Bad Hasbara - The World's Most Moral Podcast - 210: Khamenei of Errors, with Wajahat Ali

Episode Date: June 16, 2026

Matt and Daniel are back in their respective local grooves, and they’re joined by The Left Hook’s Wajahat Ali to discuss the Iran deal and Israel’s best efforts to undermine it, and the terrifying notion of a marriage between the US and Israeli militaries. And that’s just the first half of the show! In the second half we’ve got Israeli Knicks poetry, Lizzy Savetsky’s red carpet carping, and Gwyneth Paltrow’s condo con, though.Please donate to Mercy Corps: https://www.mercycorps.org/Wajahat Ali Substack: https://thelefthook.substack.com/Subscribe to the Patreon https://www.patreon.com/badhasbaraBad Hasbara Merch: https://estoymerchandise.com/collections/bad-hasbara-podcastWhat’s The Spin playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/50JoIqCvlxL3QSNj2BsdURSubstack https://substack.com/@badhasbaraSupport this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/bad-hasbara/donationsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

Hi, from cameras us. Taco salads us. Oh, blah, baras. Hello, everybody, and welcome to Bad Tasbara. The world's most moral and home sweet home podcast. We back home, baby. My name is Matt Lebe. I will be your most moral homebody for this podcast.

I'm Daniel Mate, domesticated, and absolutely the second most moral co-host. Hi, everyone. That's right. Hi. How you feeling, Matt? Back in your... I'm jet lagged. Yeah.

Playing too many of those away games. Playing too many of those god dang away games. And now I am sleepy during the day. Shoutouts to producer Adam 11 on the ones and twos. Keeping us awake. You know, he's got a remote device that injects us with the Adderall every 30 seconds so that we can, you know, just keep the energy up. We're kind of like, you know, like the early days of Hollywood.

It was just kids that basically lived in trailer cages and they were just fed amphetamines and taught to dance. Also, like Maradonna after he scores the goal, someone brings out a bag of cocaine. That too, that too. But, you know, I think less physically taxing than what Maradonna did. I feel like he was...

I don't know how you feel after a pun, but, you know. That's true. Yeah, I guess for you, it's... Your brain is always doing push-ups, ready to do some puns. Whereas I am sedentary, y'all. I am a potential stroke city over here. Anyways, give us five stars in a review. You're not the one who picked up chain smoking on set in Jordan.

That's right. I'm not the one who did that. We can tell people now, right? Yes, we might as well start this episode with a bang. A banger announcement, you listened to the last one. You saw that we were in Jordan. You didn't know why. We were alluding to there being a reason other than we just love each other.

Yeah, we were being cagey, and I don't mean Kevin Garnett. Yes, exactly. We finally can announce it because there is, you know, it was a PR push or whatever. It was announced in variety today on the day we're recording this. It's Monday the 15th of June. There is a movie out or coming out. Principal photography just wrath.

Hi, I'm a boss set for timely dark comedy, occupational hazards about a palis Palestinian family in Jerusalem. Just read you some of this article. Hi, I'm a boss. There's one very strange sentence on this page. See if you can locate it. All right, I'll see if I can find it. Hi, I'm Abbas, who played Marsha Roy.

Heim. Oh, excuse, sorry. I'm just so used to the band, Hyam. Yeah. We will be talking about in today's episode, segment of Ball Hezbar. What is it? Heim?

Hiam. Heem, a boss who played Marsha Roy in HBO Succession, will soon be on the big screen in the politically charged dark comedy occupational hazards about a Palestinian family in Jerusalem contending with the risk of forced displacement. Basil Gondor of Thib and the Alley's has just completed principal photography in Jordan on the timely satirical film, which takes its cue from demolition campaigns to allegedly displaced. What? Wow, I missed that.

Displace Palestinian families living in East Jerusalem's historic neighborhoods. See a first look image above. Man, it's funny. First time reading this through, I was so excited. I missed the allegedly part of... Yeah. How can you... It's been alleged by the people doing it.

It's been alleged by the videos I have seen of it happening. God damn. Okay. Well, I mean... It's a campaign to allegedly do anything. Like that sentence itself makes it. I think probably the intern's boss who was supposed to write the thing said, you got to throw a legend in there somewhere.

Of course there's fucking Hasbara in our goddamn variety article. Occupational hazards features an ensemble cast besides a blonde hair, a boss. It's not blonde hair, she's gray hair. They took one look at the shot and they saw her hair was light and they decided it was Blonde. They made two editorial calls. Change the name of the, change the hair color,

and said allegedly. Also includes Lebanon's Yuma Marwan of the veil. The Jerusalem-based Palestinian rapper known as Dabur. Palestinian actor Nabil al-Rai. Probably mispronounced that, and apologies if I did.

The teacher, 200 meters. And newcomer Wardi, Elia Bundi, or let's say, Elia Boundini. Elabuni. Ella Boone, thank you, who debuted with a small rule in Anne-Marie Jazeer's Palestine 36. Also, the film. The film also features U.S. comedy podcast, Bad Hasbara duo Matt Lieb and Daniel Mate.

Yeah, guys. They're going to put me in movies. They're going to put a juice. They're going to put a Jew. They're going to put a Jew. They're going to put a Jewish star around my name. Yeah. I'll play the settler and I won't need rehearsing.

Yes. Because all I've got to do is act Jewishly. Very good. As well as Yafah, Bakri, Paisal 936, among other talents guys. Yes, we are in a movie. We're in a Palestinian dark comedy directed. And now that they've announced us in Variety, they can't actually cut our scenes. I know.

I just, I realized, that's literally was my thought. I was just like, well, now we have to be in it. There's no way they can cut it. That also, the role is surprisingly big for how little we are. And we are just so excited about this. Can't

wait until it comes out for everyone to see it. It's a, it's a comedy. It's like hilarious and the acting is superb, not our acting maybe, but like the acting of everyone else who is an actor is truly wonderful and it's so funny and I'm like

I am so stoked. I'm over the moon and the fact that they you know cast us at all so want to give a big thanks to Basil for you know reaching out and wanting us to do this. It's very cool. One of the wildest, wildest you know, fringe benefits of doing this podcast. I mean and it's weird. It's very weird. I have to say when I decided to do this podcast

and I told this to Basel when he was like talking to us about it, I said, the reason that you should cast us in this is because, you know, I, doing an anti-Zionist Jewish podcast is usually not a good way to get movie rules.

And it would be really funny for you to cast us for that reason specifically. And, Array for Polly. Be would. Yeah, I know. We're in Pollywood, baby.

We did it. We did it. So I'm very excited for you all to see it. It's a wonderful movie. I can't wait until they put it together and everything. It probably won't be until, like, next year that you'll actually get to see it. But that's what we were doing. That's why you missed out on some slop.

And obviously, apologies for our very, very hungry piggyies who were like, what's going on? But don't worry. We've been keeping track on the slop train. We know what's going on. We'll give you guys a lot today. Yeah, we got a lot of stuff. We got a guest. We're going to do half the episode with a guest.

Half the episode, just solo dolo. I guess it's two of us, so duo fluo. And, yeah, we got a lot of stuff to talk about. But first thing to talk about is that this episode is brought to you by Mercy Corps. For more than three decades, Mercy Corps has worked in the West Bank and Gaza, meeting critical humanitarian needs. There are programs have supported Palestinian communities by helping communities cope with crisis, supporting marginalized and vulnerable youth, and increasing economic opportunities.

If you have any money and you would like to donate it to a good cause to people who are doing good work in Palestine, go to mercycore.org. That's M-E-R-C-Y-C-O-R-P-S dot-O-R-G. Please do it now. Daniel, what's that? Men's movie star. You don't want to plug the Patreon before I do that? Oh, sure. Patreon.com slash badassbarra. Please join.

You know, this is, you get an extra episode every week. Yeah. And that's true. That remains true, save for the one time we got to be in a Palestinian comedy and couldn't do it. But most of the time, yes, you will get a bonus episode every week. Please join. Do it. What's the spin?

The spin today is dedicated to a dear friend of mine who died a few years ago. He was like my best friend in elementary school in high school. And, you know, my love of collecting records and having a really diverse, you know, array of genres that I listened to was completely inspired by the mixtapes that this friend made me. His name was Ross Fleming. And he died a few summers ago. I feel like it was, it might have been in late June, actually. And as I'm heading out to BC in a few weeks for a visit back home, he's just been on my... my mind. So I picked some records that remind me of him and that bands he got me into,

bands that he would put on mixtapes. First of all, I heard of Faith No More through him, and this is Introduce Yourself. Their record from before Mike Patton was the singer, Chuck Mosley was the singer here, and it's got songs like Introduce Yourself and We Care a lot. Fun stuff, it's really good. The Afghan Whigs, he introduced me to, this album in particular, Congregation, which has an incredibly striking album cover. Yeah. Looks pretty cool. This also includes a cover of something from Jesus Christ Superstar, you know, the temple.

Which song? See my legs I can hardly walk. See my eyes I can hardly walk. See my eyes I can barely see one. Yeah, I love that one. Can you tell me Christ? Can you tell me Christ? It's good shit.

The only musical theater song I can think of in seven. It's a great too. Oh yeah, it is in seven. Ross was super into Britpop, so I've got Elastika here. Okay. So I think I first, you know, the song Connection, I think he first put on a mixtape for me in the mid-90s. Sloan, Halifax Group, the song Underwhelmed,

he put on the first ever mixtape he made for me. Great, great, great group from Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sorry, that's Frankie McDonald. That's right, Randy McDonald. MC 900-foot Jesus. Welcome to my dream. This guy is weird.

He's a white dude who rapts. It's not exactly hip-hop, but I remember Ross put a song called The City Sleeps, which is on this record, which is sort of a grimy tale of an arsonist, a pyromaniac. I don't like the way he's looking at me, to be honest. Yeah, exactly. He's staring at me.

Welcome to his dream. I don't like that. And finally, I remember vividly going to see this movie in the theaters with Ross, the Michael Keaton, Batman, and this is the Prince soundtrack. Oh, yeah. Songs inspired by, including, you know, Partyman,

and bat dance. I think it's like the third Batman movie from that era that included, third or fourth, that included some bone thugs in harmony. And I think it was how I was introduced to bone thugs and harmony

was through one of the Batman soundtracks. Really? Yeah, it was a song, Look into my eyes and tell me what is you see in me. It's really, it's a good ass song, dude. Anyway, shout out to Batman. That's the 10,

That's the Tim Burton one, of course. That's right. That's right. That's right. So that's what's spinning in the Motei household. RIP to your homie. Thanks, man. To all the fallen homies out there, RIP. We'll pour out.

Pour out a little lemon water. Yeah, pour out some lemon water. I'll pour out some peptobismal. I got a little stomach thing going on. Okay, now it is time to introduce our guest. I'm very excited to have this guest a returning bad as Barra champion, I believe, did one of the early episodes and is a great journalist, great analyst.

He's got a wonderful substack, which you can subscribe to right now by checking the link in the description. Ladies and gentlemen and everyone else, welcome back to the podcast, Wajahat Ali. You want it all. But you can have it. That's right, baby. We're not talking about Israel. We're talking about Faith No More's epic 1989 song.

We're called Epic. What is it? And they're from the Bay Area, I just have to say. And I realize I'm an old man, and there was a tear of nostalgic pride listening to Daniel rattle off those fantastic albums. Oh, nice. It's a good era, isn't it? Solid era.

I've become sort of semi-buddies with Billy Gould, the bassist from Faith No More. He was a fan of the book I wrote with my dad and he got in touch. And he now owns a company that makes rakia, which is a Serbian plum drink, like a liqueur. And he hooked me up with a bottle of it from a liquor store in Brooklyn. It's fucking delicious. So I don't think either of you drink. But anyone out there, I recommend checking out his rakia company. Yebiga, I think it's called.

I love when rock guys go in that direction. It reminds me when I found out that Maynard James Keenan from Toole had a winery in Arizona. And I was just like, I love that shit. I love it. Metallica has a whiskey distillery now. It's awesome. It's great. Am I allowed to look at you both in the eyes now, now that you're movie stars?

Oh, actually, no. Oh, okay. I will look down during this entire conversation. Yes, please do. We're too famous. Yes. Yeah, that's, no, you can look at us in the eye. Forgive me for soiling a bad hospital with my peasantry. That's right. Get out of here.

We immediately just go Hollywood on people. You start backslopping people for no reason. Just yelling at my wife. Your peasantry is fine. Just make sure you bring your pedantry to. That's right. You know what Mick Jagger apparently does? He has, he's surrounded by someone. He literally just yells, Diet Coke. And someone just brings him a Diet Coke.

That was the story. I love that. It's the elixir of youth. I mean, I do the same thing, but no one answers. No. Daniel's like, Rikia! And he just goes and gets her first. No, I just go, KFCs!

And I just hope someone brings me some KFC. And Francesca's like, getting yourself. She will not do it. It is, no matter how hard I yell from how far away in the house. Wodge, thank you so much for coming on. We got a lot to talk about with you today. There's been, since we've been gone, a lot of news has happened. The big story out of today has been the unilateral U.S. and Iran ceasefire framework deal that does not include Israel.

And people are freaking out about it. It is, you know, this is not the first time this has happened. I feel like, I don't know, every year feels like, what are you? call it. It's it's the same day over it's like Groundhog Day. You know what I'm saying? Like we've already done this story. We've already talked about a unilateral ceasefire between these two parties while all of the Israelis

scream and cry and then eventually break the ceasefire and we're back at square one. And we've already talked about the U.S. president calling Netanyahu and saying what the fuck are you doing? Yes. It's it's Deja. He'll write us, he'll write a strong were to check to Beebe. That's right. In the memo, he'll be like, what the fuck, man? Come on, BB, promise

me. I hate this. But you know, this time, let's see, it's an inshalla deal. We'll find out June 19, the Geneva. It could be different, right? It could be different this time because you got Saudi Arabia, you got Pakistan, you got Turkey, you got Qatar all coming

out, also Oman. And then Donald Trump came out, and it was the same day. It was Sunday, where in the morning, he's like, come on, Bibi, come on now. He got allegedly upset at Bibi and yelled in him, and then a few hours later, he talked about this fantastic deal. And this deal, let's be honest, but it's pure capitulation. I know.

It's an absolute loss. It's just like Iran just literally just teabagging Donald Trump in the face. And Maga's like, isn't Trump amazing? And I'm like, what are you talking about? You literally spend four months. So this is what happened. If I could do a recap real quick. Please do.

We need a recap. of what had happened with Iran war? Let's do in two minutes. So four months ago, Donald Trump, the dumbest president, got dog walked into this illegal unconstitutional war by Benjamin Nanyahu. No other president. That's a trope. That's a trope, wodge.

I'm going to throw up the trope card. That's right. Anti-Semitism. I will counter your trope with a Maggie Haberman-Nirich Times article in which he actually reported just that, that Nen Yahoo was the one who massaged Trump's fickle ego. While Heberman would say. saying it's a trope, therefore we shouldn't talk about it. That's right.

It's against the law to say facts if the facts sound vaguely anti-Semitic. Do I get a yellow card? Okay, I'll accept the yellow card. Yes, yellow card. But then I'll also counter it with, you know, facts. Yeah, true. So then, yeah, Donald Trump did something that no other president did. So he gets influenced by Benjamin and Yahoo to join Israel in this war.

It was a United States-Israel joint war. They publicly declared it. They engaged in a premeditated strike based on absolute lies because Iran didn't have nuclear weapons or ballistic missiles capable of reaching America. They decapitate Iran's leadership. And what they did after four months is they replaced the older dying chaminet with the younger, more militarized and militant chaminate. He sure did. Iran realized, you know what?

We don't have nuclear power, so we can't go against... It was a harmony of errors. Yeah, it was well played. I'll take it. I'll take it. He does it. It's about three seconds too late, but I'll take it. No, I'll take it.

And so what happened instead was Iran said, all right, we war game this. We're going to engage an asymmetrical warfare through economic warfare. We're going to close the Strait of Hormuz. The Strait of Hormuz was open. Now it's closed. As a result, gas prices have now shot up. And even the Trump administration says as a result of the closing the Strait of Moose, gas prices are going to stay there until 2027.

Asia-Pacific region rocked. Fuel shortages, food shortages, petroleum shortages, energy shortages, not to mention, 4,000 Iranians killed, 4,000 Lebanese killed. killed, one million Lebanese ethnically displaced. Our Gulf allies were like, hey, United States, we have these American bases and American companies here because we thought you'd protect us. Oh, shit, we're targets. So our allies now are looking to China for more alliances. United States, the world's most powerful military on the earth could not force Iran to open up the Strait of Hormuz. So then Donald Trump goes to China, tries to beg Xi Jinping.

Sheishin-Peng says, nah, I'm not going to do that. But let's have some corrupt. deals for billionaires instead. Donald Trump then threatens European allies. They say no. So what we got now is this deal holds, folks, this is remarkable. Donald Trump is going to give Iran $300 billion for reconstruction, sanctions relief, is going to release billion dollars worth of assets, remove the naval blockade, not meddle with Iran. Iran has a younger, more, if you will, powerful regime, which is flexing, which is trumping Trump with American property. again, using hip-hop and Lego. And then if this...

This is why I think there's some hope. Because this is going to be a test for Trump. We know what Israel is going to do. As of today's reporting, I know if you saw it, Israel openly said, because it's so peaceful, we're going to occupy Gaza, we're going to occupy Lebanon, we're going to occupy Syria. And you saw the moderate wing of Israel, which is hilarious. Benny Gans and Napal-I-Bennon openly say, we're going to continue what Nanyahu started. We're going to do it even better.

So my take on this, folks... And Yaiir Lapid said... I've got his whole tweet. We're going to read that. It's, it's chef's kiss. And to finish off my little rant, I hope it was useful for people having. Very useful. I didn't know 60% of this.

And then to finish it off right now is we know they're going to blow it up. They told you they're going to blow it up. They're telling the whole world right now we're not a party to this. Great. Donald Trump could do something that can actually help him, help America, and actually be in line with 60% of young Republicans who want to be done with Israel. He could just say this, cool Israel. You go ahead and fight with Iran. You do what you got to do. We're not going to help you. Iran then is going to retaliate because it has missiles that have reached Israel. And my bet. Oh, we know. We saw some of them overhead when we were in Amman. That's right.

Yeah. My bet Matt and Daniel is two weeks. Give it two weeks. And if Israel doesn't see help coming from United States of America, they're going to retreat. I love that prediction. I love a good prediction. on the Bad Hasbarra podcast. Brought to you by Kalshi. Kalshi, spend your money and do suicide. Sorry. That's called the Inchallah prediction. So let's see what the market has on inshalla.

62% on the world. Look, if this was Trump's plan all along, this is the most based war in history. Yeah, yeah. I mean, great job. I love when he plays 4D chess. 4D chess is when you are just making it up as you go along and people just keep saying he meant to do that.

It's a real wag the dog situation. I am, of course, always skeptical about where this is going to go, especially when it comes to Trump. He seems to be most influenced by the last person who told him his penis looked good or whatever. So this could hold, this could not hold. but what is known or what is fun for us for the purposes of this podcast is the way in which Trump's betrayal of Israel is being talked about by some of our favorite Hasbarah.

So first, I want to read you, this was his latest truth social post. The deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete. Congratulations to all. I hereby fully authorized the toll free opening of the, the Strait of Hormuz. What is it, the Holland Tunnel? It's so funny, too, because... Like, Barges needed an easy pass

to get through the Strait of Hormuz? I just like that he still, at this point, thinks that anyone is fooled by his... You know, I authorize, as it is my purview to do, the opening of the strait, which was opened before the war, and closed by Iran, and we couldn't get it open. I, Donald J. Trump, the 45th and 47th President of the United States,

hereby authorize the sun to rise this morning. That's right. The sun will go up. The moon will go down. At my pleasure and by my leave. And simultaneously herewith authorize the immediate removal of the United States Naval Blockade. Ships of the world, start your engines, let the oil flow. President Donald Shade Trump, let the spice flow. That's exactly what I thought, Matt.

My brain will just let the spices flow. It is. It is. Is that dude? It's very dude. Brianna Wu was not happy about this. She wrote. What a bummer. I mean, she was in the middle of celebrating pride until I know. Where's your pride now? He betrayed the Iranian people, undermined our national security, wasted billions all to get us back to where we were before. I wanted him to succeed. And he objectively, massively failed. What's wonderful about this is that you can, you know, if you squint at it, you can think she, you know, was anti-war the whole time. You know, but this is, Brianna and her ilk, these American Zionist influencers, all were full-throated in support of a regime-change war with Iran.

And we, from the beginning, both this podcast, every person on this podcast and the left in general, said from the beginning, this is a terrible idea. If you don't remember, the United States is not good at doing this, never actually wins these wars and just makes everything worse. And of course, they all ignored it. They all said, you know, you're just Hamas mouthpieces, Hamas propaganda. And now they're like, I can't believe our beautiful boy undermine our national security and wasted billions of dollars just to get us back to where we were before. Right. Well, what she's really saying is it would have been great. It would have been fine if he had betrayed the Iranian people, undermine our national security and wasted billions of dollars if it had gotten us somewhere new. Right. Yes. If we had gotten to nuke Tehran. That's right. That's basically it. If it had fulfilled its purpose, which was. to do an actual regime change.

And again, that was never going to happen. You morons. Then the illegal unwinnable war, which killed 170 schoolgirls with faulty AI, would have been worth it. Right, exactly.

Then the million Lebanese who have been ethnically displaced, it would have been worth it. Yeah. Then the war crimes that we witnessed would have been worth it. Then the complete damage to the Asia-Pacific economy

would have been worth it. Then Americans paying $4.50 for gas would have been worth it. It would all worth it. Because we were, are insane right-wing genocidal Zionists. That's such a bummer though, Wage. It makes me miss Madeline Albright.

I need her around to tell us that no matter what we did, it was worth it. That's right. The price was worth it. The price was worth it. Some of my favorites out here, Shabbas Castenbaum, wrote open letter to the White House. Get Marco Rubio on the air now to explain this deal. We still don't know what it entails.

JD is openly contradicting himself. Never mind the fact that he believes World War II ended in negotiation rather than, I don't know, American military dominance. By this logic, there is part of me that was like Shabbas was like, this was supposed to be our World War III. And you are ruining it for us. Great job, Shabbas. This podcast definitely rules on Shabbas. As for getting Marco Rubio on the air now, look, Shabbas, all you need to do if you want to conjure Marco Rubio

is just look in the mirror and say candy ass five times. Right, exactly. And you'll come with his new shoes. Yeah, exactly. Say Guasano into a mirror three times. I mean, if you see it, I'm sure you have a whole bunch of tweets, but the neocons, the Warhawks, the Israeli firster, mega folks have been losing their minds the past few dates.

It's been exquisite. It's been wonderful, man. I mean, I love it. I love to watch the worms squirming. Amit Seagull... The chicken hawks come home to roost. That's right. He did a Kissinger quote.

Everyone's favorite guy. It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal. Good stuff, Amit. Thank you for that. Noah Berg wrote 90 million Iranians are still hostage to the regime. At this point, I'm convinced that for people like her, freeing Iran means like freeing them from this mortal coil. It is just about murdering them.

Well, it's international Hannibal directive. If they're hostages, we have to bomb them. It's so true. In order to save them, we must kill them. Don't you know? Exactly. That's right. I'm a humanitarian.

I want to free these Iranians by killing them and their children. Exactly. Like, don't you know the afterlife is what it's all about? that's these pro-Sha Iranians are also like just literally insane and to see them flipping out has been kind of awesome as well

yeah I have to enjoy it the small petty victories of life yes it would be a mercy you know like when when these people die they will go to heaven and be given 72 technocrats or you know 72

pundits you know to tell them that they deserved it and explain to them why it was a good thing they died yes yes this is just a meme I liked Listen up, Iran. I'm actually really fucking sorry. It's a Trump meme. Just good stuff in general. I want to talk about this guy, Mark Dubowitz.

Oh, terrible. So this dude, if you don't know who he is, he works. He's the CEO, actually, of this, you know, Israeli pro-Israel front group of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies. just a big Hezbarist, professional grade Hezbarist. And his cope has been saying this is all part of the 4D chess of Trump, actually just needing a quick little break, a little breather before war can resume again. He wrote, refuel energy markets, rest and rearm the military, develop a plan to support Iranians to cripple the regime, enforce sanctions with relentless pressure, don't get played at the negotiations. table, test Tehran early, give little, demand results, walk away fast, hit harder. This is schizophrenic.

Who is the Angelo Dundee? In the fucking corner, like, all right, get out there, you know, hit hard. I like, I truly, I'm trying to follow this, and it's hard. It doesn't make any sense. Is he saying that, okay, so this ceasefire is just the United States needs a breather? Because if that's the case, this is the weakest military incursion I think I've ever seen. It's a self-care break. Yeah, it's like, yeah.

Refuel energy markets. Resource yourself. Do breathing exercises. That's right. Channel energy. Get some reiki. That's right. Did you ever see that movie, The Killer, starting Michael Fastbender, directed by David Fingcher, where the first 20 minutes, he just talks about his routine. to be like a killer, he goes, listen to music, sleep three hours.

He just talks such like, yeah, you know, do pushups. But then what happens is when he goes for the kill, he messes up the kill, which sets up the rest of the movie. So this is like Mark Dubowitz telling like the world, this is my routine, listen to me, I'm an expert, I'm awesome, this is what you got to do. And then they execute it. It's a complete cluster. And also with Mark Dubowitz and FDD, you have to know that FDD, FDD, the future, what is the

foundation for defense of democracy is, that's the thing tank that is kind of embedded in the White House and these dumbass warhawks are the ones that have kind of like like fluffed up Donald Trump, right? They're the ones who have Pete Hexat's ear. And Joe Kent, uh, the former director of the NCTC who resigned, he blames them and he also blames Miriam Adelson for this war. Mm-hmm. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's the thing is, like, Trump is for sure surrounded by people who have wanted to get him into this war. Uh, and this is just a fact. It's just a fact. It's the people, I think talk about what the United States gets out of it as sort of a like as being equal to what Israel gets out of it as a way of sort of like flattening both of their motivations.

But the truth of it is is that the Israel lobby has been trying to get the United States to go to war with Iran for a decade, like my whole life essentially. And the presidents before were like, no, we see where this would go. And it's exactly where we're at right now. so they have refused it. And in this case, they were able to convince Trump that he was untouchable, that he was invincible, that he could do this. And it's just so funny to watch those people like Mark here be proven wrong about the fact that Trump would somehow stay the course and would actually be able to do the regime change that they want it. And now Trump will never get fooled again.

That's right. By the way, I'm reading. I'm reading this tweet now, and I also, you could read it in the same voice of like you and McGregor in train spotting. Exactly. That's right. It's the opening monologue. Yeah. Fuel energy markets.

Rest and re-on in the military. Choose life. Choose life. Choose death. Choose genocide. Yes. Mark also recently did this tweet. I just want to show that the type of person Mark Dubowitz is.

He wrote Alchamian. is gone. Yahya Sinwar is gone. Hassan Nasrallah is gone. Now the most public advocate for the elimination of Israel may be Peter Beinart. We'll see how much Taba Kameni and Erdogan evolved. For now, Peter is out front, Mazel Tov. Holy shit. He's straight out calling for the murder of Peter Beinart. And it is just, this is the type of, the double standard is so crazy that you really can be someone who's not just a you know a public person maybe in the private sector but you can be someone who's

head of a think tank and do this kind of shit call a a fucking a death threat on Peter Beinart of all people it is just insane so Peter Beinart you know for I'm sure your audience does but Peter Beinart sure a practicing Jew who

takes his religion and his Jewish values very seriously yes And the fact that Mark Dobowitz is perfectly fine, essentially excommunicating him and Thakfiring him and then ordering death upon him, a fellow Jew, what would he do with the rest of us? Well, he tuffe fears him because he fears him. That's right. You know, because Peter can speak to Jews in a relatively conciliatory or at least non-intaginistic way, fervently, passionately with real moral seriousness. and he's urging and exhorting them to change their minds, but he's able to do so in synagogues and, you know,

at Jewish community centers, which they can't have. They'd much rather have Jews like us who can't be taken seriously on the Jewish community inclusion front than someone like Bynardt. Which is why, yeah, exactly, that's a very good point. And that's why Bynard has to be eradicated. He has to be maligned, and he has to be called a self-hating Jew in Capo because he represents a threat because he can win over. actually many Jews around now on the fence and horrified what's happening.

Especially in the institutional community. Like that, I think, is why Peter ruffles so many feathers is because he's someone who has been taken seriously by the Jewish institutional community for a long time. Even, you know, back when he first was a neocon, and then, you know, throughout the years as he's, you know, come to reckon with being, with Zionism and with being wrong on. American interventionist policy and on Zionism writ large. So he's someone who has name recognition, at least within the Jewish community. So he, that's why they want, you know, tears for Tafirs. It's my favorite band. The greatest freak out has been Mark Levin. I'm so glad you went there. Mark Levin is just a ghastly human being. He, We covered him when there was a, I don't know,

it was like a press conference with Trump, and he called him like the first Jewish president or some weird shit like that. Trump also said that if you don't like Mark Levin, you're not MAGA anymore. Yeah, exactly. Well, that's probably most of MAGA now, because much MAGA hates him.

Well, we'll get into that, but first let me read you that tweet. He wrote, in a period of two months, Israel has gone from a great ally and partner in war fighting by our side against the horrible enemy that has killed thousands of our people, killed tens of thousands of their own people, and was a dire nuclear threat intent on attacking us. Two, Israeli PM Netanyahu being a difficult person who should be thanking us

for saving his country from Iran and should get our permission if he wants to defend his people from Hezbollah and Iran and stand down when his country is attacked. I would call that a run-on sentence, but I don't think Mark Levin's. has done much running in the past. Yeah, exactly. A few decades. He is running on in that one.

And just yesterday, Israel's PM avenged the execution of five American soldiers by taking out a Hezbollah commander slash terrorists and also five babies. And only Israel has been killing Hezbollah leaders who murder our Marine soldiers, embassy staff, and more. It seems to me a kind word is. order. How does any

of this make sense? I love that kindness is free. It doesn't cost anything. It costs you zero cents to let us do war and give us billions of dollars to do it. Can we just remind people? Can I just remind people

because people forget, Hezbollah was created in the aftermath of Israel illegally invading and occupying Lebanon. I just feel like it's one of those things a lot of Americans, whenever you tell it to Americans are like, oh, oh yeah, I didn't know that. So you can thank Israel for literally creating Hezbollah.

Yes. If Israel had not invaded and occupied Lebanon, there would be no Hezbollah. Yeah, there we go. Hezbollah, us. But yeah, it is, of course, you know, an entire rewriting of history whenever it comes to any of these groups that they're just, you know, they're like, scary Arab name has been killing, you know, Americans for decades now. Let us kill scary Arab name. They don't care about the history of it.

But Mark Levine or Levin went on his radio show earlier today, I believe, and just sort of went on a rant about how he is the true voice of America and how everyone else is just faking it. Here we go. The enemy out there, whether they're podcasters, whether they're bloggers, whoever they are, they can try to project upon me, whatever they want to. And they're trying desperately. Because this, here, your radio station right now is the voice of America. It's the voice of America from this microphone. America is not.

Here's Morgan who lives in Britain. Won't even defend his own country. America is not. Little aide off Nick Fuentes, who can't decide what he is in many respects. America is not. fraudster fraudster an Epstein videotaper Stephen Ben and America is not Trader Tucker

who defends many of our enemies I shop at Trader Tucker's all the time it's great yeah honestly their frozen food section incredible as he trashes Christians and Jews and Americanism

America is not Megan Kelly and all that involves a bunch of psychos I understand why they don't like me I understand why they attack me I don't care I'm a big boy I'm tough

trust me I'm a big boy if that were true I want everyone to go check out Ben Shapiro's YouTube views if indeed Shapiro and Levin

or Levine represented forget America but even Maga it's kind of amazing to see how young Maga has completely turned on him and Shapiro. It's exquisite. It really is. I mean, not only are they not the voice of America, but they're not even, at this point, a relevant voice outside of the moneyed interests in the party that they represent or the movement they represent. And we sometimes get in trouble for talking about people like Trader Tucker and talk about their contribution to the sort of

countering the Hasbara machine, I think one of the things, one of the ways in which they've been very successful is by showing the difference between their type of maga, you know, bigotry or whatever you want to call it, their mega ideal. And people like fucking Mark. They've said Mark and Ben Shapiro adrift on a nice float. They are, they have. They've relegated them to absolute obsolesoles. Yes, and this is a good thing. It's a good thing because when the right is fighting, everyone should be absolutely. Absolutely. You know? That's what I said, you know, what I told Matt, I agree with you, told people is use them. Use them for divide and conquer. Let them fight. Use them like they're

using us. So they're using us. We're not stupid. Okay, we're going to use you to weaken MAGA. We're also going to use you to attack, which was always this bipartisan type of mindless, unconditional support for Israel. And now the fact that the right wing is actually saying what we've been saying for years, we know that our institutions will pay attention. So use Tucker, use Kent, use Candice Owens, Fuentes. They're terrible people. I know it.

You know it. We all know it. They're using us right now. We're going to use you and we're going to use you to destroy this fascist movement and to also maybe change foreign policy so that none of us continue supporting with our money this ongoing occupation and genocide. That's the game. And news flash to all the people in my men.

That's not coalition building. That's not solidarity. Or whatever. Platforming. That's not boosting or rehabilitating. Yeah. Glazing. Letting into the movement.

That's called politics. That's called politics. And, you know, it's not for nothing. We'll see what happens. You know, obviously with this ceasefire, Israel is already, you know, breaking it. This was from just today breaking. Israel won't withdraw from land seas in Lebanon, Syria and Gaza, its defense minister says, hours after an interim Iran-U.S. deal was announced Israel's cats.

Oh, Israel Katz remarks are the first official Israeli comments since the announcement. So we don't know what's going to happen with this. But I guarantee you if there had not been this anti-war, like stalwart, right-wing anti-war voice. is, you know, like, sorry, like Tucker, if this had not been a wing of the party that existed, Trump would not feel any pressure to stop. He wouldn't. He would feel the economic pressure, and he would do what he has been doing with that, which is saying, actually, I love inflation.

He would just try to spin it. And by the way, it occurs to me, there's another utility, if we choose to take it to this, is that they're providing an example of something, which is how. how even if you've glazed a party or a leader for years in a response and are deeply invested in their leadership, that gives you leverage. When have we seen Democrats or Democrat partisans of nearly that reach and power?

Using that. When Democrats are in power, when Democrats are in power, using their influence. Yes. You know, it's like C-3PO. Well, you know, the Ewox believe you're a god. Well, then use your godly powers and tell him to get us the fuck out of it.

Ray, when someone asks if you are a god, you say yes. Ghostbusters. But no, but Democrats, what they do is they use their power to be conciliatory to Republicans. They've always been the need to punch themselves in the face. And to shit on activists. Yeah, and to crush, I mean, two points. Number one, look at, I give one compliment to Republicans very grudgingly.

Just wait for it. When Republicans get power, they don't give a shit. Look at what happened yesterday. They don't care. We know this isn't popular. We don't care. We don't care. They never, ever, ever try to placate Democrats.

Hell, they don't even care if their bases against it. Like, we want to get this done. We're going to get it done. Democrats never do that. Also, to your point, Daniel, like, literally the Democratic leadership has seen the polls. The overwhelming majority, every demographic now, folks, in 2026, I can't believe I'm alive to see this because I'm an old man. But every demographic of the Democratic Party is against giving aid to Israel.

a majority of Americans are against it. What is Democratic leadership to spend all of its corporate money and power attacking Graham Platner, Abdul Saeed, Dr. Adam Hummoui, and the squad. And they're still failing. And they're like, let's double down. And maybe let's go all in with Haley Stevens who dreams of Israel against this guy, Abdulazate. Let's spend all over time not talking about this war, but attacking Hassan Piker.

It's an amazing stricent effect, which I predicted. And then even our best. stalwart, not our very bad, because we know that our best stalwarts are Ilan Omar and Rashida Talib. They stand apart from everyone. But, you know, AOC is posing for smiling Nick's Jersey photos with Cory Booker. Like, there's just no sense of who is actually on side and who's not. And what it means to stay, like, and that's not such a big deal, that photo, but I'm just saying there's a lot of loosey-goosey, like, there's no discipline in terms, they don't act as if it's important to pressure the party leadership

and to draw any kind of line on this issue. Schumer marched with Smotrich just two weeks ago, man. Oh, but didn't he come out and condemn Smotrich's participation? Or was that just Kathy Hokel? I don't think he did. Leticia and Kathy. I think Lethia and Kathy.

Yeah, I know they did. They were concerned about his Islamophobia, which is a really fun euphemism for war crimes. But yeah, this is, you know, we'll see what happens with the ceasefire, and we'll see what happens with our politics and how this changes people's, I don't know, at least in D.C., their willingness to come out against Israel. Before we let you go, Wodge, I do want to talk about this U.S.-Israel military integration through the National Defense Authorization Act. This is a section 224, I believe. And this was coming out of...

The New Integration Act. Yeah, that's right. They've been segregated for too long. Exactly. Well, first of all, we're all against segregation, but I didn't think Israel was a part of that. So this was recently reported on by the Intercept. Congress is trying to permanently integrate U.S. and Israeli defense tech. You recently had Rokane on to talk about this.

Can you just tell us a little bit about what? you heard from him and what this provision in this bill actually entails. Yeah, I asked him about it and I'm so glad that he opposes it and he's leading the opposition to this. This is literally, folks, the integration between the United States and Israel, intelligence sharing, military defense. So instead of Israel just being a client state of ours in the sense that it's a welfare state, what this says is that, no, we're going to completely sink up. we're going to just completely be a joint venture and we're going to share intelligence and technology and we'll be completely wedded to each other.

Weapons co-production. It'll be really good for the military industrial complex. But a lot of people are like, do you really want to be wedded to a genocidal regime, a dysfunctional nation state in the Middle East that literally right now is saying we don't give a shit about this Iran deal? We're going to do what we want. And furthermore, if indeed it is intelligence sharing, there is also fear that, you know, Israel will, oh, I don't know, steal and or abuse our technology and our intelligence. So here we have, literally, folks, I mean, just to show you how gross it is, a majority of Americans are saying back away from Israel.

Young Republicans are saying back away from Israel. Every single demographic of the Democratic base is saying back away from Israel. And this NDAA Section 224 says, no, no, though, let's have a permanent merger with Israel. It's so crazy. It's insane too because it's coming at a time in which this feels like it should be the most toxic. Not only are, you know, does polling show Democrats, or at least their constituents by and large or against any kind of military aid to Israel. But now we've got this, you know, Iran deal and we have this total like, fuck you from the Israeli side going now we're still going to do what we want. and and yet it seems like this is going to still pass through Congress.

It seems like it's not moving the needle. And there's something terrifying about that level of like not listening to actual. Like what does it take? What does it take for people? Can I say some real quickly and follow up? The reason why 224 is being bumrushed quietly and the reason why we have to talk more and more about it is precisely for the reason that you mentioned. It's because they realize, oh, my God, a majority of Americans don't want this anymore. A majority of Americans want to completely turn off the tap.

A majority of Americans say, we're done with Israel. So like, oh, what should we do? Let's just pass a law and have them completely integrated with our military intelligence sharing, weapon production, drone technology, AI. And now we're so tethered and anchor to each other. See, no matter what you do, you can't separate the two. It's just completely wild. So, I mean, I'm not sure what Americans by and large can do in order to get the word out about this, in order to pressure their, you know, Congress people or their senators.

But something has got to be done about it. People have to start talking about this particular provision because it seems to me that this is a really clever way for politicians to Then, once the militaries are integrated, be like, well, of course, you know, no more military aid to Israel. That sounds great because we're already the same fucking military. It's like I almost feel like it was written specifically so people could have a talking point where they didn't look like they were shilling for the genocidal apartheid state of Israel. We will never again have to send Israel money because they will have our online banking login. and they can just effectuate transfers from one account to another. Exactly.

It'll be a shared bank account, like any healthy marriage, except there's no pre-up. Yes, yeah, no conditions whatsoever. And one day you wake up and the baby's gone and so is the money. And also just a cherry on top, very little oversight. Cherry tomato on top. Yes, yes. It's a cherry tomato, which Israel invented. Wodge, thank you so much for coming back.

and talking with us here on Bad His Bar, where can people find you? I'm the editor of the Left Hook Substack. I'm a terrible capitalist. Everything is free. So if you can, just become a free subscriber. And if you have some money, it's the cheapest substack around $3.75 a month. But it's also free. So just if you don't want to pay, it's free.

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Thanks so much for coming on. Thanks, man. And thank you to everyone. We're going to be right back. But first we've got to take a quick commercial break and then Daniel and I will continue talking about some bad has barra. We'll be right back.

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diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease. And we're back. This badass bar, the world's most moral podcast. Just us, baby. How you doing, Daniel? No just us, no peace. That's right. That's right. Thank you to Wodge for coming on the show and talking to us for a little bit, but we still have more podcast to do. And so we'll do it now. We mentioned this tweet earlier talking about Yair Lapid, and I just want to read it for everyone because this is, in regards to the Iran-U.S.

ceasefire deal. And Ye'Ir-L-A-L-A-Peed is supposed to represent the moderate wing of the Knesset, sort of the, you know, the Democrats to, you know, the Netanyahu's Republicans or whatever. And I just need you to see the difference between these two lines of political thinking, because if you can find it, I'm all ears. here is his tweet about this. This is the opposition to Netanyahu and the Lakud Party. We still need to hope that the reports about the agreement with Iran are not true. But if they are, this is one of the most shocking failures of Israel's foreign and security policy, and it is entirely on Netanyahu's account.

One, he sold the Americans an overly simplistic script without detailed. detailing the risk map to them and lost their trust in the middle of the war. Two, he did not assemble a professional team to work with the separating elements in the American regime. Probably that's a translation from like the separate elements or the disparate elements. Yes. He failed to get number of things. Which is to say like he didn't assemble a professional Hasbara team. Yes. To have the to have the anti-war mega people assassinated or.

Right. Right. Yes. Or otherwise disappeared. Yes. They did a bad job of getting all of the anti-war MAGA people in line, and it's not his fault. Number three, he failed to convince the Americans to bomb Iran's oil and energy facilities and did not close the matter in advance. Always be closing.

ABC, baby. Four, he failed to convince the Americans to include the issue of ballistic missiles in the agreement or even in the negotiations. Five, he downplayed the importance of free passage in Hormuz. The possibility that the straits would be closed was raised before the war, but no serious discussion was held about it. It was absolutely, he was warned in advance. I'm sorry, I hate Netanyahu too, all right?

But the idea that, like, it's Netanyahu's fault that they didn't properly prepare Trump for why the war was going to go badly is insane. Trump made this decision with Netanyahu just saying, go do it, do it, idiot. It'll be fun, you fucking moron. And he did it.

I don't know what you, what the Air LePete is trying to do other than say, if I had been the prime minister, I would have made sure that Trump stayed in this war for as long as possible because I would have properly prepared him

for how badly it was going to go for the United States. It's like, this is great. It's great stuff. Six, he pushed a Kurdish plan without taking into account the expected Turkish response and Erdogan's influence in Washington. Seven, he did not take into account the significance of rising oil prices in the U.S. just months before the congressional elections. Eight, he did not take into account the significance of lifting sanctions and fueling tens of billions of dollars into the Iranian economy under the supervision of the Revolutionary Guards. nine, he did not take into account the possibility of bombing the energy facilities of the Gulf states

and failed to leverage the ties with the Gulf states to bring them into joint combat. Ten, like at this point he's saying the problem with Trump is, or with Netanyahu, he failed to start a world war. That's, that's what he's saying. This is starting to feel like that Echadmi Odea song from Passover, you know, when you can't down the different numbers. Echahadee. Neo-day, you know, one is God, two is the tablets, three is the patriarchs, you know, like, anyway, it's just a, it's kind of, it's like, it's a 12 days of Christmas kind of song where you

count down numbers. And these things are getting longer and longer and longer as you go. Never mind, keep going. Well, it's just, you know, for me, I guess that's the one part of Seder where I just go, hey, guys, I just came here for the disgusting food. Yeah, that happens at the very end. So you, oh, I never make it there. You're probably already I never make it. So that's how those things end. I usually just find the Afi-Komen and then leave. Just think of 12 days of Christmas, except as sung by Jimmy Vomer, so it never ends.

I'm thinking more like Brian McKnight. One is like a dream come true. Two, I really want to be with you. Three, it's plain to see that you're the only one for me. Shout out to Brian McKnight. Let's see. Ten, he failed to rally global public opinion for a renewed war between democracy. and a fundamentalist dictatorship, 11, he appointed a team at too low a level for negotiations

with the Lebanese government. 12, in the middle of the war, he replaced the head of the National Security Council, the head of Mossad. No one replaced drummer as an advisor. 13, he continued to tell everyone, we changed the Middle East. The problem is that due to negligence, arrogance, and absence of a suitable professional team, I love his insistence that the team just wasn't professional enough. And judgment influenced

Go easy on the spurs. They're young. I know. It's like, Tom. Okay, they're going to learn from their mistakes. Wemby is 22. He's not a vet yet, but he will be. And judgment influenced by other things. He changed it for the worst. Last sentence is, it can be fixed. It must be fixed. Netanyahu can no longer fix it. We will do it. Hey, good luck with that, man. really

the it's so good to know that Israel can be saved through good government through doing the exact same things but but better that's right exactly do it but win but what if we did it again

but we won anything you can do I can do better I can do anything better than you low you can't can I can I can't No, you can't. Can I can.

Low, you can't. And then over and over again. Anywhere you can start, I can start faster. Oh, man. I can bomb hospitals better than you. So, this, we'll see what happens with the whole around thing. Before we move on, I do want to play this one video from Batya Ungerser Sargan. Bunga bonga-banga-z-z-i-zime.

Yeah, it's time for a little bunga-bonga-bonga-bonga-bong-b. Bata, she out here talking about Jews. Now, she usually out here talking about Jews, but here's the thing. You've heard people online, mostly, talking about the, you know, sort of this idea that the Jews have betrayed America, sort of in a whole dual loyalty fashion. You know, I see this sometimes from people who say they're anti-Zionists, and I'm just like, what are we doing? Jews stabbed you in the back stuff?

I mean, let's, let's, you know, let's calm down a little. But what I was surprised by was seeing Batya doing a new angle on the idea that Jews are betraying America. And I got to credit where credit is due for her, because this is a new one. Check this out. In addition to the massive betrayal of the Jewish community by the left, there has been a massive... Yeah, what is this guy? Haviv Reddegger. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

He's grating. Yeah, he's grancidal. By the left, there has been a massive betrayal of the United States by the American Jewish community. Because a big part of why they became Democrats is most American Jews see themselves as an oppressed minority in a country that never, ever treated them that way. I love this. It was easier to be a Jew than a Catholic or a Mormon for the vast majority of American Jewish history. Who are you? Nomen Finglesi?

that from the minute the first Jews stepped foot on American soil in 1654, they were treated as founding partners in the creation of this great nation. And this is a history that we lost as Jews. And we have to reclaim it. That's not necessarily the whole truth. No, but we're allowed to do jokes on this podcast. We have to reclaim it. Not just because it's true, but because America is going to rise and fall with our ability to remember that history.

Truly wonderful stuff from Batya. What's she saying that now that American Jews have become leftists and oppose imperialism and increasingly oppose Zionist, you know, coutowing to Israel. That's how they betrayed America. That's a betrayal of being our ruling class selves. We're class traitors. Yes, we're class traitors and low-key race traders because she's also, and I'm a, and I, I almost want to give her credit for this. She's also doing the, like, victim card denied Jews to herself, which is truly amazing

because she is pointing out not entirely wrongly that Jews, the history of Jews in America has been one of safety. That's just true. That's not to say it's been perfect. It's not to say that Jews were immediately part of the ruling class that she seems to sort of imply there. But in general, this is a truism. What's hilarious is she's taking the Jewish sort of left-wing political alignment and saying,

well, this is just because Jews are a bunch of whiny babies, as opposed to the right-wing Zionist Jews who are not whiny babies? I don't know where she's going with that. But I do love her trying to thread the needle of saying that it's the left-wing Jews who are the real whiners. Whereas the, you know, the Jabotinsky Jews, they're the ones. They don't whine. They just get straight to calling your boss and trying to get you fired. I'm disappointed in Batch.

I mean, the name of her book is The Jews and the Left. you know, left behind was right there. That is weird. Left alone. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't leave the left, the left left me. Yeah, why I left the Jews. You should have called it that.

Shout out to Batia. Truly, one of the most interesting brains I've ever seen on a sentient human being. I want to... Allegedly. Allegedly. That's a good use of the word allegedly. That is a good use. I want to move on to something that we saw happening while we were over in Jordan

and didn't get a chance to talk about on the Jordan episode of the podcast. I want to talk about Lizzie Svetsky and Elon Gold. Can you, Daniel, can you maybe, do you want to introduce this or should I just go straight into this video? Well, no, sure. I'll just say that this is a video from the red carpet at Tribeca. Tribeca. Yeah. I'm sure the red on the carpet reminded them of triangles and was triggering for them.

Very triggering. They saw a free parking sign, you know. That's exactly right. And they were speaking about a movie that I think Elon Gold is a producer on called some kind of rabbi matchmaker or wedding. Like it's some sort of comedy about a... Yentel. About a Yenta. A yenta, yeah, that's right.

Yeah, yeah. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. And they, you know, they're riffing. They're just engaging in some banter. Two normal people having normal good time. Yeah. Mm-hmm.

Two humon. Two humon doing a red carpet vox pop that most humons do. And caused a little bit of a stirer with how the riffing went. And here's that video. Rebecca Film Festival, which is a very prestigious fall. It's a really big deal. It's a really big deal. And for a film made in Israel, that's pretty damn cool.

Now, why did he point to the ground at Tribeca and say Israel? I don't know. I don't know either, other than he's maybe pointing to a new target of greater Israel. From the river to the sea to shining sea. From the East River to Avenue C No, from the Hudson River to Avenue C

Yeah, there we go. I was only raped by two Israeli dogs. Not they only raped Palestinians. No, I got also a dog. So, if you heard that, and also there's music in the background, this is the Al Jazeera's cut of this video.

That's why they're sad. There wasn't sad music over the background of the original video. But yeah, he, is making a joke about the recent reports from the New York Times, Christoph's article, as well as obviously a bunch of human rights organizations in Israel, saying that they used dogs to sexually assault Palestinian prisoners. And yeah, that was his wonderful little joke about it. Now, when I first saw this video, I didn't know who he was. She was the only one I recognized.

Right, right. With her, you know, heavily filtered mug. Like her face, I don't think that video was filtered, but her face just looks like it. Dude, it's just chopped and screwed, dude. Chopped and screw, yeah. They've got a DJ remix on that mug. That's right. I mean, listen, all power to anyone who wants to cut up their face and make it into something. But Jesus Christ.

No, the smoothing on it is out of control. So I didn't recognize him. And then when I saw that it was Yilan Gold, I was like, oh, it's my old buddy. That's right. Because almost three years ago now, this guy that I'd never heard of before slid into my DMs on Instagram. And he said this. Do you want to read his messages and I'll read mine? Sure.

You're damaged. You're a lost Jew. This is December 8th, 2023. Yes. You're damaged. You're a lost Jew. You think you know the truth. That's a great print song title with the music.

You think you know the truth. That's right. But here's the truth. like your family who was killed in the Holocaust, you will be killed in the next one. The fact that you can claim that Israel is exaggerating the rapes makes me realize your fate is sealed.

You will forever, you will be cursed forever for standing with the rapists. I, perfect, perfect. Yes, it must be really horrible for someone to deny report of rape, especially when those have been vetted and at this point proven by Israeli human rights organizations, as opposed to the ones he was talking about. Right. He thinks it's bad to journalistically verify and scrutinize claims of mass rape. That's right.

And to speak about when those reports have been debunked. What he's saying I should have done is to go on a record. carpet and mock the Israeli women who allegedly were raped. Yes, yeah, it is truly an amazing tweet to find. You're like, oh, I know that guy. We've talked about this subject before. That's right. And so I said, what's up, Elon?

Not every day I get hate mail from a verified public figure. I did not know who he was. Apparently, he's guested on Curbure Enthusiasm. He's a... He's literally some guy in the stand-up comedy community. Yeah, I said it's a nice change of pace from the random hostility. What sort of interaction are you looking to instigate here? A productive exchange of views? A heated but respectful argument between two Jews who see the world

differently. A battle of witty barbs we can both then screenshot and show off to our followers for those tasty clicks, a phone call, or just a barrage of personal insults and issuing curses. The last one sounds boring to me and will probably just induce me to block you. Oh, you're a clever Jew! He just wrote you're clever, but I'm going to be embellishing. And I enjoyed your debate with my pal Rudy, who is putting his life on the line to save people like you who have no appreciation for our only safe refuge in the world. I know Israel isn't perfect. But how could you ever say spew? How could you ever spew your vile, your vile bile bile about the only place that would keep you safe?

every single Arab and European country expelled and murdered our people why do you just shut why do you just shut your mouth and pray that Israel does its job why don't you yes or you can keep criticizing Israel and hope they stop fighting back

and then within two days another six million Jews will die and get ard beached and burnt beached like whales I guess? I don't know. I will not waste another second with the Chomsky's of the world.

Nice knowing you. You don't know him. Word. Well, thanks for stopping by to waste a few seconds, at least, until you got an actual human response. And thanks for the Chomsky compliment. It's his 95th birthday today, so I'm especially honored. Well, you know, hey, this was before reports of the MCD. You know, how good. I'd still be honored by the company. I don't give a fuck. Yes. It makes me so sad when God, G slash D, gives people like you and him such gifts and a genius brain, and then you squander that gift with your twisted take. Yeah. The rabbis have wrestled for millennia about why Hashem gave us the capacity for independent,

critical thought when conformist tribalism is so much easier and more fun. It's a real mystery. One man's conformist tribalism is another man's never again. will they wipe out our tribe? And I said absolutely, fair point. By the same token, one man's only safe place for our people is another suicidal death cult founded on a distortion of Jewishness and deep self-hatred since early Zionism that is approaching its end stages and is currently the single biggest driver of danger to Jews worldwide. And I wouldn't live there if you paid me.

Oh, the only... I love how long this one is. I didn't know how what... This is great, dude. Holy shit. This is history right here at this exchange. It really is, dude. Putting this shit in the Talmud.

The only single biggest danger to the Jews worldwide is not Israel or Zionism. Rather, it's baseless hatred of Jews from the left and right. And also Jews like you who falsely blame early or current Zionism on why they hate us. Okay? It's so insane that after crusade, inquisitions, pogroms, and a Holocaust, you can somehow distort modern Jew hate into some anti-Israel thing. Jew hatred never had anything to do.

It's wild he was able to get this out typing with one hand and furiously masturbating with the other. He's priming the pump. Yes. Let's see. And a Holocaust and Jew hate into some anti-Israel things. Jew hatred never had anything to do with Israel never will. They're killing Palestinian babies is the same blood libel as they're drinking the blood of Jewish babies.

And he means Christian. Yes, Gossans are getting killed. But only because of Hamas's actions and their own inability to accept peace with Jews. We want to coexist. They don't. Pick a fucking side. And this time, make it the side of peace and coexistence. This is insane.

This is a type of like post-October 7th brain rot that I, like at some point I swore off completely because it'd be just like, all I want is peace and you're out here telling them to cease fire? And I'm like, yeah? What do you mean? All I want is to live in peace and coexist with my neighbors. And you're saying I can't bomb their schools? Just truly. Those were the days. Those were the days.

and pick a bucket side, and this tag is the side of peace of coexistence, not the side of rapists and genocidal murderers, and be grateful that we have reclaimed our right to self-determination in that ancestral homeland. You know the land my mother was born in in 36, and from where we all emanated. Well, I wasn't going to bring up his mother, but...

And then I said, don't straw man my argument. I mean, he already brought up his mother when you talk about being beached. I'm calling his mother a whale. I guess he's the squid. Don't straw man my argument. I didn't say Jew hatred starts and ends with Israel. Obviously it doesn't.

My great-grandparents weren't murdered in Auschwitz because of Zionism, and the KKK isn't a Palestine solidarity group. As for picking aside, I have the Jewish values of truth, love, and justice, no matter who that means I have to oppose, which also means some courage in the mix. Truth, love, and justice means being a Zionist. lies, hate, and injustice is aside, you're on, my friend.

Yeah, we can end it there. I'm not your friend, buddy. I'm not your buddy, gay. I'm not your guy, friend. I'm not your friend, Zai. Oh, so that is who... So that's him. He's a real psychopath.

He's a real psychopath. And, you know, but we know who wears the pants in that, in that comedy duo. It's Lizzie. It's Lizzie. That's right. He's going to stand tall, probably 12 toes down. Yeah.

You know, whenever... Yeah, she's a mutant. And the New York Times wrote an article about this and contacted her for comment. And rather than give them a comment, she made this video explaining herself. And what I love about this video is essentially she validates this entire podcast.

This is like a peon. an elegy, an ode to what we do here, except she thinks that's what she's doing. Yes, and here it is. Trigger warning for those of you who have a deep fear of uncanny Valley-like stairs. Here we go. So the New York Times has just reached out to me

for comment about the other night on the red carpet. Claire, here is my comment. Claire, you work for a publication that is responsible for perpetuating the absolute worst blood libels against the Jewish people since the times of the Holocaust. Hold on.

Hold on. I said, I canceled my subscription to the Times of the Holocaust. I couldn't, I couldn't subscribe to both the New York Times and the Holocaust Times.

It just was too much bad news for the morning. You know, it's not my favorite newspaper. The Times of the Holocaust. Holocaust times. Her left line planning an escape from her face. I know, it does seem like it wants to jump

The most recent ridiculous claim that the paper you worked for published was that the Israeli Defense Force trained dogs to rape Palestinians. Now, let's just think about this for a second. Oh, no. This is both anatomically and physiologically impossible. How are we doing this? Both anatomically and physiologically. But both at the same time? That's crazy.

I'm glad you made that distinction. Yeah. I love that she's going to do the thing, the thing they all did, which is explain the science of dog fucking. She's gonna try to erase the great work of Dr. Klaus Barbie. Yeah, exactly. A human. Your publication published this piece with zero evidence. We're all just supposed to sit here with a straight face and take it like it is.

Well, hold on. Straight face. Look at that straight face. Listen, if you can sit with a straight face, do it, but I've yet to see it. Some sort of truth. if you want to talk about actual rape, then let's talk about actual rape, like the mass rape of Israeli women on October 7th and onward,

like the daily sexual assault of Israeli hostage Arbel Yehoud by her Palestinian captors for 482 days, which your paper has yet to address. I'm sorry. Are we now accusing the New York Times of not saying, That not spreading the now mostly debunked hoax that there was a mass systemic, systemized rape movement within Hamas that used rape as a weapon of war. That is, it's just crazy at this point. No respect, I tell you, no respect.

I know. They worked so hard together, you know. They had the Pulitzer Prize winner and two random Israelis wrote that thing. Come on. The idea that a joke made about this disgusting anti-Semitic blood label, a joke made by a Jewish comedian on the red carpet of a film festival, which is a forum that is meant to spark dialogue through the arts, through humor. The fact that this is the story here shows us how deeply sick our society has become.

Actually, the fact that this, you know what this really does is, it should spark dialogue about how, The tragedy of the fact that Jews are not funny anymore. Like, truly, it is an amazing thing. Like, as a society, as a nation, as a peoples, somehow we have lost the ability to make a good joke. And it really is a tragedy, you know. When Svetsky has to go on social media and just be like, have you ever heard of jokes? that's when you know we as a society of lost.

It's a science fiction movie. Like what if you woke up one morning and no Jew could land a joke? Right. No Jew had timing. No Jew had self-deprecation. Yes. Jews tried to like do one-liners

and wisecracks for each other and just everything landed with a thud. I mean, that's a horror film. Totally. And then it's like, it's like waking up one day and all of a sudden the Irish can't tell a story in our sober. Like that would be horrifying.

I don't want to live in that world. Right. You know? Jewish comedians throughout history have used humor as a way to cope with blood libeles, to cope with anti-Semitism. To cope with blood libel. To cope with blood libels. What's the deal with Aramaata?

Why don't they just make the whole bread out of the Christian blood? It's fucking idiotic. Lies and propaganda, like the ones your paper spreads, to cope with our never-ending generational trauma. Our never-ending generational trauma. Oh, my God. It just never ends somehow. It never ends.

It keeps going and going. Energizer bunny-ass generational trauma. I'm so glad intergenerational trauma discourse has reached the Lizzie Sibetsky set. Yes, thank God. Certainly it will be used for good. And the arts are tools to be used to address real issues and to shed light in a way that gets people

thinking and talking. And that is what Elon was trying to do. She's a big proponent of the arts of comedy. I love it. As a way of coping with horrors. She loves our podcast. Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm. I love it. She's like talking about dog rape jokes and she's like, it's funny, but it also makes you think, it also makes you think about can a dog really do that? Probably not. But maybe some.

People are going to have that conversation with their kids around the table at that night. That's right. Around the Shabbas at dinner table. and the kids are going to learn something. Yeah, exactly. They're going to look at that dog. They're going to look at their best friend, their dog, and they're going to feel safer because...

I'm going to say, hey, I heard this joke on the red carpet at Tribeca. That's right. And it made me think, and it made me realize you actually can't rape me. Yeah, that's right. So now you can... Now you're welcome to sleep in my bed. That's right. And that is what I believe the Tribeca Film Festival stands for.

Good shit, Lizzie. smart, concise, and easy to follow. She really is a wonderful specimen. She's really a wonderful specimen because she comes from a very specific type of Jewish-American princess like mold that is almost... Black mold. Yeah, a black mold, if you will, almost made to induce anti-Semitism and even the most normal of people. Maybe Disney will make their next princess, a Jewish-American princess.

Yeah, we do. We need a Jewish-American. We need a Lizzie Svetsky Disney princess. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, my God. Truly amazing shit. Truly wonderful. Thank you, Lizzie. Since we're in the realm of New York, I am very excited to talk a little bit about some wonderful New York news. In our segment, Ball has borrowed. I love this right up. Give me all your tax money,

but I can buy weapons. Concrete jungle of which dreams are made. I have to, like, think about the fucking syntax of that lyric. Concrete jungle where dreams are made of. Made of what? Yeah, that was.

Listen, it's not ever been a good song, and I will admit to feeling a lot of feelings of cringe when apparently everyone broke out in a song after the Knicks won. It's huge, it's huge cringe. It's just one of the, you know, it's really funny. So without burying the lead, the New York Knicks after. Burying the lead, that's what the San Antonio Spurs do. They buried their lead in game four and in game five. The New York Knicks have finally won the NBA championship. For the first time since 1973, that team won.

That's so long ago that Phil Jackson was playing basketball on that team, which is kind of incredible that it took this long for such a big market like New York to finally do it and win the NBA championship. But they did, and it was very exciting. Everyone was celebrating. Some people were singing that shitty-ass Alicia Keys song. I don't like that song And what's even funnier is that

My wife Francesca hates that song And she saw like a video of everyone singing it And celebrating and she's just like Oh these fucking you know people like She was low key just like shaming anyone Who was listening as like tourists or whatnot She lived in New York for a very specific period of time And that period of time

was made obvious by what she chose as an actual New York anthem, I Smell Pussy by G-U-Nit. I was like, wait, so this is your New York song? And she was just like, Ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-ch-Junit! Truly, my heart grew three sizes that day. Shout out to Tony Yale, Fittie Cent. Lloyd Banks.

And Lloyd Banks for that shit. But it was very exciting. Everyone was celebrating. I was incredibly happy for the city of New York, incredibly happy for Mamdani. And, you know, like just an incredible confluence of things happened to make the New York Knicks actually win. It felt very good. And then Israel was like, how do we get in on this? So there was a meme going around.

My Muslim mayor, my bagels Jewish, my Christian Dior, Nixon four. They lost game three as soon as Trump showed up, so they didn't do it in four, but they did win in five. And Israel put this out as soon as they won. They wrote, your bagels are Jewish and they are delicious. But don't forget about hummus by the seaside, Israel in five. All right, let's go through the elements of poetry, shall we? at least the poetic template said by the original meme.

Yes. There are all kinds of poems, right? Free verse or whatever. So there's meter. This fails. Yes. There's rhyme. No rhymes.

I mean, you could argue a slant rhyme between Jewish and delicious or seaside and five. Right. But you can do better than that. And then finally, what the fuck does it mean? I don't know, dog. This is the most desperate thing I think I've ever seen.

Like this is for the first time I read this. If a friend had tweeted this, I would have called their family and said they are in crisis. Because this is one post before a like really desperate post for help. Like this feels like self-harm is about to happen. What does Israel in five mean? I don't know. Israel in five illegally occupied other people's territories? I don't know.

Is it a best of seven? I guess there was a lot of fronts on the war. But also Israel and five would admit then to losing one of them. I guess Iran? I don't know. I don't know what he means Israel and five. Five what? Well, our name is Israel.

And we're here to say that we're dog shit rappers most every week. And we love... Very good. Very good, not rhyming. And we love to have sex with dogs. Everyone knows covered in fog. You know what? Let's do a little bit of freestyling.

I think we're doing great so far. Yeah, this tweet is fantastic. It's truly just trying to like butt into a cool kid conversation, I guess. Stealing baller. Yes, yes, very much so. And this was not the only time in which the, you know, joy of the people was somehow being siphoned by Zionist ghouls. One of those Zionist ghouls was friend of the pod. Shmoli Bodhiach.

Schmoli has been, you know, he lives in New York. He's celebrating his nicks. And he decided to turn on the camera after the win. and talk about Jalen Brunson. And he said this. Welcome to New York. The next one world championship. God bless you.

Jalen Brunson got 45 points. Married to a Jewish woman as a Jewish daughter. But the cops, any officers, thank you for protecting us. God bless you. The cops are wearing like full, like, it's unbelievable. They're wearing full. Now, for no real reason, he decides to talk about Jalen Brunson's Jewish wife. And I got to say there's like something really disturbing about the way in which he brings up

the Jewishness of Jalen Brunson, I guess because he just won the championship and he just wants to say, you know, the real power behind the throne here is the fact that he got married under a chuppa. You know who agrees with them? I do know who agrees with him. Nazis. Nazis. White Nationalists do. This is from Truth Seeker, which I'm sure they are seeking

truth all the time. Yeah, they're having like an anti-piramid something like. Yeah, right. They got the fucking Illuminati eye pyramid thing where they're just like, no, we're anti that. The New York Nick star, Jaylen Brentson, married a Jewish

woman in 2023, and then three years later wins a rigged NBA championship. All sports are rigged and controlled by certain groups. Dot, dot, dot. And of course, you know, Kids in the Hall reference incoming. There's a great sketch from, you know, 92 or whatever.

Mark McKinney has this racist cab driver. Kevin McDonald gets in the back seat of the cab. He says, take me to, you know, blur and young or whatever. And says, so you watched the Jays game last night? And the cab driver says, yep. And they lost. He says, yeah, it's too bad. He says, and I tell you why they lost two.

And he says, really, why? Let's just say that certain people are always causing problems. And Kevin's like, which people do you mean? Look, I'm not racist, but I read. And certain people are always trouble making. He's like, who? The Blue Jays? And the cab driver all of a sudden slams on the brakes.

He's like, all right, get out of my cab. What? Get out of my cab. you Serbian bastard. That's this guy here. Games are rigged by certain groups. I'm not saying anything, but you know who I'm talking about. You know who I mean.

You know who I mean. I just like, it's so annoying too because it's, comments like, oh, did you know that Jalen Brunson's married to a Jewish woman? Three years ago, I could pretty much count on them being just a cute. little fun fact that an uncle would tell me. I'd be like, oh, cool. Okay. It's, you know, it's weird that you are keeping track, but also I appreciate that.

There's also, you know, it used to come from a place of so not all blacks are anti-Semitic. That was sort of where that came from, which is like a weird place for it. But in this case, it's just straight up. It's just Israel going, Israel and five. Don't forget about the hummus by the seaside. Huh? Now it's a genocide adjacent fun fact told you by an uncle. Yes, exactly.

It's the same uncle. You just found out what he's really like since October 7th. Exactly. You're just like, oh, so the whole time when he was molesting me, it was weird. He was doing it raciously. Anyways, the point being, you know, the way in which this discourse sort of went down after the win was interesting. because you saw a lot of people like Lizzie Savetsky, for example, and A.L. Yocobi, a lot of the, you know, fucking right-wing Zionist psychopaths just really mad that Mamdani, they were mad at Mamdani for this win. They started, you know, posting about the, oh, look at the riots and look at all these free Palestine people out here, you know, crushing school buses and waving Palestinian flags.

Is this the America you want to grow up in? And it was total loser-ass behavior because you're watching literally people celebrate their team winning a championship and you want to try to be a spoiled sport. Very funny to me. I did also see some leftists doing this. And I just got to say, hot take in coming. Hot take and coming.

Leftists have a seat. Please stop. Let people. Like the idea that sports ball sucks, actually. Sports ball is imperialist. Sure, that's fine. You don't look good when you decide to make being sour your entire fucking thing when it comes to sports or whatever.

You know what I mean? There's something about seeing groups of people from all different. you know, walks of life from all different socioeconomic or, you know, racial categories, genders, political persuasions, all just celebrating their team. The idea that there is a, that this represents a bread and circuses like, you know, distraction, you can make that critique, but you kind of look, you kind of look like a spoil sport. You look like a sour puss. You look kind of annoying.

And we don't have to do it. We don't have to do it every time. I understand politics are in everything. But sometimes people just want to celebrate their Nix winning for the first time, you know, since 1973. That's all I'm saying. That's all I want to say. Right? I'm glad you said it.

Someone needed to. Yeah. I mean, I wasn't swept up in Nix Fever. I don't really get basketball. Sure. You're a hockey guy. I'm a hockey guy, right? And anytime you're watching people go apeshit over a sport you're not really into,

it looks, you can see all the ways that it is bread and circuses. You can more easily see what Chomsky was pointing to, irrational, you know, training in irrational worship of authority and of, and, you know, and tribalism, right? Like, why are we all celebrating these players? You know, I don't know how many of them are from New York, but they're just wearing a New York jersey and they were, you know, contracted to play. these guys. Yeah, exactly. Daniel

like small circle into big net, not medium circle into small net. You're right. But when I'm caught up in my own fervor or fever, or enjoying popular music or anything else that I'm super into, while I like that bread and I like those circuses. So, yeah, I watched

the first quarter of the game and I got irritated. I was like, these guys aren't shooting? Like, I remember basketball as being an elegant, graceful game of like fucking archery. Yeah, yeah. Archery and athleticism. All alley-oops.

Not just all the whole time. But like fade away jumpers and threes. These guys, like in the first quarter, the shooting was like two for 15 for the Knicks and not much better for the Spurs. That's right. And they were, you know, the bouncing the ball off their own legs

and falling over their dicks. And I was like... Defense wins championships, baby. That's what I'm ugly. The game is, you know, and Wemby is ugly to watch. But anyway, But, you know, I did, and I went to sleep before the fourth quarter,

and I woke up to the sound of New York cheering outside my window, and I was like, oh, they won. That's nice. Good for them. Yeah. I think, you know, I understand not liking, some people just don't like sports. I also understand some people just like different sports or whatnot. And I, but that being said, for all of the totally correct critiques about sports in general

and also American and maybe, you know, just Western. I don't even think Western. Just sports culture in general. Sports stand culture. There is something for some people that it triggers them, especially when they're politically active because you're just like, oh, why don't, you know, why can't we get all these giant groups of people together?

They're already doing violence. Why don't they go and break Maduro out of prison? And I understand that. But, like, being mad at, about it. It's just not inviting. That's all I'll say. Do you feel the same way about like reality TV fineries and, you know, like big, you know, cultural watch party events having to do with trash culture? Yeah. Let people enjoy things? I'm very much a let people enjoy things as long as the things that they're enjoying are not genocide. And in general, critiquing is totally fine. I just, when I see it

happening, uh, from people who are taking themselves very seriously as like anti-imperialism. I was just like, uh, you know, this is, uh, this is a form of, uh, left woke scolding that should, should be gone. Let's, uh, let's stop with this, the, the, the woke scolding. We, we get it. Uh, the masses are philistines and stupid idiots and whatnot. Um, but if you think, It's a wasting revolutionary potential. I think you're looking at it wrong. From the river to the sea, Philistines will be free to cheer on whatever

doing stuff they want. When Philadelphia, you know, when the Eagles win and someone that eats a handful of horse shit, you should be looking at that as an opportunity to be like,

you know what the real horse shit is? Capitalism. You know? Organize around that. But other than that, shut up let people celebrate the nix you fucking sour pusses um the moving on still talking about the nix but in the uh celebrations um there was a lot of celebrities coming through new york and one of those celebrities was a former um stand-up comic uh you know current i guess israeli mouthpiece now uh jerry seinfeld he uh he was asked by someone on the street his thoughts about Palestine.

And this is the order. What are, Seinfeld? What up? Can we get a free Palestine? Can we get a free Palestine? Come on, give me some free Palestine. It doesn't exist. Cool.

Cool, cool, cool. So Jerry Seinfeld caused some waves over that moment. A lot of people in the Hesperosphere were celebrating him. someone wrote this we love you jerry sinfeld and made this image of him and it says it doesn't exist to which i wrote it is the age of consent um then that's just a reminder to anyone that when he was 39 he dated a 17 year old uh would pick her up from high school not saying not trying to get an argument about what the age of consent is in new york so if you have some thoughts uh type them into a document and don't send them to anyone.

But yeah, there was just sort of a general dismissiveness and he has been getting deeper and deeper. Well, she was just 17. You know what I mean. And before too long, I took her to her driving test. So the comments kind of caused a stir. He's been getting, I think, more and more right wing when it comes to this stuff.

And Ilhan Omar was asked about it by TMZ of all people. And she mentioned that maybe he should attempt to be a human being about this kind of shit and not just immediately dismiss an entire group of people in the most genocidal and racist way possible. And people's response to that was interesting. I want to play a video from this person, Hen Papyrman. So Hen writes, hey Ilhan. This is not Hen Mazig. This is a woman named Klan. Yes, well, I don't know if it's a woman.

This is a person named Hen. Hey, just because I truly do not know the pronouns of this person. Hey, Ilhan Omar, accusing Jerry Seinfeld of genocidal language is classic projection. Your father was a colonel in the army that killed up to 200,000, what is that, Isak people in Somalia. And also, balustinians, quote, unquote, are just Arabs from Egypt and Jordan, not an ancient ethnic group, educate yourself. That makes me miss the Pepsi we drank in Jordan. Wasn't that good Pepsi?

It was tasty Pepsi. We weren't actually having Pepsi. We were having a drink called Matrix. Okay? So for those you out there talk about Pepsi. No, we actually did have a Pepsi. Remember on our drive down to Petro? We had one Pepsi.

That is true. There's a picture of you with it. There's a picture of me looking at a Pepsi. That's true. You can't prove that I drink. drank it. Well, that one actually wasn't my Pepsi, but I did have a Pepsi while I was. Did we find out that Pepsi is also on the boycott list?

Pepsi is the thing. The boycott list. I'm going to change the peas to bees, but I'm also going to change the bees to peas. Fair enough. Apparently not. No. The company itself has products under it. I was like looking at the official BDS boycott list, and it seems to be

not necessarily the drink itself, but so to which was acquired by Pepsi and stuff like that. And I'm an official BDS list subscriber. But this video itself, I haven't watched this. Is this your video that you sent over? I just want to hear the words that are going to come out of Hen Papyrman. Let's hear what she has to say.

Ilan, Ilhan, Ilhan Omar. All right, okay. That's a fun way to start. Is that how we're starting really hen? Like, are we going to make fun of names? Are you going to make fun of names? Just a fair warning. Girl chicken is what hen means.

So just so you know, let's not do this. Let's see what other egg she wants to lay. Seinfeld for genocide language simply because he stated the obvious truth that Palestine does not exist. She is the daughter of Colonel No, Said Omar Muhammad, who was a senior officer in the army of Somali dictator Siad Barre, the same regime that carried out a real genocide. It's really hard listening to this shit. I'm just, holy crap. I didn't say it was good.

Against the Isak tribe in Northern Somalia between 1987 and 1989. Between 50,000 and 200,000 people were murdered through systematic bombing of cities, mass executions, and organized rape. Her own father. I'm just the way she's a lot of hard-ar on organized rape. Served as a high-ranking officer in that murderous regime. And yet, here she is. A Muslim politician who arrived in America as a refugee

using her platform to lecture Jews about genocide and genocidal language. She also used Takia. We all know what that means. This is not me. Tequia. She also used Tequia? What is she talking about? So Tequia is this concept that was popularized

after the, you know, beginning of war on terror that all Muslims are secretly super fundamentalist, but you have to hide that you're super fundamentalist. I thought Tequila was one of the shofar sounds, you know? Tequila. As far as I know, she's referring to that. I don't know what she means there other than she's just saying that

that Ilhan is practicing Takia. It's just super Islamophobic right-wing talking point. It's also a bastardization of what Takia actually means. Just like jihad, just like... Right, just like everything made, yes. Every concept from Islam that is made into a boogeyman. Right. In this case, it's about like,

the safety, it's like, hey, if you need to say you're not Muslim for the safety of, you know, yourself, then that's okay. You're not going to, God won't be mad. And in this case, right-wingers use it to say that all Muslims are secretly ISIS or some shit. So, good shit. In hypocrisy, this is psychological projection on steroids. She even insists that Palestinians are a distinct ancient ethnic group. That's embarrassing. The Philistines, they came from Crete. I see you're doing some psychological projection pretty hard. Maybe I can help you with that.

Maybe I can help you with that. Wow. What a terrific video. Very much. The people she's talking about are Arabs who invaded the area, mainly from Egypt, Syria, Jordan in recent centuries. But if you want to send them to Crete, by all means, do. Yeah, hon.

We were guessing Israel stealing language, by the way he didn't. Maybe first acknowledged the actual genocide your own father, Zahomi, helped commit against the Isak people. Because the projection is pathetic. Oh, man. It's one of those videos where you could not find a single screenshot that isn't grotesque. Like every expression. But it's very, it's very like 2018 lib-coded, too. Yes.

That woman in her car screaming about how. you know, there's a Cheeto in the White House or whatever. Yes. It's got that kind of hysteria and unfuniness. Yeah, she's doing a clapback, but it's, you know, it's, it's really hard to pay attention to that when you're just like, I could land a plane through that gap in her teeth. It's a gap back, but it's like a, it's a seal, you know. Yeah, that's right. Exactly.

It's a clapback, but you're asking for fish. Or, um. Truly, you know, fun little grotesque video there. Love when they... You have to keep an eye on, hen, papyrman. Yeah. Hen, you're going places. The chicken coop, most likely.

Before we get out of here, Gwyneth Paltrow. I think we have to talk about Gwen. We either do it now or we do it never. And the way I'm looking at it is we need to talk. We need to talk about. Gwyneth. Guineth has had a very interesting career.

You know, she is a nepo baby in Hollywood, won an Oscar. Who are parents? Who are parents? Her parents are who? Oh, is she not a nepo baby? Did I make that up? I believe she is. I just always forget who her parents are.

Yeah, I mean, I'm sure Adam knows. But it is of the famous Paltros, probably there's a Paltrow out there who's a name is in there. There we go. Private chat. Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner. Oh, Blight Daner. Broadway legend. I used to have a children's record when I was a kid of her reading a Morris Sondack story called Pierre.

Oh, well, that's fun. Pierre said, I don't care. She sounds like a female Harvey Farstein. Oh, fun. I always want a female Harvey Firestein. I mean, it's a great voice. I guess so does the, what is Natasha Leon? sort of sounds like that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's in that smoky vein. But, yeah, she's, you know, famous actress, Nepo Baby, whatever, whatever. She started goop, people putting eggs in their pussy. Fine. You got to, you know, got to put a yoni egg in there. I don't care.

I've never really been for, like, hating on Gwyneth Paltrow for being sort of, you know, this wellness type of celebrity because you see so much of it. And, you know, if you're going to do that, as long as you're not, you know, spreading insane. misinformation about raw milk or about what pasteurization does, then I don't care.

You know, whatever helps people get through the day. I did not know her commitment to support for Israel until very recently. Yet another one of these fucking health, wellness, trauma-aware people who it turns out are complete Zionist assholes. Yes. Like literally two of the people who blurbed myth of normal have turned out to be Very monstrous. My M. B. Alec.

My dad went on her podcast. That's right. Terrible. And now, Pauchro, who I think, I think on some goop, in some Goop magazine, they did a nice write-up of the book. Yeah. It's almost as if the wellness industry is full of charlatans and assholes. Yes, very much so. And this is, you know, maybe no surprise to some people.

But to me, it was a little bit shocking in terms of the tone deafness. So, Gwyneth Paltrow, amidst all of the pogromatry, Rom's going on, the genocide going on, the open apartheid, the open ethnic cleansing, she decided to put out an ad for a building. Beautiful sunny Tel Aviv. No, herzilea. Oh, that's right. That's right.

Even better. In Herzlia. Named after Herzl. Yes, named after Herzl, not named after hurting so good. Here is that ad. Oh, not again. So that not again, by the way, I assume his missiles coming from the north. I think the script said never, but she said, this seems outpropos of nothing.

I'm going to say not again. Who decided morning should be so early? Fucking, I'm sorry, but just starting off with like Garfield-esque I hate Mondays for your, your ethnic cleansing land sale is brutal. Even my coffee needs a coffee Oh fuck up Waking up for a morning run can be brutal I can imagine

It must be hard to wake up for a morning run You gotta wake up in times So that you can run for fun Do a fun run Doing a fun run in the Middle East And the word brutal Yeah, oh it could be brutal It can be straight up monstrous

It's an atrocity You ever wake up in the morning And feel like oh no not enough other Holocaust of tiredness. Oh, God. Even my coffee is wearing a coffee. That's right. You know, someone should take this morning to the hag and hang it.

Price I'm willing to pay. Because once I hit the park, pure energy takes over. It's hard to explain. All look like Central Park. That was Central Park. That's for sure. That's the idea that she's going to, she's going to somehow like teleport. I guess.

I guess. There's a reason the world's most iconic buildings are by a park. 51 Park. New York? Ritzaliyah. Israel. 51 Park. She made a little club.

51 Park, Herzlilla. By Aviv Melisron. Shouldn't be about how much fun you have running in Israel. Just maybe, maybe using a word brutal, a little inappropriate, maybe doing an ad for a land developer in Israel. Like all of this, I hate to boil it down to optics. Because it should be like a moral thing. But at least give me that.

At least give me an attempt at living in the reality we all currently live in. You know? You know what I'm saying? And not just immediately just being like, no, this is the bubble I live. And we talk about how much we love land in Israel and all the time. Oh, hurts Silead. But it is tough for Hollywood actors. She's clearly going to face massive consequences for this flagrant act of Zionism.

Oh, absolutely. I feel bad for her. I feel really bad. I mean, she's really going to get it. She's really going to get in trouble. That's the whole thing. I mean, at least she's not selling land in like Malia Dume. or settlement. I'm sure that's next.

52 Park. Yes. Yeah. At least it's... 67 Park. At least it's not in, you know, area C, I suppose. Yeah. Yeah. But this is another video here. It says, Gwyneth Fam History. What is this video? This is her with Tishby, I think.

Oh, wonderful. So here's a little background, and maybe I should have known that this was not abnormal for her to take such a tone deaf stance on Israel. Because you talk to the Tisch. I came to find out that I'm from 17 generations of rabbis. That's amazing. Yeah. I'm basically here with

Rabidson. Uh, Paltrow. Paltrovich. Paltrovi. Wow. Very indigenous. Okay. I love how they slowed it down. Guys, she's saying it. There's something about like the way some

people talk about the Jewish name changes in Hollywood where they're like, you see? And it's like, guys, Jews have been saying they're Jews in Hollywood for like 40 years now. We don't need to slow it down like you just caught them on camera. It's very weird. Padrovich, that's what it is? Oh, my God. I'm here with Robertson, Paltrovich.

I like the skull emoji there. That's what it was. Oh, yeah. Until all the Petrovich's were wiped out. Yeah. Oh, God. Just, yeah, that's. That's Gwyneth.

Spoiler alert for anyone who didn't know. Yes, she has Jewish ancestry. But more importantly, she is doing land sales in Israel, which we all know is a great business opportunity for anyone out there who is looking to spend their money on something that helps them sleep at night. I think we can all learn a little something from good old Gwen. Just shut your eyes, close your ears, and make some fucking money, dog. Make that money.

You know, it's not blood liable if you like the blood. That's been our episode. I guess that's all I have to say about that. Very happy to have had Waj on, once again, please follow him wherever he goes. Follow him home. And then, you know, hang out with him. Just kidding. Just follow him on Substack.

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