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The Sunpiker Socialist, Cognist, Radical Left Influencer, The Sunpiker, Dirtbag Left, The
Have you ever heard someone mention the Strysand effect and wondered what they were talking
about?
This phenomenon is named after actress Barbara Strysand.
Sometimes when you try to cover something up, you end up bringing more attention to
it than if you would just let things be.
You don't get the episode, but it's called a police shoot.
The Assemblyman will not denounce the son of Piper who said,
America deserve 9-11, dude.
The Assemblyman just said in his response to son of Piper,
says America deserve 9-11.
There you go.
There you have it.
My friends, we have toppled a political dynasty.
Now to the Michigan Senate race,
where LCI Ed is campaigning in Michigan,
appearing on stage at two Michigan campaign rallies.
He's proactively campaigning alongside Piper.
The man who sent Hezbollah's flag is his favorite, Hezbollah.
Why would you align yourself for a raging anti-Semitism?
Who has defended Hamas terrorists?
Calling them the lesser of two vests.
Israel's compared to the government's evils.
Conferstress.
Lesser of two deaths.
What I find a bridge too far.
When I went up to my good friend, Chad,
and said, hey, you walked me through
some more controversial statements of a son.
The Sompikers campaign poison placing yourself on the wrong side of a 19 issue is only gonna make you look bad
It's gonna be good for me. It's gonna be good for the candidates that I work it turns out it was true
Abdul al-sayed at 27%
Oliver Larger
May I ask you a question, buddy?
Yes, you may too, son.
Welcome to the broadcast.
Thank you for having me.
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I was going to go to bed and catch up this evening, afternoon, Friday, and no matter where you are in the world,
I'm going to sound like I'm in this house, and I'm broadcast coming to you live.
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I'd rather have the L Diablo voice rather than the other one, you know giga voice
We're live we're alive and I hope everyone's having a fantastic one because today's a beautiful day today's a wonderful day today
is
Saturday that's right ladies and gentlemen it's Saturday Saturday normally
fun day but today our fun is gonna be IRL related but tank top stream when it's
coming it's coming it's coming okay it's gonna happen say omega level mutant
detected I'm not gonna say that
New addition to the sound board. This is not the sound board.
This is my mobile setup.
Anyway, we're live. We're live.
And I hope everyone's having a great one.
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Anyway
Folks folks folks folks
We're live we're alive, and I hope everyone's having a fantastic one
I look very professional. I look like Patrick bed David with this broad with his background
I feel like anyway, it is Saturday August 1st first day of August is we're in the eighth month already
The year is passing by and it is crazy
anyway
We're live. We're live and this is part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news. You look English
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Much love from Kalamazoo, Michigan, let's go Abdul hell. Yeah
I will talk about the Spain situation today. I have some time
before the IRL component later. So I'll have some time and I'll be able to get
into it. That suit made Mark Levin cry. I mean I'm I've been making a lot of
conservatives cry. You look like a high-powered executive in a gentleman's
club. Good. Good.
You have a mild piece of length under your pin.
Gone.
Oh, I'm tired. I'm gonna be honest. I'm tired. Okay.
Last night, I ended the broadcast.
Last night, I ended the broadcast, but the work didn't end, okay?
I ended the broadcast thinking that I would go to sleep at a reasonable hour,
but it turns out that's not, that wasn't in the carts for me, okay?
What was in the carts for me instead was to go canvassing for Donovan McKinney.
Adam how many we asked me to do it with him, so I was like you got it
Okay, I was like you got it Adam you asked you asked me anything Adam. I'll do it
Or is open anyway
So
Adam was like yo come canvas and I said sure
So me Donovan
And Adam we went out to start canvassing. Yes, Austin ox. I recorded it David recorded it
We did
We went to hand-tramming on no food whatsoever we get to a Yemeni shop Yemeni coffee shop. I was so hungry that I ate a
brownie of
pistachio Dubai chocolate brownie
I'll be on blow voice. Let me hear what it's not like.
What the fuck? Oh, oh, oh, the desktop is zoomed in.
Oh, that's what's up, bro. What the fuck? This is a, this is absolutely a classic. This
is a classic David situation. That's why the fucking desktop was like weird.
I'm not sure what the fuck is going on.
Classic David had to tweak every damn thing.
Oh no.
Oh no. What the fuck, no.
God damn it, dude. Wow, David. David, David.
changed everything bro he changed the display settings oh no now we got a
is it 1440
there it is there it is i fixed it
Hold on. Hold on. I gotta fucking zoom in on this bitch too.
Or zoom out.
Okay, this is fine. 125 is fine.
Okay.
David is a settings pervert. He really is. He loves...
he loves changing settings like he loves tweaking shit he loves tweaking shit
anytime he touches some he's got tweak like 18 different things and it's
hilarious because I I am very like set in my ways I have my settings I'm super
autistic you know he of course changed the the display settings for some
reason. That's why it was punched in. Hailey Stevens called you talented. Yeah,
that's one way to look at what she said.
Anyway, listen, as I was sent, I figured it out. I fixed it. We're good. That's
off his back to being normal and not punched in. As I was saying, brownie POV. Oh yeah,
here, here I am downing it at this barber shop. Yeah, we went to, uh, we went to, bro's always
eating dog are you serious bro is always eating even off-camera I can't be
eating food
Why are you in the dean's office?
Because I'm the dean.
Yeah, I just realized this is kind of streamer's university.
This is kind of streamer university.
Even like the backdrop and the jacket too, because they were wearing this color as well.
but um, where was I what was I talking about?
So
You know what I'll get into the I'll get into the feedback
He's not a chud ass loser
But basically the long and sweet of it is I went to bed real late last night at like 12
And then I couldn't sleep that much. I woke up at like six went back to see woke up at eight went back to see woke up at nine
I'll give you guys all that update after I blast off
Um, I'll give you guys all that update after I blast off. I'll give you I'll give you the
The personal news after I blast off because it's related to the to the news news, but
Um, it was a fun experience overall
People were shocked to see me
In their, you know, yemeny restaurant and hamtrami at like 11
Uh doing canvas operations for donovan mckinney
Hasan abi has we're confused they're like damn bro. What the fuck are you doing here?
here. But yeah, this is a fun experience from when Will met Norm, who suspects us of being
a gay couple.
So Will met Norm Fingalstein yesterday. You tell the story.
It was my fault because I was talking to Norm and he was like, so how do you know Hassan?
And I'm like, oh, we're partners. He's like, oh, partners. And I was like, oh, I'm like
his co-hosts and he's like, oh, okay.
And how long have you known each other?
And I was like, 17 years and I could see him kind of be like,
like, like, is this, is this a song's gay love?
Like I could see him kind of like speculating in his mind.
Like, who is this guy?
This is pretty funny.
Yeah.
No, he just straight up, he straight up thought we were gay lovers.
Like he was like, okay.
Is Norm European?
No, he's, he's a New York through and through.
Was he wearing the tank top when he asked?
No, but he also had the nails.
And Norm is like 80 plus, right?
generation they see a dude wearing nail painting like nail polish they're like oh
that's a homosexual you know what I mean
he's 72 but I just I like to I like to say norm is 80 I like everyone's 80 and
if you're actually 80 you're 850 you guys should know this by now this is
a Hassanavi trope. If you're 80 years old, if you're over the age of like 50, you're a boomer,
and you're basically 80. And if you're actually 80 years old, then you're literally 854, 850 plus.
us. Anyway, he's 70, but he lives like he's from a different century, man. My man doesn't
have a cell phone. He admitted to us on the broadcast that he doesn't use an ATM. He learned
Recently, the ATMs are obsolete, okay?
He learned recently that ATMs are obsolete,
like he's so old, certain technology,
like he lived such an old school lifestyle,
that certain technologies that he never even touched
have passed him by at this point.
He calls his assistant a web master.
Okay. Anyway, Michigan Fox News is losing it. Bill Maher loses it on communism.
Straight closed situation monitored. Tuesday race is coming up. And then, hold on.
Amir Israel, Amir Israel, entertains big strike on Iran, thought of him in
McKinney later, yet in now. Hayley Stevens is talking about you, I know I'm the
talk of the motherfucking town dude I know I know I know all right do we have a
blast off me start there we prefer to be called web perverts instead of
instead of webmasters you want to be called a web pervert
All right, give me a blast off meme chat.
Okay, I got one, this anti-gaming lobby is funny.
Is your suit red or brown?
I can't tell, it's burgundy.
I like web gooners.
We're gonna talk about how Israel orchestrated
a migrant crisis for Spain by way of Morocco.
Morocco is not doing too great. It's not looking too hot lately. Okay, we'll get to all of that. We'll get to that as well.
It's also one of those like insane things where if you're David Duke, you got to have a fucking aneurysm, right?
When shit like this happens because you're just nutting. You're like, oh my god, the Jewish state
Is openly orchestrating a migrant crisis for a European country. That's literally what
The the Tucker Carlson's of the world the nick went is of the world like that's what they say
Jews are doing they're doing great replacement
Like that's there. That's their fucking conspiracy theory and here you have israel literally being like yeah, it's awesome
We did that shit. It was dope.
Once again, another moment where Israel just looks at like protocols and is like,
looks at all of the most like insane anti-Semitic conspiracies and is like,
yeah, we should do all of that. We should do some of this, you know,
and then say that we're doing it for Jewish people.
Say that we're doing it for,
Say that we're doing it for Jewish people and then, you know, and let's see how people react to it, you know, they're trope maxing
Anyway
So
Um, where to begin. Okay. So yeah last night
Your boy was out working. Okay. Call me the DSA right the way I'm out here
Trekking hauling ass for elections. I am election maxing. Okay
Basically groundwork
Basically or was it is SMC? Okay. I'm I'm
Telephoneing I'm phone. I'm phone banking. I'm canvassing. I'm DSA right currently
Okay, just for the time being for the duration
Talk to me about foreign policy. Talk to me about the the the future of this country. I am
You know, bro, the SA left does this stuff too. I know I'm I'm making a joke
Can I make a little caucus joke? Is it allowed? No, it's not
Okay
In any case in any case
I'm out here. I'm out here enjoying the the process of you know engaging with elections
Wait, were you helping at McKinney staging location last night you helping set up get out to vote canvas packets
How many UAW folks you've seen so far 88 most subscriber by the way has to be one of the longest H. Bizzle
You are not one of the longest. Okay, Lib Bizzle
Um, it was too late for UAW folks. We were literally doing it at like
like 9, we're doing it after 9pm, 10pm, so a lot of the UAW folks are probably sleeping.
They do it, they do it, you know, they do it during the day, we do it at night, anyway.
as I was saying. But yeah, UAW is a busting ass, hauling ass out here too. So Adam and
Donovan are like, Oh, let's go link up with Donovan. Let's do, let's do a canvas thing.
I was like, of course, I get in the car, get out there. I still haven't eaten. I'm starving.
Okay, at this point, it's like 9pm and I still haven't eaten a single damn thing. Not even
a goddamn cookie. Okay. I was like, fuck it. We ball. You know,
I'm out here. I you know, I am I'm here. Slut me out. I'm I am
at your service. I am at your disposal. Okay. Why are people
saying eat? Eat. But we'll be having some Detroit pizza later.
So at least there's that. So yeah, I scarfed down this brownie
at the barber shop and let me tell you okay look I've done I've done canvas stuff
in I've done canvassing in you know underserved neighborhoods and more often than not in underserved
neighborhoods people are kind of uh uninvolved with elections okay but there are certain things
that I can point to as you guys have seen in Denver for example that I can point to that
immediately causes them to lock in immediately connects the realm of like
political action with one of the problems that they're experiencing in their
lives right in Denver it was the data center I would be like you like that
shit they say no fuck no let's fix it right and I'll be honest in in Hamtrami
because this is like a more Muslim neighborhood now Hamtrami used to be
Polish now it's Muslim, like a lot of Muslim migration, a lot of Yemeni folks.
It's like, you know, near Dearborn obviously. I thought APEC would be a prescient point,
APEC would be a salient point. No. Okay, not even a little bit. The amount of people that were just
like super disinterested, whether they're Yemeni or not, was very interesting. For them, it was
all DTE and for them it was child care okay it was DTE and child care from my
experience which I found to be an interesting anecdote you know because I
would ask like I would ask some of the people like what do you think about is
really the right they were like nope don't have any opinions about it
at all. Which I thought was interesting. But, yeah, DT is the power company, the local power
company in Michigan that everybody fucking hates. Utility company. So, yeah, I mean,
people were not locked in on the news at all. They were oblivious that there was an election
happening, which makes sense. And, you know, we'll have more insight and we'll talk about
this more with Donovan later as well. But, yeah, obviously the main issue is affordability
for a lot of folks, you know, they're just like living their days, living day to day,
working, and, and, you know, they don't care about foreign policy, which is fine. I don't
expect everybody to care about it. And the more, the more successful way to talk about
foreign politics or foreign policy with a lot of folks is was around you know
like we're taking the money that we should be spending here where these
neighborhoods are in a state of disrepair and we're sending it overseas
do you like that for war and they go no fuck no that is messed up where I sent
Uber East of the venue, but you ended stream right after when I got there when it got there wait,
that's crazy. I've been to the area those families are big and DTE is a bigger problem that APAC
will ever be those two issues will actually have more direct impact yeah well good thing for us
our side is pushing for accountability on that front as well on DTE as well.
Last year my DTE bill for my one bedroom went from $60 to well over $100. Yeah
Most people in Michigan have backup generators due to how shit in common outages are with DTE bro it is
Let me tell you something guys
Last time I went to Hamtramic the side that I saw of Hamtramic was far different than this side. I saw
Okay
The neighborhoods that we were traversing were in a state of disrepair
Okay
Same with different parts of Dearborn. I've been to same with different parts of Detroit
I've been to but God damn dude America really is a motherfucking third-world country with a Gucci belt like it is
it is so
It's so messed up how much wealth this country has and how little we spend it on
On some of these other parts of the country it is a disaster
Okay, it is so fucked up
Like the fact that you guys are sincerely talking about brownouts and blackouts in
a
Supposedly first world country developed country one of the wealthiest the wealthiest country on the planet, right?
That's insane like I grew up with blackouts because I was growing up in Turkey. I'm used to blackouts, right?
But that's Turkey
That was the whole point there is no blackouts in America, right?
That's not supposed to happen in America
As a matter of fact when I would come to America, I was shocked at how stable the grid was back in the day
But if you are growing up in a developing country, if you're growing up in a country not as wealthy as the United States of America outside of the western world, if you ever had the opportunity to visit America, you would look at how good the infrastructure was in comparison to your country, right?
Now, many of you are American, so this is not for you, I guess.
This is not an experience that you can comprehend, but that's like a common thing that people
outside of the United States used to say about the United States.
This is a very common thing that we bring up about how good the American grid is, how
reliable it is. Nowadays we're gonna have Americans move into other countries
and being like you know what America's hollowed out you know you guys don't
understand how bad it is. It's not even just a city area either out here in the
suburbs we get fucked by DT outages constantly as well I've had at least three
outages that lasted at least a few hours just in the past two months yeah.
30,000 homes without power for three plus days in Detroit last big one they keep getting rate increase approvals from the state despite this
This is why DT is such a big issue in southeastern Michigan. Yeah
And once a crisis hits the suburbs
once the crisis is the suburbs you know is fucked if the middle class and the
wealthy are getting impacted you know it's really fucked what is the old
photo of you that's funny okay no that's not me that's the motherfucking
wrestler is a real honor to be compared to his level of greatness but
I
Don't he looks horrible. I would dare you say that he looks like the goat
Anyway, but it was a fun experience overall very very valuable experience
Finally had like a little bit of shawarma
Walked around talked to some folks saw some NYC DSA folks that are out here as well
You know, they really love their elections over there. They love elections so much
but
Yeah
It was it was a great experience and then I went to bed woke up and the reason why I'm late this morning is because I was doing an interview
Because I have a journalist that's like following me along as you guys know
uh trailing me around and is you know covering the the insurgent left movement
with the focus on your boy and this community as well another 20k down the
drain you already know what's up
um that's it cut up quotes incoming none and I it's gonna be a long piece
It's gonna be a big one. It's gonna be a big one. Let's get started. Let's get
started here in my current backyard. I'm in Michigan, as you guys know. For the
insurgent slate out here, will Lawrence, Aisha Farooqi as well, but certainly
Donovan McKinney, and Abdul El Sayed. We're door knocking, we're getting the word out,
and so is Abdul's opponent Haley Stevens. Haley Stevens was asked a question by
the wonderful Sam Robinson, who has, uh, was increasingly becoming a household man.
that about it
sam robison pose the question to hailey stevens in her campaign stop
earlier he said
says i asked u.s. representative hailey stevens about her tweet accusing her
opponent of the loss of blaming all those problems on jewish americans
your point blames all those problems on jewish americans you're commenting on a
video of him talking about the eight pack money coming into this race
by the way i've jokingly said to sam that he sounds like hailey stevens before
That's his voice you're hearing in the on the other side of the camera
That about it. You said that your opponent blames all his problems on jewish americans
You're commenting on a video. I'm gonna try to link up with him today. I'm gonna try to get him to say what gives
I want to hear I want to hear what he has to say. I want to hear what he sounds like if he says what gives
okay
What gives them talking about the a pack money coming into this race? What made you say that?
You know look, I think that there's been a lot of talk from my opponent throughout this race
You know about a pack about
You know foreign policy and those issues and actually as I was driving out here
I was talking to one of our community leaders in Detroit
He just happened to call me he's all fired up about the race and he said you know
This is about what's going on in the east side of Detroit and the west side of Detroit
You know my opponent, you know he you can look at who I've campaigned with versus who he's campaigned with my opponent in this Democratic primary
You know he brought in Hassan Piker, you know this I guess talented
What is this guy doing bro? Hey? Hey? Hey? Hey my man
Why are you shaking your damn head?
Okay
What are you doing back there? Okay? I love I love this guy. He as soon as my name gets mentioned he goes
No, hell no not Hassan
In this democratic primary, you know, he brought in Hassan Piker, you know this
He said no Hassan
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Hate that she found all four of the brothers who arrived for her to appear in one frame
タd streamer
Oh, yeah, this was beautiful. Haley Stevens
call me talented and a blogger for some weird reason cuz I don't know
blogger is like is this 2012 the fuck do you mean blogger but it turns out it's
not just Israel that comes to her in her dreams okay I come to her in her dreams
as well he brought in Hassan Piker you know this I guess talented streamer or
blogger who has been you know very anti-Semitic that's crazy
hook Hassan Piker right to the college campuses which we know have been really
rife with division, right? And, you know, he took him there. And this is someone who said America
deserved 9 11. You know, I've been out campaigning in Michigan. I was this guy love that. He's like,
yeah. Wait, is he agreeing with her? Is he agreeing with me? He's like, wait a minute. I love the
reaction from the other people. She actually doesn't know what you do. She's a fake hater. Of course,
she just got the talking points downloaded. She downloaded the talking points. She says you're
bullying her she called me anti-semite of course what am I not supposed to push
back and ran rampants a handful weeks ago with the former commissioner of
social security I think you are not beating the anti-black allegations
brother brother I am literally going to Detroit later today okay people's social
security you'll see it's all bullshit that stuff is bullshit most of the
Hassan Abbey heads that I saw in Hamtrami there's hella black Hassan Abbey heads
Hamtrammack, okay? They were stoked. They just, you know, don't happen to be at Haley
Stevens' campaign stop. They are bankrupting the day being Donald Trump. They are bankrupting
the Social Security Trust. A fully paralyzed veteran asked me if he was still gonna have
access to his benefit. Chuck, you know, we gotta stand with our incredible veterans. You
You know, the armed benefits, you know, and look, I'm also campaigning, you know, with
Scott Benson and Jerry, you know, and community leaders.
You know, I brought in the civil rights icon, you know, my friend, my collaborator in the
Democratic Manufacturing Working Group, Jim Clyburn.
So I think who folks are campaigning with, you know, that needs to be called out.
Look, you know, I know what Michigan leadership looks like.
I know how to, you know, make it, make it through a tough race and what it's
going to take to bring, uh, people together when this is all over.
You know, I'm saying that we're all.
Great message from Haley Stevens.
Good closing message.
She brought in a Sompiger, this town visham who's been very anti-Semitic.
Yeah.
I tweeted this out earlier as well.
Just, you know, this morning I was feeling, I was feeling, uh, like it was,
You know, I was feeling like I wanted to go down memory lane
Now one of the things that I noticed immediately
Was the fact that she didn't answer the fucking question again, okay
She did the thing again
Shifty, shifty Stevens.
She shifted away.
The question is very direct was like, hey, why are you accusing Abdul of blaming all
of his problems on Jewish Americans?
Oh, because he campaigned with Hassan Piker, who's anti-Semitic.
First of all, no, the fuck I'm not.
Okay, but regardless, regardless, that's not the question.
Like that's not even an answer to the question, oh, Abdul is blaming everything on Jewish
Americans.
You didn't even say I'm blaming everything on Jewish Americans.
And even if that was the case, which it's not, that still wouldn't answer why you said
Abdul is blaming everything on Jewish Americans.
class long-time senior strategist Daniel Strauss on Hassan the Hun and their go-
everywhere strategy. This episode revealed an important aspect of the
Democratic primary electorate in Michigan or elsewhere. The Hassan-Piker situation
was very interesting in that yes he's very popular or younger voters and I
think people were excited to see somebody who's willing to do the work or
reaching those voters. Glass told me in an interview for us it was like let's show
people were the only campaign willing to actually really go and have real
conversation with some of these influences that are having an impact with
young voters. Look at that. So, on the comment section of the TikTok videos, people call
you anti-Semitic, I want to ask them to pull up the quote, they can't find it. Yeah, because
there is none there is none like even the shit that they could point to to be
like oh he loves Hamas or something right like if they were to be like oh he
loves Hamas then you very quickly you very quickly reveal that there is nothing
okay there is none of course there is none I'm not anti-semitic and it's not
even like a like a gray area okay I have I have spent a good deal of my career
combating far right in my entire career combating far right reactionary thought and a big part of
that is also identifying anti-semitic tropes and combating and fighting against anti-semitism
so it's just like they tried to make this into a moment and most people understand when you say that
most people understand that when you say that that just means you're anti-israel okay which
Sucks to suck for them because that's the majority
That's the majority position but these guys still think they can keep hitting those lines over and over again
Remember when norm said you probably think jews are cheap he got either
there yeah I wanted to be like I don't but he's just not gonna believe me so I
didn't even like fucking retort back like there is a there is a an issue that
I have with Norm's belief system that I'm fundamentally at odds with I do think
that you can like even if there are implicit biases that people have no you
can absolutely train yourself not to have any fucking biases whatsoever like I
don't I do not even with all of the readily available evidence okay that one
suspects that the average American Jewish person will be at least in some way, shape, or form pro-Israel to a limited degree or to a great degree.
I don't arrive at any conversation that I'm having with a person that I've never encountered before with that assumption in mind.
I don't think like that.
I don't think like that at all.
So no, I don't think that, uh, I don't, I don't agree with that assessment.
Like no matter how much, no matter how much I've seen it, it still doesn't change my initial assumption about a person, right?
And I think that's the normal and healthy attitude to pose, a normal and healthy attitude to have in general.
Perhaps I'm too charitable and many people have said I am and many people have criticized me for it, but that's just who I am.
But that's a good thing. You have to operate like that. You can't assume that people are
irredeemable or you can't assume what they think until they tell you what they think, okay?
And if I didn't operate like that, if I did not operate like that, if I did not have a firm
commitment to rehabilitation, for example, a firm commitment to the fact that people can change
their minds, then I wouldn't be as successful in doing what I'm doing with so many people
who have changed their minds in this community who have become firm and committed advocates,
strong warriors of the working class.
You know?
What I can stand is when people take this statement in a cynical direction, okay?
When people take my consistent and reliable position on everyone can change their minds,
I'm always going to believe that, you know, people can be rehabilitated.
And not only that, but also I'm just going to, you know, operate as though everyone
is a blank slate when I first meet them until they show me otherwise.
will then cynically assume that I'm doing that for some other purpose. Earlier, you
mentioned Morocco. What do you mean Israel caused it? Israel in America got the Moroccan
government to send like 40,000 people into Spanish administered territory. We'll get
into it in a little bit. It's not even on, it's not even awesome conspiracy shit either.
like the New York Times is openly covering it as such.
You know what I mean?
It was classic Israel in the way that they did it,
in the shameless way that they took ownership over it,
that even the fucking New York Times was like,
okay, well now we have to investigate
what's actually going on here, you know?
How is everything Israel?
I don't know man, it's not my damn fault.
And there were times when Morocco did it,
but did they say Israel told them to?
No, they didn't.
But Israel took ownership over it, so.
I'm skeptical that Israel and the US got Morocco to do it.
It seems like something Morocco did on its own.
really
maraca was done is in the past never to this degree and not only that but also they were doing it while
american envoys were there they were doing it after the american government literally signal that they want
uh... maraca to do it
come on dude
israel also posted about it
but israeli envoys posted about it
really that's that's a stretch are we doing that
that's a stretch we're doing that
like this isn't like israel killed charlie car that's a fucking ridiculous
conspiracy
which again if you want to believe that fine i don't but
there are varying degrees
engineering that takes place when it comes to foreign policy different tools
different ponds
i don't know if israel have much to do with this they'll take advantage of it
but Morocco has done this before independently, I know, but never to this degree, and America
directly had an involvement here.
This is yet another circumstance where Israel and America are aligned because they have
the same opposition, they have the same international enemies.
Okay, we'll get into it in a second.
Yes, I know Netanyahu tweeted about funding separatist groups in Morocco all the way back
in 2019.
saw the Yair Netanyahu tweets as well. Okay, hold on, we'll get into it. We will
get into it. I don't understand. How would this benefit America? I am going to
get into it. Oh my god, I'm gonna get into it. I'm gonna get into it. I'm gonna
get into it. I'm not gonna do it right now, though. I'm talking about something
entirely different. We're talking about Michigan. Okay, it has a lot to do with
Spain's relationship with Algeria, and it has a lot to do with Spain's attitude
against America, against NATO, against the America's actions in Iran, and also
Spain's statements against Israel as well. I'm gonna get into it in a little bit.
Yeah, Spanish support for Palestine, all of that plays a role in this.
If you are to say it's America being the engineer behind it, I agree with you 100%.
When I say Israel, I'm talking about Israel fanning the flames.
Of course, it's engineered by the United States of America.
America and Israel are a unit when it comes to most of the stuff that we do
around the world now. Okay? It's absolutely a coordinated action. It's
absolutely coordinated against it's Morocco not Algeria. Yes, I know. But
Spanish relationships with Algeria have a lot to do with Spanish
relationships with Morocco. I like that shatters that don't know the full scope
of this of this relationship will come in here to try and correct me on it.
We'll get it. Oh my god.
All right. Not right now.
We were talking about Haley Stevens. We were talking about Haley Stevens. So Haley Stevens
is doing the classic fuck-a-san ripcord that many a failed Democratic campaign has pulled
off in the last round, but this time against Abdul. To that, all I have to say is, what
gifts? And I also have to say, Israel comes to me in my dreams too, Haley. So, thank you.
Thank you for hitting this line. We were expecting you to do it. This is usually a nice little
cherry on top. So what we got to do is a little stick it to them. Okay, we got to do a little
stick it to them and go beast mode, lock in and keep pushing. You clearly have motion
because only YouTubers used to pull the fuck us on Abbey rip cord when they were dying.
I know, I know, um, then the get did this.
Sharif Street did this against Chris RAB.
Adam, homoese opponents did this to him.
Chris, I mean, uh, Andrew Cuomo famously did this.
He was the first to do it.
And, you know, the one thing that unites all these people is their campaigns all died, their campaigns all failed.
It's a little bit of a kiss of death.
Mallory McMorrow in this exact primary did this and had to end her campaign early.
Might I suggest don't come for my sis?
Who's your sis?
Shri Thanadar next. Shri Thanadar is not doing that. Unfortunately for us, he hasn't done it, but regardless, regardless, what is this, Haley and Shri in Israel?
I don't even think they're in Israel. I think this is uh, this is are they?
I mean Gary Peters is right there, too. Yeah, no this ain't Israel. I'm pretty sure this is a
Synagogue in in in Michigan somewhere
It kind of seems that all your politicians are basically prostitutes, no?
Yes, of course, dude.
Our elections are bought and sold, it's that simple.
That's what it is, that's kind of the problem.
That's why we're fucking putting forward this insurgent left flank that isn't sludding
themselves out to every goddamn corporation in foreign country that wants to buy their
seats for them.
That is literally what has always happened in American politics, and it's gotten worse
over the years with Citizens United. You know?
This is the reality. And yes, I feel like this is a... we're disparaging sex workers
and processes by comparing them to politicians. Okay? At least prostitutes, they have like
a valuable output, they're doing something, they're working. These guys just sit around
and collect fucking checks and sell you out.
With a sex worker, there's consent.
You're consenting to have sex with them.
You're consenting and they're consenting.
There's consent in the, in the relationship of a politician,
fucks you without any consent.
Whether you're paying attention or not, these politicians are
fucking you regardless.
Anyway, were they not voted in?
Yes, but they bought those seats, that's my point.
In any case, in any case, but the criticisms haven't stopped there.
Last night I saw a little piece from friend of the show, Master Shake.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
Master Shake went on the Sean Hannity program last night.
And what's really interesting about it is that Sean Hannity, once again, talks about
me every night now.
kind of unbelievable. Refuses to have me on the stream, refuses to have me on the fucking
show, but will talk about me every goddamn night. This time, Sean brought friend of the
show, Mark Levin. And Mark Levin was fucking crying, dude.
leader of the Democratic Party far left extremists. So, Son Piker is now touting an anti-Israel
litmus test for any Democrat with 2028 presidential aspirations. Take a look at these re-
Dude, it's awesome. You call me the spiritual leader of the Democratic Party.
Really repulsive and disgusting remarks.
Will you endorse the 2028 candidates if they are pro-Israel in a way that you don't like?
If you ultimately are about defeating fascism in this country as you describe it, surely
shouldn't you get on board with whoever the main candidate is?
Luckily, I don't think I'll have to make that calculation at all because there is zero
percent chance that whoever the elected Democrat is that wins the primary will be pro-Israel
in any way, shape, or form.
see. Disgusting. That is disgusting. Dude, I love, I love this. This is so good. This
is far better promo than the Democratic Party deserves. Okay, I'm telling you right now,
the Democrats do not deserve this much praise. They do not deserve this association. They
They haven't done enough to deserve this kind of fucking promotional material.
Like this is the equivalent, this is the equivalence of like Fox News being like the next Democratic
candidate that runs for president is going to be America first.
The next Democratic candidate will be truly America first.
Or this is Fox News basically cutting promo for the Democratic Party by saying, by putting
a clip of me saying the next Democratic candidate will be unconditionally pro-working class.
Unconditionally pro-medicare for all, okay?
This is an incredible promo, a promotional tool that the Democrats don't really deserve,
if I'm honest.
They haven't shown that they deserve this kind of promo yet, but fuck it, why not?
Fuck it, we ball.
You know, it's a reaction, the host of Life, Liberty and Levin, and of course his own national
and syndicated radio host, of course he's here on the Fox News channel, I call him
the great one, Mark Levin.
There's a guy that blamed America for 9-11-0-1. There is 0% chance any 2028 9-11-0-1 what the fuck
I've never heard someone refer to 9-11 is 9-11-0-1 has there been a 9-11-2 what does Sean Hannity know
Is there going to be a 9-11-2? Has there been a 9-11-2? Why is he specifying which 9-11 it is?
I guess maybe he means he's actually a Noam Chomsky head, Sean Hannity. He's like,
Yeah, the real 9-11 was actually the one that took place in Chile, okay?
The Allende coup.
That was the real 9-11.
This is the second 9-11, so he had to specify.
He's like, you know, 9-11-01.
A democratic nominee will be pro-Israel.
Now, if that's not anti-Semitic bigotry institutionalized in a party.
Dude, it's so awesome.
They have to be woke.
They have to be so woke in a way that is like,
in a way that is repulsive for the average Fox News watcher.
Okay.
This idea that you ran on America first and anti DEI,
and now you have to flip the script and be like,
no, Israel first.
And also we're anti DEI, except for Israel is hilarious.
He is so fucking, there's so woke dude.
Oh, it's awesome
It's a it's hilarious they flipped the script they took some of the worst instincts of the Democratic Party that they had
Successfully opposed won an election on opposing and are now flipping it
Not realizing how this looks to the average person even in their own base
It is fucking awesome. I need to see what the what the comments look like usually these are bothered into oblivion they
Why you give him so much priority if he's so low as honest two weeks away from developing nuclear weapon so good
I had to watch it twice
Shocking, you know, you're doing some right when both parties hate you these folks are trying to bring war to our shores division is real
Both the amount of government there are stirring strife
I believe Mar-Livin.
They are scared.
Calling Piker a lowlife is insult to real lowlife.
Piker is lower than that.
It's just pure evil.
I will be the first person to vote for Hasan if he runs.
I need you guys to understand something okay like even this comment in and of itself like what a low life
He is how disgusting I can't believe he said the Democratic
Frontrunner that makes it out of the primaries will be anti Israel or won't be pro Israel
okay
Substitute Israel for any other country the Democratic Party prior frontrunner that wins the primaries will not be
pro-Estonia in any way shape or form. Motherfuckers would be like, okay, I don't care.
Literally, take Israel out and put any other country, pro-Canada, pro-Mexico.
Would anybody turn around and go, wow, this is the worst thing I've ever heard?
I did. I checked the comments. They're mostly supportive.
It doesn't make any sense.
This is a principled America-first message from the news network that propagandized an
America-first message.
I don't know what is.
Your thoughts?
You know, this guy is, well, we're on cable TV, I gotta watch it, he's a real low-luck.
Bro, he's crying, he cried.
Life.
He crowed.
Uh, you know, it's a funny thing, this guy, Puker, he doesn't condemn communist China.
In fact, he says Mao was the greatest man to ever walk the planet.
Right now, communist China has about two million Uyghurs, Muslims, in interming camps, where
they're being raped, tortured, enslaved, and murdered.
not
I just
Like I find it very funny to hear Mark Levin
Pro Israel Mark Levin pro genocide Mark Levin turning around and acting like he gives a single
solitary shred of a fuck
About not only Muslims, but this time Muslims in China
Okay, this motherfucker is not concerned about Chinese people and their welfare, and he's certainly not
Concerned about the Muslim welfare anywhere around the world
So for what what's the expectation? You don't like Muslims. You don't like the Chinese
But now I'm supposed to assume you care about Chinese Muslims
How'd this happen
He says nothing in Yemen, which is 99% Muslim 150,000 Muslims have been starved to death and murdered
Wait, yeah, Saudi Arabia did that bro. What the hell the Saudi UAE coalition forces did that
Plus you've called out China on the repression at Weaver's what the fuck yeah, but none of these guys care obviously
None of these guys care about any of that shit, including bringing up Yemen.
These are all things that I've covered.
These are all things that I've obviously been very critical about.
These are things that I've offered critical coverage to.
So it's really funny that these guys only deploy these talking points when it doesn't
even make sense when you're deploying it against me.
But they only bring this stuff up to be like, oh, I bet you love not talking about it.
about the 100,000 Yemeni that starved to death.
Who did that?
In the Syrian civil war, 580,000 Muslims were killed.
Again, classic, again, offered critical coverage
on that as well.
Life says nothing about any of it.
He is obsessed with Jews.
Like I've written about it.
It's not Huffington Post.
You can still find my old articles
from back in the day talking about Syrian civil war,
talking about Yemen, talking about our involvement
in both of these issues, in both of these crises.
In Israel, he's obsessed with America,
and obsessed, I mean, he hates us, he hates this.
What do you mean, us, bitch, I'm American.
I'm American, what are you talking about?
Of course I'm obsessed with America.
I'm an American citizen, I'm an American taxpayer.
I'm an American citizen. I'm an American taxpayer. Of course I care about where that taxpayer goes, but where that where those tax dollars go
Country he hates the citizens of this country. He hates the Israelis. He hates Jews
You know was raised in Turkey, you know Turkey the country that's run by our dear friend Erdogan
who's a
And then he just gets like weirdly racial with it. He's like he's fucking Turkish. Of course. He hates Josie's Turkish like I don't I don't
Okay, that's also ridiculous another Jew hater in Israel hater and so forth and so on and you go to go back to Turkey
I'm really troubled by the fact that we have people coming into this country or coming back to this country that hate it so much and
And skew their poison left and right. I don't know how this guy gets a platform
I don't know how anybody pays to give him a platform. He's not intelligent
He's just it is kind of crazy that like so much commentary
In the American news sphere in the American media is just made up
And it's not even just like on Fox news
Obviously if you've been in here long enough if you're like even somewhat familiar with my commentary
you just you know immediately that they're lying right but it is wild like
there is no editorial there are no editorial standards that remain I don't
think this is a good thing man I feel like I feel like we gotta we gotta have
a little bit I mean I don't know like I'm not doing like civility politics but
I wish that we had maybe a little bit of investment in truth and a little bit of investment in accuracy
in our coverage. That would be nice.
It's not lost upon me that those who are primarily invested in defending Israel will
will often times say, Israel's the only country that's not doing genocide.
And it's all of these other countries that are.
And even if that was the case, that still wouldn't, you know,
be an effective defense against Israel, nonetheless.
But I find it rather strange.
Every other country is doing this except for Israel is, you know, kind of silly.
It's the fuck. He's just another Jew hater.
And you can find them anywhere. You can find them on the street. You can find them anywhere.
So this guy gets paid a fortune because he's a Jew here.
Now, as far as the Democrat party goes, I hate to say this. He's not that far off the mark.
Democrats will hear Mark Levin do this commentary and be like beast mode. I totally agree with you.
Let's get this his song guy out of here, Mark.
You know, you know, not the biggest fan of Mark Levin, but I'm really beginning to like what he has to say
You know
Of course the average Democratic voter hears this shit and goes okay
I like this is on guy now if he's making this fucking dickhead who I despise this bald fascist piece of shit
Cry real tears
Then guess what maybe this is on guy ain't that bad
democratic party consultants on the other hand will hear this and go wow
this mark levine guy is growing on me a crap party yet another point of
divergence where the base is totally living in a different reality our
shared consensus reality whereas the DC elites the consultants the right wing
Democrats the right wing flank the establishment Democrats are living in a
totally alternative reality is led by individuals I say Israel haters keep
I mean, Israel haters, you have to be a Jew-hater. It's the only Jewish state that exists.
Now, they like to say, well, we don't hate Jews, it's just Israel.
Well, that's like saying, we don't hate Catholics, we just hate the Vatican.
That doesn't make any sense, does it? No, it doesn't.
So that some of them try and camouflage their Jew-hatred.
This guy's out of the closet in many ways. He is what he is.
But you have the guys like Van Hollen, you've got guys like Bernie Sanders,
You've got people like that in the house.
You've got a whole phalanx of Jew haters and American haters.
Every single one of the Jew haters, every single one of the Israel haters, hate America.
Have you noticed that?
And they trash our country as much as they trash Israel.
Because Israel and America have things in common, a democracy, representative government,
consent of the people.
What else do we have?
belief in the Judeo-Christian value system and belief system. We embrace the Enlightenment.
And the beauty is of course all of the American tax dollars, a good chunk of the American tax
dollars are now being deployed in the direction of Israel's foreign policy. We have a lot of things
in common. Get back to work, Americans, so you can pay your taxes so we can fund our military
so that Israel can use it like a mercenary force against whichever fucking enemy they have.
Great stuff, man.
Rewind, he called you gay? Yeah, I don't care, whatever.
Israel embraces the Enlightenment. We do not embrace the ideology of Jihadist Islamists.
We do not embrace the ideology of Marxists, and that is the modern-day Democrat Party,
Marxist Islamists, and that is the modern-day ideology of the Democrat Party. So,
yeah, we're doing Marxist Islamism in America. That's, you know, Medicare for all, no more wars,
spend America first, piece ticket, rebuild the American industrial base. These are all
you know, islamo-communist takes
Yeah, I don't think this shit's gonna work, especially considering that there aren't that many muslims, man
That's it. That's like the that's a big part of the fucking problem for these guys
It's not like there's a significant amount of like muslim migration into the country
There are certain areas like dearborn
Maybe hamtrami
You know, there are diverse neighborhoods
where where muslims exist, but
But the average American is not like encountering a Muslim person all the time.
There's not enough, like there's a lot of resentment due to the war on terror, a lot
of built resentment against Islam, against Muslims in general, Islamic terrorism and
stuff like that.
But you can't really pull the European style Islamophobia here to the same degree.
the style of Islamophobia works because there's far more percentage wise, there's a larger
percentage of Muslim migrants that live in European countries where this kind of Islamo-communism,
Islamo-Goshism is deployed as a mechanism to win elections.
Back this from Puker, he is a lowlife, that's exactly what he is, and by the way, there
There are many like him, many like him, he's not talented, he's just a vile, poisonous
human being.
Well, he's a vile, poisonous person anyway.
Yeah, what about the deafening silence of the rest of the party?
I mean, they take Mamdani, Mamdani's wife, they won't say a word, the AOC, the squad,
there is among many, virulent anti-Semitism, they don't hide it.
You know, basically they have now, what he's stating on their behalf, is he will institutionalize
a litmus test against Jewish people.
You know, does that mean Josh Shapiro could never be their nominee?
Does that mean he has no shot because he's Jewish?
And I would assume supports Israel?
John Fetterman?
Well, you know, Josh Shapiro has his own problems as far as I'm concerned, he's not as moderate
as he pretends to be. But you're right, he's off the list. He's Jewish. But it's not just
Jewish. It's also going to be evangelical Christians. It's going to be people of faith,
a faith that is based in our founding in this country.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, John Fetterman who is Jewish
Jewish John Fetterman
This is why he won't have you on his show. He's just worried. Yeah, you supported Bernie. I know
he backed out of calling you a human being. Okay, I got to run it back. Be their nominee.
Does that mean he has no shot because he's Jewish? And what he's stating on their behalf
is he will institutionalize a litmus test against Jewish people you know oh does that mean Josh
Shapiro could never be their nominee um does that mean I mean here's the thing someone being Jewish
at least by my estimation I know these guys are going to not believe me and it's it's uh
un unforeseeable even though it is very foreseeable considering mark liven brought up
Bernie Sanders is a prime anti-Semite.
He literally said Bernie Sanders is a Jew-hater.
Now they're fucking saying,
oh, if someone's Jewish and they're running for president,
they're of course going to be pro-Israel.
So which is it?
Because it seems like you understand when someone is Jewish,
but it's very critical of the relationship that America has with Israel.
You know?
Bernie Sanders is a jew hater. He doesn't want any jews to run for office
He's like the one fucking candidate that I backed
Over and over again
Happens to be Jewish Bernie Sanders
He has no shot because he's Jewish and I would assume supports Israel John Federman
I love this world man. I love the the universe that we exist in where your Judaism is no longer matrilineal
Okay, it's not being Jewish is no longer cultural. It's no longer a matrilineal
Heritage thing. It's no longer an ethnicity. It's no longer even a religion. It's just
how much do you support Israel the more you support Israel the more Jewish you
are okay and John Fetterman basically Orthodox okay and not and ironically
enough the ultra-Orthodox Netorikarta not Jewish Bernie Sanders no longer
Jewish. Brad Lander, not Jewish. John Fetterman, very Jewish. Okay, the most Jewish. Haley Stevens,
Israel comes to me in my dreams. The most Jewish you can be.
Yeah, Satmar, not Jewish. Netari Karta, not Jewish. Bernie Sanders, not Jewish. Brad Lander,
no longer Jewish.
On the other hand, the entire evangelical right movement, the entire Christian
evangelical movement, they're all Jewish now.
And it's not even that strange, like, I mean, Mark
Levin has literally called Donald Trump the first Jewish president.
He did that.
He sincerely believes it.
It is wild
This is the same party that in my opinion correctly made fun of Joe Biden for saying if you don't vote for me you ain't black
They were on the money they were correct in there and their jokes at the time
Well, you know, Josh Shapiro has his own problems as far as I'm concerned, he's not as moderate
as he pretends to be, but you're right, he's off the list, he's Jewish.
But it's not just Jewish, it's also going to be evangelical Christians.
It's going to be people of faith, a faith that is based in our founding in this country
that serves as the uh...
as the underpinning
of our institutions remember the same people many of them
the democrats just like the democratic socialist of america the marxist
they oppose the supreme court
they trash the presidency
they attack the electoral college they attack the senate
the democrats one for more democrats the marxist want to get rid of the senate
all together
they want to read jigger that is mark
is mark live in jewish yeah i mean look at how pro israel he is right by his
own estimation, Sean Hannity and Mark Levin are both Jewish now, but Mark Levin actually
is Jewish.
If the only standard is, the more pro-Israel you are, the more Jewish you are, then yes,
Sean Hannity and Mark Levin, both Jewish, Bernard Sanders, no longer Jewish.
But yes, Mark Levin actually is Jewish, not just by his own metrics.
Society they want to read jigger human beings because that's what Islamists and that's what Marxists want to do
So they have a lot in common now who stands up to this
What is the oldest religion Abrahamic religion that exists Judaism? What's the second one?
Christianity so Judaism and Christian. What's the third one? We don't need to talk about it
Christianity come under attack. Why? Because they are the bulwark against these ideologies.
Marxism believes in no faith, no God. He said it was mysticism. Islamism insists that you
either are a true believer to their faith, the radical Islamists, or they'll kill you.
And so who stands up to this? Jews, Christians, Israel, the United States. And we are thriving,
happy societies and the people who speak like this guy QQ they're angry they're
evil and they are diabolical and the Democrat Party the Democrat Party buys
into it the way a boat in the slavery the way a boat in the segregation the way
a boat in the Jim Crow the Democrat Party the current party that is pro
slavery and pro confederacy you know that's that's how it is bro it's so
awesome it's so awesome the Democrat Party that currently defends Jim Crow
and not our party that's trying to bring it back and not me that's currently
defending Jim Crow apartheid in Israel
It's a un-American party and it's always been an un-American party.
Alright, the great one, Mark Levin.
We'll be watching Life Liberty Levin this weekend.
Mark is always.
Thank you.
Alright, thanks.
This commentary was awesome.
He went beautiful.
We'll begin with this morning's top story, the...
Anyway, before we get to you as in Israel, it doesn't end there, folks.
There is another guy out there who's also very mad.
As a, as a firm and committed member of DSA Right,
Bill Maher is doing factional infighting, sectarian infighting,
and he's, he's, he's throwing his hat in the ring.
That's right. For those of you who didn't know,
Bill Maher is DSA Right.
Okay, and he hates mug. He hates the Marxist unity group. Bill Maher
Opposes the Marxist unity group, folks
Butt fell that a clip about me too, I know.
Alright, we'll get to Bill Maher in a second, but before I do that, yeah, there is another
There's another angry, angry Fox News rant. This time from another armchair
consultant for the DNC that happens to be on Fox News, Greg Butfel. Pussy about it.
You tell him, you're an idiot, get out. Stand up for kids. Like, what happened to
what about the children? You let them go. Stand up for families, actual families.
Not interesting families, citizens, not criminals and perverts.
You need as a party to shift emphasis away from the lawless to the law abiding.
Stop offering validation to people like Hassan Piker.
You need to stigmatize Hassan Piker.
You do not elevate their insane expression.
Isn't this interesting?
What the Democrat Party lacked was high profile criticism.
And what that did was it reinforced this foothold of radicals once they got to the attention
they wanted.
And that is the big tent lie.
You lowered the barrier to entry without creating any obstacles and now you're screwed.
Puss.
saying criminals and perverts, Democrats need to oppose criminals and perverts, yeah, we
are. Okay, and not just the Democrats, but pretty much everyone that's not a Republican
is directly in opposition to criminal perverts like the fucking president. Okay, like the
goddamn president motherfucker, what do you mean criminals and perverts? You love criminal
pervertry is the name of the game for the Republican party. Grand old pedophiles, grand
old perverts party. They know this gets you juiced up. Yeah, this does get me juiced up.
All right. Yeah. Hey, hey guys, just some some reasonable critique here from Greg Buttfeld,
who literally said we need to reclaim the term nazis for ourselves
okay
that's the guy that's the guy who's giving
that's the guy who's giving advice to the democratic party
yeah we should really listen to this guy um anyway
Where's someone link me the Bill Maher clip, please? Not just on mug, the whole rant. I need to see the full rant.
I know the mug heads, the mug heads in the chat are excited about mug mention, which, you know, when I saw it, I was shocked by it, too.
because like getting into like different DSA caucuses is so funny to me like
Bill Maher knowing Bill Maher knowing that there are different caucuses out
there within the DSA is hilarious anyway so this banged on Twitter of course
Bill Maher, once again, positioning himself as like eventually leaving the left.
He's gonna do the why I left the left shit.
He's just, you know, getting ready for it.
He's trying to get everybody ready for it.
Like, like this is gonna be a big surprise when it happens.
Why I left the Democrat Party from Bill Maher.
And finally, no Donald Trump has told one trillion lies, but when he says the Democratic
Socialists of America are actually communists. That's not one of them
And it's not hard to prove it just by quoting the DSA and their candidates
It gives me no pleasure to have to do this
I'd much rather keep going the good vibes from this is so good. Look, I'm gonna I'm gonna keep it a buck 50 with you
Okay, for all the DSA cadres in here for all the DSA folks in here
Take one thing from me, okay
What do I always say?
I always, whenever people ask me this, I always say, look, I don't self-describe as a communist,
but I have no issue with the moniker.
This is your opportunity to also do the same.
And if you're a communist, even better.
But if you're not, and you're like worried, oh no, they're calling us communists, they're
calling us communists, they call everybody communist, okay?
The Republicans call everybody communists. They call Nancy Pelosi a communist. Who gives the shit?
Who gives the shit?
It's no longer the Cold War.
Okay, it's no longer the Cold War. The dynamic is changing a lot.
So
This is your moment, your opportunity to not back down from these sorts of statements.
Do not fall for it.
Double down.
Double down.
Be like, what's wrong?
What's wrong?
That's a decent angle.
I think so.
My summer vacation, I had an awesome one by the way, I totally got a girlfriend at Bible
Camp.
However, right before we left, Vice President J.D.
Vance was on the show and I told him that if the Democratic Party keeps going in the
direction of the DSA my vote was in play and all I heard all they came oh my god oh my vote is in
play well what will we do with that bill marr oh no for every bill marr vote we lose we will gain
one million okay bill marr and his attitude and I mean this sincerely like bill marr and his attitude
and the way he carries himself, is exactly what is wrong with the way people perceive
the National Democratic Party, okay?
One million percent smog entitled elitist know-it-all arrogance.
It is so repulsive.
Bill Maher is the poster boy for the Democratic Party's failures thus far.
I personally welcome his hatred.
I personally welcome his exit from the Democratic Party.
Think about it.
If you were thinking about not just the Democrats of the old days, right, but if you were thinking
about this party, this national party is a brand as a vessel for change. Okay. Who do
you think is better suited to be the face of the party, Zoram Mammadani or Bill Maher?
I think we know. I think we have an answer for that.
What would be a better party overall, if the Democrats leaned into the Democratic Socialists
of America or leaned into Bill Maher, again, with his nauseating smugness?
She goes, oh my god, you're Republican now.
No, that's not what I said.
I said in play.
And here's why.
Because not a week goes by where we don't read about some newly chosen, exciting new
face in the Democratic Party.
And then when that's like, look at these faces, these faces are awesome.
These are these are incredible people.
They're all young.
They're vibrant.
There's so much dynamism on our side.
It is so crazy.
Of course this fucking asshole who's wrong all the time and a smug conservative reactionary
piece of shit is going to despise where the base has moved and where the excitement really
is in American politics right now for the first time in a very long time.
opens its mouth, the communist manifesto, or some other crazy shit comes out.
Again, let's just read the quotes.
The DSA platform says, your work, you work as much as you are able and no more than needed.
If that wasn't any closer to Karl Marx's dictum from each according to his abilities to each
according to his needs, they'd be sued for plagiarism.
I mean that is literally, yeah, dude, dude, this is so funny because he's like, wow, guys,
let me tell you how shocking this is, these socialists are socialists, yeah, no shit,
you fucking idiot, what are you talking about?
Wow!
Guys, hold on, I've learned something very fascinating about this democratic socialist
of America movement.
They really like this Karl Marx guy.
What?
No!
Are you serious?
What are you, crazy?
What?
What a revelation!
What?
What's next, dude?
Not to leave any doubt, New York Mayor Mondani
once tweeted Karl Marx's words exactly.
They're not true.
No!
me, you mean to tell me Zoram Umdani is a socialist? What? Guys, guys, guys, I'm panicking.
I'm panicking. This is not all right. This is not all right that the guy who calls himself
a democratic socialist who has found his organizing home in the democratic socialist of America
might be a socialist.
Trying to hide it, their most popular influencer, Hassan Piker thinks communism is so groovy.
He laments the fall of the two of the most murderous regimes in history.
First of all, he's going to say the USSR, which is the bastardization of my clover,
regardless, but it doesn't matter.
And then he's going to say China, which has not fallen at all, as a matter of fact.
I don't know if you've looked outside at all.
The Soviet Union and Chairman Mao's China.
Men Tommies' aid is top-aid, see?
So and then and then he's gonna go into some of the some of the DSA folks in New York City, but yeah
Again, nothing here is offensive the fall the USSR was one of the great catastrophes of the 20th century
Mao Zedong is one of the great leaders of this world. Both are true. Both are objectively true statements
Okay
Also, Maoist China never fell. I don't know what the fuck he's talking about. So much
of this commentary unironically revolves around just like refusing to entertain any sort of
historical facts. Just being smug about your lack of knowledge. Okay. I hate this so much.
just read a fucking book, please. I beg of you, please. And, and hopefully it's not the
gulag archipelago. Okay. It's so frustrating because like, even conservative thinkers of
the past, right, even conservative historians of the past would agree with both of these
assessments. Okay? You don't have to like Mao Zedong. You don't have to like the
USSR. The ideological, the ideological commitment to communism or socialism that
the USSR demonstrated to agree with both of these statements. As a matter of fact,
there's one guy who has stated this as well, and he's certainly no communist.
His name is Vladimir Putin. Okay? Like saying the fall the USSR was one of the
The great catastrophes of the 20th century is an objectively correct assessment, okay?
That's it.
You don't have to like the USSR to feel that way.
The posture that it did not lead to so much death and destruction in Russia, in the Soviet
block is, is silly. It's just a historical fact. Child prostitution, disease of despair,
life expectancy plummeting, sex trafficking increasing, sex trafficking of children increasing
from the Eastern Bloc countries.
Yeah, I am not a Maoist.
You know, I know people get mad at me for it.
I'm not.
But it is objectively true that Mao Zedong
and his contributions to global affairs, to history is is plenty.
He is a great man of history.
Our greatest foreign adversary now is the People's Republic of China, okay?
There would be no People's Republic of China without Mao Zedong.
There it is.
That's proof in the pudding.
This doesn't mean that you subscribe to everything that took place in the assessment of Mao Zedong.
is not this similar to that classic trope that I deploy every now and then that I paraphrase and mess up.
What was it like if Mao Zedong had passed away in, you know, 1960?
He would be regarded as one of the greatest minds of all time.
the
Oh, yeah, here it is.
Had Mao died in 1956, his achievements would have been immortal.
Had he died in 1966, he would still have been a great man but flawed.
But he died in 1976.
Alas, what can one say?
Shen Yun, a leading Chinese Communist Party official
in Ermao and Deng Xiaoping.
This is a fair assessment of Mao's contributions in general.
This is also closer to the contemporary Chinese assessment
as well.
It sometimes changes with the attitudes,
with the cultural attitudes, with the political modes
governance where you know sometimes they lean heavily into Mao. It's not slanderous by any means.
Okay. There were many failures within the Great Leap Forward attempts that led to
crises, many deaths, many more deaths than many excess fatalities. Cultural revolution obviously.
as well, especially led to many failures as well, many setbacks. But ultimately the reason
why 1.4 billion Chinese people do not have the same assessment of Mao Zedong as do Americans
is for one reason and one reason only. It's because without Mao, there is no people's
republic of China. You don't have to like modern China, okay? You don't have to like
the Communist Party of China to learn important lessons from Chinese history, to learn important
lessons from what they're doing that we could apply here, adjusted to our own
material conditions. And you certainly don't have to like the People's Republic
of China to recognize that Mao's contributions to the world was plenty.
Okay, Hassan stop simping for private property just for one second please.
China
Men Tommy's aid is top-aid see a weaver said if you don't believe in the government's sacred right to seize property
It's over and impoverish the white middle class
Be smog I love her so much
One of the things about Zoran is that the people surrounding him oftentimes are so much cooler than he is
But that's also part of the reason why I really respect what he's doing
she's awesome what that's a that's a bowl you know you're supposed to scare
people into voting for you right one of this new soon-to-be Democratic
Congress people Darleysia Chevalier support bro can't say a single fucking
name right dude God you are such an old racist baboon I swear to God Darleysia
Shavala, Zorab, Mabdabu, and Darulizia Shabubu. Like, what the fuck, man?
Is Daria Lisa? Daria Lisa!
Quartz seizing all properties from landlords and said, seize the means of production.
Man Dami has said the end goal is seizing the means of production. I think they want to
Wow
Guys again
First with the Karl Mark quote. I was a little confused
Okay
First with the Karl Mark quote. I was like well, that's a little making me a little uncomfortable
But now they're saying the end goal is to seize the means of production
Guys, these socialists sound quite a bit like socialists, and I'm beginning to not like
what I'm hearing.
Really messed up.
Really messed up that they're saying socialist things.
It seems the main is a production.
Now maybe you missed that in school or missed school altogether, but that's communism.
That's communism, which we tried and it doesn't work.
We tried communism and it doesn't work. When did we try communism?
Everybody knows communism doesn't work.
Bitch, we live under capitalism, okay, and the reason why, despite years and years of propaganda and successful initiatives to completely thwart and destroy the socialist movement in this goddamn country, people are finding themselves more sympathetic to this ideology once again at the heart of empire, at the heart of capitalism in the United States of America is because capitalism is fucking failing.
It's not because there are incredible spokespersons for communism or socialism in this country.
It's not because of me, you know, not because of others, not because of Zoram-Mundani either,
right? It's because people are arriving at their own recognition that capitalism has failed for them,
And it's getting worse. Okay? That's it.
That's it. We can only steer people in the right direction to the best of our ability.
We can only show them that there is an alternative out there.
But ultimately, without those contradictions,
without people recognizing that they are struggling for one reason and one reason only,
and that reason is capitalism. It's not trans people. It's not undocumented migrants.
It's not black people, brown people, but it is the current design of the system.
Without people recognizing that they have that pain, without people recognizing why
they have that pain, this wouldn't work.
If capitalism was unbelievably successful, people would probably agree with you.
But capitalism has been unbelievably successful for you, so of course you maintain this position.
But the masses do not have a $100 million contract from HBO to smugly speak about how
everything is actually fine and we should be more ruthless to marginalize communities
on a nightly basis.
People don't have the same cushy gig that you do.
Parties can change sometimes, you know.
have to keep up. Who freed the slaves? Republicans. Lincoln.
Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God. The pivot. Okay. Who was
corresponding with Abraham Lincoln? His name was Karl
Marcus. Okay, that's right. Karl Mark, that guy, the
The Republican Party, the party of Lincoln, was, was literally created to abolish chattel
slavery in the south and wage slavery in the north.
Are you really going to say that that is the current contemporary Republican Party?
Are you fucking insane?
The Republican Party was the closest to a proto-communist party that we ever had in
this goddamn country, with the exception of Eugene Debs and some others.
Democrats were the racist party back then, but then JFK got elected and it switched.
The DSA itself has switched even five years ago.
It shunned communists.
That changed.
Things changed.
And now they're successful. So what does that say?
Hmm much to think about much to think about Bilbo
So
He's also not right about this regardless
But what he's actually pointing to
But but not doing it correctly is like that. Yes
Yes, DSA at its inception was an expressly anti-communist institution, okay?
DSA was openly anti-communist.
That's what it used to be.
Except it was also fucking irrelevant until like 2016.
Before 2016, before 2016, in the Democratic Socialists of America, you would just see
be like a bunch of 75-year-old Jewish guys, for the most part. Some of which self-identified
as socialists, some of them were, you know, it was just like, it was not a very effective
institution, it was not a very effective organization. Things changed after Bernie Sanders in 2016
And then DSA saw a big push after the AOC race in 2018, and it's been growing ever since then.
But DSA post-2016 is a very different Democratic Socialists of America than pre-2016.
Another big changing point, another big turning point for the Democratic Socialists of America,
in my opinion, was post-October 7.
October 7 is where the Democratic Socialists of America shed the remaining non-anti-imperialist
wing of the party.
The first turning point was 2016, the second turning point, and there were instances where
there were big boosts in the membership, obviously, with electoral victories, AOC being one of
the major points for Democratic Socialists of America. But the second turning point where
Democratic Socialists of America shed their last remaining pro-imperialist wing was after
October 7. Because after October 7, when DSA came out and were like, we're still pro-Palestine,
We are not a pro-Israel institution at all.
We are still very much pro-Palestinian.
We're still pro-BDS, boycott divestments and sanctions on the state of Israel.
That was a bridge too far for some.
And people left the organization.
People who had been a part of the organization since it's like Harrington days even, or like
we're done with this.
From the Wikipedia, the organization grew from 6,500 members in the fall of 2014 to
thousand five hundred by election day 2016 the day after Trump's election one
thousand new members joined by July 2017 DSA's membership had reached 24,000 by
the end of 2018 it was 55,000 and by 2021 it peaked at 94,000 and then it
stopped but then there was a bunch of people that left the organization post
October 7 because they thought this is you know this is too anti-Israel for my
taste to anti-Israel for my liking and now it's well over a hundred thousand I
believe the last number was like 100 in what is it like 110 120,000 I don't know
the exact number
those are all dues paying members by the way it's huge the Democratic socialists
of America is now the largest socialist organization in U.S. history, okay. For the last 13 years
or so, I've been trying to feed new members to this organization for the best of my ability
year over year, and there were definitely periods of time when, you know, it wasn't
happening, and now we have arrived. But it took a long-ass time to get there. The idea
that this is, I myself of course am independent, I'm an independent media figure, independent
media personality, but this is the most politically important, the democratic socialists of America
has ever been. So it's very funny whenever these guys go, why don't you go back to the
old roots? Why don't you go back to being pro American imperialism, for example? Why
can't you? Why are you saying that you're in favor of seizing the means of production?
What are you, some kind of fucking socialist? Yeah. Yeah, unapologetically, yes. The fuck
What do you mean?
Democratic Socialists of America are first and foremost Socialists.
Okay?
They're American and they're Socialists.
The idea that they're supposed to fit your neat little confines, your political ideology,
your political framework, when your political framework has only brought about death and
destruction to the periphery and abject poverty and destruction to the domestic home front
is ridiculous. It is supposed to be an alternative, charting a positive path forward for all Americans,
not just the hand-selected pedophilic capital owners.
Now the coalition within the DSA called the Marxist Unity Group is in ascendance, and
I must take them at their word when their words include, our commitment is to the long-term
struggle for a fully liberated, classless society in a word communism.
Yeah. Oh my God. A big tent. A big tent political organization of socialists have
communists
that are fighting for a classless society.
Oh
What do they have to do tweet out elect more communists. Oh, yeah, see a weaver did that
Bees mode. Yes, please mode. Good. I'm glad you're shocked
Bees mode
Wow
Wow, guys
What the hell
What the hell Bill Maher?
Everything that you have revealed thus far has made me more scared by the moment
Every new statement you deliver scarier than the last bill
I'm positively disturbed
Yes, my vote is in play. I'm not voting for anyone who thinks the wrong side won the Cold
War or cheers for the Intifada like it's the World Cup. It's so ironic from the people
who obsess about colonization. You know what's being colonized now? The Democratic Party.
Classic reactionary thought by the way the Democrats are being colonized by what?
Lifelong Democrats realizing that there is a socialist alternative that they prescribe that they subscribe to
Wow
How is any different than when Republicans say oh the real colonialism?
Oh, you're talking about colonialism real colonialism is when Mexicans across the border
That's not colonialism you fucking jackass
Last it's called people changing their minds. I know that's a shocking revelation for your smug entitled ass
Two Democratic congressmen released an open pledge. They wanted their fellow Democratic members to sign
It said we are capitalists not socialists. We want safety not lawlessness. We are proud not ashamed of America
These should not be hard words
Yeah, sorry big dog. The first line is ridiculous the next two. That's fine
Okay, I
Hate this shit I
Fucking hate when Democrats do this kind of like silly messaging bill. They do it all the time
They do it all the time and they're like, oh we're signing on a pro capitalism bill and Democrats have done it for years
I despise it. Okay, I could I despise it. It's so dumb
Especially because guess what?
Republicans are gonna call you a communist anyway, you fucking dingus they never stopped
And it's not like they stopped
After you signed
700 other bills that are like whoa the Democratic Party are
or a capitalist.
For a congressional Democrat to sign on to,
you know how many did?
Eight.
Eight out of a 212.
Guys, really, there's gotta be an easier way
to lose the swing states.
And no, this nonsense is not where most Democratic politicians
are right now.
but it's also becoming a raging fire festival
in the party that neither is anyone putting out.
People are actually getting elected now
who literally don't think we should have police
or prisons or borders.
And again, they're not lying about who they are.
The media is.
Ask Ms. Chevalier about the border.
She says, yes, literally abolish the border.
You know, if you call a woman a whore and everyone gasped
And then the woman says,
oh no, he's right, I'm literally a prostitute.
Oh.
Oh.
I use such a piece of shit, dude.
I mean, you're such a fucking disgusting.
You're such a disgusting little gremlin, you old fuck.
Also, like, being anti-sex workers, Bill Maher is crazy, okay?
There's no one in Hollywood that loves prostitutes more than fucking Bill Maher, so I don't know
what the fuck he's going off about.
Jesus Christ.
So, believe me, this crowd literally wants to get rid of our form of government, the
Senate, but also, and I quote, replace the President and Supreme Court with an executive
and judiciary chosen by and subordinate to Congress.
Yeah, no biggie.
Just taking the very essence of our government, which is three branches checking each other
and shit canning two and a half of them.
Who could be this nuts?
I'll tell you who, morons were still wearing COVID masks
in 2026.
This photo is from the DSA meeting in Denver three weeks ago.
OK, I'm just going to say it, since the far left,
the far, far left is overwhelmingly
made up of affluent, ultra-woke, white people,
You raised your kids wrong.
You told your precious brats that every brain fart was genius,
and now those brain farts are becoming
Democratic Party policy.
Francesca Hong, yet another major Democratic candidate
who's all in on abolishing the police
and is running for governor of Wisconsin says
i think that my perfect world would be a world without prisons
because we all see the humanity in one another and then we know nobody's
disposable
well murder victims are
i mean if you heard this kind of nonsense coming out of the
bro you can't even say you want a perfect world where prisons are obsolete
without motherfuckers being like all you just want to let rapists uh... get away
with rape and murder is to get away with murder.
Like we can't even say, hey man,
a better future is possible
without some fucking cynical, nihilistic douchebag
being like, fuck you!
It's not possible.
Words used to mean something.
We're no longer communicating with one another, man.
We're no longer communicating with one another.
We're just posturing angrily towards ideological planks that we choose not to understand.
It's so fucking annoying.
You literally cannot even say, look, man, I think in a perfect world, imagine if someone
were to be like, look, I think in a perfect world, there would be no need for money.
Okay?
And then someone goes that's the worst thing I've ever heard. Fuck you kill yourself
You're fucking pieces. It's like why why can't I even say that this is like a
Pie in the sky goal that we could move towards where there's no inequality
You know, why can't I say that I?
Want it I want it for others
Why do you have an issue with that?
At its heart, America was about dreaming big, okay?
This was a country that put a man on the moon.
This is a country that strived to be better and oftentimes failed to do so.
But at least, we dreamt.
Nowadays, motherfuckers yell at you for dreaming.
Now what these motherfuckers say a better future is not possible. That's my policy
It is so crazy man
It's so crazy
You can't even say I have a dream for a more positive future without people
Making commentary around how fucking bullshit that is
What the fuck?
The amount of a teenage beauty queen, it would be an eye roll.
No wonder that the most true blue Democrat ever, James Carville says, this is some shit
I can't be in the same tent with you.
Yeah, Carvel said, I'm done.
I'm not in that fucking political party.
Now Gavin Newsom disagrees.
He says he's good with it because the party is a big tent.
Well, you know what else you find in a tent, clowns.
Yeah, well, when you leave, there'll be one less fucking clown.
It's so funny.
So many liberals shit themselves every time.
Look man, it's pretty simple.
If you suck JD Vance's cock, if you go and have fucking dinner with Donald Trump, okay,
and you normalize their behavior and their fucking odious worldview, while simultaneously
opposing anything marginally to your left or majorly to your left, you're not a fucking
Democrat. Okay? Which is fine. It's fine. Well, you're no longer a liberal either. You know
what I mean? You're not an anti-fascist. You're a fascist. They were nice to you. Partially
because you're cheap, one meal and a smile, and you're there after years and years of
channeling all of your advocacy around Donald Trump and Donald Trump only.
You've decided you're going to lean in that direction now.
It's fine.
We knew it was coming.
I welcome it, personally.
Let the trash take itself out.
And Trump puts gold on something in the Oval Office.
Oh, it's historic!
And the separation of powers isn't?
Get your head out of your ass.
I would vote for Sarah Palin before this shit.
Yeah, I mean, exactly.
We know.
We know, man.
Yeah, we know I don't know why this is like it's really funny that this is like presented
as a fresh take you know what I mean wow unbelievable you who would do such a thing
Wow, shocking.
We know man, we fuckin' know.
She's a bimbo, but if you ask her to come up with something she likes about America,
you can do it, you betcha.
Thank you very much.
I think this is a good thing and not a bad thing, because there's going to come a time
and place where people are going to either shelter their perspective, but choose a side.
And I would rather have the likes of Bill Maher, especially such gross, such repulsive,
arrogant monsters like Bill, openly state which side they are on, okay?
Is that simple?
Bill Maher is far more comfortable with fascism at a time when fascism is growing, at a time
when fascism is taking root in much more meaningful ways than ever before.
No longer are they crypto-fascist, but they're just straightforward fascists, right?
That's what Trump too has brought us.
Bill Maher leaning in that direction is unsurprising, okay?
I don't think he'll be able to bring a lot of people with him.
We escalation of the war with Iran sources tell CBS News that U.S. and the U.S. and Israel
are ready to launch what may be the harshest bombing campaign to date against Iran.
The potential targets include power plants, refineries and other infrastructure in Iran's
energy sector.
So I briefly talked about this yesterday in our situation monitoring segment.
I don't think this is, I mean, it's insane.
This is perhaps the most insane thing
that we could possibly do for two major reasons.
President has yet to give the final go ahead order
for strikes.
He's threatened for weeks to attack Iranian bridges
and power plants if Iran could not reach a deal with the US.
Olivia Rinaldi is in Bridgewater, New Jersey,
near Bedminster, where the president is staying this weekend.
Olivia, good morning.
Good morning, Kelly.
This would certainly mark a dramatic escalation in the war
and the return of Israeli forces to U.S. combat operations,
all while the ceasefire remains stubbornly out of reach.
Well, we're done, babe.
We're already done, babe.
At Camp David on Friday, President Trump suggested
Americans prepare for the war with Iran to continue
until Iran is diminished.
They'll get a little stronger, maybe,
but they'll get weaker, and then they'll be alright.
Maybe they have no air force, they have no anti-aircraft.
They don't have any capability, they have some, but very little.
And on the prospect of a deal coming together?
I'm losing faith in them because they do lie and they do misrepresent.
But the president giving rare defense of Iran.
After federal investigators announced they are looking into whether Iran was behind a
coordinated cyber attack to target water systems across Minnesota.
I would blame it on Minnesota and the governor, the corrupt governor of Minnesota.
They're like, you know, it's a rant.
A rant should be so lucky.
A rant's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota.
The FBI says at least seven states were impacted by the cyber attacks.
And officials say there's no indication that Minnesota drinking water quality was compromised.
Minnesota Governor Tim Wall's writing on X,
Trump knows exactly who is responsible for this attack.
This is what modern warfare looks like and it further illustrates
There's no plan to win a war with Iran, but there was one
It is kind of crazy because American infrastructure is dog shit, so you never know but also
Very funny that Trump is like no not my Iran
It could only be the one entity that is my bigger immortal enemy
the Democratic farmer labor party of Minnesota
Not the IRGC.
He really, he really hates the Democrats a lot.
The White House says Hamas agreed to disarm in exchange for complete withdrawal of Israeli
troops from Gaza.
Nobody thought that would be possible to disarm Hamas.
A Hamas spokesperson told CBS News the disarmament would not happen before Israel withdraws.
But Israel said Hamas must disarm first.
Still, the president touting it as a win.
If Iran is behind the cyber attacks on the U.S. water systems, the message is clear.
It's a warning if the U.S. strikes critical infrastructure in Iran, including desalination
plans and power grids.
Iran will respond in kind through cyber attacks against critical infrastructure in the U.S.
Essentially, Iran will bring the war to the U.S. itself using cyber.
The strategic mistake of starting and restarting the war is only becoming more enormous.
Yeah
Yeah
Now is there proof around it, I don't know but I will say this I
Will say this
It kind of makes sense, but it also in my opinion is a little bit of a mistake from the Iranian side
Because so far the reason why I guess like it doesn't really matter at that point because the reason why
Americans are largely
Uninvolved with this like American voters are
Against this war is because there's not been a real penalty to the Americans beyond like gas prices and
Even the dumbest American kind of understands that like we have we fucked stuff up over there
And that's why the gas prices are high. They're not blaming Iran for it. They're blaming Trump for it, right?
But if Iran started directly retaliating against like American critical infrastructure things that nature I feel like there would be probably more
more of a rallying around the flag
effect
That would probably increase support for the war effort against Iran
Not that it matters though because the Iranian calculation in this situation could potentially be well
Well, these Americans don't fucking like this war, but Trump doesn't give a shit, so we
might as well universalize the pain a little bit.
You know what I mean?
So that could be their calculation to increase the pressure.
But if you're Iran and your goal is to increase the pressure and increase the stress that
The average American is experiencing, while Americans are very spoiled overall, we're
a very spoiled country.
Our proximity to all the war that we wage gives us a tremendous opportunity to continue
waging war without significant penalties.
It could backfire.
Claude Disher says, it could go one of two ways, A, the penalties on Americans make them
blame Iran and support the war or be it makes people more sick of the war and
wanting it to end. I feel like the latter is more likely the longer the war goes
on but as it's still somewhat new the former is more likely. Yeah I don't know.
I think it depends on the severity of the impact.
Lack of proximity, yes not proximity, sorry. But I will say there is a country
far closer to Iran.
And yet that country seemingly has no investment whatsoever amid the escalation Israel Hayom
reports.
It appears that Israel will not be involved in the expected American attack against Iran
unless it is attacked itself.
Once again, I'm not fucking dying for Israel.
It's so funny. Only Americans, please. Only American corn fed Iowa boys and girls get
to die for Israel. Okay. No, not. We're not sending our Air Force out there. What are
you crazy? They got anti air defenses. They got anti air defenses. What do you mean?
Do you think we'd let any of our Israeli pilots die in the process?
Are you out of your dang mind?
Now that the war has been going on for so long in Ukraine, the Ukrainian attacks on Russia seem to be making
Russians less supportive of the war, but early in the war it galvanized support for the Russian war effort.
It depends on the level of attrition in my opinion.
Yeah, but again, it's it's been a long process for Russia.
So, you know, it's a it's a little different. America is still early, America is still early in the day in its in its efforts.
Also, Russians are used to worse material conditions than Americans are. I think Americans are definitely far more Americans have far less appetite for stress.
We're used to living very comfortable lives. I mean think about it COVID lockdowns
Let the Americans taking up arms against their local governments, you know, because they couldn't get a fucking haircut for like a week and a half
Yeah, Russian baseline tolerance for suffering is infinitely higher than Americans
So I don't know which way it would go I have no idea
But you bet your fucking ass any kind of attack on our critical infrastructure
we will have absolutely like Trump will have absolutely been responsible for it
ultimately because none of this shit had to happen the gas prices we did not
have to experience another inflation crisis what so fucking ever Trump
literally went in and did that shit at the behest of Israel and I will be
saying the truth, no matter how much people get mad at me for it, okay?
Now as far as the Hamas disarmament thing goes, Israel has also been in opposition to that, which is shocking, guys.
It's shocking, I tell you. Oh my God, imagine my surprise.
Imagine my surprise when I found out that Israel was not in favor of Hamas disarmament in exchange for leaving the Gaza Strip.
What? What? You mean to tell me that Israel is not going to remove their troops from 50%, 57% of the Gaza Strip in exchange for Hamas's
What? No way! No way!
What's next? You're going to tell me Israel didn't give a fuck about the hostages and we're simply using them as a propaganda talking point in the western world?
Stop. What's next? You're going to tell me Israel was trying to deliberately kill the Israeli hostages?
the
yet this is up of fire take
you to create a ride of the reveal the evening client light about dropping his
lawsuit against them and is now received an outcome in court date even
previously confirmed he would drop the lawsuit after receiving
significant backlash
online an apology for my doubts on retweeting the ship of the fakes he's
fire where have I seen this before? Banger. Yeah, Israel activity, Israel behavior 100%.
The US almost also here going back to going back to the situation monitoring.
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Here's the thing here's the thing, okay
America doesn't have the munitions to continue waging this war and the global markets don't have time to
continue
Waging this war as the straight-of-hormuz remains closed
As the Saudi oil refineries start getting peppered with
Houthi strikes
Worsening the crisis worsening the energy crisis, okay
Markets and munitions markets can't take any additional destabilization and America doesn't have the munitions to continue
And a lot more people are openly saying it now.
At least they're saying it to the media.
Here's a Washington Post exclusive U.S. General warns Pentagon he lacks sufficient forces
to protect Israel.
A shortage of Navy destroyers used to defend against the Iranian ballistic missile attacks
will force the head of U.S.-European command to prioritize the U.S. homeland instead, officials
said.
The top U.S. general in Europe privately warned the Pentagon this week that he lacked sufficient
naval forces to continue protecting Israel from incoming ballistic missiles.
A couple months ago, we lacked sufficient munitions to protect our allies.
Now we're admitting that we lacked the sufficient munitions to protect the homeland.
Do you understand how fucking insane that is?
Do you understand how fucking insane that is?
There are varying degrees of allegiances that we have.
Israel being at the top, right? Israel obviously is the most important asset,
more important than actual states in the United States of America, like
America would literally exchange Wyoming for Israel. America would allow
Wyoming to be nuked off the planet with all of the Wyomingites
in it in exchange for making sure that Israel was safe,
Making sure that Israel could continue expanding. I 100% believe that
Okay
So there's one element, but the entirety of the country now we got problems
There's varying degrees of care here, there's varying degrees of importance
So like obviously the least important are the Arab states Gulf states. They're nothing
even though they're worth so much more than Israel technically, in our calculation, they're worth nothing.
And that much remains to be seen. We're basically treating Saudi Arabia and the UAE like they're Kurdish militias, okay?
Literally bottom of the fucking barrel.
Then you got the Asian Security Theater, you got the Asian Security Cooperative Agreements in the Pacific Theater.
They're up next. We took their anti-air defenses and we panicked ship them into the Gulf specifically to defend Israel.
And then you got Europe. Obviously Eastern Europe is nowhere near as important, even though they're a part of NATO.
So they're a little bit more important than the Asian countries.
And then you got Western Europe.
And after Western Europe, you have the American nation, okay? Our United States of America.
While the United States of America, or at least our government, America, the entity, not the people,
while the United States of America could maybe eat a little bit of damage on the homeland
in exchange for, you know, going along with Israel's ambitions here,
When you arrive at our missile stockpile is not enough to not only not defend Asia, but Eastern Europe and Western Europe.
But now the United States of America didn't even mention Africa.
Dog Africa is not a part of the equation from the American foreign policy calculation.
What are you talking about?
We're talking about countries that we have security cooperative agreements with.
From the American calculation, Africa is a land for plunder and plunder only.
That's it.
Same with Latin America for the most part.
You think America would ever defend any African country?
What are you talking about?
You think America would defend any Latin American country?
What are you fucking talking about?
not even a question. Africa and Latin America is just land for plunder natural resources
and cheap or at times throughout history, dark chapters of history, free labor, okay?
I don't even think yes, you're not wrong. I don't even think America would defend Western Europe if push came to shove
my point is
If you can't defend the American homeland, then you have nothing, right?
These guys love talking about if we don't have borders, we don't have sovereignty if we don't have borders. We're not a nation, okay?
If we can't even defend the homeland because we have literally expended all of our fucking munitions on Israel, what are we?
other than a
Come sock for Israel and Israeli ambition. What are we? Are we a country?
Who's the senior partner in this coalition?
Who's the superpower here? Is it Israel or is it America?
What the fuck are we talking about?
General Lexis Grinkiewicz the head of US European Command, so obviously, you know
he's fake and gay and woke because he's you know in Europe said written
notification a senior Pentagon official saying that without another Navy
destroyer he would be forced to choose to defend the United States homeland over
that of Israel said the officials who like some others spoke on the condition
of man and immediately discuss the correspondence
a US defense official said Grinkiewicz's notification appears consistent with
pass outreach to the Pentagon from the military stop generals when they see
certain risks that require Washington's consideration this can occur the official
said as commanders compete for fine-out resources and weapons the Pentagon
declined to comment
US European command did not respond a request for comment a spokesperson for
the Israeli embassy in Washington could not be reached for comment the
general's warning comes at a tenuous moment in the five-month conflict as
near daily attacks of resume following the collapse of peace talks between
Washington and Tehran and the operations intensity has drained US supplies of key
defensive weapons the Navy has been particularly attacks as the Trump
administration has directed a blockade of Iranian ports in response to Tehran's
closure of the Strait of Hormuz the standoff has stymied the movement of
Middle Eastern oil and other commodities through the narrow waterway upending the
global economy, you know all this stuff already. And it's been very interesting
because this is yet another moment where I have to do my I told you so dance.
Okay. Piker Broadcasting Service, the People's Broadcasting Service for
Tomorrow's News today. Okay. There it is. This is why you subscribe to the People's
broadcasting service. This on the groundwork changing American politics for
the better, but this is part of the reason. There's another separate New York
Times article that came out with pretty scathing comments about the Iran War
reported by Preston Stewart. If you've been following Operation Epic Fury from
the start and even before it started here on this broadcast, none of this
This information is new for you.
You've heard it.
You've heard it for me over and over again to much criticism at the time, right?
Whenever I repeated this stuff, everyone was like, get the fuck out of here.
We got contingencies.
You're crazy.
America's the most powerful military on the planet.
You think we can't take out a middling power like Iran?
Well, guess what?
I was right.
And all of the naysayers that were hanging on to a hope and a dream, leaning into lethal
doses of copium, were wrong.
Shocking.
Shocking.
What Kami says, thank you for the 20 gift subs.
Turns out we are a paper tiger.
So how did I get it right?
And so many of these analysts got it wrong.
Well, there's a couple reasons.
Number one, I don't believe in American exceptionalism.
I think it's silly.
I think it's dangerous to lean into these sorts of ideals.
I think sober analysis requires you to look at the situation and also look at the opposition
what they're saying, what they're doing, what their capabilities are without this weird supremacist lens.
This is how America used to operate, by the way.
Even if they lied to the public overall, they wouldn't believe their own lies.
Nowadays, it feels like when Maria Bartiromo is like, I can't believe it.
What is going on?
Why are we incapable of destroying the Iranian military like my beautiful president said?
It sounds sincere, like she believed the bullshit.
Maria, you're supposed to be the one peddling the bullshit.
You're not supposed to believe the bullshit, you fucking idiot.
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This is a huge problem.
Even if you are pro-American empire, it's a huge problem.
Have no problem saying this out loud because they're not gonna fucking listen to me anyway
Part of it is because they don't listen to reason and they don't want to conduct sober analysis regardless
They don't want to listen to any naysayers
It's incredible dude
Same issue with China our interpretation and our analysis in the Western world on
China is
significantly lacking
Because we are constantly underestimating them anything that they do. Oh, there must be some other separate reason. Oh, they must be afraid
They must be scared of us
They don't have the power
They don't have the capacity to push back remember
Remember I told you liberation day. What did I say?
China was not going to back away from this that they had the capacity to push back against this idiotic thing
that Trump was doing, it was going to alienate all of our allies, and it was going to fail.
It was going to alienate our allies. It was going to cause volatility. It was going to
increase prices, which it did. And last but not least, China was not going to back down
and that China was inevitably going to come back to the bargaining table and create an
environment of stability, as they always do, after America's trade partners recognized
who was primarily invested in continuing international trade stability and who was increasing the
volatility. And it worked right after that. Canada, the UK, even Germany, France and many
other countries including Spain, went to China and cut bilateral deals without the United
States of America in opposition to the United States of America's demands for decoupling
from China. Now the reason why I got it right and many western analysts got it
wrong is because they don't want to look at what China is doing and take it
seriously. So even if their goals are different than mine because I believe in
cooperation with China and not saber-rattling against China and they
believe in opposing China and maybe even waging war against China which I don't
we need to worry about any longer. The reason why we get it right at the
Pikerbrot casting service and they get it wrong is because I listen to what the
Chinese officials are saying. I look at their capabilities. I look at the
material realities because no matter how hard you can propagandize about our
war efforts going well at the end of the day of Iran is still lobbing missiles at American
bases with successive strikes. That means that you were just lying because talking points
are not the same as successfully attritting the Iranian strike capabilities. Talking points
only delude people over here.
And the same warning I present one more time, this time on the markets.
Because of the gracious nature of China, always trying to trade max, always trying to maintain
global stability, for the last couple of months, for the last couple of months, the Strait
of Hormuz blockade has not turned into a major crisis, only because China cut their strategic
petroleum reserve imports by almost half. There's no guarantee that it will continue to do so.
This gives China tremendous leverage. But without that, Trump's yapping about how Iran
Iran is going to do a ceasefire.
Iran, we're going to blow up Iran on Friday nights, and then Iran is going to do a ceasefire
on Sunday nights, would go nowhere.
Because at the end of the day, there is a hard limit to how much oil is readily available
in the market.
Because this is not a speculative asset.
It's a hard commodity with inelastic demand.
commodity within elastic demand that will inevitably run out and once we hit
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What are some of the other takes from this New York Times article, Robert Nibblett, former
director of the Chatham House, called it a strategic loss and an embarrassment, adding
for the U.S. allies and those who rely on the U.S. for security, this is confirmation
that you can't trust the United States.
He continued, people won't forget that their security and their future were dragged into
question by an unpredictable and wavering U.S. foreign policy.
Who said these exact same words three months ago, four months ago?
I did.
Aliveyes, the Iran Project Director for the International Crisis Group, said,
�This is the crisis of credibility of the U.S. Neither its military prowess nor its
diplomatic promises can be trusted.�
Aaron David Miller, a former American negotiator and now a senior fellow at the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, said the conflict has undermined U.S. deterrence and credibility,
antagonized America�s allies, and delighted its adversaries.
That is where we are at.
You understand?
That's where we're at.
Level five hype train is also where we're at.
None of this had to happen.
Donald Trump could have said the exact same thing that every other president that came
The same forum said to Benjamin Netanyahu in different Israeli leadership, fuck off.
He could have just simply left it at that.
The Israelis have been agitating for a war against Iran for the last almost four decades.
We could have just said fuck off.
And here we are.
Black draped coffins coming back home, price of gas is going up, there's tremendous instability
that awaits the entire global energy markets, far worse than what we've seen thus far.
Our allies are frustrated partially because of our actions leading to great instability.
But also our allies all around the world are frustrated because we've shown, we've
shown them that we do not have the military prowess nor the military might and our commitments
are absolute to one country and one country only, and that is Israel.
And at the direction and at the behest of Israel, we are willing to throw the entire
world into chaos.
We are willing to forego our security commitments.
The countries that are technically far more valuable, far more bountiful in natural resources,
example, like the Gulf nations. The real politic of it all, the normal attitude here would be
to cut our losses with Israel, to demand that they pull back and we pull back from them,
and then redouble our commitments to the Gulf nations. I'm saying this not as someone
who is an anti-imperialist. I'm saying that the pro-American empire position that is strategic and
sound would be to lean into the Gulf allies, cut a deal with Iran, cause Israel to restrain itself,
force Israel to restrain itself, to no longer protect it, to no longer allow it to behave with
impunity in the violent and belligerent ways that it does.
But instead of doing that, we have only doubled down, tripled down, quadrupled down, quintupled
down on Israel's ambitions.
It is unbelievable.
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That only could have been cultivated after 80 years of unconditional loyalty by the way.
That's it.
That's why there's no other country.
As far as our examination of foreign partnerships, foreign allegiances, there's no other country
like Israel.
Israel stands alone.
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Breaking, Iran announces that it will strike the world's, what, Kami says, with the 50
Bones, God damn.
Iran announces it will strike the world's most important energy facilities located in
Arab countries and Israel, all within range of Iran's precision missiles in response to
any new U.S. and Israeli strikes per farce.
Gowar oil field, Saudi Arabia, the backbone of Saudi production, disruption puts 5 plus
percent of the world's oil supply at risk.
Global Oil Supply Chat, Upcake and Carase, Saudi Arabia, $7 million plus barrels per
day throughput, world's largest oil stabilization plant, Rueway's Refinery and Zuckham Oil
Field, the United Arab Emirates' second largest offshore oil field, $1 million plus barrels
per day, North Goddard Gas Field, Ras La Fon, LNG, Qatar, world's largest gas field with
25% improvement reserves and 20% of global LNG trade. The Burkan oil field in Kuwait
with 67 billion barrel reserves, 2 million barrels per day.
Citra refinery, the Al-Minhaj Bahrain, Leviathan, Tamar gas fields, Israel, Israel's largest
and second largest gas fields. Iran adds that during the 40-day war, Iran bombed Qatar's
most important gas refinery in response to a strike on the South
chorus facilities with Trump apologizing in true social
promising it will not happen again.
The reason why they're saying we will do this if you strike us
if you follow through on this destruction campaign on our
on our refineries on our power plants is because they they will do it
They will. And perhaps they'll do more. Perhaps there will be a domestic attack on our energy grid
here in the United States of America, cyber attacks potentially.
Mark Ames says Iran has to pre-announce the global catastrophe they can inflict because
the Trump admin still hasn't learned from five months of failed warfare. And Trump himself has had,
says he had no idea Iran was shut down the Shredda Hormuz in response to
getting attacked. However, Trump is so far gone even if Iran were to tattoo their
response plans and capabilities to his eyelids he wouldn't process it. This
absurdity is dangerous because a reporter says you said that they do have
some capabilities left. Should Americans be prepared for these back-and-forth
attacks until Iran is simply unable to strike back? Trump's response is they'll
They'll get weaker, they'll get weaker, they'll get stronger maybe, now, but they'll get weaker
and then they peter out, uh, yeah, sure, I think so.
This is so insane.
We are at the mercy of a complete and utter buffoon.
Who we know has no care and consideration for the damage he can deal to other countries
and its civilian population, but seemingly, he has no care or consideration for the damage
that we will receive in retaliation.
Level 8 hype train almost done, Satrinowitz has a take on it called the Mutual Assured
Destruction.
It is.
They don't need a nuke.
They have the nuclear option on trade which they've deployed and that didn't stop Trump.
And they have the nuclear option on all of the oil refineries that they can light on
fire and permanently cripple the global energy markets in a way that Trump can't yapp his
way out of.
Meanwhile, this is what Trump is doing.
Trump media has officially launched its new paid data service providing faster access to true social posts like a fucking Bloomberg terminal, by the way.
The new service is called Truth API, which gives firms a direct license real-time fee to the platform's most market-moving truths, the company's CEO said in a press release.
The service reportedly costs as much as $100,000 a month.
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Iran is doing very poorly just in case you read incorrect stories they're doing
very very poorly they're having a hard time their missiles have been largely
they have some left they have some but they have far fewer then they had four
five months ago their manufacturing capacity is almost gone the drone capacity is almost gone
they have very few but they have some we're in there five months oh my god
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On August 1st the US first the US calls honest citizens leave the West they leave West Asia
Due to the threat of significant escalation with Iran and its allies in the region in my opinion
Iran and allies are waiting after Arbaeen to respond to the US Saudi airstrikes in Iraq. They kill several people
so maybe August 5th
except
If the US attacks before past 24 hours have been very quiet except few attacks on Kuwait and Abil
Israel's hospitals enter stage of high alert across the country
It seems to me like they're gearing up for more conflict
now, given their tendency, the American strike should have come already, okay, so it should
come like last night as a matter of fact or night time in Iran the fact that it
still hasn't is very interesting yes Saudi military and their tactical gear
once again unmatched the guy in the ghillie suit is hilarious he looks like
a Japanese game so a game show I got a guy and say I was gonna kill everyone in
this picture yeah that's usually how it goes
But it is interesting to see how much the, I thought they were low on bombs, they are.
They are.
We are.
And it's so bad that they are consistently leaking this information to mainstream news.
It's almost like right before Operation Epstein's Fury started.
Right before Operation Epic Fury started, the generals were in a panic state.
Here is Fox News covering it.
That's when you know when this lady comes out in the morning show and starts saying
truthful shit, understand that the situation is not great.
Bill, well the Pentagon is confronting a growing reality after months of fighting in
Iran.
his stockpile of missile defense interceptors is shrinking so we're low on defensive munitions
not actual bombs yes but we're also low on standoff munitions as well okay here's the
problem and I keep repeatedly explaining this over and over again we have expended and depleted
a decent chunk almost half of our standoff munitions
the reason why we've utilized our standoff munitions
rather than
are bombs
right gravity bombs unguided grove uh... guided gravity bombs because
we have not been able to establish
air superiority over the iranian airspace iranian anti air defenses
have still been
lasering american planes
you've been saying the same thing for weeks
Because why would the situation change?
It's not like we magically figured out a new weapon that can evade their anti-air systems.
I've been saying the same shit over and over again,
because we've been doing the same shit over and over again.
I know I sound like a fucking broken record.
Every damn day I turn on this stupid fucking stream and I keep repeating myself
because Trump keeps repeating himself.
It's not like it was untrue months ago.
It's just more true now than it was even last week.
What can I do?
Donald Trump goes on television and says we won the war.
We've destroyed the Iranian Navy.
We've destroyed the Iranian striking capabilities.
We've successfully attritted their strike capabilities.
We've destroyed their defenses.
But, all signs are pointing to a potential escalation.
All signs are pointing to a potential escalation as the State Department is urging Americans
to consider leaving Middle East as regional conflict escalates.
This fucking rinse and repeat every damn day, man.
Trude Parsi also has an assessment on the US General from European Command, warning
Pentagon that he lacks sufficient force to protect Israel.
Trude says, I see three plausible explanations for this move.
One, this is a genuine attempt at preventing a likely US escalation in the making.
Two, this is intended to give Trump a way out.
Trump can continue to portray himself as tough and willing to take the fight.
But the problem is with military readiness.
3. This is deception aimed at lolling Tehran into a false sense of security only for Trump
and Nanyahu to attack Iran in a major escalation in short order.
Why the fuck are you not a streamer games?
Big dog.
There's literally a major primary take in place on Tuesday here in Michigan.
Are you out of your dang mind?
So much that military planners are weighing whether they can continue the current cycle
of limited retaliatory strikes.
The Center for Strategic and International Studies, using open source budget numbers,
estimates U.S. Patriot interceptor inventories have fallen from roughly 2,300 pre-war to
fewer than 827, while THAAD interceptors have dropped from 452 to fewer than 278.
CSIS wants rebuilding those stockpiles could take three years or more.
If you look at what we've expended for patriots, for example, it's over half the global inventory
now has been consumed in the Middle East. Similar for the bad interceptors as well.
These are things that we have to intercept ballistic missiles. So that really leaves
us with very little excess to be able to use in other theaters, whether it's to defend
US forces in Europe, or the Indo-Pacific?
The Pentagon recently summoned leading Silicon Valley defense firms like SHIELD, AI, Anderle,
and others to discuss urgently replenishing depleted US weapons inventories.
The concerns are that these companies, they have not produced at scale.
They have commercial kind of technologies, they've done prototyping, but now, are they
able to have production lines that can work with the government to produce those munitions
at scales.
Since 2024, 10,000 new defense tech companies have entered the market.
This former Navy SEAL started SHIELD AI over a decade ago and recently returned from Ukraine
where his AI-driven targeting systems are being used.
tech was not a word in 2015, venture capitalists thought we were crazy when we said we wanted
to work on this mission of protecting service members in school.
Yeah, it's a fucking hashtag ad. Jesus Christ. Anyway, um, yeah, the US blue almost entire
clip protecting Israel, who cares about you, Com or protecting the homeland, everyone is
a part of Sancom now, the US must sacrifice everything for Israel. That's increasingly
becoming the reality here. It's actually insane.
Successful happening with Iran. Because if you go four months or five months to a deal
like that, it would have been impossible.
Now White House and Board of Peace officials say it could take months to implement that
agreement between Hamas and Israel. And Adriana, we should note the war in Iran has now entered
its sixth month.
An important note, Olivia. Thank you so much.
Overnight, the U.S. Embassy in Jordan issuing a security alert urging Americans to consider
leaving the Middle East as U.S. assets and allies in the region face attacks by Iran.
Meanwhile, here at home, President Trump took Friday's Cabinet meeting to Camp David, where
he told reporters the military is ready to ramp up strikes if progress isn't made on
the diplomatic front.
Steve Harrigan joins us now with the latest.
Steve.
That's right, that warning from the U.S. Embassy in Jordan telling Americans not to travel
to the region or if they are here now to consider leaving.
And it comes as President Trump has issued a warning that the U.S. could launch major
attacks against Iran.
The President is saying those attacks could come as early as this weekend and they could
last for several days.
Here's the President.
We'll be hitting them.
We'll be hitting them very hard.
At some point they're going to say we just can't take them anymore.
way to spend tax money to wage war on the other side of the world. Yeah, war that also
has negative consequences for Americans here. Like Donald Trump ran and won on fixing the
prices. This was the promise that he made. He ran on being the peace president. He ran
on ending wars. And he ran on fixing prices, right? And of course, you know, shutting off
the border and purging all the brown people from the U.S. boundaries, okay?
As far as promises made, promises kept goes, he is quite literally doing the exact opposite,
okay?
He ran on fucking P's and Lauren's prices, prices are increasing, and there's less
P's than ever before.
Him and his closest buddies are the ones who are making money right now and they're making money hand over fist
The last major energy grid threat in subsequent taco March 20th to 23rd drove Brent down by 11% from pre threat level
It also happened over the weekend if this coordinated bluster they can announce a new diplomatic effort on Monday
We don't know that that's the case
But that was the major one that was back when I
Think that was literally when Trump said he's gonna nuke Iran when I when I had arrived in Michigan
ironically enough
To do the Abdul stomp it was the same day
You can sense some frustration in the president yesterday about Iran's
Negotiating tactics negotiating for days at a time and then suddenly striking
US assets in the region attempting to strike US military positions in the region and also attacking civilian shipping
Here's President Trump on negotiating with the Iranians
Also, this this is like pure projection. I don't know what else to say like every time
He does some fuck shit. He goes on. They just lie all the time. It's like bitch
What do you mean they lie all the time?
Like you know, we can see what you're doing, right?
You lie to us you lie to yourself you lie to the world you're lying to everybody
It makes no sense this argument makes no sense Iran if anything has not lied at all
They keep saying look you strike us. We're gonna strike back and lo and behold we strike them and then they strike back
Okay, there's never been a moment where Iran is like actually we want to do
negotiations and then boom lo and behold they're striking our assets in
the region that's not what's been going on we've been doing that to them and
while we've been lying to them and lying to the rest of the world constantly
being like no Iran wants to do a deal Iran wants to do a deal Iran has to come
out every time and be like no we don't want to do a deal what the fuck are you
talking about
Iran has been pretty fucking straight forward every damn day of the week.
Well, the other day the five missiles were shot.
We knocked them down, but we were in the midst of a negotiation.
I mean, I'm waiting for Steve to call me.
How's the negotiation going?
And instead I got a call from Pete that they just shot five missiles at one of our bases in Jordan.
If there are major attacks, it's not clear whether or not Israel would be a part of them.
They've largely been on the sidelines for the past seven weeks of this war.
Guys back to you.
Okay.
All right.
Thank you, Steve.
All right.
Thank you, Steve.
Truly, it's a tragic situation.
And of course, as we've talked all along, I feel like Iran has dreadfully miscalculated
President Trump, especially when you wind up actually killing US soldiers.
If you think that you're going to bully Trump or push Trump into backing down because of
an upcoming midterm election, any hope of that goes out the window when you wind up
killing US service members.
We lost the lives of three service members in Jordan on a base after it was struck by
missiles from Iran. One of those soldiers was laid to rest yesterday, I believe, in New
York, in Queens. And among the people that were there was Mayor Mamdani, who was intending
to speak at the event, at the funeral. And the family was not interested in having him
speak at the family. Here's the New York Post.
Yeah, there he is on the right.
Is that him?
The silent treatment, yes.
So strange.
Such a strange new story, dude.
They, dude, the New York Post treats Zara Mammdani
like sex, Pesty, and Ellis F used to treat me.
Like it's kind of funny.
It's really fucked up, but it's also kind of funny
that they're literally like,
oh, he really wanted to deliver a speech
and make it all about himself.
Like where did you get this information from?
Like I don't even understand, like why?
Like why is, like how did this become a thing?
Like you're just, why are they so parasocially obsessed?
It's a real damned if you do damned
if you don't style situation too,
because it's like imagine Zoran doesn't attend
the fucking funeral of the queen soldier.
Are you kidding me?
Zoran Mamdani loved that the queen soldier died.
Didn't even want to attend the funeral.
You know what I mean?
They're literally behaving like my fucking weird haters on the internet
Yeah, you know, I do think that look there there's nothing nice about war
This is always the the worst case scenario
But I think when you look at this president and the strategy he's employed here
You know you look at the situation
we just saw resolved in Gaza with the board of peace coming to this agreement.
It will mean that in perpetuity, the people there in Gaza who were constantly being talked
about, people, the pro-Palestine crowd, free Palestine, all these people.
I disagree with New York City mayor plenty, but this criticism is unfair.
My understanding is that the family didn't want elected officials speaking in the mayor
respect to their wishes.
He was warmly received and clearly moved by the beautiful ceremony.
This isn't something to fault him for.
Oh my god.
Oh my god.
Wow, you mean to tell me that the New York Post lied?
What? You mean to tell me that Fox News leaned into the lie from the New York Post?
What?
Wow. Wow, that's shocking.
I'm so shocked you mean they made it up they they literally automatically made the assumption
that if there was an elected representative there if there was an elected at the funeral that their
expectations that they speak and Zoram was really sad you mean to tell me that did your
post behaving exactly what my fucking psychotic haters do when they'll clip something to be
like like did this literally happen to me and with with uh you know with zoran
on zoran's election victory party
like i got the fucking five star vibe treatment over there obviously this was a major night
for this entire movement we're all celebrating next day i go online and everyone's like oh
Dude, it's crazy. I can't believe you got fucking owned. I can't the law you deserve is or I'm denied you entry into the event
It's like what the fuck?
Why are you inserting yourself into the story because I'm a fucking twitch streamer and
There is the exact same through line that exists in some of the dumbest fucking drama farmers on the internet with respect to how the New York
Post is operating
I'm trying to use an analogy from a personal anecdote
As an example to show you how fucking stupid mainstream outlets are
Is that okay?
It's called an explanation
The expectation I have is that, not New York Post, but at least like Fox News is not going to just like literally behave like LSF does with me.
Is that appropriate? Is that, am I allowed?
I know, it's a fucking very strange analogy, it's a very strange example and yet it fucking works in this situation.
Situation here you're getting a shot. Are you need to take the camera out? Okay, or you can take it
Okay, no, we're I'm down to but are we gonna be early?
People are pretty silent now
They may want to thank the president okay without him they'd be living under terrorist rule
Hamas would be ruling their lives, they would be living in misery and now they have a hope
for a better future, but it was strategy and it didn't happen overnight.
And I think when we're looking at a situation like we have in Iran, you have to look at
how the president has operated this whole way.
It's been very strategic, he's tried to be diplomatic about it, but you look at the
way he decimated their military, you look at the way that he attacked economically and
now they're kind of boxed into a corner and you're right, he is not worried about anything
that is politically advantageous, Charlie, he's worried about doing the right thing
at the right time and that time is now.
It is worth noting, President Trump was at the dignified transfer of those three fallen
heroes.
Mm-hm.
And he saw those caskets, straight from the American flag, being carried.
He's literally at the scene of the crime.
You know what I mean?
But yeah, he's responsible for those deaths.
He's directly responsible for those deaths.
It's very very weird that you would just bring that up if I were if I was Fox News
I probably wouldn't even mention Trump in that situation at all. You know what I mean?
Off of a plane coming back to the US you saw in that video of Sergeant Ramberson
yesterday being carried in a flag draped coffin. President Trump has talked
about the hardest job he has any president has is going to dover and
and greeting dignified transfer.
And I think that, mother, this family feels that,
listen, you have done nothing but rail against President Trump.
You're the mayor, stay out of the foreign policy.
They're making shit up now.
This is literally Reddit comments under an LSF post.
I cannot believe it.
I cannot fucking believe it.
Fox News, the most popular network news program
news program is behaving in the exact same way that redditors do on LSF.
They made up a story, they took something out of context, they made up a story, and
now they're adding additional commentary onto that completely made up story.
This is just fan fiction, okay?
And who are they using for this made up story?
A dead soldier, okay?
19-year-old who didn't need to die at all but died because our president decided to listen to the real American president Benjamin
Danielle and start a fucking dumbass war with Iran
unbelievable
What the fuck Lane it also do not simply bring
politics into the most sacred painful moment of our lives and you have to really put that in context
What the fuck and you begin to have the empathy for the family and why they felt that way
But yet, ma'am. I'm done a is bringing politics into it. Yeah, you just did dude. What the fuck what the fuck?
All right, are we ready?
Okay
They're shameless wish people from our side would learn from this yeah
Yeah, speaking of shamelessness, it's strange, but Mike Rogers has already decided that Abdul
al-Sayed won the primary, considering that he's already debuting his web at targeting
Abdul al-Sayed.
Wait, you're a Republican.
Why would you even care if you're running against the Democrat regardless?
Why would you even make a distinction between a normal Democrat and a Democrat like Abdul?
Oh my god, I realize why they released this ad, this web ad.
It's not because they're slating it against Abdul in the general.
They're trying to do a last-ditch effort to be like, see, he's even more weak than Haley
Stevens because Haley Stevens is a normal Democrat.
i'd much rather run against hailey steven's is a much more who's a much
stronger democrat please vote for hailey steven's the primary you got a couple
days remaining
the odyssey i'm dying within peaking
muslimically out of the wood yet
yeah
don't be jealous because he has a higher production value than you do, yeah dude i'm sorry that i'm not doing fucking AI slop
hey
hey at least i wasn't in this one, you know, i'm actually i'm a little
i'm a little sad that i wasn't mentioned in this one
but there will be plenty of opportunities
I'll do so I'm live
cc's like it
he seems to enjoy it
already go
and let me take a look
yeah it's there
okay
all right uh... we're gonna now move to to linko donovan mckinney
uh... we have
we have uh...
some more
videos this was from channel four about the
does the summer men
i'll be giving you guys more uh...
all the uh...
all beyond the other side
okay
For the people of Gaza, Donald Trump's attempts to engineer a ceasefire have brought little
relief from the misery that is their daily existence.
This week, like most weeks, multiple Israeli airstrikes hit targets across the strip.
More people injured, more people dead, despite a 20-point agreement brokered last October.
Trump's announcement that Hamas has agreed to a complete disarmament has failed to generate
much optimism here.
God willing, they will find a solution for us.
Hamas will surrender their weapons and Gaza will return to how it was before October
7th.
I don't have confidence in the occupying forces.
The occupation puts obstacles in the way every day.
You cannot negotiate while they're confronting you.
This announcement was first aired with a plomb on his social media site, Truth Social.
The deal was historic, a critical step, Hamas signing up to a detailed roadmap on disarmament.
Yet in a cabinet meeting at Count David, he was sounding more restrained.
Most people said that it would be a deal that would be unknowable now.
Will it go through its ups and downs?
It's a very complex situation over there.
People are very complex and difficult, but that will be a great breakthrough.
Nobody's ever thought that would be possible, to disarm from us.
Disarmament is a key part of Trump's plan.
Without it, the introduction of a new government won't work,
nor will reconstruction start in the battered territory.
And we now have details of how the plan is supposed to work.
An inventory will be made of heavy weapons, military production sites, depots of weapons
and tunnels within Gaza. A new Palestinian administration will then enter the strip and
start to assume its responsibilities. The disarmament of weapons will be completed in a
gradual, sequential and time-bound manner. And this is crucial. It's all linked to and is really
withdrawal in phases from the strip. But it is the withdrawal of Israeli forces that
may represent the biggest problem here. Currently, in control of 60% of Gaza, Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu has shown little to no enthusiasm for such a withdrawal, and with
a national election scheduled in October, such a move could alienate key supporters.
The fact is, neither side has shown much enthusiasm for Donald Trump's big announcement.
An Israeli official said there would be no withdrawal from Gaza until they got genuine
disarmament.
Well, Hamas said there would be no disarmament until Israel withdraws.
And clearly, a substantial goal remains between the two.
So Trump's deal is starting to look more aspirational than actual.
But in Gaza, the reality of life looks the same, amid the fear and the rubble, there's
no declaration of success here.
John Sparks, Scania's in Jerusalem.
President Trump claims his Board of Peace has reached a historic agreement which will disarm
Hamas inside Gaza, a development welcomed by the Foreign Minister of Miliband, while
the U.S. president made the announcement in a post on true social saying the deal would
shift control of Gaza to a new Palestinian authority and withdraw Israeli troops from
the region this afternoon.
In Israeli political sources told Sky News, the idea will only withdraw from the yellow
line when Hamas undergoes a genuine disarmament.
I'm joined now by our defence and security analyst, Michael Clark.
Professor is-
Okay, I'm going to flip it back.
Okay, what's up chat?
We are on a journey right now to get a real Detroit Slice, okay?
We're here, we're live, we're live, and we are on a mission.
Today I am going to be interviewing Donovan McKinney one on one.
We've had him on the broadcast already.
I went out on my campus forum last night, but we haven't really given them a full shake.
And hopefully we'll be able to fundraise a little bit given that their campaign is, you
know, they need as much money as possible in the upcoming days in order to effectively
pushback against the the
barrage of attack ads coming from shrie tanadar
obviously a self-financing his campaign
with one exception
APEC
APEC actually made up for some of his cryptocurrency losses
you mean you're getting new jersey pizza in Detroit noted?
Okay, that's great.
But yeah, From Where Pizza?
Detroit Pizza.
Which I do happen to enjoy.
For those of you who don't know.
Oh my god, everyone's name is Seapult Seapult.
Seapult, Jesus Christ.
We got a lot of the others.
I know.
You happy?
You happy, chat?
Seatbelt, how? See, they're going to give you the worst seatbelt charge you've ever seen. You're like Al Capone and it's tax evasion.
Gonna be alright.
You know why you fly through a windshield? I mean, it sits over at that point. Click it or take it.
Does Michigan have back CC butt laws?
So communism is here already, then.
What the hell?
I didn't realize I was in a goddamn communist state.
I thought Abdul...
I thought Abdullah was gonna bring communism to this dang state.
Oops.
Oh, there's...
So is Hank Packer a libertarian or a conservative?
I'm anything I need to be at any given moment.
I got my libertarian tendencies, but mostly conservative.
Don't belt on me, yeah, I hate, I hate seat belts.
I hate Ralph Nader, every time I have to click it, I think to myself, God damn you, Ralph
Nader.
But Hank Packard, above all else, is apolitical.
And our co-capitals with Republican characteristics, dude, Michigan reminds me so much of New Jersey
and I feel like I have this now that I've been around the country a little bit more
than ever before, I have this firm commitment to the belief that every American state is
the same like America is is literally that that photo I'm talking about the one
with like the gas stations at the intersection that's literally every
fucking state every state
And now when you look at the gas stations
Gases like five bucks four bucks five bucks. Well, it's six bucks in California and comma 40
Which is you know
Comma 40
But the tons of guys with some of us on their cars talking to their phone camera. Yeah
What is this? I genuinely think Abelo says a strong candidate for the party, but do you really need these TikTok style videos?
They just feel a bit unnecessary to me. Your public service after all.
What are you fucking 75 years old? Those TikTok style cameras are
creating tremendous excitement.
It's fucking...
It's the best way to get earned media too on top of like
additional user-generated content.
You're out of your dang mind, you fool.
Anyway, I've been seeing Hodge and those other centrists talking about how
they're no longer going to use vote blue no matter who saying vote blue no matter
who is dead it turns out oh thank you haas for posting the the image oh you
put it guys yeah he put it you put it right next to me legend and he put the
lemon bro in there too that is literally America though like everywhere
Everywhere you go it's kind of the same.
We're almost there. Can we stop at McDonald's? No. The
truck pizza only baby. That's the only thing we're having today. I mean
literally we haven't had food yet so. Did we tell the journalist that he was?
Yeah, he's gonna meet us there.
Oh, he's gonna meet us there? Okay.
Yeah, I just gave him an update, too.
Alright, alright. Good.
Okay.
Hank Puker?
Oh yeah, that's true. That's what Mark Levin calls me.
Passong Puker.
What did Alex Jones call you?
You call me Pecker?
Uh, Son, Pecker.
That's his name.
Yeah.
Here we go.
Is this it?
Yep.
Okay, don't show them around.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, they're right here to Donovan's here as well.
We got here at the same time.
Thank you, sir.
Yeah, it's good, sir.
Yeah, this is fine.
Yeah, if you need a back ride for nighttime, keep my car.
If you want it.
Sure.
Call me.
Yeah, come on.
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This is me and the original buddy's pizza bag, come on.
You guys mean the match? What is this?
I know, I know, I know.
Oh my god.
That was a sneaker ball.
Yeah man, this is history right here.
The birthplace of the Detroit style pizza.
Wait, really?
This is the birthplace?
Birthplace of Detroit style pizzas.
Okay
Oh no, no, no, no, no.
I think we're going to do a good job.
We're going to do our next.
Yeah.
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There's the other one.
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Oh, that's the one.
We have to do this.
All right, we'll get on the ride.
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I'm gonna can't let's talk a little comfortable. I'm gonna come back and get some drinks and get some things going
Man, you just step down right now though. I'm starving
All right, so
So we haven't really done a
a one-on-one Canada interview with you so far, okay, is that is the angle good everything good there?
Okay, it's not gonna it's not gonna stick
Okay
So I'm gonna I'm gonna run you through some questions like that to get you
to you know
Talk about the district
Talk about who you are even though we did do the phone bank yesterday and then hopefully we can fundraise a little bit today
Love your is we're in the final days we're in the we're in the thick of it
You're upon a street on a dars and self-financing his campaign. Yeah with all of his
Puppy abuse money
That was when you I didn't even realize what
Because I had seen him already like I knew
Because I remember, and I don't know if you brought this up when we first talked about it,
he wanted to run for governor.
And he initially wanted to run as a Republican.
Which is, I feel like that's insane.
I mean, this guy is like, his ambitions are all over the place.
And he has his consultants like, tell me which party I should run for.
You know what I'm saying?
Pretty crazy.
It's pretty crazy that you're supposed to have your convictions first, and then...
But I guess that's just how American politics are in many respects, or has been,
and even in the Democratic Party, which he found a home for this district,
but I think not for long, hopefully.
Yeah, that was true.
So, let me pull out my notes real quick, because I got it right here.
Okay, so we're joined by Donovan McKinney,
he's a state representative in Michigan,
running in Michigan 13 for the U.S. House.
It's a D plus 22 district.
The district is a very poor district.
Has a higher black population
than many other districts as well.
Primary's obviously on August 4th,
and Donovan's primary opponent is Shree Thanadar,
the incumbent.
Donovan's gotten endorsements from DSA National, Bernie Sanders, Rashida Tlaib, Abdul El-Said,
Adam Homily, who we were with last night, you know, running around town in the Hamtramic
streets.
Maylock, Keros, Chris Rapp, Justice Democrats, Working Families Party, UAW of Michigan, AFLCI
of Michigan, and Metro Detroit DSA.
You're a lifelong Detroit-er, former union organizer, progressive state representative,
and now you're running for Michigan's 13th congressional district.
You were raised on the northeast side by your grandmother near Seven Mile Road while your
mother worked three jobs just to keep food on the table.
You spent over four hours every single day riding the public bus to get to and from high
school, and your childhood was marked by frequent evictions, housing insecurity, and an incarcerated
father. You've been endorsed by DSA National and numerous other left-link
candidates including Bernie Sanders and you're gonna unseat multi-millionaire
incumbent Tritonidar, an interface that has become a major proxy over the
economic and foreign policy direction of the Democratic Party. Now that we
gave a chat a little bit of a rundown in your background you grew up moving
13 times. Yes. You got evicted a bunch of times in the process. You rode the bus two hours each way to go to a decent school
You your mother your brother your grandmother all share the same asthmatic cough from growing up next to Detroit's smoke stacks
This is a very important part of environmental racism that underserved communities experience. Unfortunately your opponent is a 71 year old
pharmaceutical multi-millionaire
who owned a Ferrari and
and moved from Ann Arbor to Detroit in 2019 specifically to run for office and
has poured more than 12 million dollars of his own money into buying political
power and buying the seat. What does someone who has actually experienced the
district's struggles understand about the 13th district that a man who's a
multimillionaire with a Ferrari fundamentally cannot?
Yeah, no. Sign this is an honor to be on your stream again. Shout out to all your viewers, man.
in the chatters, but you know, you need people to live the experience in these positions
because you know you're going to meet the urgency that this moment demands, right?
And so when people call me for help, I understand that they can't wait for me to respond.
Like we have to respond like this is a five-on-one fire.
And what's happening right now is we've got a congressman in a moment who doesn't pick
up the phone for people.
That's what I hear constantly.
This is the fifth sports congressional district in the country, and so what's happening is
we got a guy in there, he uses his office allotment, taxpayer money, to promote himself.
So the average member of Congress spends about 5% of their office budget promoting themselves.
He spends 11 times that, 55%.
And so that's why you'll see him on the big billboards, you'll see him on TV year-round,
seeing with big mailers like literally that costs money. And a lot of it, a lot of these
dollars taxpayer money supposed to go to the day to day operations of the district. And
so we are going to restructure how that works on day one. And then we're going to put it
towards staff salaries, and we're going to put it towards hiring adequate staff to do
the case worth to connect people with those resources that need to be done.
So, because the issue of services.
Yes, that's what it is.
One of the most important aspects of being
a representative in the congressional district,
especially like this one.
It's also, I suspect, part of the reason
why Shtonidar, regardless of his name recognition,
through all the billboards, and also because he's
a very colorful personality, was still
trailing it like barely 50% in some of the early polls.
You've closed that gap in recent, in one of the last polls that came out, you've closed
the gap from I believe 20 points, you've closed that 20 point gap and it's a very close race
which is part of the reason why we want to fund race for you to the best of our ability
in this last moment.
Hopefully mods are spamming your link by the way, I think we have a donation link, right?
Me too.
What's the donation link?
It is apricotcom.com slash donate slash kidney, song 2.
Oh, okay, McKinney-Hassan to that.
Michael from Pennsylvania, fundraised 17 grand, I believe.
Last time you were on a stream, we got to outdo that.
We can't let them come back to Pennsylvania.
Yeah, right now you're about six grand.
We're past six grand so far.
Michael from Pennsylvania got to 17.
We have to double that.
We can't let him mage us.
We can't let him money mage us, but speaking of money,
Michigan's 13 has a poverty rate of 27%
and a child poverty rate of 42%.
More than four in 10 kids are growing up poor in this district.
Nearly 200,000 of your would-be constituents live below the poverty line.
A median household makes about 50 grand.
Under Thonadar's watch, the district's poverty rate jumped over 3% in one year.
What's your plan to make sure every constituent in your district can afford
a roof over their head, food on their table, and a dignified life to enjoy with their family?
No, good question.
And so what we're going to be focusing on
and how to find politics is the redistribution of resources.
And so when you have to take our taxpayer money
to fund wars overseas, I got my opponent, like Shireen,
all he does is send money to Tel Aviv, Israel,
and pretty much support genocide.
And so my focus will always be working people of our district
and the working people of this country
have who have been left behind.
So one of my biggest concerns that we're gonna be fighting for
is ensuring that we lower the cost of living,
but then also being able for people to work one job,
not only to make ends meet, but have disposable income,
you know, benefits, take care of the family,
and we're trying to look forward to best American dreams.
But we need to raise the minimum wage immediately,
federally, it's still 725, that is absurd.
The second thing we can do immediately,
and hopefully with the coalition,
because I can't do it by myself,
In Congress, I need partners.
And we already got, I think, at least nine progressives
elected that are coming in this new freshman class.
I believe I'll be the 10th in the next coming days.
And so that's why we need people's support with the dollars
to get us over the hump.
But one of the things we can do with the help
of support of Congress is trying to figure,
we haven't changed the poverty line.
And I don't know how in decades, man.
And so, when we talk about how money is getting down
to the least of these, like it's not getting down
to the poor, the poor because of how we define poverty
in this country.
And so, we need to do the child tax credits,
ensuring that it alleviates that poverty
with the children poverty rate, but more importantly,
like giving people resources for food, for housing,
for like just the basic necessities to be able to live.
That's how you start changes of things.
But instead of sending the money overseas for war,
violence and weapons to kill families and children,
it should be coming back home in these districts.
And that's what we taught the mom for me.
So, under street time of ours,
Michigan's 13th district has a firearm homicide rate
that's nearly three times the national average.
A food insecurity rate doubled the national average.
55% of public school students were chronically absent
from class, where the national average is at approximately
26% the lead risk exposure index is the highest in the nation
Yeah, at 10 out of 10 the averages around 5.5 there are
47.3 opioid overdose deaths per 100k, which is double the national average as well
at 10.6
It's arguably the single most left behind in problems district. It's the fifth
Most improvised in the United States. How do we get here?
like how did this happen and how do you plan on pulling the district out of this
calamity yeah so let's talk about the left pipe issue as a state rat which I'm
currently am I was able to bring home over $600 million for left pipe
replacement but it's a drop in the bucket I know if you heard about this or
know the history of Detroit but our public school system here in the city
had to literally set up all the drinking water.
Yeah, I heard about that.
In the B, I like to say the BC air,
but it was before COVID.
And if you gotta think about this,
if the pipes on the ground are interconnected
and the schools are testing my levels of lead,
what about our homes and our neighborhoods?
So the kids can escape without school,
but when they come home, they still exposed to it.
And so we need, like it's old infrastructure.
We need like billions of dollars
to fix all the live service lines in our community.
We still have wooden pipes on the ground, still operating.
How you doing?
Good to see you.
All right, come on, come here, hold up.
I haven't seen you since you've been all alone.
I know, how you doing?
I'm doing good.
Nice to see you.
No stress out, you guys, thank you.
I appreciate it, I appreciate you.
And so like, what we have to do is...
This happens a lot, by the way.
What time?
Does it?
that you're one of the most like affable,
one of the, he is, you're so social.
Thank you, bro.
You're the most social, like I've done
a lot of these things already.
You're the most social guy I've been around
as far as all the candidates.
Really?
Yeah, you're constantly dabbing people up, it's crazy.
It's crazy.
Man, we got the love of the people.
I'll say this real quick.
I gotta give a shout out to my grandmother
and my mom who helped raise me.
Like we moved a lot, you talked about it,
13 times across the city.
Yeah.
I've been growing in my life for more than two years now.
But my grandmother taught me these two things that I still live by today and I'm so grateful
to still have her in my life.
She's still alive.
The first thing she taught me was count your blessings because you woke up this morning
when a lot of people didn't, right?
You able-bodied, you got clothes on your back, roof over your head, car to drive, food on
the table.
So those small things you can take for granted day in and day out, she said, count your blessings.
Number two, she always used to tell me, no matter what happens in life, there will always
be people worse off than you, there will always be people better off than you, but to never
fight the urge to give.
Never fight the urge to give.
So I put her quote on my first piece of literature when I ever went for state rent, and inspired
me to get into public service, and that's what I'm able to do what I'm doing now.
It is a sacrifice.
I have a beautiful wife, three amazing children, ages four and younger.
We got two baby boys, four and two, and a baby girl now that's 11 months old.
And to all the daughters out there, y'all run the whole household.
I know I'm a dad, girl, and it's a different type of love, but I love one of my children.
But I'll tell you this, I'm raising them in the same communities I grew up in.
And my ninth and 10th grade years of high school, literally getting on a bus,
traveling over two hours one way to get to school, I remember attending in the
the span of 18 months, 14 females of my friends and family
due to gun violence in our communities,
which literally led me as a state rep
to push for a community violence intervention
when President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris
created the office of gun violence prevention
first time in the nation's history.
They decided to do pilot programs
in certain areas across the country.
Detroit was one of them.
I had a meeting with them and I straight up told them,
I said, if you invest in Detroit,
Usually you don't make guarantees as an elected official.
You least try not to because your job is to under promise
and over deliver, not the other way around.
But in this meeting, I was very confident.
I said, because the Democrats,
we had the power at the time of the state.
I said, listen, if you invest in the trade,
I guarantee the master dollars
and expand those resources statewide.
About a grace of God, we ended up fighting for that,
getting it, because I'm the only Detroit
Appropriations Committee House here in Lansing last time in this term in Michigan and we got the
dollars. So Michigan became the first state in the country to have a statewide community
advisory and adventure program which our homicides have dropped. But now I'm starting to see the
suicides that have gone up amongst our youth because a lot of them don't feel welcomed. They don't
feel like their life matters. And so that's one of my top focuses with the mental health, emotional
the wellness and I got dollars from the state to build the first youth mental
health facility in Northeast Detroit. So and that's going to be open in the
next couple years or so. The rehab and the building doing everything possible.
But like we just got to fill in the gaps. That's what government is all about.
Yeah. We got to fill in the gaps. I don't think Shri Tonadhar is doing a good job
with that. Yeah. At least in 2010 one of Shri Tonadhar's research facilities in
New Jersey, Aniklin, went bankrupt and was placed into receivership.
I think you know where I'm going.
This is the first thing you told me about when we met in Denver.
Reports emerged that 170 lab animals, including 118 beagles and 55 monkeys were abandoned inside the facility without care.
Activism former employees actually had to climb the fences to feed and water these animals before welfare groups could rescue them.
to rescue them.
Thanadar is denied responsibility and blame bank.
When a multi-millionaire CEO walks away from a business
and leaves over a hundred dogs and monkeys locked
in a building without food or water,
how can voters trust Sri Thanadar
to not do the same to the people of Detroit?
Yeah, yeah.
He abandoned those beagles,
all he can do is over a hundred beagles as well as monkeys.
And he's abandoned this city, right?
And so Detroit is one of the most beautiful cities
the world. I think if you can make it here, you can make it anywhere. But it's
also the blackest and poorest major city in all of America. And we need help.
We need people who understand, I said before, who understand the urgency of
this moment. When you call me, we're going to pick up the phone. You call our
office. We're going to do everything possible. Can try to help and bring you
the resources to fill in those gaps because like a lot of folks have given
up on their government because the trust isn't there because the government
has failed them time and time again.
I think I talked about it on the stream in Denver,
and I'll give you three examples
about how our government has failed us
since I've been alive.
The first is, when the housing crisis happened in 2008.
Yeah.
Right, the recession, everything,
everybody remembers the bubble that happened
and the bubble burst.
And so Detroit, we had the largest black home ownership
rate out of any major city in America.
Then we were upwards of over 80%, like 82% or something.
And only 2000s leading into the housing bubble.
But guess what the Democrat affected at that time
when the Obama decided to do?
They decided to take our taxpayer money
and bail out the banks instead of the people on the ground
who were hurting in our communities.
Which you lose generational wealth,
like something you cannot pass down to certain families.
And then these banks started to buy up these homes
even in mass is even more.
And so you're wondering now, fast forward almost 20 years
later, why people can't buy houses today.
Student expense.
But it's because it all stemmed back from the housing price.
Second thing that happened was under the Black Lives Matter
Movement stemming from the death of George, the murder
of George Floyd from the hands of police officers.
The Congress responded to senators at the time,
Tim Scott, a Republican out of South Carolina,
Cory Booker, a Democrat out of New Jersey,
decided to put together legislation
called George Floyd Justice of Policemen.
And they were negotiating right then and there.
But the negotiations broke down
because of qualified immunity.
For those viewers who were listening in,
qualified immunity is essentially
the ability to hold an individual officer accountable for their actions.
That's it.
They're like, police is one of the only outside of police and CEOs.
Like, how do you hold professions accountable?
And it's by taking away the licenses or being able to barter from practice.
And so we have to impart some immunity amongst officers.
Not all officers are the same.
But there are some who take advantage of the best that should be out of
kind of. And so to no avail, nothing happened. Third thing.
One of your constituents just insisted on paying for your food.
One of my constituents? Oh, thank you. What's up?
Do we have the order already? No, that gets me.
Okay.
No, thank you. One of our constituents is offered a box. Appreciate it.
Because, you know, we don't make money with this. We're on the public service level.
But the third thing that's happened is the rollback of the voting rights
and under Biden Congress and the House passes I think at least two or three
times the general is one of rights and advancement and it failed to get taken
up in the Senate so if we want the working people to take the Democratic
Party seriously we all know the Republicans are lost cause or something
we all know that yeah but if we want the Democratic Party to be the party of
the people again damn it we got to elect the right people to put put in these
majorities and if you're like me you send me to Congress and you help me get
there please don't hate because we need that help we got three days left but if
you send me there I guarantee you won't regret it we're gonna fight like hell for
each and every one of them. That's also part of the reason why I think like the
Republicans have any footholds whatsoever. Exactly. Because they get to be as bad as
they want to if their opposition is not also good. Like that's the problem the
National Democratic Party in the way that it's seen, unfortunately, by the masses, is
just the blue side of the same coin, and there is some truth to our sides in confidence
as well, in terms of delivering on an agenda.
People like Shreve Thanadar also make up that Democratic Party's incompetence.
They're not going to fight for their own constituents.
That creates apathy.
makes it so that people don't think twice about voting. I mean don't even go out to vote at all
because they're just like what am I voting for? I don't know what do I get? Where is my
bang for my buck or where is my return investment? Yeah. If I'm if I'm taking an opportunity to vote
and I hope people actually do because your vote really does matter like to those listeners who
tune in your vote freaking matters right now and if you don't use it you lose it. Like literally
there's the project 2025 agenda. Not just trying to figure out ways to suppress our vote, but like
we have to put people in these positions that are going to ensure that people have their voices
heard. And at the end of the day, this is about like, do you ever see that the table or not?
That's it. Do you ever see that table or not? So why not come on and vote for these right
candidates, man? It's a loud list. This is a national movement. And it's coming to Michigan,
and they're saying that it can't come to Michigan and they're saying Michigan isn't ready for it.
I think Michigan is going to shock the world on Tuesday. Come on, we're going to aim, listen.
That's what I think. We're going to aim. It's going to be a sweep. I can't wait. I think so,
I think so too. I can't wait. Let's get back to your opponent one more time, because I, this man.
It's a lot of shit to say about him because he's full of shit. I know, it's really funny.
In 2014, Joel Kruppstin, a Quality Assurance Manager at Thile Arts and Arbor based company,
Abameen discovered that a client was illegally spiking a herbal supplement with prescription
viagra.
Crookston testified that Thanadar refused to report this dangerous misconduct to federal
regulators, prompting Crookston to quit and go straight to the FDA himself.
Thanadar claimed he had no memory of the incident and argued it was his job to test the drugs,
not to inform the federal government about client misconduct.
The CEO prioritized protecting and paying clients illegal and dangerous supplement over
the health and safety of the public.
How can voters trust Shreya Thanadar to protect them from corporate greed in Congress?
Man, listen, this is what we got to do.
We got to knock this fool out.
And you know, people make fun of him for his appearance.
I'm just-
His hairpiece?
His hairpiece, yeah.
It is a touffé.
And like, I know people who talk about why he's like AI drone, eyebrows and all that
stuff.
But like, in reality, well, all jumps aside, like this man is an endangerment to our democracy.
And when I say democracy, I'm meaning just to be able to say, hey, I'm going to be able
to fight for you as a legislator.
He doesn't even do that, right?
Yeah.
Like he's all about himself.
And I'm just tired of him.
And so I need y'all help to knock him out.
How does that look?
Is it?
You're from Michigan.
You know, you're from this area, you're from this neighborhood.
How does that make you feel that just a rich guy can come in and buy this seat and not deliver?
And it just goes on notice as long as time.
Especially, look, you're a black man in America.
This is a very black district.
Do you feel like that has a role in why this district can be represented by something like this?
Yeah, you know what, I fear that a lot because we've,
I don't know if you know this,
the original 13 members of the Congressional by caucus,
two of them were from Detroit.
So John Collins, who held the 13th district for a long time,
he passed away in the past few years.
And then I don't know if you remember Charles Diggs,
he was the first black person ever elected
to Congress and Mission Assistant.
But we've also sent the first black woman,
Barbara Rose Collins to Caroline Cheese kill Patrick to Brendan Lawrence who
endorsed my captain. We've sent capable black people to represent a majority
black district. Yeah. But this time around with Shari, he only won because nine
people were in the race, including him and eight other black people and they
split the vote up. And because he had the competitive advantage with money, his
own money, he was able to bypass the competition. But he only won with a
small percentage of the vote. He won with 28% of the vote total. That's it. And so like for us
now we're in a head-to-head race. There's no longer splitting of the vote. So he has to stay on his
own record. And that's why he's dug in the dozeness for a debate or something because he knows that
our records, when you compare them, there's no comparison. And he's scared and he should be scared
and afraid of us because at the end of the day, we've been working our butts off. The same amount
time he's been in Congress, it's the same amount of time I've been in the state
legislature. And his kind of fame is like $30-40 million to the district as a
congressional member. I brought him over $2 billion to the district in
the surrounding areas. Whether it's for lead-in, historic supply, CVI, historic
funding for out-of-school programs in our in our districts because I know
this. I talked about. Yeah, yeah. Have you looked at it? I didn't know. I'm not
going to say I want you to order. Okay. Okay. The only thing I wanted the
buddy's famous tenders. That's the only thing I would like to put my input on.
Yes. Everything else. What kind of sauce would you like to get? Oh, what do we got
You're like, man, barbecue, sweet and sour, French red hot, hot sauce that's hotter than that.
Hot sauce that's hotter than that.
And what's the dip sauce?
The buddy dip sauce is like a, like a, like an Asian spicy barbecue.
Okay, let me get that to you.
So you gotta try it.
No, no, no, we gotta do the pieces.
I'm just, I just wanted to get the tempura.
No, no, no, no, no, I'm gonna do the pieces.
But this is I'm gonna explain it. Okay, so how they do these first our pieces a little different. Yeah
Yeah, I saw all you've had it. Well, no, I've had in Detroit. Okay. Okay. Wait, is the corners are crispy, right?
Crispier area. Yeah, but also the sauce is on top. Yeah, it's not the banks
So like obviously you can try the original. Yeah
Yeah, I don't even pour outside important some years ago, but you should do it's a smaller piece of the four square
Okay, and then we do a four square
You're gonna work in your suggestions the Muslim man import
No, no, I'll try no whatever you want to eat look if you if you suggest
No no no no, you can't do that.
Stozen.
What?
No no no no.
No.
No I'm kidding, I'm kidding.
I do need pork.
Okay because I don't need pork.
I don't know if you did need pork or not.
I know some people that do.
I'm a bad mussel.
Yeah, I'm a bad mussel.
So let's do the four square.
Yeah, I'll get the onion and barbecue chicken.
Barbecue chicken.
And then let's share the potato wedges too.
You're ready to load it.
Right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You want like a basket of fries, you want the loaded ones.
Probably the basket.
Basket, basket of fries, no loaded.
Okay.
This basket of fries, this potato wasn't good.
And then like, anything, anything with,
I don't know if other people want to order stuff too.
Y'all want to order?
Oh, what about that Detroit style cheese bread?
Only a cheese bread, only a cheese bread too.
See, you're slacking.
Yeah, that's true.
You got it, you got it.
That's fine.
I got it, I got it.
No, the cheese bread inspired that part.
Yeah, I saw, I was walking, I was walking, I saw it.
Did you know burners?
Like it's just something on a straw.
So this is one of our Detroit brands to a beard.
Yeah.
And you can make clothes out of it.
But burners, you heard of burners.
I think so, yeah.
So it was originally made in Detroit
as like a simple medicine for like common cold,
to cure the common cold.
And then it got turned into, we call it pop,
y'all call it soda.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We call it pop, but it got turned into pop
and now it's sold everywhere.
So trotter burners, if you have a top burners.
I've never had a flow before in my life.
So I'm down and out.
Okay, okay.
Trotter burners.
What?
I've never had a flow.
Well, we don't have, I'm, I'm, I love milkshakes,
but we don't, like, the float is like,
it's a soda, it's a pop with, with ice cream in it.
Yep, yep.
Okay.
Yeah.
And then we got Fago here.
Oh yeah.
So Fago, so do y'all got other flows besides the burners?
We just got the burns.
Last summer, we had a rotten, rotten faggot one.
Yeah, the faggot one.
We don't got that one.
Dang, see, we gotta get him on faggot.
We gotta get him on faggot.
Okay, but he'll try the burns as well.
He'll turn the burnin' up a little.
Yeah, yeah.
You want that now, or do you want that out?
Whenever it comes up, I'll see you right now, dude.
Come on, let's go, Jigga, gentlemen.
I ain't get stuck.
I got some water over here for you two.
Okay, water, I'm doing water and a limiter.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, dude, you got this, man.
All right.
It's gonna change your life, brother.
All right.
Thank you, thank you.
Sure, I'll take it.
Thank you, thank you.
Alright, so we were talking about, oh we were talking about like, you know, how Treet
brought very little money back into this thing.
You brought a lot more than he did.
One of the things that you and I experienced last night, because I asked you like,
one of the things that really motivated the people of this district who said DTEs are big ones.
Yeah man. So those who listen to them, DTEs are monopoly utility. I'm sure you all have something
like that in your communities in your cities. But man, DTE sucks.
He's notorious, he's actually like nationally bad. It's competitively bad for the entire
Michigan for the entire state. You've been a leading advocate for reigning in the
corrupting influence of money in Lansing. You're sponsored to take
him back our power legislative package to ban political contributions from
regulated monopoly utilities like DT which from what I understand is like the
number one donor in the state. It's insane.
How was that allowed? I don't even know. And in my
upon a series taking tens of thousands of dollars from me.
That's terrible.
So you probably signed the No Utility Money Challenge.
Your opponent has accepted the campaign
though in the internet.
Yeah, yeah.
Of course.
Why is Refusing to take a dime of utility money
and non-negotiable line for your campaign?
And how has taking that money compromised
a representative's ability, in your opinion,
to hold these companies together?
Yeah.
So I tell this story all the time
about when my wife and I had our first son, our first child.
He's four years old now.
And we brought him home from the hospital.
He was born in late January, 2022.
And we come home from the hospital.
We walk in our house.
We flick the light on us.
The middle of winter, remember,
it's January and Michigan in Detroit,
so cold in the deep.
It's cold as hell.
It's cold in the deep.
If you ever visited Detroit in the winter,
Don't, don't bring a coat.
You gotta buy a coat from here to make sure that you are
protected from this weather.
It's crazy.
But we come home and literally there's a powerhouse.
There's no lights.
There's no heat.
And so we had to go to a hotel room.
This is before I got elected.
I got elected later that year in 2022.
But I had the means to put my family up in a hotel.
But I don't know if you know this,
when the demand goes up for a hotel,
guess what they do?
They just increase the rates.
Yeah, of course.
And so the nightly rate and so we were staying at like a two-star
Hotel, I think like a day's in or something because like just the demand was crazy
And just to get heat just to get some heat and yeah
So my newborn and my wife who just gave birth
Like we had to spend his first five days on this planet in the freaking hotel room
In a day's in y'all and so in those five nights I'd have paid two thousand dollars
Jesus Christ. I told you to raise the screen freeze. But I had to hide a little bit of
the means I can cost those up. But think about my district, my state house
district right now. The median income is $14,000. Wow. If you break that up by
12 months, that's a little over $12,000 a month. Then I'm running to represent the
Fifth Port's congressional district in the country. Like these folks don't have
any extra money to go in the hotel room when the power goes up. So since my son
has been alive he's a little older than four we have lost power can you guess
how many times I have no idea but I've heard you're about to be a ferret and
when I say this in a little four and a half years or so we have lost power 57
times Jesus Christ yeah I'm 57 times no I it's it's it's unbelievable like the
The fact that this continues, for me, I feel like right now, at the federal level especially,
you got Abdul running against Hayley Stevens, and APAC is a huge deal at the national level,
but I feel like for Michiganders, the fact that she got money from DTE and with Shree
as well should be far more consequential.
This is it blows my mind that they're so bad and and this leads me to my next question
There's a there's another like on on top of the
Infrastructure not being up to date up to standard constant rolling blackout
Yeah, there was a blackout in Detroit for three days in a row
No, no, actually it was a couple of weeks ago. Yeah a couple weeks ago
it was right after July 4th weekend and
This is before the storms it we had
a three-day blackout for seniors in my district.
Oh my God, and they were on oxygen tanks.
I mean, you gotta think about this,
like people die because of this stuff.
Yeah, no.
And like, and then DTE keeps saying,
oh, you know, we're gonna do better,
we're gonna do better,
but we gotta raise your rates though.
We gotta raise your utility bills.
And they also,
how did they raise your utility bills?
They sent, what did they send?
Like a care package, right?
You know some people,
man, they just like a slap in the face.
Dude, slap in the face, man.
So like, I gotta see,
I literally saw my own ass because I'm doing senior building visits to get out the boat
Yeah, at that time because absentee ballots just dropped in the mail just came in the mail
So as I'm visiting a senior home the power goes out man
So I saw my own house three seniors being rolled out on stretchers from the EMS
And they're saying like oh, you know like oh, this is you know, we're gonna fix it. We're gonna do better
Yeah, no forget you guys man like the way they keep like doing our people but like I will say this every time I call
They're like me you cusses out
But you cusses out with a smile and I'm because like I tell them my grandmother raised me to be nice to people
But to also hold them accountable
And so like I tell them they come to my office all the time BT and I'm like listen why do you guys suck so bad?
like I'll tell them that and they're like man you know we we can't really say
no to you because you just do it in such a polite way but like in reality we
don't have to scream I know we just got to say hey you know what we're going to
make sure that we close these loopholes in the system the system that allows you
to feed off our most vulnerable communities we got to make sure you are
barred from giving to our politicians and in return they start voting you know
your way, instead of doing what's right on behalf of the people they represent.
And so that's why I'm leading and taking back our prior legislation.
We couldn't get a hearing in legacy.
So guess what, guess what happened?
The people on the ground and organizations on the ground took our legislation,
created a ballot initiative, and it's called Money Out of Politics.
And just last week, it got approved from the State Board of Camersets.
The ballot initiative, they collected over 600,000 signatures.
It's gonna be on this year's November ballot.
is going to pass with 80% of the vote.
Whether you're a Democrat, Republican, independent,
because everybody knows that the corporate influence
in our policy is just too much.
Not to cut away from the serious consequences,
but that's fucking delicious.
Good, bro!
It's delicious.
Listen, listen, Detroit, baby, Berners and Fagel.
If y'all don't, I think y'all kind of heard of Berners.
Berners is more nationwide.
Fagel, I don't know if it's national yet.
It may be regional.
Big O because the ice cream beat.
Oh yeah, okay, okay, okay, okay.
But Faggo, y'all, that's Detroit.
And then Better Made Chips.
I gotta get some Better Made Chips out of here.
So, they already put some in here, but like, you just dump it in there?
Yeah, you just dump it in there, as it goes, yeah.
Yeah, my wife loves floats, man.
Yeah, who would've thought?
Isn't this such an American invention to be like,
yo, you know what's really good with pop?
I'm glad you like it there.
I don't know why it works so well with the whatever the tape is, oh I don't know why,
but the vanilla ice cream with this works perfect.
You know when I was growing up, my mom and grandmother, and I'm sure anybody from Detroit
or Michigan would know this, like when you get sick, they'll tell you to drink burgers.
You know, I can't pay attention for music, so she's like true, she's like fast.
Like don't take no Tylenol, don't take no pseudofed, or Motrin.
No, go ahead and drink some burners, and go lay down and go to sleep.
Like, because it was made to cure the comic cold, like look at the history of burners.
Does it actually?
I don't know, I don't know, I've had it, like it helps though.
Yeah, okay.
Well, maybe it's like a gentle mind trick thing, like a symmetry, but it seems like it works for me at least.
I don't know maybe from Michigan. He said that everybody who lived over 100 Michigan citizens is a learning.
Yeah, yeah.
They said, we live in DC, and you have three children. You get a trip from the bottom.
Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's equality, brother.
All right, I have to, um, I'm gonna leave you, um, and Vince, you can, you can take over for a second, as well if you want to talk to the audience a little bit.
little bit but I have to pee really hard. You said the burner's got to see it's clearing your system up.
We've got the fundraiser system. So there are two links, we apologize, there was a typo and both are circulating so we are accidentally psychologically torturing you with goals that you've already hit.
On link one, we have raised $12,446.
And on link two, we have raised $10,529.
All together, that's some figure
that I can't calculate in my head,
that like 22 something, that's great.
But here's the thing, that is enough
to cover our financial gap for television.
What we need now is to hit 25s.
We can get visibility trucks across this district
telling folks the good news about Donovan McKinney.
And if we can go further than that, get up to 30,
we can get more ads on Hulu, HBO Max, on streaming.
We know that's where a lot of our young voters are.
And if we keep going, that gets even more resources
for us to use on scale to win and on texting
so that our folks are able to make all those phone calls.
Every phone call, every dial, every text message sent
is a couple of cents.
And when you guys made 100 thousand dials last night,
which is fantastic news.
I know, thank you.
That means you ID almost 2,000 votes in this district
where we had never spoken to you before.
It's really incredible.
And it also costs like a shit ton of money to do that.
Each dial, that adds up.
So your contributions now also fuel the ability
of our fuel program to exist.
So keep on giving either of the links.
I am checking both.
It's all going towards the goal.
You smashed it.
You went way past what Mike 4PA raised.
So the suits are winning, but we gotta keep going.
Yeah, yeah.
No, thank you so much to everybody that's tuning in.
Thank you.
And we're gonna win this.
And it's gonna be because of people like you
invest it, you know, some energy, your time, your talent, and your treasure, and
I'm excited about it because we're going to get these doing up the politicians
out of here and we're going to make sure we start electing people that not only
come from our communities but understand our communities because at the end of
the day what's happening is the wealthier getting more wealthy, the poorer
getting more poor, and I'm just tired of this crap and I'm sure you are too and
And so, it's our opportunity to put the right people in these positions to move forward and attend them.
It's based off of all of us.
Sound is back, went up down.
How was it, man?
Oh, straight.
Yeah.
He said, I can't hear it.
I was holding it.
What have we reached on the fundraising so far?
We have reached, we are now at 20, about to be 23.
It's too late, so we're our goals are split across them, but we are far past 16th and we talked about all the incredible things being get a 25 30 35
This right here is what we're competing with crypto has now spent two million dollars in this race
And this is what they can kind of just drop in 24 hours the drop to half. Yeah
So it's up to you that so what what should the goal be? What do you think?
at least double what Mike, he's 17, right?
Yeah.
All right, we got to do more than 35 then.
All right.
Let's do it.
This brother, listen, I'm seeing him live in person,
and he's really enjoying this flow.
Yeah, he's like, this shit's so good.
I love it, man.
It is delicious.
It is delicious.
Anybody who hasn't been to Detroit, y'all got to come.
No, this is come to the center. We'll take y'all out to hit hit us up on IG. We'll take you guys out.
522 K we got to beat Michael Bay exactly and it's not it's not a real defeat for Michael from
Pennsylvania unless we double it and even then it's the fuck shit.
Well, he didn't get to have that. Yeah, that's true. That's true. He didn't he didn't get to
Detroit you know hospitality but anybody who wants to come take us up on the
offer we'll come we'll take you guys out. Alright so one of the things that I
wanted to talk to you about is like we're talking about DTE. Yeah we got
blackouts. One of the additional strains on this already crippled
infrastructure is now these big data systems. So to add insult to injury
they're they're like oh we got to we got to overcharge you we got to charge you
more for unreliable shoddy electrical grids and then on top of that they're
building these these massive data centers right they're aggressively moving
into build to Michigan to build these energy-devouring AI data centers and
DTE is negotiating deals for seven gigawatts capacity that could force the
state to build new fossil fuel gas plants to go Michigan's clean energy
It goes, you know, and that goes back to like these, these plants and our over reliance
on fossil fuels goes back to, you know, the childhood asthma experience, because where
are they going to put those?
I know.
Where are they going to put those power plants?
They're going to put it in places like Detroit, in your backyard, in your neighborhood.
And lawmakers in Lansing are now pushing through field of tech tax breaks or past data center
moratoriums.
is also a push for that.
Well, where do you stand on the federal moratorium
for large data centers, and how do you stop big tech
from hijacking our energy grid
and jacking up utility bills for working families?
So I'm with the moratorium for sheriff because,
so Michigan is in a different boat than other states
because what do all these data centers need
to be able to be cooled down?
Yeah.
So what do you need to cool down data centers?
water. But you can't utilize ocean water because of the salt content. If you use the
salt it's going to rust and deplete a lot of the water.
We've got a lot of lakes here.
So Michigan is home to I think at least 80% of the country's fresh water and then
20, low over 20% of the world's fresh water because of our gray lakes. So
Michigan's prime term. So we were already ahead of the curve when it came to legislation under the
Democratic effect that last term, we pushed some legislation for data centers. However, META
and a lot of these tech companies bought off a lot of my elected officials, my colleagues,
and watered down the legislation I was trying to push. But we did get some concessions in there.
So in order to like get either tax help,
whether it's tax credits or dollars from the state
or county or local levels,
you have to abide by certain rules and state statute.
But there's loopholes within those rules
that Metta and a lot of big corporations put involved.
But other states, I don't know if you noticed,
Michigan has the most progressive data center laws
in the country. It's like data center protections. But other states either have
lackluster laws in the books or have nothing at all. So you got communities
right now in our country where they got a data center in their community and
they go home and they turn on the faucet and the water comes out. That is
literally happening right now. Yeah, like brown water. Yeah, it's for or nothing
comes out. It is. It's crazy. So in Michigan, that isn't happening yet.
Because of the legislation we passed, but we do need a more term nation why to figure out what is happening because they're being built so quickly and then they're they're literally intimidating the local, like local governments that are saying hey we're bullying you to like yeah hey we're coming in.
Have you seen the local councils?
Yeah yeah.
Signed NDA.
Yes!
I want to get rid of NDAs by the way.
We have to do that.
Yeah.
And that's the federal mandate.
Alright so which one is the extra spicy one is the hot okay what are we at
donation lines 35 thousand dollars and donations I'm gonna try the extra hot
What?
I see.
Who knows?
No, it's good.
What's happening?
Oh my God.
This is delicious.
Told you, man.
Wow.
Come to be tricked.
Come try it.
It's so good, man.
Alright. After I'm done. I know, I know. Take your time, man. Take your time. Alright.
Zip code 48217. Yeah. Are you familiar? Mm-hmm. Is it Southwood Destroyer? Yep. Historically
documented, chat. As the most toxic zip code in Michigan surrounded by steel mills, wastewater
plants and the massive marathon petroleum refinery, which received the permit to
remove capacity limits to process even more dirty fossil fuels. You have written
passionately about how you, your mother, your grandmother, all had and your brother
all had the exact same asthmatic cough. Yes. Due to growing up in the smoggy
shadows of these facilities, do you support the Green New Deal and how will
Will you use the power of a congressional seat to fight back against corporate polluters
who are poisoning black and brown neighborhoods in Detroit?
Because they do not put those things in rich white neighborhoods.
No, they don't.
So hell yeah, a green new deal.
All of you knew this.
I was a part of SCIU, I come out of the labor movement, labor organizer, my grandfather
was UAW, 42 years, for UAW-4, I never missed a day at work.
He fortunately passed away last year, but I used to go to union meetings all the time
and they kind of just inspired me to like get into the labor movement.
And when I was at SCIU, it was the same time that the Green New Deal was like really gaining
steam and support.
And during our advocacy there, we had a task force and we charged SCIU and we actually became
the first union to sign on to the Green New Deal.
I don't know if you knew that.
Like I've been a big proponent of Greenwood Hill for a long time now.
From the Justice 40 initiatives that came out of my administration,
but we got to do more in terms of legacy pollution.
Now, my brother and I were growing my mother and grandmother,
northeast out of Detroit, right next to Smokes Facts,
and I developed asthma at seven.
My brother developed it at five.
Now I'm raising my three kiddos, my wife and three kids
It's in the same community I grew up in in the Northeast Detroit.
My four year old, when he turned three, he got diagnosed with pre-hazard.
And then my two year old is on the same track, and
I don't know what's gonna happen when I let him tell a baby girl.
So it is still legacy pollution that is happening right now.
So what I end up doing at the state level is something called Introducing Polka,
which is Protecting Oververting Communities Act.
also known as cumulative impact legislation.
And what's happening is the way permits work,
from the EPA at the federal level
and then EGLE at the state level,
the reason why our corporate polluters
keep getting the green light to pollute us
and pollute more is because the government
isn't looking at toxins being emitted in air and totality.
They're looking at it in isolation.
So how much sulfur dioxide being emitted?
How much carbon dioxide being emitted from PFOS to mercury?
They all look at it separately instead of all together.
And so you might not hit the certain metric with carbon,
but you might have a little bit of mercury
or a lot more sulfur or whatever.
But in reality, what we're trying to do
is take that legislation to the federal level
and look at it in terms of cumulative impacts
to protect our air because I do believe you have a right
to drink, you know, clean water and breathe clean air.
Like you have to.
Controversial.
I mean, it's just kind of a set stuff, man.
Yeah.
But I remember going to the doctor, you know, like,
I got a, you know, clean bill of health,
which I'm so grateful for.
But he was telling me, he was like, man, you know, like,
I know you got like a job that's like hard
like exercising and all that, I was like yeah man I'm always on the go which is super busy.
I got a family too, but he was like man start walking more and I'm like you know what I'm gonna
start doing that but he told me he advised me normal doctors like do not walk outside.
I said what you need to walk outside? Because the air quality. Because you're actually doing
more harm because they have more of what our air quality is, then you're doing more good to your
body. I'm like I didn't even think about it like that. So when a Canadian wire fire was hit just
couple weeks ago how long have you knew this? Detroit in our metro region has the worst air
quality not only in the country but the entire world. We have the worst air quality for multiple
days in the entire world y'all. Oh yeah, oh yeah bro you about to look at this, look at this.
That's Detroit baby. That's Detroit. I'm telling you. Come on. Come on man.
Are you lactose cause it's like a tube of dairy?
No, no, no.
Also even if I was, I would die.
It's good man. Everybody come get one man.
Oh.
I mean we...
Oh that's good.
I can't pay much. What is that?
Hold on, what's he giving me?
Oh dairy relief.
Hey, set out to all my black folks cause I'm gonna be honest with you.
Are you like us going?
I'm not I mean most black folks are like my wife shut up to my wife. I like but
I do get some but like I'll be all right
And my stick in here a little bit
Thank you to my campaign manager for having there really
I'm Turkish we don't
No, no, hey y'all like because we're cuz Turks are I
think like literally from
Thousands of years onward like they were the first to from the
Asiatic planes basically they've always had horses. They were nomadic
So horse milk was
And the dairy continued after you know, I skip cows and stuff like that. So like I there's a hella dairy
When I was growing up there's so much dairy in my diet
man
I love cheese.
And milk too, and ice cream.
And ice cream, man.
And you have it.
This is it.
This is the way to the pizza come go.
Oh my God.
I told you I was going to take you here.
When we were in Denver for shawarma,
man, she's coming to Detroit soon too,
so I'm excited to see her.
And Justin Pearson.
Shout out to JP by the way. He's running his primaries August the 6th
Which is a Thursday. I don't know why Tennessee has their primary on the Thursday
So strange y'all gonna change that Tennessee put it on Tuesday, but
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, what was it?
Okay, Monday's 4 p.m. We're doing a big rally
With Chris Rapp Maylock
who are, Rashida?
Oh yeah, Linda, man shout out to Linda.
Who else?
Oh wait, really?
Okay, the whole crew, okay we're gonna have a big, big rally.
Y'all need to come out of Y'all in Detroit or Michigan.
Come through.
I'm doing it too right?
Oh yeah, Si's gonna be on there.
Hey listen, how they'll listen?
My team, these last few days have been crazy.
Our like schedules are nuts,
but they just tell me to show up and I show up.
We are currently at thirty two at thirty five chat this is the extra hot sauce
It's got an X on it.
Do you eat spicy?
I do, but not that spicy.
Oh, so you had that before?
I had.
Oh no.
It's spicy.
Oh no.
It's spicy.
It's spicy.
I'll be fine.
Probably not.
I'll be alright.
Let's go clear you out man. The burn is potentially submerged.
So we were just talking about SCIU. You came out of SCIU Health Care Michigan Organizing
Nursing Home and Home Care Workers. You talked about your mother's brain tumors at emergency
at emergency surgery covered only because of the ACA's pre-existing
condition protections. Now Medicaid cuts are strict-mining hospitals while
roughly a quarter of Michiganders rely on Medicaid and you've got seniors coming
to your district office deciding between rent, food, and the medicine to keep
them alive. Only in America by the way.
Barbecue?
Oh yeah, right, barbecue?
And then you got the pat too?
No, it's cheese right here.
Oh yeah, cheese, oh good.
Thank you, thank you.
Oh, thank you.
Thank you, thank you.
Also, Zene would like to chat to know that the link to Sonic the Rally is tinyurl.com.
Sonic the Sonic Rally.
Okay, tinyurl.com.
Sonic the Sonic Rally.
Tinyurl.com.
Sonic the Sonic Rally.
All right, that's so good.
Oh, look at that, y'all.
See, this is proud of you.
Yeah, with the cheese.
Oh, baby.
Oh, my God.
All right, so this is a barbecue.
Yeah, this is a barbecue chicken.
OK.
Woo.
Yeah, boy.
Yeah.
I love it, man.
This home.
This home.
OK, so you were saying that health care is?
Yeah, so I was going to say, do you support Medicare for All?
Hell yeah, do you plan on fighting back is private equity groups that are hollowing out America's health care system?
No, no, definitely man. What's happening is
we need a one pair one single pair of health care system because
Corporations still are green at the end of the day
So they can they can get to picking shoes who gets quality care even after you pay for it, man
Yeah, and you're paying these high-end premiums and these crazy out-of-pocket costs
Your job is paying for it, and then you have to pay for it. Like why are we double paying?
really in some cases quadruple because like you got to pay for
Medication the doctor's visits and then you got to pay your job or mother taking money out your check
And then your job is paying it too. Yeah, but what are we doing it for premiums up? Yeah, I rocketed a lot of people don't realize
It's like this was some that Bernie talked about
He was presenting Medicare for all like everyone's like, oh, what if it raises taxes? It's like
The path we just got the regular path
So
By the way, this is incredible, baby listen. Oh my god
This is you're treating me
You're treating me to a to a decadent journey here
You had the barbecue kind of too much?
Right there.
There we go.
This is a culinary experience.
David, if you want, you can put it down
and prop it up and then eat.
You don't want to eat some chips, you know?
Can you see hands in the camera?
I mean, he's fine.
I'll give him a go about that.
I appreciate you guys.
It's good to know.
Um
So your favorite medical problem. Oh, but the thing I'm saying is like
Medicare for all for like the old rule. I mean majority of Americans for me cheaper. They're like all my taxes
My hands are dirty
I am eating, hey look up baby, look up baby, come on.
New Jersey is in Detroit now, baby.
This is the infamous Detroit pizza?
Yeah, bro, he's loving it, he's loving it.
I've never.
No, you're going, you're going to enjoy it.
So we got regular cheese, we got barbecue chicken.
Okay.
We got cheese bread, we got potato wedges,
chicken tenders, and I think this is packed,
so don't touch this.
I don't think it is, I think they're real cheese.
Are they both cheese?
I don't know where you're at.
How's it going?
Good.
Thank you very much.
Yeah, man.
It's all right.
It's the doctor, y'all.
It's the jerseys.
What was your distance?
12.
Yeah.
So I don't want to insult anyone.
Yeah.
What's the difference between Detroit and Chicago?
Oh.
Damn.
Damn.
So from a Detroiters...
Uh-huh.
It's better.
This secret.
It is.
It is.
It is.
It is.
It is.
It is.
It is.
You heard it from no God!
You heard it from no God!
They can go have it, it literally is better.
I think Detroit is a little better.
I like Chicago too, but Chicago puts you to sleep.
Because it's just so thick.
It's like deep, deep dish.
This is more like airy corner crust.
It's not super deep dish,
but like it's sauce on the top
instead of sauce being in the face.
and then the cheese on top is on top, yeah, on the bottom, sauce on the top.
I love the crispy corners.
Yeah, the crispy corners, so they get like a still pan in a sense, cast iron.
And I don't know if y'all know how this started, Detroit style pizza,
because they were using it like as a mechanic stuff and stuff like that.
And then like they were using these cast iron pans,
and then they thought about like you know what let's try to put some pizza in
here and then like they bake the pizza and they're like man they got these like
crispy corners and so everybody tries to imitate I know Pizza Hut had like this
thing I don't know they still do it they're like oh try this Detroit style
pizza and I know pizza shops all over the country are opening trying to imitate
Detroit style pizza but it's really good. It's the original man. You can't do it.
I mean, look, he's from a state that has some pretty solid pizza.
This is an extra, extra hot sauce that I'm waiting to, once we eat 35K.
I'll take 34.
Oh, yeah.
34, chat.
We got 34.
34?
You're used to good pizza.
I live in LA now, so I don't really get to have a lot of good pizza usually.
Have you ever had a float?
Oh, you're gonna try it?
That's the extra hot sauce.
Whoa!
I'm just gonna say.
It's not extra hot sauce Oh, it's not?
I live in central Jersey, we have a lot of South Asians, they have hot food there.
This is like a two there baby.
Oh shit, oh shit.
Damn, okay well now we're not getting the 35 grand.
Oh no, I thought you cut me man.
Yeah, you're supposed to exaggerate.
I'm exaggerating.
I don't want them all.
I don't want them all.
It should also be play hot for you.
Yeah.
I like spices.
We'll see.
Alright, let's talk about flock cameras.
You got automated license place readers
from flock safety.
They blanketed Detroit.
Wayne County.
They're creating a master valence dragnet.
So these cops are using it
This is stuff which is pretty crazy, we've been like some cops.
Damn, I didn't even hear that for real.
Yes, there was a guy, okay, you wanna hear something crazy?
It wasn't in Detroit, but there was a cop.
Thank you.
That was investigated by internal affairs for misusing the flock cameras to spy on his ex-wife.
The guy who was investigating him by internal affairs then turns out was also using the flock cameras to also spy on his ex-wife.
So yeah.
Now that is nuts.
There's a real master of snow it is.
And yeah, it's feeding data into law enforcement agencies and ICE as well.
404 Meteor caught local departments running searches and flock system on behalf of ICE
and found federal agencies with access to 80,000 cameras nationwide.
What are you hearing from people in the district about flock cameras that they've pissed off,
that they're being constantly surveilled?
and what's your plan to regulate this
drag at the federal level
for every plate in Michigan
and sitting in a database
ice and search with ease?
So before fly cameras,
I don't know if y'all remember
like green light,
like the green light cameras.
So Detroit is known for that now.
My business is paid like a certain amount
to install the green light cameras
that are feeding to our headquarters
at the Detroit Police Department.
And because, you know,
Because there was a lot of car theft, a lot of crowds
that were going on the liquor stores,
or convenience stores, corner stores,
or like, you know, gas stations.
And so, you know, there was some pushback
in terms of like facial recognition at one point in time,
right?
Because these cameras, the technology within them,
if you were black and had a beer,
it was like 70 to 80% wrong.
Like, they weren't necessarily identifying folks
with accuracy.
And so there was some pushback with the facial recognition.
But people actually wanted, at least in the black community
in Detroit, they wanted to feel more safe,
because a lot of them couldn't get gas
after the sundown essentially.
So that was a whole thing, right?
That was a whole thing, it was just too violent.
And then with the flock, when I'm here in the suburban
community, it's this smaller piece, for sure.
It's just like the oversurveillance is an issue,
but more than anything, it's like the money.
Why are we spending all this money doing this?
Like I said before,
POTS is a redistribution of resources.
So we're gonna spend a tax per money on flat cameras.
The net means we can't spend on other things
that actually matter, right?
And so we gotta take away from programs,
especially at the local level,
that may be funding community rec centers in our parks
and different programs that impact the local areas, right?
To for kids or seniors or whatever.
And so my view is like,
I don't necessarily want a federal mandate on it.
I just want the state to be able to do
what they think is best for their community around it.
That's interesting.
But I do think the data privacy side of it is crazy.
Because saving the data,
like the actual like footage.
Like I don't think they should be able to hold it
for like more than like a couple of days, I'm being honest.
Yeah, but like my community is weird.
Like why are you both hate Black community?
Yeah, why are you both hate them?
And like in the Black community.
Like Republican neighbor is like rural areas.
Yeah.
Black communities are like breaking them.
Like then Black community is a little different
because like we're going through some of this crime right now.
Yeah.
And we're already over police.
And so this can be a way,
I introduce legislation, I'll say this, I introduce legislation to pull the cops off the street.
And instead of utilizing them because a lot of the deaths that come on the hand of police
officers to black people stem from the traffic stop.
Yeah.
Like, I think the vast majority of them, I think it's close to like 80% or something.
And so I was like, okay, in my head as a legislator, I'm like, how can I prevent harm and death
to black people without representation?
that are often times, you know, over-policed.
And so I was like, you know what, I'm gonna introduce legislation,
and I'm gonna put up, instead of having officers do the beat,
let's put up cameras and intersections.
And I got a lot of support in the black community when I said that,
and when I introduced it.
I didn't get any traction, because we couldn't get a hearing,
and we ran out of time last session.
But like, it's something there,
because I'd rather get like a ticket in a mail
for speeding or something,
instead of like being pulled over and potentially die.
Or having an interaction where it might go left,
not only for the citizen, but for the officers themselves too.
And so like, I'm thinking about it in a different light
come from a young black man experience
because I've been overpoliced.
I've never thought about it.
Yeah, I've been stopped by the police multiple times,
just like driving all black.
Like every time I hear Cyrus,
I mean, any of your folks that are black
that are watching him, I guarantee you,
they'll probably be like, you hear the signs,
you're like, oh, shit, you just fixed up.
And I had a floor speech about it
on the house floor talking about it, man.
And I'm like, it's not a fun experience.
It's not.
So yeah, that is my thoughts about it.
Damn, yeah.
That's also a part of the reason why
there's a lot of community organizing around
fixing back tail lights and stuff like that.
In order to in order to like try to yeah, give as much
Opportunity from police to just like stop you. Yeah, exactly. Yeah
Sometimes they do it anyway though, but you're right
All right, let's talk about ice. Yeah, man. February I secretly bought a
473,000 square foot warehouse in Romulus to cage 500 people on a floodplain just a mile up from an elementary school and a
middle school with only six bathrooms in it for 500 people. The city council unanimously
opposed it, the state sued, and in June ICE folded and agreed to sell the property. Both
you and Thanadar opposed the facility, but Thanadar voted for a Republican bill that
officially expressed gratitude for ICE. It's felt so unbelievable that even J Street called
of political theater. Do you support ICE abolition? And if so, what's your plan to hold ICE agents
accountable for the people they've wrongfully jailed and murdered over paperwork violations?
No, good question. So, uh, yes, I support a boss in ICE. My opponent only think I see
he was on us, uh, the committee, the Homeland Security Committee and voted, I believe at
least two or three times to increase the department's budget. When I was giving him
and he because we're gonna hit the head race
and we have opportunity to win.
I was giving him heat all of that summer
at every community event.
Just calling him out, like, yo, he think nice.
He turns around and takes the legislation from Delhi,
the Congresswoman out of Chicago in the North area
that was working with stakeholders
to actually get the bill done.
And you know, in Congress, similar to the state legislature,
whoever can get the bill dropped the first
and dropped it can take credit.
to enroll the bill quickly, and that's what he did.
So, with no consulting of the community
or stakeholders or people who are impacted by this.
So he can just go out here and say,
hey, look what I've done, community.
I got the legislation to abolish ICE.
So it was more performative than anything.
And so for me coming in these positions,
we're gonna make sure that we're gonna work with community
the ones who are most impacted by the work,
but more importantly, like we're not
on the flip-flop on this.
Yeah.
And then what we can do.
So if you were to run for governor,
you're not going to decide between running
as a Republican or a Democrat?
No.
No, no, no, no, that's serene, man.
He's the opportunist.
He only goes where the techs take him.
And then he tries to act like he cares about it to me.
He's actually taking money from nice contractors.
Yeah.
He's funded, like I'm talking about kids,
I think close to six figures now from ice contractors, man.
I'm like, so he's not about the real business
and work of doing this, man.
He's just only doing it to cover his own ass.
Yeah. Yeah.
So, let's talk about where he's also getting financed by.
Yeah.
July filings.
Anodar put 3.7 million of his campaign money
in the cryptocurrency, which is like strange to do already.
I don't even understand like what he's like.
He's the first congressional member in history
the best campaign money in crypto he's I mean 55% of the district funds going
back to self-promotion yeah taking campaign finance and like putting it
into cryptocurrency these guys all over the place and he lost 643 thousand
dollars because you know crypto is volatile however as an open secret
analyst put it he managed that when the market was at record high so that was
already unique that he lost so much money. Now the crypto-currency industry is repaying
him, which is insane. They're repaying his losses like he's a kick.com crypto gambling
online casino twitch streamer. Anyway, protect progress, part of the fairshake network city
on $191 million has spent about $1.2 million boosting him and attacking you. He voted for
the Clarity Act, the Genius Act, the whole crypto industry wishlist, and the week after
his primary, he's booked to speak as a special guest.
I don't know if you knew that.
Oh, next week?
Next week.
Oh, shit.
He's booked to speak as a special guest at a crypto industry retreat in Martha's veneer.
That's why you give me money.
Oh, that's why they come to heavy-focus.
Which one was the poor one?
I never even got the...
I don't know.
No, there was not anything.
I think they only brought cheeseballs, it's fine.
Oh yeah, okay, cool.
See if we had a halal.
Yeah, that's cool.
Yeah, that's cool.
I did not know that I'm one.
So they're spending a, not just to defeat me,
but to make sure that he's real late.
Oh no, no, he's their guy, he's their guy for sure.
So he can go to Martha's Vineyard
and give a fucking speech.
So I have a couple questions on this.
Yeah, yeah.
When you beat him, do you think he's still gonna go
to Martha's Vineyard or are they gonna?
Martha's send the invitation.
They can be like, you're good.
Yeah, you're good, bro.
You lost too much grip, though.
And should members of Congress be allowed to day trade stocks?
No.
Cryptocurrency as well.
And in one of the poorest districts in America,
what is it called voters at the congressman?
Is it millions gambling on a crypto
and then having the casino buy ads for him?
It's crazy because we need to close.
So as he was voting on the Homeland Security Committee
to rich him in Trump's, because they
voted to deregulate crypto.
One of the two Republicans I mean one of the two Democrats above it all the Republicans to get over the
Can't remember I can't remember it was a dude. It was one dude
Remember, but I just remember him and I'm like
Yeah, man. I keep this dude's crazy. So
He gets a slime the ethnic violation
Because he did not disclose this crypto over
So it was
Ethic violation. That's how old draconians the laws in the books are so we have to not only update on transparency laws
But we have to close the loophole for inside of trading and like on day one
I'll support that a hundred percent sure Adam does too
But like it's it's not your job in public service in the house of the people
So I'm not the capital to try to enrich yourself then today our job is trying to figure out ways to improve your quality of life
out here in the community and so not so much man it is just unbelievable. I've done
fun. It's just crazy to me. Look you are you live and breathe Detroit. Yeah. Like you live and breathe Michigan. I've seen him in my own two eyes. I know he can attest to it too. You're running up and down the streets.
High-fiving people, deaf people, you know, I mean, I was shocked.
He would just walk into a restaurant and just start, start going up to people laughing,
smiling, I was like, dang it.
I was raised that way though, so I was like, I feel like an old school, you're like a small town mayor.
You know what I mean?
Except you're running for, you know, you're running for commerce.
Yeah.
And then on the other side, this dude is like a, like a comic book villain.
literally he looks like one of them yeah down to the puppy murder and everything
like he's just like so funny to me that like you have one guy who's like lived
and bring this issue you represent your district already in very meaningful ways
you understand it and then the dude who's the incompetence is like very
clearly coming in from a different community specifically to sit on the
seat because he probably couldn't run for another congressional district and
And this was, I guess, easier to buy out.
I don't know, I feel like that's disrespectful.
Yeah, it is, man.
Especially when you clearly don't even
care about this district.
It's true.
A district that needs a lot of help.
It's really messed up.
So I got a couple more questions.
Yeah, for sure.
You stated that you pose all form military aid,
including to Israel, until we fully fund critical needs
here at home.
You always bring up the Tupac Club.
And some of those needs are obviously housing, health care,
education, shri Thanadar, on the other hand,
accepted a $28,758 trip to Israel paid for by APAC-affiliated
organizations and has received nearly 2.5 million in campaign
funding from pro-Israel packs.
Even though he's self-financing, he's a rich as hell.
I don't even know why he needs the extra money.
Will you sign the Block of Bombs Act?
Yes.
And how do you connect the billions of taxpayer dollars
being sent to fund genocidal overseas
to the underfunded schools and closed clinics
and crumbling infrastructure in the 13th district?
Yeah.
No, that's, first of all, a good question.
So the time is when we're seated to leave.
It's the only member of Congress from Michigan,
out of the Michigan delegation that
signed the Block of Bombs.
Yeah.
On day one, when you all elect me and help put me
across the finish line in the next three days,
we will do that on day one.
We will be the second person to do so.
And so hopefully we'll get them do it
like the two in the center.
And it'll be probably three of us, which would be amazing.
Maybe we'll be four, but he has to help in the winter too.
So it's a whole new thing.
But like in terms of how, like I talked about the five parts
redistribution resources.
When you send that money overseas,
it's less money for critical resources here in programs.
And so, I just can't get conscious,
support that when it's a genocide.
And on top of that, not just a genocide in Gaza,
but there's stuff happening in Sudan,
there's stuff happening in Iran,
like there's a bunch of countries right now
that America has this hand in,
I mean, even a Cuba man, there's just so much happening.
Yeah.
And like, why are we terrorizing folks?
Like, people are like, oh, there's terrorists in there.
Man, we're the ones that are beating the bullies.
Yeah.
And we're spending billions,
I'm talking about billions of days,
just when I ran alone.
I'm not gonna talk about it in other countries.
You're telling me we don't have enough money
to make sure that our seniors get the healthcare they need,
our children are fed?
Like, what America are we living in?
wealthiest nation on earth. Come on man, it's bullshit. So we got to call off to what it is. We got to fight for it. We got to bring the resources back home. That's it. I'm sure Adam and Breeze too. I'm scared to not follow this. Come on.
Oh we did it. 35. We did it 35. You got to try it. Actually I'm gonna see if they can make it a little because they got some ghost pepper back there.
They're good like this one.
They got some good stuff in there.
No, because Adam is, he's got a palate.
He's got a good palate.
He's seen combat.
What's the ghost pepper bowl?
Oh, 40 grand.
40 grand?
45 grand.
I'm going to see what they put back there.
I'm going to try the ghost pepper at 45 grand.
I'm going to see if they got the ghost pepper ready.
Ooh.
Sauce.
It's just raw sauce.
Sauce.
No, not raw.
Just see this is not the extra hot bro. This is not? Ok, I messed it up. No, this brings it on.
Oh, tell them to bring that extra hot. Because that's not the extra hot. No, not too hot.
We have had these two tears. We have to get a real extra hot now.
Yeah, you weren't wrong. That's not even hot at all.
Just see just tell them like the extra the extra hot that they brought is an extra hot
Just say that
Yeah, it's just Frank's I'm pretty sure it's just Frank's
I got so I got fire around for you that's usually the one that makes it on Fox news where I asked you like the policies
Yeah
And then, before then, though, I have the Zoran method.
What are, Zoran did this thing where he defined himself by five,
easily identified the policy, and it's very important for Democrats to do that.
So I've been asking candidates to do that.
What are the top five policies you want to be defined by?
Your campaign and your candidates now?
You know, corporate money out of no politics.
So ending citizens united, we have to do that.
We can do it through congressional action.
You just need people with the courage to do so.
Second thing is Medicare for all.
Third thing is universal free childcare.
I talked about it.
My wife and I, we pay more in childcare
for all the Sunday we do our mortgage.
It's just too doing hot.
That's crazy.
And if we want young families to start young families,
then you gotta figure out the childcare issue.
The fourth thing I would say,
I mean, just the right to breathe clean air and clean water.
I mean, just the environmental stuff.
Like, I'm a big EJ guy.
And then the fifth thing will be,
like, it's amazing between housing and employment.
Because I want people to be able to work that one job,
make livable wages, to take care of their family,
and not have to stress themselves on multiple jobs
and not even have the opportunity
to spend time with their loved ones.
because that's an economic and a mental health crisis
within the cell.
And then like the housing,
because dude, we have so much opportunity
to house people here.
Yeah.
Whether they're veterans or formerly incarcerated,
like there should be no unhoused folks in our country.
There should be.
Yeah.
And I just don't get why we don't put the money
or resources where it needs to go.
It just doesn't make sense.
Because I was housing, you know, I was, I had housing and security growing up and, you know, my life, it's, it's crazy because when I first got with my life,
before I got together, she would tease me because she'd be like,
why don't you ever put your clothes in like, you know, the drawers or anything like that?
Because I was so used to, like, living on a trash bag, but I'm not, I'm not joking, like, I'll read,
I remember, I remember she, she rolled me up from a drain because I was bicycling, like I was bicycling kicking, right?
And I was just remembering how like a nightmare flashback of what happened.
Like growing up in the neighborhood, like people talking about going to war, my sister kind of discarded me.
She's like growing up in the inner city of Detroit, a lot of inner cities across America that deal with a lot of crime.
Like it's PTSD, man.
Like we go through a lot of crap here.
like it is unbelievable. And so, you know, we love on our people. We want better for them.
But like, there's, there's not a waking moment where like, you have an opportunity to get a gun
down or like, get it, you know, and the gun, and the gun shooting and, and, and arguments and all
that stuff. So like, I just remember being a part of drivebys, man, and all that stuff. So like,
I guess, I don't know, man, we meant to love too. There'll be like the sixth thing will be
it's well because we're going through a lot of shit man, we're going through a lot of stuff.
Alright, time for rapid fire.
Yeah.
Okay.
Do you support Medicare for All?
Yes.
Housing for All?
Yes.
Tuition-free public college?
Hell yeah.
And then the school to prison pipeline?
Please.
Yes.
Andy Cacheville?
Yes.
Abolishing and prosecuting ICE?
Yes.
A moratorium on data centers?
Banned congressional stock trading. Ending citizens united. Ending America's permanent wars. Ending all the US aid to Israel.
A free Palestine. All right, well, I'm going to be kidding everybody. Thank you so much. The primary is right around the corner on August 4th as you guys know.
So the same ballot as Abdul al-sayyaf for Senate. You were up on that Detroit Opera House stage with him
Yeah, that was epic, bro. That was epic.
Listen, this young black kid from Detroit grew up on the east side of the city
To be on that stage for all of those heavy hitters, man
Like I cried on the way home
Because I was like no for real because I never knew like a kid like me could be doing this stuff
Yeah, I'm still young. I'm 34 years old like I'm still young. I'm older than you
35 okay, okay, I'm barely barely
but I
Man to be able to do this work like to do what you're called to do
It is just a phenomenal and I want all your listeners and viewers to
They're tuning in just follow your dreams man do what God has taught like literally made you to do
So whatever your hidden talent is they find it whatever that
Ability that you that you have that God given time the ability to do so like just do it
Don't even stress about how you gonna make the money
Just do it what I hear all the time from my constituents is it's like the cut of what a silly people
Like man, I could have done this I should have done that I would have done this if this would have happened the right way
You're gonna live through obstacles. This life is hard as it is. I understand it
But don't let anybody talk to you out of following your dreams man because that's how you change the world
It's one random act of kindness at a time
But more importantly is you being able to follow your dreams to inspire somebody else to follow their dreams
That's what all of this is about and so like for me. This is about the service man
Son of a title not about money. It's about really doing what we can for working people and then I'm not trying to stay here for life
I'm going to like to live like I'm a family man, like I want to spend time with my babies.
But I'm making this sacrifice because we all need a better world out here for each and
every one of us and that's the real fight.
Hell yeah.
Well I mean we're going to continue.
I'm just, I was just a formal interview portion that I spend most of the time eating through
I just wanted to end it because I get you know he wants to enjoy the food y'all yeah
but it's good one more piece right there now you do you can prop it now you can
prop it and eat yeah
It's all good.
How damn.
Man, man.
How was it in your district, bro?
How was it?
No, how was it?
How was it?
Yeah.
Right now.
Tell me, like, the demographics of it and, like, you know, the struggles you're all hearing
in your district.
Because, I mean, you and me talking about it all the time and what we're going through.
You guys want to do this in New Jersey as well?
So I have such a wide range in my district.
Yeah.
It's like I have everything that ranges from like, you know, Princeton, and like 15 minutes away, I got Trenton.
Yeah, super great.
Yeah.
Whoa, you got Princeton and Trenton?
I got Trenton.
And so I got that range.
Yay!
And then the diversity of my district, you know, in Central New Jersey, I got really the entire world converging there.
Yeah, yeah.
and how the wide range of racial, religious,
socioeconomic, and everyone has their own problems and issues.
And trying to find out how each individual group is important.
I was in a crowded race that we were able to succeed in winning,
but now we've got to come together as Democrats for the general
and then also kind of move on to make sure
that we take care of our own issues.
So what I've been doing this summer is just going around
listening to people, hearing their problems and their issues,
and then also trying to introduce myself to everyone,
because not everyone came out during the primary school.
And so people want to know who this new person is
that's going to be taken.
Who's this Adam Gawke?
Who's this doctor?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
How's the family, man?
Are they like, do they know what you just accomplished
and what you just done with just regular working people, man?
They know what happens.
I don't think they quite realize it.
Yeah, it was this.
It's back to the point, yeah.
Have you realized the impact of it?
I'm still figuring that out.
Yeah.
Well, some of the people that ends up taking a pay cut.
Take a plastic piece.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
Thank you, bro.
Thank you, bro.
That's what's actually crazy about it.
Thank you, bro.
Because you did a plastic surgery, right?
Yeah, a plastic surgery.
Oh, bro, you make it bank.
OK.
No, no.
I think Adam Hamoli might be the only plastic surgeon
with his politics in the entire country.
True.
Like, literally.
You know what that might be.
Because no, it's crazy.
Because like, look, there's doctors,
they make a lot of, they make the money,
but there's also like, plastic surgeons
make really good money for the most part.
The most part, yeah.
And it didn't, you know.
Yeah.
So for you to be like pro-medicare for all as a doctor,
I feel like it matters a lot.
Well, a lot of it is education as well.
I didn't know what it really meant
until I started running.
And looking for like, what's Medicare for all?
It's been universal healthcare for everyone.
And you gotta convince your colleagues.
I got it.
It's education.
It's understanding that it involves.
And there's always extremes either end,
but you know, the middle ground
is that everyone's going to benefit.
Yeah, chill, chill.
Man, how do you break that down?
Because I know, at least in mind,
There's some folks who like, I can get, understand,
I understand that we say I've helped care for everybody.
Right.
But then like that, they don't even want to have it.
See the problem?
They don't want it, right?
They want to keep their private.
Well, see, and most doctors are actually suffering
in this system.
This is the whole craziness of this,
is like, you know, the insurance companies
form money to kind of just kind of like, you know,
again to like the system and what actually is happening.
What actually is happening is that they are making money
and profiting over people from Israel, right?
So when we don't have enough money to pay doctors,
when we don't have enough money to treat the patients
and do the tests they need and give them the medications
they need, where's all that money going?
People are paying for premiums, you know,
and they keep growing up every year.
Who's making a profit?
UnitedHealthcare, fourth largest
the most profitable company in the country.
How much is the CEO getting?
You talk about big money, it's not the doctors,
it's the CEOs of these companies, right?
So where's all this money going?
And of course they have to cycle it back
into Congress and the system to keep just going.
And they tell everyone we don't want anything else
because otherwise they're not gonna make this right.
It's a multi-billion dollar GDP boost as well.
So it's like a lot of economic activity.
It's this unbelievably costly middleman
that doesn't even exist in a lot of his countries, too,
or it exists in a much more limited degree
with a lot more guardrails on it, right?
Whereas in America, it's just completely out of control
and it's the only game in town,
so they just get away with it.
And I don't think people understand,
like with Medicare for All,
you would be paying far less
if we had one insurance pool.
We would be paying the country far less
Compared to all these premiums that we've paid for,
you get all these administrative costs,
and then like, I know there's some doctors,
again, a minority of people will come in and say,
well Medicare, they don't pay anything, I'd go out of business.
But Medicare for all is not Medicare.
Yeah, yeah, we gotta make that happen.
It's the largest, it's the, when you pull,
because insurance works out, it works through leverage, right?
You have to have buy-in for people that are not going to take out this much, right?
You leverage it against people that are going to need the health care that are going to
be costly patients with everybody else that is paying in and most likely is not going
to use the insurance.
That's just how an insurance risk pool works, right?
So turning that into one major risk pool and funding it through taxes, especially for a
lot of young people that are not going to need it necessarily, all of a sudden you have
a far more robust system where you can actually fund,
like you can actually fund the rural hospitals as well,
because these are all the underserved neighborhoods
that they provide on Medicaid.
Whenever you cut Medicaid,
then no one can pay those hospitals.
So those hospitals have to close down.
It's devastating.
It's like you're saying the reallocating of resources,
that money that we're putting into premiums,
and we take all the profits
that are just flowing to private-like industry,
And we throw that back into the system.
The difference is maybe a small bump
that you're paying in taxes, but you're
paying a lot less in those premiums.
Yeah, so you're paying less overall.
The sum, the net of it, is that you're paying less.
And then after that, if we start taking,
looking at our military, where we just approved $1.1 trillion.
All right, so we take, whatever, 20% $200 billion.
What could we do with $200 billion?
what can we do when we start doing the wealth tax?
We can more than afford a system that works for patients,
that works for physicians to keep them in the system
and not disenchanted and closing their shops up
and make everyone's life better by eliminating what we're doing.
But there's a profit incentive to keep things going the way they are.
Yeah, sure, that's true.
Yeah, 100%.
It's a major, I mean, look, this state, you know?
I don't want to say nothing about nobody that has a position of power in this state,
but there's a fairly popular person who ran against Abdul at some point.
Yeah, yeah. How do you talk more? How do you talk more?
But yeah, that's like, you know, blue cross, blue shield,
like they're all over this, you know?
And it's unbelievable.
I mean, for years, you could have been there.
I think that pharmaceutical company with the PBMs
that are like driving pharmacies out of business,
raising drug prices, and then not only that,
is that they're choosing what drugs patients should get.
And it's not based on clinical efficacy.
No, that's true.
It's not based on what the doctor's saying
or what's gonna work in the future.
Based off the money.
Based off the money.
They're like, well, we're going to give you this drug instead.
And then if it doesn't work in about a few years,
we'll revisit it.
But by that time, you're freaking dead.
It's a cheaper, less effective version,
but we'll go ahead and take it.
And for the drugs that we do get,
we pay three times or sometimes more than any other country
from the drugs that we're producing.
It's crazy.
Yeah, Bernie used to go over the border in Vermont to Canada.
they would do trips to the Canadian side as like missions for all the elderly
so they could get cheaper pharmaceuticals. People do that in Mexico too.
There's like a lot of medical tourism. There's a lot of like pharmaceutical
tourism. Or people just like cross the border over to Mexico, go to a pharmacy
there and they come back because it's just like far cheaper. But that's so
embarrassing. It's so unnecessary. Like the wealthiest nation on earth is
unbelievable that we have to rely on crazy things like that and not everyone has the
access to be able to do that. That's true. That's true. You know? It's messed up. I appreciate
y'all coming to Michigan man. Coming to Detroit and where I get the hang of it. It's great.
I love Detroit. Yeah. How many times have you been before? I'm only been a couple like
Okay, did you get the chance to explore in Los Angeles?
Not really, because every time I'm here, we have stuff.
Yeah, it is a big fact.
I'm here for like a specific purpose, you know?
What's your plan for the rest of the night tonight?
We're going to the club tour.
Oh yeah, we're going to the clubs, baby.
Oh, just like last night?
We're going to the club better.
It's going to be like actually at the real club.
Oh yeah, that's the stuff.
No, that wasn't, no.
I remember, I'm a young black man running for Congress.
They're gonna sit and put a little clip to shit.
Yeah, it's true.
They're waiting, they're waiting.
They're gonna be like, James Martin.
Not doing strict stuff.
No, it was a venue, a music venue, but it used to be a triple, apparently.
Yeah, but we're going to the club to meet the voters.
That's what we're doing.
used to be a triple family. Yeah. Um, but we're going to the club to meet the voters.
That's what we're doing. That's cool. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. How's it going? What time? Oh,
like lately? Yeah. What time? What's the product? I think we're starting to get time to walk
to the details. Hey, y'all around on the road. You gotta leave tonight. Uh, no, but we're
gonna, yeah, we gotta leave early. Oh, yeah. So that's cool though. What district? Like,
I mean, what area?
What was the downtown area?
It's like all over.
Oh, wow.
Let's come with us.
All right, well, we'll see.
Because I'm not going to be able to stream that anyway,
because I'm going to be dumb by that point.
But yeah, we might have to actually go to bed early.
Because last night, I was supposed to go to bed early.
OK?
And then it was his fault at first, because he was like, hey,
come with us.
We're going to do, we're going to canvas for Don.
and I was like, you know what?
I was like, I'm out here, I'm out here, we gotta do it.
And then I pull up and you guys were like,
oh, we're just gonna go to a couple spots.
It was 11, 13, 12 by the time I got to the hotel.
I was like, a couple spots, we went everywhere.
Yeah, it was crazy.
He told me that you guys kept going after him.
I was like, one more spot, one more spot.
No, it was 10.
I went to bed at 2.30, I was unfortunate.
That's crazy.
Eight of you on the back.
I know we had eight of you this morning.
We've been going since the year eight of you.
Yeah, but these are the last couple of days.
Yeah, we got to lay down on our own.
How does that make you feel that you're doing all this stuff?
You're busting your ass.
Yeah, man.
And then Shreej is posting up with the teacher.
That's it, man.
He's a weird dude.
You saw the video of him holding the dog?
I did not see it.
Oh my god.
You gotta always pull it up.
Your viewers gotta see this.
He thinks 12 is late, I'm out.
I'm an old man.
He said things too early to be late.
What?
We are starting to attend to this drill.
Yeah.
But we're gonna be hard on that.
We're literally doing a plug towards this meme of voters.
Let them know, hey, who needs our vote.
What's the total money by the way?
We are currently sitting.
He's doing math, complicated math.
Numbers got three six seven two nine, thirty six thousand seven hundred thirty six thousand.
Thank you.
Come on guys.
Let's go.
Thank you.
We need to get more money so that we can get Donovan here in Congress so that we can
work together.
Come on, pick it up.
We can at least hit four thousand.
At least hit four thousand.
At least hit four thousand work.
Out of my, get him a forty.
Get him a forty-k.
Here's the other thing.
For those of you who are negative bank balance divas,
we've been there, you're excused from this,
but there's like 20,000 people in this right now,
probably about 1,000 if you have chipped in.
If you are one of the many, many people
who does not have lots of spare money
to give to political candidates,
it doesn't, we talk about $5, $25, $150,
you can give $1.
So if you are somebody who doesn't typically
give to political candidates
and you wanna help power this campaign,
if a bunch of you right now give between one and $3,
that'll multiply incredibly quickly
and get us to our goal like that.
So negative bank balance girls, you're excused,
but everybody else, I need $1 from you.
Negative bank balance girls.
Listen, you know what that is,
I have never heard that term, but I'm okay.
No, it was a negative balance deal,
but I feel so represented.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Well, you know what's really just, man,
he's so out of touch, bro.
So out of touch.
Yeah, we'll show you on the screen.
Oh yeah, oh you're sitting in the video.
It's better to send it to you to show a laptop, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I've learned that from repeating and showing things.
It's a great lack of effect.
How many hours left?
I don't even know, bro.
What is it, 70?
It's about 70, yeah.
70 something now?
Man, man.
I just want to take a nap, hold my kids.
and just like, sleep real quick.
Well, I can't do it until...
Tuesday night.
Oh yeah, Tuesday night.
I have to do it, have the elections over.
That's all I want to do.
Just give me like a night where I can just
don't have to worry about it.
Okay.
Oh my God.
How long is this one?
It's just cranes, bro.
How fast do you know what he did to the other street?
Oh, you don't know.
Oh, you don't know what his opponent did?
In your state.
Really?
Yeah.
No.
No matter.
120 beagles, 55 monkeys.
His business goes bankrupt.
Pharmaceutical testing lab.
Pharmaceutical testing lab goes bankrupt.
He just leaves them behind to starve.
Former staff and activists have to jump over the fences
to go and feed the animals there, until there was like intervention.
I'm in Oxford, Warren County.
And he's in Congress.
Not for long.
Yeah, till Tuesday.
Come on.
Yeah.
This was great.
Where are all those animal rights people on this?
No, I don't see them.
Yeah, I don't understand why that's not like a bigger deal like why is it not a bigger
conflict?
Because he's been since he's been in town and he's voted with the human rights people
a hundred percent of time to try to like make that work.
He has like PETA about a certain state and that on him.
I have to say actually he's free.
So yeah, he's just over...
He's these over here.
I wouldn't know if I were to beat him.
Yeah.
He's full animal rights section that's all probably seen.
Pro?
Pro?
Yeah, he's been 100% since he's been in college.
So it's like, it makes him look like they're champions any more.
Yeah, but he's not.
He don't really...
I kept trolling looking for it.
Yeah.
There's a thing about the tortured monkeys or whatever.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
38.
38.
38.
This is $1, guys.
$1, guys.
Everybody could do it.
We need to get to 40.
We need to get to 40.
Is that starting at zero?
This is starting at zero today.
It's starting at zero, like two hours ago.
Yeah, we started fundraising when we first got here.
Sorry.
Can you tell your, like, some high percentage of these people are exonies?
100%
So, all... this is my place
This is not, this isn't the kind of anything coming in off the other thing
This is only people looking from the street
There's something called, it's this soft platform called Act Blue
It's called Democrat Fugitive Remedies
Come on, I never acted, look at this
So, the campaign needs money
She said go back to the campaign 111 school
There's a custom link and a rap quote.
You did ask some questions that was like, that's why he's not being...
He's just a podcast professional.
In the audience.
Yeah.
Everyone knows who that clue is.
Yeah.
There was some recent conversation.
Maybe they just got awfully read.
I think everybody knows that.
Yeah, probably.
That's crazy.
I think he threw Republicans trying to, like, scandalize hackaboo.
I know.
Like, you're confused, so much confused on goals on Facebook,
being like, I'm impressed with that 4,000 million.
I just saw her mission.
You know, like, that's what my favorite is.
Charlie was up just for the thing about hackaboo.
He gives it a name to Scanning.
I don't understand, like, yeah, I saw something.
I didn't, I just heard about it.
Why is it a scan?
It was confusing.
Do you see this segment?
No, but I don't understand why they're attacking the payment
processor.
People don't know how to read FBC reports and add blue
for donations under $250.
Most campaigns don't itemize them.
It protects small donor products,
because they're not obligated.
So they show up clumped on FBC reports, like add blue,
check, and it addresses their address in Somerville,
Massachusetts.
So people are just plotting to be FBC
and also have like a green at squirrel.
I just always found it odd that they attack Agoo like that.
Well, I mean, what's the Republican man for us?
Win red. Win red? Yeah. So they have their own...
They can't consolidate, but that's a new deal.
That was like two years ago. One of their big problems
is the public and grass-free economy. They don't have one.
There's like a civil war over which payment processors are going to use.
Oh, so they're multiple. Wow.
That's real free market capital.
That's the only difference.
Yeah. Ackerman's got some problems too,
from what I understand.
People with a new policy are working on their own payment processor.
Yeah.
Progressive campaign.
You've gotten some through it.
And so have you.
I've got a new policy, yeah.
It's getting there.
So, we'll see.
It's a super, I mean the overhead's crazy, right?
What's both of them about ownership?
Vote Builder, which is banned.
So, if you canvass, you use Minivan.
That is all now owned by private equity.
And if you can't, it's owned by private equity.
That's fine.
That's okay.
So, former state rat, used the majority of the four leaders, the Democrat, to affect the Nines running for the state senate.
What's up guys?
Yeah, what's going on? What's up, Don?
Can I say that?
So we used some neighborhoods, I have buddies in my district and then he would come and put it to some.
Okay, I'm not supposed to say that, okay?
Well, I was too late, we didn't even know.
Oh, you know, I didn't even know!
What did you say?
Oh
We're downtown Detroit at the at the buddy's pizza near Fox TV
Wait, is that now
Which we are totally downtown by the way.
We're downtown.
We're weak.
Yeah, we've just been talking, man.
We're talking about ag blue and its problems.
Those big fees, bro.
By the way, we're 44.
44! Yo, thank you!
Thank you!
I'm a man of size for the people, man.
Thank you.
Somebody mess up.
Now, that's speculation.
That's speculation.
OK.
That's it.
$44.
That's amazing.
So here, one can away from what is?
Ghost pepper.
Ghost pepper sauce from a beer pizza.
No, not the sauce.
No, the ghost pepper sauce.
That's not this.
This shit will kill you.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Oh, no, no, no.
No, no, no.
It's not about your wife's.
That's a gibibis too.
OK.
Wait, so.
So get it from my sauce.
Tom's, Tom's y'all.
Tom's.
Y'all waited for me to be done with my, with my,
Oh you can, you can, oh shit.
Get them another one.
Okay.
Give another one.
No, it's mine.
No, we just, oh, burns.
Yeah, another drink.
Another drink.
Have you had a, what was it called again?
Sloty?
It's flow, flow, flow.
Ice cream float.
Have you ever had, you've never had a float?
I had a label in the past, but I didn't have one.
Yeah.
It's really good
No, it's supposed to be in burgers
Can I tell you guys some this how Donovan acts in real life to
That's true.
This is not an act.
This is not an act.
This is true.
Yeah.
So, and look at that airline.
His opponent, shitty ass 2K.
Yeah, that's true.
That's true.
I wonder to say why he does that?
Because at that point, it's like, who are you?
Yeah, yeah, that's true.
Like, who is this?
Who are you selling with this?
Yeah.
It's crazy.
Anyway, so, alright, well, let me just end the stream.
I don't need that
They wanted to try it, listen y'all wanted to try it
No, no, it's bad
Naga peppers
Shout out to my Bengalis
Shout out to the Bengalis
That's the spicy, shady, levered idiot
What does it smell like?
Oh, he's like, yeah
It smells like the thing, the hour line that we put on pasta in Turkey
I guess Armenians do it too, in order to preserve the meat, we just put something around it.
That's what it smells like.
Dude, that's spicy.
Turkish food's not spicy.
No, Turkish food's not spicy.
No, I know.
I like spicy food.
He's Yemenese by the way.
He knows a little bit of spice.
I love spice, right?
A little bit of spice.
Did you guys meet in the cafe yesterday?
Yeah, we did.
Yeah, but we didn't.
Yeah, but we were going to camp because we were going to walk around.
Yeah.
Okay.
You could have gotten a fastest sandwich.
Well, I didn't order it.
I didn't order anything.
Who ordered it?
I was going to order some Yemeni food, man.
I wanted the Yemeni food.
Hey, be careful.
Who ordered this chicken slaw?
I'm not joking.
You sound real.
I'm joking.
I love Yemeni coffee, but the chicken slaw doesn't make any sense.
It's not.
It was all right.
It wasn't.
You know you have to go to uh...
I'm trying it.
Oh it's one of those delayed ones.
Oh it's building.
Oh no.
At first I was like oh it's not that bad.
Do you want some ranch?
Okay that's not... I mean it's spicy but it's not that bad.
Oh yeah.
It's not that bad at all, it's not that bad at all.
He'll tell it, he'll tell it for real.
Did they mix it with tomato?
It's the ghost pepper sauce.
Is it hot hot?
No, it's not that bad, but it is delayed,
but I was expecting a way bigger pop.
And it's not.
You better not have it.
It's like a, it gets a little bitter.
Oh good.
Oh yeah, ghost pepper.
it smells good you don't like the smell really not that bad yeah it's a little
bit more than that yeah this place doesn't this place is not very spicy
oh yeah come in here I'll show you how it's a piece of this no I believe it
it's a piece of so you're a doctor yep this apparently cheers the colony cold
that's how they sell it no no no you know vermin's was created to cure the
kind of cold a lot of these sodas that originally started with coke had like
pharmacies to but this is the first soda ever created we call it pop every time I
get sick my mom says drinks are to dry out right like I'm a doctor it's not
This is where it is Detroit, baby. We care to come to call come to Detroit
If you get a float it's fine
They have died
Yeah they do.
Alright, come on.
I just don't like sugar.
Bro, you don't want to strain the...
No, I eat my sugar.
You're a Yemeni and you don't like sugar?
I eat my sugar.
Okay, I was like, that's a lot.
No, no, no.
I eat my sugar.
So, Mali's and Yemeni's, they love sugar.
It's crazy.
Everything that I've ever had.
Both my parents...
They're all coffee.
Yeah.
All they...
They don't love coffee.
And you like green tea?
Green tea.
Yeah, green tea.
It's the OG coffee, that's it.
That was equal.
This guy, by the way, when he gets to Congress,
I'll let him in.
I mean, just never walk down the hall of this guy.
I'll tell you what.
Why?
Because this man will stop and shoot everybody.
I know, I've done that before.
That's what I'm saying.
I go canvassing with him, and I'm telling them,
Donovan, we only got a hit like this.
We walk three times every year.
He's not always with the people, bro.
He stops with everybody.
You have to, though.
You know you're not doing you you're like a small town mayor. I'm serious
It's like dabbing everybody dabbing everybody up, and he's not like I was like fat Albert
Just like you you're like very excited to see everybody
No, but I love people man. I don't think you should be in these positions. You don't love people like
Get back about it
This is people's business, right? You gotta help folks. That's why you gotta donate to McKinney
Yeah dollars for Donovan equals democracy for Detroit
$200 for 50 day $200 for 50 day
Wow, we cook we cook yeah
Hell yeah
By the way while we get
Yeah, what about me?
So Michigan Advanced wrote about this race.
Michigan pro-Israel donors have mobilized to support his opponent, Justin, against a
Yemeni-American opponent in the Democratic State Senate primary for a district-covering
party of Detroit and Downriver.
The donors report for 117,000 or 33% of his opponent's money.
That includes donors to APAC who gave to his opponent, donors to Republicans, a PAC that
that supports Michigan's GOP legislative leadership,
a bank executive, members of the Staples
and Democratic campaigns.
His opponent took half money from DTE
and billionaire Maddie Maroon's companies.
All of them.
Wait, it gets worse.
I swear to God, y'all,
there's an Epstein associate that donated to his campaign.
Sri Thanadar gave to his campaign
and my opponent donated to Haley Stevens.
So all I'm saying is Donovan and I,
Brothers, I'm proud to say we bring doors each other on day one
I've seen this guy serve. I've seen the other dumbass serve Shreve Thanadar
I would say you can you can spell shit with Shreve Thanadar. That's what it's full of
Sorry, I gotta say it. All right. This is going on
Everything you're saying
You and Shreve have more in common. He talks about me every night. He does. Yes
Every single night, last night he had Mark Levin on,
Mark Levin was on the verge of tears.
No, literally, he's calling me Hasan Puker.
Yeah, because here's what happened.
I did this documentary with Donnie O'Sullivan from CNN.
And in it, they're asking me about the antisemitism bill,
all this stuff, and like, you know,
insurgent left movements they were working with.
And at the end of it,
at the end of the entire documentary,
they're only asking like, so you say you care about fighting fascism, what will you do if
the 2028 Democratic primary winner for the president, the candidate, is not sufficiently
anti-Israel?
And I said, I'm not going to have to make that decision at all because there won't be
a pro-Israel Democrat that will win the 2028 primary.
So that went all over Fox News, and they've been losing their minds since then.
They're like, this is crazy, they're saying this, and then half of them are saying, this
is crazy, how dare he say such a thing, he's so anti-Semitic.
And then the other half are like, yeah, Democrats are the party of anti-Semitism, as they said,
because they're endorsing this kind of behavior.
And it's so wild, because it's like, that's just the majority opinion in this country.
You know what I use as an analogy?
If you got a bunch of donations from the Catholic Conference, or like donors from the Catholic
Conference, and then you have a strong anti-abortion position, I would write to question the people
that gave the money.
You're not anti-Catholic, right?
So there's this notion that if you, it doesn't matter.
The fake is not the question.
It's should the United States be funding a genocide?
Should we be getting it in any way in most developed nations in the country, right?
doesn't make any sense. So if people say, why is Gaza the litmus test? Because I can't
trust you if you're willing to sell out to a foreign government. Like how are you going
to stand up to DTE if you're not willing to stand up to AFAC? How do I trust you to stand
up to the insurance lobby if you're not willing to stand up to AFAC? This is the most documented
genocide in the history. And you still have folks saying, well, it's complicated, I'm
I'm not sure, what are we talking about?
You literally had mothers whose, you've done surgery on these people.
I've actually been there.
I've been there.
And so when people come and say, I'm making things up, it's like, you go there with me
and take a look at what's happening there.
Let the world know, why are journalists allowed, why are people allowed to go see what's happening,
why can't we have third party in there to actually make an assessment?
What are you trying to hide?
I have nothing to hide.
So, it's exactly what you're saying.
Criticizing the state, criticizing Israel,
and saying that that's anti-Semitism
is insulting to all the Jewish Americans
who are not supporting the genocide.
To all the Jewish Americans who are saying that this is wrong.
And to call this as a, like,
to try to lump it all into one thing,
that's a true dangerous problem
because then you're conflating the two things.
That creates, like, a real sense of,
like, hate which shouldn't exist.
Yeah, and every time Haley Stevens comes out and says,
oh, Abdul is actually, well, y'all are from here.
Can you, what, is that a real, is that a real you
for accent, is that Albert Peninsula?
Which she's not from by the way, she's from Rochester, right?
Like, is that, why are you laughing?
Hey, hey, man, it's a good question.
Cause I get,
No, but it's life, it's life, it's your right though.
We can't we can't sing. I'm a brown dude. I can't talk about it anymore. Otherwise, I'm just an aggressive, misogynist, Muslim, sexist, aggressor.
Yeah, I'll please you for getting that a lot.
You didn't even say anything. He was just so nice about her and even he didn't even have to say anything and he was like,
I think people should stop making fun of Hayley's demons. And then the next thing he's like, angry Muslim man.
hate woman-hating angry Muslim men it's like immediately every day it's so
lopsided the trope they do everything it's so lopsided it's crazy yeah well
yeah I well anyway she was asked about the APEC thing by by Samuel Robbins
yeah I really I really like what he's been doing and and he asked like so you
You said, like, Abdul is disrespecting all Jewish Americans with this APEC thing, like
you're connecting APEC to all Jewish Americans, like, and immediately she went on a tangent
about me.
She's like, well, Abdul brought Hassan to the state and, you know, took him to universities
and his campuses are already like-
Yeah, it is a thing.
That didn't work.
It literally caused the-
It did.
It mattered tomorrow.
Yeah.
I'm like, what do you-
No, that's the last, like, rip corners that they pulled.
That's what Andrew Cuomo did.
They got nothing else.
Yeah, when they got nothing else, they played that.
And then it just hasn't worked since.
They did it all the time.
They were like, why did you bring Hasan Biker to the district?
And I'm like, well, what's your problem?
Well, I'm from New Jersey, which is crazy.
Like, I was born in New Brunswick.
Come on home, you know?
You sure you're not hiding in the mountains in Pennsylvania?
Yeah, yeah.
Exactly.
We're after DK.
Wow!
Congratulations.
Thank you everybody, come on, let's go.
Thank you all.
It means a lot, we're gonna win this shit.
Post that on Fox News.
50k versus 50 million, you got it man.
What?
We're gonna spend like a lot of money,
but we don't know it.
That's actually been one of the more interesting throughlines
in all of these campaigns that I've worked with,
where normally, I think in American politics,
I've been to like these last couple of elections,
so I was just like 97% of the time,
the side that now spends wins, right?
There's a good reason why A-Tact spends a lot of money.
Yeah, and I think every single race
that I've been involved in, I don't know if you were,
yeah, you fundraise a lot, but with the exception of yours,
I think every race that I was involved with, they were outspent and they still won.
Really?
We actually flipped them.
Really important about Adam though is that yes, there wasn't a lot of outside spending against him
and yes, he raised a lot of money, but there wasn't a lot of outside spending against him
because he raised a lot of money early.
You made the environment.
with right in the beginning and so we kind of already had my story out, mine
narrative out, and it's a lot harder to change that than to come in first and then
to set it. So I was able to define who I was and what I was
stand for. And it's just a bigger haul to try to change that once it's
a better. Emily's List, which is the group that ElectroChoice has ever had a
woman, they have questionable politics, but Emily's Stand for Early Money is like
East because it grows. And so their whole operative motor end
die in the 90s was to get pro-choice democratic women early campaign money
because it put them ahead of the field to competitive primaries. It's true for
this movement as well. Early money is critical and when you get lots of money
early and build a strong grassroots campaign like Dr. H, you can scare off
APAC crypto AI by making it too expensive to flip the narrative. Nothing
exactly what happened in MJ12, one of the most expensive districts to run
in the country, Philly and New York media markets, where an IE had double triple quadruple
the cost of a campaign's direct spend.
Because of his early success, he was untenable for APAP to get.
You know what's fascinating?
When we're knocking doors now, people are just sick of me.
That's true.
That's true.
Oh my god.
In my race, on the precedent, 27 mailers have been sent from my opponent from five IE's
and one super plan.
And your mirrors are freaking billboards, bro.
It's like, Donovan McKinney is a murderer of children.
And they darken my face too, as all racist tropes, man.
And they're all scared of the white man.
Yeah, but it's like Detroit.
I guess it works in the south.
Yeah, unfortunately, we've had our districts overlap.
We've had a lot of people say, ah, we don't trust them,
because they've done a really good job.
This is why the money's important,
is Donovan didn't get a chance to define himself
in those areas first.
But I have not met a single person like, you know,
we served in the house, there's a lot of people
that don't like me.
I don't really care, but nobody dislikes them,
like nobody.
And I think it's, when people meet this guy,
there is no doubt that they fall in love,
every single time, every single time.
So, what you see is what you get.
Yeah, and in a lot of these races,
also like it is about like making sure the voters are as informed as possible on
the policy differences yeah especially with these like these incumbents like
they're they're so bad like their track record is so bad usually especially
yours is like exceptional can I can I tell you what Shree told me I served
with him in the house too huh when he sat me down he asked me to come in his
house he bought an apartment in the capital he's like come on I want to talk
I was like okay what's up so he said the lobby of his apartment he goes I think I run it for Congress
I was like okay why you telling me you just support I'm not endorsing you but okay why do you want to do it he goes
I want to make history
So okay, there's a diamond doesn't roll kind of like you name it. It's a bunch of indian be absurd
I want to be the oldest serving congressman in American history. That's what we're gonna go
Donovan knows the story and I told it because Donovan was in the house that we're whole.
He's 21 years.
He just turned 71.
So he has 20 more years.
He wants 10 more turns to break the record.
He just wants to be an history swordy guy.
The guy doesn't have, like, he had two interns in his office.
Our offices were right next to each other at the Capitol.
One of his interns ended up coming to work for us.
He had no staff.
The guy had no security.
Yeah, you don't need it. You don't need staff to be spending it all on
For guys which is he was so shitty this time of one time so our intern finally got hired part-time
I said dude you should be getting full-time work. He's like, are you sure?
I was like this guy is taking advantage of it. We're 60 million dollars
Go back in there and say if you don't give me a full-time job with benefits, I'm gonna quit
He's like, are you sure? What do you mean? I'm not sure
sure it's you know when he bought his escalator here in for governor he
literally got the top of the escalator lift game so he said I want to feel like
I'm in a bigger car so if you look at photos of this escalator you ran against
a fuel injection yeah it has like five or six inches of just metal to cover the
top I love the story that he was gonna run as a Republican first oh every time
That's so funny to Mr. Craig.
He was just like, I don't know.
You know how he picked his district when he ran for house?
He literally looked at the map and said, where did I do the best?
He said, I'm running in this house district for the state legislature.
He shrewd. People think he's an idiot because he walks around like an...
He just has no principles. I think that's the scariest part.
Yeah, I respect whatever revealed by Hayley. She's 10 toes for Israel.
I don't know why she believes in it, but she does.
It comes to her in her dreams.
Yeah.
Boom.
That's pretty accurate.
Yeah.
Her words.
Yeah.
I didn't make it up.
She said it.
I don't know why.
On Christmas.
The Christmas tree in the background.
It's such a strange video.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, she's worked hard for Michigan.
This is what she also says a lot.
I can say it, she's literally been calling, she's,
I'm just a good pizza.
She said I was talented, I was a talented anti-summit.
That's what she said earlier.
Do we have the receipts for all this?
All this food?
The receipts.
Why?
He's making it chill.
You don't do it, you don't get it.
I don't get it.
She was saying, she's got receipts for all the food.
The receipts.
I'm telling you, no, she kept saying like,
I have your receipts.
She just kept saying, like, I want to see your receipts.
Because I'm scared of that.
Oh, my God.
I'm scared of this, the opposite.
I'm looking at you.
You're so much worse than me.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
Do not put me in this shit.
I was just smiling at your mother.
I was just smiling at her brother.
Yeah, thank God it's only three days, bro.
Jesus, you're on ice.
Shout it out.
Stop putting these candles on the spot, bro.
He's putting himself up for it.
I didn't do anything.
I was smiling at my brother.
Yeah.
Right?
Yeah.
That's great.
This thing got into the camera angle, didn't it?
I don't know how this switch stuff works.
I'm an old millennium.
I'm 32.
Dave, you're perfect for this kind of thing, though.
You're very clip-able.
Yeah.
You're going to get a lot of attention in the next few days.
VoteAid.com, donate.
Wait, what's your bio?
Why are you running?
Oh yeah, what's your bio?
Man.
Why did I run the first time?
So I was a pre-med student at Michigan State,
go go green, and Trump, Trump one was elected.
I gave a speech at like the rock,
which is Michigan State's a better school by the way.
Donovan's overrated.
Man, that was not, man, go blue.
So him and I actually started,
Donovan and I started the Detroit Young Dems at the time.
And it was myself, you, Brandon Snyder,
who now runs the Michigan Working Files Party.
It was starting in the past, but we kind of...
Yeah, we restarted it.
Taylor Harrell, what was Maya Jones,
who was a click of us that started
the Detroit Young Democrats.
And Trump gets elected president.
Three days before he signs the travel ban,
my uncle in Yemen got killed in an airstrike,
Saudi airstrike, that the U.S. gave the weapons for.
And I remember our state senator at the time was indicted
for public corruption.
So I decided I was gonna run
because the people running in that race
was a guy with eight felonies,
the indicted senators, former chief of staff,
a guy with like six DUIs.
It was like the most interesting primary ever.
So I ended up running as honest eight.
I said, I'm 23.
I don't know what the hell I was thinking.
And Donovan ran, did you run that year in 18?
No, no, no, I ran, that was 16.
60. Okay, so I, 11 people jumped in that primary. I was a nobody, a duals running for governor,
she was running for Congress at the time. I placed second out of 11. I only lost election
day voting by five votes. And I remember a lot of folks called me after saying, ah, what's going
on? Like, what's up? What's happening? So, who is this kid? I ended up moving to New York City.
And I, after the Bernie primary, I fly out to New York. This was in 2020. Actually, that's
That's where I first met Zoran, he was running for assembly and I gave a speech at some fundraiser
in Queens and he was like, man, I want to learn how your speaking style is, just watch
a bunch of Obama videos.
Bro, this guy, literally, he's like, I taught Zoran how to speak.
Zoran knows this by the way, because you know, Zoran came up to him, he's like, brother,
how can you quote Hadith and he said a bunch of stuff, I was like just watch Obama videos
bro and that was the secret.
And I ended up moving back and our friend, his frat brother, Isaac Robinson, was to stay
rep at the time.
I flew back to Michigan Friday the 13th, it was New York City shut down, COVID just destroyed
the whole place.
March 29th, I get a call that our friend, Isaac Robinson, died of COVID.
This was in 2020.
He was the first wave of death.
Yeah.
He was the first like notable death in Michigan.
His dad ends up calling me saying, you should think about running.
I ran in 2020, was re-elected in 22.
My colleagues elected me Majority Leader.
Donovan came into that legislature
and we, first democratic trifectas in Sragan.
And I remember feeling like we had a chance to do something.
I'll be honest, we botched it.
We had a speaker of the house that took more money from DTE
than any Democrat in the history of the state of Michigan,
except our governor.
And it was sad.
I'm just telling you, I was like, this is,
And then we had an outage the first year that we served.
And we ended up saying, these guys
got to come in and answer the question.
Like, why is it that Michigan has the highest rates
and the most free crowdages in the country?
And I remember being told, you got to stop fighting DTE.
You guys got to stop talking about them.
And there's a joke in Lansing.
You can't spell Democrat, DTE.
So I'll be honest.
I remember going to the McConnell Policy Conference.
I've been there three times.
This is the time that we saw the Democrats in power.
It did not feel any different.
It is the same shtick, people getting drunk.
More condoms are sold during the Mackinac policy conference
on the island than any other time.
So these upstanding, righteous, honorable,
elected officials, this is what we had.
So I decided, I remember leaving the,
Don even knows this is true.
No, it's fine.
So I remember leaving, I remember saying, I'm done.
Like I'm not running for reelection.
It's not worth it.
So I ended up making the decision not to run for re-election.
And then I went to New York, actually.
I ended up helping Zoran out in the primary with the Bengali.
You corroborate my story, man.
There will be no Zoran without Abraham Whitehouse.
You taught him everything he knows.
Everything except the TikTok.
But when I was there, we saw what a politics can look like.
We just talk about the stuff that mattered to people.
So I came back, and I was like, we're
to run on three issues like he did. We're going to talk about freezing DTE rates, which
have gone up 120% in the last 20 years. Industrial rates have gone up 11%. Their stock price has
gone up 270%. So you talk about what corporate greed looks like. Nowhere is that more obvious
than our utility rates here in the state of Michigan. Car insurance, fourth highest in
the nation, the highest in the Midwest, proposing a public option and ending location based
pricing with the zip code tax, something Domino and I fought for.
And then this guy's favorite issue, because him and his wife love each other so much,
there's three kids, universal childcare.
I've seen that, I've seen that in action last night.
Isn't it beautiful?
No, like literally, we were walking around and there was that lady, there's these two
ladies that were walking into this concert and he's, you know, being his jovial self,
like oh what's up what's going on and he's just like handing people pamphlets
and one of them was like sell me on it why should I vote for you and he was like
childcare and she was like so instantly it was like it was a rap yeah it's
Michigan is the fastest aging state in the Midwest top 10 in the country right
we got a real problem no one's having kids the only reason our population is
growing yours because of immigration. So people like my dad is why the state is growing in
population. No one wants to have kids anymore. It's too expensive. And we grew up with what
I call the Farmer Jacks era. If you are watching this, you know Farmer Jacks, send $5 to Donovan
right now. Farmer Jacks was a local grocery store that got bought out and then private
equity shuttered it. But it was, if you grew up in Michigan, it started on the east side
Detroit it became like a regional really nostalgic shop that that we have in
Michigan and then 2007 it shut down and now we all are miserable with Kroger
Meyer and all of them. They all collude. Yeah so that's it I mean that's that's
why I ran and I hope to be able to serve with this guy myself in state
government him in federal government to finally have a real partner I'll never
forget like Shree was my congressman terrible congressman is not responsive
he'll use the story that he helped me get my passport but I was like if I
wasn't the state rep were you gonna expedite my passport appointment every
other time I called Rashida and yeah I heard his constituent service and it's
not a staff's fault he doesn't he doesn't pay them enough and then he doesn't
give them the resources that they needed that's just not in one of the
Forest Districts in the country. People call government when they're under
distress. They're not calling to ask you, thank you for standing up against Trump.
They're calling me because they have $15 a month of food stamps,
where they're about to get evicted, where DTE shut down their power, or shut off
their power. I think this is the shit that we get calls about. And you know,
Donovan and I work together in the house to try to build as much
constitutional services as possible. When people call government, that's like, you
You don't want them to feel like government doesn't work and then they just completely
check out.
So do you feel like that's the reason why Michigan is even a swing state to begin with?
Because I feel like Michigan is not a swing state at all.
That's what Michael Morris said in 2016 where it's like, this is not supposed to be a swing
state.
It's not.
It's not, right?
It's supposed to be like Illinois, quite frankly.
Yeah.
So the fact that it's even a swing state at all, the fact that it even went to Trump
at all is because of the talent that has run in these districts across the board.
And oftentimes, it's difficult to get someone who is more honest and more invested in helping
the constituents, helping people that voted for them because money and interest comes
in and buys the seat out of form.
Yeah, I'll give you an example.
When we voted on the data center tax break bill, Speaker of the House came and said,
we got to get this done before the election.
I was like, you're going to rip up.
We always need to shoot.
I said, you're going to destroy the caucus, because we were feeling we split on this issue.
And he said, we need to get this done before the election.
I said, let's get it.
OK, if you're going to throw this shitty bill out, at least give us something to go home with and say we fought for an issue.
So we said water affordability, which all it would have done was add $1.25 to everyone's bill to fund a statewide water affordability program.
So we don't shut people's water off in the Great Lakes State.
Crazy-ass idea and I remember they moved heaven and earth to get this move passed.
We were on the floor for 18 hours and Dr. Nier and I were with the no-boss.
Yeah.
We were talking about...
So we got...
I told them we're only...
We got concessions on it.
Oh, yeah.
We had the closed-loop system.
Yeah.
We got there.
They had to plug in directly to the city's water source.
But Meta was so powerful.
Meta?
I swear to God.
I swear to God.
One of the speaker staffers walked off the floor bragging that they got a seat.
a $750,000 check from Microsoft.
Yeah.
I remember thinking to myself, this is unbelievable.
This is how government works, y'all.
We have to change it.
So when you see stuff like that, it's not.
But I remember when we came to the house,
Hassan, we were one of six lawmakers
that never took PTV money.
Now there's 140 people running for state house and Senate,
and all of them have signed the pledge.
Now my opponent says the same thing.
He's gone hundreds of thousands of dollars in dark money, which you can't legally accept.
He went to Columbia Law, he knows better.
So he doesn't take their money, but they magically have sent 25 mailers on his behalf,
telling you how great he is, like, you have to fight for voting rights.
And this is the example, they're literally running an ad for him, saying,
he's a black detraitor that's fighting for voting rights.
And they have another dark money group against one of the Republicans, Steve Karra,
who's a fascist, by the way, but it is what it is.
He's against data centers.
And they're running an ad about his opponent saying,
Luke Laurie is going to fight woke rhino policies.
Call the legislature and tell them
you support a conservative Luke Laurie's plan.
And then from my opponent, they'll say, call the legislature
and tell them you support my opponent's plan for voting
rights.
This is the type of shit that they do.
And Michigan passed a law.
Most people don't know this.
We passed a law in 2017 that says Citizens United on Steroids,
which basically said, if you open up a C4,
so long as you don't use the dirty words, support, vote for,
advocate, they can run ads about whatever you want them to run on,
and they never have to disclose what the donors are.
So if you ever drive down there-
How do they do that?
Because they don't want you to know.
So in 2018, in our first race, the auto insurance industry
put like $2 million in six state Senate seats.
And all they ran were ads that said,
your insurance is too high.
It'd be like six billboards back to ballot.
And then it would give you a comparison.
Cleveland's auto insurance rates,
Detroit's auto insurance rate.
And then it would say, we need so-and-so in Lansing.
It didn't say a lack, vote for it,
it didn't identify them as candidates,
but it's the name ID.
Because most people are not paying attention
to the down ballot races,
which is why many people would have paid attention
to the down ballot races,
because they've spent over a million dollars.
My state senate race is the most expensive state senate primary in Michigan's history.
Twenty seven mailers, six dark money groups are invested in this race.
My opponent is taking a shit ton of money from APAC leaders and then he lies about not taking it.
Um, they just, they were, and it's really because on October 8th,
I got a call saying we got a pastor resolution in the house to condemn Hamas
and to stand with Israel.
And I said, over my dead body, we're
going to talk about Israel and Hamas
without acknowledging the apartheid and the ongoing genocide.
And I remember they said, we've got to do this.
We're going to be in a lot of pressure.
But my chief of staff, her aunts, swear to God,
her aunts were kicked out of Palestine in 67.
And as they walked across the desert into Jordan,
both of her aunts died of dehydration.
So when people say this is like a far issue,
doesn't connect. These are real stories that people living right now have direct
impact. Yeah, I mean especially we were in Dearborn yesterday. I mean there's like
there's people in these villages that have been completely destroyed, flattened out
by Israel this in the past couple of months. Yeah, and we're paying for it.
Yeah. So rather than rebuild DPS, destroy public schools here, we're just
destroying shit over there. It's disgusting. And I think Abdul has done such an
incredible job. Yeah. Drawing that through line, that Gaza is your issue. Because for
every dollar they're bombing and blowing up properties and hospitals and schools, that's
one more dollar that they're not putting here. And I think that's a real question, but we
have all the money in the world to give to data center companies for tax breaks. Yeah.
No, no, no, you're right, it's messed up, all right, on that note, I think that'll be all for for tonight, what's the final, what's the final number?
Well, an unknown amount was raised for eight, we've got to push it out late, so I'm glad you guys can find out, but you'll find that out.
If you're watching right now donate ten more dollars.
I swear he's not going to be Rishi Torres, as promised.
Donovan is one of the most sincere brothers.
That's crazy.
I was like, damn, that's crazy.
You want me to bring up Rishi Torres?
And now we are at $51,000 for Donovan.
Thank you, man.
Thank you all, man.
That means a lot.
We're about to go win it.
That's right.
Three days.
That's going to be my congressman.
That's right.
That's about to be my congressman, DMC.
Hell yeah.
All right, everybody.
Thank you so much.
Thank you for coming on.
Tomorrow I'm going to be in Wisconsin with Francesca Hong and Ilhan Omar.
Very exciting stuff.
And then I'm going to come back to Michigan and do one big push.
Close it out, baby.
Close it out.
You're leaving and coming back.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Just across the, just across the,