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El Sayed is campaigning in Michigan, appearing on stage at two Michigan campaign rallies.
He's collectively campaigning alongside Pecker.
The man who said Hezbollah's flag is his favorite, Hezbollah's goat.
Why would you align yourself for a raging anti-Semite fight?
Who has defended Hamas terrorists?
Calling them the lesser of two is Israel's compared to the government's evil's
Congress.
Lesser of two that's what I find a bridge too far.
When I went up to my good friend, Chad, and said,
hey, can you walk me through some more
controversial statements of a son, Piker?
Even Chad GBT went out of his way
to soften the edges of the son, and he gave me context.
Thanks, but no sex.
Chad should be taken.
The son, Piker, is campaign poison.
Placing yourself on the wrong side of a 9-10 issue
is only going to make you look bad.
It's going to be good for me.
It's going to be good for the candidates that I work with.
Turns out it was true.
Abdul al-sayed at 27%
Me like heroes, everybody. It's me too. That's not welcome to the broadcast. Thank you for having me. Oh my god
What's going on buddy
I hope all the boys, girls and MBs are having a fantastic one because today's a beautiful
day.
Today's a wonderful day.
The day is...
Come on.
Today is Wednesday.
You already know what that means.
Today is Wednesday, you already know what that means.
That means I just did leg day earlier.
That means I lunged up and down the block with a weight behind my back like I'm Sisyphus.
And ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls and MBs, some of you probably already watched the
Instagram story so you already know what the guest very special honored guest that I've been teasing that's gonna be coming on the
broadcast. Let's just let's just keep it a secret between us. Let's just keep it a secret between you and I. Okay. Anyway, ladies and
gentlemen, boys, girls and everybody, did you have a balanced house or your birthday party? No. Oh, yeah. We're live. We're
live. It's Wednesday, July 29th. We're freaking four days out of my birthday at this point. I'm
four days into being 35 and I'm really feeling it as always. I don't know why. This is just how it
goes usually in any case. Um, Kirby Derby lost last night. It's 1109. It's 1110 am here Pacific
time in Los Angeles, California, stolen Tonga territory. I'm a son piker and this is the part
part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news, not the personal news, not
what I've done in between the time period where I press the stopwatch and press the
startwatch and the button.
So help me God, that's what I'm going to do now normally.
This is where I tell you I'm a chud ass loser, I don't have anything going on in my life,
but let's be real, last night was not that.
Last night I invited a lot of close friends and family to my home and we had catering
And I had a little birthday party,
a birthday party for the little birthday guy.
Okay, little birthday boy.
It was, you know, I'm not the biggest fan of that stuff,
but I did it nonetheless.
Yeah, I always feel a little uncomfortable
being the center of attention for something
that I don't feel like I deserve.
Before people say, oh, you love being the center of attention,
you're a frickin' Leo, you're a Twitch streamer, yes, I do.
But I feel like birthdays are not a deserved center of attention.
I didn't do anything.
I was just born, you know?
It's not, there's nothing exceptional about being alive, being born, carrying on.
All the three-spirited birthday party made you look extra autistic?
Yeah.
Yeah.
for sitting around at my birthday party and you know I got caught on my phone
okay this is the one this is literally cutie Cinderella cooking me cutie
Cinderella cooking me baking me whatever you want to call it look at this my son
showed up to his birthday in a suit but nobody else wore theirs
Yeah, I was tired. I was tired. This is right after a nine hours, eight hour stream. Can
I not be, can a man not be allowed to feel tired after a long day is a man not entitled
to the sweat of his brow, to the peace and comfort in his home, in his humble abode.
Co-worker mentioned. Yeah, I saw this one.
Yeah. My sister's coming over in a bit. Oh, okay. I'll be gone because I have a co-worker's birthday.
Okay, um,
You know funeral you don't got to go to
The ticket with this Pacific. Oh, yeah, I had two beers last night and two beers
Speaking of co-worker channel Mock and everyone in the space. I don't even want to talk about this because this is like I look
Look, Ludwig is my co-worker, okay. At a certain point in time, perhaps a friend. Now, simply
a co-worker, would I go to his funeral? Nobody knows. I don't necessarily have a lot of thoughts
or opinions about Ludwig, but I will say, I have never felt the level of deep envy.
I have never felt the level of deep envy towards one of his accomplishments.
Throughout this entire process, I've always friend, co-worker,
doesn't matter enemy, lover. Okay. Oh,
we've gone through all of these arcs. Okay.
And I've always been very proud of his accomplishments.
This is the first time where I felt deep envy. Okay.
deep ending
Yeah, I said it I said what I said you heard me not I'm using the right words
This is
This is crazy. This is actually the coolest thing he's ever fucking done and he does not deserve it
I am the true China Maxer
I get called Mao Zedong on Fox news and they put his ass on a Chinese video game, man
Man, that's crazy!
So here's, oh my god, why is his eyes still busted?
That's crazy.
That's crazy they beautified him and his eye his eye level is still busted is this is what the fuck
That's crazy, how is that possible?
He why he looked Kirk if I he's just white. That's why he's white
Bro wishes he was him. Yes
Yes, this is the only time in my life where I was like damn that is so sick
That's so goddamn sick because he went Pete white monkey being a white monkey has been my dream
Okay, you guys know this you guys know this how many times have I talked about it when I was in China
I had a brief white monkey experience where I was you know
Buzzing for the the noodle shop and it was probably the greatest experience I had
Up until this very moment in my life like it was just the greatest experience. You can't say that bro
no that's literally what it's called. The term for it is like white people that are specifically
used to highlight the brand or something in like in China. That's what it that's what it's called.
Also I'm white what do you mean? Anyway,
Bro, I've never seen you as excited about something on stream as you were busking in Chongqing. That was actually insanely fun to watch
That's what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. Like here's the thing. Here's the thing
That was the greatest moment of my life like busking for a noodle shop in Chongqing. Okay, she's here
Laoban, you know telling people come in we got noodles. Okay boss. Okay boss
That was bad. That was the best that was peak that was peak me that is
What I will inevitably do when the federal government comes after me when I will just like make my escape to China
and I will be a busker at a noodle shop in Chongqing. That will be what I will do for
the rest of my life. And that's, I'll be happy, right? He took it one step further. He took
it one step further. He went white monkey in a, in a franchise, in a video game. I hate
this wig on you sis no ma'am yeah I hate this wig on him I wish it was on me instead
It's so funny he's reading, he's reading the line!
All right, Chinese speakers.
Is he nailing it? He sounds like he's nailing it. I don't speak any Chinese. So to me, it
sounds like Charlie Kirk is nailing the fuck out of this right now. Absolutely not. Wait,
really? Is he like enunciating far too much? Cause like one of the techniques, and this
is the same with Japanese, like if you're, if you're a Western or trying to learn Japanese
or Chinese, like you have to be kind of racist when you're like, you know, saying the words
From the perspective of a Westerner, and I can say this because I'm, you know,
I'm lost between borders, kind of like Madaglacias. I'm Turkish. I speak fluent,
Turkish and I speak fluent English, right? So like, I, you know,
I have a unique perspective on this, but like from the perspective of Westerners
in general, when they are trying to learn a different language,
especially Japanese or Chinese, like you have to be kind of racist when you're
saying certain, like you have to sound racist. You have to sound it out in a way
that like, I think white people are very uncomfortable with normally,
especially like woke white people, because it's so tonal.
So that's why yeah, the sentence breaks are in the wrong places. Oh, okay, that makes sense.
It sounds like it sounds like he's really over enunciating the words, but he's doing it slowly.
And I would never be able to do that. No, you don't. Please don't say that yet. What do you mean?
No, it like white people think it's racist when you try to do
like tonal sounds. That's it. That's what they think it is. They literally, Westerners
would be like, woke Westerners would look at that and be like, that's kind of, I don't
know if I feel comfortable making that, making that sound, you know? It's not racist to use
an accent. No, no, no, I know. I will never learn Vietnamese for that reason. I'm black.
But yeah.
Mumbling throughs how you get to hello, I am Pussy Burger.
Ask one error for guidance, I still have affairs to handle, let me see.
Hmm, go and ask my son for help, I still have something to do.
Sure, he shot.
Sure.
Um, Twitch streamer tells the chat, you have to be racist.
This is who you want to represent in the movement?
Yes.
Um, what is this?
You're a rich, privileged guy.
Put that money into good use and take China Max and seriously take Man Realizes.
So here's the problem.
You're not wrong.
I'm a rich, privileged guy.
The issue is, there is only a finite amount of time throughout the day.
And although I'm a rich privileged guy, there is literally not enough time in the day, unless
I just retool something, unless I retool something in my daily activities, and probably
lower significantly the amount of hours that I stream. I'm never going to be able to find
sufficient time throughout the day to learn Chinese. There's just not enough hours in the day. I
have to sleep. I have to study. I have to do research. I have to, you know, I have to build a
run of show, right? I have to do all that stuff before I go live. I have to work out so I can
still be at least kind of sexy. And more importantly, that I be at least kind of healthy,
right? Because I sit on my ass all day. It's just not, you know, it's not
learn on stream. No, that's boring. Typical white guy. It's our fault. Yeah.
Porno, Miguel Ifa. Yeah.
Research. Bro said research and the research is AI Charlie Kirk songs. Wait, that's, wait,
wait, how did you find my Google search history? That's weird. Am I hacked? I see hemorrhoids
in your stream. I don't know why I don't have hemorrhoids, but, but yeah. QT with a banger
tweet, I am not beating the lesbian allegations. I know I mean, it's true. He looks so pretty.
He looks so pretty. Coworker Wig looks very pretty. Good, good on him. But yeah. Where
was I, uh,
I saw what the fuck is happening.
What is this for the boomer cons?
What do you mean?
Is, is Lindsay is Lady G.
What, what, I don't know why you guys are confused.
This is Lady G showing her, showing her, her Gucci.
She's a Cougar maxing, right?
That's what we're calling it.
Is that, and that was going on.
She got the dogs out and everything her
I'm not I'm really important was I'll do the loose because he hates you that's so strange
That's a very strange thing to openly admit
By the way, there's another co-worker running against Maylott a co-worker
Is it Blau doctor in Denver?
Shimon Blau has qualified for the no he's in Denver
A Jewish doctor in Denver
Shimon Blau has called. Oh my god
Well, how could you do this to me?
Blau
How could you do this to me?
We worked hard. We worked hard to get Mala to win that primary against Diana to get now. You you run an independent campaign
Did his smear a tandem admit to the same she wants Abdul to lose to own you so
They say stuff like that, but there's a real reason for it
That's probably a little bit more palatable for them to admit
The real reason obviously is they're just terrified of like having an anti-Israel senator
Right? Someone who's even more anti-Israel than Bernard Sanders in the Senate is a true threat to Israel's, you know, further ambitions is a true threat to the unconditional loyalty that Israel has enjoyed for the last 80 years.
So that's what they're actually afraid of, but they can't say that out loud. They can't be like, we are apex duges
We're ideologically aligned with the Zionist project
We care about Israel's ambitions of developing a greater Israel project. We're perfectly, I mean, we're paid
We're paid mercenaries who only care about you know, Israel paying our salaries like they can't say stuff like that
So they have to find a way to package that
They have to find a way to package that
In a more palatable manner and that packaging is
Silliness saying things like all well this will piss off a twitch streamer
This will piss off the the annoying woke bros on the internet the annoying anti-israel fellas on the internet. It's dumb
It's very dumb. I think the real reason for smear attendant is because I mean she's
She is a Zionist. She is pro-Israel. She has many photos with Benjamin Netanyahu
she brought Anthony Blinken to the Center for American Pupu. She brought a bunch of other
architects of the Gaza Genocide on board. So she is primarily invested in keeping a close link
between pro-Israel advocacy organizations and the Democratic Party. She's probably one of the most
influential think tank, heads of one of the most influential think tanks in the
Democratic Party right now. And of course from her perspective it's like
what we're doing is a genuine existential threat. So she has to try to
deal with that threat.
That's what it is.
Anyway, you going over the Fauci hearing today? Probably not. I don't really care about, I
feel like Fauci, ouchy. I feel like that's old shit, right? I mean, the only thing I
care about is, the only thing I care about the Dr. Fauci is basically this. This is the
The only thing I care about with respect to Dr. Fauci.
Fauci. Yes, promise us please. We'll have a cure that can fight off this disease. Restrictions
will lift with some ease. Dr. Fauci, don't forget me.
It's kind of crazy that this is like, this is the archetypical former Hassanabi head
who's now like my immortal enemy, guys who loved my commentary when I was dunking on
fucking anti-vaxxers in 2020 and became like super lived up in the process.
But now hates me because like they've become so invested in like the Democratic party,
establishment for one reason or another and find me as like a primary op. That is the, like this
person specifically probably isn't, right? But this is a type of guy. Many of them are on election
twitter. Many of them are these like NATO liberals. The fight song and now this, do you want to
forever hate music except random, curcified music you listen to? Yes. You are my primary
offer showing me this. I'm sorry. I'm sorry for showing you where you were in 2020. Sombra reminder.
Sombra reminder. Show us the black baby Nick gifted you. He didn't show it correctly on stream.
That's so funny. It's right behind me.
In between my head and Luigi Mangione's head. That's where it is.
One of the gifts I got from my mom is from the 26th of March, 26th of March, 2004.
It's a photo of me from the 26th of March, 2004.
And she found it in the archives.
I posted it on my Twitter as well. I look like the goddamn Rizzler back in the day.
I look like the goddamn Rizzler back in the day.
Still rocking the Kefia.
You already know.
Still got aura.
You already know, still got aura.
No, you look like Big Justice, little bro, sure.
Still throwing up the one.
Is that Lacey? Lacey could not have this level of swag.
Anyway, my point is, look at that. Look at me now.
You too can grow out of it. Okay.
That's all I'm saying.
What the fuck is that hairline? Yeah, I tried to explain this to you guys. I used to have a two head.
I used to literally have a two head.
My hairline was crazy. I had a two-head and it's been going back since I was like a baby.
And it basically turned into a four-head by the time I got to college. And then after college,
when I started twistering, I realized it was turning from a four-head to a five-head.
And that's when I started taking Propecia.
hair line looking like a n is true is true yeah my hairline used to touch my eyebrows
is crazy but it's salvageable is salvageable why the w community comm is turning on you
bro. Um, what do you mean? What dog? Why wouldn't the W community turn on me? They are the type
of people who literally do not understand politics, do not watch politics. At least they're like
free Palestine. So I don't care. But they're like 14, not even the type of people. They're just kids.
When, when, when did you expect a bunch of fucking 14 year olds to be like, I'm really
primarily invested in politics?
You know what I mean?
The pocket's app has been getting clipped like crazy.
Yeah.
The fun sheet is referring to streaming with Destiny and actually debating, by the way.
Oh yeah.
No, that's not true.
any moment that makes us all look bad is a great one for our country who watches us on.
I don't really get too upset about stuff like this and you shouldn't either because they're
literally fucking 14 years old and eventually they're going to grow out of it and they're
going to start developing their political perspective and realize that this is like,
you know, racist as fuck. And then there's also a shit ton of brigade. I'd rather watch destiny
taking notes from obscure articles and silence for eight hours than Hassan or Asman browsing Twitter.
you know like there's there's obviously always gonna be brigators as well
but
he would watch if you gamed is any 25 what do you mean who is 14 years old
He's 25. He's 25 years old. His audience is like 14, though. A lot of the W and L community is very young.
And even the older, the older members of the W and L community are still like, you know, they're not very interested.
They're not very interested at all in politics, let's just say.
Great, now Asama will be in bad mood all week. Yeah, I'm such a, I'm such a bad mood.
So is the comment section of 14 year olds, brigading adults who are into 14 year olds? Yes.
I can't believe you forgot about this song.
What the fuck is the WNL community? You mean young Gen Z? Yeah.
Heads up, you haven't blasted off yet? Oh, true. Good call. Good call. Good call. Let's do it.
Please explain who these people are and what do they do? I'm so confused. So that's, uh, that was Arke and Yu-Gi. They're awesome.
I love them. They're very funny. They're younger and new generation streamers. They come from like the WNL community.
that community is like crude is a is a is a moniker is a way to describe like uh uh streamers
like the next gen streamers after what they call us is the poggers community um actually we literally
explained it in the fucking podcast just watch the podcast watch the podcast and you'll realize
what the distinction is anyway zelenski is sitting out in dc francesca hong surges in the polls
straight still close situation monitor Iran strikes first Trita Parsley on later
norm Finkelstein
tomorrow
That's right ladies and gentlemen
I've been teasing a very very very very very special guest for the entire week
And it's here. It's happening tomorrow. His name is norm Finkelstein and I
I am going to have the honor of hosting him in my home, in person, in Los Angeles.
That's right. We're finally doing it. We're finally doing it. It's finally happening. I know,
I know many of you have long awaited this moment.
You found him like they did the former leader of Hamas.
You know the WNL community, watch Finkelstein.
Now look, the WNL community broadly is like pro-Palestine.
They don't like Trump that much.
Some of them may still harbor some kind of like sympathetic feeling towards Trump because
They'll say stuff like oh he has aura or whatever but most of them don't like Trump most of them don't fuck with ice
So I don't really care if they don't fuck with me. I don't you know, who gives a fuck whatever
There they will eventually grow out of it
And they will get to a point where they are more invested in politics
It's just not gonna happen in the interim. It's not gonna happen in the short term, but
But I'm not I'm not too worried. I'm not too worried about where they're at
Because
Did you see you're in a movie yeah American doctor, I know
New obdue polls drop postwoodic endorsement and not an internal. Yeah, I know we're gonna we're gonna do all of that
Many of the WNL community fandom can't vote yet because they're too young and the ones who can
vote I don't think care too. So, but overall their their politics are probably all over the place.
Most people's politics are all over the place. They eventually will grow out of that phase of
being like, oh, I don't really care about politics. Like who gives a shit? Some of them will probably
become reactionary. Some of them will become right-wing and they'll say, oh, taxes are fucking
terrible. Why am I getting taxed? So they'll slot themselves into the expected American
political tendencies, the median voter, if they become voters at all.
I can't believe you can't be talking about this with that image.
Charlie Kirk-Bornow, you can't be talking about this with that image, wait, what's wrong
with this image?
What?
That's the newest conservative commentator who's Shauna Goonbate and Kooter Max, Koochie
Max, Kooter Max, whatever it's called.
This was peak himbo and co-worker era.
Hunter also the most famous belt in the world.
I'd like to use a lifeline.
Can I call up this time?
What?
What?
Hassan, come up here!
What do you want?
Let me see him!
Get up here!
Get the fuck up here, baby!
Get the fuck up here, baby!
Get up!
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you don't fucking know everyone's gonna think you're stupid yep the mythical
Greek hunter and all the most famous belt in the world what do you say Orion
I would go with that answer
watch out that bitch
the mythical
And this shit is sad, not gonna lie what the fuck went wrong, politics baby, money, money,
politics, more like politics, mass harassment campaigns that sought to isolate me from the
rest of the community by consistently harassing people and punishing them for daring to collaborate
with me in any capacity. Ludwig still to this day, Ludwig still to this day gets inundated
with a barrage of attacks from some of the sweatiest fucking losers on the internet who
literally claim that he's my dog. Like I dog walk him like he has no, he has no point.
He has no opinions of his own because like there is a, there is a endless appetite to
brigade by right-wing groups that can masquerade as like apolitical on the internet, that mask
themselves, mask their politics. And there's a lot of success. We've talked about this before.
There's been a tremendous amount of success in the apolitical commentary sphere of the idea that
like I am peak woke. I'm wrong. I'm everything that's wrong with woke. And I'm just like a
fucking huge villain and anyone that doesn't immediately criticize me all day every day
in the same exact fucking ways that these like psychopaths obsess over are obviously in the
pocket and I and are being blackmailed by me and shit like that all this stuff
All the stuff obviously accelerated post October 7. It got far worse after October 7.
There's a decent chunk of the NMP community that thinks you're grooming Nick to regurgitate
your target points. Yes. Okay. One of the things that you guys have to understand,
because a lot of people complain in here, they're like, why do you always do politics?
That's why, bro. That's why. It's like, well, part of it is because there's a lot of important
shit going on in the world. Okay. So I have to do more politics than ever before. That's number one.
But the other reason why I don't do as many collabs is because I just don't want to
to fucking bring that level of like animosity towards other random people, you know? That's
it. Everyone in this industry knows I have the most vicious fucking psychopathic stalkers. Everyone,
everyone in this industry knows that no matter what happens, no matter what happens, like if you
Align with me in any way shape or form. They'll make your life a fucking living hell and
Some people can handle that heat and they don't give a shit. Some people are are, you know, totally tapped out of it
But um, you know for most
Uh for for most people they're like, I don't want to rock the boat
They've had some successful initiatives in uh, brigading with like trash taste podcast shit like that
that my hope is to simply fucking wait it out.
Because eventually, when the cultural forces shift, it was really bad when Trump first
became president.
It was really bad between 2023, the end of 2023, 2024, and 2025.
The reason for why it was really bad was because the overall culture had shifted dramatically
to the right.
since then woke has made a comeback in a fairly meaningful capacity
and that's part of the reason why uh... since woke has made somewhat of a
comeback people are a little bit more
open-minded to the things that
i'm advocating for to the things that i push for
they're a little bit more curious about it
woke 2.0
has been
uh... has been on the come up
Obviously, none of this has anything to do with normies in the real world. By the way, most people in the real world
Like me and have nothing to do. We're talking specifically about the internet
It has a tendency to impact the normie sphere as well
But for the most part what we're talking about is like twitch streams
YouTube commentary sphere that kind of shit
And
one of the greatest examples of this is
is the treatment that I received, the treatment that a lot of people who are pro-Palestine
received for the first two years, being inundated with an endless barrage of ridiculous smears
like calling me a terrorist and having no line of defense from my peers.
None of them came out and were like, hey, this is really fucking racist.
We should stop this.
1.0 that shit would not have slided they would have never they would have never let that slide like
If woke 1.0 in like 2020 if if a bunch of prominent twitch streamers were playing it slid slowed slide it
woke 1.0 if a bunch of prominent twitch streamers were fucking turning around playing a game called like twitch streamer or terrorist where they had like
prominent muslim arab
pro-palestine twitch streamers
And, and, and they were being compared to like Osama bin Laden.
Everybody else in the community would have been like, this is fucking unacceptable.
What are you doing?
Yeah, they get lit up on Twitter.
Twitter is very different now.
Twitter is very right wing that obviously has the capacity to change people's perception
of like, what is permissible?
What is acceptable?
It sucks, but that's how it works.
But yeah, there is definitely an endless amount of extremely online losers who spend every
waking moment on the internet, and they spend a good deal of time just trying to make people's
life a living hell, and the only thing that they respond to because they're not like very...
They don't have like a lot of sound political points of view.
They don't have a firmly established political point of view at all.
And they just simply lean into vibes in general.
And because they do that, when the vibes are right wing, when they see a lot of right wing
brigade at comment sections, they think, this is normal.
This is what the majority believes, this is what the cool kids believe.
And that's how they establish their political world, political point of view, their political
world view.
But those people are very malleable.
Those people have not, they have not committed to a political world view.
They're just going along with what they think the vibes are.
It's actually that easy.
Which is part of the reason why, as I'm saying over and over again, like a lot of these people
Many of you have found yourself in the alt-right pipeline back in the day for this exact same reason.
Right? You probably found yourself in the alt-right pipeline for this exact same reason.
You probably watched like Joe Rogan, then you watched a Ben Shapiro video, and you were like,
oh, these guys are like owning the fucking libtards. It's awesome. And before you knew it, you were,
you know, more and more invested in the right-wing spear. And it took a lot for it something to
Snap you out of it, but that was like the gamer gay era that never really went away that that
Agitative propaganda on the right still exists the algorithm still very much favors
reactionary right-wing commentary. It's not a secret especially
on on platforms like
YouTube for example and and Twitter plays a big role in this as well. So
Yeah
For many of you I was the guy who snapped you out of it, right?
Or eventually, I played a role in your awakening in your development, in your political development.
So I obviously am going to keep doing what I'm doing to varying degrees of success, but
we are there.
We're definitely there.
I think the broader cultural forces are shifting in our direction.
Once again, the pendulum is swinging back.
obviously it's important for all of us to maintain some sort of posture to show people
that this kind of attitude is unacceptable, the reactionary point of view is unacceptable,
to tell people to not be bigoted. Of course, not in a way where it's like cynical,
hollow weaponization of identity politics as it was in Woke 1.0, from a position of moral superiority.
That was one of the worst aspects of Woke 1.0. I was very critical of that at the time,
as well, even though, you know, people didn't really listen to me, but, you know, in woke
2.0, I think we can both have fun and be woke and, you know, call out bad behavior.
song getting paid by the CCP, I'm getting paid by the viewers. The Piker Broadcasting
Service PBS, the People's Broadcasting Service is sponsored by you, the people, for you,
the people.
I was, it was unironically rich Shambhala Edison, Tiktok, they got me out of it. Hey,
whatever works for you, man.
But yeah, when you see like, normies or people who are politically uninitiated develop some
kind of like reactionary point of view, don't feel discouraged by that.
Don't get upset by that.
For the apolitical normies or for the apolitical people on the internet, they don't have a
well-established developed point of view.
They don't have a political perspective.
They don't have the political education.
They don't have class consciousness.
Many of them are children anyway, and children are at the mercy of the masses.
If they see a brigade of commons section leaning in a reactionary perspective, they
think, oh, this is cool.
This is what people are into.
Eventually, they will grow out of it.
They will have an experience in their life, as many right-wingers do, where either they
will find themselves at odds with the right-wing movement or a loved one will be in the crosshairs
of a right-wing policy, and that's when they realize, oh, I need to develop empathy for
others.
Some never do.
Obviously, there's a level of intelligence required for this.
There's a level of educational attainment required to get there for many.
That's part of the reason why the biggest gap in this country politically is not even
around how much money someone makes, but what their level of education is.
But I believe it's like 60 to 70% leaning in the Democratic Party's direction when you
have a college degree or above.
The highest likelihood that you will vote for the Democratic Party in this country as
a demographic is if you have a degree higher than a Bachelor of Arts or Sciences.
If you have a graduate degree or a master's degree then it's like you're almost 100% likely
to fucking, it's the highest likelihood that you will be a Democratic Party voter.
You're forgetting this, 75% of the yard boys are on your side of the political spectrum.
What 75?
No, it's 100% of the yard boys are on my side of the political spectrum.
What are you talking about?
Yes, when I found you in 2018, I was dating a QAnon believer, but I didn't have any idea
what the fuck that was.
I would ask him to tell me about it or send me links, but I wasn't willing to share anything
and only brought it up rarely.
Plus, I have a thanks to you.
I learned what the fuck was going on and helped me gain enough awareness to change the trajectory
because the hell was I overlooking before shaking my head?
Mobile chatter, by the way.
Yeah.
There's definitely a huge vibe shift taking place.
definitely a huge vibe shift taking place right now and of course we've
always been there we've been steadfast in our advocacy here in this little
corner of the internet and I will continue doing that so I will always be
open-minded and charitable to those who have gone through their own journey and
arrived at this destination I will welcome them with open arms and I will
always be there to help educate them
One of my political science professors claims this was due to Bill Clinton abandoning the
rural working class.
How true do you think that is?
It's 100% true.
So there was an educational attainment change that took place because back in the day, if
you went to college, you were a high income earner.
The Republican Party had the vibes of like a country club.
Very wealthy people, elitist people were oftentimes more often than not Republican, but the overwhelming
majority of the blue collar working class were Democrats. Now this shift actually started
in the Nixon era as well. Vietnam hard hat wearers like the aesthetics of trying to tap
in to the working class. And it obviously accelerated with the Reagan era, culture wars, and getting
the working class on board with tax cuts and anti-union initiatives, anti-union legislation.
But yes, Bill Clinton and NAFTA was the final blow.
NAFTA was the final blow.
When those jobs dried up, when those labor unions died out, there was no longer a working
class movement that was feeding into the base for the Democratic Party.
That's it.
You feel like that can or could be attributed to college graduates being more exposed to
culture, urban areas, the politics seem always skewed democratic as well.
Yes, so political polarization has taken on a very different shape in the United States
of America in 2026 in comparison to where it was in the past.
That political polarization has been designed around wedge issues. Shout out to Newt Gingrich
for this. This is again a post Reagan first started in the Nixon era, but certainly became
the prominent fixture of American politics in the Reagan era, culture wars and wedge
issues where both parties would identify themselves as being in favor of certain values. And this
This was, this designed a wedge between, this designed a wedge between the Republican party
and the things that they advocate for, which is like anti-abortion, pro-Christianity, pro-small
business, fake bullshit, right?
And tax cuts and deregulation, right?
And the Democratic party was in opposition to those things, progress to varying degrees.
And also the Democratic Party, I guess, had more ideological diversity about, you know,
trade policy and trade protectionism and things of that nature, but it became a much
more neoliberal, anti-welfare state party with Bill Clinton, and a free trade party
with Bill Clinton.
So that established somewhat of a uniparty approach to international trade policy that
established a neoliberal uniparty approach to many of the solutions to the existing problems
people were experiencing that's precisely the reason why the democrats since the 90s have
barely been able to launch any kind of serious socialization initiatives in the field of health
care because they're backed by the same fucking corporate entities blue cross blue shield at nine
and many others so there's a uniparty in washington dc both parties align there's consensus politics
in washington dc between democrats and republicans on keeping health care private democrats want to
fund it more with subsidies, Republicans want to take those subsidies away. But ultimately,
they're aligned and have arrived at a consensus that it should still remain privatized.
Right? There's obviously a uniparty consensus politics on American foreign policy. This was
post 2001, Global War on Terror. That was the last bastion of the anti-war liberalism movement.
There were a lot of critics of George W. Bush. Obama killed that, right? Anti-war liberalism
died with Barack Obama. Anti-free trade, trade protection as Democrats died with Bill Clinton.
Clinton, pro welfare state liberalism died with Bill Clinton, and anti-war liberalism
died with Barack Obama, okay?
That's it.
So what you're saying is the Democratic Party actively destroyed itself.
Yes, it did. 100%. But, fear not, we are currently, we are currently moving into a different
epoch, a different phase of American politics, where we are restoring, maybe even going further
beyond the New Deal era of governance. That is definitely where at least we are trying
to move the Democratic Party by force in the direction of less of a focus on culture war
narratives and more of a focus on hard line economic improvements, class struggle,
centering the working class at the heart of our policies.
We will of course, it is of course necessary to go further beyond New Deal democracy, New
Deal Democrats, in order to ensure that this is a resilient movement.
But that is hopefully, if we are successful, that is where we will move in the direction
of socialism.
storing a manufacturing base in the United States of America,
if it's even permissible, even if it's even possible,
not only on-shoring jobs, on-shoring manufacturing,
but also making sure that those on-short manufacturing
opportunities are not simply increasing economic activity,
but it's also bringing back good jobs for people
with good benefits, union jobs,
um, creating an environment where, uh, there is more political participation from the working class that has been left behind in this country.
Because the last three decades, the last four decades of American politics has been dominated by Ronald Reagan.
By Reaganite neoliberalism.
Every subsequent Democrat every Democrat that has come after Ronald Reagan has also been a neoliberal and yes
This includes Barack Obama as well
It's true
So it is important for us at the peak of the contradictions worsening
to
Help people come to terms with their class position and
Demand an alternative was nafta a good thing. Fuck. No. What are you crazy?
We have to central committee, thank you for the raid
We have to do away with a culture war first policy platform
that the Democratic Party has leaned heavily into because of the consensus
politics that I just mentioned. Democrats need to completely flip the script and
go balls to the wall and very aggressive on hard on hard line economic
progress, on policies of socialization, hopefully policies of nationalization
down the line while simultaneously still mounting a significant defense for
marginalized identities and marginalized communities but never allowing the
Republicans to frame the conversation around some of these like edge cases
that are are commonplace and perfectly normal but will will become a big issue
if we allow the Republicans to center the conversation around these issues you
high school transgender athletes participating in high school competitions. This is not a real
issue. This is not an issue that impacts any American in a significant manner, right?
It is a clearly purposefully concocted narrative that was focused tested by the Republicans
in an effort to make that the key fixture of American politics. Well, Donald Trump did it.
He banned transgender athletes. Did that help you? Do you feel better now?
Do you feel like your life is improved in any significant manner?
Of course not, because it was always bullshit. It was always a fucking distraction.
A very violent one for the tiny minority of transgender people.
It's horrible for them, but it's not good for you.
So I always say we have to have a vision in the affirmative, a clear, identifiable agenda
that people can sink their teeth into.
An agenda that centers the working class, an agenda that seeks to improve people's
material conditions. An agenda that revolves around expanding the existing social safety
nets in very meaningful ways. An agenda that tries to reset the way that the American politics
have consistently since the Reagan era demanded less and less from the wealthy and more from
the working staff, the average Joe, we have to, it's, it's topsy-turvy in this
goddamn country and in many other Western capitalist liberal democracies at
this point. That is precisely the reason why there has been tremendous wealth
consolidation specifically in the stock market. The bottom 1% or sorry, the, the
The bottom 50% of wealth in this country own 1% of the stock market.
The top 10% own 90%.
The top 10% of wealth in this country own 90% of the stock market.
That's where all of our economic activity is, right?
That's everything now.
That's everything.
And it's built around a hope and a dream.
Not built around market fundamentals any longer, if it ever was.
Finance capitalism has destroyed that.
We don't have the widget factory any longer.
We have no outputs to look at, no KPIs, just vibes, tech stocks, AI, the same hundred billion
dollars exchanging hands between NVIDIA and OpenAI and ChatGPT and all these other fucking
companies, right?
All of that money is circulating, but it never touches your pockets.
It never improves your financial situation.
And remember, I'm going to repeat this one more time.
This fact is insane.
The bottom 50% of wealth in this country own 1% of the stock market.
1%.
The top 10% of wealth, on the other hand, own 90% of the stock market.
With the overwhelming majority of that ownership coming from the top 1%.
So even the multimillionaires are getting fucked over in this country with the amount
of unfathomable wealth consolidation. Wealth consolidation and power consolidation is in
the hands of fewer and fewer people. This cannot go on. This is a completely busted system.
This avarice, this endless appetite for wealth and power consolidation is never going to
stop unless we make it stop, unless we turn it around. It's ridiculous to expect the wealthy
to magnanimously turn around and give us back some of the wealth and some of the productive
output that we have created, sheerly because they're kind people, is stupid. It's never
going to work. Charity is no adequate substitute to redistributive policies. That we know,
we have seen for the last couple of decades. Anyway, I don't know why I went on this fucking
long ass tangent, dude. But yeah, this is incredible. The wealthiest 0.00001% of Americans
now hold a record, 12% of US national income.
It's gone to a point where all of the wealth that we are generating, all the wealth that
we are creating, all the value that we're creating is staying in the hands of not even
like the top 10%, not even the top 1%, it's the 1% of the 1%.
Isn't that fucking insane?
It's actually incredible because it's worse than the gilded age.
It's worse than the roaring twenties.
That's how bad wealth disparity has gotten, but of course, technology has allowed us to
have very different experiences, so we can do a lot more with a lot less, with a lot
less relative wealth.
So the average person now in 2026 obviously is far wealthier than the average person in
in 1926 right or you know 1919 1920s although the wealth disparity and the
power disparity has grown tremendously the average person is not starving as
they did in the Great Depression okay I don't mean to backtrack but why did you
talk about the transition in sports like it wasn't important I could be
misunderstanding no I did not say that it wasn't important I said it is
important. It's important for every trans person because it's a sequence of
events that are carefully concocted to basically erase trans people. But trans
people at the end of the day are not even 1% of the population. So from
the perspective of 99% of Americans, what happens to trans people in either
direction doesn't impact them at all, right? So this isn't a way to say, you
you know, don't talk about trans issues at all. This is simply a way for me to explain
to the average person that all of this harm that Republicans are engaging in, they're
doing to dupe you. They're hyper-focusing your entire political interest in one percent
of the fucking population. It's ridiculous. That's why I always say to the Republicans
that, you know, make their way into this community. Do you feel better? Donald Trump put trans
people in trans existence in the crosshairs and took the initiative and made it illegal
for the 49 transgender athletes to participate in NCAA competitions. Did that improve your
life. It did not. It's not about dismissing the trans issue. It's more so saying that
we must always maintain a defensive posture for all identities, for all members of the
working class, which includes trans people, black people, undocumented migrants. However,
However, we can also call out the fact
that this is being weaponized as a distraction
by the Republicans who are not improving
your living conditions.
Here, I'll give you another example.
I mean, this is something that is incredible.
I mean, all those liberals who said, vibe session.
Look at this.
Grocery shopping, putting a strain on family budgets.
Now, if you remember, I've talked about this in the past,
Sometimes jokingly as the bread theory Marat loves bringing that up
The price of bread as long as it is
Relatively stable as long as it is relatively affordable and accessible the price of food the price of groceries
Most Americans are not going to revolt as long as they can get their treats, right?
My homie Lenin said it best well my homie Marat is basically my brother Marat is basically Lenin himself
Something changed
COVID happened. Our just-in-time manufacturing supply lines were unbelievably fragile. They broke apart. They fractured. It was food and groceries became less accessible, more expensive.
We saw a tremendous spike in the prices of groceries, also known as inflation, but
that price did not go down when the supply lines opened up, when the global
supply chain issues were solved, prices kept going up and up and up, what is
known as greedflation. And at the time, when we on the left called us out as
greedflation, only that could only take shape because of the corporate
consolidation. This can only happen when the Western liberal capitalist markets
only have a handful of companies that own everything, by the way. If there was
true market competition in the way that capitalism is intended to create a free market, the free
of the markets, the free of the free bull they say, well, we, of course, believe that
this is the most honest expression of capitalism. Monopolization is the most honest expression
of capitalism. That is precisely what companies try to do. That's the greatest market advantage
you can have when you're the sole provider of goods, when you can set the price.
What we have right now is an oligopolistic structure.
Wealth consolidation and corporate consolidation has made it so that price leadership is super
easy.
Price fixing, remember, is illegal, right?
You can't go into a cigar smoke-filled back room and get together and operate a cartel
unless you're OPEC, right?
You can't do that.
You can't set a price and then everybody else agrees with you.
That's illegal, technically, but what you can do is a concept that is perfectly legal.
It's called price leadership.
fixing is illegal, price leadership is perfectly legal. So I'll give you one
example, airlines. In the Reagan era, there were hundreds of different airlines
in many different markets. Nowadays there's like one or two in certain
smaller markets and four or five if you're lucky. Not a lot of competition
there. If there were 200 different alternatives in the airliner industry, right, it would
be a lot more difficult for one company to decide we're actually going to charge for
your luggage. Because other companies that don't charge for the luggage would then get
away with being a cheaper alternative. A less costly alternative, people would just
go to the company that's not charging you for your luggage. But when there's only one or two
companies and one airliner decides to charge for your luggage, all of the other airliners also
follow suit. This is known as price leadership. Okay? Yes, another concept is price fixing is
illegal, price leadership is legal, tax evasion is illegal, tax avoidance is legal.
It's the same thing, okay?
And for the record, there is still a lot of price fixing that goes on.
Make no mistake, but we don't really have a regulatory body that is invested in tackling
these issues any longer.
So you get the short end of the stick.
You as the consumer, you as the worker, don't get all of the value that you provide.
get all the value you generate, and you as the consumer then go home and are fucked
over by the same corporations. They raise your prices and there's nothing you can do
about it. What are you going to do? You're not going to survive without eating eggs.
Right?
This is price leadership, greed, flation.
Companies realized that people had the capacity to pay more for the same goods and they kept
prices relatively high.
prices never went down. Prices adjusted a little bit. Inflation was coming under control.
But this right here, this 2021 till 2023 spike was negative real wage growth. If your groceries
are more expensive, but your wages don't go up. If you only get a 1% increase in your
wages, let's say, or 5% increase in your wages, but the grocery prices went up 30%, that means
you are now 25% poorer than you were from the year prior. That's a negative real wage
loss. It was so much fun to have been totally right about the vibe session being totally
wrong. It doesn't matter. We're always right, but it doesn't matter because nobody fucking
listens to us when we're right because we're right too early, Michael. If you're right too
early, look, this is what I've learned in my last 13 years of being a fucking political
commentator who's a socialist anti-imperialist being right too early doesn't do shit nobody ever goes
you know what this guy was saying this all along maybe he was fucking right maybe i should listen
to him this time around you know what they do the resentment carries they'll agree with you
but they'll still resent you because they never forget how you made them feel
Same with fucking Palestine same with vibe session being totally wrong same with all of the things that we said
about Kamala Harris's campaign falling apart and how her loss was likely that this was a major gamble
So none of those liberals, even ones who actually recognize that we were right, have turned
around and been like, maybe we should listen to you this time around.
Maybe we should listen to you this time around.
No, that doesn't happen.
They just remember you as the guy who delivered them the bad news from the start.
The bad news that did not want, the bad news that they did not want to hear.
bad news that made them feel bad and instead of feeling bad they wanted to
feel good and to feel good what did they do they succumbed to their biases they
sought information that would agree with them they sought out outlets that would
tell them no Kamala Harris is fucking doing amazing she's gonna win for sure
Don't listen to these fucking radical radical wokes to the Kamala Harris left. They're all terrorists
They all they all hate Israel because they're Jew haters. Don't listen to them. Don't listen to those people
It actually makes perfect sense for the vice presidential debate to start off with
Will you sign off on a nuclear first strike against Iran? That's perfectly normal
That's what they said
And they never, they never took accountability over their actions.
Look at Matt Iglesias.
He's a great example of this, one of the biggest, entitled, smug elitist that was professionally
wrong the entire time.
Was there any accountability for any of the advisors?
No.
They're still fighting that exact same battle.
increasing an average it depends on where they're increasing overall but this
was for the overwhelming majority of Americans negative real wage this was a
negative real wage growth okay this is where people's salaries did not catch up
to people's expenses. So they literally were poor year over year and what's
supposed to happen? What's supposed to happen is year over year, the amount of
money you make is supposed to go up. You're no longer a, you know, five year
experienced employee. You're now a six year experienced employee. You have an
extra year under your belt. Your wages are supposed to go up. You're
You're now more experienced, you're now more productive.
But if the cost of goods is going out, and this is just the groceries and shit we haven't
even got, that is just the groceries.
This is the one line that's supposed to be relatively stable no matter what.
That's the last bastion of defense.
When this falls apart, when that spikes, the working class start getting real mad for good
reason.
We're not even talking about housing right now.
We're not even talking about healthcare.
Housing, healthcare, and education, the three key necessities for upward social mobility
and for survival.
Housing and healthcare have inelastic demand.
And yet, there is, and I'm going to bring this back to the thing that I was talking about
already, uniparty consensus in Washington, D.C. Uniparty consensus on keeping housing
private, no matter what, for profiteers as a speculative asset.
And there is uniparty consensus on healthcare in the same exact way.
There are differing opinions in the Hill for what Democrats want to do.
They want to subsidize it endlessly, but they want to still keep it private.
That is what we have to change.
So yeah, but I do think that the socioeconomic conditions have worsened to such a degree
that people are now more and more aware of this game.
They at least feel in their hearts this resentment, this unease.
They recognize that something is not right.
So it's important for us as socialists to explain to them the design of this machine
that fucks them over, that stiffs workers at the behest of bosses.
That's what we have to do.
And it's not easy, because a lot of people don't want to experience any change whatsoever.
someone shits really messed up. Americans look at a problem and will be the first to
tell you that the solution to the problem is the same problem, more of it, to demand
more of the same reasons why the problem persists.
Look at gun violence in this country. Gun violence is a great example of this issue.
Okay?
The average American looks at gun violence and says we have too much of it.
We have to put a stop to it.
What are we to do?
The solution from the right is more guns.
Oh, you want to stop school shootings?
Arm the teachers.
How is that going to stop the fucking school shootings?
It's going to make it more likely to have school shootings.
same issue persists for capitalism in general. A lot of Americans are deluded into thinking,
they've been deluded into thinking, they're blinded by ideology, they're blinded by dogmatic,
pro-capitalist thought into believing that the solution to capitalism and all of its failures
is more capitalism. There are plenty of Americans who believe this, that's why they say no, no, no,
Now is because free markets have never been tried.
The freer the market, the freer the people, free markets have never been tried.
Real capitalism has never been tried.
Well, we say real capitalism has been tried.
You're experiencing it right now.
This is a more real version of capitalism than one that your parents experienced when
And there was a top marginal tax rate of 92%.
That was a less real version of capitalism.
This is a real version of capitalism.
Your grandparents did not experience a real version of capitalism when they were still
benefiting from the GI Bill, when they were still eating good off of the mass industrialization
that took place the centralized economy that had to take shape because of the war efforts
and the residual benefits that they experienced from that after in the post-war economy.
They never saw real capitalism. We're seeing it right now.
And every day that goes by, where wealth consolidation grows in the hands of lesser
and lesser people, we get to experience a more real capitalism.
Just as simple.
and fewer people. Sorry. In any case, I digress. I went on a, that was an hour and 30 minute
long rant for some weird reason. I don't know why I was in a rant mood today. I saw that
grocery price. The grocery prices graph and it made me fucking lose my mind.
Trump is live by the way here. Let's let's listen to the fucking let's look
at these assholes.
business. But no, we have 19.2 trillion. It's the biggest number ever spent in any country by far.
And that's over a period of one year. As an example, as you know, the Biden administration
for four years did much less than one trillion. We're doing 19.2 trillion in one year. So we have
things that are happening in our country, the likes of which nobody's ever seen. Plants and
factories are moving in. Toyota just announced they're building one of the
largest car plants anywhere in the world, and truck plants anywhere in the
world. We are building more automobile plants now than at any time in the history
of our country.
In particular, this is just one of several projects that you have underway in the D&D.
Why would you say that you're so focused on transforming the Washington region right now?
Well this is an important one. This is travel. So in terms of the importance, I think the
The arc is going to be incredible.
I think the protected ballroom and military center that we're building at the White House
is going to be unbelievable.
It's very important.
But you know, this is the airport.
This is sort of the lifeblood of a city or a capital, certainly a capital.
And this will go from one of the worst, just like Washington.
Washington was one of the worst places in this country, and now it's one of the best.
You couldn't get into a restaurant because all the restaurants were closing or closed.
They were afraid to have it open.
Now you can't, if you're a restaurateur, you can't even find space at a restaurant.
The restaurants are booming.
So you know, it's a great thrill.
And by the way, if you look, Washington is clean, it's safe, people walk to work.
Every day, a young man or a young woman comes up and says, thank you, sir, I know exactly
what you're talking about.
They couldn't wait, they were afraid to walk to work.
Now they literally walk to the White House.
Washington is now a beautiful and clean, we got rid of the graffiti, 78 monuments and
different things have been cleaned.
They were screwed with graffiti.
We had 28 fountains that not one of them worked.
For years, for decades, they haven't worked.
They're all up in service.
And nobody's seen anything like it.
We have a clean, we're changing all the grass
and all the parks.
That's going to be changed very shortly.
The parks are because the grass is very, you know,
grass is like human beings, grass is a life also.
And we're changing, we're raking, cleaning,
and changing all of the parks.
We don't have people, we don't have the tents anymore,
we don't have all the barbed wire up,
we don't have the wire up.
Washington's become a beautiful city,
it's become a hot city, but you know,
even more importantly, the United States right now
is the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Mr. President, Mr. President,
this is the point of clarity on the airport.
No federal funding will be required.
What did you mean when you said Congressmen are here?
So it's gonna be bonded for $22.5 billion.
United is going to partake in part of the payment.
But the airlines who participate in the project
are going to pay for it.
If I can just make one point of clarification.
We have some permitting we have to do,
but we think in the spring, this will be,
this is both concourse A,
we think we can start construction in the spring
or next year.
So we're trying to move at the speed of President Trump.
It's never fast enough,
but we're going as quickly as possible
so we can give a deliverable to the American people.
And the other thing shows, which I think is so important, maybe more important, I don't
think it can be more important than this, but he's working on air traffic control.
We have an obsolete system, it's 50 years old.
You saw the helicopter crash a year ago into a plane.
That was a disaster.
They're going to do AI.
They're going to do it.
Let's do it.
Let's do it.
Bells would have been open.
Less air traffic, less ATC.
Four or five minutes before it happened.
You would have heard it.
Less ATC, more AI.
And a thing like that couldn't have happened if you had proper
They're gonna do a high-track air traffic control. I swear to God. Oh, by the way, shout-out the Ronald Reagan
He's the one who fucked this on getting the finest in the country now in the world
We've examined the systems of almost every good country in terms of air traffic control all over the world
and we have the best people working on it in the world and
and it'll make, I mean, so often you'll see somebody
even bunking into each other at an airport.
But where planes come too close,
where planes, in the case of the helicopter hit,
they hit the helicopter hits the plane,
we are working on air traffic control
to redo the entire system, including the new towers,
because the towers are obsolete.
You know, you don't think of it, you see a tower,
it looks fine.
You go into those towers, they're literally falling down.
So we're talking about new towers
and all new air traffic control,
which will give us the safest anywhere in the world.
This is for the people who are coming to talk, sir.
I'm just wondering, Mr. President,
why do you think Dr. Fauci invoked the Fifth Amendment
so many times today when he has the pardon,
and why couldn't, what was stopping him
from just giving an honest testimony?
Well, look, I've never been a big fan of Fauci.
Why he did that was very simple,
his lawyer told him to, you know,
I don't know if he would have been better off not doing it.
There were a lot of questions that I guess he could have answered and some maybe he didn't feel comfortable in Nancy
But his lawyer told him to do that
Did you did you just ask it?
I did briefly. He's gonna have to mention it because it's killing your country
Mr. President, he won't support the GVC.
He's killing your country.
He won't support it.
And not him, I mean, we'll have to see.
I know that the government did very little about it.
And they're coming from all over the world.
They're coming from Africa.
They're coming from South America.
They're coming from different parts of Asia.
And they're invading Europe.
I mean, they're invading Europe.
It's an invasion.
And the UK is a prime suspect.
Mr. President, on top of that,
Senator John, co-ordinate of Texas has been hesitant to that, the confirmation seems to be some sort of deal.
Dog, this is literally, this is straight up reheated Nazi propaganda. Okay?
Oh, the German economy is bad. Not because of the decisions that we've made in entering World War One.
But the German economy is actually bad because of Jews, because of socialists, because of trade unions, because of communists.
also another word for Jews. Okay, so in order to solve the problem, in order to fix our economy,
what we have to do is put the Jews in concentration camps. That is the argument.
The situation is worsening as liberalism is failing, as capitalism is failing,
the contradictions are worsening, and the reactionary right, once again, is turning
too fascism. It's the same exact argument. Oh, it's because of the refugees. Oh, it's because of the
workers that don't look like you that are coming here. Okay. It's the transgenders. It's the homosexuals.
It's the workers that don't look like you and don't think like you.
That's what the problem is. As soon as we put those guys in the camps, everything is going to be good.
Well, that's not the case. The problem is wealth consolidation. The problem is capitalism
failing. Now, the problem is, while this crisis is worsening in the entire western world,
there is no counterbalance like there was one in an otherwise revolutionary time. There
There is no USSR. I guess the closest we can arrive at is, you know, modern China, People's
Republic of China, which he's railing on right now, I guess. Let's see what he says.
It's bigger than the internet ever was. It's bigger than anything ever was. So I don't
want to restrict. I know many of these people. I don't want to restrict them from doing great
work.
What's an area that you see the long-taxing U.S. intelligence personnel overseas and you with your office?
Oh, I don't see that. No, we're not. No, we're going to hit them very hard.
I mean, I can actually say that because in that there's very little they can do about it.
It was a different group than we're dealing with. They've already apologized.
But, you know, we got to smack them a little bit.
What do you do?
What do you do?
What do you do?
Well, I always say that.
Pretty much.
Is that in response to the attempted ballistic missile strike on Jordan last night?
When you say it's our turn to hit back.
I think more so that, yeah, because it was another smaller event.
But no, they sent five 8,000 mile an hour missiles.
She rejected me.
She didn't let me know more.
No, there's someone at the door.
That's why she has to monitor.
She has to monitor the Patriots system think of it five missiles going 8,600 miles an hour big ones coming right at us and all five were shot down
How about that right pretty good only only we nobody else could do that but us yeah
Look you know he's not doing this thing. I'd like him to end the war so it's very simple
For example, I get along with both – I get along with President Putin, I get along with
President Zelensky.
Like I told him, I wouldn't end the war.
Get the war ended.
Thousands of people – 25,000 people died last month.
That's standard.
And it's not acceptable.
So I said, just end the war.
Mr. President, I'm on the war.
Do you want the House to come back before August 31st to act on the Russian-Iran sanctions
bill after President Zelensky?
Well, it was necessary.
I mean, it shouldn't be necessary to be honest.
Do you want the House to come back before August 31st to act on the Russian-Iran sanctions bill after it was set up?
Well, it was necessary. I mean, it shouldn't be necessary to be honest, but if it's necessary.
I'd like to – are you talking about the Lindsey Graham?
Yeah.
So I'd like them to end Iran as tariffs, not just as sanctions. I think it's important.
That's what Lindsey wanted, because I heard that they have tariffs on Russia, but not on those five countries having to deal with Iran.
I'd like to see Terrence walk around and make a bunch of crabs.
The dog clearly wants to leave the small room long.
They're very good at this. You can maybe tell them.
I think they should put in...
You must be new here. The dog leaves the room all the time.
I'm trying to pet her.
Am I allowed to pet my fucking dog?
You're an 11 month subscriber.
The dog.
First of all, she has a name.
Her name is Kaya.
And yes, contrary to what the internet thinks,
internet thinks she leaves this room all the time.
Why isn't the dog allowed to gamble?
She leaves the room all the time.
Not only does she leave the room all the time, she opens the door on her own.
Gotta be a hate watching clipper hate sub?
Yes, she knows how to open the door.
It's fucking insane.
I can't even like, I can't even pet my fucking dog without people being like, oh my God,
why are you, why are you torturing your dog with your pets?
What are we doing here?
is backseat fucking, uh, you know, dog trainer shit.
What do you think about Josh Zurich, Iowa Senate?
He's talking about Zoran.
There's no way they can get elected if they don't, if that happens.
But we should have unanimous Republican support.
And if we don't, people should look at those Republicans.
But think of it, who would not sign voter identification with photo, and who would not
sign proof of citizenship?
Only people that want to cheat.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, everybody.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you, Ben.
Thank you.
Spotted them, you know, they just don't want to beat you for a cliff. I know but it's so fucking ridiculous like yes, dude
I'm gonna pet my fucking dog. You know what I mean?
I'm gonna pet my fucking dog whenever I want to you just suck my dick. It's ridiculous
Dot Josh Turg is the NZ supported and live of all lives. I mean, I don't even give a shit
I know Obama came out in support of Josh Turg. I don't care. It's fucking Iowa like better than a Republican
You know what I mean? I'm not gonna like go crazy over it, but obviously that's the established Democrat they won.
Now there, the contest is between a Democrat and a Republican.
What, you think I'm gonna be in favor of the Republican? No, of course not.
I wish I wish that it was an exciting candidate, right? Because I still believe
I still believe that that a candidate that's like a little bit more radical even in a place like Iowa
I think would probably do a better job, but hey, that's not what the cards hold, right? I mean he won
It sucks, but I'm trying to pet my dog, now replace pet with shock, not so funny now,
Is it true?
One of the Dems put up a one-item bill demanding free government IDs and then let Republicans
vote it down on the show to truth because showing the truth doesn't fucking mean anything.
When it's showing the truth meant anything.
I mean, the Democrats tried to do that with immigration, right?
Remember when the Democrats were like, we are the party that's serious about immigration.
We are going to do Trump's 2020 agenda on immigration.
We're gonna build the wall, all this stuff, right?
And they put forward a border bill that was unbelievably right-wing, that was written
by the Oklahoma senator.
And that was their last attempt at showing the world the truth, showing the Americans
the truth.
Who struck that down?
Trump did.
He struck it down because he wanted to maintain the argument that Democrats are insincere
on immigration. They want, you know, third world migrants to come in and pour through our borders.
It's never worked. This idea of like conceding to the Republican position and trying to make it seem
like the Democrats are the party that's more serious about these like right-wing
policies has never worked and it will never work. And I call that shit out.
I called that shit out non-stop way back when
It was a failure a spectacular failure and now we got this dumbass incompetent fascist dipshit in charge
Partially for that, partially with that reason. Partially because of that attitude.
Moderates are more serious could sew up Hong's opponents in the last nice debate. Yeah,
we're gonna be talking about that. This is a great example of being a phony on the right.
Peter Thiel's Blood Boy JD Vance, happily meeting with the real president of the United
States of America, next to the fake president of the United States of America, and next
to the vice president to the fake president of the United States of America, happily.
Mr. Israel Skeptic himself.
Wow. That's right. JD Israel does, does want to influence you as public opinion and F state
have massacres connections. Oh, you're just going to stand there because you don't want
to do the Zelensky thing that any, oh, well, guess I'll just keep thinking that Vance,
keep thinking that the vans that exist in my head is real.
Yeah, Tucker Carlson loves JD Vans, by the way.
Remember that.
It's another side of the story.
We are the only serious Israel critics.
We are the only serious people that want to sever this unfathomable loyalty campaign
that we've had towards Israel for the last 80 years.
Okay?
No one else.
No one else in American politics is serious about this issue.
need you to understand that. And I think you all already understand that, but we got to make sure
everyone else understands that. Okay? And if the Democratic Party is resistant to that change,
well, then we'll keep fucking winning, all right?
They got the money. They got the wealth. They got the power. But we have something that they will
will never have. The people. Have you seen the new numbers for all the
else I had post the debate plus 11 plus 16 plus 13? Yes. You are not a politician.
Great observation. The fuck does that have to do with anything?
Oh people, I was going to say integrity, yes we have integrity.
But integrity doesn't carry you across the finish line.
Integrity alone will not help you win.
alone will not allow us to make the necessary changes in American politics.
We need the numbers.
And lucky for us and disastrous for them, we have the numbers.
All right, we'll get to races in Valorbel to be turned up to 8,000.
Yeah, new Senate polls from Tavern Show, outside up 11, way past the margin of error.
Tolchan showing l-sat at up to 16 data fp showing l-sat up plus 13
But do not get comfortable we still got to keep pushing
We still have to keep pushing
I
Betterman versus drop site
I like the featherman puts on a suit when his boss is in town. Oh my god
I didn't even realize he's wearing a suit here and it's definitely because Benjamin anyhow, who's here with drop site
Oh, you're drop site. Oh
Now it's it's like a race between who's the more pro Hamas drop site or zidio. So now I got
zidio
Bro, he's such a fucking ogre, dude Oh my god, he's such a fucking ogre, dude.
It's awesome.
Prem also cooked him.
All right.
Let's start here then.
to start with Zidio.
Oh Zidio, oh yeah, the pro Hamas.
Well, I'm not sure about that.
I don't know why your network's so pro Hamas.
I'm asking you about America.
Jesus Christ.
Public opinion, Senator.
Yes, Senator, how you doing?
Who are you with?
Prem Tucker with the tail, how are you?
Huh?
Prem Tucker with the tail, how are you?
I'm sorry, let's try that one more time.
Sure, yeah, you're okay.
Prem Tucker with Zetao.
Tucker.
Tucker Carlson.
No, like Tucker Carlson.
Prem Tucker with Zetao.
Oh, Zetao.
Oh, yeah, the pro-Hamas.
Well, I'm not sure about that.
You guys are great like a drop site.
You know, the pro-Hamas, pro-Hensville.
Pro-International Law Center.
But anyways, what did you make of that?
I want to apologize to the Zetao.
keep killing the Hamas leadership and also the Iranian too.
On that note, Senator, what did you make? What did you make of? What did you make of?
What did you make of?
It's hearts and also...
Yeah! Yeah!
Pro-Hama!
Pro-Hama!
Dude, did a racism and lead harder into a racism is incredible.
Yeah, oh, Tucker, like Tucker Carlson.
That's okay, Senator.
What did you make of the poll that showed Americans supporting arresting Benjamin Netanyahu
at a 22-poor margin?
I don't know why your network is so pro-hamas.
I'm asking you about American public opinion, Senator.
American public opinion.
I don't understand it.
Why do your readership low?
i'm asking about american public opinions
american public opinion senator
american sport arresting benjamin and yahoo at a twenty two point margin
senator
and what is also a wide
center i'm talking with the book
outside of the day
uh... the other brown guy
just like you
your brown
and you know what else is brown up to the well-said
I got so excited me brain not work too good. Oh
He's not out of breath because he can't walk he's out of breath because he's using every fucking
Processor remaining in his brain. It's firing off on all cylinders. That's why he's out of breath
He is this is literally
computing at the highest level for him, okay? Having to manually walk, manually
breathe, and manually hear, comprehend and respond. Are you fucking kidding me?
What about American public opinion?
This is the pro Hamas.
Julian Andrew.
Who are you with?
Drop site news.
Oh, you're drop site.
Oh, now it's like a race between who's the more pro Hamas drop site or Zidio.
So now I got both hi.
Everybody you might have I asked you a question really quick. It's about I just want to say I want your viewers to say how much I love to watch
Israel eliminating the Hamas leadership
Then you may like I know I know that that upsets a lot of your your viewers and a lot of your founders
Yeah, so but I think it's a great thing
So there's no news coming out of me. I'm gonna back to Israel
So the question is, where does your trash outlet come from and who's funding it?
And now if you think your founders, your founders think it's appropriate to attack and kill
Israeli civilians, that's really, that should be the news overall.
I mean, now you're sticking a microphone in my face.
So there's not any news here.
So I think the question is, why does drops wait?
You think your founders, your founders think it's appropriate to attack and kill Israeli civilians?
Israeli civilians!
What?
Dude, dude, stop!
Oh my god.
Why does he sound so winded? Okay, he is using every fucking every ounce of
processing power he has remaining to answer questions. Okay, he's stupid. His
brain is no good. How else can I explain it? He is literally a vegetable. He
has the operating capacity of a sea cucumber. Okay, you tickle his belly and
And his tentacles will come out. That's it. He's overheating
He's overheating this is far too difficult show chat what a CPU looks like yeah
That's it it's fucking fried and
And nowadays a stick of RAM is 900 bucks, so we can't even fucking download more RAM. It's over
God is your siblings
McConnell versus Federmann in the marketplace of ideas who wins we all lose man
really that should be the news overall and now you're sticking a microphone in
my face so there's not any news here so president I think the question is why
this drop site love Hamas and Iran and Hezbollah so much I think that's really
I think that's the news yeah I mean are you okay with taking your paycheck from
these are you okay with Prime Minister Netanyahu
Bros running on Pentium 3, okay? Like, shit that your iPhone would not work on, okay?
Your iPhone OS will not work on Pentium 3. That's what he's operating on. Holy boomer.
What is a Pentium? See? Fuck you guys. Okay. Yes. I'm 35. Shut up.
His number one retort nowadays is, oh, you must be mad because we killed all your buddies
in Hamas. We killed all your buddies in Hamas. That's what it is. That's what he learned.
He downloaded a new talking point from his Israeli handler.
It is kind of wild that, I think it was New York magazine, right, that just like openly
showed that John Federman, the ogre, literally just has an Israeli handler.
And we just let that happen.
It's incredible to me that this is a real thing that's going on right now, that there
is a straight-up Israeli handler that now controls everything that John
Federman does, like all of it. Scheduling, talks, you know, meetings, everything that
he's doing is being filtered through his straight-up Israeli handler. Yep, there
it is, it was the intelligence from New York magazine. The man who explains Israel, the
John Fetterman, how a little known writer became one of the senator's closest confidants.
He has an aide. It's not even an aide, it's a random, he is a random dual citizen, a random
Jewish American Israeli citizen that just one day, I'm not even kidding, read the fucking
article, we read it, we covered it, we covered it when it first came out. Just a random guy
that happened to become his closest friend and confidant out of nowhere.
It's insane.
Can somebody make dollars with 2028 Super PAC Pennsylvania for common sense or whatnot
that attacks crazy living Democrats for not renominating Federman because they're not going to
to renominate him. Cut out the middleman and nominate his APAC handler before you renominate
Federman for fuck's sake, completely psychotic for anyone, anywhere on the ideological spectrum
to renominate him.
Yeah. But yeah, this is also speaking of John Federman. New 2028 Senate poll, Pennsylvania,
someone else 58% betterment 40%
he was spotted right after the elevator ride by the way
wait something i never noticed
there is that is that like artillery or gunshots in the background? I've watched
video a million times never with the sound on I guess.
That's added sound.
this was in Tel Aviv. Okay, is this actually him? I can not confirm nor deny whether this
is actually John Federman or not. It kind of looks like him though. Why would I expect
this not to be him. That's the real question.
On pause, he's going to drown.
Yeah. If there's one guy who would drown in, in that,
in that shallow water, it would be John Fetterman. Like, oh,
I've,
I've forgotten how to manually breathe. Oh,
Oh, come on.
Oh, my God.
All right.
Let's get the situation modern pot safe.
Things we should have made fun of Fetterman. Yeah, okay, they're wrong.
Okay. They're wrong.
It's fine. It's fine to be wrong.
Your comment is getting taken out of context.
Like people are suggesting that.
Sorry, I didn't mention that. He said this will help me put an ogre on a pike.
Right, which is about John Fetterman.
People are suggesting he was comparing Hailey Stevens to an ogre.
It does not sound like he was doing that in any way, but also don't call John Setterman an ogre.
You know, it's not helpful.
I think it kind of plays into this belief among a lot of Democrats that the left wing of the party is far more focused on going after moderate Democrats than Republicans.
No.
I think there's a difference.
I think Abdul Al Sayed and his treatment of like Elisa Slotkin, for example,
which has been unbelievably cordial versus John Federman, makes sense.
John Federman is no longer the moderate Democrat, right?
John Federman is just a Republican. Many moderate Democrats are also simply Republicans
in Democrat clothing, right? But John Federman is an ogre. He is a collaborator. He is the most
far right. He is more far right than most Republican senators at this point. I'll give you an example.
John Federman, whose wife, soon to be ex-wife, probably, allegedly,
was an undocumented migrant. John Federmann used to be pro-amnesty. He had a personal
experience with this and he talked about it and it was a real personal story. You know,
his wife is Brazilian. She didn't have the proper paperwork. She finally got it. It was
a huge deal, right? John Federmann is now to the right of Mike DeWine on the issue of immigration.
Mike DeWine is the governor of Ohio. Mike DeWine came out yesterday and directly criticized
Donald Trump for removing temporary protective status from Haitians in this country. Haitians,
up until now, up until the past couple of weeks, had temporary protected status, which
Which means that they had proper clearance, proper authorization to live and work in places
like Ohio.
This was a huge campaign issue, if you guys recall, Springfield, Ohio.
The Haitians are eating cats and dogs because Republicans just chose to lie about it.
They said Haitians actually stormed Springfield, Ohio.
They ruined the economy.
They ruined the demographics of Springfield, Ohio.
Most of the Republicans and most of the people living in Springfield, Ohio, with the exception
of some crackheads that they found, were actually pretty happy about the influx of Haitian migration
into Springfield, Ohio, because it actually turned the economy around.
Another one of these forgotten towns that now had an influx of economic activity, cash,
workers.
It was good.
tax revenue for Springfield, Ohio. Okay. It caused the revival. One of the greatest examples of this
is Hazleton, Pennsylvania. It's another forgotten town that was left behind, that was overwhelmingly
white. And then there was an influx of Latino migration into Hazleton, which then created small
businesses, created economic activity, Hazelton, sorry, Hazelton, Hazeltown, is it Hazeltown
or Hazeltin? Whatever. It's a fucking, it's one of those towns, okay? Hazelton started
booming as a consequence of this. Nat Geo actually did a profile on this. It was Trump
one, right? The town was on the verge of bankruptcy across the board. People had left it behind.
No one cared about it. And then, Latinos started moving to Hazelton. And when they started moving
there, there was a lot more economic activity, there was a lot more labor, there was a lot
or commerce and it led to a town revival. But it also changed the ethnic makeup of the town.
All of a sudden you had, you know, Mexican, Guatemalan, the food stores and markets and
things of that nature. Tucker Carlson famously criticized this change. He said,
it's not good that the town is experiencing a revival if the white, if the white
natives to Hazelton are being displaced. That's what he, I remember, covered extensively at the time.
It's ridiculous. In a similar situation as taking place in Springfield, Ohio, where the
locals like it, the business owners like it, a lot of people actually appreciate their new neighbors.
and yet the races from outside of Springfield, Ohio hate it and they try to use it as an example of what happens
What happens when you allow unlimited migration to take root in in a town that was forgotten?
That's on dead-ass things the entirety of South America's Guatemala have never seen a mention another single other country south of Mexico
Okay, I'll fucking download Dominican Republic
into the lexicon. Okay, I'll download other South American countries. I just use Guatemala
as like a, as a catch-all. Okay, Honduras, Nicaragua, I'll never say Argentina, Venezuela,
El Salvador. Anyway, bad clips, bro. What is bad clips?
Yeah, it's awful to see these non-Ohio people talk down to our neighbors. Anyone working blue
color or a manufacturing here knows Latino and Haitian immigrants are great
workers are great neighbors great communities real Ohioans get it yeah so
the reason why I brought this up is because we were talking about John
Federer so the Republican governor of Ohio Mike DeWine came out after the
Trump administration made a decision to revoke hundreds of thousands of Haitians
that currently have TPS to take away their temporary protective status, putting their
immigration status in legal limbo, basically, simply to lean into some of the most reactionary
white nativist elements in American society, the last remaining 20% of white evangelical
racists who just want to fucking purge all of the non-white ethnics from the American
boundary, right? This is just for those guys with no real positive economic gains that
will come from this decision anyway. And for the record, we can have a separate conversation
on whether or not it would be appropriate to do something so inhumane, even if there
was an economic advantage, but there is none. So we don't even have to have that conversation.
Well, as Republican Governor Mike DeWine is opposing the Trump administration's move to
arrest and deportations following his decision to end the temporary protective status this
week calling it a mistake and a blow to the state of Ohio.
This puts Mike DeWine in the woke category in comparison to fucking John Fetterman. Mike
DeWine is now further the left than John Fetterman. John Fetterman, whose wife may be ex-wife,
soon to be ex-wife, was undocumented. John Fetterman, who ran on amnesty. John Fetterman,
ran on on empathy towards undocumented immigrants
is now
further the right
then the republican
governor
of ohio
this is what i'm talking about when i say this guy is is is a separate
being in and of itself
he's not just
a republican senator he's one of the most right wing republican senators
john federman i mean
he's no longer a pino
he's no longer a dino
basically some of the he's basically one of the most far right
republicans in office right now
the wine said in an interview with cbs monday in the immigration and customs
enforcement operations against the Haitian community would be baffer
ohio's economy
and that of springfield in particular where many Haitians have settled
these are people who have helped springfield really come back the wine said
to cbs explain the Haitians have filled jobs and over business with the economy
will struggle. The Haitians who were living there and employed there, they came there
to work. And they came there because there were jobs that were not being filled by other
people. The one also noted that Haiti's security and political situation is still unstable,
with gangs controlling large parts of the country and the capital, Port-au-Prince. The
State Department has warned Americans not to travel there, and the one described the
country as being in a virtual chaos with no semblance of government. Haiti is hell today,
so you'd be sending people back to hell, the one said. Very few of those Haitians will
voluntarily go back to Haiti. If they have to leave, they'll go someplace else. They
want to work. They want to support their family. They don't want to go back to Haiti.
To the Trump administration, none of this matters. White House adviser Stephen Miller
is excited the prospect of deporting Haitians. He has claimed the Haiti is safe for Haitians
and celebrated the Supreme Court's ruling, allowing the administration to end temporary
protected status. We can finally remove these Haitian illegal migrants, Miller said, literally
not illegal until you revoke their TPS. Ironically enough.
So, yeah, I don't have a problem calling John Federman a fucking ogre shows in the Middle
East and concerns that the pause in the fighting between the US and Iran is over.
American and Saudi forces say they launched precision strikes against militias backed
by Iran and Tehran fired ballistic missiles toward American forces.
US commanders call it an attempted surprise.
Why would your mods keep not letting me post about Hazelton?
I live near there I
Live near Hazelton the town is white trash anyways the immigration is much needed fuck shitter man
Why do your mom's not keep letting me post by Hazelton? I live near there. Hi a Hazelton expert here chat
Let me talk to him, please. I live near Hazelton interviewing me. Please chat help. Yeah, brother. I'm probably not gonna fucking
I'm probably not gonna the interview about Hazelton
But you can drop a comment about like what what the researches of the town looked like in the last decade or so
Okay, I
Lived here in Kentucky this law. Thank God was removed, but I'll be honest a black man. I don't think this was a race act
This was just shitty law that was put in place in Kentucky
lucky. Chast still arguing about Dom rep. You fucking idiots. It's still Latin America.
I'm Cuban and still Latino American. Columbia Honduras Panama, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Venezuela,
to Bahá'í to Jamaica.
All right, we're gonna start here.
US,
US and Saudi joint strikes on Iraq.
This comes after Iraq did something,
or Iran rather, did something unique.
Yesterday Iran launched a salvo of missiles in the direction of US bases in Jordan. They did this
unprompted. They did this without getting hit first by American forces. That was new. Iran,
I believe, if this is not like a, you know, random hardliner deciding to go beast mode
in their mosaic structure and instead is, you know, a deliberate first strike.
Iran is now moving into a different posture in this ongoing war. What do I mean by this?
So far, so far in the last couple of months, throughout the entirety of Operation Epic
Fury, also known as Epstein's Fury, Iran has always responded. Iran has always responded to
strikes from the American side, strikes from the Israeli Air Force. When I say
unprompted, I don't mean they're totally invalid for doing this. They're at war.
But the posture from the Iranian side is changing a little bit and it's
important to recognize that. This means that they are willing to engage in
non-retaliatory strikes. Up until this moment, all of their strikes were defensive. You could
call it defensive as tit-for-tat, American strike Iran, or rather Iran notices America
and commercial shipping being violated, like the MOU being violated and ships transiting
through the Omani coastline in the Shredda Hormuz,
being defended by the Americans.
And they strike at those ships
to keep the leverage that they have over the Shredda Hormuz
and keep the MOU intact.
And then America strikes at Iran directly,
and then Iran strikes back at the Gulf.
Now, this is a non-retaliatory strike.
So the posture is different and it's important because if this continues that means Iran is now trying to get into the driver's seat
Because up until this moment as I said it was more a reactive
Response a proportional reactive response from the Iranian side
This will still be proportional of course, but instead of a retaliatory strike. This is now going to dictate
the tone of the theater and give the escalation capacity to Iran.
Sinaitouci also noticed this and he reports, this would mark the first time Iran has initiated direct strikes against U.S. forces in this war.
may be to deny Washington to a tactical pause to let oil prices fall,
sustain pressure, and preempt what many in Tehran believe could be a broader U.S.
offensive. Okay?
This is important. This changes the nature of this conflict from
Iran behaving in a purely retaliatory matter to one where they're taking the driver's seat and
increasing pressure on America because this is a
Strike that requires a response from the United States of America. So what America does now this is very
This is something that Israel does all the time. So we're used to Israel doing this
This is when Israel was striking Lebanon, for example, when the MOU was being conducted,
when the MOU was being discussed, Israel would try to do additional strikes in Lebanon in
an effort to see what America was willing to let Israel do in an effort to see what
Iran would do in retaliation.
This is not a position of weakness for the record.
Iran's constant impulse to demonstrate escalation dominance.
This is from Dr. Andreas Krieg, associate professor, saying,
Iran's constant impulse to demonstrate escalation dominance
isn't a sign of strength, but a deep-seated inferiority
complex and trauma on which the Islamic Republic has
been built.
At this rate, the greatest obstacle to Iranian security
isn't Israel or the US.
It's Iranian socio-psychology.
Wrong.
That is wrong.
Sina responds to that, says, before the war,
Iran's relative restraint was cited
as proof that it was weak now it's assertiveness is attributed to inferiority complex
perhaps it's time to spend less effort psychoanalyzing tehran and more effort
understanding its strategic
logic
i think iran is shown over and over again
that it is not impulsive at all as a matter of fact
it's strategic restraint
was perhaps born out of naivete this idea
that the moderates or the reformists
would be able to negotiate with the united states of america with the west
with israel
you know or at least not with israel directly but with america that is
supposed to control israel
the idea
that america would treat them
as a sovereign nation
and not simply a nuisance that they can bomb willingly
this was wrong
reformists and the moderates were wrong. The hardliners have been proven correct.
Okay, and when I say the current reformists, they're not even real reformists. These are still
previously people that were known as hardliners like Gallabat, but they're just more pragmatic.
So even that is a shift in the direction of the hardliners, because the current
governance structure inside of Iran with the exception of the president and maybe Abbas
the foreign minister, is mostly hardliners that are more pragmatic, so they're willing
to negotiate with America at all, but still willing to fight, and the hardliners that
don't want to negotiate with America at all, and simply just want to fight.
So there has been this consolidation of a forceful posture where the hardliners won.
Part of the reason why the hardliners, quote unquote, won is because Israel killed all
of the reformers.
Israel killed all of the people that were always willing to negotiate with the United
States of America.
Now the majority from what I understand is still in the hands of those who are still
hardliners, but not as conservative or as invested in purely fighting, the pragmatists
are still technically in control.
But the way that the American side has presented this conversation makes it seem as though
there is a real crisis in Iranian leadership.
They've even gone so far as to lie and claim that the further right, the more right-wing
elements within the IRGC have actually won, right?
Arakshi is a reformist.
I know, I already brought that up.
I said, Pzyshkyan, Arakshi, those are like the last remaining reformists.
They're not technically hardliners.
But the rest, like even Golubov, is a more pragmatic person, but still in the past would
have been considered a hardliner.
Right wing is an interesting descriptor.
Yeah, it doesn't fall in the same left-right dynamic.
Not one reformist got killed, USA want a change of heart?
Anyway, here's what's important.
Here's what's important, regardless of the way that the American side, the way that the
Western world has covered this as like real chaos in the leadership structure. I don't think there's
as much chaos as the the way that we're coping here in the West. They definitely are, you know,
working hand in glove with one another. The forceful military posture creates leverage
for those who seek out negotiations. Okay? But in any case, but in any case, what's
important here is why Iran did this first strike, if you want to call it that. It
was a non-retaliatory strike. It was an initiated direct strike against US
forces in this war for the first time after 150 plus days. The reason why they're doing that is
because they are regaining strategic leverage over the nature of this battle, okay? That's my
speculation. I think that they are doing this to say, look, we hold the cards, now it's up to you.
you? Will you retaliate? Will you continue this battle? Or will you beg us to cease fire
negotiation process once again? And this is not just my analysis. These are, there are
NATO Atlantises like Danny, Dennis, and Trinowitz at the Atlantic Council who also agree with
my assessment. Danny writes in Hebrew, why did Iran fire?
a the current leadership in iran sees the dictate the pace of the confrontation
and not merely the respond decisions made in washington from its perspective
an offensive initiative is a way to prove that iran still holds the strategic
initiative
that's one hundred percent correct
they're dictating the pace of the battle now
in the past
they were simply responding they were simply responsive
tit for tat strikes america
uh... iran maintains its leverage over the street of hormones
uh... and and you know fires at a boat that's uh... crossing
with their transponders offer crossing to the almani coastline america comes
back in starts fucking lasering
uh... you know iranian ports and whatnot
and then around retaliates by striking the golf and striking jordan
and and striking american military installations
america in that situation is still setting the tempo iran is simply
retaliating to american strikes this is different
in tehran they identify the american hesitation as a weakness and a lack of
willingness to be dragged into a broad war and there is truth for this
there's truth to this
it's not an accident
that there were more leaks
about the lack of interceptor stockpiles on the american side
this past week
it's not an accident
and it's not uh... random happenstance that donald trump claimed he was going to
uh... uh... pommel
iran especially after
uh... the onslaught on movement
also joined in on the battle closed the bobble monday straight
blew up an aramco facility in saudi arabia
and is striking the on the reports striking at saudi boats if they dare
try to cross the bobble monday straight effectively shutting off
a mother
a mother straight that is
uh... that that the saudi's were using
to transit oil through
this is
a huge
point of additional leverage forcing the saudis to utilize the suez canal
and that is if they are even able to get their ships out of the yambo ports
which is the only part of their utilizing i one of the
uh... the most uh... significant part that they need
to utilize
to get their oil out to see
when the answer a lot
is hitting the on the port's when the also a lot more than is hitting oil
refineries inside of saudi arabia around cold facilities inside of saudi arabia
all of a sudden
the theater has grown
there's another front that is opened
and a second straight has closed
america was supposed to respond forcefully to this escalation
and yet they didn't
after thirteen days
after you know ending the memorandum of understanding for thirteen days there
were tit for tat strikes
but america stopped
this is now the third day of america
not delivering a devastating blow that donald trump promised
the media article started coming out
why is trump not
uh... delivering on his promise
part of that is the pressure
from the energy markets
there's only so much
financial engineering that you can entertain before there is a hard stop on the strategic
petroleum reserves, okay?
There's only so much financial engineering that you can engage in when we're talking
about a hard commodity with a global inelastic demand.
So you can hide your failure in the stock market by gaming it to the best of your ability
with a million different Barak Revead exclusives.
But ultimately, ultimately, when the belt gets tightened and tightened, when there's
not enough oil in the strategic petroleum reserves, and you come near that hard limit
of 150 million barrels of oil where the salt caverns are slated to collapse due to a lack
of pressure, you have to do something else.
That's one of the major pressures that even Trump has to recognize, okay?
That's one of the major pressures that even Trump has to deal with, okay?
even he understands this, regardless of how stupid he is.
That's one.
Number two.
The other pressure is the other hard limit.
There's only a finite amount of munitions.
There's only a finite amount of munitions
for standoff munitions
that America has been deploying and depleting
to strike Iran because they can't utilize
their air force efficiently.
They haven't developed a sufficient air superiority
the Iranian airspace. So they have to use these standout munitions, Tomahawk missiles,
that they lob, attack them from Kuwait, right?
And they also have a finite supply of interceptor missiles,
Pac-3s, the Patriot missile systems that they have. And now, they've actually started deploying
packed twos as well. A much older version, a much worse version of the Patriot missile system,
which already doesn't have a 100% interception rate regardless. Some of those pack three missiles
fail. We've seen one over Bahrain that failed and fell into a residential neighborhood. We don't
know how many civilians that killed. Those are the two major reasons as to why Trump has not
re-escalated and gone up the escalation ladder against Iran.
But, they cannot,
they, they cannot continue to fight. They cannot continue to fight, but they also can't concede.
It's a real damned if you do, damned if you don't situation, because if they concede,
they tuck their tails, the Americans tuck their tails and run.
Okay, then it's established unambiguously that Iran now controls the Strait of Hormuz, which,
you know, 20% of the entire world's energy supply transits through. That's a huge economic
advantage that Iran now has. There's a huge political advantage that Iran now has. Iran
wins. America loses. So the smart alternative here is, of course, to negotiate with Iran,
to beg them to beg them back to the ceasefire process to beg them back to the negotiation process.
Iran has already won. We just simply have not acknowledged it yet.
And the bleeding will continue until we acknowledge that defeat.
So this this initiative from Iran to initiate conflict for the first time in the last 150
days is fairly significant. It means that Iran is accelerating the process of
of American recognition of defeat. It's forcing Americans to come to terms with
the reality that they do not have the necessary interceptor supply. They're
obviously not going to go peace mode and and start striking Israel in this
belligerent manner because their goal is not to to engage in revenge. Their goal
is still fairly restrained. Their goal is to basically show America their capabilities.
That's why they're striking Jordan. That's why they're not striking Israel right now.
They're disabling what remains of the anti-air defense systems that exist in Jordan. America
obviously had to move a lot of their assets away from the rest of the Gulf because Iran
pummeled these American bases in the Gulf to Jordan. Jordan is the last line of defense
for Israel. This is also part of the reason why Israel is now defending Jordan. The only
other time Israel has ever utilized their own anti-air defense systems was when they sent
some anti-air systems to the United Arab Emirates, you know, to a limited degree of success.
strike me no I'm not no they aren't yes they are Israeli interceptors are
being Israeli interceptors are being activated over Jordan in airspace to
defend the American military bases inside of Jordan
why would they do that
why are you so confident that you know what Iran's goals are in this conflict
because I'm a secret Shia-12er, okay?
And a practicer of Takia,
and a prominent member of the Islamic Republic.
I am one of the 88 clerics.
I don't know, maybe I'm confident that I know
what Iran's goals are in this conflict
because I have a brain
and I'm analyzing what they've done so far.
I'm looking at their historical patterns.
I'm looking at the internal conflict that might exist.
The ideological disagreements that might exist
within the governance structure of Iran.
It's not like they're hiding it.
It's the same with China.
When people say, what are you talking about?
Like, what do you mean?
How do you know what China's gonna do?
How are you so confident about what China's gonna do?
Well, they write it down.
They write it down all the time.
They're pretty open about it.
It's like Babe Ruth, they called their shots ahead of time.
We don't listen.
We don't take it seriously.
And then we're shocked when it happens.
And the same goes for Iran.
the major difference
between myself and many other analysts
and and those in the commentary sphere
when iran says something
i listen to what they have to say
if there is a logical through line with what they're saying and what they're
doing if there's a connection between the two i take note of that and i
remember that
the next time around
iran has shown unbelievable restraint
so much so
that that level of strategic restraint
was seen as a weakness for the longest time
as an iranian you are so correct about your analysis of iran i can tell you
that
thank you
early on
in epic fury
all of the western commentary it was confused they were like why is iran
striking the golf those are their neighbors they're all muslim
isn't that stupid look at this idiot
look at this stupid country are on what did i say
i said they're hitting american bases
they're striking
missiles that are coming from the golf
of course they're going to do that
their goal was clear to shut off america's eyes and ears in the region they
They struck at the radar systems. They struck at American military personnel
None of that was a waste there was a deliberate design to the Iranian retaliation
They were defending themselves and establishing sufficient military deterrence
And I was right all those other guys were like oh you're so dumb
Oh, the Gulf is gonna hate the Gulf is gonna hate Iran forever the Gulf is gonna hate Iran forever
Iran is striking the Gulf they said I
Told you that the message from the message for the Gulf nations was very clear
Get these American bases out
And it turns out I was right many in the Gulf want to get these American bases now out
That's part of the reason why America is talking about entertaining putting their entire central
command their entire operational structure inside of Israel now.
Here's another version of those events.
Hundreds of Jordanian political legal and other figures signed an open letter last week
calling for the withdrawal of US force from Jordan in a rare public challenge of the government
which has long cracked down on free speech and dissent.
Anecdotally, my experience is that these operations against Iran in defense of Israel are overwhelmingly
opposed by the people in Jordan. You have to remember a lot of these Gulf nations and also
Jordan as well, they're not real democracies, they're not democratic at all, they're run
by fucking kings. Jordan is run by a British puppet. So the Jordanian population's attitude
towards what's going on, the Jordanian population's attitude towards like being the last line
of defense against Israel is not exactly popular by the Jordanians themselves, they don't want
that. Same with Bahrain. Same with even the United Arab Emirates, which we often joke
about and say is the most Israeli country. It's the Arab version of Israel. But even
amongst the Emirates, the population doesn't want, many people in the population don't
want to be the last line of defense for Israel. They don't want to be a missile
sponge at the behest of Israel. Why would you want that? So yeah, as Danny was
saying, in Tehran they identify the American hesitation as weakness and a
The lack of willingness to be dragged into a broad war, the Iranian assessment, is that
applying additional pressure will precisely test Washington's resolve and influence decision-making
in the White House.
They want to remind America that they actually hold the cards.
They control the tempo.
This is a big deal.
From Iran's point of view, and it continues, the naval blockade is no longer just a means
of pressure but an actual declaration of war. Unlike the past, the current leadership is
not prepared to accept damage to its freedom of action in the Gulf without a significant
response.
D. There is a direct connection between today's attacks and the activities of pro-Iranian
militias in Iraq against Israel, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia from Tehran's perspective.
These are different fronts of the same campaign, whose goal is to reshape the balance of power
in the Middle East and erode the status of the United States and its allies.
E. This is also further evidence of change in Iran's doctrine following the rise of Haman
A. If, in the past, the emphasis was mainly on response and deterrence, today Iran is
also prepared to initiate offensive moves and to rely deeply on its missile array, drones
and regional proxies into Iran, they see an opportunity to reshape the strategic reality
in the Gulf to their advantage. The ball is now back in Washington's court. In Iran, they
assessed that a limited American response will not change the reality. And in the end,
the United States will be required to decide whether it escalates the campaign, knowing
that every escalation is expected to be met with further Iranian escalation. They're making
the American campaign more costly. They're accelerating the process of American recognition
of defeat. America has already lost. It's now up to our leaders to come to terms with
that reality. So Iran is making it more costly. Iran is agitating with pinpoint accuracy.
So it's not even about ballistic missiles being launched from Iran and then successfully
striking U.S. targets inside of Jordan. It's the act of launching ballistic missiles alone
that is applying pressure.
That's changing the tempo.
That's giving Iran control over this conflict.
Iran is now saying we are no longer going to hold back
and wait for American retaliation.
Or we're no longer going to hold back
and wait for America to strike Iran.
We will control the tempo and we will see how you respond.
you respond.
That's important.
It's important to understand.
There's also one other element that Danny is not factoring here.
This is not simply to reshape the security realities in the region.
This is still an existential threat.
Because as long as the American-Israeli security partnership remains, as long as Israel still gets to dictate the terms of
American military action in the region,
there will always be an existential threat to Iran. They have to eradicate it.
They have to take out the different tentacles of this American imperialist
endeavor in the region. They have to take out the bases. They have to make it as
costly for the United States of America to continue operating in the region and
they've been doing that. They've been doing that with their successive
strikes on American military installations, on American radar installations, they're
making, they're creating an environment of pressure for the Gulf nations, so that the
Gulf nations let up and decide to tell America that this security partnership that America
and the Gulf nations have created is not actually helpful for them, okay?
That's one element.
The other element is just to directly destroy their supply, to directly destroy the American
assets in the region, which they've been doing as well.
There's also one other point.
Check out this take from someone at the Atlantic Council. The Iran war has only exacerbated long-standing flaws in the US security approach to the Gulf.
It's past time for the US to shed ambiguous security guarantees and embrace a more collaborative approach.
What does that collaboration mean?
To be more aggressive in our posture and just invade Iran militarily, by the way,
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Zelensky is high. According to CSIS, this would be roughly half of the U.S.'s entire remaining
inventory of Patriot interceptors. President Zelensky has asked President Trump for an
emergency winter package of 300 Patriot interceptor missiles. Axios reports Zelensky said Ukraine
stocks are nearly exhausted and more than Russia strikes could leave millions without heat this
winter. The math doesn't add up. Air Defense Doctrine requires at least two interceptors for
for each incoming projectile, 3 to 5 attacks per month at 30 to 40 missiles per attack
is 180 to 400 interceptors needed per month. Russian attacks will certainly increase in
frequency and size during the lead up to winter.
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The timeline doesn't work as he said.
We need the pictures yesterday.
He's seeking 300 of them by winter.
He said Trump promised he would try to help, but also made it clear it's difficult because
of the need for interceptors in the war with Iran.
Yeah.
It's just ironic that he's asking for additional interceptors while simultaneously expanding
the theater of conflict in Iran and only continuing the Iranian battle further.
As I said yesterday, the more the Iranian war continues, the less likely it is that you
are receiving interceptors, Zelensky.
This is why I said it's dumb.
This is why I said it's fucking stupid to try to strike Iranian tankers or Iranian ships,
ships in the Caspian Sea to try to make yourself more useful to an insane person like Donald
Trump.
It made a lot more sense for you to say, look, we are very capable of defending against
drone strikes far better than the Gulf nations.
We will give you our expertise.
That was smart.
Trump obviously didn't give a shit about the smart move, the smart initiative from
Zelensky to make himself more reliable, more valuable to the American side.
And instead, he did the dumb thing.
Yeah. US owned LNG carrier was hit by a drone in the Egyptian port of Damietta in the Mediterranean Sea, possibly
Andrew's winter operated by Wilhamsen ship management limited USA that have left the port, found the reporter
attack and is now anchored off the coast. Tell me again about how pipeline circumventing the straight of
hormones will mean game over for Iran. Yeah. They have the reach. They have the reach. And this is why the
other side like the other acts of resistance militias are also
uh... an important part of the iranian uh...
in the iranian security package the iranian security assurances
this is how they change the the security environment in the region
to their benefit
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From the Caspian Sea to the Mediterranean, the conflict is expanding such is the regional
war Trump mindlessly started in February if tankers can be struck here.
Traffic entering from the Red Sea or transiting the canal itself is at risk, especially bad
for European energy security.
Slowly but surely they're expanding.
Slowly but surely they're increasing the pressure.
This will make it far more costly for America, whose primary goal here as the hegemonic superpower
is to make sure that people can fucking trade with ease.
America remember doesn't just have, it doesn't just have the ambition of like destroying
Iran.
America obviously also has additional roles to play.
More important, one of the most important roles that America has as the hegemonic superpower
is to allow free commerce, free flow of trade,
is to assure that security for the rest of the world.
Otherwise, your military might mean nothing.
And if you can achieve that, if you can achieve that through
a military campaign, you have to achieve that through negotiations.
Yeah, I too remember when Macron said,
we can do amazing things in Iran.
I remember that.
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Okay. All of the, like this entire bag of fourth battle diminishing stockpiles,
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All of this actually has destroyed the confidence that people have in America remaining the
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Bonsard Barry says the first step is accepting the trade of Hormuz's loss. European allies
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see an enduring ceasefire in the Iran war. The latest sign that Washington's repeated
bashing of its closest friends has carried consequences. No, no, I don't think that's
That's their puppies, okay?
European leaders are servile dogs.
They would willingly follow Trump, regardless of the way Trump talks about them or talks
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The reason why they're not doing this is because they understand the situation.
They understand the dynamic.
They understand that there is no benefit to sending naval assets to the Shreddov Hormuz
when America can't even guarantee trade security to the oil tankers, to the shipments that
are trying to transit the trade of Hormuz, while Iran is still clearly peppering those
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Anyway.
Violent clashes in the Middle East and concerns at the pause in the fighting between the U.S. and Iran is over.
American and Saudi forces say they launched precision strikes against militias backed
by Iran and Tehran fired ballistic missiles toward American forces.
U.S. commanders call it an attempted surprise attack.
Charlie Daggett is in Jordan with the very latest.
Charlie, good morning.
Good morning to you, Vlad.
Four days of relative calm was shattered overnight with those two dramatic developments.
That surprise attack aimed at U.S. forces and new U.S. air strikes in a joint operation
with Saudi Arabia for the first time. This might seem like, well, here we go again, but this is a
serious escalation. So video shows attacks on Iranian-backed militias in Iraq in direct retaliation
for drone strikes aimed at Saudi Arabian oil facilities. An Iraqi paramilitary coalition says
the strikes killed and wounded multiple people and caused damage to buildings and other property.
Then there's this surprise ballistic missile attack here in Jordan.
Military sources tell us five of those missiles were intercepted.
Remember, this is where those three U.S. soldiers were killed.
So this isn't symbolic.
This isn't to gesture U.S. Central Command told us.
This was another attempt to kill American troops.
So fighting had been on hold to give diplomacy a chance.
Now, in the middle of all of this volatility, President Trump met privately with Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for the first time since this war began Netanyahu described
it as one of the best conversations, but earlier President Trump slammed the Prime Minister
for exaggerating Iran's nuclear threat, saying, quote, I don't love him.
Well, I'm trying three more levels wants me to stay involved, Natalie, Charlie Dagger
and Jordan.
Thank you so much.
President Trump speaking to Fox just moments ago about the U.S.
Yeah, he mad. He big man. What did the president tell you? This was really funny. He's like
we're gonna bomb the fucking shit out of them. We're so mad. Yeah, guys, good morning. President
Trump reacting to that Iranian attack on US forces overnight in Jordan. President Trump
tells Fox News about Iran. We are going to beat the effing s out of them. He went on to say,
we'll be hitting them hard. They're going to get a beating. So clearly the United States is
going to respond to what the president described as a surprise attack. He says U.S. forces
had just minutes to shoot down these incoming Iranian ballistic missiles. The president
says he has reviewed video of the shootdown and it was U.S. forces conducting this operation
to defend that area. He said it was real time. They were calling out coordinates and ensuring
that none of this incoming Iranian fire got through. I also asked the president about
those U.S. and Saudi airstrikes against Iran-backed Iraqi Shia militias overnight.
He says those strikes were coordinated with the Iraqi government.
He called these Iran-backed militias a cancer on the world and says he is considering additional
warnings against Iranian proxies and their link to the Iranian regime.
The president also talked about his meeting yesterday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
Netanyahu in the Oval Office.
He says it was a great meeting adding he understands now.
It appears that the relationship bro thinks he's lethal shooter. I understand it now
Bro, you are not lethal shooter, okay, you are not lethal shooter
You don't understand shit
Between president Trump and the Israeli Prime Minister is strengthening and again
The president called that meeting in the oval great in terms of possible talks with the Iranian regime
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And those talks are taking place as we speak behind the scenes and then the surprise attack launched against us forces overnight
And again President Trump telling Fox News
We are going to beat the FNS out of them and that US strikes will take place against Iran in response to the surprise attack
Overnight against us forces in Jordan guys. Oh, it's it was intriguing too is we understand the previous attacks were with Saudi Arabia
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The Gulf have participated in limited capacity against the Iranians targeting some of these
coastal areas around the city of Bandar Abbas, next to the Persian Gulf, where many of those
U.S. strikes took place.
And remember when we spoke with President Trump earlier this year during Operation Epic
Fury, he said he was most surprised by the fact that the Iranians were targeting these
countries that were uninvolved, that were not striking Iran at the time.
And so again, what Iran has done here by targeting these Gulf countries is actually building
this informal coalition that is now being used to pressure the Iranian regime.
The question remains if these talks will lead to some sort of agreement.
Four two.
But again, President Trump tells Fox News there will be a U.S. response to this surprise
attack overnight against U.S. forces in Jordan.
Trey Yings, just getting off the phone with President Trey, thank you very much for the
exclusive report.
Thanks, Trey.
Be sure to like.
It's funny that Trey Yings is like the last remaining Trump loyalist at this point, which
Which is a definite fall from grace for Trey.
He was far more critical of Israel back in the day before they made him the chief foreign
correspondent for Fox News.
Tel Aviv Trey is now the most, the biggest Trump dick writer at Fox News.
That's part of the reason why Trump loves giving him interviews where he says dumb shit like,
Oh, I'm gonna bully the fuck out of Iran. Um, updates.
Sankam commander in an internal note, this is from Phil Stewart, chief national security report for Reuters
with a fat scoop. Um, this comes after the footage was filmed by a U.S. soldier in an Iranian missile
barrage target targeting the Moufak Salty airbase in Jordan. Sankam commander in an internal note
It says videos like this by troops can help Iran with targeting during missile and drone attacks
Comes as sources tell Reuters some deployed personnel could soon be ordered to surrender their phones
now it's funny because this is a successful strike and
Clearly if they are capable of targeting whatever they were targeting there
Visual confirmation from phone footage like this. It's not gonna
Change the dynamic for Iran because one they're capable of
of precise targeting now.
And two, if they're capable of precise targeting,
they're probably capable of seeing the impact zone
with the same satellite imagery
that allowed them to engage in precise targeting.
So it's still funny that they are engaging
in more operational security though, too little too late.
Cooper says, Iran benefits from being able to see
the successor failure of the strikes in near real time
by searching news reports or online posts
by journals referencing reactions, photos,
and footage from the cell phones of our troops.
The direct unavoidable cost of this open source intelligence
could be measured in the lives of American service members
and civilian residents in targeted Gulf countries.
Cooper also says Iran would normally have a tough time
determining the success or failure of its strikes,
thanks to things like the US military's electronic jamming
or other tactics used in war zones.
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Yeah, King Klip is thigh and interviewed Francesca Hong, by the way, who had some beast mode opinions.
We're gonna get to that in a second.
But, uh, how much of a surprise was Iran's surprise attack?
Iranian war briefing with Sean Bell.
152, a President Trump's four to six week war in Iran.
After a relatively quiet few days, last night was intense military activity gain.
But what was the surprise about Iran's surprise attack?
Overnight last night we heard that three oil tankers were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz.
It looks like they were passing in the southern route, which is very close to the Omani coastline,
supported by American ships and in direct contravention of the clear route by Iran, which is operating up to the north.
Every time that's happened in the past, that's back to the catalyst for a tit-for-tat exchange between America and Iran.
That's exactly what happened last night.
As a result of that, America attacked a series of military targets around the Strait of Hormuz,
delivery designed to try to reduce Iran's ability to strike back and to strike commercial shipping.
Meanwhile, the Iranians, in response to those attacks, therefore targeted the region,
went across and targeted American forces in Jordan with a series of ballistic missile strikes.
missile strikes. Now Central Command have said that all of those ballistic missiles were intercepting.
The challenge of course is that what's actually happening here is that there's a regional conflict
that's expanding well beyond the boundaries of Iran. There are a number of Iranian-backed militia groups
operating in Iraq. Some of them have been attacking American facilities in Saudi Arabia and all
facilities. There have been 30 drone attacks in the last 72 hours. Central Command announced that there
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the iraqis claim that twenty people killed and thirty two were injured on
behalf of the crown prince the saudi foreign minister said they didn't want
to see any form of escalation in the region but they would act in response
to any form of aggression
in those mace recent periods of attack
so why has there been a sudden resumption in these attacks
Well, last night it's quite difficult to see who struck who first and the sequencing of events,
but America is saying that Iran had conducted a surprise attack against America.
It implied that actually Iran was operating proactively.
But the challenge is this is all about the straighter form moves.
It's all about control.
It's all about the memorandum of understanding and clause five,
which effectively gave Iran responsibility for the safe passage of vessels through those straits.
Every time America tries to force commercial vessels through that new southern route,
it precipitates an escalation of violence and that continues.
So what actually is the American strategy here?
Well, it seems to be able to use American force to try and defeat Iran,
trying to drive it to the negotiating table and a position of weakness.
The challenge is, as day 152, that doesn't appear to be working.
I like that Sky News has to repeat the same video every day.
Now, I mean, that's everyone.
I feel like I'm always, I try to make it as interesting as possible, but it's impossible
not to be repetitive in this, because it's the same song and dance every time.
Friday night, Trump says, after market close, Trump says he's gonna do something insane.
He's gonna nuke Iran.
And then come Sunday night, right before markets open, Trump says, oh, Iran is begging
for a ceasefire.
This has happened for the last 160 fucking days, literally, with a brief pause in between
when there was a MOU, which they were forced to follow through on because there was an
imminent crisis with the strategic petroleum reserves.
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Will take leave from work.
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You shouldn't take leave from work.
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Well, what's happening?
What's the Iranian strategy here?
Well, the Iranian people are definitely suffering as a result of this war.
its high, supplies are low, but the Iranian leadership, particularly the IRGC, see this
as a once-in-a-generational opportunity to move from a prior state to a regional power,
potentially even in control of the strata formuse. All they've got to do to achieve
their strategic objectives is to outlast America and they will deliver strategic success.
So of course, where does this leave us in the whole process? Well, when President Trump
first started this war. He announced it would be a four to six week war and the
much anticipated and crucial mid-term elections in America were many, many
months away. However, we're now day 152 of the war. There's less than a hundred
days left before those elections. Crucially, America does not like this
war in Iran. President Trump's personal popularity has dropped. This is not the
legacy that either President Trump or the Republican Party would have
anticipated. You know, nobody was able to bring people together quite like my
Defined and now promised to go to New York after mom daddy threats. Yes, the real president went to Sean Hannity, by the way.
Here's a before we get to that, uh, last part of the situation monitoring hardest part of
three day war was the first five years
What the fuck is this using experimental quantum lip-reading AI classified DARPA here's executive
is okay.
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Um, crazy, a foreign PM can do this.
A foreign PM warns the United States that he has deployed armed force on a soil to act
against his law and against his laws, police and army in any houses.
Israel's a special forces ready if arrested vows New York City visit.
Yeah, I don't know if he realizes what that sounds like.
I don't know if he realizes what that means.
I mean, that's insane.
That's an insane statement, but I guess it's fucking beast mode.
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I don't think so.
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It's not happening.
My PBS prediction is that within a year, Hassanavi will build travel pelican to include some
kind of soundboard.
not because the Pelican is super tight right now as it is. It's like, it's, it's filled to the brim.
So I would have to get like a larger Pelican, which would not be carry on size.
So I'm not going to do that most likely. I mean, I guess maybe probably not.
Level 17 show hole. No, that's not happening.
All right. New estimates of American pack three and fat anti-ballistic missile interceptor
stockpiles in American inventory from the CSIS. Roughly a third of pre-war Patriot interceptors
are estimated to remain. This is not good. Patriot and fat interceptors remaining in
U.S. inventory pre-war was 2,330. At the ceasefire point was 1,030. Today, July 27, it's at 759 to 827.
That pre-war was 452. At ceasefire was at 232 to 262. Today is at 234 to 278.
Estimated inventories today account for additional interceptor use and new deliveries
since the April 8th ceasefire that deliveries during the ceasefire outpaced
estimated use over the same period resulting in higher inventories today than in April.
Patriot calculations include the LACE-MSE variant and PAC-3s. Several hundred PAC-2s,
not represented in the chart, are estimated to remain in U.S. inventory,
Which, once again, once again, means Ukraine is not getting any fucking Patriot missiles.
That's what it means.
Oh, I've trained over.
That's what that means.
How the fuck is Ukraine receiving any PAC-3 Patriot missiles that they are demanding
from the American side to the tune of 300 as Zelensky demanded today.
If America continues his war with Iran, why would Ukraine try to enter the Iranian theater
only extending the Iranian conflict if they were successful, right?
And all of those fucking Patriot missiles are being utilized in the Gulf, mostly in Israel.
As we've been reporting since April, the stockpile issue at this stage is one that largely centers
around concerns the US military may not have enough munitions for the next conflict.
Analysts and sources have consistently warned that continued fighting with Iran could deplete
stockpiles to the point it could impact the US military's ability to fight with China
or even North Korea in the future.
It's actually worse than that. I don't think it's just for potential conflict with China or Russia.
I think it's worse than that. I think they don't have enough for this conflict.
That's the real secret. The real secret is not that, oh, we won't have enough for China.
It's not like we're going to fucking wage a war with China. That's insane.
If you think, tomorrow, China decides, fuck it, we're going beast mode.
We're gonna militarily invade Taiwan if you think America is going to then shift their priority to defend Taiwan
You are the most delusional person on the planet
Yeah, ukraine is trying to make a seem to trump that supporting ukraine is part of fighting against iran
It's a game of jingling jingling keys to keep trump's attention. I know but it's a very dumb thing to do because
If successful, it only extends the conflict, which makes it less likely that he will receive a single Patriot missile.
That's what I'm saying. Any day that goes on, any day that goes by where America is more invested in Israel,
which is what America will always do, Israel is the primary focus,
is a day where Ukraine gets no attention whatsoever and no weapons whatsoever.
You're telling me this doesn't make you want to defend Israel? Yes, for the Boomer cons
it does. I'm turned up and turned on. The dogs are out. OBGYNs danced up. Cooter for
the rest of the world to see. This makes me say, Israel comes to me in my dreams.
Straight up. Anyway, on that note, Trita Parsi is going to be on the broadcast in one minute.
I don't think he's here yet, but he will be on in one minute.
I'm going to text him real quick, see if he's still doing it.
Trita about this? What is it? Okay, Trita is here. Hello, Trita Parsey, Executive Vice President of
Quincy Institute is in the building, ladies and gentlemen. Hold on, let me change the...
There it is. Okay, welcome back. Apologies for yesterday. We had to watch,
Perhaps the most boring Wisconsin gubernatorial debate that's taking place, but you know, we're we got
We got a candidate in there Francesca Hong. I don't know if you're familiar with her. She's wonderful DSA candidate
Running and actually killing it right now. She's got like 44%
Freaking out the establishment a lot, but in any case Shrida
You're back and the news are not so good
And I am very excited to have you. Thank you for coming on
And
Yeah, we we got we got a real situation evolving as of yesterday
Iran actually changed the pace of the theater by doing a non retaliatory strike for the first time in the last
160 plus days by striking at US assets in the
Jordanian air bases the US air bases in Jordan
And Trump has since refused to retaliate as a matter of fact. So very interesting predicament. I wanted to hear your assessment on where things are going. And if you still feel confident that there is any opportunity for peace.
Look, there always is opportunity still for peace, I think, although I agree with you fully it is looking very, very bad. The trajectory has shifted dramatically.
Let me start off by sharing just my thought and analysis as to why I think the Iranians
did this.
I think this really surprised the U.S. They did not expect this.
And it was, from the U.S. perspective, highly provocative to do it, while Netanyahu and
Zelensky are in Washington, D.C. It adds additional pressure onto Trump.
So the fact that the U.S. hasn't responded yet and I'm not 100% sure if that is the
case.
There was some sort of attack early on, I heard, but either way, I don't find that
very likely to be a lasting situation. So why did the Iranians then do this? There's been a lot
of speculation that this is because they lost faith in diplomacy with the United States.
They're trying to test to see whether how strong Trump's resolve is, all of these different things.
And I think there are probably elements of truth in that. But the way I see it, I would
limited to essentially keep three key reasons.
First one is all prices have come down.
Despite the fact that the Strait is closed even during this informal ceasefire, all prices
has come down, which then creates a problem for the audience.
There was never a negotiated ceasefire.
It's just that the US stopped fighting.
The US has stopped bombing.
And if it is so that the US can decide when there's a ceasefire and when there isn't one
by simply bombing or not bombing,
and Iranians just have to follow suit.
Then that creates a scenario in which Trump
will always have an option, a rather costless option,
in which he can just go from diplomacy
to fighting back to ceasefire,
and the Iranians would just have to adjust to that.
So an informal ceasefire is completely unacceptable
to the Iranians, but particularly now
when they saw that old prices were coming down,
it meant that the economic pressure on Trump
was reducing much faster than the Iranians thought.
I don't think this is the main reason.
The second reason is,
I think the Iranians wanted to showcase
that they are willing to take preemptive actions
against the United States
because they believe the US was preparing an attack.
They claim that there was intelligence
and maneuvers in the US with new assets coming to the region
that suggested that the US was in the direction of an attack.
And by taking preemptive measures,
they're trying to signal to the United States
that if you think that there's like a massive
escalatory step that you can take, a larger war,
you hear Trump constantly say that,
we're just gonna go at Iran much harder than we did before.
So if there is a belief that a bigger war is in your favor,
Iranians are trying to deter the U.S.
and I know this may sound paradoxical,
by showing their willingness to attack first.
Now, of course, there's a huge risk with that at the end, and we'll talk about that.
And the third thing, I think, is the combination of a couple of factors here, which really
puts a fine print on this.
I think the Iranians have come to the conclusion that Trump will never commit himself to diplomacy
unless he no longer has a military option.
And by showing their willingness to go to war with the U.S., by preemptively attacking
the U.S., they're trying to tell him, you don't have that option, because you think
that that option is going to be easy for you, but we're willing to fight you.
And only when Trump has concluded that he doesn't have an option will he start becoming
sincere and genuine about diplomacy.
So the pathway to a deal is not, or to peace is not a deal.
pathway to it is to first eliminate the military option, force a realization that only diplomacy
and only diplomacy, meaning no combination of diplomacy and military action will work. And then
at that point, you can actually make a deal feasible and you can make a deal doable.
One second. Let me just pick up this. I think it's the second time this has happened while I'm on
your show. I was going to ask if you get a fix your audio source as well. Okay. Because I don't
think it's coming from your headphones right now. It's a little bit low. Potentially. You are correct.
Yeah. It should be better now. Is it better? Yes, it's much better now. Yeah, much louder.
I'm going to get a professional mic one of these days. Yeah. No, it's not good.
So, yeah, I agree with their assessment. What do you think this says about the American
conversations have been taking place in Western media, specifically about the, quote, unquote,
chaos within the Iranian governance structure? The New York Times daily actually had this
long report that I found to be coping, I guess, with the situation a little bit by claiming
that there is a real disagreement between the hardliners and the more moderate, more pragmatic
elements, the more pragmatic elements that are trying to still maintain a more positive
posture towards a ceasefire negotiation, whereas the hardliners are maybe even acting out at times.
There was talk about how the IRGC might have actually even decided on their own to strike
the US assets in the region or strike at the ships to abide by the MOU. I don't
think that's correct, but do you... does this change that calculation? Does it make
it impossible to determine that there is any kind of inconsistency, any
kind of chaos or conflict inside of the Iranian governor structure right now?
Look, I think we have very little insight into what's happening inside the
Iranian government. But I do think that there seems to be some sort of inclination to assume
that because we don't understand it. And we're very quick to go to those type of explanations.
And again, sometimes they're probably true, but it doesn't mean that there's some sort
of inherent problem. I find it peculiar that we're so quick to come to that conclusion
when there's such clear signs that there's massive chaos in the American government.
I was about to say Iran didn't fire 12 generals. I don't think Iran doesn't have leakers going
to mainstream news and and sidestepping the the security meetings that they're having right now
to basically advance the warning signs that we're running out of interceptors.
Yeah, exactly. You know, you don't have a situation there in which, you know, they have
like an intelligence service that leaks that type of information that completely contradicts
what the government is saying, et cetera. Now, some of that is, you know, normal, but we're in a truly
chaotic situation these days with the manner that this current administration is running things.
But I do think that there is a reality one has to recognize, and it shouldn't be surprising. This
is why I think some of these reporting are a little bit odd. Why are you surprised that in a
situation of war, it is the IRGC that has the upper hand. It is the generals that in the state of war
actually tend to have the strongest voices, not the diplomats. Or the idea that, so for instance,
there were negotiations about two, three weeks ago, before you had a full collapse of the MOU.
And it wasn't in Muscat. The Americans actually didn't really show up. So it was done by the
Omanis and the Iranians. And the Iranian Foreign Minister essentially was negotiating a text,
a joint statement by the Omanis. He seemed to have felt that he had a mandate for it.
went back to Tehran by phone and got it nixed and you know apparently he
couldn't sell it to Tehran and then the question is well you know how could they
overrule the Foreign Minister of course they overrule the Foreign Minister
Foreign Minister doesn't make these decisions at the end of the day you had a
similar situation in which Kushner and Wittkopf were in Geneva negotiated a
deal with Ivanias through the help of the Omanis back in February and even told
the Iranians that they are very confident that Trump is gonna like this deal went back
and Trump said no and instead started war 24 hours later.
Perfectly.
No one said that, I was it possible that Whitcov could be overruled?
Of course he can be overruled, he's not the president.
And currently the situation Iran is not that the foreign minister is running the foreign
policy.
It is the government of Holland within that government.
Clearly the IRGC and the military are having the upper hand because they're at war.
Yeah, the Supreme Leader, Trump has the final say on these decisions. And perhaps there's
someone even above him that is capable of changing his mind. And that man is Benjamin
and Yahoo, and he's currently in Washington, DC. I wanted to hear what your perspective
is like. Obviously, there is this real crisis. CSIS has reported that the standoff munition
stockpile has diminished dramatically. The interceptor stockpiles have diminished dramatically,
where the current assessment is that we do not have enough interceptors, PAC-3s, and
THAAD missiles to potentially wage any war with our peer or near peer adversaries. I
think it's worse than that. I suspect that it's actually not about a potential crisis
in the future, but the real crisis that's taking place in the Gulf right now, I don't
think we have enough to even go through a long and extended conflict with Iran.
So now there's two points of pressure, the markets obviously being the first point of
pressure, the energy markets and the munitions.
And it seems to me that that is the real reason why Trump has not gone through an additional
escalation, and instead is demonstrating some semblance of restraint.
Do you think Benjamin Anyahu is capable of convincing him otherwise, especially when
reporting shows that he's frustrated with the pickaxe mountain targeting that obviously
came from the Israeli side as another opportunity, a lifeline to continue striking Iran, to give
Trump and the Western media another target that Trump could focus on?
Look, first of all, regarding the interceptors, it's precisely because of that, because these
are not mysteries.
I mean, these numbers in this, you know, the audit of it was very clear from the outside.
So the only way going back to war really couldn't work was if it was a new plan with some new
intelligence and some new ability, capacity, some new tactic strategy, that would ensure
a victory and very short order. Because if it was dragging out, then yes, this problem
with the interceptors would very quickly rear its head. And this is probably the, and I'm
so surprised as to why Trump really restarted this, because I expected that if he's actually
going to restart his war, he must have a plan. He must have a new technology. He must have
a new intel. And it appears that he had absolutely none of them. And instead, you know, some
haphazard bombings in the south of Iran eventually would have brought about some new situation.
So it's still a mystery to me how this decision actually
was made, because there's not even
a semblance of some sort of a strategy
and or theory of change, theory of how this could succeed.
So the intercept of the problem was always been available.
It's always been known.
We saw it back in 2025, in which the Israelis started
asking for a ceasefire after nine days or 10 days of fighting
because they were running low, 10 days.
And that was when the US was providing
a tremendous amount of support for them as well.
So it's not a new problem in any way, shape or form.
Is it the reason why he's showing restraint?
In many ways, I think it is.
The question is, why wasn't that same factor present
to make him decide not to do this in the first place?
Maybe it's because the military is less woke
this time around, even less woke than before.
Because pre-MOU, Pete Hex had said
they're gonna start being less woke.
And maybe post-MOU,
going to be even less woke than the past. Have you factored in the secret weapon?
Yeah, I think there is an argument to be made that the president was so frustrated
for a variety of reasons that he was just screwed his diplomacy. I want to see a bombing campaign
and you didn't have people in the military or around him that were willing to say, look,
understand your anger, but this is not going to work.
That Trump was simply not receptive to that,
and he wouldn't be until he had proven to himself
that this won't work, which happened about seven to eight
days into this war.
And as a result, now he's more susceptible to the article,
which then comes to your other question,
which is can Netanyahu nevertheless shift it around?
I think there is one thing that Israelis likely tried yesterday,
And I think that's a male who hinted at it publicly by saying that we can't that they came in with some new ideas.
Oh, God.
And I think what this may suggest is that the US military itself is not coming up with any more ideas at this point, because none of them are good.
And they know that this is not going to go anywhere.
So they're not going to put bad options in front of Trump.
But that means that there is a bit of a vacuum there when it comes to military ideas and Trump has probably rejected a lot of them.
And the Israelis may come up with another one of these spectacular ideas that look good on paper or look good in Trump's eyes
But have no relationship with reality just as much as their previous idea which is starting this entire war in the first place
I had a very very
Bizarre relationship with reality
As far as no ideas goes I mean the the old idea is
obviously the the last remaining step on
on the escalation ladder from the American side,
which is a ground invasion of the coastal islands
and maybe even the Iranian coast.
Now, of course, this is a spectacular failure
that's imminent, a lot of military casualties.
Trump's also very reluctant to go the full distance
and actually put boots on the ground.
He has consistently refused to do so in the past.
So is there any chance that the administration
tries to fight their way out of this by your estimation,
considering that it is kind of the last remaining option
because we've been doing the same thing over and over again.
It's very clear that an aerial bombardment campaign
is not going to create regime change at all.
And America's not even gaining sufficient leverage
over Iran in the process, and every day that this continues,
Iran is actually gaining additional leverage
over the oil markets.
So I wouldn't even concede the idea that this is an option,
unless Trump, the people around him, and the military
are willing to accept thousands of American casualties
and killed, because that is what this would be.
And they know that.
They know that already back in the first round of this war,
in which they looked at those options
and ultimately decided not to do it.
So again, if you were to do it,
either it's because you're completely desperate
or because you have some new strategies
and new intels and new capability
that changes the equation
because it's been looked upon numerous times
and it doesn't look good in any way, shape, or form.
Can you take an island?
Yes.
Can you keep it?
Yes.
What is the cost of that?
Immense.
What is the strategic?
utility of it, very limited. Does it change the picture? No. You're just positioning yourself in a
stationary way that allows Iranians to rain missiles on you, and you cannot force protect.
You can't provide force protection for the troops under those circumstances
in an effective manner. So it would be a lot of people killed for absolutely nothing. That was
the reality in the first round. I don't see anything that suggests that that is not the
reality today. If the belief is that this bombing of Southern Iran has reduced Iran's
ability to close the straits, remember this is exactly what was tried with the Houthis
in February of 2025. Yeah. When Waltz and others convinced Trump to do that, and after nine weeks,
he stopped and he, I don't think he's even mentioned the word Yemen system.
Yeah, no, he he said famously the Houthis got hands like he literally said they're brave fighters. They're really tough fighters
Exactly and and I spoke to folks at the Pentagon at the time were saying that, you know, they were stunned by how quickly
the Houthis immediately dug up missiles
fixed the different silos or, you know, entry points in which the missiles were
and the Iranians are doing exactly the same thing.
And, you know, at the end of the day,
it's probably the Iranians that trained the Houthis on this.
So if it didn't work against the Houthis,
there are far less dug in, far less resources,
have not had this strategy for that long,
whereas the Iranians have been preparing for this
since the mid 1990s.
I just don't buy for a second
that this 13 day campaign has achieved more
against the Iranians than what nine weeks
did against the Houthis.
What level of knowledge do we have over the Houthi ballistic munitions and drone procurement
capabilities? Because from what I understand, they are still significantly reliant on trying
to create an air bridge between Iran, and this is part of the puzzle for them. We don't
know what, do we even know what depth of stockpiles they have in terms of carrying out a continuous
blockade over an extended period of time, because I assumed that they were lucked as
to enter the theater of conflict and closed the Bob Elmondev Strait.
It wasn't necessarily because they're a totally sovereign actor here, but more so because
of the limitations that they acknowledge.
But perhaps I'm wrong, and I wanted to know if you have additional information on that.
I don't.
I don't have an answer to that.
My suspicion would be, however, that, first of all, they were made self-sufficient far
earlier, meaning that they know how to build this stuff on their own.
In fact, I was told that they had even improved on some of the drones and were now reversing
that.
You know, essentially, the intelligence of technological flow was going from the Houthis
to the Iranians.
Yeah, we saw that.
Sorry to cut you off, but we saw that with the F-35.
They were the ones who first used the loitering drones against the F-35 and almost successfully
struck an F-35, which was shocking when it was revealed in the New York Times.
I thought it was fake.
So they definitely have improved.
I just don't know how deep their facilities are, both literally deep as far as like a
bunker down, but also like how many munitions they have.
Yeah, again, and I don't have the answer, but I would just my suspicion would be is that they were never in a position in which that had been depleted by the time that Saudi money normalization occurred.
They have the technology, you know, remember they're importing this stuff in small parts rather than as whole. And as a result, I think would be rather safe to say that they certainly have the capacity to carry this on for some time, how long I don't know.
But I think we should also recognize that there seems to be a connection now in which
any manner in which a conflict between Saudi and Yemen would become full blown would also
then entail a conflict between the Iraqi militias in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, which then also changes
the equation somewhat.
And I think that we're there right now, right?
I mean, that's what it seems to be happening currently because on the other side, while
America has not retaliated against Iran directly, there was a joint U.S.-Saudi strike that took
place against Iraq, the Iraqi militias. What does that say about the theater of conflict expanding?
Well, I think this was most likely a warning to essentially suggest that if the Saudis go in
that direction, it will not just be with the Houthis, it will also be with the Iraqi militias.
And by the way, there were elements of that before as well, in which some of the attacks
on Saudi Arabia actually came from the north, from Iraq, rather than from Yemen itself.
Now, are we fully there? No, we're not fully there. But I think we are inching there. I think
they're showcasing their capability. And the Saudis in the US are showcasing what they're
capable and willing to do in return. And we saw with that strike, I think there were about 20
people killed, including 5 IRGC officers in Iraq. So we're seeing a horizontal escalation
that goes beyond what we saw in the previous round of this war, and some of the nightmare scenarios
that were avoided, such as the Houthis coming in and closing the straits there.
Bubblebundit is now, at least they hinted at it very clearly, they've shot at ships, and I think
there's a recognition that they have a capability at least for a period of time of doing so,
which is a very, very dangerous situation. And then you also have a potential, and I wrote about
this on Substack and our responsible statecraft that you may also have the Ukrainians trying to
open up a northern frontier because they struck at, yeah, they struck the cap and Iranian ship in
the Caspian Sea, showcasing their ability to use long range drones, because that was a long range
drone that struck that. And I think it took the Iranians by surprise as well. And in the
worst scenario, in my view, it's not just them showcasing what they can do. It's not just them
hinting to the U.S. what it can help the U.S. with, if the U.S. is more helpful to Ukraine in
Russia, against Russia, or that they're just trying to extract the costs on the Iranians
for the support Iran has provided Russia. But rather that this may actually be something bigger,
which is to merge the two battlefields, to make the two wars one, and by that push the US into
something even Biden resisted, which was to get into a direct confrontation with Russia.
Yeah. I mean, I think that's unbelievably stupid. And I think that it's a very risky maneuver,
especially considering, and I want to hear your take on this,
any extension of the Iranian conflict actually plays against Ukraine's immediate
interests of self-defense. Zelensky is asked for 300 PAK-3 missiles earlier today. But it's very
clear that we're panic shipping. We've deferred a lot of these Patriot systems that were supposed
to be shipped to other allies. We've deferred those transfers specifically so we can hurry them
to the Gulf region. And even then, we're depleting those munitions. So there's no PAK-3s that are
coming to Ukraine in this situation, which makes it a lot easier for Vladimir Putin to,
especially as temperatures get colder, to strike with ease at a lot of these energy
facilities and leave Ukraine and the civilian population of Ukraine without heat in the
cold winter.
So I don't understand why, I mean, I understand why he's doing it.
It seems like he's trying to merge the conflict, as you said, and to make himself seem more
valuable to Trump and unfortunately because Trump is stupid he has to do
stupid things to make himself seem more valuable to Trump as an asset against
Iran. Do you see that theater expanding as well on the Ukrainian front or do you
think that this was you know a first strike and that they're going to go
back to diplomacy somehow with Iran? So we've seen some diplomatic activity
between Iran and the Ukrainians, which appeared to have occurred immediately after Zelensky's
meeting with Trump at the White House, in which the Ukrainian Foreign Minister, essentially
called up the Iranian Foreign Minister, appeared to have done some sort of an apology or acknowledgment
of error, which then was accepted by the Iranians. And this appears to have been a diffusion
of the situation. That in and of itself does not mean that the Ukrainians may have completely
given up on this idea. It's just that, you know, the showcases, the lowering temperature
and maybe go up again at some point. Your argument is a very interesting one because
I think it really reflects the risk. If the Ukrainians expand this, but don't get massive
American support and involvement in its war against Russia, then this is absolutely a
losing proposition. So it's a huge gamble because then they're just overextending themselves
at a point on which he can't afford to
without getting the kind of return on investment
that they're looking for.
So it is a huge gamble.
I can understand why the Ukrainians think
that it's a gamble that potentially is worthwhile.
Because for the first time in a long time,
I think Ukraine came to Washington
not necessarily as someone asking for charity,
but someone who was offering help.
And that Trump may have been susceptible to that offer,
precisely because he's in such a self-inflicted predicament
with Ivan in which he has no good military options
and doesn't seem to have the patience
with the good diplomatic options.
Again, I'm not saying that this will happen.
Some people are telling me it's inevitable.
I'm not saying that it's a valid direction to go down.
On the contrary, I would think it's very stupid,
but I'm trying to see it from the perspective
of those who would argue in favor of what is the logic
that they're trying to see.
And I think there is one.
I'll add one other logic from the Israeli standpoint as to why I think they would be
quite favorable towards this.
One, it would prolong the Iran war, which is the Israeli interest, and they made that
very clear.
Two, the Europeans are involved in Ukraine, but they're not directly involved in the
Iran war in the same way.
This will bring them into that arena as well.
And third and perhaps most importantly, if these two wars merge, then you have a scenario
in which you can reframe this conflict altogether.
And then defeating Iran does not become something you do to defend Israel, it's something you
do to defend Ukraine.
And in the US in particular, mindful of how Israel has plummeted, its standing has plummeted
in Washington.
And the degree to which Democrats are opposed to the Iran war, but they're still very supportive
of the idea of supporting Ukraine.
It can shake things up in a bit that Israelis may think is a bit unpredictable, but it
could not possibly be worse than the situation Israelis are facing right now.
Do you feel like that's connected with the likes of Laura Loomer, a Hasbarist, an ultra-Zionist
going to Ukraine, flying out to Ukraine and having a change of heart as she interviews
Zelensky?
I read that as a deliberate effort to merge both of these conflicts exactly in the same
way that you're mentioning in an effort to basically also improve the Israeli position
by latching onto a much more bipartisan war, which is the continuation of the Ukrainian
conflict, the Ukrainian defenses, especially at a time when Zelensky has also gained more
leverage over Russia with its success of strikes on critical oil and energy infrastructure,
partially with additional NATO involvement.
That's how I read it.
Do you feel the same way?
And also, what do you feel about the mainstream laundering of the reputation of someone as
unstable and as insane as Laura Loomer?
Let me start off with the first question.
It certainly looks plausible because it was quite fascinating.
I don't claim to understand how Loomer thinks and how she operates.
She knows these things that she knows that about me.
I can assure you that she doesn't, but it doesn't, it's certainly-
We should be careful, she's trying to get us both deported and so-
Exactly, exactly.
It certainly does appear that it would fit that logic, but again, I don't know the details
of it and I don't know exactly what is motivating her.
But it is something that a lot of people have taken note of, that this sudden effort to,
You know, treat the two wars as if they're the same,
as if, you know, this rhetoric that we're fighting
the same enemy, that that is a very typical effort
to try to expand the war in order to make it more
vulnerable, particularly when you're stuck.
I mean, it's no different from other problems.
When faced with a problem, sometimes you
have to make it bigger to resolve it.
In this specific case, I don't think it does.
I think it actually brings us closer
to essentially a world war.
It would end up being a scenario in which this war would
place on three continents, Europe, Asia, and Africa because of the Red Sea. I think that would be an
absolute disaster. But that does not mean that others do. They may see it as an opportunity.
Yeah. So there was one other question I wanted to ask you about the Iraqi strike capabilities,
because obviously the Ansar law movement allegedly has also struck the Yambu port,
which is obviously the playing a pivotal role since the Shredda Hormuz had been closed.
They've demonstrated that they have the willingness and capabilities of also striking
Saudi Aramco facilities. This hasn't actually translated to the oil markets at all,
like the crude prices have not, the crude prices continue going down for some weird reason.
even though the refinery is very clearly on fire. So I wanted to ask you like,
what's going on with the markets by your estimation and two,
the Iraqi militias potentially striking a ship directly in the Red Sea, nearing the Suez Canal.
What does that say about a potential oil and energy crisis in Europe, which is still getting a
a lot of its needs met through the Suez Canal.
Yeah.
So look, we remember 2019, the Saudi-Iranco fields were struck, the Saudis of course
point the finger to Iran.
It does seem to be quite likely that actually there were Iranian drones, the Iranian group
behind it, but it was shot by Iraqi militias in Iraq that were coming from the northwest.
That capability is clearly there, and I think this is one of those options that if there
is this type of a total war or full-scale war that Trump is toying with, his idea that
it will be the thing that will work, reality is that the Iranians and their allies have
counter-escalatory steps and measures at their disposal that would put the U.S. and the entire
global economy on a tremendous amount of strain far beyond what we have seen so far.
And I have to say, you know, when he says it comes to the oil market, I am stunned.
I am shocked already back in the first round of this war.
The prices were artificially low.
And of course, we know that a lot of that was because of the use of the strategic petroleum
reserve.
It was because of oral interventions into the market that Trump kept on doing, playing
with their expectations.
But you're also cutting down their imports by half a month.
Yeah, certainly.
Exactly.
So there were a lot of different factors.
How sustainable that is, a different story.
But my impression talking to folks there is that a lot of the folks in the market are
just really relying on a degree of rationality, which I understand, you know, I have to do
the same thing when I do my analysis, but sometimes you just have to understand that
rationality is not necessarily what is driving this, but they're just thinking, there's no
way you can continue doing this.
And as a result, they have the expectation that oil is going to come down.
And as a result, they're not panicking or actually even reacting to some of these things.
And I think it may be a miscalculation because I think we're closer to that type of an escalation
than the market seems to think we are.
As far as going back to Ukraine, my assessment is that Ukraine actually gained tremendous
leverage with the successive strikes on critical oil and gas infrastructure deep inside of
Russian territory.
They were able to successfully strike tankers as well, Russian oil shipments as well.
Do you feel as though this also creates additional pressure on the volatility of the energy markets,
which then ironically enough would make it harder for Trump to continue waging war against
Iran?
Because it feels like there's a direct contradiction with the things that Ukraine is doing that
is allowing them to gain tremendous leverage over Russia.
uh... i think this is the highest point
that u kran has been at since and and that the you know the battle lines of
not shifted obviously but i'm saying like
as far as
universalizing
the cost for the uh... russian population making them more angry long lines of
gas stations
russia cutting diesel uh... exports
out of the country
uh... all of this is on the one hand
uh... giving less of a timeline for donald trump in iran
but also giving Ukraine a lot of additional leverage. I have maintained the position that
this would be a perfect opportunity to try to pressure Vladimir Putin into a real long-standing
ceasefire and not one that Vladimir Putin was dangling over Ukraine, leading up to the Anchorage
summit, which was very clearly Russia trying to sever ties between the United States and Ukraine
and even successfully getting to sever some ties between Ukraine and the United States only to
continue the war and make maximalist demands. Do you feel like Ukraine could entertain a ceasefire
at this point? And do you think that there's any appetite from Zelensky to entertain some kind of
ceasefire at this point, given that they're also trying to expand the theater of conflict?
Yeah, so I know too little about the war. I've been able to follow that at all for the last six or so months because of this other war to be able to give you a more informed opinion on that.
But I can tell you that the messaging that I seem to be picking up here in Washington was the last key visit. It certainly is not one of going back to the negotiating table and finding a ceasefire.
far. It is to take advantage of the current position that the Ukrainians have to really
push for far more American support and a stronger commitment to the U.S. to Ukraine.
And Trump has really changed his tune on Ukraine in a rather dramatic way just in the last couple
of weeks. And whether that actually is also connected to hints or suspicions of what the
Ukrainians can do for Trump in Iran is unclear at this point, but they may very well be part of the puzzle.
Okay, well Trita Parsey, thank you so much for coming on. You have any parting thoughts and final
words and also where can people find you? They can find me at the Quincy Institute, which is
quincyinst.org on Substack, which is treataparcy.substack.com and Twitter at T-parcy.
All right. Thank you, Trita, for coming on. Thank you so much. Always a wonderful experience.
Have a good one. Talk to you soon. Thank you. Bye.
All right. That was Trita Parcy of the Quincy Institute, Executive Vice President of the
the Quincy Institute. Amazing guess as always, an endless well of knowledge on all things
Iran. We are now going to get back to where we're moving on from situation monitoring
at least for the time being a decent interview would have been better if both of you were
in tank tops. True. I'll hit him up next time. I'd be like, Hey, can you show off that muscular
physique for my audience. Y'all are insane. Here, this is what you deserve. I liked that
the Tritoparsi interview was sandwiched between Lindsey Graham, Kuchy Maxing, and ended with
Benihana Kuchimaxing.
I looked.
This one is not as good because it doesn't show the dogs.
Kudermogging you uncultured buffoon.
Why are you like this?
I'm just showing you how these people operate.
up there it is
chat is this really as it is
financial times reports u.s. commercial crude inventory dropped by seven point two
million barrels in the strategic petroleum reserve fell by three point
eight million barrels
refineries are running at ninety seven percent capacity to meet the high export
demands in asia and europe
drain domestic stockpiles to precarious lows
amid ongoing
middle east
disruptions
can mean only one thing
price of Brent crude goes down to $75.
Fuck it. Brent crude to $75. It makes no sense. Who cares? Fuck it. We ball.
none of this makes sense we are going to materialize more we are going to
materialize more oil somehow through the process of alchemy just like we are
going to materialize more pack threes for Ukraine and all of our allies through
the process also of alchemy that's right if you look at the markets that's what
But they're signaling, as Jeffrey Sachs pointed to me over and over again, the last time we
had a conversation, you know, the markets are absolute.
They are tethered to reality.
I don't know what reality.
It doesn't feel like the reality that we're living in, but seemingly they're tethered.
I believe in the markets, ladies and gentlemen, I am a capitalist after all, I'm an international
shipping magnet and therefore it is my suspicion it is my firmly held belief that the markets
are tethered to reality just not the one that we live in. You realize China's decreases
oil import significantly enough to absorb much of the disruption in the Strait of Hormuz.
I do realize that I do I do realize that of course I realize that I've covered it months
before it became mainstream. The mainstream opinion covered it when Financial Times first
reported on it. Everyone was dunking on them for saying that.
However, there is no guarantee that China will maintain market stability. We don't know
how deep their oil reserves are. It's possible that all the support aircraft took off from
Prince Sultan because they were alerted to the attack on Riyadh and wanted to avoid potentially
getting hit on the ground. If that's the case, then I don't think these strikes, there will
be strikes on Iran tonight.
Dozen refuelers flying America strikes will probably begin in the next hour or two.
Confirmed Tom Holland is a Hassan Abbeyhead. Oh, I saw this.
It's been 10 years since you filmed Spiderman homecoming. You've been in Spiderman films
as long as we've been alive.
Oh, fuck.
What do you want us to do?
Fuck.
We have to speak all in a different language.
That's pretty easy.
Fuck.
That's crazy.
I mean, in Canada, we ball.
Canada's leveraged Trump trains America's emergency oil reserves.
Canada supplies 63% accrued imports. Marks Carney, please save us. Marks Carney, save us.
Mark Carney, save us, Mark. You have leveraged, Mark, use it. Canada owns America now.
They are not watching you're boring ass. Yeah, I know
Senior fellow at Stimson Center Kelly Greco says the stock problem is real but let's not confuse
a resource problem with a strategy problem even with unlimited munitions more bombing would not
reopen the Strait of Hormuz true. All right. So, so let's get back to
the real president Benjamin Netanyahu he went on the Sean Hannity broadcast last
night and was defiant because Benjamin Netanyahu is now beefing with the mayor
of New York friend the late senator Lindsey Graham today was no exception
after today's service I sat with someone who flew from the Middle East to be here
the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu oh how nice of him Prime Minister
great to see you again my friend. Good to see you. I mentioned today during Lindsay's eulogy
we have known each other for 30 years. I can't believe it's been that long. You were reminding
me of a steak dinner we once had many many years ago. It is not lost on me that this motherfucker
will have anybody on but me! Do you guys think Trump watched this and was jealous? Do you
think he watches and was like, you suck me like that, Sean? Why are you sucking harder?
You're using your tongue differently. You don't use your tongue like that with me, Sean.
even doing ball service. I asked for a ball service, Sean, you didn't give it to me last night,
but now you're doing it. Now you're doing ball service for Benjamin Netanyahu.
Interesting.
I've said I like it when you get nasty with it, Sean.
I like it when you get sloppy with it, Sean.
Why are you not being sloppy with me?
But you are being sloppy with Netanyahu.
I remember that.
And you know, like good wine, you can prove it.
Oh my God!
Stop flirting!
Stop flirting, Sean!
Don't laugh at his jokes.
You used to laugh at my jokes.
Now you laugh at his to say you gave him in the president gave an amazing speech.
You gave an amazing speech.
Thank you.
And it was so moving in the Washington Cathedral because Lindsey Lindsey Graham was a great
American patriot, the great champion of the American Israel Alliance.
Yeah, the great Israeli patriot.
We lost a dear, dear friend and he was as you and the president described him, you know,
was just gloriously outrageous. He just said what he wanted to say. He was charmingly outrageous.
He could use swear words and he could say it like it is, and you're welcome.
You know, it's amazing. I would, I think I'm accurate in saying this, that Lindsey was President
Trump's closest friend in all of Congress. That means the House and the Senate.
What?
They played golf together. They talked together. They argued together. They had meals together.
and uh...
they had a very special relationship
what and it was open it was honest
you know the one thing that i said
prime month is over man pack it up
packet up
this is too much gay sex
i'm sorry
too much gay sex with a house on a broadcast what are we doing what are we
doing
he said trumps trumps in a open relationship
about lindsay trump polly and is true
He was a staunch supporter of yours,
a staunch supporter of Israel,
a staunch supporter of the people of Israel.
And, but he knew that evil exists in our time.
And, and he and the president talked a lot about
how to confront the evil of this moment.
Well, I can tell you that he spoke about it with me
many times and he was absolutely unapologetic
and unabashed in supporting the American-Israeli alliance,
because he believed that Israel's security and America's
security were intertwined.
And you've got proof of that when
we fought shoulder to shoulder against this murderous regime
in Iran that chanced death to America, death to Israel.
And when we combine our forces and our brave soldiers,
you know, nothing can stand in our way.
And he believed that.
And he just said it like it is.
He couldn't care about the winds of fashion, he couldn't care about social media and all
these bots that are used to try to, you know, play the American people for fools.
He said, you have one real ally in the Middle East and in the world, Israel.
It's your fighting ally, it's your model ally.
And he just said it.
He couldn't, you know, he just didn't suffer fools.
History will judge the military relationship between Israel under Donald Trump, President
Trump and Israel and the Prime Minister Netanyahu very favorably. I don't think the world's
seen anything like it. And you know, you met with the president today. How'd that meeting
go?
It was great. It was one of the best meetings that we've had. And I always hate to disappoint
our would-be critics who are trying to find, you know, cracks in our alliance and what
what they find like today is a wall of granite, you know, because the President is so clear.
I mean, he's so – we have a common commitment. We don't want to see this fanatic regime
in Tehran have nuclear weapons to threaten every American and to threaten the peace of
the world and to threaten the existence of Israel. So we have a common goal, and it's
going to be achieved either through diplomatic means or other means, but we're both committed
to that. And that's what, that's the main headline that I was telling you from this
year.
Do you believe that they're all warring factions? Do you have hardliners and former loyalists
to Ali Hamanee, the former supreme leader and the probably the least informed guy or
the least honest guy? Why not both to ask this question? You might as well, you could
get a better answer, an answer that's closer to the truth on this issue. If you ask the
random guy at the gas station, what he thinks about the Iranian internal conflict, the guy
at the gas station is probably going to be like, I don't know what Ayatollah is. And
he would probably tell you something closer to the truth than what Benjamin Netanyahu
is going to say on Fox News.
Okay? It is hilarious. Yeah, what do you think about the internal conflict? You'll be like,
oh, they're devastated. They're so scared. They're telling Trump all the time, please,
don't keep bombing our facilities. It will be devastating. That's what they keep saying
to me.
You have more moderates. Do you believe there are moderates that would like a deal and a
better Iran?
Well, I'm skeptical about the deal and I said openly, but the only way it would be
achieved is if Iran understood these various factions there, I think they're
not, not ideological factions as much as they
Sean,
a hand job,
but he is a fucking coward for Dougie,
you Sean hand job,
but he differ on the assessment of how tough we are.
That's it. You know,
those who think that the president is very tough and they should, you know,
they say, well, let's not confront this guy. And those who think now,
you know, we can play America, you know. They tend to be, you know, they tend to be more
demanding. But I think in the end, it's our resolve. It's our common resolve to make sure
that Iran doesn't get nuclear bombs to threaten every American with. And I think the president
is absolutely straight on this. I really deeply respect him for that.
It seems like every time a deal seems somewhat imminent, those hardliners come in and they
They want to muddy up those waters and prevent that deal from ever happening.
They'll attack ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
They'll attack other countries in your region of the world, in the Middle East.
They'll just find some way to muddy the waters.
While I believe that the Iranian regime and the hardliners are evil, I don't believe they're
stupid.
They know you have an election.
They know we have a midterm election.
Why do I believe in my heart that they factor that in?
Well, if they do or not, they should know that we, if we are attacked, we'll respond
with terrific force.
They left you out of the last round of attacks.
Yeah.
Any reason, any theory why?
Because they're scared.
They're scared.
I said, because of what I've just said, but I'll tell you one other thing.
Look at this regime today.
It's attacking everybody in sight.
It's attacking Saudi Arabia.
It's attacking Kuwait.
It's attacking Bahrain, it's attacking the UAE and others.
It's attacking everything in sight, and it murdered and maimed tens of thousands of its
own citizens.
This is what this regime in Iran does today, when it doesn't have nuclear weapons.
Now imagine what they will do to the world if they had nuclear weapons, and that's what
we have to make sure that we prevent.
But I think we're so clear-minded about it, and I just respect our alliance and the common
cause that we pursue.
And I had to disappoint people who are looking for, you know, who are looking for divisions
among us because the president and I see this eye-to-eye very strongly.
It sounds like you had a good meeting today.
It was.
I'm going to skip around a little bit because I'm going to tape a little bit more for the
podcast.
The International Criminal Court, you don't recognize.
You're gonna have an international war criminal on your fucking podcast and you won't have
me on you son of a bitch.
Sean Han-Jobity.
You son of a fucking bitch.
You're paywalling your goddamn conversation with a fucking international war criminal.
How many war crimes do I have to commit?
We don't recognize it, we don't recognize it.
Personally I find a lot of these international organizations to be useless.
The UN I think has been historically anti-American and anti-Semitic.
I don't believe in the WEF, I'm not a fan of the Paris Accords, any of these globalist
organizations.
And dude, what are you saying? You're not a fan of any of these globalist organizations. You're talking to Benjamin Netanyahu
like
Yeah, what do you what do you think that is?
What do you think is going on when you're having a conversation?
It's like the way that the term globalism was initially deployed was literally a substitute for Jewish, right?
So on that front, it's already a fucking idiotic thing to deploy
But if you're talking about like actual globalism, then yeah, what we're doing with Israel is globalism
That's what it is. Why why else would you be interviewing the motherfucking leader of Israel?
Is Israel in Terre Haute, Indiana? Is that where is that what he's the the the fucking
In charge of the local governance of no, he's in fucking Tel Aviv
They don't have any authority and you've got this there's lunatic mayor in New York
thinking you make it arrested if you go to New York, which will never hire first of all
I'm going to New York. Yeah. Oh, this is the beast mode moment where it's like, oh, I'm
going to New York. He can't stop me. I was trying to get back in, but she can't unfortunately
get back in hold on I'm gonna one second oops that's the wrong camera hold on
Yeah, I had to make way for the queen.
Why don't you let her do coke? What makes you think I don't let her do coke?
She protects you? Yeah.
I'd love to see her there when I go to the UN in September.
You know, I moved to Florida.
Oh, he's not coming this time. He's going to come in September for the United Nations, he said.
Dude, I feel like September's gonna be a very different time. Remember, every day
that Benjamin Netanyahu is around, every day, every upcoming day, Benjamin Netanyahu's
popularity is diminishing, okay?
Every day that goes on, Benjamin Ninjahu becomes less popular.
So don't know what he perceives he's going to be able to do in New York.
I'll come up.
You've come to Washington, so you can go there, but I'm definitely going there.
I'm going to speak the truth in front of this, you know, that's just hate spewing.
official who's kidding one group of New Yorkers against the others. He's turning them against
New York Jews. I mean, what are we in the night? It's really funny because
Benjamin Neniyahu is objectively less popular amongst all Jews in America. And I suspect
certainly New York Jews as well. Then Zoramumdani is. We've already polled this. We know. We know that
Benjamin Netanyahu and A-Pack are far less popular than Zoran Mamdani amongst American Jews.
It's so funny. He's like, no, you don't understand. This is really fucked up. He's being,
he's being anti-Semitic. He's being anti-Semitic. He's being anti-Semitic by coming after me.
One of the least popular figures in the world right now.
1330s. What is this? You know, so much hate, so many lies. And you know, the big lie is
about the ICC, the International Criminal Code, so-called. That's a corrupt, evil organization.
It had a prosecutor who issued a arrest once against me and our former defense minister
as war criminals, supposedly for starvation, starving the people of Gaza. We gave a million
tons of food for them, but he decided to do that. And we didn't know why did he do that.
He was going to come to Israel, and he said, you know, we shouldn't rush to judgment Israel
as an independent judiciary. And then, bam, on the day that he's supposed to come, he
cancels the visit. We didn't know why. Turns out that a few days before that, his chief
of staff said, you know, there's this female member, employee of yours, that is going to
charge you with sexual assault. And this corrupt prosecutor, his name is Karim Khan. He decided
the only way he's going to get out of this is to do, forgive the expression, to do.
You know what's really funny about this, by the way? Oh, Yemek geldi. You know what's
Okay, so one
As we talked about the timeline of this the events do not add up
One Israel approved of cream con
Okay, initially
After they harass cream Benz Suda for years and years and years
Israel found cream condo being acceptable substitute
That would follow along
Israel's interest
Number one, number two
The accusations came after he charged BB so that's also bullshit
Number three perhaps the funniest
Revelation here is that Benjamin and y'all is recognizing he's so deeply unpopular that people actually boost their profile by dunking on him
So even if like everything he said was real, even though it's not
Even if what he I by a bad ol jam get it. I'm bush run
Even what he was saying is
Real even though it's not it's very funny
That the admission here is that he is just a deeply unpopular guy. Nobody fucking likes him. He's he better. That's the admission here
a con job on the international community.
Let me bash Israel.
Let me cancel my visit, cancel air, all the good things I said about Israel's judicial
capacity and let's be careful about Russian judgment.
Russia judgment, accuse the Prime Minister of Israel with war crimes and that way I'll
be protected by the anti-Israel crowd that populates the international court and a lot
of these international institutions.
Well, guess what happened?
female employee came out also charged him with sexual assault and he's been
removed he's been fired so he thought you know if I issue you know if I issue
these charges I'll be safe well he issued the charges and he's not safe but
it still shows you how corrupt how oh it's corrupt how corrupt and how vile
this international court is but it scares me in this sense for you you
travel internationally. God forbid you had a medical emergency and you need to land.
And you're about to land in a country that recognizes the ICC. It could complicate things.
Do you worry about that?
Yeah, I think about it. We have special forces around, you know, I served for five years.
The IDF is pretty tough. They have a very tough, very tough work.
Well, let's get him in the task.
He literally openly admits that he has forces, like, he has his own military operating on
US soil.
Which country gets to say that?
Which country gets to say, oh I got my, yeah, try.
Try to come after me, I have my own military, I will literally fucking illegally wage war
or on US soil against the American police officers, if it ever came down to that.
Let me tell you one country who can't do that, Estonia, okay?
Certainly not Estonia.
I'll tell you that certainly not Lithuania
Doesn't work like that for anybody else
One country on the world gets to do that what about Singapore nope not Singapore
Not the beautiful city-state of Singapore.
Yeah, of course. Look, it's the corruption of the international system.
It's an unelected bureaucracy that sits in the Hague that could arrest American soldiers
soldiers because you don't recognize this corrupt body any more than we do and they
could say that the president of the United States is a war criminal that American soldiers
is about to be fighting next to us shoulder to shoulder against these the tyranny in Tehran
that they're war criminals they could pick them up.
The 45,000 dead Iranians that were killed by the Iranian leadership were they ever charged?
No of course not.
They don't charge them, they don't charge Hezbollah, they don't charge all these other
mass terror problem.
Yeah, supposedly they charged Hamas, but a guy, a guy who's already dead, you know.
So now he killed him.
It's one big thing.
All right.
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Making news at 11, a new Marquette Law School poll shows Francesca.
Hong Mentum is real, ladies and gentlemen.
Hong Mentum is alive.
well. Oh my God. Another, a second poll has hit Wisconsin.
Gohan expanding her lead in the Democratic primary for Wisconsin governor. A new poll
for 407 Democratic primary voters was conducted between July 22nd and July 27th. It shows Hong
with 38% support. That's more than double former Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes,
who's at 16%. Milwaukee County executive David Crowley, who re-entered the race about two weeks
ago has 7 percent. Meanwhile, Joel Brannon and Akeldor Royce each have 2 percent. More
than a third of Democratic primary voters, 34 percent, are still undecided.
Welcome to Wisconsin, which is the biggest test yet of the Democratic socialist brand.
Here, that's Francesca Hong, leading in the limited polling, but the only Democratic election
that beats the presumed nominee on the Republican side is Mandela Barnes. So this is a classic
electability contest. And the question really is, can somebody win in a moderate battleground
state like this in the way that Zoran Mondami won in New York? Here's what voters told me.
Yes, it should give the irrelevant a better chance. We should have nothing to do with
Democrat socialists whatsoever. The country has no room for it, no anti-capitalism. We
just don't believe in that. That's not America. I think a couple of the Democratic candidates
who don't pull well are probably stronger because they're more midline. I'm still watching
the Democratic primary side of things. I was a big Mandela Barnes supporter, you know,
the last time around. Not for governor, but Hong has really caught my attention. I mean,
she seems to have the momentum right now and the actual bluegrass grounds well support
going on. So that's very interesting to me. I think that a lot of people are looking around
now, especially younger people, and saying, well, if this is capitalism, it isn't working.
So if it's not working for me, maybe they're going to be open to something else.
I'm voting for Francesca Hong.
I mean, it seems like everything now that's been happening
in the country for God, since 2016.
And in the state, what they're trying to do
around the governor's office isn't working.
I don't want to pay taxes, so some rich person
can get a tax break, and some person I walk by
on the street is starving and can't feed their kids
in the morning when they go to school.
That's what I would like,
and that's what Francesca Hong talks about.
13 days until election day here in Wisconsin and today we have a new snapshot into the
race for governor just hours.
The first guy was so funny.
The first guy is so funny because like it's not representative.
The polls show that it's not representative.
That attitude is just he's doesn't share that attitude with fucking 40 plus percent
of the base.
After our exclusive primetime democratic debate, political director Matt Smith is back to break
down those new numbers, Matt.
All right, guys, it is all in the new Marquette poll and a widening lead for Francesca Hong,
the Democratic Socialist in this Democratic primary.
Let's bring in Charles Franklin,
the director of the Marquette Law School poll.
You are a busy man, two weeks, two polls.
What is the revelation in this brand new poll out today?
I think the big headline is that Hong has expanded her lead
from where it was a week ago to 38% now
from 26% last week.
And if you put in the people who lean to a candidate,
that goes up to 46%.
She's up across the board in every demographic.
So as we look at this, yes, there are 34% undecided,
but this is a 22-point lead now
between the number one candidate and the number two candidate.
The other three, David Crowley, Joel Brennan, Keldoroy's,
all in single digits.
We're less than two weeks out.
Can any of these candidates catch up to her
at least what we're seeing from this snapshot?
What I think is lacking on the folks that aren't for Han
is that they've not consolidated around anyone.
Mandela Barnes is consistently in second place, but fairly distant second, and Crowley in third
place again a good ways behind Barnes. So if there was a chance for the for the other
candidates to sort of get a new competitor, I haven't seen that happening in these data.
We just don't see anybody making a big move up except for Francesca Hahn.
You went into the poll because of all the chaos in this primary. Lieutenant Governor
Sarah Rodriguez getting out, David Crowley getting back in with the endorsement of Governor
Tony Evers. And you ask people about it.
It's so funny. I mean, Francesca is obviously a phenomenal campaigner regardless. She has
a great platform. It's been captivating to the people of Wisconsin regardless. She's
been the front runner from the jump pretty much, even with the limited amount of polling
that was available early on. A big part of that is the ground game, which is also part
of the reason why I think this will be even more successful in red states as well, because
there's not enough infra in these areas. There's not like, I guess a well oiled, well established
machine. I mean, Wisconsin Democrats are a well oiled, well established machine, ironically
enough. And yet they've still flailed around. So that's also part of the reason why I think
like this this kind of candidacy could be successful in red states too but we
obviously have to establish a stronger foothold in purple states and swing
states. Wisconsin being one I don't even consider Michigan to be a swing state
but Michigan I see as a only becoming a swing state due to the establishment
incompetence. However, Wisconsin will no longer be a 50-50 state. After this election, it
will be a blue state with a trifecta. And you will see, mark my fucking words, that's
number one, number two. Even with, even like what's been really funny is the
establishment has also for some strange reason been caught flatfooted here. Even
if they, like even if they were more, even if they were more organized from
the start, that would still, it was still like Francesca Hong would still pose a significant
threat to their interests and would probably still win.
But the very fact, the very fact that they were also just like utterly incompetent making
these sorts of moves day in, day out that only boosted Francesca Hong for some strange
reason, not consolidating the field early on, consolidating the field for a candidate whose
campaign collapsed publicly, then bringing back Crowley, who was already unpopular enough
that he had the dropout initially with a Evers endorsement. It's amazing. Like even if they
were better organized, Francesca Hong would still win, but they've been a disaster as well.
I guess people are starting to pay attention because they had heard about this endorsement,
right?
62% said they'd heard about it, and 36% said it made them more likely to vote for Crowley.
But that didn't mean they all voted for Crowley.
Crowley is only at 7%, not 36% say more likely.
The key here is that Democrats like Tony Evers a whole lot, 89% job approval.
But that doesn't mean they're going to leave the Canada that they were supporting to go
in the direction he's suggesting.
We're going to talk about the debate in a second, but first, this undecided number,
this 34 percent.
There isn't a guarantee that these people are going to go out and vote in back of candidate,
isn't there, at this point?
No.
Less than two weeks to go, and you're still undecided, that's a pretty good suggestion
that maybe you're just not into this race and you'll sit it out.
When we ask people if you had to choose what would you do, that number goes down to 14
undecided or unwilling to lane. So there's still some room for fluid movement there,
but it's pretty small and when you do discount for who won't show up, it's probably smaller
than, certainly smaller than 34 down in that 14 range or even less.
This poll was in the field before last night's debate. I'm curious your takeaways from what
you saw the candidates on the stage and this was the only time all.
Do I prefer Mellon Sean or Zahra Mamdani Mellon Sean?
Do you hear it?
I was not even a question.
Jean-Luc Mellon Sean is probably my favorite politician in the West, even more than Claudia
a shine bomb. As far as whose outward policies are closer to mine, he has no power, which
is why he's radical. There's no, there's no world where if he were to, if he were to
get power that he wouldn't follow through on his agenda. Also, okay, Zoran has limited power.
I wish I could convince the French to vote for him in the second round.
Zoran was way more radical but he moderated. Zoran has never in his entire career been as
radical is Jean-Luc Mélenchon. I just, I just really like Mélenchon. Chatter has
no idea what the political scene is in France. Yeah, it just, I know for a fact that they
They see him as too old, too crazy, too angry.
They think he's pro-Russia.
It's like a lot of the shit that people say about me.
They say about him in France, and it sucks.
I wish the French were a little bit more organized and a little bit more radical, but it's clear
that the only opportunity that Melenchon has is if he can consolidate power on the left
flank and the entirety of the left flank with the exception to LFI basically exists to rat
fuck guys like Melenchon.
And Boppe will never endorse him.
This is never going to happen.
He has great policies, but he's not great as a politician.
He's an old cranky asshole kind of like Bernie, but that's not novel to them like it was here.
He is far, far more aggressive than Bernie Sanders is to, but yeah, the French don't
like that.
Yes.
The French like a more softer touch, I guess.
I don't fucking understand it.
But yeah, he is, he's not like Bernie being old and cranky for the most part shows consistency,
shows integrity, but Melanchon being crankier than Bernie, let's be real, and far more radical
in his positions than Bernie, um, have only led to people thinking he's too, he's, uh,
too angry, too old, too cranky to fucking, uh, consolidate power around him.
Wemby wouldn't endorse Melange on either guys, what are you talking about?
of these like superstar athletes I love Wemby but let's be real he he like Wemby also was like oh I
don't like to far left nothing to the too far left nothing to the too far right you know we have
to find something different they don't like Macron here okay I will tell you the the normie French
attitude demonstrated by Wemby demonstrated by a lot of young progressives is Mélange on his far
too angry, far too cranky, far too left, and of course the the nationalists are
out of the question, they're insane, they're racist, they're racist, but they also don't
like Macron. So they say the left is too far left, the right is too far right, and
everything in the center is shit. That's what I've heard from French normies.
I think Jean-Luc Menachal would pull out a NATO.
Yeah. He is the only French leader that would reinstate French sovereignty.
And yes, it wouldn't be the first time for France, obviously. But I think he would be the only French
leader that has any viability that's even remotely serious that would reinstate French sovereignty.
All of the other French leadership is, is their, their puppets to America.
Every election night, the socialists are on the rise.
And what does that mean for the leftist takeover of the Democratic party?
And to some extent that's true. There have been big wins by progressives and democratic primaries all across the country
but the subject of my new sub stat is about how I think you should think about it a little differently and
Actually, the story in the primaries since the 2024 election is to me that the moderates are collapsing and the establishment wing
Can't get itself together. I mean think about the candidates they put up in these elections Andrew Cuomo in New York City
Janet Mills in Maine. Whatever's going on in the Wisconsin governor's primary right now.
All of these created a void that progressives have been able to step in, but you can't tell one story without the other.
Check out my new sub-stack on this topic at the midterms, actually.
We hear it every election night.
The socialists are on the rise, and what does that mean?
Okay, instead, you clocked it. Yeah, the National Party and its establishment have never been more out of step with its voters.
It's all because of Israel, Medicare for All and data centers.
They won't keep underestimating us after this primary cycle.
We must be extra disciplined going into 2028.
And the irony, of course, is
they see the defeats that they're experiencing.
And instead of trying to and this is good for us, this is advantageous for us.
The Democratic Party's Center of Power
falling asleep at the wheel after years and years of incompetence is good for us.
This will be the easiest. In some ways, this will be the easiest cycle to make as much impact as possible.
The next cycle, either we will have to be completely ready to dominate or they will have far stronger defenses.
Because for decades, they've just, they've been able to eat off the, they've been able
to eat good off of the, the bullshit ass like pivot to the center electability arguments.
And that caused them, that basically made them never really try to put forward strong
candidates, never really forced them to try and you know change what they're
doing. What was stronger defense look like? Better candidates in general. Anyway
my point is this, my point is this. In some ways this is gonna be the easiest
cycle for us for the insurgency, but in other ways it is the most difficult one
because we don't have the numbers yet. But slowly but surely we've been able to
build a strong movement that is mobilizing. First it's Zoramumdani, then it's the DSA
slate, then it's Chris Rabb, then the DSA slate in New York City. And these candidates that win
keep feeding into one another, right? Chris Rabb is all over the country. Adam Hamaoui
is all over the country. Then it's Mela Keros. And you know, with Mela Keros, you had Claire
Valdez and Dario Lisa, also phone banking for Melot. Now we're sending all of those winners
to every other market. This is how we establish a organized front.
The excitement carries on to other races.
You know what I mean?
So, think about it this way. With 2028, we will have a far stronger set of talent, a
far stronger set of talent that we can mobilize in the direction of newcomers.
That's what's big. That is what we are, that's what we're looking to build here, okay?
However, the establishment will inevitably have to recognize their failures and will
do their very best to try to design better talent.
They will adopt our talking points with no real intent to follow through on that agenda.
You see a version of this already.
seen a version of this in 2020 with Bernie Sanders. Kamala Harris was the
pro medicare for all candidate. I still remember many of you might have been
too young, but I still remember people coming up to me and me like Hassan. How dare you?
Kamala Harris is a more progressive track record in Senate than Bernie Sanders does.
They would sincerely tell me this, like as though Kamala Harris was going to be a
fucking medicare for all advocate.
And we saw a version of that last night.
All of the establishment candidates were basically copy-pasting Francesca Hong's platform.
First, they will oppose us and they'll say our ideals are too radical.
Then they'll recognize that those ideals are actually not radical at all.
They're very popular as a matter of fact. They're key towards winning races.
then they will cynically adopt those ideals in the phoniest way possible in order to become
a more significant threat and maybe even dupe the voters into voting for these establishment
Democrats only to maintain the same do nothing posture.
There are, of course, certain advantages in this for us, because as it stands currently,
all the candidates that I've propped up are in favor of an arms embargo to Israel.
This is far from the commonplace position amongst the Israel critical democratic flank.
So the more they adopt our talking points, the more they say, oh, I say no to APEC.
Oh, I oppose APEC.
Oh, I oppose aid to Israel today. They yesterday they said they oppose APEC funds
Today they say I'm opposing aid to Israel tomorrow. They might even recognize the Israeli occupation and apartheid
Okay
The more they push
The more we push to arrive at a closer position
Uh to justice and equity
Do you understand?
Jay Shriek comes out and says, oh, you know, we got a, the position to cut aid to Israel
is now appropriate.
Now we're allowing our candidates to actually push for that.
Okay, that's not enough.
You recognize the Israeli apartheid, you recognize the Israeli occupation, do you want to end
and abolish that apartheid, that occupation?
Are you willing to commit to an arms embargo?
Are you willing to commit to sanctions?
To hold Israel accountable.
Are you willing to hold Israel accountable?
So there's still plenty of room to grow.
You understand?
This is a Stevens event.
This is the Lansing Regional Chamber inside of the insurance capital boardroom.
And the first question she's asked is about outside expenditures.
First question for Representative Stephen at this Lansing Chamber event is about superpacks
and corporations spending in the U.S. Senate race.
Oh, my Lord, she's so fucked.
This is a conversation she does not want to be having with this audience.
It's not just a Stephen's event, it's a corporate Stephen's event, yes.
This is the last room where this kind of question is supposed to be asked of Hailey Stevens.
So if they're asking this shit.
You know, I am not getting self enriched while I'm running for office.
My opponent, hundreds of thousands of people voted in this race and made.
Someone's got to give me a better video of this like the C-SPAN footage, please.
Someone sent me the C-SPAN footage of this.
I want to watch it.
the R&C has that this is impossible to understand.
I wonder if you pulled Americas, how many would you think the Chamber of Commerce was
a part of the government?
I mean, we can pull this chat and it would be 90%.
Probably 90% of this chat thinks Chamber of Commerce is a part of the government.
What is this? Did you see this? The tide has definitely shifted.
You learn?
Yes sir.
Yeah, sir.
Yeah, sir.
Yeah, sir.
Tharbucks.
What next?
Should I suck off Benjamin Netanyahu?
No.
Oh!
I owe the board to Netanyahu directly.
Disgusting!
Get inside, y'all.
That's good, that's good, right?
Bro, we're missing a member, bro.
Do I have to order something?
No!
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
Sorry.
It is kind of wild that this dude wouldn't publicly publicly sign on to a pro-Palestine
charity in 2023 or I believe in the early 2024.
The situation has evolved so much since then.
It's so over for Israel.
It's crazy.
But that's a fucking AT&T sponsored Red Bull sponsored streamer who like very clearly tries
to be as corporate friendly as possible.
If he's making BDS Starbucks jokes about sucking off Benjamin Netanyahu with that level of
ease, the, the normie attitude on this has shifted so much.
The Overton window has shifted so much.
It's ironic because Starbucks is one of those that like caught a stray and there's plenty
other reasons why you should oppose Starbucks. But it's not even like the most significant element.
It's not even a part of the actual BDS list any longer, I don't think. But people still hate it.
Maybe you'll get the streamer games and buy next year best probably not gonna happen let's be real
But maybe one can always hope
Yeah, I don't think AT&T will ever fuck with me
You know, ask me if he was still going to get his benefit check from the VA, a fully
paid.
Where is the part where they ask her about outside expenditures?
I think it's like right when she sits down, right?
A federal taxpayer.
I will tell you a little bit about the rescue.
I also worked because I don't just need, you know, what you need in place, you know,
Democratic Development Administration.
There's a really talented one in this race.
We visualize our elections.
We draw congressional district lines
that are held by black members of Congress
weeks before elections take place.
I was in the Capitol on January 6th.
Now I'm such a nerd, I looked it up.
Did the markets move? Not much.
Our speaker of the house Nancy Pelosi. She brought us back into the chamber
We voted to confirm the elections and I I
Fog with you heavily because you're not taking all these sponsors staying brand friendly
Load we showed how subs and views went downhill for him after the co-worker gate in Kayagate
Yeah, I don't know why he just like it came out of the gates swinging like that
only to then turn around and be like actually my bad. I don't think that's
what happened. Making zero people happy in the process. You know, sometimes you
sit on the fence and the fence shoves itself into you.
I
Made a TNT happy dude AT&T has nothing to do with AT&T can demand a blacklisting of me from their events
But that doesn't mean the AT&T's like you need to fucking lean into this like
This this growing movement that declared us on to be a dog of these are what are you crazy?
No, I think he was just doing it because everyone constantly would say
Everyone constantly harasses him still to this day and and they kept harassing him
They kept harassing him they said like he's my dog that I abuse him like I abuse Kaia
And he just wanted to probably
He wanted to probably just like cut through that noise
To be like I don't fuck with this guy. I don't like this guy. It was a shock to me as well
But it certainly didn't stop people from still shitting on him all the time
It is what it is
But yeah, this is unfortunately a thing that happens so much in this space and people just like feed into it a lot of large
content creators
feed into it, the mass harassment.
But I think his overall politics has always been pretty decent,
even if some of his instincts are a little bit fearful.
Adam Friedman, Don Lemon, your two rivals. Yes. My real rivals. You may have lost the
friend but you gained a co-worker that day. True.
I mean look at the end of the day I far prefer a cordial relationship with someone like Ludwig
than one that is born out of unbelievable antagonism that you see every day and mass
harassment.
Mass harassment campaigns that take place with Asmongold or antagonism born out of the
way ex-QC treats the mere mention of my name with regular frequency.
So, I don't expect people in this sphere to do anything but keep a cordial.
Well, you know, thanks Steve.
Good friend Charlie.
Yeah, hi Charlie.
Thanks for being here.
Oh my gosh, yeah.
Awesome.
First question.
Again, I'm going to repeat.
This is a unique environment, an unexpected environment for this question to be the first
fucking question.
Just a quick question.
So throughout your campaign, some questions about campaign
finances as well.
So you've received like tens of millions of dollars
from corporations and super PACs, such as A-PAC
and other super PACs.
Your opponent's kind of challenged you on that,
and especially some Democratic voters who
are shipping more progressive.
What's your thoughts on that?
Well, look, that's such a good question.
And I think there's a reason why Governor Whitmer,
Senator Stabenow, Senator Peters, are endorsing
the industry because I'm fundraising, you know, in the exact way that they always
did, you know, there's some deep frustrations that I think all of us
share where that swing state now, you know, with all these darn toon, you know,
monies coming in from campaign committees and the party committees and
things along those lines. But it's really important to recognize, you know,
the record. You know, I am not lip service. I am not slogans. I want to overhaul our system.
I'm the only person in this race who has an A grading from and Citizens United. I have
a record of, you know, taking on this dark money. And in fact, I'm also the only person
in this race who was in a multi-millionaire, right? And part of the frustration folks have
is the only...
I like that there is no answer to the question, but...
Zero answers to the actual direct question.
One darn tootin'.
Respect.
I like that she dropped a darn tootin' in there,
but she couldn't drop a fuckin'
you know, serious response to that serious question.
By the end of this you'll hear a you betcha focus of my work and part of I
think why you're maybe asking this good question is my only focus is people in
here in Michigan you know I'm out knocking doors and I'm hearing from
folks in the neighborhood Hazel Park and these great parents the senator noticed
a method by the way. Increase the upper accent. Immediately pivot back to endorsements of
Michigan politicians. She started off with that. She literally turned around and was like,
notice how, you know, I'm fundraising the same way that Gresham Whitmer did. I'm fundraising
the same way that Gary Peters did. Well, okay. First of all, that's not true. They didn't
get as much money from APEC. No one else has ever gotten as much money from APEC as you
have. And then immediately hit some Yoko fucking language, tuned it up, and then pivoted back
to Abdul, pivoted back to how much he cares about Michigan. No answer to the question.
There is no reason for me or anyone else in that room to assume that that wasn't a sincere
question.
That's not an attack question.
This is a campaign event with the Chamber of Commerce.
These are business owners and she's not delivering a convincing response to them.
This is supposed to be like, you know, a real heart to heart.
There are two kids to Michigan State and they tell me about their issue, you know, of how
they don't qualify for financial aid, even though dad still has student loan debt himself.
And they made too much money as parents, right?
You know, both UAW workers made too much money.
And I took that right back to my office and wrote a bill to close that loophole.
That's how I do my work.
So in terms of the ways in which people want to pull at differences, a duel in this race
also has a super PAC that has his father-in-law funds that has actually, I don't have any
complaints, violations, his super PAC, millions of dollars in that same thing, but I don't
know, okay, maybe there's something, if we have questions about these deals, but his
This has an FEC violation, whereas mine does not.
But I'm not into this, tear people down, I am proud of my record, I'm proud of what
I'm standing for, and I'm proud of why I am running for this seat.
I didn't think it was something that was just going to be handed, right?
You've got to come out and earn it, you've got to meet the people.
Well, let me tell you, last year a fully paralyzed veteran asked me if he was still going to
and get his benefit check from the VA.
A fully paralyzed veteran.
And this is because of Elon Musk with a chainsaw.
And Charlie, I could have stayed comfortable.
Yeah, I have this house seat.
I love it.
I love doing the work.
I've worked hard for it.
I've been winning my general elections by 20 points.
This state, your future, what you are inheriting,
as a young man here in this quarter 21st century mark,
We do need to do campaign finance reform.
We do need the Democrat who's gonna meet my protest.
Every poll shows that I'm in the best
and strongest place to do it.
That guy, he's not gonna lift a finger on this front.
He's gonna continue along with the Elon way of doing things.
So I totally appreciate you.
That's crazy.
Yeah, and then wrapping it up with saying Abdul's insufficient as a fighter and also
banging on the fucking table to show that she is a real fighter.
Classic.
Classic Haley.
Look, I'm sick and tired of this shtick.
I'll be honest with you.
I think it's deployed strategically.
I think it's a way for her to basically avoid.
It's a way for her to posture as like, uh, like, uh, oh, I'm just goofy, don't you know?
And she uses a deflection technique.
It's it's growing old on me and it's annoying.
She filibusters like a senator.
Let me tell you that.
Haley Stevens meets a voter.
How'd you know I'm Jewish?
Palantir!
What?
I know how much you guys love Israel, almost as much as me!
And on behalf of you, the Jewish people, I will fight for Israel!
That's a little Hebrew.
I asked about healthcare.
I don't really care about Israel.
Israel doesn't come to you in your dreams, but it's your indigenous homeland!
I'm from Grand Rapids.
That's anti-Semitic.
What are you doing to make healthcare more affordable for Michiganders?
Your opponent's really universal health care.
Israel has universal health care.
So can we have that?
No, we can't afford that.
We gotta be pragmatic and send money to Israel for their health care.
It's the Michigan Way!
The Michigan Way? Is that even a saying?
I love Israel more than any place on Earth.
More than Michigan?
Hmm, let me check with AFAC.
You betcha.
Anyway, you were talking about Israel?
No.
Well, you should be.
you're not safe here in michigan israel is the only safe place for jews
watch this this is one of her clips you better believe in the u.s. senate i will continue to fight
for the people of israel with a little bit of joy a little bit of enthusiasm and a little bit of
Stick it to him and by and I mean the Palestinian children
Yeah, it's kind of crazy because this is one of those moments where like you can't do it justice
You can't you can't be satirical you can't outmatch her quirk
She is way she is way goofier IRL
I mean, this alone is just as clear as any satire.
What?
Jews?
Israel comes to me in my dreams!
That's it.
There's nothing.
You can't out-satire that.
That's insane.
New, more perfect union, Abdul.
Mahler's place.
I have a hard time with that.
I know that Medicare for all would be very difficult.
Why is now the time?
he supported the continued existence of Jews in Israel-Palestine.
All eyes are on Michigan, where Abdul Al-Sayed is on the verge of a massive upset in the
Senate Democratic primary, campaigning on issues that were previously deemed too radical.
I'm running on three things, money out of politics, money in your pocket, Medicare for
all.
The argument against him is, as usual, about electability.
The electability issue, that is really the central question here.
The establishment pick is Hailey Stevens, who's backed by over $30 million from APAP.
No one wants a duel to win more than the Republicans.
They think that they can beat him in November.
But in an era where an increasing number of Americans feel politically homeless, what
does electability actually mean?
I have a lot of concerns with the Democratic Party.
I feel scared to call myself a Democrat.
I no longer consider myself either a Republican or a Democrat.
And can a progressive agenda really win in a purple state like Michigan?
What's my coalition?
It's people who are sick and tired of being sick and tired.
We gathered voters with diverse political views
to put El Sayed's message to the test.
I come from a fourth generation auto worker family.
A lot of what we hear from Democrats is like a lot of lip service.
When in actuality, they don't really follow through on anything
they really say. I am a service disabled veteran. I would previously describe myself politically
as more Republican leaning. I have voted Republican in the past. I feel like the mainstream media
is very biased. Dude, I don't understand people. I just don't. I don't understand people.
Like, I don't know how. I mean, good. I'm glad that these guys are Abdul-Curious.
But I just literally cannot comprehend like if I see people like this in broad daylight, I
Would never expect them to be like yeah, I voted for Republicans in the past like to me that is like
Like your worldview must be so incoherent
Every damn day I've been doing this job for 13 years and
And every damn day I meet another median voter and it makes me want to kill myself.
I don't understand how you have survived so far.
I just don't get it.
I mean, great.
I'm glad that they're seeing the light.
I'm glad that they are seeing the light.
I'm glad that they're all curious.
This is awesome.
I just don't fucking understand it.
I will never understand it.
I do respect a lot of the independent journalists, including Trevor Carlson.
My political views have evolved over time.
Donald Trump did visit Dearborn, and he said that we will try his best to end wars in the Middle East.
He accepted his pledge.
Have you ever voted for a Republican?
Yes, many times. More often than Democrats.
Hi, buddy. How are you?
So good to see you guys.
No, the craziest part about this is these guys aren't incoherent.
We are more incoherent than they are.
Or incoherent is not the right word for this, but like, we are not the norm.
They are.
Okay?
I need you to lock in and understand that, unfortunately, guys like this, unironically,
more commonplace than you would think.
Part of that is obviously the fault of the Democratic Party, which I have routinely railed
against for this reason.
Because the Democrats are seen as unserious, out of touch, corporate backed elitists who
are very smug.
all they care about is a fake, woke posture that they try to deploy against their left
flank with regular frequency and try to deploy against their right flank from time to time
to limited success. Do you understand?
That is part of the reason why these guys are always lost in the sauce.
Obviously, if there was better party branding, if there was a better understanding of what
the Democratic Party stood for, if people actually saw what the Democratic Party sincerely
stood for, and that was a policy prescription that centered the working class, that focused
on improving the existing social safety nets that didn't shy away from issues because it
might not come across as super popular at first, right? Like if they had conviction,
if the Democratic Party had moral conviction, and they demonstrated it all the time,
then these people would be less confused about where they belong politically.
Abdul Al Sayed in this video, I suspect, is going to show that reality,
because he has very clear moral convictions, whether it be on the issue of Israel-Palestine
or whether it be on where he stands on the issue of health care. He is, he defines himself,
he defines his own policies. He is not definable by the opposition for that reason.
This is a real strength in theoretical democracy.
So guys like this that otherwise would look to every politician be like, I don't really
know what they're for.
I think Democrats are for gay shit, which is fine, but I don't really care about it as
much and for nothing else.
And the Republicans are a little bit crazy, but also at the same time, they're going to
cut taxes and that's good.
And they're going to be strong on security.
They're going to be strong on national security, they're going to be strong on crime.
That is the reason why these people are constantly lost in the sauce, okay?
I do not fault the voter.
I fault the system.
I do not fault the voter even though sometimes the voter will make me want to kill myself.
Let's begin with Medicare for All because that is one of the most important issues in
this race.
medical school and I've spent a lot of time thinking about the system, wrote a
whole book on it and ultimately realized that the biggest challenge is not
making the math work. The biggest challenge is not architecting the system.
The biggest challenge is creating the political will to get there. I want you
to imagine that next to your insurance card you had another card and that card
was your Medicare card. It came to you the day you were born and it didn't matter
if you turn 26 or I'll be honest I'll start blaming the voters when there is like a clear cut
discernible platform that is unbelievably good for the working class and the voters still oppose
it because they're just reactionary babies okay that's when I'll start blaming the voters because
the reason why a lot of establishment Democrats blame the voters is because I guess from their
calculation the Democratic Party currently presents a fantastic policy platform that they do not oppose.
I will start blaming the voters when we have puppies for everyone versus infinite diarrhea,
because right now we have vomiting every Thursday to infinite diarrhea, and people are choosing
infinite diarrhea at times or choosing not to be a part of vomit every Thursday.
If we get to a position in American politics where it's puppies for everyone versus infinite diarrhea and people still choose infinite diarrhea
Then I'll fucking start blaming the voters
Understand
Or get married or get divorced or get a job or lose a job that you could get health care with it
That's what Medicare for all is my uncle. He had a precarious health care situation and he put off getting
Treatment for a while and he ended up passing away from stomach cancer. I just think that really goes to show how far gone
The system stands as it is right now
Most people just put off having to do anything because the financial burden of actually getting the health care you need is more anxiety
provoking than the possibility of being very sick now the current system that we live under allows
all of the corporations who make money off of our healthcare system to spend
money to elect people who will then turn around and protect the industry. And
they've in effect manufactured a bipartisan consensus that tells us we
can't have guaranteed healthcare through Medicare for all. This is the question I
always get. But doctor, how you gonna pay for it? Just remember we already pay for
it. Every single dollar that goes to the back pocket of an insurance CEO, every
single dollar that goes to a pharmaceutical company.
Every single dollar comes from where?
One of our pockets, every single one.
And because you don't have to worry
about that health insurance CEO's exorbitant salary,
now all of a sudden the overhead off that system goes down.
That's the vision of Medicare for all.
We could have it if we actually were willing to fight for it.
My name is Lena Saad, I'm a clinical pharmacist.
There's one patient that was not able
to afford her oral therapy at the time
And we relied on giving her samples
that we would get from drug companies.
And I would literally take it and drive it
through her or my way home.
So how can we incorporate the pharmaceutical aspect
into Medicare for all as well?
So one of the most important things we could do
is negotiate prescription drug prices.
Medicare becomes the buyer of all prescription drugs
on behalf of all of us.
And so it can use its power,
purchasing on behalf of the 350 million people
in this country to start bringing those rates down.
Here's the other crazy thing about pharma.
Almost every pharmaceutical that has come to market
in the last decade has had its roots
in NIH funded research.
You know who paid for that?
We did.
Then some private company comes and buys
the rights to this thing.
Then they get to sell it back to the taxpayer
at a ridiculous rate.
And that's insane to me.
My mom's from Canada originally,
and it seems like the motive there
is to keep the people healthy.
clinical pharmacist voting for Republican is insane.
I know, brother, I don't understand.
So what we really want is prevention.
I'll be honest with you.
I actually agree with Maha on a lot of things.
Most people are like, wait, what?
They're right about a lot of the problems.
The solutions are batching crazy,
but they're right about a lot of the problems.
I think we need to stop selling huge amounts
of ultra-processed foods in ways that have a subsidizing
and be a whole bunch of programs.
when what we really want is people to be eating healthy foods
in the first place, right?
Like in our current system, let's be clear.
A lot of people make a lot of money
often people getting sick.
I've been working for a motor company for 31 years now.
I've had it nice being a UAW member
that I've had health insurance my entire career.
I find myself as a parent of a child with autism.
I'm coming towards the end of my career.
So that's one of my biggest fears.
Where did the care up you in place for him?
I typically hold more libertarian views on...
Look at him, ultra instinct.
Republican UAW members, wild toot.
No, it's not, dude.
So many rank of filers are fucking reactionary.
It's fine.
I mean, it's not fine.
Obviously these labor unions
should probably be doing a lot more political education,
but again, it still goes back to the party in some ways.
it goes back to the, to the years and years of, of embedded corruption and nepotism that
existed with Indio AW. This is pre-Champaign. Um, so, you know, that's, that's going to
take a long time to fucking fix, but ultimately rank of filers are always going to be, you
know, all over the place with their politics. And in the past, the reason why they were
much more organized and voted consistently as a block was because it was, you know, there
There was more motion from the Democrats on trade protectionism, for example.
There's nothing funnier to me, but also nothing that shows, that proves, that economic populism,
left economic populism is the way forward, than a fucking libertarian labor union member.
Okay?
You understand?
That's what I, that's my point.
It's proving my point.
Which is, are you going to put money in my fucking pocket?
You're going to put more money in my pocket?
Fuck yeah, I'm a part of a labor union.
Don't matter that I'm a libertarian.
That's the trade-off.
No one has ideological consistency when it comes to money in your motherfucking pocket.
Okay?
They will always go for, what will you do for me?
Will I benefit from this?
Because everyone is inherently self-interested, okay?
devoted empathy need a different line of argumentation, one that revolves around how you or your
candidates are going to be able to help improve their material circumstances.
Honest question, why do you think libertarianism is incompatible with labor union participation?
Yeah, I don't think he's a fucking anarcho-syndicalist chatter. This is an American we're talking
about who has voted for the Republican Party consistently more than he's voted for the
You think he's a Chomsky and anarcho-syndicalist, you think?
Yeah, he's a lip-sock dude. He's a libertarian socialist actually he's
Literally about to start talking about how you know, it's it's his anti-imperialist framework that helped them arrive at libertarian socialism
As the real solution he's gonna tell us all about how libertarianism means something entirely differently in political theory as opposed to what it means in America
Yeah, he's like, I'm not just a part of the UAW, I'm an IWW member.
Something like this.
So would we be doing like a single payer system?
It would be single payer.
And what I want is that the government basically guarantees your health insurance and that
That allows the healthcare providers to go out and say, look, if I can provide a better
service, then I should win more patients.
But it shouldn't be that your health insurance says, no, here's who's in network and here's
who's out of network.
So you're going to go here and you're going to like it.
And I think there's a couple of pieces that we need to institutionalize.
Number one, the governance of this system can't just change on a dime because you have a new
president, right?
And so the governance would have to live somewhere similar to the kind that we offer
in the Fed, right? So the governance would have to sit under but separate from the executive branch
in a certain way. We're the richest, most powerful country in the history of the world.
And, you know, we fight wars for no reason. But whenever we talk about providing health care,
everyone's like, well, I don't know if we can do it. Well, it's a choice. These are policy choices.
I would rather not spend a trillion dollars on the war. I'd rather spend.
Yeah, resident union charter, it is not chatter. We've had six out of 10 UPS teamsters vote for
Trump. And if you tell them we're losing our healthcare and pension contributions next contract,
we could not only be striking, but there'd be guys ready to kill for it. Yeah.
At the end of the day, unions are not about left politics, right politics. It's just about what is
is fair, okay? Bare minimum floor for what is fair. It's just about a way of establishing
power in your workplace, okay? That's number one. Number two, unions were about left politics
for the longest time. It's just not that any longer. And there is a lack of political education
within most labor unions, unfortunately, that's part of the reason, but if there's more political
representation, if we got more people like Clairval Des, for example, again, shout out
to UAW, you will have more political education within the union infrastructure as well.
That money on healthcare and schools and infrastructure, the US relationship with Israel has become
a flash point in this race.
The question about Israel isn't about the theoretical right to exist of a country that
exists.
The question about Israel is, do they have a right?
Hi, I'm in Florida, IBEW, and a lot of Republicans, I mean, IBEW has a lot of Republicans in general,
not just in Florida.
To our tax dollars.
APAC is spending $30 million to defeat El Sayed, its largest single-race investment
ever.
Too radical for Michigan, too radical for the U.S. Senate.
And his opponent, Hailey Stevens, has made her commitment to Israel very clear.
Hello from Israel!
I will continue to fight for Israel's existence.
Israel comes to me in my dreams.
But most voters believe the U.S. is too supportive of Israel, according to a recent A People.
So we'll also add a message, actually get him more votes in Michigan.
As U.S. Senator, how would you seek to reorient U.S. foreign policy?
I don't believe in unconditional foreign military aid to anyone.
I don't pay my taxes every year to be like, man, I can't wait for Israel to get a new
tank.
And then when it comes to Israel's own behavior, I think we need to engage them consistent
with what they have done.
They have perpetrated genocide.
And before that, they were perpetrating apartheid, right?
They lobbied to move us into a war.
Now they're trying to annex Southern Lebanon.
I just think that any other country that behaved that way would be treated as a rogue nation because they're violating international law
I fear that a lot of American Jews have when they hear
Messaging against the state of Israel is that that is a slippery slope towards Jews don't belong in
Israel Palestine at all I
Recognize that that land is a land that a lot of people have lived on right the most recent inhabitants before
1948 where the Palestinian people, but also historically the Jewish people. The problem
though is that the implicit public policy of our government has been to aid arm and
a bet Israel's current government to the exclusion of the right to peace, dignity and self-deformation
for Palestinian people, right?
What would you say to people who are worried that withdrawing defense funding to Israel
would make American Jews less safe here at home.
This idea that the things that we're doing with our tax dollars
to backstop a foreign government somehow makes Jewish folk
more safe here, that doesn't make sense to me.
I start from a position of principle,
which is to say that Jewish Americans are not the same
as APEC and Israel.
That Jewish Americans deserve to live their lives unfettered
and unencumbered by discrimination or hate,
and that we have to fight together to build an America where
that anti-Semitism is stamped out.
There is the largest Arab-American community here in Michigan
and mostly are from the southern Lebanon.
My dad is building this dream home for all of us as brothers and sisters
and it vanished in like a couple seconds and his soldiers were laughing
about developing the whole village.
As an American citizen, I'm paying taxes for this government
to bomb and kill us for what?
I appreciate you lifting your voice,
and I'm sorry about your family's experience.
What is happening in Southern Lebanon right now
is frankly an abomination.
I intend to be a voice in the U.S. Senate
to consistently advocate for our principle.
It is pretty wild when you think about it.
Like, we pay our taxes.
Like, if you're Lebanese, if you're of Lebanese descent,
living in the United States of America,
You're literally paying taxes so that Israel can take that money, take the munitions and
murder your immediate family members, destroy your ancestral village, destroy your homeland,
destroy the ecology, like, it's just, it's such a strange, such a strange phenomena.
Meanwhile, there are Jewish Americans who will then turn around and act as though their
lives are in harm's way if they can't continue the fucking death campaign.
It's like, that's crazy.
No, those guys, those guys' families are actually being slaughtered.
You're out of your dang mind.
It's crazy.
Anyway, hold on, I'm closing all my fucking tabs because we've had a lot of tabs open.
Yes, yes, according to Oxyosis Brokra V, the US military is conducting air strikes in Iran.
I know, I know we're going to get back to situation monitoring and that we apply them
everywhere and that we apply them consistently.
Do you think that's hard to change?
Shmelsters, thank you for the hundred committee to get the subs, by the way, I didn't see
it.
Like it's easier just to let things keep going, like Israel, A-PAC.
Is it just the easy way out?
I'm threatening a system of power that says you just go along to get along.
The real issue in our politics is not right versus left.
It's not like progressive versus conservative.
It's not Democrat, Republican.
It's people who are locked out of our healthcare,
our housing, our economy,
versus the people doing the locking up.
I just wanna always be on the side
of the people who are locked out.
In theory, my opponent in this race is Hailey Stevens.
My real opponent in this race is Chuck Schumer,
every corporate pack, APAC,
they will run your name in the mud.
They will lie about you.
a lot about their opponent. It doesn't matter as long as they maintain a control on power.
One of the biggest attacks on L.C.A.D. right now is that he will lose to Republican Mike Rogers.
It's not even a question. This one is so dumb. Look, look, look, look. There's at least some polling
to suggest that Francesca Hong would be a toss-up, right? But with Abdul, the polling
shows that he's the stronger candidate. So there isn't even polling on this. They're just saying it.
And I don't believe that Francesca Hong will be a toss-up either, by the way, just so you guys
understand. I'm just, at least there's something you could fucking point to with Francesca Hong,
as far as imperial evidence or what comes close to it, even though I think that all of those polls
are severely underestimating the youth turnout. And also underestimating outside support that
normally would not be polled for the likes of Francesca Hong, because I think she's going to
have broad appeal from rural areas that previously would never go for a Democrat.
That's my assessment.
We shall see how correct I am when the midterms end.
But it's very interesting that with fucking Abdel El Sayed, there isn't even a single
damn poll that says he would lose the My Rodgers.
All the polls show that he's a stronger opponent to Mike Rogers than Hailey Stevens.
Think about that.
And there's still lying about this shit.
The Democratic establishment thinks that Stevens ties to the Obama administration and her history
as a U.S. representative since 2018 make her a safer bet.
recent polls slightly favor outside its chances against rogers i haven't decided
who i'm gonna vote for for sure i do think steve thank you schmousters for the 180 give the subs
how are you a f***ing how are you undecided between hailey steve is an obloxide right now please man
brother please please you're in the f***ing pocket you're in the demo what are you saying to me
he means polls a lot better with like the older demographic who are much more likely to vote
I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I'm gonna die. I just I can't I can't do this
I can't do this dog. You're not a consultant
You don't work for the DNC
Just vote for who you like please for the love of Christ and all things holy
For the love of Allah for the love of Yahweh
for the love of Zoroastrianism
For the love of Buddha
We must do away with this centrist, consulted brain, pundit brain, mind virus.
What the fuck? For the love of Yacoub.
What the fuck? What the fuck is this?
What is this? What is this?
There's, I don't think there's any, like, what I don't understand is,
We are supposed to live in a theoretical democracy.
And the whole point of theoretical democracy is that you
vote for who you think is best,
not for who you think others will find to be the best.
Perhaps it's a part of the problem with
the two-party system that we have,
where you're always engaging in
is weird defensive posture. You're supposed to vote for who's going to win its gambling
brain that takes over in primaries? No. No. The purpose is to vote for the candidate
that you like. That's what democracy is. Okay? Democracy is about voting for a candidate
that you have extracted sufficient concessions from. Okay? Or a candidate that already was
there on the values, on the positions that you care about, okay? That's what democracy
is about. Democracy is not about like trying to make this weird calculation about harm
reduction and then making an assumption about like what other voters are thinking because
what that creates is a tendency to be manipulated and duped by centrist, moderate candidates
which are objectively weaker candidates over all this is the problem
okay
this is the motherfucking problem
people think all i like obdul but hailey might be better because other
people might vote for hailey stevens and then everyone keeps thinking that
and then they vote for not who they want
but for who they think others want
Stop voting for other people. You don't know what other people think.
If anything, other people are probably making the same dumb ass calculation you're making.
That's to beat him.
Does that impact how you're going to decide to vote?
Yes, for sure. When it comes to being against Mark Rogers,
I want to hear how you can get your message out to people when you are facing these odds of
people spending millions and millions of dollars there.
Well, good thing he's already done that, and he's surging in the polls.
Good thing.
Good thing that that is already happening.
That's what's ironic about it is he's gone through the fucking ringer in this primary
in a way that no democratic primary ever should have this much outside expenditure.
He is literally overcame.
He's really overcome such tremendous motherfucking odds, dude.
That you don't necessarily have.
You beat Mike Rogers, because you build something
that embodies the hope and the joy
that you wanna have for the future.
This is a guy who voted to raise prescription drug prices.
I don't know how many times.
Then he helped to architect the opioid epidemic.
He took $700,000 from the farm industry.
They're gonna spend a whole lot of money
trying to call me some combination
between a communist and a terrorist.
And I'm gonna sit out there and be like,
Yeah, well, he's corrupt as hell.
Now, I get it.
I'm brown, I'm Muslim.
I got a name you probably can't pronounce, right?
But I was born and raised here.
And I've taken the time to serve and listen.
So I think that's how we beat him.
I do question his ability to win against a Republican.
I feel that some of his beliefs turn off
a large portion of the population.
Listen to his comments that he would like to abolish ICE, I have a hard time with that.
I'm Abdul Al-Said, the only Senate candidate for abolishing ICE, and I approve this message.
That's awesome, by the way. Libertarian. Libertarian Union Rankin-Phyler, who is very angry at the concept of the abolition of ICE.
What is the libertarianism then? Like, even from the American perspective, libertarianism meant,
you know a different not a different kind of republican necessarily but one
that actually
you know cares about uh... anarcho capitalism you know free the market
for the people but also is like definitely in favor of
unrestricted immigration
that's what the kato institute is about
it's anti police
it's pro migration
it's definitely anti-ice
A lot of people in this room abolish ICE is one where they are a little bit confused
about what it means.
Lena, you expressed some questions about what dualism immigration policy looks like.
I think we can put ICE to better use to protect our borders and protect Americans.
How can we draw that fine line utilizing this federal agency versus allowing them to go
rogue as they've done recently?
Here's the thing.
I've run government agencies.
they take on a certain culture is really hard to change the culture really really really hard
So under Trump, he started to recruit people who specifically came to ice not
so specifically
Sister you are hijabi
The same surveillance and mass detention apparatus that ice is deploying in
in Michigan neighborhoods, was deployed against your family members for the last 25 years.
What are you saying?
Like, this is beyond, this is beyond the, like, this isn't even empathy at that point.
I'm not requiring empathy here.
I'm requiring, I am, I'm expecting, you know, self-preservation.
ICE was created in the same package after 9-11 to mass-surveil you if you're from, if you're from
Dearborn. If you're from Dearborn, you already lived it for the last 25 years.
What the hell? I think we're all understanding now how swing states exist.
That's how I feel about my fellow trans people being pro-Israel. Yeah, I didn't want to say anything
about that. But it is actually kind of shocking because I feel like a decade ago, every trans person
was like straight up communist. And nowadays, although the conditions have worsened for trans
people, now you see a lot more liberal trans people, which I don't fully understand because like,
it's not like the conditions got better for trans people. So now you can be like, well,
I'm a part of the normal political process now. Like, I don't really care about any of this other
like it doesn't, like how did you move right, right word while trans existance came under
the crosshairs even further?
Like, it's not like there's more except is now, cuz like you see this with white gays,
right?
Like, there was a, there was a point where there are a lot of cis gender white gay men
that were like, oh, well, I kind of like Trump. I'm rich, you know, whatever, because like Trump wasn't
expressly anti gay. Well, Trump is himself a bit of a queen, but you know what I mean.
And that is because like, you know, pro gay marriage, it's now established law, people
are much more open-minded to, you know, gay people existing. I think it went from like,
Like accepted gay accepts what from like 20% in the last two decades to like 73% right? It's insane. So like
That makes a little bit more sense if you're like a white gay guy and you're like i'm rich
I like republicans. I don't want these fucking immigrants in the country, but if you're trans
If you are transgender, it's not like accepting skyrocketed
For trans people that you're like, you know
Now, I'm a little bit more comfortable with less radical ideas now.
You're kind of outside the confines of the civility fetishist, respectability politics
inducing liberal democracy.
I
So one of the MB community there's always been a ton of conservative trans people and some of them shifted to being liberals
Yeah, that I fucking fully do not understand like dude, how are you gonna be transgender and conservative?
like what the fuck that's a real chickens for kfc moment right there that makes no damn sense
that makes even less sense
we got one centrist trans person in congress so a bunch of trans folks might have felt we arrived
Yeah, there's also the the former media matters lady.
That's like a huge pro Israel person, too.
And then there's the other one.
There's a couple like super lived up
a trans folk on on Twitter, and they all hate me.
Oh, my God, I wasn't even I wasn't even factoring in Brianna.
Woo, obviously.
I mean, Brianna was just fucking insane.
Yeah, what the hell is going on? Yeah. Yeah, no transpersonalize, Brianna Wu. You're thinking
of Stacy K. Yeah. And then Ari is the other one. And I guess Contra points to Pawsborough
points. I guess the one factor usually is just like level of wealth and comfort, right?
That's got to be it, right? That's what usually turns like that is the one thing like class
politics is far more determinative of like where you will arrive at with your politics
than anything else, even if you're transgender, which is literally universally under every
crosshair pretty much.
Levegar and Juniper, both like you, though. Yeah, of course. I mean, plenty of trans people
like me. I'm just talking about like some of the more popular trans content creators
who have pivoted towards liberalism in recent years, and it's just like shocking. I don't
understand it.
For immigration policy. But there are against immigration.
Oh yeah, whiteness too. Dude, why am I losing my voice? Whiteness. Whiteness.
The whole subtext of this is that Donald Trump sold this fallacy to people where he understood
that people weren't paying.
You're out of a job.
You're out of a home.
You can't afford your healthcare.
And his answer was a simple one.
Well, if you're out of a job,
it's because the immigrant took a job.
Out of a home, immigrant's living in your home.
Out of healthcare, immigrant took a healthcare.
And so he turned immigrants
into the answer to everybody's problems.
And then he built out ICE as a way
of demonizing immigration itself.
ICE itself has become a rogue agency
based on a premise that is inconsistent
with both the Constitution and the ideals of our country.
We don't need it.
In fact, we didn't have it before 2002.
America's a lot older than 2002.
So the notion that we can't protect our southern border
or we can't enforce immigration policy without ICE
is just not true.
If you get rid of the agency, you fire all the people in it.
And then you ask yourself, what would you want to build
that actually achieved the goals that we have
to keep a safe and secure southern border,
to create a very clear pathway to citizenship for people, right?
And in the cases where you have people
who should not be here and do bad things
that you are very targeted in your enforcement
rather than making a show out of enforcing
to tell all immigrants that they don't belong here.
That's very, very mighty.
Thank you.
Because I think this goes to like ICE
and other things that like our politics.
Dog, they're slandering you.
They're calling you the Spaghetti Rizzler on Twitter.
Sloppy spaghetti kid for real that's fucked up because it's true. I love spaghetti
No
Stop dude, what the fuck?
You all see a white
chubby boy and
And immediately say, oh, that's just like the Rizzler.
That's just like, what's his name?
I forget.
Oh my god, he's kind of washed now, Jesus Christ.
Soup guy from the beginning, yep.
Big Justice.
Unescapably New Jersey and I mean that's literally in Turkey. That's when I used to live in Turkey
This is a very Turkish household. This is my grandfather's home
One I'm named after Hassan Hassan did the pretty sure I mean look at the curtains, dude
Masha Allah, Tespih Rosary, I got the Tespih in one hand, Kiffy around the neck, throwing
up the one, same aura, same aura, different day, different time.
This photo was taken in 2004, chat, 2004, which is like what, 10 years ago?
You know, maybe like six to ten years ago, I'm not very good at math.
I wasn't even born yet. Stop. Stop. That's not, that's not appropriate. It's not appropriate
to think about that people were born after 2004. That's insane to me.
Picks are so black and white. How do you change that narrative? Because we need to recognize
each other as like people. Yes, it's technically, it's a shamog, not keffiye. It's true. The problem
but Americans don't, Americans don't know that. Democrats is it's too easy to point and say,
I'm against Trump, you should vote for me.
And you're like, well, from a policy standpoint,
are you really for me?
You're taking money from all the worst people.
So what would happen if we actually built a movement
about what could be good?
When we can start talking to folks
who might have voted for Trump
for a whole bunch of different reasons
to be like, all right, is your life better now?
Do you have better healthcare?
Do you have better access to a job?
Can you afford a home?
If no, here's an opportunity.
Let's focus on that, right?
So I just really appreciate you guys
having this conversation that's like the lifeblood of what we do in our civics and it's really
enlightening. Thank you guys. Appreciate you all. Did Abdul change your mind on any issues?
Yeah, definitely on the ICE issue. I think the way that Abdul spoke about Medicare for All
as far as it being a plausible and tangible goal was pretty enlightening and I plan to vote for Abdul.
I think my goat my UAW Libertarian goat
He's like, yeah, I fucking hate ice now
Abdul taught me that Abdul did change my mind about what I feel like I can expect from a politician. Look I live
In a very Jewish neighborhood for those of you don't know West Hollywood. Okay. I actually live fairly close to like
a
relatively large
Orthodox population as well. And I talked to a lot of Jewish normies, specifically older Jewish normies.
And the only time, like the people that know me, obviously, they know I'm not anti-Semitic,
even though they see a lot of the reporting, they're just like, oh, you're, you know, you're
radical so they're just they're just getting mad it's fine right um the only time
don't tell people where you live dog i live in west hollywood what are you talking about
is very you know i've openly discussed this many times so i thought you said it was a persian
neighborhood what religion do you think the persians are
Chatter.
Anyway, oh shit.
Yeah.
So not Jews like you're implying.
Wait what?
in West Hollywood and Beverly Hills in Beverly in Beverly Hills and West Hollywood.
Anyway, so what I was saying is, uh, the only time I thought the West Hollywood Jews were
from Russia, yes, there's a lot of Ashkenazi Jews as well.
Anyway, there's a lot of, there's a big conservative Jewish community, there's a big Orthodox Jewish
community, there's a Persian Jewish community.
Anyway, it's part of the reason why I say it is a very Jewish neighborhood, Beverly Hills,
West Hollywood.
So the only time where people have been like, I'm actually a little bit worried about this
was with Abdul.
I don't know what the fuck is going on with like Jewish Insider and the newspapers they
read or the conversation, the older Normie Jews are having in the synagogues or whatever.
But they were literally like genuinely for the first time ever.
And I've been receiving these like anti-Semitism attacks for so long and that has not shaken
their faith that I am not an anti-Semite at all.
It wasn't Zoran, it was Abdul.
They were like, he's so scary.
Like he wants to, you know, he wants to destroy Israel.
He wants to like purge all the Jews from Israel.
I was like, no.
No, he's a, he's a fucking sweetheart.
He's very Muslim looking compared to yours or on I mean, but I just don't I don't get it
Maybe because he's Egyptian
He's built not a twink like Zoran
I don't know
What is this bitter ass fucking loser still standing here though
W.A.B.I. Wabby, Maine Governor Janet Mills stopped short of endorsing Troy Jackson for
the U.S. Senate in Maine. Governor Janet Mills says she has now spoken with a newly nominated
Democratic candidate for a Senate. Troy Jackson had declined to endorse him, but believes the
Republican Senator's cause should be defeated. Yeah. I don't know if you guys remember this,
but Troy Jackson talked about this. Troy Jackson was the most vetoed Democrat in the
state Senate in Maine by the Governor Janet Mills. He had more bills vetoed by the governor
than any other state senator.
Just so you understand, when, when, you know, Janet Mills is like, oh, I haven't spoken to him.
No, they used to speak all the time. She's the governor. He was the president of the state senate.
So she's very familiar with Troy Jackson. Troy Jackson has been in the state legislature for 26
years, six years as the state senate president. So, it's pretty crazy. New races out of themselves
in the Abdul race. Yeah, I know. This is not a new race, it's an old race. Hillary Shulton
was asked whether she plans to support Aldo Los Avae wins the Michigan Democratic Senate primary.
I will not stamp aside someone who was allowed distinctly anti-American sentiment to enter
our public dialogue. More details on the interview will be published on Semaphore's website this
Thursday. I love that these like Israel firsters are so funny, where they just straight up are like,
yeah, we're doing the reverse uncommitted, but this time actually for good candidates. Good
candidates that abide by the the democratic majority opinion you know it's very cool
sorry but when the world does this mean abdull allowed distinctly anti-american
sentiment in our public dialogue if you're going to make an accusation like that one be specific
speak to to speak english like a normal person yeah no she's just racist as fuck she also implied
that Abdul was a sexist, was like misogynistic in the same vein as like Grand Planner, which was
disgusting. Yeah, centrist in Congress, anonymously threatening to leave the Democratic Party,
James Carville calling for a schism. Pouty also anonymous pro-Israel donors,
I wrote about the Emerging Centrist Uncommitted Movement.
Fuck.
The fuck is going on? Jesus Christ, man.
Not today.
No.
Loyalty demands only go left, never right.
What is egghead yapping about?
Across the past 10 years of advocacy for MediCorporal, we've gotten a more political
clout for M4A proponents than ever before, but seem to be further from a situation where
it's easy to envision broad-based tax increase to pay for more public services.
This is bad.
What is eggboy yapping about?
just fucking doing the same exact line of attack against Medicare for all that it would increase
people's taxes when it would unironically decrease the overall expenditure on healthcare that comes
out of your pockets because you no longer have to fucking pay for premiums. So you wouldn't be
paying for premiums, you'd be paying for a modest tax increase instead of those premiums,
and the modest tax increase would be far, far cheaper than the premiums that you have to pay,
which is, you know, the classic idiotic, centrist, neoliberal argument against fucking socialized
medicine. And it's so stupid. It's been discussed endlessly. But Matt Iglesias, of course, being
the centrist neoliberal student he is, is, you know, making that same dumbass argument.
Isn't Hillary Shulton the lady getting her fuck on with a Republican governor candidate?
Yes. That's what I've heard. That's what is being alleged about her.
Yeah. The rumors Hillary Shulton and John James had or are currently engaged in a romantic affair.
This rumor circulated among anti-John James Republicans in the Michigan GOP
months ago and Perry Johnson's campaign had been promoting it. Multiple people with connections
to Michigan politics in both parties have been aware of the rumor for a while.
Yeah. She cheated on her husband, I think, with a Republican John James.
Yeah, this Rahm Emanuel story is really funny.
Rahm Emanuel recounts what he told him on Dany regarding his Israel stance.
Anna Barr, Zoran's comms team came out and was like, this did not happen.
I don't know why he's lying about this thing.
We're quite strong words were spoken between you and may a man down in New York. I said when you're mayor
Time goes faster and you got to make choices. What's an a was to be?
When we got to the Middle East I said look
You are your father's son
I'm my father's son
You chant a river to the sea
And that means it will never be a Jewish woman for two yeah
Yeah, um, Zoram Mamdani's dad, his name is Mahmoud Mamdani, uh, is a post-colonial academic.
Your dad was a terrorist in the Irgun militia.
Just saying, like, what the fuck are you saying, Rob?
What are you saying?
That is an insane thing to say to Zoram Amdani, who is not Palestinian.
It would be even more insane if he was.
But it's pretty funny, yeah.
Ram's dad was in Ezzel, aka the Irgun, a terrorist organization that perpetrated many atrocities,
including the Derya Sin Massacre, the bombing of the King David Hotel, and the murder of
hundreds of women and children.
Zoran's dad was a college professor at Columbia.
The Irgun's tactics were so abhorrent that they were declared illegal by the Israeli
government in 1948 and condemned as terrorists who shed innocent blood by the WZC, World
Zionist Congress in 1946.
This is an organization that Alan Dershowitz compared to Hamas at one time.
This is also the same, like his dad is the reason why Albert Einstein wrote that letter
Albert Einstein wrote that letter saying, we are becoming the thing that we oppose.
We are becoming like Nazis.
This kind of like ethnic and religious chauvinism is going to turn us into Nazis.
This was right after the Holocaust.
Which of course, the militia members ended up getting formative roles in what is now
known as the Israel Defense Forces.
And also, many prominent members ended up, I think, folding into Likud.
Yeah, this is an organization that Alan Dershowitz compared to Hamas at one time.
Even among many Zionists, the Irgun occupies the same place as Al-Qaeda.
Of course, much of this is a way to separate itself from legitimate arms of the Israeli
militias and military, all of whom also use terrorism to murder innocent people.
So as I've said before, it's Haganah, Irgun, and Lihi, Sterngang, which is, which is, uh,
of course, that Manachem Bay and one of its founders was also the founder of Likud, exactly.
Emmanuel apologized for his father's anti-Arab comments.
Haganah was the largest one and also the most like, I guess, the most moderate, even though they also did a shit ton of violence too.
But, yeah, Sterngang was so openly fascist that they openly collaborated with the Nazis
and also fascist Italy.
Sterngang did.
So to varying degrees of insanity, Sterngang also, I think Sterngang was the one that openly
called themselves terrorists as well. But yeah, Annabar can confirm this did not happen.
So yeah, very funny thing to lie about.
Also reminding people like who your dad is for no reason in 2026.
We're face the Holocaust and I said, I want you to hear this over my dead body.
You had a meeting with quite strong words.
It's also really funny that Rahmanual thinks he's like hard body in any way shape or form.
Come on, Rahm dog.
Fuck you mean.
There's no there's no
Generational
Terrorism genes that that carried over from your dad to you, you know what I mean?
Just cuz he was a terrorist doesn't mean that you have any of those skills that carried over
Well, actually, Ron might assert did Ron serve in the IDF
He might have
But yeah, he's still a fucking fake demon finish the video what I just finished it oh
You mean the the other video the video
With Abdul I thought we ended already who really believes what they say him taking a stance on something even if it's strong
And people consider it maybe too strong
I think taking a stance
mean something.
In selection, anybody could lose.
Haley Stevens could lose.
And I'd rather, you know, vote for somebody
who I agree with on their policy points, rather than somebody
who I just think is against Trump.
I've got my mail-in ballot at home.
I'm going to go home and fill it out and mail it
in for Abdul El Sayed.
Let's go.
Let's go.
That's what I'm talking about.
And he's going to win.
And he's going to win.
OK, that's good.
The narrative in the media is that El Sayed's policies
are too radical to win.
But with these voters, who largely distrust both parties,
his ideas broke through.
Elsevied won't be able to sit down
with every skeptical voter in the state, though.
So I asked him what he thinks his path to victory
in November actually looks like.
He talked to a bunch of voters who had voted for Trump,
many who identified as Republican for a long time,
and they all left the conversation yesterday
saying that they're gonna vote for you.
Are there issues beyond Medicare for All,
which is your core, that you think have the potential
to win over disaffected Trump voters
in the general election?
Corporate monopoly, the corruption of our food system,
the role of AI in society, the onslaught of data centers.
You think about who's taking money from these corporations.
Unfortunately, it's Democrats and Republicans.
I always wonder why there's so much opposition
to this in the Democratic Party.
And I keep coming back to the same answer,
which is just laziness.
It's laziness and it's this sort of elitism.
The laziness part is, well,
if we can't get money from corporations,
then we're actually gonna have to have a message
and go talk about our message anywhere and everywhere.
I've done 450 public events.
I challenge my opponent in this race
to say how many events she's done,
where she's actually taking questions.
You gotta do the work, it turns out.
And then the elitism part is,
well, the corporations are rich
And they throw the fanciest parties.
And if I don't take their money,
I'm not gonna be invited to the party.
I'm like, fuck your party.
Who cares?
You got the best room on the Titanic
and don't realize that the whole Titanic's
about to go down.
I don't know, man.
I really struggle to understand the psychology of it.
Yeah, it seems to me that you are interested
in something deeper than just winning the selection.
That it is actually fighting for some sort of change.
Losing this primary is not the worst outcome for me.
The worst outcome is that I get the job
and I fail to deliver.
That's the worst outcome.
So I don't want to fight for the job
and in the process hamstring myself from doing the work.
I don't wanna have been one of those senators
that you had this power and then you sold out
and then you can't even account for why you were there.
So right now you've got the choice between three candidates,
two of us in this primary and then one in the general.
There's only one of us who's never taken money from Blue Cross for shield.
Only one of us who doesn't want to send your money abroad to drop bombs on other people
and wants to keep it here to invest in your kids.
There's only one of us.
So we keep it.
Thanks for watching.
Don't forget to subscribe.
Peace, Moan.
God, I love Moor Perfection so much.
What is this?
The fact that DC Dems can't uniformly speak out against this is dragging the entire party's
brown down to the ditch is totally corrupted obscene.
It makes all the damn grandstanding about democracy seem completely hollow.
You cannot tolerate this and convince anyone that you actually care about democracy or
the rigged political economy.
Yeah, they don't.
They don't because they like it.
Let's be real.
But we're going to keep defeating them until they can no longer hide.
Until they can no longer take money from APAC.
October 7 in 2023, people would destroy you if you said anything in remotely pro-Palestine.
2026, they destroy you if you say something pro-Israel. Things change. Attitude shift.
People arrive at the correct conclusions. Okay?
So all we got to do is keep pushing. Be steadfast in your efficacy and continue.
That's it. The Chinese Communist Party, once famously, once famous for pillaging from the
natural world, has set to protecting parts of it, but the country's eco-authoritarian
approach deserves scrutiny.
Brother! Brother! Yes! Yes! China is one of the few industrialized countries that's turning
the clock on anthropogenic climate change, but at what cost? That is fucking awesome.
That is fucking awesome. Every, yeah, every China story is like a capital's hell whole
ruin China's mightiest rivers, but then they fixed it with climate Stalinism. But at what
What cost?
I don't know what the cost is.
I only know that the Yellow River has changed course six times throughout history and burst
its banks over 15,590 times.
Oh, also, consumers rejoice, China has begun mass producing domestically developed immersion
and deep ultraviolet lithography machines, which is of course a technology crucial to
advanced chip making, marking a key step forward in Beijing's drive to reduce its reliance
on foreign technologies.
So yeah, consumers rejoice, China number one, not number two, but number one, okay, let
commerce flow.
It's going to be really funny when they flood the American market with unbelievably affordable
like insanely affordable, uh, GPUs and, and all of these different like Ram, all this
shit that you currently do not have access to because we're all full systems go on, you
know, AI shit.
It's all being spent on AI and what's really funny about it is I'm letting you know right
now I haven't been wrong so far. The American government is going to ban it. The American
government is going to ban it. Okay, there will be a black market for Chinese RAM and
Chinese GPUs that will still be endlessly cheaper. But the American government will
apps of fucking Lutely ban this. And this will then cause even more backlash. This will
create an environment where people are even more pro-china than they ever have been in the western world.
Mark my fucking words.
In just two weeks, China has broken through the three strongest fortresses the US has built around AI.
Investors have a right to be nervous. Remember when I talked about
the Chinese AI initiatives being almost entirely, the Chinese AI initiatives have been entirely
invested in putting a dent in the American stock market pretty much. And everyone yelled at me
and said, you're wrong. Well, this is another aspect of it.
They already basically dated with the Chinese EVs by putting a massive tariff.
Yeah, I know. There was also this fucking insane thing. China has fired up the world's
biggest superconductor magnet for a nuclear fusion project. They are, yeah, China just
finished a magnet that weighs 582 tons heavier than a fully loaded Boeing 747. This is the
The Torogeal Field Coil for the country's artificial sun machine in Hefe built to recreate
here on Earth the reaction that powers the actual sun.
It stands 21 meters long, 12 meters wide and weighs 582 tons, heavier than four adult blue
whales packed into one magnet.
Its job is a whole plasma at 100 million degrees so it never touches the wall.
Engineers call it an invisible magnetic cage.
Sixteen of them will form a ring 100 kilo amps each 6.5 Tesla at the center operating temperature minus 269 Celsius design life
60 years a second magnet the central solenoid was rated for 46.5 kilo amps
They push it in 60 every critical part was designed and built at home with no reliance on foreign technology a working fusion power plant
Is still years away, but clearing this hurdle pulls the dream of near limitless clean energy one serious step closer
I'm gonna keep it above 50 with you
There is zero percent chance with the current way that the oil and gas lobby works in this
country, the fossil fuel industry works in this country, that such a revolutionary technology,
such a revolutionary technology that would basically fucking wipe out the profits from
this massively consequential sector in the American economy would ever, would ever take
root would ever get off the ground, they would probably assassinate you.
This, remember how we talked about the other thing about, you know, the Chinese lithography
machines that are going to be mass producing super cheap GPUs that you won't be able to
get because they're going to call it, you know, they're going to be cheating.
Are you going to be cheating in international trade?
Yeah, this is going to be considered a weapon, a super weapon.
Metal Gear.
This is literally the plot of Spider-Man 2 but Chinese.
Yeah, I don't know if you know this American, but this is real life.
It's not the plot of a comic book movie.
look at something that's happening in the real world in China and go, wow, this is just
like a comic book story, which is the only thing that we create.
Americans look to this and go, how many burgers can I cook up with this?
China has spent about $1.5 billion a year on fusion, double the US DOE fusion budget.
Instead America spends about a billion a day bombing Iran so they get infinite energy
while we get high gas prices.
Big Bernie Sanders supporter, what are your thoughts on him staunchly opposed to nuclear
engineers entire career regulations have strangled a nuclear energy industry for decades and
those religious been largely imposed and surrounded by the political left?
Yeah, I'm more, I'm, I used to be scared of, of nuclear technology as well, but nowadays
I'm in a more bucket we ball kind of attitude.
One Chinese year is the equivalent to seven European years.
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America and China are in a new nuclear arms race, but this time it's different.
We have an energy shortage in America.
China is out basing the United States by at least a decade in developing nuclear power.
If American companies don't lead on this, then the jobs of wealth won't develop here.
They'll develop in China.
The United States is currently the world's leading nuclear energy producer, with 94 operational
I'm gonna keep it above 50. I don't think we're gonna have to worry about jobs at all
If the way things are going continue that way
I think nobody's gonna have jobs let alone at the fucking nuclear reactor. Okay. Oh
No, we won't have the competitive edge in nuclear technology
We won't be able to have jobs in nuclear technology. Yeah, no, we're not gonna have anything
We don't have anything we have nothing we just have bombs and even then we don't even have the bombs
We don't even have the bombs the one thing that this stupid fucking country the one industry that this goddamn country holds on to
Beyond making baby murder machines f 350 pickup trucks that are 17 sizes too large
Okay, these weapons
That's all we do. We build fucking bombs. That's what this country has been doing. That's the only domestic
manufacturing that remains on us soil
And we don't even make them efficient enough our procurement strategies are inefficient
We're getting our shit pushed in by a fucking middling middle power
That is out producing us in the one sector that we're supposed to be the top dog in
And even then we can't even fucking make them without Chinese magnets
I
Meanwhile
You got dumb fucks in here who still yell at me for calling this shit out for calling this shit out for the last decade really
Don't fucks who come in here and they're like y'all shut the fuck up is on you fucking Chinese dick writer
You fucking piece of shit. Oh, I'm like, I bet you love mouths. They don't a lot
But we are cooked what utility is there to just close your ears shut off your eyes and go la la la la la I can't hear you as China is rising
Every damn day
These motherfuckers don't even want to study their adversary I
Don't believe China is an adversary. I don't want to treat China like an adversary. I want to treat it like a partner
But it's going to come to a point where we're going to have to beg them.
We're going to have to beg them that they treat us like an even partner, okay?
At least right now we have some level of leverage or we did for the last like two decades where
we could have foreseen this rise of China and maybe managed it so that we could have
been like, hey, we're reliable partners, the one another, let's not wage war.
gonna come a point where we have to beg. Okay. We're getting there. Yeah, tofu
drag fusion nuclear reactor tofu drag asml chip manufacturing. Dude, that tofu
dread construction shit. Still, like I went to China. I stayed in the hotels. I
I saw the buildings.
I saw the high speed rail.
I was inside of the trains.
Okay.
I came back here to the United States of America.
And in 2026, there's still motherfuckers in my community.
They go, oh dude, those buildings are tofu drain buildings.
Oh dude, they still do the, what is it?
They do sewer oil.
Chinese food is made with sewer oil.
It's dookie oil.
It's like, brother, you are running on.
You are running on like propaganda from 30 years ago at this point, like update the fucking talking points.
Update the talking points, man. What do you mean tofu drag?
Uh, gutter oil. That's what it's called. Yeah.
Like, the greatest, here's the thing, the biggest wake-up call should have been, and
I remember this when it was happening, the biggest wake-up call should have been go-cities,
okay?
the Western mind, the Western Anglo-Sphere mind cannot comprehend building homes with
with serving the purpose of shelter in mind. That they were like, look at these fucking
idiots, they're building ghost cities. And we did this to North Korea, like, you know,
maybe five years ago too. We didn't even learn our lesson from China. We did the ghost city
shit in North Korea too.
The western brain, the primitive western mind cannot comprehend a country that builds homes
not as a speculative asset, not as simple economic activity, but instead with a long
term shelter plan in mind.
But that should have been the point when those motherfucking ghost cities turned into massive
Tier 1, Tier 2, and Tier 3 rapidly urbanized industrial hubs.
That's when every American analyst, that's when every Western analyst should have been
like, ooh, yikes, we kind of fucked up the ghost city thing.
Maybe we should reconsider our approach to China, our analysis to China.
No!
We did that shit in North Korea.
Korea for like the past half decade has seen a tremendous economic boom. Okay? It's so
vast and so rapidly urbanizing that even the Wall Street Journal covered it like last month.
A big part of that is because of China, and another big part of that is because of Russia. Okay?
North Korea built more housing units in the last year than California did.
I am going to repeat that one more time.
The Hermit Kingdom, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, built more housing units than California did.
Now, you tell me which of the two is a fourth world country, not third world, fourth world
country.
Which of the two?
Which of the two is a fourth world country?
Is it the fourth largest economy on the planet?
Or is it like the smallest economy on the fucking planet that doesn't even have an entry
point, a direct entry point to international markets besides Russia and China.
I think you've overcorrected this point because, well, yes, a lot of those ghost cities now
have visits in China is still plagued by oversupply from years of constant real estate speculation,
the non-commodity approach to the 2020 thing.
And even that was temporary.
if you want to criticize housing speculation, I would never point to China as a model.
Brother, at the end of the day, motherfuckers got housing, and they did actually plan ahead of time.
It's both. It wasn't just for economic activity to show the western world.
Our criticism of China was, at the time, that they're just building these fucking ghost cities.
They're building these ghost cities, and the only reason why they're building it is to flex on
us to like make it seem like they have like Western chauvinism is such a fucking brain disease
that people literally were pointing to it and saying oh they're doing this to oh look at them
look at these small tiny people that they're that they're building housing to make it seem like
they're modernizing that's fucking insane also look at what happened when we when our housing
market crash versus what they did. They created an actual soft landing for the the speculative bubble
that existed.
Chatted they literally executed those pyramid scheme housing people and then the government
bailed out the citizens who invested they literally nationalized the bank that was helping with the
the fraud.
You show off your best, North Korea does that too, we're not interested in your best, what's
your average, go to the countryside or the smaller towns.
Dude, this is the funniest argument.
In the last decade, the areas that saw rapid growth and rapid urbanization are the countryside's.
Those are the happiest Chinese citizens. Those are the, this is again, this is just
going down the copium ladder. Okay. Again, the rural countryside in China is on an
upwards trajectory
it's actually the people in the fucking big cities
that are not doing as well
the job market is not as great in big cities
the the uh... there is obviously now
uh... a youth unemployment crisis that's
uh... that's that's you know beginning to become a problem
it's the countryside that's actually doing better overall
popping the real estate bubble was the right move in the cbc is making the
right choices right now but decades of government policies will create a bubble
in the first place is a direct consequence of central and provincial
government policy now we turn around act like this was always the plan it
wasn't
i give them a lot of credit for actually letting it pop
the chinese system is highly competitive and designed around making sure
that different provinces compete with one another
in the short term
if one of the provinces actually yielding promising results they lean
into it
and if it fails
they then turn around and restructure their entire system it is what it is
it happens it is clearly the far superior system to what we have
because we have a system that is designed around
uh... housing being treated like a speculative asset exclusively
which one of the two is better
there's is clearly demonstrably better
this is not
to say china has the best possible system
it's just
the better system in comparison to ours
as a representative of the chinese delegation of the haslamic community i'm
I'm very glad that they're letting it pop, but there's also real pain that is coming
with that when you look at the Chinese economy right now, hopefully that rebounds soon with
manufacturing growth.
As a representative of the Chinese delegation of the Hassanabe community, I'm proud to
announce that you are now in the green in terms of approval and appreciation and your
coverage of China.
Thank you for highlighting the prosperity of the People's Republic.
You got it.
Please read my previous message.
They just built a strategic stockpile of housing.
We just don't understand because we're stupid West Toys.
Oh no, the government bought too much oil.
Good thing it doesn't spoil and we can release it when the price is too high.
Too bad housing spoils.
Oh wait.
I mean that's not the whole story.
There's truth to housing becoming an issue in China.
This is Shaman China, the 31st most populated city, America's 31st most populated city is
Baltimore.
In the life of me, living alone in China's ghost city.
Wait, this isn't even in China. Isn't this in Malaysia. Oh, oh, this is high hang on
This was supposed to be like this massive business hub and it and it failed
I've never watched this. This is a video from 11 days ago.
My total monthly living expenses here are about $300. Compared with the city I lived
in before, I'm spending about 30% less each month.
The biggest difference is my rent, it's only half of what I used to pay.
This apartment costs just $100 a month.
The reason housing prices and rents are so affordable here is that there are a large
number of vacant apartments and there aren't many job opportunities nearby.
Let the Americans in there. Let the Americans in China. Let us in.
It is kind of funny because it's like there's obviously still even in this like largely vacant
city that they built that was never populated. There wasn't enough like, there wasn't a lot
of interest from businesses. They're still picking up the trash. Like the streets are
still clean. They're still picking up the trash. Are you fucking kidding me? Working, running water?
Dog, we literally have cities that are not vacant, that don't have these amenities all the time.
Most of the people who live here year-round are retirees and children.
Many of the retirees have moved here from northern China to escape the cold, and the
main reason they choose to stay is the climate.
China has a tropical monsoon climate, with an average annual temperature of 23 to 27
degrees Celsius.
Even in winter, temperatures rarely fall below 16 degrees Celsius, which makes it an attractive
place to live year-round.
This is bullshit bro, this is actually fucking bullshit, straight up.
These apartments were built during China's real estate boom.
Around 2020, China's housing market was at its peak.
At one point, apartments here were selling for as much as $3,800 per square meter.
Today, similar...
Dude, nothing, nothing has, has break boomer brains like that fucking like side by side.
I will be like, this is your city ravaged by socialism.
This is your city under capitalism.
And then both of the cities are usually cities under capitalism, but I mean, you could unironically
do that this is a communist city that failed, it's not even a successful one, it's a failed
city.
This is an American city.
But hey, guess what?
How much money are they sending to Israel?
Because if we're judging by the most important metric, we're still number one baby.
And then the number two metric is, how many trillions have they wasted waging war in different
regions around the planet?
Still number one baby, America number one, China not even fucking number two honestly.
So who cares?
Sometimes you gotta ask yourself, what truly matters?
What truly matters in life?
For me, and hopefully for the rest of the American Patriots that are tuning in, what
matters most is waging wars overseas and giving money to Israel.
And on that front, we're number one.
That's it.
Solar properties sell for only around $900 per square meter.
After the pandemic, however, the housing market entered a sharp downturn, and home prices
fell significantly across much of the country.
The market has yet to show a strong recovery.
At the same time the Chinese government tightened regulations on the real estate sector, and
many developers ran into serious financial difficulty.
That's really fucked up, actually.
Now that he brought it up, I'll be honest.
Yeah, I mean obviously there's a downside to all of this, right?
Like real estate speculators and real estate developers falling on hard times.
I mean, that's, that's definitely
at what cost? Honestly,
this is, this is too far too high of a cost to bear.
Yeah.
As a result, the market changed dramatically.
Today, prices in the second hand housing market have fallen well below their
previous highs.
What have we done recently?
News.
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Here's Trump pictures saying suck on that boomers. Not me though. I'll be fine. I'm the president.
It is pretty funny that Trump is so disgusting to his closest fans. Like he literally is just like I he will just go on stage and be like I hate the elderly that voted for me. I hate them and they shouldn't be able to pay for their medication.
location.
Down payment is gone.
Building projects unfinished.
People lost so much in these cities that were not livable or never finished.
I know on I-Lays, the Florida of China, however some local developers were overly ambitious
and overbuilt certain projects, however they are very successful ones near Sanya and to
the south of the island.
Many homeowners have found it difficult to sell their apartments, so they've chosen
to rent them out instead, often at relatively low prices.
Because of the current market, I was able to rent a spacious and comfortable apartment
for a very affordable price.
On the other hand, many people who bought property here as an investment have suffered
significant financial losses.
In China, residential developments with very low occupancy rates are often referred to
as ghost cities.
There are quite a few communities like this across the country.
The question is this.
This is a nest egg for a lot of Chinese people, right?
The question is this.
What's the fucking homeownership rate?
So yes, speculators got the short end of the stick.
China has a lot of, China has the reverse problem that we do.
We have a lot of debt.
They have too much savings, okay?
But the question remains, is it better to be able to own a home and then lose your financial
investment, but still be able to own a home or never to be able to own a home at all.
That's crazy, you let the burden to his house.
This guy has the perfect attitude for living in this fucking ghost city dude, what the
hell.
Income, my main source right now is a part-time online job editing videos for other people.
The pay isn't very high, but the hours are flexible.
I'm 37 years old, and in China, I pay him unsalted peanuts, so that he can feed the
birds. I got to go. I got to go. Unfortunately, this is too much. I can't finish this video.
The government directly encouraged investment in homes by average citizens. China's stock market
is virtually irrelevant, so the average person put everything in real estate. Capital controls are
very strong, and there aren't really other investment vehicles. I hope people realize it's not just
big landlords like normal salary workers? No, I know. I know. I'm saying that for the
average worker, again, the average worker with a shit ton of savings, they wanted to
make their savings work for them. They wanted to engage in market speculation. And market
speculation is not real market speculation in China, because in China, there is no real
stock market. I understand that a lot of regular salarymen lost a big chunk of their wealth
that they were trying to create or they were trying to grow. This also led to more people
just holding on to their money regardless, which is a different issue for China overall.
But my question remains, I would still prefer a situation where I lose big swaths of my
investments in the housing market while still having a home. That's it.
Because like what do you think would happen if we actually exploded if we
had like not even tight market controls or anything if we just like started
actually building a shit ton of housing started up zoning. What do you think
happens to all the fucking boomers? Their savings would melt. Their entire
like the large majority of homeowners' country, their entire net worth is
baked into their housing, their property value constantly growing. What happens
when the property values diminish because there's readily available housing
all of a sudden?
Yeah, I mean
Yeah, they would get fucked but guess what
That's the future I want to live in in the United States of America where people have housing
Sure, there'll be a little bit of growing pain in the process, but
Bar better future than the one we currently are looking at right now. Anyway, love you guys
see you
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