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🤬LINDSEY GRAHAM DEAD AT 71🤬 CEASEFIRE OVER!🤬SITUATION MONITORED🤬STRAIT CLOSED!🤬TRITA PARSI LATER🤬RW DEMS PANIC IN MI!!!!🤬GOP PANIC!🤬
07-13-2026 · 7h 20m
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some changes behind me. I finally framed the Cutie Cinderella newspaper from 9-11 the morning
of 9-12, the newspaper right there. The newspaper that covered 9-11, it's now officially sitting
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girls and MBS, you already know what it is. Um, but, uh, as far as personal news goes,
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Looking at this swag that Don Draper has been trying to get a piece of that swag myself
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I'm a chudd ass loser as you guys know. I didn't really do much
Nothing going on in my life. I'm pathetic. I'm a chudd. I
Watch madman went to sleep. I basically fall asleep by 11 like there's no shot. I'm staying past 11 at this point
I am
Wait, is Sam Cedar here?
Have Sam Cedar on while he's in LA? Wait, ain't no way Sam Cedar is in Los Angeles right now, and he didn't text me
Hold on. I'm texting him right now. Unk didn't check in. Unk didn't check in.
All right, drama drama if he's actually in Los Angeles and he didn't check in with me
and he's not coming on, that's crazy.
That's actually crazy.
He's doing secret Hollywood stuff.
That's crazy.
That's actually crazy.
Anyway, ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls and MBS, you already know what's up.
You already know what's happening.
Okay.
and chud confirmed. Yes, Sam Cedar has officially confirmed my washed nature, my washed status
and my chud status. What are you going to wear your mouse suit? I don't, I plan to wear the mouse
suits on red carpets and stuff like big events. I don't plan to wear them regularly on the stream.
Found your tie for the Singapore trip. Access temporarily restricted.
What the hell? Maybe it's because I have... Yeah, I can't see it. But yeah, I... What
was I gonna say? Chodas loser woke up early, worked out. I did... I did titties today.
I did chest today and I'll be honest, I feel, I feel pretty crazy.
My chest feels out of control right now.
My titties feel milky.
Okay.
I'll just say it when you get it, when you hit a good chest day and your tits feel
like you're, yeah, yes, doors open.
Okay.
That's where I'm at.
That's where I'm at.
Straight up
That's odd never records as you work out of his anymore. Yeah, I don't
Yeah, isn't it more isn't it more
seductive that I
Got all this meat and I'm not showing it
Some of you guys
Clearly some of you guys just want
You're horny and you want you want the meat. You're like, Arby's show me the meats.
And for me, it's like leaving it up to the imagination. I'm keeping it locked in the chamber for a special occasion. You know what I mean?
The more I tease and the more I hide,
the more valuable it is.
The more I can use it
in an opportune moment and a lot of you are not thinking about that.
A lot of you are not thinking about that. Yeah, it's a, it's a little bit like a, like a male hijab, if you will.
Um, and I'm, I'm gonna, I'm going to deploy it tactically. It's going to be a tactical meat deployment.
Okay. It's going to be a tactical meat deployment.
It's not going to be in the tub. So if that's what you think, you're wrong, but it'll be like
a tactical meat deployment that will most likely be deployed for a particular race or something.
you know, for a particular race, maybe Abdul El Sayed in the general, right? Not even in
the primary. Like that's what I'm thinking. That's what I'm going to be using. If the
established Democrats get crazier in the primaries, who knows? I might do a meat launch, you know,
go meet for meat with some folks. But for the time being, uh, you know, at level 50
drinking we see the meats sure not gonna happen but in any case in any case
ladies and gentlemen we got a lot to talk about today a lot's going on in the
world there's a lot of the situation monitors the missile
two artists, the UAV enjoyers, the straight of Hormuz, import, export, enjoyers, the
big business enjoyers, those who love tracking commerce, the commodity traders rejoice.
Because we're back to monitoring the motherfuckers situation, ladies and gentlemen.
with the 200 bones on my lord. What the hell is going on?
That's right, Lindsey Graham dead at 71.
He would have loved to see what the situation unfolds
in the straight of hormones.
Lindsey Graham dead at 71,
sees fire over, did you see the scathing,
I'll do an article, something to consider, I did.
Detroit Free Press, if else I had wins,
the Michigan U.S. Senate primary,
the next test is the general.
Wow.
Wow.
You live and you learn.
You know, I didn't realize it was like that.
I thought it was just you win the primary
and there's no general.
But I'm glad, I'm glad to have learned that
from the Detroit Free Press.
Thank you.
Huge if true.
But, yeah, Lindsey Graham, dead of 71, ceasefire over situation monitored.
There's, I believe there has been another ice shooting in Maine as well, and we'll obviously
cover that as well.
There's a suspected, there is a suspected hate crime in Mississippi of an 18-year-old,
uh, 18 year old black teen.
Hold on. I'm getting text messages. Uh, um, but yeah, that's, uh, we'll be talking
about that as well. Right. Lindsey Graham, dead is 71 ceasefire over situation.
Monitor straight close to party later, right wing Democrats panic and Michigan
GOP panic everybody panic basically
Mitch Lindsey Graham dead at 71 Mitch
Mitch McConnell alive
Get in and now science you chat. No bless you open here. We're doing science you Carl marks you
dialectical materialism you dialectics you
Uh, in any case, we got a lot to talk about folks. We got a lot to talk about. God damn,
there's so much going on in the motherfucking country. Okay. Chokyesha allowed. Yes. Chokyesha
does make sense. You know, it was really funny in Turkey. We don't say like God bless you
anything we say live long if you if someone sneezes in turkey you say live
long and the other person says may you see it as well send a good
yeah I already blasted I already posted
Can you do an alveo's collapse soon on Ms. Joy Whimsy and the animals?
Sure.
Have you, have you seen the camp bin face stuff in the UK wondering who you'd endorse in that race, uh, buddy?
As a major fan of by-election specifically in Clackton, right? Am I saying it right? Is it the right place at Clackton?
I think there's only one answer. One answer for the future of the country. And that answer is Binface.
I have already endorsed Binface.
There's a big fan of the bi-elections, specifically, bi-elections that are thrown haphazardly
in an effort to pull the public's opinion as there's a political crisis imminent due
to the corruption charges and the potential corruption investigation that Nigel Farage
is finally due.
This is exactly my kind of by-election that I'm excited to be a part of, and yes, as
a long-time fan of Clacton, I believe Count Binface, Lord Binface, whatever his name is
is the truest advocate for the needs of the working class.
One might even explain, one might even say I'm a proper binhead geezer.
A proper binhead geezer.
Ah, that's right.
Lovely delightful wonderful.
Um, hold on.
You're going to talk about Rubio being Delcey Rodriguez's gay BFF?
Yes, of course.
Marco Rubio's subplot in the White House is about him, you know, sending nudes and selfies and sexting with the,
with the current head of state, the replacement head of state,
Delcey Rodriguez in Venezuela, yes.
I hate that Argentina is making me root for England, Spain all the way though.
Are you for real? Yes.
Have you seen Faraj walk like a normal human being?
don't think Nigel Farage is capable of doing anything like a normal human being. Wait, explain.
Yes, bro, we're gonna talk about it. That's my job. Chatters. It's my job to explain to you
the things that are happening all around the world. Okay? This is one of those things that I
will explain. It's so funny when I tease a story that we'll eventually get to in the day to go,
Wait, what? Explain. Well, don't you think that's kind of the whole process here?
In any case, do we have the Macy's playlist? Because we're live, we're alive and it's official.
We're going to get to all of the news and more.
explain this. He got that post-a-song pipe glow. That's crazy. Hen Mazick is
obsessed with you. I know because the Israeli state pays him to be my
chopple-ganger and to also be obsessed with me. Okay, that's what it is. You say
is crazy, but not that it's wrong. Yes, I don't think love is wrong. Okay. Yes. Of course,
I say it's crazy, but I'll never say it's wrong because love is love. Okay. Sometimes love
is an 84 year old geriatric senator who's one of the most influential Republican demons
of the last two decades and a 34 year old man about the turn 35 who happens to be a socialist
anti-imperialist political commentator. Okay. Love is love. Problematic age gaps aside. Problematic
age gaps be damned love is love folks 34 turning 65 you the way you live to be honest why would
you hit a scuba after that we are cooked if it wasn't for the very real picture he's holding
I wouldn't tell it that that is AI. It's not. It's real. He's alive. And he's confirming
it.
Representative Hennel Marndorff, S.A. for U.S. Senate in Michigan. Hell yeah. What is the
water, watermark. That's not a watermark. There's no watermark. It's a real photo.
Shut the fuck up. Shut up, Chad. It's a real photo. Are you up to date with the one piece
anime? Uh, no, I'm not. Oh, manhole. Feels like silk with the young ins aren't ready
for that conversation. That's crazy. Okay, we gotta stop talking about me and Lindsey
Graham or not Lindsey Graham sorry me and Mitch McConnell to see I got Lindsey Graham on the
mind still RIP um okay Marco Rubio wants to dismantle ICC I know piece of shit okay uh
all right we're going right into it locked and loaded ladies and gentlemen get the office
in here right now. Get, bring me back my autists. Autism, the autists, the missile autists rejoice.
It's time for situation monitoring and it's a tough one to monitor partially because there's a lot
of fog of war this time around because I think the American side has established that it's not
Not great when they keep showing, when they keep allowing impact sites to be plastered
all over, OSINT, Twitter.
And this time around, and I have to apologize for something I said yesterday, remember yesterday
when we're talking about Saudi Arabia, and I said, at least Saudi Arabia is not bombing
Yemen.
Well, that changed because Saudi Arabia as of, you know, maybe three or four hours after
I said that, did unironically bomb the fucking airport in Sanaa. So Saudi Arabia is now bombing
Yemen. So there's a tit for tat there as well. This time we're going to see some motion from the
Houthis. Obviously the, the, the MOU is over, the ceasefire is over. Iran has made it very clear
that their understanding of the memorandum of understanding is
that's crazy. Iran's memorandum of understanding maintains a some level of control in the hands
of Iran over the Strait of Hormuz. Tremendous leverage that they were not going to give up,
obviously they won it militarily. And yet the United States of America clearly was simply using
this memorandum of understanding for a moment of respite for their strategic oil reserves
and to normalize the oil markets a little bit. Kaya, come here. What the hell?
What the hell, Kaya? Kaya is so funny. She'll open the door, she'll leave, and then immediately
come back in. And I think right now it's just more so the process of opening the door that she
enjoys. Like she's just like I have this power I can wield it in my hands in any
way shape or form that I see fit.
Well yes as I was saying so memorandum of understanding turned into a
memorandum of misunderstanding or rather it was by design supposed to be a
misunderstanding. The United States of America got very frustrated when Iran
maintained its position as the sole controller of the ships that transit
through the Strait of Hormose. They had said to the Americans that they would
allow all ships to transit as long as they still went through the pre-ordained
pre-designated routes. America pressured the Omani government and the Omani
leadership to allow ships to go through the Omani route, the Omani coastline. And of course,
in retaliation for that, the Iranians started opening fire on the ships that were passing
through the Omani coastline. This stopped the transiting of the Shredo Hormuz. The ships from
transiting in the Shredo Hormuz, it turned the clock back, the Strait is still closed. As of
Yesterday, now Donald Trump is, or as of early this morning, Donald Trump has decided to
re-implement his blockade.
We're going to get to that in a second.
But yes, there's tit for tat, fresh strikes.
Iran has been dishing it out to the Gulf countries, but even Jordan as well, according
to some reports, as the United States of America is pummeling Iran to the best of its ability.
So we're back to Operation Epstein's Fury, okay?
So tonight, a new round of...
Oh my God, why is this so...
Oh, I didn't realize I had cranked this shit up.
...as a ceasefire unravels.
The renewed hostilities are creating uncertainty
over the Strait of Hormuz,
with Iran claiming it's closed
while the Trump administration says it's open.
Chief White House correspondent,
Bruce is at the White House with the latest force. Good morning to you, Mary. Good morning,
Robin. And it is now been nearly a month. Well, yeah, far left shimmer has offered calls
Lindsey Graham, a bloodthirsty odious monster. Yeah, I know. Uh, yeah, yeah, play my highlight
real bitch. I don't give a shit. Yeah, what's the where is the lie, man? I can't wait for
this to be the, the day's conversation. People being like, wow, I can't believe he said that.
Okay, address the point at hand, please.
Address the point at hand, then.
Is he not?
Explain to me why that's not the case.
Anyway, we'll get to that.
Well, since President Trump signed that short-term peace agreement with Iran, but after days
of back-and-forth strikes, as you said, the ceasefire is now unraveling.
The Iranians this morning say the agreement has, quote, entered a crisis stage.
Now, overnight, the U.S. launching a new round of strikes against Iran, the fourth series
of attacks in less than a week.
Iran then responding with a barrage of strikes aimed at American military assets in the Middle
East.
Now, these fresh attacks are coming amid mixed messages about the Strait of Hormuz.
After targeting commercial ships in the critical waterway for days, Iran declaring it's closing
the Strait of Hormuz.
But President Trump says that's not the case.
He insists that it is open.
reopening the straight, of course, was at the heart of this memorandum of understanding
that was intended to.
I liked that yesterday he was saying, no, no, no, you don't understand the shit of Hormuz
is open. And today he's decided actually just kidding. It's not open. I don't know why I
said that. As a matter of fact, we closed it. We're back. We're so back. We're so back,
We're so fucking back. Yeah. Buy more time to negotiate a longer term lasting nuclear
deal. The issue. Trump told us to cut tests for all US allies. I mean, yeah, they are.
Everyone is cut to American interest. So it's just, you know, it's not surprising.
But the heart of this conflict, but the two sides haven't even been able to get to that
point amid these escalating back-and-forth strikes, Robin.
And, Mary, how is this affecting gas prices back at home?
Yeah, well, certainly all of these strikes are moving oil prices up, as we are seeing
traffic stall through the Strait of Hormuz and slowing down.
This morning, oil prices moving higher, about 3 percent, and Americans are starting to see
the effects of this.
They're feeling this.
The average gallon of gas now $3.81 cents.
That's up nine cents, Robin, since last week.
All right, thanks to you, Lou.
Now breaking news from the Middle East,
where the U.S. and Iran are once again trading attacks.
It's the latest sign that ceasefire is crumbling.
At issue here, who controls the Strait of Hormuz
and a difference of opinion about what's
in the truce agreement?
Weijia Zhang is at the White House.
Weijia, good morning.
Jolene, good morning to you and good morning to everybody.
The U.S. says this latest wave of attacks were in response to Iranian aggression, but
Iran has condemned the strikes and warned they have made all the recent diplomatic efforts
futile.
Now concerns are growing that there will be a return to full-scale hostilities.
The fight to control traffic in the street of Hormuz has media completely given up.
I mean, when had they given in?
Also this is ZBS.
All right, when it comes to foreign policy, the American media, the Democratic Party for
the most part, play along with whatever the Republicans are doing. At most, there's like
a little bit of theatrics. There's a little bit of pushback. It's oftentimes insignificant
pushback in constitutional pushback is just theater.
And the media is very happy to trot along with whatever the United States government
or whatever the Pentagon has decided to do, whatever the State Department has decided to do.
It's not, these guys all serve the interests of capital. So it's not going to be,
it's not going to be all that different. There's a reason why even when it comes to Israel, for
example, again, prominent fixture of American foreign policy in the region, most of these
outlets have fallen short of doing basic reporting, basic journalism. There's a reason for it.
But yeah, Donald Trump is back at it. He sent a letter to Congress. New York Times reports
Trump informed Congress that fighting has resumed in Iran in a letter sent to congressional leaders.
So we shall see. But how does this serve capital? Isn't it sexual assault on money beyond molesting?
Yes, I think so. But there are clearly those who place a higher priority on the destruction,
the permanent destruction of Iran. And I guess, uh, believe that Donald Trump going back to war
with Iran is somehow looping back into, uh, the interests of the State Department, the
interests of Israel, and therefore the interests of the State Department, at least a faction within
in the American State Department.
I mean, we'll see.
We'll see what kind of response they mount against this.
Hassan, is it war bad?
Yes, it's very bad.
This is escalating.
The U.S. announced it unleashed fresh attacks on dozens of Iranian targets,
including small boats and drones, to limit Iran's ability to go after commercial ships
going through the crucial shipping channel.
In response, Iran says it launched missiles targeting U.S. bases in Kuwait, Bahrain and
Jordan and destroyed radar systems in Oman.
The U.S. has yet to confirm if anything was hit.
The strike's capped a violent weekend of back-and-forth attacks.
The Pentagon says it struck more than 140 military targets Saturday, in response to
another Iranian attack on a vessel in the Strait.
During a phone interview with NBC News on Sunday, President Trump claimed the Strait
remains open.
It's open.
We bombed the hell out of them last night.
But Iran declared the Strait closed, posting that passage, quote, is currently not possible
because of recent illegal movements by U.S. military forces in the region.
It's not the only point of contention, according to Trump.
They agreed to a deal yesterday, a perfect deal for us.
No nuclear, no this, no that, no nothing.
They gave up everything.
And then after that, they left the room.
And then within an hour, they launched a drone at a ship.
Iran has not confirmed they agreed to anything during crisis talks in Oman this morning.
weekend. Former commander of the U.S. Central Command, retired general Frank
McKenzie said the U.S. has the capability to take control of the
strait if tensions worsen. It would require putting warships up into
narrow waters. But the U.S. Navy doesn't want to do that, but they're very
good.
Retired general Frank McKenzie, we listened to his analysis yesterday. A
thing that I did not understand about what the retired general Frank McKenzie was saying,
the good general, was why didn't we do that prior? If all we're looking for is leverage,
if this is an easily achievable feat, if the American Navy, as it stands currently,
can with ease take over Carg Island and then maintain control over Carg Island
by establishing a forward operating base and withstand bombing campaigns from the IRGC
in the process. And then also on top of that establishes supply line to the front lines,
to the forward operating base from one of the many bases in the region that hasn't been cratered
or isn't within reach of Iranian ballistic munitions. If that was a feasible strategy,
why didn't Trump do it last time? Why? There is no answer to this question. It's a very
simple question. It's like saying, oh, dude, I could have just fucked her on up, dude.
It was easy as hell. Why not then? You cannot strategize and conduct foreign policy and
and military warfare with a hope and a dream. This kind of posturing would have been more
effective if the Trump administration hadn't, by way of getting goaded into this through Israel,
waged war with Iran and then lost. I'm telling you right now, 200 days ago,
The United States of America had tremendous force projection capabilities.
It no longer has the same force projection capabilities.
It no longer has the same confidence.
It no longer, when America now says, oh, we'll come after you, we'll destroy you, you better
act right.
It doesn't have the same emphasis.
It doesn't have the same power.
doesn't have the same threat. It's very stupid to go on, base the nation, and be like, this
thing that we could have done and should have done, if it's so easy to do, we should have
done it.
That thing, we're just gonna do it now. We didn't do it for the last 200 days, but we're
going to do it this time around. Very stupid. Who is this for? All you're doing is, ironically
enough, going against the interests of your current generals who are probably telling
Trump it's not going to work. It didn't work last time. Don't be crazy, sir.
Go at it. And if necessary, they can do it and they can do it well.
In the meantime, analysts warned gas prices could creep up again. While the current national
average of $387 a gallon is below the peak of $450 in May. It's nearly $1 more than the
price was before the war started, Gale.
Oh, boy. We should thank you.
All right. Let's hear what Al Jazeera is saying. Trump says U.S. to reinstate Iran blockade
and impose 20% shipping fee. So once again, Donald Trump has gone back to the most insane
thing that he did.
Remember, if the ultimate goal here is to open the Strait of Hormuz, it was open.
If the reason for why we have to open the Strait of Hormuz is an imminent energy crisis
for the rest of the globe, and potentially for the United States of America, if we're
hitting the red line, if we're hitting the hard limit in our strategic oil reserves.
And that's the reason why we had to do the MOU to begin with, instead of continuing this
back and forth, continuing this war, continuing the double blockade on the Strait of Hormuz.
If that was the reason why we went to the bargaining table and tried to create a brief
moment of respite, then what changed now?
All you're doing is pushing the can down the road.
That's all the Trump administration is doing, and it's kind of crazy that a lot of people,
It's kind of crazy that smart intelligent analysts are not just seeing it for what it is.
Or perhaps they do see it, but they also serve a secondary purpose here, which is to abide
by the interests of Israel.
And Israel's interests are very clear here.
They want to continue destabilizing Iran.
They want to continue blowing up Iran because Iran is a sovereign power in the region that
is capable of striking back against Israel.
And that, towards the greater Israel project that these guys are invested in.
But Donald Trump has come out, and once again, decided the Hormuz straight is open and will
remain open with or without Iran.
We are reinstating the Iranian blockade, so named because it is only stopping Iran ships
or customers from entering or leaving.
All other countries will have fair and open use of the straight. The USA will be from
this point forward known as the guardian of the hormone straight, but as such, and as
a matter of fairness, will be reimbursed at a rate of 20% on all cargo shipped or any
and all costs necessary to do the job of providing safety and security for this very volatile
section of the world.
The process and formation will begin immediately. Thank you for attention to this matter. President
Donald J. Trump. So not only is Donald Trump implementing the secondary blockade over the
Iranian one once again, he's also lying about the fact that the Strait of Hormuz is open
while simultaneously saying it's closed.
But now he also wants 20%, which is 10 times higher than the Iranian toll charge was.
What the hell is this guy doing?
He literally just established a toll.
legitimize the process of establishing a toll. Now, Iran can just go back and be like, hey guys,
they want 20%, they don't even live here, we live here, we just want 2%.
Art of the deal, baby. Art of the deal.
Incredible stuff.
What do you say to that?
How do you deal with a guy who is such an avowed rapist that he wants to molest the money at
this point?
One thing that American capital will not let you molest is supposed to be the money and
he's out here molesting it.
He loves molesting.
He loves molestation, including molesting the bag.
What do you do?
Bring some breaking news now.
The US President Donald Trump has just posted on social media that he is reinstating the
the US blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. Let's go over to Rosalind Jordan at the White House,
quite a significant statement, and he's also had something to say about tolls. Take us
through that.
Well, I'm going to read from part of the truth social post that the US president just put
on his personal social media account, and I'm quoting, we are reinstating in all capital
letters, the Iranian blockade, so named because it is only stopping Iran's ships or customers
from entering or leaving, and that may imply the Strait of Hormuz.
All other countries will have fair and open use of the Strait.
The USA will be from this point forward, known as the, quote, guardian of the Hormuz Strait,
as such and as a matter of in capital letters fairness, we will be reimbursed at the rate
of 20% of all cargo shipped for any and all cost necessary to do the job of providing
safety and security to this very volatile section of the world.
The process and formation will begin immediately.
Now we don't have any more details on what the process and formation will be, but recall
that earlier in the war between the U.S. and Iran, the President ordered the U.S. Navy to
impose a blockade on all Iranian shipping through the Strait. We don't know whether the U.S.
military is currently configured in order to be able to carry out a blockade. It has been
providing some escort work for commercial ships going through the Strait of Hormuz because there
our minds at the bottom of the straight. And clearly there is no desire to have these commercial
vessels blown up by these minds. But again, the US president, Donald Trump, is announcing
that this US blockade of Iranian shipping traffic through the Strait of Hormuz is going to resume.
I just this is
This feels like we have a petulant child as president
I'm so I don't think this was concocted by a group of analysts. I'll be honest
I don't think this was like the FDD guys being like we should just take
We should just take what the Iranians are doing and then just like up the ante and and do it to everybody else like I don't I
I, I know, I said it feels like we are being led by a petulant child. I just, but there
are obviously still supposed to be adults in the room. You know what I mean? There's
supposed to be adults in the room that say, Hey, Mr. President, that seems like a fucking
stupid idea.
Like even the FDD guys, the NATO Atlantis is obviously have pulled out of this, right?
neocons have pulled out of this. The last bastion of pro-war, like the only pro-war faction at this
point that remains in the think tank orbit is FDD and APAC, right? It's just like the Israeli lobby,
that's it. And of course, the Israeli lobby still has tremendous power. We know this, right?
But this argument, this concept, the double blockade, it feels like it just is coming
from Trump and Trump only because it is the work of a child with a child's brain.
Okay?
Because if the goal is to open the straight of hormones and allow vessels to transit
with ease. Yeah, this is also strange, because it's vague and not as usual. First of all,
President Trump will be making a speech to the nation on Thursday evening at 9 p.m. Eastern.
Thank you for attention to this matter.
It's funny how Trump's every attempt to countermeasure is a dumb ripoff of IRA policy. Iran blockades
the trade of hormones. Trump blockades the Gulf Gulf of Oman. Iran charges fees in the
the trade of hormones, Trump, defender of open seas,
announced an even bigger fee, the biggest fee ever.
Yeah, it's like a child.
This is what a child does, okay?
This is the most, child is not the most violent
American foreign policy has ever been,
even though it's getting up there.
But this is certainly the most childish
American foreign policy has ever been.
And I think it's because Donald Trump
is holding the entire government
all of its different vestiges hostage right now. No one can say anything. No one can do anything.
We're just kind of trailing along to see how bad it will get.
Of course, Sayyed Abbasarakshi, the foreign minister of Iran, turned around and responded
with a pretty solid approach. He said, POTUS is absolutely right. Whoever provides secure and
safe passage of commercial vessels through the Shredda Hormuz should be compensated for
this service. Iran has always been the guardian of the straight and will remain so forever.
20% of course is too much. We will be fair.
Can we imagine later on Monday?
Rosalind, this is quite a significant change of US policy, right?
What the U.S. president had been saying on June 20th was there will be no tolls or fees
for 60 days.
What he said on May 29th was more indicative of no tolls and unrestricted traffic and now
talk of a U.S. in position of some kind of fee.
Well, let's unpack this a bit.
As part of the memorandum of understanding, as I understand it, there was not supposed
to be any more blockade carried out by the U.S. Navy, and that apparently stopped the
minute the two countries agreed to this memorandum of understanding.
That said, the U.S. military has been providing some escort services to commercial vessels
because the strait has not been fully cleared of mines, and so there is that safety risk.
But in terms of preventing Iranian vessels or vessels doing business with Iran, whether
it's the government or businesses, that was not being carried out because that was a part
of the MOU.
Does that mean, with the president's latest announcement, that the memorandum of understanding
is now null and void, or is the U.S. violating the memorandum of understanding?
All of these questions need to be sorted out because this is only creating more confusion
on the status of the MOU, which was supposed to be the 60-day period for the U.S. and Iran
to figure out how to move from a ceasefire to a permanent end to their war.
There's also this question about whether the U.S. can legally impose any tariffs on countries
that it is assisting throughout this process, because another part of the MOU was the Iranians
would not charge any vessels for transiting the strait for the 60 days of the MOU, implying
that the Iranians would be able to then charge tolls or tariffs after that 60-day period.
These are questions that need to be sorted out, that both governments need to try to
explain, try to renegotiate if they are willing to renegotiate at this point. This is all
just coming out and probably the last seven to eight minutes or so. So there are a lot
of questions that we just can't clarify at this point.
On the verge of asking you to clarify the un-clarifiable Rosalind, but is there-
And there it is. US has directly struck Karg Island oil infrastructure western jetty pumping
station of the pipelines, first confirmed hit on Iran's core export terminal fires visible via
satellite. That's from nine hours ago. Hasan, no, it's not.
Oh, it was a flare up. Okay.
I thought I read it that it was flares. Okay. Um, well, I'll, I'll look into that. But one
of the reasons why, one of the reasons why this is a major problem, one of the reasons
why this is a major problem, it could be misinformation. It could be real. Okay. Listen, listen, if
If they start striking Karg Island, if they start striking critical oil and gas infrastructure,
Iran is going to retaliate in kind.
And then the problem is no longer just going to be about reopening the Strait of Hormuz
by military force through naval vessels or naval assets combating the Iranian Navy or
what remains of the Iranian Navy or are striking at all of the different launching platforms
that exist for all these different drones that they're lobbing in the direction of the
commercial ships that are trying to transit to the Shidahormuz or the Omani coastline.
The problem becomes far larger because Iran has shown over and over again that they will
go up the escalation ladder.
If you hit their critical oil and gas infrastructure, they will hit the Saudi oil and gas infrastructure.
They will hit the Gulf oil and gas infrastructure.
That creates a permanent issue.
That is no longer an issue that you can deal with through the diplomatic process, okay?
You can no longer deal with that through diplomacy, because even if you were to get
back to diplomacy with Iran somehow after all of this is said and done, the repairs are still
going to take a tremendously long time. It's not like this is a, that is a red line that if Donald
Trump crosses, he won't be able to negotiate his way out of. Which is precisely the reason why
Which is probably the reason why it's one that I suspect he might cross soon.
Now, it's not like this hasn't happened already.
This has happened, okay?
This, like the Iranian oil infrastructure has been hit in the past, refineries have
been hit in the last 120-day tit for tat, uh, straight-of-hormose, you know, uh, uh, crisis.
Incorrect.
This is a regular gas flaring.
For reference, here's what it looked like.
Okay.
So they're saying that it's not true.
The fire shown on NASA firms at Cargillian are routine gas flaring from oil infrastructure.
Okay.
Thank God.
Um, but here's the thing.
Here's the thing.
America has already struck Kargailan before. They have spared the oil and gas
infrastructure in Kargailan. America and Israel have struck different parts of
the refining capabilities inside of Iran. Okay? And Iran has retaliated in kind.
They actually, I'm almost certain, if I recall correctly, Iran actually basically
cancelled a decent chunk of the Qatari gas fields. They struck back on critical oil and
gas infrastructure in the Gulf, in Qatar, in Saudi Arabia. Obviously, something that we've
found out in this process is jet fuel can't melt steel beams, and even Iranian ballistic
missiles have a difficult time destroying a critical oil and gas infrastructure.
These are pretty resilient. These are these are fairly resilient structures that aren't easy to just destroy.
It doesn't immediately collapse is what I'm saying and the same for the same goes for the Russian one the same goes for
What we've seen in Ukraine. It's the same story over and over again in inside of Iran. It's the same as well
But that doesn't mean that this isn't a significant threat
I don't, I don't agree with that. I think that's lame as fuck as weird as hell.
Any indication from any US quarter about how this new system of imposing a 20% fee is going
to work?
I mean Donald Trump's post talks about it as starting immediately.
We haven't gotten any reaction from any members of Congress, for example, this is just coming
out.
heard from any economic analysts or any geopolitical analysts taking a look at this.
There had been concern over the past weekend or so that the status of the MOU was in serious
jeopardy.
But there were also signs that intermediaries, Pakistan, Qatar, Oman, other countries were
still working to keep the parties at the table and to try to continue negotiating the terms
for a permanent end to the war.
So this is all just happening in the last few minutes,
and it is raising a lot of questions
about whether or not the MOU is still viable,
is still in force.
We don't even know what the Iranian response is yet,
but clearly Iranian officials had been saying earlier
on Monday that they were blaming the US
for this latest round of tension in the strait,
and that the US was basically destabilizing
the global energy markets by its actions, so we really don't know yet what is going
to happen to the MOU, whether we're about to see a resumption of warfare between the
two countries, or whether things can be clawed back again and try to...
Oh my god, the the monkey Putin turned into monkey Trump is perfect. It works so perfect
for Trump even more perfect than the Vladimir Putin if we're being real.
I mean, what can I even say about this image?
This is literally what's just fucking happening right now.
It's happening currently.
Not only was it free prior to Operation Epstein Fury, but now it's no longer free.
But it's ironic because on the one hand, Donald Trump is saying 20% and Iran is saying 2%.
I can't understand what this guy is doing.
It feels like he's trying to make the Iranians look good every day.
It's literally JD Pondon because if you're an international shipper, if you're engaging
in the, if you're, if you're one of these companies that controls the oil tankers, you're
going to look at the situation and be like, okay, so Iran is just objectively better.
Yes, dude.
I'm going to talk about ice killing someone in Maine this morning.
Holy fuck, dude.
Yes.
I'm going to talk about it.
Okay.
Yes, dude.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes, I'm going to talk about it, okay?
The lack of drone doesn't work, the force currently deployed to the region is around
half of the US since deployed assets including two CSGs and has significant support from
ground base AD air defense and yet Iran has struck around half a dozen commercial vessels
in the past few days.
If that force is incapable of protecting shipping from drones, no force on earth is.
The position is checkmate, the rest of the war is mostly a distraction.
The current US strategy, yeah.
Warfare is far too cheap and far too easy. Okay, it's it's like these these drone
launchers operate in a very fluid way they're they're very movable it's tough
to target it's it's mostly ineffective because the drones are being launched off
of the backs of K trucks that are super easy to rebuild even if they do get
Shruck, which is part of the reason why America and Israel doesn't even try to hit the TELs at all.
Like these, these launchers are, these launchers are basically, uh, soldered together. Okay.
So they gave up doing it because here, war, the war of attrition is, is a game of math.
Okay? You're looking at the economy of the situation. From the American and the Israeli
perspective, you're sending out a loitering drone, like an MQ-9 Reaper drone, to surveil
an area, to try to figure out if there is a heat pattern that's consistent with a super-cheap
drone launcher on the Iranian side.
Sorry.
Here's how it goes.
From the Iranian perspective, from the Iranian perspective,
they wheel out, they wheel out a drone launcher off the back of a pickup
truck or off the back of a K truck.
That's fairly easy. The launching platform is fairly cheap to make. The drones themselves are fairly cheap to make as well.
They wheel out this launching platform from a cave system, okay?
America in order to figure out where these drones are being launched from is the most effective way to
the most effective way to
stop these drones being launched is by deteriorating or attritting their strike capabilities by hitting the launchers, right?
And under normal circumstances, those big ballistic munitions, like those, those have a fairly sophisticated launching platform. They're big trucks. They're very expensive. They're very costly. There's no indigenous version of it.
You have to purchase it from all these other countries, right? Like so. Same with the anti air defense systems that you get, like the S 300, S 400.
But these drones are super cheap to make.
Now, here's the issue.
The cheapest way to try and target the TELs that are super easy to recreate, super easy
to repair, is by sending out drones that loiter, like the MQ-9 Reaper drones, okay?
They sit around and they wait for a heat pattern.
they try to identify if there's a, you know, if there is even a drone launch taking place.
The MQ-9s are $30 million a pop.
The MQ-9 drones that would strike at one of these TELs are far more costly to operate
and certainly far more costly when they're taken out.
So on the balance sheet, every time Iran is lobbing like a hundred Shahad drones, or ten
Shahad drones, or twenty Shahad drones, those Shahad drones are seven grand a pop.
The launching platform that they're using is even cheaper than the Shahad drones themselves.
if a mq9 reaper drone is able to successfully take out a a a k truck basically the total cost
on the iranian side is marginal but if iran activates its anti-air defense systems as they keep doing
they can potentially take out a 30 million dollar piece of equipment that's very expensive
And for the record, since Operation Epic Fury, Iran has been able to successfully take out almost 50 of these bad boys, okay?
It's unbelievably cost effective for Iran to continue this posture to maintain the War of Attrition,
because that is incredibly costly to the United States of America.
It's incredibly costly to Israel, and it's very cheap for Iran to just wait it out.
And it's not just the MQ-9s that the Iranians have been able to successfully take out. It's
very clear that the United States and Israel have not been able to maintain air superiority
over the Iranian airspace, though. There's a couple different reasons for it.
part of it is because Iran's topography makes it relatively difficult. The Iran's missile
production facilities are inside of deep underground caves. All they can do is hopefully
hit the entrance of a cave, but then inside of those tunnel systems, they have bulldozers.
So what the Iranian side does is, if they actually have a successful strike that craters
the entrance of one of these cave systems, while they have a tunnel right there with
a bunch of bulldozers waiting on the other side, that will then dig themselves out.
So America and Israel have demonstrably been ineffective at deteriorating or attritting
the iranian strike capabilities
the iranian drone launcher capabilities have not been successfully diminished
the iranian ballistic munitions
k- uh... strike capabilities have not been uh... successfully destroyed
that much is clear and it's not just my assessment at this point the new york
times
has reported on a wall shoot journal has reported on it
financial times is reported on a so a lot of western media
have also
gone to military analysts
and ask them their perspective on it
they have far more information than i do far more insider information from the
american military side than i
will ever have
uh... access to i'm just simply looking at
you know the the
the strikes that are ongoing
one famous example of the american missile stockpile as opposed to the
iranian
uh... the iranian missile strike capabilities of course coming from
uh... c s i s
so
this is
a foregone conclusion at this point because we watched on full for the last
one hundred and thirty days so the fact that america's going back to this
going back to square one is very stupid
especially because
well we got a moment of respite
with our strategic reserves for like the last, you know, week or 10 days or two weeks or
so when the MOU was being talked about, right? And, and oil tankers could cross, uh, through
the Strait of Hormuz. That just gave us maximum 20 days. Uh, uh, uh, that, that gave the
American side and the energy market is 20 days a respite. Okay, you push the problem 20 days into
the future, but that problem still remains, especially because our burn rate is higher
than our production. So, inevitably, this is going to lead to crisis in Africa. It's going to
lead to crisis in the Asian markets. There already is a crisis in the Asian energy markets.
It's all, it's also going to make its way to Europe in more obvious ways because right
now you can kind of hide it a little bit.
You can move some numbers around.
There's the strategic reserves, but eventually everyone is going to start running out.
Blackouts in Africa, blackouts in Asia, blackouts in Europe, and then inevitably long lines
for gas and an oil and an oil and gas crisis in the United States of America as well.
So what do we do? If America has shown by attempting and failing to successfully militarily
stop Iran and gain leverage once over, why would the situation be different now?
If anything, it's worse for America now.
The situation is worse for the United States of America and its allies than it was certainly
prior to Operation Epstein's Fury, and even worse, prior to the MOU being implemented
and signed off on.
So unless America has a shitter get off the pot moment and commits to a full blown ground
invasion of Iran, which, by the way, will not solve this problem and only exacerbate it.
What do we do here?
That's why Americana is as correct as the positionist checkmate, the rest of the war
is mostly a distraction. This person says, let's just say the U.S. and Iran are both
serious about the trade. It would require the U.S. to have a huge permanently deployed,
but not too close force to play WCA drone and WCA missile and perpetuity. The end result
will be much less petroleum throughout the straight, structurally higher shipping costs,
ships getting hit at least monthly, despite best efforts. And of course, putting people
in harm's way on a daily basis. I'm not sure how you spin that as a win if we're still
here in six months or a year.
Marigana says WACA drone doesn't work the force currently deployed to the region is around half the us n's deployed asses including two
CSG's and a significant support from ground-based air defenses and yet Iran has struck around
Half a dozen commercial vessels in the past few days if that forces
Incapable of protecting shipping from drones. No force on earth is that's the reality
drone warfare is
Far too affordable far too cheap far too easy to manufacture and and and far too effective in
Striking ships that are unguarded, but also even ships that have air defenses
right
That's the real problem if the American Navy with all of its assets in the region can't
successfully protect
Commercial shipping from Iranian drone strikes, then you can't do it. You have to deal with them diplomatically
They have the leverage I
I thought Russian air defense was ass. Okay. Here's the real truth nuke. Most air defense is ass when it comes to
dealing with fucking drones
Okay
All air defense is ass when it comes to dealing with drones. I mean look at Ukraine
I thought we learned that lesson by now. I thought I thought the drone warfare revolutionized
the the entire concept of warfare so much so that I mean Ukraine has started
taking advantage of that themselves but at the end of the day it's just you're
not gonna like how are you going to solve for it
I guess put nets on cargo ships eventually we'll get there yeah yes you
can't you can't put nets on cargo ships this is also yeah cope cages on cargo
ships except what are you gonna do as far as cope cages on the bottom of the
cargo ship because the drones aren't just aerial drones they also have one way
attack drones that they can deploy by the water like a fucking torpedo what
you do in that situation? Where's the cope cage for that? This is before we even factor
in fiber optic drones as well. Like we got FPV drones that Iran is not even deploying.
I don't even know if they have a lot of them, but they're using these suicide drones for
the most part. Shahi drones are too heavy for Nets to be effective. Nets only work against
light FPV. What is your Sencom using a one-way USVs for the first time? Another
innovation that was first used by Yemen is now being used by US forces.
Yep, that's another one. Here it is. Yesterday using multiple one-way attack
surface drones, Sencom force successfully struck a submarine ship and
maintenance facility in Iran. Three-course air unmanned surface vessels hit the
at Bandarabb Boss Naval Base, marking the first time American forces have employed, uh, these, uh,
these, these, uh, seed drones in combat operations last night strikes degraded Iran's capability to
continue attacking commercial shipping. To be clear, this was likely a photo op for psychological
effect. They struck an empty dock using a bumbling and slow USB. When they could have used anything
else, these corsairs cost $1 million apiece. Correction, there appears to be a sub on top of
of the dock, but it's unclear if it actually took it down. It was likely damaged at least.
It's just crazy because Donald Trump keeps coming out and saying we've obliterated the
Iranian Navy. The RGC's Navy is gone. Every other week, every other week, there's I guess
more Navy to destroy and Trump keeps destroying the Navy. He's the most successful military
commander America's ever had. He's the most peaceable American military commander as well.
He's the one who brings about peace. After all, he's brought about peace to Iran, to
the Shredder Hormuz, approximately 400 times, three times a day. He ended this war a thousand
times over. It's so crazy. He keeps restarting, but he keeps ending it.
Very successful, Mr. President. Thank you so much. We love you. You are truly the peace
president. You are truly the president that carries the peace. We love you and we respect
you.
Anyway, US Missile Stockpiles under mounting strain has renewed attacks on Iran, raised
concerns over the future war readiness. So we already talked about the
ineffectiveness of air defense systems in terms of protecting commercial
shipping in the Strait of Hormuz because the drones are too effective. There's not
really anything you can do and therefore the only thing you can do is just
tell Iran please stop doing this. We will come to the table. We will do a ceasefire
negotiation, we give up, you know, wave the white flag, right? That's the only time,
that's the only time commercial shipping was unimpeded.
At the time, the Iranians resume strikes on commercial vessels, the Bush and Lincoln groups
were closer than they've ever been to the straight. This was the test. If USN was capable
of scoring a 100% interception rate on drones over transit, it would be with those assets
in that position.
After 30,000 strikes on Iran, they failed. The current US strategy is based around the
idea that you can pull some lever to get the Iranis to give up this absolute advantage
of counter blockade, more standoff strikes and additional abortive ground operations
out of Kurdistan seems to be the only tools they have. There's no reason to think in
of those will work. This was effortless to predict. The drone will always get through as
a reasonable conclusion a casual observer could glean from watching the war in Ukraine.
Exactly. The Russians do put up some impressive performances that have occasionally achieved
100% interception rates on drone waves, numbering in the hundreds, but this is because they have
hundreds of miles of their own territory to shoot them down over. The geography of the Persian
golf is a worst-case scenario for this. Not only is the topographical map unbelievably
favorable to Iran because there's cave systems, there's tunnel systems inside of
fucking mountains that they can launch these goddamn things from, the length of the trip
from being launched through the Iranian mountainside to impact is far
shorter than hundreds of miles of terrain that a drone has to fly
through. Now of course that's very different for Iran to start lobbing
drones in the direction of Israel for example.
So, unless America has a surefire way to strike at these TELs in the moment of release, the
moment that these drones are being launched, which they don't, because every time they
have these loitering Mark 9 drones, the Reaper drones that are flying over the Iranian airspace,
the moment that these guys, the moment that these guys are even invested in striking at
they get struck back, these launching platforms are cheap, the MQ-9s are very costly. And
Iran is very successful. Iran has seen a shit ton of success in striking these MQ-9 Reaper
drones.
So I just keep repeating over and over again. On the defensive side, they're failing. America's
failing on the defense. You can't do anything, okay? You cannot fight back against drone
warfare as it stays currently with the current technological limitations.
On the offensive side, the same problem still remains. On the offensive side, America is exhausting
its standoff munitions. America has obviously developed and has stockpiled hundreds of ballistic
munitions, tomahawk missiles and the like for peer and near peer adversaries. Iran is not a near
peer adversary, at least technically. A near peer adversary is Russia, a peer adversary is China.
these are the countries that we have developed these the the stockpiles for
but because we have not been able to achieve air superiority over the iranian airspace
we keep using our tomahawk missiles because we can't strike we can't uh deploy unguided and
guided munitions gravity bombs from airplanes because if we fly over the
Iranian airspace Iran can pick some of our fucking some of our planes off which
they have done so successfully this is the reason why we're exhausting our
resources, we're exhausting our ballistic munitions against a
middling power, a regional, a barely regional power like Iran. That is the
power of drone warfare, folks. That's it. And it's also a testament to the Iranian
ingenuity as far as their air defense systems like they have been able to make
the most out of their unbelievable limitations. Like, think about this, there's an international
sanctions regime that they're operating within. And yet, they are capable of building these
crazy air defense systems, lowering munitions, stand, like, what is it called? I forget what
is called, but they have a denial system and an air defense system that is an air defense system
that is clearly very successful, far more successful in its capabilities of thwarting American and
Israeli airstrikes then then you'd expect
Yeah, they can they can create an area of denial in real time. No, it's not the s400. No
the s400 is costly
the S 400 is ineffective, it's costly, and it's slow. Okay? That's not what we're talking about at
all. As far as I understand, no S 400 has been utilized in taking out, no S 400 has been utilized
in taking out American planes thus far. Iran, I believe, has S 300s regardless. I don't even know
if they have S 400s, but the S 300 that they have, they haven't really deployed either.
Okay. They have mobile units.
Just as though, just as they deploy mobile units for, for, for, you know, their, their easy, fast
striking capabilities. S 400 is not ineffective law. What? It's one of the best air defenses in
the world. Okay, chatter. I'm not a misalautist, but as far as I understand, Iran is not utilizing
the S-400s or the S-300s because for the current predicament that they're in, the S-400 is a sitting
duck, okay? And I don't know what they, I think initially in the first act of perfidy when Israel
actually was quote-unquote negotiating with Iran, not Operation Epstein Fury, but the
one prior, the 12-day war.
What Israel was capable of doing was, because these air defense systems are immobile for
the most part, in comparison to what's necessary, what Iran is currently using, they blew them
up with drones.
They built a drone facility inside of Tehran, Mossad did this.
They built a drone facility inside of Tehran, and those drones blew up the existing rather
immobile S-300s that Iran already had.
This caught Iran by surprise.
One that went back and very quickly developed a newer, more mobile system.
Allegedly, no evidence of that happening.
By the way, that's Cope.
That's Cope.
There is evidence of that happening.
That's like saying there's no evidence of the Bahrain base being cratered or something.
There is evidence.
They did that.
Not only did they definitely do that, Iran very publicly seized the drone factory.
I remember watching the news reports on Iranian state television.
Is Trump addressing the nation later?
No, he's addressing the nation out there.
Anyway, CNN reported on.
So we talked about America's, we talked about America's limitations on air defenses, its
limitations on protecting, shipping, commercial shipping through the Shroud of Hormuz, with
its Navy, with its naval assets.
But now there's the other side of the story.
America also has a limitation in its striking capabilities.
CNN reported on the 12th of July that key U.S. weapons stockpiles remain significantly depleted
following months of war with Iran, with experts warning that continued operations at current
rates could undermine Washington's ability to partake in future wars, particularly in
the Indo-Pacific and on the Korean Peninsula.
President Donald Trump said on Friday that the ceasefire with Iran was over, raising concerns
over further missile expenditures.
According to a CSIS analysis cited by CNN, by the end of the full-scale war in April,
Pentagon had expended at least half of its Thad ballistic missile interceptors, nearly
half of its Patriot interceptors, and around 30 percent of its Tomahawk land attack missiles.
Analysts and former officials told CNN there's no doubt U.S. stockpiles are now below preferred
levels with rebuilding inventories expected to take years.
Rokana today, no you missed it, I had him on yesterday.
Replenishment rates remain limited with the Pentagon currently receiving only 15 Tomahawk
missiles and 20-patriot interceptors per month, while no THAAD deliveries are forecast
for 2026.
Experts estimate it could take more than three years to restore inventories to pre-war levels
while broader munitions replenishment timelines are expected to range from two to five years.
CNN also reported that Congress has yet to approve any dedicated funding to replace missiles
expended during the war.
While the Pentagon insists the U.S. military retains sufficient capabilities to protect
his interest, analysts warned that prolonged operations against Iran could gradually erode
deterrence against such rivals as China and North Korea.
That already happened, by the way.
That already happened.
Although the Trump administration has invoked the Defense Production Act and sought to
expand missile production capacity, experts caution that increasing manufacturing output
and establishing additional production lines remains a slow process that may not alleviate
short-term shortages.
Finally, you're the only one talking about this. Interceptors are important,
but America has no standoff offensive munitions. American air doctrines assumes
they will use standoff munitions to obtain air superiority or supremacy,
a law-free range for stealth. That assumption which underpins American air power was false,
and the consequences will reach far beyond this conflict. Yes.
It's not necessarily false. It's just designed for a different type of warfare.
It's outdated. It's that simple. The idea that you can utilize, you can deploy your standoff
munitions to successfully destroy the anti-air defense systems of a foreign power that you're
fighting against, that has been thoroughly dismantled and destroyed by the Iranian air defense
and the Iranian area of denial system that they have that's very mobile. Okay?
Yeah, this is Iran's $100,000 missile destroying $1.5 billion of US equipment.
Iran's 358 and 359 missiles are its secret weapons when it comes to shooting down US
drones and have potentially damaged one of its stealthiest aircraft as well.
America lost 24 MQ-9 Reaper drones during the Iran War worth $720 million in addition
to 13 lost over Yemen during the fighting there in 2025. The 358 and 359 missiles are
thought to be largely responsible. Iran has also managed to hit an F-35 fighter jet with
suggestions these missiles were also involved. The greatest copium here is that it actually
downed the F-35 fighter jet. It's just it didn't down it over Iranian airspace, so they're
not counting it as a downing. It had to do a force landing. It had to do a crash landing.
they downed it. Okay. Again, huge blow to American, uh, military doctrine, huge blow
to American air superiority military doctrine, huge blow to the confidence that America should
have, uh, in terms of, of its, uh, last-gen fighter jets. That's not, that's, that's not
supposed to happen.
What we're looking at here is an Iranian 359 missile. This secret weapon and a very similar
version called the 358 are thought to be behind the loss of a billion dollars worth of US
kit during the Iran war. There are even rumors that one managed to hit an F-35 fighter, one
of the most advanced jets ever created. That's because there's more to these missiles than
meets the eye. So what exactly makes them so special and why are they proving so deadly?
going to break down how they're put together and USA flew 13,000 missions over Iran. They actually
down only one F 15 over the Iranian mainland dog. They could fly 100,000 missions over Iran.
First of all, I dispute those numbers, but they could fly 100,000 missions over Iran. If Iran is
still successfully blowing up Bahrain, blowing up Qatar, blowing up Saudi Arabia, and American
military bases everywhere, who gives a fuck how many missions that they had, especially when on
the other side, clearly their most successful strikes have not come from whatever flight missions
that you're greatly boosting. I assume this also is the drones as well. Iran is massive territory
for the record. That's part of the reason why you can fly over Iranian airspace, but you can't
actually maintain air superiority. But at the end of the day, if you are not successfully
attritting Iranian strike capabilities, then it doesn't fucking matter if you're able to fly over.
And the fact that they were capable of taking out numerous MQ-9 Reaper drones and also an F-35
over Iranian airspace, which unfolded in real time, and we all watched it happen, that's
a huge deal.
That's a fucking huge deal.
It's pure cope to say, hey man, they only downed one F-15, okay.
They downed one F-15 over the Iranian airspace, which was a massive deal obviously, but they've
They've downed more F-15s in the process, they've downed the F-35 in the process, just
not over Iranian airspace, so I guess it doesn't count, that was my argument.
Let's take a look at footage of them in action to find out.
Here are the 358 and 359 missiles.
Those are designated numbers given to the secret weapons by the US when it's uncovered
them.
There's lots of- Yeah, false.
They stopped flying over Iran for the most part after the F-35 shoot down and switched
the blasting from B-52s flying from the UDK. When stocks ran low, they switched back to
F-15s because stealth is irrelevant and F-15s are better if stealth isn't a game changer
and got shot down immediately. But the very fact that, yeah, they've hit numerous refueling
planes, like, here's the problem, okay? There's a lot of it. There are a lot of problems with
this operation, okay? Number one, you cannot fly, you cannot fly American fighter jets
from a comfortable distance. So if you want to do bombing missions over Iranian airspace,
you have to literally chain strato-tankers together. Half the time, they're flying all
the way from the UK, okay? That's a huge deal because you can't use the Saudi airspace.
You can't use, and sometimes they try to use it, right? Like obviously Kuwait was a big
deal, um, partially because, uh, that, that led to that, um, you know, triple strike from
that one Kuwaiti guy, the ghost of Kuwait or whatever. But like, you can't, you can't
kickstart these bombing missions from a comfortable distance. So you need numerous strato tankers
to, to basically chain refuel, to, to bring your fucking big bomber planes all the way
from the UK, because those planes are not safe in the Gulf. They're just not safe in
the Gulf, okay? They're relatively safe in Tel Aviv. The shadow tankers are, but they're
not safe when they're in the air. That's part of the reason why Iran is capable of taking
out those shadow tankers. Sometimes they're taking out those shadow tankers at the Saudi
air bases as we've seen, okay? That's a problem. That limits your strike capabilities, especially
when you have a lot of guided and unguided munitions, right? You have gravity bombs that
you could just drop over Iranian airspace, but now you can't actually get the comfortable
distance. Yeah, they've also hit multiple AWACS, which there's no replacement for. Those are
insanely costly. Like the total, the total cost to the American military of this 140-day Quagmire
has been insurmountable, okay? It is tremendous.
And then they have this this crazy air defense system that they've deployed.
We don't know about them, but the facts and figures we do know are as follows.
The 358 is the smaller of the two, around nine foot long.
it weighs an estimated 110 pounds, with a warhead that weighs approximately 22 pounds.
It has a range of around 60 miles, and its speed is estimated at around 400 miles per hour.
The 359 is around twice the size, though we don't have exact measurements for it.
It has a range of 100 miles, can fly up to 30,000 feet, and hit speeds of more than 600 miles per
hour how much do they cost? The 358 is thought to be worth tens of thousands rather than hundreds
of thousands of dollars. The 359 almost certainly costs more. But how much more? We can't say for
sure. Now let's get into the specifics. First the 358. The missile is broadly broken down into two
sections. The guidance and weapon section at the front and the propulsion section at the rear.
Let's start our tour at the back with the turbojet engine.
This is thought to be copied from a Dutch company called AMT,
which makes a small jet engine for use in model planes.
To either side of the engine you've got stabilizing fins,
which help keep the missile flying straight through the air.
Then in front of those and inside the body of the 358
is the fuel. Missiles typically use solid fuel,
but this is thought to use liquid kerosene jet fuel.
In the center of the missile are more large stabilizing fins.
Again, these keep the missile stable in the air.
Then we get to the guidance and weapons section.
Immediately in front of the central stabilizers is a data link section with an aerial.
This means that a pilot can stay connected to the missile
while it is in flight and see what it sees.
This is more common on a drone and hints that this weapon's
unique feature, which we'll discuss more in just a moment.
In front of that is a gyroscope and satellite navigation system.
These keep the drone pointing the right way up, and tell it where to go in case the pilot
loses contact.
Then there's another set of fins.
These aren't stabilisers, but canards.
They twist side to side to steer the missile in flight.
Again, more about that in just a moment.
In front of those is the warhead.
This is high explosive fragmentation and designed to shred targets with shrapnel.
Second to last, we have a ring of cameras around the top of the missile which are thought
to be part of the fuse.
They sense when the missile is close to its target and detonate it.
Then last of all, there's an infrared seeker in the nose.
This is also referred to as a heat seeker.
This is how the missile homes in on its target.
Again, more on that in just a second.
The 359 is very similar in its construction with just a few key differences.
At the back it has a larger and more powerful turbojet engine.
This time thought to be a copy of a check design.
There are no rear stabilizing fins, but the large central stabilizers have been moved
towards the back of the missile.
And unlike the central stabilizers on the smaller version, these have flaps on the rear
edge that can be used to help steer in the air.
In the midsection of the missile, alongside the fuel tank, is a parachute which can be
deployed through a hatch.
This is so the missile can be recovered if it fails to hit a target.
Again, not a typical feature of the missile, and another hint at its secret skill.
In front of that, you've got all the same guidance kit you'll find in the smaller version,
along with the canards which provide additional steering.
And then the warhead, thought to be much larger than in the 358, though we don't have an exact
bigger and the IR Seeker in the nose. Each of these missiles is also fitted with a much smaller
rocket motor underneath the main body which is used just for takeoff. Once in the air this drops
away and the main motor takes over. Go back to the tapes. Nation of autistic engineer chuds dude.
If you're confused by this process if you're like how the fuck did they get this done I mean
I mean, they're nerds, dude. They're nerds. They love reading the Quran and they love
doing engineering.
Then we can see everything I was just talking about. This is the 359, the larger missile
sitting on its launcher. The launcher is a simple rail mounted on the back of a truck
that has been covered with camo netting. Down here, you can see the launch motor, which
will drop away when it's in the air. Here's the large stabilizers, and you can see the
flaps built into their rear edge. And here's the smaller canards at the front, which can
twist back and forth. You can see the glass dome on the nose, which hides the IR seeker
underneath. And from the back, you can see that large turbojet engine, which powers it
in life.
Guys, I'm done. I'm done. I'm done seeing the Iranian capabilities. I'm out.
Well, let's take a look at the 358. This footage isn't so good, but some features are still
visible. Here's the launcher, another truck, but this time there's two missiles inside with
space between them. You can see a set of canards at the front, the lenses for the laser fuses,
and the IR Seeker in the nose. You can see it's mounted on a rail again, and the central
set of stabilizing fins can be seen here. If we zoom out, you can see how it launches.
The kaya tola is on her way to kill whoever leaked this. Yeah, she's pissed off. She played a big role in making
It's true
I told you guys she's literally a marx's leninus mawis
and also a shea muslim
like she is
She is a
commander of the
the revolutionary guard.
Think the smaller rocket motor drops away here, where the trail of smoke stops.
So, what exactly is the party trick of these two missiles that makes them so deadly? Well,
is it true Iran's copying the Tomahawks that failed to explode breaking Iran's shot down
a Tomahawk cruise missile overnight? Iranian air defenses are improving.
Looks can be deceiving, because these two aren't strict new missiles at all.
They're what's called loitering munitions. In plain English, they're like a mixture between a drone and a missile.
What they do is take off from their launcher, fly to a predetermined location, and then start flying in a giant figure of eight patterns.
Yeah, like John Federman.
Israel's figure eight drones are John Fetterman. The Iranians are obviously much more sophisticated.
They're loitering. As far as I understand, John Fetterman has yet to take out any American
asset or any foreign asset that's worth $30 million, whereas these guys are picking even
the the trillion dollar f-35 so waiting for a target to find them rather than going to find a target
while loitering that irseeker we already talked about is scanning the skies for infrared signatures
that's the heat signature the enemy drones helicopters and jets make when compared to the
much cooler air around them when it recognizes one of those targets which have to be programmed into
it before. The military is just full of blood. Oh, is this the one? Yeah. It makes a little more
sense when you see how huge it is. It's got a greater wingspan than a 737. The other big factor
was them deciding to cut the production run by a third, which more or less doubled the cost of
each unit because R&D costs are more ties over fewer airframes. Huge mess. Iran most likely
destroyed a $240 million MQ4C drone at the Princess on airbase in Jordan. How the fuck does that
That thing cost a quarter of a billion dollars, the absolute maximum it should be is 10 million, which is still far too high.
No wonder the US is getting his ass handed to it by Iran. It simply cannot compete on volume or price.
It's so funny.
One fucking drone, quarter of a million dollars, dude.
I mean, it's not funny. It's really, it should anger you.
Okay.
It should make you super angry when you realize that these fucking bad boys are the reason
why you don't have healthcare.
But yes, defense bloat is tremendous because as I've pointed to a million times over and
I will continue pointing to this, the American military does not manufacture, procure, produce
for existential threats.
The American military produces things for profit.
Okay?
The Iranian military, on the other hand, the Iranian defense industry
produces things
for existential threats.
Iran is fighting a war
of existence. America's fighting a war at Israel's behest for funsies.
that's the problem. And if one side is fighting to survive, and the other side is fighting
just because that's the only thing they know, then yeah, of course, the side that's fighting
to survive is going to win.
Just saw you on a Fox News Facebook post where you speak your paragraph about Lindsey Graham
being a demonic entity. All the comments agreed with you, lol. Hell yeah.
Would you have, did you predict the Ron's defense would hold up?
Yes, I did.
It was my biggest fucking lock.
Unlike my counterparts on either side of the political spectrum, either side of the political
aisle, I day one said this was a bad idea and said that this would lead to unbelievable
amounts of failure for America.
And every single thing that I said happened. Every single thing that I said, even before
America went into war, and then certainly during America's military campaign, every
single thing that I said was going to happen actually happened.
Frame one, baby. Frame one. All my haters can eat shit and cope.
On the forehand, it flies towards them until it makes contact, at which point it explodes.
If it runs out of fuel before spotting a target, it either crashes in the case of the 358,
or in the case of the 359, it deploys its parachute, floats safely to the ground, where it can
be refueled and used again.
This loitering feature makes the 358 particularly deadly against things like the MQ-9 Reaper,
an American drone that has been used extensively in its wars in the Middle East.
Capable of carrying an awesome array of firepower, these things were lethal in the fight against
Al Qaeda and ISIS.
But they're also slow-moving and spend a long time loitering over battlefields as well,
meaning they're relatively easy for a loitering munition like the 358 to spot.
Once the 358 has locked on, the Reapers have few countermeasures to throw it off again,
and are relatively easy to catch up with.
We now know that the US lost 24 Reapers at a total cost of almost three quarters of a
billion dollars over Iran during the war.
But that's not all.
Because Iran has also been shipping these weapons to its proxy groups, including the
Houthis in Yemen. And they are thought to have taken down at least another 13
reapers during the American bombing campaign there last year. So that's
over a billion dollars worth of damage just in Reaper drones. And that's before
we come to the 359. While this can take down reapers, this isn't thought to be
its primary purpose. Analysts think this thing is supposed to go after aircraft
like helicopters, mid-air refuelling jets, and potentially even F-35s.
There are rumours that an Apache helicopter, worth around 50 million dollars each,
was damaged by one of these in Yemen.
And of course, the US lost a KC-135 Strattatanker over Iran.
We think that was due to a collision with another refueller,
because of the damage we saw afterwards.
But what caused the tankers to crash into each other in the first place?
It could easily have been turbulence or it might not have been then there's the footage of the f-35 being hit
This should have been an almost impossible shot with conventional anti-air missiles because the f-35
Yeah, is built to be invisible to long-range radar most conventional missiles use radar for guidance and they yeah
It turns out there's one thing that is
There's there's one thing that's undefeated it's called your eyes it's called optics
Yeah, Donald Trump was wrong.
It turns out, looking at things and seeing it with your own eyes is OP.
Donald Trump was wrong, the F-35 is not optically invisible.
can't hit what they can't see, but the 359 is far from a conventional weapon and it
doesn't use radar, it uses infrared, and the F-35 can't hide from that because its
engine gets hot. That means this strike could well have been carried out by a 359. This
is just in bronc. An expert we've worked with.
yeah 150 balls holy shit dude what is happening we got juicers in here
suggesting that either a 358 or 359 missile could have been responsible if
that turns out to be correct it will have been a very lucky shot because the
f-35 can fly much much faster than these loitering munitions can in a straight
race, they would have had no hope of catching up with and hitting the jet.
But by being in exactly the right place, at exactly the right time, it could have scored
a lucky hit. Lucky, but also impressive, because the F-35 is worth north of $100 million each,
and is widely regarded as the most advanced fighter jet in the skies today.
In all of that together then, we can say that what makes the 358 and 359 special is their
unusual blending of technologies traditionally used in missiles and drones.
Their turbojet engines and missile-shaped bodies make them much faster than drones like the
Shahead, which means they're useful as an anti-air weapon because they can actually catch
up to other aircraft and strike them, primarily the reefer drones, but potentially helicopters,
midair refuelers, and fighter jets. What makes them so deadly is their ability to loiter.
Iran-
Wait, Trump's Thursday speech is going to be even dumber than we thought. MSNOW President
Trump's speech on Thursday slated to address the newly declassified intelligence force
that revealed plans by foreign nations to interfere in the 2020-
Stop. Stop.
Ain't no fucking way. Oh my god.
That is a fucking amazing dude.
You live long enough and you fucking brandonize dude.
Rasha, Rasha, Rasha, but this time it'll be China gate.
Probably not even China cause he loves Xi, but he'll be like Cuba.
Cuba was trying to interfere and Iran was trying to interfere in the 2020 and did interfere
in the 2020.
I assume now Venezuela Venezuela for sure
Now they got Delcey Rodriguez wrapped around their fingertips
They'll just turn around and be like yep. See we got super secret information from Delcey Rodriguez about how Venezuela did interfere
We found the DSA platform on its website here to discuss two strategies who don't know who
Michael Parenti is. Fox covers your DSA slash socialism is fun because the guest is either
Abdul Al-Said or some dial-a-quote guest, Turley, etc., who has Google-level understanding of DSA.
Yeah, ironic because, you know, Abdul Al-Said is not a Democratic socialist.
He's not even a self-avowed Democratic socialist. He's not even a socialist and he's not a part of DSA at all
Did you talk about the DSA MPC stuff yet? No, and if you think I'm going to talk about the DSA MPC stuff
You might be an MPC. Okay a
Non-player character I mean
When have I ever discussed shit like that I?
I purposely never will and I will, I choose to stay away from that conversation.
You know, I don't, I don't like it.
I don't enjoy having these conversations publicly.
I don't think it's good to have these conversations publicly.
I also openly stay away from, I openly stay away from caucus drama as well.
guys, not DSA, not DSA, not a dues-paying member, okay? Just saying, I'm not gonna participate
in this nonsense. I don't get my knowledge from Google that slander, fuck you, Mr. Turley.
I think these sorts of things need to be handled internally and not publicly and I think that
If you are not a member of DSA, Mike said we shouldn't support you. He's right.
Look,
I am not oblivious to the amount of outsized power that I have or influence
that I have over, you know, the internal machinations of an organization
that I have a lot of fans that I've sent to join over the last decade or so.
I don't think it's appropriate for me to have any sort of impact in the internal machinations
of an organization like that.
Okay?
I also, separately, as an analyst, as a commentator, what is this?
TARDO?
noticed that you've been too afraid to address this video so tired of the left, try to run
away from valid criticism please stop glorifying communist leaders.
I highly doubt that this is going to be bad.
But as I was saying, as I was saying, I also don't look, there's a lot of eyeballs and
a lot of attention outside attention on the Democratic Socialists of America right now,
than ever before, okay? We're far past the Harrington days. We're far past the 2016
Bernie Bro era. This is an entirely new era for the Democratic Socialists of America as an
organization and Democratic socialism as an ideology, okay? It's important not to have
petty squabbles about tactics leak out into the public. They're already, they're already very,
very interested in, in besmirching the reputation of DSA. Okay. So we shouldn't give them an
opportunity to do so. We can't look unserious. And I think internal divisions are always going
to exist, especially in a big tent organization like DSA that has ideological representation
that ranges from anarchist, Maoist, Third Worldist, Marxist, Leninist all the way to basically social
Democrats, let's be real, right? Come on. It's going to, uh, it's, it's, you know,
There's also going to be probably people that try to infiltrate.
See you're watching the actively avoiding the watch video.
Okay here.
glorifying commonest leaders.
They make mistakes, for example.
Dying.
Jude kept fighting WWI to spark world revolution
in the trench.
Shouldn't have stopped at Berlin.
Really?
Or do I even start?
Why did you build a Wall Street in Shenzhen?
Why didn't you ally with Vietnam?
Why is there a red flag over McDonough?
Have the missiles removed?
Being such a spectacular insufferable.
Okay, some of these I don't actually agree with.
Well, this one I do,
but I don't agree with some of these.
What?
Dying.
I think revolutionary defeatism is,
it was the appropriate thing to do.
We kept fighting World War I to spark world revolution in the trench.
Shouldn't have stopped that burp.
It's not real.
How do I even start?
Uh, uh, you best put some respect on Mao Zedong.
Okay.
Why did you build a wall shit in Shenzhen?
Why didn't you ally with Vietnam?
Why is there a red flag over McDonald at the missile room?
Again, uh, pie in the sky, idealism, correct assessment.
move being such a spectacularly insufferable prick that you alienated absolutely everyone who
might have helped you being the moral victor in your own biographies doesn't count as seizing
state power after the 1945 august revolution should have immediately invaded lousy cambodia to
create a revolutionary united front of indochina dying not living 30 more years at the aura but
not the apparatus to hold power in your billion mass movement but not a tightly disciplined
professional revolutionary copy organization that could survive your assassination dying not being
Okay, this is crazy. Okay, so, I mean, I know this is joking. This is jokes. This is jokes, but it is kind of tough for me to
This is somewhat triggering
The bombs would have been sharp debating in academia sort of organizing a prison break army
when it's an exile, but you should have gone on the ground and built the American vehicle.
Hasn't liberated me.
Tired of-
Jokes are forbidden and left to circles.
This is like the most, the most triggering.
Uh, he hit every, every variant.
He hit every ideological tendency.
What do you say to folks who get turned off by left-skinned? It's like,
Abdul disonsig themselves and the socialist label is a probable Abdul voter. It feels
like a missed opportunity to shift the over to a window to have popular candidates openly embracing
the label of the ideology they're running on. Abdul Al-Said is not a socialist.
And Abdul Al-Said is running for the Senate. As it stands, we do not have, with the exception of
of like Bernard Sanders, obviously he's an independent senator from Vermont. We do not
have self-styled, self-avowed, openly socialist senators, but considering that Abdul's platform
is fairly close to Bernie Sanders, if not identical, and in some instances, more radical
than Bernie's platform when it comes to foreign policy, and the impact that that has had,
or rather the unbelievable amounts of attacks that he is receiving, okay? Even like a left
populist, left flank Bernie Kratts Senate run without the socialist label is moving
the Overton window in our direction. I have no problems, you know, working with Abdul
Al-Said.
I'm honored to be able to, you know, help this campaign in any way, shape or form. Obviously
I'm not working in an official capacity. Let's be real. Um, but, you know, I have no problem
mobilizing my community in his direction because he is, uh, I mean, he is far more radical
than any other, uh, Democratic Senate, uh, Democratic Senate run that we've seen in the
primaries with legitimate viability. I mean, he is the, he is the, the front runner currently,
he's the front runner currently, and you're seeing $50 million, $50 million in outside
expenditures being dumped into that primary race right now by APEC, APEC subsidiaries,
numerous other corporate packs. It's insane. It wouldn't be doing that. They would not
be doing that if it wasn't a real threat to corporate interests.
What does that mean? Not working in official capacity, that you're not getting a check,
the work you do with them and other campaigns is more than official? I mean, it's just like,
know, I'm just a guy. I'm just a guy who has a worldview. I'm just a guy. I don't, you know,
I'm not a I'm not a dues paying member of the Democratic Socialist America, even though you
all should become dues paying members of Democratic Socialist America. And I'm just a guy who just
has opinions. I'm just a little guy, maybe the equivalent of being the size of the the tiny
state of New Jersey, you know? I'm an apolitical guy. I'm apolitical. I don't do politics. I just
call balls and strikes. I tell it, I'll tell you, I'll tell it how it is, okay?
Did you just submit to having an agenda? Not even, not even agenda, not me.
Is there some kind of regulation around how media figures interact with campus or something?
Not necessarily.
I guess like there is the, I guess technically if Hailey Stevens wanted, she could demand
equal time to Abdul.
I just don't think that she ever will.
Technically I would love to have Hailey Stevens on the broadcast.
I just don't think that she ever will come on the broadcast, but 200 bones.
God damn.
Holy Toledo.
Yeah.
There's one agenda that I abide by and I am, I am proud to admit.
Making sure the Malacca Strait remains open so that we can conduct permanent trade with
a beautiful nation state of Singapore as a businessman.
As a businessman, check the suit, peep the suit.
I love doing import exports.
I love commerce.
I love trade. And because I placed the highest emphasis on international shipping routes,
my favorite country on the planet is the beautiful nation state of Singapore, until
recently I felt as though I am insecure about continuing trade with the nation state of Singapore
because of more Pegasus and the slander that I have received from more Pegasus who lives,
who has the unbelievable privilege of living in the most beautiful country on the planet,
the nation state of Singapore. And yet, instead of looking around and appreciating the bounty
of living in the the jewel the crown jewel of the world the crown jewel of
international commerce the ultimate defender of shipping lanes more Pegasus
uses this privilege that he has to slander those who want to work who want
to move units who want to improve the GDP of the beautiful nation state of
Singapore. Okay.
And Pregasus. More Pegaslop.
Days are numbered in Singapore, sir.
Once the Singaporean government finds out what you've done,
What time is Trita coming on in 40 minutes, 39 minutes?
You have inspired me to start educating myself about trading, specifically about importing
and exporting, and I was ready to consolidate my assets and deploy them in Singapore, but
then I found out that they don't take online harassment and stalking seriously for some
and I have now decided to withhold my assets for the time being. I know it's a
tough decision. I know this must have been a tough decision because when you
find out about Lee Kuan Yew and the great nation of Singapore, you think to
yourself, this is a country that I want to move all my assets to. Certainly how I
felt about it.
Certainly how I've felt about it for quite some time and for all the trade
bros in here, or all the commerce bros in here, for the import bros and the export bros.
I know.
Learning about Singapore and falling in love with it is one thing, but then finding out
that the nation-state of Singapore does not take international cyber-stalking, mass-harassment
and defamation seriously, it's a big blow, but we shall prevail.
shall prevail. You're not friends. Yes, I know may not the front. Francesca Hong is under
hot water right now. Also, I think they heated that. I don't know why the article no longer
exists, maybe? Oh yeah, this is the funniest thing. This guy, Lee Kwan-Yim, he says, Zora
Mamdani is the anti-Lee Kwan-Yoo. Not realizing that Lee Kwan-Yoo, complex figure for sure,
he's a far more radical than Zora Mamdani ever could be. Okay? Like, not my favorite
by any means, even though, of course, for the sake of this argument, of course, Lee
on you, a legend, loved Deng Xiaoping. That's a big bonus for him. Anyway, no he's not. Yes
he is. What are you talking about? You're fucking racism illegal. He massive amounts
of fucking land ownership in the hands of the state. If everybody gets the same rewards
as they do under communism with their iron or ice bowl, nobody strives to excel. Society
will not prosper and progress would be minimal. Zaraan, we will replace the
fraternity of rugged individuals with the warmth of collectivism. Yes, he was
anti-communist and yes, a notoriously anti-communist leader still was far more
radical than the average American Democratic socialist. What the fuck are
you talking about? The government owns 90% of the land in Singapore, like 55% of the
housing and major shares in many companies. Singapore is a mix of extreme
socialism and extreme capitalist policies. It's not some libertarian experiment.
One of the biggest things that Singapore did was de facto decommodatize housing.
It's because it's a tiny state. Yeah, it's the true tiny state, okay? Not even the size of New Jersey.
Of course, those are some of the, uh, you know, the, the positives of his background.
There's plenty of, of negatives as well.
I find Lee Kuan Yew fetishes him on, on the part of the right, it, that it pretends to
be technocratic, very funny.
Sammy Goh called it playing with dolls, but honestly, there's more pathos to it.
The entire global right is now run by people who are the ideological descendants of Jörg
Hider and Silvio Berlusconi. It's crooks and freaks who mobilize hatred to win power and once they
will take it all they want to do is bankrupt countries so they can spend money on sex and
mansions. That's the whole thing. Now at some level they know this. They have to know it. However,
I reckon that no, they don't know who fucking Berlusconi is at all. What are you talking about?
Most right wingers are just fucking stupid. No, they don't know anything.
I mean, this is a reliable and solid analysis. I just don't think that most right-wingers even know how to read.
Let alone know anything about these leaders. They don't even know anything about Lee Kuan Yee, Lee Kuan Yee either.
They just larp. They're larping. This could have been you in Singapore.
poor. Yeah, a better future is possible. Now, some level, they know this, they have to know
how recognizing decided, recognizing decided to live in a baroque fantasy where it's politicians,
they make apologies who are serious as Spencer Pratt Donald Trump, who are the serious bureaucrats
and technocrats, trying to build functional flourishing multi cultural city and the leftist
who are the unscrupulous, unserious ones. The cognitive dissonance is literally the
only explanation here. There are no non-psychological readings of these tweets. Yeah, no one on
the right was to make 90% housing owned by the government like Lee Koy, you did, or do
any of the collective things you did. They just want to beat you with a bat if you chew
gum and ignore the economic leftist things you did.
trying to take down Zoran using Morris cats and Plattener. Sorry to hear that disappointing.
Dude, it's so funny because like one, I don't know Morris cats at all. Two, I have been unbelievably
restrained about, uh, you know, the fight agency and I keep repeatedly saying like it's not a
political movement. It's not a political org. It's a fucking ad agency. It's a very good ad
agency. Okay. I always maintain that position. They make great ads and they have a decent
understanding of the world. Okay. But like the very fact that these guys are trying to
be like, Oh, Morris cats is not allowed to work in DC ever again is insane to me. Okay.
What the fuck? What the fuck are you? What do you mean? What do you mean? What are you
saying, have you seen the consultants in Washington DC? Have you seen the consultants in Washington
DC? They work with rapists of all different shapes, sizes, and colors and backgrounds, okay?
This isn't to defend Morris Katz's management over the Platner campaign, but these are literally
DC consultants being like, no, no, no, he didn't work with our rapists. He worked with a left
Populous rapist that's unacceptable. We need to make sure that he never works ever again. It's like shut the fuck up
The people that are launching these campaigns against Morris cats are people like near attended
Who worked with the Clintons?
People like Liz Smith who worked with Andrew Cuomo
These are people who not only work to besmirch Andrew Cuomo's
accusers, but then also
Defended Andrew Cuomo's run against Zoram, I'm doubting. That's the only reason why these people are fucking freaking out
Jesus Christ
Once again
The fight agency is an ad agency they work with Steyer and they collected a fat bag out of that one
Okay, they work with Michael Lasscher. It's not a political movement. Morris, Katz and
Flight Agency are definitely political operators. It's a bit, it would be a bit up to claim otherwise.
Yes. Okay. Yes. They do have a political slant. But guess what? They also fucking work with Michael
Is Michael Asher a part of the left populist movement in this country?
Is Michael Asher in any way, shape, or form a left-flat candidate?
No, he's not.
It's that simple.
Hossie goes again betraying the people. Morris Gatz is trying to save the Democratic Party.
I think that's a little bit marketing, okay? That's just marketing. That's a flavor
that you add on. They're a marketing company, and he's marketing himself fairly effectively.
If I say so myself, he's buzzed. It's hype. It's marketing. It's marketing for an ad agency.
And between fight agency and like anything that near a tandem touches or anything that
Liz Smith touches, yes, I prefer fight agency over the others, okay?
They make good ads.
That's it.
They make good ads.
They do decent political consultancy.
And that's it.
And when you're running a campaign, sometimes you're going to work with people, you're going
to work with media buyers, you're going to work with fucking ad agencies, it's that simple.
What matters is the conviction, the moral conviction that the politician has.
What matters is the policies that the politician has.
As long as you're not allowing the fight agency to, you know, try to tamper with your worldview,
try to massage your ideological predisposition, then who gives a shit?
You still need ads, folks. Remember, I had a conversation with Oliver Ma, right?
And I was like, dude, what are you doing? You have to buy ads.
And he was like, no, no, it's fine. We're running a different campaign for Lieutenant Governor.
Well, it didn't work. You have to buy ads. What are you talking about? You have to have a,
like, there's a reason why there is a reason why these campaigns, you know,
the campaigns on the establishment Democratic side, there's a reason why they pump millions,
tens of millions of dollars. It's because ads work.
Okay. Katz calls himself political consultant, not just advertising. I know,
I'm saying that he's doing, you know, ad work.
Why does any of this matter?
It's just inside baseball.
It's so self-referential.
It's so.
It's so.
DC
It's so New York and so DC nobody gives a fuck about any of this shit, okay
It's a it's a meta commentary
crafted by a bunch of DC consultants that despise
another consultant
Okay
Yeah, we are we are no longer just inside of the bubble. This is the this is the seventh layer of hell
it's consultant on consultant violence. I do not participate in this stuff. I do not give a
shit. Obviously there are certain people that work in campaigns that I love that I think are
brilliant and wonderful that I think are, are, you know, real champions for change. I'll always
stand by them, right? Andrew Epstein being one of them. That's my goat. He was a comms guy for
Zauron, you've seen him on stream before, Coms guy for Claire Valdez, DSA guy through
and through, plenty of all of the, all of the DSA slate candidates in New York. They
were the people who, whose campaigns are entirely run by, for the most part, DSA people. Those
guys are great. They're awesome. Okay. They're great. And also, come on, Chatters. Yes, his
last name is Epstein. Really? Very common Jewish last name. What the fuck's wrong with you? Okay?
Jesus Christ. The joke is stale, please.
Anyway, it's only funny if I talk about my goat, Israel Epstein.
That's the only time that joke is funny.
I don't know about common, but not unique.
It is a fairly common last name.
Anyway, what was I saying?
What was I talking about?
Final hard to believe that there aren't dsa people who have the money to help support canada's why is it always grassroots wait what?
Yeah, the the Morris cat stuff is is totally fucking
ridiculous like the people that are the people that are mad about it are just mad that he is young and
He's had a lot of success
With Zoran's campaign. They're greatly over emphasizing the impact that he has on
campaigns in general
These guys are at the end of the day an ad agency that I think make great ads, okay
And they got they got a decent amount of motion and the fact that they're like you have to drop him
Like it's fucking ridiculous. I've never heard a Democrat demand a drop James Carville
Okay, James Carville
Literally participating the slander of Bill Clinton's victims. Okay
Very famously say, oh you take turn 20 $20 on a
On trailer park you find as many hookers as I want to to come out and say all sorts things about Bill Clinton
Okay, that's what he said. That's what he said
That's a that's a Carville classic James Carville's fucking married to like a like a Dick Cheney consultant
Okay, he's fucking the ops
for years and
he's still seen as a is a
prominent fixture of
of, uh, he, he's seen as a tactician that all Democrats must learn from.
The fuck are we talking about?
I'm supposed to listen to these fucking dickheads.
The fuck out of here.
Think I have a very balanced approach to this Morris cast situation before
people, of course, it's not going to satisfy anybody.
They're going to say C classic Hassan in the pocket of fight agency or whatever
the fuck. No, I'm not. Okay. I've never met with the fight agency. I don't know them.
Never talked to the fight agency. In all of the time that I've spent in New York City
DSA politics, I've not once met Morris cats. Okay. Don't know. The only reason why this
is a story is because DC consultants that work on the establishment side that work with
right wing Democrats. Want this guy gone? I wanted to ask you, Mr. Mayor, last week,
members of the DSA.
Didn't you do a joint interview with them?
No.
No, I did not.
I would, but I have not.
He sent out a public letter to campaigns and officials
to stop working with Morris Katz.
Are you still planning to work with him?
Also, this Sunday is the FIFA World Cup final.
I know you're very invested.
President Donald Trump is expected to be there.
Do you plan to sit with him, talk with him?
Those are my questions, thanks.
I will continue to work with Morris cats. He remains a top advisor of mine and
For Sunday's final my focus will be on the game
And I anticipate just watching for 90 or 120 or maybe even penalties as well
What is up with these shades my man, what's going on?
Yeah
So why is the DSA saying not to work with Morris cats dog?
Democratic Socialists of America have 120,000 dues-paying members at this point. Okay?
That letter that was circulating was signed by 300 people. Of course, there are going to be people
with different opinions. I don't even give a shit one way or another. Okay? I'm a very pragmatic
person, I'm a numbers guy, I'm a pragmatist. Okay.
From my perspective, you're going to have some mercenaries that are working.
You have to make sure that they have some level of discipline.
You have to make sure you, you know, you cross your T's and dot your eyes and
ensure that like everything is NDA out the asshole.
When you're working on these campaigns, like obviously Abdul's campaign has had
some issues with that.
Oh, you were on separately. I didn't listen. It makes you it makes it seem like it was jointly done. Wait, what the fuck?
Hassan Piker on the Democrats bullies and Republican Nazis.
This week, Alex is joined by Zahramundan's political strategist Morris Katz and Twitch streamer. No, this was not jointly conducted.
I didn't even know that Morris Katz was on this podcast.
isn't this where I dude this is the pockets where I shit on Grand Platinum
ironically enough this is when Alex interviewed me and I was like well you
know Grand Platinum has a lot of red flies he has a fucking Nazi tattoo Abdul
has none. We're going to find out if he's, if, you know, uh, if, if the, the working
class is invested in grand planner because they like a white guy or if they like the
platform.
Yeah. I saw Obama spoke with a waggle about the fake ad. Obviously the impact of this
This is going to be diminished in comparison to the $10 million of ad spends that falsely
claims that Obama endorsed Haley Stevens in this election cycle.
Dave Weigel says, Obama's office reiterates to me, and I assume others of the former president
hasn't endorsed anyone in this race.
Yeah.
So Haley Morris is lying about the endorsement.
Have you seen this?
I have not.
3.3.
But, yeah, it's exactly because there's an interview.
In that, yeah, after 3.
Yes.
Yes.
Hey, Valla.
Did I say Haley Morris?
I meant Haley Stevens.
What the fuck is wrong with me, dude?
Did I say Haley Morris? I'm at Haley Stevens. What the fuck is wrong with me, dude?
The Sarah Rodriguez story is grim. You don't want that right before early voting,
but to find an example of a candidate getting scammed by his campaign this year,
then winning, you have to go back to two months.
There was some stuff that took place in the Chris Wrapped campaign, I think.
That's what he's comparing it to.
Bro, why is Lazy Graham's sister taking over him?
Because American politics is just the same as any other third-world dictatorship, okay?
That's why.
That's just what happens now, okay?
Um, yeah, uh, that, the, the Morris cat situation is just, uh, just inside baseball, unbelievable
levels of inside baseball very silly.
Um, I don't think anybody gives a shit and, uh, the best thing he could do is just basically
keep his fucking head down and keep putting those ads out, you know what I mean?
But if I were, you know, all I would say is this, to candidates, you need ads, you need
mercenaries, you need ad agencies, if you're running a campaign, if you're running a campaign
that's going to be successful if you're running a campaign that wants the win, you're going
to work with some people. From what I understand, the fight agencies are pretty good. They're
reliable. They're decent. Just don't let anybody change your platform. Don't allow anybody
to change your platform. If you already have a policy guy, work with the policy guy.
That's it. Is there any bad criticism about them? Yeah, I mean they didn't do
sufficient vetting for a Grand Platinum, that much is clear. There was also some
talks about how like they thought that Grand Platinum would be a potential
president one day, which I think is totally ridiculous, and I thought was
totally ridiculous at the time as well. So, you know, there's a it just goes to
show that, you know, you need a little bit more experience, you need a little bit
more experience in the field. It's fine. You're not going to always, you're not going to always
swing and hit home runs. You know, sometimes you're going to swing and miss. This was one of them.
This was one of those misses.
It's a big miss. Add agencies are responsible for vetting. No, obviously it's, it's, there are, as
an ad agency, they do political consultancy as well. And they also do ads. For some, they
just do ads. For others, they do a full spectrum coverage.
Now we're of course going to talk about, we're going to talk about Michigan as well because
there is, this kind of ties into, this kind of ties into what's going on in Michigan too.
There is a lot of controversy, fake controversy surrounding, Abdul Al-Said, they're trying
to manufacture outrage. They're trying to manufacture, um, controversy, uh, because
Abdul has been, you know, cooking in the polls. Obviously is the front runner in this race
so far. And Haley Stevens is propped up by every corporation in the United States of
America and also the nation state of Israel. Right. And Haley has no ground game whatsoever,
but doesn't need it because she has $40 million in TV ads. And as I covered yesterday, some
Some of those TV ads are implying falsehoods, such as Barack Obama endorsing Hailey Stevens
in this current Senate run in the primaries.
That's not the case.
That did not happen, right?
The number of ad spend earmarked for Hailey Stevens has reached $50 million as of this
week.
It's a ridiculous number.
Okay.
It's very clear to me that it is very clear to me that they are desperate.
Now, not desperate enough to actually deploy volunteers on the ground, God forbid, okay?
Now, Stevenson is claiming that Obama endorsed her. Some voters are getting that impression
from the ads that show Obama praising her in 2018, using Obama's previous praise for you
without an endorsement as a tactic previously used by Bernie Sanders. Yeah, the reality of the matter
is, I like that Bernie Sanders was doing that, okay? Because I like Bernie Sanders. I don't
like that Haley Stevens is doing it because I don't like Haley Stevens. But to add insult
to injury, the groups that are actually pumping these ads are APAC. Okay, for the most part,
APAC has been a major donor of the campaign. Here's the thing. APAC fucking hates Obama.
A-PAC has run the gamut on anti-Obama commentary in the country.
A-PAC is unbelievably hostile to Obama, his legacy in its entirety for the crime of doing the JCPOA.
Haley Stevens knows Michigan voters will reject her on the issues.
That's why she avoids interviews and has resorted to dishonest mere campaign against Abdel El-Sayed.
Stevens' aversion to press and public events is bizarre.
She declined to interview The Wall Street Journal.
It's one of the greatest examples of subverting democracy, okay?
That's it.
Yeah, this guy says, I'm smiling so hard right now because I said, I'm losing my mind.
This is how APEC dopes kind folks.
These two individuals who are critical of Israel voted for Hayley Stevens because of
President Obama. Okay? And Tim says, I'm smiling so hard right now as I smiled because A-Pack
who hated Obama's ghost for doing the Iran deal, which Trump destroyed, is now lying
about their handpicked candidate being endorsed by Obama in this race. And all he has is,
well, I'm smiling because it torments you.
That's great. I love subverting democracy. I love duping voters. It's awesome.
Yeah, here's Tommy Vitor saying, Apex spent tens of millions of dollars lobbying against the Iran nuclear deal, a signature Obama achievement,
and is now running an ad featuring Obama that misleadingly suggests Obama endorsed Haley
Stevens in the Michigan Senate race. Weird that people dislike the organization. Yeah.
a month. Now she's fighting back against Trump's Medicare cuts. Hailey Stevens approving fighter
for Michigan. He defeats responsibility. So they're doing everything. It's full spectrum. Okay.
The APEC ads are everywhere, claiming falsely that Abdul El Sayed disrespects women, hates women.
Okay. When I was in Michigan, I genuinely could not believe how often the Abdul district's women
APAC ad was being aired. It seemed to be in nearly every commercial break on every station.
APAC's front group, United Demarcation Project, just bought TV commercials for Haley between
721 and 727. The total is $4.2 million. That is an unbelievable amount of money chat. You have
to understand like this is an unfathomable amount of money.
ProHaley TV, Haley Stevens TV and digital spending is now almost a 50 million dollars.
All of it is super PACs. As I said, Israel and every other corporate pack in this country
is going to buy this seat if we don't stop it. They have the money, but we have the people.
Time to knock on doors, phone bank and speak to your neighbors to get the word out for Abdul.
It is insane. It's so flagrant and I will I will admit this is a story in and of itself
This is a story in and of itself. What are they afraid of they're afraid of democracy
That's what they're afraid of they're afraid of someone who will fight for the interests of the working class rather than the interests of
Corporations, that's what they're afraid of and they're so afraid that we can put a fucking price on it
We can put a price on how fearful they are 50 million dollars so far, okay?
It's so frustrating
Should Obama correct the record, I don't think he will be on just telling media outlets that he hasn't endorsed anyone in the race
He's not going to come out and be like Hailey Stevens is lying, you know
If you are wondering
If you're wondering
Why
The changes that you find to be common sense never end up taking shape in this country
you're watching the reason why it won't. Okay? There have always been good people,
kind-hearted people, maybe not people that you completely align with ideologically but just
like real fighters that have wanted to run for office, that have wanted to seize power so that
they can actually implement some of the changes that we all want to see. Those people always get
humiliated, bullied, destroyed, attacked. They have to have a perfect track record. And even if they
have a perfect track record, even if they're, you know, a doctor with a road scholar, a
doctor, a guy who worked in public health, a guy who literally wrote a book on Medicare
for all. Even after all is said and done, the opposition backed by unlimited amounts
of money will turn around and mass blast smear campaigns ads that call you a sexist, a misogynist
We'll call it, we'll call on the question, you're, you're legitimacy.
They'll call you a terrorist for your popular position on Israel, your moral position on
Israel.
It's ridiculous.
And most people are too busy to pay attention.
And these institutions take advantage of that.
They take advantage of the good, kind-hearted, working-class folk that don't have time to
sift through this information.
They go, I like Obama.
And Obama likes Haley Stevens.
Obama endorsed Haley Stevens.
I'm voting for her.
That's how it works.
were to force people to understand what the platforms are, if every voter was actually
only seeing what Abdul's policies are in Abdul's platform, and then see Haley Stevens
policies in Haley Stevens platform, the choice would be super clear. Why the fuck would we
not vote for Medicare for all, ending endless militarism overseas, no more money for bombs,
for healthcare instead. Who the fuck would say no to that? As opposed to better things
are not possible, unlimited donations to the nation state of Israel so they can keep melting
children. A person who has voted for some of the silliest, most right-wing bills. A person
right now, the Trump administration is actively working to dismantle the International Criminal
court or doing his job or actually prosecuting Benjamin and Yau for war crimes. You know
who voted to sanction those judges? Haley Stevens did. Haley Stevens also voted to thank ICE.
Haley Stevens is backed by the Michigan version of PG&E. I'm California and obviously PG&E is a
is a horrible, is a horrible company.
The Michigan version of PG&E is called DTE.
DTE is dumped, boat loads of money
into the Haley Stevens campaign.
Steve.
Yeah.
It's very clear who the people would vote for
they knew the full scope of the policies. We cannot miss this opportunity to vote for a real fighter
for Michiganders, a real fighter who will be sometimes the lone voice in the Senate
on issues that are important to all of us, on issues that will advance the interests of the
working class. That's it.
voted to fund and thank ICE.
In Michigan, we know a thing or two about ICE.
This ICE?
Good.
But right now, our government spends billions
on an agency that operates outside of the law
to terrorize our neighbors.
I'm Abdul Al-Sahid, the only Senate candidate
for abolishing ICE, and I approve this message.
Really, Stevens voted to fund and thank ICE.
Shout out head in the office for keeping their foot on the neck of Haley Stevens. This whole
race. I recommend everyone check out their interviews. Obdual. Yeah. Head in the office
is fucking awesome. I love, I love those guys.
There is not a democratic candidate in recent history that is as blatantly corrupted as
Haley Stevens. She accepted money from hundreds of corporate insurance packs in office, 30
plus million dollars from APAC ads bank rolling her campaign. You think she's going to stand
up to the lobbies. She's frankly everything wrong with the Democratic Party in 2026, an
establishment creature through and through, designed a lab to fall apart with young voters.
The servitude sharing in the profession with those who have not come before you,
similar times of trial and medical need, wars and clues passed, you will see darkness,
you will be pushed, and our society needs you. To stand together at this time, our country loves
you to our doctors and our nurses. I wear these. The gentle lady's time has expired.
The gentleman for Maryland is wrecked. His reserves. The. She's doing the this during COVID.
I mean, yeah, this is the one. Israel comes to me in my dreams. I see Israel's future. And I know
that Israel will continue to exist for the Jewish people. Israel comes to me in my dreams.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
Oh, she's so horrible.
Anyway, we're now going to go over to Zoom to have a conversation
with a friend of the show Trita Parsi ladies and gentlemen. Hello Trita, can you hear me?
What's going on? Trita Parsi of the Quincy Institute Executive Vice President of the
Quincy Institute, his sub-stack is TritaParsi.substack.com. Thank you so much for coming on. We got a
a lot to talk about. I'm going to fix the live production real quick because it still
says Ro Khanna here, because that's the last person I interviewed.
So you put your tie on for him or for me?
No, no, I wear the tie all the time now. It's just a common fixture. The more the Republicans
attack me and they're attacking me, Fox News is attacking me right now because of the things
I said about Lindsey Graham, instead of eulogizing him in the way that many others have, I called
them an odious warmonger of the highest order.
And Fox News was so frustrated by that, that they chose to write a whole article on it,
saying, you know, controversial radical streamer, a soundbite.
But it's funny because I think it's backfired on them because as far as I understand, even
on Facebook, people are actually saying he's right. They're agreeing with me. How do you
feel about the legacy of Lindsey Graham? Let's start there before we get into obviously the
next steps and what's going on with this memorandum of understanding, turning into a memorandum
of misunderstanding. Look, to me, Graham was essentially a dying breed of hawkish Republicans
who thought that there always was a military solution to whatever problem or non problem
that existed in the world. And drove the United States in an absolutely terrible direction.
And at every moment, there was this effort to sabotage diplomacy from his end, belittle
it, and shift things back towards some sort of a muscular, military-centric approach,
which I think has ultimately been disastrous for the world, but also very, very disastrous
for the United States itself.
And I do think it's fair to scrutinize his track record in the Middle East in particular,
his proximity to Israel and to the UAE, I think deserves scrutiny.
Even after everyone had essentially given up, realizing it is an idiotic idea, he was
still pushing to expand the Abram Accords and make Israel the center of the region,
having the Saudis normalize relations with and throw the Palestinians even further under
the bus.
this is the guy who said that we should just flatten Gaza to do to Gaza what was done by
the U.S. against Hiroshima and Nagasaki. So I think that speaks for itself.
Yeah, absolutely. This was, I mean, he was one of Israel's most loyal soldiers. One of the
one of the aspects of his legacy, I think that was ironically reported on extensively in the
aftermath of his untimely demise is the fact that he was a champion of this latest war,
this latest military quagmire that the United States found itself in. He was the middleman
between Israel and Donald Trump, something that has been reported on and openly admitted by Benjamin
and Yahoo as well. And now we're seemingly going back to war. You were a little bit more positive
about the memorandum of understanding than I was.
I was a little bit more skeptical about whether or not this would be implemented.
How do you feel right now?
I think it's a devastating situation.
I don't think it was inevitable.
I think there were a lot of ambiguities in the memorandum at some point needed to be
clarified.
They failed to do so in the manner that they should have.
I know based on conversations I had that there was a different position earlier on on some
of these issues and they frankly on the American side and they frankly hardened I think is
partly because there are different elements inside of this administration some of them
whose perspective is much, much closer to that of Lindsey Graham who were against this
memorandum.
I personally think that as soon as the MOU was signed Marco Rubio the by and large has
state out of this issue, kept his arms from this war, from the diplomacy, suddenly shows
up, meets with the GCC countries, pushes for a very harsh position, a joint statement,
and then he afterwards says, you know, tolls, fees, all of them are completely unacceptable.
And by taking that position, he really narrowed the pathway to an agreement.
or the idea of feeds that instead of a toll,
there would be some sort of environmental management fee
of the straight that would be collected
either by Iran and Oman.
It was actually an Omani idea,
collected by Iran and Oman,
or collected by several of the states in the region,
not just Iranians, actually had some support
inside of the administration early on,
but that apparently changed.
And Rubio pushed for this line that narrowed the pathway,
then he flew to Lebanon,
and there he negotiated or mediated
this complete Lebanese surrender to the Israelis
with this agreement between the two countries
that has even been harshly criticized
by the most ferocious Hezbollah haters inside of Lebanon
as a complete sellout of the country.
But perhaps from the standpoint of this conversation,
most importantly, that agreement contradicted the MOU.
And to me, it did appear very difficult
to interpret that as something else,
then an effort to sabotage the MOU.
So I think some of these things that have happened
were not inevitable.
I think there were efforts from many different sides
to make it more difficult.
And I think also the Iranians overreacted
to a couple of these things.
And then over the course of the last three or so weeks,
I've detected that the Iranians had increasingly
had become convinced that Trump was going to go to war
with Iran again.
And I think that also colored their decisions
and the manner in which they perceived everything else
was happening. It was perceived as if it were to validate their suspicion that Trump was
gearing up for another war. And I think then they made decisions based on that that frankly
potentially helped make that a self-fulfilling prophecy.
It turns out they were correct though, right? I mean, there is some evidence at least now,
Now, also the very fact that the MOU is done, Trump is saying that the war is back on.
But the conversation that took place with Chady Vance, going on Michael Knowles' broadcast
to openly admit that the memorandum of understanding was simply just to offer a moment of respite
to the strategic oil reserves that were nearing crisis levels, obviously, if it goes below
300 million barrels, you're reaching a red line when there's a hard limit beneath 150
million, where the salt caverns that a lot of our strategic oil reserves are stored in
could possibly collapse due to a lack of pressure.
This hard limit is obviously something that the American side is paying close attention
to and we have a higher priority beyond simply managing oil and gas prices in the United
States of America to ensure that the European markets do not collapse, right?
we're constantly exporting oil elsewhere, that limit has now, I guess, that crisis point
has now been pushed back maybe 20 days.
Is there anything different on the American side, on the American calculation this time
around?
Because every military analyst that I'm listening to that goes on CBS and whatnot keeps repeatedly
saying, well, we could take over Carg Island militarily. Well, why didn't we do that last
time if we had that capacity? That would have been tremendous leverage for the American side
in the implementation of whatever kind of ceasefire negotiation. So what is different this
time around? Do you think that this is just going to be tit for tat for a little bit? Where do you
foresee this going? Let me first take a step back and address what you said that
you know, it turned out that the Iranians were right. I'm not so sure. There was a flare-up
after they shot at some ships, and the Iranians were shooting at these ships because they're
very suspicious, and this I think they may be right on, which is that the U.S. side was trying to
build a southern corridor that would be outside of the control of the Iranians, that would be kept
open even if the war broke out again, and by that really reduced Iran's leverage significantly.
And they were, when ships started to go through that corridor without any coordination with Iran,
the Iranians saw that as a major provocation. They shot at them, the US bombed Iran,
the Iranians bombed back, and then they went back to the table. After that,
they were actually negotiating, and I wrote about it on the substack, a compromise that could have
worked, but they never managed to get to the end of it before the Iranian funeral of the supreme
leader in which diplomacy was paused. During that pause, several more ships tried to go through
turning off their transponders. Iranians then again shot at those ships and this caused like a freakout
by Trump in which he really lost his temper. We saw that his reactions publicly were very harsh.
He said, you know, he can deal with these people, they're scum, blah, blah, blah. I'm not sure if
all of that actually was inevitable. I think the Iranians also overreacted to some of those ships.
I think there are other ways that it could have been dealt with. And I can see a different
scenario that could have been reached if they had done it that way instead of what we ended up with.
But to your latter question, and I think this is also very important because you mentioned
that Vance had mentioned that, you know, the Strategic Reserve, and that may very well have
been the plan. But if you take a look at the numbers at the time of the beginning of the war, the
the strategic reserves had about 415 million barrels. It is now down to 337. And it's
not recuperated just because of the MOU has been in place for a month. So if the plan
was, hey, let's recuperate that and then go back to war, that's not what we're seeing
here at all. It's not gone back to that. In fact, it means that not only that, but also
the rest of the global inventory that is still very much down leads to a scenario in which
If war happens, you really need to have a plan on how to get it done very quickly because
you simply cannot afford what happened last time.
The runway for the U.S. is much shorter than it was last time.
This will lead to an economic crisis much faster than the previous war did.
And the previous war kept it off because the president used the strategic reserves to kind
of calm the global oil markets.
So to me, when I look at it, I don't see anything that suggests to me that this time
around, war will work out better, that this time around, taking the Kharg Island, for
instance, actually will be functioning. It's a smart military strategy. On the contrary,
the oil reserves are at a lower inventory state than they were before. You're only 16
weeks away from the midterm elections. There's no way the US has managed to stock up on interceptors.
The Iranians build missiles faster than the US build interceptors, and you oftentimes
need to use several more interceptors to shoot down missiles. So none of these, none of this
data in any way, shape or form suggests that the US is in a better position to strike this,
to go to war at this point. What do you say to the analysis that the American side,
the American naval assets are, I mean, we have basically functionally half of our
overall naval assets in this region right now. There is air defense systems. It's very clear
that America at least tried to implement some sort of scheme even after Iran started striking at ships
because this is not the first time Iran struck ships. Iran had done so when they noticed that the
Americans were trying to utilize the Omani corridor. And clearly there was an effort by the American
side to try to see if they could even protect these ships at all. And that failed, right?
Because the Iranian drones are virtually impossible to stop with the conventional
and the anti-air defense systems that we currently have.
I think that was an effort from the Iranian side to maintain their leverage, the ultimate
leverage that they have, which is control over the Shared of Hormuz. And that was their interpretation
to the memorandum of understanding as well. So do you feel like this was an attempt by the
American side to try to see if they could even force the the transiting of certain non-approved,
non-approved ships at odds with the Iranian control to see if they could even defend these ships at
all and it was maybe a failure on that front as well?
I do think it's very fair to say that this was certainly an American attempt.
I think the US side would say, look, we never accepted that Iran would have control over
the Omani side.
So yes, it was an American attempt, but it's not a provocation.
The Iranians view it as a provocation.
They view it as an effort to deliberately challenge the Iranians at a time when the Iranians
were in the middle of their funeral and had their attention elsewhere. And I think frankly,
that may have also led to the Iranis overreacting a little bit. But I don't think there's any
doubt that the U.S., even before the MOU, were trying to set up this southern corridor.
This is part of the reason I think Trump actually at one point threatened to bomb Oman, because
it is Oman's waters, but Omanis were not in all this. The Omanis actually were the ones
who were talking about a joint management system. And this really ticked off the US side, particularly
the more hawkish elements in it. And I remember when, you know, Trump made a threat,
it sounded as if perhaps he misspoke, that he was going to say Iran and said he said Oman. I mean,
at one point he did call it the Islamic Republic of Japan. So it's not out of the realm of possibility
that he missed, but he appears actually that he didn't misspeak that he actually was a direct
threat at the Omanis and it was because the Omanis were trying to find a compromise and
the U.S. side was like no we don't want to do anything that allows for a compromise before
at least we have exhausted the opportunity to see can we create an alternative corridor
that the Omanis cannot control should have gone into war with Oman itself.
So now the Trump administration has unveiled their second blockade.
Once again, earlier this morning, Donald Trump reported, Donald Trump truthed on truth social
that there would be a secondary blockade on the Gulf of Oman beyond the Iranian one, just
as they had implemented one prior, and that there would be a 20% toll.
Do you feel like this legitimizes the Iranian toll ironically enough?
Because now all of a sudden people are going to be more comfortable with the idea of a
toll for all ships that transfer to the Shredder Hormones.
And the Iranian one as the foreign minister, Iraq, she correctly pointed to is only 2%,
which is far more manageable, far more reasonable than the 20% that Donald Trump wants.
Yeah.
I don't know if he mentioned 2% in his tweet.
I did a calculation that would land at 1% to 2% because they were going to charge roughly
$1 million per ship, which would amount to roughly 1% to 2% added cost to any tanker
going through the straits, which still compared to what the Turks are charging in Bosphorus,
for instance, is a little bit higher, but nevertheless, 20%.
I mean, frankly, Trump is not only validating the Iranian position inadvertently.
He is also making the Iranian position or the Iranian plan rather attractive because
it is much, much cheaper.
And you know, this is combined with other messages that he said that everything in Iran
is going to be owned by the U.S.
I think he's going back to these fantasies that he had early on in February in which
he thought that what he did in Venezuela can be replicated in Iran.
And I think it's coming from that position of deep, deep frustration that things are
frankly not going in his way.
And I think one of the things Iranians,
Iranians have tried to figure out Trump psychology
and use psychologists when it comes to writing messages
to him to make sure that they kind of got a better response
from him.
One thing I think they missed is that he
has this need for constant positive reinforcement.
He needs a diplomacy to constantly produce an assembly line
of good news.
And if it doesn't, he just kind of gets frustrated
and then can do a 180 and go back towards war.
And I'm sure after a while he's gonna get frustrated
with the war and try to go back to diplomacy.
But it's just not the way that you can do diplomacy
between two countries that have defined each other
as enemies for 47 years.
Also, on top of that, the conflict is yielding
tremendous volatility in the global energy markets
and is slated to hit a hard limit
where this global commodity that is necessary
for survival necessarily, you know,
the grids to continue for commodities to continue to be produced in the Asian markets that will then
create an inflationary crisis in the United States. That's what's at stake here. The stakes are
unbelievably high. So one of the other questions I had for you also is Saudi Arabia, which seemingly
has decided to become more active in this conflict for some weird reason out of nowhere at a left
field. There was a bombing of the airport, an airport runway in Zana that the Houthis have
now responded to. There's talks about potentially closing the Babel-Mandeb Strait as well.
What do you think about that? Why is Saudi Arabia getting more active in this conflict?
And where do you see that going? So I don't think it's clear yet that that is exactly what the
the Saudis are trying to do. I think it's important to keep in mind, there is a UN Security
Council resolution, which, you know, I don't know if it was the right resolution, but nevertheless
to have a blockade of the Houthi control territories. And once the Iranians and the
Saudis normalize relations, and both of them kind of backed off in the war against the
Houthis, more or less dying down, nevertheless, that resolution remains in place in the Saudis
has been an assistant on making sure
that the Houthis cannot reconstitute
an open logistical transit route to the Iranians by air.
The Iranians appear to have tried
to challenge that during the funeral
because they sent the plane to Sana'a
to pick up Houthi officials to go to the funeral.
The Saudis try to stop that, but they fail.
But now when that plane is coming back,
they're trying to make something
to make sure that this is not a new normalized relation.
So I think that is the root of this,
but it is taking place in the context of this larger conflict.
And as a result, has a significant risk,
even if that is not the intent of it,
to spill over into that.
And that could, as you mentioned,
lead to the closing of the strait in the Red Sea as well.
And if that were to happen,
that is a major, major escalation.
My own suspicion is the Iranians do not want to see
that happen until there is a major escalation by the U.S.,
and then this would be the response to it,
rather than them doing it preemptively
and by that justifying further escalation
by the United States.
So, so far we've seen talk about it.
We've not seen any real measures that they're doing it.
I guess the million dollar question
or the trillion dollar question is,
where do we go from here?
If America is going back to striking Iran and trying to somehow gain some kind of leverage
that they failed to do so in the last 130-day operation, what do they think they can get
out of it when on the strategic oil reserve side, they have even less runway?
What the hell is going on?
I mean, it's clear that this is the war of attrition is more beneficial for Iran than it is for the United States of America.
Obviously, they're suffering as well. If there's a blockade, their economy is in tatters, certainly.
But at the end of the day, they're used to a level of sanctions regardless.
They've built some semblance of resilience regardless, and therefore,
they're better positioned overall as they were during Operation Epic Fury.
Where do we go from here? Why is America doing this again? Also, how much involvement does Israel have in this second destabilization operation that destroyed the Memorandum of Understanding?
So, on your first question, I have a piece in Responsible Statecraft about this.
Now, I'm going to add a paragraph mentioning that sheer stupidity is not included in any
major IR theory, but it actually deserves a significant role because so much of what
is done is decisions that are really not based on any clear wisdom and is more in the in-bustle
category.
For me, this is just plain out stupid for the very same reasons that you said.
I do not, unless again, there is some sort of a conclusion that there is another military
option that can wrap this up in less than a week or two.
They haven't deployed.
That they've just weirdly enough out of the kindness of their hearts did not deploy against
their foreign adversary 47 years.
Exactly.
and certainly not in the previous just a couple of months.
So I'm extremely skeptical.
And as a result, I do think that this is at the best,
it's gonna lead, and this is really at best.
If we're lucky, there will be a return to the table.
Facts on the ground will not have changed dramatically
in either direction.
The only thing that will have changed
is that the lure of thinking that through military action,
You can reorganize the situation in a manner that gives you the benefit at the negotiating table.
That lure essentially has been eliminated more or less.
That's the only thing I can see. That would be the best-case scenario.
Because I don't believe that this is going to give a major change.
In fact, I think it's going to be very difficult to get back to the table after this.
The Iranians are increasingly convinced that even if Trump has an intent for a deal,
He does not have the capacity to actually strike a deal.
And the American political system
does not have the quality left in it
to sustain a deal once there is a different administration
in place.
This is a concern they already had during Biden.
They were worried that they would be giving up their leverage.
And then Trump would come back in and would
root up up root that agreement.
And now I think it's become even further.
Let me give you an example.
One of the first measures they did in this round of escalation
is that that general license that have been granted to the Iranians to sell their oil,
because the US itself needed more oil on the market and needed to push down oil prices,
they rescinded it.
Now, I can understand in this part of the escalation, this is probably one of the less
violent measures that could be done, but what it does is that it tells you that the longevity
and the stability of such a waiver is so fragile that it loses its potency at the negotiating
table as a bargaining chip.
Because for it to be valuable to the Iranians, it needs to be stable, because they already
have hard time, difficulties getting new purchases of their oil, because most countries like,
well, we don't know if the U.S. is going to stick to this deal.
So we don't want to start, you know, binding ourselves to some long-term contract with
you for oil delivery if the U.S. is just going to flip in a week.
And then it did. It flipped within a couple of weeks. So now next time when the US goes
to the table and say, hey, we'll grant you an oil waiver, the value of that bargaining
chip is going to be far less than it was last time because it's been proven again to be
so flimsy, so easily revoked.
Yeah. There's also obviously the confidence that they have in Americans following on their
commitments, which clearly, time and time again, perfidy is deployed with regular frequency,
so there's no confidence whatsoever. This obviously probably gives them a lot more legitimacy
to the hardliners on the Iranian side. They have been fairly cohesive throughout this
process. And yet, if I'm a hardliner, I'm looking at the situation and going, I mean,
you want. We achieved negotiations through battle. We fought and we bled for this additional
leverage that we gained. And now, America has shown, America has proven once again,
that the only way out of this is to fight. So, I don't know what internal leverage the
reformers of the more moderate factions have at this point, given that America has shown
time and time again, that they're not remotely interested in a serious negotiations process.
How do you foresee that going, that power grab internally in Iran?
So, yeah, I think we're already seeing that they're increasingly concluding that the U.S.
was intending to go to war from the outset. I personally don't think that is necessarily correct,
But that is what they're seeing. And I think the Iranians going forward are going to be even more difficult to deal with because again, for them now to be able to muster the type of consensus that is needed in their system to be able to sign an agreement to come to a yes, it's going to become even more difficult than it was before.
This is one of those things also, and I've mentioned this publicly before, that I had told
the administration prior to the war that they're really kind of miscalculating the Iranians.
It's not about them being either logical or courageous, but I just don't see the system
being capable of surrendering. And the reason for that is that they need to get to a consensus
to surrender. And that consensus is just impossible for them to achieve. There will always be some
faction, probably not a weak faction, that would refuse to do so. And as a result, as
Trump was constantly looking for the Iranians to surrender, he just completely miscalculated.
He didn't understand their thinking, but also didn't understand their system. And that
to a less intense extent is also going to be the case when it comes to an agreement
going forward. We saw that back in the JCPOA. It was a hell of a find to get that system
to come to an agreement with the JCK.
It was difficult as well to get to the MOU.
And I don't know if you saw some of the images
of how hardliners were harassing before a minister
and others during the funeral,
accusing them of being compromisers and appeasers.
You know, the very same language and narratives
and discourse that we see in Washington,
in which diplomacy is weakness, compromises,
a negative word, you have it on the Iranian side as well.
As you mentioned, those voices are the ones that are strengthened by these episodes.
Yeah, they have more. Iran currently has more real popular mobilization and support
for continuing the war on military terms than the United States does. Like, there's no,
there's no American rallies taking place in the United States of America. The only people that
are hardliners in the same way that like the Iranian hardliners are are Israelis for the most part.
If that's it. Or they're in the Beltway. People in the Beltway who live off of this stuff.
But there is no mass mobilization demanding that Donald Trump continue waging this war,
especially because Americans, well, we're very selfish people.
And the only impact that we have that we care about is gas prices.
And everyone is noticing that the gas prices are going up.
Yeah. But the flip side of the house on is also very important.
And frankly, something that I'm disappointed in.
But I think it goes back to exactly what you said, which is the gas prices, which is yes, but also there's not been the type of mass mobilization that I think was needed to push back against this war.
So you don't have people protesting in mass numbers in America's streets against the war either.
And I think part of the reason why that is not happening is because the administration has used the strategic reserves to keep gas prices artificially low in order to avoid that scenario.
And there's no ground troops. There's no ground troops mobilization.
Once you get to a ground troops scenario and you have a large number of Americans coming
over in coffins, then it's just a ticking time bomb before those type of protests will happen.
But this is the problem with America's words in general. The American public in general
tends to be against these wars. But by keeping the wars as distant as possible from the public
and making sure that the consequences are as minimal
or as spread out as possible.
And you saw that during the Obama administration,
they didn't want to have body bags,
so they went over to this kind of drone warfare,
which caused massive amount of civilian casualties,
but it made sure that the risk of American soldiers
getting killed were really minimized.
And they got away with doing the war,
continuing all these wars, but doing it that way,
because it's shielded the public from their costs.
And the administration has taken similar measures
with this war as well to keep the cost low.
Yeah, I know we have a limited amount of time.
I just wanted to ask you one final question
before we let you go and thank you so much
for taking the time to talk to us.
Section 219, formerly Section 224
of the House Fiscal Year 2027,
National Defense Authorization Act, the NDAA,
is establishing that uh... the united states in israel defense technology
cooperation initiative now of course you're very familiar with this
possible says the craft is written extensively on it
for those in my audience that might not know it directs the department of the
best of point executive agent to accelerate joint research
development and integration
of israeli in u.s defense technologies
in layman's terms
this is a merger between the israeli military
and the united states military provision focuses on sensitive modern military
domains including artificial intelligence autonomous systems quantum
computing
yada yada yada it would make it virtually impossible to even utilize
the existing mechanisms
the existing legal framework
to to hold israel to account for its genocide
uh... to to restrain israel in any meaningful capacity or to deny israel
any military aid and arms embargo and the like
Where do you think this is going?
There's a lot of debate around it.
And what do you foresee happening here with this cooperative agreement?
Yeah.
So, look, this is a crucial issue.
And I think this is the reaction of the pro-Israel, the pro-liquid groups in Washington as well
as the Israeli government to the fact, and you're one of the leading voices of that,
American public, particularly younger Americans, are waking up to the very negative aspects
of the U.S.-Israeli relations. They're turning against it. And it has translated into serious
bills in the Senate to end funding, not just defensive, but all funding of the Israeli
military. And this is frankly a very clever maneuver by them to actually take that and
And then embed Israel inside of the American military and the Pentagon budget and make it
a bureaucratic exercise, not something that has oversight by Congress, not something that
Congress has to vote on every X amount of years, etc.
This allows the money not only to go up, but it allows the money to be hidden from the
American public.
And this is their reaction to recognizing they are losing the American public.
Whether it will succeed or not, I haven't followed the latest things or other people at Quincy.
In fact, Steve Simon is the one who wrote the first piece on this and really in detail explained
what these radios were doing on this, who would be in a much better position to say where the
status is. But I can tell you if it passes, it means that essentially this very, in my view,
negative relationship between the United States and Israel, the one that is based on this catheter
launch. The one that is based on essentially just allowing Israelis to do whatever they want
will be given another and a very major new lease on life. Yeah, this I think is a direct response
to the growing demands to decouple America from Israel. It would make it much easier for Israel
to simply turn around and say, okay, we're not getting any more military aid from the United
States of America and and turn the relationship de facto into the similar structure that already
exists for jet fuel, for example. Many people would not know this, but like the American
government sends Israel jet fuel as a part of its Pentagon budget. And it's not, it's
not above the, it's not an above board expenditure that would, that would be written about as
military aid to Israel. So this would turn every part of our security cooperative relationship
into this opaque structure that is not, is much more difficult to identify and much more
difficult to restrain. A terrifying bill and a new version of the depravity that I have
grown to expect from the American government and certainly the Israeli one. Trudev, thank
you so much for coming on. Thanks so much for having me. I really appreciate it. What do you
want to what do you want to promote before we let you go? You got your sub stack? Yeah, so my
sub stack is just treatuparcy.substack.com. Can follow me on Twitter at tparcy and also of course
the Quincy Institute's website, quincyinst.org or Responsible State Crafts Magazine, which is
responsiblestatescraft.org. All right. Thank you so much for coming on.
Appreciate it. Bye. Thank you. Bye.
All right. That was Trita Parsey of the Quincy Institute. I did not ask me about Ahmadinejad.
I forgot to ask me about Ahmadinejad, but I feel like that's, you know, whatever. Ahmadinejad
being a Mossad asset who escaped the Mossad asset status is really funny. Anyway, getting back to
US and Iran both claiming harmless control as strikes escalate and traffic plummets.
There's escalating attacks between the United States and Iran as the-
Trinna once again, ironically enough, as someone who worked in NIAC is far more pro-America than I am.
And I happen I did every time we have a conversation it almost comes across like I'm more pro-Iran than he is
And I guess there's some truth to that but you know
Let's continue the control of the Strait of Hormuz continues and intensifies
There's a new analysis from CNN showing that the frequency of US strikes
It is increasing and hitting deeper inside the country than before
Oil prices are on the rise after the fresh attacks for a second straight night
U.S. Central Command says it hit dozens of targets,
part of its push to try to get Iran to stop
attacking commercial ships in the strait.
Iran today is saying that it is going after U.S. military targets,
claiming it hit a U.S. base in Bahrain.
CNN has not been able to independently verify those reports.
But Iran is also vowing to not stop
and promising to keep up strikes on U.S. allies in the region.
Yes, raising the question once again of what ceasefire
the White House with the very latest on this.
Betsy, what are you hearing from there this morning?
I mean, think is a big question of like,
well, does this continue to intensify now for a third day?
Well, what is very clear right now is that this moment
is posing a major test for that memorandum
of understanding signed just about a month ago.
But what's not clear is how and if this is going to get resolved.
President Trump said last week that the ceasefire
was essentially over.
But he did say at the same time that negotiations toward a diplomatic solution would continue.
Since then, we have just seen a steady escalation in this conflict.
At the root of this issue here is the Strait of Formuse, that critical oil thoroughfare.
And prior to this conflict, no one had full authority or control over that Strait.
Now it has become a key point of leverage for Iran since then.
Iran says that they control the Strait of Hormuz.
They control this waterway and that launching,
they've been launching attacks on commercial vessels
in recent days.
They say that the passage of ships is not possible
without their permission.
Now, the US position according to CENTCOM
is the following quote,
Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz.
It remains an international waterway.
US forces are positioned and prepared to keep it that way.
Now we saw overnight Saturday into Sunday
the U.S. launched strikes on dozens of Iranian military targets after they say that Iran targeted
one of those commercial shipping vessels. Then the U.S. launching another round of strikes overnight
both aerial and sea drones. Now Iran has subsequently retaliated with attacks on U.S. military bases
in Gulf countries. But as we think about a path forward, the White House view here is that there
is a division amongst Iranian leadership. There are the moderates who believe that there should
would be a diplomatic path forward.
And there are the hardliners, which
say that Iran shouldn't have agreed
to this memorandum of understanding in the first place.
Now, critically, oil prices are continuing
to rise after a brief reprieve, up about $0.10,
in the last week or so, in price of crude oil, about 3% up.
So the midterm elections, just about four months away,
this all weighing on President Trump
as he weighs his path forward.
Kate.
Yeah, some critical decisions that need to be made very soon.
It's good to see you, Betsy.
Thank you very much.
I'm live from the White House Forest this morning.
Joining me right now is seeing a military analyst,
retired colonel Cedric Layton for more on this.
Colonel, what should everyone make
of what happened this weekend?
A weekend of strikes and counter strikes.
People seem to, I mean, as Alex Thompson was saying,
it's a ceasefire that's been full of fire.
But what do you make of what happened this weekend?
Yeah, good morning, Gene.
Well, Alex is exactly right, you know, it's ceasefire by any other name, is not what we're
seeing here.
And, you know, you're looking at this in a way that, you know, clearly points to an
intensification of U.S. efforts to really prevent the Iranians from closing down the
Strait of Hormuz.
So, basically, what's at stake here?
What we've got is a really a possible change in the whole precedent that you see when it
comes to the law of the sea, which is you need to have open waterways that are free,
you know, from a navigation stand.
Yeah. You saying that to Trump or you saying that to the IRGC, bro? Yeah. Trump pickaxe
mountain and an untouched nuclear facility believed to be more fortified than Isfahan
is a possible, you know, possible target for a nice big, fast shot right into the front
door. And I think that maybe you'll see that. I'll tell them right now, look, the fact is
they have no air force. They have no Navy. I like how he says right through the front door,
because he knows all they can do is fire at tunnel entrances. For context, this facility
was built at least 100 meters underneath the peak of a solid granite mountain called QA
like Cologne-Gazla or pickaxe just south of the Natanz facility, because Russia began
two years after Trump pulled out of the JCPOA and 90s after the GB57 was developed, they
can't get to it.
I mean, there's not even evidence that they can get to Isfahan or any number of different
the fucking facilities or at least the parts that are underground.
Mount QB Day, yeah, QB Day.
The skull measuring guys have reached a logical conclusion of their worldview, neoconservatism.
If I'm honest, I probably would have danced on Lindsey Graham's grave 20 years ago when
I defined myself as anti-war, but today I have a measured respect for him.
I now understand this is Richard Spencer.
But today I have a measured respect for him.
I now understand that neoconservantism is one of the handful of ideologies capable of
maintaining the world order and taking responsibility for America's power.
I've come to appreciate this, not so much through Trump's actions as president, as through
critically examining all those anti-war geopolitical ideologies that have formed on the right and
among America's enemies, which I might have been sympathetic two years ago.
Here are two cheers for Lindsey. You were on the wrong side of things so often, but on
the right side wouldn't matter for Europe. You were a man. Now, Richard Spencer is saying
this as a neo-Nazi, of course, is because of Lindsey Graham's work against a work in
Ukraine. Richard Spencer has become the average Ukraine flag in the bioliberal. It's not even
a joke. And of course, Hananya, your maturity and growth are an inspiration. Yeah. It's
not even a joke. These guys like, like Richard Spencer has talked about how Kamala Harris
is the, is the best path forward to maintain American military dominance because she'll
be competent. Unlike Donald Trump, who will fuck the bag up, which in some respects, I
guess if you're, if you care about maintaining American force projection capabilities, like
Yes, Donald Trump has been, has delivered a devastating blow to that, so there is that.
At a certain point, these reactionaries ultimately come back to neoconservatism through First
Principles, because neoconservatism is American military dominance, it's the American military
dominance doctrine. So why wouldn't you be a neocon? I guess the only reason why they
hated neocons is because of its association with Jews, right? That's what the, uh, that's
what the other side of this is, right? Good. We don't need the ICC. We have plenty of international
law at home. These guys don't believe that might make right because they hate when the
wrong people try to play by those rules. What they believe is a sort of white nationalist
end of history. The winners of the 20th century of divine right and the worst crime is not
not knowing your place. Yeah. But what they failed to comprehend is, we are living through
might makes right right now. As a matter of fact, we're lucky that Iran still doesn't
do the law, the jungle method. Okay. That's the other side of this story. We constantly
complain that Iran is playing by this new book. Okay. And it's not that they were willing
to play by might makes right. It's that they were forced to play by those rules, right?
They were forced into playing by those reserves, backed into a corner. Can you imagine if China
played by those rules? Please, for a brief moment, think about what the world would look
like if China played by America's rules in the way that these fucking dipshits are constantly
demanding. Now, these dipshits are utterly irrelevant, right? They're utterly fucking irrelevant.
They're just random Twitter users. They just demonstrate a growing ideology in the American
Netsick circles. But can you imagine a world where China plays by those rules? There's
one country that plays by those rules. That country is Russia, right? Russia plays by
those rules and we see what that looks like in Ukraine. Can you imagine if China operated
like Israel or the United States of America? There'd be war everywhere. There'd be permanent
war we wouldn't be I mean there'd probably be a nuclear holocaust
I like that people say oh China would be militarily sieging Taiwan
dog what are you talking about China would be sieging Japan
And South Korea, what the fuck do you mean Taiwan?
They already speak Chinese over there. They'd be making the Japanese speak Chinese
They would be planting their flag in Australia if China operated like America does
What do you mean Taiwan?
Wake up
There being a surgency in Hawaii
a significant attempt to do a Hawaiian separatist movement, like the possibilities are endless.
The only reason why America gets to still operate this way is because there are no foreign adversaries
that are willing to fight dirty in the way that America does, and even middle powers
like Iran are capable of becoming regional powers overnight when they choose to fight
back with a fraction of the intensity that America brings to the rest of the world.
And even then, Iran is still willing to play ball. They demonstrated that with the MOU,
right? They demonstrated that. They were still willing to trust us for some fucking insane
reason when we are not trustworthy people at all. We do not play by the rules.
And look where that look look how far that got them. What are they supposed to do?
This is what a lot of these fucking morons don't understand Richard Spencer and these other fucking idiots. They don't understand this
You don't want to live in that world. You want me you want to maintain some semblance of stability, right?
Well
This is where the no rules law the jungle takes us.
The point in the Street of Four Moos is a prime example of that. There are other
choke points around the world but this one is a very critical one because as we
famously talk about a 20% pre-war, about 20% of the world's oil goes through the
was through the Strait of Hormuz on its way to its final destination.
This is a critical waterway, and it's been one that the U.S. has recognized as a critical
waterway that needs to stay open for a very, very long time.
When you look at the oil price, you really see that there are some absolute economic
factors that are at play here, and they have, as we previously discussed, political implications,
as well as geo-strategic implications.
Mencom also said that the U.S. used one-way attack aerial drones, one-way attack sea drones
for the first time now in this war.
What does that indicate to you?
Well, they've learned a lot from the Ukrainians.
And from one standpoint, you're looking at this with the one-way attack aerial drones
as well as the sea drones.
We're moving into a different era of warfare.
And that is an era of automation, an era of robotics, and, of course, drones being part
of that.
So what we're trying to do is use as many types of weapons that we can without endangering
our air crews, our sailors, and all our other military personnel.
So the way that the U.S. is fighting this war is it really wants to automate this as
much as possible, put as few troops as possible in danger.
avoiding ground incursions and trying to open the strait without too much damage to our
forces and too much risk in terms of casualties.
Do you think we are to a point where people need to accept that the way negotiations are
going, the counter-attacks ceasefire that is full of fire, that Iran will have some control
over the Strait of Hormuz going forward
that they did not have before this war?
Because I'm curious what you see
when you look at the military aspect of this,
what more the United States can do
to get them to stop using that leverage?
Yeah, barring a ground encouragement
by taking over of territory on the Iranian side
of the Persian Gulf,
especially on the Iranian side of the Strait of Hormuz,
it really does look like there's going to be
some kind of acceptance of Iran's control, at least of the northern channel.
Now, that doesn't mean necessarily that's going to happen, but it seems like we're moving
in that direction.
And if we do move in that direction, that could have grave economic implications for
other areas, you know, straight up Malacca around Singapore.
You know, you've got the choke points in the South China Sea.
This is a critical area right here, and this will set a precedent for years to come.
for the globe. Colonel, it's great to see you. Thank you so much.
An unwelcome sight right here. You can see oil prices on the rise. Pretty significant jumps
overnight after the U.S. and Iran traded a new round of strikes. Iran has declared the
Strait of Hormuz closed. We should note these prices are still down quite substantially
from their wartime highs, but up from before the war, to be sure. Let's get to seeing
your business report of David Goldman on all this. And they're pointing upward right now.
that's the thing to remember. Yeah, I mean, this is not the direction that we want to see. Remember,
we were down close to $71 before this all started. So, you know, you're right. We were up to $112
at the peak, but $71 now we're talking about $7 and that's why you have gas prices starting to
rise right so seven cents is not nothing and we aren't even close to the 456 that we have at the
peak but we're still way above this 298 so we've got quite a ways to go to fall and we're going
in the wrong direction so what's going on here well there's a few things the first thing that you
have to remember is there's two ways in and out of the straight one is to hug this coast around Oman
and the other is to go around the coast of Iran.
And Iran really doesn't like it,
really doesn't like it when you hug the Omanin coast
because that's the route that they can't charge tolls on
eventually, they can't register you.
They want you going in and out of the coast
around their coast.
So what did they do?
Well, they started firing at ships.
And so the SETCOM said on Saturday,
well, they've violated the terms of the memorandum
of understanding.
Remember, that's what the president negotiated
about three weeks ago, and they are out of order.
Well, okay, so what does Iran do?
They said, well, the straits closed.
Then there's this change of tune, right?
No, no, no, the strait is open to all vessels.
Traffic is flowing.
Is it?
Well, not really.
So we had, on a normal day, we had around 100 vessels
that were transiting the strait.
We were down to 21 over the weekend.
And that's the entire weekend.
That's not just one day.
We had zero coming in to the strait.
That means that all of the oil that's trying to get out,
it can't go anywhere because it can't get on a ship.
So what does all of this mean for Iran?
Well, they're still getting their oil out.
one point three million barrels per day that is down from june certainly but it
is still a lot of oil coming
of the straight
for the guys that we don't want the oil coming up from
uh... so you can certainly see the situation is not what the united states
wants not what the united states thought
or tried to negotiate the memorandum understanding of course iraq
you know we're gonna talk about for the chambers of fucking insane story
It's yet another instance of government overreach, attacking, I'm going to skip the Fox News
real con on one, but, and we're going to get to Maine, ice agent shoots and kills Maine
and Bideford, Maine, sparking protests.
I guess before we do that, yeah, last but not least, to button this story, the story
on our strategic oil reserves, US Post's smallest weekly oil reserve draws since the initial
rollout of 172 million barrel SPR release.
The US withdrew 3 million barrels from the strategic petroleum reserve last week.
The smallest weekly draw since the release's initial ramp up in late March.
Reuters reports since early April, weekly withdrawals have ranged from $4.1 million to nearly
$10 million barrels.
The emergency stockpile now holds $316.5 million barrels as low as levels since April, 1983.
SBR inventories have fallen by 98.9 million barrels since the U.S. has really worn or
on began.
The slowdown raised the possibility that Washington is moderating withdrawals to avoid
Spooking oil markets and preserved leverage with Iran.
Some analysts have speculated that smaller SPR draw, even as far fewer vessels exit hormones
amid a new U.S. blockade in Iran, enclosure of the Shreyh suggests that SPR may be nearing
its operational minimum.
The lowest inventory threshold requiring to maintain the structural integrity, pipeline
pressure on physical capacity of the system to effectively distribute crude oil.
Analysts have suggested the minimum level may be around 150 to 300 million barrels.
300 is a critical line. 150 is when salt caverns start destroying itself, structural collapse
of the salt caverns.
Sankam said this weekend that 400 million barrels of oil have crossed the trade of
hormones as early May, equivalent to about 20 days' worth of pre-war crude flow.
The war has removed over 1 billion barrels of crude oil supply from the global markets
as the conflict began in late February 2026 Brent crude rose nearly 10% today, as of news
of the oil US blockade.
Trump is live taking questions.
Alright, we'll see what the fuck he has to say.
Okay, never mind.
we're going to move to Maine, Bitterford, Maine, but perhaps not yet.
He was a little tired and then this whole thing happened and it's boy it's tough.
So the flags are it has half mask until Saturday evening which is an extended
period of time you know generally speaking but I think he deserves it.
And he's a fantastic person.
He was a fantastic man.
He was actually a great politician.
He got along with almost everybody.
And when he didn't get along, they knew it.
He was tough, but he was a good man.
He was very much in favor of the Save America Act.
He called me about that.
We were talking about that and some other things.
But he just felt tired, but he felt fine.
And then this horrible thing happened just a short time
after.
terrible. I just want to pay our respects.
President, you mentioned that Iran is agreed to a deal and walked away from it. Have you
reached the conclusion that a negotiated settlement won't be able to happen?
No, I never reached that conclusion. But we're hitting them very heavy tonight, as you know.
We're hitting them. We have tremendous amounts of ammunition. We have numbers that we haven't
had in years. And we're hitting them very hard, and it will continue, and we'll see what happens.
But we're knocking out all of their offensive capability, and we're controlling the straits.
We're putting the blockade back.
And it's a blockade, not for anybody but Iran.
In other words, anybody doing business with Iran can't go through.
Everyone else will be able to go through.
So it's a blockade.
It's a versatile blockade.
The blockade was probably more effective even than hitting them, but I think the combination
is the thing that really does.
But you think it feels hostile if you don't return to them?
Yeah, I think it does, boss.
What's your idea?
Mr. President, you go to the United States.
It's bombing Iran again.
I mean, you've been bombing Iran for four months now.
He looks like shit.
He's sad of Lindsay's passing.
He lost one of his boyfriends.
We're here for four months.
So I think we've done a lot.
We knocked out their Navy in a period of one month.
We knocked out their Air Force.
Our Air Force is non-existent.
We knocked out most of their missiles, most of their drones.
We knocked out they had grown manufacturing capability
about 92 percent.
They had missile capability for manufacturing.
We knocked out 89 percent.
And they have a little capability,
but they don't have any capability for us.
This is almost a military skirmish.
Now, with all of that being said,
you have to get people that want to make something.
We had to deal with them two days ago.
And then they said, oh, we can't make that deal.
We have to negotiate it further.
And this is what they've done for 47 years.
Have I heard that Iran has been knocked out all day, every day?
I hear it nonstop.
This should have been done by Bush and Obama and Biden
and people before them.
Frankly, it's 47 years.
They've been ripping off everybody.
It really hurt again, killing thousands of people.
So they killed 52,000 protesters.
But they killed many, many people with Soleimani,
who I killed in the first term.
Soleimani killed many people.
Many, many people, and not only killed,
when you see a young former soldier walking around
with no legs, no arms, a face that's been horribly,
horribly hurt, that was done by Iran.
That was done by Salimani, who was a person that was very evil.
He was an evil genius.
He was a criminal.
The father of the roadside bomb.
He was an evil genius in Iraq and Iran.
And I got him before he got us.
So we had to do what we're doing.
And the Strait is open. It will be open.
We've cut down their capability very substantially,
but they're going to fight for a while.
Our military has done a fantastic job.
And you know the bottom line, though,
and I say it to everybody,
and I say it as much as you want to listen,
Iran will not have a nuclear weapon.
If we didn't bomb them with the B-2 bombers,
that plane right there, if we didn't bomb them,
they would have had a nuclear weapon long ago.
One month, within one month, from the day we
bombed them, they would have had a nuclear weapon.
If they had a nuclear weapon, Israel would no
longer be with us.
And the Middle East probably would no longer be with us.
We just saw they sent missiles to five different
countries that never even knew they were involved
because they're stone cold, crazy.
They are crazy, and we're not going to put it up.
Yeah, I want to be reimbursed because we're
protecting a very rich portion of the world.
spending money and so what we've done is we are going to be reimbursed for
protection we're protecting by the countries that we're helping for
instance you look at the five countries you have Saudi Arabia you have UAE
it's gonna be really funny having Mark Ruta try to convince all the NATO
countries that it's actually better to pay 20% to the United States of America
than 2% to Iran very well but we think it's appropriate that we don't need them
You know, we have more oil than any other country in the world.
When you add Venezuela, which has been amazing,
when you would taste tremendous amounts of oil that we control,
when you add Venezuela and everything else,
we have more than 50% of the world supply.
We don't need it, but we need it from the standpoint
of protecting allies, et cetera, et cetera,
including Israel, including Saudi Arabia, including Qatar,
including UAE.
We're protecting all of them,
and we've done a very effective job.
So, four months ago, these people had military that was very strong, by far the strongest,
probably in the Middle East.
They were called the bully of the Middle East.
Now they don't have a navy.
They have 159 ships underwater.
They had a total of 159 ships.
Now every one of them is underwater.
They had 230 airplanes, attack planes.
They're all gone.
They're all, they're gone.
They had tremendous radar.
It's all gone.
They had tremendous anti-aircraft.
all gone.
Sadly, their leadership is all gone.
Their first tier leaders are all dead.
Their second tier leaders are all dead.
Their third tier leaders, who we're dealing with,
more or less, some of them are already gone.
And then you read fake news, like your network, CNN,
which is fake news.
You read them, you have them say, well, actually,
aren't they doing quite well?
Let me just say they have now inflation of over 300%.
Four months ago, that inflation of 5 percent,
now they're at over 300, it could be 350 percent.
They made a deal, they broke it, probably 10 times.
And they killed a lot of people.
They killed our people.
But the protesters, what they've done to the protesters,
52,000 — have you ever seen any of the burial lots
where they're doing, where they're burying the protesters?
They killed 52,000 protesters.
And on my watch, they can't do any of that.
So we have them in a position that they don't have any military.
There's not a thing they can do about it.
All they have is fake news.
I can't believe he keeps repeating this.
I see us lose the war, then win the war, which is really treasonous, which is really treasonous
in a certain way.
So we're doing another major attack tonight.
They want to make a deal.
They came back.
We made a deal two days ago, and they want to make a deal.
they've been negotiating for 47 years,
but nobody's ever hit that militarily.
We're hitting them very hard.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you.
The number is so crazy
because it just increases and decreases.
Like sometimes he says 80,000,
And then other times he'll say, today he's at 52,000.
It's wild.
Um, yeah, apparently he posted this video where he says democratic socialism must be
criminalized, leaders must be deported.
by Savage Nation by Michael Savage.
The video concludes an explicit call to action criminalized democratic socialism, arrest
the leaders and deport them save America while you still can.
He'd never do that to Zoran.
all I'm going to say. Michael Savage is still alive, apparently, yeah.
So, in Maine, another place where ICE is operating and with no authority whatsoever, but absolute
intensity, IceAge is killed, another person, unfortunately.
Let's take a look.
and ice agent shoots and kills a man in Bideford.
We have team coverage.
From the scene where multiple shots were fired
at around eight o'clock this morning.
To the protest and rally against ice
with a community calling for answers and change.
Main again in the national spotlight
and we're getting new details and responses.
The news, a person is dead after that shooting
involving federal ice agents.
Thank you for joining us first and for Megan Torgerson.
on Kathleen Jordan. We know this happened at the intersection of whole street and Hill Street
in Bideford. Members of that community are still shaken up this afternoon. We want to get right
to John Creos who is leading our coverage from Bideford right now where the community is set
to gather for a vigil in just a few hours. John, what do we know at this point?
Kathleen, you mentioned that vigil now set for seven o'clock and learning just about an hour ago
here this afternoon. The main attorney general's office is now part of this investigation
And here at Mechanics Park, you can see the crowd gathering already those protesters there on the street corner.
They are demanding answers, holding signs, trying to understand how a reported immigration operation ended with a man dead just a few blocks away from where we are here.
This incident putting Maine back in the national spotlight, and the conversation once again over immigration enforcement.
You may remember in January, ICE agents spread out across Maine for that controversial operation catch of the day.
So here this afternoon, we have all angles covered.
We do have that team coverage for you today,
Norah Hogan tracking protests and the vigils
in the community here at the park.
Bonnie Bishop following local lawmaker reaction,
but we will start with Ronnie Perrillo here first at four,
who is on Pool Street,
learning more details about the shooting.
And so Ronnie, that man not identified here yet
this afternoon, but we are hearing
from two immigrants rights groups
who are saying that he was a 26 year old man from Columbia.
that's right John and now
federal officials are on scene
investigating the shooting that involved
immigration and customs enforcement this
morning and the main attorney general's
office says it also is investigating
today. This all happened shortly after
eight o'clock this morning right here at
the corner of Pool and Hill streets in
the city of Bittiford. Neighbors telling
us they heard at least four gunshots
ring out. The AG's office says an ice
agent was conducting a final order of
removal on a man in the country
in the country illegally when a man who was driving a white Kia drove towards the officer and tried to flee.
That's what officials say the officer fired at the driver and killed him.
Now we do know that Kia is registered to a Jonathan Ramirez of Bideford.
It's not clear right now if Ramirez was the driver of that vehicle at the time of the shooting.
Now we spoke with a neighbor today shaken up by what happened just feet from the place that she calls home.
see a small white car being corralled by two men trying to stop it from losing control around the
intersection. And it drove toward the officer and tried to flee is a narrative that doesn't make
sense. And it's also what you hear from local news when the local news just places a higher order
of emphasis on the official organs of the government and their press releases,
even after the 700th time that ICE has lied.
ICE has done this over and over again. This just happened. This just happened in Texas.
There's also video footage of the event once again. It's horrifying. They not only shoot them
and kill them, but they slam his lifeless body and his head into the concrete afterwards.
26-year-old man in Maine. His wife and child were in the car. He had the proper paperwork
to work in the United States of America for the record. They shot him. They slammed his
head into the concrete, his lifeless body, and then they handcuffed his lifeless body.
King has come out and confirmed that the man shot and killed in Maine by ICE was not even the target
of the warrant. And even if he was the target of a warrant, by the way, this is disproportionate
use of force. This is completely unacceptable. Gestapo, abolish, punish. We have to maintain
law and order. As long as ICE exists, there is no law and order. It's that simple.
How many murders a week do we have to get to before people start saying, okay, this
is actually fucked up?
All of a sudden, all these plainclothesed vested men started running down the street
of ending classic department Ole Miss.
Secretary Mark, when Mullin is informed me to the Boston office of the DHS inspector,
general has taken over the investigation in the bit of her shooting in cooperation with
the FBI.
There you go.
Another cover up.
There you go.
Another fucking cover up.
Fuck you, Susan Collins.
Gools.
Absolute fucking Gools.
Hold on.
I don't want to see this.
be a update new video shows ice agents running alongside the car the video does
not show the agents in danger of being run over agents shot and killed the
driver witnesses say they heard four shots
I'm not even mentioning the conditions of people once they are detained, yes.
That's on the videos already the video is already the lifeless body going in circles in the car
Oh, they had shot him by the time that the car was going in circles. Is that what you're saying?
Wait, hold on. Oops
There's unfortunately
The footage probably shows the body so I don't want to show it.
Anthony Emerson says just a reminder that the state legislature passed a law prohibiting local police from working with ICE but Janet Mills refused to sign it so it won't go into effect until the end of this month.
Yeah, his three-year-old was in the car and so was his wife.
And they dragged his lifeless body out of the car and handcuffed the corpse.
Yeah. Standardized procedure.
Their cars kind of everywhere with regular people behind them.
And John, like you said, we do know that the man involved, according to an
immigrants rights group, was a 26 year old from Columbia, but that's all we know.
Law enforcement not releasing any names right now.
The AG's office also telling us this afternoon that main state police,
Soco police and Bideford police are all involved in this investigation.
John. Okay, Ronnie, thank
you. You can probably hear
those no ice protesters behind
me here this afternoon and
vehicles also driving by
beeping their horn, some in
support, others screaming out
the windows that the
protesters should go home
and not be here. Um, so you
hear those community members
ticking to the streets,
calling for ice to get out of
Maine. That is the message
here this afternoon. Nora
Hogan, she is here as well
with those protests all day,
Nora, we've seen this crowd
grow and evolve over the day.
Still people are growing crowd here in Mechanics Parks.
What are you hearing from where you are
and how have these protests kind of changed
throughout the day?
Yeah, John, well, there are still people here
in Mechanics Park, as you pointed out.
They started gathering around 11 this morning,
slowly growing.
By noon, half the park was full of people lining the streets.
They started marching up Main Street
before gathering out in the street
in front of Senator Susan Collins' office
and then moving back here to continue their day.
I briefly caught up with the police chief.
Police officers have been stationed
around the city directing traffic when necessary.
The police chief tells me she's happy to report
that protesters have remained peaceful.
Today, those protesters are speaking up
for their immigrant friends and neighbors here in Binoford
and calling for accountability from elected officials
in the wake of this killing.
And I want our state to really take measures
to ensure that everybody is safe,
no matter who they are in this state.
And until that happens,
we can't say that this place is safer all the way.
And coming up at 430,
we'll actually take a look at why this site
plays an important and interesting role
in the history of Bedouford that bears a lot of relevance
for protesters here today.
For now, back to you, John.
Okay, Nor, thank you.
We hear that beeping as well.
Not sure if you can hear that at home,
but that is a public work truck,
which appears to be setting up some kind of barricades,
some concrete barricades,
so we'll keep you posted as we see more
about what's happening over there as the night progresses.
But at least two members of Maine's congressional delegation
saying that body-worn cameras are needed in situations
just like this one.
But Senator Angus King telling us today
that body cameras were not used during today's shooting.
Bonnie Bishop is covering that part of the story
here this afternoon.
She joins us from the ICE detention facility in Scarborough,
So Bonnie, what are you hearing from them?
Well, John, Senator King says that he's worried
that they weren't wearing body cameras today,
saying that's something that they should have had on them
from the start.
Now, this all comes after Congress passed legislation
funding DHS, ICE, and border protection
through the end of President Trump's term
just over a month ago.
That $70 billion package includes funding
for body-worn cameras.
Congressman Jared Golden voted no on this,
as well as Congresswoman Shelley Pingree,
Senator King voted no,
and Senator Susan Collins voted yes.
Senator Collins is weighing in today,
calling for a quote,
full and impartial investigation.
Governor Janet Mills says situations like these
are frightening,
and we haven't heard from Golden just yet,
but here is more from King.
Literally every single person that's like fake complaining
right now is responsible for this happening, by the way.
Like from Janet Mills,
Refusing to sign into law, local police refusal cooperation with ICE, down to obviously Senator
Susan Collins who is pro-ICE, every single one of these people is responsible.
Monsters, all of them, fucking monsters dude.
In Pingree.
We've been told that body cameras would be widely distributed.
The secretary told me that they're on order, that they have been distributed widely across
the country, but not everywhere, and apparently not in Vitaford, Maine.
We had the catch of the day that went on in Maine, and people thought when they cleared
out and we rounded up 200 people who had been removed from our state that it was over.
But we know through our office, because we have a steady stream of people coming into
our office with concerns that ICE is still operating in our state at a fairly high level.
and John you touched on operation catch of the day that happened earlier this
year. I asked Senator King if that's what we're going to be seeing again in
the near future. He told me that he would be following up on that question
with DHS back to you.
Okay, Bonnie, thank you. So again, just to recap here that vigil the next big
thing happening at seven o'clock tonight, but again, those protests
continuing now expected to continue till at least then as we do wait to learn
more about what happened e
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I heard a gunshot. I thoug
and then I kept hearing t
a drive-by shooting and so I get up and look out the window and I see a small
white car being corralled by two men trying to stop it from losing control
around the intersection and all of a sudden all these plainclothes vested
men started running down the street abandoning their cars kind of everywhere
with regular people behind them and I didn't see him the white car that's in
front of his vehicle it was he just came and I'm solely just wedged it close like
the car wasn't out of control that I saw and that's that's what I saw until EMS
arrived pretty late and the bus
them hold up to the side
street there. And that's when
they kind of shut everything
down. Learning what what
happened. What goes through
your mind, especially, you
know, living right where it
happened, right in front of
where it happened. Um, you
know, it shatters the illusion
that Maine is safe. This is my
home of 34 years and with
loosening happening and you
hear about the violence that
happens everywhere else and you're ignorant to think that it can't happen
here and it's really upsetting that like you don't think about it until it does
happen here. I don't know what he did but he didn't deserve to be executed in
the street. I didn't hear anything until the gunshot so I don't know anything
other than that he's dead. No I didn't. The car pretty much effectively blocked
it really well. But like it wasn't it wasn't like a high speed crash or anything. It just
was like a gentle wedge and then like men were walking up with you know cases and stuff
and that's all I was able to see fortunately. Did you notice anything identifiable with
the authorities that were involved here? Whether it be DHS or ICE, could you tell who they
I saw the green vests and the yellow writing, but at the time it wasn't really like processing exactly
who it was until there was a man here recording as well who confirmed it was ice.
Like it definitely crossed my mind, but like when he said that, that's when it became like real.
That detail, understanding that this apparently was a deadly ice shooting, did you have any reaction to that?
about the portion of this?
It's just hard because you know how ignorant people are
and how many people are gonna say
that this man deserved to die.
So I guess that's,
that's what I'm struggling with the most,
I guess is you read ignorantly online,
everything that is happening,
and it's like, you weren't there,
you don't know what happened.
So yeah, I guess I mean, think about the fact that this person just
watched the state assassinate a neighbor in broad daylight in
front of a 26 year old in front of his wife in front of his
three year old child. And that already is traumatizing in and
of itself. But on top of that, on top of that, she is so
Inundated with like the the Asim and Gold style commentary that she's literally like one of the worst aspects of this
Aside from the the trauma aside from the violence that we're experiencing is that people normalize it
America is so fucked dude so completely fucked. It's just like
I'm just sad to know that ignorance is still alive
Bitterford is a diamond in the rough, it is one of the last affordable places to live.
Everywhere else is sky high, that's why I'm here.
I don't know how long I'll be able to afford to live here.
This is a safe space.
I walk at all hours in the morning, at night.
I trust my neighbors, I know the family next door.
I, for someone who hasn't been here, like, it's just a small little mean town.
It's nothing different or scary.
I don't know.
Well, I heard the pop, pop, pop sound and I didn't know what it was because I thought
it was fireworks and it didn't make any sense.
So I went to the third floor window that overlooks that street.
And I could see a small sedan turned 90 degrees to the curb and an SUV like behind it, a kitty corner to it.
He started coming down the street again, driving, I don't know how.
And then the SUV hit him again, he tried to...
And then that's when he stopped.
Ice agent got out, tried to open the door, had a difficult time, and eventually opened it and pulled the guy out.
His face was bloody, his head was bloody.
And I clearly heard the victim say, I tried to stop. Clearly, he's heard him say that.
The ice agent that shot him, walked right in front of me.
And of course I had him. I was emotional and I just let him have it.
And he looked at me and he said he tried to run me over or something to that effect.
I don't remember his exact words.
There was another Ice Agent with him that was trying to comfort him and they walked
away.
We're going to begin though.
I know you know this.
Once it's established that one Ice Asian can get away with claiming that they were in fear of their life because there was a potential vehicular manslaughter incident, everyone else tries it.
Susan Collins's office has had to have a heavy police presence apparently because people
are protesting outside our office.
He's gonna be arrested! We're not looking at him!
Are you guys gonna go arrest the murderer down the fucking street again in your job?
No, sir! No, sir!
It's just Friday property.
It's just a property?
Yeah, just Friday property? Is that a fucking story?
Okay, leave the guy alone!
No, sir!
No, sir!
I'm killing him!
No, sir!
No, sir!
No, sir!
Anyway, this is what Troy Jackson's response was
We just got the sad news that it looks like there's been yet another deadly shooting and ice was involved
This time it was right in our backyard in Bitterford
My heart is with the people of Bitterford the people of Maine
You know, they need answers. We all need answers and we deserve to know what happened here
So, we're going to go down to be with the community in Bifford at McCanks Park at noon.
If you're able to, please join us.
Yeah, David J. Beer says, looks like another racial profiling incident gone wrong.
Second time in as many weeks, the ICE agents have killed someone who they were not even
targeting.
If they were not important enough to seek out specifically, how could they be important
enough to kill if they fled.
Reliable witness though, Mullin told him the man was the target of a deportation effort.
Mullin later called King with new information he had received a spokesman for the senator
said.
Yeah, I know Troy Jackson went to the rally in the morning, or at 12, 12pm.
I mean, how can you see what's happening here and recognize it as anything but straight
forward fascism?
I don't understand.
It's fascism abroad with what Israel is doing.
It's fascism abroad with what we're doing in Iran.
And it's fascism here at the domestic level with what ICE is doing.
It's just like a permamilitary occupation led by some of the dumbest individuals, some
of the dumbest, most racist individuals who have no business running around with weapons,
let alone, you know, training those guns on people and shooting them and killing them.
There's no accountability whatsoever.
This is expected of them.
And the federal government comes in and protects these fucking agents and protects this agency
in its entirety because this is a part of the job.
Make no mistake.
This is very much a part of the job.
It's very much a part of the expectations that ICE is supposed to be this violent, ruthless,
Racist paramilitary force that's completely unaccountable that just goes around and targets random people that they declare on the spot are our enemies of the state that deserve lethal, lethal intervention.
And any time this happens, local law enforcement wants to cover it.
Local law enforcement obviously has jurisdiction to cover this murder and yet the American
government intervenes, the federal government kicks in and says, no, you can't touch it.
You can't touch these people because it's their job.
There is a little bit of honesty in that.
The problem is their job is evil.
Their job is to do this kind of violence.
It's unacceptable.
And we have to stop it.
That's why it's obviously unbelievably important that you join these protest movements.
You join Ice Watch in your communities.
I don't know what else to say man
ZBS news with gross headlines. What is this a man? It was ordered leave the US was shot and killed in the car
That's not even true
No, they literally said it was the wrong guy
Now, they're making up for it by saying no, never mind, he was also, he is the target
actually.
An ICE officer fatally shot a Mexican migrant in Houston with authorities later admitting
that the victim was not being sought in an enforcement operation.
CBS News immigration correspondent Camilo Montoya-Galvez joins me now from New York.
Camilo, what do we know?
Hi, Major.
More than nine hours after this latest fatal shooting involving an ice officer this time
in Maine, the Department of Homeland Security has yet to issue a public comment or statement.
And so we did not yet have the official accounting of what actually transpired this morning in
Maine.
As you know, this is the latest fatal shooting involving an ice officer.
We saw a fatal ice involved shooting in Houston, Texas last week.
And that took the life of a Mexican immigrant who had no criminal record.
In this case in Maine, we are told by local authorities that the person who died was a
Colombian immigrant in his 20s.
We do not know whether he was in the country with a deportation order or without permanent
legal status according to immigration advocates as you underscored.
He had work authorization that allowed him to work in the US legally, but the Department
of Homeland Security has yet to comment on that.
But we do know, according to the-
Also, we had a permanent work- also, we had a work authorization.
Why does it matter?
It doesn't.
But it makes it even worse.
It's already completely unacceptable across the board.
Even if he was illegal, it's still unacceptable.
we doing? That's not the rules. Nobody said it's appropriate to just go up and start fucking
doming random brown people. And yes, they kill US citizens as well. That's why we have to
fucking put an end to this goddamn nonsense.
Well, office of the main attorney general, which is also conducting its own investigation
into this fatal shooting this morning, major, is that according to ICE, the subject who
who was shot attempted to flee that operation
in the direction of an officer.
And that prompted the ICE officer to discharge his weapon.
That is the accounting from the office
of the main attorney general.
We should also underscore that just like the incident
last week major in Houston,
Senator Angus King and independent is saying that
according to a conversation he had
with Homeland Security Secretary Mark Wayne Mullen,
none of the ICE agents were wearing body cams
during this incident.
that, of course, will raise a lot of questions about transparency and whether or not officials
can actually and quickly determine what actually unfolded on the ground major.
return out of
the morning on
no we shouldn't wait for the fact the facts are
that they're doing things illegally protests are already gathering a bit of her despite lack of details surrounding today's eyes involved shooting
oh yeah main wire isn't this the fucking uh
the the outlet that was almost entirely dedicated until recently to to uh grand platner
yeah i'm fairly certain they designed this before the credible accusations far before the
credible accusations this outlet was almost entirely dedicated to to grand platner like
reporting on grand platner so what do you got going on here this is for
ice to get out of our fucking city. They just shot and killed another innocent person for
no reason other than they're not white.
Did you have that sign already made up for that?
Yes I did. I went to know Kings 3, Berbing!
Alright, so I'm a member of the media. I don't have any of the details. What details do you have?
Only based on what I've seen and just...
Dog, you saw someone get gunned down in the middle of the street by a fucking member of
federal law enforcement.
That's it.
That's the details that you need to know.
You fucking piglet.
What are you talking about?
There's a dead body.
There's a 26-year-old who got murdered in broad daylight.
That's an injustice, no matter what.
Okay.
Like there are very few circumstances where ice just shoots someone and it's like it favors the ice agent.
Okay.
Very few.
Like he had to have been straight up like armed, brandishing a weapon, trying to fucking kill cops or something, trying to kill children.
I don't know.
Like, not gonna say there's no circumstances, but those circumstances are unbelievable.
These guys make it seem like every time ice shoots and kills someone. That's what's going on. It's crazy. That hasn't happened once yet
That hasn't happened once
Bro, there aren't circumstances where a civil issue should even include people with guns.
No, I know.
There are no circumstances where a civil issue should include people with guns.
I'm saying like law enforcement in general have valid reasons to engage people with lethal
action, but it's insanely rare.
The point I'm making is, there's no instance where ICE should have a weapon.
It's a civil disobedience.
It's paperwork, okay?
That's all this is, is a paperwork violation.
And this person had the paperwork.
This person had the fucking permit.
What a fucking disaster man we live in such a goddamn cruel we live in such a cruel system
Now, Gordon attributes to South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham.
After his sudden death, flags have been lowered to half staff in his honor, including at the
White House.
Now, Graham was a close ally, President Trump.
His office says that he died early Saturday night.
He had just returned from a visit to Ukraine.
The preliminary cause they say is a tear in the main artery from the heart.
Katelyn Huey Burns is in Washington with the latest. Katelyn, good morning to you.
Good morning to you, Gail. Well, everyone here is shocked, and we're hearing from former presidents,
including Democrat Joe Biden, who served with Graham here in the Senate.
He said that across their political differences, they did agree on the profound importance of public
service. And Republican George W. Bush hailed Graham as a kind and funny man who loved our
and loved serving it and President Trump said that he spoke with Graham on
Saturday night just before he died and he said his once political rival turned
ally was like a member of the family flags are half staff this morning in a
stunned Washington DC following Senator Lindsey Graham's sudden death he
sounded a little tired but perfect President Trump told me the press
Sunday he spoke to Graham before he died Saturday night after the senator
returned from a diplomatic visit to Ukraine. He was like a member of the
family and it's very tough actually. The four-term Republican senator from
South Carolina was a former military lawyer and retired Air Force Colonel
known as a foreign policy hawk. He served as a US congressman for eight years
before he was elected to the Senate in 2002. On Sunday colleagues from both sides
of the aisle paid tribute. No better friend, no tougher adversary. Graham launched a presidential
bid in June 2015. I have more experience with our nationals. Do every time they do this kind of
coverage about like another fucking piece of shit senator that dies, another war criminal, I'm like
you're really not with us, huh? You just not with us. You're not with the people at all.
Y'all are living on a totally separate planet where you're like, oh, dude, he was so good.
He was a joy to play bridge with.
It's like, well, I don't care, man.
Just be like, yeah, we had a lot of disagreements.
This is like this guy's a fucking monster dude
Your friends might get you to actually become a shipping magnet every day
I pay for MOF SG to help rich businessmen who yearns to bring jobs wealth and prosperity the great nation of Singapore
I said as an international shipping man, I'm quite disturbed by the consistent cyber-cyber harassment and defamation happening by this man in Singapore, a nation I love, it's making me reconsider doing business in Singapore.
Yeah.
The fact that the beautiful nation state of Singapore is refused to take action against the cyber criminal
puts me at, makes me truly uneasy.
Security than any other candidate in this race.
But he dropped out just seven months later as Donald Trump rose to the top of the race for the GOP nomination.
He's a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot.
Yeah, it is kind of wild, by the way. 26 year old with a, with a permit for working on US soil gets gunned down in the middle of the street and every, every one of these same media outlets are rushing to defend the Department of Homeland Security.
Lazy Graham, who is a demon, who was a demonic entity, through and fucking through, who basically
got his life force from the charred flesh of children, whose deaths he celebrated excitedly,
whose deaths and destruction he pushed for every day that he was in office.
He does the Asia 71 and I was like, this is a disaster.
What a catastrophe.
I can't believe it.
Our priorities are warped, man.
Like I get it, he's famous in comparison to this other guy, but you're far closer to
the 26-year-old that got gunned down by ICE than you are to Lindsey Graham.
And 26-year-old who got gunned down by ICE has had no adverse impact on your life.
As a matter of fact, just a regular dude, Lindsey Graham on the other hand has.
Fun fact, Meet the Press has it out of Palestinian or Palestinian American guests in over seven
years.
Rashida Tlaib was last time in May 2019.
And eventually became a strong Trump ally.
He was a staunch advocate for the president's Supreme Court picks, notably now Justice Brett
Kavanaugh, as Senate Democrats tried to block his nomination.
What you want to do is destroy this guy's life, hold this seat open, and hope you win in 2020.
He also advised the president on key foreign policy matters, most recently as a defender
of the U.S. war with Iran. If they can't reach a deal acceptable to him, then he should finish.
Haha, it's the hinders don't seem the grass power shaming works sharing screens
Screenshots of public was shooting on Lizzie Graham doesn't shame the OP because everyone hates Lindsey Graham much like how?
Exposing post shooting on Israel doesn't shame the OP because everyone now hates Israel
Wow wait, why didn't he post me kind of fucked up
Wait, he didn't even post me
what the fuck I said some shit too
ayo chill
you fell off no I didn't I fell on Facebook or not Facebook sorry dog Fox news covered it Fox news covered it Fox news covered it be real be real be for real be for real be for real Fox news covered it
Okay, boxing's covered it. Suck me. Yeah, look, see, Farley Schumer, Hassan Parker
calls Lindsey Graham, bloodthirsty, odious monster.
Farley Schumer, Hassan Parker called a late Senator, Lindsey Graham, RSC, bloodthirsty,
among other names in a video posted on his YouTube channel on Sunday after the Senator
died on Saturday, a brief and sudden illness. We'd like to take a look at the true worth
of a man. Well, let's take a look at what these members of Congress have actually done.
Not the way that they covered a mainstream media, but instead the way of what their
impact is, the way it should be covered. I'll start off by saying Lindsey Graham in a long
list of demonic entities was exceptionally bloodthirsty, a bloodthirsty Odea's monster
who loved war. There was never a word that Lindsey Graham did not fall in love with. He
Beast mode.
Lindsey Graham is pro-life and yet Lindsey Graham has died.
Now today we're going to be talking about his legacy as many of the Al-Sar Russians talk
about Lindsey Graham's background and how wonderful of a guy he is and how awesome he
was in polite conversations.
We of course don't do that here on the awesome Iraq as he said.
Michael was among several political commentators who jumped on Graham after his death.
That's it.
I said he was pro-life, but he died.
There was more.
They just, they quoted just Lamal.
I did say LaMalle.
What are the comments?
Probably negative.
I mean, people who post on fucking Fox News, ironically left to describe this piker guy
as a kingmaker.
And here I thought they were against kings.
Oh my God, you're so stupid.
I can honestly say that when politicians for whom I have the most to stand and discuss,
someday pass away, I will not celebrate their death.
Okay, well, you're fucking, you're a bitch. Okay. That's
Piper and his ilk are discussing hateful and hollow and soulless when the far right and far left agree on something anti-semitism is almost
Always the common denominator. Wait, really?
We were anti-semitically hating on Lindsey Graham
Lindsey Graham
United auto workers sends a cease and desist letter to the Haley sieve and super PAC for using their logo in her ad
nice
They posted the same shit on Facebook and you're getting universal praise let's go
Once again
In the in the universe that we live in now
It's not it's not about whether you're Jewish or not Brad lander is Jewish
right? Brad Lander is very Jewish. He grew up in a Jewish neighborhood. It's, you know,
the culture and the religious stuff is important to him. But now that he's like critical of
Israel, he's not Jewish any longer. Lindsey Graham on the other hand, not Jewish at all,
But he's pro-Israel, so he's more Jewish than Brad Lander is.
It's the job.
President Trump had endorsed Graham's reelection bid for what would have been his fifth term in the Senate.
Last month, Graham said this about security.
Yeah, Haley Stevens.
Haley Stevens, not Jewish.
But because she's pro-Israel, the more pro-Israel someone is, the more Jewish they are.
Amy Siskin came out and was criticizing people for shitting on Hailey Stevens and then said
they're all anti-Semitic for shitting on Hailey Stevens.
Amy Siskin looked at Hailey Stevens' level of support for Israel and just assumed like
she has to be Jewish, I guess, which is inherently anti-Semitic.
During the Republican nomination, President Trump, I'm coming, I don't want to fucking
hear this shit anymore.
Fuck Lindsey Graham.
My phone is one of his best friends, President Donald Trump.
Oh my God.
Oh, what an L for Lindsey Graham.
What an L for everybody involved.
Your best friend, President Donald Trump.
Oh, let's hear what South Carolina residents had to say.
They're going to be like, wait.
was my senator I thought he was the senator of Tel Aviv of course whining
about civility yeah I don't give a fuck yeah I got up and my husband told me so
I just immediately just started praying for him it's all you can't do wait what
do you mean is that he's dead how does that work human being and you just pray
for it okay well I'm not Christian well I just I'm not very religious you in
general do you pray for someone after they died I thought you were praying like
so he doesn't die it's like too late right you pray oh you pray for him to go
to heaven okay well that's definitely not gonna happen lady you vet never mind I
had been and kind of wasn't and then voted for him anyway just because I
I really believe what he was doing for the people of Iran was a good thing.
So I voted for him for that.
Well, I think he leaves behind a legacy, you know, like any politician that's been in office as long as he has.
I'm not a supporter of his policies, so, you know, I don't really care about that.
But again, sad to see him die.
He's conservative. He doesn't mind speaking his mind in the Senate. His foreign policy
is pretty much where I stand for his taxation. He's conservative. Overall values. You know,
he initially, uh, uh, replay our step to Trump because Trump's made some bad decisions
put it in the day. Yeah, well, you know, it's foreign policies where I stand. I love I love
Israel too. So he supported the foreign policy as far as Iran and things of that nature. So
I hope we get the opportunity to vote for the person that's going to take its place and that
that we really find out who they are because, you know, it's a hard decision when you know
and you know what you like about him, you know what you don't like about him and he's
proved himself in a lot of ways over all the years.
He's got a big track record.
You plan on rolling out to Michigan again?
Yes, I am.
I am going to make my way back to Michigan, of course.
I plan on going to Wisconsin too.
I plan on going to Michigan and I plan on going to Wisconsin.
Yeah, bro.
I'm disappointing for this lady.
Oh, Darlene Graham Nardone will be sworn in the U.S.
Senate on Tuesday.
Dude, what the fuck is going on in America, dude?
In that while that we're just like, oh yeah, the senator died.
Fuck it.
Make his sister a senator.
Make his sister daughter his senator.
That's right.
Many people might not know this, but Lindsey Graham.
It's actually one of the few good things that he's ever done in his life,
but Lindsey Graham's parents died at an early age.
So we had to take care of his sister.
So he he he actually became her legal guardian.
Yeah.
Like literally became his her her father.
With legal paperwork.
Oh, OK, that's sweet.
Yeah, he's a fucking demon. Who cares?
Not to have a track record. It's gonna be kind of hard to know who to vote for
Did you hear this in
Comments on Parker's about the Fafo with Pete Hags that that's so awesome
I love that Dan Bongino used to be the deputy director of the FBI and now he sits around in his fucking dumb ass studio
And makes YouTube videos in the same way the Asmongold does but it only gets to like 68,000 viewers
If this doesn't result in a massive lawsuit like what are you doing man you're fucking
bitching and moaning and complaining that the secretary war is to sue the secretary
for the secretary war with credible rape allegations as the sue me for calling it out this shit
was covered in every news outlet the fuck do you mean don't you feel like he's got more
important things going on like a fucking war happening. He's a god named secretary war
dumbass, not a fucking podcaster like you. Shut up.
Democratic Socialism getting leeway here in New York and as social.
He's free now. Yeah, I know, I know, I know, let him live his life. I know, I know, I know.
I know my man is free. This is why he left his fucking job at the FBI so we could do
this shit.
Most ideas begin to sweep the nation
Democrat governor Gavin Newsom is calling to unify all spectrums of the left to keep Democrats in office
You know when I ran for mayor just for what it's worth. I ran against a member of the Green Party
Which was you know, I aspects of your tie too wide. No, it's not
This is old-school time. I don't wear skinny tight the DSA that we know it today
There's so many aspects of the debates and arguments today that are just deeply familiar
and I think it's a very healthy thing.
I'm one of those Democrats that deeply believes
in addition, not division.
And so I want a big 10 party.
I want to win.
Our next guest has worked on dozens of Democratic Socialist
campaigns in the co-chairs of the New York City DSA,
the largest chapter of the Democratic Socialist
in America.
Grace Mauser joins us now.
Grace, thank you for being here.
And you heard Gavin Newsom there.
I want to start with the remarkable success
that Democratic Socialist candidates have had,
not just here in New York, but across the nation,
in Pennsylvania, and Colorado, and elsewhere.
But when you hear establishment Democrats,
and others like Ikeem Jeffries,
and Chuck Sheen were here in New York,
it seems that you guys don't have room for them
in your future.
I would argue the opposite in many ways.
My minority leader Jeffries and other pundits
who have made these comments treat us as a hostile force,
but the reality is that we're very serious about winning,
which is why we often run in democratic primaries,
but we're also very serious about governing.
And that means creating allyships,
creating partnerships, building coalition
with people who are excited
about the type of economic populism that we put forward.
And building allies like perhaps Governor Newsom,
if he's interested in things like universal healthcare,
reduced cost childcare, affordable housing,
these are things that we want to do because our primary goal is improving
american lives
but but
ultimately at the foundation there are so many americans they'd hear the word
socialism and they're afraid that grace
because you
have uh... led americans to believe that there's some effort to transform
capitalism into socialism
to move from individualism to collectivism is that the goal
so many people even those who might not
yet identify as a socialist or are scared of socialism as a concept, understand that what's
happening in our economy now is not working for them. They can't afford their house,
they can't afford childcare, they can't afford education.
But they're trying to get to the American dream even if they're struggling and socialism's platform
is contrary to the American dream, to individual opportunity, is it not?
What?
In many ways I think we're trying to look back at what has worked in America's past,
but also look at what has been successful in other countries.
So things like what President Roosevelt put forward with the New Deal.
But socialism, grace has never worked, not in the Soviet Union and Venezuelan ulcer.
Oh my God.
God, let me get to- Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.
Brilliant take, sir.
Thank you.
At least he's being like kind of kind.
Which is shocking.
Come on, Grace.
But socialism has never worked.
Fuck owned.
No.
No.
Who could have ever accounted for this take?
No.
Destroyed.
It's like it's like mentioning roads to a libertarian.
You know what I mean?
It's a it's a one tap.
He's like the nice one.
He's like the one nice person in Fox News.
Yeah, he's so nice.
quickly because this conversation could go up for a very long time.
Yeah, Venezuela, Venezuela, Venezuela, Iran, China. Well, they don't even mention China anymore because it's fucking working.
Because I don't agree that socialism is going to help anyone in the American dream. However,
we're hearing reports that ultimately there's a platform, a new platform that DSA has,
that would include eliminating the Senate, replacing the president's from court with an executive and
and judiciary chosen by and supported into a Congress,
amnesty for all illegal immigrants
and defending the Department of War.
Is that the platform?
Well, many Americans understand that the democracy
that we have right now isn't working for them.
I don't think our platform would get rid of the president,
but it would replace the electoral college,
which when Americans, I think, first understand it
in their high school government classes,
They see that, oh wait, my vote isn't directly electing the president.
But would you, let me get to sink as well, I've got a few seconds left.
Do you really believe in open borders and not having deportations?
That's just incredibly contrary to law enforcement and security.
America has a really long history.
I've never seen a Fox guy.
Is this guy like related to her or something?
I mean, he's obviously not letting her finish her thought, but he's like, it's like, come
on, Grace.
He sounds like a concerned father talking to their woke daughter, dude.
It's not kind.
It's condescension.
Yeah, but on Fox News, whining false concern to cut her off comes across as kindness in
comparison to what every other anchor would be doing.
Match it up with the energy of every other anchor that'd be like, how dare you say you
want open borders?
Why do you want every transgender Guatemalan to buttfuck me and you want it to be illegal?
You want it to be illegal to do straight sex?
would they that's how they operate on every other on every other fucking fox news outlet
that's why i'm saying for fox news i mean not even for fox news this is like kind dana bash wouldn't
do this dana bash would be meaner to her
her. Why do you want to illegalize straight sex and straight marriage?
Three of welcoming working class immigrants. My grandmother and her mother came through
Alka-side ones and worked from Germany and worked as seamstresses. I mean, we believe
that...
But with criminal illegal aliens in the country, don't they need to be removed?
We believe that de-militarizing the border, that violent oppression of working-class immigrants
who come here is not something that most Americans want.
And I think the backlash to President Trump's policies really showed that.
Look, the way I come on this is, look, if someone has done a crime, I think it's far
better to make them go through the criminal justice system rather than give them a fucking
free ticket back home.
If they've done a crime, they got to do the time.
That's number one.
Number two, by and large, the overwhelming majority of immigrants are not doing any fucking
crimes at all.
Okay?
They're not.
They're just working.
It's a paperwork violation.
What the hell are we doing?
We're going to start tossing people into the slammer for paperwork violations?
If we're going to start doing that, how about we start tossing tax evaders into the slammer,
tax avoiders into the slammer?
Now that's the type of paperwork that I do want to prosecute.
But again, it's just Americans love simple narratives. They're like,
oh no, Guatemalan migrant bad.
All right, Georgia is being faced out. We sat AOC down with Republican voters. Can she win them over?
Uh-oh. What is this class of 2026 official trailer streamer university? Nice. Let's talk about the
Abdul stuff or way hold on updates Al Jazeera English reported on the Israeli military
staffer who was clavicular's honeypot
Clavicular's honeypot, Mossad Honeypot is under fire.
She faces Discipline Action After Appearance of the US Streamer, Braden Eric Peters.
better known online is Klovivinitnyahu, formerly known as Klovicular, now known as Klovivinitnyahu
also known as Itamagbenklovir, yeah, seducing Klovicular or go down in the annals of spycraft
This is the easiest mission of all time.
Rockham under scrutiny because of Peter's association.
Itamock Ben Cleviers, Clevicular's association
with anti-Israel coffee creators.
And for videos where he sings along
kind of West Song-Hyle Hitler.
Are you still on a business like who made
for your clients who used to be paid for this?
Those are questions you don't wanna ask.
his name is fucking braden yahoo braden yahoo
brahmit peters during the trip
where's your gun?
they didn't give you a gun?
too short for a gun?
yeah
Gun? Too short for a gun?
Yeah. But I run with this video.
Biza vehicular smotherage?
Biza vehicular manslaughter smotherage.
Dude, what the fu- oh my god.
Yuck.
Don't they pay people $7,000 to like, post for Israel?
Is that true?
How do I get that?
Oh my God, he was asking seriously.
He was asking sincerely!
Look at his face!
Hey, hey, Clav, someone should inform Clav that that's a dog whistle.
Israeli anti-Zionist clavicular is actually quite popular among Israeli right-wing zoomers
the only people who get upset by the Heil Hitler bit our channel 13 type centrist boomers everyone
on the 30 is doing happy merchant memes under 99 layers of irony.
Yeah.
Is that because you got mugged in Paris?
Yeah, by the way, I cannot begin to explain to you how on top France is in comparison to Israel.
Le Micular went to Paris and everywhere he went, the people of France were just like,
you're disgusting, you're the ugliest guy I've ever seen and not even like a
like ugly but hot kind of way where many French men and some French women are like that.
But just straight, but ugly, get away from me.
And that break them so hard
That he had to escape he had to fucking go to Israel
Where he would be beloved as a figure, but then there were also like these centrist
There were also these centrist Israelis that were mad
It is kind of funny that all of the pro-Israel content creators in America are just like aggressively defending clavicular though
Everyone loves to say just go visit Israel then someone actually visits Israel then suddenly it's a national controversy
Yes, clavicular is made mistakes. What are you talking about?
The mistakes are Sieg Heilig and singing Heil Hitler with like prominent neo Nazis
Yes, he publicly apologized. No, he did it. He never apologized for that as a matter of fact when people were asking him about it
He was like, yeah, whatever it was like last week. It's in the rear-view mirror. Fuck you
Sorry, has he gone to the Holocaust Museum and the Nova site or is he just picking up
girls on the beach?
What is happening in Israel, man?
Why is the solution to being a prominent neo-nazi just go to the Holocaust Museum or the Nova
site?
This is what they did.
This is what they fucking did with Marjorie Taylor Greene.
What the hell is happening?
Why is it always write a book report on the holocaust?
It's so funny.
Would that make things better?
Like, I don't understand.
Would that actually make you genuinely think that he's no longer a neo-Nazi?
like it wouldn't work for me.
It's so funny.
Like, I don't believe that, that someone who's like sick,
highling last week, if they go to the Holocaust museum the next
week, I'm like, all right, I guess he's not a Nazi anymore.
It's so stupid.
Yes, clavicular is made mistakes. It's publicly apologize. It worked though. I mean, have you
heard MGT MTG talk about space lasers? Yes. She just realized she could say everything
about the Chinese. She can't say it about the Jews. So she just switched it. She literally
just started saying it's Chinese space lasers. That's it.
chequals per MAG economy is insane.
The idea that he shouldn't have been welcomed is ridiculous. Israel isn't a dictatorship.
People are free to visit. Israelis are free to welcome whoever they choose if he disagrees.
You're right. I still stand by it.
Yes, Milwaukee Sentinel Journal. Sarah Rodriguez campaign may have overstated fundraising by
at least 100 grand. Milwaukee Sentinel Journal reports Sarah Rodriguez campaign may have
overstated fund raising by at least 100 grand, democratic candidate for governor,
Sarah Rodriguez, who was supposed to be the centrist pick that everyone was
supposed to consolidate behind, uh, is the campaign's got some troubles.
Democratic candidate, governor, Sarah Rodriguez, uh, reported raising at least
100,000 more than she actually collected according to a Milwaukee journal,
Sentinel review, the lieutenant governor's first campaign finance report that is now
under scrutiny after Rodriguez fired her campaign manager for financial discrepancies for financial
errors. I think it's kind of funny, going back to the clavicular clavivi Netanyahu memes.
But like, these guys only, first of all, Emily Austin doesn't want anyone to be accountable
as long as their pro is real, which is, you know, at least morally consistent or immorally
consistent rather.
But what's funny, Clavicular's anger at his persecution by the wicked Israelis will soon
lead him into joining Hamas.
Clavicular is not being allowed to stream in speculation, he's growing the Israel and
idea of wanting to leave the country.
Levicular abruptly shut off his gambling stream for his second one hour stake requirement.
The second is one hour stake requirement was fulfilled.
Refusing to read community comments reports a surfacing that he was given permission to
do a desktop gambling stream for an hour and must end right after he's not allowed the
IRL stream anymore in the country.
Okay, that's really funny.
That's really funny.
Because, yes, Israel is notorious for operating cryptocurrency gambling websites and just gambling websites in general, specifically out of Cyprus.
So, it's really cool that they were just like, hey, look, it's the most Israeli thing we can let you do.
You have to, this is basically, we have to let you do your contractual obligation to the cryptocurrency casino.
Oh, man.
Oh, the, the Israel bot.
Corey Walker is so funny.
Folks, if the Netanyahu government is willing to engage with
clavicular strategically, then obviously they see some value in his presence.
The country.
Think about the long game.
Dog, aren't you supposed to be an American?
Did the Corey Walker just denounce his American citizenship?
Is he, is he Israeli now?
What's happening?
The other day he was complaining that Israel should never allow an American congressperson,
Ro Khanna, to enter the Israeli airspace. And I was just like, you're American.
The fuck is wrong with you?
Anyway, and then he's like, defending Nin Yahu Lincoln with clavicular. Here he is saying,
I have no clue whether Israeli allies are fumbling the clavicular situations so badly.
These are the guys who supposedly care about anti-Semitism, by the way.
God, I hate this fucking piece of shit so much. He just has no respect for himself.
Woken up by sirens and inside a stairwell because Iran strikes against Israel.
Meanwhile, in the pro-Israel world, we got Cory writing calling for the United States congresswoman
Congressman Rokana and agitator, unlike Clevigular, who was danced on a live show with neo-Nazi
Nick Fuentes and to Kyle Kaya was singing, how Hitler, um, oh, this is worse. We, yeah,
treated Gaza far kind of almost any other country in the world, whatever, that people
should have got, the people of Gaza should be fortunate. Yeah, I mean, he is, he's nothing,
right? He's nothing. You're nothing. You're less than, like, I can't even call you names.
You're nothing. That's all I, that's all I have to say. The people,
People, the people that you are dick-riding for cash do not see you as a human being too.
But then again, I don't think you see yourself as a human being.
You're just a mere vessel for Hasbra.
Disgusting.
That's the thing, the only allies Israel has among the Influencer class are engagement
parasites that clavicular a kid and give two shits about Israel and doesn't pretend to
understand or engage with the real issues at stake but he knows what will get him a
lot of clicks.
He took out the beeper at Israel flag out of his bio by the way.
This is laughably untrue for the first year of the Israel genocide, the only people platform
where Israelis conceptualizing why they had the bomb of school or mosque put an entitled
Genocidal Israeli patron on TV now and watch support for the anti-zionist cause grow
Times have changed so much is coward at the delete the Israel impager emojis from his bio. Yeah
Heritage American defender of Western values you're a black man, dude. You're a black man in America. How can you fucking dick eat Israel this much?
nasty
Nasty fucking freak
three
com after gambling on stream
unlikely
that it's in the up exactly one hour
so
it's like
seems like his life is a fucking sequence of endless nightmares
Ah, we still have no evidence he's black or American.
Wait, is he not a real person?
I thought he like wrote for certain outlets and shit.
Can you share the public apology?
I've been meaning to find it.
Dave Grubman invited me to meet and discuss
why it was harmful after the incident.
Davis publicized this meeting,
does Clive visiting Israel not speak volumes?
Can you share the public apology?
I've been trying to find it.
Yeah, controversial streamer,
Clavicular has not apologized for singing along to Kanye West,
Hyal Hitler track.
He faced severe backlash for his participation in a Miami
nightclub event where the song was played alongside Nick
Wethersen, and he subsequently doubled down on his action.
It's so funny that every time, every time we find out
Clavicular, his name is Braden.
It's like there's someone who's finding out for the first time
they go, Brayden, lol. Brayden is such a funny name. I agree. It's such a zoomer name. Only
a fey Lenny old parent could have come up with the name like Brayden. Brayden Ben-Gurion.
campaign she put this vid in all of his ads.
Everyone, it's Congresswoman Hailey Stevens probably representing Michigan's 11th district
on my primary election night. I wanted to thank ACAP and the pro-Israel community.
Our values spoke very loudly this evening. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
There's something so evil about her dude. Actually,
No, it's not AI man. What gives?
Braden is the most stereotypical trans man name. It's like Azen or Thomas or Liam or Malachi.
Yeah, speaking of Hailey Stevens by the way.
Haley Stevens got a cease and desisted by the UAW, the United Arab Workers, issues cease
and desist against super PAC.
Of course, the United Arab Workers famously endorsed AES, also known as Abdul El Sayed,
also known as actually existing socialism.
Yeah, they issued a cease and desist against a super PAC called the stronger Michigan for
use of the UAW's wheeled logo in election as promoting a candidate that is not endorsed
by the union.
Yeah, they're doing Barack Hussein Obama to Abdul.
Michigan GOP refers to El Sa'd by his full name, Abdul Rahman Mohammed El Sa'd, tipping
their hand on how they might approach him as the nominee.
Today in response to US Senator Gary Peters endorsing Congresswoman Hailey Stevens, the
Michigan Republican Party released the following statement. The timing tells you everything.
Senator Peters waited until the 11th hour to endorse Congresswoman Stevens because establishment
Democrats are shaking in their boots over the likelihood that Abdul Rahman, Mohammed
El Sayed, a terrorist sympathizer and a phony physician will capture the party's nomination
in less than a month. This endorsement is a Hail Mary attempt by a panicked political
establishment desperately trying to stop communist candidates from eating their party alive.
Bro, I about Laza when I found out she wasn't Jewish dog. Her claim to fame literally was as
an apex douche, defeating a Jewish community leader who was critical of Israel. Okay. It's one of the
it's one of the famous cases that like I used to point to back in the day about how little APEC
gives a fuck about Jews. Why do people think Haley Stevens is Jewish?
Yeah, between Haley Stevens and Abdu'l-Azal only one of them raised $5 million of defeated Jewish
congressmen because their opinions on Israel is not Abdul.
This is the funniest. So you're saying Haley's just like Brad Lander. Yeah, Brad Lander unseeded
Dan Goldman because Dan Goldman was too critical of Israel.
Oh my god, why are people say I can't tell if you guys are joking?
Yes, dude.
Hailey Stevens is not Jewish.
That's why Amy Siskins.
The comment was so funny.
The entire campaign is fueled on anti-Semites and I'm so disgusted.
not only is anti-Semitic comments, I was in two Michigan Facebook groups that was brought
in to help Kamala and every comment about Hayley Stevens, who is Jewish, had to deal
with Israel and APEC. No, she's not Jewish. She just dick rides Israel into oblivion.
the hell in America I mean it seriously in America you are more Jewish than a
whole ass Jewish man or woman if you are more pro-Israel than they are like at
this point people are just like no the more pro-Israel you are the more Jewish
you are. It's crazy.
Yeah, of course, Haley Stevens is MI across the state. More and more people are revealing how Haley
Stevens hasn't even bothered to visit their city camps or even a simple booth at local events.
Yes, she's not going. She the only shit she goes to is like, hand selected. Like she's been at a
couple, uh, hand-selected events to boost their profile with the, with the black voters.
That's it. Godheimer, let's be, Godheimer, butheimer says, let's be honest, this is a
publicity stunt. Chances to protect elected officials and kind of intentionally, intentionally
entered a restricted on stable area. Oh my God, you fucking asshole. God, you are so
is real first bro no respect for your own fucking party like this guy's your
colleague
does not respect Democrats doesn't care about defeating Republicans doesn't
care about his constituents.
Constituents.
Chagrassi types fascinating.
Probably he's a fucking poster through and through, through and through.
I
Imagine putting Israel above your fucking colleague man like you
And not even just your colleague on the opposing side like this is straight up your fucking colleague
in the
Democratic Party
Please remove the lint from your shirt suit jacket, I don't know where it is
Oh.
Yes.
Phone Bank for Abdul.
Yes.
Longer Tweet about the Wisconsin news from Dan Shafer, timeline as Rodriguez
He's described a press conference used timeline of events over the last week regarding how
our now fired campaign manager, mismanager, and actresses in campaign files Tuesday TV
ads are supposed to begin, but didn't Rodriguez when I saw that this is not happening.
I started to get concerned.
I asked questions.
Wednesday media team flags.
The invoice had not been paid.
It was given excuse by my campaign manager.
That did not make sense Thursday Rodriguez discovers total cash on hand for the campaign
was lower than expected far lower than expected Rodriguez.
I will generally say there were hundreds of thousands of dollars less than I thought.
I am not going to put a precise dollar amount on that today because we are still reconciling
our books and I want the next number out of my mouth to be 100% accurate Friday, Saturday
campaign assembles team to analyze reports.
Sunday campaign managers fired statement release, Wisconsin ethics commission contacted next
Rodriguez's TV ads will now air next week on that by to be fully transparent. We have
little over $200,000 cash on hand in the bank over time that we have been raising. We have
raised almost a million dollars. I think we still have momentum. I think we're still
moving forward. This is a bump in the road for the campaign, but we are going to be as
honest and as transparent as we can be. That's why I'm standing here in front of all of you,
in front of all these cameras, in front of all these microphones to tell you that when I see
something that's an error, I make sure that it gets fixed. I'm taking full accountability for
what happened before and moving forward. Campaign manager should do a bank run.
Bummer, I guess. Now, why are we talking about this?
We're talking about this because Sarah Rodriguez is supposed to be the, the, the, the centrist
center right democratic party establishment back candidate that all of the other anti
Francesca Hong candidate is supposed to consolidate sport behind Mandela Barnes has taken advantage
of this count controversy. Mandela Barnes is like in the second slot right now. Mandela
Barnes himself also used to be far more progressive and now he is like running a centrist campaign
himself. As far as I understand, him staying in the race is not the worst thing. He's also
definitely a, again, from what I understand, he's a little bit of a narcissist. So he personally
thinks that he's got this in the race. I mean, he's got this race in the bag. I feel like
that's actually Mandela and not Rodriguez. Yesterday, Hassan Piker texted Jewish Senator
Lindsey Graham for supporting the only Jewish state today. He denies the Jewish identity
of Congresswoman Hailey Stevens, we truly live in an anti-Semitism. True. But yeah.
And what I understand, it's not clear on whether or not if Barnes were to drop out, if Barnes
were to drop out, that there are supporters, Son of Hamas is the most Jewish man alive
in America.
Okay.
We're moving on from that story.
We're moving on from the Michigan race where Abdul El Sayed is trying to go after a Jewish
woman.
this time. Oh, she's talking about me in the Senate primary Michigan Democrats of a choice
between a candidate who wants to abolish prisons and campaigns with some biker and whatever
Haley Stevens is doing.
Okay. On our behalf, I am going to be telling the stories on our behalf and you better believe
I'm going to be doing on it with a little bit of joy, a little bit of enthusiasm, a
little bit of energy. Oh, Haley's not. No, RNC is just
dunking on me. And a little bit of sick it to him, because
That's the Michigan way.
Maddie Maroon.
Trump's biggest owner.
I'm in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Is the Abba Airport hit or is it fake news at Hasan Abbi at chat?
I don't know, man.
Look outside the window by the fuck you ask him me.
That's crazy. That's crazy dog. How are we supposed to know if you don't know?
Yeah, but scoop. Trump gave Saudi crime princes backing for risky strikes on the Houthis.
Ansarallah already knew this.
Anyway, as I was talking about with Francesca, with Francesca Hong,
Francesca Hong is wonderful. She's DSA.
She's running for governor in
Wisconsin. The primaries are taking place on August 11th. I've already interviewed her.
I even almost poisoned her with a cheesy treat
Cheese where no cheese should have been placed on top of the beautiful kalbi gym, okay?
That's right. It was fucked up. Well, we made up for it by raising
$57,000 for her cheese gate never forget
Carlson becoming a doubter wait what?
Adam Carlson has always been a doubter
Dude Adam Carlson is like you Michigan voter on Abdul. There's a bunch of these fucking guys that will just straight up always say oh
Precious gongs sucks and there's never any like real
Reason for it. They just have that centrist dog in them
them. Adam Carlson, just like you, Michigan voter was a Mallory McMorris supporter, obviously
no longer a Mallory McMorris supporter, right? Just these guys, they just, they have to wait
it out. They have to wait for it to happen. And then at least unlike the near attendance
of the world, they do end up falling in line with like the, the socialist one or the socialist
candidate. Yeah. He cried about Daria Lisa too. Who cares? Whatever.
I'd argue Adam Carlson is worse. He literally posted he shouldn't come to Michigan and start with Abdul two weeks after the synagogue shooting
I don't think you Mitch voter was that bad. Yeah, that's true. He did do that Adam Carlson did say that
That was insane. I couldn't believe how racist that shit was also was again
Very successful for Abdul. So good thing. We didn't listen to Adam Carlson. Anyway, um
But yeah
Umage voter is on our side. Yes, it's true. Umage voter is our guy now.
But yeah, he hates fucking Francesca Hong. These guys all, they always have to be like,
I'm reasonable. I like some socialists. I'm a reasonable guy. Like, they never understand why,
they never understand why someone like Francesca Hong is so popular.
They don't recognize that for the people in Wisconsin, for the people in Wisconsin, the
very same things that are making Abdul popular are the exact same things that make Francesca
Hong popular.
Okay?
Anyway, look, Francesca Hong is doing her thing, he says.
She's running as an unapologetic socialist left candidate and no one reasonably can
begrudure that.
There's clearly voter appetite for it within the Wisconsin primary electorate.
a high floor, but one that will likely fall short of 50%. If you're at all worried as
I am about the possibility of Hong losing the general, the mega fuck Tom Tiffany. Yes,
even an environment this blue and undoing so much great work that has been done in Wisconsin
recent years, you should be fearsome and Della Barnes and Sarah Rodriguez for putting their
own egos first that are being grownups and agreeing to consolidate. She is literally
the most elective. She is the easiest to defeat the Republican, but these guys have the chip,
the brain chip, okay? The consultant brain chip. And I guess with Adams, uh, to, to be
fair to Adam, I guess he is someone of a consultant. He's a pollster and he does consult on campaigns
from town to time, but like pundit brain is a real version of brain cancer that exists
amongst the American electorate, specifically on just the Democratic party side though.
No one on the Republican side has pundit brain. They don't care about that shit. They don't
care about electability, they don't give a fuck. Regular Americans that vote Democrat
on the other hand, they have pundit brain. They think they're campaign staffers. They
think they work for Center for American Progress for some fucking weird reason where they're
like, oh, it doesn't matter. The voters, it doesn't matter what the voters are responding
positively to what I perceive. It doesn't matter what I feel about the campaign itself
or the policies themselves. I have to assume that someone else out there is actually far
to right wing to like these policies that I like. That's not how voting works. You fucking like
the policies, you vote for it. The fuck is wrong with these people? It's not just Adam.
There are so many goddamn Democratic Party voters out there for far too long that have thought,
you know, I like this candidate, I like these policies, but I just don't think other people
will like it. I don't know, man. Is that how we're supposed to make this calculation?
Why do you think you're making an adult decision right now? You're making a dumb decision,
actually. It's the most childish way to operate. It's so cynical. You just assume that there are
people out there without any reason. Because if you actually pour through the data, you would
realize that electability is on the side of the person with good policies. And if you like those
policies, identify why other people like those fucking policies, recognize the likelihood
that other people will also like those policies that you like.
More often than not, you're going to be right. Amazing admission for Maddie Glacias. Politics
shouldn't try to shift public opinion. Fundamentally, it does not understand what politics is. This
is why DNC positive media allies offer no political vision. They don't think you should
have one. Yeah, what I would ask of everyone at the table is simply that they respect the
diversity of America and the wisdom of trying to compete effectively across this vast and
varied land rather than trying to cancel each other. And I would urge people whose passion
of life is shifting public opinion rather than responding to it.
Find a different line of work than electoral politics. Oh my God. Oh my God, Maddie Glaciers.
This is why we will always defeat you. Eggman. This is why you were so off base on Gaza,
Okay, because you constantly think
Politics is about responding to the fucking wins you goddamn win sock. No politics is also about demonstrating leadership on issues
Showing courage saying things that other people are too afraid to to say out loud
Knowing full well that if they hear you they will respond to your moral conviction
Positively they will understand what you're saying. They will identify the problem and they will support you
Donald Trump is the fucking president for this reason
This is why these fucking idiots don't understand why Donald Trump is so goddamn popular
It's because he said the quiet part alone, that's why that's literally it a lot of dumb fuck
rapist racist pieces of shit literally heard the the molester in chief
save the quiet part out loud and they were like well that's bravery that's moral conviction
that's it it's time for us on the right side of history to do the same to say the fucking
quiet part out loud to be unafraid to lead fuck
Fuck!
Yeah, this guy, no, that's an implication of anything either I or Matt Wisehead is
literally what Matt wrote.
These guys are so annoying, man.
You're so fucking annoying.
Claims we need to be unafraid to lead won't run for office.
Yeah, dawg.
Think about how many campaigns I'm able to fucking help out.
Now imagine if I had to use every waking moment and every opportunity I had to just, like,
it on one campaign, my own, with no guarantee of success. Okay, I don't have Maddie Maroon,
Trump's biggest donor backing me. Stopping the Gordyhouse Bridge from opening. Stop,
Vladimir Putin.
What? We are kids.
Anyway, so yeah, support for Francesca Hong, she's the goat, she's awesome.
for Abdul. Support for Abdul Rahman, Muhammad El Sayed.
That's not to give up his platform to become a local county
commissioner. Yeah, that's what I mean.
What is this trigger warning? Take cruise.
Are you dead?
I'm sorry for your loss, mate.
Dude, he's so fake. I'm sorry. He doesn't even seem sad. I
don't believe it. Trump seemed more sad.
Trump seemed more sad.
Was, right?
Lindsay was one of them, right?
I am shocked and stunned by the way every senator is, and we're just, we're grieving our friend.
What do you make of, there's a lot of criticism of him online right now.
Trump lost the Gay Tree yet?
Now, what do you think of people like standing up about him?
I don't care what the haters say online, Lindsay was a remarkable man in a service country,
33 years in the Air Force, 23 years in the Senate. He loved it.
Oh my God, the polyvis in memorandum AI slop is going to go crazy. Oh my God, that's real.
Ain't no way that's real, bro. Ain't no way that's a real polyvis account being like I'm
hugging Lizzie Graham's dead body. They're going to reinvent she is them, but for some
old gay guy from South Carolina. It's not even the worst pick.
I agree with Lindsay, sometimes it discreetly, sometimes it was from the heart.
Sensible people do not want to see their tax dollars go to subsides foreign country that's
not poor and whose government is happy to ignore America's wishes, but an arms embargo
that costs American jobs and revenues very different stuff from keeping our money at
home.
If Maddie Lacey supports selling American arms to anyone willing to buy them, why not
sell to Russia and China. Do I support selling American arms to anyone willing to buy them?
The principle here seems to be sell weapons in whatever way maximized financial benefit
to Americans. I'd like to know why that stops being the principle when the buyer is China
or Russia. So I tweeted something you then made up a fake principle that I never articulated
and then pointed out that that fake principle you made up is dumb. Then you dunked on me
is juvenile behavior. And I think you should delete the tweet. Oh my God. He's so mad.
I named my son Braden. I am a fail. And he'll, oh no. It's all good, man. Just make sure
that your son Braden doesn't watch any clavicular. You got on though. Yes, it's so dumb. Why?
Oh, you want to you you need to we can't we have to do fucking
So if the Palestinians were pro-America
Okay, I'm sure they would be by the way if we actually gave them what is this?
If we gave them an iron dome, I'm sure they would be super pro America. We should sell Hamas an iron dome
home.
Yeah, use self-assure to pass off an unpopular opinion, an unpopular position as common sense
gets called on it.
This is juvenile behavior and you should delete it.
For the last year he's alternated between this issue doesn't matter to voters and only
the left cares for factional reasons.
Now it's that they haven't thought about it enough.
The consistent principles, they keep disagreeing with him.
There's wide acceptance of a kind of underpants gnomes theory of the conflict.
One, America stops helping Israel.
Two, question mark, question mark, question mark.
Three, secular binational democracy.
Right now, we have tons of people voting on the base of Israel policy who haven't given
it five minutes of thought.
Dog, you've given it 10 minutes of thought and you were on the wrong side every single
time and you still are, okay?
So I just wouldn't be shitting on other people that are at least morally on the correct side.
But here is someone who has given it a lot of thought.
America stops helping Israel is a tremendous burden for Israel.
It's a tremendous pressure point.
Okay?
It's a threat.
And the mere threat, especially if it's actionable, especially if it's the threat that we act
on, will cause Israel to reconsider its domestic policies, its foreign policy, because Israel
can not exist without us. It's that simple. So to Madaglacius I say, what gives, what
gives, what gives, what gives, what gives. Maybe I've been watching too much Klandis,
but isn't it weird that he returned from Ukraine and talked about how he had to do sanctions
on Russia and then he died. Like certain drugs and poise can can cause cancer aortic dissection
to just saying. Well, I don't know, man. Yeah, I can. Okay. Russia killed him. I don't really
care. I don't have any idea. Okay. He's 71 years old. His father died of a heart attack
to it if I'm not mistaken, so it's not that crazy that he would die at one.
Especially after 14 hour travel and then he's having phone sex with Donald Trump, the president
for those of you who don't know.
And on the phone conversation, Donald Trump says, oh, I'm going to drop a fucking fat bomb
on Iran.
like Lizzie Graham is going to nut too hard. Right after 14 hour travel? Just saying. Probably
cracked open a new fresh pack of blue chew too. Yeah.
So understand, Liz Graham, you have to know that both his parents died when he was 20.
He never wanted anyone else to know such sorrow, and so was driven the rest of his life to
kill as many children as possible around the world so they can never get old enough for
that to happen.
It's dark, but it's true.
Now, doctors say it was the biggest nut from the standpoint of nuts.
This should be the title of every free press article in defensive elites with Richard Hananya.
It's so funny that the free press just has like an out and about white supremacist race
realist.
I guess he's pro is real though so it doesn't matter that he was a neo-nazian, still is
most likely.
Anyway, y'all want to hear from Gary Peters who endorsed Abdul El Saad's opponent?
I'm going to be working on our behalf.
I am going to be telling the stories on our behalf.
And you better believe I'm going to be doing it with a little bit of joy, a little bit
of enthusiasm, a little bit of energy, and a little bit of sick it to them because that's
the Michigan way.
Dude, I don't know what to say about this, other than the fact that she is literally
50 corporations in a trench suit, okay? In a pants suit. Cause like, like think about
it this way.
Abdullas Ayed has a grassroots campaign, okay? He's got some big backers. He's got more
state level backers than Hayley Stevens does, which is usually not the case, okay? That's
somewhat unique. Normally the outsider candidate doesn't have like state senators and shit backing
them. Usually Haley Stevens, the establishment Democrat would pack up all of those endorsements.
In this circumstance, Abdul has all the greatest endorsements you could possibly get
and Haley has nothing. Haley also has no good policies. Haley has no ground game.
Haley Stevens' entire campaign is propped up by 50 million dollars of outside expenditures!
And now the outbound senator who fucking said he wasn't gonna endorse anybody recognizes
how bad Haley Stevens' campaign is doing in spite of the $50 million, 30 of it from
APEC, that he had to come out and fucking endorse Haley Stevens.
Out of myself, in Haley.
She also grew up in Oakland County.
She's the daughter of a public school teacher.
She's a middle-class kid who has spent her life fighting for the state that she loves.
Haley knows Michigan.
He gets Michigan and she wins for Michigan.
And that's what she's done her entire life from serving as chief of staff of President
Barack Obama's auto rescue to help save two.
Does he do that motion fuck no.
No, he has no motion.
He has like, I would say, I mean look, it's still relevant because he's the senator who's
like retiring, right?
the outbound senator, but he does blow dicks and balls. So I mean, I'll also say why the
fucks he's so tan dog, you live in Michigan. Why the fuck are you so goddamn tan? Yeah,
What's interesting about this, I think Gary knows how Dems lost Michigan is bizarre that
he can't reconcile that with this race.
Significant Michigan and Middle East news, Gary Peters tells me the vice president should
go public with Biden on Gaza.
I think she has differences.
He said, adding be who you are asked Peters if he'd conveyed at the Kamala.
Yes, he said video here.
The entire state is a lake, bro.
No, dude.
if you're a fucking elected representative, you're a goddamn senator, dude.
If you are a goddamn senator in the state of Michigan, this level of tan means your ass is at
the lake and golfing far too much. Hello? What the fuck? How can you not tell? You're fucking around
too much. Get back to work. It's 90 degrees here on the daily right now, Lomo. Dude. Dude.
Look at me. Okay. Look at me. I live in Los Angeles, California. And this year,
unlike any other year, I haven't had as much sun time. Normally, by this point of the year,
I would be pretty fucking tan. You know why? You know why I'm not as tan as I normally would be?
because I usually get a healthy dose of son because I'm fucking working unlike Gary motherfucking Peters
his ass is golfing
100,000 michigan jobs to flipping a red seat blue to delivering for michigan's manufacturing economy
and congress as our state's most effective democrat in the house like me hailey is a workhorse
she gets results for our state
just like i've been named year after year is the most effective
i'll keep it above fifty
probably the worst year to fucking do this workhorse narrative and here's why
look around
does it feel like
positive change has been delivered
for michigan there's
for californians
for people living in Arkansas.
Does it feel like this is a time for a change candidate
or someone who says business as usual politics?
I don't think this workhorse shit works because the horse is not working
and the horse's name is Gary and he's fucking golfing all the time.
Why are you so tan, Gary?
gas is fucking five dollars get back to work
god damn gary
your ass better be tan because you're at the straight
trying to fucking pry it open with your bare hands
looking like you're on those rfk jr peptides that made you tan
member of the united states senate
she's been named as the most effective michigan democrat
in the house
and i'm confident that she will be ready on day one
oh my god you can't ask people why they're tan wait what
why not
Oh, it's a mean girls reference. Oh my bad
To fight for Michigan and pick up where I left off in the Senate and
Carry the torch for a new generation of leaders in Michigan and in our party
But friends make make no mistake
Michigan is a purple state winning in Michigan. Oh shut the fuck up Gary
Gary you know the truth Gary
Gary, Geralt, you know the truth, don't be so garish, Geralt.
You know the motherfucking truth, Michigan and the purple state.
Only purple cuz Kamala lost, purple cuz Hillary lost, why?
Why did they lose?
Is it cuz they were women?
Well, okay, Haley Stevens is a woman, but I don't think it's cuz they were women.
I think that both of these candidates lost because they were establishment Democrats
and Trump as a con man was able to present himself as the change candidate.
Michigan is not supposed to be purple, is only purple, cuz ain't nobody's actually
putting the anger that the working class feels at the forefront of their campaign except
for these right wing reactionary charlatans that will take that anger and then redirect
it back to fucking trans people and shit.
There's a real passion for change. There's a real hunger for change, Geralt. Hailey Stevens
is not going to be representative of that change. Hailey Stevens is literally putting
Hailey Stevens up in front of Mike Rogers, is unironically looking at the situation in
2024 and be like, you know what? We should have done more. We should have made sure Kamala
even had less Riz, less Riz than Kamala.
It means living up to our values and listening to our neighbors, even if we don't always
agree with them.
Michiganders do not like extremes.
They like hard work and common sense.
He only has a track record of winning tough races and beating Republicans when they've
thrown everything at her.
So I know, she'll beat Mike Rogers and send him back to Florida for a second time.
Last year, I made clear, I plan to actively campaign to ensure that we elect a dynamic
Democratic candidate to be the next United States Senator from Michigan.
So that's what we're doing, starting today.
Colleen and I are just so-
I had to look up his ethnicity to see if he was like secretly Lebanese or something.
This motherfucker is English, Irish, German, and Scottish, okay?
So now I know for a fact he is not supposed to be this tan at all, okay?
Why are you so tan, Geralt?
Who excited to announce that we are all in for Haley Stevens? Let's go win.
To beat this tan, you have to literally be on the golf course every day. Yeah, I've 100%.
My first look at Michigan 11 months ago was about Stevens's bet that her party credentials
to support from leaders would be assets. We'll see. If I was a senator who ran behind
Biden in 2020 and retired when Democratic incumbents are as unpopular as the flu,
I probably would have just stayed quiet on who I want my successor to be. Yeah.
This certainly is going to be an old and establishment versus young Democrats election.
Now, look, the old establishment Democrats against the young and the older people who
are looking for a change is the common through line in all of these Democratic primaries, right?
Here's the thing. There's one other component here. There's one other component at play here
that APAC is so cynically weaponizing. And that is the little bit of tension,
a little bit of friction that exists between some of the older voters in Detroit and Wayne County
versus the Dearborn voters, right? There's a little bit of ethnic racial strife amongst
the Democratic Party's base of support. I'm trying to be as careful in the way that I
communicate this issue, but it's one that the establishment Democrats are wielding like
a goddamn knife.
They're wielding it like a fucking weapon right now. Okay. Straight up. What I mean by that
is, and I've talked about this already, a lot of the black voters in the state of Michigan,
especially older black voters in the state of Michigan are, of course, as is usually
the case, very woke on Israel, right? They are. They know that Israel's done a genocide.
not fans of Israel, right? However, however, they also really like Kamala Harris. And more
importantly than that, they hate Donald Trump. So some of the older black voters in the state
of Michigan, and this is from my conversations with with organized on the ground with community
leaders on the ground in the state of Michigan. From what I understand, there's this attitude
that the Muslim vote, the Arab vote, the Dearborn vote, went to Donald Trump, and it did. Let's
be really fucking snapped in the Donald Trump's direction pretty hard. So there's this, there's
There's this underlying animosity. Now, of course, one-third of the entire state's black
population is Muslim, right? So just remember that while we're having a conversation about
this issue. So like, you know, there's also that element here as well, but there is this
idea that black folks in Michigan feel like the Dearborn voters betrayed them by voting
for Donald Trump, or just not voting for Kamala Harris at all, and just not voting in general.
So, Haley Stevens and A-Pack and established Democrats are very aware of this dynamic,
and they're trying to utilize the best of their ability. This is why they started hitting
those ads saying Abdul is uncommitted. Abdul actually didn't vote for Kamala Harris. That's
That's a lie. It's a total fucking abject lie. Haley Stevens is lying. Okay. That's also
part of the reason why the, the, uh, the Abdul campaign came out with that, uh, ad with
the Wayne County commissioner who came out and said Abdul was the first Muslim leader
in the community that, that actually endorsed Kamala Harris, which is true. He did do that.
right? And what's really funny about this lie, this Haley Stevens life, she had a
fucking shred of shame. She wouldn't be doing that, but it doesn't even matter,
right? Here's the video of her. By the way, shout out to Sam Robinson. He's been
cooking. He's been doing a phenomenal job. Local journalist out of Detroit. He's
been the one who's asking all these people all around Detroit, all around
Michigan about you know who they're voting for who they have voted for why they've done so
Some of the interviews that he's conducted have made me rip my fucking hair out
Unfortunately because you know there are some voters who are getting one shotted by these Obama endorsed Haley Stevens ads
But he's great, so here he is asking
Haley Stevens about else I had support for the uncommitted
years ago. Who did that help? When you sat out 24, that vote is not an important thing.
People are entitled to use it as they see fit. But we also need courageous leaders right
now. We need leaders who are willing to take positions and lead transparently, compassionately
around those decisions. Take them from the bottom up, take them from community. There's
There's a reason why I keep community leaders.
Get out of our business, Hassanabi.
I'm firmly in Black people's business right now, Gizmo.
Like, firmly.
I mean, look, I got both feet.
I got both feet in right now.
I didn't just, like, crack open the door
and look inside a little bit.
I'm inside.
Others, you know, locked in my phone.
My phone number available to them.
It's not so that I can always get
the back and accolades, so that we can be engaged in the rigorous discourse, the deliberation.
Anyway, she basically fucking keeps implying that Abdul never endorsed Kamala Harris.
You wanna know something crazy about this, by the way?
Abdul El Sayed endorsed Kamala Harris for president before Haley Stevens did!
What are we doing?
Nobody gets fucking punished around these parts for lying
So the Haley Stevens
championing these lies I have to say what gives
And I also have to say it's Congresswoman Haley Stevens probably
representing Michigan's 11th district on
On my primary election night, I wanted to thank J.P.A.R. and the pro-Israel community.
Our values spoke very loudly this evening. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
House, it'll be while the Iran conflict got diverted into a civil war here in the states
instead of the midterms.
Wait, what?
President Trump is planning to announce that Georgia's two senators, John Oslovin, Raphael,
Warnock are illegitimate because of fraud, a well-placed source in Georgia tells us,
announcement could come as soon as tonight.
No, this is Washington reporter, man.
fucking bullshit.
Come to Atlanta now, Pogo.
Yeah, the discourse has gotten absolutely horrible the last few days with Stevens'
team peddling this false narrative, the opto-plated role in Harris' laws in the state.
recent desperateness and a refusal to make amends with the Arab community instead double
down on Israel. If you believe uncommitted led to Harris' loss in this day, they usually
want to work with them to get their support, blaming them for her losing rather than continuing
to attack them is only going to make it worse. And let's not forget uncommitted was only
for the primary. Many people like me voted uncommitted that happily voted for Kamala
in the fall. I remember how hopeless I felt when she lost, still not exactly feeling hopeful,
I'm starting to move on now. So, yeah, Haley Stevens is doing that to fire up a lot of
the older black voters, basically, to make them think that Abdul is, you know, did not
endorse Kamala Harris is responsible for Donald Trump, all this stuff. It's not unique. The
The Republicans do this all the time, the capital owners do this all the time, that's
how they divide the fucking working class.
And this is the other side of the story.
There's a lot of people in Michigan that are like, oh, Obama endorsed Haley Stevens, Obama
told me to vote for Haley Stevens, so I'm doing it.
That's all you need.
That's all I got.
What's your name, brother?
Hollywood.
Hollywood, I'm saying.
All right.
Let's do it!
Yeah
Stop getting baited by random vids. I'm not getting baited by random vids. It's just you know, it's just the truth
There are people it's up to us to correct the record
It's up to us to correct the motherfucking record folks, that's why you got a smile and dial
Okay
This man is not representative. No
You think the attempt to smear Abdul El Sayed with uncommitted will drive a wedge between him and black voters will work
As soon as black women were heavily involved in uncommitted in Michigan. Yes
Because that was a long time ago and people only remember it as like a bunch of Arabs doing Muslim shit
it. There is, here's the issue, okay? In the general, none of this fucking matters.
But we're talking about the primaries, you understand? And primaries are a very specific
type of voter. Primaries bring out some of the power base of the party, okay? The type
of voters that are slammed to the fucking TV, watching MSNBC, they really trust mainstream
outlets, they trust the electivity argument far more than anybody else, far more than
anything else, okay? That's just the reality. So primaries are actually a lot more difficult
for us to achieve victories, and then even the general is.
The only thing giving me confidence is that normie reactions on Facebook are just like
not having it, and they're all pro-obdual.
Just helping Obdual even more.
The dinosaurs can't seem to read the room or listen to the voters.
Did she come to you in your dreams?
Did you listen to Obdual and get to know him first, or did you just endorse the candidate
that DNC told you to?
Dr. Abdul-Essay has my vote, Abdul from Michigan.
Here, I'll give you some positive shit too, after this.
And what makes you say that?
Well, I believe in everything she's saying
and what she has represented so far.
Yeah.
Have you seen her ads on TV?
Sure.
Yeah.
And what do you make of folks nationally?
They're c-
This dude's accent.
That's Michigan, right?
You're watching MSNBC or CNN, and they're
talking about Michigan's Senate Democratic primary
as like an inflection point within the party.
They say, well, if Abdul wins, the party's going to go this way.
If Haley wins, the party's going to go the-
Bro also sounds like Hayley steven's a little bit. We do not sound like that. What gives
Reach out to Obama. No, he did and other people did too. What do you make of that?
Mira Patrick van de plas isn't a voters from Europe but is living the choice to that's three. He hopes Elsa had wins
Is the undecided voter worked for four for 41 years retired nine years ago. He's got a good track record
I'll do got some smarts
Yeah, here is a 18 year old
To give you guys some fucking hope and so you're a part of what they call
Low propensity voters your demographic doesn't usually show up in August primary
Why are you going to show up?
that I've had like a really like bad issue with my peers and that they're like, well I'm not political so why would I go?
But you have to understand that these decisions, these decisions that like you make for your parents or anyone else, it affects you.
Especially like people like me, like low income students, students of color and everything like that.
So I really think it's super important for us to vote, but also there's a place I'm gonna vote.
Respect.
A place I'm gonna vote.
That's so awesome that I saw that video and it made me happy
Then it's Bo right is the director of the Center for Pan African Studies in Detroit
He expects outside the win because Democratic leaders are tired of status quo politicians. He also
He also had a great take as well
In New York the current mayor is winning with landslides
But people are losing faith in the current status quo black politicians
And you slowly see them being displaced and this is why one of the reasons why even Detroit a good print of mine
By the way, Russia, the Taliban, she's win by landslide because the real rap though she like ironically using Kirk memes doesn't endear leftist the black voters
Wait, what real rap though real rap though
Are you trying to tell me that black voters actually fuck with Charlie Kirk? What are you insane?
Dude again
We will be we will not be having this conversation, okay?
any time, any time people try to say black people are monolithic and they're actually conservative,
far more conservative, far more conservative than you think, they're wrong. It's just objectively
they're wrong. The opposite man, wait, what? Black people have never fuck with Charlie Kirk. I say
using Kirk memes doesn't endear leftist to black voters? Wait, what? All right, I'm done.
Oh, he means getting Kirk saying getting Kirk like your lame ass did?
Yeah, I don't agree with that either. I don't agree with that either.
The Kirk shit is cringe as fuck to be fair. Hard to why is a 38 year old man? Nope, Kirk is a meme.
Black voters and Democratic prime minister, especially in the south of the story, we lined
up behind one candidate swinging nomination in the process, but growing divisions were
running class gender agent ideology could make 2028 a little different.
Yep.
Harris retains goodwill from key portion of the party's base.
The donor class may not be ready to turn the page.
Team Harris has written off 2024 as an anomaly.
Oh no.
But yeah, here's what's, here's what's up. Here's what's going on. Okay. This is true.
Black voters, especially in the South, especially in Democratic primaries, not in the general,
but certainly in the Democratic party primaries, usually vote as a, as a, as a, as close to
as a block as you can get. If we're talking about South Carolina, particularly, we know,
That's changing, though. And its implications in the general are actually very bad for the
Democratic Party's future in general. But it's positive in the primary system to a certain
degree because there's a massive generational divide now. More and more, younger black voters
are either just checking out of the political process in its entirety, or they're demanding
changes, okay? Which is a good thing. They want more left populist representation. They
want more left populist candidates. Sometimes they want to be the left populist representation,
socialist representation, as we've seen with a lot of these DSA candidates, right?
There is a, oh my god, here we go, black men are leaning conservative.
Please stop, please, please, please, looking at the metrics, looking at voter patterns,
looking at demographic patterns, looking at psychographic profiles, black men are still,
By and large, a quadrillion times more fucking capital W woke than every other type of man
in this fucking country.
Please stop.
I hate this argument.
It's my least favorite conversation because it is so wrong!
It's wrong!
It's never been right!
And people still yapp!
Why?
Why? Why? Where is this coming from? What the fuck? You guys see a bunch of black avatar
Twitter accounts and you think like every black person is a Zionist ultra-conservative
Democratic party voter. They're not real! Literally look at a single fucking voter profile for
once, please. Black people consistently vote the most progressive, are the most progressive
in general, across the board. Okay? Not even a close comparison to white people, which are
the least progressive. The most conservative, unified voting bloc, have always been white
people in this country. Fuck. And not only that, but black men too. Black men in comparison
to white men, not even a question. Black men in comparison to Hispanic men, not even a
fucking question. Fuck. There's like a conservative black guys in the country and all of them
Are either in the Republican party or have like a fucking television contract and everybody goes see?
Fuck!
every goddamn year there's like like last year there was four black people that voted for Trump and now it's eight so they go
We'll see that's a huge percentage increase. Yeah, it went from four to eight man. Shut the fuck up
Law Hakeem Jeffries got a TV show
No, I that's why I said are in in politics in the conservative party and no I'm talking about
Republican black men, okay, conservative black men beyond Hakeem Jeffries. Hakeem Jeffries
is a great example of this. Hakeem Jeffries is an incredibly conservative part of the
Democratic Party. Hakeem Jeffries is still a hundred times more awoke than the average
fucking Republican.
Anyway, the Blackwell particularly in South has been great consolidating force in modern
democratic primaries of firewall that lined up behind Hillary Clinton in 2016 that rescued
Joe Biden in South Carolina that ultimately made Obama.
Democrats run orderly primaries when that group decides early and moves together. A black
electorate that's split by a split by gender and openly shopping for a new face isn't just
a headache for Harris. It's a break from decades of how this party has chosen a nominee. That's
not really a story about Kamala Harris. It's a story about a party that doesn't know what
it wants. And a 2028 presidential cycle is going to be a good deal messier than the polling
makes it look. I'm feeling less confident for Abdul than I was, but he definitely has
a chance. I don't think you should feel insecure. Remember, there's AOC and Bernie rally that's
going to take place this next week. He's got UAW backing him. UAW is God in that state.
Yeah, I just, I worry about these incidents, but ultimately, but ultimately, if you worry
about them, if you're feeling insecure, if your, if your asshole is puckering, then you
already know, smile and motherfucking dial, baby.
Go out and phone bank.
Go out and phone bank.
Yeah.
This was the other story about what's his face? William Lawrence, who I like a lot. William
Lawrence is running in Michigan seven. They're now attacking him and saying he's racist.
Surgeon progressive William Lawrence once said black democratic leaders defanged the
white left. Sunrise movement co-founder William Lawrence, who was in a conversation with a
black activist, his alarm party strategies with his rise in a Michigan swing district.
Wait, what?
Read the rest of that.
A steadthread.
Holy fuck.
I did.
I read all of it.
HuffPost's attempts to turn critique of democratic establishment into a racial scandal.
HuffPost appears to be attempting to smear William Lawrence, a pro-Palestine progressive
challenger running for democratic nomination in Michigan 7th congressional district with
a misleading headline claiming he said black democratic leaders defang the white left.
September 2024 episode of his podcast, Lawrence, a sunrise movement co-founder,
had argued that older black political leaders have become a key institutional base of democratic
establishment, helping sustain capitalism, imperial US power, which is fucking true.
I'm sorry. The congressional black caucus is one of the worst aspects of the seniority driven
entrenched political power in the democratic party. And they literally cook younger black candidates
from running and achieving power. I mean, we've seen an example of this. Like the CBC did not
backdotted. Aliza, for example, obviously they're not going to, but they weren't like
leaning in that direction at all. Mellot Keros, I guess the CBC wasn't exactly a fan of Diana to get,
but that's a separate story that had nothing to do with Mellot being black, but more so had
something to do with that and to get actually running against Jim Clyburn. But that's again
a separate story. Now that can change, especially considering that the Congressional Black Caucus
has radical roots. Okay, very progressive policies were advanced by the Congressional Black Caucus
initially, it's just become a fixture of entrenched power and also unbelievably, unbelievably
captured by not just any kind of corporate interest, but specifically APEC as well.
That's a disaster, okay.
He was basically talking about CBC leadership, which is entirely dedicated to seniority and
institutionalism, but they're spinning it to be about all black politicians and even
black people, when it's just really critique of CBC status as a seniority cartel.
Yeah.
Most caucuses operate in that way, unfortunately, it's a real problem in the Democratic party.
It's a real problem.
The seniority structure is one of the most like non political sounding political problems
in the Democratic party that everyone identifies and hates.
Okay?
It's almost as popular, it's almost as popular as, what do you call it, as fucking shitting
on Israel or shitting on data centers, okay?
Probably more popular than both.
People do not like the gerontocracy, they hate it.
And it's not just young people who do not like the gerontocracy, it's all people who
do not like the gerontocracy either.
Maine is one of the oldest voter bases in the country, right?
And Mainers, who are 65, 70 years old, were like, oh, I can't wait to vote for someone
who's not so fucking old.
Anyway, he said this repeatedly blocks left wing organizing and puts white progressive
organize like some sort of a political difficult political difficult position, politically difficult
position, because challenging those leaders is then framed as challenging black political
power itself is a big problem for left politics in this country.
He said he then pointed to a young, he then pointed to younger black voters moving away
from Democrats and asks his guest co-founder for a co-founder of black for Palestine, whether
a younger black left could break that dynamic and help build a different political alignment.
Since the article's publication centers Democrats and certain democratic party officials have
seized on the HuffPost story, to demand that various groups and lawmakers revoke their
endorsements of Lawrence. Lawrence, who was endorsed by Bernie Sanders and Rashida Tlaib,
expressed regret for the clumsy way he expressed his point, while noting that a super PAC run
by DC insiders and tied to APAC is spreading ridiculous smears about me because I'm the
only candidate who will take on the billionaire class and the pro-war lobby. Therefore, that
is a contestant space that we need to show up to. How do you feel? What do you think is the
trajectory as a millennial black leftist. It's not something I can tell you.
What I don't like is when black folks are called out without full context,
very white perspective doesn't take responsibility for the root of the establishment practice comes
from. So does the Latino caucus, every establishment caucus does that? Yeah, no, I know.
I know. Wait, what? What? You're telling me something I do know.
Remember when I was yelling at chatters who were trying to do the thing where they were like,
like, well, black folk or conservative, the fuck they're not. Oh, black men are conservative.
No, the fuck they're not, especially the bears and the other voting blocks and their voting
patterns, the fuck they're not. They're just bullshit. Right? I get that. I say it all
the time is one of the most frustrating things to talk about. And I did also mention that
every caucus does this, right? I said seniority is a formative part, like the seniority politics,
formative part of every caucus system and certainly just a part of the Democratic Party in general.
It's a huge problem across the board, not just for the Congressional Black Caucus.
It's bad.
It's bad. It's about maintaining entrenched power and it's very frustrating.
talk too much about because I'm white and it's not my struggle. That being said, the extent to
which the older generation of black political leadership are such a pillar, frankly, for establishment,
capitalist, imperialist, American power through their role as this kind of
of traditionalist establishmentist pillar
of the Democratic Party, it's a big problem.
It's a big problem for left politics in this country.
It's just so funny because he's having an interview
with a young black organizer.
And the whole thing is called black internationalism.
So it's like very clear that he's not like,
oh yeah, fuck black people.
I hate when they hold political power or anything like that.
Like it's the exact opposite.
And he even starts off by doing the whole like,
it's not my place as a white person. So I want to hear your perspective as a black person on this
issue, like as a young black activist, you know what I mean? And then of course, let's be real,
the CBC PAC immediately was demanding people revoke their endorsements of him. The CBC is
slightly unique in that it only really promotes his elder leaders in the high-ranking positions
and uses itself as a block to do so. The other caucuses coalesce around their members, but it's
is less dependent on how long they've been in Congress.
And it gets us every single time.
And it really defangs the white left
and puts us in impossible positions really.
It's very effective politically.
And so I don't know, I'm curious,
but we're also seeing now that unfortunately,
don't want anyone to vote for Trump, but like young black people are falling away from the
Democratic Party and the support is not showing up in the same way. We'll see what happens
in November. I'm curious where you think this is headed and what the younger black left
needs to do in order to change this dynamic?
Yeah, totally. I mean, and what just to start again with the kind of like, you know
Internationalist answer of a kind is this is this is a question that's faced
Interplaces around the world where the the Senate he shouldn't have said white love but every other thing he said was on point
No, I think he was trying to say like
Yeah, he shouldn't have said that but I think what he was trying to say is like as a white person if you're progressive
It's like, you know when you actually do
to face any opposition from black political leadership, congressional black caucus, it's
virtually impossible for you to not to come across as racist.
I mean, even in this conversation, it's like literally happening.
A version of that is happening, right?
That's it.
because especially because it's like, you know, is there are very real like anti blackness
is a little different than other forms of racism because it's so deeply embedded into
American existence is so foundational. It's so fundamental to American existence that
you live and you breathe it, okay? It's so foundational that black people exhibit sometimes
anti-blackness, right? Because it's every aspect of our education. It's an every aspect of,
it's an every aspect of our social governance. It's in all of our institutions. It's unfortunately
like a very American thing. So, for that reason, there is valid critique that you could find.
There is valid, like, there is even valid criticism in the way he's talking. Like, technically,
it's not wrong if you were to be like, well, what are you saying? You know, like, other
Other people have brought up these issues in a racialized manner, okay?
Which is part of the problem.
I'll give you one example of anti-blackness that has always frustrated me, okay?
It kind of goes back to the same story I talk about all the time with like, oh, black people
are conservative, whatever.
There's always been articles that liberal writers often write about the conservatism
that is growing amongst black men, okay?
And I've always, those articles will always rub me the wrong way because it almost feels
like you are basically giving liberals the permission to to relitigate the angry savage
black man trope, but locally liberal style. Okay. Like that's what it is. In some ways,
it's like giving liberals the space and the permission to also say that black men are,
you know, violent and angry and aggressive. That's a trope.
That's a trope. It's not true, especially in comparison if we're doing like racial breakdowns,
is fucking an objectively untrue trope. And it's one that I talk about all the time is very
frustrating. But at the same time, you know, people have written about misogynoir and things of that
nature. So it can be both right and wrong at the same time. So even if someone is making a
clear critique and not coming from a racist perspective, I even understand why sometimes
people can read that as racist because anti-blackness, anti-black racism is foundational.
I mean, dude, Barack Obama lowkey did that.
Yeah, Piker Brock has his black man just wanted to thank you
for the honest coverage here.
Really sucks, you know, Obama perpetuated this false trope
saying we weren't voting for Kamala enough.
Yeah, I couldn't believe it.
When he came out and he said that I could not believe it.
And people were getting mad at me when they were like,
oh, it's not your place to fucking call out Barack Obama.
So it was like a weird situation.
I
Son is more conservative than young Van Jones to that is actually true
That is literally young Van Jones would have called me a fucking America caca of imperialist dog
And he would have been right from his perspective. He was a fucking Maoist our world is man
He was literally a Maoist
That's true, never forget Mao's Van Jones, he's real.
Black voters are not more culturally conservative than white people at all but among white people
being culturally conservative is the wage that makes you vote Republican while among
black people it takes back C in black cultural conservatives still tend to vote Democrat,
yes.
Anyway, Denzel McCamble, I wanted to, this is the last thing I wanted to point to, Detroit
City Council Member District 7. So Denzel said, he noticed this as well and he wanted
to address it. He said, it's disappointing that the black community is still being used
as pawns in the races in Michigan. I know this is nothing new, but still, from deceptive
campaign taxes used by those support Stevens for Senate to try to portray that President
Obama supports her, he has not endorsed her.
The non-black people telling us how we should feel about an interview that William Lawrence
did with a black organizer and a leader, more on my thoughts on that later.
But to be clear, listen to the actual conversation as one that we've been having constantly about
establishment.
But what I want to point out is that there are money and corporate interests that are
going all in on trying to pit black folks against our best interests.
It's yet another reason to get money out of politics and for a robust investment into
civic education.
Go be on the glossy mailers flashy ads and Twitter discourse
This guy has me as a child as his fucking pfp, dude
Bro, I swear to God there's something wrong with right wing libtards on this fucking platform
okay dog what are you doing
deranged man that's me as a minor normie dem gay not queer
depending on Google ever false information is probably another reason
support Abdul because he has a plan to regulate it.
You see Azealia Banks is coming for you.
Hassan Pyger is a wack f-word.
He's gassed and excited like he's spilling some specialty about Republicans as it being
gay on the low invalidates republican support for israel whole time muslims be the biggest f words
that's literally what he thinks this gives trying to sex shame a dead zionist is beyond thirsty
fuck out of here dude it's so awesome that israelia banks is real it's so fucking awesome to me because
like this is and he's a f-word for reading the out loud pussy incredible stuff
Judaea and Samaria Banks.
We kind of moved on, but I wanted to add it is some quick math and the average Democratic
ranking member on committees the whole 11 years older than the average member of Congress.
She got spat on and yelled at when she was there.
I cannot say the words I feel about her as a black person or another black person out
it is crazy. Who's this banks person? Seems like someone the DNC established from the love to run.
Israelia Banks also said Ben Gavir has been juicing because he looks good recently. He's sexy to me.
I don't care. Not more handsome than Amahai. Although I think Ben Gavir is probably sexier
because he's so shrewd.
I mean, she's genuinely mentally ill, but we knew that already anyway, let's let's wrap
this point. Let's wrap this story up with his last statement.
In New York, the current mayor is winning with landslides. The people are losing faith
in the current status quo. Black politicians, you slowly see them being displaced. And this
is why one of the reasons why even Detroit, a good friend of mine, by the way, Rashida
with Pauline, she's win by landslide because the typical
hockey Jeffreeze type old car Clinton, even Obama, by the way,
and I like Obama, they've been replaced by people that the
younger people feel that they are responsive to their, their
needs and ideals. So I can see even in this election, the
Democratic Party have to give us more than Trump is the bookie
man. He's the bad guy, which he is. But what I'm saying is you
have to have more answers and more of solutions than just blaming everything on Trump. And
this is why we see a lot of younger people like yourself that's getting disenchanted
with them and replacing them with like people like Mondani, who are taking critical position
even towards Israel and in Florida, Palestine. But yeah, he's still winning against all of
those lobbyists who are paying to try to get him out of here. So I, and this is why, by
the way you even have Cory Bush starting to come back and run again because they
see an opening if people started tired of the status quo politicians but people
like yourself. What do you make of Obama being invoked in this Michigan
Democratic primary race? He's in the ads with Haley Stevens of course he hasn't
weighed into this race specifically but Haley is using him saying good things
about her in television ads and when I talked to people that voted for Haley
Stevens they tell me that that's why oh yeah that's why and you also will see
with with Obama is that there's no pushback on that widely circulated
campaign hat that she's using him but it also says that I hate to say that some
of these politicians don't have their own ideas so they got to use Obama they
got to use Romo-Manu they got to use Bill Clinton in order to get himself
credibility whereas you look at people like Mondani and Rashida Taliq
for example, they use their self.
I'm Donnie made a lot of people see politics differently.
Black people are not a monolith.
Older black voters tend to support establishment candidates,
while younger black voters are more likely to vote for candidates
who aren't backed by the establishment for optimal to win.
Young people need to show up.
Yeah, which God blast them despite what near attended a Schumer would have you believe
Haley Stevens is serial underperformer from 2012 to 2022 she underperformed the average
top of the ticket by 12.5 points. Not just a one-off but a consistent underperformer
nominating her would put the seat in jeopardy. This is a abundant crap by the way.
What the fuck? He's got the Israeli flag in the bio and everything.
This is exactly the type of guy who's supposed to be like, I love Haley Stevens. I'm actually kind
of shocked. An abundant guy who's like pro-Palestine but also has the Israeli flag on the fucking bio.
Is Abdul winning over the Abundocrats? That's got to be like one of the the Zoran pickups. You know what I mean?
They truly don't care Schumer would rather lose the seat than how Abdul win. Yes 100%
What we are seeing what we're seeing here is apps of fucking Lutli
the Democratic Party torching its own fucking chances of having the best possible candidate, which is Abdul El Sayed, but like not even close.
Okay. This is like, with 2016, there was already like an established narrative that people were firmly committed to, because we're coming after the Obama years, right?
So, while Obama's support had definitely waned a little bit, there was still an idea,
there was still a faith that liberals placed in the establishment and the electability
arguments would work.
Right now, establishment Democrats know that their fucking electability arguments are
bad, and yet they're still trying to overwhelm the market with as many smears, with as many
manufactured points of outrage as possible, and they're still trying to do a half-assed
like electability argument as well, at a time when there's no appetite for it.
So it's now about like duping as many old people as possible to vote for the weaker candidate
with half-cocked electability arguments.
That's it.
It is straight up blasting in every fucking TV network, trying to get people who watch
television, who get their nose from the TV man still to commit to the same old business
as usual politics with the hopes that that electability argument still works.
Lasting started, it went on a couple of months.
My sister-in-law, Sue, and come crashing.
We sat AOC down where Republican voters, can she win them over?
Down.
Nobody from Amazon has bothered to say one word.
It was three blasts a day, seven days a week for months.
This is unbelievable.
What happens when you take Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the heart of the data center revolt?
They're just trying to say that no one should cover this?
Yeah.
And I'm sorry, but I'm on a social security check.
I can't afford to do that.
You didn't blow up your ceiling.
We wanted to know how voters who feel politically homeless
and raise your hand if your electricity bill has gone up
and your water bill has gone up.
From the black suburbs of Atlanta.
Are the local politicians supportive or what?
To conservative rural communities.
This is not a party issue.
This is a people issue.
That's right.
So it doesn't matter what party you are, it's wrong.
How are voters going to respond to a democratic socialist
from New York?
People want to call me woke, whatever.
This is about power.
With the Trump administration pushing for more data centers.
The AI race is a big deal.
Construction of colossal data centers.
Oh my god!
We have to get this stuff built.
Where does that leave regular people, like Beverly Morris?
Well, I feel trapped because I have no way out.
How was the backlash against a data center boom,
the key to unlocking America's politics?
We've never been more polarized.
I just think we ought to show up in these places
and see these things for ourselves.
Well, do you want to show us
there's been some damage to your house?
Of course, yes, sure, come on.
Pam LaFelder purchased her dream home three years ago.
So the first issue thing that I saw
was the crack in my porch.
I share it, wow, all the way across.
All was well until explosive blasts started to shake her home earlier this year.
It sounded like someone picked up my house and went boom a week after that.
That's when I started seeing cracks all throughout my house.
And I found out they're putting a data center in my backyard.
The two million square foot hyper scale data center is being built less than a
mile from Pamela's home.
You can still see where the paint.
Thoughts perhaps AOC has some latent ability I'm not saying perhaps the country's becoming more amenable to her communications
I'll perhaps is the right song popular that she can win regardless
I don't know what I'm skeptical anyone who tries to paint this and it is proven to tie DSA to her. What is this?
Bro, here's what it is. Okay. AOC is despised by
AOC is the most like normies fucking love her and think she is amazing and
And everyone on the internet fucking hates her candidate of all time. Okay, that's it
That's it
That's literally it normies love AOC
Liberals love AOC
They do and it's so funny that people just people on here people on this platform are just like
Bro, she fucking sucks all this stuff
Okay. Like, it's not even a thing. Like, it's just a almost completely online manifestation.
And it's not bots. Like, there's real enmity towards AOC. It's also because, like, she has...
There are issues with some of the decisions that she makes. Okay.
Like, she'll, I wish she was more bold. Like, that's the best thing that I can say.
You're so wrong. I'm not saying there anything alike in actual,
but she has the same aspiring fun wine aunt vibes as Kamala.
You're kind of wrong. No, you're, you're gonna bring up all of the fucking negatively polarized
people that have watched a shit ton of, watched a shit ton of like conservative attack ads against
her. She consistently outperforms most people. Unfortunately, her strongest congressional
track record is low key on foreign policy. Ironically enough, if you actually look at her voter,
If you actually look at her legislative record, but then her weakest part in terms of her communication is foreign policy,
which is why, although if you look at her legislative track record, you're like, she's got great track record, okay?
One of the best in Congress, but if you just know her from the quote-unquote controversies that she's a part of on the internet,
then, you know, she's terrible.
That's what people think.
But yeah, Normie's do actually love AOC broadly.
She has the single, I mean, she quietly has amassed a fucking war chest.
She doesn't like aggressively fundraise or anything like that.
And yet she has, like, by far the highest number of small donors from all across the country.
Normies love her to death.
Read my article. You wrote an article.
The NSA's MPC votes against all member polling raising questions. Oh my god, it's no, I'm not
waiting into this. I'm not, I'm not weighing into this. I'm not weighing in on this.
Yeah, dude, look at this. AOC's fundraising prowess continues to be astonishing. She's raised more
than twice as much as Jeffries and leads all 435 house members. It's insane, dude.
It's fucking insane. And before people say who the fuck is David Trone,
he's self-funding, okay? It doesn't count. AOC's fundraising prowess is actually unmatched
because it's all small donors too. It's not like they're major corporate packs or anything like
that. It's just small donors. Everyone else on this list has fundraised, not off of small donors,
but off of big donors, major donors.
Part of the reason why she is also undefeated in her district is because she has phenomenal
constituent services that a lot of people overlook. Weirdly enough, that's why she's
basically a powerhouse in her district and APEC gave up on trying to unseat her.
Okay, but these are important considerations to make when thinking about AOC for 2028.
It's ripped all the way up my stairs.
I noticed the ceiling that crossed there.
My dad worked in construction, so.
Oh, he did?
So if I look like I'm really sticking my nose in here.
No, I don't care.
I want you to.
Because I'm taking a real look.
And your neighbors are experiencing the same thing.
We're all sending letters out to the blasting company.
And what are they saying when they deny it?
They say my house was settlement.
Oh, so everyone here at the house is settling at the same time?
At the same time.
Pamela's neighbor also came by and insisted
we see a giant sinkhole she said was caused by the blasts.
Makes you want to cry.
No one's listening.
Why a data center?
Why now?
Why here?
Unprecedented amounts of money are behind the race to build.
Meta is investing $600 billion in data center infrastructure
through 2028.
Open AI has pledged over 400 billion.
Even the real estate company responsible for this site
just closed a $3.25 billion funding round.
If these tech folks love these data centers so much,
put it in your backyard.
That's right, that's right.
Put it in your backyard.
Put it away from people's homes.
This is why we're saying we need to slow the roll on this
because they're moving fast.
We're just saying pause it so that we can move forward in a more just way.
That's right.
In a fair way.
Yeah, for everybody.
For everybody.
Yeah.
But far from the black suburbs of Atlanta is much Trumpier country.
And the idea of AOC isn't as enthusiastically received.
There's some really extreme liberal views out there.
Before they met her, I asked folks what they knew about AOC's politics.
Just from an overall view, very fringe left.
I'm probably a lot more conservative than she is.
How are your politics evolving?
And they're evolving.
I'm not real impressed with the politics on either side.
We first met Beverly Morris and her husband Jeff last year
when they showed us how the construction of a 2.5 million square foot meta data
center is contaminating their drinking water, a charge which META denies.
This is my cold water pressure in the kitchen.
So you can see the sediment from the data center.
And this is what's in all the pipes too. They should be responsible for that, not us.
When we were here last year with them, META was still building this data center, but now it's operational.
I worry about using the water for everything.
I don't use the water for cooking anymore.
I did for a while.
You know, I thought, you know, I've got to use it.
I wouldn't drink it.
I haven't drank the water here in years.
I mean, this is my view, but it should be a right
for you to be able to turn on your tap and drink what comes out of it.
The Morris's aren't alone.
Other residents also came to us with stories of their contaminated water.
This is the sediment that it's picking up.
The cold water pressure everywhere is pretty bad.
You cannot take a shower and wash dishes
or take a shower and fill up the horse's water.
You just can't.
Our refrigerator broke, our HVAC broke.
We have issues with the pool.
So anything that's water related, we have issues with.
And this is the filters from the filtration system after
we pull it out.
And you used to change those filters once a year or?
Yeah.
typical people are probably six months to a year.
And now you're doing it once a month?
Yeah.
But you feel stuck, right?
You feel like you can't, even if you wanted to move,
you can't.
Not in being able to get the value
that we put into our home.
Well, let's keep going down the line here, County.
Our fight has been Coweta County.
We just had a large parcel of land
rezoned for a data center,
but we don't know who it is yet that's coming.
And I'm Tina. I live in Ipsford, Georgia, and it's the Amazon data center.
We're not just fighting Facebook or Amazon or any of these data centers.
That's not who we're fighting. We're fighting the entire institution that allows it.
They think people aren't paying attention. They'll go sniffing around, jiggling every door handle
to see what county they can push these things through on.
It is necessary.
I understand the need for it,
but the manner in which they're going about it
is not only wrong, it doesn't even make sense.
I don't blame Amazon.
I don't blame those businesses.
I blame our government.
That's who's supposed to be taking care of me.
My commissioner should have been looking after our community.
Our governor should be looking after our state,
like it goes up.
A business is a business and it's about making business
and they don't care what they're doing to people.
They don't and that's a shame.
Bro, you go to these towns and you tell them
we're gonna fucking end these data centers.
You'll be like, I'm a communist
and I'm saying we're gonna end these fucking data centers.
No more big businesses poisoning your fucking water supply.
They're gonna be like, I'm a comedy too.
I'm telling you, man.
They're greedy and they don't care.
That's the way it is.
We appreciate you taking the time to come here about it because until someone at a national level gets really serious about it, nothing's going to happen.
We should be starting congressional investigations on the effect on these and figuring out with precision how we protect our water supplies, how we protect our power bills and water bills, and keep people from getting sick.
50 miles away from the Morris is a group of residents successfully pushed for a moratorium
on a 95 acre data center project.
Wait a minute, where do I know you from?
I'm a congresswoman from New York.
Oh, come on, Mr. Mayor.
Hey, you're my girl.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you.
We organized because we know what we want in our community.
They did not anticipate that when they had the Board of Commission or meeting that hundreds of us were going to show up, they couldn't deny us, they had to stop and say, wait a minute.
Across the country, more than 50 local data center moratoriums have already been enacted, with dozens more proposed or under consideration across the U.S.
But this patchwork approach has left a lot of communities vulnerable.
We're in a neighborhood that's an unincorporated Clayton County, but just
over the fence line is the city limits of Forest Park, and that is where the
facility is being built. Wow. Okay, all right. So the county has a moratorium, but
the city does not? Correct. Wow. And so the city, even though the city is inside
the county, it's not covered. Who we? All right, talk about a loophole. Yes. For now,
Now the local fight continues.
The community has said we want walkability in our neighborhoods.
We want clean air, we want clean water, but we have to keep fighting.
It's like a continual fight.
It's like we're surrounded by piranhas that just keep trying to picket us, but we just
keep fighting.
In March 2026, AOC and Senator Bernie Sanders introduced legislation at the federal level
called the AI Data Center Moratorium Act.
It's both a response to growing opposition
to these facilities, but also about the need
to establish a nationwide policy about their construction.
Our responsibility is to take care of people,
and that is what we're here to do today.
What you're proposing is a national moratorium.
Yes, and it's, you know, it's not the same thing
as an outright ban, but it's saying,
we need to meet some basic protections for people.
We need some guarantees on your water.
Who needs the log when you can grog?
I'm going to grog it, I'm going to chat you, Bt it.
I'm going to tell you no data centers in my backyard, but I'm a numbers guy
and I want the data center to be in your backyard.
On the air that you breathe, we need to make sure that
the jobs that stand to be wiped out, that there's a plan for that.
and we're not just leaving people, you know, out to dry.
And we need to just have some really basic common sense
protections for people.
The bill would require a building moratorium
until the federal government passes laws
mitigating job losses, preventing utility rate hikes,
and establishing environmental protections,
among other things.
The question is whether this is enough
to persuade conservative voters
to support someone far across the political aisle.
Do you think that people here could get behind someone like AOC and her ideas for AI and data centers?
I think they would get behind anyone who was going to fight for their rights to clean water
and to live their life without dealing with this.
Now the tide on this is starting to turn. The politics on this,
because everyday people are starting to catch on to what's going on.
She may be on the left, but on the data center issue, seems more centered and
genuinely concerned about people, and that's refreshing to hear.
How do you wrap your head around addressing this at the national level?
We need to put people first, and we need those protections to be ironclad and
guaranteed before we can have a conversation about what does and doesn't
get constructed.
Do you think that this is an issue that could maybe pull our country together?
I don't know if it's going to pull our government all together, it's pulling the people together.
If there's a chance that anything can be done, I feel like she is going to be the one to do it.
Days later, AOC showed Beverly's water samples to an EPA water official testifying before her committee.
I have a jar right here. The only difference between the clean water and this was that data center.
I have another one as well.
This is what the drinking water now looks like next to that data center.
And I think both of us can agree that neither one of these things are drinkable.
So as soon as I get back to the office, I will be looking into exactly what you've just
talked about because anywhere, whether it is, whatever type of construction it is, it
is a priority to ensure that water quality standards establish.
catch that she's on the left, but at least she's in the center on the data center issue. Yes.
All right. Look, there is no, this is something that I've said quite a bit,
is something that Michael from Pennsylvania said quite a bit. And ironically enough,
this is something that Morris Katz has said as well. These people don't understand what
moderate is, okay? They think center is a good thing. And I think a lot of established Democrats
abuse that
to say all center you mean like moderate on health care no they think
medicare for all is a moderate policy
they just associate being in the center
with good
and whatever they think is good is in the center
so if you just keep it issue specific and keep it moving they'll be like yeah
course I'm a centrist on blowing up data centers. That's the centrist position. Okay,
that's the center left position. The centrist position is, you know, investigating where to
put these data centers, right? Like that's, then from their perspective, they literally are, they,
that's what they think.
Like, if you were to ask Americans like, hey, should we keep blowing up fucking brown countries
around the world, or should we stop doing that? They'd be like, no, the center's position is to
stop doing that. The center's position is being anti-Israel. The center's position is anti-data
center. From their perspective, they just associate the center with good. Okay? The golden mean.
Moderate just means someone who doesn't identify strongly with the political party,
but when you ask them about policy, they're overwhelmingly left-wing. How do I know the
most popular act of policy was self-described moderates and Bernie Sanders? Yes, I know.
Right, center left Dems are worried about AI pack money, but also getting labor pressure
not to support a pause on data center construction.
There are other tax ideas to redistribute the benefits of AI data centers, but the progressive
position is just stop building them.
That gets you to scenes like this, a candidate getting bird dog because she won't take the
progressive position and is therefore a shill with nothing to offer and not the main actors
bringing up his student debt, which has nothing to do with the issue, but makes it more sympathetic
if she tries to bolt.
take, it was clear that the centristems were rallying to abundance or at least reading about
it and attending its conferences and that the left identified that movement's thermal
exhaust port data center construction.
The centrist position is quitting my job and jerking off all day.
Congratulations, Chatter.
I hope you're doing all right with that.
by EPA are being met.
There are a lot of people with a lot of money
who don't wanna see this thing slow down.
They're like, the train's moving fast,
we can't afford to stop, it doesn't matter,
we'll figure it out later.
I've been in a lot of political fights
that have seemed insurmountable before,
that we've won.
One, two, three.
No data center.
No data center.
I just don't believe in impossible.
I just think that, you know, if you think something's impossible, it's just, that's an imagination problem.
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Imagine waking up one day and being told the home your family has lived in for years is going to be demolished to help power the A-
Okay, no, no, it's over.
Georgia families lose home due to data centers. I'm gonna be honest with you
This will cause I feel like this is the one thing that every American is gonna be like I will rise up in arms
I will rise up in arms, and I will join the fucking militant vanguard
That's crazy
Bro, it's not like people have homes already. Okay home ownership is already at an abysmal rate
What are we doing?
What
What are we doing, man? Oh my god making people lose their house to a fucking data center
Oh my god the contradictions worsen every day. We as socialists must be there
Okay, we as socialists must be there to aid and abet the working class as
contradictions worsen as they feel rudderless as
as they feel angry for good reason without recognizing what is doing this to them. Who is doing this to them?
We have to direct their anger and animosity towards the appropriate forces.
Boom, and there's absolutely nothing you can do about it. That is what is happening to some homeowners in Georgia.
They've been given an ultimatum. So your home or the state will take it.
Utility giant Georgia Power is planning to build a new transmission line so it can handle new data centers.
Skylar Henry has more from a county just outside Atlanta.
I'm a single mom. I worked hard for everything.
How do you put a price on a home you never intended to sell?
One filled with more than two decades of memories.
I think that was five or six when this was built.
The yard where you buried your pets.
The greenhouse that fed your family.
When you talk about what being on this property means to you.
Yeah.
Right? It's y'alls.
It's ours. It's our family.
We saw these people think good. I don't have a house now. You don't either. No, no
I'm talking about the people who are losing their houses, man
Belong here, but Anzlie Brown's childhood home likely won't be here much longer
That's because the state's largest utility Georgia power says it needs the area to make way for a 35 mile long transmission line
Georgia power has been here for as long as Anzlie's mother has owned this property. It's just beyond the tree line
Now, with the expense of my county is united the hogs centers and left here against it.
People are all talking about this yet.
This is one thing that animates america's unlike anything else man.
Eminent domain is woof.
Sin of this land is projected looking to take the two and a half acres the house sits on.
Georgia power says increasing demands has outpaced the capacity of its existing grid.
And building a new transmission line requires acquiring more than 300 parcels of land.
residential properties. What did your mom tell you she wanted for this property to be?
Generational wealth, true generational wealth was the idea and now it's being stripped from us.
Georgia power estimates 70 to 80 percent of the power on this new line is exp...
There's 50,000 people told fuck you, your power's gone and Tahoe as well. It's already alarm bells that
rang that tens of millions of Americans through the Midwest and South will see rolling black
house as early as next year due to data centers. Yeah, that's the other thing.
There is, these behemoths are power sucks. They're basically power sinks. They are exhausting the
already dog shit infrastructure that exists, which is only going to lead to skyrocketing
electricity costs, which already has led to that. And then rolling blackouts with regular frequency
Is the power grid is already shit?
For what?
For a technology that is going to displace the existing labor force it is so fucked up
In fact, to help serve data centers, it says the remaining 20 to 30 percent. Yeah, meanwhile, we just sit around and we're like, oh, dude
It turned down your ac. Oh, I'd never do that. Don't tread on me
It's like bro, they are already treading all up and down your ass power will serve the state's growing residential and commercial demand
Georgia power told us that they feel as if they've done this process responsibly
What would you say to that? I disagree you can't tear down 35 miles of rural Georgia
And it not hurt something or somebody and to say that you're doing it in the name of data centers
Is a slap in the face to us
our community, our animals. Brown's mother recently came to an agreement with
Georgia Power to sell. Brown says if she didn't, the utility could have sought to
acquire her property through eminent domain, a legal process that allows
private property to be taken with compensation for projects determined to
serve a public purpose. All power generations start somewhere. Holly Love
it is a Georgia Power spokesperson. Eminent domain is always you know a
last resort for us and it's something we never want to do. To us it's theft. It's literally a
billion dollar company stealing land from smaller people, people who can't fight back.
We don't have the money to fight Georgia power. So that's why a few months ago-
Like I- you guys know I'm not anti-eminent domain, okay? I want Chinese style development
And part of that will require eminent domain, which ironically enough is far, the property
homeownership rights in China are ironically far superior to the United States of America.
That's why you have a concept called like needle homes in China.
I don't know if you guys have ever seen that, but I am in favor of a powerful state.
hold on, hold on, for good reason. Okay, yeah, it's called nail houses. There it is. Yeah.
So, what do I mean by this? If it's, if it's eminent domain for high speed rail, if it's
eminent domain for like a necessary power plant or something, you know what I mean?
that's going to power the hospital.
Like that makes sense.
But if it's for fucking powering data centers,
I'm like, what are we doing?
How is that also for public purpose?
How is a data center for a private,
multi-billion dollar corporation for public utility,
for public purpose?
Explain that to me, I do not understand it.
It doesn't make any fucking sense.
Oh, why?
Is it because the government decided
because all these lizard billionaires are fucking up.
Donald Trump's asked.
So they decided that it's actually for, for good reason.
It's a, there's a necessity for public utility.
It's bullshit.
Oh, and they took her story to TikTok.
My childhood home is being taken by Georgia Power.
China's also using eminent domain for data centers.
They see public utility in them.
Why do you hit data center so much?
It's like you just don't like data centers
some of the issues they create. China is building data centers in the fucking ocean dude. I just
described to you the Chinese process as far as eminent domain and you literally just refused
to listen to what I had to say. Also, and I can't stress this enough and it's gonna come as a big
surprise to a lot of people, I'm not Chinese motherfucker, I don't give a shit what they're
doing in China? Not only are you wrong, but even if you were right, I'd be like, I'm not Chinese,
I don't live in fucking, do I look like I live in Guangzhou? Is that what I look like?
Is that what it seems like to you? Oh, that's Chongqing, Hasan.
The fuck just because I got the Chinese Panda on me at all times
Yeah, China has built over 500 completely new cities since the CPC took power.
They know how to build stuff. I know. I know that motherfucker was coping.
He's just, he just literally went, whoa, they're doing it in China too.
It's like, yeah, okay, great.
He began sharing stories of others in similar situations.
What is it taking from her? Look behind me. It's taking this entire backyard.
What do you say to someone who will push back on any sort of offer that's out there and say well the price tag can't replace memories?
Oh gosh, you know it almost makes me emotional because I have those memories in like my house and I get how deeply personal people's homes are.
I would just say that we see you and we hear you and...
Yes, I know people from China that had their homes bought from them and then given brand new homes for free. Yes.
Yes, the Chinese state is INSANE with that shit.
They give you higher...
They give you a higher rate if they have to move you, they pay for the moving fees, sometimes they give you a replacement home.
And on top of that, even if you say no across the board, there's the concept of nail homes where they just like literally stick out in the middle of a motherfucking highway.
They just let... they're like, alright, whatever.
You're lost.
We want this process to be respectful and transparent, and that is going to ultimately
benefit you.
Brown doesn't buy that, and while she knows it's too late to save her home, she says she
doesn't want to see this happen to anyone else.
My mom wants an apology.
She wants an apology from Georgia Power.
That's it.
And it's because of how she feels as if she's been treated.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, for an entire year, they have bullied her.
And there is no sorry.
So that's what we want.
We want an apology from Georgia Power.
When asked if the utility company is willing to apologize,
Georgia Power told us they have worked hard
to be transparent, negotiate in good faith,
and make this process as easy as possible.
As for the data centers and who is behind them.
Georgia power told us it doesn't publish lists of customers
to protect safety and security guys, this is a story, you
know, it's one of those things that we've talked about for
months now is data centers, communities obviously not my
backyard, but I think the real crux of this argument here is
what do you say to people who own these property is 20 30
years and it's like you got to go and you can you feel the
motion it's interesting to me that Georgia power says we've
tried to make this process is easy as possible their definition
of easiest possible is very different from what these
families are experiencing it's so hard to believe there's
nothing they can do nothing and the reality is that you're
looking at this is going to happen more and more because
yeah, you're going to need over the next 20 years 10 to 20
years 10 to 15% more power than being generated right now in
the United States that's probably 100 nuclear reactors if
you have to generate 110.
It's how do you put a price tag on this true? Yes. It is so tough. Scarlet we thank you. Absolutely
Huh
Insane
China has infrastructure power these data centers the US doesn't as simple as that
Yeah, there's that too
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