IHIP News - Trump Panics After His Worst Nightmare Comes True

Episode Date: October 10, 2026

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They have been consistently marking him like one pound below clinically obese. Are you curious? Yes, it is the most obvious thing. This latest report, he was one pound below the height ratio that would make him clinically obese. He's like a lot of fatties out there. I'm like, what are you talking about? Welcome to I've had it weekend. We are here with our friend YouTube sensation, Maga Slayer, Jack Kacharella.

Jack? Jen, thank you so much for having me. I like Maga Slayer. Maga Slayer. All right, let's talk about, let's, I want to fantasize about after the midterms. Painful, delicious blue tsunami. Reckoning, as I think we should describe it as will be. And I want it to specifically, I want the tech oligarchs to feel it and hurt. I want them to feel pain and shame.

I want the Supreme Court justices. But are these people capable of feeling that pain and shame? Well, remember the week after the United Healthcare CEO got, you know, got Kirked and, and everyone was talking about, like, walking around and, okay, we're going to make sure everyone gets all the health care that they need and all the CEOs are letting everything slide. I think there is a world in which that exists. Because if there's a world in which, you know, Tim Cook is bringing Donald Trump gold

trophies to the Oval Office, everyone's bending over backwards, you get a shitty $10 million dollar Melania movie and all of this nonsense to appease Trump, there is certainly a version of this of like, oh, can we appease you in advance? The hope is that we don't take the first offer, right? We don't start engaging with the very people who collaborated with these fascists and saying, okay, maybe the elites, maybe the oligarchs, maybe we can, maybe we can have them tone police themselves, maybe we can have them regulate themselves, maybe they'll be on their best behavior. But I think there is a part of this where you really can put the fear of God into these. people. And it's something I've been talking about a lot of my show where there are a lot of people

who don't just think about what's happening with this fascist project in the way that it impacts us at home, but our perception around the world. And there is no way in which the rest of the world feels comfortable doing business with us, ever liking Americans again, unless we come down hard on these people. Because strike one was Trump one. Strike two is Trump two. Not holding these people accountable, which would be the second time, would be strike three. If we merit Garland to this shit again, we will never be able to fix anything. And so for those who care deeply about the relationships on the world stage, for anyone who's also thinking about long-term trading partners, no one will want to engage with us if

they think every four years we flip-flop from corporatist to fascists. We need to elect people who want to see Pete Hegseth in prison, who want to see Stephen Miller in prison. And I talk about the whole Trump family. I don't think I ever give enough love to Tiffany Trump. Tiffany, we're watching you. Investigations into Tiffany? I love it.

Damn it. But it's like that is the only way that any of this will be resolved is just like hardcore set an example to everyone on the planet. When these people fuck us, we do not fuck around with the fascist and how we deal with them after. So I think there is a real world in which there is fear. I completely agree. All right. Let's listen to Robert Garcia.

And he is giving us a preview. Friend of the show. Friend of the show. Friend of the show, Congressman Garcia. He's giving us a preview of what oversight is going to look like if Democrats take back the House. Let's play the clip. Corporate corruption and the Jeffrey Epstein investigation will be what you see from us really early in oversight. And we are going to go in hard.

And so to the Trump family, especially, they better be prepared to hear a lot from the Oversight Committee in those first stage when we win the majority. Oh, yeah. Okay. Is Maga the party of pedophilia? Yeah, absolutely they are. Pedophilia, sex crimes. Like, Andrew Tate is Baron Trump's best friend, I think, or at least his idol. That's what these people are.

And it's structural. Like, this is a thing that's structural. I know we have been talking a lot about this, and I really appreciate the video that you did. I thought it was great. It's a week and a half two weeks ago on the Cornell 7, talking about the fact that this is structural. Right. And the way that Pete Hegseth talks about violence. And the way that he has built this kind of Christian nationalism cult around violence and how we're going to physically impose ourselves on the rest of the world, all of these things are the same.

Thinking that a physical violence rules-based order is the only way to carry out a civilization is the thinking of someone who wants to who wants to oppress and subjugate. And that doesn't just exist in one group of people. They want to do it in abused children. They want to do it in abused women. They want to do it and abuse gay people. They want to do it and abuse anyone who's not like them. And so it's like this violence that they take is the only way that they can understand the world. The 26 Chevrolet Tracks is the stylish SUV for those on the move.

And with the standard Chevy safety assist package, you have the backup to handle every turn with confidence. The 26 tracks, start your build at Chevrolet.ca. And if the only way that you can conceptualize this thing, because, you know, fascist, If you look into fascist ideology, it's like if you gave kind of a half drunk high school bully a piece of paper and said, like, give me your fucking thoughts on the world. It's not coherent. It's just like, you're going to be strong and buff and men and yeah and girth or something like that. What do you make of Pete Hagseth talking about how there can be no fatties in the military? I think it's so disrespectful to Trump. He's the commander in chief. Have we not looked?

He's the commander in chief. Something is crazy on the weight. Let me talk about this for a second. They have been consistently marking him like one pound below clinically obese. Okay. Are you curious? Yes, it is the most obvious thing. This latest report, he was one pound below the height ratio that would make him clinically obese. He's like a lot of fatties out there. I'm like, what are you talking about? Can we get him honest guy? I know that they did it. That was the greatest crime, actually, when Trump got arrested, wasn't that he was prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law and put in jail. But we didn't know.

know his actual weight. Remember, it was like he's six three and he's two 15 and he's got a reach of 86 inches or whatever the fuck it was. It's like, no, he does not. This is a fatty. He's lazy. And the fact that Hague Seth is saying this is absolutely absurd. Look at the president of the United States. And now Elon is in control of some of the of the Pentagon budget. Well, he gets a lot of it, but he's going to be advising them on it. These people are so performative. Like, they're playing with dolls. You're playing with dolls. You're playing with dolls. You're not the secretary of defense. you're playing with dolls. If you want to do beer pong, G.I. Joe, do it on your own time, but none of this is real. It's all just... Do you think Pete Heggseth is firing very qualified

people from the military? I perceive it as a purge to completely restructure the military so that if they want to cling on to power, they have loyalists. Yeah. I 100% agree that Hegsef has been doing this partially out of his own fear of being fired himself. There has been constant talk since it was Signalgate. You've got to think, like, how many scandals have we been through, that the paranoia that exists in him is constant, which is funny considering that this is a guy who's been floating, running for president right now. Have you seen this? Yeah. Just talk about the failing upwards white guy, which honestly, I think he might be able to make it a little bit far in that primary with the ass kissing,

with the transphobia. So, like, Pete, you knock yourself out, like, have a blast, man. But the failing upward is crazy. It's funny to have both of those things in your head. But I guess everyone who is broken like him does, like the paranoia I'm going to get fired, but also giving the nuclear codes even more so. He's purging these people because from the beginning of this government and there lies that you do a really great job undermining when you're talking about mocking these people and pointing out the brokenness and hypocrisy of them that Donald Trump has worked,

To make you think that the government is all about him, that the White House is his, that the ballroom he wants to build is his, that the helipad is his, that the military is his, that they respond to his truth socials and his orders, there's been this reorienting for a long time around the way that we view government, not as to provide to improve the material conditions of our lives, but somehow it is this thing that must be made more efficient by a billionaire class of fuckups who pretend to be the of our time when really they're just hoarders. They can't organize anything. And so it's been this reorientation of the way that we are supposed to perceive our government working in our lives. It's being broken here in New York by Mayor Mundani who's proving that government is for you, but they don't just want you to think like the military is for Trump and they respond to Trump and they respond to Hegg Seth. They also just want them to people broadly to think, okay, this is not yours and it's not for you and you can't hold it to account and you can't ask things of it. And that is the deep cultural political rot that we have to seek to undermine if we're going to beat the fascist project.

Because that's at the heart of people's distrust of we can't have better things. This idea that somehow government is a business run by like the worst business owners. These people aren't particularly good. And like what even is a business to these guys? Elon Musk doesn't run a business. Elon Musk runs a giant PR office for all of his scams, right? He is a welfare queen in the actual sense of the word, not the fucking racist, Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump, repeating. He is a real welfare queen.

He is an illegal immigrant. He steals our money. He wastes it. He blows up his dicks in the sky. He adds nothing. What is this money for? And, you know, it's just so sad. Elon is a guy who's got like 16 kids.

Has he had sex with any of those women? He's a deadbeat dad. He's a deadbeat dad, but it's like, has he had sex with any of those women? I don't think so. So like, you got this guy with all this money that's not his, that he's not using for anything with these kids that don't like them, who he didn't actually make it a real way. It's like all this stuff is fake and we got to listen to these guys. I'm really tired of a scam economy that just treats us like shit and pretends that these guys are

smart. All right. So the Democrat, we heard from Garcia and he's saying day one, we're rolling it out. I have some trepidation about trusting the Democrats. Yeah. I trust Robert Garcia. Oh, big time. I'm a huge Robert Garcia stand.

Right. I worry about the leadership in the house under Hakeem Jeffries, who is more Neville Chamberlain Chamberlain than he is full tilt of this moment. He is the collaborating with Jared Kushner privately was a real red flag to me. And I'm convinced beyond a shadow of a doubt that Jared Kushner's team is the one that leaked this clandestine meeting. And when you look at the donations that are funding the fascist project, and then you look at the donations to Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer, the Venn diagram suddenly shrinks to one circle.

Yeah. And I am concerned because I have not seen Hakeem whip votes in the opposition the way he needs to. I haven't seen him rule the house and give the thirsty, dehydrated, begging, democratic base out here. Fight for us. Fight. I hear appeasement. I hear we're not going to whip the votes. And I hear about secret meetings with Jared Kushner.

And I see the money, dirty money, and I mean filthy, dirty, fascist money that are in his and Chuck Schumer. quaffers, coffers. So my question is, do you think the Democrats should, if we win the House, should say, okay, we get that business as usual hasn't worked, but we have this system. And Nancy picked, Nancy Pelosi picked him, and this is just the way it works, and he has to be the speaker. Or do you think there should be a revolt in the Progressive Caucus? And I'm dead serious about this that says, enough. This system incubates fascism. He takes money from these same fascist collaborators. He's compromised. We need 100% pit bulldog in this fight. I don't know at this point why you wouldn't at least use the leverage of saying we want to have a conversation about who's the

best person to lead us. We have already proven out that progressive fighters are what the base actually wants. We've proven that out in primaries in House and Senate races across the country against like 10 to 1, 12 to 1, 20 to 1 money spent from people being propped up by the establishment. If they won't listen to us there, they're going to have to listen to us eventually. And so there will be people who say, you know, you're doing damage by suggesting this or you're doing damage by telling Democrats in the House or you're trying to disorganize us. But there will be disorganization at some point as long as the establishment is doing everything it can to hold on to do you think there should be a coup do you think the progressive caucus yeah they need to leverage their

they need to leverage their power they need to say we need consent either you're not the guy or give us concessions like the fact that there's this idea that there's not going to be a vote on medicare for all is insane like then what is the point of holding the house that is a legislative body like yeah of course we have these people who are equipped and who are ready like robert garcia to lead these committees, you'll have Jamie Raskin on judiciary, and you'll have people who are, you know, you'll have Jim McGovern on rules, so you'll have an actual organized structure of voting and people showing up to work. But this is not a person who's built for the moment. And, you know, it wasn't as viral as your Cory Booker moment, but the last time I spoke to

Jeffries, I asked him about $50,000 he got in donations from Palantir executives. And I said, are you going to be returning that money? And he gave me some, you know. Word salad. Well, you know, at some points and I've looked into maybe turning things into charitable donations. I'm like, so are you going? He's like, this is something I need to look at and get, and I haven't heard from him since. There's been no interview since.

It doesn't feel like this is someone who's going to cut out. But this is my issue. As an electorate that was served, we listened to establishment Democrats. We were, we voted accordingly. We saw them dick over Bernie Sanders in 2016, but we stayed the course. We stayed the course. It's so patronizing of establishment Democrats to treat us in a way where they are polling the Democrats as abysmally as Donald Trump is.

And we are going to win despite the Democrats because that's how bad maga-fascism is. But I think it is a conversation that we need to start. having that the system that they all honor all the time. Doesn't work. That's yours. You do that. Those are some fucked up rules that you make in your own, you know, world there.

As voters, we want term limits. We don't give a shit about seniority. We want fighters. If Hakeem Jeffries is taking money from Palantir and can't answer or get back to you, then I'm sorry. You're taking money from the same pimps that are funding. I mean, Peter, I mean, Peter Thiel, Huckham Jefferson, it's just insane. And it's also like, the word, I know what you mean with the word coup,

but it's like, no, we elected these people and we elected them. And then I, I mean, all the central stories are, oh, the polling this, the polling that one, it's beneficial to kind of there, I want to be a soft Republican strategy. The polling is that we hate all that's going on with the establishment Democrats right now. So the people that we're electing, we're not asking them to overthrow the current Democratic establishment. No, no, we're voting out the current Democratic. I want to clarify, when I say coup, I'm not talking about like a coup in that sense.

I'm talking about a coup in the sense that the rules that they all want to play by that got us Trump twice, that we need to say, look, Hakeem, thank you for your service. You won your race. That's great. But we need a leader who is not corruptible. And you are corruptible. You take money from all of these different packs.

You have a great second in command. You're playing Patty Cake with Jared Kushner behind everybody's back. And I just think like in my dream world, we have somebody like a Rokana as Speaker of the House or a Summer Lee. Who in your dream world would be the best leader for this. I like a Catherine Clark second in command. I like a Jim McGovern. This is someone who knows the house really well. Do you know how I really like who's a little under?

I really like Joe Neguse out of Colorado. You always hear him in those here. He's been around for a while. He knows the body. He knows the institution. He's on the Rules Committee. He's aware of how things run. There are lots of people.

And they're like, this is the problem is that it's not a crisis of the empty bench. It's not a crisis of us crying out for, oh, God, I just wish we had some perfect person. You know, that's what you always hear, this kind of center criticism of the left. Oh, you're just waiting for a perfect person. You want the candidate that's infallible. No, no, no. We have a lot of people that we like. And, you know, this is not certainly a gripe with Abdul, but Abdul is not a Democratic socialist.

Abdul Saeed is a great candidate and people want to label him as DSA. He's not a Democratic socialist and we love Abdul. So it's not like we're demanding everyone be a socialist and everyone say these, these things. No, no, no, no. We have great candidates who we believe in because they are hitting a moral baseline. And I think the problem right now could come down to predictability. Like, how can we trust Jeffries to be predictable on anything? Right?

You have Marie- I know what he's going to be predictable on and it's the donors. He's going to, you know, Jared Kushner says, hey, let's meet. You know, the A-PAC or other lobbyists are going to call him and say, hey, remember who made deposits into your accounts. We need, I think the one thing that get a, take the consulting class and just throw them out. Yeah. And then take all of the Democrats that are, that I've. actually vote, from centrist all the way to leftists. The one through line that I hear, and you probably

hear this on your channel too, from like maybe a conservative Democrat all the way to a full tilt, leftist Democrat, they want fighters. That's what unites the base or people that fight. And to fight on the things that are popular, like Medicare for all. Not whipping votes as Hakeem Jeffries has failed to do multiple times and using the rotating villain strategy to provide cover to fascist takeovers via legislation is unacceptable to me. But all right, I'm glad we discussed that. Let's press on from here. Let's talk about AI.

And this, over the last couple of weeks, you've had all of the AI oligarchs hanging out with Trump, hanging out with each other, hanging out with she, whatever. I mean, okay. But there's also a lot of propaganda. coming from a lot of different corners of the world. You have Melania Trump who came out from hiding, who said that AI is going to be instrumental with kindergartners and elementary school students.

I'm thinking that's kind of a weird thing. You have RFK saying that, you have RFK saying that instead of going to a doctor, consult AI. And the AI oligarchs are desperately propagandizing, that AI is going to be our end-all be-all. At the same time, they give these AI machines, lobotomies, all the time, so that they produce propaganda to the end user. And now they have expanded their propaganda army to one alleged heterosexual Benny Johnson. And he has posted a clip about AI, not a friend of the show. Not until he is ready to face the music.

Until he's ready to be a gaitriot? Until he's ready to be a gaitriot, then I will welcome him with open arms after he does a... Then you come out. Come out. Come on. What are you doing here? After he does a long apology tour. Okay. Let's play the clip. A doomerism out there that the Antichrist will actually be an AI, but what if it's AI that's affirming who the real Christ is like Grock did today? When somebody asked, take away the false gods putting up an image of all of the gods on Earth. that include a lot of the gods, all the gods of the major religions, including Jesus Christ, and guess who was left, based on GROC? Of course, GROC.

Okay, I've heard it up. I'm sure that there was no lobotomy to GROC to produce that result. How many times can we say GROC before we just give up? Right. So, GROC, we're going to keep saying that for the rest of our lives. I love being like, we found the answer to Christ and it's, it's GROC. You wouldn't suspect it, but the key to eternal happiness comes with Graf. So what I'm concerned about with this is that I believe these machines are getting lobotomized and they're producing that. The evangelical Christian movement is the most co-opted movement in the United States of America.

Putin uses them. Benjamin Netanyahu says, oh, let's get all these evangelical preachers over here on these tours. And they're like, yeah, this is where we all have to be in order for, you know who, to come back and send us all to hell. And now the AI oligarchs are using this. And the collusion taking place between these tech oligarchs right now and members of this regime to propagandize to us about AI, it is accelerating. Just in the last two weeks, the accelerant of pitching that AI is the solution to all of our

problems. And here's the long and short of it. AI is going to make us less connected. AI is going to capture all of the wages from all of everybody's wages that we have right now. Attorneys, architects, any sort of service industry, all of that's going to be gone because these oligarchs want to, number one, capture all of the wages, number two, dismantled democracy, and number three, keep people dumb. And if they lobotomize these machines enough, then they go, oh, God, we'll have an electorate where everybody's this bat shit crazy and is easy to co-opt as the MAGA evangelicals. Do you know what it reminds me of? It reminds me a lot of the messaging that they're using here. It reminds me of the way that Elon Musk talks about his money or rich people talk about their money.

And like a, well, I don't have it. It's not liquid. It's not real. You know, in the future, maybe, but I couldn't get access to it. It's a very, I own this thing and this thing is very powerful and love me for this thing and cherish me. But I can't really do anything about it, so don't ask me to, even though you very well could. And it's why it's so funny to me that these guys are promising prosperity once AI is this super engine of the economy enough that everyone will have enough money in food and shelter. And you must ask yourself, how are we going to start taxing your wealth? Are we going to, I don't know, fundamentally change the way that you people can evade tax loopholes in this country? Are any of those things going to happen? Because if they are, once we get to AI, having all of the money in the world, could we just do it now, actually?

Right. If the future that they're promising us is one in which you're going to be taken care of, because Elon says this all the time, he recently said in an interview, by 2030 or 2035, money won't matter, which is a very good. a great thing to say when you have a trillion dollars. It's like, oh, you guys don't need to worry about money. Stop asking questions about the money. You keep asking questions about this money pile. It doesn't matter. Forget about it. But it's this way that they just push things off as if like, well, if they're good, it's great for me and if it's bad, it's the future. So don't worry about it and we'll figure it out and don't ask questions. So if they want to have a conversation about

AI being this economic super engine and it's going to save us and it's going to steal all our jobs, then how about we work to get the economic straight right now on taxing you motherfuckers and public ownership? So that's one thing. The other is you talk about it lobotomizing and the way that it's disconnecting us and all the problems with it. And I remember being in class when ChatGPT came out and like everyone was playing with it. And I've been thankful for many things in my life that I'm too lazy to engage in things

that ultimately end up being bad. And high school, I was never big into vaping where your sons did they do, where they do, were they jewelling? Were they joling it up? No. No. They played sports. Okay. Well, I mean, you could, I think you could do both. But I was never a jewel guy because I was just like, I didn't want to have to go out of my way to like, you know, try to get a fake ID at 15 for the liquor store to get a jewel. I'm like, if I'm getting a fake guy, it's by booze. So didn't do that. And not to say that, you know, dueling and AI is the same. But I also was like, I don't really want to play around on my, type it into a computer and having a thing respond to me. So I'm going

to stay away from AI. But there are people who speak to this now and ask, it for their medical advice and have friendships with it and who have given up parts of their personality. And it kind of reminds me of evangelical Christian fascism where it is a thing that constantly affirms you, right? It is a tool of the tech elite and the current class of the Christian fascist in our government. And it's the thing that constantly absolves you. It always tells you, do you know what, that wasn't your fault. Do you know what? It's okay. Keep on coming back to me and keep on believing in this system and everything is good. Right. Well, we talk about, we talk about We talked about this before.

There is no better religion for shitty people than Christian evangelical fascism. Because it just tells you, it's supposed to say that all sin is the same, except the sin that you really want to judge Betty over for there. And then then Betty's the real problem. And it's telling you to, you know, I don't know, Jesus doesn't talk a lot about gay people in the Bible. He talks a lot about hating the rich, but they completely disregard that. So it's like you pick the things that you want. And don't feel bad about it.

Interesting. You bring all that up because there's new. reporting about religion's role in crafting this technology, pop this up. This is deeply disturbing, anthropic, secretly invited religious leaders to San Francisco to advise them on AI safety, had them sign NDAs, but then primarily tried to convince them, Claude has a soul and moral standing all while whining and dining them to the max. So this is incredibly alarming to me because whenever somebody is up to no good, they invite the evangelical Christians to come to the table. And Michael Cohen did this with Jerry Falwell Jr. Donald Trump, the establishment

Fox News was like, uh-uh, we don't want this guy. All of the establishment, Republicans, no, we don't want this guy. And they knew if they could get these evangelical pastors to vote for him. And it was going to be an uphill because you have a philander, you have a grab them by the pussy, fucking porn stars. And, you know, under the scene psychologically, we know a lot of evangelical pastors do this too. But Michael Cohen got a sit down with Falwell Jr. And Falwell Jr., then sent it out everywhere. And they said, get us a VP. who's an evangelical Christian, who later this movement tried to kill and hang on the grounds

in a very Christian way, of course. But every time you hear in my mind, Jim Benjamin Daniel, oh, we've invited all the mega-church pastors to Israel. And that's the thing what people who- Rear breakfast is how the Russians enter. Get mad at us for the way that we use the word and decry the violent project that is Zionism.

We're also talking about Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is the biggest Zionist in the United States. So was Lindsey Graham. The late Lady Graham. Front of the show, Lindsay Graham. We wish you will. Friend of the late lady Graham. Darlene, Darlene, you want to come on the show?

We love Darlene. Darlene's like, I don't know about that Indo-China, but I did have, I had Panda Express last night for dinner. I'm going to try. But yeah, these people, they believe in their fantasy land that we must carry out this violent ideology across these people in this region so that God comes back and loves us, they're insane. They're categorically insane. But I feel like in this discussion, because it's always trying to be used to weaponize people who want to speak out against the genocidal regime and the military

industrial complex and the democratic establishment, they want to say you're talking about Jewish people. When someone like Hassan Piker who gets filleted for this one day. Do you condemn Hassan Piker? I condemn Hassan Piker for getting that vote song stuck in my head. I've texted Hassan about this many a time. Are you aware of the song where it's like, vote, vote, vote, vote, we're going to vote it. Voting in something. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

I hate him for that. I have condemned him. I've condemned him. Well, that's funny. Charlie Kirk thing is funny. I love people getting upset at us for mocking the We Are Charlie Kirk song. The forced reverence that came out of that day and of his death, That was a song created by AI for fake AI J.D. Vance to perform for money in clicks.

I think that a tragedy is no longer a tragedy once it has become a tool for the worst people to use it for profit and for plunder and for hate and for power. And the second Charlie Kirk got shot, Tim Poole with the fucking Beanie and the bald head. He was like, my sources tell me Charlie's stable. And it's like, dude, this guy clearly wasn't your friend because you were trying to get. likes off on his death. That's insane. That is insane. And then you had Stephen Miller that very night being like, you know, Charlie told me he really wanted me to go after all these left wing groups that I've really wanted to be going after for some time. It's like, you people are so transparent. And so the fact that they got more upset with us for mocking this forced reverence, I was not going to mourn this guy

or the result of his death was Erica going on the most humiliating press tour of all time, which, you know, I think you really won that one in your Eric moment, going on the most humiliating press tour of all time, and like bomb threats being called into HBCUs, that's what happened this same day. Hassan Piker brings up a lot of good points that my 83-year-old mother brought up to me years and years ago. And one of them is, when he was asked by Axios, is the United States a bigger force of terror in the world than al-Qaeda. And Assan said pound for pound, yes. And I remember my mother went after George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney lied, sent Colin Powell to the

UN to lie to say that Iraq had yellow cake and that they were involved in 9-11. And then we went and invaded Iraq so that the people at Halliburton could get rich. And we killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of people, all based on a lie. I remember my mother saying, who's the bad guy here? I mean, this is utterly insane. And then that's before you even get to Abu Ghraib in the CIA black sites. And we were torturing people. And I remember saying that she were probably too little, but I remember when you wake up at the turn on the news. And the United States military is all of these Iraqis that they suspect to be terrorists, that, spoiler alert, weren't terrorists. And they put them in human pyramids and they were naked and they're waterboarding them. And so he brings up statements

that sound provocative, but they're thought provoking. Like it is like, we're paying for all this shit. We're paying to go kill a million Iraqis when they had nothing to do with 9-11, but we give Saudi Arabia who actually funded 9-11. We roll out the red carpet for them. And remember that video of Trump dancing with the orb and he's, he has the hots for MBS. I mean, he's told him he thinks He's hot. Yeah. Yeah. So in closing, talk about that.

It's a real shame what I'm about to say. I condemn Jack Cottarella. Okay, go ahead, say it. I've already condemned him. I've provided cover. What our dear mayor has had to put on his shoulders and deal with that has made this country and the ability to use 9-11 as kind of this cudgel for the right to get away with, literally get away with-

It's just propaganda for the right. Zoran, it sucks that we needed the beautiful, lovely, fantastic, effective, charismatic Muslim mayor for us to go, and not us, but people to go, you guys seem pretty weird on this 9-11 thing. I don't know if you actually believe this. Nobody, no Republican in Congress, especially the people who voted against, oh, what was it, that John Stewart was able to pass? Oh, the 9-11 responder bill.

The bill was, oh man, the name of it is escaping me right now, but who he was like constantly haranguing Mitch McConnell about. And there's like great photo of Mitch McConnell going into vote and John Stewart kind of with the smirk knowing. And all the work that he did to make sure that these guys had their health care protected, I believe until 2099. And the Republicans kept saying, well, you know, we want to make sure that we're able to look. We just can't fund things forever. It's like, well, except for wars. At any Republican. would say, oh, we really care about 9-11 is such bullshit. And people see through it.

And the attacks on Zoron, again, a shame that they had to happen. And I can't imagine what it's like to live as him every day. But what those ridiculous attacks did to break away this chokehold that these people have had on the flag, on patriotism, on pretending that they care about 9-11, I don't think anyone takes it in good faith. any of these Republicans say anything about 9-11. We know how you treated first responders. We know that city officials lied about what the conditions were that day and the weeks

after, in the months after, and the years after, and continue to lie to first responders. But what has been done to someone like Hassan and what has been done to someone like Mayor and Mamdani, it is just so despicable. But I hate to say at least, but at least what has come out of it is hopefully this people have woken up to what's going on. They've woken up to the Islamophobia. They see how transparent it is. They see how ridiculous it is. And hopefully it cannot be used going forward. And it's part of the reason why on my show, I'm like, you did it with the great Erica clip. I made all the fun of Charlie Kirk because I'm like, this isn't about Charlie Kirk. This is about

the powerful pretending that we have to be polite to them. They want us to be polite to their power. they're not polite to our humanity. So why would we engage in this way? We shouldn't and we have to make fun of them. It is the tool that we have. It is reputational damage is what you always say, is what has to be done. Because if we do not do that, if we do not mock them and we do not make it clear that they do not care, then they will continue to create boogeymen of our friends and our elected officials and they will lie to perpetrate war. And so it has to stop. Yeah. And I think the connection here between Charlie Kirk and 9-11 is simple. the Republican Party uses tragedy as propaganda. Right away. They do not care that Charlie Kirk died. They immediately rolled out the freak show WWE funeral and Erica went on a world tour. The same with 9-11. After 9-11, Benjamin Netanyahu said this is going to be really good for us.

The day after. The day after 9-11. And so the Republicans used tragedy for propaganda and to weaponize patriotism and a lot of people and fly over America, all they have is a means for culture is I'm American and I'm Christian and it is exploited by this death cult that is the Republican Party. It's a pedophilic death cult. Jack Cottarella, it's always so fun to have you on. Thank you for having me. New leadership in the Democratic Party, House, Senate, fucking at the Senate, I think that's a done deal. I'm worried. You think they're going to vote for chuckles.

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