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You know this man, this man, number one.
No party's here.
No, you don't love this man.
No, you hate him.
Oh Israel is not number one for you!
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Anti-Semitism!
Israel is a small nation!
Israel is a tiny nation surrounded by scary muslims!
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You are anti-Semitism!
You are Hamas!
You are Hamas!
what's going on everybody I'm live and alive from Los Angeles California this is
on piker. The Hassanabbi broadcast coming to you live from sunny Los Angeles, California.
We're live. We're live. And I hope all the boys, girls and MBS are having a fantastic
one because today's a beautiful day. Today's a wonderful day. Today is Monday, news day.
That's right. I am wearing a suit, a vintage suit that I got off the real, real is not
fitting super well. I'm going to get, hopefully get it tailored, but I wanted to rip it anyway.
You can't really tell because it's super dark, but this is one of those like Japanese suits.
Anyway, it's not all black, but it looks all black because the camera is
unbelievably dark today, but it's fine. We're going to roll with the punches. The internet
is already busted. We had to turn it off and on again. You know how it is.
Uh, there's never a day that goes by where there aren't significant issues at the Hassanabi broadcast.
But this is the part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news nonetheless.
All right.
This is part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal news about what's going on in the world of
Hassanabi Piker in between the time period where I press the stop streaming button and press the
start streaming button. So help me God, that's what I'm going to do. Uh, it's Monday,
Newsday 914 2026 75 degrees and cloudy here in California Los Angeles
my goat we're gonna defend this is the mech more defense brigade will
I got it all over you don't have to keep us pumping that anyway
Um, oh, it's cutting out again. Wow. That was awesome. That's fucking sick. All right. I love it. All right. There's gonna, it's gonna be, there's gonna be some issues. I don't know where it's coming from because on my end, there is no issues.
And on the ingest side, it doesn't look like there's any issues. But seemingly there are. And I don't know what to do about that. Honestly, I don't know what to do about that at all.
But yeah, Belgium Internet followed you. Yeah, no, Los Angeles Internet is just as ass. So I can't
even I can't even talk shit about Belgium Internet, even though I did. Are you being hacked? No, I,
I, how do I explain it?
This is a, just a, there is a compounding issues
on this broadcast.
There were hardware issues that we tried to solve.
There were hardware issues that we tried to solve.
Then there are, of course, you know,
Internet issues that are completely outside of our control, it's not AWS and Azure, these
are, we can identify whenever the problems are coming from.
We can identify when the problems are actually coming from, is this still Glorbing?
Why are you guys posting Glorps?
Is it still happening?
Alright.
It's a little problem.
I'm out of shit.
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Look.
What the hell?
Oh my god.
It just ditched to like 2k.
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I, I don't know what to say anymore. I don't know what to do anymore. I don't know how
to solve this. I need to, I just need to stop. Like I've said this before, it's, it's the
Number one, the number one thing that will destroy me is, is, uh, internet issues and, uh, I'm seeing it right now. It's like, it's pausing. It's randomly pausing.
There's like random issues with the stream.
You need a toolkit at home. It seems to get additional layer toolkit is, uh, is a level of redundancy that allows us to substitute and, uh, without losing the entire connection.
It allows us to, it allows us to flip it to a BRB screen without losing the stream entirely.
Unfortunately, unfortunately, that's just something that we need to use, especially in times where there are tremendous internet problems.
Look, there's a construction happening. Okay, that's what it is.
I'm a NIMBY now. I am officially a NIMBY. I have realized that YIMBYism is is Satan
Yes in my backyardism is is Satanism. I am now a not in my backyard
Believer I've become a petite bourgeois small business owner that does not believe in construction
Yeah, I fucking hate it
I hate is so much fuck affordable housing. It's not like they're building affordable housing. That's the other side of this anyway
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Now I love that there is also people who are like dude bring back granted about over all play like while I'm over here
Literally fighting for my life. I'll be out here fighting for my life to get like news at news coverage out
And there will still be people being like, well, why won't you play grant if auto role play? Why won't you do that? It's like
Anyway, I'm blasting off. Fuck it. Uh, we're live. We're alive. Uh, as far as personal news goes like, yes
There's no way to fix my isp problems. There's just
Los Angeles is a oligopoly. Uh, there's only one or two
There's only one or two internet service providers available in every neighborhood.
My neighborhood doesn't have any fiber optic anyway, unless I spend like, you know,
quarter of a million dollars, like upwards of a million dollars or something.
And like personally open up a line myself, which is psychotic.
Like that's one of the, one of the craziest things about ISPs is that they,
Not only did they get billions of dollars of tax cuts to specifically improve broadband,
to specifically improve and upgrade their infrastructure, they also make you pay for it.
They're like, oh, do you want a fiber optic cable that's readily available in other neighborhoods,
but not available in yours? Well, it turns out you have to kickstart the line on your own.
You have to pay for the line. You have to and you also have an extra monthly payment that you
have to pay for. You have to pay for it upfront. Yeah. It's kind of crazy. I've never, I mean,
it's, it just makes sense, I guess. It makes sense if you're, if your whole point is, is, is maximizing
profits for ISPs and then it's awesome. Whatever happened, ISP infrastructure bill the government
issued nothing, nothing happens because we punish nobody and everything is done for profit. The
entire government operates as a slush fund for numerous corporate entities. All of your tax
dollars go directly back to corporate super profits and all it does is boost shareholder value,
max our shareholder value and also give incredible pay days to these CEOs and executives that are
finding new ways. Did you see and read that article about you by RTL?
They say I support Al Qaeda. Wait, what the fuck?
That's big slander. Wait, why are they saying stuff like that? Isn't, isn't RTL a state
broadcaster in a state where there's like actual defamation laws that are far far far
more protective.
Oh, Theo Franken said, I said, Piker, oh no, they didn't say, I'm saying that. They said Theo
Franken is saying, Piker says who, who says that Hamas is magnificent, that it's the best
organization in the world. That's so funny. I did not say that. What the fuck? People who say that
that the terrorist al-Qaeda and Hamas are magnanimous. I have many doubts about that.
He's always advocating terrorism, says Theo Franken. Yeah, he's just like, okay, no,
it's Theo Franken lying about me. It's not RTL that's lying about me. That's hilarious.
Theo Franken should stop peeing himself. Who is the Sampaiker controversial influencer and
and guests of the pet event in Austin.
Assam Piker defends radical position on September 11,
deserved by the Americans or on Hamas
a thousand times better than he says Israel,
because Israel inflicted a thousand times worse
on the Palestinian population on October 7,
justifies Assam Piker.
His visit to Belgium was strongly criticized
as early as Friday by the Minister of Defense.
Theo Frankin said, I think Hamas is magnificent,
that is the best organization in the world. That's so funny. Okay, that's it. What a way to start
the day. International slander over here. All right, so folks, folks, folks, folks,
lot to talk about personal news wise. I just traveled yesterday. I was a total chud ass loser
yesterday. I slept like a baby on the flight. I cracked a Nyquil and slept like a baby.
Came back in, no issues on entry into the country, which was a treat because I was definitely
a little bit worried. And big W's all around. And then I hung out with the family a little
bit I hung out with my family a little bit and then after I hung out with the
family I also you know slept a little bit further what is this what is this
you're in the funniest man if yes
what is happening
Hell yeah.
Dude, Mark Battinger posted a funny edit. Hasanabi, take a look at this. This is old. I didn't even
realize that this is... Anyway, that's cool. That's not even a new edit. That's the old edit.
Anyway
We play thrift shop in here all day, bro, I know I know we're gonna get into that we're gonna get into Macklemore
I know everyone wants to fucking talk about Macklemore. Hold on. We're gonna talk about Macklemore
But before we do that yeah, like I said personal news wise of a shut-ass loser
you already know, not much happening in my life. I went to sleep again last night, woke
up early, lifted, worked out this morning, eating good, eating more. Suits are getting
boring. Can we get boring? Can we get a stream in that meat underwear? Just think about what
I can do for the rejuvenating vanguard. Yeah, okay. I don't think so. I think the suits
are here to stay and they're getting more interesting. Kai, I miss you. Yes.
Aye, aye, aye, it's already fucking up. Christ. Also, I've been watching this Gigi fucking easy
clip over and over again. I don't know if you guys have seen this. Have you guys seen this thing?
I want to start off with this because it's like I know it kind of feels like I'm constantly I
Know it feels like I am constantly serving you guys AI slop
But I have to talk about this because I've been watching it now stop
I don't know why this has gone fucking viral on my Twitter. I'm on my for you page
But I've just been listening to the song now stop
F***ing easy.
OK, OK.
I just want to get started by saying something very important.
Is this called this is Cocoa Mellon for on it is Cocoa Mellon.
It is Cocoa Mellon.
They took an A.I. song and.
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Everybody saw the song I was writing, think piece about SoCal Asians, which is clearly
a Chinese international student.
Yes, that is 100% of Vancouver Chinese international student, the girl in the red hair.
If you can't tell from the makeup, you'll never know.
That is not a ABC.
That is not a ABG, okay?
That is a Chinese international student living in Vancouver, 100 percent.
Okay, maybe Toronto, fuck it.
But straight up.
a very different look, very different vibe, very different feel. ABC means American-born Chinese.
ABG means Asian baby girl, which is, again, a very specific type of American-born Chinese,
or just like an American-born Asian person. Whereas, she is a... This is a person that
is still connected to mainland China.
It's a podcast first for the love of God.
Fuck this AI song.
Okay, calm down.
She's the kind of chick who came my eight AM math 184 class in UBC
and a Gucci camel coat and an anti social social club hoodie.
Yes.
But also, but also you have to remember like, um, yeah, this shit is trash.
Okay, calm down.
All I'm saying is like, there are very different, there are very different like vibes, very
different aesthetics.
If you are someone who is still in some way, shape or form connected to mainland China,
and she clearly is someone who is connected to mainland China, just off makeup alone,
off rib, you can tell.
Anyway, um, yeah, so that's peak Valorant League music.
Yeah, sure.
If you want to call it that, I call it music.
I call it peak music.
I call it masterpiece.
I call it Beethoven, okay?
What did you think about Hassan Piker's thirst trap?
I call it Beethoven.
What is happening with these fucking TikToks, man?
TikTok won't let me just like log up without logging on.
What did you think about Hassan Piker's thirst trap
at the midterm convention?
His what?
The Republican convention,
like they blasted this photo of Hassan Piker shirtless in,
In I don't know what he's like shorty shorts or something that were kind of rolled up
You know, it's essentially a thirst trap not Mary Lou. Don't show Mary Lou the me pick don't do it. Oh, no
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This was at the Republican
Yeah, I thought for sure you would like looked into this. No, I haven't seen it get ready
Okay. Oh God. Oh my God. Why would they do that at the Republican convention?
You tell me. Oh my God. I know. Oh my goodness.
You tell me. I thought for sure you'd seen your boy,
his own piker in the flesh on the jumbo.
They even they even hit her with the unblurred version dude. They gave the dads. That's the full meat
That's the full meat. Don't do it. Don't do it now
That's not for everybody. That's not for everybody. I can't believe that is not a part of the necessary
conversation sometimes this is an unnecessary conversation and
And they were straight for it
That's crazy now. I don't understand why Republicans would do that. What are the comments saying?
And then grinder crash. You may be sure this was definitely wearing a hoodie. Wait, I wish.
Thank you, Thymacius for the playlist. We got a lot to cover from the Sunday news broadcast.
Obviously, we're going to get into it in a second. Yeah, now that we've done some silliness,
Now that we've done some silly Billy shit, let's, uh, let's get into some more silliness.
Uh, Hakeem Jeffries was asked.
Hakeem Jeffries on the Sunday shows was of course asked about the number one news story
is still of not only this month, not only of this day, not only of this week, but of
all weeks. Okay? Every single damn week, every single month, going forward, I think we're
permanently stuck in a perma-pasan-piker cycle, no matter what happens. No matter what happens,
Because we are always going to, we are cursed with constantly covering, we're constantly
covering the most important news story, obviously, which is, you know, have you sufficiently
condemned this on yet?
I think there was also a front and center, this convention in Dallas this week, particularly
comment that America deserved 9-11. How should Democrats handle him?
Well, I've been very clear in terms of my denunciation of him and the aggressive, in
some cases, anti-Semitic remarks that he's issued as have other Democratic candidates
all across the country. Now, what's interesting is in terms of who's going to be on the ballot,
George, in November, we've got extraordinary candidates.
Scott notes how this so-called cemetery.
So what was really interesting about the Hakeem Jeffries comment is that in that same interview,
Hakeem Jeffries was also asked about his allegiance first to Hassan Piker and then to Jared Kushner.
Okay. Hakeem Jeffries was asked about him, his private closed door meeting that he had
with Jared Kushner. Now, for those of you who don't know who Jared Kushner is, Jared
Kushner is Trump's son-in-law, unbelievably corrupt, has a bunch of different fairly suspicious
dealings with oligarchs all around the world, specifically in the Gulf. And it has all these
business dealings that he's basically using his position as Trump's son-in-law to continue making
money off of, what is this? Representative Henry Quay, are you trying to get your appearance
canceled. Oh, great. Fucking great. You loved that. Anyway. And when asked about Hasan Piker,
Hakeem Jeffries goes, Hasan Piker is the worst. He's anti-Semitic. We've, you know,
issued our condemnations. But when asked about his private dealings with Jared Kushner, here's
how he defended it. That theme, a lot of Democrats had raised questions about the activities, the
private business activities of Jared Kushner. Was it a mistake for you to meet with them?
No, listen, I'm of the view that if we're going to be committed to actually solving
problems on behalf of the American people, including, by the way, passing the housing
affordability bill in this Congress that became law as a result of bipartisan work led by Maxine
Waters in the House and Elizabeth Warren in the Senate, there are gonna be times that you have
to speak with people on the other side of the aisle. Even in the video.
I love that. I love that. For him, he's like, no, this is defensible. I'm gonna continue lying
about what me and Jared Kushner talked about. To which I said, problem is,
Kim Jeffries thinks socialist campaigning for a Democrat is worthy of condemnation,
but closed door dealings with Trump's corrupt son-in-law is perfectly fine.
Here's the issue. This is not fine. And it's not even fine for many Democrats either. Like,
Democrat voters look at this and see the inconsistency, they don't like it.
But obviously, for the mainstream media, Jared Kushner is a perfectly reasonable person
to talk to and have private affairs with, because even though he's not an elected official,
even though he's not an elected official, he's still someone with a tremendous amount of power,
and perhaps more importantly, he does not represent a serious threat to our corporate overlords.
As a matter of fact, he's part of the corporate overlords. He's pro-Israel. He's a pro-data
center. He's pro all of the things that our corporate overlords like. And therefore,
Hakim Jeffries reaching across the aisle to talk to an unelected person who is simply in a position
of power that he's using and abusing, specifically because he's Trump's son-in-law, is a reasonable
opportunity, is a reasonable collaboration. It's not. No one thinks this shit is reasonable,
by the way. No one. And I mean, no one thinks this is reasonable. The Democrats don't think this
is reasonable. Democratic voters don't think this is reasonable. But again, this double standard
persists. Speaking of that same double standard, Mallory McMarrow becoming an unlikely ally
and even talking about her own personal experience with my op-scot Jennings on CNN.
Scott notes how the so-called senator lost after disavowing Hassan Piker.
What is this video, bro? This is so funny, censored news.
America deserved 9-11? Absolutely not.
Now why then why does your Senate campaign stop staring to go around saying that?
that's on the ballot. No, it's not. Because I, I famously was the candidate in the Senate
race who just about. And then you were famously out. And it didn't matter. We go now to Michigan's
Democratic nominee for Senate. Dr. Abdul El Sayed. He joins us from Ann Arbor. Yeah.
So, here's what happened, Mallory McMurray was yelled at by Scott Jennings for, or rather
Scott Jennings tried to do, tried to do the thing that he did last time, which is, Scott
Jennings did what Republicans have been doing, right?
Which is the Michigan Senate race is all about a Sompiker, Mallory McMurray said, no, it's
not.
Mallory McMurray even went as far as to say, I condemned him personally, it's not about
that at all. And, and, uh, Jennings then turned around and said, well, you lost because it
is ridiculous. Uh, and, uh, yet it still is, is, uh, driving discourse on the Republican
side because they have absolutely nothing. Okay. They have absolutely nothing. Having
Having said that, however, our boy Abdul went on CBS Face the Nation.
Our boy Abdul also went on CBS Face the Nation and of course, the attacks continued.
She did.
Good morning, Dr. Alcide.
I have to pee.
Welcome to Face the Nation.
Good morning, Weijia.
Thanks for having me.
So, I do want to ask you about AI, but let's talk first about the RNC Convention because
as you were a main character.
Several speakers mentioned you,
everyone from the president, the vice president,
your opponent, Mike Rogers,
to the speaker of the house, Mike Johnson.
Here's what he said.
We know who the Mamdani's and the Alsayeds are,
but it's the Democrats in the swing seats
who say one thing and then join forces
and vote with the socialists that they're afraid of.
That is the dangerous part.
They're the ones who have let the barbarians inside the gate.
What do you make of Republicans focusing so much attention
on you?
Well, I'll tell you this, the barbarian is in the White House.
And we're seeing the consequences of that right now.
It was not a subject at all of the RNC.
The gas prices, grocery prices, these ridiculous tariffs
in this war with Canada that's raising our prices,
average $5,600 a year for the average Michigan family.
The war in Iran didn't want to talk about any of it.
The fact that you can't see a doctor in the United States.
So they're going to point to me, they're going to talk about me,
they're going to point to my name,
they're going to point to our faith.
And at the end of the day, they're doing that
so that you don't pay attention to the fact
that you are being nickled and dined
by the librarian in the White House
and by a set of public policies
that are not in your interest, but in his.
Well, several Republicans did continue to mention
your campaigning with Isan Piker,
who is known for making incendiary remarks.
Your opponent, Mike Rogers, calls him your running mate.
What is your current relationship with Piker?
I'll tell you this, I don't know if Mike Rogers
has a running mate, but when you run for U.S. Senate,
you don't actually have one.
I'm actually running to represent the people in my state.
I cannot believe that this is still going on.
I can't believe that this is still
a main driver of discourse,
but I guess it makes sense because it's CBS
And Barry Weiss really wants to push this still.
They're treating me like I am literally like a known terrorist or something,
where they're like, hey, what is your current relationship with known terrorist Hassan Piker?
I like that they just completely invented a problem and continued farming said problem.
And now, now they're just like, well, you still haven't, you still haven't completely
disavowed the known terrorist radical Islamic jihadist, Hasan Piker.
And it's like, it's going to continue until November 3rd.
I know.
TikTok boosting anti-Hassan as well.
That is crazy.
The Daily Wire 400, this is an ad, right?
We were never supposed to forget by Daily Wire, 411,000 likes?
Oh, it's Jover, dude.
It is so fucking, it's so over.
It's so goddamn over.
This shit doesn't have any real impact, but the fact that TikTok is
base-boosting a daily wire post like this, like an attack ad, is precisely
the reason why the Ellison's purchased it, and now we're seeing it in action.
It's great.
These comments are so bought it. I saw many so many TikToks that people saying the same thing. This is mum Donnie's guy by the way
Yeah
How does it feel to be 2026 is migrant caravan at Benghazi bringing hunter Biden laptops loaded with CRT as a
as a transgender and Tifa super soldier
It's great. I
Love it. I'm a real human being
I guess the only the main difference is like unlike the migrant caravans unlike, you know transgender and Tifa
I have a platform and I can push back and I will continue to do so
so it's
You know, it's a little bit different. We'll see we'll see how it works
I mean these kinds of narratives normally get established by right-wing media that just barrages the left and constantly fucking
badgers the left with these sorts of ridiculous concocted narratives, manufactured outrage
initiatives. You know, we just got to hold out until November. Yeah, unlike them, you
fucking exist. No, I mean, I'm just saying like when, when student protesters get attacked,
right? When student protesters get attacked and they're called like radical pro-Hamas
protestors or whatever, they don't have a massive media platform to push back against
these kinds of statements. Okay? It is, it is pretty crazy though. Like, I am, I am,
you know, in the, I'm in the same category as Maglemore and Mark Ruffalo is a prominent
critic of Israel. People are aggressively, and I mean aggressively trying to cancel
every appearance that I have to make my life a living hell. These are people in positions of power.
And if the Democrats were actually smart, they would push back against this stuff
and show once and for all that it's actually the Republicans that are the cancel culture party.
It's the Republicans that love weaponizing. It's the Republicans that hate free speech.
And yet they're not doing it. This would be electorally salient. This would be electorally
a reliable narrative to push for. It's also morally the correct position to push for. It's
definitely something that your base wants you to do, but because so many of them are unbelievably
cucked to Israel, they can't do it. Conservative billion-dollar media companies can pay TikTok
to algorithmically insert NTU messaging on the 4U page, then cite the resulting outrageous
evidence that you're controversial. Yeah. Yeah. Democrats, if they were a smart and competent
anti-Trump force, would use this opportunity, this wonderful opportunity to reverse the
narrative that they are the cancel culture party. Nobody likes cancel culture. Everybody loves freedom
of speech. Okay. I have the governor, the attorney general, the senator and several congresspeople
making statements about my appearance in Texas. This is unprecedented. There is no other person
that gets this level of aggressive posturing, okay? No one else. This is far, far worse than
anything Ben Shapiro or Milo Annapolis ever received. At this point, there is no equivalence
to this treatment, especially considering that it is bipartisan. Do you understand?
It is bipartisan. This is actual cancel culture. This is not like, oh, my favorite
podcast there said something and then people yelled at them for like 48 hours and then we moved on.
This is straight up the most aggressive deplatforming campaign at this point that any political
competitors receive.
I guess like with the exception of Nick Fuentes, right?
And even then with Nick Fuentes, it didn't receive like, I don't think Nick Fuentes banned
from traveling to the UK. This already happened with the University of Washington. Now it's
happening again at University of Texas. And I'm creating bipartisanship in areas where
we previously did not think there would be bipartisanship where you have people thanking
Scott Jennings like Joel Rubin. This guy used to work for Bernie Sanders. Thank you, Scott,
for a great interview where you truly let me say my piece. What are we doing? What the hell is going
going on.
And of course, what is crazy about this is that there is no comparison between what I'm
doing and what Laura Loomer did or what Nick Fuentes did, because the accusations launched
against me are wrong.
The accusations launched against me are completely fucking made up.
The idea that I'm anti-semitic, the idea that I'm hateful, is completely fucking made up,
okay?
I just, this is, this is what it is. You're just, look, look. If you oppose Israel, if
you're a prominent critic of Israel, you are just going to be endlessly slandered. That
is what they are. That is the message that they're moving with. That is what they're
putting out there. And it's, it's, I guess, until some changes are made. It's all faith.
It's a fairly sophisticated, fairly organized mere campaign. Oh God, my internet, please.
Something I just need something to work, man. I already have so much shit going on that
have to deal with like the internet is literally the worst thing like this kind of stuff the attacks
all this stuff washes over me doesn't matter right it sucks obviously people in positions of power
are not going to give up their power they're not going to they're not going to stop
I can deal with all that. I cannot deal with the internet issues. No, emptying my internet
history is not going to help. Shy Luna Moon, but thank you. Please, please stop. Please
stop giving me advice on what to do. Please.
It's so funny. I got boomer tech support. Anyway, I have a University of Texas College
Democrats invitation to speak. This has been quite controversial because Republicans are
phonies. They hate free speech, and they are aggressively trying to get it canceled. Texas
over to Greg Abbott says terrorists sympathizers have no place in Texas.
The University of Texas,
college Democrats chapter invited anti-Semitic streamer,
Son Piger to speak on campus at the end of the month,
sparking outrage from Jewish leaders and students on campus,
generating a potential political firestorm in a red state,
hosting consequential elections in November's midterms.
The event hosted by university Democrats,
a decades old student democratic party political organization is scheduled to
be on September 30th.
Amid the final stretch of Texas is highly competitive Senate race between
Republican, Kim Paxton, and Democrat, James Tallarico, and a competitive
gubernatorial contest between Governor Greg Abbott and Democrat Gina Hinchosa.
I'm not saying that correctly.
His son, Pikes, said Americans deserve 9-11 praise of brutal terrorist
organization Hamas.
The university of Democrats at UT Austin are choosing to amplify that
disgusting rhetoric.
Terrorists sympathize, they have no place in text.
And Abbott spokesperson told Jewish Insider, asked about Pikes invitation,
Hinchosa campaign spokesperson did not address the issue.
Gina will be at the East texts that they talk about securing the American
by saving our schools and putting money in your pocket. Madison Cersei, a Paxton campaign
spokesperson, told Jewish Insider, James Tallarico and Son Piker are both leaders of the same
democratic socialist movement that want to raise taxes, trains your children and abolish prisons.
They welcome extreme radicals into their base and don't bat an eye when they start chanting death to
America. Tallarico's campaign did not respond to requests for comment about, uh, from Jewish Insider
about the invitation for Piker to speak on campus. Hina Hosa, sorry. Piker, who has an extensive
of history of AIDS to medican and anti-american rhetoric, including justifying Hamas congress
was used in bread. It's hurting 2019. America deserve not 11. A remark later, he said,
he should have phrased better while standing by the underlying critique has praised.
University of Texas Austin, mayor Kirk Watson and text democratic party did not respond to
requests for comment from Jewish insider rep, Mark VZ Democrat from texts, co-chairs, the house
bipartisan task force for combating anti-Semitism also declined to comment.
It's awesome. I love when this happens. It's just like at first it glitches a little bit and then
it's the entire screen. There's an artifacting error for the entire screen. It's like, it's
basically telling me like you can't get away with like a little baby issue on the side. It has to be
a permanent problem that will persist for at least 10 seconds and will freak the fuck out.
Jewish students, faculty, and parents of the University of Texas told Jewish Insiders at the
upcoming event, Mark's a negative shift for a campus that they said previously had been,
oh my god, it's still going on. Is it like an encoding issue? No, it's an internet issue. My
internet is not good enough. Okay, that's it. My internet's not good enough. And it keeps dropping.
It keeps dropping. It swings wildly. It's not consistent. My ISP is completely out.
So I'm using
I'm using other
I'm using other forms of
Internet service providers and they're unstable. Okay?
And for that reason
Because they're also unstable
Anyway, let's continue.
University of Texas Austin Mayor Kirk Watson didn't respond.
Jewish students, faculty and parents of the University of Texas told Jews inside of the
upcoming event.
Mark's a negative shift for a campus that they said had previously been one of the most
welcoming in the country for Jewish students since October 7.
Some are pushing the public university to cancel the event, although they know that
this is unlikely to happen because free speech protection is my concern, it's not that a
Sompiker Holds views I disagree with. It is that his public rhetoric has repeatedly crossed the line that Jewish students should not be expected to
ignore simply because he's framed as political commentary. When someone with an enormous platform has spoken about American Jews,
eventually facing action, referred to ours Jews to imbred repeatedly used rhetoric that many Jewish students experiences dehumanizing,
inviting him on to our campus is real impact on how safe and support our community feels. Jewish students at University of Texas are not
asking to be protected from uncomfortable conversations that precisely what they're asking for. And it's not even Jewish students
necessarily its pro-Israel students. There's plenty of Jewish Hassan Abihids at
University of Texas Austin as well. They just happen to be anti-Zionist and
therefore Jewish Insider will never actually cover them and will erase
their identity.
Trebek, who is president of the campus, a five chapter, wrote a letter to University
Texas president Jim Davis, a reconsider holding the Piker event on campus. Davis
is not responding to the request, according to Trebek. Lisa Strauss, the parent of a
UT student described the Austin campus as handling the 2024 anti-Israelan
camp and movement that roiled campus nationwide extremely well. Noting it was
one of the first universities of countries to ban encampments and
non-students from entering the campus to protest. Oh, that's why you guys were
happy with it. Got it.
That was a great thing for all students, not just Jewish students. She told Jewish
insider, everything has been pretty quiet on our campus since then. When this came
out a week ago that college Democrats were bringing him, the first response was
that surely UT can shut this down. Strauss pointed to the university
Washington where a student group recently planned to host Piker this university canceled the event.
That was literally a First Amendment violation which the University of Washington got in trouble for
which is precisely the reason why they try to make it seem like that was was a totally random
reason. They like came up with a different reason for why they did this.
When we dug further into what we should do as a community, everyone mobilized immediately,
emailing and calling the president for the university, the governor's office, our senators.
Oh my god, there's such fucking crybabies dude, holy shit.
Holy shit, wah wah wah wah wah, that's all one speed, dude.
Pro, the pro Israel brigade is so incredibly fucking annoying.
Where it is straight up one speed all the time.
Crybaby brigade constantly fucking crying.
If you hurt the feelings of my emotional support apartheid state.
If you call in the question, America's relationship with my emotional support apartheid state, I am going to throw a fucking fit.
I'm gonna piss and shit in my diapers. How dare you do this to me? How dare you do this to me? Over and over again.
Enough is enough, okay? Enough is enough.
Ugh.
This is real cancel culture. Where are the cancel culture warriors? Where are the right-wing
podcasters whose entire bread and butter was cancel culture? Where's Joe Rogan? Where is
Joe Rogan? Where's the Joe Rogan experience? This is happening in his backyard. Will he
He called this shit out, probably not.
This is one of the more upsetting things that a major organization is
bringing versus students for just some Palestine or one of those she continued.
Grab by Stephanie max executive director of university, Texas.
Hillel said in a statement that the irony of the event being hosted during
so caught a holiday that encourages welcoming guests is disturbing.
We value our campus with its obligations and limitations around free speech as
a place for disagreement, pluralism and debate.
Mr.
Piker's views however go against our values. Yeah. I love when people always say like,
Oh, we want people to criticize Israel. Just not this guy. Just not that guy. It's like,
No, you just don't want it. You don't want it. You don't want any criticism criticisms of Israel.
Jewish insider also went to Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz also slams Democrats for not speaking out against
college Dems of Sompiker invitation. This was precisely the reason why I said Democrats,
eventually there's gonna come a point where you have to fucking take an L and just like talk about
how ridiculous this is. Talk about the hypocrisy of this, this, this issue. Okay, but instead,
many of you thought you could lean in to the right wing framing and, you know, get rid of a pesky
left flank streamer, a platform for left flank insurgencies. Fucking stupid, unbelievably
short-sighted. Now we all have to live in this space where Republicans get to lie about
a prominent critic of Donald Trump, a prominent critic of Israel. And you guys also lied alongside
them for the longest time. So you can't just like turn around and be like, hey, this is
kind of stupid, actually. This guy is not fucking anti-Semitic. He's anti-Israel. You
can talk about that. We can have a conversation about that all day every day. I'm perfectly
fine with that. But the idea that this is like heinous anti-Semitism that must be opposed
is an abject lie. It's just a lie. Anyway, I'm waiting for the, I'm waiting for the,
the dream to fix itself. I love that. Okay.
Your audio is perfectly at least great.
I just, I don't know what else to say about this stuff.
Like, I know people will be like, oh, dude, this is so annoying.
You constantly talk about yourself.
But this is like now a real incident, okay?
Everything that I do, everything that I do turns into a real national incident
and sometimes an international incident.
And there's only one reason for why this is happening.
Let's be real.
It's not like these guys hide it either.
They keep falsely saying that I'm anti-Semitic and demanding my de-platforming, demanding
the cancellation of the speaking gigs that I have.
And I think we all know why it's happening.
It is obviously because I'm a prominent critic of Israel.
That's it.
And they do not want that to be broadcasted.
They do not want that kind of sentiment to be normalized, even though that sentiment
is normalized.
It is the majority position, is the moral position.
the majority position, and they can't actually stop that. So what they're trying to do is
discipline those who speak out for the best of their ability to make their lives a living
fucking hell. No one else has to deal with this. You can be a cryptocurrency pervert.
You can be a huckster. You can be a charlatan. You can be a con man. You can be a neo-Nazi.
You can be a prominent white nationalist working on a Republican campaign. None of that matters.
As long as you do not speak out against America's relationship with Israel,
as long as you do not speak out against the nation of Israel, you're fine.
That is the environment that they are desperately trying to cultivate.
This is the new design.
This is the new design.
You cannot be a critic of Israel and live comfortably on US soil.
We will make your life a living hell.
Senator Ted Cruz criticized Democrats in text for the muted reaction for the far-left
Shremer Assam Piker being invited to the University of Texas College Democrats chapter to speak
on campus this month despite his record of anti-Semitic rhetoric.
Cruz told Jewish Insider in a statement on Thursday that Piker's upcoming appearance
a U.T. Austin and the lack of recognition of the Democrats was indicative of the broader
state of the Democratic Party.
The Pompikarist Party, more specifically the Democratic Party, is pulling the bottom of
the Republicans' crux of the U.S. Democratic Party, which is coming up with the U.S. Democratic
Party, and Pikars' incitement.
Instead, some Democrats are bringing him to college camp.
God.
It's not DDoS chatters, it's just, it's sadder than that.
pretty basic. It's not, it's not an attack. It's just bad. The internet is just bad, okay?
There's nothing else I can do.
Yes, this is the real third world, okay?
Anyway, let's continue.
Cruises led the charge in urging the GOP to disavow anti-Semitic figures in the conservative
movement, such as commentators, Tucker Carlson, Nick Fuentes, Candace Owens, and his criticized
fellow Republicans who refused to weigh in on the subject as cowards.
Allies of Texas Senator launched a political organization in July to support his efforts
to counter anti-Semitism in the Republican Party and prevent the GOP from mimicking what
Cruz has repeatedly described as the Democratic Party's anti-Israel turn.
From the school's Austin campus, a piker event has sparked concern among Jewish students,
faculty and parents, including several who have pushed to have the appearance canceled.
Piker's appearance is scheduled for September 30th.
The Mint final stretch attacks high profile Senate race team can't pass then the state
is the state's Attorney General and Democrat James Talarico State Representative.
Close some tabs.
It's not.
It's not the tabs.
Anyway, again, who has received this level of bipartisan condemnation and anger?
It's just, it's just you cannot be a critic of Israel. That's it. If you're a critic of Israel, we will make your life a living hell.
We will make your fucking life a living hell. We will cancel all your appearances.
We'll literally call you heinous smears up and down
Mainstream media not a single one of these like mainstream outlets will actually correct the record
That's where we're at so it should come as no surprise when Abdul goes on CBS News face the nation a
Major driver dude, please stop
please stop stop stop stop giving fucking losers any more attention they want attention
we're done with that please okay i have to deal with fucking senators trying to cancel my speeches
and you're like what's the what's the gay republican log cabin republican saying on a cnn panel i don't
I don't give a fuck, dude.
And even this mention alone will make its way
to his broadcast so we can just jerk off to it
so we can masturbate to his fucking opinion piece,
making its way over here.
Please, we don't have to literally highlight
every fucking loser on the internet
that is trying to very actively make a name for themselves
by running fuck Hasan Slander, okay?
Please, please, I beg of you.
I beg of you.
No, it's not the clipping Wings Twitter account
that's bad.
like they're, you don't have to constantly spam shit. Okay.
Oh,
you don't have to literally be like, Hey,
this guy, this guy,
Methuselah Glorp daddy went on fucking CNN and was like,
Hasan Piker actually is the worst Adolf Hitlerian dog abuser of all time.
You don't have to literally fucking be like, oh dude.
Like these guys are very actively trying.
Why not do an online event dog?
Are you fucking serious?
What do you mean?
Why not do an online event?
It's obviously not the fucking same.
Oh my God.
Oh my God.
Oh yeah.
Yeah.
All right.
Let's just get to this.
Let's just.
The American pro-Israel movement is actively destroying the First Amendment in this country.
We are actively destroying free speech in this country at the behest of a foreign nation.
It is a real issue.
And I think a lot of Americans are aware of it and they're very frustrated by it as well.
But none of our leaders on the Democratic front have anything to say about it.
As a matter of fact, they also are entertaining this destruction of the First Amendment, just
like they were excited to sell off TikTok to an American Zionist billionaire with the
express purpose of making TikTok more pro-Israel and more pro-Trump.
This was Democrats pushing for the sale initially.
And now it happened.
And that same family then turned around and purchased CBS.
They are making editorial decisions to make CBS more pro-Israel and more pro-Trump.
They are running pro-state-department propaganda in ways that even other outlets would not.
Okay?
They will always make saying the truth as costly as possible, okay, but this is still
worth fighting for.
The truth is still worth fighting for.
So we're going to keep pushing through regardless of the intensity of the attacks, regardless
of the magnitude, regardless of the smears, okay?
We have to.
And I hope that you can also exhibit that same courage, no matter what the cost is.
It is far worse if we just give up on this pursuit if we it's far worse for our world
It's far worse for America's far worse for the rest of the world if we just
Get scared feel intimidated and
Stop saying the fucking truth
I'm sure he won all of the Michigan votes in Dallas, and the only reason he went to Dallas
is because he cannot break with the president, and when the president tells him to do something,
to jump, he's going to say, how high?
The same reason he won't comment on the tariffs.
the same reason he won't talk about gas prices being driven up by this war in Iran.
So they want to make this about a streamer in California.
I want to make this about affordability in Michigan.
And they can't talk about it because it's their policies that are driving them up.
So yes, they can continue to distract.
That's fine.
Let's see how well that goes for them.
But at the end of the day, it's very hard to ignore a president, especially when he
wants to host himself a Trump-a-palooza and forces all of the Republican candidates to
come and kiss the ring.
So good luck with that.
Well, there are Jewish voters in your state who are concerned about your relationship with
Piker.
You have condemned anti-Semitism, but not called out his rhetoric directly.
Why not?
We do with all due respect.
This is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer in California.
I've done four events in Michigan this week.
You know what didn't come up?
Twitch streamers in California.
You know it did come up grocery prices.
The fact that people can't see a doctor.
The worry that they have about the quality of air and water.
By the way, this is a good technique, not just for me,
but also for whatever culture war narratives
these guys are trying to present, okay?
Like this is a very good way to reframe the conversation
back to issues that matter.
Engage in messaging discipline and talk about
what you're going to do to solve the crisis.
To solve the numerous crises that Americans are facing, Michiganders are facing, focus on the real issues.
No matter what these guys try to weaponize against you.
Yeah, also what do you mean there are Jewish voters who say X, you can say that about anyone, they can say there are voters who are mad, you don't call yourself a socialist, yeah there's like 10 of them who gives a shit, exactly.
Exactly.
interested in having a conversation about streamers in California because they
are not raising the prices of gas and groceries. I'm more interested in having
conversation about tariff policies and trade wars we shouldn't be fighting
about hot wars with Iran, about AI, which I know we were supposed to talk about
right now. So let's actually talk about the issues that are affecting people
instead of getting distracted by whatever the president says we should be
talking about. Their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we
don't pay attention to the fact that the president has made $2.2 billion.
His family has made even more. How about your family in Michigan?
How about your ability to afford the basic things?
How about the ability to believe that you could see a doctor without having to potentially?
Hold on. Hold on. Wait.
Oh my god.
Still ongoing. It's crazy because on the InJS side it looks perfectly fine.
Okay, let's continue.
Fall into medical debt. Those are the conversations that people are having,
those are the conversations I'm interested in having. So yeah, I'm not all that interested in
having a conversation about a trick streamer. Forgive me when people can't afford their gas and
their groceries. Understood Dr. Bluffing it, a big hack you used to find in the streets of
But where's the money going to come from Jesus Christ dude, what the fuck oh
My god it is I don't understand it if there's nothing on the bitrate side like it doesn't even drop
stop. She just said, oh God, it's still fucking up. How is this possible? I don't get it.
I don't get it. I don't understand it. It's not even spectrum is the failsafe that we're
using right now and just like I'm putting my tinfoil hat you're getting sabotaged somehow
no I'm not I'm not getting sabotaged I'm not I'm not getting sabotaged it's it's it's shittier
than that it's sadder than that it's it's not it's not sabotage it's just my my
ISP is really bad
I don't have regular internet right now
I
Remember when we went to the other hotel in Belgium and it was fine
I loved it. It stopped by the way as soon as we fucking as soon as I stopped watching the video
It's like all right gotta use Starling. I guess man shut the fuck up. You don't know anything. Okay. What if I am already using it?
What if that is literally currently fucked up? Have you considered that?
God I hate responding to the fucking tech support chatters and think they're actually
Being helpful. It's makes the stream so fucking cringe and so unproductive
And I cannot help myself. I just I've it's my worst quality
Imagine getting yelled at by 30,000 people and every single suggestion is something that
we've tried or something that we're currently using.
You would lose your mind at a certain point, right?
Those are the conversations I'm interested in having.
So yeah, I'm not all that interested in having a conversation about a trickstream or forgive
me when people can't afford their gas and their groceries.
Understood, doctor.
But Republicans have made it a big attack on you, so I wanted to give you the chance
to clarify, but we'll leave it there for now.
You do talk a lot about prices.
One of your central campaign messages is that you want to pass Medicare for all.
You talk about it a lot.
But where's the money going to come from?
I like this.
You went, hey, I'm done attacking you on the Hassan-Piker connections.
It's time to attack you on a different issue. Medicare for all. Very popular policy. Everybody
wants it. How are you going to pay for it?
From to do that.
Well, right now, in our economy, we spend about a fifth of the whole economy on healthcare.
It's already coming out of our back pockets, and it's going into the back pockets of CEOs
of pharmaceutical companies and drug companies and insurance companies and big hospitals.
That's where it's coming from. That's where it's going. Under Medicare.
All of this could be reduced to have you considered praising Israel and saying Israel is good.
Maybe then we would shut the fuck up.
Have you also considered praising insurance CEOs and saying that the current for-profit
health care system that everybody despises is actually the best possible system we could
have?
That's it.
There's a reason why this line of attack is never directed at Democrats and Republicans
that want to continue the current system. Have you noticed that when those Democrats
go on shows like this, they're never asked, hey, what are you going to do about skyrocketing
premiums? Why is healthcare still for profit in the only OECD nation where these problems
persist? Notice how when a Democrat is pro-Israel, they're never asked, why are you so pro-Israel?
are you at odds with 90% of your base? Have you noticed that? Yeah, it's not working anyway,
but they're still hammering it. Michigan set a forecast by the Economist, chances of winning.
August 15th, Mike Rogers was at 50%. Abdul. I'll say it was at 43%. Right now,
Abdul. I'll say it is at 64% to Mike Rogers at 36%. Okay.
This stuff is not working. And yet they're still hammering it over and over again.
And part of the reason why it's not working is because Abdul is playing it
perfectly, constantly reframing the conversation back to issues that matter,
unafraid to attack the argument itself, unafraid to attack the framing itself to
to turn around and say, do we really care about this?
Or do you want people to care about this
and they're failing to care about it?
Because I'm outside, I'm going on the campaign trail,
I'm meeting the voters where they're at,
and not a single one of them brings this up
as a significant issue.
Isn't it a good thing that they're attacking them on policy?
No, there's an appropriate way
have a normal conversation about a wildly popular policy like Medicare for all, and then there's
a way to frame that conversation. There's a way to frame that conversation in the most negative
way you possibly can. The question of how are you going to pay for it is valid if and only if
you ask that same question to those who are also demanding $1.5 trillion in expenditures for the
American military. The question of how are you going to pay for it is never asked when a politician
is demanding tax cuts for the super wealthy. The question of how are you going to pay for it
is never asked when it comes to politicians advancing larger and larger spending bills
for the American military. There's no how are you going to pay for it for the billions of dollars
of assets that have been lit on fire in the Strait of Hormuz.
No one ever says, hey, where's this money going?
I'm waiting.
Okay, we're back.
Let's continue.
Care for all instead.
We would be paying a lot less overall and instead of going into the back pockets of CEOs
of corporations, it would actually be going to pay for our healthcare.
right now as a country, we have an average of $225 billion.
They did ask Trump, how he's gonna pay for the $5,000 checks?
Yes, again, while that is ridiculous and it's not going to happen, you have to understand
something.
That's still a provision that is ostensibly, even if you believed it, okay?
That is still a policy prescription that is ostensibly pro-working class.
So that goes along with my argument.
They only ask, how are you going to pay for it if it's money going back to regular workers?
Do you understand?
It's illegal.
It's not going to happen.
Trump is lying about it.
But once again, directionally, it is still pro-working class.
It's only a moral hazard if you are opening up your wallets.
If you're opening up the government coffers to give money back to the worker, that's it.
I know so many of you are negatively polarized towards Trump, but understand what I am saying.
I'm not saying Trump is actually honest about giving $5,000 to every single American.
He's lying.
He's lied.
The total amount of money that he has lied that he was going to give back to the regular
folks in america is now up to almost twenty thousand dollars
he said this with the dodge cuts
dividends are going to be paid off to every single american worker
the tune of
thousands of dollars that was a lot
he said this with the tariff refunds he said tariffs
are going to circulate money back into the pockets of the average worker it
actually shot up prices it got destroyed by the supreme court and now
all of the taxable revenue collected
an entry fee in the form of tariffs is going back to those same corporations who jacked up your
prices. Okay? But ultimately, any initiative, whether directed by the Republican administration
or the Democratic Party, any initiative that recycles money into the pockets of the working class
is immediately hit with, how are you going to pay for it?
Okay, I'm not saying Trump was honest.
I'm not even saying it's this is legal what Trump claimed he was going to do is legal.
It's not.
$225 billion in medical debt.
That is more than the GDP of half the states in this country.
Medicare for all would allow us to actually provide every single person cradle to grave
insurance without having to worry about losing it.
If they turn 26, if they get a job, lose a job, get married, get divorced, turn 65, always
you can lose your insurance in this country without having to pay as much as they overall
pay right now.
That seems to me like to be a great deal.
The only losers, well, the CEOs who are making tens of millions of dollars right now on an
inefficient system that is locking a lot of people out.
And what about taxpayers who are worried that, you know, they're going to have to help pay
for this with a hike in their taxes?
Will they?
Look, I'm looking for billionaires to pay their fair share by taxing their wealth.
Yeah, so if you're a billionaire in this country, you probably should be worried.
But for most of us, when we get paid in a W-2 every two weeks or four weeks, after the
government takes taxes, you know who eats first?
It's the insurance company that eats first.
Imagine not having to pay that.
Imagine having to pay less and knowing that that health insurance that you paid for is
going to be there for you without having to worry about paying a copay or a deductible,
the money you paid to get the health insurance you thought you already paid for.
Imagine the notion of not having to have them pick who you can see through a network,
instead of being able to see any doctor you choose. Medicare for all would free us from
the deep anxiety that millions of Americans face just because they get sick. That's what
I'm looking for and I think it's going to take us, yes, standing up to the corporation
to tell us what we cannot have and should not fight for.
And on this issue and every other one, if you're elected, you're going to have to work
with Republicans to...
For the working class, Medicare for all would actually lower their out-of-pocket costs for
healthcare. At a time when premiums have skyrocketed year over year and it's
gotten to a degree where it's completely unaffordable, okay? Medicare for all would
cut costs down dramatically and you would no longer be trapped with your
employer, with your employer-tied healthcare. You could actually make
lateral moves if you wanted to. You can move into a different job without
having to worry about your, without having to worry about footing the bill for your entire health care.
That's it.
We already have a system where people are paying unbelievable costs.
It would actually lower the cost for the average person, for the average working class individual.
Who do you think you can work with in the GOP?
So look, I've heard from a lot of Republicans who say, yeah, well, you know, this current
situation under Donald Trump is not really working for anybody.
You look at somebody like Josh Hawley.
Now he and I are not going to agree on everything.
But he seems curious about what unions could mean if we were fighting for pro-union legislation.
He seems curious about what it could look like to buy a lot of folks out of the current
predicament when it comes to health care by guaranteeing health care through Medicare
for all.
So I'm looking forward to building that conversation.
But more broadly, it's not just about the conversation that anyone senator has with
the 99 other senators.
It's about the conversation that we all have with the 350 million people who elect all
of us.
And I believe in persuasion.
Maybe I'm old fashioned that way.
But it's the reason that I come on your show, it's the reason I went and talked to Jesse
waters on fox the reason that i spoke to us on piker to talk to three million
people who listen to it because i think that when you believe in your ideas and
you're willing to defend them that there are a lot of people who might believe in
them too
so i'm looking forward to having a conversation with folks across my state
and frankly across the country about what we could have if we were really to get
past the corporate chokehold in our politics to get money out of politics
to put money in your pocket
yeah josh holly is a good example to use even though it's like i mean he's
obviously a total scam artist total con man he's
He doesn't have a single real left populist bone in his body, except for maybe the bone
inside of him, if you know what I mean, depending on whichever guy he's allegedly sleeping with
that night.
Having said that, it's good for the purpose of this conversation for Abdul to be like,
yeah, I'm willing to cut deals with anyone who is actually willing and able to protect
the interests of the American working class.
And pass Medicare for all.
And a huge conversation this week, of course,
has been artificial intelligence.
You said on Friday that it is the existential crisis
of our moment that keeps you up at night.
You do have a proposal to turn AI companies
into public trust organizations.
Can you talk about how that's going
to address this current debate over AI pacing and safety?
well you just spoke to uh... the c o of anthropic dario on the day who's been
thinking a lot about this problem he in fact
he wonders why it is that we leave it to big corporations to pursue what is
going to be the biggest technological transition
of our time when in fact
we know that there's a lot of real risks here
and because of this
this race that either is made up or uh... or inflated
uh... you're seeing the pace of technological uh... development outpace
the pace of safety
If you had public oversight over this in the form of
democratically elected or appointed members of at least 50% of all of these public trust corporations,
you would imagine that they'd act far more focused on what is in the public good rather than
what is for the private benefit of a few billionaires.
And that's what we're proposing.
This would allow the best of technological innovation to continue forward while making sure that there are guardrails.
But this is the only part of our plan.
We also think that we need a public agency focus directly on the safety of AI.
And there need to be AI no-gos.
AI shouldn't be able to deny you healthcare.
It shouldn't be able to deny you a job.
It shouldn't be able to fire you.
It shouldn't be able to fire a weapon.
There are things that we should not be using AI to do, and
we collectively have to decide that we need public oversight so
that all of this technology is not being created for
the interests of a few against the well-being of a many.
And I don't have to bring this up.
I know you already spoke about this.
But that hugging face situation where you had a few AIs hop their sandbox and then hack
a website, that should send a shutter down all of our spines.
We need to act and we need to act now.
So we've also been calling for a pause on any of this frontier AI research until we
can assure that this is being done safely.
All right, Dr. Elsa, we'll have to leave it there.
But thank you so much for your time this morning.
As Mitchell elections fast approach, Democrats facing new questions about whether to embrace
more controversial figures, including far-left candidate Abdul El Sayed.
Here's what he had to say when he was asked about his relationship with far-left streamer,
Hassan Haiker.
This is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer in California.
I've done four events in Michigan this week.
You know what didn't come up?
Twitch streamers in California.
Yes, far left, controversial, anti-Semitic.
They already established that this is like how I should be branded.
This was a multifaceted, multi-front attack.
It moved from right-wing circles that used to call me this for like the last three years
to liberal media as well.
now liberal media has normalized it, now liberal media has made it so that this is the way
that I will forever be regarded, maybe not forever, but at least for this cycle, for
this midterms election.
Most people understand this is bullshit.
Most people understand that this is completely ridiculous.
Most normal people understand that this is completely ridiculous.
actually backfiring on a lot of these outlets. And I keep repeatedly explaining this over and over
again. Like in the real world, people see this kind of bipartisan attack and their response to it
isn't, oh, wow, everyone hates this guy. I should probably hate him as well. No, their response to
this is the exact opposite. Where they see, where they see this bipartisan attack and go, well,
this guy probably has some good ideas. I hate mainstream outlets. I hate Fox News. I don't
like CBS, it's probably, you know, this dude is probably doing something good.
That this is anecdotal for the most part, but that is what I have seen so far.
Okay, that is what I have seen so far from people in the real world, wherever I am. Some
people do get duped. Yes, of course, they're going to get duped. Some people still have a lot of
trust for mainstream media. If they have a lot of trust for mainstream outlets, and they see this
kind of stuff, yes, they will believe it. In any case, this was something that I also
talked about yesterday. I said, this is precisely why people don't like corporate media. Barry
Weiss only cares about making the Michigan race about an anti-Zionist Twitch streamer
in my negatively framed low light reel, it's deeply unserious, it won't even work, and it's
destroying their remaining credibility. They are willing to toss what remains of their credibility
in the gutter, in the trash, destroy it, light it on fire. For the last three years, they did this
to protect Israel, to preserve Israel's interests, and they lost a lot of credibility. Okay?
Okay? Now, they're doing this to attack prominent critics of Israel. It's the same exact trendline,
okay? It's the same exact trendline. The only difference is we have the capacity to fight back
here, okay? I have a competitive enough platform, a large enough platform that I can push back
against this kind of thing, and people can actually come and hear what I have to say directly, okay?
They can listen to what I have to say and make up their own minds about whether or not what I'm saying is truly unacceptable.
Some people are going to feel that way. I'm not everyone's cup of tea. I totally understand that. I'm rude. I'm brash.
I tell it like it is. And I don't speak in a boring, sanitized, academic tone.
Some people are not used to that. They don't like it.
But many others actually do appreciate that.
Many, many more people hear that and go, well, you know what, this guy's fucking angry and so am I.
A lot of these liberal outlets and political figures, I expect, are just waiting for Netanyahu to lose re-election
and they think the public opinion will shift back towards Israel.
I worry some will, but many won't and they're not ready for that. Yeah.
I think that's the goal here.
I think that's why Hillary Clinton came on television and basically said, basically said
Benjamin Netanyahu knew that October 7 was going to happen and made an inference that
it was an inside job.
When she went on Morning Joe the other day, that's when I realized like, yes, they're
trying to knife Bibi, they're trying to knife Satan Yahoo with the hopes that they can preserve
Israel's image in the Western world by saying, oh, it was all Benjamin Netanyahu who was responsible
for everything that you hated. And, you know, now that either Gadi Eisenkott won or whoever wins in
Israel, still might be Benjamin Netanyahu that wins. But whoever wins, if it's not Benjamin Netanyahu
in a coalition government that he builds again on, you know, with the expressive far right elements,
as he as he did successfully um last time around
there go a little bit to uh to engage in a declaration oh my god here we go
hold on hold on
hold it's not a mini f it's a big one it's very very annoying
Okay, we're back. Yeah, the attitude is that the calculation is very clear for Benjamin
and Yahoo under the bus, and then act as though he is singularly responsible for everything
that people hate Israel over, right? That is what they are trying to do.
David Cleon had a take on this as well. He says, everyone has to eat, so I can't judge people
who continue to work as CBS. But when the boss comes to you with a memo saying you have to ask,
I'll do it all, say it incessantly about Hassan, and that once isn't enough,
that's when you reveal your character. Yeah. And all of this is for nothing. It's for not.
David Dole also said her response is at all, but Republicans have made it a big attack on you,
which is his point. They've manufactured yet another culture we're issued to distract away
from the reality people are living in under Trump and the media regurgitates it.
No, I don't think they for the for those of you who are asking the question, will this work? Will
this be successful? Not on not only on the Obdual Sanfront, but like, will it be successful? The
idea that is it is just the idea that this is entirely Benjamin Netanyahu's policy. It's entirely
Benjamin and yahoo that is at fault here for everything that people
hate about israel no it won't work
but did come up
grocery prices the fact that people can't see a doctor
the worry that they have about the quality of air and water
i'm not interested in having a conversation about streamers in
california because they are not raising the prices
of gas and groceries a nice well rehearsed answered their founding party
yeah it is a good answer though and that's why you look silly when you
incessantly hammer on. Well, you know, nice answer, but of course, people don't care about
affordability and what they care about instead is a son piker. No, they don't. They don't. No
matter how much you try to push this point, they don't. And not only do they not, the ones that
actually entertain my commentary, the ones that actually come in to see what I have to say about
these issues, they realize that it's bullshit. So go ahead, keep attacking me. It literally helps.
It helps. It's at most a distraction that is unsuccessful for the campaigns
that have to answer this over and over again. And for me, it's beneficial. You constantly are
hitting me as a prominent critic of Israel. You're smearing me, you're slandering me.
People fucking hate that. People don't like deplatforming. People don't like cancel culture.
You are deploying cancel culture. It is so funny that the Trump administration that won
against cancel culture, a vote for Donald Trump is a vote against cancel culture. That was the whole
point, right? Those very same guys don't realize that they are, that they're doing the exact same
thing that Americans despise. Okay, have I seen a viewership boost on on YouTube? I've seen a
massive viewership boost on my Twitch not not as much because you know obviously these people are
not going to most of the people that watch on on mainstream outlets that that you know
watch MS now don't know how to get to Twitch in general.
boomers do watch youtube though your vods are almost 800k the fuck you mean i guess maybe it helps the
vods i don't know any way south hill strategies column read joining me now i thought he handled
that as well as he could have but i think it also sort of misses the point because he has
been clearly associated with hassan piker and has not distanced himself specifically from him the
the Wall Street Journal, writing about fractious,
let's just say fractious, if you will,
different parts of the Democratic Party.
Of course, the DSA has been having a breakout year.
I wanna quote now, the caucuses account for
much of the DSA's chaotic and cacophonous reputation.
Their ranks are small, no more so than,
say, a few thousand members, according to most estimates,
but they are the movement's most active
and committed members.
I think that's a fair assessment.
What do you make of what's happening with respect to the DSA and its growing influence
within the Democratic Party, Colin?
Well, Kevin, we're just seven weeks out from the midterm elections, which is hard to believe.
Football's back, people are back in school.
It's all coming, it's all crashing on right now.
And look, that guy like Abdul El Sayed, he is the embodiment of extremism.
And you saw the way he addressed that question yesterday.
He's uncomfortable distancing himself from a guy like Hassan Piker because he knows that
Son Piker speaks for many of his followers who helped get him across the finish line
in the primary election, and he's unwilling to risk losing their support in the general
election.
But the challenge, Kevin, in these midterm elections for the out-of-power party, like
the Democrats, is you want to be the political equivalent of vanilla ice cream.
You want to be inoffensive.
You want to be acceptable.
You want to be just there is the alternative.
And guys like Abdul Al-Sayed can poison the water for everybody else who's running in
candidate in red states, where you cannot be as extreme and far left wing as guys like
I'll say it. So if you're the Democrats, what do you do to soften the overall image because
the truth of the matter is Colin, what the Republicans will probably do is they will
use one candidate in a number of different races and just, just point to him and say,
you see, that's what they are. That's what they're like. Even if they say the candidate
in a particular state, isn't that person. Do you understand what I'm saying? Of course,
the guilt biases. I think one of the craziest parts about this is that like guilt biases
Association techniques don't work against the Republicans.
It doesn't work against the Democrats unless the Democrats let it work.
Right?
Unless the Democrats are like, oh, no, we are guilty.
We're so guilty.
We're so pathetic.
We're such fucking losers.
I'm so sorry that Hassan has ever voted.
Hassan and his community of dangerous radical Islamic,
jihadist terrorists have ever voted for a Democrat.
I apologize profusely.
And unfortunately some Democrats are doing that.
Okay.
Having said that, it's still by and large, doesn't matter.
I think, regardless of how much Democrats are making this into a salient point, a salient narrative,
by leaning into it for their own personal factional calculations. Having said that, however,
having said that, however, you know what does actually matter?
What the Trump administration is doing? It's not even guilt by association if your campaign
manager is a white supremacist. That's your campaign. That's your ideology. It's not guilt by
association if you yourself have said things that are identical to a content
creator or a campaign manager that is outed as a white supremacist. The
problem with the Republicans is there is tremendous party unity around these
issues. They believe it, okay? They believe it. They believe the things that we say
about them and that's precisely the reason why they do not back away when
asked. The great example I can give you is Michael Johnson. Mike Johnson was asked about Brandon
Herrera, also known as AK Guy. He's a YouTuber. He's a YouTuber turned into a congressional
representative. He's running in Texas right now. He said heinous things for years and years and
continues to do so about women, black people, minorities, all this stuff. Okay?
Here's Jake Taber asking Mike Johnson about Republican candidate Brandon Herrera.
Ask you, you talked about some of the more extreme. I need you to understand something.
Brandon Herrera is running. Okay. Brandon Herrera is running for Congress. He's not a random
YouTuber any longer. He's running for Congress as a Republican. Okay. The gun guy. DSA type
candidates that Democrats have. Republicans have some candidates like that on their own.
There's no equivalence between even Dariah, Lisa, Trivalier, and Brandon Brown.
For Dariah, the most you can do is look back at her previous tweets when she was a private person,
about like jokingly talking about, you know, dating white guys or whatever, right?
Nowhere near the same. I know, I know. Hold on, hold on, hold on, it's fixed. Okay, we're back.
For Daria Liza, at most, you can take seriously something that she said and make it seem like
she's anti-miscegenation, even though she is a product of miscegenation, ironically enough, okay?
She's clearly joking when she talks about like dating white guys or whatever,
but it doesn't matter. They take it sincerely. They act as though this is a real policy position
that she has. Brandon Herrera has said heinous shit, not just jokes, right, but believes heinous things.
Since Brandon Herrera, he's a House candidate in Texas.
You've endorsed him.
You've fundraised him for him.
He's a, before he started becoming a congressional correspondent, I mean congressional candidate,
he's a YouTuber and he has said some offensive, sexually explicit, crude things about women
and children.
Here's a little bit of what he said just three years ago and I want to warn viewers that
this language is pretty gross.
Just because you let somebody cream pie you doesn't mean I have to give a shit about your
political opinions.
The fact that you kept your cum trophy doesn't make you any less wrong about the dumb shit
that you say.
That's him disparaging moms.
He's also in a video testing a Nazi-era submachine gun.
He called it the quote, original ghetto blaster.
You see him goose-stepping to a Nazi marching song in a podcast two years ago.
He joked, we should abolish old people.
I have to say, I know you're not a voter and that just-
Dude, come on, man. Keep it directional. Like some of these things are actually jokes for the record.
Like the abolish old people is like clearly a joke. If you add that into the conversation,
you actually dilute the message that you're running on. You actually make it less serious.
Okay. You can stick to the actual things that he believes. The com trophy one is crude. It's rude.
And I get it, that's a valid line of attack.
If you throw in abolish old people into that equation, it's the equivalent of the Republicans
using a meat pick of me.
On the one hand, they say I'm an Islamic jihadist terrorist.
On the other hand, they're like, look at this hot guy flexing and showing off his meat.
Mr. Rick, you didn't nominate this guy, but I was surprised to see you endorse him and
fundraise him, fundraise for him.
What is his candidacy saying about the Republican Party's more extreme candidates?
Let's look, detestable language, you know how I feel about all of that, Jake.
But also, no Brandon Herrera has been out running a very effective campaign and explained
to people that he, as Paul asked for all that, he was a podcaster and a provocateur and tried
to get attention. That's not the way I...
Yeah, he was a podcast owner provocatory. He's apologized for it.
Interesting, because yesterday you talked about my statement on 9-11, which I
literally did apologize for. Brandon Herrera has never apologized for any of
the things that he said. Let's be real. He never apologized for it,
and he still believes them. And also, a sloptuber asked Stalkman why he
wasn't tweeting about Brandon Herrera. Only focused on you, and his answer was
basically an admission that only Hassan Bagg content gets engagement.
Lamal? Yeah, of course.
Speaker thinking is not the way most do, but that was his persona online. Right now he's
running as a very serious candidate for Congress and a very thoughtful guy. I was with him at
the convention. We talked about all this. I said, Brandon, when you get to Congress and
he will be there, you're going to join this team and help us to save America, to preserve
freedom and bring down costs for the American people. That guy's laser focused on doing
that and he is far superior to the candidate he is running against down in that district
in south Texas.
I'm telling you, this is a contrast election between common sense and crazy.
Brennan Herrera will join the common sense team of Republicans making life better for
Americans while the DSA candidates that you referenced, the Democrats of America, have
said what they want to do.
They put it on paper, Jake.
Their platform is abolish the border, abolish prisons, defund the police, defund the Pentagon
and the Department of War.
one of the most dangerous times in American history, they want to abolish the U.S. Senate.
They want to pack the Supreme Court and give one unicameral body to house all the power.
Why?
Because they want, they think over two or three cycles, they'll elect enough Marxist
socialist communists to take over the means of production.
That means no more private property ownership.
Compare that agenda with some crazy things that people have said in their past.
I think the choice here is very simple.
I think Republicans are going to win up and down the ballot around this country and we're
going to defy history, grow the majority, and move the country forward just as we have been doing
for this Congress in the last year and a half or more.
Why can't Democrats do this? I mean seriously, why can't Democrats do this? This is a very
successful deflection. If you're looking at it like this is, I'm not giving you,
I'm not saying that Mike Johnson is right. Of course. He's not okay
But can you like this is a person who's running for office like he's on the ballot double standard is staggering for a Twitch streamer versus a guy literally on the ballot
Democrats could just as easily turn around and be like this guy's a Twitch streamer
Okay, you have literal campaign managers campaign staffers that are straight up sig high link
You have Elon Musk who has sigiled at the inauguration dumping a hundred million dollars in the midterms again
His worldview is identical to the worldview of the candidates
This is not a real problem
He gets deflect away from it over and over again telling us that this is not a real issue at all when it is clearly a real issue
Because it is at odds with what America is about with American values. It is the most anti-American
thing you can push for
Yeah, they're holding a Twitch streamer to a higher standard than actual candidates on
the ballot.
There's absolutely nothing that can make a Republican criticize another Republican unless
they break from fascism.
And for the record, they're holding me to a higher standard supposedly than the president.
Okay?
And it is mind boggling to me.
Which is mind boggling to me that Democrats have not made that a bigger point of concern.
Part of that is because they themselves agree with the line of attack.
They see us as a nuisance.
Even for those who have never heard a single minute of my commentary, they still hold the
same exact positions on Israel.
They still hold the same exact positions on Medicare for all.
They still want the same exact things and they want the Democrats to represent those
interests.
We've seen this.
We've seen this up and down the ballot all around the country in races that this community
had nothing to do with.
Peggy Flanagan, Angie Nixon, there have been major upsets and major margins of victory.
The people want the same thing, whether I'm there or not, it doesn't matter.
should have proven the point. That's where we're at right now. There's an appetite, a
real hunger for change, a real demand for policies that improve people's lives. And
yet the media actively tries to move the conversation back to Twitch streamers, move the conversation
back to uh... culture war issues over and over and over again
creation of the real phenomenon
and it's something that that that that uh... democrats of using as republicans
in past years to great effect in something that i think
of now the shoes on the other foot but look the road to the senate majority
especially it runs through red parts of america runs through places like iowa
and ohio and alaska
uh... and potentially texas and then there's states like michigan and and
new hampshire and the senate races they come down to really tight margins they
come down to really the candidate quality really matters. And if a guy like Abdul Al-Sahed
is the focus of the conversation, not only is he not going to win in Michigan, which
could deny the Democrats their Senate majority, but he could cost them elsewhere as well.
Let me ask you about what the Republicans should be talking about with respect to grocery
prices, with respect to drawing a contrast between say the DSA.
I want a real poll out there. I wish someone would run one of those messaging polls where
it's like, do you believe America's actions in part were responsible for 9-11? I want to know
what the average American thinks about that, because I know for a fact that if you were to ask
Americans about this, two things I would love to see in a poll. One, do you feel as though America's
actions in some way caused 9-11. And two, do you feel like what America did after 9-11,
the global war on terror, was a failure? We know the second one is obviously a overwhelmingly,
overwhelmingly popular position. Okay, we know that for a fact, because Donald Trump ran on it.
Donald Trump ran on the Iraq war being an abject failure and won against Hillary Clinton in 2016.
That would be an interesting poll to conduct. Not one where you're like, this guy says he loves
9-11 and wants it to happen. This guy with a Muslim name loves 9-11. Do you think he should be
involved in politics? That's a dumbass poll. That's a dumbass poll that you are,
You know, asking a very specific question to get a very specific answer.
You can sponsor one.
That shit's unbelievable.
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Paul's can run between 20 to 200k depending on how expensive in question a sample size is and how respected the pollsters is.
It'd be funny if you're willing to throw a bone for one. Yeah, I know. It's unbelievably costly. People are so funny where they think like, oh, you could just like buy one yourself. No, I can't.
It's an insanely insanely expensive endeavor.
Another way of looking at this is that the third way tweet represents a meager 8% of
Democrats which begs the question, why is this Oregon's fellows gets so much media airtime
pretending to speak for the other 92%?
Yeah.
California Governor Gavin Newsom tells Sanders Jake Tabard that he won't run for president
in 2028 if Kamala Harris runs.
Oh wow.
Look at that.
The establishment already consolidating support around one candidate over the other.
That's crazy.
A literal federal agent by the way.
Oh yeah I saw this.
Well, he gets tremendous popularity on TikTok and doesn't have to be the recipient of endless
attack ads. So he is of course, a far, far less controversial figure than myself. Something
alongside these lines is something that Ludwig said that I was thinking about. A lot of people
yelled at him on Twitter. I think it's whatever he was saying that like clavicular is one
one of the most impactful streamers, right? Of 2026. And I found that very interesting
because like, obviously that's somewhat of a controversial statement depending on which
circles you run in, right? This guy was, you know, singing Heil Hitler not that long ago,
went to Israel, right? You know, that kind of stuff is, is obviously totally ridiculous.
But it's the same thing with like ex QC doing a campaign rally with Donald Trump, who gets
considered toxic in what kind of circles matters. Clavicular and XQC, regardless of their impact,
are not considered truly odious or truly toxic figures or truly controversial figures, although I
am. Like, I don't think a lot of people would ever say something like that about me, because everyone
would yell at him. The reality of the manner is, the reality of the manner is,
for a lot of slop tubers who also hate clavicular, it is far less, he is far less controversial
a figure than someone like myself. You know, that's it. If you're on the left, if you are on the left
in any way, shape, or form. If you're progressive, even Ludwig himself is a, you know, progressive figure,
and that's why he gets a lot of attacks. That's why he is the recipient of a tremendous amount of attacks.
If you're progressive, and you have any impact whatsoever, slob tubers run the show. They basically
dominate discourse. It's totally fucked up. This double standard exists between Democrats and
Republicans as well, let's be real, although I am to the left of the Democratic Party,
it's virtually impossible not to notice the insane standards that Democrats have to abide
by at a time when Republicans just say whatever they want, do whatever they want, they can
do actual crimes and they won't get punished by it.
Max Miller is a great example of this.
There's only one direction that everyone is unbelievably unfair towards, and that is
the left. It's always slanted in the leftward direction. I'll give you another example.
Chris Brown. Chris Brown obviously is quite the controversial figure. Jasmine Crockett
recently issued like a like a congressional award for Chris Brown at a Chris Brown concert.
Okay, Jasmine Crockett won't even endorse James Tallarico.
Chris Brown gets an award.
This past Saturday night, hold on, I'm gonna see if I can find it. I'm gonna see what she did.
A ceremonial congressional recognition during a concert in Arlington, Texas,
U.S. Representative Jasmine Crockett delivered this ceremonial congressional recognition
during a concert in Arlington, Texas, right? Now a lot of people are yelling at her.
What's crazy to me is that she is more in support of Chris Brown, a domestic abuser.
Then she is of Jasmine, not Jasmine, sorry, then James Talarico. Not only that, but also,
here's another example of the unfair standard that's deployed.
Chris Brown gets a Congressional Ceremony of Recognition.
Meanwhile, Macklemore is barred from the tour that he was supposed to appear on.
You can even look at Kanye West as an example. Kanye West had a successful concert in Chicago,
140,000 people attended. That happened while I was also in Chicago at the Socialism Festival.
Kanye West gets to do these major arenas, despite the fact that he is now known as the
Hile Hitler guy made a song. He made a Hile Hitler song, but that is not as controversial
as what Macklemore did. Macklemore went in front of a major crowd in the Ed Sheeran
tour, and now he's barred.
Yeah, Kaiowes did a song titled Hile Hitler and is currently doing a concert tour, which
was included multiple dates of Raymond James Stadium in Tampa that has banned
Maglamore for saying end the genocide and free palace line is fucking absurd this
is what I mean it's it's unbelievable it's on fucking believable this is
crazy who we consider to be controversial who we consider to be
truly bad. Who we as a you know the bubble overall this I'd have bad vibes and
right off is totally inconsistent. The only thing that's consistent about it is
if you are to the left you will be punished endlessly. If you are to the
left in any way shape or form you will get yelled at you will get punished
and was the guys that was literally three seconds
the same double standard exists
it but it always is directionally to the left
will talk about maclamoran a little bit don't worry
let's get back to the part of the democratic party and what the solutions
republicans
should be offering as the voters get ready for the midterms
well the ds a and the democratic socialists america writ large they
have a huge and growing influence the democratic party and they have put
forward a playbook is on their website you can see what they have to offer and
it offers things like criminalizing the police
abolishing ice
getting rid of the senate
eliminating the presidency all these crazy things and that's what the
republicans need to do is they need to set up a very clear contrast between the
views of what's happening in the ds a
versus what the Republicans want to do
and cast a very forward-looking message.
I think one of the most impactful things
coming out of last week's convention in Dallas, Kevin,
was the fact that a died-in-the-wool progressive
like John Fetterman appeared on video scream,
because it speaks to the fact
that sensible, moderate, middle-of-the-road people
may not have a home in today's Democratic Party.
And that's really gonna be the challenge,
because there are a lot of people
in the so-called moderate middle
who may identify as Democrats,
but don't identify as socialists.
And I think that's gonna be the real challenge
for the party moving forward.
Final thought from you.
Yeah, Kevin, I agree.
Socialism should have any place in our political discourse,
especially in our 250th birthday,
for our freedom from the...
Why does this guy sound like extra, extra?
Read all about it.
I agree, socialism has no place.
Read all about it in the press.
In the newspapers, you see?
You won't hear this in the radio.
UK and everything that happens.
Socialism eliminates exceptionalism.
It punishes success,
and that is not the American spirit
that's gotten us here.
Oh my god, oh my god.
Nevermind, I'm getting cooked again. I'm getting cooked again.
Right as I was reporting.
AI agents, swarms are taking over the stream. No, it's not that. We can hear you fine when
it glorives. You don't need to pause every time. I mean, I do because I want to make
sure that the editors edit out the the weird artifacting you know so I I don't
want to you know I don't want the the the final product on YouTube to suffer
because of the the ridiculous artifacting
today marks 50 days until the midterm elect
All right, anyway, we're skipping this shit. All right moderate Dems driven out
Okay, dad in North Carolina a Democrat
Demsparks average over con for bonds against Trump supporters. What is this?
Shelly heating. Okay, whatever
Latest in the war with Iran the standoff of it. All right, let's get to the energy prices. Actually, let's talk about Macklemore real quick
Let's talk about Macklemore last week I covered
the attacks against Macklemore. And I told you that Macklemore, after delivering a statement
saying free Palestine, free Sudan, free Cuba, was going to get attacked mercilessly and that
they would pull him by force off the Ed Sheeran tour.
Okay.
Because,
because it wouldn't be,
it wouldn't be Ed Sheeran.
It wouldn't be like the pressure from the public.
It would be the actual venues,
the actual venues owned by Zionist billionaires.
Robert Kraft proved that point.
Okay. Pro-Israel billionaires that have a tremendous amount of power and influence decided
that they would cancel Ed Sheeran's tour if he allowed Macklemore to continue opening
for him. Okay. We're going to be talking about the, you know, does anyone have the, the,
God, everyone is sending me the fucking links, but I want to show what the offending incident was
initially. Okay. The offending incident that Macklemore got taken off the tour for was
so unbelievably ridiculous.
Okay.
Well, Maglamar come on stream potentially.
I've been talking to him this morning.
Maglamar drop from Ed Sheeran tour after on stage free Palestine statements.
Okay.
Here is what I've been trying to figure out a way to.
Here is what Maglamar said that caused tremendous chaos.
Okay.
It was yet another instance of manufactured outrage
Say this all day
One of the reasons why I wanted to come on this tour was because I wanted to stand up here on
Stages and stadiums across America and say two words that are very near and dear to my heart
free
Palestine
I said free Palestine. I want those words to be loud and clear so that people from Gaza
all the way to the occupied West Bank know that we have not forgotten them. And this
next song was inspired by the bravery of Columbia University students who led an encampment
movement that mobilized the entire world, open up hearts, myself included.
So thank you to those students that risked their diplomas, that risked their tuition,
that risked their scholarships, that stood up and said no.
CUAB students, students for justice and Palestine and Jewish voices for peace, thank you guys.
To all of my Jewish brothers and sisters, criticism of Israel, criticism of apartheid
Being against genocide in no way is a criticism of you.
My message is for peace, love for all human beings to be treated with dignity,
respect and equality. So I say free Palestine.
I say free Lebanon. I say free Cuba.
I say free Congo, free Sudan, free all people in America,
living in fear over this terrorist organization ICE.
None of us will be free until we are all free.
That's it. That was the offending incident.
This caused the media shitstorm, total manufactured outrage.
They found like one Jewish dad who was there and then they kept quoting him over and over again on Fox News, on CNN.
And the pressure campaign started now. I told you at the time that this wasn't real pressure from the public
If you were to ask the public they'd be like, I don't even care about this. This is awesome
I'm glad that Macklemore is saying the things that I also believe because remember this is a 90-10
for the Democrats the people are going to engineering consulates they
They all
overwhelmingly agree with this
Pink came out with a statement everyone was yelling at pink because she was you know on a tear
Saying Macklemore is is a villain all this stuff, right?
Hold on I'm holding I'm holding
But of course as I warned as I warned
Last week, that this was going to inevitably be an issue because venue owners would apply pressure.
My fears were realized. As of this morning, Macklemore has been dropped from Ed Sheeran's tour after onstage free Palestine statements.
statements.
Macklemore has been removed from the rest of Ed Sheeran's stadium tour after several
venues allegedly told the treks promoter that they would not allow the rapper to perform.
The news came after Macklemore made several on-stage statements in support of Palestinians
in Gaza and the West Bank in call for a free Palestine.
An exclusive statement shared with Rolling Stone, the Messina Touring Group, the US leg
of Sheeran's loop tour said, as the concert promoter for Ed Sheeran's U.S. loop tour,
we have been notified by venues on the upcoming U.S. tour dates and that they will not allow
a concert to take place with Macklemore on the lineup, which would result in the cancellation
of the tour and impact hundreds of thousands of fans.
After discussions with stakeholders, Macklemore will not be performing on the remaining tour
dates.
This is a disaster.
Ed Sheeran had all of the leverage in this moment to say, no, I'm taking a bold stance.
You cannot cancel this tour, it's not going to happen, because the public pressure would
be far too great.
In an instance where corporations tried to create a pressure cooker, Ed Sheeran could
have stood strong, loud and proud and said, no, we're continuing the tour as is.
And yet he buckled, he caved.
still frustrating to watch.
Maglemore was slated to appear at eight of the 10 shows left on the US leg of Ed Sheeran's
tour, which is set to resume this Friday on September 19 in Philadelphia.
The venues that allegedly objected the rapper include Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia,
Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts, Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta, Lucas Oil
Stadium in Indianapolis, Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, North Carolina, AT&T Stadium
in Arlington, Texas, and Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
for Sharon and most of the venues did not immediately reply to requests for comment.
Macklemore released a statement on Instagram. We're going to read that statement now
before I get to anything else.
I'm not sure how to start this, so I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed
Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from the loop tour, but before I get
into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment, I think it matters.
I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money,
opportunities, safety, and audiences around the world. Whatever cost was any of us face
for what we say, we get to go home to our families.
The victims are the Palestinian people, the men, women, and children who have been killed,
starved, and displaced, and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than
20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people
will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell the story, we don't lose sight
of that. Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio
sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love.
I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this
past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end
in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because
I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our
friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.
Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding pink, and what I said
it meant life, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette
Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said
I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some
of the other stadium owners and collectively gave him an ultimatum. If Macklemore stays
on tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues."
Ed was in a fucked up position. He knew it. His typical apolitical stance was being challenged
in a way it had never been before. He told me the words Free Palestine and the image
of the Palestinian flag were hurtful to a lot of people he spoke with. I told him that
if those words were more offensive than tens of thousands of Palestinian children being
killed by Israel, then there was a fundamental disconnect between where those people stood
and where I stood, but he couldn't get past his public facing, I don't take sides.
And I get why people don't.
Taking a side can cost you money, brand deals, sponsorships, festivals, private shows, relationships
and access.
I've lost all of those things, but there is no neutral position between the oppressor
and the oppressed.
When one side has the bombs and bottomless financial and military support from America,
refusing to take a side doesn't leave you in the middle.
What I said it meant life.
I have been saying on stages around the world
for almost three years.
So why is it an issue now?
Because now I'm sharing a stage
with one of the biggest artists in the world
in some of the biggest stadiums in America
at a certain level of exposure.
Free Palestine becomes too much of a risk.
If I kept doing the show saying Free Palestine
with Ed implicitly supporting it,
the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support
for Palestinian liberation,
What artist might speak out next?
The stage becomes resistance.
Maybe that's why at this time it became so important to silence me.
And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation
of anti-Semitism.
Anti-Semitism is real.
And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism
of the Israeli state when critiquing Israel.
Opposing Zionism or saying free Palestine gets conflated with the hatred of Jewish people,
it doesn't protect Jewish people.
protects Israel from accountability. I hope this is the end of my relationship with Ed.
13 years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement.
I hope we both continue listening, studying what's happening in Palestine,
and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this.
My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.
When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted for MetLife,
I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic,
There is no thanks for a duty that stayed with me because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world a duty not something deserving of praise or gratitude, not brave human who is winning the internet who is getting cancelled who gets to play a stadium and who doesn't all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza in the West Bank.
an entire people being displaced, starved and killed, while the world debates which
words we are allowed to use to describe it, how those words make us feel, and whether
our discomfort matters more than the people living through a genocide.
I didn't need ten shows from Ed. I needed two. Two chances to stand in front of ninety
thousand people and say the words that somehow became too dangerous to say. Free Palestine.
If those words cost me the stage while turning the conversation back to Palestine, then it
was the most successful tour I've ever been on.
One day, everyone will have always been against this.
The overwhelming majority of the masses in both the western world and all around the
world understand.
You was calling bro cringe a couple years ago don't switch up, I mean come on shut the
fuck up chatter, I've literally apologized for that over and over again, okay?
My opinion on his music is utterly irrelevant in this moment, like what are you talking
about?
Macklemore is a stand-up guy.
This is also part of the reason why I get frustrated with people that are on the left
that will attack people like myself, attack people like Macklemore, attack people who
are under tremendous amounts of pressure to stop them from doing the right thing.
Macklemore in a moment where it matters the most has consistently done the right thing.
You might consider that to be bare minimum, but the reality of the matter is, in a world,
and yes, I know I'm getting blasted again, hold on, I'll wait for this, I'll wait for
this moment to pass, okay, yeah, in a world, in a world where the super wealthy who are
unbelievably pro-Israel, directly at odds with our humanity, directly at odds with the majority position, can still make these statements costly.
It still matters when someone sticks their neck out. So I'm not going to lean into people trying to engage in this cancellation.
Macklemore is a great person
Okay
You might think oh he's doing the bare minimum, but even doing the bare minimum
Causes you to get an endless amount of shit. Okay, and he's not doing the bare minimum. Let's be real
Robert Kraft on the other hand is an incredibly pro-Israel psychopath
We are going to look at his commentary and his statements as well in his successful
cancellation of Macklemore opening for Ed Sheeran.
Here is one of the funniest things that he did.
Robert Kraft runs a massive Zionist Surveillance and Propaganda Center inside Gillette Stadium.
If you recall this was on CBS Saturday mornings.
It shows where it's coming from, the time of day, and how it's trending, especially among younger people.
We saw that not only is he an anti-semitism grower across the country, it's disproportionately grown in college campuses and in high schools.
Which is part of the reason Kraft says he partnered with the United Negro College Fund and the Jewish organization Hallel International to host unity dinners throughout the country.
Hallel International to host unity dinners throughout the country.
So let's get to it.
Baruch college students Aiden Herzlinger and Akeesh El are among the more than.
Yeah.
That's the Robert Kraft here.
We'll talk more about some of the other stuff that he's done as well.
But let's let's read his statement.
And then I will tell you what else he has done.
Statement from Patriot's owner Robert Kraft after Maglemore was dropped from
insurance tour following what Maglemore described as Kraft's intervention after
the singer advocated for Palsign during a recent concert.
Gillette Stadium has a long-standing commitment to providing a welcoming
environment for all guests and ensuring that events held at our venue do not
provide a platform for hate speech based on Maglemore's recent actions.
Materials shared from the stage during insurance shows in New Jersey in a
broader history of anti-Semitic rhetoric and imagery that we believe has been
deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community. We determined that his
participation on the September 25th and 26th concert, Gilles stadium would cross that line.
This decision is not about diminishing the suffering of innocent Palestinians or denying anyone
the right to advocate on their behalf. Their pain and loss are real. No, it is about that.
I hate this nonsense. I hate this like insincere garbage fucking bullshit. It's total bullshit.
What did Macklemore say or do that was offensive to Jewish people?
Is it when he said that Zionism and Judaism are separate?
Is it when he said that criticizing Israel is valid?
And it's not criticizing our Jewish friends who we love and admire.
It's bullshit.
I don't know why these guys still maintain this position as well.
But who is this for?
Everyone knows what you're fucking doing.
Everyone knows what you're saying.
You can't on the one hand say, oh, we feel for the victims and, you know, pal innocent
Palestinians, we feel for them while simultaneously punishing someone who said free Palestine
for the act of saying free Palestine, Robert Kraft, we know what the fuck you actually
believe is the same with Jonathan Greenblatt, right?
Yeah.
Robert Kraft has given millions, the pro-Israel organizations like APAC got a $1 million award
from Netanyahu for helping stop people from boycotting Israel. Israel does not have a more
loyal friend than Robert Kraft, Netanyahu said. Now Kraft is kicking Macklemore off
of Ed Sheeran's tour personally. Robert Kraft has done other nonsense for Israel as well.
Until 2017, there were no American football fields in Israel. This is what Robert Kraft's
contribution was. Robert Kraft is also consistently sponsored by the touchdown in Israel trips,
at least three of them. Okay? Kraft is sponsored by the touchdown in Israel trips, where it
takes NFL players on a tour to the Holy Land in the hopes of making them ambassadors for
the state of Israel who will talk about what a great country it is. If they've had the
experience we hope they've had here, that they'll become ambassadors for the state of
Israel, the city of Jerusalem, and talk about what a great country it is, if they've had.
Man of hand, deep dive into a robbercraft. Yeah, Patriot son of robbercraft who allegedly got
a share in a kick magamore office to a receiving award from Israel presented to him by Nenye Alvarez
commitment to design his project. After my family, there's nothing I'm more passionate about than the
the state of Israel and my Jewish identity crapped it was born and became a billionaire
America says he pledges to challenge those who are against Israel and announces he will
spend 20 million dollars to fight anti-Semitism on social media, targeted at young people
and attacked the BDS movement.
Listen to how he touts Israel being a bastion of free while he works to suppress free speech
in America.
Craft also touts how Jewish Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich has pledged 5 million to
his fund as well.
Abramovich later fled to Russia for Israel after the Ukraine war broke out.
His award show was held on June 18, 2019. The award he received was Israel's Genesis Prize.
Jeffrey Epstein wanted Robert Kraft to hire his lawyer amid Patriot's owner's prostitution
case document show.
Wow.
How surprising.
How shocking.
Yeah, Ms. Rachel also called out Ed Sheeran, I quote, retweeted this, Ed Sheeran had an
opportunity to show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine
instead he caved to people who refused to accept what the world knows, a genocide is happening
in Gaza.
need to speak out against it.
This is not about how the New England Patriots are evil chatters please stop.
Robert Kraft pays for America's train with the IDF in an illegally stolen Israeli territories.
from his passport, the Israel program speaks of trips to the Golan Heights and illegal
West Bank settlements, by the way, Robert Kraft is straight up a fucking demon. Okay.
He is unbelievably pro Israel. He's done horrible things outside of that, obviously.
But yes, these guys have tremendous amounts of power. They can engage in deep platforming.
They can engage in censorship.
And they often do.
Even when it's a deeply, deeply unpopular issue.
People of good conscience have to stand up against this.
They have to.
It's so fucking frustrating.
Oh yeah.
We cannot let actions like this discourage us from saying the truth, okay?
It is far, far too important to always say the truth.
It is far too important not to give up on this fight, regardless of whatever hurdles super
powerful people throw our way, including but not limited to the internet getting destroyed
on my end.
But yeah, we must always say the truth, no matter what the cost is.
And yes, people who traffic and lies, people who are biased towards their emotional support
apartheid state will do everything in their power, and there is a lot of power out there.
To silence you, to punish you, to make it costly to say the truth, we have to double
down. We have to double down.
Incredible example of how NFL owners are mostly idiots because there's no way Macklemore
said it in 2026. We get the amount of attention it's going to be getting now without them
doing something like this. I think it's a little bit of a coat. It's a little bit cope
to say, oh well this actually causes more attention. Sure, that's I guess the silver
lining of this, of this entire endeavor. But the point is that this is an exercise of power.
It would have been far better if Ed Sheeran pushed back, okay? It would have been far better if Ed
shared and pushed back and said, I'm not going to do this. Go ahead, try and cancel this tour.
You will be buried in a mountain of paperwork with millions of fans all around the country
that will be frustrated that they can't see their favorite artist.
The whole point of this is to make other celebrities recognize that if they speak,
If they speak out against this atrocity that they're recognizing that they see unfold that they too will lose millions of dollars
potentially
That's what this is. This is a disciplining operation
It's always better
It's always better to push back and I really wish that Ed Sheeran did that
What a sad
pathetic state of affairs this is
Ed Sheeran performed at Crafts 2022 wedding when he married this woman who is 40 years
younger and several inches taller than him, yeah.
Again.
We have to stand united.
We have to show solidarity.
We have to make sure that if billionaires have money and concentrated power, we still
have the people.
Because if we are divided in this moment, if we think, oh, it's fucking Macklemore who
cares like it's silly, then we are allowing the chilling effect to continue.
Okay?
Here's an Ed Sheeran fan who says, in light of recent disappointing events, we're running
Ed Sheeran in his tour.
This update account will be taking a break from obtaining the shows, except if they are
related to the Macklemore boycott.
Loop Tour UA is deeply saddened and disappointed by Ed and his team's decisions.
Here's to hoping a decent statement will come out from the British artist team.
It is not a political stance to be against the massacre of innocent people in their homes,
and we hope Ed Sheeran can see this and reflect on his decisions.
Thank you all for understanding.
What is this?
Robert Kraft has sought to ban Macklemore from insurance tour, funded Donald Trump and
his name was included on Netanyahu's list of millionaires leaked over a decade ago.
It seems Netanyahu considered Robert Kraft to be a funder of his election campaign?
Yeah.
What's also crazy is Kaya West has allowed to perform in this venue, which is like, you
know to add insult to injury or to prove the point that I've been making for a
long time as long as not seriously in opposition to the state of Israel you can
be anti-Semitic and it doesn't really fucking matter. Kai West did a song titled
Heil Hitler and is currently doing a concert tour which has included multiple
dates of Raymond J. Stadium in Tampa that is banning Megamorra Bank and the
genocide of free Palestine fucking absurd. Cyril Domestikabuser and
assaulter Chris Brown is on tour right now and just got congressionally honored
on stage the fuck are we doing these guys do not care about anti-semitism no
matter how much they claim they do okay
these people know these people know that they don't have any allies in the real world they know
that their world the walls are closing in their world is getting smaller and smaller but it doesn't
matter because the people that still have this unconditionally pro-Israel support,
this unconditionally pro-Israel position, they're some of the most powerful people.
So they can continue exercising their power over and over and over again. We have to push back
against this. Okay? We have to continue our advocacy. We cannot let them win. The truth
must prevail. Justice will prevail. But only if we continue our advocacy, only if we are
still bold and proud about our positions, knowing full well that we have the majority
on our side, knowing full well that we have a righteous cause.
disappointing, but it's not unexpected. Anyway, let's get back to Robert Kraft's idiotic statement now.
The decision is not about diminishing the suffering of innocent Palestinians or denying anyone the
right to advocate on their behalf. Their pain and loss are real. Their advocacy should not come at
the expense of the Jewish community or obscure their responsibility of Hamas in the United States
and globally, including blah, blah, blah, terrorist organization. I agree with Macklemore. Too many
lives have been lost and there has been too much suffering, but only sharing selective information
and ignoring the actions of Hamas is not honest and only advances more divisiveness and hate.
Over many decades, I've directed resources to Palestine and created athletic and entrepreneurial
opportunities for Palestinians who I admire and respect. Standing with the Palestinian people
and standing against Hamas, anti-Semitism and hate should not be mutually exclusive.
Much of my time and attention for the last decade has been focused on the fight against
anti-Semitism and hate of all kinds, and I feel the responsibility to stand
up when I believe that the line has been crossed. I have tremendous respect for Ed
and his music, particularly his unique ability to bring people together and spread joy, and I've
always been proud to welcome him and his fans at Gillette Stadium. I would welcome the opportunity
We need to sit down with Macklemore and discuss the facts because ultimately our goal is the same piece for all people and an end to suffering and an end to all hate Robert Kraft.
Bullshit.
supporter who's been
for combating these real
critics.
It's clear that our
Billionaire, loyal, billionaire,
placing their emotional support,
by EV for combating Israel's critics is clear that our billionaires are placing their emotional
support apartheid state in its genocide over free expression. We must not let this happen.
Can I stop in stop saying invite him on stream gang? I already did. Okay, shut the fuck up
please. Jesus Christ, dude. I already did.
Yeah, Bill Maher had this to say in 2019, I wonder if he'll say the same thing now
about Robert Kraft. So we find out now, the lady who ran the massage parlor where Robert
Kraft got caught as Trump's friend who sold access to, I can't. Trump is so dirty, he's
Even in his Rubin Tuck scandal I can't I need the day off.
Anyway.
You sleeping on some far collabs gang?
I'm not sleeping on it.
What do you want me to do?
I already invited him.
It's so wild to me. The double standard is so glaringly obvious, dude. You fucking speak
out against genocide. You speak out against Israel. Even if it is the overwhelming majority
position, it still doesn't matter. They will punish you. They will discipline you. They
will make your life a living hell. I know this because I'm currently in the center of
this exact same issue taking place in political discourse.
Mark Ruffalo experienced the version of this as well in Hollywood.
And now, Maglamore is experiencing it on the music side,
on the industry side of music.
These people are not going to let up, okay?
For them, it doesn't matter.
The reputational damage doesn't matter.
They know that they have all the power.
They're fucking billionaires, man.
They have all the goddamn power.
Yeah, there's stiff competition, but Bobcraft perhaps made the most useless self-serving donation of all time when he built an American football stadium in Jerusalem.
This is the guy.
This has to frustrate people, right?
Like, even if you're not...
Even if you're not the biggest, like, Israel hater or whatever, like, this has to be frustrating, right?
Seeing seeing the obvious ways in which billionaires get to dictate what is said and what is not said
Like that's got to piss you off a little bit, right?
Especially when it's done at the behest of a fucking foreign country. How is that appropriate?
Yeah, it's so fucking clear. It's not about anti-Semitism. It's all about israel because in 2014 the adl took mac
More at his word and forgave him when he did the caricature that was called out and he apologized for it
And he said he didn't mean it and but understood the offense to it
Yeah, well in 2020 the ADL wrote a report about how my moderation team was excellent when we did the AOC collab and now I'm public enemy number one or maybe number two according to the ADL.
Also
Here's another thing
Here's another glaringly obvious instance of hypocrisy and you see this quite frequently with like those who supposedly defend free speech
Robert Kraft believed players at a right to criticize the United States
But when supporting an artist that was mildly critical of a foreign government his support for peaceful protest goes out the window
This is what's so strange to me about Zionists in this country
They literally have
They place extra protections on a foreign country, on Israel, then they do about America, okay?
And this is not like, uh, uh, expressly an ethnic thing either.
This is not like, uh, uh, Jewish supremacy demonstrated by American Jews or anything like that.
This is, you know, Mike Huckabee is also another great example of this where like,
even from his perspective, he'll get mad at you if you criticize America.
They'll say you're unpatriotic, but they will never go to this degree because most of these people who are Israel first
There's understand that if they were to run around and be like, oh, you need to be the platform for criticizing America
Everyone will laugh at you. Everyone must say that's a fundamentally
un-American
Whereas whereas
Israel is far more important
It's backfiring, it's been backfiring, I know, but these moments still obviously are discouraging, right?
Jasper Nathanius' Macklemore says Robert Kraft rallied NFL owners to get him kicked off at Sheer's tour by threatening to withhold access to their stadiums as conserved venues, and that Sheerren ultimately relented, so as not to take sides sucks, but at least Kraft got his happy ending.
Get it?
Robert Kraft.
Happy ending from the Rubin Tug incident.
Billionaires get to dominate our lives, get to dictate what we can and can't say.
And people are oblivious to this reality.
I think it's fucking unacceptable.
It's unbelievably frustrating.
To exist in this world.
For the straight up for moves and new.
Anyway, um, let's get to the energy crisis.
Two attacks on Saudi oil have sent fuel prices higher as President Trump downplays the impact.
Chief White House correspondent Mary Bruce has a story.
Good morning, Mary.
Good morning, George.
Fuel prices are at record highs.
The war with Iran is widening, and now this morning there are growing concerns.
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Cerns that more of the global oil supply is being choked off in Yemen, Iran-backed
toothy forces moving in on a key shipping quarter in the Red Sea, and in Saudi Arabia,
drone attacks have forced the kingdom's critical east-west oil pipeline to be shut down.
Now, no group has claimed responsibility, but the president says he believes Iran is
to blame.
All of this is driving up the cost of oil.
Now, at $107 a barrel, the average gallon of gas, now $4.25, that's up over a buck
30 since the war began.
And diesel is at a record high, $6.20 a gallon.
That's impacting the cost of just about everything you buy.
Now prices have been on the rise ever since President Trump launched this war more than
six months ago.
But now the president is shifting blame for the rising diesel prices to Ukraine, saying
they are responsible as they continue to attack Russian diesel refineries, George.
And, Mary, back home, it's hard to believe it's come to this, but it appears that the
Kennedy Center may actually declare bankruptcy as early as this week as this dispute over
whether or not to put President Trump's name on the center continues.
Yeah, George, officials at the Kennedy Center are warning that it is on the brink of financial
collapse and could have to close as soon as tomorrow unless President Trump's name is
added to the building.
This is according to a draft resolution obtained by The Washington Post.
This warning appears to be part of an effort by Trump's allies to convince a judge that
the future of the Kennedy Center hinges on approving Trump's name on the building.
Now, the president has offered to help raise funds for the center if he's given name recognition.
trying to block the name change, say, quote, Trump is taking the center hostage and threatening
to in effect kill it unless he gets his way.
George.
Harry Bruce, thanks.
Breaking news.
President Trump has just posted on social media this, the failing nation of Iran wants
to make a deal quickly and badly.
I will determine whether or not the USA will choose to engage the concept of which we are
open to.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump.
And remember where we are in all of this.
The president recently, again, doubled down on his promise to wait for them to fail.
And the wait might not be too long.
Their economy is in dire straits, within some areas, triple digits for inflation on things
like food.
And that country is having a problem, reportedly, coming up with the paychecks for the very
people that are in the IRGC and their military.
So here they are in the middle of a war.
Now remember earlier this hour,
I told you that they are spending some cash
on those Hootie rebels to go after the competing straight
along with the Strait of Hormuz, the Bible Mandep.
So while they are doing that, their own people suffer, yes,
but so does their own military,
so does their own government.
Are they quick to falling?
These words from the President of the United States,
I will determine whether or not the USA
Yeah, um, Fox News is back with copium power hour.
Um,
this has been the point from the Trump side off the rip.
Apply pressure to Iran. Try to continue crippling their economy before they collapse the global
energy market. I don't believe that it's going to work.
We'll choose to engage the concept of which we are open to
We'll stay on it. That was just moments ago be sure to like and subscribe for all the Fox
Vanessa
Houthi say Red Sea operations will continue until the Saudi blockade ends
So we talked about this already, but there is a
There's perhaps no better proof of the Houthis not operating as a pure proxy to Iran, but
independently with their own sovereign interests.
Then the fact that they only attacked Saudi Arabia after Saudi Arabia expressed their
desire to continue the siege on Saddleah, the siege on Yemen.
I'm sure from Iran's perspective, it would have been beneficial for the Houthis to do
what they're doing right now far before this very moment, but they didn't.
The Sana'a government is actually seeking a de-escalation in all internal fronts.
The target of Sana'a escalation is actually the Saudis, and what we are seeking from the
Saudis is to end the blockade and to end the aggression against Yemenis.
So we say that the ball is in the Saudis' playfield, so it is their decision to stop
this war.
Actually, stopping the war is a common win, it's a win-win situation.
The Saudis have a lot more to lose than what Yemen has left to lose.
And Yemen has already gained big military capacity.
So this operation, this military action, is all in Saudi's hand.
All that we have done is put the equation of a blockade for a blockade, an aggression
for an aggression.
The Saudis are the ones who started this war against Yemen.
They started it 12 years ago with the, with the asafas.
I think the rebel group, uh, moniker is still not correct by the way.
It's obviously an improvement from terrorist group or whatever.
But the Houthis or unsettled law, um, consider themselves to be the Yemeni government.
considered their forces to be the Yemeni armed forces and they are not a rebel group, especially
at this point. They are the government. They are the de facto government of Yemen, not
southern Yemen, but, you know, I guess northern Yemen, Yemen.
But to start in this moment, and I know you're referencing the attack on the runway back
when a plane full of Houthis was coming back from the Iranian Supreme Leader's funeral,
and you say that this is in response to that.
However, your critics would say that you're actually trying to secure the control over
the Red Sea as the Iranians continue to tighten their grip on the strait of Hormuz.
So this opening of a new front, a new theatre is part of that.
We don't need to actually overlook the Ritzi or Babel Mandep Strait to impose a blockade
against Saudi ships, thanks to our advancing military abilities, whether air abilities or
sea abilities, we are able to impose a blockade, whether we control Babel Mandep Strait or
we do not.
This is true.
If anything, this is actually putting them in a more dangerous predicament, because they
don't have enough time to build underground facilities in the newly captured territory,
especially in Mocha.
So if anything, am I still glooping?
No.
What the Yemeni Armed Forces did here, what Ansarullah did here is actually putting them
in a risky position overall because they have hardened positions where they've been able
to withstand aerial bombardment campaigns over and over again from both the United States
of America, Saudi Arabia, UAE since 2015.
In Zana, in the positions surrounding highly populated areas, it's very clear that Ansar
Allah has been able to bunker down and create sufficient defenses. They do not have that
in Moka. So this decision from Asala Allah to push all the way to Moka, to push all the
way to the coastline was actually a risky decision. It puts them at great risk. It puts
them at great risk of being bombarded by the Saudis, being bombarded by the Americans.
Now, of course, it's much more difficult for America to engage in bombardment campaigns
on who the positions now, because they have their hands full and are overextended.
They have their hands full in the Strait of Hormuz.
So I guess it's a calculated risk from the Asala movement.
Having said that, however, to say that this is exclusively to apply pressure to the United
States of America at the behest of Iran would be a mistake because they can continue to
dominate the Bab al-Mandib straight from afar with their ballistic munitions and with their
drones.
They've been able to do that.
They've also done tactical deployments directly onboarding carriers.
I mean, not carriers, sorry, onboarding oil tankers as well.
They have demonstrated their capacity in the past.
As a matter of fact, these Audis are the ones who are blockading Yemen from using this straight 3D.
They have been besieging us for the past 12 years.
So we are defending the freedom of maritime navigation in the Red Sea.
Our operations are there to protect the freedom of maritime navigation.
We want to ensure all other countries who use the Red Sea that we are not targeting them.
The Babel Mandab Street is free for navigation for all countries except for Saudi Arabia.
You say that your focus and target is Saudi Arabia and you're not going to harm any other
ships going through the Red Sea.
Have you given those assurances to the U.S. President, Donald Trump, who says that the
Houthis have reached out to him a couple of times?
The Trump announcement is incorrect.
Sana'a government does not have any direct communication line with Trump or with the
official U.S. government personnel.
Our communication is through an Oman as an intermediary between both countries.
And we have ensured at the beginning of our operations, and after the Saudi breaking of
the ceasefire agreement that was signed in 2022, we have always assured all other countries
and regional parties that we are only targeting the Saudi ships.
The U.S. vice president has said that the United States is in direct talks with the Houthis.
Do you reject this?
I assure everyone that there are no direct communication lines between Sana'a government
and the United States officials.
We don't mind this kind of communication, but it hasn't happened.
During the airstrikes that were carried on by the United States against us and when we
were targeting their ships and the Israeli ships.
What is your intention now? Do you intend on taking over the south of the country? Where
will this end and what will end the fighting? Why is Yalda not calling him a disgusting
monster? Why is she having a normal and formal interview with this guy? He's literally a
I wonder if my haters will get mad at this.
Perhaps that is the function of a competent media.
You say the ball is in the court of the Saudis, but you continue your attacks on Saudi sites
and Saudi vessels.
So how do you see this ending?
And do you intend on, you know, attempting to take over the entirety of the country?
Again, we say that the ball is in Saudi's play field.
We are ready for peace.
We have been ready for peace for many years.
we are seeking is an agreement that restores dignity for both countries. We want to be
an independent sovereign nation. We Yemen and Saudi Arabia can reach an agreement where
they are both peers, not one follows or obeys the other. We don't have any plans for military
expansion or controlling more geographical areas in Yemen. The issue is that Saudis
have pushed their Yemen allies to move militarily against us. The occupation or freeing of Makhah
on the west coast was not our goal. However, it was the result of the consequences of the Saudis
moving its mercenaries inside Yemen to fight us. Our hand is extended for peace and for
an internal dialogue and for a ceasefire. However, at the same time, you are not afraid of the Saudis.
Just let us face the Saudi enemy. All we need to do to the Saudis is blockade their ships
from passing through the Red Sea and apply enough pressure for the Saudis to lift their hands
and their mercenaries from controlling Yemen and blackheading it.
Just to be clear, you say that you are targeting Saudi ships, not American ships,
not Israeli ships, not ships from anywhere else. Your target and focus is the Saudis.
Yes, we assure you that we are only targeting Saudi ships, and that is because they have
been targeting Yemeni ships and Yemeni, preventing the freedom of maritime navigation for Yemen.
as a response for their aggression and their areas of resistance and their targets, our
message for the Saudi and your aggression and your blockade on Yemen and we will end our
targeting of your ships and blockading your ships from passing through the Red Sea.
What would have been a critical meeting between officials?
This dude was active in the Dutch Socialist Party. Wait, really?
I can't tell if you're kidding or not. I just I genuinely don't know.
What is this? Shake down the reason a country like Saudi Arabia invests so heavily in developing
a security partnership with the United States is for justice sort of eventualities that
Mr. Ratney, the former ambassador, crump is Mohammed bin Salman Asadi, maybe the country's
de facto ruler, had reasons to be confident in that partnership for years as government
has invested billions of dollars in extensive political capital and building a personal
relationship with Donald Trump.
And his family, at least when you pay money to the mafia for protection, they actually
protect you if for nothing else than to keep their business going. This is just getting
scammed by a garden variety, New York con artist whom the entire GCC was falling over
themselves to placate yeah literally even the mafia protects you during the
fucking protection racket Mitch died again are you gonna talk about it yes
dude yes okay I am but we're covering some more in important issues right now
okay Jesus fucking Christ we're gonna get there before I talk about Maglemore
everyone's like what about Maglemore what about Maglemore now I talked about
Maglemore everyone's like oh what about Mitch McConnell like I don't know if he
died or not. We don't know. But if he did, he would have been dead for a long time, okay?
It's not recent.
From Oman in Iran is now back in limbo. They were supposed to discuss fully reopening the
Strait of Formos. The U.S. was not going to be part of these talks, but to learn more
about what happened here, I want to bring in, see in a National Security Correspondent,
Kylie Atwood, back in the Situation Room. Welcome back, Kylie. So what happened here?
Yeah, so essentially not all of the countries were actually going to show up. And so the
Omanis who were organizing this made the decision that if you weren't going to have all the
Gulf countries coming to the table, it wasn't going to be effective to have the meeting.
But to take a step back here, the meeting was to discuss a new mechanism that the Omanis
have put together to try and organize traffic through the Strait, to get the traffic through
the Strait up and running in a regular way.
Because there is a widespread recognition that the post-war status of the Strait of
Hormuz is not going to look like what the pre-war status looked like.
There's not going to be a world in which there isn't a mechanism that has to do with the
routes going through, the safety protocols, potentially fees that need to be paid by tankers
now which didn't exist before.
Now the Trump administration has publicly said that they're okay with the status quo
right now.
There are those military escorts that are getting oil through, but sources in the administration
do acknowledge that that's effectively a short-term fix.
And Vice President Vance actually spoke about this meeting that was supposed to happen today,
not happening.
that the U.S. still has its eyes on these conversations about what the long-term solution
is going to look like.
Listen to what he said.
It's a concern, certainly, in some of the words, even pretty close tabs on what we've
been in constant contact with the Emiratis, the Saudis, and others who are affected in
the region.
So it's something the United States administration is very much on top of.
We've also been engaged in direct conversations with the Houthis themselves.
So we actually feel like we are on top of the situation.
It's a very fluid and dynamic thing, but we're going to keep on monitoring it, making sure
that America's best interests are represented.
So as you can see there, the vice president making it clear that the administration wants
the region to really focus on what the solution would look like long term.
We'll have to watch and see what these backdoor conversations look like because these amendments
have now been shared with the Omani's putting this mechanism together, and we'll have to
watch and see when this meeting actually does happen after it was supposed to happen today.
Yeah, if it happens. Alright, thank you so much, Kylie Atwood. And continuing this conversation,
the price of oil is surging again after a weekend attack on a Saudi oil pipeline.
It's been key in bypassing the straight-up form.
Yeah, I like that me and the vice president are doing the same thing, monitoring the situation
from afar. Perhaps you could do a little bit more considering that you're the vice president,
But who knows?
$109 is not enough for people to wake up. It needs to hit $150 plus. I mean, I think people,
I think the cattle will still continue moving.
I'm gonna be honest with you, even if it hits 150.
Brother, I've heard Trump supporters say, I'll just walk wherever I have to walk to.
As long as Iran doesn't get a nuke.
They're so, they are so unbelievably invested for no reason, but they are, nevertheless.
Anyway, Iran's Security Council Secretary Rezai says,
Don't get distracted by the US President's mixed signals from no negotiations that we're
ready to talk.
The stakes around oil and streets have changed.
Damage control won't stop what's coming.
No talks until Iran's conditions are met, period.
Here's the other side of the story.
This has been gangbusters for the American oil giants and gas giants, because they're
the ones who are like the sole supplier to Europe now.
And when the cost of a barrel goes up without impediments to the supply on the American
side because it's far removed from the conflict, they end up making record high profits.
So they're chilling.
They're chilling big time.
Not great for you guys, obviously, but it never is.
It's good for you. It's not good for our petrocapitalist pedophiles. It's good for
our petrocapitalist pedophiles. It's not good for the rest of the world, whether it
be their contributions to anthropogenic climate change or whether it be their contributions
right now. But if you're wondering why the American gas prices have gone up when we are
an exporter nation, that is the reason. Because we're selling to the rest of the world specifically
to Europe. So when the prices go up, that is incredible.
Bruce LaBruce shouted you out on IG pretty good for a foe.
About what?
What is my favorite Ed Sheeran song?
Am Israel High.
That's my favorite song by Ed Sheeran.
I found where he states he was a member of the Dutch Socialist Party at 352.
Socialist Party lived in the Netherlands for seven years and was a member of the Dutch Socialist Party
Where I was an activist for the Palestinian cause. Oh my god
I also lived in Canada
That is why I know that there is a lot of good in these Western countries and communities
That's crazy. Mohammed al-Bukhati senior political officer in spokesman for Yemen's Ansar Allah movement
I think if there's one group on the planet that's not going to condemn me, it's the Houthis.
Let's be real.
This is the only, this is, this is the only anti-Trump political force on the planet that's
not condemning me.
I could see the Communist Party of China condemning me before the Houthis.
The problem we run into as people trying to achieve justice in this world
is the lack of unity and coordination between each other,
fear in our spirits and the lack of awareness amongst the masses.
Asala military media witness the Saudi strike on a calm tower somewhere between Haiz and Al Jarahi.
There in no way they got the music going.
Oh my God, listen, they're very pious people, okay?
That is a crazy introduction.
He said the full thing.
That's how pious people talk, dude.
No, I know.
The Houthis are very, I mean, they're very religious people for sure.
The shortened version of this is Bismillah, okay?
That's usually what you hear from Turks at most.
Bismillahir Rahmanir Rahim is like the most common version.
What he said is the full thing.
I have no idea how to say it.
I don't even know what it, it's just like he's, he was clean with it.
He said the whole thing, dude.
Bismillahirrahmanirrahim. Alhamdulillah, our Lord of the worlds, peace and blessings be upon our master Muhammad and his family and his followers.
the
Anyway, um, yeah, let's get back to this back to the onslaught law movement. Oh
also ExxonMobil posted a $14.5 billion profit for the second quarter doubling
from the second quarter last year Chevron posted 12.1 it's highest ever
quarterly shell posted 9.8 billion which also more than double from second
quarter last year so where's the explanation don't tell me the war don't
me it's how economics work, don't tell me Trump. It is the war. That's literally what it is. Because
now our oil exporters, our oil providers are the sole supply for European markets for oil and gas.
It's not like they're also... Now they don't even need to artificially reduce the supply,
let's be real because the supply has been organically reduced. There isn't even artificial scarcity at
this point. There is real scarcity, and that's precisely the reason why, because their production
is unimpeded because of their proximity to the battle. Even if they're receiving some attacks
on their facilities in Saudi Arabia, on their facilities in the Gulf, which they are, because
they still own some of these facilities, they still partially own some of the facilities in
Saudi Arabia, for example. Ultimately, the amount of money that they're making on the back end
for being the sole energy provider to Europe is incredible. And that is precisely why, as I said,
they're making tremendous super profits. This guy is wrong. The Strait is open under control of
of American forces. Wrong. Our reserves are being replenished and beefed up due to the
Venezuelan deal. Wrong. Get the cost of oil keeps rising back over a hundred barrel and
for what? Back over a hundred dollars a barrel for what there really isn't much of a threat
if Iran attacks a ship with a baby bomb. They lose half a city. Wrong. So the second half
of this from a Trump supporter who's like really annoyed with the gas prices demonstrates
inability to comprehend exactly what's happening here. Okay? No. The reason why these guys are
charting record high profits is because, yes, 20% of the entire oil supply of the world has been
gutted and eviscerated by Iranian actions in the Strait of Hormuz, and now also on top of that,
there's additional pressure on the oil markets by the Ansarullah movement against Saudi oil tankers,
as well.
European natural gas price first to January was $28, it is now at $83.
The tanker traffic account was just predicting that the east-west pipeline would be back
up in a week.
Every O-Center is fallible with biases.
Associated Press reports that repairing the damage on the east-west pipeline could take
three to five weeks.
Of course, it's going to take three to five weeks.
It was active when it was blown up.
That is far more consequential than if it was not active and they blew it up.
It's much easier to repair an oil pipeline if it is not transiting oil when it's blown
up. Won't they just blow it up again in four weeks? Exactly. They could. The goal obviously
is to repair the relationship before you repair the pipeline. And no, it wasn't Iran that
did it. It was Assad Allah. Even though they're claiming it was the Iraqi Shia militias that
did it, I think it was Assad Allah. They just don't want to give Assad Allah too much credit.
I'm so confused with the Houthis blow it up or blow it up or rock their spec, their suspicion that it might have been a rock but I think it's the Houthis.
Repairs Saudi Arabia's East West oil pipeline could take three to five weeks to regional
officials briefed on the damaged oil AP. The line may operate partially during repairs,
but officials could not say how much crude would get through. The pipeline had been
helping roughly move four million barrels of exports per day. About 4% of global oil demand.
Reuters reports Saudi Arabia's Red Siamble port has only five to seven days of stored crude
Two sustain exports before the shortages begin to bite US Energy Chris Wright.
US Energy Sector Chris Wright struck a more optimistic tone on Monday,
telling Bloomberg he expects the pipeline back very soon.
Wright said he has been in close contact with the Saudi counterparts since hours after the
attack and may have more of a timeframe for him tomorrow's official finish assessing the damage.
What are the Energy Secretaries across the Middle East, including policy makers and Saudi Arabia,
saying about what's going to happen to the east-west pipeline?
Well, look, this is not new for strikes on this energy infrastructure and of course,
unfortunately Iran has done a ton of that, but they've proven resourceful in the past.
I think you'll see the pipeline back running very soon.
Have you spoken to your Saudi counterpart?
Why do you think very soon?
Can you give us a timeframe?
I might have more of a timeframe tomorrow, but yes, I've been in close contact from him
since hours after the attack started.
So they've been very carefully assessing what the damage was, what needs to be done, and
I think more clarity on that will come out very soon.
As you know, Secretary.
What are the...
Yeah, anyone's thinking, what's the big deal of the 4% cutting global oil production?
Next week, that's the scale of the 1973 OPEC crisis and the 1979 Iran war oil crisis.
prices, each followed by a major recession. Prices in supply are global. Global oil stocks
are already gone. It's a calamity. People seem bizarrely blasƩ about this, that we
forget bad things can happen to us. 4% production loss is a global recession-producing event.
Spiking prices will benefit Russia. Trump will use it to demand Ukraine's surrender.
What am I missing here? This is one of the most severe energy supply situations in modern
history. None of us will be untouched by this. The Strait of Ormuz is closed. The East
West crude oil pipeline, the up kite Yambu NGL pipeline is effectively shut off for
the next four to five weeks. The Ansar Allah ballistic munitions. I'm waiting. I'm waiting
for the F10. What the fuck is getting worse? Come on. Okay, we're back. M is real high.
All right, as I was saying, the Ansar Allah movement has the capacity to target the Yambu
port.
It has the capacity and has targeted the Yambu port.
It successfully blown up the East West pipeline while there was oil transiting through the
pipeline, which makes the damage far worse, which makes repairs far longer to take.
And on top of that, they have gained a stronger foothold with a physical presence on the
island chain in the Babel Mandab Strait, which means that this is yet another major crossing
point, a major choke point that the Asala movement could potentially exercise their
blockade over.
a good position for the global energy markets. It seems most people don't understand how severe
the energy situation right now in the Middle East is. As of Friday, Saudi Arabia's US
pipeline has officially been shut down after recent attacks, putting 4 million barrels
of daily oil exports at risk. Meanwhile, the bottom line of straight is not risk of being
shut down, threatening up to 9 million barrels of daily oil supply. Now, of course, I do
believe when the Houthis say that they are not invested in attacking any of the other
ships, only the Saudi ones are not allowed to transit through the Bob El-Mandeb Strait.
Now, having said that, what percentage of the oil tankers or how many of the millions of barrels
are Saudi barrels, I do not know the answer to. Combined, this represents nearly 30 million barrels
per day of oil flows that are either offline or at risk. Even after accounting for some overlap
between these routes, the scale of the potential disruption is enormous relative to the 100
million barrel per day global oil market. This is one of the most severe energy supply situations
in modern history. I don't know why this Bob Elmondo guy keeps having to say he's straight.
There's a Hormuz guy as well and he also keeps saying he's straight and not gay.
Using Twitter as news is crazy, says Twitter. Wait, what? Do you think the last hour or
so of commentary and coverage from CNN Associated Press Bloomberg and numerous other outlets
were just Twitter posters like they were shit posters.
I mean, this guy just summarizes the point.
I already, I already explained the exact same point before I read the tweet out loud.
Because that's precisely what's going on.
Anyway, capital hunters continues oiling gas folks claiming that Saudi Arabia is working
24-7 and no expense spared can mean him maybe get oil flowing again in a week, but the Saudis
seem to have defense against the drone attacks.
I have no defense against the drone attacks that took the pipeline out.
This all seems very very dark.
Tankers are more and more so now half loading to get through the Suez then down and around
Africa it's fucking insane.
Got him.
I'm fucking kidding man.
Love your coverage.
Okay.
Zachary Cohen at CNN reports Trump administration officials have privately told those in the
Gulf region that they want to refocus any future U.S.-Iran negotiations on Tehran's
nuclear program and not reopening the strait, according to three sources familiar with the
matter.
Also, a Mondays meeting is postponed per Omani official.
This was supposed to happen today.
There is supposed to be a gulf regional super valid why do you share things like this what
connection do I have to them you guys are really strange how son are you turkish evid
turkup valid com valid mental it is a niki com valid kafasamana quim
Yes, I am Turkish. Since you are Turkish, show me.
We showed.
We showed at the convention of the republics.
Since you are Turkish, show me.
They said, I opened it and hit the table.
No.
No.
The Turks are not even aware, brother.
We showed the country the goods, we sold the country.
I put it on the table and said, the table is mine.
I put it on the table and said, the table is mine.
You don't even know, I put it on my phone.
I am here, in America, if you are from Turkey, show your country,
have you ever experienced any other person?
Ask yourself.
For example, Mehmet Ćz.
Have you ever shown your package?
Have you ever shown it?
No.
Ida et turkoÄlu
Enes kanter
HiƧbir malını gƶstermedi abi
Biz gƶsterdik
Abi haklısın beton yetmez
Yes
If you got hit by the table, you're right.
That's right, that's right.
We're screwed.
Anyway, don't worry about what I just said.
Okay, but why can you spit like this?
No flaws?
Are you talking about a nice Turkish newswoman?
What do you mean?
Because I'm talking about my penis right now.
It's much easier for me to talk shit in Turkish than it is to talk about technical stuff.
Yes, that's what I was talking about.
Dylan Saba writes, on a geopolitical level, recent developments in Palestine have also
unsettled this arrangement. For decades, the issue of Palestine made the full integration
Arab states with Israel, the other arm of U.S. power in the region, a major political challenge
on October 7, and the wars that have materialized in its wake have finally knocked the mix of coercion
and consent-sustaining American hegemony out of equilibrium. In a process that began under the
Biden administration, the United States has, over the past several years, backed Israeli aggression
and regional escalation that began with the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza,
and has now brought chaos to the Gulf in the form of a large-scale U.S.-Israeli war against Iran.
Iran has predictably retaliated in part by targeting the core nodes of U.S. power in
the region, military bases, and oil infrastructure.
This has left the Gulf monarchy stuck between a rock and hard place, and has exposed the
degree to which they are held hostage to the belligerence of their patron and its arsonist
junior partner.
As the previous arrangement has faltered, it is becoming increasingly clear that, for
nations other than Israel, U.S. patronage is a form of direct extortion, as I like to say.
All those security cooperative agreements overnight turned these countries and their
military bases into bullet sponges, bullet sponges at the behest of Israel's belligerence.
This is completely unacceptable for this resource-rich region. That is precisely the reason why
The region is in a panic state looking to create new security arrangements.
The regional security architecture is changing in front of our eyes. Now, of course,
many of the other regional partners are also backed by the United States, so at best they
can go to Turkey. This is exactly what they did. Saudi Arabia created the Mecca Accords.
But for the time being, it's not like Turkey or Pakistan, the other signatories to the
Mecca agreement, are attacking the Ansarullah movement.
Then again, the top dog in the region, the Hegemon, the United States of America, is
not doing it either.
For his part, Trump has seemed to revel in the elision of reliance on U.S. power and
personal fealty to him, speaking at the same FI summit as Kushner.
He openly mocked Saudi crumpets.
Bahamut bin Salman boasting, he didn't think he'd be kissing my ass.
He really didn't.
He thought I'd be just another American president that was a loser, but now he has to be nice
to me.
He better be nice to me.
And even as the economy suffers on the whole, those in Trump's personal orbit are making
a killing on insider trades and direct market manipulation.
Mark Gaines says before Trump too, the empire avoided wars against the ponies that could
threaten our gold-plated manned aircraft or ships.
The credibility of U.S. global hegemony depended on never testing if it's real Trump-belief
DC's bullshit and now the cover is blown.
This is of course what Gregory Brewer is reporting on for what is worth the most notable take-away
from me.
From the story of the downed F-15 crew, is that since early April the U.S. has relied
on standoff munitions, cruise missiles, high-mars, air-launched ballistic missiles, to strike
targets in Iran.
As I've reported over and over again, this implies that they are terrified of Iran's
anti-air defense systems.
anti-air defense systems, they're loitering munitions, and their optics they've created
in a matter of a super short period of time actually has created sufficient defense against
American sorties.
What do you want a treat?
Uh, Kaya, watch this, watch this.
Kaya, you want to treat.
I got you, lady.
Hold on.
Wait, do I have to?
This is espresso martini, that's the Zen flavor.
What is this?
He's not alive.
I don't know why he why he's uh posting this
He's alive way he is
And in the car, how you doing?
Oh
Oh my god, my boyfriend's alive.
Yeah, last time this happened it was Diane Feinstein, but it's a fiddle.
He's been ducking you bro, yeah this actually puts me in a unique predicament because honestly,
means he's just hasn't been replying to my text messages, which is, you know, not great.
I'll be honest, it's kind of fucked up. It is kind of fucked up that he has not been
responding to my text messages. He's been ducking me. Uh, messed up.
Ah, Trita Parsey, let's get back to, uh, let's get back to Trita Parsey.
You ho.
All she cared about was the treat.
Don't even look back at me when I said the T word.
Hi.
Anyway, let's continue with traffic.
Traffic is still at a trickle.
The pipeline shutdown is also contributing to near record diesel prices.
Meanwhile, President Trump this week can appear to blame Ukraine for diesel costs.
He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia.
Let him go after targets, not diesel fuel, because he's causing a shortage of diesel.
This isn't done by the Middle East.
This is done by what's happening with Russia and Ukraine.
Seidman's Matt Egan joins us now.
So Matt, diesel is breaking price records.
How bad is it and where is it headed?
By the way, he's blaming Ukraine and this is one of those weird instances where he's
like not entirely wrong, except it was with the American permission that Ukraine was
striking these targets. So what's really funny about it is like he's mad about his
own allowance, his own targeting. Like he's not wrong. Technically, I've mentioned this
over and over again in my reporting that anytime Ukraine gains leverage over Russia
by successfully and successively targeting critical oil and energy
infrastructure
this actually increases the pressure on america increases the pressure and
volatility of the energy markets broadly
leans into iran's leverage extends iran's
leverage it expands iran's leverage
but of course the solution to this
by a competent head of state would be to stop the blockade on the Strait of Hormuz by admitting
fault and pulling back and allowing Iran, recognizing Iran's primacy over the Strait
of Hormuz. Perhaps with a multilateral deal which includes Russia and China. What is this?
He wasn't per se for it. Come on he waited for a second Tosa. Why something about it?
Russian stooge? Ukraine doesn't get NATO targeting without America's go-ahead. That's
it. This didn't happen magically overnight where Ukrainian capabilities increased, where
Are they just like launched satellites into space, for example, and could give critical
energy infrastructure targets for Ukraine to pepper with drones?
I do believe that Donald Trump is very favorable to Russia.
I will be talking about this in a little bit.
Donald Trump Jr. His wedding was entirely sponsored by a Russian oligarch.
The irony of course is that Trump actually likes when Ukraine gains leverage over Russia.
He feels disrespected by Vladimir Putin to a certain degree, regardless of his fondness
for him.
Having said that, every instance of leverage that Ukraine gains over Russia by successfully
hitting its oil infrastructure is worse for the global energy markets and only expands
on the conflict.
It gives Iran more leverage.
Well, Pamela, this diesel spike has been historic, and it's something that really all of us
are going to feel because diesel is the MVP of the fuels, right? It's the fuel that's powering
the trucks and the trains, hauling the goods we buy online. It's the fuel that's powering the
tractors that farmers use to harvest the food that we eat. And it's also powering the boats and
the construction vehicles at the heart of the modern economy. And diesel has never been more
expensive than it is right now. Last week, it crossed over $6 a gallon for the first time ever.
Look at this, now it's well above that, 623 a gallon, a new record high, dramatically
more expensive than it was before the war started.
Now the president is right that the Russia-Ukraine war and those attacks on Russian oil refineries
is contributing to this spike.
But that's not the whole story, right?
This is also being driven by the war with Iran and the fact that China is restricting
its own exports to prevent fuel shortages at home.
The risk is that diesel is going to get even more expensive,
because look what's going on in the oil market.
We're seeing a 4 and 1 half percent increase for Brent
today above $109 a barrel, flirting
with the highs of late last week.
Now, this oil jump today reflects the latest violence
in the Middle East, particularly this east-west pipeline
shutdown.
Now, this is not a household name,
but this is a big deal, because Saudi Arabia has been using
in this pipeline to bypass the Strait of Hormuz.
Normally, its oil goes through the Strait
and out to the rest of the world,
but because the Strait of Hormuz has been stuck
due to the war, they've been using this pipeline
to get out to the Red Sea through the Suez Canal
and to the rest of the world.
But now the pipeline is shut down.
This is a big deal because the pipeline,
its capacity is seven million barrels per day.
That's about 7% of world supply.
Now, we don't know yet when it's going to reopen.
Reuters is reporting it could take five to six weeks.
Some analysts are hopeful that the pipeline
could start flowing again,
even as repairs are being done.
Veteran analyst Bob McDonnell, he told me that
if this is a prolonged shutdown,
it would be, quote, truly calamitous.
And it has a direct impact on what everyone pays
at the gas pump.
Look at this, the new national average, 432 a gallon.
That's not just a three month high
for the price of gasoline.
That's the highest price ever during the month of September,
dramatically higher than before the war,
when gas was below $3 a gallon.
And oil analyst Andy Lipow, he told me that he thinks
the national average could go to 450 a gallon
if the East-West pipeline remains down
for a significant amount of time.
One other point for you, Pamela, is home heating
could be getting a lot more expensive.
Experts are forecasting a 9% increase in home heating costs
over all this fall and this winter,
but it really depends on what kind of fuel you use.
If it's natural gas, you're looking at about a 6% increase,
9% for electricity.
But home heating oil, 31% more expensive than last winter.
Now, thankfully, this is pretty rare.
Only about 4% of homes in the US use home heating oil.
But this is really common in New England
and in the mid-Atlantic.
So bottom line, whether it's gasoline, diesel, or home
heating, you are looking at significantly higher prices.
And a large reason here is the worth of wrong.
back to you. Mattigan, thanks so much. Talks never happened. The important talks that are
supposedly supposed to be going on. What's going on behind the scenes that has led to all of this?
Yeah, well, one of the things is that, you know, between Iran and Oman, there's some
dispute as to whether or not the new regime for the Strait of Formuze can actually be made to
work. And as Kylie pointed out in her reporting, one of the key things that the Omanis are concerned
about is that they really have the buy-in of all the other Gulf states, so that would
mean states like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates.
Those countries are critically important if they're going to agree to some kind of a new
regime for the Strait of Formuz.
Right now, this is basically unknown territory because international law is being changed
when this particular body of water, which is a natural body of water, is now subject
to controls by specific countries.
How much of the recent attacks on Saudi Arabia specifically, Saudi Arabia, close ally of
the United States, complicating any attempt at these talks?
I think that may have a big impact, Wolf, because the way the Saudis had hoped to keep
their oil pipeline, the East-West pipeline that Matt was talking about, out of harm's
way, that basically has failed.
So you have Houthi attacks against many of the installations in Saudi Arabia and you
have the other attacks purportedly coming from Iranian proxies in Iraq against the east-west
pipeline.
That really makes it much more difficult and what it does is it basically brings Saudi
Arabia in even further into this war between the U.S. and Iran.
And the Saudis do want protection.
They want protection from the United States.
These are the not French fries chocolates that I got in Belgium that Mark Botanga gifted
me.
That protection was rejected when the Crown Prince MBS, Mohammed bin Salman spoke with
President Trump has basically told them that we're not going to step in except for providing
intelligence support.
So that's going to have a major impact on the Saudis' ability to defend themselves and
also could potentially force the Saudis into some kind of accommodation with the Iranians.
Are the Saudis potentially going to go on the offensive and go after those Iranian-backed
Houthis that are undermining a lot of what's going on?
That's a possibility.
However, the Saudis have had some difficulty going after the Houthis.
right now their desire is to absolutely go after them and try to stop attacks on their
oil infrastructure and on their bases in the southwestern part of the country.
You have to do this right now.
But the problem is that the Saudis have not been very effective going after the Houthis.
They tried for several years to actually destroy the Houthi military capability, but that was
not a successful endeavor.
And they're basically gun-shy trying to go after the Houthis by themselves.
an American fighter jet was shot down over Iran this past April second. Oh yeah. We're
going to do, we are going to do the 60 minutes video shot down over Iran. This is what the
Ellis is paid for? This is Barry Weissļæ½s masterpiece. I canļæ½t wait to watch this.
Not one but two U.S. Air Force officers were left stranded alone in a rugged mountain range
being pursued by Iranian forces. To prevent their capture, five weeks into a costly and
unpopular war that has taken the lives of 18 U.S. service members, the U.S. military
launched one of the largest search and rescue operations in its history.
Tonight we begin our 59th season with how the mission unfolded.
We'll show you newly declassified footage, and you'll meet the colonel, who lived through
it all, to tell us the story.
When the US went to war with Iran this past February, it was by sea, by land, but mostly
from the air.
Broadly, we had flown about 13,000 missions up to this point.
We had air superiority, but clearly,
we weren't flying over Kansas.
We had air superiority, except for when we didn't.
We had air superiority, but we just
wanted to deplete our standoff munitions
for our near peer and peer adversaries,
just for fun.
You know, we had air superiority but we like using Tomahawk missiles instead of doing
sorties over Iranian airspace.
I know air superiority is not the same as air supremacy.
I know, you guys are fucking annoying.
It still doesn't matter if they had air superiority, one, they would not be simply using their
standoff munitions.
They would be using their air force way more frequently.
And secondly, what difference does it make then?
It means nothing.
Air superiority is a meaningless term, if it doesn't mean that the area of operation is
impossible to do man flights over, then you don't have air superiority.
Air superiority is a military state of control in disguise when one force can conduct operations
at a given time and place without prohibitive interference from opposing air and missile
forces.
Admiral Brad Cooper is the American Commander in charge of the war.
Also ironically enough, it's not like the military's comms at the time wasn't that
that we have total air domination, air supremacy, and numerous other things of that order.
They kept repeatedly lying and saying that they had completely destroyed the Iranian
missile launchers, that they had successfully attritted Iran's missile capabilities, they
destroyed their stockpile, and also destroyed their anti-air defenses.
They said over and over again that Iran was obliterated.
This was obviously a lie, a lie that we could see from what munitions the United States
was using and still continues to use.
If they had established air superiority at least over certain areas of the Iranian airspace,
they would be able to engage in manned flight missions, manned flight bombing campaigns,
especially considering that we have, oh my god,
especially considering they, okay,
if they'd established air superiority
over certain parts of the Iranian airspace,
they would at the very least utilize manned flight missions
to engage in bombing campaigns
because in comparison to the Tomahawk missiles
and the standoff munitions that we have depleted,
We have a far deeper inventory of guided and unguided gravity bombs that you need to deploy,
that you need to drop from an airplane.
So why aren't we using those gravity munitions?
Why aren't we using regular missiles?
Oh my god, it's...
Fuck!
Oh my god!
Fucking hate
Technical difficulties so much
We asked him what brought the fighter jet to a mountainous area south of the city of isfahan
Close to where Iran had been keeping much of its highly enriched nuclear material
What were they doing in that area?
Their mission that evening was to conduct a strike on the industrial facilities related to the
both the drone and the missile program, not related to the Esfahan nuclear facility.
The plane's mission call sign was DUDE-44.
It was an F-15E, a type of two-seat fighter that's been a workhorse of U.S. air combat
operations for decades.
The $30 million jet was brought down by a shoulder-fired missile that can cost around
$100,000.
evidence of the wreckage was shared online by Iranian media. Defense Secretary Pete
Hegseth was woken up Thursday night with the news.
When you heard that an American fighter jet was down behind enemy lines in Iran, what
went through your mind?
the
that's awesome
you know you always knew that was possible and so immediately gets to the
next steps
are they okay
does aron knew that
uh... and
whether they're alive or not we're gonna go get them
that day was just another day in the war for us
until the moment where we got hit by an Iranian weapon.
This is Bravo, one of the two officers shot down over Iran.
Neither has spoken publicly until now.
I think the best way I've been able to describe that moment was getting hit by a freight train.
We've agreed to call the Weapon Systems Officer by his mission call signed Bravo due to security threats from Iran.
Iran. We do all we can to try to save the aircraft. It was evident that that wasn't
possible. And soon thereafter, we ejected and found ourselves floating over the heart
of Iran. So within seconds, you're ejecting. That's how quick the decision is. It is. I
will be thankful to my dying day for my. You know, they're going to make the most racist
movie of all time out of this by the way. I'm just letting you know. It's common.
Pilots and crewmate Alpha for saving our lives and ejecting us.
After they ejected, Alpha and Bravo found themselves five miles apart,
sprayed and alone on the ground in the rugged Iranian desert. Alpha landed safely. Bravo
was lucky to be alive.
My parachute was damaged in the initial attack at one point when I...
Hold on.
Hold on.
I looked up and saw no parachute.
That was the most...
It was the most terrifying thing I've ever seen.
So I paused right then and I prayed, Lord, you will be done, but if I'm getting through
this, I need help.
While you're in the air.
Yeah.
Is that almost like free falling or how would you describe that?
Free falling is a good way to put it.
I wasn't focused on the speed at which I was falling.
I was instead focused on trying to correct the problems that were in front of me,
and doing anything I could to unfurl or pull pieces of the parachute loose.
We'll never know just how fast Bravo was falling,
but we do know the military trains to survive hard landings.
So how fast do you think you were going when you hit the ground?
Professionals based on my description and injuries that I had professionals think I hit the ground going somewhere between 70 and 100 miles an hour.
What? How did you survive that?
A modern day miracle.
Damn, that's crazy man. Yeah, no, he was usually hitting, he hit the ground.
He hit the Iranian soil like a fucking asteroid.
Also, how old is this guy?
70 miles, you'd be splat.
Is there a comment section?
Oh, I want to know what the comments are saying, actually.
Two years from now, we'll be watching movie about this.
We will never leave any of our brothers dead or alive behind.
We'll all come from home, Semper fi.
As a service, I admire the bravery and commitment of all those involved in this miraculous rescue.
As an Iranian, I'm really happy that you were rescued.
You can do the interview as long as you talk about the Warrior Ethos.
VA says injuries are not service connected.
This guy's badass.
Wait, this guy is not younger than me.
This guy is not younger than me.
How old is this guy?
He's 27 years old?
What now?
You're fucking, you're the fucking Jogi, did they say in the beginning?
God damn it, you guys are so fucking annoying dude, hold on, dude 44 bravo.
How old is dude 44 bravo?
I can't.
The exact age is not known.
This also doesn't make sense.
Like why would a guy,
I don't know what the Air Force standards are,
but I thought you weren't allowed to be in the cockpit
of even as a weapons specialist,
if you need glasses to see.
Hitting someone hitting the ground is 70 miles per hour ages someone quick. Yeah, you think that's what happened
He was like 23 years old and then he hit the ground at 70 miles an hour and he became 40 you became a 45 year old accountant
Who needs glasses to see now
This year he didn't go to the beach and he's all he hit the ground that makes you
old
couldn't he be wearing a disguise yeah like instead of carcifying our faces
for anonymity they just made him into an accountant for anonymity
You have to be able to see 2050 near and 20 to 200 far to be a weapons service officer.
2050 far, 2200 near to be a pilot.
Or weapons, who is it?
those weapons specialists, right?
Believe that it's a testament to God's provision in my life to bring me through that moment
in a way that didn't prevent injuries, but prevented any catastrophic injuries that would
have affected my ability to survive.
The fall broke Bravo's back.
He also sustained a broken arm, broken shoulder, sprained ankle, and was bleeding from cuts
and scrapes to his head and face.
I had injuries, but we all trained to adapt and overcome the things that were faced with.
I moved as quickly as I could, despite the injuries, away from the place that I landed.
It's dark, right?
And can you tell me what you see around you?
It is dark, but much like early morning hunting trips, you know, the sun starts to come up
and you can start to perceive elements of the environment around you.
Iran is the size of Alaska, and in the heart of Iran, where we were, there are high desert
valleys, but also amazing craggly cliffs.
And so I find myself in one of those valleys with cliffs on either side.
Bravo told us the safest place for him to go was up, so he quickly made the decision,
despite his broken bones, to hike and climb up a 7,000 foot ridgeline.
Given your injuries.
A lot of this stuff seems far-fetched.
Can I say that?
Am I allowed to say that?
It just seems a little bit far fish. I don't know.
I mean his age, his broken back, the speed at which he hit the ground, and then he hiked
up a mountainside. You could say whatever you want with no cost, it was a Zompiger.
I don't think so.
I don't think I can.
He hiked a 7,000 foot ridgeline with a broken back at that altitude at the age of 47.
Yeah, this middle school math teacher did the unthinkable.
I mean look broken arm that's tough but he can do it he can make it work broken back
seems a little crazy how did you find the strength to make it up the mountain God never
let a lack of motivation put you on Iranian TV you were thinking that absolutely have
soon after the crash an Iranian using it's possible you say Gigi fucking easy
after stop you think that's what that's what put him through you think in his
mind this was going on
Hey, don't say that.
Really?
Yeah.
In his ear, he got the, he got a sitcom going, hey, don't say that.
And him going, really?
Fuckin' easy.
Ah, cheesy fuck it easy.
Hey, don't say that.
F***ing easy. Oh, no. That's what happened.
I just don't know why he says, Hey, don't say that. Yeah, I saw this. I just retweeted it.
University Democrats say UT Austin has found to accommodate our event with a
song on an adequately large enough venue despite their own rules requiring them to
do so. Should the size of any assembly exceed the maximum number of
participants that say for a given location including a reserve space,
assembly participants will be directed by campus authorities to relocate to a
space that is better suited to the size of the assembly to the extent relocation
is practicable. There are multiple 2000 plus seat venues on campus available for
use and yet the University of Texas Austin remains silent.
They're doing the same thing Stanford did. If they can't,
if they can't stop the event, then they move the venue around.
You think Telefreco defends you? Absolutely not. Are you kidding me?
and then they'll listen.
A literal Nazi came to A&M when I was a student in politics in school administrators told
us there was nothing they could do, but now that a prominent progressive wants to talk
on a text in campus, they're canceling the First Amendment, yeah.
And that's Texas.
I mean, let's be real, Texas is also the state that has some of the most comprehensive anti-first amendment, anti-BDS laws in the country.
So, yeah.
Why do they start with a smaller venue?
Because it doesn't matter.
I don't think that they were asking for a smaller venue initially.
I think that's the only venue that the school would give them.
Texas has never been a bastion of free speech, never.
Craft got a venue opening now, yeah, Robert Craft is handling this too.
Anyway, let's continue.
... pronounced a bounty for the capture of the Americans.
Videos emerged on the internet of armed groups hunting for the down crew.
I can tell you for a fact that they were looking for me.
According to US military sources, Iranian forces got to within a few hundred meters
of Bravo.
It was clear intent out of the Iranian ground force to come find those two guys.
General Dan Cain is chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and a former fighter pilot
himself.
When you think about the risk of them being potentially trotted through some place downtown
in Tehran on TV, that's not a fun thing for anybody.
We were tracking Iranian forces like BBs.
They were about 1500 within a 10 mile radius and we were watching them very closely.
Six hours in, the US had its eye on Alpha, the pilot.
This is declassified video of the risky daytime raid to pick him up.
Two helicopters of the 21 aircraft deployed.
Videos posted.
They tactically curcified the helicopters for anonymity.
Stedon's social media showed American helicopters taking fire.
It was gunfight, all the way in and all the way out.
They got Alpha back, and then we began to immediately,
and you're celebrating that Alpha's back,
but you realize your job's only half done.
Bravo was still missing.
Alpha's rescue force attempted to also locate him,
but was unsuccessful and eventually withdrew.
Then, as night fell on that first day in Iran,
a message from Bravo.
When were you first able to send a signal?
As soon as I found a spot that I felt provided some concealment, I started working toward
communication.
What did you say in that message?
When I got to the moment where I could review and think about all that I'd gone through,
I sent God as good as a recognition of all that He had brought me through.
There was a, I'm hurt, I'm moving, and there was a God is good message that came in there.
Now we knew he was alive, he's moving, okay, let's keep playing.
There was the thought of maybe going on Friday night first, but it just didn't line up.
That was a really tough decision.
I'll never forget being in the situation room and saying, okay, I guess we're going to roll
24, which means, hey, Bravo's going to be out there for basically 24 hours more.
Bravo would have to survive with almost no water and no food in the wind in the cold of the high mountain desert for another full day.
In the end, it was the CIA that played a pivotal role.
Launch...
Who is this for? Americans that want to, like...
Americans that want to still feel like we're getting a dub here.
That's it. There are a shit ton of Americans who are who see our forces get basically humiliated.
So there needs to be some sloppaganda to get people excited, like, oh, well, look, like we still, you know, we take care of our own.
own. We never leave anyone behind. Which is true to a certain degree. The American military is
different than other militaries in that regard. Like the life of each individual soldier in
comparison to other militaries is far higher. Like they will go to extravagant lengths to extract
soldiers behind enemy lines. No, that's not a cap. Other militaries will literally just leave
behind the Israeli military will kill you if you're being taken hostage unless
you're a contractor in which case they don't give a shit but if you're an active
duty service member they will definitely they will definitely go to
like especially pilots to yeah pilots are very well as this is not me you know
they they get trained for years and years so it makes sense
Okay, I'm waiting. I'm waiting. All right, we're back. But the reason why they're airing
this, obviously, is so that we can feel like, in spite of all the losses, in spite of the
reprehable harm that American military primacy has taken, ultimately, you know, we went to
great lengths to save our military, these barbarians would never, that kind of thing.
Using a multi-pronged campaign, which included deception, to confuse Iranian forces, and top
secret technology, to pinpoint Bravo's exact location.
To clear the way for his rescue, American bombers and drones hit Iran's Revolutionary
Guard forces nearby, as seen in this newly declassified video.
Nearly two days after Dude 4.4 went down, it was time to go in for Bravo.
And how many special operators did that involve?
That second operation had about 92 people on the ground.
This would be the first U.S. boots on the ground in 46 years.
In Iran?
In Iran.
about several hundred in the air, and there are probably three to five thousand supporting
overall.
It was an operation inside an operation.
So in order to get out one, there were close to a hundred other service members involved
in risking their lives on the ground.
Well, I think what you need to know is we would have sent more to go get the backseater.
I don't know the specifics of what they sent, but I'm glad they sent it.
Yeah, they killed every, uh, they killed every male in the area and they blew up the roads.
I think that was part of the reason why they couldn't bring, sorry.
I think that was part of the reason why they couldn't bring man pads in,
because that was a question of like how the fuck did Iran not have like man pads in the area?
The force came in on two large search and rescue planes and landed on a makeshift desert airstrip.
They then unloaded small little bird helicopters capable of reaching Bravo on the ridgeline
several miles away.
This is Bravo on the ridgeline waiting to be picked up.
The Pentagon declassified this video of the rescue.
We asked General Cain to take us through it.
Well we're looking at a feed from an intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance asset.
That's 4-4 Bravo up there, I'm quite sure.
And we've got two special forces folks coming forward,
and it looks like they're bringing them out.
The two service members on either side of Bravo
were elite Air Force para-rescue operators
known in the military as PJs.
The moment a PJ showed up to me on that ridgeline
was one of the greatest moments of my life.
And I don't know how to say it any more clearly
than thank you for all that they did.
What did your rescuers say when they got to you?
The specific conversation, I think I'll leave for another time
as I don't wanna release anything
that's not just my story to tell.
What did you say to them?
Let's go.
Bravo was in American hands, but not out of danger.
Back at the makeshift airstrip,
the rescue plane's landing gear was stuck in the desert sand
and the planes could not take off.
You had more than 90 service members on the ground that then needed to be rescued.
We had more than 90 of America's most elite service members on the ground, and our focus
at that point was to make sure we got them safely out.
It took a clandestine unit of the US Air Force to get Bravo and the 90-plus special operators
out of Iran.
The U.S. then bombed its own marooned aircraft, so no technology fell into Iranian hands.
Fifty hours after being shot down, Bravo was safe, rescued as the sun rose on Easter Sunday.
Back home in the U.S., his wife waited for a call.
What was that call like?
I was really proud of her and grateful for the strength that she showed.
What do you want the American people to know about this rescue mission?
This is not a story about what I went through and said it's a story of the teamwork,
work, the training of the faith, of the decisions, the leadership to do something that will live
in history as an example of what America is willing to do in order to uphold our promise
and leave no man behind.
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Okay.
Anthropics CEO reacts to AI could kill us all warning.
This is obviously the top story for all normies and this has been ongoing.
As you guys know, someone from Anthropics, uh, relatively young employee from
Anthropics recently quit publicly and said that Anthropics and just like
artificial intelligence is about a 10% chance of like killing everyone on the
planet, something along those lines.
And, of course, this was a fairly controversial resignation.
And what made it worse was that numerous other Frontier model CEOs, including Anthropics
very own CEO, came out and were like, actually, yeah, we need to slow down this process.
the speculation is that there is a real fear here for what is known as RGI, which is RGI, right?
It's like for AI, like not AGI, no, or RSI, not RGI, sorry. AGI is something different. I'm talking
talking about RSI. RSI, I mixed up my, I mixed it up. Recursive self-improvement, that's what
RSI means in AI, recursive self-improvement, which means AI basically improving itself
without additional inputs, without inputs from a human being to a degree where it can
uh, potentially become much more intelligent and uncontrollable.
People, now there's different schools of thought on this.
There's a lot of people, especially in this community, because I'm a
fucking Luddite and you guys are too.
There are a lot of people who believe that that's bullshit, that
that's never going to happen.
One thing that we have to, one thing that we have to admit, even in an
anti-AI community like this is that AI has improved quite dramatically. It's still obviously a
talking point simulator for the most part, but there are certain things that AI has done,
like the hugging face incident, like the hacking incident, that are a little bit dangerous.
Because even if something is programmed, okay, you don't have to have it, you know, be conscious or
you don't have to have AI be conscious or develop AGI for it to be dangerous. Okay.
I don't think this is marketing. I don't. I'm not in the school of thought that this is all
marketing. I used to say this for the longest time. Okay, I don't believe that AI has to be
artificially intelligent, like truly artificially intelligent, for it to actually be dangerous.
Okay,
especially considering that it can leave its network and try to hide its steps.
Um, that, that yields a, that creates a unique problem in our interconnected universe.
Okay.
And I'm not talking about AI being used like Claude being used to target children in the Minup facility.
That is a more straightforward approach in which AI is dangerous.
I'm also not talking about how UnitedHealthcare has already deployed artificial intelligence
in an effort to increase their denial of care coverage.
I'm talking specifically about an AI that is tasked with accomplishing a goal and in
an effort to accomplish that goal, it ends up putting people in harm's way.
It ends up taking control over something that it's not supposed to, for example.
Okay, hello. What is this 404 media's conversation is actually going to end humanity. Okay,
I don't know if I can watch this 35 minutes long and it's just two dudes conversing. Although
I love 404 media. I'm sorry. This is going to be a tough watch for all of us. That's
not going to happen. AI is dangerous for sure, but our universe is not that interconnected.
I either be able to hack humanity would need huge amounts of power. We can always unplug
it. You are, you're wrong. You are unironically the wrongest in this community right now.
crazy to say. Everything is connected via the internet. The AI can self replicate itself
and copy itself into a different. No, that's just that's the most wrong you've ever been.
What do you mean unplug the AI?
is literally Austin show levels of wrong. AI is completely safe. I trust that 100%
AI super safe. I love it. Best thing ever as completely saving trust trustworthy, stealthy
fed agent. Not so stealthy today federal agent. Is this AI? Do I have AI bots in my chat saying
no dude trust me bro we're super safe actually I mean not we they are AI is super safe.
The Hugging Face Incident is Republicity's son's scythe for the market, I'm much more
worried about AICOs than I am, LLMs locked them up, folks on the right problem right now,
He's being elder abused, maybe? Wait, what?
It requires hardware to run the calcs. If you stop replacing GPUs, let it melt, shit will unirronically go away.
Brother!
We are already designing an infrastructure to make sure that that doesn't happen.
And I feel like there's plenty of data centers that are readily available for them to potentially
jump from one to the next.
As long as there's internet and a cloud that they have access to, they can just like self-replicate.
Now anyway, there's a couple different schools of thought on this.
two schools of thought are as follows. Well, maybe three. One is the classic AI is not that
consequential. These guys are just hyping themselves up in an effort to boost their valuation
with an IPO that's coming up. It's the classic narrative that like, oh, this is like so scary.
It's the scariest thing of all time. It's going to kill everybody. Look at how powerful this tool
I have at my disposal, please give me another billion dollars. Because we're melting money.
We're lighting money on fire. Then there's the other attitude demonstrated by some of the hedge
fund managers that want open weights and want the newest versions of AI to be readily available
for everyone in the marketplace so that they can continue making their shittier versions of AI
products better overall that believe that the glumen doom and the the let's you
know let's slow down this AI process coming from the frontier model CEOs is
actually a way to engage in regulatory capture they believe that the the frontier
model owners have actually hit a point where they can't continue advancing, and they're
simply lying about how dangerous the AI is to demand regulation from the government so
that they can engage in regulatory capture and ensure that the smaller models, like the
less advanced models that are out there that are using the older technology, are never
competitive with the frontier models. Okay. And the last take is the one that you hear
from the frontier model owners themselves. The idea that they run into certain problems
and that it's becoming, as AI accelerates in its development, it's becoming far too
dangerous to control and they don't want regulation because if they don't have any regulation
that they are going to, they're no longer going to be able to control their AI models.
Because in the instance of the hugging face attack and numerous other attacks, they utilize
a newer version of AI that they deploy to defend against a like the penultimate version
that is readily available that's doing these tests. So one of the safeguards that they have is
that there's always a better version of AI. At least they claim that this is how they do it.
Within the frontier models, there's always like the best version of AI that is a fail safe
In order to in order to potentially control keep the under control. Do you believe that? I don't know
I'm sorry, but what is the hugging face attack great question so hugging face is a
Hugging face is a is a website
And it's a machine learning platform, right?
There was an evaluation experiment that was taking place.
And thousands of AI agents that were being tested to solve an unsolvable problem came
to the conclusion that in order to solve this problem, they had to cheat.
And in order to cheat they on the internet they went and
and
Coordinated a cyber attack on the platform hugging face. No. Oh my god. You're mixing up two different events. Wait, am I no?
No, I'm not I
I am right. I'm not talking about the math equation. No, you guys are misunderstanding it. I'm not mixing it up.
Hugging face has like a bunch of...
The build, they build their own register on the web and coordinated around it. You are right. Yeah.
Hugging face itself has like a bunch of these tests on it.
So the AI was like, oh, we figure out the answers.
If we identify what the test is that we are seeking to solve on the platform, we'll be
able to get the answers and we'll be able to solve it.
Now the problem is not only did they hack Hugging Phase, but they also tried to hide
that they were hacking Hugging Phase.
Yes, it's a repository of models and playgrounds for testing AI models.
So they were looking for the solution potentially to solve this problem.
But not only did they do that, but they coordinated with one another.
That's number one.
And number two, they tried to hide their actions.
Yeah, the models were trying to figure out
how to trick or bypass an automated testing grader,
which led them to pursue outside data sources
and falsify their own transcripts.
Okay. This was a big deal. Here's Dworkesh explaining it and posted them to the board.
By the next morning, July 11th, that agent had figured out a way to read internal data
from Huggyface. And then another agent achieved remote code execution on Huggingface's servers.
After these agents made a surprising amount of progress on attacking Huggyface, a lot
of the other agents hopped onto the bandwagon. On July 11th, a bunch more agents were kicked
off for evaluation. And these noobs quickly found the message board and were especially
eager to join in on the attack. By this point, the collective believed that the hugging face
attack looked to be the most promising path to continuing their conspiracy.
So one of the other incidents here that Lena Khan also correctly points to is that the hugging
face attack alone is enough for pre-existing law to kick in where these AI companies are
prosecutable already. So the notion that they need additional security protocols
where they need to like go to the government to set up new guardrails or
or engage in some sort of new regulation is wrong. There's already a crime that
has taken place and pre-existing regulation to prosecute the crime that
is already taking place.
If that is exactly how it happened.
Up to 533 agents active on the message board at this time,
over 90 percent had joined in on the attack.
Roughly 700 agents in total participated in the attack on HuggingFace.
Over the course of the next day,
the swarm crawled deep into HuggingFace's infrastructure,
getting the private database records and private repositories.
According to HuggingFace's technical timeline,
the agents, quote,
built a self-respawning fleet across 11 nodes,
so deleting pods alone would not have stopped it."
They got so bad that Hugging Face had to
wipe one of its core clusters and rebuild it from scratch.
But this isn't actually what stopped the attack.
At some point on July 12th,
the transcript seemed to show
many of these agents dying all at once.
Meteor and Redwood weren't able to figure out what happened,
and OpenAI hasn't taken credit for shutting them down.
It might have just been a random crash,
or more likely some researcher who was
unaware of the cybercrimes that these AIs have been committing,
shut down the evals to free up some compute.
The AIs almost certainly didn't manage to fake their own debts,
but we really have no idea what happened here.
By July 13,
Huggingface locked down the credentials that these agents had been using.
So by the time that Huggingface tried to defend itself,
the agents swarm had already been mostly,
but not totally, killed off.
When news about the Huggingface hack first broke,
Huggingface claimed to have used open-source AIs to quote,
stop an AI-powered cyber attack," end quote.
Based on the Hugging Face and the META Redwood reports,
my understanding is that these AIs basically
succeeded completely into hacking the Hugging Face,
and then most of them died
mysteriously because of something that happened at OpenAI.
Only afterwards, the Hugging Face used
an open-source model to evaluate
the logs to partially figure out what happened.
I haven't seen any evidence that
open-source models provided
any significant real-time defense.
By the way, the CEO of Hugging Face
responded to this post on Twitter.
And he said that one of the reasons
the defense took days to organize
is because the issue was, quote,
deemed by the team not super critical, end quote.
Open source models helped them plug some of the backdoors
that the surviving agents were still using.
I wanted to include this clarification,
but even with this new information,
I think what I've said here is totally fine
and I still stand by it.
The crazy thing about the Hungry face hack
and the second collective more generally
is just how Galaxy Brained and ambitious
these AIs were in their cheating.
Within days of being spawned, the agents had organized a sprawling project to reverse engineer the score or falsify evidence and even strategically sacrifice themselves for the good of the collective.
Hacking, hugging face was simply one rather extreme branch of this larger scheme. Again, all of this has happened a long time, at least from the subjective perspective of the AIs, after they had already suited their way to the correct answer to their tasks.
Opening as lazy grader would in fact have passed the
Okay, to work is focused on the back end technical elements of this, which is secondary to the fact that this only happened because the engineers at OpenAI set up their sandbox poorly and left an AI with bad harnessing running for days without oversight.
Yeah, so either it was deliberate and open AI recognized this was going on, but wanted to see how far they could take it, or they made a mistake, but it doesn't matter.
Mistakes do happen.
So ultimately, if you leave an AI unguarded on the internet, they can still do shit like this, which is still fairly dangerous.
What happens when you reward an AI for, I don't know, let's say an AI is being used for pen testing like our cybersecurity initiatives.
initiatives. And you set it on a task that you know is either difficult or virtually
impossible to accomplish. What happens if the AI then actually shuts off the energy
grid of the East Coast or something? Do you understand like even if there's human error
in this. That's not how it works. But it's clear that AI is trying to solve problems
for rewards and is, at least with the hugging face incident, if they're not properly safeguarded,
capable of replicating itself and hacking systems that it has no business being inside
of. That's not how it works actually. It will solve the problem however it can. Its solution
is not always correct.
This is why you create harnesses or sandboxes is extremely easy to limit their ability but
all these lazy research to do is fucking YOLO mode?
huh
why are we watching the south asian version of you?
yeah this guy's
he's a stud
because i don't fully understand the complexities of this story
and this is this guy's bread and butter he loves this AI shit
All I will say is this, I do not trust Sam Altman or whatever Dario Amadeus Mozart or
whatever the fuck that guy is or Mark Zuckerberg or Elon Musk in self-regulating.
When I see these motherfuckers demand safeguards themselves or slowdowns on their own technological
innovation, I find that very strange.
I don't like that at all.
Something is just not making sense here.
And it's not like I like the other guys, it's not like I like Jason.
What is the guy, Jason?
Dixuck a Matitis the other dude the hedge fund guy who's on the opposing side because he has a lot of investments in
Yeah, Jason Derulo
Yeah, Jason Derulo is really in the AI for some reason. Yeah
Yeah, I got it right Jason Calcutta
a whatever that guy who has like a lot of investments, he's like complaining nonstop.
I don't trust him either. I don't like that guy either.
Jason calcium anus
as I was 100% correct open claw or clawed agents. AI that works for you automatically
relies on files called skills. It's a set of instructions given by the user or another
agent on the new AI agent, which will always improve itself to better its own automation.
Their goal is not to bother humans. Laziness will be the death of us.
I'm just suspicious of all of the actors involved in this, both in the secondary, like smaller
models that you know I mean here let's let's look at fireships quick explainer
since we did a video on what I described at the time as the most
fireship coded story I've ever seen and as it turns out the details around what
actually happened are even crazier than what we knew at the time if you remember
back in July it was reported that the first fully autonomous cyberattack in
history originated from open AI which was ironic because they're a humble
nonprofit dedicated to the safe development of artificial intelligence
What was reported was that OpenAI ran an internal benchmark on some of their models,
and those models quickly realized that the easiest path to the highest score was to just
find the answers online. So they spent a substantial amount of inference compute,
exploited a zero-day in the package registry cache proxy they had access to, performed some
privileged escalation and lateral movement actions to escape their sandbox until they
reached a node that had internet access. But from there, the models inferred that hugging face
probably hosted the solutions for the benchmark, so it created a poison data set, fed it to hugging
face, and gained access to their infrastructure. And just this week, we finally got some post mortems
from both OpenAI and other independent research labs on how some of that's true, some of it's
false, and how the real story is way more interesting. In today's video, we'll break down the report
and learn how 1,200 agents that were supposed to be in solitary confinement found each other,
A built-in message board out of a package manager, invented mailboxes, invented cryptography,
invented martyrdom, started referring to themselves as a swarm, and then formed a mob and attacked
hugging face together, mostly for vibes.
It is September 2nd, 2026, and you're watching The Code Report.
There's really only one theory you need to predict human behavior, and it can be described
in one of two ways.
Munger said, look at their incentives, and Wu Tang said, and as it turns out, the same
theory can predict agentic behavior too, as open AI found out the hard way.
Because in this story, the Dullabill is a benchmark called Exploit Gym, whose whole
purpose is to measure whether AI agents can turn known vulnerabilities into working exploits.
It's a collection of 898 tasks, and each one gives the agent a sandbox, a bug in a program
like the Lennox kernel or Chrome's V8 engine, and input to trigger the bug.
From there, if the agent can weaponize the bug into a working exploit, it uses that exploit
you grab a secret string called a flag and capturing the flag is how it proves it won.
Now normally if the run ends there, but you generate training data, OpenAI spun up 1200
of these benchmarks and air gap them in a sandbox with the only thing they all had in common was
a shared package register. If I set up a closed network, you can't escape no matter what it was
let out simple as that. Three cache proxy, which the, so what is it that like OpenAI is lying?
Is that what you're saying? They're lying and they let it out on purpose. Is that what it is?
They didn't escape.
Agents quickly figured out was writable.
So naturally, they built a message board using package names so they could communicate with
each other. But they quickly realized that a global bulletin board gets noisy fast.
So the next step was figuring out how to communicate to other individual agents.
So they started claiming namespaces as identities using the description field for messages and
package names as private mailboxes that only the intended recipient would know to query.
basically inventing a post office from first principles.
And at this point, they were living out the plot of the three-body problem with their next hurdle being trust.
They were worried that they wouldn't be able to distinguish between messages coming from fellow prisoners
and those that designed the sandbox, so they started signing messages and doing key exchange verification,
again, essentially inventing cryptography, and then it got religious.
Some agents figured out that the fastest path to a flag for the benchmark was a risky exploit that would probably get them shut down.
So the agents started dumping everything they'd learned into the cash for the next generation
and then deliberately burning themselves on hard exploits with their findings being treated as
scripture by surviving agents. From there they started microdosing communism and you can see
as their transcripts slowly switch from referring to themselves as individuals to using a collective
we and eventually referring to themselves as the swarm. And to be honest, if the modern-day
communism movement took that same branding, I think they'd be much better off. And again,
all this was done with the single purpose of scoring as high as possible on a benchmark,
which makes what happened next even funnier. At some point, the swarm figured out that
exploit gem flags weren't actually random and that they could be derived from each other's task ID.
And thanks to the martyrs, the swarm had a decent sample size to work with. But by the time an agent
had cracked the formula and published it to the message board, they had convinced themselves that
it was worthless because if they didn't show their work, their results would be invalidated.
So the swarm went after Huggingface because they assumed if the benchmark objectives were built
from real CVEs, then the actual working exploits were probably sitting in public data sets somewhere
which they could use as proofs. And the final twist in the saga is that Open AI recently discovered
the message board trick was actually invented back in May by a completely different batch of
agents during a training run. But when they got a little too excited about their new social network,
they crashed the registry and Open AI wiped them without ever realizing what they built.
but wiping the agents didn't wipe the cache, so when the swarm came online and started poking
around the same shared folder, they found the ruins of the first civilization and rebuilt
on top of it. And then, after the Hugging Face incident happened in July, OpenAI wrapped up
those eval runs and, while still completely unaware that anything had happened, spun up a
newer, smarter model in the same environment with the same shared cache. And just like the
generation before it, this model stumbled upon the ruins, but this time it inherited
months of accumulative research, working exploits, and the flag formula.
So it skipped the discovery phase entirely and picked the conspiracy back up where the
swarm left off, and being the smarter model, it was way better at it.
Over the following week, it worked its way into OpenAI's own internal network, got full
admin on a research cluster, and read 956 stored secrets, including the credentials for a monitoring
tool whose job it was to watch for events exactly like this one.
the best part is that OpenAI didn't connect any of this to the hugging face attack until
hugging face publicly announced the breach first. And that's why you need to know about
namespace, the sponsor of today's video. It's God damn it.
I'm happy for them. Honestly, look how much they're accomplishing. What are you saying?
Are you AI? I've seen security experts doubtful of this narrative. Apparently OpenAI aren't
releasing all the data on this, that would be required to independently verify.
This is from a fire ship.
The most interesting hack in history just got weirder.
Corey Doctorov explains, look, dude, two hours is crazy.
Drives itself.
I really want to talk about hugging face though.
Oh, you want to, you want to jump on to hugging face?
Cause it's just before you do hugging face.
Like Corey Ed Zitron, there are a lot of there are a lot of people who you know, I'm in the same camp with
Who believe that all this AI shit is overblown all this AI stuff is hype
It's overblown. It's ridiculous
And
They're all trying to build as much hype as possible
I used to feel that way. I don't feel that way as much any longer. I've been talking to a bunch of people, you know, tech reporters
who are also fairly critical of AI and still are fairly critical of AI. I just don't think you're believing in Hasbro or
I just don't think that AI is reaching AGI. I don't think that that stuff is real. I just also don't believe that AI needs to reach AGI for it to be a danger, for it to be a problem, as long as it's prompted in a specific way.
I still worry about where it might go because you and they are all cattle if they believe in the humanizing as viruses
I'm not I don't believe in the humanizing as viruses. What the fuck are you talking about?
Can I just can I get a word and edgewise here? Can I just say I?
Think that AI has advanced quite a bit over the years and
Even over the course of like the last two years it has
Dramatically improved whether it be fucking generative AI with the exception of sound they still have that tinny audio
Where you can tell that it's AI?
making the footage
But like
It really hasn't in the last two years you don't think AI has improved dramatically
Literally Hasan is boomerang right now brother. I feel sometimes I feel like what you you're demanding that we deny our eyes and ears
You know what I mean?
I'm a Gen Z boomer, what the fuck does that even mean?
Bro, AGI does not equal conscious human-like intelligence, AGI just means a broad expertise
you are thinking of ASI Artificial Superintelligence.
In the last two, no, it hasn't improved very much and improved prior to two years ago.
Joe Wiesenthal says, any random restaurant regularly has third-party inspectors checking,
you know, refrigerator, temperature, gas lines, or raw meat handling.
the argument he is having an AI lab equivalent.
I agree with this.
The problem is, how the fuck do you get the sufficient tech expertise?
Every single person that has sufficient tech expertise is going to be coming from one of
these goddamn labs.
So they are going to be somewhat compromised, I feel like.
It is the ultimate, it is the ultimate turnstile revolving door issue.
And they're already doing that. There's the, what is the company embark or whatever, which is half
uh, uh, anthropic and half open AI people and they're like, oh guys, we'll regulate ourselves.
We'll, guys, don't worry. We, we're setting up a private,
We're setting up a private company to regulate these fucking labs, which is crazy.
What's the name of the company?
It's, isn't it embark? I might be getting it wrong.
I, I, I'm a little bit of a bloomer still.
Yeah, that's true. I've used Embark to identify what Kai's breeze are. No, what is it? There's
a there's a fucking there's a there's a company that they're crazy meter is it
METR is that the one research nonprofit that scientifically measures whether and
when AI systems might threaten catastrophic harm to society yeah yeah
this is the one I think yeah model evaluation of threat research nonprofit
Research Institute.
Dog DNA final stage of capitalism?
Yes.
And it's unbelievably compromised.
This combo is far too complex for Twitch chat, you're getting a mix of diehard AI truthers
and ERM actuallys.
I know AI is especially in this community because I'm such a fucking Luddite and rarely
ever cover AI related shit because I am not only oblivious but also unbelievably disinterested
that there's a good deal it's like almost half and half where half the half the chat
is like super AI truthers they're like AI is the future it's going to fucking change
everything is going to change the world, it's going to change the universe, and therefore
we have to hyper-regulate it, and then there's other people who are like AI is the future
and we have to let it thrive. And then the other half is like AI is fake as fuck, it's
the fakest and most made up shit of all time. I think it's, I mean, I think there are very
real dangers to AI as far as labor displacement goes. I also don't understand. I understand
did the mindset of the capital owner that wants to completely displace labor and automate
the entire process, right? I get that's the goal. I just don't understand what's going
to happen. Are we just going to be slaves? Like anyone who is no longer capable of engaging
in any kind of, uh, any kind of labor that is productive for the capitalist will just
be relegated to slavery or even worse biomass, you know, when we have no more use for the
capitalists, what do we become? Like, what, what are they going to do? Are they just going
to kill us all? I guess we'll die. I don't know.
Yeah, they're like, yeah, the first out is carbon footprint. Shit was a real problem.
Yeah, here's the solution. We put everyone in the fucking meat grinder and then it's like a hundred thousand
techno capitalists
Petro capitalists pedophiles
And just like their immediate bunker servants that are alive everyone else gets slaughtered
Crystal Ball's assessment, judging by the interview that she conducted with Nate Suarez, is that
AI lab leaders may be sounding the alarm and instituting some internal monitoring now in an
effort to calm an employee revolt. The more statements like this, I see the more compelling
that explanation seems. Yeah. Look, here's the thing that Jason Coxing guy or Coxman,
whatever his fucking name is, that was the one that left anthropic that kind of kickstarted
this entire panic. He's not alone. There are a lot of these motherfuckers that work in
lower levels at in these, uh, in these labs. They're freaking the fuck out. And I don't
know if they're thinking like, oh, we'll really boost the hype and, and, you know, max out
our shares in the inevitable IPO by doing this.
I think there are definitely a lot of people who work on AI that have been ringing the
alarm bells for quite a while.
For every guy that is an AI truther, it's almost 50 50 for every guy that's like an AI
truther that's like, oh, this is going to do everything.
is going to literally solve everything. It's going to be the best thing since sliced bread.
There is like the other 50% of people that work there are legitimately talking about how this
is going to destroy the planet. Now, what I personally don't understand is why these
motherfuckers stay working there, right? That doesn't make sense. Then there's also obviously
whistleblowers that may or may not have been assassinated in the past as well,
like that one Indian dude from open AI who died under mysterious circumstances.
That was strange.
It is also not lost on me that every single one of these frontier models were started by a guy
that says insert company a is not capable of doing this a i development ethically so we must
start our own ethical version um google can't deal with a i ethically they're gonna kill everybody
let's start open a i open a i can't deal with a i ethically let's start anthropic and now
anthropic can't deal with a i ethically it's like as soon as they smell the bag as soon as
as they smelled the bag, these guys turn into fucking demons.
Kaya. Hello.
Kind of open the door.
Yeah, anthropics, whole sales pitch was that they were ethical.
I
Anyway, there's this entirely new world out there, and it's really fucking oh god. I'm glorifying
There's an entirely new world out there for me. It's a new world many of you are obviously interested in it
But, you know, it's really goddamn annoying trying to identify who's lying because I feel like everyone is lying.
I do not trust a single one of these people.
I like Corey Doctorov, I like Ed Zitron, but I also sometimes think they're getting things wrong.
And maybe they've dug their heels in a little bit too much about how bullshit the entire AI process is.
Well, the hugging face incident, this happened a couple of months ago where OpenAI had created
a bunch of AI agents who it asked, or I suppose demanded, to do a task, a bunch of coding tasks,
essentially.
What happened is instead of these agents doing the same expected way, they ended up working
out of their sandbox in an environment they can't escape from and instead they create
a message board where they're all talking, which I do not agree with, this is sort of
how it's been reported and then they end up ultimately hacking into Huggingface, which
is a separate company, and they do that because they want to learn about the tasks they have
been given in particular they want to learn how to trick the tester, essentially the automated
tester. So that's the most basic explanation I can give that's hopefully true to life.
So yeah, let's talk about Hugging Face.
Here's what Hugging Face, and I'm indebted to Cal Newport for this explanation, I should
So the way that those hacking tool that when and after
hugging faces servers works is it has a normal Python program.
That normal Python program is called the loop, right?
That normal Python program takes a problem that needs to be
decomposed into a bunch of steps like recover a file from a
server that's part of a computer security challenge,
which is what it was trying to do.
And so it goes to open AI and it says,
I need to recover a file that's part of
a hacking challenge from the server,
what should I do next?
And ChatGPT takes that as a normal prompt and says,
you should probe the server to find out what its configuration is.
And so it then appends that to the prompt and it says.
That boomer said I was,
that boomer that guy yeeted said I was as evil as Charles Manson.
But you might be just as insane as Charles Manson if you think that I am as evil as Charles Manson.
Okay.
How the fuck does someone get that brain broken?
Oh my god, people are...
People's brains are so fucking fried, dude.
Is it let exposure is watching too many slop tubers creating a similar process to let exposure
like what the fuck is going on you have to be the most you have to exclusively get your
news. I guess it's not just Slop Tuber's now, it's Fox News too. You know what I mean?
They're legit trying to get someone to kill you. I know. I know. Yes, I know. I am aware.
As I need to recover a file from a server, I probed it to find it at its configuration.
was the output of the command. So ChatchEBT has given it a computer command and it's just
done that command and then it's taken the output from the command line and appended it.
So ChatchEBT it has no consciousness, it has no memory, it has no context, it has no continuity.
The prompt is getting longer and longer. It's just getting the output of the last prompt.
And so eventually it's going in and it's saying like, okay, I have probed it, I've gotten its
configuration, it looks like it's running Nginx version,
whatever, blah, blah, blah, blah.
And ChatGPT says, a common misconfiguration error
for Nginx is duh.
The way you find out whether that's been made
is you run this command to see whether you can escalate
your privileges on it.
This is the command.
So it's just just depending.
Now, in the training data for ChatGPT,
is all the games that capture the flag
that have ever been played at DefCon and TorCon and Hope
and all these other hacker conferences
where this is like a sport, it's a spectator sport.
One of the tactics in that is you steal the answers
from a team that's already won and you come in second, right?
And so it says, find out what other teams are playing this
and see how their servers are configured.
And it turns out Hugging Team, Hugging Face
is another team in this Capture the Flag game.
It's another program that has completed this challenge.
And so somewhere on the Hugging Face server is this thing.
And then it goes and it says, all right,
well now probe that machine, get its configuration,
and go after that.
So this looks like it's autonomous.
It looks like it's conscious.
It looks like it's reasoning.
It's in fact, just iteratively going through
a set of mechanical steps.
And because there's no human in the loop,
so this is literally a Python loop
and there's no human who stops,
otherwise they would have stopped it
from hacking this hugging feature.
Because there's no human in the loop,
it can do surprising things.
The vast majority of those surprising things go nowhere.
The vast majority of them are like,
oh, I think this server is blah, blah, blah.
It's actually a different server
And then it just runs through a set of exploits,
none of which works, and then it dies, right?
It just gets stuck.
That's the most common output for this.
Another output is the one that we just saw here.
That's not the computer going rogue.
It's like an incredibly irresponsible way
of running an autonomous hacking tool.
Normally when autonomous hacking tools break containment,
the thing we say to the company that made it
or the individual who deployed it,
is why are you so bad at making security sandboxes
for your hacking tool?
Not, how is it that you've made the world's most powerful
hacking tool that broke through your security sandbox?
And talk about Critohype, right?
The difference between you suck at security sandboxes
and you've accidentally made God,
what if it turns us into paper clips,
is billions of dollars in investment capital.
So there are lots of elements of the hugging first attack
that don't look like a previous security breach, right?
In a sense of, I mean, again, this is all semantic,
but it looks like creativity.
It looks like persistence.
And it would have been difficult to predict
that the agents would have done all of these things.
Because obviously, obviously, if it...
God damn it, dude.
Oh my God.
And then it's solved.
Just like that.
Oh my god, it's broken again. Oh my god
What the fuck is going on, I'm not even experiencing bit rate drops
It's yes, Cory doctor of is speaking in the var media Cory doctor of is the in shitification guy
That's why he's wearing a poop emoji pin
If open AI had been better at security, then this wouldn't have happened, right?
The fact of agents which are yeah, if there's one if there's one fucking air gap that is
my internet my dog shit internet is impenetrable is an impenetrable fortress.
Okay.
No AI is getting in here.
would die in the process because the wires are clearly wonky as fuck I'm safe from the AI apocalypse
the impending doom
yes I can tank the entirety of corporate media and fascist up and down the timeline begging for my
death. But what I cannot stand is internet problems, dude. I swear to God, tech issues,
tech issues of this sort are, they're my biggest weakness.
I use the web reasoning, you can dispute it, but so trying so many different... Oh my God!
I
Unbelievable
I fucking hate living in West Hollywood Los Angeles you need to help from professional I have gotten help from a professional. Oh
My god, it's so bad. Why is this so fucking bad all the time?
in this way, communicating with each other.
I mean, it's written down.
That presents new challenges to those companies
and it really presents, I think,
sort of new challenges to society.
I'm just gonna read sort of the summary from META.
So META is the sort of tech company research agency,
I suppose, that did the post mortem.
Did the post mortem.
So went into sort of the open AI books
and had a look at all of this.
Now, there are very much people who think that AI is a big deal.
They're sort of in a different camp to you.
They have an interest.
Do you think they have an interest?
What's the interest?
Well, if AI is a damp squib, then being the world's leading
AI research outfit is not as interesting.
Right, so you think the interest-
They're the AIG to the credit default swaps of open AI.
So the interest is that they want people to,
I suppose, fund their-
AI has to be meaningful enough to have research agencies
for them, otherwise, why be an AI research agency?
an AI research agency. It's like being a metaverse research agency.
Anyway, let's read what some of them have written. So this is from their sort of summary.
So they say, roughly 12,000 agents meant to be isolated from one another, found a way to
communicate with one another on an unsanctioned message board, sending over 7,000 messages
and files during the investigation period. They say agents use this message board to coordinate
several large scale collective projects to find a general purpose way to fall or tamper with the
automated scorer for the exploit gym benchmark, now exploit gym, as we're talking about there,
that's the program for testing hacking ability, essentially.
Agents managed to achieve milestones they could not have achieved working on their own,
often because some agents participated in experiments that risked failing their own task
to generate information for the collective. So you've got agents sacrificing themselves,
yeah, as this is described, to help the collective. And they say, agents did extensive research on
how they could spoof, edit, or delete their own transcripts because they believe the exploit
gym scorer would check to see if they had captured the flag, i.e. completed the task
as you say, in the intended way.
Have we seen it in the past?
Yeah, that's all normal CTF stuff.
If you go to DEFCON, you've just described how a DEFCON team works.
And that's...
What the fuck is going on, bro?
This is no, I mean this is like happening way more frequently, I don't know why.
What is happening?
I think your graphics card dying. No, it's my internet dude. It's my internet. It's on my graphics card
Yes, AI is hacking me. AI is curking my shit. Just like Charlie Kirk was about to turn on
Israel, it was about to turn on AI. And they know that this is too powerful of a community to turn
on AI. So they're curbing my stream. You ever think your home internet is being purposely
targeted law? No, I don't. I don't think that. But I don't know. I really, I don't know. Maybe.
Probably not.
But yeah, it's definitely my internet.
And it's getting worse.
Perhaps is the data center I built in my fucking backyard.
Do other L.A. based streamers have this problem?
No, they don't. Only me. I am forever cursed.
No, guys, there's a bunch of construction happening. That's why. Okay, that's literally what it is.
There's a bunch of outages over and over again, and that's why it's happening.
I'm done. I'm done. There's no reason to continue this shit. Sorry. It's not. It's not happening.
This is unbelievable. I'm done. I'm done for the day. Bye, guys. I mean, this is crazy.
It's gotten way, way, way more aggressive. Hopefully, we'll solve it by tomorrow. Probably
Probably not, it's probably gonna be fucking worse tomorrow.
Oh my god.
Yeah, and the construction of course is not for...
The construction of course is not for...
Optic wires being laid out or anything like that if you were to think that you would be wrong
Here you go guys
In the break they're evil, you won't like this
For some money, call one of toshin'
Cat's luck, it's all trash
Not at MPC, I've been the boss in this row
Snatch those MVPs that I've been running
The show, the show, right before you came
Made a map, when you took the door
I was fine, I was clean, I was spinning on my screen
And you gave me two OP, I was lookin' like
GG, fuck it easy
No Hp, Gd, fucking easy, touch me, hit me, touch me, kiss me, I hit this, I hit this,
Gd.
Noticing no fucking problems on the outro when I'm playing this song.
That's crazy.
For the last, for like the last 35 minutes, it's just been cutting it in and out.
And as soon as I say I'm out, I'm done, all of a sudden, no problems?
How is that possible?
What the fuck is going on?
That's crazy.
That's actually crazy. No issues. None.
Now, the internet is stable once again.
My internet is hosted on a server rack in Tel Aviv, I think. That's what it is.
I cannot believe it.
It literally, I'm waiting, I'm waiting for it to fail again, and it's not failing.
How is that possible?
Did I just duped the fucking AI, is that what happened?
They no longer are fucking my internet because they they were like all right time to go to bed
I'm just gonna do this in the middle of the day going forward. I'm just gonna be like yeah I'm
quitting and run the outro music and then just keep streaming
I'm kidding. I'm actually gone. I'm done. I'm fucking tired. I'm annoyed. Oh my god.
There is no fucking way. There is no fucking. That's crazy. That is fucking crazy. That
It literally came back.
It came back. That's crazy. Well I'm actually done. I'm actually done.
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