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PASAN PIKER
PASAN PIKER
Socialist, Communist, Radical Left Influencer
PASAN PIKER
Dirtbag Left
PASAN PIKER
Pro-Terrorism, Pro-Hamas
PASAN PIKER
PASAN PIKER
PASAN PISAN
Hassan, Hassan, Hassan, Hassan, Hassan, Hassan,
Haker, going on this vulgar rant, mocking wounded
Orvett for losing his eye fighting for our freedom.
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.
He won't take that, Hassan!
Why do you call me when I say it?
The Assemblyman will not denounce Hassan Piker, who said,
America deserved 9-11, dude.
The Assemblyman will say in his response,
Hassan Piker says America deserved 9-11.
There you go.
There you have it.
My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.
Now to the Michigan Senate race,
where Elsai Ed is campaigning in Michigan,
appearing on stage at two Michigan campaign rallies.
He's co-actively campaigning alongside Piker.
The man who said,
Hezbollah's flag is his favorite, because it's dope.
Why would you align yourself for a raging and a semi-frights?
Who has defended Hamas terrorists?
Calling them the lesser of two vests,
Israel's compared to the government,
people's compared to...
Lesser of two.
That's what I find a bridge too far.
When I went up to my good friend, Chad,
and said, hey, can you walk me through
some little controversial statements of a son, Piper?
Even Chad, he thinks he went out of his way
to scoff in the edges of a son and give me context.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Chats, I think it is.
The song, Piker, is campaign poison.
Placing yourself on the wrong side of a 9 and 10 issue
is only gonna make you look bad.
It's gonna be good for me.
It's gonna be good for the candidates that I work with.
Turns out it was true.
Abdul al-Sayed at 27% over largely.
Meila Kuros, everybody.
Nice to meet you.
Welcome to the broadcast.
Thank you for having me.
Oh my gosh.
What's going on, man?
What's up, dude?
See ya.
That was me enjoying it, yeah.
How are you doing?
He's trying to get me out of there.
Wow!
What's going on, everybody?
Hello, everyone. I'm in a fantastic evening, afternoon, freedom.
No matter where you are in the world, I'm Sam Pyker in this class,
and I broadcast coming to you live from sunny California, Los Angeles,
from Stolen Tonga, Melland, coming to you live and alive.
Ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls, and embies, the tansuit is back.
you already know Obama style. This is a new tan suit. Kyle Kalinsky fit is what people are saying.
Many people are saying we had to get the summer suits out for the boys. It's summer time. But
ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls and MBS were alive. We're alive. And I hope everyone's having
a fantastic one because today's a beautiful day. Today's a wonderful day. Today's a very special
day, you already know what kind of day it is and I'm just going to get right into it. Folks, folks,
it's a very special day. And is it perhaps because I just shot the podcast this morning?
Is that the reason why? Because that's the reason why I'm late. It's 11 20, right?
Is that the reason? Or is it a very special day because
Is it a special day because I worked out in the morning and did some back up or back feeling pretty good about that back looking peeled?
Is that the reason?
Or is there a different reason Brazil tie?
I did not intend for this tie to mean anything beyond the fact that it looks good.
Is it a special day because I had some phone sex with Mitch McConnell last night?
Well, it's it's all of the above but more importantly perhaps. It's a very special day as
it is
Very special day every time this day comes every week
Ladies and gentlemen boys girls and mvs. It's Friday
You already know what it is is Friday of four fathers
fought long and hard to make sure in the trade union movement, the labor movement, and the anarchist movement,
the socialists, the communists, they all got together and they fought to make sure that we have a five-day work week, ladies and gentlemen.
Four, four bearers, not four fathers, whatever, four scores.
That's right, ladies and gentlemen, we're live and alive, and we celebrate the Friday and the turning of the week,
of the week, turning over to the weekend, a sense of autonomy, a sense of purpose, a
sense of humanity that you were gained. If you like the weekend, thank the union ladies
and gentlemen, and you already know, we will always celebrate the Fridays, the Vibes are
going to be immaculate, the fit is immaculate, and that's right.
No, you didn't, but he did. Um, this is the part of the broadcast where I tell you about
my personal news about what's going on in the world of a song house and I'll be piker
and let me tell you the reason why I'm actually late.
This is why I'm party. The lea, the reason why I'm delayed is, is for good reason. Um,
first and foremost, uh, full house, full house today.
back from Turkey. Okay, LTI not gonna lie. Not sure why you're saying that, but the words are hurtful.
So let's get started. First, that's back from Turkey. Brought a bunch of his old suits and
whatnot. I'm wearing one of his ties. Okay, I'm wearing one of his ties right now.
know, um, he brought a bunch of snacks as well, a bunch of Turkish snacks.
So that's not good.
But, uh, you know, as always, I'm a shut ass loser that hasn't changed.
Um, and, you know, this is yet another shut ass loser moment for me hanging out
with dad, Austin is here as well.
My mom was here.
We're just, you know, we are, uh, we were just, uh, sitting around.
And and talking and hanging out
Now
That was the
That that's the the long and short of it
Nothing else going on in my life as always as you guys know
but outside of that
Outside of that I woke up super early this morning
woke up super early this morning to go work out and
and got to work out in, got a quick workout in,
and then immediately after the quick workout,
I went and shot the podcast.
We were shooting the podcast earlier,
and that's why I am a little late, okay?
That's right.
I'm a little late for that reason.
Also, also, I saw that my USA Today
interview finally came out. Very contentious interview. This was shot long time ago. Very
excited to watch that. Thank you. I saw the numbers guy thing. I have a DSA pin as well.
It's backwards, left hand shaking. Cool.
Will we, Charlie chirp today potentially? We'll obviously be following along with the
the, the, the Kirk, the Kirk, Kirk, you Asian, the Kirk, you Asian, um, count bin face, count
bin phase. Um, Matt, he says the quiet part out loud. Uh, yeah, we'll, we'll look at all
that and more. All right. Anyway, there was some drama about leaked evidence. People he
he what? You've got to be fucking kidding me. They're doing AI polling now. Oh yeah. No,
awesome. I love asking AI, who's the better option? We should just all be AI.
What is this? Israel shared intelligence with the US of Iranian plot to assassinate Trump's
sources today. We'll take a look at that and more. But yeah, that's it for the personal news.
Vibes are immaculate. Let's get into it. Let's get it twisted. Not much going on in my life. As always, you already know I'm a shut ass loser, but it's Friday, so we're going to have fun.
Cease far over, but negotiations continue. Situation monitor. Kirk Trial continues as conspiracies grow. Ice kills Texas men.
Uh, eyewitnesses, dispute, DHS statement, um, get in now, uh, we'll do Friday, Monday afterwards,
okay?
Um, but yeah.
USA Today Anti-Semitism Debate.
What gives?
Yeah, USA Today came in hot.
USA Today came in real hot.
And that was like a very contentious interview for some weird reason.
Uh, but, uh, you know, we'll, we'll, we'll take a look at that.
We'll start there potentially there.
Mr. Hassan Abbey, would you record a Turkish line for my band's album?
Thank you for your time potentially.
This looks like a stock photo used for, uh, law firm website.
Yeah.
Yeah.
They cooked my ass.
And they straight up Nick Fuentes, the soundbiker, click by click.
anti-Semites who goes mainstream. And it's actually kind of crazy that they just straight
up make that comparison. They compare me to like James Fishback. They compare me to Nick
Fuentes. It was kind of, it was kind of nasty. But we'll, we'll look at it. We'll look at
it. We'll watch it. But yeah, it is a genuinely an unbelievable, like it's, it's just going
to come across is like a silly attempt to conflate anti-Semitism with anti-Semitism,
I think. But I don't know. We'll see. We'll watch.
But yeah. Told you it was a waste of time arguing with these people.
Um, bros USA today is a shit rag with a thing for trying. I'm always trying. I always try.
I always try in good faith and it turns into something really fucking stupid. Also speaking
of which, speaking of combating antisemites and clavicular is in Israel and is collabing with
our queen, Olivia Reingold, who no longer follows me, by the way, she's moved on to
bigger and better things, it seems.
Maine Democrats have released the update. Maine Democrats have released an update on the U.S.
Senate nomination process. We'll be talking about that, obviously, and more. But yeah,
I fell off. I fell off. Abdul is number two in fundraisings on AK Blue fundraising above John
awesome. Even though he's not even the candidate yet, which is huge. Okay. Spectacular. Wonderful
moment. Very exciting stuff. Okay. You will never understand the average main voter. Yeah. I saw
this. It's one of the dumbest things I've ever seen. The main independent guy who was like,
I will never vote for Troy Jackson because he's homophobic or was homophobic 15 years ago,
which is why I'm voting for Susan Collins. It's like, I'm well, I'm too woke for Troy Jackson.
that's why I'm voting for Susan Collins is a really funny thing. I just, Maine is like one of those
states where under normal circumstances, I'd be like, they hand selected these fucking people.
You know what I mean? They selected these people to like come up with a very specific narrative,
but honestly, Maine is literally the only state in the nation where I feel like, Maine and Iowa,
Actually, predominantly white states end up creating very interesting and very unique
types of politics, okay?
So we will do that.
We will watch it.
Here's the video linked to USC today.
It's already here.
I have it ahead of me.
But yeah, Maine is one of those places.
It's very interesting.
Yeah, we showed we showed chimpanzee how the median voter operates and he hang he hung himself. He hanged himself
But in any case let's get started with the USA today piece 25 minutes long. It's not that long
They just kind of cooked my ass
And we'll move on from there. I don't think they cook my ass necessarily they cook themselves
But they were very contentious. Let's take a look the conflicts in the Middle East are
are changing the way that young Americans look at Israel.
But the political debate is also leaving the door open
for extremist views to enter the mainstream
from the far right.
I think that Jews are causing a disproportionate amount
of problems in the United States.
To the far left.
You f***ing bane pig.
You f***ing bloodthirsty violent pig dog.
Anti-Semitism.
That's right off the jump.
Like, that's a hatchet job.
Okay. Right off the rip. That's a fucking hatchet job. Like comparing me to Dan Bilzerian,
you're not going to make anybody, you are not going to be able to get people on your side with
this. So the question I have is, who is this for? Did Jonathan Greenblatt write this article?
Did you write this specifically for a couple people, like the last remaining people in this
country that care about this sort of stuff, like genuinely care about anti-Semitism, but
also at the same time are like very, very pro-Israeli. Who is this for?
It's researching around the world and it's reaching dangerous levels.
2025 was one of the most violent periods.
And right on cue, you got Jonathan motherfucking Greenblatt.
It's we've seen in memory over 200 acts of violence committed against Jewish people.
I'm Will Carlos and I've made it my mission to examine how extremist movements are gradually
becoming mainstream in America. This is extremely normal.
I'm here in Tampa, Florida at a campaign rally for James Fishback. He's a long-shot candidate
for governor on the Republican ticket, but he's attracted many young men with far right beliefs
over a specific issue. Israel. Look, you can love Israel. You can hate Israel. But last
time I checked, this is the United States of America. I have a crazy radical. Maybe it
makes me an extremist. But here's a very simple statement. No American should ever
die for Israel.
Like here's the other side of the story.
When you show someone, this controversial opinion, but when you show someone like James
Fishback, who is actually anti-Semitic, who is like unbelievably racist, but then while
you're making an argument about his anti-Semitism, you show him making like a coherent point.
You don't end up making that coherent point look anti-Semitic.
You just make him look not anti-Semitic, or even worse, you make everybody go, wait,
that's anti-semitic, I'm fucking anti-semitic. This is something that a lot of the anti-extremism
space has not been able to identify, unfortunately. And I think partially because so many of these guys,
myself included, like I've been doing this for years, right? You know this. I've been working
in combating extremism, far right extremism my entire life, okay? And I used to be friends
with a lot of these people. I used to see a lot of these people as my peers.
One of the craziest things that I realized is that a good deal of the combating far-righted
extremism space was straight up only doing this because they were using it as a valid way to
identify anti-Israel anti-Semites, okay? Straight up. This doesn't mean the entirety of this
anti-right-wing extremism movement, and all of these civil rights advocacy organizations
are like the ADL, but many of them are like that.
It's unfortunate, but it's true.
A lot of the big donors to these institutions, I thought, were legitimately invested in combating
fascism, no matter where it was coming from, even if it's the fascism demonstrated by
Zionism.
It's a very sad state of affairs that turns out a lot of these like anti far right guys
simply were just looking at Nazis because Nazis were some of the, the most common and
most visible aspects of the anti Israel movement in this country for the longest time.
It's sad.
There are people who have obviously been fired or have quit their jobs at the ADL who at
once was billed as a civil rights organization. You can dispute that, understandably dispute that.
But there were people who, I think, genuinely believed that the ADL was supposed to be combating
anti-Semitism, but also combating numerous other forms of far-right extremism. But when Israel
is the far-right extremist country, and your job is specifically to defend Israel and to take out
its most prominent critics, some of which are going to be Nazis, some of which are going to be
actual anti-Semites. But because your primary focus is combating anti-Zionism, well, you can't really
be a genuine, you can't really be a genuine ally in the fight against far-right radicalization.
You're actually fomenting far-right radicalization. You're actually defending far-right radicalization.
And it's just, if it's Jewish supremacist, if it's pro-Israel, then you don't see it.
As a matter of fact, you like it, as a matter of fact, you defend it.
The main thing is the way he goes, stands up for America against Israel.
He's the only politician doing that.
I feel like we're not allowed to criticize them at all.
And then any criticism is just immediately shut down as anti-Semitism.
I think that the average American is fed up.
They are fed up as they were five or six years ago when folks in the Democrat Party would
criticize any opinion contrary to DEI or affirmative action as racist.
And now, if you criticize Netanyahu, if you criticize the fact that we're sending $5 billion
there, we're spending $200 billion per the Pentagon's request on this war that in the
words of Secretary of State Marco Rubio says is because of Israel's preemptive attack,
that is deemed as anti-Semitic.
But the popularity of fishbacks attacks on Israel isn't just specific to his belief in
the country's financial and military dependence on the United States.
He's also gained a lot of fans in the far-right Gen Z group known as Groypers for his use
of phrases and rhetoric that have been labelled deeply anti-Semitic.
If you wanted to set up our kids for failure, you would feed them the absolute goyslop in
our cafeteria.
Goy Slop is an anti-Semitic internet slang term combining Goy, a Hebrew Yiddish term
for a non-Jew, and Slop, meaning low-quality food, originating from...
We will never have a serious conversation about Zionism or even combating anti-Semitism
because of the way that Jews were historically viewed in the Western world as a marginalized
identity as a minority versus what Israel represents, what Zionism represents, or even
like the contemporary Jewish existence. Like, is there systematic discrimination against
Jews in the United States of America or broadly in the Western world? No, of course not. Is
there actual antisemitism, specifically antisemitism growing in the Western world? Of course, yes,
is happening. So, this is the problem. The problem is that we can't have a normal conversation
about even something like Goyslop, because on the one hand, it is a terminology that
neo-Nazis use all the fucking time. It's a signal. It's a signal to say, I know this
thing. It's also funny, but that's besides the point. But here is the problem. The way
that like Goyim is deployed in Israel is very different than the way that it was mass adopted
by the neo-nazi movement in the West. So if you are, if you're bracketing Jews as a
contemporarily marginalized identity that receives tremendous amounts of systematic
discrimination in the same vein as like black or brown people, right? If you're, if that's your
assessment, which many of these groups do, many of these advocacy organizations do that,
to the average person, you're not going to be able to get your point across at all,
because it's also not true, right? It's just not true.
And that's the problem. If you want to head a factor, why are you clothed like these days?
I have no idea what you're trying to say, but I hope you have a great, I hope you have a wonderful Friday, my friend.
Cloth like this? In any case, the worst part is that even those of us who oppose the 8th
semifinals and 7th semifinals understand the role of Zionism plays an exacerbating and
have to ultimately accept the 8th semifinals and will probably continue to rise even if
Zionism is dismantled purely due to the lingering personal effects of 75 years of Zionism have created in the broader public conscious
It won't go away overnight. Even if it's related tomorrow. Oh, absolutely
absolutely um
So I
Always figured it just meant non-Jewish. I mean most people don't use it as a derogatory term
But some do because being non-Jewish in Israel is
being second-class
Which, therein lies the problem, because it's topsy-turvy. Historically, we have been taught,
for understandable reasons, about the systematic marginalization of Jews, the pogroms, the
holocaust, right? Like marginalization that has led to tremendous amounts of violence
that Jews have faced, right? Expulsions, death, destruction of their culture, all this stuff.
Now, of course, in contemporary society, there's nothing of that sort, right?
Especially in the post-World War II universe that we're living in, there is no systematic
discrimination or rather, even the systemic factors of discrimination that existed in
the post-World War II universe in the United States of America have gone away, right?
Like, there was a reason why Jews would create their own law firms, Jews would create their
own advertising agencies, Jews would create their own secondary market that doesn't exist
anymore, right? Like their own publishers. That was because they were outcast systemically
from the regular, you know, the regular WASP firms that were dominated by white Anglo-Saxon
Protestants for the longest time. So that's not the case any longer. And it hasn't been
the case for, I would say the last like four decades, five decades at this point.
I don't know what the actual turning point is, but it's clear that that doesn't exist.
Like the systematic discrimination does not exist any longer. And yet a lot of these advocacy
organizations that want to defend Israel will make it seem as though the systematic form
of discrimination still exists. Like are Jews non-white? Is that what's going on? Are Jews
being treated as non-whites. For some, that is the case, right? There are some people out there
who look at the primarily Ashkenazi Jewish population that lives in the United States of America
and say they're not white. But those people are usually, let's be real, anti-Semites, okay? By and
large, for the average American, Jews are white. They don't see Jews as anything but white people.
It's the, in most respects, it's seen as like an Irish guy or a Polish guy, right?
Maybe a special kind of white at most, but still white.
So that's a real issue in identifying anti-Semitic markers and then having this kind of approach
to it where it's like, well, someone says, going slob, it's like anti-Semitic.
By and large, usually in most circumstances, the person utilizing this terminology is probably
anti-Semitic in the Western world, but there's also the other side of this.
Around 2016 on 4chan, it's used to describe processed, unhealthy food or low-quality media,
alleging a conspiracy that Jewish elites are promoting these products to make non-Jewish
people unhealthy and submissive. Well, I meant to be funny. Okay. I want to be funny.
Why is in the same way growing up, my mother who was born in South America would call what
my dad would make gringo slop sometimes as a kid. So I mean, was that, was that a.
Yeah. It's also, as we already know, the groper movement is the most diverse movement in this
country. Ironically enough, like with the exception of, I think, having like black people in it,
the groper movement is like fairly diverse, probably more diverse than like maybe even at DSA meeting.
James Fishback is of course carrying the torch of that diversity being, you know, a visibly
non-white person who is unbelievably white supremacist.
Conspiracy against every single Hispanic person in the United States?
Of course not.
Well, no, but Goetz law, as far as I understand it, the idea is that this is food that has
been foisted on non-Jews by a sort of Jewish cabal to weaken them in some way, right?
I mean, that's the conspiracy.
That's what you were taking your hand at.
I don't know that that conspiracy reflects
what I actually spoke about,
which is our public school cafeterias
are feeding kids absolute garbage
with high fructose corn syrup, high sodium.
Well, that's not particularly punchy or funny.
And so I'm gonna do things that are funny, that are punchy.
I wish we would spend less time talking about word choice
and more time talking about the issue
that we have an obesity crisis in my state.
We have a hunger crisis in life.
Like this needs to be delicate.
You need to be delicate.
If you're fucking looking at anti-semitic dog whistles
and like objectively anti-semitic people,
you have to be a little bit more delicate.
And I hear him, I hear what James Fishback is saying,
and I see the way he's defending himself as a nod, right?
This is something that anti-Semites do all the fucking time.
Like to be like, oh, what are you talking about?
I'm brown.
Well, how dare you accuse me of such a heinous mirror?
Except the problem is, if you are going to turn around
and say, this is the other side of this argument
to try to find some fucking ideological parody
where none exists, you are going to give him credence.
When you slap the other side of this as Hassan does this too,
okay, you're giving James Fishback credence.
You're giving him legitimacy.
No one is gonna fucking take this argument seriously.
no one is going to come through his assessment, especially when like the worst things you
can say about what James Fishback has said about like, you know, it's not necessarily
like international jewelry or more like objectively and obviously directly anti-Semitic shit
and simply things that he has said that he can easily say, oh, like I'm just joking here.
You know what I mean?
Especially in this day and age,
where TikTok has basically taken the 4chan terminology
and made it appropriate for mass consumption,
it gets a lot more difficult to identify
who's actually doing the fake, I'm not an anti-Semite
to fuck around and who actually isn't an anti-Semite.
There's also the other side of this,
where you're boosting their popularity
or offering them more legitimacy.
I agree with you, but respectfully,
I think you made that the conversation
when you used that term.
Perhaps.
Okay, fair enough.
Perhaps, but I don't regret the use of that term whatsoever.
What I think we have to do is spend less time
trying to police language
and more time actually getting to the issues.
Antisemitism has of course been around for centuries,
but it's seeing a resurgence, particularly in America,
around the same time that the Israeli government
has invaded and attacked Gaza in response to the Hamas-led terrorist attacks against
Israel on October 7th, 2023.
That conflict has been deeply unpopular among Americans, many of whom see Israel as having
taken a disproportionately violent response.
But here's the thing, while a lot of Americans blame the current Israeli government, the
Do you regret having the policy of not having or covered or platform Nick Fuentes in the past and shutting him down given how much prominence
He's gained now. No, it was the appropriate thing to do at the time
But it's over now has also come against Jews in general across the globe and especially here in the US
And this scapegoating
Blaming Jews at large for the actions of the Israeli government has been seized upon by internet savvy influences with extreme views
I'm just going to come out and say it, like, I think that Jews are causing a disproportionate
amount of problems in the United States.
Jews are money changers, bullsh** artists, psychopaths, charlatans, grifters, manipulators.
That's also led to outward minimization or even full denial at the Holocaust, one of
the most tragic events in human history, which led to the deaths of more than 6 million Jews.
Ever since the Holocaust, the alleged Holocaust of roughly 6 million Jews, give or take some
millions.
There's so many problems with it and to exterminate that many people in that period of time.
Like you can't front load this level of anti-semitic commentary that's like directly anti-semitic
commentary and then be like, and on the other hand, here's Hassan.
And then the only thing you can point to is me being like, yeah, it'll be really funny
if uh you know and then I use the the term inbred one fucking time over the course of
10 000 hours of fucking commentary many of which prominently features me combating anti-semitism
while simultaneously talking about anti-zionism what are you doing what the fuck are you doing
I simply put there one enough ovens let's talk about the holocaust do you believe the holocaust
happened. Do I believe that the German government killed innocent Jews? Yes. Do you believe that,
I mean, the number that's always cited as six million people? Do you believe six
million people died in the Holocaust? So I tell you the truth. I haven't seen this other side,
but now it's beginning to make sense to me why he asked me such dumb questions. I don't know if
he featured all of our interview because we talked for like an hour and 30 minutes. And now I'm
beginning to realize why he asked me those questions as well. And I was like, yeah, of course,
what the fuck are you talking about? And I couldn't comprehend the way this was pitched to me,
and I knew that it was going to be a rat fuck, but the way this was pitched to me was, like,
I'm in this space, I've combated far right radicalization, I've combated antisemitism,
and therefore, like, you know, they're trying to get my perspective on, like, the growth of
of anti-Semitism broadly, okay? And the interview that I conducted with this guy, we talked
extensively. We talked extensively about the dangers of anti-Semitism and like how it's
working on the far right, how it's growing on the far right. And then he would ask me
questions like this. And I found that very odd because I was like, why the fuck would
I deny the Holocaust? Like, you know what I mean? Like, I just couldn't, like, I can't
remember because this is a long time ago, but it's just like very strange that at the time I just
at the time I thought it was like an odd interview. I've spent more of my time thinking about
the history of Florida, the history of our state, how we can make that great. I haven't
spent a lot of time studying Holocaust history. I know that time and again in U.S. history,
we've been told one thing only to have it debunked later. What I can unequivocally tell you
Is that the genocide of jews by you're in the video for like two minutes? He talks about you more than you're in the video
Yeah, I think there's a reason for that. We we did an extensive sit-down
That was long as fuck. We talked
for hours
We talked for an hour and a half maybe two hours. We went way over
If you only put five minutes in there and mostly just talks about me that's because they couldn't get anything out of it
German government was a tragedy. It should never happen again. I'm not sure why we are
talking about the Holocaust in 2026 to tell you the truth. I don't think we should crack
down on legitimate speech. I think we should absolutely condemn any form of religious hatred,
including against Jews. But there always has to be...
So isn't that a good thing then that we talk about the Holocaust? If we want to ensure
that these things don't happen again, and we want to keep religious hatred.
But when we talk about the Holocaust in the context of having a debate about Israel or
Benjamin Netanyahu or APAC, why would that be relevant?
I think it's relevant because it's all within the context of Israel defending itself, right,
and Jewish people defending themselves, which is what they claimed the war is about, right,
is about defense, and it's about offense for defense, and it's about ensuring that there
isn't another Holocaust and that they don't get wiped out again, right? Or almost wiped out.
So this war doesn't appear that that is in fact the case when upwards of 80 civilians,
80,000 civilians rather, have been killed at the hands of the Israeli government in Gaza.
We have to have a real conversation about what is happening in the Middle East.
There's this often question, does Israel have a right to exist? No country has a right to exist.
people or endowed with the right to exist.
You don't want this guy being the fucking credible guy here unless you are directly trying to
present anti Zionist speech as being inherently anti-Semitic.
And I'm sorry, I think that's precisely the point for this piece.
They're showing a guy who's objectively anti-Semitic and a grifter and a snake who was like, you
know, hanging out with Barry Weiss a couple months prior to his congressional run where
he decided to be a griper. Okay? When you have a guy like that, also make coherent points.
When your take, when your perspective on Israel is coming from and out and about like neo-Nazi,
Okay? You're not doing a service to Jews. You're certainly not actually combating anti-Semitism.
You think you're doing a good job fighting back against anti-Zionism to present it as anti-Semitic,
because here's an anti-Semitic guy, right? Here's an anti-Semitic guy making the same
points that someone like myself makes, right? All of a sudden, you're like,
See these guys are anti they're all anti-Semitic anyone who says anything about Israel that makes these realistic points
Points that have been made not just by James fishback or not even just by myself
But points that are indistinguishable are and and theirs identical to what norm Finkelstein has said about Israel to what elan
Papa has said about Israel to what avish lame has said about Israel to Gideon levy's
assessment. Half of the people that I just mentioned also currently live in Israel. Elon
Pompey and Norm don't, but, you know, Elon Pompey is Israeli. Avi Shlame is Israeli. Gideon
Levy is Israeli and lives in Israel still. Gabor Maté is a Holocaust survivor who has
also said these exact same things that James Fishback is saying. So it's important
But I think people who care about anti-Semitism care about right wing, right wing attitudes
growing in society, who care about anti-Semitism growing in society.
Okay.
What?
Yeah.
Let's make the 9-11 guy the face of the level-headed anti-Israel movement.
Movement.
Brie, I love you, but we have to get rid of the parasitic state of Israel and stop the
genocide.
Norm is on board against Israel.
I'm not even gonna dignify that with a response.
Through self-defense, through self-determination.
I don't believe that.
Dog, you're literally, you just looked at, you looked at James Fishback, a fucking
grouper and I'm criticizing making a grouper the face of the anti-Zionist movement and
you literally said he's the normal guy?
That's what you...
Are you okay?
I'm the 9-11 guy?
Who do you think is more normal or closer to the average person's perspective?
Me or the guy who's like, you know, Byron Donalds is black.
Israeli government has a permanent right to exist, regardless of electoral outcomes,
geopolitical considerations, the will of the people.
Jewish people anywhere in the world, but especially in the United States of America,
absolutely have a right to exist. This talking point about Israel's right to exist and self-determination
has become one of the most hotly debated issues when it comes to Israel and Jews as a people.
The key term here is Zionism, which refers to a movement and belief that Jewish people have the
right to self-determination and a state of their own. It serves as the foundation of Israel as a
country after the Holocaust. But people I spoke with across the country on the left and the right
use that term Zionist in a sort of automatically derogatory way. They define Zionism not as...
Yeah, this was a conversation that took place with me as well. And I think I did a pretty good job
But let's see what they put in a nation to existence and safety, but instead equate Zionism with Israel's
Expansion into the West Bank and Gaza young people at right-wing political events
Yeah, I wonder why people on the left with equate Israel and Zionism the the underpinning
Ideology that developed the nation state of Israel, which is a settler colonial expansionist state that
started off with the ethnic cleansing of 750,000
indigenous Palestinians. I wonder why people would equate that. I wonder why academics would equate
Zionism with exactly what Zionism is and was and has been. Making this argument, as though it's
like a crazy thing to say, in 2026, when prominent Jews who live in Israel, academics are finally
coming to terms with this reality, and they're trying to basically game it out in a way,
basically game it out in a way where they're like trying to slowly but surely get people
to comprehend what Zionism is by talking about what Zionism, in air quotes, has become.
Omar Bartop is the, of course, a person that I'm talking about.
Omar Bartop is a Holocaust scholar, he's Jewish, he's Israeli, he wrote a book about
what zionism has turned into
now many people will look at that and say what do you mean what zionism is
turned into this was on his mall is has been
i see
something positive in that experience
what i see is
a guy
who's lived his whole life in israel as a jewish guy who is a prominent
holocaust historian
coming to terms with the reality that zionism has
become
And maybe always has been a right wing fascist ideology.
Obviously, it takes some time for people like Omar Bartov to basically come to terms with
that reality.
It's just cope, but it's healthy, okay?
It's healthy cope in some respects.
Because that means that certain things that you never could discuss, certain things that
would immediately outcast you, no matter how prominent of an academic you might be as a
Jew, are now being openly discussed even in Israeli society.
Now, has it taken root in Israeli society, this ideology that like the founding ideology
of the settler colonial state has maybe merged into something fascistic?
I don't think so.
But ultimately, there is a movement in the positive direction, movement in the direction
of truth, okay? That's it.
Left wing protests.
The reason why I'm bringing all that up is because I'm not alone in this assessment.
This is the assessment of many scholars, okay? This is the assessment of many scholars. This
is the assessment of a lot of thoughtful people who have poured their whole lives working
of this, even people who come from that background of assuming that Israel is actually a force
for good, a place for Jews to feel safe, a place where the Holocaust can never happen
again.
Like, even if they've grown up with this mentality, they're finally recognizing that
it's fucking bullshit.
It's not just random scary Muslim guy or 9-11 guy in the way that some dumb fucks were
we're trying to explain it in the chat.
It's the assessment of many Jewish scholars as well.
Not that it matters.
It's the assessment of many humanitarian rights
organizations and many scholars in general.
It's a fucking right-wing ideology.
Tess alike told me they're not anti-Jewish,
but they are anti-Zionist.
One of the most popular and controversial anti-Zionists
is the leftist political commentator, Hassan Piker.
So don't tell me that when you're peacefully
trying to coexist with Israel, they let you
f**king peacefully coexist.
Because what is going on in the West Bank
is nothing but violence.
Pico's amassed more than 6 million followers
across his social platforms with his blunt
and aggressive reactions to right-wing politics,
and particularly against Israel's current leadership.
And he's recently entered the political battlefield,
stumping for progressive politicians
like New York City Mayor Zoran Mandani,
Pennsylvania Congresswoman Summer Lee and U.S. Senate candidate for Michigan, Abdul El Sayed.
He's also made speeches on college campuses like Yale.
Donald Trump let the Israelis drag the U.S. into this newest war with Iran after three
years of bipartisan support for the genocide that Israel was committing on a different
front of Israel's multiple ongoing wars of aggression.
Zionism is the ethno-religious supremacist ideology that is exterminationist and principle.
Dude, this suit was so small. It's like, it's embarrassing. Look at this shit. Look at this shit.
Look at how tiny this fucking suit is. Tiny suit!
Thank God I've grown from this. And by that I mean, I've gotten smaller, but my suits fit better.
Holy shit, that's so bad. It looks like I got chicken legs on.
born out of the wrong assessment that this was a land without people for a
people without land. It required the extermination of the indigenous population
and that's precisely what has happened since its inception and it's a final
iteration of that. It has been the Gaza genocide that we watched unfold.
Would you notice that that's a very different definition to what many Jews
would consider Zionism? Of course people that want to support Israel are going to
look at that and say, well, Zionism, to me,
means something entirely different.
Zionism, to me-
Maybe it just does.
Maybe it just does mean something different.
Yeah, but at the end of the day,
it's still this ideology that is responsible
for not only the inception of the Israeli state,
but it's current version.
When Hassan Pai.
Yeah, like, I don't care what people think about it.
Like, I don't know why this is a decent counterargument,
argument, right? Like, oh, well, a lot of Jews think Zionism is something different than what
it actually is. It's like, okay, but what is it actually, right? What is it actually? Which,
in this interview, I also brought up Omar Bartov as well. I said, like, actually, that's not even
true. There is like, now a reconsideration of what Zionism has become. And I think a lot of
people are fighting back against their social conditioning, even Israeli Jews, like prominent
Holocaust scholar Omar Bartow has like now officially come to terms with this evolution
of Zionism. Now, we might have a difference in opinion on what Zionism always was versus what
Zionism has become, but we have no difference in opinion of what Zionism looks like in modernity,
in 2026. What Zionism looks like in 2026 is the expansionist greater Israel project
And it's continuation, okay? That's it. But the issue here is we can't have a normal,
sincere adult conversation. We can't do sober analysis if you got charlatans like Jonathan
Greenblatt who take this difference in opinion and turn it into something insidious, right?
It's so fucking frustrating. It's so stupid.
Proudly says he's an anti-Zionist.
Anti-Zionism is a form of anti-Semitism.
It's the idea that Jewish people, unlike Muslims, unlike Christians,
unlike all the people in the world, don't have a right to a state of their own.
That's what it means.
Jonathan Greenblatt.
Like a guy who's combated far-right radicalization in a civil rights organization
being like, what do you mean?
Why can't Jews do manifest destiny in the same way that Christians did?
Big dog
For years and years your entire job was to literally combat white
Nationalists who fucking said America's a Christian nation and we need to fucking make sure that it's a Christian nation
What do you mean?
This is
directly
Antagonistic to the way that the ADL has billed itself as a civil rights organization
This is also antagonistic to the ADL's commentary and criticism over the likes of Nick Fuentes.
This is why I say there is not a lot of difference between Christian supremacists and white supremacists.
They are just fascists for their own in-group and Jonathan Greenblatt as a Zionist is a fascist for his own in-group.
Okay?
That's it. Jonathan Greenblatt is a fascist for Jewish supremacists.
Nick Fuentes is a fascist or white Christian supremacist, what he considers to be white
Christian supremacist, which of course, you know, one can contest whether or not Nick
Fuentes even fits that bill considering that he is a in the closet gay Mexican, but also
a white supremacist.
But regardless, these are both fascist ideologies, they're both supremacist ideologies.
is just the in-group and the out-group have swapped.
Is the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League.
The nonprofit was founded in 1913,
and its mission is to combat anti-Semitism
and broader discrimination around the world.
Today, the ADL uses technology to track-
So I'm sorry, but if you're doing this,
if you're promoting the ADL in this way,
I think you're doing a disservice as a journalist
to combatting extremism. The ADL is an extremist organization. Okay?
And they see not just sort of self-determination, but they've come to understand Zionism as expansionism
So I get that we have to try to understand the next generation where they're coming from
Dude dude
It's a settler colonial enterprise. Of course. It's expansionist
What are we talking about?
The question if we're being serious the question is is it appropriate or not if you don't see the Arab
indigenous population as human beings, you look at it and you say, well, this is Taman
the Barbarians. This is civilizing this uncivilized area.
And ironically enough, I did have this conversation with this guy. I hope he fucking featured at
least some of it. I talked extensively about Jabotinsky, Theodore Herzl, early Zionists
and their assessment of what they were doing and their openness about how this was a colonialist
project.
I don't think that they featured any of that in this conversation.
Where the fuck is the full cut, man?
Release the full conversation.
At the same time, there are absolutes.
They can look at things in different ways.
But Zionism is the right of Jewish people to self-determination in their ancestral homeland.
That's it.
It's all it is.
So you can be upset with Prime Minister Nyahu and some of his policies, but he didn't
event Zionism any more than you could be upset with President Trump's and his policies.
He didn't event kind of America or patriotism, Piker and others, exploit the broad misunderstanding
of what that word means.
And they promote misunderstanding by using it as some kind of slur, or trying to suggest
it means something that it doesn't.
My Zionism, and I am an unapologetic Zionist, I believe it's right to exist.
The ADL has monitored anti-Semitism from the left and the right, but Greenblatt says they've
seen increasing use of anti-Semitic rhetoric from the left over the conflicts in the Middle
East.
Piker has been a specific concern for the ADL.
On their website, you can find a roughly 10 page research analysis of moments that they
say Piker has used blatant anti-semitic rhetoric.
You f***ing bane pig, you f***ing bloodthirsty violent pig dog.
Pig dog is identified as an anti-semitic.
That's not even a real anti-semitic dog whistle, by the way.
That's not.
It's not.
really fucked up that they had to like invent an anti-semitic dog whistle to make it seem
like I'm saying anti-semitic shit.
That's how fucking easy it is, dude.
They did a make it up after the fact moment.
They used their prominence as an institution that fucking combats anti-semitism to come
Come up with a new dog whistle, post-hoc to make it seem like I was saying some anti-Semitic
shit.
Insult, often used in conjunction with other anti-Jewish-
That's crazy dude, that's crazy.
I guess in many respects this should be expected.
Also, I wasn't saying that to a Jewish person regardless.
It doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter.
it's fucking bullshit. It's so funny because like one of the only people, I mean, there
is literally a conversation that I had with Donio Sullivan on camera, okay? A conversation
I had with Donio Sullivan on camera where Doni, and as we're on our way to the DNC,
starts asking me about how I call Republicans hogs. And I tell him, I call all matter of
like right-wing reactionary people, hogs or sometimes inbred, okay? And he's like,
don't you feel like that's mean? And I'm like, well, they're mean. Their whole worldview is nasty,
right? So it's literally out there, the numerous instances, including on CNN,
where I have, and that was featured on a CNN piece. So like, it's literally out there
in these other mainstream media platforms where I've straight up been like, no, I
Fucking, of course, I call it hog. It's it's pejorative, but it's also affectionate at the same time as well
The thing is
They still do this
Right, they still do this
But it doesn't work. So why are you still doing it?
like what
utility do you get out of
Trying to strike down one of the only motherfuckers out there who still
takes the time out to try and combat anti-Semitism. I will never understand it,
okay? I'll never understand it. You are destroying your legitimacy. You're
destroying your legitimacy. The conversation in and of itself is already
stupid. Even if you were bringing up an anti-Semitic person, like an actual
anti-Semitic person, they can just turn around and go look at fucking Randy Fine.
Randy Fine is justifying current existing forms of violence. You want to
fucking call me an anti-Semite. Most people are basically at that point where they just don't give a shit.
So I always find it strange that they hyper-focus on a person who does give a shit.
And the irony here is this doesn't make people look at me differently. This doesn't make people look at me and go,
I guess he's anti-Semitic. I guess this entire time I was wrong, he's just an anti-Semitic guy, you know.
I feel really shameful about supporting him all these years when I heard him combat anti-Semezon
They look at this and they go I guess James Fishback is not a fucking anti-Semite or a secret third option where they go we like it
Who cares
That's the current environment and none of these fucking assholes are aware of it because they can't slay
They can't pull their goddamn heads out of their assholes. It's lodged up their own asses
They don't even realize that like a normie the average American does not give off fuck about anti-semitism
It's so stupid
That's right such as references to blood thirsty or in German Shweiner jute Jewish pigs
That's not that's a different word you added Jews
Fuck I didn't even know he did
Do you regret any of the things that you said?
I mean, I've spoken for 21,000 hours on contentious subjects from a perspective that most Americans
are not privy to.
So I'm sure that there are things that I've said in heated moments because it's a very
contentious environment.
It's a medium that requires interaction.
If they serve in the military and then they get their fucking untrained inbred shit is
shipped into southern Lebanon? Again. Again, very funny.
When I'm calling like a settler or something, inbred, it's not different than me calling
a neo-nazi inbred. Is it nice? No. Is it kind? Absolutely not. It's vulgar, for sure. I understand
that. But it's not saying like all Jews are inbred or anything like that. That's not what
I meant. That's not what I mean at all.
You see how Piker is essentially saying the same thing that James Fishback told me? When
He chooses to use a word like dog or inbred to define a specific racial group, Jews.
He says, it's just colorful language like fishback calling cafeteria food, Goyslop.
It's just crude language that gets taken as...
You're a fucking idiot, dude.
I'm sorry.
You are so fucking dumb.
you added Jew in there to say like Shwina Yudin, like Jewish pig, right? You added that in there.
That's not what I'm saying. I'm not even speaking German. I'm speaking English.
And secondly, you're such a fucking moron, dude. You are so stupid. If your goal is anything,
like, here's why this is so dumb. Number one, this doesn't de-legitimize me. It legitimizes
James Fishback. So if your goal is to combat anti-Semitism, you're already fucked up. Okay?
You're already fucked up. You're platforming anti-Semites and you're making them look fucking
reasonable. That's number one. Number two, if your goal is to defend the nation state of Israel,
you're already fucked up. It's not going to happen. Most people hate Israel for good reason.
So now you got prominent anti-Semites looking like they're fucking reasonable in this conversation.
Why would you do that?
Why would you fucking do any of this?
It doesn't make any sense.
Who is this for?
It's not 2016 anymore, man.
People know, people know what's up.
Oh my God.
I just like this doesn't even work to defend Israel. That's the other side of this
It doesn't even work to defend Israel. No one watches it goes. Well
I'm gonna really reconsider my position now. No, it just makes people go. I don't give a fuck about this
It's woke one but for Israel supporters, but it doesn't matter
It doesn't matter because for the last three years people have seen a genocide unfold on
on their phones, okay?
They saw it every day.
And then they saw the Israeli
state that was conducting this
genocide, turn around without a
shred of irony and go,
you know what's really the problem?
My feelings, my feelings, when you
tell me that this genocide is
wrong, no one is going to take
this seriously.
Just give it up.
Give it up, it's over.
Give it up, find a new method.
This is the old method, it's not working.
The, as a matter of fact, not only is it not working,
it's actually backfiring.
This is what makes people more anti-Semitic.
This is what foments anti-Semitism.
Because people go, I don't care.
I don't care at all.
And as a matter of fact, I like it.
Okay, that's how they respond to it.
Anti-Semitic.
I think defending being vulgar is a silly exercise.
It's like trying to explain a joke.
It's never gonna be funny.
It's already over.
I'm telling you sincerely what I believe.
I'm not precious with my language is what I'm saying.
The critics like Greenblatt.
Yeah, I had a, you know, it was really fucked up too.
I remember this conversation.
I literally told him,
I know this is exactly what neo-Nazis do.
And I had a meta conversation about the fucking piece
that he ended up creating.
the meta conversation that we had was,
this is how anti-Semites get away
with saying anti-Semitic shit,
which is why you have to be extra careful
in not conflating prominent critics of anti-Semitism
who are also anti-Zionists with anti-Semites
who claim to be anti-Israel,
but are simply using Israel's unpopularity
to slam in a much more nefarious subject,
a much more nefarious goal to say,
this is how all Jews are.
because without realizing it,
you yourself end up playing into that narrative.
Wow.
That's crazy.
Don't buy that.
Hassan can say whatever he wants.
We bring the receipts.
So I'm not gonna judge him
on what he says to you in a conversation.
I'm gonna judge him.
Oh, you're just looking,
this is what's so funny about it.
It's just like, if I wasn't such a stubborn person,
if I wasn't so fucking autistic,
I would have given up on this shit a long time ago.
I would have been like, yeah, whatever, call me anti-Semitic.
Who gives a shit?
Plenty of people have already gone there, okay?
Because the reality of the matter
is the most consequential element here
is Israel's foreign policy,
what it's done in Gaza, what it's done in Lebanon,
what it's doing in Iran,
and how much Israel's foreign policy
melts into American domestic policy.
Americans realize this. They're frustrated by it. They hate it. They don't want it. Okay. So all of these conversations by anti-Semitism
are completely secondary to the real material harm that
Palestinians have experienced the real material harm that Lebanese people are experiencing currently the real material harm that the
Iranian population has experienced and even the secondary consequences of that to the American society that broadly is frustrated with this
unlimited tax dollars go into Israel and want it to change and then get yelled at
for being anti-semitic, for being, you know, the demands that they see about
deplatforming. The demands that they see about deplatforming and the success
that they see about deplatforming on, you know, on numerous fronts. They hate
that shit. They hate it. So for them, anti-semitism does not have any weight any longer. Okay?
For the longest time, anti-semitism held a lot of weight. Okay? When you called someone
an anti-semite, that meant something. Now it doesn't mean anything. And it's because
of this, and they're still doing it.
And in the base of what he says to his audience, day after day after day, when you call Orthodox
Jews inbred, when you describe the Jewish state as evil, as Hamas, a terror organization
committed...
No, I didn't say it's as evil as Hamas.
I said, Israel is far more evil.
It's more evil.
It's a slaughtering Jewish people anywhere in the world that says it in their charter.
Those are their words.
green green with Jonathan Greenblatt what the fuck's wrong with this guy
Yeah, I know there's a piece of this that I saw
And we all
Bro said I debate him on anti's items. We've simply concede the Zionism is good and legitimate ahead of time
Others have called out piker support for Hamas the Palestinian militant group responsible for the October 7th attacks in Israel
He's described the group as the lesser evil in the ongoing conflict. Hamas's original
1988 founding charter explicitly called for the destruction of Israel and the killing of Jewish people worldwide an
updated version of the charter in 2017 removed references to the destruction of Israel. Yeah. Yeah, they did the PR
They did the PR thing. Okay. This is the PR method like
dog
Hamas is an operation, is an organization, openly, openly says their operations are only in occupied
Palestinian territory. It's a nationalist group. Okay, it's a fucking nationalist group.
They have no ambitions beyond the occupied territories. That's it. Its primary focus has
always been the end of the occupation. Now, in 1988, when it was a fucking, an Islamic charity,
a Muslim brother had got out. Yes, it had anti-Semitic language in his starting in his
foundational charter. It's not the same fucking organization any longer. Not that it matters,
because no one wants to talk about why Hamas even exists or why it became a militant resistance
front. Why it became the leader of the militant resistance front. Perhaps it has something to
do with the fact that Israel killed all the Christian Palestinians, the secular Palestinians,
the socialist Palestinians over and over and over again, and reduced them into nothing.
And the only group that survived that process, that Culling, has been these guys. That's it.
What the fuck are Palestinians supposed to do? If their goal is the end of the apartheid,
the end of the occupation, yeah, they're going to fucking be like, all right, whatever. And
now I don't even agree with these guys on domestic policy. I don't agree with the way
that they leave the world, but I do agree with one thing. We got to fucking end this occupation.
If that's your primary focus, you're going to find yourself taking up arms alongside them,
Which is precisely what happened
They're declaring to confront what they call the Zionist project and upheld arm persistence
What is this the Nazis called Jews Jewish vermin if you call Jewish person vermin without adding Jewish are you
Playing into the historical slur or not is this guy trying to fucking debate this shit?
I'm using another example to explain the principle clearly. No way did I say he said that dog dog? I
I don't even use the term pig dog now because I'm like worried that people are gonna think
it's anti-Semitic because they just decided that it's now an anti-Semitic terminology.
Having said that, if we're actually having a real conversation, just to see your conversation
about it, no, pig dog is like red alert communists talking about fucking fascists, okay?
Fascist capitalist pig dog is like the most common fucking utilization of it in modern
pop culture.
a new it's it's such a not real issue that even fucking Jake Tapper didn't know what it was most people don't know what it was
They're they're like, oh, maybe I guess they're supposed to be it's supposed to be an anti-semitic term
I don't know I'm supposed to assume that this anti-semitic if you're supposed to assume that something is anti-semitic then it's probably not
Okay, it's stupid as fuck
As far as being pro-Hamas, okay, as far as being quote unquote pro-Hamas, I've made it
very clear, okay, there are condemnable actions of the Palestinian resistance group, ne, thank
you.
There are actions that are condemnable at the end of the day, but you have to match
them up to the systemic violence that Palestinians have experienced in the same way as analyzing
than that eternal rebellion, as opposed to the systematic enforcement of chattel slavery.
Which one is far worse than the other? Okay? Because the reality of the matter is, the
standard of violence is always set by the occupational forces, the occupying forces,
the settler colony, okay? And resistance groups match that level of violence. And as violence
towards civilians increase in frequency and its regularity, the magnitude of violence
increases, so does the violence as a form of militant resistance, okay? These guys didn't
just come out of the gate swinging like this. That's why it's almost a cliche at this point
where people say, look, the first thing that the father was fought was stones. The second
one was bus bombings, okay? It has evolved over time because the maintenance of an apartheid
is an inherently violent endeavor. It's an unbelievably violent endeavor. You cannot just
Fucking section off certain aspects of society into these little pockets and bully them and kill them with regular frequency with impunity and
And arrest them permanently without a real trial and then assume people not to fucking fight back
Of course, they're gonna fucking fight back militarily
Just because one is
State violence and the other is is violence against said state violence oftentimes in a defensive posture and sometimes in an offensive posture
It doesn't change that dynamic at all. So whenever people talk about like, oh, here's the boarding
homos, it's like, I believe the Palestinian people have a right to resist militarily.
And it's not just my belief, it's international law. Okay? Some of that takes the form of war
crimes. Absolutely. But even when you're making an assessment on the war crimes, you have to look at
what they are responding to, the systematic violence, the unbelievable amount of war crimes.
Israel's existence is a war crime. Okay.
Is one ginormous war crime?
That's the reason why I don't fucking stand down when I say like lesser evil.
Uh, uh, when I, when I do the, uh, Hamas, the lesser evil,
I'm a lesser evil voter, that kind of thing. Okay.
So I'm, I'm down here.
Reveals that Taylor Swift has already paid the cost of permits and public
research used for her Madison square garden wedding at Hassan, the hunt. Okay.
You said that you supported Hamas a thousand times.
Hamas is a thousand times better than Israel. The numbers probably have increased now that
Israel is doing what it's doing to Gaza in Lebanon as well.
But aren't you just justifying violence with more violence though? I mean, like that's
what it sounds like. I mean, if ultimately the goal is peace and a diplomatic solution
to that. Yeah, this was, I think this was the one moment where I got so mad at him that I literally,
I mean, I don't know if they put that in there, but I straight up was like, dude,
You think my statements and not the maintenance of an apartheid for 75 years, now 80 years,
is what makes a path towards peace impossible? You think it's not the expansion of the settlements
projects over the course of the last four or five decades now that has rendered the two-state
solution impossible? It's my statements here in the United States of America. Get the fuck out
of here. I'm analyzing what's going on. Yes, then doesn't it set back that cause by
support, expressing in very stark terms support for a group that is engaged currently in acts
of terrorism.
I think Israel is doing acts of terrorism.
I think America is doing acts of terrorism.
But you can be against both, can't you?
I mean, you can be...
Well, of course, I am, right?
And I have said that any kind of targeting of civilians is a war crime.
It's heinous.
It's completely unacceptable.
It's not an endorsement necessarily of, of militant resistance.
Sounds like an endorsement.
It's not an endorsement of militant resistance, but it's, but it's a recognition, but it's
a recognition of their desperation.
I think you could ask.
I should have said it's not an endorsement of all tactics of militant resistance for
the record.
I should have said that, that was, that was wrong of me to say it's not an endorsement
of militant resistance to recognition of their desperation.
I should have said it's not an endorsement of all of the things that militant resistance
those because there is a level of endorsement that I absolutely stand by, right? As far as like
the, the permissibility inside of the boundaries of international law, and even beyond that,
I'm much more understanding of like the, the desperation as well, because I think it's more
important to recognize it. Having said that, as far as like militant resistance endorsed by
international law, that is perfectly defensible, things that Hezbollah does against the Israeli
occupation in Lebanon is endorseable. It is literally valid. It is not a violation. Israel
is violating international law in that situation. And the same goes for targeting military infrastructure,
for targeting members of the military. When people say stuff like, oh, this guy was kidnapped
from a tank, for example, you can't make that argument. You're not kidnapping someone from
inside of a tank. A tank is a military asset, okay? That's not kidnapping. That's taking
a prisoner of war
okay
it's very important
it's a lot of people who are kind of spouting anti Zionism
does israel have a right to exist and most of them would say always justifying
murder if you say that a prolific serial killer is much worse than a person who
is killed only one person in that person happens to be the serial killer
you're obviously justifying murder
that's the argument
on the one hand got the fucking zodiac killer on the other hand you got the guy
who's who's uh... you know parents have been victimized by the zodiac killer
going and finding the zodiac killer and killing them and you go well i guess you
endorse violence
it's so stupid and most people understand that this is stupid
that's the problem for these guys
which you know brings me back to my main point which is that this is an
unbelievably dumb way to go about this when you try to both sides the
situation when you try to fucking pair me up with people who don't make this
assessment who are cynically actually trying to launder anti-semitic
commentary into mainstream discourse and they've succeeded. Part of the reason why they've succeeded
is because of this dumb shit. If this is the only way you can combat anti-Israel sentiment,
you're always going to fucking lose. And not only are you going to lose, you're also going to
refuse to recognize that the bottom fell out of like, you know, any kind of,
any kind of combating of anti-Semitism in this country. The bottom fell out a long time ago.
These guys don't realize this so they just keep fucking pumping this narrative over and over again
Oh look like even this guy is uh, who's saying he's simply combating uh,
Zionism is actually saying that uh, all Jews are violent and and he's violent too
He's violent towards Jews. Did you not realize he's violent towards Jews? But why not endorse Milton resistance? Oh my god
Oh my god. Are you fucking brain dead? Are you fucking brain dead? I literally just said I misspoke
I should have said, I don't endorse all forms of militant resistance, but that doesn't mean
I don't endorse militant resistance.
But of course, of course, there are fucking dumb fucks who heard me say that and not my
commentary beyond it.
There have been a million instances where I've told you what my position on this is.
Why?
Why are you so dishonest?
It was sure okay with Israel as is we're just not we're just not okay with certain things that the Israeli government is doing
Which is that is totally legitimate like for someone to say like I'm okay with America
I just want to do with what President Trump is doing right or I was a kid with America
I didn't do the president Biden was doing right that's normal
Mm-hmm, but when there are people who say that the country is more evil than the terrorists to blow up
Yeah, dog
Sorry sucks to suck but yes the people fucking resisting against 80 years of apartheid and occupation and
Blowing up little babies in their fucking homes and inside of their incubators murdering them inside of their incubators is worse
Is worse than the people fighting back against that? Sorry
Yeah, he said I hate Rose but respect Rhodesia in principle I
Hate Adolf Hitler, but respect Nazi Germany in principle. See how stupid that is?
is dumb, is dumb as fuck, and even the silliest person, even the dumbest person can understand
how fucking stupid this sounds. Especially because let's be real, this is the other side
of the story, and I've said this for years, if you've been in here long enough, you know
this, you've heard me say this, it is far more difficult to explain to an American the
concept of anti-genocide and principled anti-Zionism than it is to educate an American on anti-Semitism
and make them anti-Semitic. Okay? And these guys make that far, far, far more difficult
to create an environment that is safe for Jews, that actually fights back against anti-Semitism,
while simultaneously is principled in their anti-Zionist, anti-Fascist, anti-Genocide
stance. Okay? That's it. Americans understand simple narratives. And it's a very simple
narrative to say, Jews control the media, Jews control finance, Jews control American
foreign policy, Jews control American domestic policy, especially when you have prominent
Jewish people that sit on a, sit, like, look at this, look, look, like this, this right
here is creating anti-Semitism.
You're sitting inside of a fucking mass surveillance room, okay?
And you got this dumb fuck being like, yeah, all these people that criticize Israel, like,
they just don't do it the way I want them to do it.
is us surveilling them all across the country. What do you think people are going to look
at this and think? They're going to go, wow. Wow. There's a real fucking headquarters
where they're doing, like a villain layer. There's a headquarters for finding, you know,
finding Americans, identifying Americans and surveilling Americans to make sure that they're
not doing wrong think? What do you think the average cornbread
Iowan is gonna think when they fucking see this? If they encounter this image alone, frame
one they're gonna be like oh my god, oh my god, this is cartoonishly evil. It's like
Fucking villain layer where you're mass-surveying
Yeah, ADL got a whole ass back cave. Are we gonna talk about this?
Buses and try to intentionally kill civilians like something's wrong with that. I think that's kind of yeah, you know what's wrong
You know, it's the difference. You know, what's the the reality?
There is from the perspective of those who were killed
Functionally, no difference between a bus bombing and an American missile that blows up an entire city block.
As a matter of fact, the American missile that blows up an entire city block kills more people, okay?
That's it. The underlying hidden premise here, that is not so hidden, is that Jonathan Greenbott doesn't think victims of Israel are human beings,
because he is a supremacist, because he's a fucking fascist. That's it.
That's the big difference between someone like myself is someone like Jonathan Greenblatt. I
Think Jews are human beings and so are Arabs who are not Jewish. Okay. That's the difference. He doesn't he only thinks one group is
Valuable that's the problem. He only thinks one he only recognizes humanity of one group are recognizing humanity of both groups
That's the problem
So fucking disingenuous, kind of a warped set of values, I really do.
It's clear that the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East are changing the way that Americans
view Israel's government and America's decades-long relationship.
And here's the thing, like, this is also a not-so-subtle disciplining operation, right?
to be like, there's only one appropriate way to fucking, there's only my way to criticize
Israel. You have to criticize Israel my way. And it's like, well, you don't get to have
any legitimacy in this process. You know that, right? You don't get to have any legitimacy
if we've heard the way you talk about Israel, okay? At most, I'll listen to fucking Peter
Beynar and I'll have my reasonable disagreements with him. And that's fine. But you don't get
to have a say in this, Jonathan Greenblatt. That's it. That's the problem. Like, why do
you think you get to surveil the way people criticize Israel? Like, what the fuck is this
nonsense? Why do you think you get to have a say in the way people criticize Israel? Like,
most people don't give a shit about this. Most people don't have this consideration.
Why would they have this consideration?
With Israel.
But it's also very clear that anti-Semitism is reaching extremity-
Peter Brinand would be considered anti-Semitism.
Yes, I think Peter Brinand is great.
We have some disagreements, but it doesn't matter at the end of the day because I think
he's a legitimate voice who recognizes the humanity of Palestinians, right?
Like he might have his old, old-guy concerns with the way that I use my language, right?
we've had a long extensive conversation about, we've had a long and extensive conversation
about like me saying that Zionism is Nazism, like he takes offense to that. But at the end of the
day, that doesn't get in the way of us, you know, coalescing around a peace and emancipation for
Palestinians. So it's fine. Those are some disagreements that we have. It doesn't matter,
right? It's secondary. He is someone who is, at the end of the day, a person who's invested in the
emancipatory cause, right? I'm grateful that I spent- Yeah, brilliant take for Peter Brigham
on pro-Israelis who kept calling anyone that said, Israel is withholding food from Gaza,
anti-Semitic, immediately shipped to their target boat with Israel officially and publicly
withheld food to, of course, Israel is withheld food. What are you crazy? You think they should be
feeding their enemies? Their standard is what Israel does is right, and it should never be subject
to any international or American pressure. And those are the terms of which you have to defend
that change. That's what I mean by the, by a position of worship rather than a position of support,
which I think is de facto idolatry. This clip from a lecture attended, I attended Peter two weeks
ago in Vienna. Peter here highlights the argument that Israel supporters used to justify apartheid
against Palestinians are identical to use, to those used by South Africa as apartheid regime.
There are people who are trying to kill us. Apartheid is protecting us from those guys.
How well did equality work for the rest of Africa? When you look at Congo,
Nigeria, and Zimbabwe, do you see flourishing liberal democracies? We understand what Africa is like.
Injurious levels. Evident by the real world violence against Jews.
We've been dealing with anti-Semitism since 1913, but we've been systematically tracking it for almost 50 years.
In 2025 was one of the most violent periods we've seen in memory.
Over 200 acts of violence committed against Jewish people in 2025, out of a total of 6,200 some-eyed anti-Semitic incidents.
Synagogues, schools, offices like this one, literally, they're fortified like citadels with bulletproof glass and security guards and alarm systems.
But the truth is, every Jewish establishment, every place where Jewish people walk, or where
they shop, or where they socialize, you can't live behind barbed wire and walls, which is
why ultimately anti-Semitism is everyone's problem.
Whether you're on the left or the right, anti-Semitism is indeed everyone's problem.
And that's true, even for Jews who are somewhere in the middle, supporters of Israel who are
outwardly opposed to prime minister Netanyahu and his government.
Either Israel is always right and you can't force that.
Oh my God, here we go, Jeremy Ben-Ami. I would love to have a combo with him.
See, I would love to have a combo.
Because Jeremy Ben-Ami at least is going to be a little bit more reasonable
than fucking Jonathan Greenblatt.
But I'm down to have a conversation with him.
You know, that's another guy who I'd love to talk to
and explore the boundaries of his ideology and maybe the clear contradictions within
liberal Zionism.
Oh, my God.
But once again, this makes no fucking sense.
You don't get to dictate how people fucking criticize Israel.
You can complain about anti-Semitism, but I would say as someone who is a steadfast advocate
against anti-Semitism, you probably shouldn't put me in the fucking crosshairs.
You can keep doing it if you want.
Not saying Jeremy Ben-Ami does this, because I think he has disagreements with what I've
said about Hamas and whatnot, but he doesn't, the J Street guys won't go so far as to say
Hasan is anti-Semitic, at least in public, okay?
At least on camera, right?
like obviously Jonathan Greenblatt traffics in this ridiculous nonsense on a daily basis.
Here's the thing. Here's the thing. Nobody gets the cats out of the bag, right? Israel is a
pariah state. You don't get to fucking determine how people talk about it any longer, especially
when the violence that Israel has contributed to in daily Palestinian existence and daily
Lebanese existence is far greater than the hypothetical violence in the future that you
are trying to prevent by claiming that like anti-Semitism is going to grow and that there's
going to be violence that happens in the future. Because one is happening right now,
the other one is potentially going to happen in the future. And then to package that up with,
to package that argument up with, you know, what I'm doing as like also increasing that
likelihood of violence in the future is fucking insane. It's insincere and it's also leading to
more anti-Semitism. Well, oh, it's wrong and it's the worst country in the world and the
truth lies somewhere in the middle and so does the majority of the largest
group of American Jews and their opinions lie in the middle. Our organization is here to advocate
for that to try to change American policy and also change the public conversation to have space to
to have that difficult conversation.
J Street is a liberal Zionist advocacy lobby group
based in Washington, DC.
The group describes itself as the political home
and voice for pro-Israel, pro-peace,
pro-democracy Americans.
J Street opposes the current Israeli government
and its policies, but it also doesn't support
the more extreme opinions of far left commentators
like Piker either.
I have to be what's called a liberal Zionist.
I believe that in the founding of the State of Israel, there were certain promises made
and certain commitments made about the type of state it was going to be, that it would
provide equality for all, regardless of their race and their religion and their gender,
that it would be a light unto the nations, that it would pursue.
Yeah, what makes this funny is pre-October 7th, the ADL praised me for fighting anti-Semitism
in my chat and in AOC's chat as well.
through the rule of law and equality under the law.
And that, to me, is my Zionism.
But the debate over what Zionism is
has been going on for 130 years
within the Jewish community.
And this Netanyahu, Benvir, Smotrich,
right-wing vision of Zionism is not what I mean
when I say I believe in Zionism.
I'm curious as to whether you...
Dave, fully just dropped discussing
Fuentes and Fishback.
This video is only about you now.
I know.
think the majority of the conversation that's going on about the relationship between America
and Israel is of that format at the moment, or is it being dominated by more sort of shrill or
louder voices? A very difficult part of what you do must be attempting to counteract the
nick-point of the world. Do you think that they have a lot of influence in how people think about
Israel? Well, I think you can look at the polling and you can see the influence the more that you're
30 seconds of a soundbite can get just clipped and sent around the more you're going to have
an influence these days. This is not limited just to the anti-Semitism question or the Israel
question but folks on the right and folks on the left using the most outrageous possible language
and having no folks on the left to have an hour long conversation that gets into nuance and
that's bullshit. That's bullshit challenge for Jeremy Benamy. Let's do it. Live streamed.
No censorship. No editing. No cuts. Love to have you on the broadcast
Would love to have you on the broadcast for as long as you want to talk we can have a conversation about this
Would love that
Bullshit, I did fucking two hours with the guy you're talking to and he put like three seconds in it to just
Shop up my fucking statements to be like see he's just the same as James fishback. That was insane
I sat down with James Fishback and talk with him for an hour and I said, you know, look you say you want to have this conversation about Israeli influence in American politics, but then you go and you use terms like goyslop, which is a specific anti-Semitic dog whistle and you know exactly what you're doing.
Obviously, the criticism and the virulent language that somebody like Hassan Pika uses,
I would argue is certainly not helpful.
And I pressed him on that and I pushed him on that and I said, you know,
every time you say I'm a thousand times more in support of Hamas than I am of Israel.
Yes, it gets views, but it also sort of cheapens this conversation.
And it takes the focus away from the more reasoned debate.
Both of those sides are not helping when it comes to having this conversation.
I think that's bullshit.
Yeah, also, Fishback is evasive about the Holocaust.
Why the fuck are you talking about Goyslop, my man?
You pressed them on the Holocaust.
Perhaps it's because, perhaps it's because you got to hit it on like, oh, well, he's
just, he says he's just joking.
But when he's talking about, when he's evasive about the Holocaust, he's not joking, right?
That's fantasy, right?
We spend a lot more time, who's more dangerous?
Fuentes or Hassan Piker and which words matter more or less and that's interesting, but I think from a human
Point of view, how are we going to make less people die over the course of the years and decades ahead?
Jay Street and I will spend more of our time trying to talk through well, what should American policy be?
How do we get the Israeli government and the governments of the Arab countries and the leadership of the Palestinian authority?
How do we get them to begin building on a different path towards actually ending this conflict?
So we stop having the people on the right and the left going at this this way.
And so many of us in this middle space are trying to show
too young people that there are voices on the other side and try to elicit a little bit of empathy to try to match the anger and
use that empathy say, okay, there's a human being on the other side of this. It's not some horrible monster
the figment of your imagination.
It's a human being with a family, with kids,
and a desire to raise their kids in peace.
And that's who's on the other side of all of this.
Ben Ami makes an important point about the dangers
of clippable moments overtaking real, nuanced discussion
on ending the conflicts in the Middle East.
But you could also argue that the damage
is already being done here in America.
Politicians like Fishback and even some on the left
who've used anti-Semitic talking points
like defeated Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo,
are making headlines and drawing crowds with their vulgar punchy lines.
And supporters, like the Gropers, who agree with Fishback's
extreme rhetoric about Jewish people, are going to the polls
and casting their votes. So what can be done?
Well, for our part, with this series, we hope to cut through the vulgar and short clips.
Yeah, you really did. You really did that by fucking clipping me.
From a two-hour fucking conversation where I addressed virtually every single counter
without even hearing Benamy's take, without hearing Jonathan Greenblatt's take, you asked
me about these opinions, I delivered to you my perspective, and you fucking straight up
only use like two minutes, man, that's nasty business.
God, what a fucking hack job this was.
Holy shit.
with real conversations.
And we also tried to have another real discussion
with two of our subjects
to hopefully build some kind of new understanding.
I asked Hassan Piker and Jonathan Greenblatt on camera
if they would sit down for a conversation with each other,
with me moderating.
Piker said, yes, immediately.
Wild idea, if we could broker it,
would you sit down with them?
With Jonathan Greenblatt?
I would love to.
I would love to have a conversation
with Jonathan Greenblatt.
I'll post the same question to him.
Greenblatt was a bit more cautious.
We've talked a lot about Hassan Piker here.
He claims he's tried to sit down with you guys
and tried to talk to you.
When was that?
He said earlier, I don't know.
He's claimed, that's his claim to you.
Would you sit down with him?
Would you sit down with him and me in a room
and have a conversation?
Look, I'll sit down and talk to anyone.
My only red line is if you dehumanize others.
Has he crossed that line?
Well, yeah, and saying that, you know, Zionists, the things said about Zionists, I think absolutely
cross the line and create the space where it seems legitimate to murder Jewish people.
That's fucking insane.
Okay.
I've never said that.
Shut the fuck up.
I don't think that I've never said that.
You're a bitch.
Oh, you know, if you would acknowledge the legitimacy of Zionism.
This is the nefarious part, okay?
This was clipped and I made a joke about this, but this is the nefarious part because he
starts out with like, he dehumanized Jews, I don't, right?
And then he turns around and goes, bro said, I debate him on anti-Zionism.
If he simply concedes that Zionism is good and legitimate ahead of time.
The Zionists have the same right as everyone else.
Even people whose views we don't like, that would be an important step forward.
The offer still stands.
Ridiculous shit, dude.
Totally ridiculous.
Yeah, you can only disagree with me if you agree with me.
Is crazy.
Yeah, why the fuck does it dude?
Israel defenders are on a level of entitlement I have never seen in my entire life, where
it's not just like the nation-state, it's now the underpinning ideology that also should have
extra special rights.
You know what I mean? It's crazy. We've moved past like, does Israel have a right to exist to like
To does Zionism you have to concede that Zionism and ethno-religious supremacist ideology like Nazism
Has to be considered legitimate
And good before we can even argue on why it's illegitimate
That's insane dude
That's insane, what do you mean?
I've never seen such nefarious propaganda. He wrapped up doing the article from today
to Nick Fuentes, the Sompiker click by click anti-Semezon goes mainstream. Yeah, I see
that. He literally fucking, he literally compared me to Nick Fuentes and James Fishback. And
then it puts an annual study by Tel Aviv University found that 20 people had been killed in anti-Semitic
attacks like implying that I'm responsible for this. It's such a nasty, nasty fucking
hit job. And the irony is, it doesn't work. So who is this for? Who is this for? If not,
a handful of people who are like terrified of Israel becoming a pariah state who still
have this mentality that like it can't do anything wrong.
No wonder the channel gets 1000 views of video for 8 million subs, holy moly that was such
a horrible entirely biased journalism.
Anyway, this was for Fox News to corroborate with another new news agency law, clearly
cheap setup paid for.
Yeah.
Now, this is to, this is to like break out of the, I mean, it's over now.
They already do this regardless.
So it's like too late.
But for the longest time, the criticisms that I received, the cynical, ridiculous criticisms
I received, mostly just came from like New York Post, mostly came from like Fox News,
Daily Mail, right?
So there was an appetite from the ADL and all these other like Zionist advocacy organizations
to try to make this not look so right-wing and so one-sided.
So like the USA Today took up that mantle to like normalize, you know, Hassan Piker
is an anti-Semite to a liberal audience.
The problem is, it's too late for that.
You know?
It's too late.
It's not going to work.
You know?
It's not.
Here's Peter Bynart comparing apartheid South Africa to Israel.
I think I'm grateful that I spent a significant part of my childhood in the apartheid South
because I'm able to remember, because now I think when people, almost everybody tends
to think about defenses of apartheid, they think about it as people who were utterly
benighted and absurd and racist and how could anyone have been so vile and stupid as to
believe that.
But when I was in that environment as a child, in its own space, it didn't seem absurd at
all.
It seemed like it had a pretty clear logic to it.
And I think the logic is pretty similar to the logic that I very, very frequently hear
people in my own community invoke about Israel.
The logic was something like, sure, apartheid may not be lovely or pretty, but you have
to admit that there are people who are trying to kill us.
We're not making that up.
I mean, in American discourse, Nelson Mandela has been turned into this kind of Gandhi-esque
figure.
But that's not true.
He's actually one of the people who helped turn the ANC away from nonviolence because
because he believed non-violence had failed, the ANC was considered a terrorist organization
by the United States, it was getting its arms from the Soviet Union, and it was devoted
to armed resistance, it wasn't very good at it, but it was devoted to armed resistance,
and so the, and so White South Africans looked at it in contiguities with the military, the
ANC, and they said, apartheid is protecting us from these guys, who very clearly are trying
to kill us. And so you are coming from you, you know, woke liberal, it means the word
woke, but they would have, you know, you woke naive liberal who don't understand anything
about our part of the world, are coming and telling us to take away the shield that protects
us and leave us merciless. Why is that a risk that we would possibly want to take, right,
based on your morality? And they would also say, by the way, how well has it worked in
the rest of Africa, right? When we look at Congo and Nigeria and Zimbabwe and Kenya,
We see flourishing, you know, liberal democracies.
So we're going to take a risk based on this
when we understand what Africa is actually like, right?
And I think that, you know, in some ways, in retrospect,
it seems we can understand the flaw in that logic.
But I think it's worth just spelling it out, right?
The Mkhonto with Sizzway was a response
to a state that did not give Black South Africans
a nonviolent mechanism of having the state respond
to their interests, right?
Once Black South Africans got the right to vote,
and Mandela was very, very, as you might say,
Machmir on this question, he would not abandon
the armed resistance until literally there was a date
for a free election.
At the end, by the end in the 80s,
the South Africans were quite desperate
to let him out of prison.
They were afraid he was gonna die in jail
and the more radical figures were.
They asked him again and again,
I think I've read one six times,
we will let you out if you only force wear violence.
And he said, I will not force, I'm just, the IRA took the same position.
We will not force wear violence and photo wear weapons until we are,
it is clear that we are going to have our rights.
But once the blacks and Africans did have their rights,
there was no need for Imkonti with Cisway to exist.
Bro, I got ops in my home, okay?
I have opened my home to the opposition, okay?
And I got ops in my chat because not a single person let it peep about where
fuck my chair had gone while I was taking a goddamn piss. Okay? Ridiculous. Ridiculous.
Ops in my home. Ops everywhere. Why do I need the massage up my ass? When I got the massage,
the Hassad, the Hassanabi massage, I opened my home to these people, okay? I opened my
I open my home to these people, I open my home to the chat.
Ridiculous.
Yeah, guard dog is not guarding shit.
You ain't guarding shit.
What kind of guard dog?
What kind of guard dog are you?
Huh?
Going.
Ridiculous.
Free Carla.
Oh
I
Was kind of Haley the heat there is no heat in this house we got
Ring California, we're not in fucking communist New York. There's no 78 degrees principle out here. Okay
She's so fat and beautiful she is she really is I
Love your super that ties wagdog. I disagree. I think this is a cool tie
I think you're wrong
You just have a pepper shaker on your desk and now it's salt
Or when I eat food on my desk every day
Because blacks and Africans had the vote and they had a nonviolent mechanism to have the
state listen to them.
And that's, I think, it was this, you know, it was this lack of understanding of the interplay
between oppression and armed resistance that I think the people that I spent much of my
my childhood among South Africans did not understand.
They also, I think, looked correctly
at the fact that African countries were not
doing particularly well in terms of liberal democracy
or even political stability and drew certain essentialized
conclusions from that, which they would off,
and then they would have to say, well, you know,
this is the way things are in Africa.
And I'm very struck because I constantly hear
American Jews and often Israeli Jews tell me
that the idea of equality under the law
would not be possible in Israel-Palestine
because this is the Middle East.
But I actually never heard a Palestinian say that.
And I never heard a black South African say that either.
And it wasn't because blacks and Africans thought
that the political system in Congo and Nigeria was great,
but they understood that the particular problems
of these countries came from a particular historical
trajectory from colonialism and Cold War,
just like they do in Iraq or Syria or Egypt
and whatever. And I think that memory from apartheid South Africa really has struck me
because the kind of basic logic of the idea of defending Jewish supremacy, a system in
which Jews have legal supremacy over Palestinians, I think is so similar. It's basically the
idea that only supremacy can keep you safe. And it's particularly odd that it's so frequently
invoked by American Jews, given that American Jews in our own country, right, are actually
betting the safety of our own children on the maintenance of equality under the law
and that Americans, Jews that around the world who live in liberal democracies, are actually significantly safer
than Israel is, right? Because I think in large part because Jewish supremacy produces tremendous violence
which then produces a counter-violence which makes everybody...
Yep.
Yep.
His point is that violence, born out of the maintenance of the apartheid, which is an unbelievably
violent affair, is inevitably going to lead to violence in its resistance.
That was Peter Beinart, right?
That was Peter Beinart, who has a fairly decent grasp on these affairs.
He cooks all the time.
We might have like certain disagreements on the language that I use or whatever, but ultimately
it's irrelevant.
It's secondary because I do think that he, he has a, a, a great grasp on this shit.
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Anyway, um, are you on Zinn 9 Ultras now?
Um, I think I got one pack of Zinn 9 Ultras.
Wait, what the fuck?
Witticombe was murdered?
No, what the fuck and Witticombe?
Police launch investigation into the death of former UK MP and Witticombe police shooting and Witticombe's death is murder and hunting for
White male suspect after body found with serious injuries UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer appeals for public self-identified dangerous suspect
What the fuck
They said not politically motivated. Wait, what? What could it be?
Man arrested on suspicion of murdering former UK politician. A police said they had arrested
a 26 year old British man after Anne Woodacombe, a 78 year old former lawmaker was found dead
with serious injuries on Thursday.
It's cool she was cunt. I mean she was a common joke on this broadcast. And Whittacomb was,
but you know that's insane. Yeah, I used to do her voice back in the day. A 26 year old
man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and connection to the death of Ann Whittacombe,
the man who's a white British national remains in police custody. I like that they have to
reveal the race of the fucking assailant so that there aren't race riots and hide it if
it is a brown guy, in which case there are race riots. It won't stop people from doing
race riots anyway. I feel like, I feel like no matter what happens, no matter what happens,
the British public loves doing race riots. Anyway, let's get to, let's get to Israel
and Iran. Obviously, the MOU is dead in the water now, at least according to Donald Trump.
the situation is active, it's fluid.
We're gonna be monitoring that.
We'll get to the Anne Woodicombe news later.
But before we do that, let's start with Israel
telling the United States of an Iranian plot
to assassinate Trump, new report says.
Maki Zanin, thank you for the 20 give-this-us.
It is on the conflict with Iran and a stunning report
that the country was planning to assassinate President Trump.
The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday
Israel shared that intelligence about it with the U.S. All this coming is tensions between the U.S.
and Iran remain high after the latest air and missile strikes. Charlie Daggett has more from
Washington. Charlie, good morning. Good morning to you, Kelly. The fighting this week has been by
far the most serious escalation we've seen since the U.S. and Iran signed the framework last month.
It was supposed to lead to a more permanent peace agreement. And although last night was quiet for
the first time in days. Hey, are you happy? Israel's now going to get a pro-APAC pro-genocide
Senator Mayn now that you led the mob in cooping the voters of Maine. Oh, damn. We got, we got
Grand Plattener dead enders in here. That's crazy. Here, if you are, if you're 100% in support of
Grand Plattener, I mean, there's a reasonable suspicion in his background, considering that his,
you know, brother-in-law was, and it still is, I think, a FDD guy. So, you know, if the, if the
The credible rape allegations were not enough for you.
You know, there's a, there's, there's at least like ample suspicion that you could
have due to his brother-in-law.
Ace, that fragile ceasefire is barely holding together.
Are you talking like bad empanada now?
No, I'm not.
Um, I, I, here's the thing.
I didn't.
I think I had a fairly reasonable assessment with Grand Planner, which is why it pissed
off everybody, right?
I looked at the red flags, I pointed to them, nowhere near as much as like his Reddit posts
and Reddit history, especially like detailing his experiences.
I chalked that up to like, you know, a hurrah, grunt, greatly embellishing and thinking that
was hot shit and cool, okay?
And I took a very centrist approach to the Grand Platinum situation, recognizing the
red flags while also simultaneously saying that he was a far better option with the readily
available information at the time, far better option than Janet Mills and also far better
option than Susan Collins.
For that reason, a lot of people got mad at me and they said, no, you should actually
write him out across the board.
You should write him out immediately.
It turns out those people were vindicated when new evidence came out, okay?
When new evidence came out.
Now, here's the thing.
I wanted to also identify certain red flags myself.
What is this?
Been watching you for years and always thought you were always smart, but this is an audience
captured shit.
No.
It's ironic because everyone says that.
And they've said that for years and years.
And it's really funny because most of the positions that I have, well, all the positions
that I have are just my genuine perspective, but a lot of the positions that I take on
issues such as this one, when there is like, you know, nuance involved, end up pissing
everybody off because most people just want black and white.
Most people want unconditional support or unconditional enmity.
And it's interesting that my cautiously optimistic perspective where I always hedged my approach
to Graham Platner, the demands that I made to his team over and over again that were
very favorable initially and became not so favorable after I started calling out some
of these red flags, including the tattoo, including his background, including his, you
you know, CV, Blackwater tours, and try to get a better assessment on like where he was.
Was he was he actually a real anti-war former veteran or was he actually simply playing a
role? These are the questions that I had that I wanted to figure out. The campaign stopped
talking to me after that. It just, you know, they avoided me like the plague. And some
Some people might say, some people, yes, he's got Skeletons' Clause, but this was just objectively
a coup against 150,000 voters in Maine.
I think that even if you were to believe that the Democratic Party did everything that it
can to rat fuck Graham Platner, I don't think you would like the results of leaving Graham
Platner on the ticket, because there are always going to be people who saw that he had a credible
rape allegation and decide not to vote for him. Can't find it within themselves to vote for him,
many women, for example. And that's perfectly valid, and it's perfectly reasonable. And so,
at that point, it doesn't even matter, even if you're making this like cold heart analysis,
an immoral analysis or an amoral analysis, it still doesn't matter because Graham Platner is
credibly accused of rape by a former partner. Okay? And the unfortunate reality is he's running
as a Democrat, right? Unless the political piece falls apart as much as it already has,
I don't think it has fallen apart. I don't think it has fallen apart as much as you think it has.
So, dead-enders straight from r slash politics, Bernie Bro smears. Wait, what? I've called
fucking Joe Brandon dead-enders and Kamala Harris dead-enders, dead-enders as well. What are you
talking about? It's just that you can actually, you can actually consider a group of people who
are still riding with a person after the person is like openly admitted that they're going to drop
their campaign, uh, a dead ender because that's what it is. Once the campaign stopped answering,
you should have called that out immediately. No. I mean, I, I mentioned it. I mentioned it over
and over again, but it doesn't matter. Hassan, I've even wearing the suit too long. He's got
DNC consultant brand. You were wrong about Kamala in 2024. You're wrong now. The establishment
are pros, and the left is easily manipulated. Go look at local Facebook and news posts. Mainers
are not buying this allegation. This is how the left loses. We do centrist work for them. What
evidence? Contemporaneous conversations between the victim and other people, you know, third parties
is a fairly reliable metric for assessing the accuracy of a claim.
It's certainly enough to charge someone with sexual assaults, it's not enough to convict,
there would probably be, it's very difficult to convict someone on rape in this current
criminal justice system, contrary to what men's right activists and numerous other people
say, but there is definitely enough to charge this person.
So unless there is new information that has come out that shows that there isn't any timely
conversations between grandplattner's victim and numerous other people, unless there's
like new information that I'm not privy to, which even then I'd have to make a new assessment.
The number of red flags, the additional things that he has said, paint a picture that I am
uncomfortable with.
I don't know why people are saying there isn't any contemporaneous evidence.
political invented third parties that Graham Plattner's ex spoke to, like the ex-boyfriend,
unless they invented that, which is fairly far-fetched.
And to be fair, yes, political is owned by Axel Springer, who is an unbelievably pro-Israel
person. So that is real. And there's a demand for a loyalty pledge to Israel from Axel himself.
I just don't think that your assessment has to reach a certain standard. Your hypothesis can't be
more far-fetched than the readily available evidence.
Anyway, don't know why we're going back into the Grand Platinum
allegations here
uh... instead of talking about what's going on currently is real telling the
uh... american government that the there's an iranian plot to assassinate
trance fight between the u.s. and iran entered a dangerous new phase pushing the
prospects for peace even further out of reach
this latest back-and-forth kicked off after u.s. officials said iran fired on
three commercial vessels earlier this week in the street
actual Axel Springer is the German media group that owns political. Okay. Axel Springer was a
massive, massive fucking Zionist. New owners claim, according to Times of Israel from September
1st, 2021, new owners won't make political employees sign pro-Israel mission statement,
but Axel Springer, the German firm that bought the US news site, was such a staunch supporter of
Israel that they would require the staff to play support to the Transatlantic Alliance and Israel.
Okay.
Right of Hormuz, a key shipping channel, particularly for oil.
The Iranians want to control the straight and have shown they're willing to do it.
I think the new.
Yeah, the new CEO is also just as insane, though, regardless.
Look, Matias Dufner, CEO of Axel Springer, declares himself as Highness to the world
Jewish Congress and then calls for censorship of social media and the
expulsion of anti-Semites from wherever legally possible. He insists that all
European countries opens up borders to Jewish immigration in the name of
diversity. Europe must become more Jewish, Daphne says. Now, some of this stuff is
not that crazy. Like the way that this account is framing it is making it seem
like it's this weird thing. But it is philosemitism. There is a classic
German Philo Semitism that I don't know what it is, but it just there's a classic German Philo
Semitism that you can clearly fucking spell out here. Okay.
An idea and the goal that only Jews can embrace. I'm a goi.
I love when these guys come out and they'll go to the world Jewish congress and be like,
Well, I'm a go, so this is stupid, which is stupid, go brain that I have, I still understand how important Israel is.
I am the stupid boy and I have the stupid go brain.
And I'm a Zionist with all my heart out of conviction and with passion.
First, we need a zero-tolerance policy towards open hatred of Jews.
He's also known to reframe former Waffen SS logos and designism. He's fucking nuts.
Yeah. There is, I will never understand. Like we got it. We got to investigate some, some
of the Germans and their attitude towards Israel in the same way that, you know, you,
you can only like do a, an autopsy analysis to like study the brains of football players
to figure out like what level of CTE they had. You know, that's like, that's how I feel
about some Germans like the way that they approach the situation is so wild and it's like this is
weird like idolatry fetishization um it's just not something that you would experience in the real
world at all.
All anti-Semites in world indeed, regardless of their origin, must be expelled wherever
legally possible.
British politician and Conservative Party leader Cami Badenok put it clearly and courageously,
I quote, anything that's inciting violence against Jews
has got to go, quote end.
We need this statement and its consequences not only
in Britain, but in every democratic country.
Second, Europe should introduce preferential immigration
and citizenship for Jewish families.
In the US, approximately 7.7 million Jews live.
That is 2.2% of the population.
In the EU and the UK combined, it is roughly 1 million.
That is 0.2% and 10 times less.
Please don't send it to the Germanness
when you've got the same exact type of guys
running around all over your country.
Yeah, the reason why I sent it to their Germanness,
by the way, that's gotta be a German anti-Zionist,
one of the, you know, 15.
So I'm gonna treat this with respect
because you guys are fighting a very different battle
over there.
But in the United States of America, this kind of attitude certainly exists as well.
Mike Huckabee is like one of the torchbearers of this movement, right?
But the difference is we can identify where that's coming from.
And it's centered around evangelical Christian Zionism.
Whereas in Germany, it does actually turn into this like national humiliation,
this national understanding, or rather the national shame that they feel,
where they actually get to offset the guilt of the Holocaust away from any kind of like European
anti-Semitism to these nasty Arabs, right? This modern behemoth, the Arabs have taught us how
to be anti-Semitic is what they say sometimes. So I think it stems from Germanness for sure,
like modern Germanness, the modern understanding of a German nation-state, their shared history,
their shared culture. It's this strange offloading of the guilt of the Holocaust and the anti-Semitism
that led to the Holocaust to the Muslims, to Islam. It's very odd. And that's the reason why I
center German-ness around it rather than in the United States of America, I don't think there is
that same level of guilt. There is a level of guilt for sure. There's a level of guilt amongst
Americans for the famous story of the boats that were sent back to Germany that had Jewish refugees.
Right? Like that certainly exists in American culture, but to the degree that you see philosemitism
from Germans does not exist in America at all, with the exception of white evangelical
Protestant Christians. I think it's mostly just rooted in antisemitism. Yes, of course,
phyllo-semitism is the other side of antisemitism. Zionism is by far the most convenient
for if antisemitism nowadays, right, because Europe could just hold on to their antisemitism
by indulging in Zionism. I think that's part of it, yes.
Then in America, it is in Europe's own best interest to change that, and it is more than
a gesture. If the idea of a multicultural society is to be taken seriously, then there
is a...
Bro, your German takes are not that good, man. Germans are the best at educating their
country and culture about history. France and the UK still glorifies many of its atrocities.
I don't think Germany features a tremendous amount of education on its, you know, the
actions it took in its African campaigns. That's number one. And number two, what I'm
talking about is like what I'm talking about is quite literally a a fixture of of German culture
with the exception of like my German chatter is in here uh the the tying of Zionism and Judaism
and the and the highlighting of of Israel. I mean Germany literally paid reparations right
to the state of Israel. I mean it was heavily featured in Tana Hisiko's writing where he tried
tried to make a case in the affirmative for reparations. Not true at all. I'm not German,
but spent there. Okay, dude. Well, then maybe dial it back.
Germany is one of the most aggressive in its approach to combating anti-Zionism. Like out
of all the European countries, it's literally the most aggressive. It's far more aggressive
than the United States of America because the United States of America, there's still
the First Amendment. So that plays a formative role in restricting what the government can
and can't do. They're obviously trying to get that away, but they're trying to destroy
that. But there is an ideal, there is an understanding of Judaism or a fetishization
of Judaism and a Philo-Semitism that exists in Germany, that I have compared to the way
that Americans identify with, like, Native culture.
There is a similar fetishization of Indigenous culture in the United States of America, in
the aftermath of the genocide of the Indigenous populations that you see in Germany.
The only difference is, historically, the Holocaust is far closer to modern German existence
as opposed to the indigenous genocides were 250 plus years ago and continued onward for
throughout the early frontierism. Having said that, the fetishization and the
otherizing or the fetishization in general is identical almost.
I literally write about this shit, man. It's terrifying. Yeah.
It goes beyond the material necessity to have a colonial outpost in this resource-rich region
for Germans. For Americans, like their foreign policy decisions revolve around that. They don't
give a fuck, right? There is no like, oh, we really fucked up with our mistreatment of the Jews
or anything like that. It's pretty, it's pretty open as shut, which you see is what you get.
They see it as a reliable colonial outpost, and its reliability is actually being called
in the question now. So there's obviously disagreements there in the State Department.
There's always been some people in the State Department that have seen Israel as a massive
national security threat. So the CIA and other functions of the state are of two different minds,
and they are oftentimes butting heads with one another. Whereas in Germany,
there is this higher prioritization of Israel due to the collective guilt of the Holocaust,
and how it's formed into this idolization of the state of Israel, for sure.
That's, it's just, it's different. I don't know how else to describe it other than to say it's
different. They feel it, yeah, the Germans feel like that there is a moral obligation to always
defend Israel that goes even beyond capital. Of course, capital still plays a role in this.
Capital always plays a role in this. Capitalism is the international organization of the economy.
It's the only game in town. So, you know, when you think about Axel Springer, for example,
of course, they have investments in the West Bank. Of course, they have investments in Israel. Many
of the pro-Israel Christians, of course, have a financial entanglement with the apartheid project.
That's real. But what I'm talking about is like this attitude that you see from German society.
This attitude that you see from German society by and large that goes beyond the normal expectations.
Having said that, I mean, German society is polled with regular frequency and even German society, by and large, has recognized the atrocities that Israel is committing.
It's just that you will never hear that from a person with a fraction of power.
Even in the United States of America, there are people who are getting elected, for example, on anti-Zionist tickets.
Whereas I feel like D. Linka is the closest that you can get to like a party with viability and not one of these like fucking 18 person Marxist-Leninist formations that exists in Germany.
I'm talking like a viable party, a serious party that operates within German politics.
Delinka is the furthest left, right? And Delinka still will, Delinka only recently
was able to come to terms with an official statement on Israel's genocide, and even then
they immediately paired that up with like the growth of anti-Semitism happening in Germany
and other places as well. So I don't think that there is like appropriate representation within,
Brother, you cannot be calling Dylinka a serious left party.
I'm not.
I'm not.
You're misunderstanding my point.
It's a social democratic party at most.
I'm saying that it's the furthest left party with any real viability.
Okay?
I'm not saying that.
Guys, this conversation started with how cooked German politics is.
Okay?
Why does everybody always forget that I'm using the term viability very deliberately
here?
Okay?
Please, this is a nuanced perspective. What I'm trying to say is there isn't a real recognition.
There isn't a real recognition. There isn't any real proportional representation of societal,
German societal attitudes towards Israel in German politics. Okay? That's all I'm saying.
You look at Germany, modern Germany, and their attitude towards the nation state of Israel,
and it's unbelievably negative.
And yet there is no real party out there, there's no real party out there that actually
abides by this attitude.
You know what I mean?
So like, even, even D. Linka, which is supposed to be like the leftmost party with any serious
viability, is nowhere near as close to the, to the public sentiment on Israel and Germany.
It's just not.
There isn't enough representation of people full stop.
Yes.
Israel is a, is, is, is a great example of this lack of representation, okay?
Maybe explain it when you say viable, you mean it in the context of whether or not like
a pregnancy is viable or not?
No, viability is in like, it's a serious party with like a decent amount of representation
that can win seats, okay?
That's what viability means.
in the American electoral system is also implied, like it's not like an American Communist Party,
for example, but instead like a candidate that is viable as and has a tremendous amount of support
within striking distance could potentially win. That's what viability means.
Anyway, how the fuck are we talking about Germany?
Oh my god.
Alright, I'm done.
I'm done talking about Germany.
Let's get back to Israel telling the United States government that Iran wants to kill
Trump.
President Trump himself said this week he wasn't looking for the war to go on calling
the strikes retribution for Iranian aggression.
I think anything that happens is going to be over very quickly.
The strikes may be punitive, but they're also strategic.
US official-style CBS News, they've hit more than 170 Iranian military targets along the
Strait in the hopes of loosening Iran's hold on the waterway.
Iran fired back, targeting key US allies in the Gulf, including Kuwait, Qatar, and Bahrain.
This is not anywhere near an end of the war.
is just entering kind of a new phase. In Iran, this all comes as crowds gathered for the funeral
of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei. The German left is currently focused on you
because they think the DSA will end up like the Lenka. What? No. There's 0% chance the
Democratic Socialists of America would ever end up like the Lenka because the Democratic
Socialists of America are outcasts from the normal political process.
And the more it becomes a fixture in normal American politics, the more we run DSA candidates,
the more they win elections in an uncompromising manner, and the more they put up a fight,
The more they develop some sort of caucus or political power within the Democratic Party,
the more radical they would become, not less.
Why would they become less radical?
I mean, we shall see.
We shall see.
I have a lot of confidence in this new slate of candidates that we work to get elected,
some of which are, many of which are Democratic socialists and some of which are adjacent,
right?
DSA has always recognized the genocide, DSA has always had a far more radical approach
than D-Linka ever could come to terms with.
I'm mortars pictured holding a banner that read Trump. We will kill you the conflict has prompted
Extra security measures for president Trump in an unexpected switch
He left the NATO summit in Turkey this week in the old Air Force one as its replacement
Gifted by the government of Qatar was sent out of the region without him now, so yeah, I wonder why
perhaps
the runway to develop
With all of the like anti-missile systems and the evasive capabilities of a regular Air Force One, the
refueling capabilities of regular Air Force One, the
like all of the technical capabilities of a normal Air Force One plane is
very different than a normal civilian plane that you got from Qatar.
Okay.
So, there is no way that you could redesign a normal bowing plane that you got from Cutter
in four months. At most, the best you can do is, I guess, check it for bugs and then put
a fresh coat of paint, which by the way, controversial opinion, but I really do like the paint job.
I will say that I think this paint job is actually pretty solid. So that's one point
to give to Donald Trump. I know he chose this. Um, it's clean. It looks fucking dope. Uh,
but, but I will say this, this, there, there's a reason why he, he chose not to fly back
with this one. Okay. Now sources tell the reason why he chose not to fly back with this
one is because he's now scared that, uh, you know, Iran is going to lob ballistic missiles
added or something. So now he's flying back with the OG Air Force One.
DBS News, it was on the recommendation of the Secret Service. The old plane is equipped
with sophisticated...
Like, look at this paint job, dude.
Military defenses and secure communication systems that the new Air Force One lacks.
So the Trump administration says the president remains committed to finding a resolution
with Iran but called the recent attacks on the vessels in the Strait of Hormuz, terrorism.
Nevertheless, the U.S. official tells CBS News talks with Iran will continue.
All right, Charlie, let me ask you about what we're learning about that report regarding
a new Iranian plot to kill President Trump.
And why is it coming to light now?
The big question, the timing is unclear because there have been active plots in Iran to assassinate
President Trump since at least back in 2020.
That's when the president ordered the strike to kill Iranian al-Quds force commander, Qasem
Soleimani.
saw those banners during the funerals for the Supreme Leader calling for the death of Trump.
Why Israel is raising this plot now is unclear. You may remember Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin
Etniahu helped convince President Trump to launch the war after that famous visit to the White House
in February. The two spoke again yesterday. The reminder of the assassination plot may be an attempt
to convince Trump to keep up attacks. Glad. All right. Charlie, thank you very much.
Now, as you can see, I'm joined by Professor Michael Clarke, because are we returning to
all-out war between Iran and the United States? Intensifying strikes across the Middle East overnight?
Are there US attacks on dozens of sites across?
What about all the other public assassination attempts? Well, there's a difference between
like, first of all, do I think that there is a credible assassination threat? I suspect that
there's always a credible assassination threat. The whole point is he gives them an opportunity.
He gives them an opportunity to strike if he's in the old plane. You know, you're the president
of America. You're fucking around with numerous nations. Like it's gonna, it makes sense that
there is like credible threats to your life and your safety. It's a little bit different than,
you know, the possible attempts on your life from like a radical centrist at the White House
correspondence dinner, right? But yeah, when you're flying around, when you're, when you're
flying around on a fucking plane that doesn't have the same evasive maneuvering capabilities
as the previous Air Force One does, when you're flying around on a plane that doesn't have like
anti-missile systems in it, when you're flying around on a plane that doesn't have the same
like nuclear bunker facilities that the Air Force One normally has, and the capacity to
get refueled even. Retooling a civilian Boeing plane takes like almost a decade, okay? You
got to do it right. It's the president. It's the most important person in the country,
and most person may be on the planet from the perspective of the people, the engineers working
on it. So I know he likes the new plane. Um, he likes it a lot.
He thinks it's great. He thinks it looks cool and the interior is much nicer,
but, you know,
that's the reason why he just chose not to fly around in that clearly.
Anyway, Michael Clark is back to talk about the Intensified Strikes to the U.S. and Iran.
Look, I think it's pretty obvious what happened here.
I already talked about this extensively.
I gave you my perspective on this.
I'll just give you a quick update on it.
still the same. It's now becoming increasingly clear and more clear that the MOU was bullshit
and it was just a lousom respite for the strategic reserves that were near critical levels of
it. I believe it was like one to four weeks away from reaching critical levels where if
you actually go below a certain red line in the strategic reserves, you have the capacity
for those salt caverns where a lot of the oil remains to collapse. Okay? That still remains.
That issue still remains and it's going to come back again. Iran knows this. Okay? Iran
obviously understands this reality. And that was what they were hedging their bets on.
So Donald Trump came in, wanted to give the markets a moment to breathe, right?
Release the sanctions on Iranian oil.
They had already released the sanctions on Russian oil prior to this as well.
And the oil reserves were not going to recover, but at least it would stabilize the market
a little bit.
It would make things a little bit easier, right?
It would give America some level of leverage.
the Iranian side, they recognize this, they get a moment of respite or they can go back to
rebuilding their infrastructure, they can go back to rebuilding their munitions facilities
that have taken a significant amount of damage, they can get Chinese shipping and Chinese
components. So you can go back to like rebuilding their drones to re-up and rearm basically
in that short period of time. And that's precisely what took place. So I think that the Iranian side
is aware that the MOU was dead in the water. Maybe some of the reformists thought that there was
an opportunity for a deal. But I think the IRGC was already like the hardliners were already aware
that this wasn't going to stick, right? Hold on.
For those of you who are wondering what I'm talking about with the salt caverns, okay?
salt cavern collapses, threaten energy stockpiles like the US strategic petroleum reserve. Cavern
failures cause pressure drops, sink holes and potential aquifer contamination. Maintaining
bright levels and internal pressure is critical to preserve the structural integrity of these vital
petroleum and gas reserves. The US stores its massive energy stockpile capable of holding
up to 714 million barrels in hollowed out salt caverns along the Gulf Coast. However,
the technique of solution mining used to create these caverns leaves them susceptible to structural
vulnerabilities over time. So if you go beyond a certain red line of oil inside of these salt
caverns, you have too little pressure and you could potentially have them collapse,
which would destroy the rest of the oil, the oil stockpile, the strategic reserves that we have.
have. Okay? The Department of Energy manages and monitors four major sites across Texas
and Louisiana to ensure that these reserves remain structurally sound and mission ready.
the most AmeriFat problem? I guess. For the record, they're capable of holding 715 million,
but once you go below 150 million barrels of oil, okay? Once you go below 150 million
barrels of oil, the pressure drops to such a degree that those cell cavers could technically
collapse. Okay? We need 150 million barrels of oil in the salt reserves that we never
take out of those salt reserves because if we do take them out, if we go beneath that
level, then there is a, there is a, a likely scenario where these salt caverns collapse.
Okay? Do you understand? Here's what it looks like.
I guess the Brian Mount strategic petroleum reserve,
reserve caverns in Texas. Okay.
So the capacity is 580 million barrels and not 720. Yes.
Well, it could also not collapse. So, you know,
I guess that's what it is, but yeah, here it is. Did anyone see that?
Analytica Camilla says, does anyone see that piece by the economists where they
apologize for being wrong about oil prices. It's one of those rare. Well, honestly, not
that rare cases were not only were they not wrong.
Investors were slash are just detached from reality. The Trump admins suckered the stock
mark of the laziest cycle of pump fakes I've ever seen. Every few days, they'd have an
official go and tell Barak Ravide that we're making great headway on the whole ceasefire
thing. And investors believe every single time, even though Barack himself pointed out
that he was just literally reporting on what they were saying, but it's quite obvious that
they're trying to bullshit everybody. Meanwhile, the global oil market is next
snap from the war whiplash. The US strategic petroleum reserves are basically empty.
They can't dip below 150 million barrels without having the caves where the oil
historic collapse and the White House started creating literal communist style
gas stations. But it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if the White House creates
communist style gas stations because the strategic reserves, if they diminish to
that degree, it's over. Okay? You hit a hard limit. And that's where things get really
fun. Once you hit a hard limit, and if you start seeing real structural integrity failures,
okay, all of a sudden, you don't have any fucking oil. And when you run out of oil,
when you run out of the strategic reserves in its entirety, or you start seeing structural
collapse in these strategic reserves, the problem compounds far beyond not being able to receive,
you know, not be, the problem compounds far beyond simply going to a gas station and seeing the prices.
Okay. The prices will obviously skyrocket where gas is readily available. We're talking about
the electrical grid. We're talking about the entire American, the American electrical grid
potentially turning into the Cuban one, okay? So, here's the issue, and I covered this yesterday
as well. Here's Eric Nuttall. The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve is now 19 million barrels away
from the estimated minimum operating levels. They're very soon will no longer be a safety
buffer to protect the world from the further losses out of the straight, okay?
You now, when you reach 300 million, you're now reaching a red line where there's only
150 million to go until complete structural integrity failure. Okay? And every single day,
it's getting worse. Every single day, the problem compounds on one another. Okay?
This is the reason why Donald Trump tried to do a fake out with this MOU so that Iran could sell
its oil on the market and this would give confidence to the investors. This would give
some confidence to the investors. It would offer a moment of respite so that the American
oil reserves could stop burning as many barrels as they are. However, it simply pushes the problem
later down the line. And the more you push this problem down the line, the more you push it in
the direction of the midterm. So I don't even understand what Trump is trying to do, because
the problem doesn't go away. If they were to now go back to war, waging war as we have, right?
There is no guarantee that a military intervention is actually going to
to force the Iranian hand to bend to America's needs, to Israel's needs, okay?
And that's just our strategic reserves.
I don't know what it looks like in Japan, for example, right?
Because the massive stockpiles that Japan has, they've also tapped into in order to
make sure that there aren't critical shortages.
Because, again, I repeat this over and over again, the reason why oil is a global commodity
is because it is perhaps the most important commodity for survival, for normal everyday
existence.
Everything runs on oil.
Everything runs on oil and gas.
And it has inelastic demand, right?
You can artificially reduce demand, as some of these countries have, like the Philippines
of artificially reduced demand, you can try to go back to different fossil fuels like coal,
which Thailand did, right? But ultimately, you still need oil, okay? That's not true,
Hasan Abiyu fucking idiot says COO of Antifa. America runs on Duncan, okay, fair. Well, other
countries don't run on Duncan, they run on oil, right? So that's the reason why the price
is priced out globally, because countries will do everything they can to get it, because
in the absence of it, their grid fails, okay? Every other country turns into Cuba. And there's
There's also a lot of spot traders. There's also a lot of shadow fleets all around the
world that are operating. Some of the oil tankers that are doing regular trade also
famously have additional millions of barrels of oil that they're selling to make a quick
buck on the side. This has also allowed the market to not be as volatile because a lot
people understand that this is how it goes, right? Having said that, having said that,
there is a hard line. There's a hard limit that you reach and once you reach that hard limit,
everything collapses. It's no longer just, it's no longer just a higher price of the gas pump,
which will definitely happen, but it won't be, you know, 50 cents or a dollar more. It will be
$10 more. You'll start seeing, you'll start seeing lines of cars at every gas station
around the country. You'll start seeing rolling blackouts, for example. An artificial reduction
in demand in a country like the United States of America will collapse the largest consumption
engine on the planet. This will have tremendous impact on the global economy. Okay? 70s oil
crisis tenfold. So it's no longer just about Americans feeling shitty about paying extra
money. We're now talking about complete collapse. So the reason why I'm bringing up all of this
is because that's leverage that iran has
right if we know about this than obviously
the iranian government knows about this as well that's part of the reason why
they can play hardball
iran was able to through blood
and through sacrifice
and through their their uh... drone production facilities
they were able to uh... successfully
gain tremendous leverage
uh... as they as they now control the shade of hormones
The MOU in the language that they interpreted and the language that they use on the MOU
implied that they would open the Strait of Hormuz as long as all of the vessels that
were transiting would transit through the Iranian side.
But of course, there's the Omani coastline as well.
Iran has allowed the Omani coastline to also operate.
But America made a big show of force, they tried to get as many ships as possible through
the Omani coastline. And Iran was fine with it for a little bit, because they got a moment,
they got respite from the American blockade, the secondary blockade that America had implemented,
right? And so now it's, I don't want to say a Mexican standout. It's an Iranian standoff,
basically. Okay. Iran's put a gun to the head of the global energy markets, and America
has put a gun to the head of the same global energy markets. And it's now, it's now about
who gets the buckle first, the new standoff. America, for some weird fucking reason, has
decided that it's more beneficial to try to force Iran by bombing civilian infrastructure
again and again and again. This didn't work in the last 130 days in Operation Epic Fury
Part 1. So there's no reason for this to work in Operation Epic Fury Part 2.
Okay, Iran knows this. So inevitably, America's going to have to go back to the ceasefire table.
America's going to have to go back unless they just collapse everything. And I don't think they're
going to do that. Iran has all the cards. America could only escalate further and try
to diminish Iranian strike capabilities. But as long as Iran can like lob these drones
at civilian ships that are transiting millions of barrels of oil through the Omani coastline,
which is fairly easy to do, they can do this with their go fast boats. They can do this
with their drones. So they control the Shroud of Hormuz. You just can't outperform the geographic
limitations here. It's 21 miles wide. The only parts that ships can transit through are either
the Omani coastline, hugging the Omani coastline or hugging the Iranian coastline. They're not going
to be able to get away with attritting the Iranian strike capabilities in the water,
especially because Iranians already have additional cars that they haven't even deployed,
like shutting down the Bob Elmandeb Strait by utilizing the Houthis.
So things could get far worse going forward.
Meanwhile, the Americans have ironically diminished their missiles, their standoff
munitions, because they couldn't establish air superiority over Iranian airspace.
So they couldn't use their unguided and guided missiles that they could deploy over Iran
With and they have plenty of stocks
Plenty of stockpile on their unguided and guided munitions that they could just like drop they could drop gravity bombs
by flying
There are planes over the Iranian airspace, but every single time they've flown planes over the Iranian airspace
The Iranian air defenses and they're loitering munitions
kick in, and it's far too costly for the American war effort to risk more pilots, to risk more
assets. Iranians keep blowing up their MQ-9 Reaper drones, which are $30 million a pop,
and Iranians have even been able to shoot down over the Strait of Hormuz helicopters.
They've been able to shoot down an F-35.
And we're running through our stockpile of standoff munitions that we've been deploying
from these ships that are far away from the Iranian drones.
And we've diminished our stockpile of interceptors.
We've reduced our stockpile of peer and near-peer adversary standoff munitions that we always
have to have.
in a manner not dissimilar to the strategic oil reserves
that I was talking about,
there's also a strategic reserve of stockpiled munitions
that we have that we always need to keep in the tank
for God forbid war against Russia
or direct conflict against China.
We've already diminished that.
We've already destroyed those stockpiles.
Those stockpiles are not coming back.
It takes a very long time to rebuild Tomahawk missiles.
Okay. It takes a long ass time. It requires a lot of effort. We're just not going to be able to get that back as fast as Iran can just build drones.
As fast as Iran can build its ballistic munitions.
So, the reason why I'm bringing this up, what is this? You're just wrong here. There won't be...
Japan's reserves have fallen from 400 barrels to 200 million. There's still months of supply. You're just wrong here. There won't be rolling blackouts in the US.
There won't be gas lines. Gas prices will go up and there won't be blackouts. I don't know where people get this idea from.
It's going to be Europe, Asia, South America that will suffer from this US will be fine. I think that's why Trump doesn't actually care about the impact.
You don't think we're, you don't, you think we still got more oil in the strategic reserves?
Like what happens when the shichiju reserves go beyond the 300 million barrels of oil go beyond the red line and
And I guess like this goes on for another month
U.S. Electricity depends on natural gas not fair true, but you said there's no you said that there's not gonna be
You know lines of the gas station
We still produce 13 million barrels of oil per day. This is in the 1973 oil crisis.
We are a major exporter of oil and oil products. We simply stop exporting.
Fair.
So, you're saying your calculation is that America will stop exporting before it allows
any sort of significant crisis take place here.
Okay.
There's still, at the end of this, what you're describing is longer bandwidth, okay?
Where you're describing is longer bandwidth.
So it's not a month, but let's say we just stop exporting oil to Europe and in Asia,
right? We're going to fuck our allies. Fine. Sure. That's a, that's a consideration, right?
But in, but in spite of that, there's, we're still burning more than we are. We're, we'll still
inevitably burn more than we're generating, uh, than we're refining. So ultimately,
Ultimately, we're talking about fucking massive, massive consequences in Europe and Asia.
All of our allies are screaming bloody murder.
Their grids are collapsing.
Okay?
Meanwhile, we are still burning more.
Meanwhile, we're still burning more.
So that means we have, okay, past the midterms, let's say.
The three to one crack spread shows what's going on with gas and diesel prices.
So gas prices skyrocket.
Let's say we don't get to long lines of the gas station oil crisis style, not 1973 any
longer.
Okay.
Fine. Not in the short term, but certainly in the long term, because we're still using
more oil than we're refining. So what do we do? Let's say we just burn the global economy,
which is not going to happen anyway, because we're the United States of America. Our position
as the hegemon means that we have to maintain global stability. This is part of the reason
why Iran has tremendous leverage. Like you can't just hand wave away rolling black house
in Europe or major oil and gas crises in Europe and Asia as though we're far removed from the
impact. Donald Trump's domestic considerations aside, there is a higher priority here which
is to maintain global stability. The entire global capitalist system is interconnected.
We don't just shut down Japan or shut down the Philippines without receiving any sort of blowback
or without receiving any sort of penalties for it. There are a shit ton of American companies
that still rely on the Asian market. Okay? Like, we're not... There is no world in the
post-World War II design in the global capitalist design where we do not get impacted and we don't
see domestic issues when the Asian markets are experiencing rolling blackouts or can no longer
produce certain goods, certain components that we need for American manufacturing.
The United States is not independent of the global supply chain. It's perfectly dependent on the
global supply chain. Do you think Trump understands any of this? Yes, I think he does.
If he didn't understand any of this, he would not have done the MOU. So the MOU itself is a
recognition of the fragile nature of the global supply chain. Okay.
It's still three, six months before things get really dire, but yes, this is still kicking the
can down the street. I think this will pressure Ukraine to surrender to Russia for oil supply.
Yeah, this is not just about long lines at the gas station, by the way, this is also tremendous inflation because a lot of the components and the parts that we need for manufacturing even products in the United States of America, whether it be car parts, whether it be, I don't know, plastic components that are necessary for little things that we use at the widget factory are still coming from the Asian markets.
And if they don't have oil, they can't produce that and if they can't produce that then we don't have these parts
So now all of a sudden you have a massive spike in the cost of goods in regular commodities
Here in the United States of America
This is before we also talk about the diesel shortages, which you also mentioned here
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Okay. When we talk about the diesel shortages, then you have problems with trucking. When you have
problems with, when you have problems with trucking, you now have a logistics issue in the United
States of America as well as everywhere else. Okay. No diesel, no food or rather shortages of food
because the transport is now, the capacity to transport certain commodities is now diminished
on U.S. soil as well. And when that happens, the price of food goes up.
Anyway, let's take a look at what this UK guy is saying.
Iran was met with missiles targeting American bases in allied countries, including Kuwait,
Jordan and Qatar.
So is this a return to all that war then, Michael?
I don't think so, Leah.
I mean, both sides have gone quiet for the last 18 hours now,
so there have been no other reciprocal strikes.
So, I mean, it began with Iranian attacks
on three ships in the straight-off onwards,
and then the Americans responded.
The Iranians responded again with attacks on American bases,
and the Americans have then hit a couple of two extensive raids
on the coastline of Iran and one or two England places as well.
So both sides are trying to have the last word, militarily.
But both of them now have gone quiet for the time being.
You might flare up again.
But neither side, I think, want to go back
to this all-out war, because the Americans have got plenty
of military hardware in the area.
They've still got two carrier battle groups there.
The Lincoln is still there, the Abram Lincoln carrier,
the George W. Bush is still there.
And those carriers, with their carrier battle groups,
are very powerful.
They've got a Marine Expeditionary Unit.
They've got an assault ship.
The box is still there.
They've got plenty of stuff to carry on the air war, but to what purpose?
And the Iranians, again, they've got about 70% of their missile forces available to them
from what they started with.
They could carry on as we're attacking the countries in the Gulf, but to what purpose?
Other than to raise the sense of loss to everyone.
So both sides are more interested in carrying on negotiations, particularly the Iranians,
because they know they can string out these negotiations.
They'll be along the 60 days of the ceasefire extension.
And the Iranian calculation is that they can outlast America economically longer than America
can last politically, because the Americans are getting closer and closer to the midterm
elections.
And the Iranians think they've won.
They think the Americans will have to withdraw, and they are now, you can see in the things
that they're putting out, they are articulating a new regional strategy where they will take,
they'll have a lot of influence in southern Iraq.
They'll have control of the Houthis in Yemen.
In fact, it will give them control effectively.
There you are, the Red Sea, the bottom of the Red Sea,
the Babar Mandib straight there at the foot of the Red Sea.
The Houthis can close that.
They can close the Strait of Homoes.
They will have the enmity of Saudi Arabia to deal with,
but they had that anyway.
I mean, the Saudis and the United Arab Emirates
are very hostile now,
but they know that the Amarnis have got more or less
to go with them.
Qatar has got a more or less lean towards them a bit more.
Qatar is in a very difficult position.
So they know that they still have influence over the other Gulf states.
They've got a, they could have a stranglehold over humors and the Babel Mandir.
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And they're still committed to the destruction of the city of Israel.
So from their point of view, they, they have a new era,
a third Islamic revolution to develop.
And all the while then, Michael,
what is the situation with the Strait of Hormuz?
Is it open? Is it closed? What do we know?
Ah, it's like shredding is captured,
but it's open and closed simultaneously.
Well, Strait of Hormuz is interesting
because the argument is all about the Rook.
Let me get him an explain, all right?
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Normally takes is the transport separation scheme, the TSS.
And that is around about here normally.
And nobody can use that route because the Iranians say they've mined it.
And they probably have.
They do seem to be some mindfulness area and what the Iranian says, okay
The straight it is open if you come via Larac Island or near to Larac Island
So this the the shipping that they allow through the straight is taking a pretty northerly route to come out
And that means they can charge and that they're planning to to exert charges. They call them marine
Service charges, which is a toll to you and me, but they call marine service charges
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It's time. The Americans say, no, we have a route along the Imani coast that we've cleared. We made
sure it's safe, right? I can't go to Texas anymore because he's afraid that he needs to check in with
Jasmine Crockett is really funny. I will be going to Texas eventually. We're working on some right
now. Right around the Muslim Dam Peninsula, around the Hajar Mountains here, down towards Fujara.
And that route is where the ships were attacked in the week. So the Iranians are saying any ship
using this route. I'll still cook Maya. It's not even, I'll still cook Maya. That's not even a
question. Don't even start with that. I'll cook Maya anytime. Not even a question. Not safe,
because it's not using our route. And that's how it began. And what's interesting is that normally
is 130 odd ships going backwards and forwards day after day in normal times. In the last few days,
last week, there was about 30, 40 ships going in and out. Last couple of days, it's 20 or fewer.
And none of them, over the last two days, none of them have used the American route.
Those that have gone in and out have all used the northern route.
And that's the difference.
So, at the moment, the Iranians have got control of what is coming in and out, what
Lickley's coming in and out.
Yeah.
By the way, this is basically leverage that is more consequential than enriched nuclear
grade, enriched uranium.
Okay.
So, of course, they're not going to give it up.
Why would they, they fought for it, they bled for it, and they won it, and they showed the
world how easy it is.
So as long as they still have drones, as long as they can still lob, you know, underwater
drones or the regular drones that they have, it's not something that they're going to give
up.
America understands this, by the way.
What I can't comprehend is why America thinks that they can still wait this out.
Why the United States of America thinks that they could just like bomb Iran into submission
this time when last time it didn't work and they had to do a MOU for a brief moment of
respite.
From the straight of almost, nobody is using, so far, nobody is using the American route.
Okay.
That's what it's about.
So are they going to go to war over a route?
but they might go to war or back to war over who has controlled the Strait of Hormuz ultimately.
And what the Iranians are saying is, like it or not, we will have control in the future.
The Strait of Hormuz will never go back to the way it was.
Yeah, of course, this wasn't an issue before February.
Great stuff, Professor Michael Clark there.
Well, New York City Mayor's office is under fire after Zohan Mamdani's International Affairs Commissioner
reportedly made plans to meet with Iran's UN ambassador earlier this week.
The timing could not have been worse. And the New York Post reporting this,
the scheduled meeting would have unfolded after Iranian troops fired missiles at two
commercial ships traversing the Strait of Hormuz. An action Monday in direct
defiance of an interim peace agreement between the U.S. and Iran. Mayor Mom
Johnny was asked about this at a news conference today. Watch.
That meeting did not take place. It will not take place. And I did not know about it until there was a pressing query regarding it. And when it comes to the work of our commissioner and our international affairs office, it's to ensure that as we are a city of the world, that we are also there to meet with leaders from across the world.
The focus is always on our city and in our relationship. The commissioner reckoned.
They're worried Zoran's gonna cook up a better deal than the MOU.
They're worried Zoran's gonna make peace happen.
Why is he at the gym?
I just realized, what the fuck's going on here?
Dude, because he's everywhere all the time and he's doing like regular mayoral shit,
it's always so funny.
They're like, hey, why was your liaison officer talking to the Ayatollah and he's at the fucking gym and he's like, I don't, I don't know where that's coming from. Still in a suit.
It's a great opportunity to
recognize that this was made an
error and we're working on a new
process in terms of new meeting
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A new process? What about competence? Well, this comes as the Wall Street Journal reports
Israel warned the U.S. that Iran hatched a new plan to assassinate President Trump. Iran
has repeatedly vowed to retaliate against our president for ordering the killing of
Iran's Revolutionary Guard General Qasem Soleimani. President Trump reiterated that
this week.
They've been in trouble for 47 years and we took out their first set of leaders, we took
out their second set of leaders, they want to take out the US leader, me, I'm on every
list.
I saw things this morning, I'm on every single one of their lists and so far I guess I've
been a little bit lucky but that maybe doesn't last very long.
The president told the Post today, quote, I've left instructions if anything happens
to just literally bomb them at levels that they'd never seen before.
Rebecca, it's so frightening to even discuss this,
and I can't even wrap my brain around it.
But let's go back to New York City for a second.
You have to be a pretty special form of, I'd say, incompetence
and blindness to have that happen at your watch.
Well, OK, except that, according to the City Journal,
who saw some internal messages from this commissioner
to Memdani's internal staff, that they
were to take meetings with foreign leaders who, quote,
are in political alignment slash leftist and so my question is why did they think that
the Iranian regime is in political alignment or leftist with with them when yes the Iran
regime is firing on commercial shipping they're also firing at Americans at American warships
at American warships.
Dude, this is the newest, this is the newest version of kidnap from a tank.
Okay, that's so funny.
This is the, the American version of kidnap from a tank.
How dare Iran fire at American warships?
How could Iran fire at American warships if those warships were not within striking
distance. How could that have happened? It's so funny, man. That's awesome. That's great.
Wow. I can't believe Iran is fucking defending itself from American warships and American planes.
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Congratulations to Cutie Cinderella.
Who cares about Iran Cutie is married?
Yes, Cutie Cinderella is married co-worker wig.
Yes, a second MSG wedding is in the timeline. Okay, guys, stop. Is this because of Taylor's
with no it's not you guys are so stupid please stop I mean I don't know what
she'll say about it but no it's not
surely you will get a co-worker invite yes I will get yes I will get a
co-worker invite okay that's it's crazy I don't think I don't think AT&T I love
Shatters are like be normal and call her like you think I didn't know about this until this moment like what what do you?
Shatters not everything is for your parasocial experience, okay?
What are you talking about?
She was literally in my fucking house
Ten minutes ago
I don't know if you know this, but we just shot the podcast morning
bro shut the fuck up and farm a clip oh god that's what you're that's what I'm supposed to do
all right let's call cutie cinderella that's right I should be farming a clip what the fuck is
wrong with me. You know what? You're right.
All right, let's call Cutie Cinderella.
Hello? You're engaged? What?
Dude, I had to I had to tweet it today because when I went on your stream to move your chair. I realized I was wearing my ring
You know what I also
You know what I also realized
We didn't even fucking talk about it on the podcast. I didn't well, it's been it's been secret
I know, but I do we well now we fucking blew our load. We should have we should have farmed it
We're gonna farm it. We have to farm it for the podcast. Oh, yeah, okay. Yeah, no
Yeah, but it's fine next week all three of you wear bridesmaid stress
Okay, I like that. I like that. You're also on the stream. By the way, I forgot this
Okay. I just wanted to, cause everyone was like,
unck, you should farm a clip. Cause I was like, what? I can't believe it.
I can't very good at farming a clip when you say you're farming a clip.
I know, but also at the same time, I'm 34. I'm, and also you're engaged.
So we're above this stuff. We're above this stuff.
Reshoot the pot. Okay. Chatter. Shut the fuck up. Well, congratulations, QT.
Thank you. All right.
And congratulations to my co-worker as well.
And a pleasant day to you as well, to my thank you very much.
All right. I have fun guys.
Hi.
There you go.
I did it.
I farmed a clip.
We should have farmed it on the podcast.
Oh
It's ludd yeah, I don't know if you guys know this but they're they're engaged look at the screen
When are you getting married you getting up there bro, what is happening? What are you my dad? What the fuck?
That's crazy. I
I
Already received a level of scrutiny
From my immediate relatives. I don't want 30,000 chatters to also fucking hit me with the same shit
I'm married to the motherfucking game dog. I'm married to the motherfucking game
When you having kids soon I got 28,500 and 26 of them in here right now
Are you streaming a cutie wedding? Okay, dude
That's what I got for you
I like that this guy is just fucking locked in he's like what should Iran do now in your opinion everyone's talking about QT getting engaged except for Mahdi Toroghi
Iranian chatters like dude, what is listen I got I got Galabath on the other line. Can you tell me what you think we should be doing or what?
Like I said inside of your tools inside of me are tools both are gay
Rage is learning the importance of blast-off memes.
Anyway, he doesn't say Zaya yet. No, that's real. That's real.
Is Iraq she invited to the wedding? Sayyed Abbas Iraq she?
Sayyed Abbas Iraq she the foreign minister of Iran, the Islamic Republic of Iran? Yes.
Yes, he's my plus one.
Yeah. I was going to choose between him and said Mohammed Marandi, also known as a Zay squirrel on Twitter.
Bold to assume you are invited. That's funny.
really bold to assume you got an invite. It's true. I don't.
Anyway, let's continue.
It's based overseas in Kuwait and Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. And so this is outrageous
that this is something that the Mamdani administration was seeking to do. And also, of course, we know
that New York has been really struggling with anti-Semitism. And this is something that has
been really important to Mamdani. He has been fueling this anti-Semitism and has been very
anti-Israel. So the whole thing is very concerning that the Mamdani administration would have any
interest in meeting with an Iran official. Yeah. Ari, walk us through the concerns that the White
House would have, too, with your experience. Involving New York in the meeting? Yeah.
Well, first of all, I totally believe Mayor Mondami.
I'm certain that his commissioner for international affairs, he was going to meet with the Iranians
to help them find the best bagels in New York City.
I'm certain this is going to be a friendly country in New York.
We love you.
Meeting, that's what it was about.
I mean, I just can't imagine.
Zora Mondami wanted to have a meeting with people to say, death to America, death to
Israel for any other reason than to be nice.
I mean, what you just-
What are we talking about? First of all, first of all, it's perfectly valid for the mayor
of New York if they're hosting foreign dignitaries, including from Iran, to meet with them. That's
number one.
Number two, Donald Trump has literally spent the last month meeting with them. Trump wanted
a meeting with Ayatollah directly. JD Vance has met with the envoys directly. There are
photos of them in the same room. What are we talking about? I love that there's always
this principle where it's like, oh, you can do anything you want if you're on the right,
but if you do it on the left, it's just like, obviously, you're an enemy of the state. Okay?
so strange it's such a strange thing to to advance and people do believe it by the way
let me look at this this has a fucking 256 000 views in three hours is treason pure and simple
don't know why they are not charged make treason punishable again that's treason
mom donnie knew he ain't fooling anyone this has to stop our states are part of a federal union
we need to stamp this out arrest those traders now
Meanwhile, have the reason why they say Zahra Mamdani's anti-Semitic is because he's not
throwing ass at the Israeli ambassador every time he fucking can.
Okay?
They're like, if you literally don't let the Israeli ambassador buttfuck you, you're anti-Semitic.
Okay?
What are we talking about?
What?
What is this?
What is this fucking insane double standard?
the
what the hell
what the hell I'm sorry and Israel high and Israel high and Israel high and Israel high emergency announcement ladies and gentlemen and Israel hi
Okay. Just wanted to say, Am Israel Hai? Am Israel Hai? I was so wrong. Yes, it is true.
If Zoran doesn't let his back get blown out by the Israeli ambassador, he is the prime
anti-Semite. Okay. I was wrong. Fox News is right. Am Israel Hai? You got to let your
Your bag be blown out by the Israeli ambassador.
It's actually kind of fucked up.
An unbelievably anti-Semitic disarran has not.
Okay?
Don't know what I was thinking.
I don't know what I was thinking.
Have you made space,
have you made space for Israel in your daily routine?
I certainly have.
All right, let's continue.
Pathetic view and sympathetic ear width.
This is frightening.
This is not what New York should be doing
than the mayor lies and covers up.
He sounds like Grant Platner denying the reality
It's right in front of him, which is why his staff
feels they're licensed to go out and meet with the Iranians
and talk to the Iranians.
I wish the meeting took place.
And that way we could have demanded
to know what they talked about and hold the mayor
to account for it.
It really is too bad that they stopped it before it happened,
because that is what really motivates these people.
It really seems to be this sort of like weaseling
that happens here, Lisa, where the mayor gets away
with things by smiling and denying.
And remember, it took them three times
to get a paycheck out to NYPD officers,
and it's always, oh, I'm sorry, there was an error.
Like, it seems really mealy-mouthed here,
but at the end of the day, it's New Yorkers
whose safety is being compromised,
let alone our nation's security
that's being compromised if this would happen.
I mean, I can't be the only one
asking who side is he on in all of this, right?
And you would think,
wouldn't you know if your international affairs
commissioners try to meet with Iranian officials?
Is that something that you should know as mayor?
And why would that individual be trying to meet
with Iranian officials?
But you go down the list, you also
look at some of the tweets and the various things
that his wife has liked surrounding
the events of October 7th, as well,
starts to pan a little bit of a picture.
But even going back to the Biden administration,
and Rebecca's going to know about this,
you've got Robert Malley, who was the envoy for Iran
for the Biden administration.
He had a security clearance revoked from him,
also was under FBI investigation.
You had another top official who is part of the Iran experts
initiative, which seem to have reported about government
leaked emails where Iranian officials and government
officials were coordinating with individuals
in the United States who were part of this initiative
to try to shape public opinion here in the United States
and the West more favorably for the Iranian regime.
So whose side are some of these people on?
It certainly doesn't seem to be America.
Yeah, I'm just pointing out, and you pointed this out too, mom, Donnie says I wasn't informed
about this meeting. And apparently she has been.
Yeah, my controversial opinion on this is that it's anti-Semitic because the only foreign
ambassador that the New York mayor should be meeting with is the Israeli foreign ambassador.
I think that actually the only person, I take it back, sorry, the only person, not just
Just a foreign ambassador, I'm talking just any human being in his office, any person
that the New York mayor is communicating with every day should be directly out of Tel Aviv.
Okay?
That's what I think, and that's what I believe, and that's why I think Zoran is anti-Semitic.
He should literally not even talk to like Lena Kahn, okay?
Or anyone else in his cabinet.
Every single person in his cabinet should be replaced by someone that works for Unit 8200.
It's unbelievably anti-Semitic if they don't do that.
Reprimanded.
But my question is you should know what your staff is doing if someone on your staff takes
a meeting with Iran and the mayor doesn't know.
wife? Oh, extra anti-Semitic. Are you kidding me? Zoramum Dani should marry the nation state of
Israel. Zoramum Dani, if he wants to prove that he is not an anti-Semite, he needs to divorce his
wife and marry the nation state of Israel instead. That's anti-Semitic. Any day that he continues
to be married to his wife as opposed to the beautiful nation state of Israel is a day that
will live in infamy. It's another day of anti-Semite, 10 bodies. 10 bodies. Someone call up Jonathan
Johnathan Greenblatt, someone ring up Johnathan Greenblatt. That's 10 bodies. That's 10 anti-Semitism's.
Okay. Thank you for reminding me.
It seems like you have a lot of other problems. I thought the same as you when I saw the internal document about
closing up to leftist regimes. We've actually seen that from Mom Donnie. He tried to meet with the Colombian president,
Petro, the State Department intervened. That didn't happen. That Petro was at a rally with him at one point and sifted.
That was also crazy. Like the fact that he was not allowed to talk to Gustavo Petro is pretty wild
Teaching clavicular about the original looks max are from the Torah. Oh my god clavicular in Israel is just a content
Content nuke in and of itself
So he does cozy up to the left
But what's interesting is the diplomatic mission that this woman was a part of says that they want an equitable and inclusive society
And when you think about Iran it is not that and I think about 22-year-old masa Amini who I bring up repeatedly on the show
Who was arrested by the morality police beaten and an Iranian custody was killed and she's one woman of many tens of thousands of Iranian citizens
Have lost their lives. So if you want to be equitable and inclusive, you're doing the exact opposite by taking a meeting with Iran
You should know better. We are the freest country in the world the best country in the world
And you're cozying up to someone who kills young Muslim women people you purportedly say you care about
Be sure to like and sub
Progressive this was really funny. So dem candidate Brad Lander had a conversation with Dana bash
In which he talks about how he's a liberal Zionist who also happens to believe that Israel is an apartheid
Israel is an occupation, and Israel's apartheid must end, Israel's occupation must end, Israel's
conducted a genocide. And this apparently befuddles Dana Fash for understandable reasons.
It is an inherently contradictory assessment, but I want to hear what Brad had to say. Because,
like I said, he is in a very unique position. And I think he's also been a victim to a lot of
heinous anti-Semitic attacks, especially in those last month or so, for maintaining this position.
I'm not as critical of Brad Lander as many others are.
And I know that that is part of the reason why people say I'm a Zionist myself, part of the
reason why people say I'm a defender of Israel myself. So let's hear what he had to say in his
own words. Challengers have, um, it's, it's very funny to hear Dana Bash also have this
kind of, uh, assessment though.
Outsid three incumbent Democrats and primaries just over the past.
Much love from Tehran to you and your fam. How long you think we losing our net this time?
Hopefully, uh, hopefully not at all.
Last month, two of those happened right here in New York City. Brad Lander and Darryl Lisa
Avila Cheveller both beat Democratic incumbents and are likely to win their November.
elections in these deep blue districts. Brad Lander joins me now. Thank you so much for being here.
Thank you. I want to ask, we were having these conversations earlier in the show that there's
definitely a leftward shift towards where you are philosophically, showed up in your primary and
others. But in less blue districts, there still are more moderate Democrats being elected. Even
right here in New York, in New York 17, where Republican Mike Lawler is the congressman,
Kate Connolly won the same day you did.
So do you think that progressives like yourself
could actually win in a place that isn't deep, deep blue?
Well, I don't think the line really so much
should be thought of as progressives versus moderates.
To me, it's fighters versus folders.
People are fed up with a status quo
they don't feel is working for them.
And that's true for working families
in more moderate or frontline districts.
Look at someone like Pat Ryan in the Hudson Valley
who's been fighting on utility costs
and just showing people I'm out there fighting for working families.
CNN framing Lawler as a moderate compared to Lander? No, that's not what they did.
CNN was paying attention to the primaries in the district that Lawler currently occupies,
and in those primaries, obviously, a friend of the show, Effie Phillips,
of Staley lost to a moderate candidate.
So they're using that as a counter to say,
see moderates are still winning in New York,
in New York 17.
So that's what I think can unite us.
You know, whether you use Medicare for All
and the Green New Deal, or whether you say,
let's go confront the utility company that's bilking us,
that's the energy all Democrats need to bring this fall.
One of the big reasons you, when you're primary here is that you separated yourself from the
incumbent Democrat Dan Goldman on Israel.
You use the term genocide, he does not.
You don't want to have the U.S. funding.
Brad Lander funded Elvis Systems.
If anyone look at Tehran, Parr's neighborhood in Tehran, they would not support Lander.
Red Lander is not getting the sufficient support from Tehran.
That's not surprising to me.
Real militarily.
You call yourself a liberal Zionist.
What is a liberal Zionist?
I believe in the vision of a Jewish and democratic Israel.
I care about the place, but I don't think it's possible for it to be democratic while
while it's occupying the West Bank in Gaza.
And I don't think that Israel's conducting Gaza, which I do consider a genocide, is consistent
with Jewish values.
So to me, it's like you stand up and you call it as you see it.
I don't want to keep sending U.S. military to Israel while it's violating international
law and Palestinian human rights.
But I wanted to actually honor international law and Palestinian human rights so it can
be the Jewish and democratic Israel that I grew up believing in.
I'm sorry.
I just want to make sure I understand.
that you don't think it's a democratic Israel?
I want it to be a Jewish and democratic Israel right now.
I don't think it's modeling democracy while it.
Yeah.
Like, so that is, this is kind of awesome.
This is also part of the reason why I'm like,
you know what, if he has this assessment, then great, okay?
I don't know how it works,
but it's so awesome that it fucking for rise day in a bash we're gonna what do
you mean you just said you're a Zionist you're Jewish
and you're saying the Jewish state is not democratic
yeah
yeah
and here is
what's important
here's why i say he's in a very unique position here's why i say bradlander is in
a very unique position
someone
who is Jewish, as someone who is of a demographic that has not let go of this idealism towards
what Israel could be, what Israel should be, what Israel isn't.
And the last part of that is what's very important, because he also openly recognizes
that Israel isn't that, okay?
The reason why I'm saying this, the reason why I'm saying he's in a unique space right
now that he's in a very unique space that he occupies is because, is because, hate to
do this, but I mean, this community is going to know this regardless, this is not a defense
of this ideal, but Dana Bash does not respect someone like myself saying this. Okay? Dana
Bash does not respect Zoramum Dhani saying this. Dana Bash might not even respect Norm
Finkelstein saying this despite the fact that Norm is Jewish. But when Dana Bash hears
this from Brad Lander, who is very clearly Jewish and has also maintained his posture
about being a liberal Zionist when she hears that from someone like that, that's a guy
that she's going to see at the cocktail party.
That's a guy that's rubbing shoulders with other Jews and has a level of respect from
other Jews because Dana Bash does not respect people who are either anti-Zionist Jews or
anti-Zionists in general.
Okay? Certainly no respect for anti Zionist Muslims, for example. Okay? Dana Bash, for
example, does not like Bernie Sanders. Dana Bash does not have any respect for Bernie
Sanders. Ironically enough, Brett Lander's perspective here, okay? Very clearly Jewish.
You know, full world, I don't see Brett as a Jew. No, I think Dana Bash does. That's
why she's so shocked by this assessment. Because I mean, he just straight up said, like, no,
Israel's not fucking democratic. What are we talking about? She goes, what? Like this
moment would not happen. It's also really interesting because ironically enough, I think
Bernie Sanders in some ways is actually not as not as critical of Israel as as Brad
And yet Dana hates Bernie more than Brad Lander.
It's a weird situation.
Look, then you said that you don't think it's a democratic Israel?
I'm sorry.
Did you just say you're a liberal Zionist and you said you don't think Israel's democratic?
Like what?
wanted to be a Jewish and democratic Israel. Right now, I don't think it's modeling democracy
while it occupies the West Bank and Gaza, and half the people under its sovereignty
can't vote, but I believe that when occupation ends, then it can be Jewish and democratic,
and that's what I am going to be fighting for.
Why are you not just a Zionist?
Why do you say liberal Zionist?
What do you think?
This is the most confusing interview that the universe has ever conducted.
Do you think the difference is?
I mean, the Declaration of Independence that founded Israel says it would be a place for
the ingathering of exiles and full civil and political rights for everyone living there.
But Palestinians living in the West Bank facing settler terrorism or living in refugee camps
in Gaza because their schools and hospitals were destroyed, they don't have full political
and civil rights.
So it is not living up to its founding vision.
And to me, believing in Jewish and democratic means you got to fight for the human rights
Palestinians at the same time as you fight for the safety of Jews. I guess maybe a shorthand
way of saying it is, I don't think Israelis will be safe until Palestinians are free,
and they both need that. Can I just ask you a point, Blank? Do you not call yourself a Zionist
because it is a term that many people... She's like, come on, you're scared, right? You're scared.
It's because there's a negative association with it. Yeah, Dana, I'm going to keep it a buck 50
with you. And this is something Brad knows very well because he obviously keeps a lot of company
with anti-Zionists. It doesn't matter if you say you're a liberal Zionist. Okay. Like, let's be real.
I don't think people are like, oh, you're a liberal Zionist. Oh, okay. Never mind. Like,
it's just, it's seen as a negative association because it's literally what Israel is. Okay.
That's it. It's that simple. That's where the enmity comes from. It's not because of some
hidden antisemitism that exists out there in the space, especially because Brad Lander is
someone who's very familiar with a lot of anti-Zionists and his friends with a lot of anti-Zionists
as has kept company with a lot of anti-Zionist on the hard left have started to use as a
slur against Jews.
Whoa.
Yeah, definitely.
People on the hard left that see it as a slur against Jews, like, that doesn't make any
sense.
Okay.
If people on the hard left, in the way that Dana is presenting it, are using it as a slur against Jews,
what the fuck would they make a distinction between liberal Zionism?
Like what? That doesn't actually give him any sort of like tactical advantage at all.
Okay, it doesn't. The irony is, I think here, to be as open-minded to what I consider to
be an inherently contradictory assessment that Brad Lander is making is that his idealism
is basically living out
the logical conclusion of
liberals ianism
you're just mad that he's i guess sincere about it
because if you were to look at liberals ianist as a
the did the do you state solution
as like
a sincere request and not just something to get that people say to shut
people the fuck up
okay what he's saying is correct
he's saying what there's gonna be palestinian living
amongst Jews, but they're gonna have equal rights of representation. They're gonna be
Jews that live among Palestinians in this two-state solution with equal rights of representation.
That is literally what you want, right? I thought you wanted a two-state, Dana. What
the fuck's going on?
I'm so confused. I am so confused because that's the plan, right? It almost feels like
bradlander maintaining this position as like i'm a sincere defender of the two
state solution
uh...
i'm a sincere defender of the two-state solution all of a sudden bricks a lot of
people who would define themselves as anus
openly said that there are two-state believer
all of a sudden you're you're frustrated by that
what happened
they had a two-stater a fake two-stater when they meet a real two-stater okay
that's what's going on here
the reality is
look i don't i i think
like what i think is the most just solution here
is a is an abolition of the apartheid is an abolition of the occupation and end
of the occupation
i think that the most effective way to do that is
that it recognizes the fact that one state currently that sovereign
uh... and and
make it a fair democratic process right make it a fair just democratic
process equal representation
a right to return all the stuff
however we achieve that
in a way where like the palestinians obviously have a say
and and they're comfortable with is i'm fine with that you know what i mean
that's it
that is my north star on this conversation in this conversation is by
national
that's fine if the single state that's fine
but
what's interesting here is
bradlander is literally exhausting the maximalist conclusion of a two-state
option
he's doing something very interesting here
okay he's saying look this is this is idealistic
but if we're making a serious assessment israel's an apartheid israel's an
occupation
any real two state, a real two state would look like if there is ever to be a Jewish majority
democratic state. What that would mean is there's going to be a Jewish minority democratic state
that the Palestinians occupy, right? Like that's what a two state would look like.
And it almost, weirdly enough, just betrays or exposes the insincere nature of a lot of two
staters. When a lot of insincere two staters meet someone who's saying, look, it seems impossible
right now, but this is what I believe. And in order for this to happen, we have to come to
the recognition that the current process is not democratic at all. When someone says the
Quiet part out loud all of a sudden a lot of these two staters lose their fucking minds because if you were to ask Dana
In any other moment
Okay, if you were to ask Dana fash in any other conversation any other moment
What do you think should happen should be like oh two states of course
But because there's no follow-ups to how that could happen because there's no
because that is supposed to be a
a smoke grenade that you drop into every conversation that ends the conversation right then and
there, because there's never any follow-ups on that, on how we're arriving at a two-state,
what that looks like, what that means about the current predicament that Israel is in,
the current occupation, because those are conversations that are never had.
Someone like Brad Lander saying, like, yeah, I'm a real two-stater, right?
I'm a real two-stater, all of a sudden everyone else looks like fake two-staters.
No, I mean, a liberal Zionist is a Zionist.
I just want to make clear I'm not a Zionist like Ben Gbeer or Smotritch.
You want to eliminate Palestinians.
So that's why I say that.
You need to be an American and not believe in what Donald Trump believes in.
To me, that's what I am here.
I believe in the vision of a Jewish and democratic Israel, but it's got to change.
That's the biggest difference, I think, from what I'm seeing.
From what I am seeing, the biggest difference between what Brad Lander is saying is that,
look, while it's idealistic, if you're going to be a two-stater, you have to be honest
about the occupation, and you have to demand the end of the occupation.
If you're a two-stater, you have to be honest about the apartheid, and you have to demand
an end to that apartheid.
Does that make sense?
I'm not.
I'm an anti-Zionist.
Obviously, that's a big difference in opinion of what Zionism actually has represented for
the Palestinians.
There's always mass expulsion, death, ethnic cleansing, as opposed to this Zionist idealism
that Brad Lander represents, which is something that Einstein, for example, would have defended
at the time and spoke about at the time and recognized was not being followed through
on at the time.
So regardless though, his position is a much more honest assessment of what a two-state
solution would look like, which comes with the recognition of what this current singular
sovereign occupying state looks like than anybody else.
So like I said, the simply put, what this is might come across as a pablum to a lot
of anti-Zionists, but they're like, oh, he's like, cynically presenting this position.
He's just saying that because he wants to like, maintain some kind of Jewish ethno-state.
Like he doesn't want real accountability, all this stuff.
But ultimately, what he's saying is actually exposing the insincere ways in which every
single Zionist says they want to fucking to state.
going to be that just like yes, this country.
Can I ask you one other question on this?
Could you set you talked about genocide and you talked about occupying Gaza?
And I've also heard you talk about the fact that Israel went too far after October 7th.
What would you have wanted Israel to do when a bunch of civilians-
This is where I will probably diverge from Brad Lander's assessment completely, which
is again, and the apartheid, like literally.
About 1200, maybe 900 civilians also members of the military.
Kubutniks, these were peaceniks, like you, who lived on the border with Gaza because
Because they were desperate for Palestinian rights, and they were murdered brutally.
If you were asked what would you do in response, what would you do?
I mean, let me first clarify, I think Hamas committed an act of genocidal terrorism on
October 7th.
I don't agree with this.
I don't agree with your response.
I mean, priority one.
I don't think it was genocidal.
It should have been return of the hostages, getting them back to their families, and that
I think would have been done faster with a political deal.
And yes, accountability for the Hamas militants who conducted October 7th, 100 percent, but
not killing 5,000 Palestinian kids under five and destroying them.
And when Israel says that they tried, they tried hard to avoid this.
I'm just playing devil's advocate, the civilians.
But Hamas is so evil that it hid those terrorists and the weapons inside civilian populations.
war crimes, don't justify other war crimes and destroying every single school and hospital
and mosque and community center in Gaza and still occupying 70% of Gaza.
In addition to being a violation of international law, it's just not working.
This isn't actually going to make Israelis safe.
Can I ask you about today?
You endorsed Abdul al-Sayed, who's running against Hailey Stevens in Michigan.
They're running to be the Democratic nominee for Senate there.
He was asked by my colleague, Isaac Dovier, if someone could be a Zionist and a progressive.
Here's what he said, every definition of a Jewish state ends up in some articulation
of illiberal values, every single one.
As go talk talk that go talk King
It's true we understand this intrinsically we understand this in the United States of America when someone says America's supposed to be a white state
Demographic interest in maintaining whiteness is primary
It's very important. We understand what that looks like. We know, we know what that means.
When someone says America is a Christian state, we must maintain a Christian nationalist
attitude here in the United States of America. We understand what that looks like. We know
that to get there, we'd have to do a lot of violence, okay?
So, how can you say, how can you say
that this has to be a Jewish state
when there are non-Jews there?
How can you say you care about the demographic concerns?
Okay, now replace Jewish with vegan, not so funny now.
we gotta stop doing this. Ethnocentrism, ethno supremacy is not compatible with our current
understanding of democracy. That's the problem. And it's ironic because there is a shit ton
of Jewish literature on this. Okay? They would do well to read them. There are a
shit ton of Jewish academics who have written extensively on this concept. And
I guess the the biggest irony, the biggest irony is a big part of our modern
understanding, our modern interpretation of like never again, a lot of that comes
from Holocaust scholarship, genocide scholarship. Not to say that this is like
inherently a Jewish value or anything like that. I'm not saying that at all. But
in the words of, I forget who it was, that Obama lady, the the envoy, the one
that was in Obama's cabinet, who was like, we taught them too much about the
Holocaust and they learned the wrong lesson. It literally is a part of it.
Hasan is a king of performative leftism. Yes, it's true.
It's really funny for leftists like Hasan, for them the deal breaker was when white American women were, women were his victims.
Why would I trust Hasan when his cable was selling out to a Blackwater war criminal?
Um, I, I hand selected Grand Plattner.
And this is the Graham Plattner. Graham Cracker left. The Graham Plattner left.
It was Sarah Hurwitz. Yes, that was who it was. Remember when Sarah Hurwitz said,
we got to change the way we do Holocaust scholarship in this country.
The one Israeli scholar who does what you say. Yeah. Omar Bartov.
and Israeli professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University argues that Zionism
is an ideology of extremism, militarism, racism, and genocide. Zionism is not reformable.
This is fucking huge, by the way, because guess what? This was always the case,
but I'll take it. I'll take someone like Omar Bartoff openly talking about like how,
oh, Zionism has lost its way. The reason why I'll take it is because that is going to be far more
impactful in changing the mindset of a lot of Jews than I ever could be. And now you might say,
who gives a fuck, right? Well, the reality of the matter is, it takes a village and it takes
internal pressure as well. If this is a Jewish supremacist ideology, if Zionism is a Jewish
supremacist ideology, whether you believe that it turned into that now or whether you
understand that it was always that way, in its expression, in the way that it operated,
in the way that it justified ethnic cleansing of the indigenous non-Jewish Palestinians,
it still doesn't matter. It's important for there to be internal voices that are also
chipping away at this, okay? There's no other way to break this dam.
them. Because when you have more visible Jews coming out and speaking out against Zionism
in this way, okay, when you have, you know, Jews and Jewish institutions in America coming
out, that makes it easier for us to make this argument. That makes it easier for us not to
fall into the trap of leaning into anti-Semitic narratives, because anti-Semitic narratives
at the end of the day and this is not to like, you know, place a special interest in Jews
and preserve their ego or preserve their feelings or anything like that.
Antisemitism, not only is obviously heinous, is bigoted, but it also is unproductive.
If you're going to just think about it like that, if you're like, I don't care, you know,
this is a, this is a Jewish problem.
I don't care if that's your attitude, if that's your assessment, you have to understand like
people that feel that way are not actually invested in the end to this apartheid.
who feel that way are not invested in the dissolution of the apartheid in the end of
the occupation, they're just invested in dealing with the Jews. They just want the Jews to
get the fuck out of here. They don't care if they go to Israel. They don't care if Israel
is violent because those people also don't give a shit about Muslims. They don't give
a shit about even Arab Christians, right? They don't care at all. They don't give a
it. So thinking that those guys are going to be your salvation is dumb. Thinking that
those people are going to be your allies is dumb. I mean, Nick Fuentes has come out and
has openly now talked about like he used to do such a convincing narrative around the
Liberation of Palestinians or the or the crimes of Israel against Palestinians and there are so many clips out there
And he ain't good off of that
There were a lot of people who watched it. There were liberals who watched and were like damn
This guy's really cooking you guys would come in here and tell me about it all the fucking time
And I couldn't just he was so goddamn annoying always
Nowadays Nick went this is very openly saying look those Muslims hate us who gives a fuck if they get destroyed
who gives a fuck if they get killed? Okay? If you don't have a perspective that revolves
around, if you don't have a perspective that starts with the recognition of the humanity
of the Palestinians, okay, then you're not going to be serious about the dissolution
of the apartheid. You have to have a moral conviction that revolves around recognizing
the humanity of the Palestinians and also a moral conviction that centers around anti-genocide
and anti-fascism. This isn't just purity politics. This is having a principled approach
to an issue because you want to actually solve it. And if you don't have a principled approach
to this issue, then you will never solve it. You will cast it aside. It's just a bargaining
chip for you. One day, you're gaining prominence amongst like anti-Zionists. The next day,
you can just throw them to the fucking wolves. That's what Nick Flentes is doing right now.
And that's what I suspect. Someone like Tucker Carlson will inevitably do as well. That's
what I suspect, you know, Marjorie Taylor-Green might do, even if they come across as far
more sincere in their advocacy than even Nick Flentes is, right?
That's why principles matter. That's why moral conviction in this regard matters.
Okay?
If your moral framework begins at supremacists for your in-group, rather than liberation and solidarity for all,
then all of the things that you're saying, all of your allegiances are transactional, and you will just cast them aside.
On a moment's notice if someone offers you a better bargain
That's it
That's it
And yeah, this is
This is what I was talking about with respect to Holocaust education backfiring
This is a former Obama speechwriter Sarah Hurwitz
Lamenting to the Jewish Federation another one of my favorite type of clips my least favorite type of clips
another Jewish conference
where you have prominent Zionist Jews sitting in front of, you know, like the Jewish National Fund or
the Jewish Federation and a placard that says, you know, this is what we care about. We're all Jews
here, where you're going to hear some horrifying anti-Semitic screeds from a prominent Jewish
Zionist who will sit there and be like, yeah, we control the media. Yeah, we're really fucked up on
this issue, all this stuff, it's unbelievable how much this does to anti-Semitism and its
growth in this country. And yet, no one seems to see it that way.
Since October 7th, but really before then, there have been huge shifts in America on
how people think about Jews and Israel. And I think that is especially true of young people.
Why are only Jewish voices taken seriously in the rest of Palestine? One liberal Jews
says war crimes and that's enough for you. It was never a war. It's not two-sided. Brad's a bum.
Buddy, I think I've made my position very clear on this issue and I'm also not Jewish myself.
I don't know if you know this or not. I'm Muslim, okay? But we're having a conversation about
the way that Jews talk about this, the way that someone like Brad Lanter talks about this. It's
a different audience. He's speaking to a different audience. He's not speaking to you. Okay? You know
what's up. It's kind of like when I talk about white supremacy and anti-blackness. Some people will
say it's not enough. Some people will say it's not enough. It's on your white. You'll never
understand it. And it's true. I won't. I won't. I can't. I will never be able to fully understand
and what it's like to be a black American, okay? I won't. I can't. I'm white, or at least
I'm white passing the oath. Most I can do at most. What I can do is, is identify a level
of marginalization that I may have experienced at some point in my life and connected to
that. And some people can't even do that. So they have to learn what it's like. Okay.
Yeah, you write. See, there you go. That's simple. So different strokes for different folks.
In order to build a broad movement, a broad coalition,
in order to build a broad movement and a broad coalition, you're going to have people that
don't fully subscribe to your worldview. You're going to have people that you don't even understand
what the contradictions look like, but it doesn't matter because it's not actually speaking to you.
You already know what's up. And I try to stress this to black Americans all the time, black people
in general, all the time when I say like, look, when I talk about, when I talk about anti-blackness
that's foundational to the American existence. I'm trying to educate white
people or non-black people, okay? You're black. You already know what that looks
like. You already live it every day. And the same thing goes here. I understand
when an American Jew, an American Jewish person of this demographic especially,
when they're talking about their complex understanding of the nation-state of
Israel. They're filling a void. They're filling a very important role, a very complex one,
because let's be real. What we want and what is happening in reality are two separate things.
In a just world, you would have Gabor Matheon CNN destroying Dana Bash. You would have Norm
Finkelstein on MSNBC destroying the house when they try to dare bring up a ridiculous idea,
but that's not the world we live in. The world we live in right now requires people like Brad Lander
who might confuse us at times, okay?
But as long as someone is actually moving the needle in the appropriate direction,
as long as they do not present themselves in impediment to further progress on this conversation,
Then what can you say you just kick back and you watch and you hope for the best
To your point even is really put as a strong reaction towards Lander because they hate seeing him wear the contradictions on a sleeve
Yeah, Brad Lander was the word Zionist to keep meaning something
While he does the work emptying it
He accuses Israel genocide campaigns and it's military and now indoors of the Los Angeles as every former Jewish statehood ends in illiberalism
Whatever that is it is in Zionism. No in some respects
It's supposed to be the the fucking principal to state or liberal Zionism that people claim they care about people can't claim
They believe so maybe you don't believe it
And for the longest time I think people got away with saying this shit
That's why I said from the start, when a fake two-stater meets a real two-stater, all of a sudden, all hell breaks loose.
What happened? I thought you wanted a fucking two-state.
I thought you wanted a two-state where there's a Jewish majority state, and then there's a Palestinian majority state, where the Jews are the minority.
There's a Jewish majority say with the Palestinians are minority and then there's a Palestinian majority say with the Jews are the minority
That's what a two-state looks like
So why are you fucking bitching?
Perhaps it's because no one has ever called in the question this fucking silliness
So now you got a guy who's saying look I'm a Jewish man. I'm a liberal Zionist
This is what a two-state would look like
like, definitionally, and a big part of that comes with the recognition that there isn't
a bar tide happening right now, there's an occupation happening right now, and everybody
goes, whoa, whoa, whoa!
The fuck do you mean?
So yes, Brad Lander, despite my disagreements with his ideology, despite my disagreements
with his worldview, actually occupies a very complex role here that genuinely forces people
to recognize these contradictions, recognize this hypocrisy, and it empties out the argument
for what a two-state looks like.
Anyway, here's Sarah Hurwitz, an Obama speechwriter, talking about how the Holocaust education
went too far.
I think that since October 7th, but really before then, there have been huge shifts in
America on how people think about Jews and Israel.
And I think that is especially true of young people.
So we are now wrestling with a new, I think, generational divide here.
And I think that's particularly true in that social media is now our source of media.
And this used to be that the media you got in America was American media, and it was
pretty mainstream.
You know, it generally didn't express extreme anti-Israel views.
You had to go to a pretty weird bookstore to find global media and fringe media.
But today we have social media, which is a global medium.
It is shaped, its algorithms are shaped by billions of people worldwide who don't really
love Jews.
And so while in the 1990s, a young person probably wasn't going to find Al Jazeera or someone
like Nick Fuentes, today those media outlets find them.
They find them on their phones.
It's also this increasingly post-literate media, less and less text, more and more videos.
So you have TikTok just smashing our young people's brains all day long with video of
Carnage and Gaza.
And this is why so many of us can't have a sane conversation with younger Jews, because
anything that we try to say to them, they are hearing it through this wall of carnage.
So I want to give data and information and facts and arguments, and they are just seeing
in their minds carnage, and I sound obscene.
And I think, unfortunately, the very smart, I think, bet that we made on Holocaust education
to serve as anti-Semitism education.
In this new media environment, I think that is beginning to break down a little bit, because
Holocaust education is absolutely essential, but I think it may be confusing some of our
young people about anti-Semitism because they learn about big, strong Nazis hurting weak,
emaciated Jews, and they think, oh, anti-Semitism is like anti-Black racism, right? Powerful
white people against powerless Black people. So when on TikTok, all day long, they see
powerful Israelis hurting weak skinny Palestinians. It's not surprising that they think, oh, I
know the lesson of the Holocaust is you fight Israel.
Wasn't there an older lady who served in a Biden admin who was even more depraved on
the subject? Yes, you're talking about famous anti-Semitism, Deborah Lipstadt. Is it Lipshit's
or Lipstadt? One or the other? But that is, that is a fucking even more insane one. I
like this one because it's very instructive. I like this statement because it's like unbelievably
instructive where she just straight up says, we taught, I mean, this is literally like,
we taught them too much. We really went above and beyond with the whole Holocaust education.
And, and now it's backfiring because now we're doing it, you know?
It's crazy.
It is one of the most depraved statements, right?
Because you only arrive at this if you genuinely believe that, you only arrive at this conclusion
if you genuinely fucking believe that never again means just for Jews.
You only arrive at this position if you sincerely think Jews are above non-Jews.
It's Jewish supremacy, and that's at the heart of Zionism.
Not like the theoretical Zionism that Brad Lander wants to advance and defend, but like
what Zionism looks like right now.
And of course, from my perspective, what Zionism has always been.
me once Sarah Hurwitz compared Al Jazeera journalist to Nick Fuent as this is the smear
pro Israel crowd will try to use against anyone who effectively educates people about what
exactly the U.S. enables Israel to get away with occupation of apartheid and genocide.
I also genuinely don't understand why like these kinds of conferences happen all the
time and and and a lot of the people that participate in these conferences like they
They just haven't realized that we can see and hear what they're saying.
Like this isn't private, man.
You're on a fucking stage.
You're in front of like thousands of people.
You're in front of cameras.
Like you didn't, like what the fuck is happening?
It's just so strange to just be like, yeah, no, this is really fucked up.
We, we taught the Goyim too much.
I'm sorry.
Hello? Yeah, these are important values that people learned about. Like,
never again means never again for anybody, not just never again for Jews.
Like, the idea that, like, people that haven't gotten this level of Zionist indoctrination
Or the irony, of course, is it's not even people that have gotten designers indoctrination,
because there are a lot of younger Jews who went through this process, but then their
formative experiences with Israel was genocide.
So now they're not bought into it at all, either, and that fucking makes these people
so mad that frustrates them endlessly.
That's part of the reason why I always jokingly refer to the Jonathan Greenblatt's like singular
focus hyper fixation on someone like myself as like being a person that has convinced
his nieces and nephews that, you know, Israel is not a great place, right?
In order for the Zionist project to continue, you have to have loyal soldiers who are Jews
as well, right?
you can't just get away with it with evangelical Christians in the West and then have the biggest
torture.
Hey, get over here. Get over here. That's crazy. That's crazy. Every since she learned
Ever since she learned how to open this door, it's crazy.
She just fucking walks up and it's just like, get the fuck out of here.
Yeah. Even at the beginning of the clip, she says, we taught the Holocaust
a lesson about the dangers of antisemmins. This is such a, uh, such a narrow lens.
Yeah, I agree. Yeah. Kaya, place.
Kaya, place.
Sorry.
Is your room getting smaller recently?
No.
I will cancel you for this.
Okay.
Okay. Anyway, let's hear what Brad Lander had to say about Abdu'l say. It's a comment.
How did you square what you just said about believing in the notion of a democratic Israel
and what he said, which is there is no such thing as that.
We disagree on that. That's how I square it. Now we agree on a lot of...
It's not important enough for you that...
Well, look, I met Abdu'l through our dear mutual friend, Adi Barkin, this amazing activist
who died of ALS, courageously championing Medicare for All.
And I don't think anybody's going to fight as hard to fulfill Adi's vision of healthcare
for everybody as Abdul El Sayed.
Dude, this is, okay, can I say something?
You know how there's this idea that race traders get the first bullet?
This was represented perfectly in the racist Islamophobic movie that Uwe Ball made, where
Armie Hammer, the cannibal, goes and first kills white people before he goes on a killing
spree of Muslims.
Because Dana has this supremacist framework, Dana is operating off of the supremacist
framework as well, that you see the ire that she has, or someone like Brad, where she goes,
how dare you align yourself with this Muslim who happens to have this disagreement with
you? How dare you align yourself with someone who could ever say such a thing that a Jewish
state is illiberal in nature. How dare you? But she's looking at Brad lander as a race
trader.
Yeah, and the fight as hard to read, which is there is no such thing. We disagree on that.
That's how I square it. Now we agree on a lot of you that, well, I'm not Abdul through
our dear mutual friend, Adi Barkan, this amazing activist who died of ALS.
How are you? This is extra crazy for me because from everything I know about Jewish thinkers and
Jewish culture, academics, revolutionaries, this kind of supremacist mentality is legitimately
a newfound phenomena in the aftermath of the advent of Zionism. And not even like Zionism
at its inception, there were some who believed this, obviously many Jews didn't. But like,
this is not to get phillosomatic here, but this is categorically not Jewish.
In a way, it's no different than like when Stephen Miller or Josh Shapiro will be like,
We'll talk about what their faith means to them, specifically, Josh Spiro.
Felix makes this joke all the time, where it's like, there is this, the way that Josh Spiro
will be like, oh, my faith, it comes across like positively waspy, right?
It's not very Jewish. And it's certainly not very Jewish unless you're talking about
like Cajanes, uh, when you, when you have this kind of like in-group, out-group dynamic where
you're like, how dare you fucking, how dare you fucking allow a non-Jew to speak this way about
the Jewish state? You know what I mean? Rageously championing Medicare for all and I don't think
anybody's gonna fight. We are magical beings, we have our lump and prowl too. Dog, you think
fucking Dana Bash is lump and prole. That's greatly no Dana Bash is is not even a small
C but a big C capital owner. Okay. That's funny to say Dana Bash is lump and prole.
Yeah, she's a vagrant. She is a she is a part of the dispossessed masses. No, she's just
a straightforward, you know, kind of flashy member of the bourgeois.
As hard to fulfill Adi's vision of healthcare for everybody as Abdul El Sayed and fight
to get money out of politics, we disagree on this.
Now, I believe that he cares about fighting for the safety of Jews in Michigan and the
human rights and dignity of Israelis.
believes in a binational state with equal rights for all its people. I believe in two states,
one majority of Jews with equal rights for its Palestinian minority, one a majority of
Palestinians with equal rights for its minority Jews. That's a difference. Of course we are.
Wait, wait, wait, wait. What did Dana say? Fuck, I missed it. Oh, it's so awesome. It's so fucking
Awesome, dude. She's, this is, this is a clinic. Look, it's not my speed. It's not my cup of tea.
It's not for me. Okay. But it is, this is for a very specific person. Ironically enough,
probably better for the CNN audience than I ever could be. Because like, if I, if I were to have
have a conversation with Dana, like it would not go like this, right? And the immediate
CNN audience would not appreciate it. Probably a lot more people would appreciate it outside
of the CNN audience. But let's be real, I don't think she'd be able to even keep her
composure, which she's failing to do with Brad as well. But this is for exactly the
CNN watching audience, okay?
with equal rights for its minority Jews, that's a difference you, of course we are, and a
lot else is going to have to do, we're going to have to get Netanyahu out, and Ben Gverin
Smutrich out, and Hamas out.
It's a difference that we have, but at the base level you don't compromise on anyone's
humanity.
And you don't think by him not believing in what you believe in the notion of a Jewish
state of Israel compromises your humanity?
I don't.
why would that be the case
sometimes
when i hear someone
basically arrive at like the the
you know logical conclusion their limit
okay
when i hear someone sincerely advances on like are you
fucking insane are you just saying this in a cynical way
why
what the fuck
does that have to do
with the humanity
an american jewish man
what are you saying
have you ever thought of a world outside of like
israel not existing in the way that it currently does
has this ever even factored into the equation at all
is you only believe this if you generally think like literally all of the
permanent international holocaust will take place if israel is not
a supremacist state that is doing an apartheid at all times
numerous front wars
but constantly fucking bludgeoning its neighbors constantly expanding in its
territory
but do you what are you saying
how the fuck
how the fuck
uh... is there a world where
holocaust two holocaust three holocaust four is happening in real time if is
real is not a nazi state how is that possible
How can you genuinely believe this?
These people are just like otherwise normal human beings.
This is a fucking insane thing to believe.
You know, you went to college, you read books,
you live in the normal world, you live in New York City.
How can you sincerely fucking believe this?
If you live in New York City,
I don't get it.
And, you know, he's been clear that he wants full and equal civil rights and human rights
for Israelis and Palestinians and for Jews.
We have a difference in how we approach achieving it, but, but I believe that there's room to
work together.
Um, just one other question on the question of Zionism, because...
Yeah, she's in front of living proof that New York City Jews don't think like her, which
is why it's like breaking her brain.
I've heard and not even this is important though because this is like not even a New York Jew like norm
Okay, that's what's so different too
Because like look Brad Lander
Brad Lander goes to a
synagogue that is almost entirely comprised of you know liberal Zionists
ultra-zionists, some anti-zionists potentially, but probably not a lot because I feel like anti-zionists
usually opt out and stuff like that after a certain while. Like, Brad Lander is not like
Norm Finkelstein in some ways, right? Brad Lander has the capacity to penetrate Dana Bash's circle
friends and social circle and actually change people's minds there which is why she sees
this as like a very visible threat.
You know what I mean?
Chess stop being weird I said penetrate come on I know every time I say fucking penetrate
you literally have to go home. You're like 12. Okay, stop it.
And to some of the podcasts that you're on and watching some of your interviews and you
talk about how you get attacked from the left of which you are a part being called a Zionist
baby killer. And on the right, maybe in the Jewish world calling you a capo, which for
people who don't know those were the Jews who were helping keep the peace, so to speak
in the Nazi concentration camps and I which I wonder which camp
I wonder which camp Dana falls into I wonder what Dana thinks of Brad after this interview maybe I'm
wrong but we watched eight minutes of this so far and I don't know this is like when I did that
LBC interview where the guy was like I really think the home secretary fucked up by banning you and
by the end of the interview was like I actually agree with Shabana Mahmood like this is turning
out to be like, yeah, I wanted to have a conversation with you to understand where you're coming from.
But also, you know. And I ask this because this word Zionist has been turned into a slur
by a lot of people. And you just, you talk about how you have experienced that yourself.
Deborah Lipstadt, who is a very, a world renowned scholar on these issues, I asked her, she said,
I do believe that and no, no, no, you did not bring up. You talk about how you have experienced
that yourself. Deborah Lipsch. Deborah Lipsch that is who we were talking about earlier.
Biden's anti-Semitism czar Deborah Lipsch that famously sued the Holocaust denier David David
Irving or David Irving, right? The one who wrote the books about the Holocaust being fake and shit.
it. Very famous case in the UK. She is insane. Like, you should find that was an important
legal case, right? No, it wasn't David Eich. No, it's not David Eich. It was someone else.
Anyway, it doesn't matter. She is an insane supremacist. Okay? Straight up. Straight up.
She is like, they made a movie about it called Denial. Yeah. There it is. And what's wild
about this, what's wild about this is that Deborah Lipstadt is just as racist as David
Irwing is. Okay? That's what's so crazy. Because when you hear Deborah Lipstadt talk about
Israel. When you hear her talk about Arabs, when you hear her talk about Palestinians,
when you hear her talk about what Israel has done to the Lebanese population, like celebrating the
pager act of terrorism, Deborah comes across as a full-tilt Nazi, right? She comes across as a full-blown
Jewish supremacist. She comes across like a fucking, a cahanist, no different than that.
So for Dana to bring her up as a reasonable person is ridiculous
Okay
full-fash
That who is a very a world-renowned
Scholar on these issues. I asked her she said I do believe that anti Zionism is anti-Semitism
However, I also believe that anti Zionism has morphed into its own kind of demonization and hatred a prejudice all its own
So I disagree with that also means yeah, also
It's really funny. Yeah today Debra Lipschad who built a career on defending the memory of the Shoah and demanding historical justice for his victims is
Amplifying a call for the New York Times editors to facing Nuremberg style public hanging
And also highlighting Adam Lewis Klein, which is really funny
Which is really funny because what Debra Lipschad said right there is Adam Lewis Klein's like
like, uh, lives work basically, uh, that anti-Zionism is the truest version of anti-Semitism.
I love that guy.
He's so funny.
He's so fucking stupid.
Zionists can be used as a slur, and believe me, if you look at my mentions, I hear it
that way.
But, you know, my kid, my son, is named after this, uh, gymatic Edelman, who was a, a Buddhist,
a Jewish democratic socialist in the Warsaw Ghetto, who helped lead the Warsaw Ghetto uprising
like that.
So seriously, I take the legacy of Jews who fought Nazis.
He was not a Zionist.
He didn't believe in a sovereign Jewish state.
Even Albert Einstein, who they asked to be the president of Israel, wanted it to be safe
for Jewish life even in Israel and Palestine.
But he worried that Jewish sovereignty would have dangerous consequences.
So there are anti-Zionists who are members of my synagogue who I can tell you are absolutely
not anti-Semitic, who care about the safety of Jews, who don't believe that the state
isn't making Jews safer. That's not my position.
Yeah, Brad Lander is a very interesting guy for this reason. Look, found in the archives,
at ritual circumcision of a son, Lander and wife declared,
we are thrilled to pronounce you a Jew without the right to return.
Your name contains our deep hope that you will explore and celebrate your Jewish identity without
confusing it with nationalism. By the way, I'll also not be hit.
just saying. But also, again, again, like this is maybe not our cup of tea, right?
But it serves a different purpose. Now, people will say who cares, right? Who cares? The situation is a crisis, a genocide.
But that's precisely the reason why I have a different approach to this kind of stuff, where it's like,
If someone is not an impediment to progress, and as a matter of fact, is filling a different
role that I would never be able to fill, I'm not going to cast away potential allies of
the future.
And by that, I don't even mean Brad Lander.
I mean, I'm talking about people that Brad Lander could convince, because it's important.
We need everyone we can get, okay?
And if American Jews did not play a critical role in this process, then the Zionist advocacy
organizations wouldn't spend a good deal of time and effort trying to make sure that every
American Jew born on US soil is not learning from birth a critical supply of pro-Israel
sentiment is not being indoctrinated as aggressively as possible. Okay? That's it.
But I don't think it's anti-Semitic. Let's look ahead to 2028.
What do you expect and want from a Democratic candidate for president?
First and foremost, a vision of an economy that works for working people, a vision for
healthcare and housing and childcare that people can afford. Folks are desperate. They feel the
system is rigged against them.
Now they see like AI data centers poisoning their water
and taking their jobs, a vision that works for working people,
a vision for political reform.
We're going to have to do something about the Supreme
Court, about gerrymandering, about money and politics,
and also a hopeful energy.
I have to tell you, like what's been moving in New York
since the NICS won, and we have the World Cup.
There's a hopeful energy that Mayor Mondani
has been able to tap into.
I wanted something like that for our country as a whole.
Going back to our discussion before,
there are, I think, at least a trio,
maybe more of potential candidates in 2028 who are Jewish.
You have Josh Shapiro, governor of Pennsylvania,
JB Pritzker, Illinois, Asaf, Senator Asaf,
Senator from Georgia and Rahm Emanuel.
They're all critical of Prime Minister Netanyahu, but they all believe that Israel's right to
exist and have stopped short of calling what's happening in Gaza genocide.
Do you think that somebody with those views and that religion could be the nominee for
president in the Democratic Party?
I do.
I think it's going to require clarity that we need a reset in the U.S. relationship with
Israel.
I think saying we're not going to continue to provide the 2,000-pound bombs that destroyed
Gaza, that we're going to insist on human rights and international law compliance, and
we're going to stop aid until that happens, and that Israel has to step up to recognizing
that what's necessary is self-determination for Palestinians and-
Dr. Abdul Al Sayed, what the fuck?
Does he have a actual, does he have a Twitch account now?
a horizon of political mutual recognition and peace. Look, and I'm happy to explain to any of them
why I think Rafael Lemkin, the Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor who developed the term genocide,
the Lemkin Institute considers what's happening there, genocide, like Omar Bartoff.
Dude, I swear to God, it literally is. Bro, it's just straight up. This is like
like saying the quiet part out loud, as long as no one, as long as no one ever addressed
this kind of thing, as long as no one ever turned around and was like, this is what the
two states are supposed to look like, then it was fine.
Okay?
Then it was fine.
It was a great, it was a great fun little experiment that we had, you know?
a great and fun experiment that we had. You can bracket off the, the anti-Zionist Jews as bad
Jews. You never have them on. You just tell them to shut the fuck up or you don't even have to call
them copos if you just don't ever have them on your platforms, which by the way, again, never,
Norm Ficklestein never been invited to a show like this, completely blacklisted, Gabor Mate.
like there are plenty of anti-Zionist Jews who just never get this time of day.
So even if someone is like a two-stater, the only way to talk about a two-state is
just by saying, oh, of course I'm in support of a two-state and then move on, right? When you
actually hear from someone who's like, yeah, a two-state I think is currently not very realistic,
but like this is what it would look like. And of course a big part of that recognition also
stems from a big part of that stems from the initial recognition of what the current one state looks like
and apartheid that has conducted a genocide and a permanent occupation that's very violent.
All of a sudden, all of a sudden, it kind of breaks this illusion. It destroys the illusion.
Amazing.
So is that a litmus test?
I don't think it's a litmus test.
I think it's something useful for people to look at and grapple and reckon with.
We've spent thousands of years as the victims, as a rough, grappling with what it means in
some ways to be a perpetrator.
I think it's a useful dialogue for American Jews to have, but I don't think it's a litmus
test in the presidential race.
I do think a reset in the U.S.-Israel relationship is.
Brad Lander, thanks for sticking around.
Thank you for coming in.
Well, there is new uncertainty this morning in the high stake Senate race in Maine and
battled candidate Graham Platner reportedly told staffers he doesn't plan to officially
withdraw until Monday.
Now that leaves even less time for state Democratic leaders to move ahead with a new pick while
voters remain in the dark.
Caitlin Huey Burns has more.
The implosion of Graham Platner's Senate campaign left Maine voters in its wake and
many told us they feel disappointed and uncertain about it.
what comes next? I wish with Graham Fatner and I don't know how to feel about what's going to happen now.
I wonder, yeah, he withdrew already. I wonder if like a conversation like that,
I wonder what that would look like for some of your parents if you're Jewish.
Just like, that's gotta be at least a look. I mean, that's certainly gonna be more impactful than like
them hearing what I have to say, right?
And Christian parents who also love Israel too.
I suspect it just depends on how far down the rabbit hole one might be.
because we have seen a bunch of people call him a bad Jew.
Welshman. Man this guy read the child and gravity is to support him like he's your
god, you're all pet of vows. There's gotta be a real wild situation, a real wild way
to exist where you've just decided you had to invent a reason and you came up
with that as like the invented reason. It's the most insane thing.
I don't understand how you could just like live in a world where you get mad at your own hallucinated alternative reality.
We're suspending campaign operations.
The Oyster farmer and Marine veteran had struck a chord with voters in Maine as a first-time
politician with a populist appeal.
I have been willing to die for my country.
There is nothing that I will not do for the state of Maine.
Resonating even with some voters who once backed Republican Susan Collins.
I wanted to see some new faces in our Senate.
The state Democratic Party has until July 27th to pick a replacement, and there's no shortage
of candidates.
The party announced it will hold a nominating convention.
But first, they'll need Plattner to file paperwork to officially leave the race, something
the campaign says won't happen until Monday.
Some former Plattner supporters say they aren't ready to rubber stamp whoever the Democrats
pick.
I certainly hope to find somebody, but I don't know who.
Do you, are you, are you glad that he dropped out?
I think he had to under the circumstances.
I think the timing of this whole thing is very questionable.
Other voters say they'll go for what they know,
the long-time Republican incumbent.
This presents a known quantity in this chaotic situation.
For CBS Mornings, I'm Keegan Lee Burns in Portland, Maine.
Graham Platner has formally withdrawn
from the Maine Senate race, kicking off a two-week sprint
for the state's Democrats to pick a new nominee
to face off with Republican incumbent Susan Collins.
The grand platter to Susan Collins return voter is a is an enigma.
I will never understand it.
The mind of the American median voter folks, indecipherable.
You will never understand it.
Don't try to understand it.
You will die in the process.
This guy is my favorite.
Yeah, the median voter.
Jackson is not progressive.
He voted against so many bad things like gay marriage, abortion.
He did that and now wants to say he's progressive.
If they put up Troy Jackson, if they put up Shana Bellows, I'm voting for Susan Collins.
And I hate to say that as an independent, but Troy Jackson and Shana Bellows aren't
going to be able to do anything in that federal government.
I know that gentleman says he's an independent, but he's expressing progressive values and
beliefs there, so respond to him.
Well, I mean, honestly, you know, he is accurate.
I voted against those things over 15 years ago.
Since then, you know, I've found out, I've understood, I mean, I've always been someone
that believed that healthcare is a human right, and it became clear to me after some time that
abortion, reproductive rights, access is a human right.
health care. It's people that deserve to have that. And when it dawned on me, I became a real
advocate for that. Over the last 10 years, I've had 100% voting rights for Planned Parenthood.
I've sponsored or co-sponsored some of the most progressive abortion access in the entire country
and fought vehemently for it. And I make no bones about a bad vote years ago coming out of a rural
area, a very Catholic area, but you know I mean people are gonna have all kinds of
thoughts about these things but I mean I have a 20-year record of votes like
that but a whole bunch of votes that you know people like in the DSA think that
I'm very progressive. So I mean in the end I'm fighting for people, I'm fighting
for people across Maine, you can call them whatever votes you want but in the
And I think there are the things that actually drive people,
make people's lives better.
And it's part of the frustration that people in Maine
have right now of a government that's not working for them.
And I feel like that too.
I'm the Senate President for the last six years,
the second highest ranking official in Maine.
And I'm frustrated that government does not work
the way it should.
And that's what this race is about,
is making sure that we have a government
that fights for manors.
You do have 100% rating from Planned Parenthood
in New England. Okay, this guy literally is the look like a
chud think like a wall. I know we said that with Grand
Platinum too, but he he straight up is. And he used to
think like a chud too.
Troy.
Look, my biggest concern with the deploying the Toyota is what you just watched.
Like he is a diligent legislator, he has a lot of experience.
The problem is he's just a little boring.
Okay, that's it.
like the clever way to respond to that is, yeah, I made the wrong decision and I learned
from it. This is about redemption and I, you know, you can look at my track record to see
that I have more than redeem myself and I want to unseat Susan Collins because she has
not. She claims to be progressive and yet she failed not just the women of Maine, but women
all across the country when she ended up voting to appoint Brett Kavanaugh,
when she ended up voting to appoint Amy Coney Barrett. And these women took away the pivotal
health care rights in the bottle, the autonomy of women all across the country, right? Like,
you know, that would have been a good flip.
Plattner has submitted his paperwork with the Secretary of State's office, so that makes
his exit official.
The embattled candidate said several days ago that he intended to quit the race following
an allegation of sexual assault, which he has denied.
The Maine's Democratic Party has been scrambling to come up with a process to select a new
nominee.
law says that they have until July 27th to do so, and the party has indicated it plans
to hold a convention with delegates from across the state to come up with that nominee. Several
candidates have already put themselves forth in contention for that nomination. In the
the main Senate seat, it's seen as critical.
Can you explain more in your quote?
I don't, I do support Trojaxon.
I just explained the quote.
What do you mean?
Figer is an optimist about Trojaxon.
The DSA endorsed former state Senate president.
Many progressives are rushing to back the exact opposite of
Graham Platt, when it comes to charisma, he said,
the test is going to be whether or not it's the policies
or if it's the person.
I mean, that seems like a rougher version
of what I implied.
But yeah, I like him, I support him.
I'm just worried that people are going to not respond
positively to how no frills,
how straightforward is,
of his policy platform is.
Pulled by Democrats as they try to regain power in Congress in the November elections.
Overnight, the Department of Homeland Security admitting the man,
they lose maintenance, your fault again. We coconuts remember.
And shot and killed by ICE in Houston Tuesday was not the intended target of their investigation.
In a statement, a DHS official now saying 52-year-old Lorenzo Salgado O'Rajo, a husband
and father of three, was stopped by ICE because he resembled the target of an investigation
causing officers to stop his van.
Salgado O'Rajo was then shot in the abdomen by an ICE officer.
agency claiming the officer acted in self-defense alleging Salgado O'Rajo wasn't following commands
and tried to use his vehicle as a weapon although no it as usual that chatter went and bragged about
being banned here in Roche's chat. Got a moan from a somber mentioning the German
incident very visitor brothel pokey's poke camps you have to train a police dog if it gets killed
Transfats are finished with Techie Stream. Now to wait for the real bald one.
Projection Piker back at it again.
What's so funny about this is he's openly a fan of someone who a court has called a rapist.
And he has to hallucinate me as one to hate me.
Meanwhile, there's an actual fucking rapist that he's a fan of.
Brother, I'm gonna be honest.
You got to get your priorities in check.
The
Washington Post now reporting migrants who were in the car with Salgado O'Rarjo through
statements given to their lawyer dispute key parts of ICE's narrative, one writing,
It is impossible for them to say that they were going to get run over.
There were no officers in front of or behind the vehicle.
They were on the sides.
The shooting sending shockwaves through Houston.
We don't have the final word.
Salgado O'Rarjo, an undocumented immigrant living in the US for 35 years,
was close to obtaining legal immigration status, his son said.
Undocumented migrants are humans.
They're demanding an independent investigation.
I just want all Americans to know that my dad was a hardworking man, a family man, who
wanted nothing more than to put food on the table and to watch his sons achieve the American
dream.
Now, on Mark, rental cars, ramming into a fucking work van of a dude who's been in the
country and has been working for 35 years.
This is not.
This can't go on.
This is just not normal.
can't live like this. I don't know what else to say like any kind of defense of the actions of ice here.
You are you are less than an animal. You have no self preservation skills. You don't understand it.
This is just straightforward gang violence. Ice is a gang. They're unaccountable.
They are untrained. They're unbelievably violent and they're unbelievably racist.
What else can you say?
The ICE agents involved in this shooting also were not wearing body cameras.
A DHS spokesperson blaming government shutdowns, the most recent one ending in April for the
delays in issuing those cameras to officers.
We're now also learning the county medical examiner's office in Houston has listed
South Godow O'Raha's death as a homicide, saying the cause of death was a gunshot wound to the torso.
Michael, there's a lot to bring down there.
Thank you so much for that.
CNN obtained video of emergency responders taking center to Mitch McConnell.
Oh, updates on Mitchy Mitch updates on Mitchy poo.
not defending this yet they keep on keeping it on the DL and only a kill a couple people
a month and this will be normalized just like school shootings yeah it's up to us to make
sure that we don't normalize it does ice have a right to exist fuck no absolutely fucking
completely not. Did Mitch deny the affair? No, this is day three. This is day three
of Michipu. Day three of Michipu, refusing to deny the affair. It's a real scandal. I
know I know there's a lot of I know there's a lot of shippers okay
Hussich shippers out there Mitch son shippers whatever you want to call it I
know you guys want clarity you won't get it okay I cracked this little turtle
shelled too hard. And that's where we're at.
Yeah, Mitch McConnell has been hospitalized for 26 days as of
today. 26 days to an ambulance. The neighbor who shot the video
told CNN the Capitol Police blocked the street and other
neighbors reported seeing McConnell's face. This was a
month ago and it comes nearly a month after a spokesperson for
McConnell first reported that the Senator has been hospitalized, but few other details
have been released. Let's get to Annie Greer, who helped break this story. So talk to us
about this video and how it fills in the pieces of the puzzle.
So John, what I heard from a neighbor. The panel, which I hope, yeah, they're going to
get to. The panel talk on this is some of CNN's finest work, I will say. Congratulations.
They always find a way to up the ante. Okay, they always find a way to just like, they
always find a way, my expectations are low. And these guys always find a way to lower
Uh, my, my already low expectations, they can not clear any bars on this one.
It's fantastic.
Of McConnell's around 8 30 in the morning on June 14th, this neighbor opened
their door to commotion on the street.
They saw two ambulances, a fire truck and Capitol police had blocked off the
entire road.
So this neighbor stayed on the street to try and figure out what was going on.
And about half an hour later at around nine o'clock in the morning, this neighbor
saw a person from McConnell's home being carried on a stretcher into an ambulance and said that
they saw this person was wrapped in a blanket and that their feet was exposed and that another
neighbor standing next to them identified McConnell's face and saw that McConnell wasn't wearing an
oxygen mask. So the first hand witness that I spoke to said that they tried to ask Capitol Police.
Yeah, he's dead, bro.
Yeah, he's dead, dead.
Straight up, he dead as fuck.
I mean, is what I would say.
If I also were, if I, too, were trying to hide that we had a relationship and have a relationship, sorry.
And continue to have a relationship.
We phone, we do phone sex still.
what was going on and all they were told was it was a medical emergency. They wouldn't confirm
who it was for and this is this these new details come as we know very little about
Senator McConnell's condition why he was brought to the hospital on June 14th and why he remains
there. Joining us right now is emergency physician, dean of the Yale School of Public Health Dr.
Megan Ranney. It's great to see you Dr. Ranney. Clearly Mitch McConnell is not your patient so
having said that the neighbor sees that he's taken out on a stretcher. There's EMS audio
of emergency responders being called to the home for an unconscious person for cardiac arrest.
Someone has heard saying CPR in progress. How serious is this case if this comes into you,
into your hospital?
It's difficult to reconcile the video that
I'm going to give it a buck 50 technically the morgue is also in the hospital.
So they're not lying when they say Mitch McConnell's in the hospital.
He's just not.
He's in the morgue.
Or at most at best.
If he's not in the fucking morgue, he's definitely on life support and he's a vegetable.
Okay, we're going to get sincere for a moment and I hate to talk about my boyfriend like this
but you know that you've just shown with the story that we've heard earlier about
there being CPR in progress so let's start from the beginning you get a call to EMS about
someone being unconscious we send an ambulance crew out to assess the causes of unconsciousness
are myriad ranging from seizures, which I and others have
speculated that Senator McConnell may be having. Based off of
those episodes where he freezes on camera, could be that it
could be that he fell and hit his head. It could be a cardiac
arrest with your heart stopping. So you get the call, the
ambulance, the EMS specialists go when they arrive at the house,
they assess the patient. They say, do they have a pulse? Are
they breathing? Are they talking? That's the point. It
sounds like where someone reported that CPR was in progress. Now that CPR could
have been initiated by the ambulance folks, by the paramedics or medics, or
it could have been initiated by someone in the house. And for viewers, knowing CPR
is great, but just because you initiate CPR as an untrained professional doesn't
mean someone had a heart attack. Okay, that's as much as we've known up until
now, is that there was CPR in progress and the ambulance did respond. Now you have
this video. The thing that struck me about the video, Kate, is that nobody seems to be
in a rush. If there really have been CPR in progress, if Senate-
Yeah. Because he's dead. The sense of urgency has gone away because he has passed.
Senator McConnell had truly been in a cardiac arrest. You would expect that they would be
not taking their time loading the patient into the ambulance.
So that's the big additional piece of information that I think we got today.
Beyond that, it is largely speculative and I think we're all wishing Senator McConnell the best.
Absolutely. And as you're kind of noting, you know,
Senator McConnell obviously has been in public life for decades
and he has had a lot of health issues in the past.
We know that he had polio as a child.
He's been hospitalized for falling in recent years.
He has had those episodes of freezing up in public
that you're noting.
He spent a week in the hospital this year,
his office said it was for flu-like symptoms.
He's 84 years old.
If you have a patient with a profile like this,
what questions, concerns do you have at this point?
Well, to me, one of the biggest questions
is around the fact that he's been in the hospital
for three weeks.
for an average person, for you, for me, for viewers,
or their parents, a three-week stay in the hospital
means that you're pretty seriously ill.
We try to get folks out of the hospital pretty quickly
these days.
Now, that may be a little bit different for Senator McConnell,
given that he is a VIP, but it makes me concerned
that he did have some time in critical care,
or has some elements of his stay that
are requiring continued hospitalization
rather than home care.
And then on top of it, I would.
Why will you ask the question?
Just ask the question, please.
Like everyone wants to know the answer to one question.
Nobody nobody cares about all this other shit.
Just ask, is there a likelihood that he's dead?
That's it.
Why is that so tough?
Just be like, I know you are a medical professional who's not overseeing this process at all.
What's the likelihood that he's dead?
I want to make sure that all of his systems are working as best as they can.
his mind, his heart, his lungs. As you noted, he did have polio as a child. It's one of
the reasons why he's been such an active advocate appropriately for childhood vaccination.
But that can have long term effects as well. And then the biggest thing before I sent him
home is I want to make sure he's stable. He's not at risk of falling or having another event
and that he's properly cared for. And I would imagine that the folks in the hospital are
doing that right now.
Republican lawmakers on Capitol Hill say they've been kept in the dark.
We haven't spoken directly up text with him and I've talked to people with his
office and his staff and you know, I don't know much more than what the public
knows. I have not had any conversations with him. I understand that some of my
colleagues have. We wish him a speedy recovery. Yeah, no, no, I have not heard
from him and I think it's a question that Republicans should be asking. Do you
know that he's alive? I don't. You know, the distance that I've heard and seen from some
friends is that he's obviously not doing well, but don't know if he's alive or has passed away.
There we go. What are we doing?
That's what I'm talking about.
I mean, that's it. That's what people want to know. Nobody gives a shit about anything else.
One of the reasons why people are talking about this, political people are talking about this in a
kind of ghoulish way, frankly, is that the con- In a ghoulish way, there's only one ghoule in the
story and he's a dead ghoule. His name is Mitch McConnell. The fuck do you mean they're talking
in a ghoulish way.
Turkey's Senate vacancy law, meaning what do you have to do if suddenly a Senate seat
is open?
Well, there's a special election, the governor has to call for it, and the seat has to be
empty until a winner is certified.
So the idea is that the clock is somehow ticking on if suddenly there's an open seat
in Kentucky, whether it can be filled.
What I don't know is why Republicans are kind of leading the charge online talking about
this.
mace and a social media post if mcconnell is in as bad a shape as um i think you do know
and i think that's the reason why you called it ghoulish there's a reason why some republicans
are talking about this because this would open up an opportunity for thomas massie to run in the
special election and and would give a four month window to thomas massie to be a uh republican
senator. That's it. That's the only reason why people are looking at this, right?
As Biden ever was, or worse, he needs to step aside. This charade can't continue. We can't
demand of others what we won't demand of ourselves. I think this is all cutting kind of crazy,
frankly. I can speak a little bit to this personally. When my dad was running for Congress
in Iowa, Western Iowa in 2020. He died. He died. He was dead. And we, we just, you know,
put him on a fucking, put him on a gurney, put him on a, put him on a chair and just
moved him around. Oh my God. Mitch McConnell's wife just fled the China while husband unconscious.
Mitch McConnell's brain dead.
Oh my God.
Benny Johnson, Jesus Christ.
Bro, if I did this shit, if I did this shit low key,
if I did this shit, CNN will be talking about
how unbearable I am.
How the fuck does the right get away with everything,
including shitting on other right-wingers?
Yes, we got to start. We got to do these insane AI thumbos going forward. That's what we got to do. The dog eat dog world out there, man. Jesus Christ. Clearly, this AI thumbo worked. You got half a million a day.
He was diagnosed with stage four intestinal cancer and we made the decision that since
it was an ongoing election to come public and disclose everything.
The reality is is that I think McConnell is doing fine.
Scott Jennings has backed up that he's completely fine and he's coherent.
You said we made the decision to be public because there was a pending election that voters were gonna make a decision on
But you look at what's happening in the Senate right now. They're not doing anything upset dude. That's awesome
This this is my this is my favorite fucking line of argument. Ah, they're all old. They don't do shit anyway
dude
You're not supposed to admit that
You're a fucking demon
What is this man? Why? Why are these guys royalty? What the fuck is this shit?
Aw, these guys don't do anything anyway. Have you seen the Senate?
Okay, yeah. That's kind of a problem, don't you think?
That's actually THE problem. Yes, Chatter, I'm moving in with him. I had to send the
renovators in ahead of time, okay?
Yes. The floor was ugly. I'm putting in tile.
I
Sorry I meant rugs
I'm putting in a new rug
Are you wise why I've left yes
yes
She couldn't handle the
the sex that we were having, and she had to escape to China.
And now, because I'm in the will, I'm selling the home.
I'm flipping it.
Upsons, there's not gonna be a save vote act,
it looks like, they don't need his vote right now.
He's announced his retirement,
he's being replaced by most likely,
Andy Barr in Kentucky would be excited to see,
but I think this is much to do about nothing.
I think we should give him the grace
and give him some privacy.
He'll come out when he is, when he feels comfortable.
Dude, what are you talking?
This is a senator, bro.
This isn't, yo, dude, dude.
This isn't like Taylor Swift, okay?
This is an American senator.
What do you mean he'll come out when he feels like it?
It's in the public's interest to know his whereabouts
at all times.
Can I ask a question?
If you're a resident of the state of Kentucky
and need help getting a passport
with the State Department, who do you call?
Law, he's in the hospital?
No, he's not, he's in the fucking board, he's dead.
I mean, the fact that they haven't released a statement
up until now after 26 days of being in the hospital.
Come on, man.
They're trying to fucking figure out how to go about this.
What do you mean, dude?
You think 84-year-old Mitch McConnell's in the hospital
for 26 fucking days?
Even the doctor that they interviewed earlier
was like, yeah, it's pretty unlikely.
You call Senator Mitch McConnell's office?
Oh, please, the Senate staff,
everyone knows that the Senate staff
is really where the matter happens.
I think, oh, no, but I just,
I hate this shit, bro, like openly, openly flexing. Perhaps you are unfamiliar with white privilege in the colonies. We want
I can't stand this motherfucker just shut up being like dude, don't worry. It's this is the staffers have been doing the work anyway.
Look at him. He's a skeleton. Okay. Thanks, man. Hey, um, it kind of feels like you're defending this
this unjustifiable system, and it's very strange, you should probably be critical of
this, right?
Because like that's what the average American, that's how the average American feels.
We hear this shit and we go, that's disgusting.
That because there is not a major piece of fighting legislation, fighting legislation,
there's prior to your Republicans that somehow the residents of the state of Kentucky aren't
entire to are entitled to know number one, what the health status is of one of the most
senior senators in the United States and to the fact that there isn't an
election somehow obviates the senator from one transparency or two doing his
job trust issue to you because I think during when McConnell was a leader he
was someone kind of crazy or against HIPAA now yes yeah I don't care yeah yeah
it's a fucking dead senator I think that that is again in the public
interest is a joke please oh okay who manipulated the calendar a lot somebody
who would delay votes for this reason or that reason most famously when it came
to the Supreme Court Meghan McCain weighed in as well another child of a
Politico saying I also have a lot of regrets almost a decade since my dad's
passing my family should have forced him to step down the second he was
diagnosed which is why I'm now an advocate of age and term limits in
politics. I also sincerely hope Senator McConnell okay, which struck me there was the word.
Yes. This is two things and you have the experience of having it be both a political
matter and a personal matter. Everyone as a personal matter has had to deal with aging
parents who you have to take their car keys away and have that difficult conversation.
They have to decide what they're going to do.
we're talking about a senator
oh my god we're talking about one of the most powerful people in american
society right now we are talking about a senator
all my god i jay argera and talk to see has to change man it is so fucking
insane holy shit
uh...
you know i think it'll go into special facilities etc etc
when it becomes more than that it's when it's a political matter and not just
about the election but it
the funniest part about this is that senator mitch mcconnell is going out the way he lived
in exactly the way he would want to go out delaying a procedural issue by filibustering
okay like that's that's straight up that's his life like he's going out on obstruction is that's
that was his claim to fame
And he's doing it about transparency and I do take the point that at this point if if if Mitch
McConnell is well enough to be gabbing to Scott Jennings he should be well enough to call in to
CNN or to the New York Times or to Fox News or whatever to show that he's okay and the fact
that he hasn't done that is quite quite frankly leading to these conspiracies if I could because
again, I think there's a charitable way to read this, especially if you know Mitch McConnell.
He is a very strong man. He does not like being told what to do, especially by public
pressure. He works on his own timeframe, and so I think you got to give it to him. Give
him a few days.
But let me play for someone you pointed out this week who you could describe very similarly,
the former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. When he went to the hospital for his treatment,
it became quite the scandal for Republicans. And in the end, he came out more or less kind
of apologize and I want to play for you the lesson that he took away from that moment.
I don't think it's news that I'm a pretty private guy. I never liked burdening others
with my problems. It's just not my way. But I've learned from this experience.
Yet, he was also not 8,700 years old.
Why are you talking about him like he's alive?
I mean, I know.
Taking this kind of job means losing some of the privacy
that most of us expect.
The American people have a right to know
if their leaders are facing health challenges
that might affect their ability to perform their duties,
even temporarily.
Even temporarily.
Also notice he said the loss of privacy is part of the gig.
And I just want to put up some images here in Memoriam.
These are lawmakers who have died
while they were holding office since 2024.
And you pointed out many of these things, a lot of keys.
It's a lot of old people.
I mean, I think we should all.
I still ride but slowly so we doesn't go into cardiac arrest yet I lied.
Also discuss the fact the United States Senate is a gerontocracy is what it is.
I think the reason why people are discussing is because the Biden thing.
Yes, like big wake up call where everybody was questioning the Republican.
We don't know what President Trump actually is suffering from.
What are his swell...
We have done segments on the rumors about various health issues.
Various health issues where Dr. Speculative is swollen ankles, you know, the continued
bruising on his arms, like on his hands.
I mean, there are lots of questions about when people get to a certain age, I mean,
let's be honest.
he's 80. Mitch McConnell is, how old is Mitch McConnell now?
He's in his 80s.
Yeah, he's in his 80s.
I mean, obviously Biden was also in his 80s.
I mean, you start to have serious health concerns.
And my point about this more broadly
is I think the more general point, which is
about transparency, what do you owe the voting public about?
What do you owe?
What do you owe the voting public about your health?
And here's the fact I owe all of you. He's 84.
He's the Norwegian striker turned internet sensation.
Dude, my mom loves Erling Haaland.
Video of Ishwaka's wife arriving in China.
Wow. China's Long March 10B has successfully completed its maiden flight and recovered
its first stage via a sea-based net. This marks the country's first ever controlled
rocket recovery. A major leap towards reusable launch capabilities.
Sweden Elon showing him this if you want to get banned.
Is Elon seen this?
Osbara has finally made its way into the Hassanabi household.
Wait, what?
For Erling Holland?
My mom loves him.
She has said he is cute, like a child.
And I, when I look at Erling Holland, I see an entirely separate thing.
I see a monster.
I see the ancient Viking that is running full speed in the direction of a priest bashing
its skull with the hard side of the axe.
I don't see like a cute child.
Breakout star both on and off the pitch
Erling Holland leading Norway to its first ever World Cup quarter final
Millions falling in love not just with his impressive soccer skills, but his playful
Unapologetic personality from leading the iconic Viking row after a win. She doesn't want to admit. He's hot dude
There are many things you can say about Erling Holland
Hot is not one of them
okay
There are many things you can say.
He is objectively whatever is the opposite of hot.
OK. You can say he's goofy, you can say scary.
What the fuck, man?
He's legit smoking hot and I'm straight. Wait, really?
You can say he's baby girl. I think he is baby girl.
In to his signature meditation pose every time he scores now. It's his Viking diet
that's having a moment the six foot four player eats roughly six thousand calories per day
nearly double with the average active. He kind of looks like if Jinx he was on steroids
and was six foot five, at least in this photo.
After he shaved his eyebrows.
Am I crazy?
How many do you eat?
Not six thousand.
Six thousand is like fucking three days worth of food for me.
The man needs and more than most pro athletes.
So, what's on the menu? Whole foods, like steak?
Oh, I love this one. This one's so funny.
The way he just smacks him on the shoulder.
Hi, Len!
Did you see the Viking Roe drama? Oh, I did, yeah.
A Norway fan has gone viral for refusing to participate in the Viking Roe after victories because it's factually wrong,
wrong saying the vikings didn't roll over the Atlantic they sailed first of all i just
find it he's just autistic bro that's it he is the they found they found the most redditor
autist in Norway that's it that's literally what's going on here stupid that's that's the
thing i thought when they came up with it that it was stupid and annoying and i didn't want to do it
And then. This is a joke, right?
Like he's doing it from his rowing room.
Rose got rose in the back.
Are you fucking kidding me?
Is that this is a this is a joke.
Also. Why do so many Norwegians just look like lost between borders?
This is now like the third Norwegian you had Maddie Glacias. You had the other guy in India and now this guy, they all sound like Canute, but look like the lost between border guy.
Those are oars, idiot. Okay, you don't row them?
It copies a lot of what the ISLM were doing and it's actually wrong. They didn't row,
they sailed over the Atlantic.
Very good. I'm glad you clarified this for this stupid Americans. The last thing an English
surgeon in 850 AD sees before taking two acts of the face.
As someone who according to 23 and me has 90% Anglo Celtic ancestry when I look at Erling
Holland. I feel like I have epigenetic memories of someone like him putting an axe through
my skull. Yes.
Exactly where the Viking road chance shouldn't be allowed at the cup. It's a threat of vials
against monasteries and strongholds everywhere. I agree. My Anglo friend saw a sign that said
Holland and panicked that it said Holland. The Anglos are tired. Oh my God.
Have you seen the girl that looks like Holland?
I
Dude i'm not i just i've never seen a guy like him before
I've never seen a guy like him before
like this like what is this bro who is like this there ain't nobody else like
this I don't even understand that's a I this one is a I is this a I is this a
AI is all of this AI is that AI bro walking around like this
He's so scary looking. I'm sorry, dude
Yeah, when I see a guy like this, I instantly, the Ottoman mentality kicks in, Ottoman mindset
kicks in and I'm like, that's a Janissary. Okay. That's a Janissary through and through.
A nice homely Balkan boy. Same size would be the perfect Janissary. And so would Erling
Holland.
Oh
Son of Uthred, I will take over Dane Law.
Please look at Holland's YouTube VLOGS, I beg of you.
Is he like a huge KSI fan too?
If not, we'd have to go to the quarter finals and I'll go on a bit of a mess and I'll blow
down.
In Rooney, I expect you to go out on a rowing trip.
Brazil is a football nation which is almost maybe the first football nation you kind of get to know
because of all the legendary players that played there.
Just Jersey, the country, the passion.
Even 2014 when they were in Mara and you know, with all them big players they had.
And they have, it's just like, it's a bit unrealistic to play against them.
No matter where you go, you kind of see a Brazilian shirt.
And yeah, that's why I have so much respect for Brazil as a country,
but especially as a football nation.
Yeah, I understand your part.
Ah, so nice, so nice.
Ah, beautiful.
You remember I played against you in 1997?
Yes, yeah, of course.
A nightmare, no?
I thought you were good for him.
The more partying, the more afterwards it is.
Yeah.
We remember how the...
After a match, not the memories.
Yeah.
I mean, Ronald, there is a special player as well.
We all know El Fenomeno.
I think Slato said that he is the inspiration to everyone that starts with football,
because the way he was dribbling, the way he was just enjoying football and everything.
Good luck.
Thank you very much.
We'll see.
A lot.
I think. She was like, oh, it's okay. It's okay. Yeah, that's okay. You were scott boy, you think? Yeah, he's amazing. He's so fast, strong, and good Gabrielle, and they know each other.
Yeah, good battle. Thank you. Obviously, it's a big, big game for, for Norway, you know, mighty Brazil, in Norway, sort of.
Holland is a Nepo baby dog. He is literally a genetic specimen
Like
At that point you can tell he has ancient human traits
Happy to be where we are
We win. It's fantastic
but we lose
There'll be a good workout for normal. Hey, you know what is this Omega who can't control his pheromones
these edits are getting out of hand. Alpha who's scent marks him in front of everyone.
Are they are they fucking what is this they got soccer yowie, bro
Let's not know stay away from omega verse
One Giza another Giza another Giza
He's so scary looking bro, I don't know why I
Don't know how else things when it went Holland scores make it 1-0 against England look across the pitch
which sees Jude drop to his knees in tears, so he runs over pulls him into a hug and
says, I don't want history if you're not standing beside me before kissing him in front of the
entire stadium.
of wins.
They fuck, right?
Cleated rivalry.
June is over?
Yeah, but love is forever, dude
He got a bit of a Neanderthal vibe to him have you seen what he did to the Israeli team yet the unbelievable
anti-Semitism a hat trick
There's nothing more anti-Semitic
Doesn't he know Israel has a right to win that game
You know you would like hanging out with Holland? Yeah, I'm sure I would he seems fucking dope
He seems like a very nice dude a very fun guy to be around but we never won against Norwich. I played twice
I
It's funny because maga twitter wants this got to be a white supremacist so bad. Oh, yeah, that's true. I forget that like
Maga twitter always takes every like white celebrity or white viral thing
and immediately turn it into like, oh, this guy is actually a huge white supremacist,
you know.
He posted the positive flag on his Insta story after he beat Israel.
All right, yeah, we did some Holland memes.
Let's watch his diet now.
I know he eats like a fucking animal.
He eats crazy style, right?
And then we're going to do clavicular in Israel, sourdough, eggs, fish, honey, and milk.
I expected only milk, and we went out with a lot of steak, milk and honey.
Plus coffee.
Coffee is a superfood.
And before home games, his dad's famous hat trick lasagna.
Make lasagna?
Hat trick.
Okay, I have to eat the rest of my life lasagna day before game.
We don't need to follow his exact menu, but his mindset about nutrition is really where
it's at.
What this means is whole foods, not the ultra processed stuff, anchoring all the meals
with protein, having a well balanced fitness routine.
The diet even trending on social media.
But who's in charge of fueling Holland and his teammates on their quest for the cup?
Meet Aaron Espelan, one of the Norwegian football teams chefs.
As a chef, it's really your task to just bring the produce that is good and just prepare it with love.
And so, what the fuck is that? Whale?
We're with, basically, as it is. It's really simple and not so complex cooking.
For Halland, the man they call the robot, discipline extends beyond the plate.
He is so dedicated to do what he has to do to perform best on the pitch.
He's very strict with his diet and to eat enough.
I love food. I live to eat food.
So while I may not be piling my plate with 6,000 calories a day exactly like Holland,
I think we can all get behind some of his food choices that we have here.
Salmon, steak, eggs, there's sourdough, there's lots of things here.
Honey, and if eating like one of the best soccer players in the world earns us even a
I feel like this type of news coverage is literally from a bygone era, you know what I mean?
Dude this is terrifying.
terrifying. That mobile is sprinting at you? That mobile is sprinting at you is a terrifying
prospect.
Dude, I want to do this, don't I? I don't.
Better advice than this one clipped in 10,000 self-help books, dude. Hell yeah, dude. Yeah,
these are all the fucking Nazis that are trying to take ownership over this like woke ass Norwegian
dude.
I feel I'm tired, but then I tell my body I'm not tired, and then I think it's a psychological
thing that's-
How is this better than any other fucking workout advice video?
Like, no, seriously.
How is this better than a thousand fitness videos?
that to me, please. Imagine being a monk in Anglia and seeing that specimen come up to
hill with an axe yeah you're done you're dead it's over
Telling yourself okay it's okay we keep going
Tell yourself you're tired you're gonna be tired
Tell yourself I'm not that tired it's okay
It's okay it's not that so it's also a really
psychological thing because our bodies can handle so much more than we think
Dude wow
Uh-oh, Hassan, I've been not inspired. No, he's his story. I mean he he is an inspirational figure. He's awesome
He's really funny. I just don't like when people I hate when these right-wing motherfuckers like ruin everything when they're like, oh, this is
Like glaze bro, you're glazing. You're fucking glazing. He deserves glaze
But just like that's like a normal video, you know for the first time
We're hearing from the former roommate and romantic partner of Tyler Robinson the Utah man accused of killing Mike is on the Fox News watch list
I interviewed Lance twig said Robinson told him. He wished he hadn't done it. Now. Remember Robinson faces charges including aggravated
Told you to wear a suit
Murdered murder and witness tampering Carter Evans was in court for the preliminary hearing Carter. Good morning
Well, good morning Kelly people in the courtroom were riveted as that video of Lance twigs played
But Charlie Kirk's widow Erica had her head down riveted is a crazy way to describe a courtroom and a murder
Courtroom for murder charge
Most of the time tears in her eyes Tyler Robinson showed no emotion as his former lover testified against him
My name is Lance Twiggs.
On Thursday, prosecutors played an interview with Tyler Robinson's former roommate and
romantic partner describing the moment they first saw each other the day after the shooting
of Charlie Kirk.
I just asked him in person what he said was true the night before and he said it was.
I started crying a little bit and said he wishes he hadn't done it.
Twiggs told investigators Robinson first texted hours after the murder.
message, stop what you're doing and look under my keyboard. Twiggs found a handwritten note that
said, I had an opportunity to take out Charlie Kirk and I'm going to take it. In court, Agent
Brian Davis read the text exchanges. You weren't the one who did it right and Tyler says I am,
I'm sorry. And Tyler says why did I do it? And Lance says yeah. Tyler says I had enough of his
hatred, some hate can't be negotiated out. Twiggs received limited immunity in exchange for talking
with prosecutors in April where they showed surveillance photos.
That looks like him in terms of the shoes he's wearing, the sunglasses, the last two,
definitely do look like him. They do look like Tyler Robinson.
Twig said Robinson had previously only spoken about politics on occasion.
Usually if he did talk about politics stuff, it was relating to Trump or current like policies.
I personally have never heard him talk about Charlie Kirk.
Now, in addition, if there- Wait, why would tweets be accountable?
Transgender.
That's it. And the administration wants to literally make this a transantifa story.
That's it. Literally.
Read my chat. This is just clickbait because the audience are fascinated by trans people in the news.
Make sure media is trying to make the partner into something they're not, in addition to outing them to the world and probably their community.
Yeah, no, I know.
Straight, it was nasty as fuck. It was nasty as hell.
What, uh, Fox News was implying yesterday. And I guess, ZBS is also implying the same thing.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
It's a crime.
They have physical evidence,
including Robinson's DNA on the
murder weapon and bullets he
allegedly engraved before the
shooting.
Now, Robinson still has not
entered a plea, but the
Evans in Utah. Thank you, Carter. I just watched the Jedeon arrest and body cam footage. Zoinks.
Oof. Like eating a Burger King meal. That was not good at all. And it's really surprising. When I
first heard that Jedeon got arrested, didn't it? There's what happened? Wasn't he doing like
petto hunting shit? Body cam footage of it. I just assumed that it was going to be over something
something wacky, weird, or maybe something trivial, because Gideon works collaboratively
with law enforcement from what I've seen, so surely if anyone knew about like lawful
activity and shit, it would probably be him, so I thought maybe like some kind of misunderstanding
or you know, something going just tits up out of nowhere, but ultimately it'd be easy
to see where he was coming from and be on his side about it, but after watching the
the footage, it's just not the case at all. I like Jedeon. I've said this quite a bit.
He's a reformed prankster and hallelujah for that because that is extraordinarily rare.
Typically when someone experiences success like Jedeon who blew up online because of
pranks, they stick with that forever. But in Jedeon's case, at the height of his popularity,
he decided to walk the path of God.
What is this?
Twigs is accountable for not reporting Tyler.
It's illegal.
Sorry, folks.
I'm sorry, but Tyler admitted the murder to Lance and Lance didn't turn him in.
That's criminal.
I don't think that's the case.
I mean the question is like how are you supposed to how is this person supposed to know that's
number one and number two didn't the didn't twig also twigs also reported to the police
Freaks is getting immunity from destruction of evidence after burning the confession note partially
Yeah, dude, chat up pretending like people wouldn't message that fuck I messaged my sister
I did it and I clearly didn't make comedy legal again. Yeah, now we're all oh
Thank you, Laurie Panda. Now you just made us all criminally liable all 26,000 of us are now criminally liable because you admitted to guilt
And we obviously have a duty to report Wow
Thanks
All of us, we're going to jail.
He found his faith again and over time decided to make a drastic change and stopped doing
that content, which I think is extremely admirable and something that you just do not see happen.
It doesn't happen, period.
And now these days, his content focuses on having predators arrested.
So he's worked to catch a lot of really, really evil bad people.
And the vigilante predator catching community is something that's blown up online over the
years, obviously.
And in a lot of cases, it's handled extremely poorly, where the predators don't get arrested.
They instead just get milked, the content creator latches on to their udders and starts
up in training their balls of all the piss possible so they can monetize the
shit out of it at the wazoo online without any care for doing it properly
and getting them arrested so they continue to still be a danger to children
around them in judy on case i really felt like well yes he is clearly making a
lot of money off doing this he is also handling it in a way where these
predators do get arrested so i know a lot of people criticize like the reason
behind it, like are they actually doing it for justice and to try and protect anyone,
or is it just for their own financial self-gain, which is a perspective I can totally understand.
That is a very valid thing to be bringing up.
I would argue though that the good outweighs the bad when it's handled properly and they
actually get arrested.
So in Jadion's case, I would say that even if the motive has been money, which I'm not
I'm entirely sure if that's why he's doing it.
I do get a sense that he genuinely cares.
I don't know what happened here.
I don't, I don't, I'm skipping this.
I don't really care that much.
Let's get to where we left off in the Cuba story.
I'm sorry guys. I don't know if you guys like really cared about the duty on situation. I
don't know. Nope. Okay.
Our boats kind of suck right like we either had to salvage like an old shit boat or pay
of business an exorbitant amount of money to, you know, make up for the fact that, you know,
the company will practically cease to exist after they do business with us.
And we got a taste of that bureaucratic issue while we were fixing up these ships.
And for the record, this is the first 30 minutes was just like,
boy, boy, who's about to go to Cuba, basically, literally and figuratively shitting his pants.
And, and, you know, flying to Canada, then to fly to Mexico so they can get on a boat.
And then he trespassed and said to the cops I'm a millionaire. That's it
Okay, shit that we were meant to be on never arrived
It turns out all this pressure from the US and their sanctions meant that our boat was being held up all the way over here in
Progressive 300 kilometers in the wrong direction
So Dan and I had to get a last-minute bus across Yucatan and gear up for a much much longer sea voyage
If we're actually gonna be allowed to set sail at all
Which is a pretty annoying situation to be in but it was only exacerbated by the fact that the Mexican bus company chose the worst possible movies to play.
There's so many movies in the world.
There's a lot of the Mexican bus that's played with one of everyone dying, you'd see.
Also, these boats are much better than ours.
And if that wasn't spooky enough, we got another call from Alex to scare us even more.
This morning, my truck was just saying, yeah, I can take it.
I do believe I'll be having the honor of making Cuba.
I think I can do anything I want with it.
You want to know the truth.
A very, uh, weakened nation.
I fucking hate it.
It actually changes the way I look at it now
because I'm just giving everything I read.
There's a crack out of it.
Like, hearing just like everyone's opinions on this thing
is so upsetting and it's like, just shut up.
Just don't talk about it.
Just leave me alone.
But we finally arrived to Progresso Harbour
it was time to see our boat.
Not seeing our boat, I've heard some horrible things about it.
I haven't seen it.
That's a best guess scenario.
I don't know much, I think I don't even know what a good boat looks like.
What are you looking for here?
I want to see a local walk faster than a boat.
But we finally arrived to progress Ohaba and it was time to see our boat.
The other problem is no one from the flotilla was here yet so so where does a couple of
gringos in a fishing town try to work out which boat is ours? I'm really hoping it's that luxury
ultimately the American flag on it. Yeah look at that thing, huh? All I could really tell was that
these were definitely 100% fishing boats. Oh yeah, that's a pretty boat.
They said blue and white, which is...
That could be one of them.
Oh, fuck, that one wouldn't?
Yeah.
We got the one wooden one.
After a little while, the other activists showed up and we were about to get our first glimpse
of the boat.
But they told me it was the biggest one and you can see it there just sticking out of
the top.
Big is good, I think.
Big of the boat, better of it.
Yeah, right.
Big of the Titanic.
You know, big.
What are you going to get to it?
You've got to take it all over to our boat.
I didn't know he traveled with Alex. Yeah, Alex got whole feet. He got like actually scared and he didn't want to do it
Which makes sense especially considering the dangers of going on such a journey to begin with
There are numerous dangers for
I really like the smell of the paint, it's really overpowering the smell of the fish.
But like the fresh coat of paint on a fishing boat, you don't know what the actual offensive
smell is, you know, it's good for you.
The aid hadn't arrived yet, so we were getting busy cleaning up and washing the boat, and
I thought I was doing a pretty good job in making myself useful, but I'd barely been
on the boat for 15 minutes, and I managed to secure my position as the most useless crew
crew member. Now pay attention to this rusty metal shaft that goes down two meters into
the engine room. Even though I'm filming it right now, in about three minutes, I'm about
to get all about it and walk into the boat with my head held high and just plummet straight
down that hole.
I heard the sound that everybody yell out is that definitely a lexer that's falling
down the hole.
What happened Alexa?
I walked straight through the hole.
You're going to watch out for that.
I'm not like you.
I'm going straight through the hole.
You're going to watch out for that.
Oh man.
You give me careful interest though.
Did we get really hurt doing that?
What? Yeah.
Oh man.
Oh!
Like split your head open. Yeah.
That's crazy.
While we're in this fishing village watching all these fishermen
trying to help us reverse park our fishing boat,
something dawned on us.
I've been shitting myself for a week about
about the U.S. bombing all those fishing boats. I don't realize we're like exactly on a fishing
boat. Like this is the worst kind of boat. This is where the tuna go. Yeah. Yeah. There's a little fish hatch.
Shut the fuck up. Hold on. Sorry. Breaking news. Scoop o'clock.
From MSNOW on the FBI beat on the Cache Patel beat. FBI director cast Summon to the White
House by fresher to Trump advisors today. He had to cancel his jet trip to see his girl from
from Played at Country Music Festival in Chicago from the tarmac. Oh boy. Oh boy. Uh-oh. Come
back to Valhalla, brother. And by Valhalla, I mean podcasting. It's time. It's time to
get back to podcasting. You know it to be true. You know this is the right thing to
do.
Hi, Yvanya. Hi, Yvonne.
What I also didn't take into account is that the fishermen here all around us live with
my brother is knocking on the door like he's the goddamn police. Okay.
constant fear of getting bombed every time they set sail to do their jobs.
There's actually horrifying thinking that these people risk getting blown up just for
doing their jobs and you know, I felt awful.
Until the fishermen started flexing on us about, like, hammering.
Hasan, if it were still Ottoman times and your dad was Sultan, would you take out Marat
in a heartbeat?
Not even a question.
later his boat was in our boat and then I don't know I felt kind of neutral about it after that.
Unfortunately, we had to end our tour of this guy's much more comfortable and sturdier boat
because our A-trucks started coming in and it was time to somehow get 30 tons of food and medicine onto this boat.
Now we didn't just have three big trucks but also a bunch of like nice everyday people heard what was going on
and drove up and brought their own donation. It was really beautiful.
Yeah it was a lot of work but the energy was great.
Everyone was singing the whole time so even when you're on your 50th sack of beans and you know it rips apart
and you still beans everywhere you need to like tape it up and fix it you still feel great
it had been hours and hours of hot work and i was so excited to realize how much 30 tons
actually is especially when you're down in the hull learning an endless stream of sacks and
boxes it's really warm down there yeah we're down below yeah this is a big smell of diesel yeah
Okay, you wish to do the vote. Fuck no. Fuck no, dude.
So, folks, sources tell MSNOW embattled FBI Director Cash Patel, canceling a trip to see his girlfriend in Chicago this weekend after top administration officials frustrated with Patel summoned him to the White House.
MSNOW Senior Investigative Correspondent Carol Linnick will join us now. Carol, what else are your sources telling you?
Can we just, you know, Luke, Luke, Luke is always noting that we should highlight a reporting
and to be very clear, the reporting from our Carolinian and kindlainian says, um, exclusive
exclusive.
Yeah.
The second misstep that people said was that extensive reports by MSNOW and other news
outlets about taxpayers footing the bill for Patel's globetrotting ultimately spurred
formal questions from Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, the critical ally of President
dude the fucking boat is sinking okay that's it and the rest are trying to
escape
oh I'm on the mulligate yeah all all all all all all
hey it's on I like your tie day thanks to my dad's
We just kept going right loading bicycles and solar panels and everything that would fit on this boat
it got to 3 a.m. and it looked like we were maybe getting close to finishing until the Mexican Navy
heard what was going on and they made us stop so they could check through all the things we were
loading to make sure if he was up to code which led to hours of negotiations right well when
When they clocked that we had filled this little boat with 30 tons of aid and there
were only 10 beds, they insisted that we only had capacity for 10 people, and that more
than half of us wouldn't be able to make the trip, which is a rough thing to hear after
weeks of preparation, but eventually they caved and let us go.
I mean, until the sun came up the next morning and they returned to address even more regulatory
issues and safety concerns.
But at least there's one major safety concern that we don't need to worry about because
we addressed it within the first 15 minutes of seeing the boat.
They wanted that white board around it to be safe.
I'm integral to the ship's safety.
If it wasn't for me, they wouldn't have depended that thing there.
They'd be able to...
Yeah.
I'd just go out, walk through places, get hurt, and then we know what the dangerous things are.
But it was all squared away now, and we had officially gotten our passport stamped by the customs officer.
So, this was it.
Alright, there's no turning back now, and I am terrified.
That's it.
There you go.
Well, if we don't go, then I'm gonna be illegal in Mexico.
He learns like you about yourself all the time.
What are you learning?
I just realized that when I'm actually scared, I need a poo.
Oh, you're like an octopus.
Yeah, I just...
I don't understand.
I thought it was like a turn of praise, like shitting myself.
Oh, no.
You can't stop pooping.
You need to journey your self-discovery.
I don't want to know that.
It's so inconvenient.
No matter if I have to do something important in the future.
Yeah.
I would have to poo myself.
Yeah, no, you can prepare for the scenario.
I'm about to have a baby. I've got a shit.
You know, I go to my parents funeral.
I'm shitting, I'm not there.
How bad is that? What am I going to do?
I'm just going to be proofing the entire time.
Better than the devil window, okay?
I've never had an anxiety shit in my life.
Here are the food slash water who could tell this point. No, dude. He's afraid of getting
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Okay now back to the video. Everyone was so excited to find the set sail and then for
some reason as soon as the boat left I wasn't that scared anymore like it's
kind of like the possibility of going home kept me in a state of panic and
now that I knew I had no choice my mind just tried to shut off all the you know
unhelpful negative stuff. I was pooping my pants out of fear like half an hour ago
And now I feel like I've never food before in my life.
It's perfect.
I feel really, really good.
Slightly confident.
Yeah, yeah, I reckon.
I'm not the kind of person that dies.
I've never.
I've never before.
What do you reckon?
Stateline life for you?
For now, in the Harbour.
The time it's a selling move done.
Stop coming.
I reckon I could do this for my life.
Now, I knew we had a bunch of activists and journalists on board from around the world,
But I felt...
Stop coming Chad, stop coming.
Do not come.
Do not come.
I'm gonna come.
I'm a bit out of place seeing the caliber of journalism on this code.
I should have wanted to see it.
Yeah, you'd have to.
You'd be much more like you.
That's fucking awesome.
Did you get to wear it the whole time?
But as we left the harbor, it got harder and harder to hold the camera straight.
And eventually it got hard to just stand straight.
And I realize now that I'm editing it,
It's surprisingly hard to capture how unstable the boat was on camera because you know the cameraman is essentially being a human gimbal
Here's an example if you do this to a chicken notice how its head always stays upright
That was awesome. We were filming right you're watching this video through the chickens head and everything looks much much better from the perspective of the
chick
No, she likes yeah
Are we gonna get used to it? I don't know
No, no, I don't know.
I think I almost got lost.
Finally, this is the easy bit.
No.
Yeah, yeah, I think it's way bigger to get stuck.
Oh, Lord.
At this point, I realized there was something I need to do
that I should have done while the boat was stationary.
You want to put this on top of the boat?
You better follow up.
I can barely walk down here.
There we go.
Uh-oh.
I was pretty scared of flying overboard
when I went to set up this satellite on proof.
But now that I'm editing the video,
I'm actually much more scared about the fact that my dick was hanging out of my pants the entire time.
I'm going through the footage is so bad because there's just like so many clips.
There's so many clips of just my balls on the screen and before we get started we've got all our luggage.
We ratcheted it up like down in the hull so it wouldn't fly around everywhere but that meant that
all I could really wear was the what I had on you know and it was it was really stupid.
So if anyone on the flow still was watching this I'm so sorry you had to stare at my balls for like
entire week like I actually had no idea that that's crazy of course dude of course the motherfucker
did not have any briefs on and just straight up was given full scrote to everyone that's trying
to do a humanitarian aid mission and i don't know yeah longest shorts in australia by the way i mean
straight up that is the longest shorts i've ever seen him wear honestly i mean say sick and worry
about getting bombed is bad enough without having to stare at my balls all week so I'm really sorry
but um but back to the satellite I got up on the roof and the wakes were pretty nuts like I tried
to keep my body you know close to the ground but the ground wasn't particularly stable either
Bug and Tradyshorts
If you're not watching this, you mean to get it worked.
Haas Tasty, bet they stank good as hell, bro. You are.
You need Allah right now. You need a copy of the Qur'an. You need to read the Qur'an.
Wow, that is crazy.
That is crazy.
But I had no choice, right? You slowly get used to the movement of the boat.
Nasty little perv.
We set the internet up at no time. And now I can get back to work backing up our footage.
Now the next challenge of the day, which is actually quite the length to me being scared
on the roof is needing to use this thing.
Now, since the boat is constantly rocking back and forth,
you need to secure the door
while you're hovering over this seatless toilet.
And if you're a socially minded person,
you're probably gonna want to flush when you're done.
So you have to get this bucket
and lower it over the side of the boat
and fill it up with seawater before you even go in.
Now, I use this toilet exactly once.
Like only on the first day,
it was actually impossible to stay still, right?
You're squatting over this thing,
shaking back and forth, you're shitting everywhere.
And it took me like 20 minutes
to just clean up the mess that I made.
And at that point, I made a vow that I just wouldn't poo ever again, and I'd just go mind of a matter and just like hold it in for the next week.
And it's not even about the sheer difficulty of like pooping.
It's also the fact that you're just in this like stinky, confined plywood box and...
Yeah. To answer Chadder's question one more time...
I'm glad that I flew in as opposed to doing this.
Just makes you seasick immediately.
So much of this humanitarian mission documentary is just shitting. Come on, man. Of course it's
boyboy. Of course. It's like all of it. I suspect that when he arrives at Cuba, there's going to
be a lot more shitting, perhaps maybe even some puking, but mostly a lot of shitting.
He's going to talk about how his shit changed dramatically when he started, uh, you know,
eating the Cuban food. Um, you know, feeling contemplated is way better than that. Um,
but it also became increasingly difficult to be inside the boat at all.
Because it turns out the Alexovlovich memorial shaft was left constantly open to stop the engine
room from overheating, which meant the kitchen and the bunk beds were just dense with this
noxious diesel fuel. So when the sun started going down, most people tried to find some space
to sleep on the floor outside, which was harder than we originally thought because we loaded
multiple pallets of solar panels on the deck. So it wasn't a lot of space to sleep in. If you're
lucky you'd get a hold of one of the few gym mats that were lying around and you
know find a spare spot or you'd make really good friends with someone who
managed to secure a spot themselves. Now it got surprisingly cold at night on the
high seas which is something I didn't know about and I didn't really plan for
since you know all my luggage was in the hull so I was just stuck in short shorts
and apparently with my dick hanging out so I was very cold. Now there was obviously a
lot of water lapping up onto the deck and any smart person would have quickly
claimed you know the few dry spots on the ground but I'm an idiot and instead I focused
on doing this.
At this point it was getting really cold and all the good sleeping spots had been taken
but I managed to get creative and realised I could sleep on the edge of this wooden palette
if I just kind of squeezed myself under the ropes that were holding the stack of solar
panels in place.
And after a night of sliding back and forth and like constantly waking up to my head
hitting the edge of the boat. You know, the sun was shining and it was our turn to cook for everyone
and I love cooking. Honestly, I felt pretty great for a couple of minutes.
It turns out what I was tasting in that moment was um, was stomach bile and I completely emptied
my inside. Now, it had been about 24 hours on the boat at this point and I somehow convinced myself
that I had some kind of like genetic immunity to sea sickness, but I mean obviously I was wrong.
Either that or like the stress of the trip had cultivated some kind of reverse bulimia where I
had to vomit everything out before I could eat a meal. So hungry, I've wanted every meal.
Just in time, man. But I couldn't keep any food down. Once the sea sickness set in, it was actually
horrible. Like it was so bad. It felt like it felt like you were hungover and like super dizzy,
But you're also forced to be on like this 600 kilometer long roller coaster
And it's not like one of those cool roller coasters where you get to have fun and kiss
It's like a roller coaster where you also have to do chores the whole time
Like even just getting a cup of water is so hard like you have to it involves like tightrope walking and like washing dishes and squats
It was it was actually fucked like I was just counting down the 72 hours until we landed just praying it would all stop
And I guess my wish kind of came true because um it was that moment that the engine died
but it turns out it was probably a faulty alternator.
So as everyone was scrambling for solutions,
like some people were trying to jerry rig
one of the solar batteries that we were taking to Cuba
while other people tried to set up
an old generator to power the battery.
And I was trying to address the issue
by just continuously vomiting over the edge of the boat,
but none of that fixed the alternator.
So we were all out of ideas.
We were just stuck there, you know,
just floating aimlessly in the middle of the ocean for hours
and not getting any closer to Cuba.
But it was kind of nice.
I mean, without the deafening noise of the engine,
It was a little bit easier to just lie perfectly still and ignore the sea sickness.
You know, I kind of feel like I reached a level of zen in that moment
because I didn't realize at all that we were about to be bordered by the military.
I woke up, tried to work out what was happening, but everyone I talked to was confused.
And I went to my laptop and realized that my very special strategy
of uploading everything online was it was a complete failure.
I had like half a terabyte of footage and literally none of it was uploaded.
I should have guessed by the fact that it took about an hour to just like check the news every day
But yeah, my my footage wasn't backed up anywhere and obviously you are watching the footage right now
So I guess I managed to save it somehow, but in the moment. I thought it was game over
So for the sake of immersion, I need you to pretend that you're just you're not watching this video right now
You're just you're thinking about this happening
What do you reckon it looked friendly I
Think it's smiling. I ran Sam was happening
He's like a shock, he came from that side, now he's coming around there and we're gonna turn around this way, well, this is definitely not the way we get hungry and take the mercy.
Thankfully, it was a false alarm.
Wait.
You think any of the Q's watches and threw away the bees and stuff Pooh Boy brought?
They're like, yuck, Pooh Boy brought this.
It turns out the captain had sent out a distress signal when the motor broke and since we were in Mexican waters
A Mexican Navy ship came by to help us out and after an hour or so the engine was back on
Now this would have been a relief because it meant we were back on tracks arriving Cuba in three days
But I had a chat with one of the Mexican Navy guys and he said something completely different
alternator so it might be three days but it also might be five and also it might be even longer
depending on there's something really funny about this because like a plane ride would have would
have sufficed because you can put a lot more cargo on a plane how many times we break down and
whether we can fix the problem at all and the entire time i'll either be vomiting or worrying
about dying or going to jail like I kind of felt like I was in hell.
So the day before Interception King, the Volta was on,
Monsignor Motilla broke four times.
What's wrong?
Four times ancient papers.
And what they did stopped it would be a noise like,
BEEE!
You want to play it?
I mean, this is, I don't know, I don't know the legis...
I guess it's like, spread this is probably much cheaper
than a plane, let's be real.
That's amazing.
So this is a BV.
It's not easy, but it's something like you kind of get used to.
And if you want the permission to keep on moving, you just gotta take a light move and work with it.
They can work again.
And why are all the ships stuck in the straight instead of flying? Really?
You just compared, like, a ton of cargo to, like, millions of barrels of oil.
That's what you can- that's- that's what you're- this is a dinghy, dude.
Like 30 tons of cargo.
Well look, whatever I've been doing for the whole trip, obviously, she wasn't working.
So I thought, you know, I might try this like, weird new South American thing called being
happy.
Oh
I gotta tell you man, this new strategy was working out surprisingly well until night
time because it was my turn on the roster to stay up and stand guard as the night watchman.
You see, on the guards at Flotilla, they'd get attacked by drones at night, dropping bombs,
starting fires, or even spraying weird like harsh chemicals.
It was up to me to wake everyone up if we were being attacked.
But here's the problem, right?
You look at this light in the sky and you tell me whether that's a star or a passenger
plane or a drone about to bomb us.
Like, the sky is full of these things and there's no decision that I can make here that isn't incredibly embarrassing, right?
Either I'm the idiot who woke everyone up because he saw a star,
or I'm the idiot who didn't warn everyone that we were about to get bombed.
It was kind of shit either way, but I guess maybe it didn't matter.
Like, I realize that if I do get hit by a drone strike, I won't even know what happens.
You know, I'll just be cool.
It kind of made me wonder if any of the fishermen over the past year have been in this exact same spot thinking the exact same thing,
like, thinking they might be seconds away from being hit.
You know, they're thinking about their family and all the things they've done in their life and just, you know, praying that God will accept them into the crystal clear waters and sunny skies of fishermen's heaven.
Like, it's funny to look back at me now, but I honestly thought I was gonna die and up here, like, it's fucking crazy.
Like, this video is such a massive risk.
Like, not just in my own life, which, you know, I'm very attached to, but even just the fact that, you know, chances are we'd get intercepted and I wouldn't even have any of this footage at the end anyway.
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Now, the rest of the day is on the boat.
Oh, chigging together into one long haze.
The sun comes up, it's on one side of the boat,
and then a little while later it comes down
and it's on the other.
You wake up sleeping on a pile of ropes
and wearing the same clothes you wore
for the past three days.
You try to distract yourself from the fear
by filling up your day, reading, playing Uno.
The boat keeps rocking.
You make Claudio, the 80 year old Italian journalist,
burns himself on the chimney,
so you have to make a warning sign.
you cook, you eat, you sing.
Seque de la clara.
You try to work out if that new ship on the horizon is going to board you.
You wash yourself with the dangly exhaust hose that cools the engine.
And then you're told we'll be arriving in Cuba tomorrow morning.
The sun goes down on one side of the boat and then it comes up on the other.
You wake up on the Solgid Gym mat in the same clothes you've been wearing for four days.
And then you're told you're arriving in Cuba tomorrow morning.
And the same thing happens next morning.
Honestly, I started to think maybe we had already been drone struck and we didn't even realize it, but we were now in Purgatory, and this was just our life for all eternity.
Then one night, a bunch of tiny islands pop up on the radar, and in the morning, they pop up on the actual horizon.
But you know, I've been in Purgatory today, so I don't fully believe my eyes.
What is this going through the air?
No land.
I don't trust it.
I feel like the Americans are going to intercept us.
It's too exciting.
Dude.
No excelsis was it.
We decided to climb up on the roof and make sure these Cuban mountains were real.
It turns out nothing was definitely what it takes so long to get there isn't people like
only 90 miles off the US shore genuine question they're going from Mexico gonna
happen because we just got news the US ship had just moved to the outskirts of
Havana. You heard about the US ship out of Havana? Yeah, I'm telling you, if those
America's stop us, I will lose my mind. They could have stopped us at any point in the
trip. They could have stopped us before we all threw up. They could have stopped us
before we all spent three days at our own expense. Sleeping outside, or like, oh, the
wet floor. But it turns out Cuba is a really, really long country. So that US ship in Havana
will have to wait while we just sail along the coast for another two days. Until one
One night, at 3am, we saw some lights.
It was so weird looking at Havana, like after staring at the sea for days.
It dawned on me that we were actually going to make it now, which was a relief, but it
was also incredibly sad because Havana is enormous, right?
Looking at the size of this city spanning the entire coastline up to the horizon, I
couldn't help but be terrified by the concept that there are millions of people in there
that are living without the basic necessities of life.
I guess at least we made it.
This Coast Guard was the first Cuban I spoke to.
I knew what we'd do.
See, your head's flat.
He asked if I'd been to Cuba before, and when I told him I came 14 years ago, he immediately
told me I'd probably have a 13-year-old kid here, and I was honestly a little bit embarrassed
to know that my kid's first impression of me will be this, a guy that looks like absolute
shit, but whatever.
We made it back to experience this brutal communist dictatorship once again.
They're a giant statue of Jesus.
Ah.
Well, maybe it's all going to be okay after all.
Yeah.
We need to look for the things we have in common.
Yeah, yeah, we all love Jesus.
Hassan, you would have jumped if you were there,
if you were on there.
Oh my God.
Wait, what do you mean?
I'm a little pickled there.
I'm a little pickled there.
That killed myself?
Is that what you mean?
I'm a little pickled there.
He got you down, hey.
Yeah, I was so shocked.
You got to make it to nowhere.
I'm going to horrible, what a horrible thought.
It's like you're the first time, you're like, I'm going to die.
Oh, you're going to die.
Yeah, you're going to die.
You're going to die.
I was so excited to finally end the sea sickness,
but no one told me about the land sickness.
It was so tough for DGP.
It's wobbly, wobbly land.
It happens to be a destabilised country.
I was so disorientated and thirsty and confused.
One thing I knew for sure is that these Cuban delegates were about to shake hands with the stinkiest people they've ever met.
Yeah. Crazy how much your mind ignores when you're on the boat. I got land. I need a shit.
So my whole body is just fucking. Dude, this entire video is literally one
collective journey about pooing. It's crazy. I wonder how many times he mentions the fact
that he has the shit, he has shit.
Wow.
But it turns out we'd have to wait a few more hours before we could do any of that
because all these people had come down at sunrise to welcome us.
Now I didn't realise at this point but we also needed to unload the 30 tons we've loaded
up in Mexico before we could get any relief.
But it was done and we finally checked into our hotel room.
We were staying at Hotel Presidente, one of the many kind of affordable state run hotels
in Havana.
Now the special thing about this place is that the US government won't let you stay
here if you're a US citizen. You have to go to a private hotel or else you could face
up to a penalty of 10 years in prison and a million dollars fine. But I'm Aussie so I
don't have to worry about that. All I need to worry about now is having a shit in a shower.
And even though the energy crisis meant that there was no hot water and occasionally there
was no water at all, it was still a million times better than the boat and I felt relaxed
for like the first time in a week. And then till I checked my phone.
You know the Pentagon's new operation for Latin America is called Operation Total Extermination.
Operation doing what the devil says.
Why would you call it that?
Total Extermination is not very different.
Make a little bit of a scare me here. Like what do you mean?
Total Extermination?
Just so you know, hey it is so obviously just a computer game playing kid.
Yeah, that's a suddenly too much to talk about.
But if I thought the news on my phone was bad, it was even worse on Dan's phone when he tried to access his bank account.
You're blocked from online services because you're in a sanctioned country on a beach.
I don't know, I don't know. I'm all like, I need to buy a sandwich, see details.
We obliged to manage our international sanctions risk, so you cannot buy a sandwich.
That's sort of a random fucking Australian bank who just like...
Yeah, this is a part of the reality of the sanctions is that you can be a country. You
can be the bank of a country that has nothing to do with America at all. You can be an Australian bank
who will refuse to allow you to, who will refuse to allow you to operate in Cuba because it's a
sanctioned country because Australia, the bank is worried that America will punish them.
Like get rid of your account if you do anything you can't do anything.
And then I'm like okay cool well I'll go and get a VPN thing.
And then look I tried to download this one.
The app store is unavailable let me type that.
Oh you got five!
I can't, I can't.
Are you kidding me?
Oh I won.
Here's a sandwich.
You did
I got my VPN on time
Come on, missed a little bit
You get it, look at it
Cuba, he was a communist country
That's why things are so bad right now
I'm gonna learn from Cuba's mistakes
You're just sanctioning me as well
No, you know what, you know what, I think the value
I don't know how the fuck he even had
You didn't really need, you don't really need a VPN
But I don't really know how the fuck
He even had internet at all
When he was there
I'll be honest with you that she was impossible.
Like.
Um, it was genuinely impossible.
You like the value of money to you is actually so much more than it is to me.
Yeah, I'm going to loan you the hotel Wi-Fi dog.
I was in a hotel too.
I'm telling you the hotel Wi-Fi was always out.
If you want five dollars now, you have to give me 50 bucks in a month.
Right.
It's like a well bank loan.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You have to say you have to restructure all this stuff.
It's a little bit easier than, like, you know,
organising a wallet.
Yeah.
Now, to be fair, even if Dan was allowed to access his bank account,
pretty much all the ATMs are down because of the energy shortages.
So since I'm the guy who, you know, took out money before the trip,
and, you know, I need Dan to hold the camera and not be dead,
I decided I won't let him starve for now.
But anyway, the rest time was over,
and we had to find our way to the hospital to hand off all the A that we brought.
So the problem was that the hospital was like 10 kilometers away and it's incredibly difficult to get a taxi with barely any fuel in the country
But luckily with the help of a world-famous soccer player called Shijing Ping
Cuba set up a factory just outside of Havana pumping out thousands of these electric tuk-tuk's
You know in response to the US cutting off all fuel from the country
It was pretty strange getting our first actual glimpse of Cuba
The streets were so empty compared to 14 years ago and because the fuel blockade made driving nearly impossible
You had to go for all these weaker vehicles that used renewable energy like you know the two horsepower
Tuk-Tuk saw this one horsepower horse
But we finally arrived to this children's hospital that specializes in cardiovascular care and it honestly felt surreal seeing all this
Aid reaches destination and something tells me the nurses couldn't believe it even for the past couple months
All I could think about was this flotilla
But somehow the only thing I actually thought about was the flotilla as a political stuff right getting on the boat and exposing to the
that the US is killing people through their blockade at Cuba and hopefully, you know, inspiring people and governments around the world to take action.
But I didn't actually think about the real people that are going to receive the aid that we're bringing.
But then there are children in this hospital whose lives are going to be dramatically affected by this, you know, 30 tons of food, medicine and solar panels that we filled our little boat with.
I honestly hadn't thought about the real-world impact of that.
It was actually so nice seeing where all our aid was going, but it felt like a drop in
the water.
The hospital was running out of everything, from medications to medical machines to simple
things like goals and advantages.
Yeah, there are entire fucking graveyards of perfectly fixable equipment in Cuba that
simply will never be repaired because one tiny component was broken and it's a proprietary
piece of technology and the company that they purchased it from has decided now that they're
worried about American sanctions so they won't send the components necessary to fix it.
It's horrifying.
Like, one of the most insane aspects of this is someone says,
your country deserves a Israel treatment for this.
Yes, it's true.
And if in a just world, we would be a pariah state in the same way that Israel is,
I mean, after all, half of Israel's crimes is because we allow them to do it.
Do it in the other half is because we give them the weapons to do it
Now one of the most insane aspects of this is that it's totally unnecessary
okay
This kind of cruelty is unbelievably unnecessary and as a matter of fact there's an argument to be made about
Removing these setbacks and and actually allowing Cuba to thrive which could be beneficial for America as well
We just choose to be cruel to these people, genuinely, and no, it's not Trump.
This is every president with the exception of Barack Obama has continued this in some
way, shape, or form.
Barack Obama was the first American president that actually eased and allowed Cuba room
to breathe, room to develop.
It was actually a tremendous, a tremendously positive moment for Cuba's future.
So as much as I shit on Obama, and I don't think he went hard enough, I've told you guys
this already.
I told you guys this already.
I spoke to the Cubans, like government officials, and they literally, I was like, so why do
you think Obama did this?
and they're like, we have no idea.
Okay?
They don't even know why Obama did it.
Like, they couldn't even believe it.
My king supplies and equipment is just like one of the many issues that they have to deal with here.
Man, he did that shit for his legacy on his way out the door. He didn't give a fuck.
fuck what are you talking about that's not true no it was been Hamas roads for the record
and uh and it was the only
and it was not you're you're thinking of Biden oh Biden
in a city, and also in a city where everything is complicated,
we know what it is about, but we don't care about it.
We are very careful with the use of a computer.
For example, there is an area that is not possible
and that is not possible to use a computer.
And also because the computer has to be saved
for the general way, because we have an intensive therapy.
The Austin OX edited this one too.
Does it say?
Because I feel like he's using the same exact.
He's using the same exact.
Subtitles that I.
And also the same soundtrack.
Well, did you re re?
Did you reuse the same soundtrack, Austin OX?
Son of a bitch!
After seeing him in person, I really don't understand how anyone so well-increasingly
What else mean that the doctors have to operate with their hands throughout the night?
It doesn't make any sense.
I can't actually say how they're going to keep this going over the next few days, let alone months.
No, I didn't think that he would.
The wild party is even in the middle of this.
No, I didn't think it was too scared to go.
Crisis.
No, you...
Cuba's still dedicated to making life-saving care available to everyone.
What's he?
No, no, no, no, it's a man.
He's a real person, but he's a boy.
Don't reveal editor's secrets.
managed to keep health care free during this humanitarian crisis, made me feel a little
bit hopeful, right?
And until I stepped outside and got a taste of reality-
Your video and his video should have voiceover for translations.
Dog I literally did that.
My video has voiceover for translations.
The fuck are you talking about?
We did do that.
Alvi.
It turned out that one of the members of ATHLETE, Tiago, had been arrested while flying home
on his connecting flight in Panama.
The interrogation was so funny when like the entire thing is broadcast almost live, you know?
Like, what were you doing? It's like, well, then it's basically the entire thing.
Right after that, we heard that the other two boats from earlier in the video were meant to arrive today
but they had completely vanished on the high seat.
We saw the phone with the Mexican authorities. They're launching like a search and rescue thing
because no one knows where the two sailboats went.
Holy shit.
So they are trying to find them.
But if he's there or worried, that's something happens.
We just don't know.
I'm just mistaken.
But there was literally nothing we could do about either of those things, but, you know,
sit and be scared.
So we decided to walk around the hospital and we bumped into this nice Swiss man, Franco
Cavallo.
He happens to be one of the best oncologists in the world.
Like, this man wrote the textbook on medical oncology.
No, it was him, I checked it, he's the guy who wrote it.
As a world-renowned oncologist, he's particularly upset that Cuba is, you know, blocked off
from accessing vital cancer medications that he helped create, right?
So, so he spends much of his free time visiting Cuba and trying to help.
But he struggles to find any European company that dares to do business
with Cuba because they're so scared of the Americans.
I think I'm actually an important part in the treatment of many
cancers in China.
Cuba was buying that in the past.
And there were work like three companies producing guns.
Two of the companies were bought by the third one, which is an American company.
But it's not just humanitarian doctors like Franco that visit Cuba, apparently western
big-farmer CEOs are coming here too.
GFP mentioned you in their poll. Bro, they mentioned me in a negative messaging. Look
at this. This is crazy. Data for progress. Next voters were provided with likely attacks
against each candidate. Ask the RHE statements convincing us. I'll say a statement is attacked
for being, with a, being a far left radical with ties to the Sompike or being a candidate
who would make headlines for the wrong reasons, not achieving results. Stephen showcased
as an establishment politician with ties to APEC and Roger showcases affiliation with
Donald Trump branding him a Maga Republican.
Majority of voters found Stevens 53 and Roger see the two statements on very somewhat convincing
reasons to vote against each. Negative messaging is against, I'll do I'll say it. Meanwhile,
is viewed less convincing.
My majority of voters, the reason to vote against them. Yeah. Because ties to Hassan
Piker is an incredibly stupid line of attack. That's why I could have told you that a majority
of Michigan voters view opponents messaging us outside as unconvincing. Finally, voters
were provided with a final set of horse race questions and asked which candidate they would
vote for. After attacks, L side maintains his lead over Rogers that continues to outperform
Stevens and a head to head against Rogers overall with independence, 51 to 39 L side,
45 to 41 Stevens, young voters, 61 to 35, Al-Sayed, 52 to 34 with Stevens and black voters, 71 to
23 Al-Sayed, 70 to 22 Stevens. Al-Sayed maintains lead over Rogers after negative messaging.
Yeah. The biographies were, the negative statement was that Al-Sayed is too radical to be trusted
as Senator. Back by another leftist radical Bernie Sanders, Al-Sayed is touted as a relationship
with the Sompiker, a left-wing political commentator throughout the campaign trail,
even after a Sompiker was accused of anti-semitism and saying America deserved 9-11.
He has also pushed for extreme policies like abolishing ice and Medicare for all.
We need someone who will be focused on results, not making headlines for the wrong reason.
Haley Stevens is an established politician who won't listen to the needs of every
Micheal Anders, but will instead listen to corporate and foreign interests who are
funding her Senate campaign. She's taken money from the pro-Israel lobby, APEC, and
has received thousands of dollars of campaign donations of run advertising across the state,
We've seen time and time again from politicians who want our vote yet will do nothing for us while in office. I
Got this survey. Okay. How did you respond? You better have been like I love Hassan piker. I'm
Voting extra hard for Abdul
Mike Rogers just another mega candidate who's advocating for pause that will hurt our state
He's endorsed by Trump and if elected the office
Brazil will continue the president's awful policies that have pushed the affordability
crest to another level.
I mean, is data for progress so like the negative slant is?
I'm not saying I'm proud of it, but there was reasons behind it.
I'm not saying I'm proud of it, but there was reasons behind it.
Speaking of, here's a Trump-Abdual voter.
All right, what's your name?
Ahmed El-Riyashi.
Ahmed, what do you like about Abdul?
You told me that you voted for Trump in 2024.
We got Abdul supporters right here in Chandler Park.
What's the rate, Sim, from other Democrats for you?
Well, one for the Trump one.
I'm not saying I'm proud of it, but there was reasons behind it.
things behind it all right let's continue which work in both my company I know very
important CEO of a very important company who came in cognitive to Cuba nobody was allowed to tell
that he was going to see what they are searching for and so I'm standing there on the street talking
into a world-renowned cancer researcher,
and he's telling me that, you know,
big pharma executives are entering Cuba secretly
to, like, collaborate on research projects
without the US government knowing.
But it's all just kind of, like, difficult to believe.
Right? How does a Caribbean country, you know,
it's blocked off from trading with the world?
How do they become a biomedical powerhouse
making insane discoveries, like, you know,
the world's only meningococcal B vaccine
and luring big pharma execs with these breakthroughs?
And, you know, all the other Caribbean countries
are still stuck researching who that guy was
that it evolves out. It just doesn't make sense. So the next day, we decided to visit
the Neuroscience Institute to see how it's possible that Cuba's pumping out all these
medical breakthroughs under siege. Now this institute was on the other side of town, so
we were facing the same problem we'd faced multiple times a day in Cuba, finding transportation.
Now after being on land for so long, I was honestly missing the diesel fumes of the boat
engine, so I decided to splurge and get a real petrol taxi to take us to the institute.
And we're going there with our mate Daniel. He's a Cuban journalist working for the independent
media outlet, Belly of the Beast. They do awesome documentaries and on the ground reporting
in a place that's always like so saturated with fake news from mainstream media. So you
can check them out in the video description. Now Daniel joined our project as a producer,
which is, you know, a stressful job at the best of times, but he was also doing it under
the constant threat of being bombed by a foreign country.
Realizing that the future, the future goes around you and some depending on, you know,
individual decisions of people that, you know, honestly, can give two shits about any future.
It's uh, it's daunting.
Yeah, it sounds terrifying.
The idea that these are heroes, man.
The idea of an art of innovation.
Going into my mind. You know, I keep having nightmares about it.
Cuba sounds like an amazing place. You can walk around the street,
just bump into the world-renowned doctors, top-viewed streamers,
and Jeremy Corbin all while just trying to find a place to poo.
They start bumping. I'm dead.
A lot of people are aware that this is a real possibility,
possibility and those who are thinking it like that would be like there's not a single one that would say hey
like yeah sure they should bomb Japan. Like you know that's not a thing like you could find
someone that tells you sure I hope the government changes right but bombs and bullets they have no
names you know once the shooting starts no one's stopping and say let's see if this guy was a communist.
After that fun chat in the taxi we finally got the neuroscience institute to meet up with
with Dr. Mitchell Valdez-Sosa.
Don't panic if there's a power cut.
That's my guy.
The elevator will have no...
That's my goat.
Dr. Mitch.
This guy is fucking incredible.
Problem, and we just waited.
We're gonna do the interview again.
He's not my guy, he's the guy.
Oh my God, that is sick merch.
All right, yeah.
This was the very first medical equipment
manufactured in Cuba.
A Cuban computer.
It turns out, Cuba became a research hub
thanks to this computer and a guy called Erwin Roy John,
the father of quantitative,
the father of quantitative electroencelephography
and neurometrics.
And look, I don't know what that means,
but I was standing in front of a world renowned scientist,
so I just knotted along, right?
Now, Erwin Roy John wasn't a fan of Big Pharma,
and he was a massive fan of Cuba's
universal healthcare system,
because, you know, he's interested in treating people
and not just making products for a company
to sell to the highest bidder.
So he wanted to do his research here.
Irving Roy John was fired up with this idea and he said,
I'm going to bring to Cuba some computers with my software
for studying the electrical activity of brains.
Of course, when he asked for the permit,
whatever to explore it, they said, oops,
that's trading with the enemy.
In the meantime, Fidel had talked to the university professors
and asked them, you guys can make a computer,
he said, we can't.
And looking at the user's manual,
they started deducing, if this does this,
It has to work in this way, in the inside, on the problem.
Troy returned, ashamed.
I wasn't able to convince the US government.
We said, nope, we have our own.
Do I resort it, though?
That was how the neuroscience institute was started.
Now, the research Owen Roy John did here
led to breakthroughs like this.
And trust me, I googled it.
Like, I don't fully understand it,
but they're definitely breakthroughs.
And in Cuba, these insights were used
to test every child in the country
for neurological disorders like epilepsy for free.
And in the US, the same breakthroughs
used to, you know, charge parents upwards of $22,000 if they want to know if their kid has epilepsy.
So it's no wonder Roy John opted to do his world-renowned research in Cuba,
even though he knew full well that he'd be blacklisted by the US government for doing it.
Cuba is the only country in the world that had to develop everything themselves,
from the ventilators that saved countless lives during COVID to screening devices for newborns
and hearing aids, which by all accounts should be almost impossible to do. Like even in a country
like the US, right, one of the biggest bio-med industries in the world, they still rely heavily
on global supply chains for all their medical treatments, no country can function without
accessing the things that the rest of the world produces.
But cutting off Cuba from the world isn't just cruel to this island nation of 10 million
people.
It's also cruel to everyday Americans who can't access any of Cuba's medical breakthroughs
such as treating early onset Alzheimer's or healing diabetic ulcers without having to
anti-taple him, which affects you?
No, you, the person watching this, it affects you directly.
You've been sitting here watching it for over an hour now, and that means that you're much,
much more likely to develop type 2 diabetes.
Tens of thousands of amputation in the US and all over the world.
The cooperation between the US and Cuba could save from amputation dozens of thousands of people a year.
There's no right to harm a country, but you're also harming your people. It's absurd. It's absurd.
This U.S. policy of suffocation only really has one explanation.
They don't like the Cuban example. This is fractions of a cent.
We provide our people with medicines at extremely low prices.
In the U.S., the whole pharmaceutical industry is profit-driven.
And this is the gigantic lobby. So this example of socialized medicine and
preventive medicine, it doesn't fit into their profit-driven ideas.
I love this man so much.
The US has been doing this for the past 60 years and it's just, it's crazy to think that these doctors and researchers are still making scientific advancements with like, an echo like blockade and rolling blackouts and, and we were about to experience a really big one that night while we were having beers with our 80 year old friend Claudio at the hotel.
Yeah, he comes with us and I think that's what makes him crazy.
Pretty freaky, but sadly this was business as usual for the Cubans
and everyone was ready with emergency tortures and emergency orchestral instruments
Is someone just playing the flute outside?
In the middle of the blackout?
Yeah Cubans, Cubans get down
Fuckin' JBL speakers blasted music in the street
No electricity, everything is pitch black darkness
Oh there's a car coming
Someone's got a light
This would be so creepy if it wasn't for the floutest.
It turns out some people are even more prepared than the flute player, and they have their
own backup generators.
Will our key cards...
Oh, there we go.
Hey, nice.
I was wondering if our key cards will open the lock to the door.
Now we've never been in a city-wide blackout before, so we took this opportunity to scope
it out.
Occasionally you'll stumble upon a private business that managed to get a backup generator
going, but generally it was just pitch black.
I can't imagine going through this multiple days a week, I mean, we barely found our way home in the dark.
But we woke up to some even worse news the next morning. Our two boats were still missing.
It was quite scary. And then you think of all those songs you were singing.
About dying at sea. Yeah. Yeah, I don't like that.
Yeah, I don't do okay.
Yeah, and I think the thing that kind of caught me today is that they did a search and there was no one.
Oh, there's nothing we can really do.
Just wait and see and hope so.
Hopefully they come down to that harbour over the end of this street,
where we go and give them a big hug.
Now, to get our mind off of our potentially dead friends,
we decided to, you know, talk to some people whose lives were comparatively worse
to make us feel better.
So we went to Central Ivana, one of the poorest parts of the city,
to see how everyday people were living under the blockade.
We thought the best place to start was at the Community Medical Centre
to speak to Dr Roxana.
Roxana. She agreed to chat with us about how the community was dealing with the blockade,
but I also realized I had an opportunity to get free health care, so I wanted to get that sorted first.
So apparently there's one of these community clinics every couple of blocks in Cuba,
and they're actually community doctors, right?
They spend half their day in the clinic like a normal GP
and they spend the rest of their day
going around and breathing.
You have deadly IBS.
You can checkups at people's houses.
So your average Cuban will have a GP visit them every two weeks to checkups,
not just when they're sick, but like, all the time.
In Australia, we got so much money and resources,
but you'll never, like, ever get that amount of attention from a doctor.
Like, I'm lucky if I get five minutes for the GP when I'm sick,
let alone if I feel perfectly fine.
I had a problem in my age, I had to go to the hospital every time.
And I don't know why.
I went to the doctor and we did a lot of things.
It was my first time.
I was a human being.
And that's why I was a sick father.
But we all know that we are not the same, but we know that we are not the same.
That's why I have to listen to you.
It's a very important thing to do.
You have to have it all.
The psychological responsibility that you have to deal with is the psychological responsibility.
The idea is that you are not the same.
So I have to have it all with the same base of the system.
Yeah, Americans also unironically think that the Cuban government is just like refusing
to give people medicine.
Like this is, with how little they have, I am confident in saying like this is one of
the greatest medical systems on the entire planet, okay?
And the saddest state of affairs is that because there's no diesel, there's no fuel for logistics
and no electricity to keep medicine in cold storage as is necessary, they can't even
move this product around.
They have some of the precursory chemicals.
They can't make the medicine in factories because they just don't have, uh,
they don't have oil. And on top of that, they just can't, um,
they can't ship out medicine in general.
This is of course stuff that they have to make on the island regardless because
it's very difficult to also purchase medicine from other countries left in the
country. And everyone's just trying their best to get a hold of something.
We decided to follow Roxana around that day while she did a house business.
So, they could but they want to be hostile.
Attention doesn't equal treatment. They could but they want to be hostile. Cuba wants to be hostile.
To who? They're just hostile by existing. Is that what it is? There's one country that's hostile
in this scenario. It's the United States of America. How can you look at this stuff and
and just be like, yeah, they're hostile, so they deserve it.
Some of y'all are, uh, I'm a Israeli.
You know,
I wish you a faith far worse than the one you're comfortable, uh,
wishing upon others get a better feel of how regular Cubans are dealing with the
unfolding humanitarian crisis. The first patient, I hope you suffer alone.
You know, he's already suffering alone.
No one who isn't suffering alone would come up with such a fucking evil thing to say.
It was Glenda, a 79-year-old woman who was diagnosed with diabetes.
And after a checkup, she agreed to chat with us about, you know, how she's been dealing with the blackouts.
It's possible to know when and after you've had a...
There are times, yes, there are times.
The biggest part of the story is that I'm not going to explain it to you, you know?
Yes, yes.
But for me it's very difficult to know how it works.
No, it's difficult to know why we don't do it.
But it's very difficult, for example, if there's no electricity, how do we cook the dinner?
Exactly.
So what do we do? When there's electricity, we have to raise the temperature,
make the electricity flow, and so on.
And that can be done at three o'clock in the morning.
At three o'clock in the morning.
Because I don't know how to do it.
You say, that doesn't add water.
So, that's how it works.
For example, to do it, you have to take into account
one, that there is water.
Because even if there is water in the system,
if there is no electricity,
to be able to use it,
It turns out Glenda was 13 years old when the revolution happened and because she knew
how to read and write as a teenager she volunteered to go teach in the countryside as part of this
you know sudden nationwide push to eliminate illiteracy and what she saw in the Cuban
countryside in 1960, Broca.
I've never been too much involved in my life.
There's nothing for me to tell you about,
because the Americans are the ones who are lying to me.
I'm a town.
And then there's this weird souvenir clock
she had on her wall as well.
And it turns out she's experienced capitalism more than once.
In 2009, the South African government was giving out flights
to people who wanted to volunteer in local communities,
and she obviously jumped at the rare opportunity
to see the world that she'd been locked out of.
But you know what?
In South Africa, I went to a community
I had 500,000 people living in Casuchia.
The same conditions.
It was incredible.
One of the problems they had was that they didn't know how to find their way.
So the community had a council that they had to pay every month
We were in a hurry.
We were in a hurry.
And then when I was there,
I asked him if he could come to the country
and he said,
''Come on, come on, come on,
you're horrible.
We can't be in Australia.''
You can get the Post-Incenture insurance.
Sure, sure.
Yes, sure, sure.
I don't know.
It's something popular,
there are commercials
This is television.
This is the guy, right?
I'm here to tell you.
To die.
That's what you said.
No, no, no.
This is...
This is all of it.
We're going to die here.
We're going to be here.
We're going to be here.
I'm sure you know it.
Thank you.
If you want to play,
Hopefully one day I get to come back and take her up on the coffee, but I mean getting
to Cuba wasn't easy and when I turned on the TV that night, it felt like getting to Cuba
was almost impossible.
Like our missing boats were prime time using Cuba and we were starting to get really worried
for our friends.
But being scared for your friends and family is just a taste of the daily lives of Cuban
people who, you know, they're either facing starvation or like a full-on invasion.
Like the next news story was about university students training to defend themselves when
than the U.S. in fact.
Like, there isn't a single part of these people's lives
that isn't affected by the blockade.
Like, from the simplest things,
like garbage trucks struggling to get, you know,
the few drops of fuel left in the country
so the streets overflow with rubbish,
to completely empty tourist centers.
Like, literally nothing is coming into this country.
But in the middle of all this,
the weird part is that life somehow goes on.
The country's slowly suffocating, right?
They're facing a humanitarian crisis on the horizon,
but everyone's just trying their best
to live their lives in any way they can.
Like, I spoke to so many people during this trip,
obviously the video is already enormous so I had to cut a bunch of stuff but if
you want to see the full uncut conversations with everyday Cubans
jump on the Patreon because I'll be uploading all of them there but the
same thing happened in all these conversations right I kept trying to
do the maths like if the average salary is like $20 a month and a bag of rice
costs $12 how's it possible that anyone surviving and I asked this
question to every Cuban I met and every person had pretty much exactly the same
answer they all told me that they had no idea either it's crazy like a couple of
days later we found out that our friends weren't dead which is you know it's a
massive relief and and the rest of our humanitarian aid made to Cuba and
obviously the Cubans were ecstatic that you know someone out there cares about
what's going on but the reality is that what's on those tiny little boats can
only go so far like things are getting really really bad in Cuba like people
are dying and everyone else is just living on borrowed time and this was
the point of the blockade for the past 60 years when enough people starve to death
the Cubans won't have many options left right though they'll get desperate and
and they'll eventually dismantle the social system they built.
I mean, unless the US gets bored of waiting and invades them first.
But either way, you know, the Marfield get their cities back,
the Plantation Owners will get their slaves back,
and the US will get their sugar companies back.
And the PeopleTuber, they can look forward to becoming just like
all the other capitalist third world countries around them,
like Haiti and Dominica, or even Puerto Rico, right?
Which is actually part of the US,
but they haven't had a functioning electricity grid for the past nine years anyway.
Like, these countries experience some of the worst living standards in the world,
and their lives are about to get much worse,
because the US recently kicked all the Cuban doctors out of the third world as part of the blockade.
So I guess Haiti doesn't have any healthcare now either, and let me think about all these places
from Haiti to Somalia where people can't afford food and everyone's slowly starving to death.
In all these places, it's kind of really hard to even work out where to start, right?
Like, how do you fix this? Who's going to invest? What would they even build there?
Is it going to go to the right people? Right, but the tragedy of Cuba is that they've already set
everything up on their own. You know, they got world-class health care, they've got the infrastructure
and the know-how. The only thing we need to do is just stop fucking with them. Literally,
only thing the world needs to do is just treat them how we treat any other country in the world.
Let them buy food, let them buy fuel, let them buy medicine, just let themselves start. I don't know,
we just need to be normal. At this point in the video, I'd usually provide a link. I want to
share a fundraiser for Progressive International that's planning to bring more aid boats to Cuba,
but the US is saying to them too. So honestly, I don't know what to do. I don't usually say this,
but I'm completely out of ideas. It's up to you guys. You need to do everything you can to stop
your governments from killing these people. Yep. Once you see it, you can't unsee it. That was a
great video from Boyboy, by the way. Shout out. I'm so proud of him for going out there.
taking the long way there, making it happen, making it work, but God damn dude, we are,
we are real blight on this fucking planet. And it's not even like the average American
that wants this. Like I know, I know for a fucking fact, you pull the average American,
you go to the average American, they don't even need to fully understand what the fuck
is going on. They don't even need to see the devastation. You just go to the average American
you're like, Hey, this is what we're doing to Cuba. Do you think this is good?
The overwhelming majority, with the exception of, I guess, like
the, the gusanos in Florida.
And even then, there's probably plenty of fucking Cubans in Florida that also don't
like what's going on currently.
But with the exception of like a handful of, uh, uh, Americans, most would say no.
No.
There's no reason for it. There's no reason for this pain that we're causing. Literally no reason.
As a matter of fact, doing the opposite of what we've done to Cuba so far would probably be beneficial
for America and certainly be beneficial for Cuba. Which just doesn't make any sense.
And we just keep dishing out this pain for no reason. People say their economy doesn't work.
Yeah, because they're stupid. They don't understand that we've killed their economy put a gun to the head of their economy plus
They've already done the reforms doesn't matter
Doesn't matter if they have a socialist form of governance doesn't matter if they have a communist state
Every single UN vote every single UN vote looks like this
To end the economic embargo and sanctions imposed by the United States
two abstentions Ukraine and Brazil not even sure why Brazil abstained and Israel and America against
other way that's pathetic and shameful of Brazil to abstain
Oh, is this from Bolsonaro? Is that why? Yeah. That's it. The entire world understands it,
and yet they can't even fucking, they can't even do anything about it because America
controls the entire world. Anyway, that's all I got for today, folks. Love you all and
I'll see you tomorrow as always, okay? Don't get it twisted.
Peace, everybody. Bye-bye.
Stunning road by introduction, starting off the day.
All the chatter's tricklin' in, I'll sell people hay
Sonny Los Angeles, California says for son
Stunlock to the, stunlock to the top, it's just begun
Cause there is again a sun is streaming, a sun is streaming
There is again a sun is streaming, a sun is streaming
Leave you in a Chinese train, Tehran kind of place.
Sun in as many channels, giving greening's grace.
Zoran winning NYC, walk two back with the force.
The Rogan of the left to me, a dumb combo still on course
The Charlie Kirk assassination, the fear and online show
Gave full fucking years of this, nothing more to know
Doing fun stuff tomorrow, throw PBS up on the screen
A man made for reaction brought to you by this life's dream
Cause there he is again, the sun is streaming
The sun is streaming
There he is again, the sun is streaming
The sun is streaming
Kacked out of the DNC, a railroad march looked good
Commed in the propaganda to shut down people's throats
CBS Israeli news, a coup, a regime falls
A full blown fascist takeover and still the duty calls
Total radicalization coming out to sea
The system where he'll always fail, it's up to you and me
All these daily streams, whether short or whether long
I've held millions of people, keep it moving right along
Cause there he is again, a son is streaming, a son is streaming
There he is again, a son is streaming, a son is streaming
But hey, what can you say?
And that's BBS for you
But he'll play games real soon
Just you wait
Say hey, what can you say?
And that's BBS for you
But he'll move on real soon
Just you wait
What can you say?
And that's BBS for you
Well, pull your lungs real soon, just you wait
Shadadada, shadadada, shadadadadadada
What can you say, hey, that's PBS for you
But he'll do Jeff Ice real soon, just you wait
But hey, what can you say, hey, that's PBS for you
Brought on by viewers like you, just you wait, just you wait