilot who bombed the u.s.
bearing base in Kuwait.
But it's hard to message on the Iran deal because it's actually good to lift sanctions
and treat Iran like a normal country, but Trump did it in the worst way possible.
But then a lot of them are just mad the war ended.
I just think, dash clock, think of the tank of the subs.
I, so far, so far there's a lot of spoilers,
Israel being the number one spoiler, right?
I never would have envisioned,
I did not think that my predictions would unfold
in real time in exactly the way I thought they would unfold.
This is happening in a way where like,
I don't, I never thought that this would happen.
Like, I never thought that the things that I said were going to happen would happen exactly in the ways that I said they would happen.
I didn't have enough confidence in my own analysis.
I mean, it doesn't sound like he wants to answer a question about Israel.
Oh, no, he does. He does want to, he does want to answer it.
He said it.
JD pondon man JD motherfucking pondon. It's crazy
They might look 60 years ahead or something like that
Jessica says I think Jesse's gonna have to take back calling Tehran Tarla. Oh, yeah, we already covered that
Yeah, what a what a fucking insane what an insane moment
Uh, Dylan Williams, Vice President of Government Affairs, the CI policy, is Chris as Richard
Blumenthal another fucking, uh, uh, Democrat.
Anything like this deal will be dead on arrival in the Senate.
It must be approved here to have enforceable effect.
Republicans are already running cover.
Um, Senator, it is the War of Choice against Iran that is disgraceful and cause the loss
of US leverage, not the MOU.
No one is asking you to endorse a deal, but killing it would mean continuing this illegal
war and digging the hole deeper.
Will you really try to extend this war?
The answer is yes.
I think they will.
I think they will.
Figures like Said, Ghassim and Ajad spent years at FDD and around Rezapallavi advocating
sanctions of war.
They pushed policies that made Iran's poor, Iran's poor and cheered a war that killed
them.
Yet when the economy improves, they're outraged.
That tells you everything.
Yes, these people want death and destruction for the Iranian people.
They don't care.
instability because they think that instability is what will breed Iranian destruction because
that's what they want because they do not work for the Iranians. They do not work for
the Americans. They work for Israel. Okay. Speaking of people who work for Israel, another
fucking Democrat coming out against this MOU once again, unbelievable shit over here.
Okay. Adam shit. Senator Adam shit. My senator says, wow, Iran gets sanctions relieved. The
release of frozen funds in the ability to export oil in a 300 billion dollar
Greek structure fund the US gets a reiteration of vague promises Iran won't
develop a new card to imagine a more thorough capitulation
adam johnson responses i don't know if you don't see what's going on here
i don't know if you don't see what's going on here i don't know what to tell
you this isn't just them's
digging trump for political points it's them narrowing the political space to
support and end hostilities because they along with their apex donors
simply like open-ended hostilities with Iran.
All these terms are eminently reasonable.
Why are basic concessions after the U.S. sneak attack and killed
thousands and destroyed hundreds of millions of infrastructure being
scandalized and macho baited?
The U.S. attempted regime change and failed. This is the price that is sensible.
Now the talking point from Jefferson Schumer is that
deals should go before Congress when neither Jefferson nor Schumer uttered a
single word for eight
fucking days while Trump amassed
an attack armada last february funny demanding involvement for the m o u
down to the total of four hours
they never demanded
answers as to why there was an armada being amassed around iran
knowing full well that trump was going to use it
why did they never ask for it because they liked it okay
this is not trump had politics in his consequences chatters this is not trump
that politics in in its consequences
that only works on regular liberals
kind-hearted liberals that are maybe a little uneducated don't really know
anything and they're just like anchoring their worldview around what Trump is
doing and they think that's bad and that's fine Trump is wrong 99% of the
time but the 1% of the time he's right
it's important to acknowledge but many liberals won't but those are the voters
we're talking about the politicians
when you talk about the politicians
they don't give a fuck about Trump bad
they will turn around and be like oh we
we procedurally oppose what you're doing with Iran. But also, Iran is the ontological evil,
the great evil, the big bad. Of course, you're gonna fucking blow up Iran. Hell yeah. That is the
way that they operated. And I was very frustrated about that. If you recall, I kept repeatedly
saying you can't on the one hand justify action against Iran. And then also on the other hand,
get mad at Trump for taking action. That's this whole thing, right? They kept leaning into
Why unjustifiable actions must be taken because they are actually justified?
Why do they do this? Because they love war. They love war. They love death. They love destruction.
They love watching children get murdered. And also, they especially love it when it's being
done at the best of Israel. There are plenty of Democrats who are Israel firsters as well.
Oh, that's just it. The democratic electeds, okay? That's the reason why none of them made
a big fuss about congressional approval. And they even found the appropriate amount of
votes to stop a war powers resolution initially, right?
democrat there's always there's always enough democrats to stop this right
and they found it at the time
and they rarely ever brought this up as a big stink as a big fuss is a big point
of contention
when they did they justified why some action must have been taken against
the romp because it run is big bad
and only now as soon as there's an m o u as soon as there might be a fucking
negotiated settlement of peace after
a hundred and ten days
of destruction, 110 days of volatility, when Trump brings about this MOU, Israel fucking
hates it, and these guys go, whoa, whoa, whoa.
You gotta take that.
The Congress, buddy, we're gonna fuck that deal.
We're not giving sanctions relief to Iran.
You think you can control what America gets to do with its foreign policy?
Well, you guys had no problems.
You guys had no problems or blown up fucking schools.
all of a sudden, now you got problems.
As Fundyar Batmangalij says, he's an analyst, this messaging is so frustrating, self-defeating,
referencing Adam's shit.
If this diplomatic opening leads to Iran permanently ending hostilities with the US, that is a
tremendous game for US national security and for US power globally.
The MOU envisions a transformative shift in US-Iran relations towards mutual engagement.
the u.s. would be able to engage economically with what would be ordinarily a g twenty economy
and the u.s. will no longer have to spend blood and treasure trying to maintain security
in the middle east through force fighting endless wars in the region now of course
of course
that's not how things go because these guys have uh... defense contractors and their
bottom line in mind and if you have a uh... a negotiated settlement of fucking just peace
with iran
where you get a double the assets
we're gonna dump all the assets
and also endless war and endless destabilization benefits israel
so if you're if you got big donors that care about israel if you got big donors
and lockheed martin raytheon if you yourself are already investing in
rocket martin and raytheon stock for example you're gonna want that fucking
war to continue and that's unfortunately a big chunk of our
political class
there's something for everybody in there there's a there's a piece of the puzzle
for everybody there's a piece of the pie of sorry for everyone involved
and that's why
peace never happens
okay
if you wish to believe that is simply good faith ever by murphy and kota do
two things to be true at the same time routine and go ahead and believe that but
when ninety nine percent of the rhetoric is hysterical demagoguery i think it's
It's very clear what's going on is Adam Jocely's right.
Yeah, a lot of people defended the admin's strategy for Mosul and they haven't thrown
the entire enterprise under the bus law watching these right-wing pro-Israel hawks lose it
and Trump is hilarious.
Yes, they're all fucking crying.
They're all crying tears today.
Great. Let's hear what Mark Levine said. My favorite, my favorite content creator.
Shotner got a fucking hawk on an Israeli hawk. The Israeli ultra hawks who feel betrayed by
Trump's Iran deals. Shimon Ricklin, an anchor on the country's right wing channel 14 and
I like thinks America stabbed Israel in the back dude. They're doing this tabbed in the back
These rules about to be like these American Jews they stabbed us in the back
I'm serious is full circle holy fuck
now right now
Fox having FDD in the studio standing and against graphics like they're analyzing the returns from Iowa Defcon one for Murdoch and a sleight of hand to present this
expertise as established fact the FTD guys this is their moment you know come
in there king this is it it's I've told you this already it's literally an
Israeli cutout FTD is an Israeli cutout their whole purpose is not American
interests at all they don't even fucking lie about it for the most part they
they are literally Benjamin Danielle's personal think tank okay Emmett is what
the original name of the FTD was FTD's foundation for defending democracy in
2001 when Emmett was created they very openly is said their purpose was
was to advance Israel's interest in the United States of America and North America. Okay.
They obviously revamped it a little bit because that sounded a little bit too conspiratorial,
a little too crazy. Now it's called Foundation for Defending Democracy, but it's not an accident
that those guys were all up and down this fucking deal. And that means true than Hebrew.
FDD is what is perhaps most fucking responsible for this war.
So when you see these motherfuckers on television be like, oh, well, here's where we go from
here.
Just remember, they are the ones who started this war.
Over.
He's the director of counter of countering Iranian weapons of mass destruction.
The president's first term and he joins us now.
Great to see you, Richard.
Yeah, you too.
Thank you.
as we know it. Like why, what is he a fucking contributor now? Why is he standing on this
podium? Why is he standing up in the studio? Why is not being interviewed? What the fuck's going on?
These guys were in the room, by the way. Donald Trump hired or brought in one of the
FDD guys directly into the negotiations. Okay. So the level of involvement they had was perverse
in the negotiations process. Can you imagine you're the Iranian side and you're like, that's the guy that's like, that's like having Benjamin Netanyahu be
featured in the negotiations team for the American side?
What the fuck?
Well, you expand on it. First off, the ceasefire expanded across the region, including Lebanon.
that whole including Lebanon is a problem because in Lebanon it's Hezbollah and they keep attacking
Israel.
And Israel's not even a part of the ceasefire.
That's right.
I mean, in some ways this is a formality, right?
There's a ceasefire.
The war is over, all fronts, etc.
That's a little bit of a give to the Iranians to say including Lebanon.
Barack Obama did include Hezbollah as part of the JCPOA in a side deal.
Dismantled all of our sanctions and DEA activities against Hezbollah.
We don't want to see that happen.
And of course, if they're allowed to rebuild their flagship terrorist proxy, what does
that mean of a deal that's supposed to end their sponsorship of terrorism?
And Syria has no hope against Hezbollah because they have no missile defense.
When the president said Syria should take care, and that's not going to happen.
Also, U.S. releases frozen assets to last temporary Iranian oil exports.
Now, frozen assets is hundreds of billions.
Where it is, there's going to be 24 billion unfrozen.
We just don't know when.
Yeah, so a couple of things going on here, and this is where we really have to watch.
And this is where you get to determine whether this is a pretty good deal to get the Strait
of Hormuz open and then collect all the gains of Epic Fury or a bad deal where we're sort
of slipping from nuclear extortion into Strait of Hormuz extortion.
They're going to issue these sanctions waivers immediately to let Iran sell its oil supposedly
at pre-war levels.
Is this first time in the, for decades?
Well, we obviously did during the war to bring some relief to the market.
There was short-term relief provided to take some of the Iranian oil off the market.
Remember Secretary Besin called that the Jiu-Jitsu move.
This is now the first time we're issuing formal waivers for legitimate sales, not just illicit
sales to China.
The question is, do they get that money?
Is it just a temporary amount of money?
Does it go back to past sales?
And is the money going to go into escrow or are they going to just collect it and tear
it off?
Yeah, so he's going to keep it here as an incentive to stay in line, which they never
have done.
Iran reaffirms no nuclear weapons, nuclear activities, frozen during talks.
So no nuclear weapons.
They did that with the JCPOA, but they were still enriching uranium.
That's right.
big difference here. I mean, this is, again, this is symbolic. They commit to non-nuclear
weapons. I could take a piece of paper and throw it in the trash from a terrorist organization.
What does it actually mean? It means that we actually have done historic damage to
Iran. President Trump deserves to be on Mount Rushmore for what he did to save the world
from a nuclear weapon, right? They can enrich uranium today. They can't build a ballistic
missile today. We want to make sure that stays. Of course, they still have enriched uranium,
buried underground, not just high-rich uranium, but low-enriched uranium that they can use
in the future, and deep underground sites like Pickaxe Mountain that still need to be
dismantled.
Right.
And then there's nothing really that hasn't been dismantled.
We talked to him.
We've got to lower the number of troops put in there to fight the war, so we'll go down
with the level of troops.
New sanctions get paused, lifts naval blockade.
We kind of know that.
They reported $300 billion of reconstruction funds within over that.
Iran guarantees safe straight for a move shipping for 60 days.
But they don't guarantee no tolls or fees after 60 days.
evidently they go going to set up a coalition with oman and short fees
the president would never sign off on that i mean here's the deal is my
metaphor that i think you should use what president trump
yeah given the metaphor these guys literally just
do they have any
what they do they just like did they just take on whatever shape they need to
with the park
he's become a commentator
uh...
last week after the guy was a negotiator
and now he's just a commentator on fox news what the fuck is this
he's like let me tell you what the talking points are right brian you best
respect by killing me
okay until me
that's brian kill myself okay he knows how to do commentary sir
up has done to the iranians to epic fury economically is like open the
funeral artery on their leg right if they're bleeding out
if this is a band-aid
over a mortal wound
and we get full relief from the straight of our moves and all the games that we
have that the fury
is a huge win
if we're actually putting a tourniquet on the leg and bring your onto the
hospital
maybe a little bit of a different story right uh... so we'll see when the details
come out it's just gonna be a page and a half and they have sixty days to work
at a formal deal
thanks so much for teaching it
uh... it's a moving story will stay up
uh... we'll keep you up to date on it
boxes differentiate themselves in zbs and ms
msz oh w and znn
i sound it's where the comedy value that shrooms at his best when you're at your uh most gitty yeah
i mean this is like mike huckabee saying to deport hamas and his beloved iran
ambassador mike huckabee says iran demands israel sees defense of border against his
beloved god's a peace plan demands on hamas disarming idea every member has belong to maas
deport the mother ship in iran result lebanon israel free from iran terraproxies give peace
a chance. That's awesome. Thank you. Brilliant, sir. He once fondly referred to Trump as
the most fellow Semitic president in the history of our country. Oh my God, there he is.
There he is.
I want to ask you a question about something. You've worked in the Trump administration.
You've worked in a number of positions and places. You're a red-blooded, true, blue American.
you are seeing and you've commented on and I certainly have.
I mean, his job literally is to represent Israel's needs as though they are, you know,
America's needs, right? I mean, that's, that's, that's what his purpose is. Okay. Which is,
of course, that's probably the reason why a master's shake is having him on, but
this spread of anti-Semitism throughout Western Europe.
This is from September 30th, 2025.
I don't even give a shit. Yeah, he says Richard Goldberg says America should be celebrating
Trump being the most Philo-Semitic president in history.
Yeah. Well, it turns out when you actually needle in one direction so hard, Israel ends
suffering from its own success. Israel got far too successful in managing Donald Trump, right,
and handling Donald Trump. So, with all of the success that they had, they got Donald Trump to
do something no other American president was going to ever do. They got Donald Trump to attack Iran,
try to do regime change in Iran, and even assassinate the entire leadership structure of Iran.
Lo and behold, it turns out the guys you killed were Mr. Strategic Restraint, okay?
They thought they could deal with the Western world. They thought they could
negotiate with the Western world. Even the fucking hardliners were like, yeah,
it's fine. I guess, you know, we should, we'll throw maybe one missile at fucking
Cutter or something, you know? That's the most we'll do. There's out those guys
that you killed were the guys who were holding the IRGC back. This literally is the funniest
way that this could have unfolded. I'm sorry. I mean, there's a lot of death and destruction
is not funny at all. It's a tragic situation overall, but it is just like this is Israel's
own demise due to its own success. Benjamin Nin Yahu sold himself as the guy who can manipulate
American presidents. And he's right. He knows how to talk to American presidents. I don't know if
he's got espionage backing him. I don't know what it is, but he was able to get a lot of his goals
across to every single American president and many of which despised him, right?
He was. And then they got a gift with Donald Trump. Trump won. The gift was so
So insane that Donald Trump gave additional gifts to Israel.
He recognized Golan Heights as permanently annexed territories, Israeli territory.
It was something that Donald Trump has admitted was not even something that Mary Maddison
had asked for, right?
And Benjamin Ninyaw finally got his fucking four decade project across.
And look what happened.
to fuck the whole table up in a world where too much of anything, even a good thing, can
cause your demise. In a world where, in a world where you can drown from drinking too
much water, you can get water poisoned. When water is a necessity for survival, it turns
out, too much goading of American leadership and forcing them to take action can also be
a problem. Yeah, it's a real monkey's paw situation.
One of my main takeaways is, in some ways you couldn't get a better illustration of
all of the things people said for so long about why pursuing a military eruption against
Iran was a dead end, right?
That it wasn't that sure you could bomb their nuclear facilities, but it wouldn't end the
nuclear program.
Check.
We bombed it last year and they said it was so obliterated they threatened to sue anyone
who didn't agree with them.
Here we are.
That you couldn't actually change the regime through air war.
That anything you wanted to do to fundamentally alter them would require-
I will be honest, it is mind boggling to me that Iran had an economic nuclear first strike
at their disposal for decades, and they just fucking ate those sanctions.
They ate the destabilization, both born out of the sanctions and direct intervention from
Massad and the CIA and they just never used it. I don't even understand what the fuck they were thinking
Okay, they were just sitting on it. They're like 21 miles
21 nautical miles of width
Only two
Workable miles in those 21 miles where those super tankers can transit anyway and
They just sat around and we're like nah, that's fine
I don't know if it's because they they believe the hype of US military supremacy. I don't
know if it was because they foolishly thought because they all went to fucking Western universities
and and genuinely learned liberalism and thought no there are people who will negotiate with
us. I don't know if you know Obama was able to sway them and they were like maybe there's
another guy like Obama that'll come around. I don't know. I don't know what it is. But
what I do know is, it is remarkable that they had this fucking weapon. A weapon to surpass
all weapons, a metal gear, if you will. A metal gear of sorts for the entire global
economy and they just never used it and they just ate dick and balls for decades.
Otacon. That's right. A Metal Gear.
It's called an Indigenous Drone Program.
shothead drones that can fly in a moment's notice and absolutely destroy commercial shipping traffic
in the Strait of Hormuz in which 20% of the entire world's global energy transits through.
Otacon.
Kind of catastrophic level of ground invasion no one had the appetite for
and it sure does look after 106 days like every single one of these has been born out.
Absolutely. There is no doubt that we have now, after 20 years of hearing from the Hawks,
that the only solution is to go to war. We tried it. One-third of the U.S.'s Navy was
there in the region. This was not a small operation. This was a major operation short
of an actual invasion. And it failed. There is just no doubt that the military operation
was not a success. And hopefully, at a minimum, we will not be having that debate again. It
has now been settled. It's no longer a theoretical or academic topic. It has been tried, proven
to be a failure.
Having said that, I do want to emphasize, though, as you said yourself, the least bad
option right now is to strike a deal. We don't know the full details of the deal. I do think
that there are certain elements of the nuclear issue that actually might be stronger than
Obama's deal, based on what the negotiations were in February before the war started, when
there was a deal on the table that Trump should have taken.
If those elements are still the case, it may actually be stronger in some aspect.
It doesn't make it worthwhile having gone to this war.
But I think it is the best of the least bad option to make sure that we end this thing
before it turns into one of these endless wars in which there just isn't the political
will to pull out of it because you're going to get criticism for the way that you pull
out.
What do you say?
What do you say?
What do you say?
Well, let's hear what Mark Levin has to say.
President today with the president of the UAE.
master shag at the same as the president of the ua
as a likes the
excuse me the monarch that runs the ua he likes the monarch that runs katar
monica runs
so the rabbiya
the dictator who runs turkey
the dictator runs egypt
he's very upset with the elected prime minister
of israel
let me be very blunt about this
Israel does not know its existence to any president.
We're allies, trying to help each other.
We do help each other.
Israel, the Holy Land, knows its existence to God Almighty
nearly 4,000 years ago.
Those of you who believe in the Bible, read it.
Those of you who go to synagogue or church,
You go to synagogue or church, have you learned the history of the holy land?
Of course you have.
Is there any president named in there?
There's not one.
And that's a funny thing.
The Jewish people in the holy land existed in almost 4,000 years.
They survived the Babylonians who destroyed their first temple.
They survived the Persian Empire.
They survived the Roman Empire that destroyed their second temple.
All there in the Holy Land before there was anything called Islam.
Wait, what the fuck is this image?
survive the third Reich which is gone they're all gone all these empires are
gone and I worry about our country it's not an empire where about our Republic
what's going on in our country yeah he means the Republic of Israel dude it is
literally Master Shake it's so funny he just sounds exactly like Master Shake I
don't know why anybody I don't know why anybody even posts like photos of him
when they're when they're ripping his radio show and they want something visually stimulating they should just literally have a master shake talking.
I worry about our republic.
No one worries about our republic more than me. Master Shake.
Marxists and the Islamists are the very woke right that we're talking about.
And let's be clear.
Those individuals who are plotting to attack the White House and the President sound that
hell of a lot like the woke right.
They certainly do.
So when you hear this stuff day in and day out, repeated day in and day out, the static is endless. Again, I want you to go on Twitter, Elon Musk's X.
And I want you to see what's going on there right now. And I want you to see what goes on there anytime I post something or anytime Israel's mentioned.
I want you to look. I want you to see it. You don't have to see it. You might be tired of discussing this stuff. That's okay.
Okay, but I'm just trying to prove a point.
And it has a consequence, many consequences.
Israel would be blown off the map
and to be destroyed if we didn't do what we just did.
No, Israel was not gonna sit there
and get blown off any map.
Just like it's not gonna sit there
and allow Hezbollah to kill its people.
That's the Holy Land.
It's not a protectorate. And by the way, his law must never turn into a protectorate either.
If that's the deal, I'm sorry, then forget it. Then forget it.
We're not the business as a nation. You know, I'm tired of giving money to...
We're not the business as a nation to protect a terrorist organization that slaughtered hundreds and hundreds of our fellow Americans, our Marines.
our Marines. Israel killed the guy, the commander in Hezbollah, who captured five of our soldiers
in Iraq and individually executed them. They didn't even get a thank you. We haven't killed any of
these guys. They killed the leadership and the under leadership in Hezbollah responsible for
killing hundreds and hundreds of our people. We didn't do that. They did it. And in response,
it's, you know, the fighting has to stop.
Why won't you give Israel a thank you is the funniest argument you could make is an America
first guy, by the way.
You should be thanking Israel. Oh, it's so awesome.
Well, of course the fighting has to stop, but everybody doesn't sign deals and everybody
doesn't agree to deals.
These people have killed us.
This is the enemy, and to believe that they're going to turn on a dime and they're going
to behave themselves over $300 billion, they're not going to change for $300 billion, they're
not going to change for $3 trillion, they're not going to change for any damn thing at
all.
play a little bit oh you got to do this if you want to do that you got to do
that if you want to do this that's fine that'll go on for a few months maybe
even a year or two but after that it can't keep terrorists boxed up on the
one hand we cannot argue that there was nothing else we can do because because
this ideology is deeply rooted within the within the society even if the people
don't want it. If our bombers can't take it out, how do we take it out? And then we
argue, well, a couple hundred billion dollars, that'll do the trick. No, it won't. They
believe I was telling them to do this couple hundred billion dollars. It's going to go
to make them stronger. They're going to hit that line. What do we have to do for the money?
Okay, we'll do it by the way, I genuinely do believe this is projection.
Because there are
Plenty of people in Israeli society that have lost their fucking minds and do think that they're engaging in religious conquests now
Obviously many of them are not like that, right?
But I absolutely believe that this is also a projection because like you hear it from fucking the defense minister
The defense minister earlier today told the Israeli occupying forces that they were out
They were literally following the will of God
Like, fascism is always irrational, but it has to have some kind of like justification,
some kind of logical through line, and Israel has found that logical through line within
some totally perverted understanding of what like, this 3000 years of Judaism is supposed
to represent. Right, Muhammad? Yes, yes, that's it. Let's just do it. We'll do it.
We'll get the money. And what happens after they get the money? What happens three years
from now when all the money, the 300 billion, if that's what it is, once they get it? Where
are they going to say then? How are you going to hold them to it then? We're going to give
it comes slowly and tell okay great I got it
ah then we'll go on we'll bomb them no we won't
once we move most of our military out there we're not going back
to devastatingly bomb them but little Israel stays there they have nowhere to
go
the Lebanese people they have nowhere to go
the Persian people they have nowhere to go
Hey, I'm just calling it like it is, calling it like it is present.
No.
Oh.
Israel tiny nation size of New Jersey.
Perhaps they'll have to be.
Bar more restrained
Yeah, it's this type of shit like
It's it's absolutely this type of shit that these guys are doing that that gives me pause like it's it's clearly
There's clearly a lot of fucking freaks out there who not only are fascist, but also try to like generate some some sort of like perverted twisted religious justification for their actions.
And it's ironic because then they say the Muslims are like that.
I
Yes, I didn't play a loop of MasterChek because I'm eating
I'm sorry I fucked up
up.
Have I read it?
It includes 300 billion dollars.
It's false.
People, you can invest if you want.
What am I going to say, nobody's ever allowed to invest?
We're not investing.
We're not putting up 10 cents and people can decide to do that,
but that's up to them.
I mean do you want me to say nobody's ever allowed to invest in in a country?
I'll say it with Egypt nobody's allowed to invest in Egypt am I supposed to say that?
I'm asking with it.
We are not investing in it and we do not have a fund.
Are you asking the whole country?
No I'm not.
I'm not.
If they do it fine but I would say they won't be doing it for a while until they find out
the behavior.
It's a behavior thing but we are not in that that's a false story that got picked up incorrectly
from a statement that was
pretty well made i think maybe a little bit
uh... could have been a little more accurate
frankly but it's a story we're not investing ten cents
uh... don't forget
there's never been anybody that's been so tough on a run
they should have been done by clinton and barracus and obama should have been
done by biden it should have been done by
bush could have been done by a lot of people
This has been going on for 47 years.
He's so based.
He's like, yes.
George W. Bush should have done sanctions relief on Iran.
Instead of the global war on terror.
He's like George W. Bush and Barack Obama should have done sanctions relief.
Primary sanctions relief on Iran.
and secure investments for Iranian development.
Now, what's weird is,
there was another president between Joe Biden
And Barack Obama, I can't seem to put my finger on it.
Who was the other former president?
Hmm.
Oh, that's right.
This isn't the first time Trump is president.
So why didn't he do this last time?
If this was such a great deal, why didn't he do this last time?
Hmm.
In years, they've ripped you off for 47 years and I'm the only one that did anything about
it.
They never shot missiles at anybody.
We wiped out their Navy.
We wiped out their military.
We wiped out their air force.
have no anti-aircraft, they have no radar. You know, the reason oil
stayed low is because we were taking ships out every night that you didn't
even know about. Two days ago, three days ago, a month ago, we took out 22 ships.
We averaged from 15 to 25 ships a night. Nobody know that. Our Navy did a great
job. Nobody knew what was happening. That's why oil didn't go to $300.
Dog.
The normal amount of ships transiting is a hundred.
You were not taking 20 ships out every night, but even if you were, but it's so funny that he's lying.
But even the lies that he's telling,
still don't make any fucking sense.
No, everybody tapped into their fucking strategic reserves,
and they were basically about to bottom out.
That's it.
It was a barrel.
It went to 125, 115.
Now it's at 72, 73.
I heard it's lower than that.
No, I haven't seen it in the last couple of hours.
course. Now we were very tough and we took out a man named Salomeini, remember that?
You know, you think this would happen if you were alive? The evil genius who was an evil
genius. People forget that. I took out Salomeini in my first term. Without that you don't have
probably you don't have the situation that we're in today where we dominated. We dominated,
we wiped out their military and because we did that and then we put up the blockade which
which was totally effective.
Not one ship got by Steven.
Is the taxi agreement now final or are you still?
No, it's not final.
It's a memorandum of understanding.
And if I don't like it,
we'll go back to shooting at them,
dropping bombs on their head.
What do you expect?
If I don't like it, if they don't behave,
we'll go right back to dropping bombs,
right smack in the middle of their head.
Okay?
Because they'd misbehave for 47 years.
Democratic Socialist, that's how she identifies herself.
Janice Lewis George holds a commanding lead in the Democratic...
Good news.
Democratic primary for D.C. mayor.
She's up nearly 20 points with 68% of the vote in.
D.C., this is the first time it's done so, uses ranked choice voting,
which would only come into play if no candidate receives a majority of first place votes.
Nicole Killian has been following this race force.
She recently spoke with Janice Lewis George.
And it's worth pointing out, to my honest quickly, here in the District of Columbia,
if you win the Democratic primary, you are essentially the next mayor of this city.
And the next mayor of this city has to deal with the reality of the Trump presidency.
And you talked to Janice Lewis George about that.
Yeah, that's right.
And it's quite a major factor in this race because keep in mind just last week, President
And Trump said that he may consider a federal takeover of the city if she's elected.
And she called that an attack on democracy.
That being said, though, this Democratic socialist movement has really gained steam.
We've seen people like Zoran Mondani grow.
He literally said that about New York.
look where New York is now.
we're going to be talking about
the
the
the
the
the
the
the
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don't look good. Oh, I think you meant I look great, right?
Of course, when very decisively in New York City, she has a
fairly commanding lead thus far in the count.
I'll give her a call, that's important.
Kenny McDuffie has said we've got to wait for every vote to be
counted. But you know, it really goes to show the momentum that
she has garnered in this race. I did ask her what her strategy
would be in running the city if she's elected. Take a listen.
Why do you think a democratic socialist like yourself is best positioned to run the District of Columbia?
You know, because I think this moment calls for that level of moral clarity and courage.
It calls for this level of ingenuity, and it calls for a leader who is focused on putting people first
and delivering on the small things, right?
Socialism is talking about just making sure your 911 system works, your 311 works.
one works. Your trash gets picked up, your snow gets filed. Those basic things that make
a difference in everyone's lives and delivering for residents in all eight wars in the city.
Now, even though she's vowing to hold the lie there and protect DC's autonomy, at the same
time, she did tell me that she would be willing to meet with the president, that she would be
willing to foster or cultivate a relationship with the Trump administration if it can help the
district residents and help get things done in the city. But obviously, when it comes to
DC's autonomy, that is an area that's a red light for her.
Do we have the sound of her talking about how she would deal with Trump?
Please run that. I want to jump in and hear that.
Attack on one of us is an attack on all of us.
And I think that's really the crux of this, is that we deserve free and fair elections.
We are community who have, unfortunately.
Yeah. Wizards are going to win the chip next year, bro. Keep dreaming.
And the commanders too.
Because of our lack of statehood, our most vulnerable.
And I try to emphasize to people, DC is the capital of this country.
And so it takes us fighting back as a capital state.
Are there any white DSA leaders?
No.
And that's a good thing.
Who cares?
It is really funny though that it is really funny that everyone's always like DSA so white DSA so white, but it's like
dude
Literally numbers on the board DSA is far more diverse far younger far more vibrant than anything any other political
Organization or political movement is ever offered
And that's why this moment is so critical in history for DC.
So again, that was her response to the president's comments, of course, last week.
So we will have to see kind of how things play out.
Obviously we know Mayor Bowser, who the eventual will be the, you know, who decided not to
seek reelection, you know, whoever fills her shoes will again have to navigate this relationship
with the president.
took a lot of heat for that and so that's why it has become such a critical factor in
this race.
And that relationship we don't know but it may be a little bit more contentious than
it was under Mayor Mario Bowser and Nicole Killian.
Thank you very much.
And despite the loss in, yes, in Georgia's governor's race, recent primary show that
President Trump's endorsement record does remain strong.
Dana?
It certainly does.
And Madison, that's gonna be a race to watch there.
Thank you so much.
It is.
Tonight, the votes are being counted and the reality is it's going to be a while before
we know the results of this election.
The history being made tonight is not being made by me.
We assembled the most diverse coalition in this city's history, united by a simple notion
that government must put people first.
Okay, now those are your top contenders in the race to be the next mayor in Washington, DC.
Votes are still being counted, but the woman on the left, Democratic Socialist Janice Lewis George,
has a lead. Some suggest it's a commanding lead, but we can't call it yet.
Is the nation's capital about to get its own Zoran Mamdani?
John Ashbrook, co-host of the Rufus podcast. John, good day to you. Hello.
Let me share with you some of her ideas that could be coming to Washington's way and cooperation with ice
Opposed the extension of a youth curfew free buses expand and rent stabilization
create car free areas
City on grocery stores universal childcare. I could go on go on but you already know all this
Does she win and if so?
What can we portend between her relationship and Donald Trump?
Well, Bill, it certainly looks like she's headed for victory.
I mean, as you said, they're still counting the votes,
but it seems like she has a commanding lead here.
And the president said last week that if she wins, he might federalize the city again.
So I think there's an awful lot of conversation about D.C. and how it's run
that will be had here over the next couple of months if she gets through this primary and
then ultimately wins in November. But you know Democrats always win in DC. What's very interesting
about this, and you mentioned her as possibly the mom Donnie of DC, is this trend on the dem side
to move towards social... Interesting.
Interesting.
What's interesting here is that this is not just any black woman, this is a democratic
socialist.
The list candidates have got about 250 socialists elected around the country.
Most of them are in blue cities and it's awfully hard for them to win elections outside of
those blue cities with the candidates like that.
So let's look at a map of that.
The Democratic Socialist wins in the U.S. and as you mentioned, a lot of them are the blue
cities but then that takes the Democratic Party more in the leftward direction.
And so then what I've noticed, John, is that the DSA is extremely organized.
They have created community for these candidates and you listen to her there compared to McDuffie.
is engaged, energetic. Even at their weekly meetings, they have opportunities for
allocution lessons. So I feel like they are taking this very, very seriously and
that they are just beginning their march across the country.
Yeah, they are very organized Dana. I mean, there's no doubt about it and you
got to remember who may be the most famous DSA's affiliated person is in
country, it's AOC. That's right. A long march, perhaps. The longest of, longest of marches.
It's a long march.
Pakistan statement on the signing. Why do I care? It's over. They've already accomplished
their goals is the table. Why are you sending me Pakistan's statement on the signing, the signature
of the Memorandum of Understanding? A lot of socialist-leaning Democrats see her as a potential
standard bear for 2028. So when you talk about the organization and everything they're doing with
Elocution Lessons and building up their party from the ground level, they see those as building
blocks towards a potential presidential run in 2028 with ASC. In the meantime, Democrats, at least
the establishment Democrats are trying to just absolutely put a muzzle on Joe
Biden's future. Here is Hillary Clinton. Last night in New York City she was
at 92nd Street Lai where for some reason everybody goes it's a hot spot and
she dropped this literal bomb on Joe Biden. He made a terrible mistake. He made
a terrible mistake for himself, his legacy, and for the country. I believe if
wait with Israel he had kept to that plan and said in say the late summer of
23 that he wasn't going to run that he was gonna pass you know the torch to
the next generation we would have had a real contest under say that any
Democrat other oh yeah he said he's gonna be a one-term president and then he
never fucking let go of power once he was there. Yeah. So here's the thing. Uh, that's
expected, you know, these guys, they're, they're assholes. Of course they're not going to fucking
do that. Um, but it's ironic for Hillary Rodham Clinton to say this and complain about this.
Joe Biden would have beaten Donald Trump. Any Democrat.
In cleaning her? Yeah.
That's what you mean. I don't think the quote had her name in it, but any Democrat. There's a series of like
governors, senators, etc. What do you think about that? Listen guys, I'm old enough to remember
2022 when she went to the Aspen Ideas Festival where big thoughts, where big brains think big
thoughts and Hillary Clinton said that Joe Biden was the guy who was going to win and
she was proud to endorse him for his re-election in 2024.
So she is, this is ridiculous, Monday morning quarterback.
Well, she said, had he given it up in December of 2023, Kamala Harris would have had a chance
just to get the quote down here, whether it was the vice president or a governor or a
senator or anybody else they would have beaten donald trump had they been given
going to go now to new questions about the taxpayers paying for some of truce
ballroom after today's mou i think he gets to have it
dsa moment
karate apart iraq measures dc dsa election night watch party chanting
this is the first results began to pile in as of
now all dsa endorsing affiliated candidates are set to win the race
including jennesy louis george for mayor huge night for dsa so proud of you motherfuckers i
swear to god dude holy shit look at this man look at this there's something real happening here
man there's some real happening here i really hope i really hope that these electeds don't betray us
i don't think they will
Janice, sorry, it's pronounced Janice. Never in my in my last 10 years would I have ever
thought that there would be this much motion, dude. Holy fuck. Anyway, here's Zoran being
asked about Israel again. You're out with your congressional hopeful. Trying to be me
again, dude. This past weekend, who also will be there at the standards rally, but you guys
It's rather a Jewish Muslim solidarity rally and I bring that up because I contrast that
a little bit with your decision not to be at the Israel Day parade, which you've been
very public about why you did not want to be there.
Dude, Dems have a major image problem among men and they're seen as unmasculine and then
every DSA person looks exactly like this guy, despite DSA actually hating Dems.
They get held up as the representative of Dem males, a soy boy demo, but in real life
it's a real problem, given that most of the politics is just bullshit vibes.
Nikki Kaja Nikola says, there's a DSA guy who doesn't look like that but I don't think you like him any better and immediately all the fucking centrist accounts.
He also looks like this and don't forget bro tip.
And then a post from 2013.
I mean he is perfidious.
That pig is totally doctored and filtered.
Uh-oh, hate is on, he's an awful person and grifter doesn't care, Tim's winning just his money.
What is this F word posting? Dude, Twitter is just this now.
The FC Discord got big mad because they're so psychosexually obsessed with you.
Yeah, it's very, very weird, man. It's very weird.
This is just what Twitter is nowadays. Anyone out there ever makes the mistake of being like,
I like Hassan. They get palestombed. I like, they get the Nazis. They get the
centrist liberal Nazis. They get the Israel first Nazis. Nazis of every different variety.
They get the Lollicon Nazis.
No, I want you at the parade
Uh, if you see me at the parade tomorrow, you hope you have permission to open mouth kiss me in front of camera like that sailor on vj
Day, that's why you say no wants me to be at the parade. I'm not going
um, we had
like there were um
There's just no way dude. I literally just was in new york. It was just not gonna happen
I wanted to not just go to the parade, but obviously they wanted me to go to the rally too, but I could not make it work
You know what I mean?
Ahem
My question is I defend you once and read it and they posted all my logs in here. Yeah, they're fucking crazy
is what do you see is the difference in those solidarity appearances and do you
think it sends the wrong message to Jewish members of the city who did go
to that Israel Day Parade? I've said time and again that I believe as the mayor
of our city that the ability for a parade to take place for it to be safe
and secure should not be contingent on whether or not the mayor is present.
There are a number of New Yorkers who attended that parade. My job was to
prepare for that parade to work with our police department to ensure it could be
a safe experience. And also that solidarity with a government that is
committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity
with people of a specific faith. I'm proud to be a mayor of a city with the
largest Jewish population in this country, and I'm prouder still of the kind of
solidarity we've seen across the city. And to your point about former
controller and hopefully soon to be Congressman Brad Lander, he is such an
incredible example of what that solidarity can look like and how we want
to be a city where we don't just ask ourselves, can we keep Jewish New Yorkers safe? No, we
want the threshold to be higher than safety. We want to ask ourselves, how can we celebrate
and cherish Jewish New Yorkers?
We're going to be talking about
the
future of the
DC.
We're going to talk about recent
DC victories.
that we are being flatly out-organized and settling for uninspiring candidates.
You could have downplayed it as a one-off with Mum Downey because Cuomo is such a terrible candidate. Hell,
I supported Mum Downey on here by the primary, but the pattern keeps repeating.
It's obviously a problem the National Democrats need to wake up to. Urban districts are core to the National Party.
If the SA eats your lunch there, you're in trouble.
I mean, why is that so bad?
There is a level of honesty
There's a level of honesty to what the the ultras say when they're like, oh the DSA is like rebranding the Democratic Party, right?
When they complain about shit like that when they're like, oh the
The the DSA is like saving the Democratic Party
Now obviously that's not the goal, right? It should not be the goal
But having said that
There is a level of truth and
And this is not an ultra. This is just a this is just a regular
Liberal Democrat who's complaining that the DSA is running and winning, right?
But there is some truth to that and it's kind of funny that the liberals are not smart enough about this
Like if liberals were smart about this they would welcome this
To a certain degree and be like oh my god all of the fucking excitement is on the side of the Democratic Socialists
Yeah, we're all, we're all on board. They're so stupid and so, so to their very core backed by corporate interests that they won't even do it.
They think this is like, they think that this insurgency is actually bad overall.
They're not even smart enough to capture the fucking energy and the attention that these candidates are, are unironically creating for the democratic brand.
And I don't personally care about revamping the Democratic Party or revamping its brand
at all or saving the Democratic Party.
I just care about having real fighters in every fucking, in every position possible,
down to the local level, all the way up to the presidency if that can even happen, right?
And I want them all to openly say that they're socialists, to openly say, look, there are
reforms that we're engaging in right now.
our goal is, at the end of the day, to completely revamp this system, right? To completely revamp
it, to completely change it, so that we put workers first rather than the interests of
capital, to dominate the interests of capital, right? I think electoralism is a major avenue.
That's the largest megaphone and the largest legitimizer you can actually lean into.
But I don't just care about like running democratic socialists and helping them win.
Joshua Apple of the Manhattan Institute wrote a whole tryhard essay on you, the paganism
The West was built on the belief that there is truth about the good that no act of will
can overturn.
Their belief is now contested.
The question is whether we still have the vocabulary and the conviction to defend it.
The Paganism of Hassan Piker.
The fall of the USSR was one of the greatest catastrophes of the 20th century and then
he would choose Hamas over Israel every time but in a recent sit down went a step further
They're doing discussion parties of the murder of the United. Oh my God. Okay. Then this is like I
Love that these guys are all Yale educated
Okay, like almost all of these fucking think tank dipshits went to Harvard
They went to Yale and they don't understand like basic Marxist concepts. Okay, let's see where he went
Let's see where Joshua Apple went policy animals for the Manhattan Institute
Oh, never mind. He went to Yeshiva University. And he's currently a crowd hammer fellow with
a Tick-Ville fund. And he writes for the City Journal, the Wall Street Journal, the
New York Post, Real Clear Books, Law and Liberty Commentary Magazine and National Review Online.
Never mind.
But the rest of the fucking, the rest of the Manhattan Institute think tankers are all,
the Tick-Full Fund is Mary Madison.
I mean, it's literally the least shocking turn of events.
wrote an article about my silencing. Yeah. Media's, so Sompiker Meltdown is about silencing descent.
It's true.
Fringe folks try to weasel in.
What's going on for 60 years jumping on a dog pile. Hell, yeah.
What is this? Oh, no, seems like the pool is leaking.
start a phone banking for Keros almost everyone I talked to was immediately on board was they
heard her policy goals they had just never heard of her phone bank is Tuesday and Thursday
evenings until the 30th we need all the help we can get the get the word out yes go phone
for Maylott Kuros.
I think that's a good question.
about his endorsements for Dariya Lisa.
Chevalier has come under fire for past comments
that she's made calling to abolish the police,
criticizing the military, calling President Obama evil,
calling President Biden a rapist and a war criminal.
She used profane language when describing
other top Democrats.
She criticized interracial relationships
and she even took aim at Senator Bernie Sanders
for quote, liberal Zionism.
Sanders is throwing.
Peace, not peace, not peace, not peace.
Doing a rally for Chevalier tomorrow
you'll be attending.
She's right, by the way.
I mean, look, I love Burndog, okay?
It's Uncle Burn, but Badi Elisa is right.
You know?
How do you, I guess, reconcile the criticism
and also, I guess, helping campaign for her?
Well, I think first and foremost,
I'm incredibly excited about her campaign
as well as Claire's campaign and Brad's campaigns
as campaigns that showcase the fact
the affordability agenda, the work of transforming the most expensive city in America into one
that's affordable, can't be done alone. So many of the people who not just voted for me, but can
this for me? Interracial relationships. Yeah, she was just saying, I forget what she said, but she
no, that's just like the media seasoning on it. I think she said something along the lines of like
people that people that date colonizer, whatever, it's just whatever. It's woke 1.0.
She didn't criticize interracial relationships. You fucking silly gooses. Oh
My god, oh my god, I can't believe how easy it is for you to fucking fall for the reactionary framing of Fox 5
exclusive New York
That was weird of her to say but it doesn't really impact politics. Oh guys, please grow up. Oh my lord
Yes, she was hyper woke. Okay, I disagree with it and on principle if you ever catch me fucking
Complaining about it. Shoot me in the head. Okay, please. Can we just fucking? Can we just fucking grow up?
Please can we grow up? Is that all right?
Why do we take every fucking tweet first of all think about the shit that you have tweeted
It's woke shit posting. Okay, you was shit posting
Think about every goddamn thing that you've ever tweeted imagine now that they're like you have a multi-billion dollar
Hasbra operation that's like combing through it to find the most cynical way to frame every single thing that you've ever said
That you've blasted off in the fucking ether. No, she's not dr. Umar. Okay, she's making a joke
Everyone needs to dial back their fucking fragility a million, okay?
Okay.
Chatter, who said that shit would be leading a figure in the PSL split?
Oh my God, please don't even talk about the PSL shit.
Please.
Oh my God.
It's so with the hope of fulfilling this agenda and the knowledge that it would require
partners at every level of government.
These are the partners that would help to do that work.
And when it comes to Daryalisa, you know, she recently was asked this question herself.
I don't even think she should have apologized, but you know, I'm not gonna hold it past her. I love her. I think she's awesome
You know, she can do no wrong in my books
Okay, she's she is going to be a great agent of change a great vehicle for a positive change that we need in this
Country, so I don't really give a shit that she apologized for certain things that she had said
I hope it doesn't impact her candidacy at all
What
Anyway, okay guys stop fighting over you know your your previous comments on
Oh, she's a black woman. She's in a tough spot when that's put on her I know
That's why the the chiose tag is the best woke one was crazy. That's it. That's all you got to say
That's all you got to say. It's so funny because Chi has this quality where he obviously has a lot
of radical politics, but then also people like this love him as well. You know what I mean?
It's very, very interesting.
Yeshiva University rabbi urged all students to register and vote against Daria Liza.
She is across the street on 100 at E1st by Bennett.
The most important rabbi at Yeshiva University never gets political, today he broke that
rule urging thousands of students to register and vote, Representative Espayat.
That's how important this election is, register now, vote June 23rd, Shabbat Shalom.
the office of our congressman, Adriano Espayat, who has been representing our group for about
20 years now. Every week there are demonstrations in front of his office by Palestinians and
pro-Palestinians, and he doesn't give in to them. He always supports our causes. He supports
the cause of Israel. Yeah, who does is they got scammed by Madoff. Oh, shit. I went to
Yeshiva University Lamar. I have so much about them. They got scammed by Madoff. That's
so funny.
It's an important election, a primary election that's coming up this June 23rd. It's already
June 5th today. They also went to the Supreme Court to avoid a gay club. What do you mean
avoid a gay club?
People who want to vote on this election have to register by June 13th. There isn't so much
time. You can register online and then you will get in the mail. They'll notify you how
you can vote. It's a very important election. I encourage everyone who lives in the neighborhood.
Someone told me that Florida is really flagged about the American flag. I mean, I don't know.
A queer student group like a GSA.
Wait, at Yeshiva University, they try to start a gay club like a queer student's association?
Really?
The
Sheva University Bands LGBTQ Student Club again after years long legal battle.
Why are you in Pride Alliance resettlement ceasing all litigation establishing a new
club?
me. Also, they won. Oh, so did the gay club. Oh my god. Oh my god. This is like, this is
the type of story that bricks a Nazi, because like, Nazis think all this like gay shit is
done by the jews
and at the same time you have uh... uh... uh... jewish institution
literally actively trying to sue
and and stop
a gay club from being formed
and it's just like and they end up losing too
so how does that work
sometimes i like to think what would it what would a neo nazi who's like one of
those guys who thinks
The Westboro Baptist Church protested and the YU students were like,
we agree with you about gay people.
It's more of a gay feeling support group with school psychologists.
It's funny that Israel sucks so much that even people in the U.S. who dedicate all their
time and political ideology supporting it don't want to live there and would rather live in
New York City.
Yeah.
They have a restaurant on campus called Golan Heights, Jesus Christ, dude.
Oh yeah, yeah, I mean, it's not surprising, but Jesus Christ.
Anyway, well, one of the guys who graduated from Yeshiva University is calling me a pagan.
Oh, that's funny.
Anyway, let's see what he had to say about this.
Daria Lisa, comment.
America into one that's affordable can't be done alone.
So many of the people who not just voted for me, but can this for me did so with the hope of fulfilling this agenda and the knowledge that would require partners at every level of government.
of government. These are the partners that would help to do that work. And when it comes
to Daria Lisa, you know, she recently was asked this question herself and she apologized
for, for some of the remarks she spoke about a regret for how the language that she used.
And I think she also showed the fact that her campaign is being run on what she is fighting
for today. And that is a message that I think is resonating with many across her district.
Why does nobody ever say their only reason why they pull up old tweets is because they
can't stand on their policies. There's a reason why people are demanding change. Dottie Aliza
might have said mean things about former Democrats, but she ended up voting for them.
And that's an experience shared by so many other Democrats. But the only unique thing here is that
Dottie Aliza didn't just stick to criticizing the Democratic Party and demanding that change.
She chose to be the change that she wants to see. And that's the reason why she's running for office
to better represent constituents just like her. That is what you say. Okay, for far too long,
we've plugged our nose and we voted for Democrats that we don't like. We voted for Democrats that
sell us an idea of change and never follow through on it. Dottie Aliza is the person who did that
for years, and this is a very common experience. I think she's trying the Zoran method but didn't
land in terms of apologizing? Yeah, I don't even like when Zora apologizes. I just, I hate apologies.
Okay? Only apologize if you've done something that's truly heinous. Okay? Only apologize
if you actually believe that you must apologize. Okay?
I apologize all the time, but it's for shit that I actually feel is worthy of an apology.
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don't even get me fucking started on that, okay? Don't even get me started on that.
I think there's a good balance between me and Zoran, okay? There's a good balance. I'm not
expecting someone to fucking behave like me, okay? Especially if you're trying to win people over,
especially if you're trying to win. I'm here to do agitative propaganda, okay? I'm here to
foment class consciousness. I'm here to tell you exactly what the fuck is wrong with this system.
If you're trying to win a popularity contest, which is what elections are,
yeah, you have to greatly limit your commentary. However, however,
There's also a level to it.
Hmm.
You see this?
I can't look away, Hananya's suit is simultaneously too long, too short, too loose, too slim,
too wide, too narrow, too formal and too informal.
I could not make it worse.
The dumpy shoes, white socks and cheap looking narrow tire just cherry on top I cannot comprehend.
How is this pot?
What?
What am I looking at?
How did this happen?
What the fuck?
What am I looking at?
Dude, if you showed this to Derek Guy, the suit guy on Twitter, he would kill himself.
I don't even understand how you can make this like how like the human body is not capable
of these proportions.
How do they do this?
And the pant leg caught in the white sock makes it so much funnier.
Bro, he looks like a like a one piece villain.
His body proportions are the same of a one piece villain.
How much better it be? No. Honestly, still not better. It's still fucked up kind of. Just not as fucked up as what this is.
I just don't understand what is taking place.
Uh uh uh
Old Mum Danya Fowe teams up with teachers union defeat dsa congressional contenders multiple
source confirmed to me, is arm of Dany's old foe scott schringer strangler an xDCT comptroller
is play a significant behind the scenes role in progressive unity fund and real fight New York
City the union backpacks fighting to defeat the mayor's house candidates in New York 13 and New
New York 7.
Great.
anti-Semites in the Sofi Stadium in Los Angeles.
Why should we move that? I'll remove mine.
You guys aren't trying to remove it?
Bro, bro literally thinks he can just, you know, bro thinks he could call the manager in every circumstance respect the bro
Oh, that's awesome.
He's about to activate Krav Magan, run towards the next child in a vicinity to body slam
them.
Yeah.
He's just going to kick a child in the head and be like, oh, what do you mean I'm defending
myself and then take their seat and eat their food.
Well, what are you talking about?
You're being fucking anti-Semitic, dude.
It's awesome.
I love pro-Israel people, like their only active protest is just to be as fucking physically
annoying as possible and then threaten to sue people for anti-Semitism.
It's awesome.
It's like, have you thought about being normal?
Have you thought at any point that you could probably be a better advocate for your cause,
not trying to give you any pointers here, but have you ever thought that maybe if you
You didn't behave like a fucking entitled shithead that perhaps more people would be
open minded to whatever you're trying to sell here.
I'm just going to tell you that I can't believe it, but notice how the other guys with the
Palsignan flag quietly put it away.
Just an important lesson to learn here, I think.
What is this?
Represent Caudiattini on the NAICS parade, I'm worried about the violence, look at Jalen
bronzen one amazing american citizen his wife is jewish he's a physical
therapist
are we gonna see more anti-semitism at this parade i hope not
do what the fuck why are people being so weird about this
it's like a decent chunk of american politics just about
weird philosemitism is that what it is it's
american politics has two speeds anti-semitism or philosemitism and
nothing in between it seems
like it's so strange
they always do this you know who else does this fucking nazis ironically
enough
this is exactly what nazis do or they're like well you know you might have
thought that this person is christian but i'll have you know
their wife is jewish and that means because judy is a mismatch really
really transferred his children are going to be jewish to so technically we
can put this media executive or celebrity in the jew bracket that is
literally what fucking neo-nazis on 4chan do?
It's so weird.
It's so weird, bro.
It's weird as fuck.
Why are you like this?
It's it's such a strange just be normal, man.
What the fuck? Why do you?
It's so odd to me that every single mention,
Every single mention of Jalen Brunson now, like from Rabbi Shmueli to these other people
is always like, well, did you know that Jalen Brunson's wife is Jewish?
Okay, who gives a fuck?
Why do you care?
What the fuck's wrong with you?
Be normal!
Look at Jalen Brunson.
What an amazing American citizen.
His wife is Jewish, she's a physical therapist.
We're gonna see more anti-Semitism in this sit in this parade.
What the fuck is wrong with you, man?
Yeah, I saw both sides of this argument.
There are people, there was like the truth exposed account
or something that was like J.L.M. Brunson's wife is Jewish
and that's the reason why they caused
the New York Knicks to win.
And it's like, okay, did they also cause them to fucking forgo like $100 million?
Because it kind of, it doesn't make any sense.
Were they responsible for his transfer?
The they that we're talking about?
It's so stupid.
Also, Jaylen Brunson's not Jewish.
So what the fuck does that even, what does that even mean?
Okay, I hope not.
I hope people can unify around sports.
It's one of the great things about sports is we can unify and we can put political differences
aside.
And I hope we're going to continue to do that.
You can dreams, but I'm worried about the vibe.
Yeah, but Adam Silver is.
Yeah, that's why that's why Adam Silver finally.
why Adam Silver finally gave the Knicks a W here. Because Jalen Bros' wife is Jewish.
It's so stupid. And then she starts talking about like possible anti-Semites into the
nigg's parade
They took my Israeli flight, and they're allowing the South Sea to fly to fly.
And now the lady at the airport is going to enjoy the rest of the day.
She's going to get the flight back, though.
They're allowing this flight to fly, but they're taking my Israeli flight.
Oh, that's so funny. They all hate him. Uh, excuse me. I know I'm being annoying and disruptive,
but if you actually call that behavior out, then you're an anti-Semite. And also you should
be ejected, not me. Each time he was asked to put the flag away is a new worst anti-Semitic
event to be flagged. I know the ADL, the ADL is like those guys that will be like, that's
10 bodies. Okay. The ADL was like, that's 10. That's 10 anti semitisms, dude. Log it, log it, log it.
You're not instigating with the Israeli flag, but those fools are instigating with the Palestinian
flag that's interesting. Hmm. Hmm.
What's your name?
The only flags that are allowed to be out are the 10s of the plane.
Can you tell them where the policy is?
Yeah, we can tell.
The Palestinian flag?
Yes, we did.
Well, they confiscated our slide, but not theirs.
Dude, dude, no, no, no, no, see, see, this is a guy you're not going to get help from.
Okay.
This guy might not be from Los Angeles.
Maybe.
Let me tell you, okay.
LA Sheriff's deputy.
luck. Okay. He's going to beat your fucking ass. Oh, dude. Oh, Los Angeles Sheriff's
Department. This is a one time will allow it. Okay. Let me tell you, he does not give
a fuck about your plate. Okay.
dude is from simi valley he drives a Ford f 350 and he makes 250 thousand dollars a year
and he gets a shit ton of hazard paid overtime pay and he beats the fuck out of anyone he wants
to and sometimes kills them he doesn't care about your plate okay
yeah he does not care about your israeli flag he's just like get the fuck out of my face dude come on
Israeli is coming to America expecting to be treated like royalty, but it's the World Cup.
So instead they're treated like they're on the rest of the world stage and it turns out that's not so hot. Yeah. No, it's awesome.
Oh my God.
Like, the World Cup is probably one of the worst places to be fucking carrying the banner
of Israel because you literally have not just, because like Americans due to our long-term
allegiance to the state of Israel have somewhat of a more positive approach to Israel and
its existence than the rest of the world does.
But when you're at the World Cup, you're going to see a lot of people that are not from America
in an environment
where
you know they're drinking
there may be celebrating or they're angry
they will fuck you up
okay
the rest of the world hates israel
far more
than the united states of america does
he get israelis finding out americans are not american politicians
yet one of the only places
where you can wave that flag around and get tremendous support is probably
in the halls of Congress. And that's pretty much it. Most other places in America, you wave that
shit around, they're gonna be like, get the fuck out of here, get this, get this goddamn monstrosity
out of here. Things are so bad for Mallory that University of Michigan voter has basically switched
entirely to posting Abdul content. Not University of Michigan voter. Am I still blocked by him?
Oh shit, University of Michigan voter has finally dropped the Mallory McMorrow beef.
University of Michigan voter who is literally not from Michigan and is not a
University of Michigan voter, but instead is I believe from New Jersey and
also now canvassing for Clair Valdez, which by the way respect the University of
Michigan voter. Okay. Has now officially unblocked me. We're back on election Twitter. Election
Twitter is coming together now for Democratic socialism. Hell yeah.
This was McMorris worst, worst pollster even for collapse. So it's no surprise. She's
fallen to single digits here. Another strong poll for outside. He remains well positioned
to pick up former McMorah voters while also winning over undecideds.
See, I personally prefer McMorah about seeing how she's not likely to win at this point
if I were a Michigander I'd vote for Abdul.
Yeah, also, what's crazy is because she doesn't have the machine politics that Haley Stevens
has, she's hitting that beautiful Pete Buttigieg spot, which means she gets 0% black support
and 0% 18 to 44 support because the black support, especially young black voters are
with Abdul al-Sayed, right? And probably some of the more conservative, some of the older
black voters that are like machine politics, enjoyers, they're probably going with Stevens.
I suspect Abdul will pick up a lot more black voters and black support in general though.
And yeah, Abdul's leading among voters 18 to 44 with 86%. Stevens at 3%. McMorris polling
0% with both black voters and voters under 44.
A new poll from XeA3Search on behalf of Common Defense fielded from 6-11-14 among likely
general election voters in Michigan finds Democrat Abdel Al-Sayed in a strong position
in a matchup against Republican Mike Rogers.
In addition to having higher vote share versus Rogers, then-McMorrah or Stevens, Al-Sayed
It brings in a unique coalitional advantages of the general election, and Stevens brings
unique vulnerabilities.
The difference between El Sayed and Stevens' vote shares, 45 and 43 respectively, appears
to be due to Stevens' relative unpopularity among voters who identify self-identified
as very progressive or liberal.
31% of progressive and liberal voters hold a strongly unfavorable view of Stevens, with
several saying they would stay home or vote third party if she was the Democratic nominee,
including some citing her ties to APAC as the driving cause, which coincides with APAC
taking a more active role in the campaign in recent weeks. 26% of progressive and liberal
voters say they would be undecided if Stevens was the nominee. Corp said these voters say
they would be undecided if El Sayed was the nominee. In matchups against Rogers, El Sayed
outperforms McMoron Stevens among very progressive and liberal voters. Notice how I, uh, every
time they pulled those, every time they put out those polls and they were like, I'll blow
a sale, we'll get destroyed by Mike Rogers. I didn't even care about that. Even one bit.
As I said, the more people hear about Aldous, I add the more they're going to want to vote
for him. And it's already a blue wave election year. It's not even going to be a fucking problem.
As a matter of fact, it would probably be a higher issue if it was Haley Stevens, uh,
that was the one who won the primary. And I was right. And those numbers are going to
keep going up from this point on. I was never even remotely worried about defeating Mike
Rogers. So, our boy is doing well.
Michigan hasn't had a Republican senator since 2001 and Rogers lost in 2024, the same year
Trump won, those people are coping, I know. To a much weaker candidate than Abdul El Sayed
too, it's not even a fucking question, are you kidding me? Abdul El Sayed is infinitely
stronger, infinitely stronger than, then, uh, uh, at least a Slopkin.
Please see my last chat message.
I know you like the joke about not mentioning all those first
gubernatorial race, but I actually think it's an amazing example as the
why you should never give up when you know your cause is moral and just,
it may not have been his turn last time, but this time the people are ready for him.
Yeah.
by the way holy fuck optola is leading 86% with voters between the ages of 18 to 44 86%
you were mentioned in the Mitchell poll in both times you were mentioned they called
you an anti-semitic podcast there wait they did they did another wait someone give me
the fucking readout. I need to look at the Mitchell poll. Zenith wouldn't do that. Adam
Carlson is not going to fucking call me an anti-Semitic podcaster, but it is very funny.
The pollster blames you for her collapse last paragraph.
One of the reasons for assuming collapse is the fact that El Saad had received a large
amount of unpaid media because of the endorsements of Senator Bernie Sanders and Hasan Piker,
the anti-semitic podcaster. Oh, that's awesome. We take those. We take those. We take those.
ADL database says this poll in its revelation is at least 15 bodies, 15 new anti-semitic incidents.
Me reading it, another 10 anti-semitic incidents, totaling 25 new anti-semitic incidents.
The ADL is clocking every single chatter who is laughing an additional anti-Semitic incident stop laughing
The numbers are going up
Also, this is slander I am not a podcaster
Here's the full readout.
Why doesn't it have it in here?
It's not showing up.
Is this the actual one?
Maybe they put it not in the summary, or they sent the summary to political.
Yeah, also, here's what's really funny about this, but they literally go, he's winning
because one of the most prominent Jewish politicians in America and a prominent anti-Semitic
Podcaster has both endorsed Abdul al-Sahed. He's the real coalition builder. Like it literally
doesn't make any sense, dude. I didn't even, I forgot. I forgot that Bernie Sanders is also
a Jewish politician for a second. This is the actual poll. They sent you the GOP one.
Democrats saw the impact of a strong leftist progressive wing of their party when it took
over the democratic nominating convention held to determine democratic nominees for statewide
office of secretary, state attorney general, statewide education board sees his home piker
who came into Michigan to endorse L say it and is considered by many to be anti-semitic
is probably a primary reason for L saids movement upward in the democratic party.
Finally, what is surprising is the huge erosion and support for Mallory McMurray.
One of the reasons for her seeming collapse is the fact that L said had received a large
amount of unpaid media because of the endorsers by certain Bernie Sanders and his home piker,
the anti-semitic podcast or while Hayley steve is at an outside organization's
spend more than six million on our candidacy our poll was conducted on June 11th to 13th
okay maybe that standard doesn't apply Bernie is also endorsed a person who wants
out a totem cough tattoo true
we need to start suing people who call you that whatever it doesn't fucking matter
On U.S. policy towards Israel, while the poll found Michigan voters evenly divided on whether
they sympathize more with the Israelis and Palestinians, a plurality supports ending all
U.S. weapons shipments to Israel outside its position compared to 41% who oppose it. Voters
oppose maintaining military aid to Israel at current levels, 33% support, 54% oppose, and increasing
military aid, 29% support, 60% oppose. New York 7 is the sleep of the wheel, 39% of what early voting
was on this day in 2025, probably not ideal for team Valdez, but still early days, early
voting turnout being highs on the Upper West side is a good early sign for Lashher. Though
those voters are always super locked in and there's a competitive primary between Eli
Northup and Stephanie Ruski in his assembly district.
Turnout being the highest plurality in black central Harlem at AD where Jordan right is
facing a DSA challenger, Conrad Blackburn is very surprising.
I'm unclear if this is good for Espeyot or Chevrolet given that it's thought to be a
swing area. RIT large, this is tracking towards a normal midterm primary turnout.
environment, nothing close to 2025, which almost certainly means an older electorate. Yeah,
this is what I've heard as well. Youth turnout is actually not doing great currently in New York,
which I don't know what else to do about that, to be honest. I really thought maybe we're,
maybe the DSA is taking the, I just can't even think about the Lasher Boris Schlossberg primary.
I don't even want to, I refuse to acknowledge that district's existence.
Huh, isn't it all election day vote? No, no youth turnout is supposed to be higher. I
Think that's part of the reason why they wanted me to go to the rally the Bernard rally tomorrow
I've been thinking of ways of trying to get Phantom or someone like New York influencers
on board with doing like a get out the vote initiative or something but I don't know
how to do that.
I don't know how I can wrangle them into that.
the broadcast now and go. I would think 25 to 44 being the highest turnout demo in New
York 7 would be good for Valdez. It's not good enough.
But yeah, go out and knock on doors. Tell your friends.
Okay.
Just ask Kaisenat to visit a polling place.
Kaisenat's Atlanta Streamer University, I'll just shut down over safety concerns. Jesus.
This is like, there's like America A, America B, and America C. I don't know what America this is.
this is. This is like, like the Kaizenat universe is so vast and so large, it just has its own
gravitational pull. Like, it's completely, it's, yeah, America, Kai.
He's handing out vivette merch, that's why that's funny.
Now he's handing out something far more consequential than that, an attempt at cloud, an opportunity
to gain cloud.
Bodegas are selling peptides? Oh my god, the future is now. They sell-
Bodegas are selling redditruetide?
Are you fucking kidding me?
I injected the bodega peptides and now I can hear the Wi-Fi. What do I do?
Bro
isn't this not isn't a super legal? I don't know third row ivermectin one bangs wait what do you mean ivermectin
Where's Divermectin?
Growth hormone support?
The FDA isn't even a real organization, dog, dog.
RFK's got this shit in the bag.
GHKCU is the hair and skin one.
I thought peptides were for skincare.
What's going on?
No.
Those are some of those are GLP one agonist some of those are literally fucking red a true tide is Eli Lilly
It's in the third phase of clinical trials in the United States of America right now
I've been paying close attention to it because I will be getting on it
When it is readily available for consumption
it's a
It's a appetite suppressor that also doesn't fucking erode your muscle mass
Streamer dead at 35.
Anyway, probably not.
Semiclutide is ozempic.
My partner works at the FDA, there's a lot of people who don't know about it.
I don't know what it is.
my partner was the FDA there's supposed to be RIRF in October
alright that's it ladies and gentlemen I'm tired what a fucking day this has been huh
we had booze Riley in the building what a what a motherfucking day
chat telling not to use it like when you first told us use minoxidil and finessera and they freaked out
yeah chatters are a bunch of babies okay anyway love you guys I will see you
tomorrow as always I'll be here I'm not going to New York for the fucking
Knicks rally nor the Bernie is Oron Lara Valdes, Dalia Lisa and Brad Lander
rally I'll be here love you guys
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