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Okay, we're fucking in the work run once again, when there's like one thing that's going on,
There's absolutely no such thing as doing anything else.
Everyone's being treated in a dangerous way.
Game Awards time, sorry.
You're gonna watch the game awards, okay?
I can't deal with it.
I know there's 20 minutes left,
but they're already showing stuff,
and nobody, and I mean-
Nobody wants to miss out on a single second
of my fuckin' soy-facing ass!
Four, one, go to the game awards!
I can't focus on this anymore because all your motherfuckers keep talking on the PlayStation
and they're making a fucking hell of a fucking way
What's going on, everybody?
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day is Sunday. That's right, ladies and gentlemen, boys, girls and MBS. It is Sunday, nine 20, 2026.
The month of September is almost over. The year is almost over. There's a lot to talk about. There's
a lot going on in the world. And there's also a lot going on in the universe of the Sun,
Hassan and Piker. And this is the part of the broadcast where I tell you about my personal
news in between the time period where I press the stop-stream button and press the start
streaming button. So help me God, that's what I'm going to do.
Wearing a tan suit on a Sunday, business cash, shoutouts Barack Obama, DOG, Muslim Communists,
anti-American, un-American president, you already know in honor of Barack Hussein Obama,
We're wearing the tansom on this Sunday so
Berlin is red
Yeah, we got a lot to talk about these uh elections taking place in europe
Also, europe and the rest of the world is coming to the united states of america specifically to montanist and specifically to new york city
dora-mombanis
turf territory, of course, including some war criminals.
Having said that, folks, we are live, we're alive.
And as far as personal news goes,
not much has happened in my life,
even though I didn't actually,
that shirt color kind of buns, it's all good.
Yesterday I wasn't live because I was doing an event.
Doing an event and I hope you guys missed me a little bit. I certainly missed you
But what I didn't miss was being a little bit offline more offline than I am I traveled I
Saw that was
Meetings I flew back in this morning
That's pretty much it, honestly.
I didn't do any yesterday because of you, I'm sorry.
There's a lot going on in the world.
We're going to be getting to it.
We're going to be talking about all of it and more.
I will be traveling once again.
I will be traveling once again later tonight.
I'll be live from New York, New York, also known as Mamdana Stan tomorrow.
But when you take in a vacation, fam, I'm not taking a vacation.
I'm not sure if you can hear me.
Um, yeah.
Hey, a break from the internet is by default always healthy.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was.
Why is that's gonna be dressed like a mayor of a town where everyone sings because because I am
Over under on you hearing about what was inspirational about the axios interview
Our crown was perfect Trump is copying you by going to New York City. I know
I saw the blast off me. I've never been dox. Thank you. Or RC pinned.
Yeah, I got it. I'm gonna blast off real quick. That's it for the personal news wise. I mean, I even on days where I'm not streaming, I'm technically not taking any time off. So I'm still fairly tired, but
Eventually, we're going to get to a place where I will find some peace and solace and comfort.
Hopefully, insha'Allah.
Hopefully, once the midterms are over.
All right, there's so much news to cover. I'm just going to blast off and get on with it. Honestly, there's so much going on. We'll talk about Ed Sheeran's apology. We'll talk about Trump's White House press ban Sunday shows taking place. Yemen war is waging situation monitor.
We'll talk about monitoring the situation in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Gulf.
Russia might invade the European Union, Russia had its elections, if you want to call it that.
Trump is going to go visit Zoran at his home, we'll talk about that.
I'm just the fact that we're FD signifier. Oh yeah. I hope I made on proud
Of my commentary, you know
I think I made a bunch of onks proud
You know I was trying to channel I
Was trying to channel all my all my favorite unks
FD signifier Chris RAB
You know, I was doing it for them
I mean every black chatter in here proud yeah, no, I mean this the MS now interview I think it came out great
I think I a lot of people were like why aren't you the more aggressive or whatever and it's just like you guys don't understand how to I
Think I played it perfectly well. I
Was cordial I
I was kind, I was consistent with my principles I didn't engage in unnecessary antagonism.
And that is the right way to play it.
I think a lot of, I hope, but a lot of white leftists and non-black leftists can see the
way I carried that conversation and learn a valuable lesson from it. Okay? Because there
is no, you know, a lot of people just want to like win conversations and be as aggressive
as possible, not realizing that in order to, in order to start healthy productive
larger discourse. This is now up to black radicals, black socialists to carry on internally.
A lot of you like to mimic what I do and how I carry myself, how I portray myself. Do that.
Okay. Do what I did there.
FD said, Hasan knows enough not to get himself in trouble with this sort of audience. And I think
that's completely correct. And it was an intentional runner-up. Of course, of course.
There were numerous instances where there were landmines that were being designed that I'm
perfectly aware of that I did not step on. Talk about the working class. Oh, does that mean,
You know
Is that mean you're talking about the white working class is like no the entire working class our goals are united, you know
That kind of stuff
So
FD was more upset about her saying I am the Democratic base more than you were buddy
This is precisely what I'm talking about when I say I've been thinking about it's not my place
Okay
Like I like even if it's sometimes even if something is is incorrect
You you have to remind yourself of the optics of the situation if you want to
Achieve a specific goal
Okay
If I were to be unnecessarily aggressive to that response to be like why does it would be another like
Remember that clipped moment
Remember that famous clip moment the Republicans shamelessly use all the time
Rises who cares about what black people think or whatever when I'm talking about a
broader point where someone is portraying themselves as like the leader of the entire, you know
black American movement claiming that black people in the United States of America care
all quite a bit about border control, stuff like that, right? You can't have moments like
that. Okay? You can't. You can't.
not a thing that you could do. It's about being effective. It's not about being right.
It's not about showing how right you are. It's about trying to have a productive dialogue.
to have a productive dialogue that then plants the seeds for this community to have dialogue
in and of itself, which is, which that was my goal. And I think it was achieved in spectacular
You understand?
What is this? Let's see.
Why has Piker makes people's butt itch?
What is it about him that causes so much consternation and controversy?
Because to me, this is the same message in a new package.
This isn't different from what Mark Lamont Hill has been saying for years.
What Malcolm X has said is that
for years, what Malcolm X has said, what James Baldwin, what Fred Hampton, what so many other
black revolutionaries have said for decades, right?
But the truth always makes people uncomfortable, especially when there is nothing you can do
about it.
For example, like I myself, I have a decent vocabulary.
I'm relatively articulate.
I'm fairly educated, but I do have a slight speech impediment, which is abundantly clear.
But because it's a biological reality, there's no need to bring it up because if one brings
it up, it seems unnecessarily cruel because I cannot do anything about the way I was born.
Right.
And so when we talk about the things that America does around the world, right, what
one particular country is doing to another in the Middle East, when we talk about these
these things out loud, it makes people uncomfortable because it seems like it's a reality that can't
be changed.
When the truth of the matter is, it can be changed and that's why we're bringing it up
in the first place.
It's not like somebody's disability, it's not like my speech impediment.
Those things can't be changed.
However, your behavior with regard to other people and your stances on particular issues
are malleable.
They can be changed, right?
But you have accepted the truth that your comfort, your standard of living, your reality,
especially as a white person, is dependent upon how we operate across the world as a
country.
And you don't want that to change, therefore it seems rude and it makes people uncomfortable.
Yeah, nobody likes having a mirror placed in front of their eyes, in front of their face.
You know?
That's a big part of it. Yeah, and look, I mean, I don't like that.
But in some respects, I worry that I think Samoan Sanders is going to hate me so much
more after this because everywhere she's posting people are just talking about how bad the
interview was.
And it's not my fans doing this.
A lot of black radicals don't fuck with me either.
You know what I mean?
A lot of black radicals don't fuck with me.
They think I'm too weak.
think I'm too pro-democratic party or even some of them actually say that I'm insufficient
in my support for black Americans. I think that's largely because of misunderstandings
and that's fine. I think moments like this offer clarity to my position. But like for
For the longest time, for the longest time, black leftist, black radicals, they have, you
know, they've constantly said I'm a white man, always speaking at a turn.
This was a turning point for many of them to see me actually be able to express my
full opinions.
Even if it was a contentious media environment, it was able, it was a moment where I could
express my opinions without them seeing it from a negatively framed clip.
I've seen black people on YouTube who don't like you because you're too livin' black people that don't like you because you're too commie. I know.
Well, and behold, no one is a monolith, right?
So, I recently just seen the interview between Simone Sanders and Hassan Piper and the black
guy with the nice bro.
His name is like Eugene something.
I didn't like it.
I didn't like it at all.
And usually, I thoroughly enjoy Simone Sanders.
But it seems like the nest was empty during this interview.
Like maybe it's her MSNBC that's running off on her, but the way that they were seemingly
being so passive aggressive to a broad network, some of these beliefs that a lot of people
agree with that is really common sense.
I just, I really, it just rubbed me the wrong way and then not only that, but it was
kind of this hardness and this Twitch streamer school to good black journalists on the comparison
between the settler violence in Israel and what was happening to black people in America.
I think part of it is because like both this was a mistake that many people make. I think
they just literally think I'm some dumb fuck Twitch streamer, which is good. I mean,
it's good that it causes people to underestimate me but that's that's also
why people are so shocked by whether like this white guy this white twitch
streamer like from their perspective I think they think I'm like you know
clavicular but older right they're like what the fuck is clavicular but older
because their framework is like everyone that streams everyone that live
Shims is basically clavicular. You know? So they're like, why is old
vehicular or XQC talking about the parallels between imperial violence and
state violence and the violence and how resistance is, resistance to state
violence is actually perceived as violent by the masses, but state violence
This is not, you know, the intersections of colonialism and fascism at the home front.
I'm mocking the force reverence that took, you know, I'm telling you, man, both that
fucking Axios interview and the MSNOW interview were wall-to-wall bangers.
Dr. Jihad gave them their medicine. Yeah.
Now that's the little bad position is on.
Hagiography, smile and crying.
The John Lovett interview popped off too. Yeah.
I think my my biggest problem broadly speaking is I have so much content out there.
I have so much content out there that it is very easy to put negatively framed clips of mine in front of people,
But it didn't really work with the Axios one and it didn't really work with the MS now one because people can go to the source material
Because people like contentious conversations people like quote-unquote debate
Right and these two things are formatted as debates and it's not directly coming from me
It's not directly coming from my YouTube page. They don't have to go to me
this is a technically impartial resource that they can learn about me from. So when they go to
this different third-party reputable outlet Axios MS now, and they hear my positions laid out clearly
in a hostile environment, they develop a much better understanding of what my stances are.
as opposed to how they've previously heard of my positions, oftentimes negatively framed by content
creators with an agenda, negatively framed by people with an agenda in general. And they just
kind of offhanded, they see like offended remarks, you know, things that I've said in angry moments
over, you know, 22,000 hours of, of, of off-the-cuff commentary and coverage and, and I think that's,
uh, that's why they develop these perspectives. So when they actually see me uninterrupted in
front of a third party, they see me uninterrupted in a contentious environment. They go, wait
minute this guy actually is about this guy and I actually have a lot more
that we agree on than not.
I have no way to money the POC that did this for the job title with the notoriety with a
marginally larger amount of money.
I like why
Why did a twitch streamer have to teach all that I don't know I didn't like it. I didn't like
And what pisses me off the most about the whole black liberals saying this white leftist talking point is like dog
There are black leftists there were black leftist the motherfuckers y'all look up to an idolized
They were black leftist monica MLK got killed cuz he went full anti-capitalist look that shit up you dumbass now come X
Leftist black pair of the party left com actually communist organization
Internationalist communist organization Angela Davis leftist friends for non
leftist
Kwame Turei
leftist all so many black leftists and all you bitch ass niggas can think about is
It's motherfuckers who are reading Karl Marx like my nigga just say you cannot critically engage with leftist theory
It's ironic cuz like they also did that right, but here's the thing
I've been thinking about this quite a bit. I had a I had a reporter
Bring this up to me
He's been trailing along
And he's writing this big
Comprehensive piece and he brought something up about the civil rights struggle in the period with like
you know, the hippie movement, the anti-war, anti-Vietnam protests, right? Back then there
were a lot of leaders, right? There were a lot of public intellectuals, public thinkers,
advocates, organizers, and leaders within this multifaceted, very diverse, very broad
movement, that was either nominally on the left or straight up communist, straight up revolutionary.
And I think that period of struggle led to some very deliberate, very obvious gains being made,
right? However, it also completely destroyed the concept of like left leadership in this country.
Like think about how many people you could point to from back then what they used to do
as like the public left intellectual that we're out and about.
That would go on television to find their ideas. There was so much more intellectual diversity
and intellectual representation of the left in legacy publishers and mainstream media.
Many of them got assassinated. Some of them were co-opted and neutered. But these movements
all went away. The leaders all went away. They were hollowed out, gutted. So it's
It's not a mistake to have this real crisis in leadership on the left.
There is none.
And not only are there very few nowadays, there's obviously structural reasons for it.
But the one thing that was unique about that period was they were not operating with
either party's goals in mind.
were issue-specific. It's not like MLK as a civil rights leader was thinking like,
oh, will our actions have considerable impact on elections? As a matter of fact,
he wrote extensively on the the plight caused by the white moderate, right?
But think about it MLK is the figure that has been the most effectively whitewashed the the
civil rights leader that every American is allowed to respect as opposed to the Malcolm X right as
opposed to the Black Panther Party Assad Shakur Kwame Tory they were more radical than MLK MLK
and his legacy is obviously profoundly impactful and yet the way that we reflect
on MLK's legacy now is a very manicured and outright concocted version that
also tempers his more radical stances right? It's whitewashed. His legacy is
completely rewritten that's precisely the reason why you hear Republicans say
things like, oh well, I have a dream MLK would want to, MLK would want a world to live in
a world where you judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their
character and it's like, I don't think that's what he was intending you to use that statement
as.
But the only reason why Republicans can do that, the only reason why reactionaries
can do that is because they pacified his legacy and made it appropriate for mass consumption.
Right
So
That's also
Important to think about having said that once again
There were people who would get mad at the civil rights protests that were taking place
At the time because of the electoral calculation. It's not new this concept is not new this resistance is
not new
right
And I was thinking about this, like there really aren't people who are completely separate in their advocacy, in their organizing, in their activism from either of the two major parties.
We just don't have that.
We don't.
We no longer have that right now. We no longer have that in 2026.
Is there going to be a boring newsday plus how you're vindicated or will we have some
fun while taking an hour off and then come back and we'll see.
You don't think this is a good conversation, this is not about me being vindicated dumbass.
This is literally about a much broader conversation about how there are no more public left intellectuals,
there are no more public advocates.
who are either forced to take on a leadership role or people who want to take on a leadership
role in a broader movement that don't immediately go the route of becoming a political entity.
Just think about it. Think about who the left leaders are, right? You've got Bernie Sanders,
who's an independent senator from Vermont AOC. Again, Congresswoman, Zoramumdani,
mayor, all Democrats or independents, all of them are politicians.
Where are the left leaders that are not directly involved in politics?
Do you see what I mean? We don't have it.
Panahisi Coates is one example, I would say, and he's only recently moved into this direction
with a more radical stance against the, with an outright radical stance against imperialism.
He's always obviously anti-white supremacy.
He was a thought leader on the left for that reason, but then he, you know...
My point is, we, it's a, it's a multi-faceted, multi-front advocacy battle.
Which means that there needs to be different lenticles of this broad movement.
You have to have the politicians sure, but they're not actually carrying the torch.
You have to have people on the outside pushing them.
And we don't necessarily have that.
We don't have that.
And I guess the, another thing that you might have missed going in on that.
Simone and Eugene were also meme farming in that interview with Hussain.
Oh yeah.
I, this is an interesting take.
The reason why they were, is because we, as Black people, were supposed to eat that up
and meme and gift that to death, so that the idea of Black and Palestinian solidarity was
something we would view more suspiciously or even find laughable.
We were supposed to eat that up.
I have thoughts about why Hassan Piker gets to be the face of ideas that black and Palestinian
folks have been putting forward for decades.
I think we all know why that's the case, right?
Because regardless of my name, this is the presentation.
That's it.
And I'm very well aware of it, right?
I'm very well aware of it and maybe just like Icarus. I sometimes fly a little bit too close to the Sun
No, it's not GQ. It's not the me pick guys is because my presentation is white. Okay. I'm a white, bro
That's it
That's also part of the reason why I sometimes say certain things that
non-white people are not allowed to say I say it all the time and then I'm reminded of how some people perceive me.
Do you understand? Do you understand?
This is the interchangeable nature of whiteness. You can be given whiteness and you can have whiteness taken away from you.
from you. I think that the non-legacy Americans, the non-heritage Americans, whatever the fucking
reactionary right now, try to say white as it white is as the non-anglo-saxon Americans,
they go back and forth on this concept. They try to identify. That's where the model minority
is designed around, right? But that's what it is. I get to be, I get to be the guy who says this stuff
and reach the level of success that I have, partially because my presentation is white.
I'm white and I know that and I try to use that to my advantage to offer the
highlight certain concepts right to offer a a microscope on the play to the
voice list the play to the marginalized now it actually blows my mind that there
There are tons of shit libs who genuinely dislike you because you're white presenting
a bros like that's like to pinnacle lead do nothing moralizing useless woke it love it
push it live.
Yeah, sure.
It's fine.
But here's the other side to black people sit there and fake the other the other side
of the story.
Of course, that whiteness can be taken away from you.
Okay.
White, look white, I sound white, I talk like a white guy, which is off putting for
some on the left, many on the left as a matter of fact.
Having said that, having said that, this interview, oh yeah, I saw this one, she's I mean, Imani's
incredible.
She's always been incredible.
Um, she was in Cuba with me, so the, I can't even get a fucking word out.
My point was, my point was, is, and what I'm trying to say is, where is it?
This doesn't happen to a white person.
I am white.
Okay?
I am.
And I talk with the comfort of a white man, but sometimes they'll rip that shit away
for me like that. You understand? That's what I'm talking about, just because you know
No ball doesn�t mean he�s always in your hand for a shot.
On the point of active is not being partisan.
I don�t fully disagree, but I think you are understating MLK�s role in electoral and
party policies.
You very closely involved the Johnson administration and other Democratic politicians.
He was an unofficial advisor who regularly took personal meetings in the Oval Office.
No, no, no, no.
I understand that.
But the treatment and the way that he was reflected broadly by the white masses
that were Democratic Party Align was unbelievably negative.
In the aftermath of his assassination, it was 66% of white Americans who said that he was
a negative figure. He was reflected on negatively. Do you see what I mean? Of course, he was
closely involved in the realm of political power he was trying to do his very best.
Like I said, it's a multi-faceted approach.
You gotta have your Malcolm X's and you gotta have your MLK's.
And they're all working towards the same goal, the agenda.
Right?
Anyway, I love when we start talking about what's wrong with being white.
White masses, white Americans, where was all of this invented?
Oh, Jesus Christ, dude.
You gotta stop being so fuckin' frail and so goddamn fragile, okay, please?
I beg of you, man.
We can have a conversation, we can have a nuanced conversation about this kind of stuff
without people just like oinking as they feel like their feelings are hurt, please.
It's okay.
Alright?
It's okay, man.
Like, I'm white.
You know, I care about white people's shit, too.
Alright?
It's chill.
It's all good.
I'm not, you know, Mr. Id Paul, if that's what you want to hear, I'm not. But you, you know, at a certain point we got to have a
normal
and
Healthy nuanced conversation, right?
Anyway
Another one of these interviewer didn't expect such a solid, solid response from Pigerdude
is crazy articulate.
Yeah, it's kind of crazy how this interview is reflected on, on Twitter versus every
other social media platform.
Every other social media platform Axios has blasted these clips on Twitter, where,
you know, all the news desk editors live.
It's like this is the worst interview of all time, Hasan Piker should kill himself.
He should be embarrassed for being the biggest dumb ass on the planet.
No one is actually watching the clip.
No one is actually reflecting on what is said in the clip.
People are just reading the headline on the tweet and going, oh dude, you see how we got
owned.
Everywhere else people are like, wait a minute, I came into this thinking that this was
going to be bad.
Let's get started.
has a hundred and sixty four thousand likes oh it's officially in the fucking
halls of oh dude you have something that most politicians and journalists want
you have a huge six-pack
let's just get started
you have something that most
I'm such an idiot.
Oh, Jesus Christ.
At least he didn't say I understand.
Oh, he understood.
Sex pasties and cronies were alleging that the comments are brigated.
Yeah, I brigated 165,000 likes on this.
Like, like there are so many, there are so many people that are watching this stuff and
just straight up being like, I don't even fuck with Hasan but he cooked on this.
I don't even, I didn't even know anything about Hasan.
But he seems to have a good head on his shoulders.
Not sure why people think he's this dangerous radical.
I think what happened is the sex cultists, they tried to brigade, they failed the brigade
because people saw what they saw and they liked what they heard and they commented accordingly.
So now they have to just like cope and see on the sidelines.
But again, this goes back to what I talk about all the time of with echo chambers
and silos, right?
is a reactionary silo. It's a hotbed of reactionary thoughts. So even if you're a leftist, even
if you're a communist, even if you're like the most progressive guy ever, what you see
impacts the way you see the world. Right? What you see impacts the way you see the
world. So if everyone on your timeline is saying like, this shit sucks, this shit sucks,
this shit sucks, then you develop that same exact attitude. So it's good to just
like kind of pull your head out of the, it's good to, it's good to, to develop your own
thoughts and your own attitudes. It's good to see how other people are perceiving certain
pieces of content, right? I mean, if this stuff didn't work, if this kind of coordinated
bodied campaign and messaging didn't work.
People wouldn't try it, right?
I mean, here it is.
I keep hearing people complain that gasoline is over $4 a gallon.
Why are so many MAGA accounts posting the same long, repetitive rant about how it's
all worthwhile to go to war with Iran because at the end of the day, even if gas is $4, $5,
$6 a gallon, at least we're stopping Iran from gaining nuclear arms.
If that's all you see on your timeline, if that's your right wing and that's all you
interact with, and this is the only thing that you see, you start developing this idea
that, oh, there's a sense of safety in the crowd.
I guess my, you know, I might feel a certain way about the gas prices, but everyone that
I trust, everyone that is in my community is saying it's actually not that big of a deal.
Right?
We are cattle, and this is how we get led around.
If it didn't work, they wouldn't try to do it.
The point is, how effective will this message be?
And the reason why I'm bringing this up as an example is because, like I said, you saw
how Twitter reacted to the Zaxios interview, how CNN, MSNOW, Fox News, how they thought
this interview was a banger, but when people actually watch the interview, they go, what
the fuck are you talking about?
This guy, this guy cooked.
guy cooked. When people are not led to feel a certain type of way, when they reflect on
the interview as it is, when they consume it on their own without the negative framing
or even if they saw the negative framing initially, but then they watched it, right?
To make up their own minds, their take away is very, very different.
Not sure why my YouTube page and my editors didn't actually upload.
My reaction to this area, I wish they had done that.
But they didn't.
plays. I'm not mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination. I'm not justifying Charlie Kirk's assassination.
I think that is unjustifiable. Charlie Kirk. You had known him for a long time. Yeah. After
he was killed, you called it fucking devastating. You know, it's horrifying thing you've ever
seen and pure horror. But months later, you started sarcastically singing the song
We are Charlie Kirk you sang it live last month on tour and later explained it's not my fault the song is a banger
Yes
You told your followers when he was killed to stop making jokes. Yeah, but then why did you start?
great question
The hagiography of Charlie Kirk was and and the forced reverence coming from not only the Republican Party
But like the government in general and even some members of
of the liberal intelligentsia was the reason
why there was so much pushback.
And even the We Are Charlie Kirk song itself is a way to,
it was an attempt by a Republican who was a fan
of Charlie Kirk to honor his legacy.
While Charlie Kirk, the actions that took place,
the assassination of Charlie Kirk is a heinous crime
and completely unjustifiable, I very quickly also
talked about my disagreements with Charlie Kirk
And there were plenty of people, many regular citizens
who were doing that as well.
There were people who were-
I'm not pushing that.
No, I know, but it's important
because this is a big part of why this backlash,
or rather, this is a big part of why people
took this not as seriously.
The argument isn't, oh, these people are elated
at the fact that Charlie Kirk was killed.
Are there people who feel that way?
Absolutely.
I'm not one of those people.
Yeah, but-
However, however, when you sing the song to your audience-
However-
You know that some of those people
are those people that are later that he's dead.
There could be, I'm not going to deny that,
but at the end of the day, my opinion
and the opinion of my community
is that political violence is completely unacceptable.
However, it's also unacceptable
to try to apply force reverence
and literally cancel people
for quoting Charlie Kirk's own statements.
Again, you look at the average person
And the way that they interact with this, the reaction is very clear.
The masses, when they interact with this commentary, which is the point, that's why I do these
fucking interviews, okay?
I need some on the margins to let me cook.
I need some on the margins to let me cook.
I know what I'm doing, okay?
I need the haters or rather the non-believers to understand that I have a decent amount
of experience in this realm and I know what I'm saying and I know what I'm doing.
The point here is, regardless of how this is reflected on in mainstream outlets and
how much people try to weaponize this stuff.
How much people should weaponize and portray Abdul in a negative light portray myself as
a dangerous radical terrorist when people actually see?
You're 100%, but I feel like if you said it more simply, it could be more effective.
See, there's always, it's never going to be perfect for you, big dog, I know.
But if you get results like this, that means it worked, okay?
I don't do contentious interviews and stuff like that just so, you know, I have my moment
in the spotlight or something, right?
Like the goal is clear.
I want new audiences to hear this perspective.
I want right-wing audiences to hear this perspective.
I want liberal audiences to hear this perspective.
And people can see, people can see what he was trying to do, even in this 30 to 60 second clip.
I asked my sixth year old parents what they thought on your America committee, the most
terrorism taken, they both looked at me like I was asking a dumbest question and said,
of course we do, the most terrorism look at the girl's school.
Yeah.
It looks like a jackass normal of worlds and leftist though it only lands with committed
reactionaries who see this as a known people with ears will hear you and reflect on what
you shared.
Yes.
Most people are not committed reactionaries.
Even the the uneducated can see the vibes and reflect on the vibes.
Even someone who is like somewhat apolitical is going to look at this and go, well, I don't
really care about the Charlie Kirk names all that much.
I also felt like it was the force reverence was crazy.
I felt like Erica Kirk's reaction was crazy.
And now this guy in 2026 is still trying to make a big deal out of this.
I agree with the other dude.
I didn't like the people were getting canceled for even quoting what Charlie
Kirk had said. He's a podcaster. He's a right wing podcaster.
What kind of world are we living in? Right?
Do you understand?
And that's what's going on here.
That's why I do this stuff so that people can look at the discourse.
It's official, how some of these in fact white.
He is he's one of the original
Caucasians, but you know, and part of it is me growing up.
If we didn't start on the young Turks or whatever his uncle show
wave, that man walked through the world white.
He did.
He named it Richard. He we would fly.
And I say that's the thing that I get stuck on going up
Muslim in Chicago. I knew a million dudes that look
that look white enough but also look like Hassan named Amir you know Farzee all
the different Middle Eastern names and so I just never have seen him as white
because they've never really been white to me but I also know they can be white
and Hassan is white I want to be clear Hassan is white and there he admits it
you see he admits it
What is this were you trying to say I don't condone the violence the song was just a banger is it the same line of thinking dog dog
Do you think that would have been an appropriate response?
To motherfucking axios
Are you crazy?
Like see this is what I this is where I never get credit from people on the liberal side
people on the left like they think that is my answer all the time. Right? That's not the answer
I'm giving in that moment. Okay, I'm taking the shit seriously. What is wrong with you?
The reason why you know he's white is that Hassan has been an edgy boy on the internet for
like the last five years. And all it took was a suit. And suddenly he's a Democrat, a Democrat
Do you think we are far too alienated from everyday people online in the sense that a
lot of comments are made by bosses, mentions, things pro-imperialism, right wing opinions
are represented by the majority?
I mean, I go back and forth on this, right?
I think about this all the time.
It's obviously a big part of my job is to understand where the masses are.
And when I spend all every waking moment on the internet, it's quite difficult for
me to come to terms with where people are.
So you have to look at the polls.
You have to also be outside.
You have to also talk to regular folks because there is a whole world out there.
As a matter of fact, the overwhelming majority, overwhelming majority of Americans are never
going to encounter that Axios interview.
They're never going to encounter the MSNOW interview, the overwhelming majority of Americans.
The Ed Sheeran story will have far more impact on the masses that have a perspective
on Palestine than a million different interviews I could ever conduct.
And that's where we're going to be starting today.
We're going to talk about Ed Sheeran.
As you guys know, you're already caught up on the saga.
Macklemore comes out as free Palestine.
Robert Kraft, the Zionist sex pass billionaire, gives a boss call to Ed Sheeran and Sheeran
his son at Robert Kraft's wedding in 2022. He's good friends with this guy.
Ed Sheeran says, sorry, Macklemore, you got to go. Ed Sheeran then shifts the
responsibility over the promoters and then one by one every single supporting
act and opener act, which all happened to be Irish for the most part, drops out
of the tour, including his band himself. Ed Sheeran's band is also Irish
and has been with Ed Sheeran touring with him since 2016.
10 years of touring with Ed Sheeran and they drop overnight they say I can't in good conscience.
Abide by what Ed did here.
Saying free Palestine is not hate speech.
Saying free Palestine is not problematic.
The idea that it is is ridiculous to us.
And we can't continue participating in this tour.
Ed Sheeran the other night came out and did his tour, did his concert. He continued with it.
And he had, in my opinion, a horrible, horrible PR apology.
Okay, we're now on the third installation of the Ed Sheeran saga where he came out and he tried
to do a perfectly manicured legal team approved publicist team approved apology that he ironically
read from a teleprompter. Okay. This is last night in Philadelphia, United States 19th of September
Number 2026 Ed Sheeran, singer, songwriter, artist responsible for Shape of You, comes
out and delivers this cringe-inducing non-apology.
This is not usually how I would open the show, but before I play some songs tonight, I hope
it's okay if I say a few words about this last week.
I'm used to my music being criticized.
Look at him, he's just straight up trying to read the prompter.
Okay, you know what, before we continue, I need to give a trigger warning here, it is
so cringy that your soul will escape your body while you're watching this, especially
if you're someone who kind of understands how these guys operate, how big brands,
Because he's a multi-million dollar brand right like he is doing this is this is coca-cola corporation coming out and saying like
The coca-cola corporation thinks violence is bad
Right. That's what this is
And Sharon I'm used to people saying my music sucks
But I'm not used to people saying I suck
I've heard what you've said about gingers. I've heard what you said about Englishmen.
Six in stones may break my bones, but it turns out your words hurt far worse.
this. Yeah, there's an update. There's an apology to the apology as well. But anyway,
let's continue.
And I'm always happy to take that because I'm lucky a lot of you like my stuff and
I'm not surprised that other people don't, you know, it's normal. But this week the
criticism was about something much more important and I've had to take and make difficult
decisions and I am making mistakes and I'm so so sorry yeah is the mistake that
you invited Macklemore and Irish people to tour with you or is the mistake that
you drop Macklemore and if the mistake is that you drop Macklemore for saying
free Palestine are you what is your what is your moment of restitution like
How are you going to fix that mistake?
This is also very funny because once again, this makes no one happy, right?
Because this is an opportunity for him to take the fence post out of his ass, right?
He's sitting on the fence.
nestled the fence between both his left and right asscheeks. Okay? And he's gripping onto
that shit for dear life. And it's funny that his apology is still firmly clamping onto that
fucking fence. Okay? As him on the fence. And that is going to make no one happy because
they're gonna the the Zionist side is gonna say this is your you're such a coward for caving to
the nasty Palestinian terrorists and the pro-Palestine side is gonna say wow what a thank you to
Walmart Incorporated for this wonderful wishy washy middle of the road corporate crafted speech
So you're offering, you know, people who are pro-Israelis safe space?
Okay.
I don't want to disappoint fans, and I've never wanted to be an activist musician,
but this has put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument about freedom of speech
and the most complex political issue on the planet.
my concerts have always been a suit applause break applause break for this is too complicated
for us to discuss it's just funny cuz like it's not complicated it's not complicated
at all is it is a genocide my man like just say free Palestine is a genocide is unacceptable
I was wrong to claim that this is a complex issue. The reason why, and then he goes for the applause
break after, he's like, yes, it's a complex political issue. It's not. It's not. Right?
No one is demanding you, Ed Sheeran, to identify whether or not the the ideology of Zionism
Is outright fascist? Is it an anti-colonial land-back movement? Is it a fascist,
ethno-religious supremacist movement that's like purging the indigenous inhabitants of the land?
I know what the answer is. There is a truth, right? There's rigorous academic debate.
That's not what this conversation is about. The conversation is much simpler than that.
Everyone knows as a genocide, everyone understands as a genocide, but the people who have perpetrated the genocide and they're major supporters that happen to be very wealthy don't want you to say it.
So it's not a complex situation at all, right?
And when people say it's a complex situation, they're actually just simply regurgitating
what the progenicide wants them to regurgitate.
Yeah, this was awesome as well.
We'll get to that in a second.
Yeah, Paul Jay gives Coke near a Tandon's ass.
As a matter of fact, everyone at this point understands that it's only a complex situation
because you're like I'm Ed Sheeran and let me tell you I understand that everyone
knows is a genocide and genocide is unacceptable but my agents my managers
my incredibly wealthy Zionist friends don't want me to say it's a genocide so
it's very complex from my perspective because I would still like to make a lot
of money. I still like to make a lot of money. And that's why I'm trying to tell the fucking
line is complex in it.
My concerts have always been a safe space for everyone. And that matters hugely to me.
Honoring my commitments to my fans is also...
You should have at least memorized the speech.
You should have at the very least memorized the speech.
The fact that he keeps looking back at the teleprompter in front of him is so funny.
Not a safe space for my fucking eardrum.
completely sensual to who I am and that is why I'm here tonight on my own and
continuing my current tour.
But I am I am deeply worried about the idea that venues should pre-approved
content of performers. This happens in so many places that I perform around the
world but it should never happen in the free world.
Now I want to address the question of where yeah, they know so here publicists have basically moved on Zionist to do celebrity PR
Know that they can't be explicitly supportive of Israel anymore
So they resort to a passive mealy-mouthed sadness about what is happening in Gaza
I don't think it's sheer and can single-handedly end Zionism
But I think it's worth examining how Zionist rhetoric has evolved into something that sounds polite and sympathetic towards policies
But is designed to uphold Israeli apartheid calling it a conflict calling it a war
Or saying, �Oh, the conflict over there is too complex.
These are all ways in which we continue not deliberately and directly addressing the crisis
unfolding as a direct consequence of Zionism, as a direct consequence of Israel�s actions.
What happened in Gaza is not a naturally occurring phenomena.
It�s not a natural disaster.
A volcano didn�t explode.
It was man-made.
Israel did it.
It's okay to say it openly, and we should say it.
We should say it because it's the truth.
It is a genocide.
Israel perpetrated this genocide.
America is also responsible.
Many countries in the Western world also offered material support to Israel to conduct
this genocide, offered surveillance to Israel to conduct this genocide, offered targets
to the Israeli state and political cover to avoid legal scrutiny and still continue to
do so.
As a matter of fact, the American government is opening up sanctions against the international
criminal court.
We're trying to hold to account and do the bare minimum against some of the perpetrators
of the genocide. Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Galat.
It's completely unjustifiable and the harm continues. Okay? The harm continues. It compounds.
Our shame continues. And Ed Sheeran is continuing along that shame and now has made it his own
personal shame. He had every opportunity to just continue along to tell Robert Kraft
to fuck off. Instead, he's now doing this wishy-washy middle of the road nonsense.
I stand in the situation in Israel and Palestine and whether my doing this concert here tonight
implies where I stand. I have tried in my career not to be a political commentator of any kind,
because I want my... Yeah, that's also nonsense.
Obviously, this is hypocrisy baiting and it's utterly irrelevant to the morality of what
he's doing here to the immorality of what he's doing here taking both sides taking oh this is a
conflict is too complex to discuss approach to a genocide is morally unjustifiable having said
that of course he obviously took a clear cut stance on Ukraine understandably so so clearly
clearly there's something a little bit different is a charity show for Ukraine
you've performed in Ukraine you have openly talked about your support for Ukraine which
is good. That's good. I've done a charity for Ukraine as well, right? I think it's the
correct thing to do. Having said that, clearly you don't have a consistent moral standard
here when money is on the line.
Music and shows to be about unity, not division, about humanity, not politics, but this is a
humanitarian issue and I cannot hide how I feel about it anymore.
What happened in Israel and at the Novi music festival on October 7th was horrific and compounded
centuries of Jewish pain.
What is happening in Gaza is a catastrophic and unjustifiable and disproportionate.
My heart has been broken by the scale of devastation and loss of civilians' lives, of children's
lives.
And the systemic injustice we're seeing unfolding in the West Bank cannot be overlooked.
I honestly am so grateful that you're here tonight with me.
the humanitarian pain.
How did this humanitarian crisis unfold?
Because if you look at how did the humanitarian crisis unfolded after October 7, perhaps you
can even arrive at a conclusion that the humanitarian crisis that took place on October 7 was also
directly a consequence of the systemic violence that Palestinians were subjected to for the 75 years
prior to October 7. I don't know. Much easier answer to this would have been free Palestine.
Genocide is never acceptable. You know, now it's time for shape of you. You know what I mean? Drop
the mic. It's still a place where everyone is welcome and everyone here can stand beside people
that have opposing views and everyone here can stand by people that they don't agree. Like
this isn't about what your this is not about the age-old debate of whether
Jellied Eel is an acceptable thing for people to eat or not okay it's not
about mushy peas it's not about what your favorite Fooie team is also new
Manchester United Olivia Poole right is about genocide what do you mean
opposing views on genocide. What's up guys? You know, I've seen the sea of anti-Germanic
statements coming from the audience. I know I had an anti-German, anti-Nazi performing
act that opened for me, but I gotta say like this is a safe space. I'm apolitical, you
know, for the Aryan Germans and for the Jewish Germans alike. We both sides have a lot to
say. A real humanitarian crisis. Sometimes the partisans react violently to their subjugation.
And sometimes the Aryans react violently as a consequence of the partisan's actions, right?
You never know.
You never know what you're gonna get at an Ed Sheeran concert.
Yeah.
We have space for both here.
We have space for the SS and the, and the partisans, right?
It's just ridiculous with on everything but they can all agree on singing these songs
Yeah, he's like the death of horse vessel was horrifying and the German response was disproportionate. Okay
Thanks, man. And then he grabs the
And then he's gonna be songs are about love
of hope and unity.
Now, obviously, British SNL, which is pretty good,
weirdly enough, they cooked them as well.
Let's take a look.
The Israel-Palestine conflict just got serious.
That's right, Ed Sheeran's U.S. tour is under threat.
Sheeran's support act, Macklemore,
was dropped after saying free Palestine on stage.
Well, Sheeran have to cancel the tour.
There's a very real risk that he won't.
Genuinely though, this crisis is the worst thing
that has happened to Ed Sheeran fans since their head injury.
Good guy with bad music, Macklemore,
was dropped at the insistence
of pro-Israel billionaire Robert Kraft.
85-year-old craft, seen here picking a coffin,
has released his own statement on the Israel-Palestine conflict,
saying, quote,
Our goal is to work together to build bridges.
Oh, Robert, it's going to break your heart
when you find out who's bombing those.
Wealthy corpse, Maxa Robert Kraft,
has a checkered pass
After being charged with soliciting prostitution in 2019,
he appointed one of Jeffrey Epstein's lawyers to his legal team.
But not wanting to be associated with the evil dead guy,
Epstein had himself killed.
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To his credit,
Sheeran, seen here looking at both sides of the issue...
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has been a long standing supporter of Ukraine. Say what you want about Ed, but he's always
been a passionate advocate of causes that are allowed.
I mean, yeah, it's great. It's perfect. So that was his wishy-washy apology, right?
But it's really funny because it's really funny because there was more. He then apologized
for his apology at the end of the concert, which was really funny. But before we get
to that, there was also this part, hold on, where is it? And Sheeran is literally reading
from the teleprompter. Like you can see his apology as he reads from the teleprompter
from this angle is even more clear. I gotta pee real quick.
This is not usually how I would like to say, but before I've played some songs tonight I hope it's okay if I say a few words about this last week.
I'm used to my music being criticised and I'm always happy to say that because I'm lucky a lot of you like my stuff and to be honest I'm surprised, I'm not surprised that I've been doing this normally.
But this week, the criticism was about something much more important, and I've had to take
and make difficult decisions, and I am making mistakes, and I'm so, so sorry.
I don't want to disappoint fans, and I've never wanted to be an activist musician,
but this put me in the middle of an important and passionate argument
about freedom of speech and the most complex political issue on the planet.
My concerts have always been a safe space for everyone, and that matters hugely to me.
Honoring my commitments, my fans, is also completely sensual to who I am.
And that is why I'm here tonight, on my own, and continuing my current tour.
But I am deeply worried about the idea that venues should pre-approve content for performers.
This happens in so many places that a performer around the world should never happen in the
free world.
Now, I want to address the question of where I stand in the situation in Israel and Palestine
Dude, he is just he is locked in on that bad boy
Okay
So that was the telepompter, but also
It's sheerness getting cooked from every avenue including unknown avenues
It's Sharon's cousin Jeff ro sheeran speaks out against them finally it's all coming out
I'm ashamed of my cousin Ed and what he's done finally the world and all his fans see through him
He's not a good person. I don't like his music. So I can't say he's even a good artist
He's honestly a selfish individual with malicious and cunning ways Kylie chunks of the concept of your cousin Jeff Rose Sheeran
speaking out against you. Oh
No, it's my cousin. It's my fucking cousin Jeff Rose Sheeran
Jeff Rose Sheeran it came out and he fucking cooked me
Some Ed Sheeran fans like this apology. Yeah, I'm sure of course they love Ed Sheeran their their parasocial
This is part of the reason why we want artists to say the truth, right?
M. Kenobi
Cooking again with another insanely viral tweet Jesus Christ
M. Kenobi
says reads from a teleprompter immediately starts October 7th still won't call it
genocide says he doesn't know enough about what's happening makes no apology
magma or address dropping him from the tour doesn't mention where his donations
will be going to doesn't encourage anyone to donate doesn't say most Israel's
the reason Jenna Gaza is suffering won't say free power line only cries when
he sees people showed up to the concert because that's what he cares about the
most fuck him but it doesn't end there here was the part where he cried
an apology for the apology at the end of the concert.
People were making Ludwig references on this, but Ludwig, for whatever you want to say or
think about what he said, he was very clear on this.
Ed Sheeran gave a Ludwig style statement on Palestine. I don't think people would be cooking
him. Ludwig came out and was like, it's unacceptable, free Palestine. It's a genocide.
I've always been and always will be on the side of those who are, you know, fighting to defend
Palestinians, all that stuff, right? If Ed Sheeran said that, I think a lot less people
will be yelling at him, right? Instead, yes, it is wiping his tears with money. He's like,
look at this. Oh, I'm so sad. Yeah. I'm so sad about all the money I'm making.
I
Did let's say it was genetha though. Yes, he did. What are you talking about? Yes, he did
It what yes
Also, the problem with Ludwig for many people's uh for from the perspective of many people
Wasn't that he wasn't like pro-palast I he was from the jump the problem was that
you know, there was a calculation that he was making that not like be as outwardly and openly
In favor of Palestinian emancipation from the jump regardless of his own personal values and his own personal feelings
Because he was worried about people fucking yelling at him initially
I think that it's it's and I can say this because like it's it's something that he admitted and said he has deep shame for right
He was never fucking pro-Israel. He's never pro-Israel. What are you talking about?
This is the thing Ludwig is
Not even a liberal like Ludwig is very woke. He's a leftist. He was pro trans years and years ago
Okay
He's always been
He's he's always been a very progressive person
That's also the reason why so many people yell at him
Okay, the reason why so many these fucking dumbasses on the internet yell at Ludwig is not because he's a fence sitter, right?
It's actually because his personal views and and the way he presents himself
Usually on most issues is very clearly on the left
No, come on come on come on let's be real let's be fucking real
We are so much more. We are so much more ruthless
Liz the people who are ideologically closest to us. I say this as someone who is is coworker status. Okay
I'm the motherfucking coworker and I'm as the coworker. I'm the one who's saying it. Okay
Okay?
Charlie most critical the biggest fan bigger fan sitter yet. No one gives a fuck about it. Yes partially because
Charlie is also Charlie is also very woke on a lot of issues. Okay, very woke on a lot of issues. I
I think people are literally less generous and expect so much more from people who are, you know, nominally to the left of the average person.
And the more openly left you are, the more you get attacked by the right.
And the more you get attacked by the left as well because they're like, well, what the fuck are you saying?
You're supposed to be like, you know, leading the charge here.
Come on, that's our expectation of you, which is fair, which is fair.
But no one applies that same exact standard, I don't think. No one applies that same standard.
Like the scrutiny that I get from the left and the right is far, far, far worse than Ludwig, right?
Why? Because I'm openly far more left than Ludwig.
That's it. Is that simple? The more openly left you are, the more the left will come after you.
That's just how it works.
Anyway, let's continue with Ed Sheeran for now.
America is a scary place right now.
This gives hope.
This gives hope. Thank you so much.
Yeah, actually, you know what?
A great example of this is Shane Gillis.
Okay?
The very same people that would love Shane Gillis
or even Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson,
there are progressive people,
quote-unquote progressive people, leftist people out there,
who think like, you know,
You know, Marjorie Taylor Greene is more woke than AOC.
There are people out there who will hear Shane Gillis make one like anti-January 6th joke and go,
that's my hero, right? But then those very same people will turn on love and say,
dude, you fucking suck. You're a fan sitter. We all do this, okay? We all do this. No one applies a
consistent standard, or rather the most consistent standard that people apply are if you are
Openly on the left if you are a left advocate, okay, if you are a left advocate or people know that you are a leftist
Okay
Then it doesn't matter you will be a plot you will have a far higher standard of scrutiny then
people who are not
People who have never presented themselves as such and it's interesting because it almost rewards people for always being consistently
Consistently quote-unquote apolitical
Or even right wing so when they actually make a pivot even nominally to the left of what you perceive them as like Shanguilas
Right because he's chud coated all of a sudden everyone goes. Oh my god. This guy's so woke. I knew it all along
That's it
subverting expectations and presenting yourself as nominally left works phenomenally if you have presented yourself as apolitical or
or outright right-wing this entire time.
Do you see?
So this creates that interesting standard where no one wants to be outward with their point of view.
No one wants to be, you know, no one wants to be outwardly leftist because there's no reward in them.
them. So the only person you leave, the only person you leave as like an actual outright leftist
person that's willing to eat the mound of shit, is a person like myself, someone who is objectively
insane. Okay? We don't, maximum copium, see this is it. No one wants to hear this. No one in my
community will ever want to hear this because I'm sorry we do this a lot as well. Okay? Your
expectation from the average person should not be that they carry themselves in the same way that I
do. Okay? I've read a lot of fucking books on the subject matter. The average person doesn't think
about it like this. We have to sometimes pull ourselves out of our own echo chambers and
think about what like the average normie, the average normie, how the average normie approaches
these issues, right? None of these people defend you when you need it at most. I
respect your kindness, but you don't need to defend them. This is not transactional.
I don't care if tomorrow Ludwig did some shit that I disagree with. I would
outright say it. This is not a transactional approach. I've
never had that. I've never done that. Okay?
So, on the one hand, I think we shouldn't expect, I guess what I'm trying to say is, it's good
if you're applying a, if you have an excited attitude about people who are previously presenting
themselves as chuds or previously presenting themselves as apolitical coming out and making
a bold declarative statement about being on the left of an issue, right, being in favor
of human rights on an issue, no matter how late they are to the game, then you should
apply that standard consistently to those who have always been there.
So this is not just a call to my own community, but I hope this message resonates far beyond
my community as well.
Dude, I'm sorry, but he was doing things we disagreed with and we did call him out on
it and people are overly critical of course, but spare me that he didn't deserve criticism
or we have unrealistic expectations.
Wait, I didn't even say that.
No, no, no, make no mistake.
I'm not saying that at all.
I criticize love again at the time when he said he's donating money, but he's not
actually going to participate in the charity personally.
What are you talking about?
There's a difference between analyzing a specific action in the moment versus carrying on with
that same enmity, or rather, continuing the criticism when he even comes out and says,
like, that was a shameful moment for me, I apologize, you know, I want to clarify
my position.
People are still operating on the previous attitude that they had.
Do you see what I mean?
And also, what kind of criticism we're making also matters, right?
Saying something like, I know what this person's actual opinions are, it's kind of crazy
that he's just like too afraid to say his true position out loud is very different than being like no Ludwig is pro-Israel
He's not he's never been I think Philip DeFranco is a good example of your point. Yeah
Sometimes it takes people especially people who are worried about their finances are worried about the the barrage of hatred that they're gonna be
receiving from the opposing front
It takes some time to come to the conclusion that they have to outright say certain things.
But when they do, we should still offer a little bit of grace, because as I always like to explain over and over again,
it's good to have people, it's good to have more people come out and say these things, right?
We need all the numbers on our side, we need all of them.
And and the reality of the matter is the issue still continue the censorship regime still continues
I mean we're seeing a version of this right now take place
regards the public popularity regards are the broad popularity of this issue, right?
There are still very powerful
People that are aggressively
Regardless of the public disapproval towards their actions taking
and sorious initiatives to stop people from saying the truth, to stop people from saying
things that everybody sees and everybody understands.
So there's still a financial penalty associated with it, right?
For every Ludwig, there are still a shit ton of streamers who haven't said anything
about Palestine, right?
For every Ludwig out there, there are people who have consistently been silent, right?
Matthew Lillard said he's ashamed he returned to scream franchise after Melissa Barrera
was fired for speaking out in support of Palestine.
The amount of people I've seen on here say too little, too late is concerning.
If we allow, if we can allow these people to learn and grow, then what is your activism
even here for?
So there's a delicate balance here.
And I have to also address the delicate balance here, because, you know, one day, everyone
will have been against this, right?
That's the concept.
And one day, everyone will have always been against this, Omar al-Aqad.
Now, I would go so far, say we're not there yet, right?
Because there's still sometimes criminal penalties applied.
There are still sometimes social penalties enforced upon people.
So there's that element of it, there's that element into the story, because like, perhaps
I'm a little too close to the issue, but like, the shit that people do to me, that is a lesson
for others to stay silent.
You understand?
So I don't necessarily think we're there yet.
I don't think it's like fully, if you're in a position of power and influence, like
for you to come out and say this stuff is still somewhat impactful.
the same with the Macklemore situation, right? Look at what happened to him. Look at what happened
to Mark Ruffalo. Look at what's happening to me every day of the fucking week, right?
For Matt Lillard, he didn't have to say anything. He just continued along with his career
and lived with that shame, but he chose to say something in this moment, right?
Susan Sarandon is still being penalized.
So, I think what you guys don't see is like we need to give grace to the converts, no matter how late they are.
But also at the same time remember that like, you know, yes, some people are going to lean into it when it's no longer as brave of a choice to do so.
Having said that, having said that, you have to be saying it wrong on purpose, saying what wrong?
What did I say?
What am I saying wrong on purpose?
You lost me too
Yeah, the also the keywords are everyone will have always been against this if it's fundamentally different to look back and admit being
In the wrong it is the claim you were always on the right side. Yeah, like this person is outwardly coming out and saying he was wrong
he was wrong
To to continue working with this franchise very different than saying I was always there
right
Even with like Ludwig he's saying he was wrong to not fully support this charity and and come out in support of it at the time
It's different than saying, oh, I was always pro-Palestine and I did nothing wrong.
So there's that difference there as well.
Oh, yeah, I do need you to understand like there are still penalties being applied for
saying the truth.
But having said that, every time someone with notoriety, someone with a platform comes
out in spite of those penalties and says the truth, it makes things a little bit easier, okay?
It does. It makes things a little bit easier for everybody else.
Why should you celebrate Ludwig for the bare minimum when he still shows significant resentment
to anyone with stronger convictions than him and blames them his perception due to his own
mistakes. I just think that it's not that significant, one way or another. I'm not saying, you know,
go up and down the timeline and glaze Ludwig and be like, oh my God, thank you, my king.
I'm just saying like, apply your charity and apply your criticisms evenly across the board.
I think I have a fairly consistent standard on here, on this, right, and that's it.
But we can't be outright hostile, I don't think.
I don't think we should be outright hostile.
Some people always will be regardless, but I don't think we should be outright hostile
to people who are like, yeah, I fucked up.
I shouldn't have done that.
Bro said he wouldn't join his partner at your funeral law. I know who gives a fuck
I'm not doing this
Again if I am leading by example, I want to be a good example for all of you
We do not do this for a
Transactional purpose. Okay, we do this to build a broader movement. We do this to get other people on board
That's it. I don't care
Offer grace humility and charity even to those who have wronged you if they have come to the right side of an issue
This is what I've always done and I will continue to do it
right
Anyway, now let's get back to Duncan on edge shearing for apologizing at the end of his
concert for his bullshit PR apology.
The world is a scary place right now. America is a scary place right now.
This gives hope. This gives hope. Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
America is a scary place right now.
For those who are brave enough to say free Israel.
As everyone knows,
it's the toughest battle
to protect the interests of billionaires and and those who are brave enough to say the truth and
stand with Israel are those enough who are even braver to say both sides have good opinions on this
matter. I hope you all have had fun. The one thing that I would like to apologize for is the first
the show where it wasn't about me to come and talk and I understand people have children here and I understand the
families didn't buy a ticket to hear that first bit of the show but that was something I felt like I needed to say
Dude you didn't answer any of the questions
What are you talking about if the question the questions people were asking of you are why did you drop Macklemore?
What's your opinion on?
Whether Israel committed a genocide or not. Those are the questions that people had
You actually did answer those questions when you drop Macklemore
You answered those questions when he said I prefer Robert Kraft and his billions of dollars
To my third year friend Matt Lamont for saying the thing that I also my fan base and most people also believed
He did answer those questions you answered them with your actions
and your PR apology was also an additional answer, and then your PR apology on the tour
was another answer, and now your apology to the apology is only continuing your answer.
It's very simple, okay? It's super simple. This is a black and white issue, right? It's not
complex genocide. It's the crime of all crimes, right? Anyone that says, oh, there's nuances
complexities of the genocide are being ridiculous. However, however, inaction in the face of injustice
is siding with the oppressor. And what's perhaps worse is that you took action that sided directly
with the oppressor. It wasn't even in action. So it's that simple.
And I will never stop doing this. I will never stop doing this. I love doing this so much.
Boom. Please stop.
It's sure remove the B stage from tonight's show because he was afraid of what might happen.
He's the real victim of all this. I think you guys need to understand. He's the real victim in all of this
The Palestinian children that have been slaughtered
The you know the the advocates who have lost their jobs
Your friend of 13 years that you knifed in the back for saying the truth
None of these guys are victimized the varying degrees obviously the most important one being the Palestinians who have been slaughtered
I need to repeat this over and over again. It's you, Ed. You're the one.
What makes his words is like, Maglemore literally said, I'm not the victim, the Palestinians are,
in his statement, right? Ed Sheeran looked at that and said, I'm the real victim.
He's like, you know who's been hurt the most in all of this? Me.
That's right, the sacred bond that I had with my fan base was violated viciously.
I am not complicit.
There are subtle teases.
Yeah, a close rid of Ed Sheeran's new statement.
Why is the flaw from Tucker of Cetail?
Ed Sheeran's statement on stage that I want you to pay attention to.
For one, he doesn't mention Macklemore or any of his openers or really what happened
to them in any meaningful way whatsoever.
For another, he leads with October 7th as an event he said, quote, compound centuries
of Jewish pain.
I found this to be a slight but notable difference because for painting against Israelis, there is context, there is history, a specific bigotry against a religion.
For painting as Palestinians, there is at least expressed simply nothing.
To be fair for both October 7th and then the abstract devastation in Gaza after, he doesn't name any culprits one way or another.
But even to the West Bank where he at least named systemic injustice, he doesn't ascribe any agency to the people actually committing the injustice.
He also did not say free Palestine, which is probably to me the simplest,
readily digestible and completely inoffensive thing one could say about the situation in the region.
He also says he's talking to people across the spectrum to work out how to make a
contribution that helps the victims of these terrible times.
I don't think you need to speak to people across the spectrum about how to help victims
when part of that spectrum happens to be the people who created the victims.
speaking to pro-Israel groups will not help you understand how best to help a Palestinian kid
whose family was wiped out by the Israeli military. Also, he still doesn't even specify where his
donations will be going, or if Robert Kraft, for example, will be donating, and doesn't even
encourage his fans to support whatever cause he is apparently supporting. He also acknowledged
he doesn't know enough. That's fine. We're all supposed to learn and grow. That's the
That's the point.
But it is notable to me that three years in at least 73,000 people conservatively killed
and 2 million made homeless, forget calling it a genocide.
He couldn't really describe it in much detail at all.
It's okay to not know something, but it's pretty wild to have this much time and this
many resources at the tip of your fingers to learn about something and to have a pre-written
statement and to still find a way to ultimately say nothing at all.
If I'm looking for a milk toast statement about the loss of life, I can just look for
my nearest centrist Democrat press release.
Artists push the envelope.
They give us community where we all can look at the senselessness of the world and we can
look at each other and know we're not crazy for noticing it all and know we're not
alone.
They give us a vocabulary to know that it doesn't have to be this way.
That's what is so sad about this.
A guy who is surrounded by very thoughtful and compassionate and interesting artists is now all alone reading a teleprompter, PR statement, devoid of any engagement with the humanity he purports.
He was here and apologized over Maglemore controversy and speaks on Israel-Palestine conflict.
Oh, by the way, yeah, Robert Kraft's like donation to the region was so funny because I clocked this too as many others did as well.
Robert Kraft claims to donate his L palsy as turns out he's funding friends of the IDF and analysis of tax forms in the intercept
Showcraft charity and Lc have donated to friends of the IDF and a pack super pack
Like when he said he was you know donating to the region or had donated to the region
This is what he meant and it was so crazy for him to outright say that
Now this isn't new. This isn't new information for the record. This isn't new information. This is what I was saying
he had done and this is what I this is what I was saying he was he was
referencing when he said I donated to the charities in the region you have to
see this about Ed Sheeran what is this okay I come on come on well I'm trying
to we've covered this so much we've covered this extensively I do want to
see his CBS news of course was in the crowd and found you know Ed Sheeran
fans who loved Ed Sheeran's response.
I appreciate that he spoke about it at the beginning of the concert, like you addressed it.
I think he handled it like an absolute gentleman.
He made a good decision.
I think he was an entertainer, and he focused on entertaining, and I absolutely loved it.
I thought he opened the show honestly.
He expressed serious concern about whether he was even doing the right thing in opening
the show.
The fact that he apologized showed a lot about his act here and was as a person and I think that maybe liked him even more as an artist and a singer.
I think that musicians don't have to play in politics when they're on tour and he played neutral.
I would have liked if he would have maybe been a little more clear about where he stands on certain issues.
I think he had to start addressing what happened because every single person there was obviously thinking about it and I think he really spoke from heart.
It was moving it was open. It was honest. He was in a knowing situation
Was there any part of you that considered not going because of the controversy? Yes. Yeah
My wife and I talked about like were we doing the right thing? We're Jewish were we doing the right thing in coming?
And I said to her that you know wait
Wait, wait, which way is this going?
What does that mean, wait, I can't tell what he means by that, what?
Also it's so funny to talk about Ed Sheeran this way, like this guy objectively makes
music for Barnes and Noble, you know what I mean? Like the way that Ed Sheeran's music
is supposed to be consumed is when you're hearing it in the background, when you're shopping
in a mall, right? Like that's what it's for. And these guys are talking about it like
he's fucking Beethoven, you know? When he said, should we even attend? Because he's
like, are we giving hate to his space to hate? I think, does he mean like Ed Sheeran,
He was worried, wasn't like sufficiently pro-Israel or does he does he mean that like I genuinely
can't tell from the way he talked about it?
If we don't go to tonight, the terrorist win.
I mean, that is very positively American.
That was literally the the resounding message post 9 11 that the state wanted everyone to
understand and identify with was literally if we don't go out and shop, the terrorist
win.
I was so supportive from the jump again.
I did not know what the vibe would be like.
I don't think he knew what the vibe would be like, but
immediately the tell the whole audience was on his side,
rooting for him.
We usually don't stay till the end of concerts because we try to beat the crowds.
We want to stay till the very end because we just felt that good energy from him.
He's coming from a good place.
There is no will or no animosity or anything like that.
I love that he's not playing with politics.
I love when people go, no, I don't want to hear the truth about anything like that's awesome.
I feel like people should feel a sense of shame.
about their, their active participation in, in like dulling their brains, right?
I really think the broader point I want to make is this,
anti-intellectualism is seen as a positive, is seen as a good thing.
Like, people are desperately not only seeking out escapism, but also on top of that, speaking
about escapism like a virtue.
I don't think we've struggled enough to want to place escapist values that high up on
the totem pole.
Like what struggles have we experienced that were like finally a moment of fresh air? It's like, oh, I'm sorry
Was it too tough for you when you were filling up your Stanley cup this morning
with a bunch of different mixtures of of
You know sodas and Kool-Aid like what what are you talking about?
What kind of tremendous struggle are we all experiencing that finally it's a
So, yeah, different syrups, I couldn't remember that people pumped the syrups in and I just
said Kool-Aid, but you got what I meant.
But like, what kind of struggles are we experiencing in the first world, especially in comparison
to the issues that we choose to turn a blind eye to, issues that we are morally culpable
for?
But we're like, oh, finally a breath of fresh air, you know?
I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
Yum, tasty corn syrup here.
My goat, Mark Lamon Hill, also had some statements about this lackluster.
Apologies.
Let's take a look.
Oh, the crocodile tears.
Oh, I'm just so choked up.
Look, I don't doubt.
I don't think he's faking the tears.
The question is why are you crying for Palestinian babies?
Are you crying for the Palestinians who are under the rubble?
I cried for the Palestinian women and men who had been robbed of home, robbed of mosque
and church, robbed of hospital access, robbed of their memories, robbed of their cultural
artifacts, robbed of what are you crying for?
Yeah.
I cry for the people who are the victims of settler raids in the West Bank.
What are you crying for?
Are you crying for Macklemore?
Acklemore who's lost millions on this?
I'm not saying you should, but at least like,
what are you crying for?
Are you crying for your ego?
Because they're dragging you through the mud
and exposing you for your political cowardice?
Huh, that might be it.
Damn.
Peace mode.
Yeah, we already watched the apology and let's hear it, let's hear it, this is from channel
four so they might have a very different, they might have reached out to a very different
audience to get their take on it, skipping the apology we've already seen it many times
over this proportion. But this was the scene outside the show. Ed Sheeran has worked $400
million dollars. He could have afforded to give up a few concert dates. I feel fairly
betrayed as a former fan. My group and I love him and support him and it's not his fault
all this **** going around. Ed Sheeran had said he was presented with an ultimatum
by the promoter and the pro-Israel billionaire stadium owner Robert Kraft. The singer was
told that the pro-Palestine rapper Macklemore must be dropped or the tour dates would be.
Ed Sheeran said he did not want to do politics but is he now a victim of an issue increasingly
without the middle ground? Ed Sheeran is a victim of censorship. I think the biggest story
is about how Rob craft and people like it.
I don't think he had turns a victim of censorship at all.
Ed Sheeran chose the side on this issue and he chose not to be censored.
He chose not to fight back.
I think that's what the worst like obviously the worst problem here is that you know, people
are are totally so off base.
They're so unbelievably off-center here because the center should be, the center of the conversation
should be the Palestinian plight, right? But Ed Sheeran participated in the censorship
by choosing a side. Ed Sheeran is worth $400 million. He's Ed Sheeran. He is so wealthy
and so powerful. This is his tour. There are legal avenues that he could explore. Right?
And his choice of running away from said legal avenues, from even offering modest pushback
to Robert Kraft, who he knows personally, was an active decision to lean on the side
of the oppressors.
We have been monitoring cases of repression and we've monitored over 900 verified cases
of anti-Palestinian repression.
Robert Kraft says he was preventing hate speech and few will see a multi-millionaire musician
as a casualty of a crisis that has taken the lives of an estimated 70,000 Palestinians.
Ed Sheeran has become the latest public figure in golfed in a matter of free speech on it.
Even though he was widely criticized and his backing band left in solidarity.
Yeah, bro, if you got fuck you money and you don't say fuck you in a moment where you can and should
then, you know, fuck you, I guess.
Like what good is having fuck you money if you can't be honest in a moment where it matters,
You know, it's ridiculous.
You think Ed is mad at pink? Her post is one of the things that stoked the fire.
No, probably not. This reminds me of when people were like outright trying to do the
adpocalypse on Twitch, right? Because of my pro-Palestine advocacy, and you had
institutional support coming in as well. The anti-defamation league, the apartheid defense
League was also participating in this campaign and there were content creators who were upset
not at the fact that there were other content creators that are no longer allowed onto which
they were actively trying to do a smear campaign and take away their ad revenue,
but they were mad at me. There were content creators who were like, yeah,
the Sasha just shut the fuck up about politics. Why is he rocking the boat?
out. Why is he messing up the bag? They are doing it and they're not even shy about outwardly
doing it. They're doing it openly and they're continuing to do it. And you're mad at me?
Yes, there are a lot of people who will not reflect on what is going on and who is responsible.
And they'll just get mad at the person speaking the truth.
They want you to shut up.
They want everyone to shut up.
They won't get mad at, like, Asmongole, for example, who participated in this adpocalypse
campaign.
They'll get mad at me and others who spoke out.
It blows my mind.
Yes, for a lot of people, for a lot of people, the discomfort comes from someone actually
pointing out the injustice, not from the fact that the injustice continues, okay?
This is the problem with the white moderate as MLK wrote about in his letter from Birmingham
jail. Placing a timeline on another man's quest for justice. And unfortunately, a lot
of people would rather have everybody else also shut up and not rock the boat. That's
if you want to blame somebody blame Robert Kraft if you want to blame Ed Sheeran you
can also do that no no no they get Sheeran could have done something very different here
he could have been a hero he could have been the hero of the day easy money for Ed easy
ball for ed look at the way people treat maglemore's music now
you know
things outside that the arena have been peaceful and just a few blocks away from the arena
there were demonstrators that gathered earlier today to bring the attention back to the issue
that created this whole controversy of the war in gaza
we're skipping the rest of this right i've already seen the fans we've
already heard the fans. They've been interviewed. We saw it.
The best days of my life and I don't think politics belong at any music venue.
Ed Sheeran has got me through the roughest days of my life. It's so funny.
What's happening in Gaza? And we're here to plug people in to organizations across the city
that are doing the work to organize for free policy.
I originally was going to be here to attend the Ed Sheeran concert,
But after the events that have unfolded over the last week, I'm now here for the protest to bring awareness to what's going on in Palestine and across the world.
This is the pro-Palestinian rally that gathered outside of Ed Sheeran's concert in Philly on Saturday night.
Organizers told me that four different Philly area groups came together to set this protest up.
There's under 100 people here and they're set up a few hundred yards away from the entrance of the stadium.
The protesters here are speaking against Israel and against Zionism.
they're holding pro-Palestinian flags and signs and chanting in support of gossip.
Ed Sheeran, whether he wants it or not, Palestine is now associated with this term.
Palestine Solidarity.
Ed Sheeran is worth $400 million.
Ed Sheeran is used to selling outste-
Okay, so much Ed Sheeran.
Ed Sheeran tickets for $37 at first show since Macklemore dropped out.
Yeah, that's pretty crazy.
That, I think, is more indicative of how the public is reacting than anything else, in my opinion.
I mean, we're talking about $37 for Ed Sheeran Constance, man, sells out arena, sells out stadiums.
Stadiums like this one, but this is not sold out.
In fact, we've been looking at ticket prices and over the last three days,
they've dropped by more than 50% right now.
The entry level price to get into this Ed Sheeran concert, $37.
That is unheard of in this day and age from Megastar like Ed Sheeran.
We've also heard that some refunds are apparently being granted
for fans who are upset with Ed Sheeran not standing by Macklemore and for
continuing this tour of North America. Yeah Ed Sheeran should come out and be like
listen I did this for you the fans so that we could force live nation and
ticket master to put the prices back at reasonable levels for all my fans to
enjoy. I did it. I did it for you. I said free Israel for you so the fans
get come and hear my music.
I'm ensuring and this is shape of you with the guitar back on.
Masterful gambit, five D chess.
You already know he also said he wanted to continue this concert
not to disappoint his fans and to make sure that all the people working
it continue to get paid. Meanwhile, there's other news that we're going
to get to and we look forward to showing you all that stuff.
Oh, God, anti-Israel mob. Rage is outside of Ed Sheeran concert. Yeah. Anyway, here's
Wonderwall is right. Okay. So that's enough Ed Sheeran commentary for the day. We've done enough.
We're going to move on to other stuff. We're going to move on to bigger and better things.
Yeah, exit show exit poll show disaster for Merch CDU party in two state elections
melts
You know
We'll we'll get to that in a second
Before we do that
What was I gonna do? Oh Nira
near Tandon and the extreme radical centrists
Have been getting very mad. So Blakely had something to say
There's a lot of people with opinions on Abdul's new quote-unquote pivot. I need to speak on this really quickly
Abdul leaning into Kamala Harris
to stump for him specifically to boost his approvals with
Black voters is a good thing. Okay
It's not a bad thing at all. It's a good thing. You guys are wrong. We want Abdul to win. Okay. We want Abdul to win
One of the major points of tension
That is that has been concocted in the primaries and it's continuing
It's an APAC narrative as well like APAC is leaning into this narrative heavily is the idea that
That Abdul and the Arabs in Michigan are anti-black. That's why they didn't vote for Kamala Harris. They're anti-black
There is real tension in Michigan. Okay, I'm telling you I've seen it. I've talked to people on the ground
And
while not everyone is appreciative of Kamala Harris clearly even in the state of Michigan broadly considering that Kamala Harris lost the
State of Michigan to Donald Trump
There are those who are very supportive of Kamala Harris, okay?
Voters that Abdul Al Sayed needs to bring turnout to really, really tap into
Black voters, older black voters specifically, okay?
Older black voters, they like Kamala Harris
Won't say the same about younger black voters won't say the same about voters broadly
Okay. But older, older black voters, they love Kamala Harris. So there's still resentment
directed towards those who did not vote for her, or even went out and voted for Donald
Trump in the state of Michigan. To address this, to address this, to resolve this issue,
need support from the establishment figures that older black voters have placed a lot of trust in.
This is not about agreeing with Kamala Harris. It's not about her positions.
The question always is, do you want to win? And if you want to win, you have to do this.
I don't think it's a bad idea at all. I think it's a good idea. And I want Obama to come
out and it's found for Abdul too. 100%. So people look at like what Abdul is doing is
distancing from Hassan and then like leaning into Kamala Harris. And I don't think they
understand what the calculation is here, right? As long as Abdul sticks to his principles
on the issues, on the issue of Israel, this operation is not indicative of him shying away
from his values or pivoting to the center. I don't think Abdul has pivoted to the center
even one bit, because we've seen the same old song and dance, we've seen the same
old story time and time again. Right? The story's the same. You get a progressive, you
get a socialist, they win the primary, they're bold, they're brave, they're effective in
the primary and once the general rolls around, they start pivoting, they start the pivot.
And they pivot, pivot, pivot. And in that endless pivot, they lose sight of what made
them successful. They lose sight of what made them popular. It's also indicative of how they're
going to govern and people get understandably disturbed, understandably frustrated.
Okay?
Osama will be your assessment of Abdul loses with Angie wins. Simple. I don't think that's
going to happen. But if that were to happen, the assessor will be clear. Americans are
unbelievably Islamophobic in the state of Michigan.
That would be my assessment. His name is Abdulrahman Muhammad al-Sayed.
Angie's race is far harder. It would be a tremendous accomplishment for the pro-Palestinian
movement and advocacy that Angie Nixon did not have to shy away from her values and
was able to defeat the Republican incumbent and flip that seat as opposed to running in
an open seat left vacant by a democrat right wait why did you ban the guy who
said for real this content is insane w he didn't say anything bad that's so funny
he said the content is good like he said is dub is a w like McGruth about damn
maybe because you were like it's a bot because it seems like it could be but
regardless it's a bot like is a shooter trust I want to see what the bot says so
in any case going back to the Kamala Harris calculation of it all going out
Going back to the camel hairs calculation of it all like I've already served my purpose. I've rated done my job
Right. Abdul is unbelievably popular with people under the age of 45
I know what my role is my role isn't to draw turnout from 65 year olds 75 year olds
My role isn't to to boost turnout from
Older voters even if my perspective could be appealing to them in the long run
We don't have the same timeline that we're operating on. I have different goals here
Abdul El said has different goals here. He wants to win his race
So you have to make these you have to make these what the fuck different calculations. Oh my god. I got an umbrella
Okay, we got it man. Jesus Christ
Holy shit
It's always so funny when I get this umbrella on my phone
It's like what am I supposed to do man drop everything and go find the elderly guy that's missing
It's always our silver alert is not an amber alert. It's like, oh shit, let me let me find
the guy. Is that what the goal is? Is that what the is that the purpose? I don't know.
That's a silver alert, not an amber alert. Sorry, elderly missing person. He just turns
about your house. Yeah. He's outside my house. All right. I will be alert. I will be sufficiently
alert. I'll be on the lookout. Anyway, getting back to the I'll do also a calculation
Make your adjustments, not off of what he's doing to win an election, but off of what he's saying.
If he were to turn around and be like, actually, you know, my mistake,
I was too rough on the beautiful nation state of Israel, it's the size of New Jersey,
after all, it's a valuable ally. Then, then you got issues, then you got problems.
But he hasn't changed his rhetoric at all on this. He hasn't changed his opinion at all on this issue
so
That's what matters to me
ironically enough
Ironically enough you want to know what's really funny about the way he even like disavows and and does the Hassan condemn nations
He's just straight up will come out and be like look
This is ridiculous. I disagree with this statement, but I'm not playing this game of like outright confirmation
He won't even do that
He won't even do that well partially because he's he would be in a bind at that point because then he knows that the
The the
Distancing and disavowal would then require you know that they'll go up the ladder, right? It's like, okay
You you condemn to son outright condemn him
But now is now is your time to apologize for it right like cuz Zoran did it very well
Zoran did this very well
He was like I don't you know his his 9-11 comes a reprehensible like this about
Having said that of course, I'm gonna entertain his platform. Of course. I'm gonna talk to everybody
That is a salient message that is an understandable message
Because you don't if you're running a fucking if you're running a campaign in a short period of time
Okay. You don't want to constantly be defending a Twitch streamer. You don't want to constantly
be defending, even if I wasn't a Twitch streamer, even if I was like a political operative, right?
Doesn't matter. You don't want to constantly find yourself. You don't want to constantly have to
defend every single thing that is misconstrued, every single thing that is in context over
over and over again. That is a ridiculous exercise. Okay? It's a ridiculous exercise to
entertain. So you have to just outright say, I disagree with that statement. Let's move on.
Let's talk about issues that actually matter. Right?
Draw into the exact same thing. Optals doing the exact same thing. There are others
who can play that game very differently, of course. Notice how I'm talking about two
individuals who have been hit with this association, this affiliation far more than others.
Do you think Donovan McKinney has to distance himself from me? Do you think Chris Rabb has
to distance himself? Do you think Dottie Aliza has to do that? Do you think Maylock Kuros has
to do that? Now, part of that is because they're not running state, running for statewide office
in a purple state. That's a big part of it. But the other reason, because Zoran wasn't running
for statewide office. Zoran was running for the New York mayor race. Why did Zohran,
Kwame Mamdani have to do that, and why did Abdul Rahman, Muhammad El Sa'd have to do that?
Because they're Muslim and they're brown, okay? That's it. Because they're Muslim and they're
brown. And they have to be more delicate around this issue. It sucks, it's unfair, but it doesn't matter.
That's it.
If they were white, if they were Jewish, they were Latino, it wouldn't be an issue at all.
Let's be real, conservatives are never asked to make these sorts of condemnations because they
tell you fuck off outright. Mike Johnson defended not just any random content creator, but a
guy who's running for office, who has entertained Holocaust denial, who has, you know, made jokes
about being a Nazi, who's called women cum receptacles like insane stuff. He's running,
Brandon Herrera is running for office in Texas. Mike Johnson outright defended him
said, I apologize. Who cares? Same with Max Miller. Max Miller also running for office.
He's gotten full blown endorsements across the board. Max Miller allegedly abused
the daughter of a Republican senator in the same state that he's running for a congressional seat in.
It doesn't work that way. You understand? He called children come trophies. Sorry.
Okay.
And what
Abdu'l-al-sayed is doing and what Zoram-am-Dani was forced to do
is not a
capitulation because they want to present themselves as quote-unquote the good ones, the good Muslims.
They are up against
a sea of smears, heinous smears.
It's the world that we live in. So they, of course, have to be, they, they, of course,
have to, given that this is the world that they live in, they have to navigate it with
care and consideration. That's it. These are hurdles. Hurdles can be overcome. This
is how you overcome said hurdles now. In 2028, perhaps it'll be a very different situation.
But we're not in 2028 yet, we're in 2026. And this race will be determined in the next
40 plus days. So, you have to work with what you have.
If it didn't work with the Cuomo campaign, why would you assume it works in Michigan?
Different demographic, different political attitudes, different internal factional fights
that are taking place within the Democratic Party, okay?
That's how it is.
Enormous amounts of money being spent.
a statewide race. I mean, this is outright ridiculous. The hostility from the Republican
party towards non-whites is getting to an insane degree. It's always been pretty insane.
I mean, they ran on, Haitians are eating cats and dogs. They openly said they lied
about it. It didn't matter, right? And now they're playing the same game that they
they did towards black migrants and black people overall toward Latinos.
On Muslims, it's expected.
We know that they're doing it.
Look at this Fox News article.
Michigan Senate nominee Abdul Al-Said could become eligible for access to classified
information if elected in November.
Members of Congress generally are not required to obtain a formal executive branch security
clearance, though classified acts is still subject to need to know rules.
The issue is drawing scrutiny from national security and policy experts who point to
Al-Said's past associations and statements.
His campaign disputes the criticism.
straight-up saying out loud is Abdel El Sayed too Muslim to have access to classified information.
It's outright un-American. The idea that Abdel El Sayed's love for this country is in dispute
because of his ethnic background, because of his religious beliefs, this is the most un-American
thing you can say. Okay? Straight up. It is the most unpatriotic, most un-American thing you can say.
This is objectively the opposite of what America stands for and has stood for. Okay?
In spite of his dark chapters throughout history, we have been able to overcome these issues. Okay?
Okay? It is unconstitutional and it is foundationally un-American. It's ridiculous. Now that I've
addressed the Abdul, I'll say it, throwing a Sompiker under the bus and cozying up to
the establishment was a mistake. And if he loses, this will be why. I need you guys
to understand, like, we've already played our job. We've already played our role.
We got the excitement, Abdul made it out of the primary, okay?
Now it's time for him to unify the base.
If I am at the center of the story and I'm not offended, why are you guys getting offended
on my behalf?
Why are you reading further into this message?
Why are you reading further into his decision-making here?
I feel like he's established enough credibility.
I feel like he's established enough credibility on this field.
There's a reason why they're attacking him this much, partially because of his Muslim
background, but also because of the things that he has said, the things that he has said
on the anti-imperialist front, on American militarism, the way he communicates on this
issue is a real danger to the military-industrial complex, a real danger to Zionist advocacy
networks.
That's why they're attacking him, okay?
It's not about you, so please stop saying this.
I know that's why I'm explaining to you even outside of, you know, uh, my, my, um,
centrality to the conversation.
I'm trying to tell you that like there's a reason why they're attacking him this
way and he's not even capitulating on the issues that they want him to capitulate
on is they would stop attacking him if he came out and then said 10 M is real
highs tomorrow, they would.
It would. Well, some wouldn't because for them, the thing that's animating them, the animating
their anger is his, you know, past statements. They'll never forgive that. And also on top
of that, his, you know, current status as a Muslim. But, but plenty of others would
say, you know what? I'm coming to terms with this guy. He's turning it around. But
not doing that. So just remember, what is your analysis on why Kamala is helping him?
Does she see this as her new in? Yes, Kamala Harris recognizes the environment on the issue
of Palestine and Israel and is trying to present herself as someone who is, you know, not responsible
for the genocide as a vice president of the genocidal administration, but someone who is
trying to make inroads.
This is an opportunity for her to present herself for her 2028 run.
So it's mutually beneficial.
The calculation is mutually beneficial from her side as well.
That's it.
doing it. You just trying to do a little rebrand, you know? Just a little baby rebrand. Also,
Abdul al-Sayed has got the Democratic Party in a bind.
He is a necessary victory.
Abdul al-Sayed is a necessary victory if all those Democrats want to take those gavels
in the Senate.
He's a necessary victory.
He's a must-win seat, a must-win race for the Democratic majority.
But also at the same time, if he does win, then he's going to be a real threat to the
established Democrats if he doesn't play ball with them in the 2028 run.
His victory also, his victory will also create an environment where people will say, look,
you don't have to actually moderate to the right to win.
It will also create an environment where people will go back and say, wow, in 2024
perhaps, taking a anti-genocide position would have been beneficial for Kamala Harris.
And the very fact that she didn't is perhaps the reason why she lost. These are big narrative
defeats for the establishment Democrats, but at the same time, they still have to force
him to win. So they're trapped. Do you understand? They're in a far worse predicament than
we are as the left. And they know it. That's why they're trying to design the narrative
ahead of this imminent victory for Abdu'l-al-Sayed to make it seem as though he only won because
he distanced from the left. He only won because he moderated even though he does not. Do you
understand what they are trying to do? They need Abdu'l-al-Sayed to win. But hopefully
they can create
a sufficient media shitstorm around it
that he doesn't win by wide margins
and also on top of that when he wins by let's say a uh...
less respectable margin in the national democrat performance overall
they could turn around and say the reason why this happened is because
he was too radical c
and also
the reason why he won
is because he disses himself from a song piker he disses himself from the
radical left
He's still moderated to the center, so they're designing this for the the media cycle that will come after his victory.
Okay.
That's it.
That's it.
You understand?
I don't know how you guys can't see it. They're designing it. They're designing the media environment so they can come out and say the centrists were right.
Okay. Even if he does not give an inch, even if he does not capitulate at all, even if he doesn't pivot to the right at all on anything.
On anything, the mainstream media narratives are already being designed right now.
Abdul Al Sayed won because he actually distanced himself from the radical left.
That's what they will say.
He won because centrist Democrats came in and offered him a parachute.
They saved him.
lose the centrist will write the narrative. He moderated even though he did not.
But we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Sometimes you live to fight another day.
Sometimes you live to fight another day, okay?
Abdullah Sayed must win this race, not only for the Democratic Senate majority, which is
obviously the most important reason for why he must win, but even for the broad left
cause, Obdelossi's victory, regardless of the fact that he is not a socialist, will actually
be beneficial because it will eradicate the narrative that he won, because he moderated
that he had to moderate that a person this radical can never win a purple state like
like Michigan. And there are still Democrats who are actively trying to ensure his defeat.
Even this conversation here is outright ridiculous.
Talk to a lot of folks both on the ground in Michigan and folks that are, you know,
the Chatterin class, who a little worried about two different groups in Michigan for
the Senate race.
That is black voters and Jewish voters, and I'm curious what you can say.
Well look, it's no surprise that Michigan is a toss-up, right?
It's been at that designation the entire time.
This is a state that voted for our great governor, Gretchen Whitmer, by double digits.
And then, you know, came back a couple years later and voted for Trump.
When I think about all the people who came to vote in that big August primary, you know,
that coalition of folks who were in my column, and this was just Democrats voting for Democrats.
I don't think this is was as contentious as the media sometimes makes it out to be.
Yeah, you know, if you're spending your time on Twitter and all of that, but when
spending your time on the Twitter, it's crazy because like on the one hand, she's
still will be like, oh, Israel's not coming to get genocide. Fuck you. But also on the
other hand, she is like kind of a decent surrogate in moments like this, you know, hate to hand
it to her. But every time, every time she goes on television, every time she goes on
television in spite of her, in spite of, of where she's getting her pay stuff from,
She still performs very well as a party apparatchik.
She does it hard not to recognize that I'm putting my, you know, analyst hat on here.
Okay.
I'm not.
And this is not a value judgment on Haley Stevens, the person or Haley Stevens, his
entire world view, Haley Stevens, the, uh, the, the person who is like a unconditionally
in support of Israel.
Are you going to be there to us on with President Donald J. Trump and Zoram Omdani at Gracie
Mansion?
Yeah, no, I'm not going to be there.
I don't think I'm allowed to be anywhere near the President of the United States of
America Chatters.
It's just not going to happen, okay?
Do you want me to get killed?
Is that what you want?
I feel like see-her-service would apprehend me instantly if I was like even accidentally
in the vicinity of the president.
When you look at the returns, you clearly outperformed among black voters in the primary.
And then this new Washington Post poll, Jocelyn Benson is running 10 points ahead of where
Abdul Sayed is running. So are you confident that because this is I've heard from some strategists
they really see Michigan as a 1% election. Are you confident that all of the different constituencies
and Jewish voters included are going? Yeah, I wonder what the real reason is, by the way.
I wonder what the real reason is for the reason why he's underperforming.
I wonder if people are clearly comfortable in the state of Michigan voting for a white
woman as governor, as opposed to not as comfortable voting for a brown Muslim guy.
Perhaps that has some significance here.
There's also a pullout showing a big chunk of Michiganers, including a large minority
of Democrats don't want to vote for a Muslim candidate. So maybe Islamophobia and anti-Muslim
bigotry among some white Jewish and black voters should be a part of these combos about
al-sayed. It's true except MSNBC is paid never to understand that position. Let's be real,
MS now is not going to say that out loud.
And to come out and support your former opponent.
Well, I know that yesterday in Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, that used to be the
heart of the Republican Party about 15 years ago. My mom was under a pavilion in the rain
with hundreds of other Democrats precinct delegates, you know, with Jeremy Moss, who's
running to replace me in that U.S. House of Representatives, fired up to get out the
vote.
That's what it is, by the way. I mean, it is. It is the racism, for sure. But again,
You got to work through it. There's nothing you could do.
Detroit News, Abdul Elsaid, condemns harassment of Haley Stevens after the Gallows rhetoric.
Michigan State, Senate Democratic nominee, Abdul Elsaid, calls Saturday, September 19th
for an end to the harassment of his former Democratic primary rival. His statement followed
an episode on Capitol Hill last week. I don't even know what this is.
I guess this was drama because Debbie Dingle came out and spoke on it.
at least a slot game came out and spoke on it.
I don't know.
I guess it's like another instance where,
another instance where our girl Haley Stevens
was under attack.
To them, I say.
What gives?
And also.
Israel comes to me in my dreams.
Okay.
I
Don't think it's a false flag
Um, I I suspect that what ended up taking place there was I mean, I don't know. What is the what is the original?
What is the OG issue?
What was the OG issue I just wish that
slot can Haley Stevens
Debbie Dingle, Gretchen Whitmer, and establishment Democrats would be this on the ball when it
comes to the heinous Islamophobic attacks that Abdul Al Sayed has received so far.
I think it's a great shame that anytime, anytime someone who's pro-Israel is in the
crosshairs, it is treated with the utmost sincerity, the utmost severity, this is
most consequential hate crime. Sometimes they even go so far as to say,
hey, at least even as a recipient of anti-Semitic hate crimes, even though she's not Jewish.
Right?
But when the shoe's on the other foot, nobody gives a shit.
And I find that to be in poor taste. I know that it is disastrous for discourse overall.
If you don't call out all bigotry, then it seems like you care about some
some bad moments more than others.
Hassan, you're an Israelite. I don't know what that means.
Is this the clip? Is this the incident?
Did you have some questions?
Well, I was just wondering like how do you continue to support the bombing of children?
now. Yeah, sir, I'm not going to be intimidated by you. I support a two state solution. There's
no genocide. There's literally no genocide. Oh, gross. I'm going to be honest. I don't
know how what the what the perfect solution is for a candidate that's running for office
in a very close race in a swing state that needs unlimited support from people like Haley
Stevens and Kamala Harris and everybody else. Like I don't know, I don't know what the best way to
navigate the situation is. Because this is, I mean, this is the grossest thing you can say, right?
Straight up. It's wrong. It's heinous. And it's outright support. Genocide denial
Amidst the genocide, especially as an elected representative, is probably one of the worst
things you could do.
There's literally no genocide.
I wish that she had a little bit more grace.
Welcome to Electoralism, buddy.
You're in it now.
I know, guys, but what are you supposed to do?
The question is, is it better for Abdullasad to be the senator from Michigan or is it
better for Mike Rogers to be the senator from Michigan?
Because it's not even a lesser evil voting moment at that point.
You know what I mean?
You're literally voting for someone who actually is fairly close, far closer to your values
than anyone else in the Senate.
That's why he's under tremendous scrutiny, tremendous amounts of attack.
We have to exist unfortunately in the media environment that we live in.
We have to be more cognizant.
We have to be more cognizant of the media environment that we're in.
have to be more cognizant of the racialized elements that already exist. Like, there is
this constant tension between do you want to engage in advocacy and activism or do you
want to win the election? And every single instance where you push the needle can have
positive consequences on the election as well, right? Zoram-lamdani coming out and saying
I'm not going to Israel was a great example of this. That was him touching the third rail
of New York politics and winning is a consequence of that. But there's also the other side of
this, right? The other side of this is the other side of the story is there are folks
that Abdul needs to win with. And this is the way that you like by by you know
consolidating the base with some of these folks is the way you try to maintain a
big enough tent to win.
There's no genocide going on.
Okay what about the raving? What about the policy?
What about the West Bank Violet?
Anti-Zionism is a hate movement.
What you are dreaming right now is disgusting.
You are an ex-
What's the point of winning if we're not going to go into them, push a progressive agenda?
Okay, great question. Do you think that Abdul Al Sayyed is not going to do that?
There's not enough indication, at least from my estimation so far, that he's not going to do that.
If he was, if there was, if I didn't believe that he would do that, then we would obviously
have a very different conversation.
So Ramamdhani's done some stuff since he's been mayor that I disagree with, but by and large
I look at it as like 70% good, 30% bad.
Now the 30% that's bad, is he doing that because he has to do it?
Is he doing that because it makes his life easier?
is he doing that because it allows him to do the 70% good? Who knows, right? But as far
as what does Zoran do that is bad, what Zoran do you don't like? I mean, I've talked about
this already, not disbanding the SRG, the strategic response group that he said he was
going to disband. Not punishing land sales, for example, it's another one, not swapping
out Jessica Tish, whose family spent millions of dollars attacking him, who very clearly
is not in alignment with Zahram Mdani on the issue.
Palestine.
And then...
Umm...
Can you tell me why is it... It is good to seek support from people like her when they will never...
When they will never going to support him. What do you mean she is supporting him?
Anyway, the the criticism I have for Zoran's governance are are still, in my opinion, matched with his successes and what that does for the overall socialist movement in the country.
You see what I mean? Oh, and the last the last part about it is the Hakeem Jeffries unconditional support.
We just watched Ailey Stevens defend Abdel El Sayed as a key consolidator of the base
of support amongst the liberal audiences.
Do you see what I mean?
That's her role.
She's doing that.
She's a campaign surrogate who says, Look, I lost my race.
So I'll tell you, I'll say it.
Now it's time to unite.
As long as she continues doing that, when she goes on MS now, then it's great.
And she has been doing that.
Are you all you care about?
You are harassing me, sorry.
The greater Israel project.
That's all you care about.
No, you're harassing me.
You support the greater Israel project, and time will show, time will show that
You are discussing your criminal, and you will go to the hate rungage.
We will see you at the gallows.
We will see you at the gallows.
You are a disgusting person who enables Benjamin Nanyalu, his government, the government,
but before that, you should be disgusted with yourself.
You didn't keep saying this.
You're in a hate movement.
You're a Zionist.
No, I'm not.
Zionism is a hate movement.
I'm a pro-Zionist.
I'm a pro-Zionist.
I love it.
I love it.
Oh my God, what the fuck?
Why is she throwing it up a yo left hand and all oh
My lord she hit the salute hello
What is this clip bro, she said
Oh my lord
survivors are stoned because that's what Zionists think. You're disgusting.
You're sure her support is a good thing?
Her position as a campaign surrogate is to tell the MS now executives and the
liberal people and the consultant class that the base is united. Okay.
That is horrifying. I I don't even know what to say. I just
Jesus Christ, I can't believe she that she rolled the window down to hit the salute. What the fuck
Yikes
Now you know where all those pushbacks coming from.
Yeah, Haley Stevens is no longer growing on me. It's more about winning the seat than it is about
ideology. People need to stop trying to rationalize it. Yeah. Look, as long as she, again, as long as
she plays her role, which she has been not in this moment, but I'm saying like when she goes on
television and she's like Abdul is a good guy Abdul is a good guy you know that's it that's all
she needs to do you feel me
um
I don't think we need people like Stevens there has to be a way to get the cake and eat it too
Yeah. There will be a time. But do not clip. Yes. Socialist Adrian. Do not clip my reaction to this. Okay. Um, so oh, she raised both hands. Okay, I thought she was raising the only the left hand, which is crazy. Dude, she raised both hands. Please God, don't misinterpret that. I don't know. I just was a very bad look across the board.
But regardless, so what I'm trying to say is what I'm trying to say is like the same with the Kamala Harris support
Same with the Barack Obama support same with Haley Steven support
Regardless of what they're saying and doing the same with Jerry Moss's support
You got to get these guys on your side because they do have represents some constituencies
Some constituencies the opal has to fucking win or at least get enough support from do you understand?
Like the electoral playing field is very clear. He needs to draw a turnout from the black base
uh... across the board in michigan okay put up is
put up major numbers
that's number one
he also needs to still go to oakland county and get jewish support to make
sure that the jewish support that he has an oakland county
doesn't hemorrhage beyond the point of sixty percent
i don't know the exact electoral math that is necessary here but i'm just
giving you rough estimates
amma numbers guy
These are the realities, okay?
These are the realities, Emma Numbers guy.
So the calculation is very clear.
So when you get the Kamala Harris endorsement
and you go to like Wayne County,
you go to Detroit, talk to black moms
about reproductive health alongside Kamala Harris,
that's what you're doing, you're boosting turnout.
These are things that Abdulla said obviously cares about.
And Kamala Harris is the connective tissue
offer him legitimacy with these demographics. Okay, that's one. Number two, same with Haley Stevens,
Oakland County, Jeremy Moss, Oakland County. You got Jewish voters there, right? Jewish voters who
are both fearful of Abdel El-Sayed because of his Islamic style background, but Jewish voters who
also care about Israel quite a bit and don't like that Abdel El-Sayed is very critical on Israel.
How do we make sure that those voters still vote for Abdel El-Sayed?
That's why these allegiances matter, right?
Because at the end of the day
We're not doing the same thing that the centrist Democrats do, right?
We're doing the same thing that the central Democrats do elections winning elections are about addition not subtraction and
Sometimes we're expanding the tent to people with the odious opinions odious ideologies
Okay, we must end voting in bourgeois democracy. Thank you hammer and sickle 808
Good luck
Little but I don't think people understand what is required to build a much larger much broader
movement, sometimes you have to prove that your methods are successful.
And the best possible way to do that is by winning, winning political power.
If winning political power, albeit inside of a bourgeois electoral system, okay?
If winning political power inside of a bourgeois electoral system was utterly irrelevant, then
our opposition wouldn't be spending hundreds of millions of dollars to stop it.
I see no reason for us to defend Stevens.
I'm not defending Hailey Stevens at all.
I think what she did there was unacceptable.
She is a genocide supporter.
What I'm talking about is building allegiances regardless of that.
Even openly, objectively anti-genocide candidates building allegiances to ensure that the voters
that have a lot of confidence in these people still go out and vote for Abdel El-Said even
even if they're fearful of Abdul, I'll say its position on Israel.
And it's kind of funny for me to say this because obviously those in mainstream media,
the Democratic Party consultants would never offer a fucking ounce of the charity that
I'm offering to them in this moment.
They would never, they never do.
Steven's will never ever ever in a million fucking years say anything, even as as
As as nominally not even in support
But nominally in support of like what I bring to the table for example never in a million years
But sucks to suck. She doesn't have to okay. This is the design of the system. This is the game that we're playing
But it's not transactional at the end of the day
Or rather I guess this is someone actually it's not true. This is outright transaction
With you saying this you are saying you now have you have now sway which I believe is incorrect wait what
So everyone is playing the game, but you
What do you mean? I am on the outside. I'm playing somewhat of an inside-outside strategy
as the person that is now also somewhat involved in the electoral process. I'm just giving
you guys my perspective. If I was a politician, what I would say in that moment if I was
playing the game would be all Hayley Stevens was victim to a heinous hate crime. An anti-semitic
hate crime, despite the fact that she's not Jewish. I'm not doing that to you. I'm telling you that
the real odious ideology being represented there is not being represented by anti-Zionist,
but instead by Hayley Stevens saying that no genocide is taking place.
Anyway, there's a couple other moments that we gotta talk about, like ABC.
These two clips play alongside one another. I'm going to show you this one first.
So I want to ask you about this guy Hassan Piker who's gotten so much attention.
He's out with more interviews this week. He's suggesting that it would be better if Iran had a nuclear weapon.
If I have that correct, then America...
You don't have that correct. But it's okay. You don't have to have that correct. Who cares?
because bigger terrorists forced an al-Qaeda. Is it time for Democrats just to say point
blank this guy? We have nothing to do with this guy. We denounce this guy and don't want
his support.
I'm not focused on the streamers and what they're saying. There's a whole lot of them
and they got a whole lot of you.
He's got a pretty big following.
I understand that.
Like, what is the argument? If I have a pretty big following, what is the argument?
What's the point? Hey, we don't want his fucking support. We don't want his supporters.
We don't want the DSA left.
We don't want that in our coalition.
Why the fuck would you ever say that if you want to win elections?
What a stupid fucking question.
What an unbelievably dumb question.
Dog, the Trump administration just told half of your fucking colleagues that they are
no longer allowed in the White House, and you're still out here being like, you know,
the Democrats, they should do more condemnations of people on their fucking side, people
to the left of them.
the fuck up? No matter how much you cave and capitulate to this fascist administration,
you are also going to be banned from the White House. Inevitably MSNOW and CNN have proven
that reality and these guys are still doing it. Oh my God. Donald Trump is showing time
and time again that capitulating the fascists is not going to win favor with the fascists.
still going to treat you like the fucking uh they're gonna treat you like the
political dissident that you are okay unless you become a full-blown fascism
say i love donald trump i love the the white supremacist regime they are
always going to treat you as opposition they're gonna treat you as a nuisance
they are going to criminally punish you eventually okay it is so fucking
stupid. Stop. Stop playing this game. But the reason why I'm frustrated by this is because
they concocted this narrative. They concocted this narrative that I'm this dangerous outsider
that must be talked about endlessly. And that has now given the Republicans an opportunity
to constantly deflect. I'm going to play the end of this clip. I think Pritzker does
a decent job of being like, I don't care about streamers. I care about Donald Trump,
Which is the smart way to play this, okay?
Just saying that what I think we should be talking about and focused on is how do we
stop Donald Trump in his tracks?
How do we make sure that we're putting forward an agenda that really fights for the people
who need it, which are the most vulnerable, the workers in the middle class who really
need someone to stand up for them.
That's why I'm a Democrat.
That's why the Democratic Party exists.
That's what we should be focused on.
I mean, I don't think he's gonna endorse you, but would you accept his support?
You know, again, I'm not focused. I don't even want to talk about it. I son piker. It doesn't mean anything to me or in my
That's messed up JV. I've shown you so much love in the past big boy love
I thought we would have like, you know former fact-guy alliances here, but it's fine
So why did I bring that up? He does a pretty decent job of just like deflecting away because I am utterly irrelevant in this
Conversation but the very fact that this conversation is still taking place gives Republicans a unique opportunity. Let's take a look
Steve Scalise has asked about Beau French.
I didn't left office, but I want to ask you before you go about another issue about it,
a Republican statewide candidate in Texas who posted on social media this picture of
University of Texas students celebrating their big win last week.
And he said how many Americans have been displaced by foreigners.
This photo seems to have a lot of non-white students, many of them American citizens and
University of Texas students.
This was denounced by Carl Rove.
He said he's going to be voting for a Democrat as a result of this.
Cannot support this guy.
And Cornyn said something.
John Cornyn, the Republican senator, said something very similar.
Is this the kind of message that Republicans need to denounce and make it clear you
don't support this kind of stuff?
I denounce that.
don't know who he is but i denounced that uh... if you look we've denounced on
both sides of the things you know you don't see democrats denouncing
the son piker and i
thank you liberal media
congratulations a liberal media by the way
congratulations a liberal media for playing at this game that republicans
led you to play
they knew that you had factional concerns that were brewing internally in
the party
they knew that you would dive headfirst
into a sequence of condemnations against an anti-zionist
uh... against an anti-zionist socialist
who's been a thorn on your side not because like i i'm saying heinous
shit of course but because you're worried about
uh... the reasonableness of my commentary in the way that it is
perceived by your own base right which i am a fucking part of
but because you exercise that i disavow has signed button over and over
again
and and maintain those headlines
for weeks on end
now republicans can turn around and say
what about his son
what about his son
good job
to every single democratic consultant who played this fucking idiotic game
shut yourself in the foot alert
you do it all the fucking time this is precisely what i despise
centrist democrats right wing democrats precisely why you lost the
election in twenty twenty four
you always eat the bait
you always play
the republican culture war game
you're always in a defensive posture
okay
you made your bed
now lay in that bed of shit
this is self sabotage
okay
near attendant i genuinely find this kind of offensive bikers user not
progressive their agit politics as a matter of principle. I oppose his views.
Not about 2028. It's about what the party stands for today and it should stand
against hate. And the reason it's in the news is both the GOP and Piker are
feeding the news cycle. Didn't mean to offend, but I guess I'll explain more.
This summer, a third way guaranteed me that else had the association with
Piker would cost them the Michigan primary. And if not the primary,
then the general, that doesn't sound very big tent to me.
And it's hard to hear that and think the campaign that followed was all
good faith. I believe many moderate Democrats and some of the media are
invested in their most preferred outcome this November. Democrats do well broadly,
but progressives underperform or lose, helping prove a point about electability ahead of the
Crossroads 2028 moment. And I think the anti-açon campaign they kicked off was an attempt to lay
that marker. They basically said so on our show. That doesn't mean there's not substantive
disagreement or that you and many others don't have fair reason to dislike him personally,
but the continued focus on every utterance of piker, particularly after I'll say it,
has already distanced himself from the streamer, has been so disproportionate, not to mention
the tone of the overt hostility from mainstream media.
To me, that's best understood by what I said in the video above, the resentment of a changing
landscape where traditional gatekeepers have less and less power.
Neera Tandon replies to that and says, I think this is perhaps a view of events
that evinces motivated reasoning, because there's an entirely different way of viewing
the facts of the last seven months around Piker.
I can't speak for a third way, I can only speak for myself, and this is how
it appears to me.
Here's a Twitch streamer who has said incredibly offensive things that a Normie Dem would oppose
if said by a Republican.
For example, some Jews are in bread.
I hope the streets run red with capitalist blood.
I don't give a f about black people alongside really disgusting attacks on women and other
groups.
Some Dem candidates chose to not go on his podcast but campaign with him.
I said to not just go on his podcast but the campaign with him.
I said at the time last April when Piker campaigned with Abdel, I'll say at the
campaign with people is sanctioning their views and these views are abhorrent.
a matter of principle is discussing. So here, before we move further with this
near-attendant's greed, I just want to explain something to you. Near-attendant,
half of her advocacy, is about propping up people who have said things like this,
not insincerely, but actually sincerely. Okay? Near-attendant has aligned herself
with neo-nazis. She's retweeted Nick Fuentes. She's retweeted Laura Lomer.
Near-attendant does not care about these issues. Near-attendant loves Bill
Clinton, for example, that's it.
Frame one, Neera Tandon has been pictured alongside Benjamin Netanyahu and
has great allegiance with the likes of Benjamin Netanyahu.
Neera Tandon has actually brought Anthony Blinken to the board of trustees
at Center for American Progress.
Neera Tandon has worked for the Clinton campaign.
So clearly these kinds of views when turned into sincere policy
prescriptions is not an issue for Neera Tandon at all.
Okay.
Also, this does not apply to Kamala Harris, because Kamala Harris campaigned with Liz Cheney.
Liz Cheney is anti-abortion.
Liz Cheney is anti-gay, despite the fact that her sister is gay.
Liz Cheney voted alongside Donald Trump 95% of the way.
Liz Cheney is basically Donald Trump wearing a pantsuit.
So why is that not applying to Liz Cheney?
They love when Kamala Harris runs around with Liz Cheney.
They don't like when Abdul El Sayed campaigns with me.
Perhaps that's because there's only an allotment,
not for the things that,
not for the crude language that I've used in the past
or anything like that, but for what I am saying, okay?
What I am saying and what I believe
is what these people oppose.
They don't like that I'm saying these things
in front of a large audience, and they certainly don't like that their base also wants more
people to say the things that I am saying, okay?
That's what this entire conversation is about.
Do you understand?
Neera Tandem went on Bill Maher's show the other day.
Bill Maher has said heinous things, actually sexist things, actually racist things.
You understand?
Neurotandic was on Bill Marshall the other day.
They do not care.
They don't care.
This is all seasoning, okay?
This is an aesthetic brush that she is presenting
on top of her actual motivation.
And perhaps the reason why she's writing
this long ass fucking screed
is because Astead clocked her ass.
Anyway, as a matter of principles,
Disgusting but also a matter strategy that you people attack Dems who a lot of piger to tar them with his views that sound very extreme
To like 85% of Americans I get pretty viciously yelled out about this fast forward again again
You your output determines your values and if your output determines your values and you're complaining about me and not
Donald Trump who not only has
Extremist views that 85% of Americans oppose but also is acting on them as the most powerful person in this fucking country
country, right? You are silly. You are advancing this narrative because you have another underlying
motive, one that is said so perfectly put. You described it perfectly. You're hollering
because you've been called out. Fast forward. I'll say it was the primary next day. Roger's
campaign goes up attacking. I'll say it for piker. Those as were already in the camp
because the GOP is tagging. I'll say it for piker reporters. I'll say it about piker
statements, Abdel Ossetia starts a distance very rightly, but Piker says new offensive
things which caused Rajah's launch of fresh attacks against Abdel Ossetia each time.
And Piker does not choose to go dark, he's doing media interviews where he says more
offensive things, including this week.
Now it's definitively or definitely the case that I feel like I predicted this entire
set of events seven months ago, but the reason we are in a Piker news cycle is
not because of my prediction and because of the moderates, no.
The reason why we're in the Piker news cycle is because liberals are not fucking
rallying the troops and saying the correct things. Liberals have done so in the past.
Liberals have said, why are we talking about this person in the past for other figures?
Okay? That's the problem. But the reason why liberals are not doing that is because they
too have a factional need to continue the anti-piker media cycle. To use it against
Abdullah Sayed's race to prove a point that his progressive values are the reason
why he won by a smaller margin than the top of the ticket with the governor's race. It's
to prove a point or to outright lose the Senate majority. For some, they don't want Abdul to
win at all.
Anyway, all the people told us the Nazi tattoo is like these are other irrelevant things.
We're locking a woman in a bathroom overnight. There was no biggie because she's a Republican.
I've also told us to form a big 10 with the Sompiger. I want a big 10, but 10s have 10 poles and a 10 pole.
The Democratic Party is when we oppose racism, sex, homophobia, anti-Semism, Islam, away discrimination against the disabled and other forms of prejudice.
I don't think Piker clears that very reasonable bar.
I find near-attending to be one of the grossest mercenaries in Washington DC politics.
I think she hates me more than she hates the Republicans. That much is clear to me. Okay?
I will not say that I hate her more than I hate the Republicans, but I will say I despise her worldview
I think she's a monstrous piece of shit who is exactly the reason why Democrats keep losing to
incompetent petty despotic tyrants like Donald Trump her attitude is
The attitude of the establishment Democrats the constant need to capitulate to right-wing framing the constant posturing
to win over
races voters, not by presenting them an alternative that they might find viable, but instead by
trying to be as racist as we possibly can without losing some support from the left.
It's disgusting.
I am disgusted by Neera Tandon.
Okay?
And yet, unlike Neera Tandon, I still understand that she, I guess, plays a role in the
fucking Big Ten and the party.
Neera Tandon refused to recognize that I also play a role in this Big Ten party.
As a matter of fact, I'm willing to bet, and I will say this sincerely, I play a much more
important role than near-attendant in the big tent of this party.
You want to know why?
Because there is no near-attendant base of support.
Near-attendant just represents DC elites that have an outsized role in how the party
communicates, unfortunately.
I, on the other hand, am a representative of a far broader movement, a far larger
movement, a movement that's been able to actually unseat incumbents, long-term incumbents around
the country.
Neera Tandon is not.
We've already proven that we're here to stay.
Whether she complains about it or not, it doesn't matter.
It's not like we're going away.
Okay?
My worldview is far closer to the base of support in the Democratic Party than Neera
Tandon's is, and she knows that, and she has to reckon with that for the rest
of her stupid fucking life.
You want to know why I know that?
Because of the impact that we've had in the midterms so far.
Near attendant has to come to us near attendant has to say, oh, I
really like Zoran actually Zoran is wonderful.
He's so great.
This is song guy is bad.
And once I'll do I'll say it wins.
She will have to say the same about him as well.
But, the reason why I'm frustrated by it is not because of my personal disgust for the likes of Neeratandon.
The reason why I'm disgusted by Nier attended is because she keeps giving an opportunity
to the right to keep pouncing on this and to show Democrats as weak-willed.
To show Democrats as perfectly willing and able to capitulate the right-wing framing.
I hate that.
I despise that.
No backbone whatsoever, especially at a time when I'm being presented as a fucking
litmus test.
a litmus test for anti-zionism, a litmus test for whether a democrat will be a fighter or not,
a litmus test for anti-imperialism,
a litmus test for how willing
a politician is
to be representative
of the needs of the broader basis support from the democratic party.
Who are your people near attended?
What crowds do you draw?
What level of support do you have amongst the base?
Those big donors, all they provide is money.
Do you have the people on your side?
Who are the big Bill Clinton supporters
that are voting within the Democratic Party.
Who are the big Benjamin Netanyahu supporters that are still voting with the Democrats?
Others who are advocating for some of the most radical anti-American views you can see.
In fact, some of their candidates...
You, Donald Trump and Steve Scalise, are in agreement.
By the way, think about that.
Does that not cause you to second-guess your perspective?
Donald Trump says, oh, Hassan Piker is really bad for the Democrats.
You say that, too.
Does that not strike you as odd?
Also, yeah, I said this already.
This is why you could cry about me as much as you like.
Your emotional support apartheid state will be held accountable one day for its genocide
of the Palestinians.
This from two days ago from Harry Emden, okay, Mr. Holy Toledo himself.
Let's look at Israel's net disapproval.
A negative Ipsos minus 10 points, Fox minus 11 points,
M.U. Market University Law School's school law poll.
Look at that, minus 20 points.
Pew Research Center minus 23 points.
Negative, negative, negative, negative.
And Gallup early this year was also negative.
We're not just talking about the Democratic base anymore.
We're talking about the general electorate as well.
The general electorate has turned against Israel.
This is not just a left issue.
It is an American issue when it comes to opinions on Israel.
What's the trend line here?
What's the trend line here?
The trend line is unbelievable.
Look at the trend line here.
Compare this to Donald Trump's first term at this point
in Donald Trump's first terms.
Israel's average net favorability.
You go back here.
Look at this.
It was plus 51 points.
Wow, Johnny says.
Wow, Johnny says.
Because this is, well, plus 51.
It's minus 16 points in the average poll now.
That is what a 67 point shift against Israel in just eight years.
Israel used to be a consensus issue in American politics and that was a pro-Israeli position.
Now the consensus has actually shifted and now when it comes to general electorate it is
a minus.
Israel is now seen negatively and we're seeing it in poll after poll after poll.
You just had this vote in the house where 100 Democrats voted against military assistance
to Israel.
specific issues you've seen right now. Yeah you said wow right how about wow
again take a look here I never thought I'd see the day military assistance to
Israel say US should reduce or end it overall 55% say they should reduce or
end it and it is true across the educational spectrum 51% of non-college
graduates 62% of college graduates so this isn't just an issue right among
white liberals and democratic primaries no no no this is true across the
educational divide, even when we are looking towards a general electorate, the
majority of Americans believe that military assistance to Israel should
either be reduced or ended. They're all negative. Yeah, good luck. Good luck,
Nira. Good luck, Nira. Good luck to all the pro-Israel Democrats. You're done.
You're done.
The walls are closing in your worldview is crumbling. Okay?
This is a catastrophic result of your pro-Israel, but you can keep crying over and over again. Oh my god
Everyone that's pro-Israel is actually everyone as anti-Israel as anti-Israel because of anti-Semitism blah blah blah blah blah
Okay, sure every time you do that
that every time you say this falsehood every time you repeat this falsehood we
win more people to our side every act that is canceled every time someone like
myself and about anti-zionist is the the prominent conversation driving the
headlines as a vicious anti-semite we win more people to our side because they
know the truth. They know the truth. They understand that anyone that comes out and says,
uh, free Palestine is treated like a Nazi. Okay. Neurotandant. Yeah. Worked for pedophiles,
smeared Bill Clinton's victims, praises and retweets Nazis and pedophiles to this day.
She is beyond gross and should never be brought up in anything but a negative light and should
be shown from polite society. Just as I said, even with the Axios interview, the Axios interview
was received very differently by Twitter and very differently by mainstream media.
But for the regular folks that watched it, it was unbelievably positive. You look at TikTok,
you look at Facebook, Facebook comments under Fox News posts. You got Fox News watchers saying,
like I agree with what he's saying.
Yeah, everywhere else threads blue sky everywhere else you go and in the real world as well.
The way people see and perceive this stuff is very different than how the media covers it.
This divergence is at the heart of the last three years of pro-israel coverage and how much mainstream outlets lost their credibility.
They lost their credibility because of their unlimited defense of Israel at a time when people were demanding that the media cover this issue truthfully.
But they chose not to do that.
Anyway, exit poll shows disaster for Melts CDU party in two state elections.
Let's get started on European elections and then we'll move on to situation monitoring.
The elections in Berlin and Mecklenburg, Western Pomerania.
The preliminary exit polls that are coming in are showing that the far left are coming
in ahead of Chancellor Friedrich Merch's Christian Democratic Union Party, while the
AFD is being projected ahead of the SPD in Mecklenburg.
Today's political results may have serious repercussions on Chancellor Friedrich Merch's
political future and could determine whether or not he can stay in power.
So we cross over now to our Germany correspondent, Jörg Tasman, for more.
Jörg, what's the latest that you can tell us?
What we can say is that the left will win in Berlin because they're credited between
25.5 and even 26 percent after the exit polls.
The CDU, the Christian Democrats, are only around 20 percent.
Then comes the AfD between only 13.5 and 16 percent, which is more than what they
used to have, but not as big as for example.
I'm a Berlin.
Yeah, yeah, well,
the link is performance is insane.
The left party just won a historic victory in Berlin with 24.5% of
Oscorna exit polls.
Elif Adrop would be the first mayor of Turkish descent in the city that is
home to the largest Turkish community outside of Turkey.
This has been a housing affordability election. The left's agenda socialized the housing stock of corporate landlords
Socialization has been expressed
Has been the express will of the majority of voters in a referendum
Socialization has been deemed legal by an expert commission yet the referendum remained without consequence to date
Isabella M. Weber reports our Constitution allows for the socialization in the name of the common good
that was a key lesson of an economics of never again. The start of the conversation,
what an anti-fascist economics and defensive affordability dignity in democracy can look like
today? Isabella wrote the book. Mesurt. Mesurt Ozil. Mesurt, what the fuck is Mesurt Ozil?
Yeah, apparently, D'Linka also mobilized non-voters. Most of D'Linka's gains come from
non-voters. This must be many young voters and people with a non-white German background who tend
to have a higher abstention raise the same trend. As in New York with Mamdani on the left in Sweden,
they win thanks to winning young and non-white voters who normally abstain.
This is how we build a broader base of support. This is how we destroy the right-wing fascists.
However, the AFD won another state election, according to exit polls. 51 percent of workers
of 58% of those of the poor financial situation voted for this right-wing extremist party in
Mecklenburg, Wohlpolmen. When will we finally get an economics of never again?
They give the left to Germany, and then they take them to Turkey.
They always do this, they always do this.
Unfortunately, this is the situation.
Everytime, everytime, these guys give the left to the party, to Germany.
Then they give the Turkey-related AKP oil to Germany.
the link is the Nazi got no dude it means
the left
the link is like one of the left most viable parties out there in the country it's not left enough
but
it's a good start
It also proves our position.
This is the international socialist position.
Obviously, I would much prefer a full tilt leftist party,
but I'll take a diet left party as well.
OK, the linker has, you know, many,
there are many delinquent supporters in my community.
They are also very frustrated with their output with the output of the party.
Things are changing, perhaps not fast enough,
but they're changing nevertheless.
This is a good thing.
Hopefully, this victory will give more confident
to the anti-Zionist flanks within the party itself,
and to be more bold and more brave
and more declarative of a socialist agenda
that will fight for socialization.
But these results are not in dispute. This is a good thing.
But of course, as is the case always, you know, there's still people who are trying to ruin the chances of building a coalition here, because Israel happens to be their top priority.
Let's be fucking real.
real and D link is uh Israel position is like you know
Israel's positions on the link are not even that bold
They're just the most critical of Israel.
Out of all the major parties.
That is other results for Berlin and Mecklenburg for Perman after the exit polls it is the
AFD that's leading by 37%.
The SPD from Manuela Schwiesig is at 35.5.
But the CDU of Chancellor Merz is only at 5%.
But you know that if they fall beyond the 5%, there won't even be in the new parliament.
And so what can we expect next regarding the Chancellor's future and that of the CDU?
Well, it has been announced that Chancellor Metz will make a statement shortly after
six o'clock.
We don't know what he's going to say, but it's remarkable that he's going to say
something, but actually his party is the big loser tonight and that's dramatic, because
if they fall beyond 5%, that is something that has been never seen in German history
after the Second World War.
And since the AFD's significant victory in Saxony-Arnhalt two weeks ago, polls have
been predicting they would make significant gains in these elections, though not as
much as in Arnhalt's Saxony.
But from what you've been seeing in these results coming out so far, what can we expect for
them next?
What one can say is that they're very stable, that they're still gaining.
I mean, it is a big success, of course, if they come in first in Mecklenburg, West Pomerania.
But in Berlin, which is actually the larger part, because here we have 2.5 million people
voting, and the other two countries, Saxony and Mecklenburg, they were only 1.5.
They're very, very strong and some of the eastern,
that used to be East Germany provinces,
they're very, very strong and they will continue
to be strong there.
Thank you very much for that.
Jörg Tasman, our Germany correspondent.
I'm not going to say it, but Turks rise up, I'm going to say it, Turks rise up!
Dear Berlin, dear Berliners, dear Berliners, from now on we will change our Berlin together and make it a better place, all together!
And I thank my great party with its 19,000 members and the many, many other people who have supported us because they hope for a better, affordable Berlin, where all, all people would have a living. Thank you very much!
largest Turkish city on the planet with the exception of like Istanbul.
Yes, my vision for Berlin is a affordable Berlin, in which all people, regardless of
origin, religion, language, income, can have a good life.
This is Elif Eiralp, and she could soon be running Berlin, Germany's famously liberal capital.
Berlin sits in Germany's east and the far right AFD is strong here too but unlike
elsewhere in eastern Germany it has no realistic path to power in Berlin. All the major parties
have ruled out governing with it. AFD is my political enemy. Erhardt wants to become
Berlin's first governing mayor from the left party.
Her Turkish is so broken.
My Turkish is better.
I'm Turk mogging her.
Annemle babam.
Says you?
No.
Motherfucker, you can't say you this.
I don't have an accent. I just have a much harder time speaking Turkish convincingly about like political issues.
Trained as a lawyer, she was born into a family in exile.
Her mother was pregnant with her when the family fled Turkey after the 1980 military coup.
They arrived in Germany and started again from scratch.
Their experience gave rise to a question that still drives Erhalp's politics. Who gets to belong here?
We have experienced for decades that the so-called guest workers generation,
which was built here in Berlin, was not recognized at all.
Here we have almost 43% of people with migration history
and these perspectives also belong to the Rotorata.
2021 referendum.
That for us, the people is central to society, and it is about getting more affordable housing.
She wants easier naturalization and...
You're so awesome.
Do you know where the woman is? No, where is Izmir?
Where is she coming from?
I am asking you why why why
without German citizenship. But there is a fault line inside her party, Israel and
anti-Semitism. In 2024 several prominent Berlin Left politicians quit after a bitter dispute
over how the party deals with anti-Semitism. And that very issue has resurfaced in this
campaign. At a Left Party event, Rappadaap Flex performed lyrics widely criticized as
anti-Semitic. Iralt condemned the performance and demanded consequences.
I'm very clear for the protection of Jewish life
just like for the protection of Palestine.
Oh, my God.
Fucking link.
You got a.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my God.
Oh, my fucking God, dude, Germans, bro, Germans.
What the fuck?
Yeah.
the job flex performance was not anti-semitic
you need to come to Berlin and talk some sense to these people
Giannis wants me to go because he wants to kickstart another international incident in my opinion
I think if I went to Germany I would get arrested probably.
I am very clear about the protection of Jewish life, just like the protection of the Palestinian and Muslim life.
Jewish groups and former party members have accused parts of Berlin's left party of being too soft on anti-Semitic and anti-Israel rhetoric.
No, the real problem is not that. The real problem is that they're absolutely too soft on pro-Palestine. They're not good.
This is why I said DELINCA is like the left-most party that has viability.
Yeah, he did the YALA YALA Intvata Debt to the IDF, the Intvata Link to PFLP with the songs Rapper Dopplex.
Performed last Saturday in August at a campaign event for DELINCA in Berlin's New Quarant District.
Around 3 dozen young people danced to the death vision of against Israeli soldiers in the glorification of Palestinian terrorism,
many wearing a kafia around their necks, the so-called Palestinian scarf.
None of the attending DELINCA politicians intervened.
Yeah
Yeah, it's the classic it's the same thing that happened in the UK it's fucking bullshit
The German left is really crazy when it comes to Israel like even the German left is I
I would say that at least in America the DSA is like uncompromisingly critical of Israel like
these guys are D-Linka is supposed to be you know way past the point of the Democratic party
but their attitude is like maybe at times a little bit more critical of Israel than the
Democrats broadly because I think they they recognize the genocide but they also say like
Israel is right to exist right do they recognize the genocide now wasn't there a internal party
vote, where they finally had to address the question. And their position was like somewhat
unsustainable. But they officially, they officially recognized the genocide, but then still were
like doing Israel defense and also shitting on obviously Palestine and Palestinian resistance
and condemning, you know, Palestine and Palestinians and all this stuff.
I can't remember the exact details right now.
We can do it.
We can, we can pull it up.
I don't want to, I don't want to get it wrong.
God forbid.
Depends on the member.
The leaders of affair don't really.
It's Germany.
So they're obviously still brainbroken with Israel pro-israel sentiment.
To be fair, I think it's literally illegal.
In attack on Dilinka the Green Party's national co-leader says they won't govern with anti-Semites
from New Korn, a bird-led neighborhood with big Palestinians as well as Turkish populations.
Allegations, Iralp rejects, winning the election would not automatically make him mayor.
Iralp would still need the Greens and the Social Democrats to govern.
But the SPD rejects one of her flagship housing plans.
So Iralp's real challenge may come after election night.
Can she turn a left victory into a government?
And today we have gone through two elections with very, very different results.
The results in Mecklenburg-Western-Pomerania re-
My local chapter of delinca is anti Zionist and recognized genocide but the official position
of delinca is that the state of Israel has a right to exist.
Yeah.
Just to let you know, a lot of black people including me are not voting for El Sayed because
of your racist statements against blacks.
That's so funny.
Yeah, black people famously refer to black people as blacks anonymous account.
Sure, buddy.
Sure, buddy.
Not today, CIA.
We will, we will LARP alert.
and
broke him in and said us blacks
cannot deny is simply a disaster
this is you thought
did what it could, but it was ground between the SPD and the AFD.
What we need to do will take endurance,
Resolute-ness and patience.
As the head of the CDU Party and as German Chancellor of this country,
I have these qualities. Thank you.
A column of black smoke towered over Riyadh's main airport on Saturday.
following a night of air raid alerts across.
The question to address your fellow Turks in Germany.
Okay, it's very simple.
Okay, it's very simple.
Turks.
Turks.
Turks.
Germans.
They say that you are not white in Germany, but in America, because there is not enough Turkish, they sometimes look at Turks as white.
But when they hear the name of a Muslim, they say that you are not white.
But when they look from afar, they are not like Germans.
They say that you are not white, but there is a different situation in America because there is no enough Turkish in America.
That's why, when they see a man, they say he is white.
Then they say that he is a Hassan, but they say that he is a Muslim.
They say that.
is running a Turkish banks and red lip cool girl for Berlin mayor Lamau holy shit yes yeah it is Kodikay
why the fuck does this guy know so much about Turkish shit what the hell
this type of girl did not play around about Kutk Montalemadonna back in 2013
I just realized her 2010s cool kid cursive necklace says rent freeze on it
Gemma's Demir Germany will soon have two people leading a state Berlin and button
Wurttemberg with the Turkish background. Yeah, I live a rope but Berlin for delinca and Gemma's Demir
Bw for the greens. However, the ways they engage with the roots could not be more different
If proudly engages with the roots and many Turks and Arabs are a part of a electoral base
Meanwhile, as the mayor became politically well known for shunning his roots, publicly
turning against other German Turks to support most Muslims in BW, voted for SPD, or Linka,
and not the Greens regionally because of him.
German accent is trash bro chill. Yeah, this guy is apparently a sell out. As opposed
to it seems much more of a real one. See, Turks are not a monolith either. They come
in all shapes and sizes. What is this? What is her, what is her Twitter? Does she have
a Twitter? Oh, she does. I followed her. But she doesn't use it. Oh, yeah, she hasn't.
Jim literally threw his folks under the bus repeatedly.
They called the Ottoman Empire the old sick man of Europe little did they know he was
just resting.
Yeah dude the Ottomans have actually pushed past.
There's another Turkish person CD who accuses Delinke, also is the man.
What is happening bro?
What the fuck are these German Turks saying and doing?
What a shame.
on them. This is Turk on Turk violence.
I think this guy is like Google translating some dumb shit because it doesn't make any
sense.
Um, the gaslighting in Germany is crazy.
term people against each other for favors of imperialists and racists.
And I condemned her own Palestinian constituents. She's a classic pep.
Yeah, look, I wanted to get excited about German politics, but I already saw that she condemned the
rapper for singing like death of the IDF and stuff like that. And let's be real, they are fucking
they're German. They're German politicians, bro. German politicians are crazy.
To assume the 24.5% of Berliners have no problem with anti-Semites and the sheer contempt for voters,
especially coming from a federal government that cooperates with anti-Semitic Taliban
and rolls out the red carpet for al-Shara. Whoever turns a blind eye to this informed
positive partners but plays hundreds of thousands of Berliners under general suspicion is not
fighting anti-Semites but rather a democratic election. Wait, what? This person is a
D-linka person who's shitting out all the other Turkish is the one who's saying it
I didn't understand it at first, but this person is actually defending it if and the linka
Don't followers should be forced to condemn you or should we be arrested for being far, right? Yeah set up good at another Turk
for cdu says at least 24
24.5% of Berliners god Turks are all over fucking German policies is nasty
German Turk Lib influencers move like this law.
Maia Saigon, you pick Maia Saigon says,
if that app is probably someone you'd want as a neighbor,
respectful to around her, always positive, never rigging the rules.
But D-Link, the far left party is not what you'd want running your state.
What the fuck is wrong with these people?
Oh my God, I feel a deep sense of shame.
Oh my God, there are so many fucking Turks in Berlin.
And I forgot that like when you have too many people that have been living there for many
many generations, they assimilate and then they start fucking representing every flavor
of the political spectrum and in Germany, it's mostly just right wing and center right.
That's what it is.
That's what it is to integrate.
All right, I'm going back to not covering Germany.
I'm sorry.
back is a sad day to know Turkish, okay? Shame on them. All right, time for situation monitoring.
Yemen's Houthis struck the Saudi capital Riyadh for the first time.
A column of black smoke towered over Riyadh's main airport on Saturday,
following a night of air raid alerts across Saudi Arabia.
It was the first time such warnings were issued in the capital,
since conflict with the Houthis ramped up in July.
The Houthi rebels said they were behind the chaos
The two significant military operations were carried out using a large number of ballistic missiles and drones
The first targeted the Saudi capital Riyadh and the second targeted Aramco in Yandu
Yahya bro chill. Yahya
Yahya is yelling dude
In Yemen, fighting between Saudi-backed government forces and the Iran-backed Houthi rebels has
also continued to escalate.
But heavy Saudi airstrikes over the past week have done little to stop the Houthis' rapid
advance across the Arab world's poorest country.
Last week, the rebel groups swept across Yemen, taking control of the crucial Babel
Mondeb Strait in just a matter of days.
Now the Houthis have begun to push to the east, targeting TAHIS and the oil-rich region
of Mareeb.
Revenue from Mareeb's oil and gas fields has long helped to fund the Yemeni government's
efforts against the Houthis.
Losing the resource-rich region would be a major symbolic and economic blow.
According to the UN, over 112,000 people have been displaced by the renewed fighting.
Many of them have fled by boat across the Red Sea to Djibouti.
Let's get this breaking news right now, Trey Yanks is live again in Tel Aviv with an urgent
update from the president, hey Trey.
Hey guys, good morning, I just spoke with President Trump about the situation.
I will say, I think it's really funny that we get our updates from Israel about like
what the American government is doing.
It's so funny, it's like either Barack Ravide also signing from Tel Aviv, or Tel Aviv
Trey also signing from Tel Aviv. Like, does Donald Trump not have the phone number of a guy not living
in Israel? To be like, hey, this is what our next steps are going to look like?
Why is it that it is only reporters in Israel they get the first access to what the Trump
administration is going to do? Isn't that strange? I guess when you're reporting live from the
the nation's true capital, where the nation's true president lives, you know, these are the
benefits that you get.
And with Iran, he tells Fox News, he's in a deciding mode and that very big things are
going to be happening in the not so distant future.
The president described the current choices on the table as wiping Iran out, letting them
rot economically or making a deal.
He added, my question is, if and when do I blow the entire nation up?
They better behave.
Now I asked the president about the UN General Assembly this week, Iranian President Masoud
Pazeshkin is going to be there.
And I asked if he'd be open to meeting with the Iranian leader, and he said he'd probably
be open to it.
But described this weekend as no different from any other weekend, despite these alerts
that went out to U.S. citizens across the region.
Remember, a lot of moving parts here, it's not just the situation with Iran
and the ongoing U.S. naval blockade, but also the attacks by Iran-backed Houthis
in Yemen that targeted Saudi Arabia yesterday with ballistic
Is a boss going to be here?
Dude, imagine.
Imagine I secure an interview with Abbas Akshay.
I guess Pesiske, we could talk in Turkish.
He speaks. He speaks Turkish. I'll give him a Turkish interview.
Missiles, the president said the United States is in constant communication
with the Houthis, and that they've agreed in the U.S.
with the Houthis and that they've agreed not to fight the United States.
But again, the big headline here, the president says he is in a deciding mode as it relates
to Iran and that some big things will be happening in the not-so-distant future, adding that
the Iranians better behave and he is making this decision as to whether or not to blow
up their nation.
Can you give us any idea about what not-so-distant future means?
Are we thinking hours?
Are we thinking days?
The president described some of the challenges that the Trump administration faces right now
when dealing with the Iranians.
He said, some of the officials are hiding like rats.
That's what he described it as, in terms of actually getting people to the table that
could make a deal.
The American president saying that is so funny to me, because it's like, brother,
you are the most protected person on the planet.
You literally had to sneak through a food container.
Like at least the doos in Iran like they're under constant bombing threat.
You are not.
We assassinated the last head of state.
But ultimately, the Trump administration is dealing with two groups of people inside
of Iran.
The more moderate voices, Iranian President al-Bazeski and al-Basarghishi, the country's
foreign minister, but then you have these hardline IRGC officials that have continued
to try and attack U.S. forces across the Middle East.
And so the president seems to grasp this very well.
But again, at this moment, the U.S. naval blockade remains in place.
It is affecting the Iranian economy.
But according to CENTCOM Commander Admiral Brad Cooper, more than a billion barrels of
crude oil have been escorted out of the Persian Gulf since the blockade went into place and
it undercuts the Iranian efforts to-
Yeah, I'm going to start up rumor that Abbas Arakshar won't do an interview with me because
he thinks I'm too pro-hardliner.
The hardliner position is that the war must continue and Iran must secure more military
objectives before they get to the table for a full blown a full blown resolution your
two anti-Semitic for me a bus that actually do you disavow a sound piker he's like yeah
a bus that actually be like a song piker the anti-Semite of course I disavow him he's
a hardliner? No. Um, no.
Because this guy is probably the softest in the current form of
governance. He's the one who's always like coming out and
saying like, Oh, I'm really sorry that we bombed you cutter
stuff like that. And then people get really mad. Maybe
it's because he's Turkish. I don't know.
So, this dude is Ozzyty, and he's speaking Ozzyty Turkish, and he's saying we're bringing
you great, you know, thanks and great welcome from the nation of Azerbaijan, saying that
The people of Azerbaijan got great hope when you won as the candidate.
I think he's saying, he's saying that like they were excited because like a, like a
OZIDI Turkic person. They felt proud that an OZIDI Turkic person was elected president.
Also, Paziskyan says, at home I speak Turkish with my children, not Persian. I am Turkish,
both my mother and father are Turkish. I am proud of my Turkish identity.
Dude, it's so funny listening to okay
So this is like three layers deep. Okay. So one they're not speaking Turkish. They're speaking Turkic, right?
So Ozzy Turkish is different than Turkish Turkish
But then on top of that they're speaking with a fucking Persian accent
Which is hilarious
Like
So it's two different layers uh deep
All of these guys can understand me, but I can't understand them for the record.
OZIDI people can understand what Turkish people say, but Turkish people can't always understand what OZIDI people say.
Iranians, less ethno-nationalists and American conservatives?
I'm not even a farmer.
No, Aziz is easy to understand.
No, it's not, bro.
What the fuck are you talking about?
It literally is tough to understand.
What does he say? I don't understand. I speak Turkish with my kids at home. I don't speak Persian. I don't speak Persian.
What is Iran's language? I forgot Turkish.
Oh my God, he's going to give me trouble. We forgot everything.
I've been living in America for a long time.
What does he say? Is he Persian? What is he saying?
Farsce, ha, farsce, farsce.
Okay, yeah, he's saying he doesn't speak Farsi, he doesn't speak Persian at home with his kids,
he speaks Turkish with his kids.
But again, it's like super, super, super hard to fucking comprehend what he's saying
for the next one.
I've met Turkish people.
Turkish people?
I say from the beginning. I'm Turkish.
I come to the world in Azerbaijan.
My father is Turkish. My mother is Turkish.
And this...
Yeah, this is my dad. My father is Turkish.
My mother is Turkish.
He's saying my dad is Turkish.
My mom is Turkish.
I'm Turkish.
I'm Turkish.
I'm from the Gulf.
This is my...
Is that actually a Grey Wolf? Yeah.
He's saying he's a cousin.
Okay position down is literally Turkish though. That's not a joke. Like I mean he's Ozzy
Well, I don't know what you would call it in in in Iran, but he is Iran is a very diverse
country as I've explained to you over and over again. He's the fucking Persian Empire
right? So it's very diverse country ethnically and and as a ethnicity. He's obviously
nationality-wise he's Iranian but ethnically he is Turkic okay we call
them Turks not to be confused with Turkish I mean it's the same shit brother
he is literally speaking the same language
Hello President. Today is a small adventure.
I wish you all the best.
You know it's funny. You know who else is Ozzyty?
Hamanay.
Ayatollah Ali Hamanay was also Ozzyty Turk.
It's true.
So most of us is also Ozzy Turf ethnically.
I'm not doing the meme.
I'm not being like a Pontoonist or something.
I'm just saying what the fucking truth is.
Okay.
Everybody calm down.
the
big K himself and the little one. Yeah. If dummy electrocuted if the big K is Turkic,
then of course the little one is going to be Turkic too. That's his fucking father.
But yes, both of them are of Turkish ethnic background.
I gave up. I can't tell what the fuck he's saying. The founder of Iran 12 Iran is Kurdish.
It's crazy. The Persian diaspora in the West are uncultured from Iranians in Iran. Wait
Oh, counterpoint, Mughals. Okay, that's different.
Turks made it to China. I think they managed Pakistan. Bro, that's where Turks came from originally.
But Urdu is very different as a language than the Turkic languages that I'm talking about
here.
We're trying to stabilize their economy.
And so in terms of a timeline, it's not clear at this moment, but again, a big week with
the UN General Assembly and Iranian officials will be in New York City for those meetings.
Right.
I was going to ask you about that.
I mean, for those who are praying for peace, I mean, the third point is I am still
willing to make a deal.
are coming to the UN and you also have the implications of this war potentially on the
midterms and those outcomes.
So what is your sense that the dealmaker may be Trump himself versus surrogates, which
haven't, has not worked so far?
Yeah, look, the president said he would possibly be open to meeting with Iranian
president, Pazeshkin.
But in terms of the possibility of a deal, there are no direct communications taking
place right now between the United States and Iran.
But Iranian officials, some of them have indicated they are still open to such an agreement.
And so these days are going to continue to be very tense with U.S. forces deployed across
the region.
But again, at this moment, we are in this cycle of the Iranians say that they want
to deal and then ultimately IRGC officials launch missiles toward-
I think it's cool that, you know, in this current media cycle, Fox News can just like rerun the
same exact video over and over and over again. You know, it's nice. Like if I were to tell you,
this is, if they didn't mention that there's a UN General Assembly happening, I could literally
point to this exact same video from Trey Yings, who's like, this morning I'm in Tel Aviv and I
just talked to the president and president trump told me that a deal is imminent and they are terrified
This has been the exact same story for seven months now and televieve tray has basically said these
exact same words once a week for the past seven months very interesting
U.S. forces in places like jordan the u.s. naval blockade remains in place and it does feel like
like a bit of a cycle more than six months into this conflict and so at this
moment there is no clear off ramp in the conflict with Iran but again the
president okay that's crazy at this point there's no clear off ramp with Iran is I
mean these are words that I have heard Tel Aviv trace a so many fucking times
dude oh my god playing out what he sees as three possible conditions moving
forward, one wiping out the Iranians as he describes it, one letting them rot economically
or ultimately making that agreement.
And there is no off-brand at the moment, and you're very right describing it as a cycle
as we have all been watching now for months.
But when he spoke about the Houthis specifically and telling you that they don't want to
fight us, the U.S., they also just struck Riyadh, which is a major escalation for
the Saudis.
Saudis will be here in New York at the UN General Assembly to meet on the sidebar with
US officials.
What's your read on that?
It's important to remember here that the Houthis are a serious proxy of the Iranian regime.
They've received...
Yeah.
I mean, Saudis got a taste of fucking around and finding out.
They had a siege on Yemen that was unbelievably brutal.
it was ruthless. And then obviously they signed the agreement with Iran at the behest of China,
then October 7 happened. And you know, they were cutting side deals with the Houthis.
But everything changed when members of the Houthi family
and Yemeni envoys from Asalallah flew or, I don't know, got to somehow. I don't know if they
flew out of Zana or if they actually went there by boat initially, but they went to Tehran
for the funeral.
They went to Tehran for the funeral of Ayatollah, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Hamanay.
And then they flew back from Tehran and created an air bridge between Tehran and Zana.
And the Saudis decided to do the most consequential airstrike in contemporary Saudi history.
The strike heard all around the world.
They bombed the Zana airport runway before that plane could land.
The reason why they did that is because the way that you implement a blockade on the
air bridge is a stretch.
No, that's the whole point.
If there was a direct flight from Tehran to Zana, that would mean that the Saudis are
not interested in maintaining their siege, because the whole siege was on the Yemeni
ports, the Ansarallah controls, and Yemeni airports, sea ports and airports that the
Asala movement controls were under constant threat and constant attack a constant attack by Saudi forces
So
the Saudis decided to
Re-institute this siege this blockade that they have
By saying if you land this plane
From Tehran to the Zana airport if you create a direct air bridge
This is in violation of our blockade and we will attack it and they did
the plane flew around
Uh, it rerouted to a different airport. They landed regardless
But that was when the Houthis got into the battle
The Houthis said we are going to go tit for tat the asala movement said we are going to now also
implement a siege on you
As long as you do not lift your blockade on us
We will continue maintaining a blockade on you and they very quickly got to work
They started striking Saudi oil tankers that were crossing the Bob El-Mandeb Strait
with their drones and their munitions, their missiles.
And
then they started striking the Yanbu port and
the East-West pipeline, which is responsible for seven million barrels of oil transiting through that pipeline
line that was in use because the Strait of Hormuz was closed because remember the oils
in the Gulf, which is the western side of, sorry, eastern side of Saudi Arabia.
And then the oil is extracted from the eastern side of Saudi Arabia and goes to the east-west
pipeline to the western side to the Yambu ports to transit through either the Babel
Mandip straight to go to the Asian markets, or now that the Baba Mandip straight is closed
for Saudi oil tankers, they have to go all the way up to Egypt, right?
And then they have to cross the Horn of Africa.
They have to go all the way up, cross Northern Africa, and then cross the Horn of Africa
to enter the international markets to go all the way to the Asian markets. This obviously adds
a lot of, I mean, this actually makes it much more costly. It adds much more time to the transit.
They had to do all of that. And even then, the Ansar Allah movement didn't stop.
Yeah, and since they have to go through Suez, they cannot use the largest tankers, or even
if they use the larger tankers, they can't carry as much.
There's talks about how tankers would unload at least some of their oil on one side of
the Suez Canal across the Suez Canal, which is not deep enough for those super tankers.
And then reload the tankers on the other side of the Suez Canal.
Yeah, so the larger tankers can't even pass through the Suez Canal regardless.
Anyway, so all of that compounded on the energy crisis that's already existing, because 20% of the entire world's energy supply comes from the Shredivore Moose.
Shredivore Moose is closed.
Now, the Houthis acting on their own, not as an Iranian proxy,
and I cannot stress this enough, it's still in line with Iranian goals, but certainly not at the behest of Iran, at the direction of Iran,
sometimes with Iranian weapons,
decided to start striking Saudi oil infrastructure.
And then the Saudi forces in response to this activated their mercenaries on the ground.
The Yemen government as the mainstream media in the West calls them.
The Yemeni government that is in Saudi Arabia, in Riyadh, the government in exile.
And their mercenary forces attacked some Ansarullah enclaves.
The Ansarullah initially retreated from said enclaves and for the first couple of
hours everyone on Saudi Twitter and all these Saudi analysts were celebrating.
They were like, oh my god, we're destroying the Houthis like get fucked.
But very quickly we found out the tactical prowess of the Ansarullah
movement because let's be real Arab militaries are not designed to fight real
battles with standing armies and they're certainly not designed or trained to
fight insurgencies they cannot conduct counterinsurgency initiatives even the
American military has a hard time doing counterinsurgency it's very
difficult to do successful counterinsurgency initiatives as a standing
military to begin with. But the Arab forces also had a much harder time with this historically.
Turns out the Asala forces had retreated from some of their positions in an effort to push back
against the, in an effort to basically flank the Saudi mercenary forces and they took them out.
They made short work of them.
Then after that quick victory, they moved into Mocha.
They started pressing westward so that they could take over the previously Saudi-occupied
or Saudi-aligned forces occupied territories of Mocha, and they basically established
over the shoreline of Yemen near the Bab El-Mandib Strait and then they pursued and took over
the island chain that is also in the middle of the Bab El-Mandib Strait.
So they basically took over a big chunk of Yemen that they had lost, or not lost necessarily,
a big chunk of Yemen that was still controlled by Saudi-aligned forces and they did it in a relatively
short period of time. The way that in the process of that territorial acquisition they also gained
a lot of military gear that the Saudi-aligned forces and the UAE mercenaries had left behind.
Now, the question is how did the Saudi and the UAE forces fail this hard?
Why did the Asalaah forces tactically destroy these different mercenary groups?
Because for the Asalaah movement, this is an existential battle. But for the
Yemeni force being paid by the Saudi government, they're just simply doing it
for the money. And when you have a force that is simply there because
they're getting paid, you have a lot of incentive to not actually be there. And
turns out the number of of standing troops that the Saudi backed forces had
were approximately 20% of the number that the Saudis thought they had. So they
were getting paid for 100% of the troops but they only had 20%. So it's 80%
less than they actually did. They were also not very well trained and they
left their positions instantly. So, that happened as well.
And since then, the Ansarullah movement has been lobbing missiles increasingly further
and further into Saudi territory. Tid for Tad, doing the same thing that Iran has
been doing to American installations in the region. You strike us, we strike back. You strike us, we strike back.
This has obviously destroyed Saudi oil production. The Saudis have been freaking out for the past month,
demanding that the Americans come in and save them. First, you had the Mecca arrangement, the
new security cooperative agreement that took place between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Turkey.
Of course, Turkey did not come to aid Saudi Arabia. There's a separate reason for that.
And also Pakistan is not going to do anything because they are a mediator in the Iran-American
conflict. Why do you think they keep crying to Pakistan and Egypt about the Paglam out?
Competent Pakistani fighters are the only chance Saudi has. Even NATO,
Glass and Yemen won't help them. I don't think that even Pakistan's forces are going to be
the saving grace for the Saudis here. If the American military cannot destroy Yemeni positions,
I'll give you the pros and cons, I guess, or I'll give you something that I've been thinking
about quite a bit. So the newly acquired territory for the Anzala movement, they're
not hardened. If you blow up Zana, if you bomb Zana, and if you try to bomb the military
installations around Zana, the Houthis have underground tunnel systems that they've built
over the blockade, the famine and the genocide. Well, you know, or let's just say famine, right?
So their positions are hardened in areas that they've existed in for the last decade,
whereas mocha is unguarded. So they're not as dug in. They don't have fortified positions,
And they have no way to overcome American bombing campaigns in those areas. So if the if the Osala forces
Stay in those territories. They're out in the open
Right. They're out in the open
They could be dominated with aerobic bombing campaigns
So far the Saudi bombing initiatives have not actually
Uh yielded the results of the Saudis want
Actually, they've been building a massive trench line around the line of contact recently
I know but do they have enough time and also a trench line is still different than
The the underground bunkers that they have to build in order to overcome American bombing campaigns if you have
If you have military assets
You have to be able to hide them if you have launchers you have to be able to hide them underground
You have to hide them in a tunnel system a lot of the territory between
Zana and mocha is not mountainous
So when you don't have mountainous terrain
It's not as easy
What is this you have no idea what you're talking about March May USA bombed the shit out of the Houthis and they stopped shooting
It ships and beg for a ceasefire Trump even posted a single kill cam of a Houthi which killed 50 of them
Which scared the shit out of them. Oh my god. We have a hog in here. Oh
My god, this is so exciting
Okay
This is really funny that you said I'm so glad that you're in here. First of all, please don't leave
Because it's been a long time since we've had like a hog come in here and and say the exact opposite of
How things actually unfolded but I'm very excited personally because
Usually I just hear from like, you know
Lib tarts who are like oh well, you know the Houthis are anti-gay
So it's okay to kill them or some shit right like we rarely ever have a full-blown hog
That's like no actually Donald Trump's dick is so hard. He fucked them. He fucked the Houthis, bro
Like we never we never get that I haven't seen one in the wild in a minute. So congratulations. Thank you for coming here
Brother check conflict on Wikipedia March May 2025. I don't give a fuck about USA. Okay. No, no, no great. So
Guy who doesn't give a fuck about the USA but weirdly enough has assumed a position that like virtually no person believes
I don't even think Trump
Would agree with that sentiment considering that he openly admitted that those Arab environment campaigns including the 50 that they killed was a religious
Gathering that had nothing to do with the fucking awesome. I'll move me. You absolute dumbass
But those bombing campaigns amount to nothing
Okay, and in the process of those bombing campaigns the Osala anti-air defense systems
Work were able to take out numerous mark MQ 9 Reaper drones
$30 million to pop
the Americans
Lost two F-15 fighter jets that they said they lost two evasive maneuvers in the aircraft carrier because that was also under attack by
Houthi rockets
And in the evasive maneuvers, they actually lost the F-15 that dropped off the side of the aircraft carrier
I don't even know how that fucking happens, but they said that happened. They lost another F-15 and
They they had a friendly fire incident
But not only that, but they also took a pot shot at an F-35. That was the first time
that an F-35 or it was an F-18 sorry, not F-18.
But not only not only that, but they also took a pot shot at an F-35 and almost dropped an F-35
which is the first time
in F-35's, you know, relatively short combat history that it almost got dropped.
Now, since then, the Iranians, the IRGC, has been able to take out an F-35, as we know,
right?
But that was unique.
But it was so unique and so severe and so costly that the American side actually set up a
pact with the Ansar al-Law movement.
They said, if you don't attack our naval assets, we will leave you alone.
You can continue blowing up Israeli ships.
Okay?
Okay. Who cares about the equipment loss is all about goals and achieve, which happens. Yeah, except once again, and I'm going to repeat this over and over again.
The reason why Operation Prosperity Guardians started was because America wanted to stop the onslaught movement from implementing a blockade on Israeli ships that were going to Israeli ports.
They were able to successfully accomplish this and the American ceasefire, the American backed ceasefire.
And I assume you're Saudi by the way, because you're like, oh, I don't give a shit about America, but also the Houthis are, uh, they're nothing, uh, and they're, they're cowards in America blew their shit up.
So I guess you're, you might be Saudi or from the Gulf.
But if you want to know what actually happened, Donald Trump literally begged the Houthis.
No one liked the Houthis in the Middle East law. Yeah, okay. I don't know about that
Anyway
Donald Trump begged the Houthis for a ceasefire
They waived the white flag after billions of dollars of cost
And they were not able to achieve their objectives of stopping the Houthis from targeting ships Israeli ships that were crossing as long as
The genocide in Gaza continued
So what the Americans said in that ceasefire was very simple
You don't hit our naval assets in the region and we don't we don't bomb your military installations
in Yemen. If you want to continue attacking Israeli ships, you can. And they did. The Houthis never
stopped hitting Israel directly. And the Houthis never stopped hitting Israeli ships directly.
So and Donald Trump not only secured this deal,
But they also but he also said this so when you say no one likes Houthis in the Middle
East well there's one guy who actually came out and said this with the Houthis and we
honor their word and they made a commitment and we dealt with other countries that were
close to them and their surrogates and we honor all of their words and we'll see what
happens but I think, you know, I believe that hopefully that's over with and they'll leave
the ships alone, you know, just leave those ships alone.
But so we do, we take their word for it, it was, you know, we hit them very hard.
They had a great capacity to withstand punishment.
They took tremendous punishment.
And you know, you could say there's a lot of bravery there that it was amazing
what what they took.
But we are.
Who's not Saudi? Have you ever heard Donald Trump say this about the Saudis or their forces?
Which are basically our forces. They're using our equipment. I've never heard him say this about the Saudis. I know you say you're not Saudi, but I
Have heard him say this about the Houthis though
He said something similar about the Iranians to never about the Saudis
Why do you think that's the case their commitment and they were they gave us their word that they wouldn't be shooting ships anymore and
We honor that
When he says they're not gonna shoot ships anymore. He's talking about American ships
Because they continued to implement the blockade over the Israeli ships. Well, there was some bribery there, too
I think they were taking bribes from some ships that they were allowing to pass through but that's besides the point
It showed that the Houthis still maintain primacy over the Bob Elmond of straight
Okay. Now you said Operation Prosperity Guardian, right?
You talked about Operation Prosperity Guardian and how big of a success it was, right? It ended in
the 6th of May. It started on the 18th of December under the Joe Biden leadership.
They failed. They took a ceasefire. And then Donald Trump picked up the mantle, continued it,
and he did a three-month bombing campaign or two-month bombing campaign if I'm not mistaken.
And he also, there it is, took a deal with the Houthis. Remember, you said, check the Wikipedia
big dog. Well, let's check one word here. Status operational failure. So you're, you wanted me
to look at Wikipedia because you thought Wikipedia would defend your position and yet Wikipedia
says it was an operational failure. You're looking at the wrong Wikipedia law. This is
Operation Prosperity Guardian. The fuck do you mean I'm looking at the wrong Wikipedia?
Yeah, check if your guy just recently changed the comment. Oh, you think they recently,
Do you think they changed this comment too? The Houthis agreed that halt attacks on US vessels in the Red Sea,
but emphasized that the ceasefire did not in any way shape or form apply to Israel.
While Trump framed the truths of the Houthis having capitulated and not wanting to fight anymore,
while also having shown a lot of bravery, the Houthis stated that it was in fact the US that backed down.
Administration officials interviewed by the New York Times said that Trump agreed to cease the fire
because the airstrikes were not achieving their objectives and the United States failed to achieve air superiority against the Houthis.
after the ceasefire was implemented attacks on commercial shipping resumed
so do you think they changed that do you think they also wrote this article
on the New York Times on the 14th of May 2025 or do you think it was the lying New York Times
the failing New York Times is that why you think they were lying you think the New York Times is
lying as well? If for you to believe your worldview, if if for your worldview, yeah, it was last
updated in August, by the way, apparently, as you can see here. So no, someone from this
community didn't just update it to like dupe you. So the question is this, if for
you to believe that this was an operational success, Donald Trump had to
have said, you know, we defeated the Houthis thoroughly, which he didn't say.
He said they were brave. He said that they were, you know, he was, they were
listening to our demands that the New York Times reporting should also meet
that assessment as well, but it says the exact opposite. Like, what do you think is going on here?
You think there's a grand conspiracy where people are like editing Wikipedia pages and
writing articles ahead of time to dupe you in this very moment? Or do you think we're right
and you might be wrong? What do you think is more likely?
Why did the Americans stop attacking the Houthis even though the Houthis never stopped
striking Israel. Even though the Houthis never stopped striking Israeli commercial vessels.
Why did America stop?
Bombings and off, for example.
Outcome inconclusive status quo, anti-bellum.
March to May 2025, United States attacks the Yemen. You're checking the wrong Wikipedia
Dog, I'm asking you a question. If America got their objectives across, by the way, status quo
inconclusive, status quo antebellum, operation outcome inconclusive implies that the Houthis are
still bombing ships when they see the need to bomb ships, which they continue doing,
which means that it's not actually inconclusive. It actually means that it was a failure if
If America bombs Zana with the interest of stopping the Houthis from targeting ships and
targeting Israel and fail to do so, then it's not a fucking W. It's not a victory at all.
Either English is not your first language and you don't understand the language, and
therefore you think this is saying something that proves your point.
Or English is not your second language, and you just simply don't understand it, or
You just too stupid to recognize what you're reading.
Anyway.
On set a law digging in satellite images show what look to be trenches under construction.
But anyway, thank you for coming to the broadcast and defending Donald Trump's actions.
It was awesome.
I haven't had this level of excitement in a very long time.
I have not had a hog to pet in this broadcast for so long, dude.
It's fucking dope.
I miss.
I miss the hogs.
I miss the friggin hogs.
You've laid it out.
You've provided a lot of the granular, very local contextual information
as to why answer allowed want to take over this region.
But the way that we receive the information is always in relation to the street, right?
So like if you can talk about how this operation, this conquest helps them control the street.
It is a really big deal.
They gained a lot.
They gained a ton of bargaining leverage from this compared to the position
they were in just a couple of weeks ago.
Now, Ansarla has made it down to Muun Island, which sits inside of the Babel Mandib, and
they may not have a huge presence on the island itself moving forward outside of some
monitoring stations, but on the mainland, I've already seen reports that they're building
trenches literally along the Babel Mandib.
And just to give you guys an idea of how close to the shipping lanes there are, they
could fly a fiber optic FPV to Djibouti from Muun Island.
how close they are to all the shipping now. So they can reliably now use their
short-range fixed wing drones. They can use their short-range anti-ship missiles
which they have a ton of. They can easily access these shipping lanes with
their unmanned surface vessels. Those are their drone boats. Three of their
most numerous anti-ship missiles have a range that fall under 150 kilometers
which all can be fired from Wazira and other highland areas near the
Babul Mandib. One of their missiles is literally called Mune. So it's named after the island
they just took. If they really wanted to trigger a total strangulation of the Babul Mandib, they
could easily do that. But I should be clear, they have shown no intention to do that. They've
repeatedly said that they're not going to do that. But it is something that they could in
the future if they wanted to. Yeah, this is the other reason why I say they're not operating
is a pure Iranian proxy, but instead as a sovereign nation, basically, with their own
interests. Like, they are exercising their own sovereignty over the entirety of the Yemeni
territory. And what triggered this incident was the Saudis thinking that they could get
away with restarting this blockade. Because if it were up to the Iranians, I suspect that
they were probably trying to get the Houthis to fight back, trying to get the Houthis to
close the Babel Mandib straight from the start. It would be beneficial for the Iranians
for the Houthis to increase the pain, increase the pressure on the entire, increase the pressure
on global energy trade.
And then another interesting piece here, which I don't think anyone's really talked
about or at least that I've seen, is Camp Lemonnier, which is home of AFRICOM's
Joint Task Force, Horn of Africa in Djibouti,
which is now 150 kilometers away
from Ansarullah-controlled territory,
which means Ansarullah could theoretically overwhelm the base
with SRBMs and drones similar to what Iran has done
to US bases in the Gulf.
So on the question of potential direct US involvement,
they not only have to consider the possibility
of US shipping being blocked
from transiting the Babel Mandib,
They also have to consider if they're willing to potentially be displaced from their largest base in Africa.
Anyway, let's get back to American Cope.
money, weapons, and support from officials in Tehran.
And so these are two very closely linked issues.
And while the Houthis aren't focused on the Strait of Hormuz,
they're focused on a different Strait.
And that is the Babilamandab Strait,
that entrance into the Red Sea.
And so these two issues are certainly tied together.
And the Houthis have made new territorial gains
against Yemeni government forces,
while at the same time,
ramping up their attacks on neighboring Saudi Arabia.
That's really interesting to watch.
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in the ownership over Twitter
and you sometimes see this
manifest in very funny ways.
Like for example, as soon as the
As soon as the Houthis started fucking striking Riyadh,
as soon as the Houthis started striking Riyadh
and making significant territorial gains,
what you started seeing on the timeline,
at least on my timeline,
was constant videos of them chewing cotton.
Muhammad says,
plainly obvious propaganda effort to make Yemeni people look like drug addicts
who need to be bombed for their own good,
But I don't know how effective it is when half of Americans have to fake an ADHD diagnosis get pills with a desk job
Cod is just double espresso at worse
So many accounts
Randomly started posting about like how all the Yemenis people do is just like chew-cott. They don't do anything. They look so silly
They are they're all a bunch of fucking drug addicts that kind of shit
Chin of these people is not caused by any disease or a beasting rather
They are hooked on a powerful leaf that is slowly destroying the entire country of Yemen in Yemen
You will find many people chewing the leaves of a plant called cat
They stuff these leaves into one side of their mouth and continue to chew them for hours
This is why their cheeks look so bloated as if they are swollen. This plant contains a chemical that makes them feel energetic
Was this motherfucker in Yemen wearing a dry SpongeBob t-shirt? That's awesome
It's like coke. It's like light coke. It's it's a it's a stimulant
Yeah, one reason Yemen is so impoverished like roughly 80% dude look look look look this guy
This is another one of these guys all of these fucking guys dude every single one of them
Every single one of these like Zionist, Hasbra accounts all of a sudden randomly
overnight started talking about how all the people in Yemen do
is chew-cott. Oh, they're chewing it inside of mosques. They're not really religious,
like they're fucking all doing drugs. There is a nation of drug addicts. They're all on bath salt,
right? That's what they keep saying. Very interesting.
Well energetic and alert for a short while. Because of this, millions of people have
developed a terrible addiction to it, which is now considered a major social and economic
problem in Yemen. This is because many people waste their time and money on it. Moreover,
its excessive use has a severe negative impact on their sleep oral hygiene and overall health.
This condition of
This guy is awesome
the
the
die. Bjorn Ansar Allah son, what the fuck? He's albino bro, chill. Anyway, it is very
funny for America to be like, look at these fucking drug addicts, it's like bro, everywhere
around the world they make fun of us, they talk about the fentlene. Literally, everywhere
Including in Israel, which is really fucked up. Like I've seen those fentlene videos and Tel Aviv and I'm like you're not you're the last people to
Make fun of us. Like what do you mean?
Literally a welfare state
Like literally does not exist without unlimited American support and the fucking Israelis are laughing at us and making jokes
About how Americans are are doing the fentanyl fold
everywhere
And it's incestive because you're in the fucking family Yemen and already I mean
Yes, this is
about
Dehumanizing the most successful CI agent ever. I know dude. I enjoyed caught every night when I was in Yemen with Ansar Allah
I will never eat the Zio Dubai chocolate
the
Juxson Hinkle
Why you got to do this to me man, why you got to show this to me
Why why are you doing this? Okay, he's he's
He's either a FSB agent or a double agent. What is this?
I got a condo in Manhattan, baby, no, but she was your ass and body so gone and get to
happy. So pop a phone.
There you go.
This is all I got. I'm not chewing cotton. I'm not in Zana in front of, you know,
tens of millions of Yemeni people saying free free Palestine. All I got is like sexy aura edits,
dude.
Just sell your soul to the Russian Federation. Yeah, exactly. Then I can do these things as
well. Anyway, let's talk about Ukraine. Ukraine launches 1000 drones in unprecedented attack
the Russian capital. It is a war of attrition and it's growing ever more
violent, an oil refinery near Moscow set alight by several drones in this
Ukrainian attack.
Kiev hoping that petrol shortages will persuade Russians to turn against their
president. This part of what Moscow's mayor said was the biggest Ukrainian
assault on his city so far. Residential buildings near the refinery were also hit, and three
people were reported killed. The Russians said over a thousand drones had been shot
down across the country overnight. This on the last day of parliamentary elections, and
the war now impossible for many Russian voters to ignore.
This election is happening across all 11 of Russia's time zones.
President Putin says it will demonstrate widespread support for his war, and that's despite petrol
queues, internet shutdowns, and ever more salvos of Ukrainian missiles and drones.
I always vote.
I came to do my duty to the motherland.
Things are not that bad.
We hope for the best.
I think there will be a change in the election results. Unfortunately not, because everything
has been decided long ago.
This is Nikolai Rybakov, the leader of the anti-war Yablokov party, which the Supreme
Court banned from this election at the last minute. Yablokov means apple, and it's become
a symbol of resistance. Today Mr Rybakov spoiled his ballot paper with messages calling
for a ceasefire with Ukraine and for peace.
In June, his friend and colleague Maxine Kruglov was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony
after posting on social media about the killing of Ukrainian civilians and calling for an
investigation into possible war crimes.
His wife Olga is an academic in London and she can't bring herself to call this
election an election at all.
We see now that the Kremlin started to get ready for these elections well in advance,
and it banned prominent Yablaka leaders from participating in these elections.
What do you think we will learn from this election?
I hope that the Russian society is changing, and it means that there is no this kind
of stability and consensus. And what we know now is that there are people inside Russia who
are able to be the leaders of this change.
In the meantime, there's no let-up in Russian attacks on Ukraine. This was a center for
civilians fleeing from the fighting in the east. And with Mr Putin so far short of victory
here, he may feel the need to impose even more political repression at home.
President Zelensky has announced that he's to meet Donald Trump in New York. The Ukrainian
leader said there was diplomatic momentum towards ending the war. His comments came
after Moscow suffered, what the mayor described as its biggest ever drone attack. At least
two people were killed and a major oil facility was hit. Here's Caroline Hawley.
This is the dramatic moment when a drone flies towards and then strikes a warehouse.
And this the moment, an apartment building is hit.
For Muscovites nearby, another terrifying night.
With a wave of hundreds of drones and some missiles, the message delivered to Moscow
with fire.
This oil refinery just 10 miles from the Kremlin is the capital's biggest, supplying fuel for
the city, and Ukraine says for the Russian military too.
Ukrainian officials say the aim is to bring Vladimir Putin's war home.
Moscow's mayor has called it an unprecedented attack aimed at disrupting voting in parliamentary
elections, the first to be held since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022,
and always a tightly controlled affair.
Two people were killed in this block of flats on the outskirts of Moscow.
I just left the building when the explosion happened.
Glass went flying, people started screaming and shouting.
Both sides have been hitting each other's infrastructure.
There's been a spate of Russian attacks on Ukrainian petrol stations, frightening for
anyone filling up.
Of course I'm scared.
Everyone's scared.
human beings, but we have to carry on living because we have nowhere else to go.
Here in the eastern city of Kramatorsk a strike on a center housing people evacuated from the
front line. This is a brutal war being fought on different fronts, the human cost mounting
all the time.
There's also, on top of the drone strikes, there's also additional fears that Russia might strike at Lithuania or Estonia.
I know that I have often talked about how Estonia comes to me in my dreams and Lithuania comes to me in my dreams, but this is not a joke.
Why is the question that people are asking?
Russia will never strike NATO members as just red of fantasy.
It might be testing NATO resilience.
It might be testing the limits of Article 5.
But I don't know.
Jesse Rodriguez of MSNOW says Estonia will be a key country to watch this week as UNGA
High level week kicks off.
Estonia is actively preparing to immediately close its border with Russia.
If Moscow declares a general military mobilization.
NATO warhawks have literally been saying this for like five years.
I know, but let's be real.
It's not like Russia hasn't been increasingly attacking
both with cyber warfare and also sometimes even like drone, drone potshots like the one that took place at Leipzig Airport in Germany.
They are increasing the pressure on Ukraine's European allies saying that your allegiance to Ukraine will be costly to you.
They are testing how much stress they can put on the European continent as a warning.
So it's a little bit different right now than ever before, for a couple reasons.
One, because it's clear that NATO allies of Ukraine are offering Ukraine additional targeting deep inside of Russian territory.
And this has actually given Ukraine tremendous leverage. That's number one.
Number two.
You know, the reason why it's, the reason why it's giving Ukraine leverage is because
Russia is suffering as a consequence of these attacks.
So Russia has to implement some kind of military deterrence against NATO allies without actually,
you know, directly triggering Article 5.
So I think they are trying to see, I think they are trying to see what they can get away
with.
Like, how much can they stress smaller countries in the Baltics with very little military
before NATO decides to take matters into their own hands?
the most dangerous and complex security environment in a generation.
There is a real risk that drones or other types of projectiles will enter the territory of one or several countries of the eastern flank.
And this was the scene in Paul...
Well, yeah, I think Russia began hybrid attacks against Europe in August.
And I think the reason why they started doing it is because of the success of the Ukrainian
drill strikes on critical energy infrastructure deep inside of Russian territory.
Poland earlier on Thursday, air raid sirens after a Russian attack near the border with
Ukraine.
Let's not forget that there's, you know, there's awesome, there's sabotage almost
every day.
Is this background of a real concern given the escalation of Russia's full-scale invasion
of Russian aggression in Ukraine that it could spill over into Europe?
Is Russia planning to attack a NATO country?
It's not a new question, but it is something more and more people are asking now.
How likely is an attack from Russia?
What would it actually look like and why are we talking about it now?
Well over the next 10 minutes.
What rose pissing next to you and I couldn't help but notice your wieners insane do seriously your hog is money
Do you want to be boys? I run with a nasty crew of dudes who all got wild pipes
Why are people talking about my hog what the fuck is going on
That's crazy, okay
the thing I was gonna
The thing I was going to mention is, oh, no real left opposition within Russia.
The communist regime chose so the so-called opposition like a bloke are US, back, neo-lives
and no vision.
Therefore, the public is reluctantly on Putin's side as they see no other options, grim reality.
People in Russia do not vote because they think their party is going to win.
They vote to show the level of discontent against the ruling party against Vladimir
Putin.
And this last election's results show that there is tremendous amounts of discontent
against Vladimir Putin and therefore the war.
Okay?
It's not about like a real democratic process where they're gonna vote Vladimir Putin out.
It's more so about like what percentage of votes will Putin's party hemorrhage?
And this last election result shows a grim reality.
They don't have real elections, but you can read it as like a poll.
But the chatter is not wrong when he says that there's no real opposition party.
Yes, all of the fake opposition parties are still completely captive to Putin, including
the Communist Party.
Yes, there are no real opposition parties in Russia.
In minutes we'll answer all of those questions, but first here was a warning from Poland's
Prime Minister, Donald Tusk.
There is a real risk that drones or other types of projectiles will enter the territory
of one or several countries on the eastern flank and even cause destruction.
And the official narration will be that it's an accident and there is no reason
for NATO to think about a response.
The goal as evidenced by an analysis of Russian actions to date is also to undermine NATO's
integrity and above all to convince NATO member states, as we have already seen happen, that
Article 5 is more theoretical than practical.
In other words, the premise is that no one would be willing to die for Latvia or Lithuania
when faced with near incidents rather than a formal declaration of war.
Well the warning came as a massive attack on the western part of Ukraine very close
to the Polish border took place, with Poland repeatedly forced to scramble its aircraft.
Well, Donald Tusk isn't the only European leader warning about Russia. President Macron
also has been sounding the alarm.
In recent weeks, the threat, in particular the hybrid Russian threat to Europeans and
to France, has intensified. I want to say here that the nature of Russian aggression
and its threats in Europe is changing. The drone attack on a passenger train from
Kiev a few days ago. The attack or attempted attack at Leipzig Airport, which failed.
They should make that Russian Peter Griffin lookalike run. No, Vladimir Putin fears him.
If Vladimir Putin ever allowed him on the ballot, he would actually win 99% and it would be true
democracy. I would vote for him illegally. I love that guy. The guy in charge of Armenia.
Like Armenian relations that's the best guy of all time. I'd vote for that guy to be the president of America. He's so perfect
He just looks so perfect
Also, he's so perfectly shaped that you can't even defenitrate him. Okay?
You can't even throw him out of a window. He doesn't fit. He is literally built
for Russian politics. He is so perfectly designed for Russian politics. Because of his absolute size,
eyes. You can't even poison him. None of the regular methods. None of the regular methods
of political assassinations work on the guy. He's the best. Yeah, imagine giving him one
poison tea cup. He can slam like 11 of those bad boys before he has diarrhea.
The Russian Steven Chung is who I'm talking about. Yeah. The election would be one too big to rig
and he is also literally physically too big to rig. You could send his ass to a labor camp
And he wouldn't starve because he's got so much in the tank
Nothing works on this man
He is the modern-day Rasputin
Why haven't you pulled a pig yet, okay someone someone show me a pic of big boy
You've officially gone global I had an argument with my Zimbabwe an uncle about you the other day on Facebook
Why is your uncle in Zimbabwe against whatever I believe?
America has to rush ahead of Russia's Russell to prove me chief so in a press conference
they're talking about Russia's deteriorating relationship with him.
Yeah, this is him, Chatters.
This is this real by the way that's not a fake photo that's not a fake photo that's
not a fake photo I know you think it's a fake photo it's not it's real that's a real
guy America shut the fuck up is this real that's a beautiful build think about the
nuclear arms race in the Cold War, right? This time, we're doing Big Chungus arms race.
Like, we have Steven Chung. Russia obviously saw we have Steven Chung technology, and they
were like, we have to find a response to this. And they went back to the lab and they created
this guy. Oh, it will look like a family guy. How do you like the author? Now America
has to retaliate with an even bigger Chungus. Look, I hate to report this, but my sources
on the ground are telling me Randy Fine has an hour to respond to this. This is how black holes are made.
Don't ever let another comrade say you are not this Jenny. I will show you this is real socialism.
This is the space raid. That's fake, right? That's American cope. No, it is a real guy. Look, he's talking.
I love him so much, oh my god, he is the most of me, oh my god, Steven Chung step aside,
I have a new lover, oh my god, he seems so jovial too, he's like no, me and Armenia
We're tight. I ate the entire country
This is Vladimir Putin fears this man
That's why he fucking shipped his ass to Armenia because if he was in the Kremlin this man would win every election
Okay, he would win by Assad margins or also formerly known as Putin margins
And after his electoral victory they would call it forget what his name is but his name margins
I
Gore chaika
Igor
You author Igor Chaikov Chaika
anyway let's continue the firing of flares near a danish frigate incursions into airspace of seven
european countries and the increase in hostile acts in most of our countries the head of NATO
mark rutier says the use of drones along poland's border with ukraine shows that vladimir putin is
becoming increasingly desperate it's clearly an example of of uh increasingly reckless behavior by
Russia and its president but also evidence of him being increasingly desperate. He knows and sees
that he is losing over 40,000 of his own people. That are seriously wounded a month leading up to the
1.2 million. The Russians have now lost or seriously wounded since the start of the war.
Evidence that we have to be serious about what Russia is doing but also acknowledging that this
This is desperation. It's also panicking.
Well, the warnings come after increasingly hostile rhetoric from Moscow and what appears
to be a sabotage campaign across Europe this summer with military and defence sites as the
prime targets.
On the 4th of August, the first drone carrying an explosive device at Leipzig Airport in
Germany is discovered.
Six days later, a major fire breaks out at a defence warehouse in Bulgaria.
blasts at the company's facilities were investigated for links to Russia.
On the 13th of August, a fire at KNDS Ammo outside Rome triggers a large explosion.
The local prosecutor is looking into outside interference.
Two days later, a robotics factory in Tallinn that supplies drones to Ukraine goes up in
flames.
On the 25th of August, an arse...
Why are they covering it like this, like it's a video game loading screen?
Why didn't they just do like a regular news broadcast over it, I don't understand.
Why is BBC making a slob?
An attack on a Ukrainian-owned drone manufacturer is narrowly avoided.
And on the 30th of August, two more fires are reported in Poland.
One of them was an attack on a drone producer.
The masked man was caught throwing incendiary devices on CCTV.
The Polish Prime Minister called it a continuation of Russia's escalatory activities.
A month after drawings packed with explosives were found at Leipzig Airport, Germany declared
that Russia was responsible.
Putin as always demanded proof and his officials called the accusation absurd.
So how likely is a Russian attack?
Here's our Eastern Europe correspondent, Sarah Rainsford, with her assessment.
I think it's important to be clear that Russia has been attacking.
I'm going to be honest with you.
I'm not going to be caught dead.
Taking the Russian side of face value ever again, get mad at me all day.
I can totally see why they would do this.
I know that they're denying it, but I can totally, totally see why Russia would do this.
I think it makes, uh, the, the Western analysis here makes sense.
I do think that Vladimir Putin is trying to increase the tension to make it more costly
for Europe to continue aligning with Ukraine.
That's what I think.
Hassan NATO ARC?
No, I'm not.
And it's not like I'm fond of the BBC
But sometimes oh my god, they're calling me Vosh look man
This kind of reminds me of the reverse Nord Stream pipeline
Situation where you know how like Americans were like all Russians probably did that to themselves. I was like no they didn't
No, they didn't do that. That makes no sense
Okay, that makes no fucking sense.
Just like it makes no sense that there are so many different unique accidents happening
in all of these countries that are aligned with Ukraine at a time when, you know, Russia
is really suffering from the NATO targeting capabilities.
Like it just makes sense. It makes sense that this would be Russia taking potshots and stress
testing how much they can punish the rest of NATO within their reach. Like that seems
more likely than some sort of like Hamas attack or some shit. You know what I mean? Hamas has no
Hamas no footprint outside of historic Palestine. They've they uh disavow lone wolf attacks outside
of the occupied territories. That's their literal position, right? So if someone was like oh Hamas
is doing a terror attack on Europe, it's like no it's probably fucking bullshit. I would much
it's much more likely that it's either like someone who's a sympathizer or straight up in
Israeli operation right whereas with the Russia situation it makes perfect sense for Russia to
do this they do cyber attacks all the time like what are we talking about they do cyber attacks
on energy grids all the time in Europe all over so it would not surprise me that this is just
just a more expanded version of that.
In NATO countries for a long time.
So the question is less what Russia intends
and more how NATO could respond.
My own reporting has focused quite heavily
in recent years on a number of plots
linked to Russia directly to cause very serious damage
here inside Europe and that includes a parcel bomb plot
incendiary devices in parcels that were sent all over Europe. Now, one of those parcels
went off just before it was loaded onto a plane to the UK. The consequences could have
been catastrophic. And I now know from my sources in that investigation that there is
a direct link to the discovery of drones with explosives at Leipzig airport this summer.
So very, very serious and clearly aimed at NATO countries, allies in particular of
Ukraine. So I think Russia's intent is clear, Russia's potential to escalate is also clear.
If anything Russia's going the Iran route, try to weaken NATO based on the periphery,
which is what we've been warning about since forever. If Romaniy thinks they won't go
the way of the Gulf, I don't know what they're thinking. Yes. I think that that is what
makes a lot of sense. That is what I think Russia is trying to do as well.
We've talked about this before, like the likelihood that Ukraine was ever going to
join NATO was already slim to none, which is part of the reason why I thought it was ridiculous
for Vladimir Putin to invade using that as a justification. But beyond that, I think the
likelihood that America would do anything short of like East Germany, like America would would
ever consider Eastern Europe, NATO countries to be defendable. If Russia actually presented
a significant threat, I don't think that that's the case. Like, I don't think, now Poland itself
has a massacizable force, having said that, let's say in a hypothetical scenario where Russia
actually has these massive ground forces and can easily overcome, you know, NATO defenses,
stuff like that. That's not the case right now, but I'm just saying in a hypothetical
scenario where they could actually present a significant threat to Poland and the Baltics,
I do not think that America would trigger Article 5 to defend like Lithuania or Estonia.
Article 5 automatically triggers if you're invaded, it's not optional as World War 3,
I just don't think that things that are presented as optional would become optional in that regard.
now of course rush can't do that regardless because I don't think they
have enough troop capacity they're already they're already stretched too far
they have a hard time gaining on Ukrainian territory I just don't think
that that would that's that's in the cars at all for Russia but having said
that. Vladimir Putin is fucking crazy. Vladimir Putin is a crazy person. Who knows?
Question has always been about how NATO is prepared to respond.
Well, attacks on military and defense targets are not new. It's the concentration of cases
that is causing alarm. Yeah, like you guys think, you guys think of Israel and Turkey got into
hot war. Article five will be triggered. You think like you think of another non-NATO country
Turkey. That is like an American ally for example got in the war with Turkey that they were
trivartical five. No they wouldn't. You want to know why I know that because Turkey and
Greece fought one another. They engaged in hot war and there was no, there was no NATO
article five situation. It didn't even cause NATO to break. Turkey is to this day the
only NATO country that has threatened other NATO nations.
France in Libya if I'm not mistaken and also with Greece.
Adam Cochran, just like prior invasion, you can people are saying
Russian attack on your doesn't make sense.
It won't happen.
Here's what they failed to understand.
Clinigrad.
Yeah.
So look, I'm not one of those people.
I'm not, I'm never saying I'm never saying Vladimir Putin is not going to do
something because when I say that historically, I don't have a good track record.
I don't want to be at 100% wrong.
I want to be at least 50% wrong, if possible.
Okay.
So I am not committing to that.
I won't say that about Trump any longer.
I won't say that about Vladimir Putin.
Okay.
These are active and I won't say that about Benjamin and Yahu.
There are three actors on the planet that do not operate in a rational manner.
Okay.
I've learned my fucking lesson.
I have learned my lesson.
Okay.
Yes.
It makes no sense.
Sure, where are the troops?
You can't even push further into Ukrainian territory.
What the fuck are you doing with Estonia or Latvia or Lithuania, right?
What the fuck do you think you're doing?
Is a great question.
Having said that, Putin is fucking insane.
So I'm not going to sit here and act like he wouldn't do this shit, okay?
I had a policy before Putin invaded Ukraine to never say, oh, in my analysis, I'm factory
in the wild card, like, oh, this guy is crazy.
You can't make analysis, predictive analysis by saying, oh, well, this guy's crazy, right?
Then that's not a prediction at all.
That's not a sound prediction at all.
That was before.
That was before.
Okay?
No more.
Professor Jong has a better track record with this shit.
American Yats is another one who was wrong on Russia would never invade Ukraine.
Every single anti-imperialist analyst got this shit wrong entirely.
I don't know and you probably shouldn't listen to me on this because I was dead wrong on
the Russian invasion of February 2022.
However, the narrative that the Russians are about to engage in some major escalation
should be checked against the question, why now?
They've been extremely conservative in the manner they prosecuted this war, and being almost suicidally cautioned controlling the rate of escalation, tossing that aside in this moment when Ukraine has an unfathomably brutal winter ahead, doesn't make sense to me.
Again, all of those things, all of those things factor into why Putin could do it, because he is fucking insane.
No, the monkey Putin meme is real, okay?
The monkey Putin meme is real.
He could be like, oh, should we just like harden our positions and wait out this strong
winter against Ukraine where we can like destroy their energy infrastructure and keep them
in the cold and terrorize them?
Fuck it, let's invade all the way to Kledegrad.
know. Fuck it. It's time. Who knows? I don't know. I think
you're being silly. I just don't know. I don't know. It
doesn't make any sense. All signs point to this being a very
stupid decision. But, but having said that, all signs point to this being a very stupid
decision, which is precisely the reason why Putin might do it. Okay. The Russian campaign
against Ukrainian logistics from locomotives, the energy to poor facilities have been much
more effective than almost anyone lets on. The Ukrainians are yet in another funding crisis,
interceptor deliveries have dried up and there's your chance they'll resume substantial quantities.
In other words, I would imagine the Russians are feeling more confident now than they felt in
years. I don't agree with this. I don't think they do. I think this is also wrong. This analysis
is wrong. I don't think Russians are feeling as confident as a matter of fact. I think
Ukrainians have more leverage than ever before due to their successive strikes on critical
energy infrastructure. I think their energy infrastructure strikes have actually worked.
And the only thing I can point to is not only the terrible election results
that are coming out, but also it's not wish casting. It's not wish casting. Dude,
dude, Russia is an energy provider, okay? If you're an energy provider and you got long lines
at your own fucking gas stations, there's a real problem, okay? If you're talking about
halting exports of diesel at a time when you still need to take advantage of the horribly
unstable marketplace that has shot up prices and you could make a fuck ton more money selling
diesel which you need to do, right?
That means that there's real issues.
Yes, if Russia has it bad, Ukraine has it worse, it's been the same dynamic, sure.
I don't disagree with you.
I don't disagree with you at all.
Okay. But the difference is, there's, if Russia, like Russia's goals here are to be able to continue
prosecuting this war, this illegal invasion, without much of a crisis back home. Now there is a crisis
back home.
I think that's the reason why they're increasing the hybrid warfare on European countries like
European NATO allies.
In other words, I would imagine the Russians are feeling more confident now than they felt
in several years.
So why attack Europe?
What would this accomplish?
mobilization way because Putin and other Kremlin officials have been adamant and repeatedly
denying there will be one to a degree that any reversal will be perceived as total betrayal.
The easier explanation is that something is fracturing in Ukraine.
Yeah, I think this is cold.
Zelensky's 40 day influence operation didn't deliver the arms deal it was designed to and
the Ukrainians understand it may be impossible to keep the lights on this winter.
The political ground may be shifting in Kiev, something along those lines.
But again, I was wrong on this before.
I mean, he's, I would strong listen, listen, listen.
This is.
Merchant was just went to Russia.
This is the one area where I, while I agree with his initial analysis of, of like, um,
While I agree with his initial analysis in the lead up to the war and like why Russia
would potentially invade Ukraine and how Russia was inevitably going to invade Ukraine if
America kept up its attempt at egging Russia on saying they're going to bring Ukraine
into NATO and stuff like that, I agree with that assessment initially.
Having said that, what I don't agree with is how much he glazes, how overconfident he is
about Russia's current situation.
If this is John Mearsheimer, I would like to speak today in this episode about my recent
trip to Russia.
Yeah, he went to Russia and he came back.
I mean, look, Ukraine has massive internal scandals, corruption scandals.
There's a lot of instability inside of Ukraine as well.
But once again, once again, and I got to keep repeating myself over and over again,
the honest assessment right now, the honest assessment.
But you have you consider you with the China?
Yeah, I didn't fucking meet with like the foreign minister of China when I went there, okay?
Yeah, I went to China as a tourist. He met with Lavrov, I think, right? Didn't he?
Like, the fuck are you talking about? There's a little bit of a difference.
Some reports suggested that the visit by the CIA chief to Moscow in August was in part to warn Russia against a possible attack on a member of the euro.
Yeah, I went to a fucking herbal clinic dude. I didn't actually go to the the Kremlin of of China
Military alliance the Kremlin though has repeatedly dismissed warnings about Russian plans to attack NATO as hysteria
But are you insinuating he's a propagandist? No
I'm not saying that I'm just saying that I think he's a little bit more
sympathetic to Russia's chances and and it maybe
I think it colors his analysis a little bit. Can I say that? It's fine. I mean, I largely agree with them.
NATO has been grappling with is the fact that the U.S. President Donald Trump has not been in lockstep with them throughout the Ukrainian war as Russia expert Timothy Ash now explains.
Well, I think one of the problems is the Trump administration has been pretty soft in signalling
about its support for this Article 5 defence for Europe, and I think the Russians are taking
advantage of that and trying to exploit that and expose divisions, etc. I mean, what's
really important for the Russians is the Ukrainian deep-strike drone attacks and missile
attacks are increasingly successful. They're hitting these online retailers, refineries
continue to be attacked. There are shortages in Russia. Russia faces elections coming up
this weekend and I think Putin is nervous and vulnerable and he wants to force Europe
to pull back in support for Ukraine, surrender Ukraine to Russia.
So what could a potential Russian attack actually look like? Here's Sarah again to
explain.
I don't think Vladimir Putin is suicidal, so I don't think he's about to launch
a missile directly into the heart of Warsaw. But I do think he's going to continue testing
the West and trying to prove that NATO as an alliance is weak and that it will not stand
up to Russia as it says it will. So I think Vladimir Putin is now under extreme pressure
at home like he never has been before. He's clearly escalating the war inside Ukraine
and I think the potential for aggression beyond Ukraine's borders certainly is
at its highest level that we've seen.
I think Russia will go on goading, will go on testing, will go on pushing
the limits that includes in terms of sabotage attacks and the sort of below
threshold aggression that we've seen in recent years.
In terms of military strike, though, I do think.
Yeah, I remember someone else who said,
I don't think Vladimir Putin is suicidal.
That was for fucking almost five years ago.
Because of the political context, what Poland is talking about, a possible drone or military
missile strike on one of Ukraine's allies that Russia then caused an accident that
does seem more likely now than ever before. And what was once unthinkable, I think in
recent years has become more and more possible as Russia is under increasing
pressure. So a growing number of European leaders warning that Russia may be
preparing attacks to test their commitment to supporting Ukraine. How
worried should we be back to Timothy Ash for his assessment? Well I think very
concerned. I mean I was just thinking this is probably the most serious
situation in in Western Moscow relations of the Kremlin. Since the
1980s remember the kind of cruise missile crisis back then Russia is testing our limit
They're probing almost every day dude another testament to how much shit on Twitter is just literally foreign bots
When this happened
I saw a bunch of like anti-Indian videos on the timeline where they were like Indians were shocked at Vladimir Putin would ever
Shake the hand of a woman who like you know works for him, and then they were like
There were so many viral tweets about how Indians never shake the hand of help, all the stuff.
And it made me realize so much of the world's ethnic politics, so much of the world's ethnic tensions play out on Twitter via bots.
I mean, we talked about this earlier with like, um, the, the Saudi propagandists that are talking about how like everyone in the, uh, Yemen is chewing cotton.
Literally, the world's like, culture wars are, are playing out on Twitter with bots all the time.
if you guys are not familiar with what I'm talking about oh my god during the
during the the the floods
Indian Twitter was lit the fuck up talking about how it was a Chinese damn
that they deliberately broke to to basically flood this area and to kill
all these people they were all saying it was like China's fault like India to
Indian Twitter versus Chinese Twitter is crazy.
There was a point when like, uh, also, uh, Indian Twitter was trying to create a,
a caste system inside of China where they were like saying that, uh, you know,
China also has a caste system.
Actually, like they invented a totally fake caste system inside of China.
And then of course, all of the, uh, anti Indian videos of, of like, uh,
dirty street food, stuff like that.
Western Moscow relations of the Kremlin since the 1980s remember the kind of cruise missile
prices back then. Russia is testing our limit. They're probing almost every day now. We have
a drone sortie over NATO territory. Numerous munition dumps in NATO territory have been
blown up in recent months and every time NATO doesn't respond, I think Russia takes strength
from that.
And that's all you need to know about the growing threat of hybrid attacks from Russia.
That was the big story from the BBC.
Anyway.
Sides hurting.
Nick Eve this afternoon, another warehouse up in flames after a Russian drone strike and four-and-a-half years in, no ending prospect to any of this.
Caroline Hawley BBC News.
Our press corps colleagues from these now banned news organizations had their access revoked by the US Secret Service.
This morning CNN, MSNOW and Politico all vowing to fight
President Trump's new ban as a violation of the First Amendment. These CNN
journalists were seen entering a security checkpoint on Pennsylvania Avenue only
to walk out without their White House credentials. The Secret Service agent in
the guardhouse with whom I have been friendly in the past asked to see my
badge and I handed it over to him. He told me that it had been deactivated.
The same thing happened to a reporter from MSNOW. I asked why I was not
able to get inside. He said it was above him.
In a new statement Saturday, the White House Correspondents Association urged the immediate
restoration of the credentials, saying, the American people, through a free and independent
press, must be able to scrutinize those elected to power, regardless of whether government
officials view it favorably. Trump defending his move Friday.
There's something wrong with a country that can allow people to write purposely
negative says now if they were right and that's fine but i don't have to let him
into my
into the people's house
but critics say the ban is a direct assault on the first amendment and on
court it one hundred percent is
i cannot believe
the way that these guys are talking about on the timeline where they're
like
all know he's allowed to say it he's allowed to do this it's complete
it's complete another horseshit
and yes uh... before he was a brock obama did this know he did it okay
he did not do that
he said he wasn't going to give an interview to fox news
and then the entire press corps
freak the fuck out on brock obama for doing that
and then they gave an interview to fox news anyway
so there was no comparison there's never been a moment when brock obama was like
yeah sorry we're revoking the prescriptions of fox news like that
never happened
okay
that never happened
this is never ever happened really this is crazy
ruling stating back decades protecting reporters access to the white house
and the main point genders have consistently made is that it's the
american public's right to know what their government is doing
that's funny
well this happens all over the country try walking into public buildings of the
camera and see what happens seventy five percent of the time
you'll probably be thrown out or the police called
is this nix surely
nix surely in the building
i try to go to kindergarten's all the time
yes but he's considered as an urban son piker and humance nine thousand times
instead
some of the spending it going on in congress and the fact that congress
doesn't seem to be any too much
let's talk to an america's act with those times with argentina
let me go to spending
which i also introduced in congress
Last month you were at FIU and you presented a check for $650,000 to help small businesses
at FIU. But you voted against the bill that gave the money that you then signed a check for and
handed and had a photo op that consolidated appropriations act of 2023. Right? You voted against
that bill. Right now you have to give me more details but I do know that every time I have an
opportunity to bring money to my constituents. I do so. I just say $400,000.
But you voted against you voted against the Chips and Science Act, right?
Listen, right now I need to I need to ask my staff, whatever, $40 million that I have brought
to this community. Are you proud of me? Are you proud of the $40 million that I wrote the
the Dignity Act. Let's talk about the America's Act.
Wait, wait, wait, wait, one second.
Tell me.
The money that you talk about, the $40 million that you bring back to the district, sometimes
that money comes from bills that you voted against. You voted against the CHIPS Act
and yet you praised the fact that the South Florida Climate Resilience Tech Hub
is going to be started in Miami, right? You voted against the infrastructure bill
and you talk about all the money that comes back to the airport. So at the same
time that you're taking credit for the money that you bring back to the district, in Washington,
you're voting against these projects on party-line votes.
Listen, that was, I think, last cycle.
I cannot really remember right now, but just look at the America's Act, which is what
I'm going to vote.
So you don't want to explain why you voted against it?
I mean, right now, and I'm not trying to be a politician, there's so many bills
that I've introduced that I know that many of them I think that understand.
But then it's...
Yeah, he's not going to the White House because he hasn't asked about Hassan Piker and Hamas.
That's on the line when it chooses who does and doesn't get to cover it.
Geo.
Okay.
Stephen Portnoy.
Thank you so much.
Let's go ahead and bring in ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Carl who's
going to be hosting this week later this morning here.
Can you imagine if you said I can't recall as much as this and you're, dude, dude, not
Not only did I recall everything, including the 67% of very liberal Democrats saying America's
involvement has some to do with 9-11 by 2004.
Even when I fact-checked myself to make sure I wasn't wrong, people were yelling about
it.
strange times to be alive man. Very strange time to be alive, okay?
On ABC, John, it's good to see you. Let's keep talking about the president's ban on
CNN, MSNOW and Politico at the White House. Could we see political consequences for this?
Well Gio, first of all, this is an extraordinary move by the president of the United States.
He was perfectly clear in explaining why he did this, why he is doing it. He
He did it because he does not like the reporting of these news organizations.
And the courts have consistently ruled that you cannot have what is called viewpoint discrimination
in making decisions of who has access and who doesn't have access.
So the politics of this, we'll see, I mean, certainly attacks on the press have been
something that Democrats and Republicans have engaged on over the years.
this is more than just an attack on the press. This is, and you will see, I am certain legal
action here. This is an attack on the First Amendment. And one immediate consequence could
be the president facing a stiff challenge in court.
Yeah, y'all should have condemned Hassan more. Okay. That's what you get. You were
insufficient in your Hassan condemnations
that's what you get
you should have been glazing the president you should be talking about the
president is fucking awesome
a little bit more
condom harder
court
uh... for for this action and john the midterms are also just forty four days
away now the war in iran is driving fuel prices up we're gonna talk about that
more in just a moment here, but politically, what does this mean for Republicans in the
midterms?
Well, you know, first of all, I think that this may help explain, in part, why Trump
did what he did.
Trump had a really tough week in terms of economic news, you know, you had, of course,
the Fed raising interest rates, you had diesel hitting a record high, oil now over
$100 a barrel, and you are seeing the effect of this in house races and Senate races
across the country.
I can tell you right now that Republicans are worried
not just about losing control of the house,
but potentially losing in some very red states,
which could lead to a potential
to lose the Senate as well.
All right, a lot to watch there,
and I know you're gonna watch all of it.
John Carl, thank you so much.
I have covered the White House for CNN
in some capacity since the Obama administration in 2015.
First as a producer, and now as a reporter.
and every day that I come here to do my job at the White House,
I arrive here at this intersection, 17th Street Northwest
and Pennsylvania Avenue.
I go through a checkpoint right behind me
with Secret Service.
I show them my hard pass,
and then I walk past the Eisenhower Executive Office Building
and into the Northwest Gate.
There, I put my stuff crew, essentially,
what looks like airport security conveyor belt,
and then I tap my badge onto a card reader.
I type in a four-digit pin.
I did all of that today.
The only difference is that there was a group of cameras waiting outside that gate to watch
me walk in.
And also, there was a military band practicing ahead of a China state visit expected later
this week playing Battle Hymn of the Republic, rehearsing from the White House north ground.
So I walk in, I tap my badge, and it beeps a couple of different times.
It turns red, blue, and green, and it didn't accept my pin number.
the secret service agent in the guard house,
whom I have been friendly in the past, asked to see my badge
and I handed it over to him.
He told me that it had been deactivated.
I asked him if he could provide an explanation
as to why it had been deactivated.
He said he had no further information.
I asked him once more if he had any more details
he could share with me and he said that I should be
referred to the White House Press Office
to the Wranglers for more information.
I asked if I could have the badge back.
he said he would be keeping it. He did however hand me back this clear case with a lanyard
that it came in. I also collected my things and then returned out the gate that I had
come through. But we had heard President Trump earlier this week.
How do we meet in the middle on this issue? Just keep, keep MS now, Ben. Wait, so they
They banned MS now they banned CNN and who else who else was banned?
What was the third one?
I can't even remember.
Politico oh Politico yeah it's funny because all three of those outlets have been cooking
my ass non-stop.
Mike Rogers lander update involving you yeah I saw I already I'm sending it to my legal
team breaking Mike Rogers and the Republicans are now playing soundbites from a clip champed
a scotch in his video on the radio on Michigan's further attacks on these clips have not been
used in any TV commercials just heard in Mike Rogers anti-obdual ad with them clipping
a song saying I want to go back to the time of lynching and then another separate clip
saying it's because I'm racist I don't give a fuck what black people think this was
the most disparaging I've heard of recently is a constant barrage of anti-a-son ads
here in Michigan that's your strategy outside of Abdul's friend Hassan.
I know that, I know that on, on election Twitter,
this kind of stuff is never met with,
wow, they're lying on your name.
That's kind of fucked up.
And instead is met with,
Hassan, why don't you kill yourself?
Because this is your fault somehow, you know?
But it's pretty fucked up that they're doing this.
Don't you think election Twitter?
No, I know it's my fault.
I know I, uh, it's, it's my fault that they're just straight up fucking lying straight up
defaming me and in campaign materials and that cool.
But yeah, I already sent it, however, however, uh, having said that, I don't think these
attacks are working.
Because Nira Tannis says, do you think independence in Michigan are pro or anti-piger that is
the swing group in Michigan?
It's actually a rhetorical question.
This is cultish behavior.
The correct answer to that question is, no one cares.
Literally no one fucking cares.
And Paul Jacobs, Democratic precinct delegate for public radio says, Nira, as a precinct
Delegate in Oakland County, Michigan, I'm part of a team of 150 responsible for
educating and motivating voters.
We knock on lots of doors.
Do you know how many times Piker's name has come up?
Zero.
I wonder how much diesel comes up in the conversation.
How much Iran comes up in the conversation?
Probably all of the conversations.
I'm not in Michigan, but that's a safe bet.
And Oakland County is the county Oakland County is the county that Jeremy Moss is from the Haley Stevens is a seat was in
This is the county where there is a high density of Jewish voters
These are the guys who should be saying oh up to all sides alleges with this dangerous
Anti-Saharan is top of mind for me top priority at least that's the way that they talk about it in mainstream news
And yet even then
Even then it's not happening. So for all the Michiganders all the Austin Abbey heads
Who are either in Michigan or have family members in Michigan? Talk to your family members. Okay fight back against these lies
You have tremendous amounts of power at your disposal. Okay, you know these people
You can talk to these people you can tell them that it's all fucking bullshit
And you can promote Obdolal said it's important that you do so especially
Considering that a lot of your older relatives are getting inundated with these fucking attack ads
Okay
So it's very very important
If you're door knocking you almost always control the direction of the combo big dog or big gal
Well, I know I've done it. Okay. But if it's a top priority as the way that, you know, near attendant represents it's, it is as a top priority top of mind, they will bring it up. If it was a significant issue, they would bring it up.
Considering it's the only attack out against Abdul El Sayed, they should bring it up.
bring it up.
Michigander here, my grandma, three times Trump, said she thinks the attack ads about
you are very weak.
I don't care what Abdul's friends said, I have friends who say worse things, and she's
at least lean Abdul at this point.
Let's fucking go.
Let's get her to a guaranteed Abdul from a lean Abdul.
Keep pressing.
Yeah, in my phone bank for Abdul, I've thus far met one voter who's concerned about Hassan,
and she didn't even know who Hassan was. She just said that 9-11 guy in the commercials,
and I still got her on board for Abdul. Nira is lost in a terminally online centrist echo
chamber. Yes. I can no longer give her charitable
ability of ignorance. She's actively and maliciously trying to inflame Hassan's
brand to Democrats and is 100% okay with sabotaging a dem-Senate majority to do
it. 100% that's what's going on. I know that I'm like, it sucks because I'm the worst person
to to engage in commentaries issue because I'm at the center of the story. So anything
I say people think, oh, she's fucking protecting his own ass. Oh, he's just talking about
himself. No, I would tell you, if this was a real concern, if this was a real issue,
I would tell you, I would tell you, okay, I would do things differently.
It's not.
The only reason why they're doing it is because they have nothing else.
They have nothing else that they can utilize.
They have nothing else they can deploy, right?
And not only that, but also they're extremely fucking online.
So many.
My
Fi L
Father-in-law heard about your 9 11 comments
It was extremely said about them and that made him dislike Abdul light they explain the constant the blowback and he's eventually
He eventually kind of came around to agree with their perspective and liking Abdul enough
Show your father-in-law an issue that he actually cares about deeply and a video of me talking about it
Whatever that issue may be and you will make him a lifelong fan. This is usually how it works in my experience
I
Honestly stop talking about yourself because disposal is normally really informative content. I know but anytime I talk about the fucking Abdul race in Michigan
It doesn't matter it still turns into a conversation about me
Whereas it should be this this should be the only thing you see
Obdol says it's a thoughtful response to a town hall that he was doing a
A question you got from a voter, right?
Let's take a look.
Elementary education major at Wayne State.
Do we have a big round of applause here?
That's awesome.
Thank you.
My question to you is, so with the wage that teachers make right now, especially fresh out of college,
I don't know if I'll ever be able to afford buying a house or anything like that, so...
Sorry.
Savannah you deserve a home. I'm just wondering like what are some things and
steps you're going to take to be able to make me and others achieve that goal at
some point as well as some of the like the big beautiful bill has been cutting
education funding for special needs children as well and that breaks my
of art and schools really need more funding. Thank you. Thank you for asking the question.
So I'm going to break your question into three parts. One of them is about education. The
idea that we should be defunding the Department of Education is insane. And that's exactly
what this administration has done. And so I believe in funding education and I
actually want to tie the amount of education funding to Department of
Defense funding. So if you want to make more money for war you're going to make
more money for schools too.
There's also this pot of funding called IDEA funding which is funding for
students with special needs and we have been underfunding it for a very
long time and we need to meet our obligation to IDEA funding.
Third, we need to make real investments in our school infrastructure.
And right now the way that we fund school infrastructure is based on property taxes.
Property taxes are based on property values.
Properties values are based on historical redlining.
So it's when you look at the school districts that got forced into receivership or emergency management,
there are almost always school districts in predominantly black communities.
So when we say that schools should be an engine of social mobility,
but you use the historical racism of the past to fund the thing that's supposed to be the engine of social mobility,
you're not serious about social mobility.
So we need to fully fund
School infrastructure
Now a lot of people like how you won't pay for that. I don't know don't send bombs to places will they drop on other people's schools
Then here
We just did what 2.8 do you sell fucking good it's crazy. It's crazy. It's crazy, man. It's crazy
You also have to remember like there was a point in time when after after the primary victory
he could adjust as easily been like we're done you know we won the primaries I disavow
us on I condemn us on entirely I'm pivoting to a position that will win favor with the
voters in Oakland, and that will be dramatically different than my previous positions of primaries
on Israel and on senseless militarism and whatnot.
He's not doing any of that.
He's not doing any of that.
And he's so fucking good and so reliable on virtually every issue.
It's crazy.
Like, Abdul al-Sayed's biggest weakness is that he's Muslim.
Like, that's it.
That he's brown.
He's Arab.
It sucks to say.
But truly, can you imagine a rugged white guy, a straight white man talking like this?
He put up 40 on Rogers, 40, 4-0.
That's how powerful fucking Islamophobia is, man.
It's just wild.
Billion dollars in bombs.
That Talarico, no, no, Talarico, when's the last time you heard James Talarico dig deep
into policy of this sort, talking about the, the historical systemic inequalities, and,
and how they've shaped contemporary realities, like that's not even close, there is no other
candidate that talks this much and like this.
No you can't even make a Platinum comparison because Platinum never dug deep in the policy
as well, he did a lot of populism.
No it wasn't Graham Platinum, no you're wrong.
No, Graham Plattner was able to turn up the rugged oyster farmer slash, you know, like
I'd say Chris Rav is a good example, Angie Nixon does a really good job as well, but
he's going in.
2.8, 2,000 pound bombs, 2,000 pound bombs never fed anybody.
Okay, it never built anything, never taught anybody, 2.8 billion to Israel for 2,000 pound
bombs.
So how are we going to pay for it?
Not 2.8 billion dollars in bombs, 2.8 billion dollars in schools.
And then, I believe that we need a teacher minimum wage.
And I believe that not only should we be funding teachers, because we're asking teachers to
be teachers and nurses and janitors and curators of classrooms, to be social workers, to be
mental health professionals.
Teachers need to be teachers, so you need to hire the other people around the teachers
to do those other things but the second part of your question was about housing
and I'll tell you it's not often that I will praise a bill that got passed in
this administration but a bipartisan bill led in part by Senator Elizabeth
Warren our endorse our endorser and incredible leader in the US Senate it
actually is going to do some things around housing affordability why
because it's gonna build more housing and it's a two-part thing number one
we need to invest in building affordable housing but number two we need to
make sure that you can get affordable housing licensed and zoned, which is really difficult
because you have to incentivize local communities to be able to license and zone that housing.
Because if you keep those licensing and zoning requirements there, the only folks who get
their projects approved are the ones who can hire armies of lobbyists and lawyers,
which tend to be the ones who build housing for people.
So the other part of it though is that we need to put money in the hands of people to
be able to afford a down payment.
So we need down payment assistance and while you're renting, you deserve to know that
you have rights against your landlord.
So we need a renters bill of rights.
And then we also gotta be thinking about the way the problem shows up in other ways
too.
One of the ways the problem shows up is in things like Airbnb and Verbo.
And don't get me wrong, like I stay at air bees and verbose, but you sometimes stay at
one of those places and you wonder, okay, this could be somebody's actual home.
But it's not, because somebody from somewhere else had enough money to buy it and then use
it to make money instead of allowing somebody to actually be able to live in it.
So those big tech corporations, and that's what they are, is big tech corporations,
need to be able to pay their fair share back into the system to build the housing
that they're taking off the market.
And then the third part of things is you and be or a Furby.
I am Sam Fransco.
First of all, you're from Brazil.
What the fuck is a you and the be or a Furby?
Are you trying to say Yimby or NIMBY?
What the fuck?
Come to Brazil.
Come to Brazil.
No, I am an NB.
We talk a lot about affordability and we talk about gas and groceries and housing and healthcare
as if they're like disconnected things.
But the hard part about it is they all hit the same budget.
And so it feels like we're running in quicksand a lot.
And so it becomes overwhelming.
Your response to that is the right response.
It is overwhelming.
And nobody gets hit harder than young people.
Because it's not just how unaffordable things have become.
It's how quickly they're getting unaffordable and how much harder it is to get a job that
pays enough to be able to afford things.
The average age of first home ownership back 50 years ago was in the 20s.
In the 20s, the average age now is in the 40s.
And so a lot of young folks, and I say this to the more wise and seasoned people
in the room, there's this thing that older people do all the time, it's like
young people these days. But the young people these days never had it as hard. There were
a lot more programs back in the day. Things were a lot easier to be able to afford. You
really could go get a job, right? Work a good day's labor and be able to afford the basic
things that you needed. Today it feels so unattainable that people are just like, what's
the point? And so we've got to understand structurally what that is. And I just, again,
I'm not, I'm not, I'm 41. Okay, so I'm like, I'm like in this weird middle region
where I'm the truly middle-aged, right?
So I'm not credibly young anymore,
but I'm not older anymore, right?
I like to think young people give me some help here.
Somebody's about to unk me.
But the point I'm making is this.
It's always this interesting thing.
Yeah, pretty good hairline for 41, by the way.
He is unk, not me.
I'm Neff. I'm Nevew. He's Unc for sure. I'm Nevew. That's how it works
Because the one thing you can't know what it feels like is to be older
But older people know what it's like to be young
It's always funny to me when like as as we get older wars like these young people that don't get it
And you're like, don't you remember what it felt like to be young?
Don't you know if you're like, no, I don't man. I've lived hard years
i'm big bro think it's on us to have the empathy to ask what's it like to be
young now
because if you're like i don't want to think about this if you're twenty six
with not particularly young
you were born in the year two thousand
you were one year old when nine eleven happened
right one year old
and our country's been at war for most of your life
and in
two thousand and seven we had this catastrophic financial crisis
for which the banks were never held accountable
Chances are you or your family or a neighbor lost their home.
That's also when the iPhone became a thing, which meant that people had the
internet in their pockets for most of your life.
You know what that meant?
That meant your parents were probably like this half the time they were talking to you.
And then you had that in your pocket all the time.
So now you can't just even escape your challenges.
You know, like if school was a tough place to go, you left school.
Now school comes back in your pocket.
Donald Trump came down the hideous golden escalator when you were 15 and he's been a fixture of
your politics for your whole adult life and you're 26.
So um.
Why are you guys throwing up a wares?
I've literally bar for bar said this at my young Democrats speech.
I said many of you young Democrats in this room have only known Trump as the great fixture
of American politics, your whole lives.
Why are you acting like you heard this for the first time ever?
It is a depressing fact, I know.
I don't listen to what you say, cornball, okay.
So this is what I'm saying.
If you're young, like think about it.
We're always like well the young people don't don't seem to want to get engaged
I mean if that's all I've ever lived part of me was like to what end
So we've got to understand that you got it
We've got to understand what it's like to be young these days and the incredible act of faith that it takes to be invested
In your politics to believe you can actually solve those problems
So with that yeah now he has to tell those young people I can never saw him piker
You might be here cuz you first saw me on his broadcast and I condemn him and I condemn you guys
Because why because near tandem wants me to do this
Okay, just want to make sure that you guys understand. You're all vile anti-semites, and I condemn all of you
Fuck that guy
Okay, I'll just say banger speech
Who's out here doing it like this also DD HQ director?
Decision desk headquarters director says Mike Rogers time is running out Scott Tranter decision desk headquarters director of data science
On Sunday said the time is running out for a public Michigan syndicate
Michigan's Senate candidate, Mike Rogers, to close the gap between him and Democratic
opponent, Aldo El-Sayed.
The DHB's forecast shows El-Sayed was in 67% probability of winning in November, with
Rogers holding a 33% chance.
Tranter told NewsNation's Chris Stearowalt on the Hill Sunday that this one is closer
than it should be if you're the Republicans and want to keep the Senate.
El-Sayed's got the momentum.
It's pretty undeniably said.
Michigan is going to start voting in about a month on the early side and look
everything you know about Michigan about a third of that voting is going to come
before election day so Mike Rogers' time is running out.
Sarah Walton-Tranter agreed that al-Sahed support from former Vice President
Kamala Harris will be a problem for him, referring to the opposition she faced
from propensity voters in an uproar over the Biden administration's support for
Israel. al-Sahed has spoken out against the Israeli government and shown support
for the Palestinians in Gaza. Harris is expected to join al-Sahed a
position of roundtable focus on black maternal health on Tuesday. al-Sahed
It told Political Last Wednesday the black maternal health issue is an issue they have
both been a leader on and he called the former vice president an inspirational leader.
More than a dozen Michigan Rabbis and Jewish leaders launched a petition earlier this
month to push al-Said to alter his rhetoric on Israeli call for him to affirm Jewish
safety the Israel's right to exist and to encourage the Jewish community's civic
and political participation.
The petition did not name al-Said, though it was clearly directed towards him.
Rogers did not attend a televised debate with al-Said last week and said he never
agreed to it, which resulted in Democrats speaking for an hour to an empty podium.
Rodgers accused the moderator of showing bias towards LSA to claim the moderator, Fox2 Detroit's
Rup Raj, has rejected and requested that Rodgers appear for the sake of voters.
Nier is going to ask Abdul to condemn Harris.
When asked by CBS News, Detroit, about critics suggesting that Joe Picanit was unwilling
to engage in a discussion with L.C.A.D., Rogers said the two televised debates are scheduled
for October.
Polling has shown the public the scandal is a narrow lead over the Republican.
The Hill Emerson College Polling survey on Thursday showed L.C.A.D. at 48% compared to Rogers'
46%.
4% of respondents said they were still undecided.
Do this fucking Rogers ever even do campaigning or is it just money on ads?
It's mostly money on ads.
Pretty amazed by the January 6th riot goer turned, uh, Hina Hosa voter in Texas governor
Lynn Davidport was at the ellipse in Washington on January 6th until she left in the middle
of Trump's speech.
You get a hot dog and take an apod or hotel because she felt she says she felt he wasn't
saying anything.
By then she'd gotten to know Hina Hosa from seeing her fight school vouchers while
on the state house education committee.
Now she's one of a contingent of Maha and Maga moms who have been drawn into Hina Hose's
campaign.
That is amazing.
Hot dog in a nap.
She missed January 6th because she went to get a hot dog and nap.
That's amazing.
could have gone to prison instead. How would we react if any world leader behaved like this?
The fact that there's no comparable historical examples of this level of psychotic behavior
that this isn't funny, this isn't trolling, this is sick behavior is really sick stuff
And it's really hurting a lot of people. Yes.
Ben Midas touch is right.
Girl dinner saved her. I love that.
So yeah.
It seems, it seems, me, like things are going pretty good for the Democrats across the board.
Also, Tom Perkins looked into the 430 Jewish Dems for Rogers-placed signatories, 90% of
them were affiliated with the GOP or APAC, about 50 were Dem Jews for Mitt, who backed
Romney because Obama was too anti-Israel for them, some were Rick Snyder appointees and
ran for office as Republicans, or were donors to Trump, Snyder, Rick Santorum, Kelly
Leffler, Rudy Giuliani, are already donated to the Rogers campaign in previous cycles.
APEC GOP connections run deep. Among them is David Handelman, a Mitch McConnell donor
and former APEC Michigan president who once organized an event that featured a rock
war architect John Bolton.
Are you fucking kidding me? And the media wrote this at the time as though this was
Clearly, a lot of Jewish Michiganders that were reluctantly voting for Mike Rogers, like,
no, they're not Democrats. They were never Democrats.
Like, the idea, first of all, the fact that they only got 430 Jews in Michigan
to sign onto this position is, petition is already alarming. Okay. I said it at the time.
I was like, there's 0% chance that these guys are lifelong Democrats. They're probably lifelong Republicans
Okay, who are presenting themselves as though they were Democrats until Abdul Al Sayed
Of course the mainstream media would have known this
If they did their due diligence if they did like even a little bit of investigative work
But they didn't do it because they don't care that these guys are not uh lifelong Jewish Democrats
Nearly 50 of the people who signed the letter advertised the Jewish Democrats from Mike
Rogers also signed a Jews for Mitt letter in 2012 because they said Obama was too anti-Israel
for their consciences.
A bunch of them are related to Mike Rogers' finance chair.
The media fell for it anyway and the free press is now whining that the Jewish Dems
supporting outside in a letter, a new letter, are not Jewish enough.
50 of them directly signed the juice from it letter in 2012 Mitt Romney
letter in 2012, Mitt Romney.
Well, do these guys ever, like do Republicans ever actually find, you know,
real, like lifelong Democrats that ended up, uh, you know, voting for the
Republican because, uh, you know, the candidate wasn't, the candidate wasn't
sufficient is there's always like an attempt.
Republicans love doing this where they'll be like, I'm black.
and we're doing blexit we're leaving the democratic party for the republican party and it never
it never amounts to anything right
and now they're doing it with jewish voters too where it's like i'm a jewish voter
and i cannot in good conscience vote for the democratic voter a democratic party here
it's over it's over for me and all these other jews that i know are also yeah they're doing
they did blexit it failed now they're doing jexit
Okay, and it's also going to fail
Like why well, it's so funny that so much
Of the republican engineering around these elections is never to like actually go out
To jewish voters and try to win them over
But instead to concoct the media environment where they just invent this reality as though it already happened
With the hopes that I guess like some jews see that and go all right
Well, I guess other Jews are voting Republican today is the first day. I'm gonna vote Republican too
That's real by the way, Blegs it was what it was called. I didn't make that up
That is the the Republican meta
a manifesting shit, you know, the secret style. Oh, I'm manifesting, I'm manifesting this outcome.
It's gonna happen. If I just imagine, if I just imagine a world where a significant
percentage of Jewish voters are gonna vote for my Rogers over Abdul El Sade, they'll
definitely do it. Well, it doesn't work that way in the real world, you know?
Yes, Blegxit was the Candace Owens project. Yes, Candace Owens was participating in that too,
where she would always say, we're getting the blacks off the plantation, which in and of itself
is like very clearly written by not just a white guy, but like a straight up white supremacist guy.
I always found that fascinating.
any time somebody presents themselves as black but then says blacks I'm like, okay
Sure
Yeah, New York Times is now writing
Tucker Carlson p saying Abdul al said a democrat is an unlikely defender Tucker Carlson
Mr. Carlson, the far-right podcaster has promoted Dr. Ellis' comments and sharply criticizes
the Republican rival in a key Senate race strategist or scratching their heads.
I wouldn't vote for Mike Rogers at gunpoint, Mr. Carlson said on his podcast last month,
adding, there's no one who should be farther from a position of power than Mike Rogers.
He's a toadie of Israel and an enemy of civil liberties.
Mr. Carlson told the Times, noting that Mr. Rogers had previously lost a Senate
race in 2024.
I can hardly believe Republicans nominated him.
What's your take on this? I already told you. That's an American patriot right there.
That's my goat. That's my goat Tucker Carlson. Incredible how decisively a single post can
undermine an entire philosophical idea but can standpoint theory really survive this.
The notion that racial slurs are bad because they form an ad hominem is not what you
expect of lived experience of racism to teach you. Zionists is the new N word. I'm convinced
y'all don't even know the definition. It just seems to be what y'all perceive to be a slur
towards Americans who just don't engage with y'all. Bo activism. This can't be like a
real person, right? Like, is that like a real human being? That's that's a Langley
account, right? It has to be. That's a real human being.
Do we think that she's getting paid by the CIA or Mossad? Because that seems far-fetched.
like that is one of those posts that is either boosted by bots like I just don't
think any black person is gonna hear that and go I agree with this sentiment
what the fuck
have my Roger say it yeah Mike Rogers should say that next
It's the new Shredge they're going for? Oh yeah. Why nobody want to address the anti-blackers
in the hashtag free Palestine movement? I think y'all just made that up.
I
Did you still want a campaign for a streamer war because nominations close in 12 days and I don't think you've done an application yet not much time to campaign no I know
I know eventually I'll I'll get to it
I don't know why I've been so reluctant to do it.
I want to do it after farming a larger audience.
What is this?
Black folks can tweet, I hate this racist thing that happened to me and Twitter folks will
load their comments up with, if you don't like it here, leave.
But at this point, this fella, but at this point, does it feel like anything about
America? Wait, I don't understand. Is she saying that people tell black folk to leave the country if
they say they hate something about it? But, but also I should leave the country? Is that
she's like, as a victim of anti black racism, let me use that exact same reactionary
Talking point against another guy instead
It talks smoking your other off I need people to understand we got raccoons everywhere
Oh, this was crazy. Bro, this shit was crazy. Brandon Gildo is a Sompiker as a poster child
of why we need to end birth tourism, right? He was born in America, the Turkish nationals.
He was raised back in Turkey to hate Western civilization. Now spends time working to make
America weaker. Um, and our enemy stronger. That got 44,000 likes. Obviously, I'm not
going to let that shit slide. So I retweeted it and I said, your wife is Indian. But
The story would not end with that ratio.
Okay.
Because his wife is Indian.
His wife is the daughter of Dinesh Desuza.
Right.
Criminal Dinesh Desuza, who's been in prison.
So the story would have ended there and that would have been fine,
except it didn't because Dinesh Desuza got fucking involved.
ha ha ha
Stands with child predators congressman branding
That ad is so funny. He is such a he is such a kook dude. He's such a stupid guy. Anyway
Well in any case Dinesh, Jesus, uh decided to defend his daughter
By saying some of the most insane things I've ever seen in my life
life.
Speaking right and you know we'll be having conversations in the black, the ass-brain
shit and we'll start blinging each other, well your people are neighbor white and it's
like none of them.
My group has raccoons, your group has raccoons and these raccoons aid white supremacy.
But this is not even about the black, black, black folks, this is for the brown people,
this is for my brown folks.
I didn't know, I knew in my side of town we got raccoons everywhere, I didn't know
y'all had raccoons too, right?
So, Hassan Pika, who's been in the media a lot recently, playing defense, right?
I know this right winger, Brandon Gale, says, Hassan Pika is a poster child for why we need
to end birth tourism, blah, blah, blah.
He's born in America, blah, blah, blah.
And now he spends his time making American weaker.
And I see this Indian brother, right, a response to, Hassan's response to the person attacking
him.
Hassan says, you know, your wife is Indian, Brandon Gale.
Why are you, you know, why are you talking about birth tourism?
Why are you talking to my immigrant, shut up.
And Dinesh says, she's Christian, born in America and her mom is white.
Kid, show us a picture of your family, attach it with a picture of brother.
I've never seen some shit like this before.
Like especially considering that like Dinesh is just like straight from India, right?
He's just saying like no don't worry like my daughter leveled up because she got white blood in her like what the fuck
Like to unpack this is I mean, it's crazy like then I just brown brown
You know what I mean between me and the nash on a lineup
You're probably gonna expect he's you know a a non-white
Foreign person as opposed to someone like myself. I'm like I'm Turkish. I don't hide it, you know, my name is Hassan
But for Dinesh to say that like he must fucking hate himself, dude
What the fuck
Like this is I have never seen something like this before I like this was so crazy
Like he's not even doing the oh, you know how Indians are or whatever
He's just like straight up saying like I as an Indian am inferior to my daughter who at least is half white
Okay
It blew my fucking mind
He's yeah, he's having a race war inside himself
Said wife and kids. Yeah, I hate me up when the kids into it, but anyway, I go wow
That's a raccoon. There's the Indian man. Why would you why would this be your defense?
As though you needed a defense for someone's wife in Indian your counter to this. Well, she might be Indian but
She might be in your butt. She's Christian born in America and how mama white but then it make matters worse
I send this to one of the homies
And I'm saying one of my brown allies. He like oh, yeah, Dinesis her father. I said
watch it. I didn't even know that I'm so out the picture. But then I'm looking through the
through the the the the the the streets. I'll go as in that worldwide way. They say he digitally
altered her skin color. Yep. Yep. That's what makes it even crazier. The next is who's
posted that photo and whitened his daughter's skin. And even in this photo, it's still a little bit altered,
which is wild because I am more white presenting than Brandon Gill's wife.
But again, the big meta in Texas, where Brandon is from right now, is anti-Indian hatred.
That photo came out, Beau French or whatever, running for Texas Railroad Safety Commissioner
or whatever the fuck he's running for.
I didn't even know that was a position you could run for.
posted that photo of University of Texas Austin students, you know, doing the
hook'em horns, celebrating the Longhorns victory. There were too many brown
people apparently for their liking inside of the photo. So right now, Texas
right-wingers, Texas Railroad Commissioner is basically the head of
the Texas EPA. Yeah. Texas White Wingers are running a massive anti-Indian hate campaign.
So Brandon Gill is in the middle of that talking shit about, you know, how un-American, non-white
Americans are. And his wife is like first on the deportation line according to the
taxes Republicans. What the fuck are these guys doing? No, like the major, the major
struggle within the Republican Party right now is quite literally for some reason hating
on Indians. And I don't even know why because let's be real. Look, this is a unfortunate
relic of the caste structure. But a lot of Indians and there are a lot of Indians in this
community as well, they will attest to this for their parents. There are some Indians that are
fairly conservative, both conservative in their political expression back in India,
and very conservative even in America because Indians in this country have accomplished,
you know tremendous things and and they are the ethnic group that has
I think like the the highest success rate in the country across the board
right and part of that is the caste system that that uh
relitigates supremacist ideals and part of that is also because you know they
work very hard and when they make a lot of money they become
conservative so what I don't understand especially
tie with the Modi-Maga alliance, right? So what I don't understand is why the Republican Party
has decided that their number one ops are a growing minority population that was literally pro-Trump.
So it doesn't even make sense from an electoral calculation. If you have a minority population
that's like an easy lock for you. You want to tap into that population. You want to
hype them up. But here's the thing. I know what the reason is. Let's be honest about it.
It's because of race. That's it. It's because Republicans are racist.
And the reason why I say this is because when you look at a photo of a bunch of University
of Texas Austin students, wearing a cowboy hat, celebrating, partying, watching American
football, watching college football, celebrating their teens victory, throwing up the fucking
hook em horns, you know.
That's a group of people that have assimilated perfectly to American culture, right?
That's a group of people that have assimilated perfectly to American culture.
So you can't say it's the culture.
You can't say they haven't assimilated sufficiently.
I mean, they're they're in Texas, right? So what is it?
Well, let's be real. We know what it is.
It's because they are Indian.
It's because of race.
OK.
These guys do not like.
That in the beautiful
hot state of Texas, you got a bunch of brown folk celebrating football.
So there's no way for a lot of people on the Republican side to come to terms with that reality.
They can't just admit that this is a good thing.
They don't think that this is a good thing.
They think it's a bad thing.
It should just be white people.
That's their attitude.
It's just the purest manifestation of racism.
And what's even while there is, the motherfucking vice president JD Vance's wife is also
Indian.
Vivek Ramaswamy, also Indian, right for office in Ohio, there are prominent Indian conservatives,
but the base is saying, fuck him.
It's not complicated.
It's just racial grievances, dude.
That's it.
Now look at how JD Vance is talking about his wife and his kids.
criminals and the criminals given free reign over our great country.
And we were tired of being called racist for noticing that our country was becoming dirtier
and poorer and less safe and less prosperous.
Yeah, Vance says it isn't racist and knows a multi ethnic America is way dirtier
It's fucking crazy
It's a lot brown and it's just wild to do this as Dinesh de Souza who was crying
like
Last month about how Republicans hate Indians. Where is this coming from? Why are the why is this happening even before the the
Texas Railroad Commissioner guy came out and was like look at all these Indians. This is not America. This is not Texas
We got to deport all of them. That's what he said like deport the Nish desuze's
daughter
Bojangles is fucking wife
That's your that's your Republican Party. That's what they're running on racial pure racial animus
It's a lot more brown and he made her look.
And ladies and gentlemen, this is what I mean, but we have raccoons everywhere.
White supremacy and its imperial might and the way these racist folks are dominated countries,
continents is one thing, right?
But they're enabled and they're helped by the raccoons that we all have in our
groups.
People people will color. This is why it because we have people like this. This is a level of self-hate. I don't even I don't know what to do with it
Right, you could have said nothing
Right, but instead you went with this. Well, yeah
Yeah, his wife might be mixed race, but she's mixed with white
Crazy
Never ask a white supremacist the ethnicity of his girlfriend also Hasan is white turkeys in urban Asia
just because predominantly Muslim country black like turks are brown coconut is what they're called like Hassan wasn't even talking to him
He's her father
Yeah convention photo from Texas
You couldn't find a single Texan at the entire convention to get in the photo Texas GOP zero Texans
Texas GOP party of foreigners
Wait, I thought the GOP was an American political party.
At least they came here legally. Like, that's what it is. This is what happens
when so much of the Republican party is animated by what they fucking see on their Twitter timeline.
They've gotten way more races, like way more overtly races, way more openly races. It is
completely unsustainable. That is where we're at. This is what happens when you unleash
4chan, whole neo-nazism into the mainstream. Yeah, this is a demonstration of how you can't
contain racism. Read all the replies. The Republicans tolerate bigotry against Arabs
or Somalis or Haitians. The Republicans tolerate bigotry against Arabs or Somalis or Haitians
is spread to indians and now envelopes latinos they think they can just tell everyone to hate
one group doesn't work that way yet same with anti-semitism that's why I always say like
uh the the uh dangerous gamble that some pro-israel Jews are playing uh by by aligning themselves
with the republicans is is mind boggling to me like they are event inevitably they
are going to come for you as well, okay? Because the entire operation is designed around like an
in-group that must be protected and they're going to continue doing capitalism and therefore the
material conditions are going to continue to deteriorate. So obviously they're going to
look for newer and newer groups to add on to the out-group pile and eventually Jews are going
going to be a part of that just like they were historically.
Fascism is a suicidal ideology.
It's a constant battle to purge the non-believers, the out-group, at the behest of an increasingly
shrinking in-group.
Self-hate their runs against their own interests, a real and widespread phenomena.
I'm very different from accusations of some non-white person is acting white or whatever.
South Asians in general need a convenient term, like other groups have to describe this kind of absurd self-hating behavior.
Your officer saying the quiet part out loud, what is this?
Act and build a bridge is far more important than like covering the shock collar for two weeks in a row. That's my point
That was just amazing content. I mean, I
That was incredible. That was an incredible two weeks of content
The this is all more important like that what was happening at the in the government at the time of those two weeks were happening, dude
Like I don't know what he cares
Trump served in the Vogan Surveillance Act as a way to show down with democratic cities.
Government shutdown in her second week.
White House Memo says furloughed federal workers aren't entitled to back pay.
Who cares?
We knew this already.
We knew this. We knew this already. We knew this already.
What is this?
Oh God.
Bannon, this is a Steve Bannonite.
Look, Bannon's war room person.
Grace Chong.
Wait, what the fuck?
Wait, hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Are you telling me an Asian lady
Is talking about how America is becoming too Asian?
I'm sorry. What is happening?
What the fuck is going?
What is going on?
It's how what?
Are these guys OK?
you got
an Asian-American woman
shitting on an Indian-American man saying, you know, oh, you're browning Texas like fuck you
And then a Canadian Cuban comes out and says you are a moron in a bigot
The Nash this is a is a patriot who loves America racism has no place in the GM
He said racism has no place in the GOP
Go be a Democrat if you want to discriminate based on race
That my friends is the DEI at the heart of the Republican Party
I don't even know which wavelength we're on in terms of woke
But is there is a real arms race here of who can be the most racist to one another
It's varying degrees of non whites attacking one another
on who's more white
Oh, yeah, Brandon Gill is moving even more racist than Vance, yeah, you literally ran
an abrue, excluded your wife from the image because you're afraid of how MAGA would receive
it.
You're a pathetic excuse of a man.
Yeah, you can call me any name you want.
I just want my children to grow up in a country they recognize.
Every parent and grandparent needs to read this.
Yeah, he did that on purpose, by the way.
out of the motherfucking edit it out of the motherfucking family pic because she was too brown.
I just don't get it. I don't understand, but then also it's happening in Germany too. You got the
the AFD woman who's like anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigrant, okay? And his wife, because she is a lesbian
and her wife, not his wife, sorry, her wife is brown and they live in Switzerland. That
is the leader of the far right national is German party. She has a Sri Lanka wife who
is an immigrant and they don't even live in fucking Germany. They live in Switzerland
And they have two adopted non-white children.
Yeah, look, this phenomenon must be studied.
Why are a lot of Nick Fuentes fans, non-white Latinos?
I've heard somewhere that he has more South America followers than North America
followers. I'm not sure if that's true, but I wouldn't be surprised.
Latino Zoomer Alejandro Velazquez Gomez was a Gropa white
national's activist and Nick Fuentes fan.
He threatened to turning point USAVN 2022 pleaded guilty to interstate
threats and cease and possession was since the five years in federal prison.
Asana with the high school that dude, what is happening, dude?
I just don't get it.
What is this? At OAT, he refers to himself and other agents of Pikachu's, Pichachu's
for why people to use between this and the GGEZ cobble has been a bad way for East Asia
on Twitter, Lamal. It's gone.
know I obviously like look the the the white supremacist movement is left
unaddressed in America so obviously it's gonna continue growing and stuff I just
never thought that it would be so Latino I never thought that it would be so
non-white right post-racial white supremacy makes perfect sense if you
realize the zoomers spend more time staring at screens than they do mirrors
So what they just don't realize that they're brown like I don't get it
Yeah, Dutch PVV leader Garrett Wilder is half Indonesian use the bleach his hair blonde I know
Just did a you go pole
The people they interact with don't know they're brown. I mean isn't that like Cayuga's top gala or whatever that
That racist account that Nazi account like that dude is straight up a Mexican in Mexico
Okay, that's an anime lolly lover who is a Mexican in Mexico
And he talks about MAGA and he talks about being a Nazi as a
Straight-up Mexican in Mexico. Okay. He's like, yeah, keep them out and by keep them
He means me he literally is like yeah, keep me out of America build that fucking wall
I'm like, bro. You are in Mexican in Mexico. What the fuck do you mean build the wall?
What are you talking about?
Maybe he's doing a bit?
No, no, no, he's not doing a bit.
you know, Mexico has white people, white Mexicans exist. I know you know this. Okay, listen,
brother, from the American framework, it doesn't matter. And secondly, that dude posted a photo
of himself and he's not a white Mexican at all.
That dude was asked about being Mexican and he posted a photo of himself to be like, no,
I'm white Mexican.
He was not.
He was brown as hell.
And once again, look at me.
I'm pasty as a motherfucker, but it doesn't matter.
Yeah, this guy.
Does that guy look like a white Mexican to you?
Scroll down to the rest of the Latino pose, yeah.
Caleb Velazquez-18 was one of the two attackers who killed three people at the Islamic Center.
Use the online name Chudsell Gropor and mention Nick Fuentes in his manifesto.
Bruh all these little lefty streamers be glazing Hasan Hart who are the little lefty streamers
glazing me Hart.
anyway look my point is this my point is this okay the white supremacist
movement is no longer white that's it I just don't know what the goal is here
like the entire the the the entire shock troops of the white supremacist
movement ice. Overwhelmingly is brown. And their whole job is
to deport black and brown people. It doesn't make any fucking
sense. And then in the process of brown guys, deporting brown
people, they sometimes shoot and kill white folk. What the
hell. Now look, it's not I'm not trying to educate these folks on
how to do racism, right? I'm just saying it doesn't fucking
make sense. Okay.
I know like the chopper boys joke about this all the time,
but they talk about like the Anglo Saxons, right? The
heritage Americans.
But for every Tucker Carlson type wasp in this country,
There are like thousands of some of the wokest motherfuckers you've ever seen.
Like, the whitest people in this country, like the Anglo-Saxon stock of people in this country,
all live in like the New England area,
and they all live in these idyllic towns that are like 98% white,
and they vote Democrat 99% of the time.
Okay. It's so funny. They'll be like, look at this beautiful town. There's no brown people here. And it's like,
you know, that town is never voting for a Republican, right? Like, that is the backbone of MPR. Those are the people who are still funding PBS, funding NPR.
Like, those are not your people.
Those are towns where they have the pride flag for the entire pride month.
Okay.
The main street has the pride flag banners wall to wall.
So, yeah, they're just confused, like it's very weird.
But it's funny because like, the republicans can't even like turn up the dial of woke
in order to like appeal to more white people they have to be white supremacists but the
white supremacists are not white that's the country we live in now of course there is
racially polarized whites they all live in the south right if they live in a historic
confederate state very likely that that is the last remaining type of white guy who
is not so woke, right? Evangelicals overall, white evangelical protestants are the backbone
of the conservative movement. Those are the only, those are the last remaining white people
to vote Republican Party.
Non-college educated.
You really think they're only in the south? No, but I'm gaming it out by averages. Of
course there's like hella races, white people in the Pacific Northwest for example outside
of big towns but if you look at the Midwest Midwestern whites for the most part are far
more woke than southern whites.
Anyway, that's all I got for today.
I'm tired.
I got to travel.
I got to get ready.
But tomorrow I will be in New York City, ladies and gentlemen, New York, New York.
There will be a lot to discuss.
I will be out there for the United Nations General Assembly and events surrounding it.
got a stacked schedule coming up tomorrow I will be at the Bernard Sanders rally where
he's going to deliver a big speech on his new foreign policy direction or the foreign policy
direction of the left very excited about that that'll be in the afternoon after I do my
regular news coverage hopefully we'll have some some fun guest lined up as well I got
to reach out to my friends, what time will be on the same time as always? And, and then
obviously I got the, the Cornell speech, but I still have yet to write. I'll be speaking
at Cornell on Thursday. I'll be speaking at Cornell on Thursday. So that's exciting.
New York City is like four hours ahead of time, so you might be on earlier. I love the
I've been traveling in New York quite a bit. It's three hours ahead of time chatter
Not for but
Also, no, I will be live at the time that I normally would be live at but thank you. Thank you for the thank you for the concern
Thank you for warning me. I had no idea what the times on New York was in I
Love the fucking backseat
stream production like the levels that we reach sometimes with backseat driving on
the on the streaming side he's like well I want to make you aware that New York is
four hours ahead so you'll probably start a little bit earlier okay thanks man
so yeah
I'll be all for tonight
Peace, everybody, bye bye.
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