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Have you ever heard someone mention the Strysand Effect and wondered what they were talking about?
This phenomenon is named after actress Barbara Streisand.
Sometimes when you try to cover something up, you end up bringing more attention to it than
if you had just let things be.
The Assemblyman will not denounce Hasan Piper, who said, America deserve 9-11 due.
The Assemblyman said in his response, Hasan Piper says, Americans deserve 9-11.
Now to the Michigan Senate race, where El Sayed is campaigning in Michigan, appearing
on stage at two Michigan campaign rallies.
She's coactively campaigning alongside Piper.
The man who said Hezbollah's flag is his favorite, because it's dope.
Why would you align yourself for a raging anti-Semite fight who has defended Hamas
terrorists?
Calling them the lesser of two is Israel's compared to the government's evils.
The most of them are the strong.
The lesser of two, that's what I find a bridge too far.
When I went up to my good friend, Chac, and said,
hey, can you walk me through some more controversial statements
of Ahsan Piker?
Even Chachi B.T. went out of its way
to soften the edges of Ahsan and give me context.
Thanks, but no thanks.
Chachi B.T.
Ahsan Piker is campaign poison.
Placing yourself on the wrong side of a 9-10 issue
is only going to make you look bad.
It's going to be good for me.
It's going to be good for the candidates that I work with.
Turns out it was true.
Abdul al-sayed at 27%
Many like heroes everybody. Welcome to the broadcast. Thank you for having me. Oh my god
We're doing over here.
Wow.
It's going on everybody.
Fantastic evening afternoon, no matter where you are in the world in the sun, piker in
this house and I broadcast coming to you live from back in home turf, sunny California,
Los Angeles folks.
We are live.
And I hope everyone's having a fantastic one because today's a beautiful day. Today's a wonderful day today is
Monday, that's right. It's August 24 2026. It's Monday news day Monday madness. You already know what's up. I'm back
I'm back at home turf
I I flew in this morning
from
Portland, Oregon
and
landed
Came home hugged and kissed Kaia
Took a shower and now we're here
Obviously big media controversy moment there's some wires that got crossed
We'll be talking about all of that and more but
But yeah, waist-looking snatched, thank you. Thank you very much for saying that. All right
We'll, we'll get into that in a second. I've escaped the millennial gray prison. I've escaped
the millennial gray prison. And, you know, we'll be, I'll be talking about all the other
stuff, but this is part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news about what's
going on in the world of a song house and I'll be piker in between the time period
where I press the stop shroom button and press the start shroom button. So help
me God that's what I'm gonna do and yeah we completed we completed three of the
beer and podcast West Coast tour we completed our third leg in Portland
Oregon many of you were there I hope you guys enjoyed it it was a great
experience for us. What? The show last time was great, but you didn't have segment. It
was a little, it was little disappointing. What? You didn't have segment. It was little
disappointing. What do you mean? I didn't have a segment. I did have a segment. I normally
don't have a segment. And last night was the only time where we had a segment.
Yeah, up until the first two, the first two, everyone else had a thing but you
didn't. Were you just not watching? I'm confused. Were you, were you not watching the show?
because we did I did I don't have I didn't have a segment for the first two for the first two events
and I had one last night I'm so confused you're the top comment positive
Anyway, your fittest slang extra dirty martini hell yeah great anyway um
huh you backed it up for us in Seattle yeah I did a segment um I don't know why you're saying
that I didn't do one that's very weird but in any case in any case ladies and gentlemen
We're live, we're live, a lot to talk about, a lot to cover, okay?
Sage and Butter, yellow, you will impress, fashion trend, TikTok, thank you.
Love the Dwight Shrut yellow, I love this yellow, it's great.
But yeah, it was, I mean, it was cumbersome.
was tiring. It takes a lot out of you to just like, you know, do full performance city after
city. I think I now understand why a lot of people when they found out like a lot of people
who have done these sorts of events when they found out that we were doing three in three
nights they were like that's crazy. That's crazy. It's a crazy thing to do. And I get it. I get why.
Because it was a lot.
It was a lot.
So if I were to ever do another like tour or something like that, which who knows, if I will, it most likely will not have three nights in three different cities, even if the three different cities are close to one another because that was crazy.
was crazy. Um, but, uh, yeah, it was incredible. It was incredible to see you guys in person.
It was incredible to perform live. I enjoyed it. Uh, I heard there were some losers harassing
fans in Portland. Yeah, that's Portland though. I feel like that's, uh, that's just a classic,
uh, Portland experience. If that makes sense, like there were, of course, uh, anytime
there's anything going on in Portland. It seems a bunch of random fascists storm into town. They
go to downtown Portland. They try to fight, engage in the activisticuffs with a bunch of
socialists and anarchists. But it was largely, I mean, it was largely tiny. It wasn't that
big of a thing. Yeah, I was at the Portland show on the Chud crew. They're harassing people
is well known by the police for constantly assaulting people and the police doing nothing
a community member once defending themselves again after being assaulted by them and is
them cells being charged for assault those chose to attack multiple people last night
and police did not do anything they also admitted to being paid agitators yeah yeah it's fucking
nuts the Roach is saying you're getting paid by Israel new cope way Israel strongest
So a warrior as Monroe just saying I'm getting paid by Israel. That's cool
Your heart's interview. Oh my heart's interview dropped
But with a ton
Nakhine ready for the backlash of some piker talk some moss anti-zionism and why Americans are fed up with Israel
In his first interview with Israeli media live we sure my son piker tells horrors at October 7 most be in the context of
The Israeli occupation that even liberals on it should be named ashamed and explains what most Americans just don't like Israel anymore
Are you ready for the backlash you're going to receive a Sampai grass jokingly at the
start of our video interview?
Okay.
That's an incredible paywalled article.
I don't even know.
It was a long, we did a, we did a very long conversation that we did that a lot.
We did that a while ago.
Hold on.
I got to grab my coffee real quick.
I'd take APAC money and use it to pay off people's medical debts, okay dude, good idea.
after a song by your sing song mocking Charlie Kirk. I look, I'm not going to lie to you guys.
I'm always going to put a fucking strong face on and I'm always going to boulder through
it. I'm always going to fucking push through it no matter what my policy is always to say
the truth. No matter how, how much people punish you over it. It's always to have
fun with it too, right? While recovering such horrifying sites, horrifying realities. I will
say this though. I will say this. I mean, this past weekend has been a lot. I'm not going
to lie to you. It's been a lot. I'm going to continue doing what I'm doing. I'm not
going to feel discouraged. I'm not going to stop saying the truth. I'm not going
stop speaking truth to power in general. Someone has to do it. Someone has to tank it. That's just
largely my mentality on this stuff. But this past weekend has been insane, like going from
the entire Republican media ecosystem universally saying like, this guy loved the Charlie
Kirk Goddess hasn't it, which I never said and never would to then having to deal with
Mike Rogers and then also distance yourself from QT and things will get better in a lot of ways trust
that's an insane statement okay um
anyway where was I I mean I think that chatter was trying to make a joke but
But regardless, regardless, regardless.
So what I was gonna say is, yeah,
it's been one of the more insane weekends,
one of the more insane weekends of my life, I would say.
We have, you know, like it has been such a psychotic weekend
end of a barrage of attacks that like the founder of Theranos, Elizabeth Holmes, tweeting
at me from prison to organize a cage match.
That is like not even in the top 13 most insane things that happened this weekend.
You know what I mean?
Like she's in jail right now.
She is currently in a cage.
She is currently in prison, for those of you who don't know, the founder of Farrono's, Elizabeth
Holmes, is currently in prison, okay?
And I think this is her attempt at trying to lean in on the good graces, lean into
the anti-Hassan stuff, to get on the good graces of the Republican administration to
vie for a pardon. And that's, like that in and of itself is so insane to me, the idea
that like a prominent criminal, a prominent criminal is currently, I love that I'm talking
about Elizabeth Holmes trying to actually seek out a pardon from the Trump administration
and her angle of attack is to say that she wants to fight me in an organized match.
there's still dumbasses in here who are like, Hey man, uh, a guy who refuses to take showers
is talking big shit about you. Who cares, man? The fuck do you mean? Who can't like,
are we have more important things going on than fucking your favorite content creator,
as a European MAGA larper, okay? Anyway, so, do you think Michelle Obama cursed everyone
with her they go low we go high quote the Democrats are expected to take the high road
every time. I think that it is a curse for sure, but I don't think it was, it was Michelle
Obama's fault. I think this is just like the general liberal civility politics enjoyers,
civility fetishists and the way that they operate. She tweeted at you who? Yeah, this
lady did. Yeah.
What is wrong with modern medicine?
People don't even know that they have a basic human right to be able to get access to information
about themselves and their own bodies that can change their lives.
Every person should have the ability to get that type of test because if you under...
She's fucking terrifying, bro.
I was almost an AI dog.
This is from 2015.
This is before generative AI became a thing. Okay. Um, but yeah, no, she's, I think she's
going to kill me. Anyway, this is yet another, uh, Laura Loomer style jigsaw style psychotic
person that wants to kill me. Um, it is what it is. Get in line, get in line. Um, so
yeah, I mean the weekend, this weekend has been, uh, quite eventful and so insane
that I'm not the only one, uh, that is victim to a cancellation campaign. They're now canceling,
canceling you guys. They're canceling chat, but some piker fans boo piker after he says America
does not deserve nine 11. That's right. They're not just yelling at me. Remember when I said
there after you, I'm just in the way. Well, that's where we're at, okay?
Okay.
Mark Ruffalo is getting similar treatment to you.
I know.
I feel terrible about that.
But yeah, here it is.
I can't believe that they're they're now like clip chipping a comedy podcast live performance
like I we're not allowed to make jokes man we're not allowed which is crazy guys I'm
I'm going to say this one more time, legalize comedy. Okay. That's it.
We're legalizing comedy. We're making comedy legal again. Um,
I don't even know. I just, I hate this shit so much.
I think I'm just going to refuse to address
things like this going forward. Um, I'm going to,
because who cares? I don't know.
I don't know what else to do about it. I genuinely don't know.
it's just like a barrage of nonsense all the time, just an unlimited sea of anger, lies, smears,
none of these people give a shit. And I think ultimately the worst thing I can possibly do
is just constantly address the billions of dollars of earned media smears that I have
received so far it's fucking insane. You love the attention. I want to kill myself.
Okay. No, I don't. I don't. I don't love this attention. What the fuck are you talking about?
What are you insane?
What are you talking about?
It's insane that they're literally taking a clip where you're combating anti-Semitism and framing it as
you're promoting it. That's just a disgusting inversion and I cannot imagine how frustrating it is.
I know we're gonna be talking about that in a little bit. Oh my god! It's crazy because on the
right you have like neo-Nazis that are sig-hiling and talking about actually like doing harm to
all Jewish people, all Muslim people, and then those guys are straight up actively involved
with like the Mike Rogers campaign, and the media is coming after a dude explaining the
dangers of rising anti-Semitism, and then falsely claiming that that dude, me, I'm actually
the one fomenting violence against Jews. It's fucking insane. It's upside down world.
I fucking hate it. I hate it so goddamn much.
Okay.
The official Mike Rogers campaign outreach team is full of neo nazis participating group
chest and praise Hitler and call for Jews to be sent to North Korea.
You won't hear about this because Mike Rogers supports Israel.
So the media will lie about Hassan instead.
That's what's so fucking nuts about it.
It's making me go crazy.
It's making me go crazy because it's like, there's nothing Abdul El-Sahed can do in this
situation at all because all of the fucking attack ads are literally just like he is an
Islamist jihadist who wants to implement Sharia laws and make sure that every woman at gun
point is covered in a burqa and like that's it.
They're just flooding the market with ads like that.
It's fucking insane. Anyway, we'll talk about all of that and more honestly try bleaching
your hair. Yeah. And then, and then concessions to Fox news is framing as well is, is completely
psychotic. And it's also Democrats that are doing it too. Like it's Democrats that are
linked up on this, on this campaign. It's, I don't want to talk about it in general
Is it such a waste of time?
But also at the same time, it's a multi-million dollar, multi-million dollar, very sophisticated
smear campaign that has national, if not international considerations.
Okay?
And that's what the issue is, right?
It sucks.
Like, I am being used as a distraction successfully to move away from the actual issues that matter.
And there are real people, people who are, you know, on the Democratic Party side, for
example, that are leaning into it.
I've never, I never thought, look, I know.
I know that it's not easy, right?
I know that, here's the thing.
I know that it's not, it was never supposed to be easy.
Obviously power never concedes without demand
and we have to push.
We are fighting against very powerful forces
in this country.
We're fighting against corporate influence.
We're fighting against capitalism.
And I know there are a lot of people who are to my left
or at least they present themselves as being to my left
who just like simply cannot contend with this reality
where they think like we are also doing a PSIOP or something.
But yeah, this was never gonna be easy.
This is the amount of success
that this movement has actually achieved
in such a short period of time
is part of the reason why I'm eating it
on a daily fucking basis.
They're not gonna, like billionaires
not going to give up on their wealth. Powerful lobbyist interests are not going to just concede
and say, oh well, I guess we're unpopular. We might as well, we might as well give up.
Everybody fucking hates us, you know? No, of course not. They're going to be constantly
on the, on the attack. They're going to attack, attack, attack. They're going to
try to divide and they're going to try to conquer. In any case, we will, we will get
into all of that and more. I mean, I guess I should just get into, I should just blast
off because I didn't even blast off and I just go right into it.
It's just, it's very frustrating because like every single Zionist group in the country,
every single pro-Israel group in the country is using this as an opportunity, including
The Nexus, like these are, this isn't the ADL anymore.
This is the Nexus project, okay?
The Nexus project is supposed to be this like liberals,
INS like, oh, we have to push back against like ridiculous,
you know, these are the guys who are supposed to say,
like you can criticize Israel without being anti-Semitic.
Even those guys are doing it.
It's like the knives are out.
There's blood in the water.
And it's incredibly frustrating because even people like it's a it's a column A column B
situation where they're like they'll turn around and they'll defend Mark Ruffalo but
then they'll be like what the Sasanga is bad.
Do you see what I mean?
As the conversation shifts, I think previous groups that normally would never, yeah, me
being Muslim also, I think like makes it easier for them, even though I'm not exactly a religious
guy at all.
Obviously, I don't really read as Muslim, but you know, that in and of itself, regardless
of my white ass being as pasty as possible, is a unique opportunity for them to really
tune this up, you know?
Wigal defending you, yeah.
Elsa had not getting into specific about what Asa said, which Ben Lorber gets into
here.
It is actually nutty. Like the level of, the level of insanity, the level of madness surrounding this
shows me once again that there's definitely, there's definitely still a lot of motion in the tank. There's still a lot of energy
in a, in being able to launch a coordinated and fairly sophisticated smear campaign, especially when it's against
not a politician necessarily, but a fucking Twitch streamer. You know what I mean?
That's it. And yeah, J Street said the exact same thing that I've been saying nonstop and
so has Ezra Klein. It's just, it sucks. We cannot have a truthful conversation about
this kind of stuff when the mainstream element, the mainstream element here is to do everything
they can to, to muddy the waters. Anyway, um, let's blast off. Let's get into it. Um,
back in LA, Michigan, Dems Lander, Abdul El Sayed statement. I am, uh, today I'm going
to have a exclusive with the IMU, uh, policy project. By the way, I'm going to have,
I'm going to have someone on, they just conducted a poll in every swing state and they conducted a 2028 presidential poll.
Some of it got leaked already, but we were supposed to be exclusively releasing it, exclusively launching that poll.
You saw some of it already last week, but we'll talk about the additional details across tabs and everything else.
But, we'll get into it and more, dude, you got to do as many mainstream media outlets
as possible.
Dog, I don't think you understand, okay?
There's a push and then there's a block, okay?
On the one hand, there's the push to constantly belittle me, humiliate me, smear me, slander
me, right?
And not just me, but I'm like basically the representative of this movement at this point.
And its impact is also multifaceted.
So like it's not just to say, oh, all pro-Palestine people are like this, but it's also to get
other pro-Palestine people to also separate, right?
to cause division, to cause division amongst the ranks,
to create an environment where there's a permission structure
to shit on prominent anti-Zionists
or prominent critics of Israel, right?
Prominent critics of Israel get ritualistically humiliated,
yell that, and then it causes people to separate from them.
They did this successfully with Ilhan Omar at the time.
They did this with Linnas Arsour, she was the OG.
That's why I've always, I will never, you know, shy away from defending people like that.
They did this with Rashida Tlaib as well for years and years and they still do it.
That's the whole point.
The goal is, the goal is to cause division in the ranks of the anti-Zionist movement
and then people will turn around and say, oh yeah, well, we'll let go of this guy.
This guy's already been yelled at too much.
just discard this person because they've been yelled at too much and it's too difficult
to defend them. That is how you do it. That is the anatomy of a smear campaign. That's
how you create a successful smear campaign with the intention of dividing. And the
same thing can extend to even Democrats broadly, Democrats at a time when they have to present
a broad unified front against the growing fascist movement in this country are falling
by the wayside, there are plenty of instances where they will again attack me, attack the
SA, attack the left flank, attack the activist base of the party, and they'll do everything
they can.
Republicans will do everything they can to basically divide and conquer, to get people
to constantly fucking argue with one another.
They're definitely leftists yelling at you.
Yeah.
So that's the push. And then they're going to pull me again. Once, uh, this, this smear
campaign is over. And then they're going to say, I'm toxic, right? They're going to
say I'm toxic. It's no different than when the media releases polls that they've conducted
where they're like, wow, you know, uh, at the early odds, at the early, uh, stages of,
of Israel's genocide of Palestinians, they would, they would routinely, they would
routinely fucking release polls about how like the public doesn't think Israel's committing a genocide.
That was flexing. They were flexing that they were capable of, you know, manipulating the collective
consciousness of the masses. Yeah. And it's frustrating because the way it starts is when
people go, not to defend a son piker, but, and it's like, the fuck do you mean not to defend
not to defend a son piker? Just be honest, be fucking truthful. Don't let this
nonsensical bullshit get in the way
the problem is ironically two-fold
one of the arguments
one of the arguments that i have been presenting routinely is the
other is a shun and the invisible uh... nature of anti-sinus jews
prominent anti-sinus jews in mainstream media
This is a huge issue. You guys know this already. Many of you are anti-Zionist Jews in this community.
You've probably noticed that there are no prominent anti-Zionist Jews that are allowed on television.
And this is part of the problem. This is part of the reason why.
The reason why is to create this false notion, to create this false reality that, that, you know,
Uh, anyone and everyone, anyone and everyone that is, uh, uh, anti-Zionist, if they're Jewish,
they're just not real Jews all of a sudden.
They're treated as though they're invisible.
Be the bad guy.
The left needs an extreme as laughable as it is in order to get other leftists to
posture against. In my opinion, to hate targeting you is genuinely beneficial. You're fucking stupid,
man. As long as the narrative keeps getting pushed farther left, we keep winning. Dog,
the narrative doesn't get pushed farther left. If we're f- if everyone is left bashing, are you
fucking stupid? I mean, you are. This is what I mean. This is- this is pure liberalism.
This is pure liberalism. You've already eaten the fucking propaganda.
That's the
It doesn't work that way dumbass
That's not how this works as if that's how it worked then they wouldn't be doing this if that's how it worked
Powerful groups powerful interest groups wouldn't actively lobby folks wouldn't actively give them talking points to do this
I feel bad for the sacrificial lamb like this is not me
Getting upset because I'm getting yelled at because I'm getting purposely misunderstood, you know
I'm being deliberately and professionally misunderstood. You're acting like you're cooked. I'm not
I'm not
I'm not being cooked at all what's frustrating is is that there's still this
There's two different. I'm just venting. Okay. First of all, I'm just fucking venting. Secondly
Secondly
I'm thinking about the the larger impact and the larger
problems that this kind of stuff
creates
because ultimately I'm
You know, I'm mission focused here
My my job is to to get people to come to terms with the realities of Zionism to come to terms the reality of Israel's apartheid
to see the perspective of the victims to understand and humanize the victims of Israel's apartheid, Israel's genocide.
And we've seen a lot of success in this field. We've seen a lot of success in this front, even in the Western world.
Okay? However, this kind of smear campaign is created to gum up the works.
up the works it dilutes the conversation it moves people's attention away you know bro
your name called this land of people for years not like the uncommitted movement causing division
like this is what I mean these are broad unified front you mean like uncommitted not like
you do the same kind of name calling seems like you're upset brother your entire life
revolves around what you perceive is the number one threat to American democracy it's
me okay if if your entire life revolves around this where you're making fucking
stock accounts and going on on Twitch streams to like advance this cause, you need to tune
out a little bit, okay, you need to tune out and live in the real world for like a couple
weeks and then come back with a refreshed and newfound perspective, okay?
a son piker daydreaming about being me as if keep dreaming pal there's only one of us hurting the
chance of a democratic majority in november and it ain't me yeah this is
god i fucking hate i just i hate everything i hate everything it's it's tough
It's tough not to lose my shit in moments like this. I'm used to being in a contentious environment.
I know that that is what's going to happen. No matter what. I don't care about your fucking mayor
in the Houston area getting arrested for jerking off with his penis out in public and coming to a
city council meeting tonight. Okay, I'm sorry. There's other shit going on right now.
I'm not going to cover that story. Okay, sorry Houston chatter
But yeah, the first story we're obviously going to talk about is
Uh, the, the saga, the Hillary, Skolton saga that started off with like DSA watch and those
accounts, uh, they came out and, uh, they, they try to do a smear campaign, right?
And I guess to a certain degree, the smear campaign has been a relatively effective in
undermining, I'll say it's a Michigan run because anytime he's talking about me or
having to address anything related to me is a moment where he's not talking about Donald
Trump is a moment. He's not trying to, uh, is a moment where he's not addressing, uh,
that many controversies of Mike Rogers is a moment where he's not putting his best foot
forward. Okay. And Abdul did the classic thing that he did and we'll get to that
in a second with one, uh, issue on the comm side where he like, you know, said
my name and then also tied it back to Moss, which is wrong, incorrect, and is a significant
comms issue.
And I think that won't force some of the pro-Israel side to back away.
It's just going to make them double down.
And then he's going to have to, for the next 48 hours, basically routinely realligate how
much I suck or whatever.
And it's still not going to, it's still not going to stop people from attacking him.
Was the issue with Moss?
I mean, my issue with Moss is that he's very, very pro-Israel.
I the what they're claiming I was saying is like I was you know fomenting violence tourism or something
It's fucking bullshit. It's it's completely it's complete bullshit, right?
Yeah, and of course these groups have immediately doubled down look you see that my statement on son piker's comments regarding jerry moss anyway
Well, let's start with the let's
Let's start with the top. Let's start with the beginning
Okay, because the story's already made it to state media. Elsat says Zanpiker does not speak for his campaign to make comments about Jewish candidate. Okay
So a
Couple days ago when before I even went on tour
I'm I'm talking about, you know how the false conflation between Zionism and Judaism harms Jews
Jews, okay? This is very basic, elementary, anti-Zionism 101. It's such a fundamental
concept that it's even a part of the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism, which is the
association of, you know, Israel with all Jews in the United States of America. The
The idea that like Jews are single-mindedly invested in a monolithic way with whatever
the fuck's going on in Israel.
You guys have heard me talk about this a million times over.
It's false.
It's bullshit.
And you know, I go through this long process except Max Nordhau, who himself is larping
as a Jewish person, even though he's not, I believe his name is Brian Griffin.
He's not Jewish, but he lies about being Jewish on the timeline.
And I think it was like DSA watch or this guy one of the like beeper in the bio accounts, right?
That yeah, his name is is Brian Griffin. Yes, literally like the family guy. Anyway, so the smear starts here, right?
Obdol say it's surrogate a Sampai ground American juice someone's going to come around and take action now
You'll notice that this is a 51 second video, which is a little bit longer than the normal clips that they use, right?
So the normal clips that they use usually are like 10 seconds long. So you might you might think oh well
This must be in context, but once you hear exactly what they clipped you'll understand
It's complete bullshit
And you want to know why because people don't fuck with Israel any longer and if and if Jews in America keep putting
This this idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel
eventually someone's gonna come around and
and take action not against the state of Israel mind you but against the American Jews
Okay
We're teaching people the wrong lesson. I don't know how yeah
I like that they even put the we're teaching people the wrong lesson in there
So like if you're not the least charitable psychopath of all time you very quickly understand that I'm you know saying
constantly claiming that American Jews are monolithically invested singularly with the
nation state of Israel is the dual loyalty trope and people are teaching people the wrong
lesson. Okay, this is almost a verbatim statement that Ezra Klein made. Okay, almost the exact
same statement. Where is it? Hold on, let me find it really quickly. Before we get
into more stuff, where the fuck is it? God damn it. Yeah, as we're climbed
warned about this exact same thing, anti-sinism is rising as a response to
what Israel is doing. It will simply not be possible to treat it as a
marginal viewpoint that can be shamed or shunned into invisibility. Yes,
anti-Semitism often cloaks itself in anti-sinism, so don't do the anti-
semites work for them. If you keep telling people that if they oppose the Jewish state,
then they must hate Jewish people. Eventually they will believe you. Okay.
As recline wrote about this in an art in a, in a New York times op-ed a couple months
ago when people were attacking me and calling me an anti-Semite. Okay. Guys, please don't
try to offer idiotic suggestions about like putting a timer on screen, rendering the
clip-chimp ineffective immediately we none of that works some of my most
prominent and some of my most prominent attacks on the YouTube sphere came from
the time came from the time when I when I was criticizing Vladimir Putin's
actions while also offering some criticism the NATO or criticism the
Ukraine regardless of the the obvious the obvious illegal nature of Russia's
war and it's in humanity. And I used to literally have a ticker on top of my face. Basically I
said, fucking Vladimir Putin sucks. This war is illegal. All this shit. And people still clipped
it. People always find a way because this is motivated reasoning. Okay. No one wants to,
no one wants to actually have a nuanced conversation about any of these issues.
They are reducing it to an un-nuanced position and they're not shy about bastardizing their
opposition's perspective as well. So no amount of like tickers or no amount of banners is going
to change that reality, okay? It's just not because you have to understand for a lot of
these folks, they recognize that their position is untenable. They recognize that their position
is getting unpopular. And for many of them, their perspective is, oh, it's unpopular because
everybody hates Jewish people. It's anti-Semitism. All criticisms of Israel
is, it must be because of anti-Semitism, right? Like, that's what, that's the, that's the
operative, that's the reasoning that many people base their reality around. And therefore,
Or, if there are people like myself who are prominent anti-Zionists who actively fight
back against anti-Semitism, they have to make that work.
They have to make their cognitive biases work.
And the way to do that is by smearing, is by claiming, oh, well, this guy is an anti-Semite.
This guy is a vicious anti-Semite, see?
And that's precisely what happened here.
Let's finish this.
don't recognize how dangerous this predicament is, how dangerous this is for Jews. You're
running around basically tying your entire identity to a country that inevitably will
be seen as basically Jewish ISIS, and you're saying, as Jews, this is all we care about.
You're making anti-Semitism worse. And you want to know why? Because, yeah, it's funny
because there was an attempt, there was an attempt to turn this into like, you guys have
heard me give the spiel a million times over. So obviously from your perspective, you're
like, what's the issue? Like this is pretty basic stuff. This is pretty elementary anti
Zionism 101. The false conflation between Judaism and Zionism, the false conflation
between Jews and Israel makes Jews less safe, right? And the clip itself is not necessarily
bad, but they frame it as me saying it's a good thing that this is happening. Okay?
The Jewish ISIS thing was new and pretty edgy, but it's not that far-fetched. No,
I've said that as well. I've said that as well. The reason why I bring up the
the Jewish ISIS thing is literally to say like,
look, as an American Muslim,
how did the propaganda around the global war on terror
take root?
Because the media constantly tied all mentions of Islam
and all Muslims in the Western world to ISIS, to al-Qaeda.
It was a false conflation, okay?
So, it, I mean this is literally for years and years and years what I've been saying
and it's the same thing that I delivered in my Oxford speech as well.
Nobody's threatening anybody.
A Sompiker's a reasonable man.
He's concerned for you.
And I'm saying sincerely, it's understandable to care about anti-Semitism.
American Jews do care about anti-Semitism.
It's understandable to care about anti-Semitism.
I don't care about Israel. So how do you tie the two? You say well Israel is the only thing standing in the way of
the next Holocaust happening
That's how you do it
That's how you do it
So every single time you have
prominent Zionist Jews come out and be like no this is anti-semitic to oppose Israel is anti-semitic you're teaching people
That you're teaching people the trope of dual loyalty
That's what you're teaching people. Like, I want someone, I want someone to sincerely watch even
these clips that are not even like out of context. They're just negatively framed. Okay? I want someone
to watch this and then tell me what anything I'm saying is fucking anti-semitic. I need someone
to explain this to me. Okay? After you teach them that, you can't turn around and say,
oh, well, this is dual loyalty. This is anti-semitic. Because at a certain point, people are not
going to give a shit. And we're already past that point. Anyway, so this is like a, like a
shortened seven minute version of it. But like, even the clips are in context, right? Like,
like the clips are not out of context. The clips are basically in context. They're just
saying something that I'm not implying at all. If I explain, will I be banned? Is it really
a false conflation though? Oh wait, this is one of my like mass stalkers right on the
subreddit. I remember this name. Yes, I won't ban you. I would love to hear your
explanation it is a false conflation yes of course it's a false conflation
Zionism is an ideology and it's a relatively new ideology Jewish culture
and history spans across 2,000 fucking years Zionism has been around for 100
and even now it hasn't taken root yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah well I know I know who
you are I know who you are buddy yes I know you're the the number one of
smear merchant come on go ahead talk about the other thing talk about the
Yeah, talk about why it's a it's not a false complication. Tell me about how all Jews care
about is Israel and then explain to me how that's not the anti-Semitic position because it is, right?
They don't even watch the clips anymore. They just read the headline and caption and run with it. I know
No. Why are you entertaining these skit shows? Anyway, all right, fuck that guy. Let's just
continue. So you guys are obviously very familiar with this. You're very familiar with my commentary
on this, but what doesn't, it doesn't matter what my commentary on this, because there are
a lot of people out there. There are a lot of people out there who are just not
going to dive into it. They're not going to see the nuances and they're not going to,
they're not going to be as, as charitable, right? And that's the goal, because most people
are busy. So they see the fucking headline and they move on as an anti Zionist Jewish
person whose temple is reform and deeply Zionist. It's difficult to even approach trying
to change their minds. No, I understand that. I understand that my, I'm responding
to an anti-Syanist Jewish person in the chat here who's talking about like, who's talking
about having these, these intra-community conversations and how difficult it is to get that point
across to older Jewish folk in the community, right?
I mean, look, the anti-Zionist Jews in my community, you have a very tough job ahead of you.
Well, you have to go back to your communities and try to get, wait, what is this?
Pussy, what happened?
Are you going to explain why it's not a false conflation or not?
I don't know why you think you have any additional time.
I gave you an opportunity to address your position, but you're running away from it.
You're calling me a pussy now.
I'm not the pussy here, big dog.
I think you are.
You're just aching for a ban so that you can go back to your cyber-stalking Discord
server, filled to the brim with cultists of a sex pest, okay?
be like, oh, I got banned. Isn't that awesome? Look, if that, yeah, stop reading great names.
All they do is give you is true. You're your elderly relatives to understand that this connection
between Israel and Zionism that is expressed over and over again through a lot of these
Jewish institutions, okay, is teaching people the idea that Jews are monolithic. And this
This is a dangerous, it is a very, because look, it's a very dangerous mode of propaganda.
And you want to know why?
Because people don't fuck with Israel any longer.
So they cut all of the beginning first 50 seconds of this.
And they made it seem as though, you know, I'm just like directly referencing Jews or
something like that, like not talking to a Jewish anti-Zionist chatter of mine or anything
like that.
But even with, even without the fucking context, it's very clear.
It's very clear the point I'm making.
But at this point, unfortunately given the crisis that contains multitudes, the crisis
in literacy, the crisis in short attention spans, the crisis in clickbait culture,
crisis in headline culture, people don't even give a shit.
We have now moved, we have now moved away from the mentality, is it literally not the
same as locking up Japanese people in terms of cancer and World War II over the crimes
of their country that was bad, this thought process doesn't work for any of the country?
Exactly, exactly.
what's so fucking frustrating about it is that I'm saying Jews are not monolithic, Zionism
is not Judaism, okay, and this false conflation being regurgitated, regurgitated at a time
when Israel's unpopularity has reached newest highs, okay, is very dangerous, very dangerous
for the truth, and it's very dangerous for Jews in general. It's not a fucking
controversial position at all and it's one that prominent Jewish thinkers have
have explained over and over again for years years before I was even fucking
born even during Israel's inception. So Ben Lorber has a take on this, senior
research analyst. The Sompiger statement about the relation between American
Jewish support for Israel and anti-Semitism shouldn't be so
controversial, here is Hannah Arendt making the same point in her 1944 essay, Zionism
Reconsidered. If a Jewish Commonwealth is obtained in the near future, this is four years prior
to the inception of Israel, okay? With or without partition, it will be due to the political
influence of American Jews. But if the Jewish Commonwealth is proclaimed against the will
of the Arabs and without the support of the Mediterranean peoples, not only financial
help, but political support will be necessary for a long time to come. And that may
may turn out to be very troublesome indeed for Jews in this country, the U.S., who after
all have no power to direct the political destinies of the Near East.
It may eventually be far more of a responsibility than today.
They imagine, or tomorrow, can make good.
The Zionists, if they continue to ignore the Mediterranean people and watch out only
for the big faraway powers, will appear only as their tools, the agents of foreign
hostile interests.
Jews who know their own history should be aware that such a state of affairs will inevitably
lead to a new wave of Jew hatred.
The anti-Semitism of tomorrow will assert that Jews not only profiteered from the presence
of foreign big powers in that region, but it actually plotted it and hence are guilty
of the consequences.
See also the last clause of the Balfour Declaration.
Ben Lorber continues, From Zionism's beginnings, Jews both pro and anti-Zionists were
acutely aware that yelping world jury behind the actions of a jewish state
could imperil the standing of jews in countries
where they actually live the irony of course is that zionism was conceived as
an answer to anti-semitism
and most jewish supporters still see it that way
but when you yelped the fortunes of a small hyper-visible goal of global
minority to the actions of a belligerent pariah state it can cause
dangerous blowback
stating the simple
fact
doesn't let us blame the victim or excuse the perpetrator of violent
Semitic acts. But those of us who are Jewish owe it to ourselves and our children to start,
and their children's children to start talking about it and soon stifling the discussion only
makes it worse. My one quibble with Aaron here, by the way, is that Israel was not established in
1948 due to the political influence of the American Jews. There were many other factors
of play. American support was far more decisive in the early years and the influence of
American Jewish leaders was limited. Yeah. That's it. So nothing I have actually brought forward
is new or unique, right? What is this? 85% of Jews believe in Zionism. At that point,
that's not a conflation. Brother, brother, what you are doing is not a defense of American Jews,
Okay? Because Zionism is an intentionally vague definition and its reception by the American
Jewry is also diverse. It's not a one-size-fits-all and no group are monolithic and the number
that you are presenting is the exact same thing that Nick Fuentes presents for the
reasons that I'm mentioning. Okay. I love that I said Jews are not a monolith. And you turned
around and said, no, actually, in defense of Israel, I will tell you Jews are a monolith.
This is dangerous thinking. Okay. This is the problem. People who think they're defending
Israel by saying well all Jews care about Israel are actually fomenting anti-semitism.
Israel makes Jews look bad and cause a problem. People to be anti-semitic is just an obvious
self-evident position. It's funny how it's only Israelis who get the agency car thrown at them.
Hassan is specifically saying that American Jews are getting attacked because of how those
American Jews behave. He's not making an argument about Israel. I realize you don't
even bother to understand context, but you should try harder than this. Could Hassan
Spoken in a way that could be couldn't be construed as tut tutting
I'd say definitely you can come across as patronizing
But would you not agree that American Jewish institutions and their close connections with Israel are going to cause violence against Jews and that's bad
It's hard to read us on statement as anything other than out of some form of concern for Jewry. That's the problem
That is exactly what this is
But let's call it out for what it is. I think there are a lot of people
people, due to Islamophobic sentiment, due to Islamophobia, that sincerely believe that
anyone with the name Hassan could ever operate out of concern for Jews unless they're pro-Israel.
Okay?
That's it.
That's it.
I am no longer, I am no longer considered someone who cares about bigotry, okay?
a lot of institutions, by a lot of members of the media because of my anti-Zionist position.
Okay? And unlike some of my other counterparts, some of my other peers in the media who are Muslim
themselves, I also directly tackle the issue of Zionism. Okay? Zionism is an ideology.
Many people don't reach that level because they are worried, especially Muslims, don't
reach that level.
Muslim commentators don't often talk about Zionism as an ideology and they simply keep
to the dangerous conflations and that's understandable for that very same reason.
The problem is that the conflation question is complete. Is the complete worldview split between Zionism and anti-Zionism? Yes, we are objectively correct on the issue, but the entire opposing group is based around the idea that Jews must support Israel.
You can't rationalize with people when they can't even agree on the first step of the conversation. They'll immediately take offense before you even begun to discuss source I've tried for years. Yes, I understand that megaphonics. I know.
But, what do I always say? Seek truth from facts and always say the truth. Right? Always say the truth.
Around 75% of Jews globally feel a strong connection or support for Israel. Did you reflect to think that maybe you are advocating for a position? They themselves don't support globally.
Hassanabi, enlighten me. I'm a Palestinian, by the way. I know I have. I have had this conversation with Palestinian shatters and with numerous people.
There are two problems with this. Okay. There are two major, two key issues with this. Okay.
Okay? Number one, the inability and the idea that people are incapable of changing their perspectives.
That's the number one issue, right? Most people assume that whatever position you've arrived at
due to social conditioning is the position you will die defending. That's not the case. The
second problem is something that we've talked about already on numerous occasions. It's the
notion, well there's three problems actually, the second problem is the notion that that Zionism is this
unchangeable system of thinking and that every single person identifies with the terminology or
identifies with the ideology or identifies with the state in the exact same way. Okay, this is also
not the case. I'm an American. I have many criticisms of America, but at the end of the
I still love America. I live here. I want to make this better. I want to make this a better place
But if you were to ask people
Many people especially after the the barrage of fucking smear campaigns that that I have received they would say you hate America
You're a terrorist
People have different associations
with countries with their form of governance, okay, and
And that in and of itself is not an unchanging position, okay?
There are varying degrees of support and also there is people's capacity to change, okay?
And last but not least, the false notion that a group of people or minority population are monolithic in their thinking.
thinking. They're not. No one is. Okay? No one is monolithic. Jews are not a monolith.
Black people in the United States are not a monolith. The idea that a group of people
are operating with a monolithic way, operating with this monolithic understanding of Israel
is false. It's just not true. It's just not true. And if it was true, then Zionist groups
would not spend hundreds of millions of dollars trying to create this false reality. Okay,
amongst Jews in the Western world, if that was the case, there wouldn't be such a tremendous
generational breakdown amongst young american jews
that lean on the side of anti-zionism as opposed to older american jews for
example who show
much higher degrees of support
to israel
do you understand
These are the three major problems with the way that Zionism gets discussed in American
media and how that feeds into a growth of anti-Semitism in this country and all around the world.
This is something, this is a reality that anti-Zionist Jews understand intimately.
It's one that they oppose.
one that they try to actively fight back against. And it's actually something that I was repeating
over and over again and I will continue to repeat. I don't do it contrary to what people
think. I don't do this because I'm paying the piper or something, right? I'm not saying
these things about anti-Semitism or combating anti-Semitism because I want to be welcomed
in mainstream news or anything like that. A lot of people, I think, assume that I'm
doing this in a cynical manner. And ironically enough, there are plenty who think that I'm
doing this in a cynical manner to actually feed back into the anti-Semitism that I
I am fomenting. This is another handshake moment between the likes of prominent pro-Israel voices
in mainstream news that are defending Israel while making this false conflation and also
prominent anti-Semites like Nick Fuentes. The idea that you cannot be anti-Zionist
without being anti-semitic, okay?
It's frustrating.
Of course, there's also this unbelievable double standard.
Once we have gone through the same positions
that I have relitigated a million times over,
There's also the incredible double standard, but basically, so this happens and then first it starts off on the right on the Israel first right right Israel first there's on the right Mike Rogers these people come out and and start launching cynical smear based attacks in the direction of Abdul El Sayed.
Okay. Then you have the CEO of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs, Amy Spitalnik. She also said,
there are multiple levels of cynical anti-Semitism embedded in Piker's recent comments, blaming
Jews for the actions of the Israeli government, and then blaming Jews for the anti-Semitic
violence that targets them under the guise of protesting Israel. All of it is dangerous and
wrong. It's so weird that I'm not a fan of Piker yet. People are so disingenuous,
they're comments about him that I find myself defending him. He literally said,
if you say anything Israel does represents American Jews you are perpetuating an anti-Semitic
trope that leads to violence. I'm glad that there are people who are recognizing this this this
heinous smear campaign okay. Nexus did something similar as well.
They're doing this thing where they're basically repeating my position back to me
and making it seem that I'm at odds with this position
by framing it as though I'm in the opposite side of this argument.
A Jewish person stands on his rule or any issue isn't an invitation of violence.
I don't think that that is the case. I don't believe that that is the case.
To suggest otherwise sets up an excuse for inexcusable acts.
People attack Jews are making a choice to do so.
Pitting the blame for violence on the victims or presenting violence is inevitable, is unacceptable.
It's very frustrating. It's very frustrating when all of these groups are repeating my position
back to me. That's my position. Okay. It isn't true that most American Jews tie their entire
identities, the Israel and Piker should know that. But also if he really believes the current
political discourse making anti-Semites and wars, that should be a case for taking it
more seriously for him as an excuse not to take it seriously. This guy again, doing the
same shit.
What's especially frustrating is that there's a core point here about how American Jewish
organizations have prioritized protecting Israel over protecting American Jews, but
making that point responsibly requires acknowledging that most American Jews don't feel that
way which Parker won't do. That wasn't just the core point. That was his entire point in
his actual vaude. He makes it very clear that most Jews don't prioritize Israel. This guy
says, let's see if there's a response to it. Most people only know what a song thinks
with someone who hates them. And once everyone I know he's evil says, here's what a song
thinks. Even the quote is like, look, I know these guys are usually full of shit
law. That's my point. I don't want to believe that every single person here, I don't want
to believe that every single person here is, is, you know, cynically advancing this position
because they have to believe that everyone that is an anti-zionist is anti-semitic, right?
I don't want to believe that. I don't want to believe that. I don't want to believe
that there are people out there who are getting duped, who are getting duped by people who are
cynical, smear, hospirists that are operating to dupe people like this, to make them feel like I
I am fomenting anti-Semitism, okay?
Matthew Carson says,
it's quite prejudice to think a government
that doesn't even represent the majority
of a particular people that exists in the world
could somehow be the cause of hatred against them.
You're just using that as an excuse against,
using that as an excuse for your anti-Semitism.
yes it's obviously prejudice but understanding that a country widely noted
and talked about as the jewish state committing massive numbers of war crimes
and calling all opponents of such crimes anti-semites will further inflame jew
hatred is not an endorsement of such a phenomenon but a cool assessment of the
average person's deduction skills the jewish country is saying it's anti-jew
to criticize israel for killing babies is a much easier narrative to
incalculate then israel is a nation with its own national interest that while
being founded by jews does not inherently represent all jewish
public opinion and that the connection between mainstream jewish
Jewish organizations in Israel is of a vestigial historical connection and not necessarily an
active political one.
The wide and vast interweb between mainstream Jewish organizations in America and the Israeli
state is a widely discussed topic within American Jewry.
It might sound impolite, and it kind of does, but Gentile speaking about this connection
from a descriptive vantage point is not something far beyond the pale.
And then this guy goes, so you would similarly excuse the same sort of
thinking regarding Muslims and the crimes of Muslim states, right?
And therein lies the problem.
Okay.
Because when it comes to ISIS or when it comes to al-Qaeda, or even
When it comes to Iran, you will never find an overwhelming majority.
There is no poll that says that Muslims in America are by 75% in support of ISIS, and
yet the media has presented it as reality.
So everyone that's not Muslim thinks that all Muslims actually support ISIS.
This is how you create a sophisticated smear campaign against an entire minority population.
And this was the point that I was making, reflecting back on my own personal experiences coming
to the United States of America at the age of 18 and basically living here for the past
17 years as a dude whose name is Hassan and how that shapes my own personal experience.
I was reflecting on that experience and then tying it back to how dangerous this
This conflation is for rising anti-semitism rates in the United States of America.
It's fucking insane.
And it's interesting because that's the argument that Abdul presents all the time as well.
And then there's the third leg of this conversation, conflating the right wing Israeli government
or all Jews and anti-Semitic assigning acts of terror of 9-11's both make innocent people
unsafe, analyzing misplaced violence, doesn't endorse it, but funding Israel does, materially
support genocide. He didn't analyze, he threatened, people keep saying.
It's unbelievably disingenuous, it's incredibly frustrating, and it's already working. And
every time the conversation is, look, if you have a prominent Muslim anti-Zionist
who has spent, who has spent most of his political advocacy fighting against all forms of bigotry,
including anti-Semitism. You spend an entire media cycle saying, I'm a Jew hater over and over again.
You're leaning into that same conflation for the average person, for the average fucking person.
They don't think about these things. The average American doesn't lean into
Israel critique from the perspective
of anti-imperialism. The average person does not lean into critique of Israel from the perspective of
anti-fascism like we do. Okay? Like I do. They think about, oh, that's the Jewish state. Those are Jews.
Jews are doing Jewish things. That's how anti-Semitism rises in this country. Okay?
Okay? And at a time when the otherization is already starting, I cannot understand how
people, kind people, decent people who are not looking at the issue sincerely cannot
recognize the dangers of leaning into this false conflation.
Anti-Zionist Jews never get prominent media placement.
never do. And there's a reason for that, okay? Jewish voice for peace, breaking the silence,
but seldom, which, you know, breaking the silence isn't even anti Zionist, but it doesn't matter.
It's like, like there is a reason for why Jews who are who are anti Zionists never get,
that they never get talked about in mainstream news.
They're never invited onto these outlets
and they're routinely turned invisible.
This also plays a role in propagandizing
this dangerous and false conflation.
Americans have to hear from anti-Zionist Jews.
Okay. What? I have a hair on my tummy. What are you saying?
Oh. That's crazy.
And then you have the other side of the story as well. Islam is not a religion. It's a supremacist ideology that openly calls for the killing of non-Muslims.
was of all non-muslim civilizations we need a muslim band in america i stand by everything i said
round them all up and deport them preferably sooner rather than later this is laura lumar she'd
been on f***ing air force one she has direct she has direct line of communication with the state
department she's gotten the state department to do things to do her bidding laura lumar was
presented as like a like a sincere voice in Ukraine advocacy by the Associated Press only like a week ago.
In any case, the last part of this story then revolves around Hillary Skolton. Hillary Skolton
who is allegedly, there's rumors in Michigan politics, Hillary Skolton is allegedly in
an extramarital relationship and is committed adultery allegedly with the Republican, the prominent
Republican in the state.
She comes out and she ties it back to Jeremy Moss, who just won the seat that Hailey Stevens
vacated, right?
woman Hillary skelton releases the statements is today congresswoman Hillary skelton issued
a following statement after two shumors on piker said that american jews who support israel
are inviting violence in his stream piker directly discussed and targeted michigan state senator
jeremy maw showing his picture while stating that eventually someone will come around and
take action not against israel but against american jews okay it's fucking bullshit
the sumpikers calls for violence against american jews and directly naming a michigan elected
official and future congressional colleague jeremy maw's are unacceptable full stop
hank who thrives on hate, shock and awe, because he lacks substance, is dangerous for everyone.
We should all be calling out this disgusting rhetoric. So it loses grip on our politics once
and for all. There's no place in Michigan or no place in our country. It was bullshit,
but it was a coordinated smear campaign. It's not an accident that it was, uh, initially,
it was initialized on Jewish insider. Again, uh, the, the, uh, propaganda mouthpiece for
APAC, okay? Not the similar to, you know, Mallory McMorrow's exclusive interview initially, okay?
But the big problem is this wouldn't, this wouldn't have been that big of a ordeal, I think,
ultimately. But clearly, and I can't speak on this with any sort of like personal,
uh, any sort of, uh, you know, first hand account or anything.
But I reacted to it.
I said, if I was an Israel first congresswoman with a possible cheating scandal with the Republican
in the state, I wouldn't spend so much time vying for the spotlight by actively defaming
a prominent anti-Zionist voice to harm the dem-Senate majority chances over a 90-10
issue.
So then Abdul came out, or Abdul's team rather, came out with a statement.
And in the statement, the actual meat of the statement, he, uh, did the same thing
that he's always done, which is, you know, uh, no one speaks for me. Why are we talking
about, uh, she responded again. Oh, democratic Congresswoman, Hillary Shkoltan amplifies
Sompiger calling her an Israel first congresswoman with possible cheating, scantable the Republican
does not deny the claim. Yeah. She says, not a Sompiger daydreaming about being me
as if keep dreaming pal. There's only one of us hurting the chance of a democratic
majority in November and it ain't me. So, Abdull released a neutral statement. The only issue
I have with the neutral statement is that it legitimizes, well, I have a couple of issues
with it, right? He's trying to do the same thing that he's done over and over again even
though these attacks, they're not going to let up, which is my statements, my own,
Hassan statements are his own. Stop tying us to one another like this. It's ridiculous.
a distraction, right? So that's what he said. In my opinion, I think it would be best not
to say anything, right? It would be best not to say anything at all. But obviously there's
probably a lot of people in Michigan politics that are, you know, saying like, dude, what
the fuck are you doing? You got to, this is a ridiculous, you got to say something.
The only issue I have with this is not this statement in and of itself, because
This is exactly what he said over and over again, but it was this, tying it back to Hassan
Piker's comments regarding Jeremy Moss, okay?
This legitimizes the smear, unfortunately, and it also doesn't make anybody happy, right?
There are going to be a lot of people who are already questioning Abdel El Sayed's
on these issues that will then turn around and say, oh, he's, he's, you know, he's moderating
his position on Israel, all the stuff. I don't think he is. Okay. I will say this. I am literally
the person that is being dangled. And I'm going to tell you once again, he's not moderating
on his, his perspective on Israel or anything like that. Okay.
And the problem is nobody's going to be happy with this. Anti-Zionists will not be happy
with this because they will see this as a betrayal. They will see this as, as Abdul
else I had, taking advantage of the popularity of the pro-Palestinian cause and then in the
general turning around and portraying the pro-Palestinian cause, that's not the case, okay? That's not
the case. I don't think that is the case. But also, the overwhelming majority of people
who fomented this crisis, this manufactured outrage, they did it for this reason. Because
none of them are going to turn around and say, wow, Abdul, it seems that you have distanced
yourself from Hassan Piker. It seems you have disavowed his comments. We now believe
that you are actually going to... We now think that you're not an Islamic-style Takia
merchant who is uh... doing jihad
it doesn't matter
and here's proof
dems for michael rogers immediately goes another fake comment condemnation from
dr obdol said
notice you never actually condense is on pikers calls the violence against jeremy
moss up the continues to avoid condemnation pikers calls for vile against
jewish americans is shameful
opto is too extreme permission to get
So it's unfortunate that it's one of those situations where conceding to the oppositional framing in any way shape or form is of course going to cause them to double down and say, oh well why did you even hang out with this guy to begin with, as I said, as I predicted ahead of time.
Okay. And then they're also going to then turn around.
Yeah, there are crass and steam brothers everywhere for eyes to see they're also going to turn
around and say this is this is bullshit. This is not a good enough condemnation. And then
they're going to demand further and further condemnations. Okay, but this is a damned
if you do damned if you don't situation that he's found himself in a pack is gloating
over the Abdul statement. Yep. See, here you go. He knows this as well. He understandably
does not want to have a conversation about whatever new media concocted
manufactured crisis is manufactured outreach campaign is he doesn't want to
talk about that he wants to talk about what he's going to do for michigan
right that's the goal and the goal of those who are in opposition to odd
rules victory is imminent victory in november
are going to do everything in their power to continue the conversation around
this. Who better than Eton to interview a Sompager, get your popcorn? What is this?
Yeah, I don't want any harm committed against random citizens, whether they be Jewish or
muslim levy shimmer some hunts sits down with haritz is a ton
so here's the problem okay
you don't want to have this conversation over and over again so you have to say something
but if you say something they'll use it against you if you say anything they're
going to say, fuck you. You knew this guy was bad news and you leaned into it anyway.
And if you were to just simply say the truth and be like, this is manufactured outrage,
you guys are being ridiculous, which is the case, right? This is a dude who is a committed
anti-Zionist who fights against all forms of bigotry, myself included, we do the same thing.
Then they're going to be like, well, what about this quote? What about that quote?
And you can't expect someone who has a short period of time in a contentious media environment to know
the context of every single thing that I say, and he can't constantly fucking being a defensive
posture. I described this to you from the start, which is why I said that his reaction to this was
very good. His reaction to this has always been very good, which is, look, I deal with people
that I don't fully agree with and don't fully subscribe to on a daily basis. This is politics.
politics is about addition, not subtraction, right? It's smart. It's the right way to deal with it and
then deflect back to the issues because they are the ones who are engaging in the deflection, okay?
It's not even a deflection to be like, why are we talking about this? Let's talk about
the cost of living crisis, right? Okay, so there's a fear that you could get taken out,
But what if it happens and they'll stage it to look like a suicide they could clip you saying I'm gonna kill myself
Can you for the record publicly announced that you'll never do that? Yeah, copy this from another chatter. Yes, guys
I am not suicidal. Okay. Are you fucking insane? I don't own I don't have any like workout equipment in my house
I don't have a gun in my house. I'm not suicidal. Stop being fucking weird
Biker is a bitch
Can you go longer than 10 seconds without lying?
I mean, you've been in here for, I assume, 10 seconds.
What have I lied about that I'm not suicidal?
Is that what you're saying?
And if, and if Jews, anyway, let's continue with this clip, I'll keep putting this, this
idea out there that they are singularly invested in Israel, eventually someone's going
to come around and take action, not against the state of Israel, mind you, but against
American Jews.
Okay?
We're teaching people the wrong lesson.
At the end of the day, American Jews do not prioritize Israel, but they do prioritize
anti-Semitism.
And that's precisely the reason why a lot of this propaganda that is facing the American
Jewish side from a lot of these Jewish outlets, right? We'll tie the two all the time and we
hear that from outlets like ZBS as well, right? When the host asked Angie Nixon like, oh, well,
don't you think we shouldn't stop giving weapons to Israel at a time when anti-Semitism
is exploding? Where's the connective tissue between these two events? American Jews do
care about anti-Semitism it's understandable to care about anti-Semitism. They don't care about
Israel. So how do you tie the two? You say, well Israel is the only thing standing in the way of
the next Holocaust happening. That's how you do it. That's how you do it.
So every single time you have prominent Zionist Jews come out and be like, no, this is anti-Semitic to oppose Israel is anti-Semitic.
You're teaching people that you're teaching people the trope of dual loyalty.
That's where you're teaching people after you teach them that you can't turn around and say, oh, well, this is dual loyalty.
This is anti-Semitic because at a certain point, people are not going to give a shit and we're already past that point.
it's that simple
i read this not as an actual retreat from anti-semitism charges but
enhanced preparation for pressing on islamophobia given the plausible rise of
voting public's less beholden to the power of every errant anti-semitism charge
shipping away at the offices of anti-semitism's ours that's precisely what's going on yes
they're not going to give up on uh you know claiming that people are anti-semitic of
course they're going to keep doing that because there's a lot of institutional value
you. There are a lot of institutions that will still take action once the anti-Semitism
allegation is brought up. But what they're doing is, the Israeli Foreign Ministry has
recognized at this point that there is no way to defend Israel. So they'll take the
second best thing, which is to foment Islamophobia, who's fighting against the hordes of Muslims,
the dangerous Muslims that are destroying the Western world. The Jewish state is, of course,
this is a battle between the Western forces and the scary Eastern hordes of Muslims who are
barbaric. That's the way they, yeah. Also, of course, whenever people actually come out and say,
I don't see this as anti-Semitic at all, he's saying that if American Jews tied their
identity, Israel and their actions, people are going to take their grievances with Israel's
horrific actions out on American Jews and he's saying it's a bad thing. The same way Muslims
got blamed for 9-11 except they didn't even tie themselves like Al-Qaeda. And of course
immediately they go, you are Jewish in name only and it's quite cynical how you weaponize
the fact to take minority positions against a culture you don't understand and a community
you don't belong to.
this is the actual anti-Semitism
this is the actual anti-Semitism the notion that like
the notion that there is a monolithic and organized jury that is singularly
invested in Israel is anti-Semitism it's anti-Semitic when Nik Wenta says it
and it's anti-Semitic
when Jake Tapper says it
okay?
Yeah, I don't know, man. I just, I don't know. I don't know what to say other than I will continue saying the fucking truth.
I will continue fighting for the values that I believe in. I hope that, I hope that the truth will inevitably prevail.
That's the only thing I can lean into. I've been doing this for a decade.
Okay, and at the starting point, there wasn't a lot of attention, but there was also not
a lot of hatred and animosity directed in me in my direction, right?
And over the years, I've continuously kept fighting for these values that I believe in,
standing loudly and proudly against all forms of bigotry, combating into the best of my
my ability combating misinformation, disinformation is the best of my ability.
If I were you, I'd stop campaigning with candidates.
It's brought you so much trouble.
None of these politicians deserve your platform, your time, your community's
help at this point is hard.
Not the side with those ultras who are disillusioned with politicians.
You should just stream from your desktop like the old days and leave the
endorsement and campaigning behind saying that you're done with campaigns
might get these scumbags off your back.
Yeah, I'm not going to do that either.
Because it's working.
If it wasn't working
Then they wouldn't be attacking me this much
Why the fuck would I ever concede? Why would I ever cave to the disingenuous framing?
Why would I ever cave to the smear campaigns? You think I want a pack to get a W here? What are you fucking nuts?
It's not going to happen.
If that was the attitude demonstrated by the broad anti-Zionist movement, the propelstone
movement in this country, then we wouldn't have seen this sea change. Okay? It is the
steadfastness of the Palestinian people that we are motivated by and we will continue doing
what we're doing. Some people might even disagree with my methods. Some people might disagree
with uh with how I you know carry myself how I present myself
it must be exhausting to be a son the hunt they turned it don't you realize if you continue
falsely associating jews with support of an apartheid then an anti-semite will attack jews into an
i'm an anti-semite and i want someone to attack jews because they all support apartheid jesus
fucking Christ. Yeah. That's what's so frustrating about it. So yeah, the only thing I take issue
with is, is, is within obduals framing within his comms, comms teams framing here. It gives
it lends credence to the notion that I was in any way shape or form attacking Jewish people
and that will be used against them permanently now. It sucks.
But yeah, I'm not even worried about how that reflects on me and how that gives credence
and legitimacy to these heinous smears.
You've been talking about media smears for weeks.
Maybe we focus more on the news outside of you.
I know it can feel hard not to be centered so heavily,
but maybe sticking to the issues a little bit more strictly will help.
You're right. The number one fucking new story of today.
I should just avoid talking about.
I know.
It's it's me, me, me.
I'm being so fucking self-centered.
Yeah. Well, according to archive.org, Fox News has had 224 broadcasts in the month of August, mentioning my name over five times.
Many broadcasts that have mentioned Trump's massively unpopular war with Iran.
Only 44 broadcasts have mentioned Iran.
Son is clear that the structure for the right is chosen to distract away from Trump's historically low approval rating.
And many Democrats are actually caving to this framing and they're leaning into it.
Okay.
I
Reply Mike this does smell like the dead party forcing a statement. Yeah, this is almost this is DC
Consolidation I could smell it from a mile. Fuck it away. I know I read it already
But like this is the type of stuff the Democratic Party loves to do which is like so the Republicans are doing some sort of bad faith smear
It has two thousand likes on Twitter. Nobody gives a shit. Nobody gives a shit about a two thousand like tweet
Then Abdul makes a statement about a 2000 like tweet and now every single newsroom in
the entire country can write a story about it.
So congratulations Abdul, Democrats, you have now fallen into this shit, you have fallen
into this shit.
Now they can make all these Abdul El Sayed refuses to renounce a Duhassad biker.
So now the volume is going to go up again.
As I said, it's not a fatal mistake, but it will become a fatal mistake if it keeps
up.
Because what will happen is, if he keeps making nothing statements, and people keep reporting
on it, that people are going to make more tweets about Assad Piker, and he's going
to have to make more nothing statements until eventually he will condemn Assad Piker, in
which case he'll look super weak, and then it'll be like, why did you take so long?
And then it, yeah, they'll say, why did you take so long?
Why did you even campaign with him?
remember. If you give in to the false framing here, addressing the Bat Faith-Hassan-Smear
campaign on the merits is tacitly lending credence to the manipulated or fabricated statements.
It's not only a political miscalculation in that the demestablishment in GOP will never
give progressives credit for capitulation. Given engine, they'll take a mile behind
you while you're looking for a pat on the back. But it's also a fairly basic logical
error to assume that rationalizing with a dishonest actor in any context will appease
or disarm them
stop giving air to these attacks simply allow the class upon its impotitions or
hyper folks on to steamer leading into a midterm election
that is clearly about delivering economic relief and actually representative of
government
for american workers scream themselves in the circles like crazy people
this is not gonna happen
it's never it's never going to be it's never going to cause people to let up
and they are immediately started doubling down a packed double down
Democrats for Mike Rogers doubled down.
Yeah.
Yesterday I saw a right winger arguing with a lib.
They disagreed on practically everything.
Asylum was brought up in like a switch.
They were both in agreement that Asylum is a crazy anti-Semitic terrorist.
Brother is getting attacked from all sides.
Yeah.
The thing is there are, I think liberals who are vying for a position of power that
want to become DNC consultants that are doing this.
And then there are already pre-existing DSC consoles
that are doing this.
I think people in the real world don't necessarily
give a shit about this, no matter how much
it's covered in the news.
At least that's not been my experience.
It once again is designed to make you feel that way
with the algorithms that we see on Twitter
with how crafted
and how echo chambered the permissible messaging
structure is on Fox News and CNN.
But I think by and large, we've seen this over and over again.
We saw this already in the last three years
with the pro-Palestine movement.
The media being at a step with the population is not new.
So, you know, take the Bernie Sanders approach. Trump pardoned January 6th, Ryder Jake Lang
is in Michigan targeting Abdel El-Sahed, burning Quran and calling Muslims in cities parasize.
Will Mike Rogers and the Republican leadership condemn Lang's bigotry and hatred or will
they continue to fan the flames of Islamophobia?
it seems to a tweet the algorithm they hate you too. Yeah. Anyway, stop trying to eat and
reframing right wing framing. It doesn't work. Yeah. Under you are under no obligation to
Concede on oppositional framing. These people are cynical monsters. They're not invested in arriving at the truth
But they're trying to trap you into accepting their framework
So whenever you actually do this whenever you actually lean into their framework, you've lost it sucks
Man on summerville, I'm fucking furious about this. Honestly, my heart is racing
I was watching this human as I said this and it's abundantly clear what he was saying
the more people continue to conflate criticism of Israel with criticism of
Jewish people the more dangerous it will become for Jewish people in America and
he's 100% correct you want to know how because I was born I was in the GA
legislature when they added the IHRA definition of anti-Semitism to the law
for prosecutions of hate crime my former law professor Zarab I wrote the law
the primary example he gave us the why this was necessary was because he
personally knew of a young man who was a Yarmulke at a local university who
got jumped by some kids okay but I disagree with the IHRA definition
No young man who wears a yarmulke in the local universe who got jumped by some kids who said they wanted to punish him because he was a Zionist who supported Israel was doing God's of the kids admitted they did not know their victim nor do they know his position on Israel they attacked an innocent person specifically because he was self-identified as Jewish.
Take it from someone who deals with these issues.
Last case I handled before I stopped practicing while I was one for a kid who was getting threatened at his high school for being Jewish.
It is precisely the conflation of being Jewish with being as honest as it is encouraging this kind of violence to occur.
I literally saw it for myself. I can't stand. I cannot stand it. That's what it's on the sun.
Unsaid is being framed the way it is. I'm going to try to talk about this as much as I can.
I'm fucking tired. It's also nasty that none of these local reporters reached out to me
for comment on this story as well, which obviously plays a formative role in the smear being
effective. CNN isn't going to invite her on to defend you, I'm sure. Yeah. No, you get
blackballed and blacklisted. Yeah, lawmakers condemn a Sompire's remarks targeting American
Jews. This is how it works, man. This is how it works. Now every boomer who fucking
reads the news is going to permanently assume that this is what took place. An argument
against the conflation of Zionism and Judaism, the false conflation between Zionism and Judaism
turns into a lot of attack for the one actually combating anti-Semitism.
This is also partially why we need more people to just like come out and unconditionally
reiterate the truth. Because if we don't prosecute this right now, we're not going to have any leverage in the future. Okay?
The idea that you can cast someone like myself aside, another person will take my role will take my place is is silly. They're going to do the exact same thing.
They're going to do the exact same thing. Let's say tomorrow.
I decide it's too much. Who would want to deal with this? Who would want to be yelled at every day?
Who would want to be smeared every day with heinous lies?
I'm done. Let's say tomorrow. I say I'm fucking done. I'm out. Okay, someone else is obviously going to take my place
because the masses and the resentment and the anger towards what Israel has done is not going to go away
someone else is inevitably going to
build this role. Because at the end of the day, I'm just a megaphone. I'm just a
platform.
And here's the thing. When that happens, that person is going to be attacked all
the same. This is how the smears happen against all the propel sign people
The United Kingdom went we've seen this coming for years time for everyone to rise up and reject this really pathetic
I've been played into it horrible advice. He got I think he's stuck
He's stuck
He can't he can't like directly
Tackle every out of context clip because then he's not talking about the issues
So I understand his predicament because every moment
every moment is
is is yet another instance where they're like why won't you why would you condemn us on why won't you
condemn us on do you just not want Jewish people to vote for you
and look I wasn't involved in Angie Nixon's campaign she condemns Israel's genocide she's
still won, okay? And then they try to piece her up and be like, oh, well, do you condemn
us on piker? And she was like, I don't know us on piker. So now they move to the next thing.
Now they're saying DSA, DSA, DSA, DSA. It doesn't matter. There was always a thing.
Okay. So we on the left broadly have to get better at dealing with this kind of contentious
media environment because it's never gonna go away. You understand? If it's not DSA,
then they'll say, oh, well, what about your tweets from 2020? What about this? What about
that? There's always going to be something. Charlotte Clymer, multiple things can be true.
I'll say it would be a good senator any Democrat is vastly preferable to my garage
There's no Democrats should be campaigning with the sound piker defending in the GOP will use pikers in same ridiculous use of attack guaranteed
In my opinion, this is gonna be the same thing as Republicans calling Dems communists
No matter what Angie Nixon didn't campaign with piker and they attacked for her for it
Anyway, as long as Dems campaign on real issues, I say let Republicans waste breath talking about a streamer
Most people don't know
The media is in a failed position right now to think it won't go away short-sighted.
No, it won't go away.
It won't go away if we breathe life back into it.
This was the same argument that I gave to, this was the same position that I have with
Kamala Harris.
Every time there was a pro-Palestine protest, they would find someone who had like a placard
that said, you know, they love Hamas or something. And then they would take that, they would highlight
it. And then they would go to the Kamala Harris campaign and say, what do you have to say about
this? This person is your number one fan. What did I always say? If you recall, if you
were here in the 2024 election, I would say, look, you should never in a million years
take ownership over this stuff at all. Okay. You should never take ownership over
the stuff. Even if you disagree with it, just don't address it at all. Just say,
look, there are a multitude of different opinions, but you have to look at the
broad confines of the movement. You have to look at the broader movement. This
was done with the Black Lives Matter protests as well. I'm not going to
agree with every single thing that every single person is saying in a BLM
protest. I'm not going to agree with every single thing that every single
person says in a pro-Palestine protest, but ultimately it doesn't matter.
matter. Is there a genocide being conducted? Or not? And these people are standing against
it. That's it. I'm not sure why we think it's truly
gone away though. It has in the public opinion on Israel's change, but the establishment
politics are exactly the same. I agree.
Nira is saying Republicans are attacking a Sampaikar and his candidates don't campaign
with them because the alienate swing voters don't blame the people who warned you. Blame
yourself for not listening to the warnings. Yes, Nira Tanden is obviously fighting a totally
separate battle.
You are being attacked because you represent independent political power from outside the
party gatekeepers is an existential threat to the centrist.
They can only win if there's no debate.
I know.
I know, which is why I'm not going to stop doing what I'm doing, Chad.
It sucks.
It weighs on me.
it doesn't matter. I am with you. He's repellent. God. It's so funny that this person who is
a very clear opportunist who is just trying to defend her position of prominence in the
party is capable of duping at least some kindhearted liberal people into believing that she's
on their side. She's not. Look. My last quote on this before moving on is going to be a
quote from Malcolm X. You're not careful. The newspapers will have you hating the people
who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing, okay?
That's it.
You're not careful.
If you're not paying close attention to what's going on and many people can't, they will
make you think I am your enemy.
And those who have designed society for your struggle to be endless will come across as
your saviors, your salvation.
They're giving you, they're telling you who you should avoid.
It's also important that everyone who has the establishment rally behind you and give
this absolutely zero life does a total bullshit and everyone knows it, I'll have your back,
I mean that's tough.
stuff. You should clarify who you mean by the oppressor in that quote. I'm assuming you mean
Palestinian people, not you personally. Yes, of course, I'm talking about the Palestinians.
I'm talking about black people in the country. I'm talking about brown people in the country.
Yes, not me. I am a megaphone for the voiceless. Okay, that's my position. I'm a platform, a voice for those who are often overlooked.
Now, now that their voices are becoming more prominent, becoming more undeniable, becoming
more unavoidable, they're losing their fucking minds because they're losing the conversation.
In the past, mainstream outlets, corporate media, they could gatekeep, right?
They could gatekeep.
They could keep this shit airtight.
By the way, Hakeem Jeffries also released a statement recently, the malicious claim that
American Jews are inviting violence against themselves is dangerous and anti-Semitic.
There is zero justification for threats against the safety of our Jewish brothers and sisters
at a moment of rising hate.
We will fight the cancer of anti-Semitism with the fierce urgency of now."
It's a sub-tweet.
At least he didn't say, Hassan Piker said this, and instead sub-tweeted.
But this is how this is how a smear campaign works
Oh
Yeah, Nikki had a good take as well the way established the Dems are trying to clobber us on is actually a Republican wet dream
They've robbed the GOP of one of their greatest fantasies and are harming no one but their own candidates. Yep
We have to we have to double down on our efforts dude. That's it
Do not let this smear campaign distract you from our goals
They wouldn't be doing this if we weren't making an impact
For the last 10 years I said the exact same shit that I'm saying right now
Okay? For the exact, for the last 10 years, so why is it happening now? Because we are having an
impact because people's minds are changing on this issue. Okay? That's it. That's it.
They want us to be distracted, they want us to be fighting amongst ourselves.
Don't fall for it.
And here there's a shining light here as well.
I'm hardly a sonhead.
Watch viewers interviews with Mom with Kalil.
Never vibe with the personality.
The reason I defend him now is because he's one of the long series of dominoes needed
to fall before fast and permanently crusher existing rights and freedoms.
These remarks comprise the most pro-Jewish analysis you'll find anywhere today including
from Jewish organizational leadership so of course a serial liar like the Atlantic has
to call him hit larian. Yeah.
I just, I don't know, I will let my resentment and my anger continue to be a motivator towards
some of these reactionary forces.
This reminds me of Zoran backing off on the Intifada.
My relatives still say he's pro-Intifada.
I know.
It was a mistake when Zoran did that.
It was a major mistake.
I feel bad.
Democrats have spent most spirit smearing us on without a context,
who are spending vests of sums of money to make him toxic and now lament that he
may be a liability. I want Abdul to win desperately,
but the most predictable thing in the world was that Piker would inevitably
become a serious liability in the general election.
If you care about Abdul's campaign succeeding,
you should want him to distance himself or Piker clearly and directly.
What caused Abdul to win in the primaries was to show that he was a fighter, to show
that he is a fighter, and that he believes in the things that he believes in and doesn't
compromise on oppositional framing and lies.
I hope he can continue doing that, and I think he will.
But it's not a secret that the sharks smell the blood in the water and they are pouncing.
They're pouncing and of course for many of them, I am a priority target.
Someone who needs to be destroyed.
Someone who needs to simply go away, right?
And for many others who are sharks can't pounce, okay, whatever, sharks, they're engaging in
a feeding frenzy, whatever.
But for many others who are on the margins, on the sidelines, they see this and they go,
why would you ever fucking defend a Twitch server?
Who gives a fuck?
He is replaceable.
Not realizing that when you actually drop that, when you actually drop that cause,
signaling to others that there is a weak spot. There's an opportunity to consistently needle.
You watch Fox News these days. It is somebody from the DSA saying something dumb. It's a
Sompiker. Then it's a trans athlete and then back and forth. Those are the three topics,
Right like DSA craziness Hassan piker transports. That's it. That's like kind of the universe going to have to figure out
How to have a big movement?
But in which everyone understands that their words will be used to tar each other, you know
Yeah, I mean I have like two immediate thoughts, which is number one
I I say this to people behind the scenes and sometimes publicly
It's that you know if somebody's like DSA adjacent versus somebody's a moderate for the most part
Those people are all good people, like they're not trying to destroy the Democratic party or infiltrate it or make us all lose or whatever.
They're just people who want what's best for their neighbors, their family, their friends, and they just disagree about how to get there.
So I think it's important to have like a humanity aspect of that debate, especially when we're debating on the Democratic side.
But also the debate is just so stupid.
Like, you're right, like Hassan Pikers on Fox News 2470 has become like a national figure more so than he was already.
Um, and he's like the center of the debate and it's Fox News playing these, these clips
of him or clips of candidates saying something and taking it out of context and the debate's
not in good faith whatsoever.
It just feels stupid to me and that's like, I, I really stay out of it.
I'm like, you know, whoever the Democratic candidate is, I endorse.
That's what I go with.
It's funny because like low key Democratic, that is what liberal should be doing 100%
I mean, straight up, that is what liberal should be doing unconditionally, to fucking
stay the line, you know, to stay the course, to in some respects fall in line as well, even
if they don't like a candidate particularly, because like, do you want to fucking defeat
the Republicans or not?
You know what I mean?
Leaning into oppositional framing, leaning into the Republican smear campaigns is effectively
neutering one element of the movement.
That's how Republicans win.
I
Anyway
Senate Republicans posting this clip as well on piker condemning American Jews who support Israel suggesting they are putting themselves in danger
people don't Israel any longer and if and if Jews in America keep putting this this idea out there
that they are singularly invested in Israel eventually someone's going to come around
and take action not against the state of Israel mind you but against American Jews
they're like and he thinks this is good
generally if the Democrats can't get their rapid, rapid Zionist laptop Israel worshipers
in Czech Tucker Carlson we've president come January 2029 to 100%
100%
The IMEU poll was removed? What? No, no, I'm, we're going to be announcing the IMEU poll
later today. It's a, it's a huge poll.
Jacob Kornblub posted it. The Sompiker will today announce new polling of Democratic primary
voters live on a stream for the first time. In a first of its kind, collaboration, you
go up and I am EU, a policy polling, a policy project, polling of democratic voters in six
states to vote in 2028 will be announced on a Sompiker stream, political commentator,
streamer, Sompiker will today announce new polling of democratic primary voters live
on a stream for the first time. The democratic national committee formally adopted a new
calendar of August 14th. That was C South Carolina, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico,
Michigan and Virginia democratic voters cast the first balsam 2028 presidential primary
new you gov i am e you policy project polling of likely democratic voters in these states
will be released on piger stream showing these voters overwhelmingly say that israel's
committing a genocide against palestinians the u.s. should impose sanctions on israel
yes amid ben das is going to be a debuting some settle down juice that near attendant
Hillary Shulton and Josh Gotthimer can take a big swig from. By the way, this is why it's
so fucking frustrating. This is why it's so unbelievably frustrating to see top Democrats
consistently position themselves against their own voters, against the broader American
electorate, because I don't want Republicans to win, okay? I don't want Republicans
fucking win and they're gonna win if we fuck this up. Not only do I find it to be obviously immoral
to to offer Israel support, especially when the overwhelming majority of Americans now see that
it's a genocide, they recognize it as such. But Republicans are cynical actors. They know that
their policies are odious, dangerous, violent, divisive, and that's why they do everything
they can to win. And a part of that tactic is to divide and conquer. A part of that is to divide
the Democratic Party's base of support, or broadly the anti-Trump, the anti-Republican forces
in the country, by getting us to fight against one another.
And Israel first Democrats don't give a shit and lean into it every time
Worth keeping in mind how this started a pro-israel Democrat publicly refuses support else
I had I eat let the Republican win
You don't want people talking about that so centrist Dems have smartly turned it into another piker news cycle that conveniently also hurts Abdul
else I had. Yeah. The Democrats for Mike Rogers initiative was launched and it was already failing.
So they turned around and said, Oh, actually, Hassan wants to fucking like they smeared
me. They just said, Oh, Hassan wants harm. Hassan wants American Jews to be harmed in
an argument where I'm making the exact opposite argument. But that's all it takes. It's
That's all it takes.
Abdul Al Sayed, y'all need to stop putting, y'all need to also put Mike Rogers on blast
for hiring people who defend Hitler group chats and work for his campaign.
You cannot allow shit like this in slide when his supporters are trying to manufacture out
anti-Semitism to smear votes.
A guy who led an anti-Muslim protest in Dearborn recently is a part of Mike Rogers' campaign.
Y'all should press him on that as well.
The official Mike Rogers campaign outreach team is full of neo-Nazis participating group
chest of praise Hitler and call for Jews to be sent to North Korea.
You won't hear about this because Mike Rogers supports Israel.
also the media will lie about us on instead. Referring to black people as monkeys, participants
of the chat declaring their love for Adolf Hitler, mused about putting opponents in gas
shapers and called rape epic. Member of Mike Rogers' student outreach team.
How much has the media talked about that?
them to spend a full decade claiming that trump is a fascist white supremacist
hitler like evil and an unprecedented threat to u.s. democracy so much so that
they had to embrace and unite with the g o p war mongers in new york on the use
of condemn
in similar terms just a decade ago yet now with two months before election they
seem to be reserving their greatest venom in the bulk of their energy
attacking a sump hiker who isn't on the ballot
while trumps may now lies in the name of the czar and it's not hard
uh... it's hard not to notice that those leading the charge are the ones
most loyal to israel while the sounds most consequential impact has been
to help many democratic challengers who are highly critical of the u.s. israel
relationship house a pack funded israel first loyalists
this all seems to be very telling about the real priorities of these them
office holders
and the vast difference between those real priorities
the ones they deceitfully tell their voters they most care about
if you care about unseating donald trump and trump loyalists
you wouldn't be attacking
someone who is trying to get young people out to fucking vote for
candidates
someone who is simply trying to make the parties ideological make up more
responsive to the needs of the base
huh
anyway I'm moving on from the Hassan cycle I can't deal with it anymore let's
get to the U.S. sanctions on Iran, show military action has failed. This is the nuclear mother
load of all sanctions. Scott Besant is presenting it as such. They're calling it the economic
D-Day. He said a whole bunch of nothing. I know. Of course, he said a whole bunch
nothing because he has nothing because we have nothing that's just the reality we have nothing
fascinating treasury secretary speaking about tackling Iran via financial sanctions against
Iran's financial connections around the globe around the globe our objective is to sever
However, every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime until Tehran stands
alone.
Iran's fanatics devote themselves to death to America and seek nuclear weapons to do
just that.
They have murdered and maimed more of our citizens and service members than any other
terrorist regime on earth.
they have been at war against America, their neighbors in the Gulf, and much of the world
for 47 years.
President Trump has taken action that his predecessors have long deferred.
And under his leadership, America is no longer managing the Iranian threat.
We are ending it.
Our great armed forces have laid the groundwork for achieving the President's objective
of preventing Iran from ever obtaining nuclear weapons.
They have shown America's resolve to finally end this threat.
And the strength of America's economy under President Trump
allows us to wage this sustained financial operation
alongside the might of our military.
Iran now faces a very clear choice
with only two paths before them.
Complete global isolation and a subsistence to economy
or a path back to normalcy within an opportunity
to rejoin the global economy.
Today we are launching operation economic outcast
to foreclose every other option
available to the Iranian regime.
Treasury has mapped every node, every facilitator,
and every network that Iran has used
to smuggle oil and evade sanctions.
Beginning today, the actions of Treasury and other agencies
will tighten the noose and block every potential source
of revenue that funds the IRGC and the evil Iranian regime.
We are enforcing a zero leakage approach.
There will be no minimal breathing space for the regime
to rebuild its capacity to inflict terror against America
and the world.
The final refuge of this regime
is a mistaken conclusion of nations that still finance the Iranian threat in the hopes
of evading it.
It is no longer acceptable to operate in the gray spaces of this conflict.
Countries cannot claim they are blind to enabling this activity.
Iran's enablers purchase, transport its petroleum.
They facilitate the flow of its finances through exchange houses and free trade zones.
They welcome Iran's flights and maintain registries on its behalf.
They turn a blind eye to seaborne fuel transfers and overland transits.
They condone illicit use of their banks all the while concealing the extent of their complicity.
The president is making phone calls to world leaders with specific requests to cease their
interactions with the regime.
We are already seeing results.
Over the weekend, comments from Iranian leadership clearly acknowledged the effect of this campaign
and nations that facilitate any international interactions with the regime should quickly
heed our message.
Those who stand with the United States will reap the rewards of our partnership.
Those who tether themselves to the Iranian regime should expect to share in the isolation
of a withering regime.
from Treasury, State, and the U.S. military are now meeting with their global counterparts
to tell them that the United States expects action.
Every country has a defined timeline to shut down activities we have identified.
If they do not take action, we will do so unilaterally through Treasury authorities.
For example, every branch of bank no a must be shuttered and dark.
And let me be clear, any entity that facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be
removed from the US dollar system.
The clock just started ticking.
The new sectoral sanctions determinations issue.
Yeah.
I mean, this.
Again, you have to, a media advisor was sent about your, yeah, no, I know.
I covered it already.
The sanctions have to be full spectrum.
You have to hit China and Russia.
I covered this last week when they signaled that they were going to do the economic D-day
and mentioned that this would most likely not happen for two reasons.
Because you can't really sanction China without crippling your own economy, right?
We know this already because Donald Trump tried it with the tariffs
the the Liberty Day
The Liberation Day tariffs campaign failed
Part of that was hitting China with the maximalist tariffs and then backing away from it quietly after months and months of instability
Okay
Now, even in this reveal, you'll hear Besant say something along the lines of secondary
sanctions are coming, we're promising that secondary sanctions are coming.
But then he also says, I hope I don't have to do it.
Okay.
He says, why would I want to blow up the global financial system?
So they also recognize that it's not going to happen.
So it's mostly just taking a threatening posture against the country that already has received
these sorts of threats and has not backed away from them.
Today, target.
I think it's a foolhardy endeavor and I don't even know who the target audience is for
this.
I don't think it's Xi Jinping.
Five of Iran's most vital lifelines that it exploits in other countries.
assets, technology, gold, aviation and shipping. These measures broaden secondary sanctions
risk for anyone foolish enough to continue conducting business with this regime and will accelerate
the speed with which we pursue them. As I speak, Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets
control is also sanctioning over 60 entities, individuals, and vessels around the world
that enable the Iranian regime to procure illicit nuclear and missile technology,
conduct cyber operations, and generate oil revenue. This is a sustained campaign to collapse
every last option for Iran. Let there be no ambiguity as to the position of the United States
and economic engagement of any kind with this murderous regime will expose those responsible
to the full reach of American power. For decades, this regime is what they did basically with Cuba.
Yes, but you can't do it with Iran because Iran is an energy provider.
And not only is Iran an energy provider, Iran controls a global choke point
for 20% of the global energy supply. Cuba doesn't. We can do this to weak
countries, weaker countries, countries that we've weakened over multiple decades,
but we can't do this to a country that is currently militarily controlling the
Shredda Formos. That's it. It is in China's best interest to end the chaos
in the Gulf. It's in China's best interest, considering that they get their oil and gas
needs. They have their oil and gas needs met by the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia as well as
Iran. But ultimately, they can't do this to China. Secondary sanctions would be to hit
Iran's biggest trading partners. Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey to a certain degree, China,
and Russia. Russia has already been hit with the mother of all sanctions, so I don't know how much
more space there is there for Russian sanctions. And you can't do this to China because China
is the global manufacturing hub of the entire planet. And also on top of that has additional
leverage now because it's been engaging in price stability by cutting down,
artificially cutting down its imports of oil in an effort to make sure that the
rest of the Asian continent, the rest of the Asia Pacific region is not
experiencing tremendous shortages and collapsing their energy grid. That's
it. I don't foresee China dropping Iran for no reason here, especially at a time when Iran
behaving in an erratic manner would worsen the crisis overall.
And China's response has been pretty unbowed. They've said we will not abide by these sanctions.
America tried testing this against China already, as China was still purchasing Iranian oil throughout
the conflict. And the American side came out and said we're going to apply sanctions to Chinese
companies and Chinese banks that are processing these oil, uh,
they're processing these oil shipments in China said, no, no, you're not.
Today, the US announced, uh, economic operation, economic outcast, a new
comprehensive economic pressure campaign against Iran and sanctions,
60 entities three months ago, which is what I was talking about.
The US announced operation, economic fury, a new, more comprehensive
economic pressure campaign against Iran and sanctioned 50 entities.
So they already did this three months ago and it went nowhere and they're doing it again.
I don't even know why they're doing it at this point.
The same Besant who diluted himself into thinking back in April, 2025 that all countries would
join the U.S. in a grand economic encirclement of China, only to fold a few weeks later
because no one joined.
Now he's recycling the same script against Iran and it's even more diluted because
Because it requires the cooperation of China, the very country he tried and failed to isolate
last year.
And China is obviously refusing.
So yeah, it makes no sense.
It makes no sense.
Why should anybody, at a time when America's global standing is in tatters, at a time
someone, America's hegemonic superpower position is being threatened by its own missteps, by
the way, by no one else.
I guess maybe you could say Iran retaliated and won, and that obviously played a major
role in destroying American force projection capabilities, destroying the confidence that
people have in America as the world stabilizer, as the hegemonic superpower.
said all of that. It is clear now more than it was last year, more than it was in April
2025, more than it was three months ago, that there is, there is no way around this, that
But America has to play ball with China, and America has to concede to Iran.
Sina 2C from CI Policy says, will the U.S. get China on board with intensifying Iran's
economic strangulation?
Beijing is moving the other way after ordering firms not to comply with US sanctions on Chinese
buyers of Iranian oil. This was three months ago when they tried to test out the exact
same thing.
Its top court penalized the Singaporean firm for complying with US sanctions. China's
top court highlights first anti-foreign sanctions law ruling amid global tensions. A court
judgment unveiled last month showed the Shanghai court ruled against the Singaporean
firm in January, February ordering it to pay more than 4.99 million yuan in damage
plus interest in holding that it could know it could not use a foreign country's discriminatory
restrictions of the defense under Article 12 of China's anti-foreign sanctions law.
Esfandiar Batmangalich says, in today's press conference, Secretary Scott Besant took no
It's now time to explain how ordinary Iranians will be protected from undue harm during his
economic dita.
Instead, his speech made it clear that the Iranian people are the targets of this new
assault.
The five sectors identified here are not lifelines for the Iranian state.
They are lifelines for the Iranian people.
Digital assets and gold are how ordinary Iranians protect their savings from inflation.
Technology keeps Iranians connected to the world.
Aviation keeps Iranian families connected with loved ones across borders.
Shipping is how essential goods including food and medicine reach Iran.
The Treasury Department has even rescinded general licenses covering academic and sports
exchanges between the US and Iran.
These measures do not isolate the Iranian regime, which has hunkered down for years.
They isolate the Iranian people.
The Trump administration has no qualms about ordinary Iranians becoming targets in their
economic war, just as they had no qualms about killing civilians in their military
operations.
we knew that already. David from Reuters. Hi, thanks, XJ. One of the most powerful tools
you have at your disposal is the ability to impose secondary sanctions on banks and financial
institutions that facilitate transactions for Iran. Chinese banks have often talked
about being targeted, but we don't see any of those institutions targeted here.
Is that something that is coming in this campaign, or is the very delicate trade truce with China
something that could prohibit you from going that far and taking that very big step?
We want to make clear here today that no one is above the reach of U.S. sanctions,
But if they facilitate transactions and are part of the ecosystem that turns Iranian oil
into money, into repression, they will be targeted.
We find that the best way to engage with countries is through quiet diplomacy, and
we are level setting with every country to tell them our expectations.
We know who they are, they know who they are, so when the hammer of U.S. Treasury actions
falls upon them, they will have no one to blame but themselves.
Big talk.
Big talk coming from Little Power.
New AES posts, every comment is exactly what you predicted.
Mike Rogers, hey Bernie, unlike Abdul Al Sayed, I have no issue disavowing fringe
extremists who promote violence and seek to divide our state and country. Jake Lang is
all of those things. While I have your attention, I would like to know if Abdul will definitely
say that he will not affiliate with people like a Sampyger who thinks that America deserve
9-11. Self identifies as a racist and cause for the public execution of American capitalist.
Could you check in with your boy on that and let us know where he stands? Of course,
doubling down.
And then Obdolossi, it says, now do Donald Trump.
It's better.
Self-identifies the races.
Yes, there it's a part of the Republican smear campaign.
This is the other problem with the conversations revolving around fucking Twitch streamer.
I am somehow both a very powerful entity that must be violently deposed and disposed of,
But also, I'm a fucking Twitch streamer, so obviously it's easy for people to hang me
out the dry.
And that's precisely the reason why, when you do stuff like that, when you do even no
you campaigns, it ultimately puts me on equal footing as like Jake Lang when that's not
the case.
Right?
It puts me on equal footing automatically as with the likes of Jake Lang.
Even with even Donald Trump, the standards are completely busted.
Prominent anti-Zionist Twitch streamer is held to a higher standard than the motherfucking
president of the United States of America is ridiculous.
Even then, nothing I've said or done has reached the standard of, nothing Abdul has
said or done has reached the standard of anybody collaborating with a prominent figure
in the Israeli government that has blood on their hands, right? The genocide of the Palestinians.
And nothing I've ever said or done reaches the standard of what the average Republican has said
and done over and over again. And of course, all of these people are still using this as a moment
of weakness to hammer him even further.
Like the comparisons between me and Charlie Kirk at a different point in time would have
been ridiculous, right?
We're not even talking about a comparison between me and Nick Fuentes, but even a comparison
between me and Charlie Kirk is ridiculous.
Anyway, let's continue with Besson has drawn strength from a calculus that
regards Iranian retaliation as certain and American enforcement as
negotiable under President Trump.
That era is over.
To the ordinary soldiers supporting this regime, as more and more of your paychecks stop or
supposedly just delayed, ask whether your commanders are leading your country to triumph
or to ruin, and recall that the Berlin Wall fell when ordinary soldiers decided not to
shoot at their own people.
And to those who enable Tehran, do not discount the cost of testing Washington's resolve.
No nation should expect to enjoy the rewards of our system while helping those who seek
to destroy it.
It is now a time for world leaders to make a decision between prosperity and isolation,
peace and terror, America and Iran.
The campaign we begin today will gather force with every day that follows and it will
not end until this regime stands alone.
number of threats there by the Americans. Clearly this administration, it has run out of patients,
is well aware. I mean, it's funny that even Western media like Sky News is covering this as like a
recognition of American defeat. The title of this is analysis US sanctions on Iran show military
action has failed. These are some of our most important allies and their major arms of propaganda.
It's unbelievably desperate and of course it's unbelievably cruel, along with the new initiative
and a bunch of new sanctions listing U.S. is suspending existing GLs, permitting academic
exchanges and professional amateur sports activities. They're trying to punish the
regular Iranian society as aggressively as they possibly can
because they've lost the war.
That it is on the back foot militarily can't get itself out of this conflict.
Scott Besant appeared there to be just suggesting that this was another lever,
the big lever that America has been reluctant to pull thus far.
are, but it is also clearly an indication of the realization that military action, while
it has been devastating, has not had the desired consequences. Iran is still able to do what
it was doing before. It still has a nuclear program of sorts, perhaps obliterated, but
it still has the know-how, the capability to rebuild that. And of course, it now has
newfound leverage with the Strait of Hormuz and the ability it has had to cause havoc
with the world energy prices and the world energy market and world oil prices.
There were some, you know, some moments that stuck out to me.
He said that any enemy who facilitates money laundering on behalf of Iran will be removed
from the U.S.
money laundering is just normal trade relations with two foreign countries, two foreign countries
that we should have no connection to, that we have no say over conducting regular trade
is now a major issue, a major-
The system and the countries will have a finite timeline to shut down activities identified
by the Treasury.
hasn't gone into any specifics there, but it's clear, I think, that the Americans are really
truly running out of patience with Iran. They want to bring the country back to the negotiating
table, and in order to do that, they are now applying what they say is economic D-day
for the Iranians. It's worth saying that Mohammed Gallabafu is the speaker of the
Iranian parliament, a key figure within the administration, one of the most vocal
figures in terms of putting out reaction to whatever the Americans might do. He in the
last hour has put on social media, Americans know that no one buys their bombast. The United
States is not in an economic position to further restrict its relations with other countries.
Iran's trading partners, both in the media and through messages sent to us, have made
it clear that they don't take these statements into account anywhere. So that is the first
reaction we've had from part of the Iranian regime to this latest attempt by the Americans
to pull them into line.
Yeah, Mark, just a quick word on Canada, because the Canadians may have been watching that
from Scott Besson, thinking with friends like them who needs enemies, given the ongoing
enmity between them over here.
Yeah.
It's additionally stupid to reveal the sanctions package and claim that you're going to apply
secondary sanctions to countries that are doing normal trade with Iran in any way, shape,
or form.
A couple of days after you also supposedly had a trade deal with Canada that fell apart
because of the insane demands that you made in the last hour towards Canada to
which then turned into another tariff war with Canada, another one of our major trade
partners between Canada, Mexico and China. That's like 70% of American trade. Okay. It's
insane. Like 30% of that comes directly from China. And a large chunk of that, a large chunk
of the reservoir trade comes from Canada and Mexico. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
doesn't make any sense. I don't know where, I just don't know where this goes. Okay, I don't
know. I don't understand what the administration is trying to do with this. Normally, I could,
I would scratch the surface and like identify some kind of logical through line behind
the initiatives. But at this point, just kind of, it just unironically comes across
is like Donald Trump wildly posturing in this belligerent manner or directly trying to bankrupt
the country directly trying to destroy America. I don't know. Canada is starting to cut electricity
and minerals of the US. This is from the Associated Press. Canada threatens to cut off all electricity
and critical minerals to the US, including high grade nickel in uranium at the Canada
U.S. trade war worsens per the AP. Ontario Premier Doug Ford says, I'll cut him off. You
won't get a grain of sand out of Ontario's adding. What would they do without the high
grade nickel? Ontario Premier Doug Ford says everything is on the table, including power
to 1.5 million American homes in high grade nickel and uranium after Trump announced 50%
tariffs on Canadian autos, parts and steel starting next year and 50% tariffs on $20
dollars worth of Canadian goods Saturday. Could you have imagined a decade ago, oh I guess
a decade ago Trump came in the power, but like yeah a decade ago before Trump came into power
that we would one day, we would one day talk about you know a ongoing tariff war with Canada.
I know Doug I know the premiere of Ontario Doug Ford is just posturing
But could you ever imagine that a a a moment necessary of this kind of posture would ever come about I?
Certainly can't
It's unimaginable. I don't think they're gonna do it
But I'm just saying like the very fact that this conversation is taking place is completely fucking insane
We're desperately trying to find victory anywhere we possibly can, and in that moment of belligerence,
destroying what remains of our standing in the globe.
It's ridiculous. Today VP Vance said Canada and China are the two worst countries on trade
policy that's an opinion is right. But because they specifically complain about Canada's super
high dairy tariffs, which again only kick in above a quota, here are some interesting
World Trade Organization data via Trevor Tombe. 96.7% of US agricultural exports to Canada are
duty-free compared to 4.5% of U.S. agricultural exports to China.
The sheer number of lies from President Trump about Canada growing again today is remarkable,
some fact checks from the last 18 months. Daniel Dale, the number one fact checker from
Trump won, coming back. Trump falsely said today that Canada's unemployment rate is 10%
and rapidly rising, though it is 6.4% under the Canadian method that adds about a percentage
point and has been declining for three months. Trump falsely said today that Canada does
95% of his business with the US, though 72% of Canadian exports went to the US last year.
Trump falsely said today that high Canadian agricultural tariffs have caused the entire
US trade deficit with Canada, though that deficit is overwhelmingly caused by US imports
of cheap Canadian crude. And though something like 97% of US agricultural exports to, uh,
to Canada are tariff free. Like it's, it's upside down. Everything he's saying
about Canada is the exact opposite. Everything he says about everything is the exact
opposite of the truth. At this point, it sometimes feels like Donald Trump is just simply lying
because he's incapable of saying things that are truthful. Trump has falsely claimed Canada
generally doesn't take U.S. agricultural exports, though Canada is the world's second-biggest
buyer of those exports. Trump has falsely said that the Canadian public likes the
idea of becoming the 51st state, which the Canadian public overwhelmingly opposes.
Trump has falsely said Canada is one of the world's highest tariff countries, though
it is actually low in World Trade Organization rankings. Trump has falsely said Canada essentially
doesn't have a military, though its military is fought with the US in multiple wars and
its force size ranks in upper half of NATO. Trump has falsely said Canada hiked its dairy
tariffs during the Biden administration, though they hadn't changed since Trump's first presidency.
Trump has falsely said the US trade deficit with Canada is $200 billion, though it is
nowhere close. Trump has falsely said Canada prohibits U.S. banks, though it doesn't. And
though more than a dozen U.S. banks were operating in Canada at the time he spoke,
Trump has falsely said Canada is constantly surrounded by Chinese and Russian ships,
though that is fiction. Trump has falsely said then outgoing Prime Minister Trudeau was using
their trade battle to run against a run again for Prime Minister, though Trudeau
obviously wasn't running, he literally fucking dropped out.
Everything he's saying is a complete lie, okay?
Trump on Doug Ford?
Trump says, lots of bluster from Doug Ford,
who is the premier of the Canadian province of Ontario,
but who is better known for the less charismatic,
intelligent, overall unimpressive brother
of the late great Rob Ford. Oh my God. He hit the Rob Ford is much better than you line,
which is, I mean, I guess he's not wrong. God, I, I hope that our Canadian comrades are standing
strong in opposition to the American menace. I apologize on behalf of all Americans. I apologize
on behalf of the American government, I'm sorry that this is happening.
Hopefully we will be able to overcome these problems of the current administration and
change the American trajectory for the better.
We're working on it even though, you know, there's a tremendous amount of resistance
our own elected representatives trading arrangements. And of course,
there's a question asked by one of our colleagues there, Scott Besson, of that very thing.
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, it is another issue altogether, although clearly it's wrapped up in Scott Besson's
remit and that is the trade war, full trade war that is now on with Canada. Tip for tat,
we saw over the weekend some strong language by Mark Carney, the Canadian Prime Minister,
in reaction to Trump's latest moves.
And Mark Carney is saying that so often
the American signatures are signed in pencil.
In other words, what are they actually worth?
And I think on that, the Iranians might agree.
And I think that's the challenge
that the Americans have got,
that the Donald Trump has got right now,
is that he can send out his Treasury Secretary
to make the pronouncements we've just heard.
But to what extent can he actually follow through?
to what extent will he back up the words with actions? We will see both on the trade war
with Canada, which threatens to be really quite unpleasant for both countries, and also
the real war with the Iranians.
In Tehran today, pensioners from the state telecom company were protesting about the
the cost of living, which is spiralling.
And in the oil-rich province of Khusistan in the south, the same complaint.
Our kitchen tables are empty, says this man, as annual inflation runs at over 100%, ruling
out any idea of a comfortable retirement.
Here, the owner of a garage, we don't know where, takes his own risks by daring to speak
out.
He's complaining about the cost of replacing the brake lights on a car.
To hell with incompetent useless officials, he says.
I don't even know what else to say.
In Tehran, a giant poster shows Donald Trump sinking beneath the waves after almost six
months of war, though it's millions of Iranians who are struggling with the very opposite of
Nirvana.
This morning, the Riyal plunged to its lowest level against the dollar since the Revolution
of 1979 amid what the US government openly describes as an attempt to collapse the
Islamic Republic with the toughest sanctions in history. Earlier this year, thousands were
killed in what began as economic protests against the regime. Yet, as the situation worsens,
Iranians are finding their voices once again.
This depreciating real is shrinking people's kitchen tables. They say it has no impact. But
how is that even possible? We are feeling the effects with every fibre of our being.
Some basic foods are subsidized with government coupons sent to low-income households, but
inflation is so rampant that there's a growing mismatch between what is available in the
shops and what many Iranians can actually afford.
An Iranian documentary filmmaker sent us this video of his family's fridge.
It's seen better days, he says. This is the reality for Iranian families, a reality which
is beginning to temper the government's usual bravado about winning this war.
People should know that the authorities understand the hardships they are facing. I believe
we need to speak honestly and openly with people. American pressure cannot continue indefinitely,
And I can say with confidence that they need this situation to end more than we do.
Yet while Americans face high petrol prices, Iranians are enduring more sanctions, more
economic isolation.
And the Trump administration hopes that a rising level of public anger will force the
regime to negotiate.
Now Donald Trump has accused Canada of ripping off the United States for years and threatened
more 50% tariffs on imported vehicles, car parts and steel starting next year. Trade negotiations
between the two countries broke down last week, and tonight Canada's Prime Minister
Mark Carney said there had been progress, but the momentum reversed. That's a NATO ally.
But in the last hour, the US Treasury Secretary has announced an economic onslaught against
Iran and its financial networks. Our US editor, Anushka Astana, joins us from
Washington, Manuska.
Thank you. Yeah, I've just come here from the US Treasury.
So let me start with Iran.
Scott Besant basically announced what he called Operation Economic Outcast,
in which he promised to really hit Iran hard.
Now, it sounds pretty familiar to the journalists who were in the room,
because back in April, they turned to the economic sanctions for the first time
and they said they were going to have Operation Economic Fury.
They said that was going to be maximum pressure on Iran,
but as you will have noticed,
Iran has still not capitulated.
It is still trying to use that chokehold
in the Strait of Hormuz.
So that's why we're getting this.
And the reason it's called Outcast
is that it's all about isolating Iran.
It's all about targeting the other countries
that do business with Iran,
threatening them with secondary sanctions
if they don't break off those ties.
Now, at one point, Scott Besson
compared to this to D-Day during the Second World War, but he was pointed out to that D-Day was
action then, not the threat of action. And so someone asked him, why aren't you putting these
sanctions in place now? Why would I want to blow up the global financial system? We believe that
it is important to level-set and give people a cure period, but they should know that that
That will move very quickly and that we are serious.
The reason we are able to use secondary sanctions is because we do not take their use lightly.
So we believe that a warning shot and a level set of expectations is appropriate.
So the language is very, very strong.
He's admitting that secondary sanctions could blow up the global financial system.
Well, you can read into that that the US doesn't want to use them.
It's hoping that the warning shot might be enough.
It points to the UAE, for example, breaking ties with Iran.
But are other allies going to do that?
Is Pakistan really going to do that?
And most of all is China.
China have said in recent days that it doesn't believe sanctions will work
and that it won't be bullied.
This, while the trade war with Canada is intensifying.
Yeah, things are very, very spiky when it comes to the Canadian-U.S. relationship this
weekend. As you'll know, there were 50% tariffs put on $20 billion worth of exports. Mark
Carney came out and said, enough is enough, we're not having this. Now there has been
a response today from Donald Trump threatening more tariffs on cars in January. He's gone
to True Social to say that. Well, we've heard today from Mark Carney and also Scott
best and address this in the Treasury just now. Have a listen to what they said.
The goal of our trade negotiations with the United States has always been to get the best
deal for Canadians, never a deal at any price or on any time frame. We did make some progress
in recent weeks. In the end, that momentum reversed and we could not accept what the
US had offered, nor could we give what they asked.
Minister Carney, Carney rose to power on an anti-American anti-Trump platform, I believe
is more than 20 points behind. And you know, he seems to have gone back to his old playbook.
And I think one has to ask one self, is he trying to benefit himself, the liberal party
or the Canadian people? By the way,
They're trying to get you gone on Fox News. Yeah, I know. I know. We'll get to that later. Yes, the
goal here is twofold. One is to divide the base. One goal is to divide the base. One goal is to
punish anyone who dares speaks out against Israel. But then the other goal is to get
someone who's crazy enough that watches Fox News to fucking kill me. Okay? It's
Tiller-Tiller the baby killer all over again. I know. It's the
Bomet stochastic terrorism. I know guys, I'm aware of it. I'm familiar with what's
happening. And I just, I think, I think it's, it's so sad. It's sad that there are, unfortunately,
many prominent establishment Democrats who are leaning into it as well.
a sad state of affairs. Again, we have a crisis in illiteracy. We have a crisis in truth.
We have a crisis in having no consensus reality. And the Republicans have designed this media
environment, and now they're taking advantage of it.
In many respects, the last decade of smears that we have withstood in this community have
made us perhaps the perfect community to withstand this barrage of heinous smears.
This was never going to be easy. It was never going to be a cakewalk. It is what it is.
I don't know what else to say.
I was a Trump guy and you saved me from the alt-right pipeline eight years ago.
Thank you, Hasan.
Yep.
These smears are light work compared to the post-October 7th smears.
Man, don't sweat it.
It doesn't matter.
becoming more sophisticated.
Getting more sophisticated than that.
Look, our enemies are never gonna be.
But the fact that you never sued before has led to the scotch and he's playing that table
lies he might go down for it that'd be sick, yeah.
Look man, all I'm saying is, I will make a promise to you that I will, I will be unbowed
And I will always say the truth.
I will always tell you what I think.
I will always say the truth.
I will always seek truths from facts.
OK?
That's it.
Paul blessed at an interesting take on this as well,
because Trey Easton came out.
I want to build a wind desperately.
But the most predictable thing in the world
Piker would inevitably become a serious liability in the general election if you care about Abdul's
campaign succeeding you should want him to distance himself from Piker clearly and directly.
It sucks because people are still carrying out their, oh I actually want you to win
and here's how you can win from people who have stood in opposition to his victory
and are still not so subtly doing it.
But Paul, bless at a good take on this, I don't know how many more times we're gonna
have to do some version of Tony Hinchcliffe just swung the Latino vote against Donald Trump
before DC people get it through their heads that the media voter has no idea what you're
talking about.
I mean this is worse than the Tony Hinchcliffe thing though.
I'm getting, Democrats have spent most of their time on Piker without a context
of spending the vast sums of money to make him toxic and now lament that he may be a liability.
So was Zoran also wrong in this thing himself? Pikers and internet provocatories,
bread and butter, saying things that provoke. I'm not knocking the game with the choice to
elevate and embrace him was not the establishment or centrist. I wish folks would stop being obtuse
about this. Jeremy Moss is playing his role in the play constructed by the
the GOP. Yeah. There's no room for extremism in Michigan. My statement says Jeremy Moss.
Since the primary election, Abdul and I have been in continual dialogue in our shared fight
against mag extremism. We have also talked about Jewish and Arab safety and security
both here at home in Michigan and the Middle East coexistence amongst all of our communities
is central for the future prosperity of all Michiganders. These important conversations
do not fit neatly in the confines of a Twitter reel like so many want them to.
I'm grateful that Abdul and I are having them. There's still work ahead. I just
to understand like he's just still refusing to endorse Abdul El Sayed.
There's still work ahead. The United ticket to spider differences.
It won't happen overnight, nor should it.
It will require continuing outreach.
It is credible and authentic, but provocateurs are exploiting this moment
to create further divisions.
I will not be lectured by California podcast or about what Oakland County
Michigan's Jewish community should and shouldn't believe.
And we certainly won't be gassed that we're responsible for anti-semitic
harm against us.
The attempted murder of Jewish children in the West Bloomfield has
no justification.
I've never justified it, oh my fucking god, it's a literally
I like that every single new statement adds on a different thing, you know what I mean?
Like by the end of this media cycle, they're just gonna be like Hassan did 9-11
And if you don't believe that, if you don't agree with that, you're anti-Semitic, you know what I mean?
It's unbelievable. It's un-fucking-believable. Stop saying sussu. I can't sue every single person, okay?
I mean, it's not unbelievable. It makes sense. You become a prominent threat to APEC. You become
a prominent threat to Israel's ambitions in American politics. Yes, people are going to
aggressively prosecute that people aren't going to aggressively attack you.
We whiffed not boosting Aisha, she got close with no money or attention but in 20 she needs
the priority campaign. Wait, what? We whiffed, not boosting Aisha. Dog, what are you talking
about? We did boost her and she won. Oh, you're talking about Faruki. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh,
you're talking about, I thought you were talking about Aisha. Well, I was like, what?
She literally did boost her and she did defeat APEC in spite of the $6 million they put into
that race in a matter of 17 days historic amounts.
I'm sorry.
Hassan Azman is bagged be mad, ho?
Yeah, I don't really care about that man.
I'mma be honest.
But you know, I hope you're...
I hope one day you're capable of just watching Azman Gold without turning it into like
How will this piss off us on?
Remember you got people like my now husband in this community almost a decade ago.
He introduced me to your content when we first met in 2020.
Now that we're married, we've been able to bring in my parents as fans of yours
and they're coming up on coming up to speed on social policies and media literacy.
Your work is reaching us. Yeah.
Yeah.
No disrespect, you had to put out your own press releases, no disrespect, but a tweet isn't
enough to combat the shit a media-ready response has to be made to boost smears like this happen.
Guys, I don't think you understand.
I'm a media platform.
The statements that I'm releasing on here are press releases.
Okay, and also you have no idea what I'm doing behind the scenes as far as like responding to journalists and shit like that
You also don't recognize that there are a lot of outlets that are deliberately refusing to show my side of things and speak over what I'm saying
bastardizing the message deliberately by design
And that's what the problem is you think I love that you guys are trying to offer constructive
feedback and criticism because you think like there's a better way to do things and I haven't
recognized it but I promise you one I'm a media demon to I have extensive relationships with
a journalist in virtually every newsroom in this goddamn country okay and there's still a level
of editorial control that overcomes those personal relationships. That's number one.
And number two, there is a very deliberate attempt here. There's a very deliberate,
very coordinated, very sophisticated attempt to engage in one of the most comprehensive
smear campaigns I've ever interpreted, looked at, covered as a person who does media criticism
as a part of his job for the last 13 years.
I can't think of another close comparison to this. I'm going to be honest.
Hassan Piker is not the reason there's a Democrats for Mike Rogers account,
or that Rogers is spending a ton of time in traditionally solid Democratic
areas. Stevens won. He would be running almost the exact same campaign if his
his opponent was Keith Ellison or Andre Carson, yeah.
And it's so funny because people almost like lose sight of how Republicans operate for some
strange reason, like this is how they work, this is what they're doing to me, is exactly
what they're doing to Abdul regardless, and what they would continue doing to Abdul regardless.
that brian griffin account literally just admitting it
i created a news cycle yeah
this is who they're getting their notes from
democratic party leaders in big names of spent more time over the past few weeks
joining fox and obsessively attack in a twist rumor than actually attacking
republicans e.g. mike rogers' allies
posted insurrectionists and Islamophobe Jake Lang any condemnations
like i think for the most part they're trying to isolate
big Zionist donors and and big uh...
the
sophisticated smear operation they don't want to have it uh... come after
them in some ways
But it just doesn't matter.
Sompiker isn't a liability for Democratic candidates.
These daily condemnations are their attempt to make him a liability to repeat it enough
until it becomes conventional political wisdom.
That's how propaganda works.
Repeat it until it becomes a reality in the mind.
It is what it is boys, it is what it fucking is, no matter what, you know?
This is how it works.
Yeah, Mike Rogers meanwhile is attending 3APAC hosted fundraisers in Los Angeles on Sunday
and another one is planned today.
We'll keep pushing. We'll push through it. And you also have an important role in this
as well. I am nothing without my community. I'm nothing without you guys. You guys can
correct the record. And I hope you will continue doing so.
Mike Rogers was just found picture with their anti-Semitic grouper on his campaign team
in Calvary, Juzabee, North Korea celebrated the assassination of MLK and said women
do not belong in politics. Democrats instead of focusing on this, instead of focusing on
this shit, Democrats are also leaning into the Republican smears to take care of an anti-Zionist
in their ranks.
If what we were doing did not have any real impact, there would not be this level of enmity
from corporate news, corporate media. You're getting Corbett? Yeah. But the Corbett situation
happened in a very different media environment, a very different political environment in
in a very different country. Okay? That's the difference. That's the problem. I think
your CNN piece hit a main nerve because of a consolidated media attack. Yeah.
Now inside the White House, Donald Trump is still going on through social. He's saying
that Canada needs the US, the US does not need Canada.
But in truth, Canada is very important for the US economy.
And in truth, Iran has been very effective
in harming the US economy, as well as the global economy,
when it comes to the Strait of Hormuz,
which is a big headache for the president here.
Thanks a lot.
Well, I'm joined now by Mohamed Mirandi,
a professor at Tehran University.
He is the former advisor to Iran's nuclear negotiating
team and close to the authorities there.
Well, we heard Scott Besson threatening an economic D-day,
and then he said, well, I don't actually
want to blow up the global financial system.
What do you think the Iranian government will
make of his threat?
Well, first of all, which authorities
am I close to exactly?
What does that mean?
When you speak to professors at British universities,
do you say that they're close to authorities,
or is that for me, because I'm Iranian because I'm
I know that you are influential and you are close to the Iranian government and you've
been part of the nuclear negotiating team.
You know, you were in Beirut, you went to Pakistan when the negotiations happened.
You are close to the authorities.
That's why we speak to you because you know what's going on.
So tell me what you think about make of it.
You're using that as propaganda.
No, I'm not.
I'm using it to spread it to me.
No, I'm doing the opposite.
I'm doing the opposite actually.
You're not letting me talk.
I was not there on behalf of the government.
I was there on behalf of my own party.
I'm actually trying to say you know what's going on in Iran because you are close to
people in power.
I'm actually doing the opposite of discrediting you.
So I'm asking you, what do you think they would say?
I'm an academic at the University of Tehran and I do not have any government position
and if you want you can invite someone else.
And then going back to your propaganda piece, you said the Iranians, you're in your propaganda
piece, you said the Iranian regime, the American Trump administration, and you show people protesting
and then you said people are finding their voices.
But you don't recall apparently that millions of people went to the streets just recently
for the funeral of Ayatollah harmony, millions were protesting the attacks on the elementary
And we've showed those pictures, and we have reported that as well, but it's clear that
some people are struggling and some people are not happy about it as well.
But it's because the United States is carrying out crimes against humanity.
They bombed the country, they bombed hospitals, schools, they bombed apartment blocks, and
they imposed sanctions to strangle ordinary people.
The objective is to strangle these people.
We've trained about all of that in the past.
I want to talk to you about these economic sanctions.
That's not what your propaganda piece said.
Let's put that to one side.
I'm asking you about this American threat.
Do you think it's credible?
Will it scare anyone in the Iranian government?
And do you think it can be enacted?
No, it's not going to scare anyone in the Iranian government.
It's not going to scare the bulk of the Iranian people who
works very hard to defeat this war of aggressions.
And Iran will tolerate or Iran will
be forced to accept the pain
in order to defeat the United States.
And that's what has happened so far.
The United States has carried out war against our people.
It has massacred children in schools.
It has massacred girls playing basketball in La Mer,
in the in the car and in La Mer and of course your government never condemned the United
States and your journalists don't condemn the United States.
But Iran will persevere because Iran knows that this is an unjust war and the sin of
the Iranian people is that they oppose genocide or for the we already have D-Day wasn't
D-Day the first day of the war against Iran.
All right. We're moving on from this for the time being because I have a guest that I am going to be talking to right now.
Okay. We're doing a first ever. There was a press release on it as well.
You guys, I talked about this already. You gov and I am EU conducted a poll.
Okay. Hold on. Where's my interview?
One second, one second, one second, where is it?
Yeah, Hamid Bendos is going to be on the broadcast. Okay.
One second. I'm like, I'm switching some stuff around here.
I am EU.
coms director.
Okay.
And then I'm going to get on the zoom call real quick.
Okay. Okay. Joining.
All right.
One second. Hamid, welcome to the broadcast. I am going to put you on screen right now. Okay.
And then make sure that you're sized correctly because we're doing live production right now. Okay.
All right. Can you hear me, by the way? Can you hear me well?
you great. Can you hear me? All right. I can hear you as well. Perfect. Hamid Ben Das, everybody.
Am I saying your last name correctly before we get started? Okay. All right. Hamid is the
comms director for the IMEU. And we have a very unique opportunity here today.
We are going to be launching and releasing to the public a new poll that was conducted
with IMEU and Ugov and you're going to go through the details and some of these numbers.
I believe that there was already some of the top line information was unfortunately leaked
early, if I'm not mistaken, but there's a lot more information in there and I'm very excited
to hear about everything, all of your findings.
Do you know how to, like, can you do a presentation
on Zoom as well if you want to show us all the numbers,
or do you want me to do it?
If you can do it, that might be a little bit easier,
but I'm happy to, whatever you prefer.
Well, you sharing your screen might be a little bit better.
Okay.
Oh, I didn't realize that we were...
Let me do it.
Okay.
If it's enough.
No, I'm not allowed to share my screen, unfortunately.
Okay, you're not allowed to share your screen.
Okay, you know what?
I'm going to pull the poll.
Hold on really quickly.
Okay, I'll pull it up.
Hold on.
Let's see if I can figure out a way to do this.
All right. I'm going to pull it up here and then it's okay. Let's do it like this. Okay.
I don't know. I mean, you won't be able to see it, but I'm showing the full poll. New
new polls, Democrats demand 2028 presidential nominee back arms embargo and sanctions on
Israel.
Let's, you know, we'll, I'll share it with you as well so you can see what I'm seeing,
I guess.
Wait, oh, no, host is not allowing.
Okay.
So you're going to have to, you're going to have to go through it and tell me what
to, what to click on.
I mean, sorry.
No problem.
I will pull up the same page and I will give a quick background to just kind of
is inspiring us to do this poll now. I mean 2028 speculation begins basically you know at the end
of 2024 but what we had happened recently is the Democratic National Committee had its August
meeting where it formally adopted a new calendar for 2028. I don't know if your audience is fully
aware of that information but we have a new calendar that's going to be unlike the previous
competitive primaries that people are probably familiar with, where Iowa went first in 2016-2020,
the new calendar is going to be actually that South Carolina goes first and that's going to be
followed by Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, which is entirely new, was being an early state,
Michigan also a new early state, and then Virginia. So these six states will all vote
first and then you'll have Super Tuesday and a lot of states voting right after that.
But this is an entirely new calendar.
It was just adopted on August 14th, officially.
And kind of in preparation for this,
and in a couple months, frankly,
like right after the November midterms,
a lot of folks are gonna start announcing
their intention to run for president.
We can probably guess a few candidates already,
but we'll have an official list
probably by the end of the year
and going into next year.
And what we wanted to show is something
that I think is pretty clear
for everyone who's been following the 2026 midterms,
which is that the 2028 race in many ways is going to hinge on how do these candidates react
and listen to and abide by what voters are demanding around Israel. I think especially,
you know, we've had members of Congress, their elections very much influenced by this question,
candidates for Senate, Mayor Mandani running for, you know, Mayor of New York,
his race very much changed on this question. For presidents, an entirely different game,
right because the president actually has in our system almost unchecked authority to
decide where weapons go, where weapons don't go, to sanction other countries. I mean,
President Trump is announcing all these sanctions today. We're seeing him do all of this. And so
we were very excited to follow up on a lot of footballing that we've done
nationally and in a lot of districts around the country, a lot of states around the country
and really hone in on, okay, if you're a likely Democratic primary voter in 2028,
What do you want your presidential nominee to do around US policy toward Israel?
And how much will this one affect your votes?
And the results, frankly, are not surprising, but they will be authoritative, I think,
for the folks who we constantly hear say the Democratic Party should not go in this direction,
who continue to push back and kind of put their heads in the sand about what's going on here.
I'll just run off with kind of the big number.
you know, how do these folks feel about whether Israel is committing a genocide?
Michigan just had a primary, you know, 80% say yes, Israel is committing a genocide.
In New Mexico, it's 76%. In New Hampshire, it's 78%. In Nevada, it's 78%. In Virginia, it's 72%.
The drop off we see is in South Carolina. It goes down to 57%, but this is not because
because folks are saying, yes, I, or no, I don't believe Israel's community genocide.
They just default a little bit more to a don't know position.
Really what we see in all of these states on this question is Israel committing genocide
against Palestinians.
No more than about 5% in each state say no.
It's either a flat yes or a don't know for 95% of the voters who are likely to
shun out in these primary race.
And we see this kind of overwhelming response also for questions around should we sanction
Israel. Should we cut off all weapons to Israel? South Carolina, should the U.S. nation Israel
has a 49% yes answer and only 16% no? Right. That's incredible. That if this is one of the more
conservative states that we're talking about, more conservative, or at least the estimation
is that this is a more conservative electorate. You're right. And I mean, there's definitely
work to do there, I would say that if I were a progressive candidate thinking about my game plan,
I would say, hey, that's a state where there's a lot of persuadable voters to come in my direction.
Because they're so far not saying, no Israel or not coming to each other's side. Yes, I want to
send weapons to Israel. Again, only 4% say yes to either of those things. But they are
defaulting to don't know. I think that means there's a lot of voters to still persuade,
a lot of voters to reach and talk to. And that's going to be some work that, you know, I think
the progressive movement, the movement for Palestinian rights will have to do ahead of
that critical first date. But then we see, you know, right after that, again, almost, it feels
like, you know, I don't want to use the word unanimous, but just overwhelming, overwhelming
numbers where, you know, people talk about 80-20 issues. This is a 90-10 issue, or a 95-5
issue. Yeah, it is. And yet you still have, you know, just to keep naming it, you still have
folks who say there's kind of a balancing act that Democrats should play. Certainly not in the
Democratic primary. I think we're also seeing, you know, the news from Mike Rogers a few days
ago where he doesn't want APEC to spend on his behalf in Michigan. I think, you know,
we've done polling of Republicans. What we see is that younger Republicans are also moving
in this direction. There was a New York Times poll a few months ago that found that 63% of
Republicans aged 45 and younger say we should stop sending all aid to Israel. 63%. That's actually
not that far away from where these Democratic voters are. It's just a little bit behind. Older
Republicans is a different story, but when you're talking about a general election, you just
want to peel off some of the other party's voters. Independence as well. We've pulled Michigan
plenty of times when we say that independents are kind of where the Democrats are overwhelmingly
Israel's committing genocide stop using my tax dollars to pay for bombs to Israel.
And so we wanted to really get this information out, you know, again, soon after that this calendar
was adopted, we want to make sure that the people running for president, the people who are going
to say, hey, I should be the person who after a really stinging brutal loss in 2024,
where we lost every single swing state and young people did not turn out to vote is a big reason
why and people in very blue pockets like big cities in these swing states, people in color
zones in these swing states did not turn out to vote. How are we going to reverse that? We all
know that part of it is going to be getting people to actually want to vote for you and part
of it is what would be like do I listen to my voters on on speaking clearly about what we're
all seeing and I think that's maybe one point to return to us. The reasons that you're seeing
these overwhelming numbers is because everyone is seeing Israel do the exact same thing. Everyone
is seeing the Israeli government leaders gloat about how many Palestinians they want to kill
or move out of their homes. They're seeing them get away with that with no consequence whatsoever
and they're seeing our government frankly do cartwheels over and over again to keep it going
even though it's costing us money and even though money is not being spent in the ways that people
wanted to be spent here. And so if you're a Democratic candidate saying I want to be both
the next leader of the party and the next president, you have to be able to say not just,
hey, let's end the weapons funding to Israel, but we're going to hold Israel accountable for
what is clearly a genocide. That's what Democratic primary voters are saying,
in each of these first six states. There's no state that running on that platform of
policies of I'm going to sanction Israel, I'm going to cut off all weapons to Israel,
I'm going to put an arms embargo on Israel will hurt you in a democratic primary if you
are running for president in the first six states to vote. The numbers are overwhelming.
It cannot be denied. The people who are, I'll just name some will say Nira Tandon or
representative Josh Gottheimer who say no Israel's not committing a genocide. Yes,
we should keep sending weapons. The pro-Palestinian movement is fringe or whatever, they're fringe.
And they're giving Democrats bad advice and they're actually putting Democrats into a nosedive
in the same way that we won the one next week. Yeah, I think they understand that it's bad advice.
I think that at this point they're more invested in protecting their comfortable
scenicures or they're more invested in protecting this allegiance between themselves and Israel,
whether it's because they're getting a lot of APAC money, whether it's like personal
sympathies, I can't tell. But ultimately, I think there is this understanding that this issue has
become untenable. And there are some who I think are looking for more sophisticated ways of continuing
this relationship. But then there are others who are very aggressively posturing against those who
speak out against this relationship. And they're not even shying away from leading into
Republican smears as well as we've seen. One thing that I want to stress here also is the
fact that this was already, according to polls, even back in 2024, a very glaringly obvious
issue that was motivating voters and was causing voters to stay at home, as you also pointed to.
This is 2026, where this polling is being conducted. And it's not like Israel is going
to become a more popular entity overnight going forward, especially considering that
its lack of accountability is what's leading it to behave in more arrogant ways, more violent ways,
more belligerent ways in the region, and that's actually contributing to its unpopularity. So
if the numbers look like this right now in 2026, I mean, by 2028, we're going to be looking at a
very different reality overall. Absolutely. I mean, I think there's almost like two ideas
that I don't want to say are in conflict. They're in tandem. One is this has kind of been
the Democratic Party reality for two years. We've been doing this polling of Democrats since August
of 2024. We tried to get the Harris campaign to look at it because we polled Pennsylvania and
Arizona and some other swing states and we saw very clearly that there were people who were
actually saying in the poll, I'm thinking of sitting this election out unless Kamala Harris says
we should restrict weapons to Israel. It was actually overwhelming in states like Pennsylvania
that voters would say that. They did not listen, but the polling has been there. I would say it is
moving more extremely in the direction of this is undeniable. It was already undeniable, but this is
just really a different level. I can point to a national poll we did of Democratic primary voters,
also conducted by Yuga about a year ago, September 2025. And we asked people, would you
prefer a president who had previously supported cutting off weapons or a president who had
previously supported, you know, voting to provide weapons to Israel. And it was about 70-10.
And so 70-10, 70% saying I prefer someone who cuts off weapons, 10% say I would prefer
someone who provides weapons, and then the rest are unsure. In these states, it's more
like 75-5 or like 85-15, you know? It's just moved even more in that direction. And I think
what we're also seeing that's really interesting in this data is not just this is how voters
feel, but they act. We also ask these questions of, will this affect your vote? So it's not
just like, do you support sanctions on Israel? The answer is yes. Do you support an arms
embargo? The answer is yes. Do you? Is this going to factor into how you vote?
And so we ask the question, to try to get the perfect number, we ask, will US foreign
policy toward Israel play a role in your vote?
A certain percent of those people say yes.
Then we ask those folks, okay, you said US foreign policy toward Israel will factor into
your vote.
Do you support reducing support?
Do you support maintaining support at the current amount?
Or do you support increasing support?
Or do you want to increase support to Israel?
I don't have the exact numbers in front of me, but they'll be on our website
here.
The people who say that they want to increase support to Israel and it will factor into the vote is
Basically, no people. I think it's probably 1% in each of these states
You might have them like 3% say that they want to maintain it at the current level
Again, not very many and then if it's and then reduce support, I do have those numbers in front of me
So total like the people who say that reducing support to Israel is going to be a factor in their vote for 2028
Michigan, 65% of the voters. New Hampshire, 63% of all voters. Nevada, 61% of all these
voters say this will play a role in their vote. When we ask, even like, is this a top three issue
for you? We see it in state after state. We see that the number one and number two issues
are the economy and healthcare. And then right below that level, the second tier is the
environments and reducing support for Israel. Those are what people repeatedly
point to as these are my top issues and we include other things in there like
immigration, crime and public safety, those are further down. It's in a state
after state the same order economic issues first, then the environment and
policy towards Israel which is also in some ways economic and I think plays
into voters like anxiety over why is so much money going to be sent to
commit a genocide that I am horrified by and when I can't afford anything and prices keep
going up and I'm almost prices are going up because my government is so supportive of Israel
when you think about the Iran War. So we're not just saying that like voters agree with this,
please be nice Democratic candidates. We're saying voters think this way about sanctions on
Israel. They're going to vote this way. This is a reason this is how they're going to decide
how they vote. So you should listen if you want to win. Yeah. That's kind of what we're
putting out here. If you want to win the 2028 nomination, your best shot is to do what these
voters are telling you to do. So this is, you know, focusing on the initial states for
2028, but obviously there's a lot of very important information here as it pertains to the current
primaries that are taking place. I want to dive into the Michigan numbers a little bit,
especially considering that this is, at least in the media, been presented as a divisive issue.
I love when the media says something is divisive, like they used to do about abortion, right?
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Hamid Ben-Daz, everybody, sorry about that.
It's just there's a persistent issue that keeps taking place.
Hopefully, my computer doesn't shut off one more time.
And we can get through these numbers together.
Because the last thing I left you off with
was the numbers in Michigan.
We were talking about how there has been an active and
deliberate attempt to make it seem like there is a real division amongst voters leading up
to the Michigan primary, I mean in the aftermath of the Michigan primary as well, as Abdelall
said, won over $70 million of outside expenditures, $34 million coming directly from APAC against
Haley Stevens. And there's still a concerted effort to make it seem like this is a divisive
issue for Michiganders. And I wanted to hear your perspective on what these numbers that
we're looking at in front of us right now in Michigan, what that means for the November
election by your estimation.
Yeah. So, I mean, when people talk about this big a divisive issue, I think, you
know, folks like Adam Johnson have really called this out really well, where this
This is a divisive issue between – it's something that divides the Democratic Party
voter base from its leadership.
It's no more a divisive issue between the Democratic coalition itself than you would
say legalizing marijuana or opposing abortion bans or legalizing gay marriage or banning
automatic rifles without background checks are divisive issues within the Democratic
coalition.
There's almost no dissent on we should be more supportive of Israel.
We should maintain support for Israel among the voter base.
You see that in these Michigan numbers.
I can pull really any that I would want to out of here.
In the next presidential primary election, would you prefer to support a candidate who
supports providing weapons to Israel?
That's 5%.
A candidate who supports cutting off weapons to Israel, that's 75%.
So that's number question number 12.
To the question of what this means for November, I mean, again, when you look
that what happened in 2024. And I did a lot of, you know, work for IMU policy project
actually on this question of, you know, who are the voters and what happened in 2024?
We pulled this question. We found that people who had voted for Biden in 2020 and that did
not turn out for Harris in 2020 were unvoted elsewhere, said that their number one reason
about a third of these voters, the number one reason was they wanted to end Israel's
violence in Gaza and that is what kept them from voting for Kamala Harris.
So when you talk about how to win Michigan in 2026, you need some of those voters who
sat out 2024 in theory to come back.
And so that's why you need a candidate and we honestly didn't almost didn't get a candidate,
right?
Because APAC spent $32 million and other outside groups went to another $30 million
in toward of someone like Haley Stevens who would have repeated that mistake.
And there would have been, again, we'll never know, obviously, as a counterfactual, but
I would have assumed that if the Paley Siemens was the nominee, we would have seen a similar
drop-off in support from voters in places like Ann Arbor and Grain Rapids and these
places that have a lot of young voters in Wayne County.
So hopefully what we're going to see in November is that there's going to be a
very excited Democratic base.
It will turn out people who didn't come out in 2024, it'll turn out young people
who maybe have never voted in their entire lives before.
And it's also going to hopefully turn over some independents who honestly, there's a
small slice of people who really do like they vote one way in the election and vote another
way in a different election.
And that will help.
This is an issue that they actually do when you poll them say, I agree with the democratic
base.
I don't think we should, my taxes should go to Israel.
I'm struggling to afford my health care.
I'm struggling to afford my rent.
Why is my government spending billions of dollars over there unconditionally when they're
not helping me?
And honestly, there's a lot of Republican, you know, at least Republican leaning independence
on some young Republicans who will say the same thing.
So let's try to get those voters.
That's probably the easier path to win Michigan than whatever we would try to do where we're
trying to like win suburban Republicans who have voted Republican all their lives.
Yeah.
It's really.
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busted. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's ever since a new graphics card was put in the computer.
It's just been constantly just turning off on its own. Amidio, we're back. Sorry about
I just I don't know what's happening and I'm so sorry that it keeps breaking over and over again
hopefully it'll be fine. We're just trying to we're just trying to get as much information out of
you as possible and I don't know this is a this is a totally new and unique issue unfortunately.
Okay, let's continue. Where were we last?
Well, we were talking about the paths to winning Michigan. Yeah.
And yeah, I mean, there really are two paths. I think in 2024, Democrats made a bet and,
you know, again, I've done so much of this research. There was a story in
in May 2024 in Politico, where Joe Biden's campaign team
was telling Politico that they were seeing a drop
in support in Michigan in particular.
And the quote is that they were looking to stitch together
a new coalition, which basically means they saw
that they were losing young voters,
probably in places like Ann Arbor and Grand Rapids.
They were losing potentially Muslim voters,
Arab voters in places like Dearborn.
And they said, okay, we're gonna actually bet
that we can lose those voters and get voters elsewhere.
And we're gonna keep funneling money to Israel
while 200 Palestinians are being killed every day.
And we're all having to watch it on a nonstop daily live.
That was the bet that they made.
And we learned in November that the bet
didn't come together.
They weren't able to sit together
in a winning coalition.
What I would say, the takeaway from that obviously is
that there's a different way to win
that hasn't really been tested before
in this weak state like Michigan,
especially for a presidential election,
but, you know, part on the table,
I used to work for Bernie Sanders in 2020.
And I really believe that the path is to energize your base
to speak about, you know,
the real anxiety and pain that people feel
and the real grievance they feel
when they see that their government
is so easily green lights, $3 billion
to a nation like Israel,
almost like without question like you're not even supposed to ask a question about that and then if
someone says like hey can I get a little bit of help you know paying my rent or you're going to see
a doctor you know you just repeatedly met with a well that's complicated and there's not enough
money and I think voters are tired of hearing and I don't and I think that's across the political
spectrum especially young people yeah anyone under the age of 45 or did we've just been dealing with
with really like this, what feels like a slump
where our country is so, so invested in endless war,
as people say, it really is, like it's been our whole lives.
And it's not slowing down.
Today feels like a day of that too.
Or like, I'm watching my treasury secretary go on TV
and talk about how he's fighting this huge D-day.
And it's like, okay, and gas is $5.
and I don't have any savings.
And I don't know what I'm gonna,
how I'm gonna achieve any of the things
that I wanted to achieve in my life.
That's how a lot of people feel.
And it's really, again, the contrast with,
if Israel asks for an F-15, they get one.
That's just crazy to see.
Yeah, I think that's been a fairly reliable way
to catch people's attention on foreign policy in general,
because for the longest time,
foreign policy was always seen as like a totally separate thing from domestic issues from domestic policy.
And I think that's how a lot of Americans have found themselves not caring about how much money is being spent on the military or, or what the, what the actions of the American military look like overseas.
It's always been something that's happening over there with no impact on our daily lives.
But nowadays, I think, especially with the involvement of pro-Israel propagandists in mainstream media, the constant demands of firing people who are prominent critics of Israel.
Well, this argument is actually connected for a lot of people in realizing that the domestic
and foreign policy are inseparable from one another and that every dollar being spent
in advancing Israel's interest in the region or every dollar being spent directly towards
Israel as it continues its belligerence in the region is a dollar that could be spent
here, you know, fixing the potholes here, spent on schools here. And I think that is
an argument that no one in a position of power in D.C. wants to reckon with. But I feel like
these numbers are making it undeniable. This is an issue that is untenable. This continued
connection and the continued weapons transfers and money that we're wasting, tax dollars
we're wasting is clearly something that voters want to see change in.
What do you have to say for the people that claim to be popularists,
those who consistently talk about just like figure out what the popular issues are
and then hammer them on? Some of which to give them credit have turned on this issue.
Even Matiglasius is now demanding that Democrats just concede on the Israel front,
concede on the Israel side and then, you know, talk about deregulation or whatever kind of abundance agenda they might have, but there are still some fairly significant holdouts.
Is this, do you think these numbers will cause them to change strategy?
I certainly hope so. I mean, there's a famous Upton Sinclair quote, which is, you know, I'm going to put true it, but you can't convince someone to believe something they're paid, you know,
not to not to believe. Yeah. I think that's probably the case with a lot of the folks
we're talking about where I'm not saying they're being paid directly, but I'm saying they run in
a certain social circle or political circle where they want to be invited to the next
dinner party. They want to be, you know, part of the club still. And if you start saying,
hey, Israel's committing a genocide and we, you know, should just we should hold them
accountable. We should sanction them. According to both our law and international law,
That gets you disinvited from certain things and I think that's the case for a
lot of these folks. You know I mean what I would say is in terms of popularism
like in terms of issues that I think really cut through, there's honestly
very little like this. I think you know I'm not an expert in this but we're
seeing some stuff with like AI data center stuff where I'm saying you're
seeing kind of a bipartisan grounds well and very much like from the bottom
up. But I think this is another one where you can really find folks on the Republican side,
people who are very proud independents, who get animated about this. It's not just that they agree
with the
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