The Young Turks - Bibi's Best Boy - December 29, 2025

Episode Date: December 30, 2025

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Problems here. Sorry, big time. I'm so upset. Oh my God. Baguah! Mm-hmm. Welcome to the Young Turks, Chank Ugar, Anna Kisperin with you guys.

We're going to have an amazing show tonight. A, B, B, B went down to Mar-a-Lago, spanked Trump a little bit. Trump came out. Israel's writing about everything. So we'll get into that in a little bit. And then Israel- It was more like, no, no, hold, I got to interrupt you. Already I got it.

It wasn't like, oh, I'm whining about it. It was like, yes, Daddy, can I please have another? Right here publicly in front of the American people in the international community. That's what it was more like. Yeah, 100%. You're gonna see it for yourself in a minute, okay? Spank me, Daddy. Yeah, I don't even want to go there because that makes it too good.

So no. So it's way more disgusting than that. We'll get to that in a sec. Also, Israel apparently wants us split Somalia into, why, we'll explain that, that's crazy. And then Maga Civil War continues. We're gonna tell you about how Scott Jennings is hitting Marjorie Taylor Green and many other developments.

But as we're about to tell you that, on here, Marjor Tanger Green hits her back. So that's coming up in a little bit. And of course, the Minnesota story. Fraud, how big is a fraud, who's at fault, and what should be done about it? All that on tonight's show. So Casper, take it away. Well, we begin with the meeting of Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump. I would say that it is anything but a rarity these days because Netanyahu happens to be the leader who's met with Trump the most. And I want to give you the details of what was discussed. Let's take a look. Will you support an attack, Israeli attack on Iran? If Iran will not have a deal.

If Iran will continue with their ballistic missiles and also nuclear weapons. If they will continue with the missiles, yes, the nuclear fast. Okay? One will be yes, absolutely. The other was we'll do it. immediately. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Enjahou is back in the United States for yet another meeting with President Donald Trump. And if you were under the impression that Israel trying to drag the United States into war with Iran was over, you'd sadly be mistaken. All you have to do is have two brain cells to rub together to know that Israel is persistent in demanding

what it wants until it gets what it wants. And so here we have, President Donald Trump moving the goalposts and including Israel, including Iran's obtaining missiles as enough of a reason to strike their country. Now before I give you more details about this meeting and what was said, Jank, your two cents. Yeah, you couldn't see Netanyahu's left hand there because it was obviously up Trump's ass and Trump and Trump was just saying whatever Netanyahu wanted. We're gonna tell you what was what Netanyahu asked for behind the scenes it was obvious in what Trump said in front of the scenes. And then we're going to tell you about how Israel is continuing to completely violate Trump's

peace plan in several different ways. And Trump is aiding and abetting it because obviously we don't run our own country anymore. Well, we haven't run our own country for a very long time at this point. But Trump is really good at making it brazen and obvious. So look, it is obvious that Israel wants to pressure the United States into more war with. with Iran. And Trump makes it clear that, you know what, I'm a willing participant. Take a look. Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again. And if they are, we're going to have to knock them down. We'll knock them down. We'll knock the hell out of them. But hopefully that's

not happening. I heard Iran wants to make a deal. If they want to make a deal, that's much smarter. You know, they could have made a deal the last time before we went through, you know, a big attack on them. And they decided not to make the deal. They wish they made that deal. So I think, again, they should make a deal. They want to make a deal, but sometimes that doesn't happen. Yeah, please. Mr. Thambeye, Nadavili al-Melechak 24 News, Israel, would you support the overthrow of the Iranian regime?

Of who? Iranian regime. I'm not going to talk about overthrow of a regime. So overthrow of the regime in Iran is exactly what Benjamin Netanyahu is exactly what Benjamin Netanyahu the Israelis want. This isn't really about missiles or nuclear weapons. Now, sure, Israel doesn't want Iran to have nuclear weapons, even though Israel itself is a nuclear power. It has a clandestine nuclear program that pretends to keep secret, but everyone knows about, not part of the nonproliferation treaty. Being a nuclear power means that Israel is never really in fear of never existing or having

its entire country dismantled. They also have something known as the Samson option, which basically indicates that if anything were to happen to Israel, where it would be dismantled, they would use nuclear weapons to basically destroy the globe. That is a literal policy in Israel that we should all know about. But our media, of course, doesn't like to report on it. No, this is about regime change in Iran. It's been about regime change in Iran for decades now. And Israel has been pretty clear about its plans to balkanize Iran, much like it has done with Syria. But, Jake, I'm curious about your thoughts on this. So this is one of three main assets that Netanyahu has.

The third one was not mentioned afterwards. I'll tell you that in a minute. The first one is perpetual war with Iran. And so before the excuse was, oh, my God, they're about to have nukes. Now, you guys have seen on video Netanyahu saying that literally for the last 20 years, pretending it's around the corner, but we bombed their nuclear facilities, and Trump was super proud of bombing their nuclear facilities. So yeah, they tried that every once in a while, and we showed it to you on the show.

They'd send out one of their puppet pundits or politicians here in America, and they'd be like, well, Iran nukes, and that didn't work. The right wing was like, we already bombed their nuclear facilities, and Trump already said it's totally destroyed, so move on. So now they went to, oh, what we're really concerned about is ballistic missiles. Unlike all other countries on earth, Iran should not be allowed to have any missiles. They shouldn't be allowed to have any weapons at all. In fact, until every Iranian is groveling at the feet of the Israelis, we should just keep

bombing them, bombing them, and bombing them endlessly. So is that the real motivation? Well, sure, they want to neuter Iran and absolutely destroy all of their neighbors, because they view everyone on planet Earth as a threat. Oh my God, they're all anti-Semites, they're all gonna kill us, we have to murder them first. So that is a huge part of it. But the bottom line, the most important thing is what Anna mentioned. We're gonna keep going, guys.

America is going to be forced to do whatever Israel demands. And you've now seen it with your own eyes. You saw it in Iraq, you're seeing it in Iran, unfold, day by day. Why do they want regime change? Why is not bombing their nukes, their missiles, etc? None of it is ever good enough for Israel. Because what they're doing is systematically toppling every regime

that would help the Palestinians or any other Arab countries in their area. And now Iran is a Persian country, but they have helped the Palestinians resist. They've helped other families, Hamas, Hezbollah, et cetera, all these things that Israel considers are acceptable. You must all bow your heads to Israel. You must all do as you're told. And so they've replaced the leaders of so many of those Middle Eastern countries. So tons of them actually work for Israel.

They don't work for their own citizens. And Iran is their top target. Now before Iraq was their top target, so we were forced to do regime change against Saddam Hussein. Gaddafi was a target, so we were forced to do regime change. It is greatly destabilized. Both of those nations cost us, thousands of American citizens dead, trillions of dollars on the so-called global war on terrorist, it's actually a global war on Israel's enemies. And now they're saying, no, we have to have regime change.

And we have to have a puppet installed as the leader of Iran who actually works for Israel. Otherwise, we're never satisfied. And we can't do that on our own because it requires ground troops. It requires a ton of Iran is four times the size of Iraq. It might require trillions of dollars. So Trump, come here, boy, tell him you're gonna attack Iran the minute I tell you to. And you just saw it on tape. You saw Trump saying, well, if they have missiles, definitely we're gonna attack them.

If they're nukes, we attack them immediately. But under all circumstances, we attack on behalf of Israel. So he's a dog for Israel, doesn't work for America. But to be fair, if Biden was in his place or Kamala Harris was in his place, they would do the same exact thing because almost all of our politicians are obviously empirically owned by Israel. And when it comes to the question of certain nefarious forces that destabilize the Middle East or lead to terror.

I would say that the real threat in that region is Israel, the country that's bombing multiple sovereign countries right now as we speak, the country that is obsessed with overthrowing leaders in various countries and installing puppet regimes that will do its bidding. I think at this point, considering how much insane restraint Iran has shown after the United States had struck its nuclear sites, I feel far more comfortable with a country like Iran having ballistic missiles as opposed to us providing Israel with all of the military weaponry we've been providing them for decades now.

But other issues came up during this press conference, including President Donald Trump's public demand that Benjamin Netanyahu be pardoned from his now numerous corruption scandals in the country of Israel. The president of Israel, Isaac Herzog, has been asked to do this pardon, and Netanyahu has actually formally asked for the pardon. Now, Trump was asked about this, and I'm going to show you what he had to say, but I also want to make it abundantly clear. that our team decided to use, we have cut in footage and imagery of Gaza to juxtapose the statements you are hearing from the president. Take a look. Can you tell me a little bit about your relationship with Prime Minister Netanyahu and how important it is for you to see him be pardoned by the Israeli president? Look, he's a wartime Prime Minister. He's done a phenomenal job. He's taken Israel to a very dangerous period of trauma. Israel.

with other people might not exist right now if you want to know the truth. That's a pretty big statement, but it's true. I feel that you had the wrong Prime Minister. Israel right now would not exist because they were met with a force, the likes of which very few countries could have handled. And we worked together and we were extremely victorious. One of the hardest parts of getting older is feeling like something's off in your body, but not knowing exactly what.

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I spoke to the president, and I, it's on, I mean, he tells me it's on its way. Our president declared that a genocidal corrupt scumbag, Benjamin Netanyahu, is a wartime president, a hero, a hero. As we all just saw imagery out of Gaza, you know, showing an enclave that no longer exists. You want to talk about, oh, Israel might not have existed after, you know, what happened on October 7th, really? Does Gaza exist right now? Do the residential homes exist? Do the universities exist? Do the hospitals exist?

Do the refugee camps exist? Yeah. No, it is a stain on this nation's history that we are aligned with a country as disgusting and genocidal as Israel. Yeah. So this, I missed an issue, you're right, there's actually four different issues. One was not talked about, I'll get to that in a second. Second one, third one we're about to get to. But this one is personal for Netanyahu.

Netanyahu wants to pardon, and so he wants to use his puppet Trump to pressure inside Israel, because inside Israel, he actually does not have total control. There's a lot of different factions within Israel, et cetera. He has total control here in America. So, so he makes the American president say to his Israeli audience. Now remember everybody, you should pardon Netanyahu and Netanyahu without, is a wartime hero. Without him, Israel would not have existed after October 7th. Really? Without Netanyahu, the IDF would be so incompetent that they would let a handful

of Hamas fighters what? Just keep going and going and going and just take over all of Israel? That IDF is that week? I mean, that's a preposterous statement. In fact, of course, Netanyahu in some ways funded Hamas. It takes about 45 minutes to get across Israel in a helicopter. It took about six hours for the main troops to respond, six, seven hours. Netanyahu, at a best case scenario, was deeply incompetent in allowing October 7th to happen when they had intelligence that it was definitely going to happen. And they just somehow couldn't get there for hours and hours and hours, at a bare minimum,

deeply incompetent, but now a hero that saved Israel. Somehow they couldn't use their nukes, they couldn't use Iron Dome, they couldn't use anything. And they would have been wiped out without Netanyahu. That is Trump just getting right between Netanyahu's cheeks and going, I'll humiliate all of America, you know, I'll do anything, I'll say anything. No matter how preposterous, no matter how absurd, I'll get you out of any jam, no matter how corrupt you are. In fact, it's not a matter of no matter how corrupt you are. He's like, oh, you're corrupt do? Oh, I love it. I love it. I love this corrupt guy who murders Palestinians

with our money and starts wars with our money and our troops. Yeah, get on your hands between the cheeks. So that's Trump. So that's two for two right now. By the way, he says to the Iranians, oh, what? You should make a deal right away. They didn't make a deal last time. We told them to make a deal last time. When they showed up to the negotiations, we bombed their country. We were lying. We weren't trying to make a deal. That's been reported after the fact. We were lying to the Iranians on purpose to please the Israelis, and we surprised attacked them. And then the Israelis murdered their peace negotiators, because the Israelis almost always murder peace negotiators because they don't want peace. They want perpetual war financed and fought by America on their

behalf, they're not an ally. They think we're a bunch of suckers, which leads us to issue number three, where are they going to keep Gaza? Of course they're going to keep the 53% they're in. Now they're, in fact, they're expanding the percentage and they continue to devastate Gaza is about to tell you. So I want to talk a little bit about what has transpired in Gaza since the so-called ceasefire. And I say so-called ceasefire, because while it is is true that Hamas has decided to stick to the terms of the ceasefire. Israel clearly has not. In fact, since October 10th, when the ceasefire was put into place, 414 Palestinians at least have been killed by the IDF, which seems to indicate that, you know, the slaughter continues.

Another 1,142 individuals have been wounded as the result of the IDF's military activity in Gaza post-seas-fire agreement. According to the Palestinian Chronicle, the office said in a statement that Israeli violations have included 298 incidents of direct gunfire against civilians, unsurprising, 54 military incursions into residential areas,

also unsurprising, and 455 bombing and targeting operations against people and their homes. Now, Israeli forces also carried out 162 acts of destruction and bombardment, targeting homes, institutions, and civilian buildings. The most surprising thing about all of this is that there's anything left to bomb. But apparently there is, and the IDF is bombing it. Alongside 45 cases of unlawful arrest during the ceasefire period, that's a euphemistic way

of saying, taking Palestinian hostages, which Israel is known to do. It's just that they refer to them as prisoners as opposed to hostages. And while the headline is about the barbarism, this headline that I'm about to show you is about the barbarism of the IDF in the West Bank, I think this gives us an example of how far they'll go to slaughter innocent people. This was reported by Israeli publication, Haretz. They say that a Palestinian teen left his friend's funeral shortly after he was shot dead too. I'm sure the teenager posed a real national security risk to the Israelis, right? Yeah. So Anna, if there is, If the Palestinians had killed 414 Israelis since the ceasefire, of course, everybody would have said the ceasefires over.

That's, oh my God, that's a third of October 7th, the greatest calamity known to man. Now, you say, well, Jay, you can't say that about October 7th. It sounds like you're being sarcastic. I am being sarcastic. October 7th was terrible, but Israel does one October 7th after another, after another afternoon. In fact, they've done over 70 in Gaza, and our press doesn't give a damn. thinks, yeah, but those are just Palestinians, their lives are irrelevant, they're not precious Israeli lives. So 414 Israelis had been killed, we all know it would have been declared at least

a third of a Holocaust, because October 7th was declared the new Holocaust. So, and then more, and then of course, 4,000, 40,000 Palestinians more would have been murdered, right? Because Israeli lives matter and no one else does, according to American press and American politicians. So all, all those So dead Palestinians, Israel has taken 53% of Gaza, has now set up permanent roads, infrastructure and building, they've already begun to do that. They've wiped out everything the Palestinians own and the 53% that they control. They've now started to slowly increase the 53%. They're now taking physical yellow objects and moving them on the land and saying, now if

you cross here, we'll murder you on the spot because we're a terrorist government and a terrorist army, we murder civilians on the spot, no questions asked on a regular basis. That's what Israel's doing today, because they're a terrorist country. And so they're gonna, they're never gonna give that 53% back unless massive world change happens and a change in America happens. And then people will say, oh, all the Israeli first liars will come out and go, oh, we had to take the land, it was for self-defense, it was for security reasons, and by the way, we have a plan to move at least a million Gazans out, which is a story we'll get to later,

and we'll take even more of Gaza and more of the West Bank, and we'll get our liars in American press to tell you we're doing self-defense, and we're the poor little victims as we slaughter Palestinians over and over hundreds of times, thousands, tens of thousands at a time, but then American press, like the dogs that they are, will call the poor Palestinians the terrorists and the violent ones with the violent religion. And if you criticize, Israel, they'll call you an anti-Semite, they'll try to ruin your life because a bunch of thugs, Israel first thugs, run the press, mainstream press, but not the rest of the press, 94% of Congress. I say empirical because they literally donate to 94% of Congress, massive sons of money,

hundreds of millions of dollars. And our press says, that is true, but if you report the truth, we'll try to get you. One of the hardest parts of getting older is feeling like something's off in your body, but not knowing exactly what. It's not just aging. It's often your hormones, too. When they fall out of balance, everything feels off. But here's the good news.

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And anyone who has a problem with me saying it can go ahead and suck it. For now, we're going to take a break. And when we come back, we've got other news to get to. We got to take a break, Jane. Sorry. When we come back, we'll get into a giant fraud scandal that's been really brewing in regard to Minneapolis. We'll give you the details on it and more when we return. I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. So I promise you guys a fourth thing that Netanyahu is asking for that they didn't talk about afterwards.

And the fourth item is a 20 year memorandum of understanding that is going to be worth between 80 and 100 billion dollars. So since Israel hasn't stolen enough money from us, they've already taken over $300 billion from us, pretending to be a special ally. That's just the nonsense talking point for, can shut up and give me your money. Otherwise, I'll call you an anti-Semite and try to destroy your life, right? And they've been doing this for decade after decade. They say the $300 billion that American taxpayers have given them, not enough. You owe Israel more.

So they're now trying to get about $100 billion guaranteed to them over the next 20,000. 20 years, and if anyone dares object, obviously, all of news and politicians, our representatives will come down on you like a ton of bricks, call you an anti-Semite, try to get you fired from whatever job you're in, and say no one's allowed to object, hand over your wallets. And so if you don't believe us on any of this and you say, oh, well, I heard on mainstream media that that's not true. I hear that Israel has this Judeo-Christian heritage and we owe them all of our money. We owe them, we owe them. You guys sound like, you know, you don't like Israel and you're biased, and that's what the real problem is. Okay, let's find out who's right

and who's wrong. Look up and see how much of Congress that they have funded. Look up and see how much the Israeli lobby has spent. They have, in fact, spent over the years hundreds of millions of dollars. And in the last election cycle, they spent more than any other lobby, $100 million. Just in the one cycle alone, they have given to 94% of Congress, and you see our establishment media with your own eyes. They see 1,200 people killed in Israel, and they rightfully say that is a horrific tragedy. They see 70,000 butchered in Gaza. They go, I know who cares? That's self-defense. Shut up, Palestinians. Shut up, you stupid Americans. Give Israel more money. Is there a single person in mainstream

objecting to the $100 billion robbery they're planning right now? I don't see it. Is there anybody objecting? Hey, what the hell? They just stole half of Gaza. Literally right in front of our eyes, they stole half of Gaza. Nope, no, no, no, no, shish, shish, shush, otherwise we'll destroy you. By the way, Israel doesn't control America. Hilarious, hilarious, hilarious. All right, let's go to our members, Rebel Dragon. So basically, we're going to go to war with Iran because Israel is telling us to. Absolutely.

Ecclecting miscellaneous. What a coincidence. A story about two men who don't deserve to be jerk of the year, Netanyahu and Trump. Yes, Turks and Jerks coming up at 8 o'clock Eastern. Don Dodda dragging couple of comments. Trump talked about bombing Iran while bombing Venezuela and initiating first official land strikes. This is BS. Not only that, on Christmas Day, he also bombed Nigeria and Somalia.

He's now bombed Somalia 127 times. Did you even know that? Just because our press is like, she's doing it on behalf of Israel. Shut up, you anti-Semites. Don Dada Dragon also wrote in. To be fair, Trump's draft dodging ass thinks he's a war hero too. The bar isn't stacked high when you're just a lowly POS, and that's referring to Trump. And of course, Trump deserves that.

Angry Com on Twitch says, I'm not afraid of World War III. My biggest fear is we will be on the wrong side. I'm very worried about that as well. Jackal Dragon, 1991 says, go ahead and suck it. LOL, new merch. I want to try and get to heaven if possible. I'm hearing I'm not doing well. All right, back on TYT, Jankan, Anna, with you.

Anna's got more news. All right. Well, we got to talk about a video that went viral just recently about fraud cases stemming from Minnesota. And this has been a huge controversial topic, although I don't think it needs to be. But nonetheless, let me give you the details and you can decide for yourselves. So this is quality leering center. I'm meant to say quality learning center. Don't open up.

They said they spelled learning wrong. Don't open up. How do you have ice here, ma'am? I'm literally a YouTuber. Don't open up. Man, what do you think about the fraud that's taking place here in Minnesota? Don't open up. We have ice.

Man, what do you think about this place being licensed for 99 children? Don't open up. And getting $4 million over the... Don't open up. It's ice. $4 million in the last two years. Go away. What do you think about that?

Are you in favor? Are you in favor of that? You just watched a snippet of a report that went viral, carried out by a 23-year-old independent journalist and YouTuber by the name of Nick Shirley. Now, he describes himself as a YouTube journalist. And along with a gentleman by the name of David, the two of them visited various child daycare centers that had been receiving grants, funded by. by state and federal taxes to show that these entities are not actually operating as child daycare centers. In fact, they believe that these centers are committing fraud off the taxpayers' dime. Now, this story kind of piggybacks off of something that broke earlier this year in November.

There was a huge story that was published in the New York Times about fraud cases in the Minneapolis area and most of these, you know, non-profits or these little businesses that were popping up and basically benefiting from COVID-era public money were Somali owned. Now, two things are happening at the same time. On one hand, these fraud cases appear to be very serious and very real. On the other hand, the issue itself has become incredibly politicized with the right kind of using it, the right and also let's keep it real. Israel defenders kind of using it as a distraction to both demonize Muslims in the country, demonize immigrants in the country, while also taking some of the heat and pressure off of Israel's ongoing genocide and expansionist project in the Middle East. However, regardless of the bad faith actors who might be using this for terrible political purposes, the fact remains that it appears

that close to $9 billion, according to prosecutors, have been stolen from taxpayers in the Minneapolis area as a result of these fraudulent businesses. And I want to give you more details about it in just a second. But before I do, Jank, your two cents. Yeah, so this fraud obviously happened. People have been arrested already. On the other hand, people have been arrested already.

So it's not like a YouTuber figured out a day ago. So I want to get into the details. The question isn't whether fraud happened. It's how big it is and why it hasn't been stopped. And then the second issue is how much is this happening all across the country in so many different states? I want to give you some examples, including blue states like New York and California. Yes, absolutely. Because while this story in particular is terrible when you consider the amount of money that was allegedly defrauded from taxpayers, states like California have defrauded taxpayers at a much.

larger figure. And I'll give you some of those details in just a minute. I just want everyone to care about fraud and theft of taxpayer money, regardless of who does it, instead of politicizing it for some other agenda. Now, why did this YouTube journalist Nick Shirley decide to do this? Well, he says he wanted to confront the people who are making millions of dollars from social services, including meal programs, housing assistance, and health services. So David, the gentleman who you'll see in this video alongside Shirley claims to have uncovered more than 1,000 fraudulent service-oriented businesses, more than 800 of which are Somali-owned. So that that is the claim. And the whole point of the video is to literally go to these businesses and show that the businesses

aren't even operating as what they are reporting in order to get the government grants. So they emphasize child care centers where Shirley shows up during weekday business hours to find that there are actually like no children present. There are also some pretty extreme claims that we need more evidence for, which I'll get into in just a second. So a claim was just kind of casually made about how this money is then being siphoned off and sent over to al-Shabaab, a terrorist group that operates out of Somalia. Now, there hasn't been any evidence provided for it. One publication, city journal claim that that was the case, but I found they're reporting on that lacking. I think fraud is happening.

I just don't think that you need to go the extra mile and make a claim as extreme as they're funding a terrorist group in Somalia until you have the goods, until you can actually prove that's happening. And let's also keep in mind that the U.S. government does a good enough job stealing our money to fund foreign terror groups as it is. So maybe there should be some ire directed toward the U.S. government for doing that willingly on a regular basis. But with that in mind, I want to give you a little piece of what the video uncovered. The areas of fraud that I have numbers for are mostly related to child care.

This is massive fraud that is beyond anyone's imagination, the scope. And so, for example, there's a child care not far from here in Minneapolis that has two day, two child cares listed at the same address. And together, they're licensed supposedly for 120 children. I have never seen a single child there ever. And I've been by that place at least 100 times. This place right here. Yes. We're outside of it.

Well, this is actually two day cares are registered here. One of them is MAKO, which you see on this sign. The other one is mini child care center. And between the two of these child care centers, they're pulling in about $3 million a year. And there are no children. Every facility you go to, the windows will be blocked out so you can't see in. There's nobody here. You won't see a single child at any of these facilities. So over and over again, you'll see them go visit various child care facilities. And you'll see that there's no one there. There are no children. And, you know, sometimes they'll find workers there and they'll ask some questions.

The workers are very evasive. And I should know that while, yes, it is true that prosecutors have already been investigating similar fraud cases in the area and there have already been arrests, what's important to know about the businesses that were visited by Shirley and David here, we're still receiving government money. Okay, so this is from Dina Winter. She writes that Tiki Brown, Commissioner of the Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families said none of the 10 child care centers that YouTuber Nick Shirley recently visited for his viral video had their payments paused. Although a couple were previously closed down by the state and state workers are doing visits to the rest today.

So these facilities, even though there was prior knowledge by the state that there was fraud going on, these facilities were still receiving these government grants. And guys, that's a problem for a number of different reasons. Number one, it's the theft of taxpayer money. But more importantly, it's the theft of taxpayer money that is meant to help the needy. Okay, it is wrong and it shouldn't be defended based on the skin color or the ethnicity or the identity of the fraudsters committing it. But nonetheless, prosecutors had been looking into this as well.

they allege that Minnesota may have lost up to $9 billion in misappropriated aid. Charges for at least five new alleged fraudsters were announced earlier this month by Joe Thompson, first assistant U.S. District Attorney for the state of Minnesota, including allegedly fraudulent Medicaid claims involving a housing stabilization services program. Thompson characterized the schemes, each of which have allegedly collected millions as a fraud tourism scheme that is under investigation by state and federal agencies, including the FBI, Homeland Security, and the Justice Department. Plus, there had been, you know, credible reporting on this previously as well on November 29th, New York Times reported on how federal charges had

been filed against dozens of people, felonies, in fact, related to stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from a government program meant to keep children fed during the COVID pandemic. Over the last five years, law enforcement officials say fraud took root in pockets of Minnesota's Somali diaspora as scores of individuals made small fortunes by setting up companies that build state agencies for millions of dollars worth of social services that were never provided. Again, just want to reemphasize, this is money that is stolen from taxpayers that was meant to help needy families, hungry children. federal prosecutors say that 59 people have been convicted in those schemes so far and that more than $1 billion in taxpayer money has been stolen in three plots. They are investigating. So there are other examples.

I'll give you one other one. So they focused on a nonprofit called Feeding Our Future, which became a partner to dozens of local businesses that were enrolled as feeding sites meant to feed children during the COVID pandemic. And then in addition to that, hundreds of providers were reimbursed for assistance. They claim to have provided to homeless people. I know a lot about this in California that federal authorities say were never even provided. So if you care about the homeless, you should be furious about fraud cases like this.

But unfortunately, it has quickly devolved into a politicized, like, race issue. And I think the way that the right has talked about this story is to blame for that. Because if you immediately politicize it and make it about race, every action is going to have an equal reaction. And then the story devolves into race politics or culture war nonsense when at the heart of this issue is that we have states that are running these programs so poorly with so little oversight that literally billions in taxpayer money that's meant to help the needy get stolen. You should be upset about that. I mean, at least I feel upset about that.

But I'll get to the rhetoric that I'm referring to and give you specific examples in just a minute. Jank, I want you to jump in first. Yeah. So there are three potential issues here. I think two of them are nonsense. One of them is super important and totally ignored. One is immigration. Oh, the immigrants said it.

The other is, oh, there's Somali slash Muslims. Oh, the Muslims did it. Okay, and then the third is fraud. So as I'm gonna show you here, is it just the Somalis or just immigrants? Absolutely not. So I don't think those are the two main issues at all, except for how they relate to political correctness, which I'll get to it as a larger topic in a second. So the fraud is the real issue. Now, we know there's fraud here, there's already been arrest, convictions, et cetera.

What I don't know is the depth of the fraud because look guys, this, the guy who did the YouTube videos, he actually started doing them months ago to give him credit on that, right? So it's not like he's just jumped on it now, so I don't want you to have, be mistaken about that. Now having said that, it became supernova viral just a couple of days ago, right? But we, well before that, we already had 86 arrests, 59 convictions, so they had to do a long process of investigation, arrest, trial, and then conviction. In fact, five new cases were launches, Anna just told you earlier this month before any of

this went viral. So then then the question is, it's just hyped up stuff about things that already happened, but we get to go Somali, Muslim, immigrant, right? Or is there more to it? And it seems like there is more to it. That's my assessment based on what I've seen. And so as, you know, they point out the places that have not been shut down yet, that are pretending to take care of children or not, they should look into more of those.

Now I see the millions piling up in the video and in the reports, but 5 million, 10 million, 50 million is not 9 billion. So the prosecutor said 9 billion. I don't know, he, I assume has some extra information, 9 billion is a giant number. So if it really is that much, then they missed a lot of it, and people are right to be enraged about how much they missed. If it turns out, no, they had actually gotten a good deal of them, but they were still another half or another quarter or et cetera to go, great, let's go get those sons of bitches, right?

But it's not like this collapse of no one doing anything, because obviously they were doing something. The question is, was it enough? Okay, now, so that's the first part of the story. I got to jump in on that, because there's a lot. lot of nuance there and people are going to get upset at me literally just telling the truth because what's happening in Minnesota is very similar to what's been happening in California, right? So the argument you're making jank is what's the big deal? I mean, the federal prosecutors

are looking into it. They've been investigating it. It's not like no one's looked into it, right? Is that what you're saying? Okay, what are you saying then? No, no, I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying if let's make up numbers here. Let's say it's a hundred million dollar scandal and they've got, and they already prosecuted $50 million worth of fraud. I'm saying go get the other $50 million. But guys, don't panic. This is a normal fraud thing that happens in all the states, which is what I was about to get to, which you're about to get to, et cetera.

But by the way, we should be super vigilant about all of that going forward. So I'm not saying it's not a big deal at all. But if it's a $100 million problem, that's a relatively normal, right? If it's a $9 billion problem, that's not normal. And that means they missed the great majority of the fraud. And then I'm more concerned. And I'm also concerned about that in every state. So let me give you some context so you can kind of understand how a number as massive as $9 billion could be credible.

So if you look at the state of California, which I've done a lot of research and investigative reporting on, literal published investigative reporting that's gone through laborious editing processes and everything. Basically, during the COVID pandemic, if you guys can all remember, there was a massive influx of federal aid given to the states. And for good reason, right, people lost their jobs out of no fault of their own. Government shutdowns happened. And there was a lot of fear that people were basically going to find themselves in unbearable poverty, unable to feed their children as a result of not being able to work. Now, unfortunately, that money and the influx of money being sent to states also led to an

influx of these fraudulent nonprofits and businesses popping up. And so in the state of California, Gavin Newsom saw COVID as an ideal opportunity to do something to provide permanent supportive housing for the homeless population. So suddenly you see all of these nonprofits and these homeless service providers pop up. up and it turns out that in five years, 24, and this is according to a state audit, I'm not making this up, you guys can look into it yourselves if you don't believe me. A state audit indicated that $24 billion, billion with a B, in homeless aid in the state of California is unaccounted for. And so did our state prosecutors do something about it? Well, you know, the state attorney

general Banta did do one civil lawsuit. Ooh, thanks for the civil lawsuit. But it had to, like, it had to be the Trump administrations, federal prosecutors to actually do a criminal investigation. And through the criminal investigation, they've already found not one, but two developers who did wire fraud, all sorts of crazy fraudulent nonsense in order to siphon off hundreds of billions, hundreds of millions of dollars from, you know, Newsom's signature homeless housing program that was funded partially through the COVID money that was given to the state of California. So the point that I'm trying to make is, yeah, the federal prosecutors are looking into it now, but the states where the fraud took place really just wanted to either ignore

it or they were super soft on the, you know, alleged fraudsters. And that's why people are frustrated and angry. And yes, I get that in the case of Minnesota. They're trying to make this about race, which is disgusting, when in reality, there is a very real problem in this country with poorly run state programs that are supposed to help the needy, but oftentimes are riddled with fraud. Yeah. So let me give voice to some of our members here. And then I want to back up what Anna is saying, because that's the direction I was going to. I'm gonna go. Creative Pixie writes in on Twitch, you may not wanna, you may want to do some looking into actual videos in which they actually went to the daycare before it was actually

opened, the hours on the door listed are 2 p.m. to 10 p.m. This is all in an effort to discredit Tim Walts, this Mike Pillow is running against them and being bankrupt by Trump. Guys. Okay, okay. So hold on, hold on. So first of all, there's, yeah, you might have seen one or two things as separate videos, but be careful about all the videos. videos, is there really a child care program being run from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.? Less likely, okay? So the sign on one of the videos, one of the centers there, and you saw it in the first video is a learning center, but learning is misspelled. Now it's both funny, but also emblematic, because that goes to show you, not only does no one there care about learning, but no one

from the state went and guys, oh, this is embarrassing, guys. We're giving you millions of dollars in for education of kids and you misspelled learning on your outward facing public sign. Let's go fix that. That means no one's home. No one's paying any attention. And that goes to the core of this. So do I know that they're targeting Tim Wal's? Yes. Do I know that it's they were attacking Somalis even before this video came out and this turned out to be a perfect little talking point for some of those folks? Yes. I I know that, right? But having said that, now let me back up what Anna is saying.

Look guys, and for the right way, I'll use more blue states here. I guarantee you it's the same in the red states. There's two different issues here. One is government incompetence. They give money and then they go, I'm done with it and they don't chase it down. I'll give you a really interesting example. It's the counter example that is the exception that proves the rule. In Houston, there's this one woman who went in and cleaned up how they were dealing

with the homeless situation. And she found enormous, unbelievable Kafkaesque bureaucracy where people would be in charge of the same thing but never talk to one another. They'd be in charge of one part and then there's a second part, but the people in charge of the two different parts would never talk to each other. It was massive inefficiency, massive overspending, et cetera. And when she, to Anna's earlier point, when she fixed it, homelessness went down by 40%. So you're not helping the homeless when you run an inefficient bureau.

bureaucratic government. You're not helping any of your citizens, right? So she helped almost more than anyone else, but that was one city that they did it. I guarantee you that if you did it in almost all the major cities, I don't care, blue, red, whatever it might be, and the states, that you would find similar problems. Okay, now the second problem is not just government inefficiency and incompetence. You have a lot of groups. And when I say groups, I don't just mean racial religious groups like Somalis or other ethnic

groups like I'm going to talk about. But I mean, here, let me give you an ethnic group example and a non-ethnic group. So in New York, Hasidic Jews have committed one fraud case after another, after another, after another. And in fact, we've reported on it in the past. It's very similar to this story in Minnesota. But it gets less coverage. And in fact, when you cover it, they go, no, that's it. You're an anti-Semite. And you should just let them, you should shut up about the fraud that they're doing, because by talking about it, you're making it seem like all Jews do it, but nobody said all Jews do it. It was just that particular Hasidic community that was doing it in New York, right?

Not all Somalis are doing it, not all Jews are doing it, not all Hasidic Jews are doing it. But because of the sensitivities, sometimes because the Democrats prevented in some of the states, but in the case of New York, there's a lot of Republicans who are like, you better not mention it, you better not mention it, right? So no, we're not to mention anything we want. So now it's our money. It's our money. No, we get to mention it no matter who does it.

I don't care if it's, I don't care if it's Hasidic Jews. I don't care if it's Armenians, which by the way, I remember reporting on an Armenian Medicare fraud ring in Los Angeles that got arrested. Armenians were super upset at me. So what? I don't care. That's my money. That's our money.

And it's being deprived from the very people who deserve that money. It is the theft of our resources. and we should not defend it because we want to defend a particular ethnicity or racial group. And by the way, let me one up you on what you're mentioning about the Hasidic Jews in New York, Jank, because Chris Menehan gave really interesting examples of fraudsters who were pardoned by Donald Trump. These are guys who stole our money, much like the Somalis that are getting all the attention in Minnesota. Let's go to Graphicate. I want to give you some examples. So there's an organization known as Alpha Institute, and their whole point is to provide support services to, you know, the Jewish population, the U.S. prison system.

So these are the people that you're seeing right now that have been pardoned by Donald Trump. One was Philip Esformis, the king of Medicare fraud, who stole $1.3 billion for Medicare Medicaid, and drugged patients with oxy cotton and fentanyl to get them to. who stay longer at his facilities. We're not done yet. Here's another example. There's Shalom, yeah, Shalom Weiss, who looted a life insurance company for $450 million and defrauded elderly Americans out of their life savings.

His crimes earned him his own episode of American greed. He was also pardoned by Donald Trump. Let me give you one other example. Perhaps the worst was Democrat mega donor, Solomon Melgan, an eye doctor who stole $73 million, from Medicare by persuading elderly patients to undergo excruciating tests and treatments they didn't need for diseases they didn't have. So these guys get pardoned and not a peep from the right wing on that. But when it comes to fraud that's committed by, you know, ethnic groups that

they don't like, oh, then we're going to make a big deal about that. How about we make a big deal about all of it? Because at the end of the day, it is the theft of our money that is supposed to help the needy, not line the pockets of disgusting scammers and fraudsters. Yeah. So look, again, distinction between voters and politicians and pundits. So if Republican voters knew that there was all those groups in New York and other places that were ripping us off and Trump pardon them, I think at least half of them would be super mad about that. If they knew that Senator Rick Scott from Florida committed the largest Medicare fraud in American history, they might be super mad about that. But how does our national media treat the two different

stories. One is the Somalis in Minnesota. Well, you just saw it. It's like the biggest news story in the country. And every mainstream media outlets talking about it and they're going 200% on it, even though it's a right wing issue. And there's a lot of people think they're the liberal media. But in this case, they're like, remember dirty Muslims doing fraud, everyone in the world should collapse in on them. This is the biggest problem in America. Now you have, I mean, one of the stories Anna just read, he was $450 million, and that's not speculative, that already happened. The other one was $73 million. Not only is a gigantic, but Donald Trump pardons them for no reason.

It should be a larger story. I haven't seen it in national media almost at all, at all. Do you see it going viral? No. Because look, these are both real transgressions, and neither side or no sides should cover them up. And that doesn't help your side anyway when you love. to cover up fraud, I can't think of anything more politically damaging, and if you think you're gonna get away with it, you're nuts, okay, especially in this new atmosphere.

So it's just the emphasis. And where do you, where does the national media choose to put their emphasis? So then last thing, back to California in the example that Anna you have. So Anna has written brilliantly about this and we'll put the links in the description box below if you're watching this later on YouTube or other platforms. And so first of all, we've given $24 billion to the homelessness crisis in California. And homelessness has gone up, not down. Half the money can't be accounted for.

And our politicians go, so what? We can't find it. So why is there not a much larger outrage in California and across the country? Because the press, out of political correctness, oh, the homelessness, oh, no, no, no, no, don't say anything, don't say anything, right? But brother, stealing the money doesn't help the homeless. It hurts the homeless. Oh, it's homelessness. Oh, no, no, it's nonprofits.

Oh, no, no, nonprofits. All our friends are in nonprofits. And that doesn't mean all nonprofits are bad. There's tons of wonderful nonprofits. But there's also nonprofits that are in the robbery business. And it's the job of the press. I mean, look, we're having to rely on rando YouTubers to go around knocking on doors and stuff. Shouldn't the LA Times, New York Times, Washington,

Post, and all the local papers be going absolutely ballistic over all of these stories. In California, where's the money? Where's the money? Where did the money go? So we should all be outraged by all of this fraud and not, and don't guys, don't get it twisted about which group in that particular case did the fraud, as if that's the real issue. That's not the issue at all. The government and in a de facto of the media allowing and aiding and abetting this fraud

throughout all the states is the real issue. Yeah, I totally agree with that. final thing I'll say in that we really got to go. Look, the argument that I often hear from some on the left is that, look, drawing so much attention to these stories helps Republicans beat Democrats. To which I respond and say, so am I supposed to help the Democrat who's aiding and abetting the theft of my resources and hurting the poor? Am I supposed to be like protecting that person? so they can, in the case of Gavin Newsom, become the next president and defraud the entire country? No, no, thank you.

I don't really care, okay, about a political agenda here. What I care about is what's right and what's wrong. And what's wrong is that our resources have been stolen and that you have groups of people who think you should provide cover for it depending on racial or, you know, ethnic identity. And I disagree with that wholeheartedly, period. We've got to take a break. We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT, sat and angry Patriot writes in, child care from 2 to 10 p.m. could cater to shift workers. Yeah, I hear you, brother.

Look, trying to deny that there's fraud going on in Minnesota is don't do it. It's terrible strategy and it's not only that, it's not true. So you think they made it all up? Like I get it guys, they're trying to smear Tim Walz and they're trying to smear some smear some immigrants. We said it like eight times, right? But at the same time, if your response to that is it's not happening. When it's clearly happening, there's 59 convictions already, 86 arrests.

So did they all make, that started in the Biden administration. Does Biden hate Democrats? Does Biden hate Somalis? So I love you guys and it's possible that on any given place, yeah, you could have a second shift and yeah, it could be 2 to 10 p.m. But overall, don't try to defend this stuff. And now on the other hand, EM, ETIB 2 makes a very good point. And the last point I was going to make, but we had to go to the break.

So the Pentagon is committing the biggest taxpayer fraud of all, but no one's giving nowhere near the same attention as the Minneapolis story. Both are bad, but this is billions versus a trillion plus. These people need to pull their heads out of their ass, and of course pointing to the Smollies, but what the F about the taxpayers' money going to Israel? This is no different. Where's the outrage about that? Okay.

Well, you can't claim that we don't complain about the money going to Israel. And honestly, all that missing Pentagon money, this is my speculation. I want to be clear about it. I wouldn't be surprised if some of that money is being siphoned off for Israel as well. They haven't passed a single audit. Not one, not one audit. Like, come on. I really have no idea who in the American government actually works for America and who works for Israel.

I think an enormous number of people in the government work for Israel. So yeah, I don't know where the money went. But we don't have information on that. Okay, so but overall, your point on the Pentagon, of course, 100% right, brother. And so, yeah, there's way more fraud there, and they can't account for half their budget. That's $400 billion a year. But no one's allowed to ask questions about that either. And why does mainstream media never care about that?

Because they're in the tank for all the donors. They're in the tank for the rich, the powerful, et cetera. So you just missed the Pentagon not being passing an audit. You miss that they can't find $400 billion. You missed that Donald Rumsfeld on 910, 2001 said the Pentagon was missing. $2 trillion and they couldn't find it. Yeah, I get a 9-11 happen to the day afterwards, nice break for them, I guess. But that $2 trillion is apparently gone and we don't care.

No one cares at all unless they could use it for a political purpose to smear people. But if you think that a lot of the people that are independents and voter for Trump or some of the right don't care about us giving money to Israel, you're wrong. They're now sick of it and they don't want to give another dime. And a lot of them are super pissed about what happened at the Pentagon, but they can't get anybody to represent them just like us. We can't get anybody to represent us. So has to have the Democrats done anything to rein in the Pentagon? No, they pile on more pork and more pork. Those Democrats that have piled on all that pork into the Pentagon, they are just as bad as the Republicans.

on that issue, they're not any better. My entire life, the Democrats have loved the corruption and the fraud at the Pentagon. And so the Republicans. Why? Because they're the same people. Corporate Democrats equals corporate Republican. They don't disagree on a goddamn thing. We'll be back. All right back on TYT, Chankana with you guys and CDN North Dog Dad. Thank you for your membership on YouTube. We appreciate you.

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slash switch. You won't regret it. All right, Anna. Well, it appears that in some cases, Israel does like to recognize statehood. It's only when it's self-serving, though. So let's talk about what I'm referring to. Something big just happened when it comes to Somalia. Israel has now become the first sovereign country to recognize the state of Somaliland. Now, what is Somaliland? Well, it is a semi-autonomous region in Somalia and has been desperate to be recognized as an independent state. And if Israel is, willing to recognize it as an independent state, obviously Israel's going to get something in return. The big question is, what are they hoping to get in return? Now, before I get to the context

and all the details about this, Jank, your two cents. Yeah, so of course they want several disastrous things because of this. And of course there's the irony of no, you can't give any part of a country to someone else, but apparently you can't in Somalia. You can't in Israel, but you can't in Somalia. But I'm super worried about the ethnic cleansing that's going to happen here. But if Israel wants something, they almost always get it. So buckle up and brace for impact. So I want to give you a little bit of context about what's been happening in Somalia

for many decades. I'm going to do a deep dive on this. So bear with me as I come I kind of give you the basics. This isn't anywhere close to everything you need to know about what's happened in Somalia. But basically, Somaliland basically declared independence from Somalia back in 1991 during the ongoing civil war that broke out in the country. So this civil war grew out of resistance to a military junta. So there was a military coup, military rule in Somalia. And as a result of that, you have these, you know, various. factions resisting, various groups resisting that military rule. Now, the resistance included

armed rebel groups, and by the early 1990s, Somalia became a failed state. So that's when Somaliland located in the northwest of Somalia, declared independence. This is in 1991, and Puntland also declared independence years later in 1998. Although Somaliland has functioned as an autonomous entity, it never received any formal recognition from the UN. Now, Taiwan is the only other place that has recognized its independence. But prior to Israel, again, Taiwan was the only place that recognized it. Now, Somalia continues to claim the region as part of its sovereign territory. So obviously, Somalia is really upset about this. And there was a joint statement put out by other countries as well, including Egypt and Turkey, who spoke out against this as well.

Now, Islamic groups have taken hold of Somalia, including an ISIS affiliate, used to be an al-Qaeda affiliate, but now an ISIS affiliate known as al-Shabaab. And the U.S. has been bombing al-Shabaab, you know, for a while now, but the bombings really ramped up under the Trump administration. So during the Christmas holiday, the airstrikes were really ratcheted up by the Trump administration. It's just a complete, an utter disaster. But then you have Somaliland, which is a territory that is both economically beneficial to both the United States and Israel. But it's beneficial to Israel for other reasons as well. So Netanyahu said he, foreign minister, Gideon Saar, and the Somaliland president signed a joint declaration of mutual recognition.

quote, this declaration is in the spirit of the Abraham Accords initiated by President Trump, the statement read. Now, Somaliland also issued a statement following Netanyahu's announcement to declare that they do intend to join the Abraham Accords. So there's the economic component to it as well. And when you consider the placement of Somaliland, it's very beneficial for trade purposes, but also beneficial for other purposes as well. Wynet, an Israeli publication reported recently, behind Israel's recognition of Somaliland, years of quiet Mossad involvement. Israel becomes the first UN member to recognize Somaliland as a sovereign state drawing condemnation from Somalia, Turkey, and Egypt. The move reflects strategic interests near Houthi-controlled areas and years of quiet Mossad engagement.

So the same piece notes that one key factor driving Israel's interest is Somaliland's proximity to areas controlled by the Houthis in Yemen. Strengthening ties with Somaliland is seen in Israel as a strategic force multiplier against the Houthis. And you should also know the main reason why Israel is doing this is because this is all part of Israel's ethnic cleansing and land theft campaign. The territory, as Wynet further reports, has recently been mentioned as a possible designation for Gazins with officials there saying they would be willing to absorb one million Gazans,

though no formal agreement has been announced. And by the way, this aligns with reporting that was done by drop site news, indicating that Israel is preparing for a permanent presence in Gaza, something that we already knew, something that we already suspected. And they used satellite images to find that Israel has been building at least 13 new IDF outposts in Gaza. They've killed at least 414 Palestinians since the alleged ceasefire was signed on October 10th. And they've continued the control demolition of Palestinian property as well in Gaza. Now, Israel's sinister plot was also something that the Financial Times had reported on back in

March of this year, they reported that U.S. officials had met with leaders of Somaliland to raise the possibility of displacing Palestinians to the area. Other countries Israel is negotiating with for their ethnic cleansing campaign include Indonesia, which seems to be somewhat receptive to the plan, Somalia, which is also receptive. But then you also have other countries like Uganda, South Sudan, and Libya, which seem to be a little more resistant. And finally, as the article mentions in its subheadline, Mossad has been working its tactics in the area for quite some time now, as I'm sure they are in many other countries, our own included, Jank. Yeah, so a lot of issues here. First, let's note the hypocrisy here. Many countries like France and Australia recognize Palestine, Israel lost it. They're like, unacceptable! You can't just go and declare a country, you know, legitimate. without first dealing with the country that's occupying it and you know telling

the occupiers please pretty please what else do we need to do for you to let go of your captains you guys are the most amazing people on earth blah blah blah blah right so totally unacceptable they then Israel goes and recognizes Somalililand to break off from the rest of Somali so what happened I thought it was unacceptable but as there Israelis always have two different rules a rule for themselves and a rule for the rest of the planet for the rest of you schmucks who would ever listen to them as if they're not lying 24-7. Every time they go to speak about diplomacy or any of these issues, they're always lying.

So are they actually outraged by recognizing a state like Palestine? No, because they just did it in Somaliland. And it's actually, of course, much worse because it's not equivalent at all. They're all Somalis there, as opposed to the Palestinians and the Israelis that are obviously view themselves very differently. Now, to the core of the issue. So they want to move a million Gazans. Wait, what happened? I thought you said you were going to get out of Gaza. Point 16 and Trump's 20 point plan, peace plan for Gaza was, Israel leaves Gaza. So not only have they not left Gaza, as Anna just explained to you, they've started building permanent outposts and the 53% that they control.

Not only that, they've begun to expand past the 53% through a campaign of, of course, as usual, slaughter of the innocents, 414 Palestinians killed since the so-called ceasefire. They continue to bomb and kill, but if you touch the Israelis, they'll cry and cry and cry about, oh my God, the ceasefire, the ceasefire. So they don't ever intend to ever follow any ceasefire, they're not following this one. They're always hypocritical on every single issue. So, but for, but that's the 53% that's currently barren that Israel absolutely leveled. The other 47% has 2.2 million Palestinians in it.

And obviously they're going to try to move them out to places like Somaliland. And they've announced it a hundred times guys, it's all over the Israeli press. If you haven't heard it here, it's because American press are dogs for Netanyahu and work for them. The Israeli press is far more unconstrained because there are many different sides in Israel. But the American press serves Israel very loyally and dutifully so they don't tell you about the monstrous ethnic cleansing they're planning to do by moving a million human beings out. And that would be, I mean, again, textbook, genocide, et cetera. And so they're willing to destabilize Somalia, massively destabilize it, cause it a lot more violence

in order to get what they want. But as I pointed out, of course, the second thing is they also care about the geography of the area. So that is right in the area where they can strike at the Houthis in Yemen easier. They could protect that shipping lane easier, at least for their own ships. Of course, they would never want to protect anyone else's stuff ever, ever. The whole world owes them. They owe nothing to the rest of the planet or to the Somalis or anyone else.

take, take, take. That's Israeli 101. And now, we've bombed Somalia 127 times since Trump reentered office. Did you know we're at war with some factions in Somalia? Nobody talks about it because what's the big deal? They're just Somalis. Let's just kill them, right? Now, that is in coordination with the Somali government, to be fair. But the Somali government hates the idea of Somaliland and that they do not want that. Interestingly, the reason I brought up in this context is because there's been only one bomb that the U.S. has done in Somaliland, in that area that some are calling Somaliland. It was a bomb to kill their top peacemaker in the area. Because Israel doesn't want peace. They want conflict. They want separation. So they want to be able to

have a puppet government in the middle of Africa where they could dump all the Palestinians after they steal their land, and it can easily, more easily attack other Muslims in the area by having a base there. So they're like, yeah, kill the peacemaker. And of course, America doesn't work for our CIA, our military, et cetera, doesn't work for us at all. It totally works for Israel. So they're like, yes, sir, right away, sir, let's kill anyone trying to make peace, sir.

And of course, the Israelis also try to kill the peace negotiators in Qatar. They killed Iran's peace negotiators. anytime anybody's trying to make peace, don't worry, Israel will murder them so they create more violence conflict to take advantage of for their own benefit. Absolutely. All right, we got to take a break. We'll stay on this story and hopefully later this week, I'll do a deeper dive on what the U.S. involvement in Somalia has been since the 1990s. For now, we've got to take a break and when we come back, we'll talk a little bit about how billionaires have launched an offensive against Representative Rokana. We'll tell you why. Damn it, they failed us. And if you're not angry about that, Michael,

and any of you out there, then you're goddamn wrong. Because you should be angry. Young Turks. It was genuine. He was bad. Jank Yuger, known online as one of the young Turks, isn't afraid to throw some punches.

Three, two, one, fade up. Jank, the Turk Yuga. Kind of TV station is this. The whole point is for me to yell a scream and tell you what I think. It was right out of like Wayne's World. This guy on this little rinky dink website is speaking truth to power. We've been averaging 600,000 views a day. Beating most of the cable shows in America.

We're the largest online news show in the world. We're celebrating our one billionth view. Television, we're coming. Warren's politics ahead with Hank Yugar. He knew that the MS. NBC opportunity was an experiment. And Phil and host beat CNN in the headline news combined. At some point, they want to give me a show.

Every single year, that comes out of our paycheck. We put it in, and you're saying we were suckers. When you, as a host, tells someone you're interviewing to shut up, that's going to raise a red flag. That guy needed a tall glass of shut up. If President Obama's doing the wrong thing, I'm not going to tell you that he's doing the right thing so I can, quote, support him.

He says to me, you won't believe the meaning that I just have. The head of MSNBC talked to me. They want him off the air. Chek took an incredible risk. When we're supposed to challenge the government, that's the role of the media. The Democrats and the Republicans are here to screw you. And who on the air is saying it? I wouldn't have done what he did.

That if I'm going to be a talk show host, I should be the biggest talk show host in the country. I don't think anyone else does it better. I don't think anyone's even close. Before you know it, I'll be back on your TV doing a national show. I guarantee it. Magic.

It's showtime and say 45 minutes. I'm hosting today. Now, I know what you're thinking. Jail, your face is already perfect, but you know what? I still need to apply some makeup. I went through this process, right? A few years ago,

when I realized that I was going to have to put makeup on the show. I had to go through, like, finding out what my undertones were. You guys know those are? I got my mad cousins. It says SPF-15 Foundation, Broad Spectrum. But apparently what I have is red undertones, and I think pores are not supposed to be seen. I need all these things to be confirmed for me.

These sponge things don't work for me. You got to use your hands. This idea. That's how the magic really happens. So we're going to go through a tutorial. How to make the magic happen from beautiful to beautiful earth. Let's go. I've already been moisturized.

That's the first thing. But moisturization already happened. We go raw, all hands. Take up a couple streaks. This is the guy we're putting on makeup. We got dots. There's some shining points that generally happen. First of all, here we go.

You dust here. I'm putting way too much, but you dust. Oh, get the excess off. You don't want chunks. There's like a T zone, I think, right? Mine is a double T zone. Because I went middle and another cross. Make sure your nose isn't all at all shiny.

People get on you for it. Don't say, it's not a good point you made on there, J.R. Your nose is shiny. You guys are picky like that sometimes. I think that's about it, fellas. And ladies, see you guys next time. Bitsies. Thank you.

All right, back on T.I.T. Jen Canana with you guys. A quick programming note here. Brett Ehrlich is going to defy physics tonight and be in two places at the same time. We're going to do Turks and Jerks right here at 8 o'clock Eastern tonight. So stay here for that. Me, Brett, John, and J.R. with you guys. But at the same time, Brett's going to be on ABC. They have a program called the year 2025. That's also at 8. o'clock Eastern. Good news, though, you could record that one and watch it later on Disney Plus or Hulu. In fact, you don't even have to record it. You just watch it on those because they've recorded it for you. That was me going old school with that DVR TiVo reference

accidentally. Okay, anyway, so that's all tonight. Make sure you're checking it out. Anna. All right, let's get into this offensive that's been launched against Representative of Rokana, one of the only members of Congress who seems interested in accomplishing a damn thing. But let's get into it. It's like the Democrats are doing everything they can to get me to leave the state. I don't want to. I really am resisting. I mean, they've raised my income tax to, what is it, like 13.3%. 13.3, yeah. And I know it's going to 16. They've been boiling the frog. I still haven't jumped out of the pot. But for me, I think the wealth tax, I'm going to have to jump out of the pot with this. This is strategically why Chimoth, I'm glad I got out of California right before

I was about to billionize. That was the smart move on my part. Oh, thank God. I mean, how else would you hoard your billions of dollars and avoid paying taxes? Now, billionaire tech oligarchs, like the scumbags you just heard from in California, are on full panic mode, thanks to a proposed one-time tax on their staggering wealth. And they're so upset about it. And they're so upset about that they have launched an offensive against the one congressman in California, and that's Congressman Rokana, who is supportive of the one-time tax on these billionaires. So we're going to break it down and give you a fun treat at the end featuring Matt Iglesias, which you wouldn't think would be a fun treat, but just hold it will be.

Before we get to that, though, Jank, your two cents. Before I billionize is one of the most obnoxious phrases I've ever heard. So what you're going to see here is a bunch of super rich men crying about potentially losing 5% of their wealth to help people that are beneath them. I mean, they haven't even billionized. This monster Rokana, he wants the Palestinians to be a state. And now he's taxing people to help the average America. Please somebody, stop them. So if they keep going like this Rokana will be president.

Let's give you the facts. So the proposal at hand, it calls for California residents worth more than $1 billion to be taxed the equivalent of 5% of their assets. It's a one-time tax. I want to repeat that again. Now, if the measure gains enough signatures to reach the state ballot in November and wins approval, it will retroactively apply to anyone who lived in California as of January 1st, 2026. those with $20 billion in assets who resided in the state on that date would face a one-time tax of $1 billion and have five years to pay it, according to the terms of the measure. Now, the Health Care Union of California is leading the charge on this proposed ballot measure. They say that it would help them recoup about $90 billion in federal Medicaid funds that were stripped from the state by the Republicans' budget. law. And it would impact roughly 200 billionaires who are currently living in the state of

California. And unsurprisingly, tech oligarch donors in Silicon Valley are very opposed to the tax, which is why Gavin Newsom, who takes money from the billionaire donors, is very much adamantly, he says, against this tax. So the billionaires claim that it will stifle innovation the same argument you hear over and over again and drive entrepreneurs out of the state. Now, I just want to add a quick caveat here because I can't help myself and I want to be as honest as possible. I have no problem with the idea of this tax or implementing this tax. But I do have a problem with the fact that California is the highest tax state in the country cannot account for tens of billions of dollars in taxpayer money that has been allocated for

homeless programs as homelessness has skyrocketed in this state. And so the argument that we need to tax more would land a little better for me personally if our money wasn't constantly stolen by various organizations and entities and nonprofits that defraud the system and get away with it time and time again. I have to add that. But the idea of this tax makes sense, right? Especially if you're trying to use the money to help those who are relying on Medicaid or government programs that have been cut through a federal bill. Now, Palantir co-founder, Peter Thiel and Google co-founder, Larry Page, are now threatening to cut or reduce their ties to California in response to this proposal.

For Paige, whose net worth is an estimated $258 billion, poor baby, the measure could result in a one-time tax of more than $12 billion. The tax bill for Teal, whose net worth is around $27.5 billion, could be more than $1.2 billion. So others in Silicon Valley are directing their ire squarely at Congressman Rokana for defending the proposal. Martin Casado, who's a software engineer and general partner at Andresen Horowitz, actually donated to Rose campaign back in 2024. But he's had a bit of a change of heart, if you will. Now he's threatening to back a primary challenger, writing on X, that Roe has done a speed run alienating every moderate I know who has supported him, including myself.

Beyond being totally out of touch, this is hilarious, really Roe is the one who's out of touch, the billionaire who's complaining about attacks, beyond being totally out of touch with the faction of, with that faction of his base, he's devolved into an obnoxious jerk. At least that makes voting him the F out all the more gratifying. Gary Tan, the CEO of a tech startup, Accelerator, Y Combinator, and also a former Rokana donor responded with Time to Primary him, to which Martin Casado agreed, saying, count me in, happy to be involved at any level. So if they decide to back a challenger, they are in for a tough battle. Since 2018, a primary challenger has never come within 30 points of unseating Rokana. And in response to this wave of anger from the Silicon Valley tech billionaires,

Kana decided to defend the idea of the tax saying that the seminal innovation in tech is done by thousands, often with public funds. Yes, we need entrepreneurs to commercialize disruptive innovation, do we? But the idea that they would not start companies to make billions or take advantage of an innovation cluster. If there is a one to two percent tax on their staggering wealth defies common sense and economic theory. He also called out other lawmakers for their unwillingness to stand up to the corporate elite saying that his district is $18 trillion, nearly one third of U.S. stock market in a 50 mile radius. We have five companies with a market cap over a trillion dollar companies. If I can stand up for a billionaire tax, this is not a

hard position for 434 other members or 100 senators. Jank, take it away. Yeah. So this is basically the tech bros going, didn't we bribe all of you guys? Oh no, we left row out. Oh, he doesn't take corporate pack money and he doesn't take the corrupt money. Damn it. We miss someone. Okay, I'm glad you did. So let's look, there's an irony here. here that I'm not completely sold on the wealth tax. And so because it's a little bit hard to execute, that doesn't mean that I don't think that these guys should be taxed more, I do. So let me make that point.

So there might be a different way to do it, or this might be a perfectly fine way to do it. That's a debate I'd love to have. But either way, let's talk about the sum of money we're talking about here. Now, to be fair to Peter Thiel, there's a very, there's a debate. This tax would cost him $1.2 billion. And that's a lot of money, right? So I did the math on it because, you know, I'm really good at math. And so if he's had 27 and a half and you take away $1.2 billion, oh wow, you still have $26.3 billion.

What are you going to do with all that, Peter? What are you going to do with it? Are you going to run out of it? You're not going to run out of it. You're not going to start another company. You've already started like a million companies. You're going to start two million more. Everybody knows it.

You're not gonna miss that money at all. Now let's go to Larry Page. So 258, 12 billion is a lot of money. That would leave him with only 246 billion. Larry, where are you gonna spend all of that? What are you gonna do, you couldn't you, your children, great-grandchildren, great-grandchildren, if they spent like the dumbest billionaires in the world, couldn't go through all that money in their lifetime. What are you hoarding it for?

No, no, don't help, don't help the poor, don't help the middle class, don't help any average Americans, and if you define one congressman representing you guys, crush them, right? Well, you think that's good for you because you got to keep another billion out of your freaking ridiculous amount of billions you already have. But it isn't good for you. You're being schmucks. You're being super stupid because at some point, the population is going to get super angry and we're a couple of inches away from it.

So the 12 billion that you take out of a $258 billion fortune doesn't dent you 1% of 1% of 1% because you're never going to spend the other 246. On the other hand, the entire American population being in a rage against you could affect all of your money. But no, greed is endless, so the dwarves keep digging and digging and digging. We're going to find the Balrog soon. Yeah, you are, brothers and sisters. You are going to find the Balrog and you're not going to like it.

So Jason Kalanakis, I know him a tiny bit. You saw him in the video there, the guy who's just because I billionized. And these guys, we're going to move out of California. We don't need no steak in California. How did Jason get so rich? Well, he happened to be in Northern California, and he rented his office space to a couple of companies that wound up going supernova, you know, in terms of how much. much money they made. And he had exchanged a rent for equity. So he got, let's be honest, super lucky. Maybe you make a little bit of money from that if you're in a different state.

Maybe. But if you're in California, you could billionize over that. So Jason, where were you going to make that money if you weren't in California? If you were in San Antonio or Tuscaloosa, here's how much you were going to make, nothing, nothing. You literally made that money because you were in California. But now they all want to run away and keep their money. Go ahead, keep it, keep it. Precious, precious, precious. I'm going to get $260 billion.

Okay, all right, do it, man. And then when they come with the pitchforks, don't come crying to me. Oh, no, we need protection. Okay, I hate violence, I hate any of that. I don't want any of it. I don't want any, nobody's from non-violence as much as we are. But they're getting the pitchforks ready as we speak, you idiots. But go ahead, attack Rokana.

Now let the final irony, Rokana's for getting money out of politics, and they hate that too. So they had a bunch of positions that Rowe has, this one, money out of politics. And of course, he passed around a letter saying that we should recognize Palestine as a state. And of course, now not all the same donors, different donors, some. same, some not. They were enraged over there. And they're like, what a terrible jerk. He thinks of Palestinians are humans. We thought we had all of them under control. This guy's out of control. He seems to be representing real voters. So they're attacking him in every way imaginable. But the idea where Rose says, hey, let's get money out of politics. And a bunch, then a couple

of billionaires come out and go, oh yeah, let's all spend our money. Our money so freaking pressures when it comes to taxes. But when it comes to spending on politics, yeah, let's buy the guy who's going to replace them. Yeah, let's put more money into politics. Yeah, that's what you guys look like. You look like dirt bags. You look like the worst people in the world, and you're openly bragging about how you want to purchase that seat for your corrupt billionaire ass. Well, that's why we loathe you and you should be loathed. And these guys think that they're in touch with the real world and Rokana isn't? Well, the real world, everyone knows you have to protect the billionaires.

The billionaires are the real victims. I do declare. Yeah, you guys all sound like the biggest A-holes that anybody has ever heard from. I was mixed on a wealth tax. Now I'm thinking, yeah, why don't we do it a wealth tax? And see if you want to run away from the California's the goose that laid the golden eggs. You want to run away from the golden eggs? Let me see you redo it in Alabama.

My guess is you won't. And you'll stay right here and you'll pay up. But that's if we ever have a decent and honest government, which is very, very unlikely. And of course, what do we tell you all the time? Corporate Democrats, corporate Republicans. And here comes Gavin Newsom. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

Not my beloved billionaire donors. Yeah, all right. What happened to being a Democrat? What happened to all those great policies about looking out for the average guy? Looking out for the average guy. Guys have only one litmus test. Do they take corporate PAC money and foreign government money or don't they?

If they do, they're totally corrupt, 100% corrupt and everything else is total BS. Nothing but propaganda. If they don't, they're at least being honest. And how can you tell the super last thing? The only other guy that is being targeted as much as Rokana is Tom Massey. So Massey's a Republican in Kentucky, but he also doesn't take foreign government money or corporate PAC money, so they're enraged. They have to take out the two honest people left in Congress. So that's the sixth state of affairs in America.

All right, we got to take a break. We will be right back. This is a robbery. All right, let's go to Super Chat. History speaks, YT, says the rate of fatalities in Gaza and percentage of civilians clearly resembles genocide, not war, about 100,000, 4 to 5% of Gazas in two years. That is greater than the percentage of Chinese killed by Imperial Japan and World War II, about 15 to 20 million or 3 to 4% of 500 million. Yep, but yeah, you get it. But no one in Washington gets it, no, if you go and asking 99 out of 100 Ahoes in Washington today, we'll tell you Israel's the victim.

They're the worst people on earth. Free meatballs and linguine says, whatever happened with the investigation into Huckabee, be meeting with a convicted Israeli spy. They investigated, right? Nothing happened, of course not. I could be probably got his marching orders from the traitor Jonathan Pollard. And so to David Milstein. And they probably did exactly as the traitor ordered them to do because they work for Israel.

Jay Chandler 17 says, it's such a slap in the face of taxpaying Americans, Palestinians, Iranians, and everyone who isn't in the 1%. Thank you for your unbiased journalism and standing up for humanity. Education is imperative. Thank you for saying that. We appreciate it. We try to stand up for everyone. And that's why the powerful hate us. Elliot ZP says, why are we surprised that mainstream media regurg states Israel's talking

points. Since 1948, propaganda has been Israel's most essential weapon. Without it, would they exist? No one does propaganda better than the Israelis. And you can go and cry all about all your stupid tropes. Yeah. So anyways, okay, here's a great way that they could prove that I'm wrong. get the F out of Gaza and don't ask us for any more money, then I'm good.

They won't do either one of those things. They'll say no. Anyway, box says, as a Minnesota and I would like to say that the fraud is not going on punished, we're doing a good job of prosecuting these cases and voting is going to be wild this next election cycle. Now box tends to be more conservative. So he's saying, yeah, I'm in Minnesota and we're prosecuting the guys. So that's a good perspective, interesting perspective. says Trump, Biden and Netanyahu for their policies seen as anti-Muslim, anti-constitutional, and anti-human rights, time for massive billboards exposing hypocrisy and demanding justice to spark global debate on accountability now.

No, no, everybody knows, right? That's not the issue. The issue is you can't get past the establishment media's wall. Their wall is no, wall of propaganda. Israel's the victim. The Palestinians are no good terrorists, and killing them is no big deal, et cetera. So call it the tapper wall. CDN, Norse Dog Dad writes in, in first episode of Star Trek, Strange New World,

they updated their timeline. World War 3 starts as an American Civil War in 2026. He said he adds, they were off by one year. When Trump supporters rebel after he goes to prison in 2027 after Dems went control of the House and the Senate, hashtag diaper Donnie and hashtag couch lover gets impeached and the rest of the administration are arrested. Is that in the whole Star Trek? I gotta check that out. I love Star Trek.

And then he says the House chair, Rokana becomes president. Really? Is that in the episode? That would be amazing. All right, I'm going to check that out. And a little haunting. Bachelor out of work also wrote and said 13 billion plus in aid to Israel when untracked in 2025, risking the Leahy law and 6201 violations.

Voters in 2028 elections. No more funds without strict monitoring proof to the U.S. government follows human rights. Aid access is being. I'm going to be able to be able to be. All right, back on TYT, Jen and Anna with you guys. Time for just a couple of comments here and then we got an amazing story after that. So I'm gonna go to Super Chat, Box Road and stealing all the riches money won't help us. We have fundamental problems.

As I told you, he's a little bit more conservative. Brother, it isn't about stealing their money. And taxation is not theft. It's how we get along, how we build roads, bridges, etc. And do you think that they made that money in a free market, in a free market? They made that money in a free market. They made it in a rigged market where they had massive advantage over the rest of us because they captured the government with bribery.

But anyway, I hear you, Titan of Olympus O3 says, America, I'm sorry, make it make sense, 1988 says it's never a one-time thing. And how has these tax dollars been spent already in California? It's more money for more fraud. The only way this seems remotely fair would be having this tax for everyone at all wealth levels. No, no. Why should the guy making $40,000 a year pay 5% of his so-called wealth, which is almost

nothing anyway, when he could barely afford the rent, and the other guy's hoarding $258 billion that he couldn't spend in 20 lifetimes? So, but anyway, you guys are overall, the one thing we definitely agree on, and what Anna said in that segment is, first let's stop the robberies, okay? So I'm not in a mood to pay a lot more taxes when I know the government is robbing us. They're robbing us on the federal level through the Pentagon, the oil subsidies, Israel, all those things at the state level with all this junk to where they never do anything they say they're going to do.

So let's stop the robbery first, and then if we have an honest government, then I would tax more. If you guys say no, I mean, let's skip the first part. done first. Titan of Olympus O'3 says, America needs a cultural change. The selfish mentality of only caring for the self is not doing us any favors. I think the mentality of the one for the many and the many for the one is the way to go. I totally agree with that. That's why I'm on the left. Michael Catalano says they want a port in Somaliland, referring to Israel, so they can totally cut off Iran's access to the Gulf of Aden. They were already trying to sell a port for recognition

as a nation and Israel just bought it. Yeah, of course, of course. And all right, I'll leave it there. Guys, we've got to take a quick break here. And then when we come back, a really important story. All right, let's go to YouTube members. Mr. Anderson 3369 says the ultra wealthy live life like they're just playing monopoly. Yep, moonshine dragon says, oh my God, how can they afford their politicians?

I love the sarcasm in that one. I mean, if you take away 1.2 out of the 27.5 billion I have, how can I buy JD Vance and 94% of Congress and everybody I want? I just reserve that money for bribery so I can get another $25 billion. million dollars. Oh my God, I feel so bad for you. You want me to cry now or later? Don Dada Dragon says, Peter Thiel threatened to leave you all alone over this. BRB drafting legislation to send to Washington State's government now. Yet, look, Peter Teal keeps saying, oh, I'm going to leave California, I'm going to leave California. I'm going to set up libertarian island. He tried it, didn't realize he was a jackass. Oh, right, if you have

no laws or rules, the minute you step on the island, someone else can kill you and take all your money. Oh, I didn't think of the, d'r, duh. Why don't you just leave already? Just go away. Go somewhere else. Go to a different country, to your beloved South Africa or Israel, wherever the hell you want to go. You obviously hate the rest of us. So why are you even here? All right, so that's what I think about Peter Thiel. Guys, you have to understand, it's the guys in Northern in California, it was so easy to make money during the era of the startups. You have no idea. I read a story about some Persian rug dealer, but he knew a guy from this, from Facebook

or something and a guy from another company, and then everybody's doing pitches. He did a pitch next thing you know, he's got like $500 million. They were tripping over half a billion dollars. Oh my God, I could go on and on about location and why I made such a a difference in this case. Half those guys are morons. They got super lucky living in the right place. The other half are perfectly smart, brilliant, et cetera. The folks who started this in the first place made a huge difference. But they don't know that. Everyone that made all that money in Northern California thinks they're God's gift to humanity and that they're supernova geniuses.

They're not geniuses at all. Anyway, I can go on and on. Shan Shan 1-1-1 says, I could abolish one thing in this world. It would be greed. That has been my consistent answer if I genuinely do not understand it. Greed is a bottomless pit. It's never enough, ever, ever, ever.

So God help us all. Shelly Chadwick writes and I'm grateful that Anna and Jen keep reporting on the Middle East, Netanyahu, and Israel's war crimes. I follow electronic in Tafada, Middle East Eye, Al Jazeera, and Palestinian Deep Dive, too. Well, I appreciate that you're following them. I appreciate the nice comments about us. And one other person said we talk about it too much. I think it was Centex in, yeah, Centex 1965 in Twitch.

I hear you, brother, but, you know, every video goes out to X number of people. And you would be shocked at the number of people who have no idea about Israel's war crimes, No idea how much they've robbed us. No much, no idea how much they've screwed over America again and again and again and again. So and mainstream media, of course, covers all of that up. There's propaganda for Israel. So we try to get it out one video at a time. And as it turns out, we reached a lot of people and we swung a lot of people and I'm super proud of it.

And I hope you can, you know, be okay with it as we go forward. I'm proud of that reporting. We'll be back. All right back on T.O.T. Jenkin, Anna, with you guys. Anna's got another story. All right, let's talk about this. How does the kind of divide in MAGA, which is a relatively new phenomenon? I mean, there was always a little bit there. But I mean, I don't think, if I were to say what the most surprising story was,

I would say Marjorie Taylor Green becomes not just a Trump critic. MTG becomes a lib. I mean, that's what happened this year. She got a little bit out of shape because the president wouldn't support her for a statewide office in Georgia, which she was going to lose if she had gotten into it, by the way. And so she goes off the deep end. Trump Blackie and cable news commentator, Scott Jennings, took a major jab at Congressman Marjorie Taylor Green over the weekend, accusing her of becoming a lib in 2025. Now, his ridiculous attack comes amid a New York Times profile, a lengthy one at that, on Marjorie Taylor Green, in which she admitted to being naive about her feelings toward Trump and what he claimed to want to accomplish.

as president and even accused Trump of faking his Christianity. Jank, before we get into the details, your two cents? Yeah, I'm amused by these establishment guys pretending to be more conservative than America first. So that's hilarious. But Marjorie Taylor Green struck back. We'll give you that as well. So get all the facts here.

Now, in regard to claims that she became a lib, she did respond to that saying that, oh, look, I'm being lied about again by Bush neocon and Mitch McConnell consultant, Scott Jennings. I have a 98% voting record with Trump. So I guess Scott is calling Trump liberal too. Scott Jennings is everything America first voted against. He just fools people with hot takes. I'd actually agree with that. Now, he's also in the business of kissing Trump's ass regardless of what he does.

And part of that job includes downplaying the civil war that's currently taking place. within the right wing within Maga. So during his appearance on ABC, he claimed that the internal divisions between America First and the neocons, it's just overblown. It's really overblown. Take a look. Look, I don't think these divisions and all this fraying are as big a deal as some people make it out to be. Trump is still extraordinarily popular among Republicans. He's the strongest party boss in the modern era. And he can get his allies in Congress to do most anything he wants them to do, which is why I think in the coming year, they really ought to spend some time trying to codify, to Rick's point, his executive orders and some of the other initiatives that he's had,

really try to make it stick. But if you've been paying attention, the infighting on the right has been pretty significant, and it's exemplified in part by Robert Draper's explosive profile of Marjorie Taylor Green. And in it, she breaks down the collapse of her relationship with President Donald. Trump. For her, it really began with Charlie Kirk's assassination. I actually thought that portion of this profile on Marjorie Taylor Green was enlightening, telling, gave you more insight into her change of heart toward Trump. So at his memorial service, Erica Kirk said that she forgave her late husband's killer. And that message of forgiveness was followed by this.

He did not hate his opponents. He wanted the best for them. That's where I disagreed with Charlie. I hate my opponent. And I don't want the best for them. I'm sorry. So I was surprised to see a few notable conservatives who really didn't like that statement. And it turns out Marjorie Taylor Green happens to be one of them. She says that was absolutely the worst statement, Green wrote to me in a text message months after the memorial service.

And the contrast between Erica Kirk and the president was clear. Marjorie Taylor Green added, quote, it just shows where his heart is. And that's the difference with her having a sincere Christian faith and proves that he does not have any faith. And she also said that the incident made her realize that being one of Trump's most voracious attack dogs wasn't actually aligning with what she wants her values to be. She told a friend, after Charlie died, I realized that I'm part of this toxic culture. I really started looking at my faith. I wanted to be more like Christ. Our side has been trained by Donald Trump to never apologize and to never admit when you're wrong. You just keep pummeling your enemies, no matter what. And as a Christian, I don't believe in doing that. I agree with Erica Kirk, who did the hardest thing possible and said it out loud. But their feud eventually came to ahead over the Epstein files. I can get to those details in just a minute before I do, Jank, any thoughts? Yeah, one of our members on t-y-t.com, nerd Ferguson, made a good point here.

They asked Trump, his favorite Bible verse, and he said, you know, I kind of like him all. Yeah, that dude ain't a real Christian. So I read that to you for this fight they're having about real Christianity, but also because it affects who's real overall and who isn't. So Scott Jennings, Mark Levine, Ben Shapiro, all these guys will pretend that the establishment wing, the Neocon wing, the Israel First wing of the. the party is the whole party. And guys, if you're Republican, we feel your pain because on the left, the same exact

thing happens. Some pundits will go on all over mainstream media and they will say, no, there's no, you know, difference in the Democratic Party. So well, whose opinion should we listen to? Only mine, since there's no real disagreement, you should ignore the other side completely. And besides which, the president is on our side. what they said to us during the Biden era. No, no, since the Biden is an establishment figure, he's always right, and he's the leader

of the party, and among Democratic voters, he pulls it over 80%. So everybody's shut back down, and you're not allowed to complain that he hasn't delivered paid minimum, paid family leave, minimum wage, defunding Israel, et cetera. No, there's gigantic disagreements within both parties, so America first doesn't want to fund Israel anymore. The establishment wants to fund them endlessly. That's a giant disagreement. But the Scott Jennings of the world go, no, there is no disagreement. We're right. We're going to give Israel everything, and the rest of you shut up. And that might, unfortunately, that's worked way too well on the left, but it doesn't work as well on the right. And you should

be proud of that. So no, America First doesn't believe people like Scott Jennings. And look at the policies. On the policies, Marjorie Taylor Green is definitely more America first than Scott Jennings or Mark Levin. But they want to ignore all that and they just want to use mainstream media to bully everyone into compliance. I don't think it's going to work. Scott Jennings is the guy who wants to make the Epstein files a partisan issue when in reality it's not a partisan issue at all. And Scott Jennings also happens to be the guy who's like obsessively supportive of Israel regardless of what Israel is up to, he has nothing to say about Epstein's ties with Israel. Epstein's various strategic maneuvering with, you know, the strategic maneuvering he did

with Israel, even dating back to like the literal contras that were funded by the Reagan administration. I mean, it's insane. Like, he just thinks everything's a partisan issue. Republicans good, Democrats, bad. But in reality, both sides, pretty bad. both sides implicated in the Epstein file. So he's nothing more than a pathetic partisan shill and a smug one at that. But I want to reset to talk a little bit about what Marjorie

Taylor Green had to say about, you know, what actually led to the demise of her relationship with Epstein. So in an explosive profile in the New York Times about Marjorie Taylor Green, she kind of uncovers why she and Donald Trump had the falling out that they've had. And it's a pretty vicious one at that. She says that things really came over, came to a head after the pressure to release the Epstein files came between herself and Donald Trump. Green says that it was Epstein. Epstein was everything. So that's what she says in this interview with the New York Times.

And that Trump was livid that she held a press conference with some of Epstein's victims. and that she threatened to expose some of the other men who were alleged to have abused these girls. So when she urged Trump to invite some of Epstein's female victims to the Oval Office, she says, he angrily informed her that they had done nothing to merit the honor. I mean, the guy who can't stop himself from holding endless press conferences with literal war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu thinks that Epstein's victims didn't do anything to earn a visit to the Oval Office. Got it. Okay. It would be the last conversation Green and Trump would ever have. Now, he dubbed her Marjorie Trader Green, as we all know. And a day later, she actually received a

death threat against her college-aged son with Trump's new nickname for her in the email subject line. Green promptly texted that information to the president. According to a source familiar with the exchange, his long reply made no mention of her son. Instead, Trump insulted her. in personal terms, when she replied that children should remain off limits from their disagreements, Trump responded that she only had herself to blame because he's an unbearable prick and you should expect him to have a pathetic response like that. Finally, Green was very upfront about her own shortcomings during this interview with Robert Draper in the New York Times. He asked her, was there ever a point before 2025 where you thought, you know what, Trump acts like a man

of the people, and he talks about the forgotten men and women of this country, but I'm not so sure. She says, I was just so naive and outside of politics, Green said, with a wince of a smile, that it was easy for me to naively believe. And I relate to that. I definitely, when I was 100% partisan-brained, I was naive enough to think that the Democratic Party would somehow be better than the Republicans on the big issues that matter the most, right? Issues of war, issues of the economy, issues related to Israel, for example. But tens of thousands of innocent people were slaughtered under Biden's watch, and there were never any brakes on that car. So I feel her when she says that. Jank, what about you? Yeah, so there's a ton of things that we disagree

with Marjor Taylor Green on. And now a couple of things we agree on. And that's, I'm glad to have the agreement. But that's not the point. The point is who's being honest with you and who isn't? So if I'd rather have an honest person in politics or media that I disagree with more than a dishonest actor because that dishonest actor who's pretending to agree with me isn't going to do anything they said anyway, right? So that's not to say that, oh, I prefer Marjorie Taylor Green to a Democrat. I prefer Marjorie Taylor Green to the other corrupt Republicans who've been screwing us over our entire lifetimes. But what's happening with Marjorie Taylor Green is really important, not because she's become any less right wing.

I think she's still way more right wing that Scott Jennings or Mark Levin, et cetera, right? So I think that she's beginning to realize, oh, our own side lies to us, and they don't actually represent our positions. So who represents the right wing positions more on Epstein files? Marjorie Taylor Green and Tom Massey, who say release them, and we've always wanted them released, or Donald Trump who says, oh, nobody did anything wrong, his Justice Department says there were no, no one else that they would prosecute. They didn't want to release the files.

He called it a hoax, et cetera. Well, it's not a question. There's no question about Marjorie Taylor Green and Massey definitely represent the right wing position. But the media just goes, no, no, no, nope, nope. Levin says move on. He just said it the other day to Mike Johnson. Nobody wants to hear these Epstein fires. We need to move on for Israel.

I mean, I didn't mean that. He didn't say for Israel, to be fair, right? And so, and mainstream media goes, oh, absolutely. All the right wingers, the real America first right wing position is, give Israel $100 billion. Don't ask any questions about Epstein, on and on. They just lie right to your face. So the fact that it's not just her, so many voters on the right wing realize, oh, our politicians are also dirt bags, thank you. And so my God, if I can get more Democratic voters to realize, are politicians that take corporate back money on the

Democratic side are also dirt bags. And it's right, did they do anything about Israel? Nothing. They gave Israel even more money. Biden did that. He's like, congratulations on the genocide. Here's 20 billion more for your genocide. But I can go on and on.

Did they do anything about the Pentagon's bloated budget? No, the Democrats didn't do anything about it. They don't do, all those corporate politicians never do anything about anything. And the job of people like Scott Jennings, who are pundits in mainstream media, is to lie to you in mass to get you to bow your head, not to the Republican Party to the Democratic Party, but to the Unip Party that is pro-corporate, pro-donor, pro-foreign governments. So lastly, we're talking about coming to the White House,

that the Epstein victims didn't deserve it. You know who came to the White House recently and many, many, many times? Miriam Edelson. And terrorists. How does she earn her way to the White House? Well, her and her late husband, Sheldon Aedelson, as you've heard me say many times, gave over $300 billion, I'm sorry, $300 million to Donald Trump's campaigns. And then when she was there, she patted him on the head and said,

I'll give you $250 million more if you violate the Constitution or run for a third term because you're being such a good job of being my servant. And who's the trader? He calls Marjorie Taylor Green Trader. Do you know that the Aedelson's flew out Jonathan Pollard on their private jet back to Israel? Jonathan Poller was a literal traitor. This unit party does not represent the right or the left. They represent the corrupt.

Marjorie Taylor Green is obviously on the right. And the rest of these people are utter frauds. All right. Turks and Jerks is next, right, Jank? Absolutely. Me, Brett Ehrlich, John Iderola, J.R. Jackson, who's the worst people in the year, who are the best people of the year? That's coming up next.

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All right, welcome to Turks and Jerks 2025. And we don't just mean the people on this panel. So we're gonna talk about the best person of the year, the worst person of the year, and we're gonna have you guys weigh in as well. Thank you or John Ida Rola, Brett Ehrlich, everyone's represented here. We got happy half hour, damage report, young Turks. Jared Jackson is gonna join us in the second half hour. He's from watchless, of course.

You should check out Rashad Ritchie's indisputable as well. He was here last year on this. All right, so before we get started on Turks and Turks, I'm gonna read one comment left over from the show because it's appropriate to this show. Ecclectic wrote in and said, Scott Jenner, should win smirk of the year. Okay, that's pretty good. Could also be in contest for jerk of the year. I'm actually going to go a little bit out of order here, guys,

because I'm going to tell you who the community is choosing between, because you're the community, and I want you guys to go and vote if you're into it on t.yt.com. We get to your results at the very end. So the candidates for Turk of the year from the community are Zoran Mamdani. Moran Mamdani, Rokana, Tom Massey. We have a Republican in Turk of the year and Miss Rachel, okay? Did any of us pick them?

Well, we're gonna find out in a little bit. The jerks are also an interesting category, Donald Trump, Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin, and Benjamin Netanyahu. So some heavyweights in there and some gadflies. So tyt.com, get busy voting, and then let's get started, okay? So John, we're gonna start with Turk of the year here, and we're gonna start with you. Who do you have? Yeah, so this is probably not that surprising to people who have been following me on the damage

report for the past couple years. Basically ever since I had my daughter Raina, this is someone that I like a lot of young parents became familiar with, and because I was already familiar with her, at the very very beginnings of her sort of wading into politics. Miss Rachel just caught my eye politically. I think that she is, she's not just the Turk of the earth. She's like the ultimate, like, is she the best person on the planet? Maybe, like the purest person? I get these like waves of nostalgia for people like Mr. Rogers. And I get so sad realizing that like it doesn't really seem like we have a lot of people like that anymore or maybe the way social media works,

you can't have a person that's sort of pure anymore. And yet I think that she comes the closest of anyone. Honestly, even if you left off the political stuff, the advocacy for the people and especially the children of Gaza at large or individually that she has just constantly throughout the past year plus been focusing on, I think that she is a great example of how we can educate and instill empathy and good qualities and good emotional control in children like Mr. Rogers did a number of decades ago. I love how brave she is, how she doesn't back down even when like so much money and attention and bot networks are being, you know, rallied against her. Again, not only for Gaza, but previously like when, you know, she would just posted

social media about how, you know, all kids, regardless of the parents or regardless of whether they're LGBTQ have value. And like some of some of her fans, apparently that was enough for them to drop her and they would just berate her and she'd get death threats. And she never back down from any of it. And she just seems like a great person through and through politically, personally. And I think that we need great role models like that. Role models, I think for parents, role models for entertainers and educators, but also political role models. Imagine if more than maybe one or two of our elected officials had the moral clarity and the backbone that she has. But we really don't have anyone like that in elected office. And so I just,

I'm so glad that she is out there that she hasn't backed off. She hasn't been driven away by all the toxicity and the trolls and the horrible Islamophobes and all of that stuff. And so it is Miss Rachel Ocurso. Well, it's a compelling case. And I'm proud. to be on a McCarthyite list along with Ms. Rachel. So so I'll take that. Hey, I'm on a list with a Turk of the year nominee, both from the community and from John. So that's awesome. Look, let me, I'll do my turn of the year next. When J.R. joins us in the next segment, he'll chip in as well. So lots of great candidates, and that doesn't often happen in a year. We usually struggle to find some. But you guys are right. Right, Rokano is a great, great pick and Zora Mamdadi certainly should be considered.

But I went with what I usually do, which is more unsung heroes. And so my turn to be your officially is all the Palestinian journalists that have been murdered in Gaza, over 253 killed. But along with them, I'm also putting three Americans on there. Cray Yinks, believe it or not, from Fox News, Jeremy Diamond from CNN and Robert Greenwald from Brave New Films. So Brave New Films did Gaza under fire, Gaza journalists under fire, highlighting the several hundred journalists that have been killed in Gaza, wonderful brave work showing the destruction there and the attack against news and information itself.

And you know, you see me criticize, establishing. of media, I don't know, hundreds of times, maybe thousands of times a year, right? But we can't wait to give credit where credit is due. So I'm giving credit to Jeremy Diamond and Trey Yings, because they earned it. When they were on the ground, they would show what the reality was. And they didn't do propaganda. They did real news. They showed, oh, the tunnel doesn't lead to the hospital.

It's actually, you know, quite a distance away. They, Trey Yinks won he won his journalism awards stuck up for the Palestinian journalists that have been killed. And I can go on and on about their great reporting. And but most of all to the brave, brave journalists that risked their lives. And sometimes, you know, people here in America would point out, oh, there's a, and Barry Weiss is accused of doing this. So there's a Palestinian journalist. And then next thing you know, Israel would drop up. bomb on them and kill them and oftentimes they're family members. So to do

reporting in the most brutal, you know, genocide on the planet, knowing that journalists are being targeted, that is active extraordinary courage. And by the way, 253 journalists murdered is more than all the conflicts in the world combined. So I'll give you just two more stats here to give you a sense of devastation and give one more piece of credit. Latest total number of aid workers killed in Gaza is over. Number of fatalities is 70,945 at least, and that doesn't include all the people under the rubble, but a number of aid workers killed is 3,200 plus as well.

Also more than any other conflict, more than all the other conflicts combined, but the idea of just accidentally murdered 3200 aid workers, accidentally murdered 200. 153 journalists, including Abu Shrine Abu Akle, that was before October 7th. She was the most famous Palestinian American journalist, who may be the most famous journalist in the Middle East. And an IDF sniper shot her in the neck and assassinated her. So it's among the journalists that are murdered by Israel quite regularly. But ironic last shout out is to Israeli press, oftentimes doing way better work than the

American press. And plus 972 magazine, in particular, they broke a 9702. number of super important stories including whereas daddy program that Israel was running where we found out they were picking people to kill based off of an AI program. That kind of surveillance state is coming to your neck of the woods soon and they waited till they went home so that their entire family would be murdered along with them. But plus 972 also broke this story, just give you one quote from it. From an internal Israeli intelligence database indicates that at least 83% of Palestinians

killed in Israel's onslaught on Gaza were civilians. Worst civilian death ratio of any terrorist group in the world. And we know a lot of these facts, partly because of good Israeli press breaking some of these stories, partly the two brave journalists in America, Jeremy Diamond and Trey Yinks, and people like Robert Greenwald highlighting it. But mainly because of the Palestinian journalists who risk their lives to get us critical information about this genocide. And unfortunately for a lot of them, their lives were taken.

And for me, easy, Turk of the year. All right. Brett. Listen, John and Jank chose some really great people, but they're wrong as I'll get out. My choice for Turk of the year is clearly the best. And I think that competition is really the spirit of politics. out heroes is to compete for who the best hero is and then for me to talk trash about thoroughly good people.

All right, so here are my, it's a special, it's a year ed special. All right, so my Turk of the year, I also was trying to go for the unsung heroes. I was trying to think out of the box. And so I thought that for me, the Turk of the year is all the people who had the opportunity and took the opportunity to film ICE officers behaving badly. All those citizen journalists out there who, you know, it's terrifying to be in a scenario where you're seeing masked men grab people and throw them in cars in your very own community. Or if you work at a courthouse or your ad courthouse to see them abduct someone in a courthouse.

But these folks, while they could have been scared, they did the noble thing and they pulled out their phones. As the surveillance state is surveilling us, they surveilled it back. And so we were able to, they were able to shine a light on a lot of the injustices that I think the president thought he could get away with. So in New York courthouse, 26 federal plaza federal building and lower Manhattan, a woman and her young daughter desperately tried to cling to their husband. And as they got tackled, that's the actual video right there. And that guy was relieved of his duties due to investigation. Abu Ghazale was thrown to the ground. This is a 19 year old American citizen who was documenting what was happening in Walgreens

and was chased out of the Walgreens. This is a video of a police officer breaking into a woman's bathroom or an ice agent, breaking into a woman's bathroom and telling her to pull her pants up and she had to come out. I don't know about you, but when something scary like that happens to me, the last thing I can do is get off the toilet. But like, yeah, there's a lot. These mass men are drunk with the power, and they are trying to take people who in many situations were like at the courthouse, trying to do what the government asked them to do. And many of these, the sneaky actions taken by the federal government was to just go there,

that's where they're going to be, while the president out of one side of his mouth is saying, we're going to get the killers, the murderers. Instead, they went to Home Depot and they found people who were like trying to build a deck. And that's not, that's not okay. And it is the brave people out there who were able to shine a light on it. And in many scenarios, there were some amazing acts of hypocrisy that were filmed. Chicago journalist Debbie Brockman was forced to the ground and cuffed by three federal agents while she was out reporting. DHS said that she was assaulting the officers.

But there is a journalist whose job is to find out what is going on in the streets. And someone else filmed her getting abducted. And while they said she assaulted the officers, she was released without charge later. There was, in Chicago, mass officers pulled a screaming woman from her car while she was in line to pick up her kids from school. And the reports were that they didn't have a warrant. We found out about that. In Chicago, a white SUV was throwing tear gas near a middle school. in broad daylight at the and then ironically this is amazing at Cato New York

workplace ice goons were caught as I showed earlier busting into a women's bathroom and other in Chicago as Trump has cited drunk driving immigrants as one of the main reasons for him to crack down on immigration there was a video we saw what was hilarious is this is body cam footage so in some scenarios the folks who are filming ice agents doing wrong are the police officers themselves, normal staties or folks that are just patrolling the streets, local police and law enforcement, caught an ice agent who was drunk driving and himself plowed into a shrub and then pretended there was nothing wrong with that.

But my favorite clip of all this year was something very similar when a police officer's body camera caught an ice agent trying to get out from a get away. with a drunk driving charge by citing his job with Department of Homeland Security. Take a look. That's the colonel. Colonel. I'm federal. Okay.

Call my supervisor. Okay. Do you want to do the exercises or no? I'll do it. Are you Haitian? That's not a tip of my wrist, bud. My question is, are you Haitian? It doesn't matter.

It doesn't matter. Okay. If you're a cop, whatever. Y'all in my fucking law enforcement. Okay, dude, stand up. Stand up, come on. Stand up. What's your feet in that? No. Man, don't be a kid. Come on. Stop. Where am I kids? Stand up. God damn, you guys. But, like, seeing that stuff is what's so important. Many of us can talk about it, but to actually see what happens in broad daylight. That guy, so ironically yelling, where are my kids? When his job is to separate parents from kids, them on the streets, separate them, they get a woman while she's trying to pick up her kid from school. And it's really, only when we see it, does it really crystallize? And when it goes

viral is the only way we can counter what essentially they're trying to do to us, we do right back to them. And I think those are, that's my, my turn of the year, people who caught ICE agents behaving badly. Well, I'll give you a little tease of when JR gets here, he's also going to pick reporters, but on a different topic. So apparently, I mean, for a show at a network that criticizes establishment media 24-7, it's ironic to three out of the four of us. And Ms. Rachel's not a reporter, but she's also on air. I mean, your guys aren't reporters Brett, but they kind of are, right? And so we all in some ways picked folks reporting on the evil doing of others. Yeah, I mean, I would argue Ms. Rachel, for a lot of people

who don't necessarily follow political news is a unique avenue for people to understand what's actually happening there in an unfiltered way. Yeah, absolutely. And there's more connective tissue here, which is maybe the turn of the year should have been Steve Jobs, because where did they record most of the things that Brett was showing on smartphones, right? Where did most of the Palestinian journalists record things on smartphones? And same for, well, to have- I assume Ms. Rachel is on smartphones, on smartphones, right? And a little bit appropriate, I get, maybe a little bit.

I don't know, is this even any connection? But whenever people attack immigrants, I love reminding them, Steve Jobs' dad was a Syrian Muslim immigrant. So we got to kick him out of the country. And I told some right, we're going to out on social media. And I'm like, he said, oh, we should kick out all you people from the Middle East. And I said, Steve Jobs, that, blah, blah. And he's like, small price to pay. If you say so.

Anyways, somebody wrote in, a lot of you wrote in with jerks of the year. And jerk of the year usually takes longer because there's a much, much bigger list. But I wanted to read one. John Bojino said, Ahmed al-Ahmed for Turk of the year. That's a good point. So he's the bystandard. In fact, not even a bystander. He got shot twice in Bondi Beach, Australia, who tackled the guy, the shooters,

the ISIS-related shooters there and took the gun away from the dad. And so that was awesome, and you're right, that certainly deserves a nomination. Yeah, okay, before we go for Turk of the year, and we'll have the community weigh in at the end, and we'll go, ta-da, this is our Turk of the year. But I just want to go to you guys one more time here. John, what do you think about the picks of the community, Rokana, Massey, and Zora? I mean, I think they're amazing. It's crazy how strange they are.

I think that Zora and Mamdani both provided a lot of inspiration to a lot of people, but also did it in like the exact way a lot of us would want it to be done, not purely rhetorical, not purely based on some cult of personality, but based on putting together like a well thought out set of policies. And so I like that. Thomas Massey, it's strange to have someone like him on that list because I'm sure we disagree on virtually everything. But he has earned more credit than I think any other Republican throughout the year with what he's done. He seems to actually believe things, which so few Republicans or even Democrats in elected office actually do. And when he believes something, he actually sticks to it, which is certainly admirable.

And who am I missing off of the community list? Rachel was there. He said Zoron. I mentioned Zoron. Roe and Ms. Rachel. Yeah, no, obviously we love Roe Con. I was just talking about him today, about him, you know, going toe to toe with Ted Cruz over the new proposed tax in California.

I love Roe because he actually shows up to defend what he believes. He doesn't hide like he shows up even for interviews where people might disagree with him. I definitely like that. I feel like he's a great messenger. I feel like he listens when the people who, you know, like him or whatever feel like he's made a misstep historically. I figure like he's been willing to actually hear that out and adapt, which again, not a lot of politicians do. And so I think those are great choices. I love really fast. I love both of yours. Brett, yours is very creative. I wouldn't have thought of it. It's a great choice. I think those videos are one reason that public opinion has turned so massively against mass deportation

in less than one year. The fundamental lies that were the foundation of it have been exposed, the utter cruelty, the waste of money, all of that has been exposed. And some of it's been through traditional media, but a lot of it has been through, yeah, people with their smartphones. I think that's a great choice. And then, Jenk, on yours, it is just, it will never stop being amazing to me that we live in a world where there's like, in our country, there's like 50 million people that are like, Elon Musk is like the best guy. He's a, he's a warrior, free speech warrior. And there are people that are in Gaza being willing to die and dying, like narrowly escaping death multiple times and then dying just to do their job, just to reveal

what's going on. It is a level of heroism that I don't think we can actually grapple with when it's a real person that's doing it. Like if it's Aragorn or if it's Captain America, we get that, you know, and it makes for a good movie. But like, It almost feels like people don't want to acknowledge that there are people like that in the real world. And there are, particularly in Gaza. Yeah. Brett, are you doing your jerk of the year? I'm going to do my jerk and then J.R. will come on and do both.

And then you guys will do your jerks. All right. So let's start off the jerk of the year with Brett Erlick. My jerk of the year is John Ida Roll. No, I'm just. All right. My jerk of the year, it's so easy to pick the richest person in the world. But it's it's more nuanced to pick.

the second richest person in the world. And that's why my jerk of the year is Larry Ellison, for a whole host of reasons. He's a living symbol of the modern oligarch. He embodies Silicon Valley, the defense industry, the media mogul, real estate, and geopolitics, as a pipeline to power, extreme private wealth converting into influence across multiple seemingly unrelated sectors. surveillance capitalism and government entanglement. This guy, Oracle has deep ties to government databases, law enforcement. He basically has been called the landlord of the internet where he just buys up competitors,

gobbles up all different kinds of technology. So he has the infrastructure to essentially keep all the data in the world in one place. And he just finds new ways to collect it. His sky dance nepo baby project, this guy, as far as I can tell, bought a major studio for two reasons to control messaging in the world, but also as a vanity project for his kid. He bought his son a major studio, and he's trying to buy multiple studios and fold them into one. Yeah, they essentially, it's Hollywood as a sandbox for the ultra rich to launder, not talent,

but business and influence. And then this thing we're like, the attempt to save TikTok, the whole narrative was that we can't trust China with an algorithm that gathers all your data and funnels it to the people who have the most control over it that have the control over the government and the messaging and everything. And Larry Ellison is the one that is supposed to save us from that when he fits that exact rubric to a T. The Paramount and CBS, Skydance takeover, CBS's parent country company places the Ellison family upstream from one of the most powerful broadcast news brands in the U.S. Paramount itself had a settlement with Trump over a 60 minutes. P-60 minutes, which for

For many of us is like the last bastion of true investigative reporting that is left. And he targeted, you know, this is a company that came fresh off of giving $16 million, I think it was to Trump's presidential library as a settlement. And it's symbolic of how a lot of the networks are cowtowing to Trump's influence. And there's that. And then alignment with Barry Weiss. The next step once they get it is it's the double talk, the double speak of the free press. This is the center of it.

They hired the woman from the free press. And the first thing she did was, A, make it about herself hosting, an Erica Kirk Town Hall where she didn't make it a better, more open, more unbiased narrative. She just forwarded a right wing narrative because that's obviously what the president and his ever, growing hunger for state media everywhere wanted of her and then of course she stopped a 60 minutes report from happening the idea that Barry Weiss who gained favor in circles for essentially just letting people complain about woke so then she could narc on them to everybody else and wrote the intellectual dark web just tickling the balls of people on the right whose whole identity is in cell, which means no one's ever tickled their balls before. They really,

really loved that. And so the free press, she gets rid of the press. The fact that she would go to 60 minutes and say, like, you guys suck at journalism is the highest version of double talk or double speak. And then just a little thing. The guy owns over 90% of a Hawaiian island. Larry Ellison bought over 90% of Lanaii, the island of Lanaii belongs to Larry Ellison over 90% of it. Just a little thing I wanted to tell you. And then the only, there's a billionaire is supposed to do some kind of benevolent philanthropy. What is his, he has given over $100 million to medical research. But let's take a look at him.

And I'll give you three guesses as to what field of medical research, if we could take either the photo or B-roll of Larry Ellison. It's in age defiance. The biology of anti-aging is the main focus of the Larry Ellison Medical Foundation. These guys spend hundreds of millions of dollars to live forever because you'd have to in order to spend all the money they're hoarding. Larry Ellison isn't just a bad, bad in a personal morality sense. He's dangerous as an archetype, the convergence of wealth, data, media.

land ownership and political proximity and a single unelected individual who will never meaningfully face consequences. And I found out a friend of mine is close with his brother or his son on Facebook. How dare you, Trevor? Okay, excellent pick. He did do one more piece of charity you should know about. Larry Ellison gave $16 million to the IDF in the middle of the genocide as charity. So a swell guy he is and I like what Brett said about Barry Weiss takes the report about Trump off of 60 minutes. Now all of a sudden it's not as free press. Just adding a couple of words in front, that's all. And I felt bad about buying my daughter both ugg boots and a

Lubbubu keychain. I mean Larry Ellis is like, hold my keg. Yeah, geez. David, you get Paramount Water, There's TikTok, CNN, CBS, everything you want. I mean, that guy broke every record for NEPO baby. So I guess congrats to David Ellison on that record. But yes, Larry Ellison, great jerk of the year. We'll find out the rest of the jerks of the year when we come back. And remember, Brett is doing double duty today.

So make sure you're checking them out on ABC, the year 2025. So that's going to be on Disney Plus and Hulu. So you can check out Brett there as well. All right? Thank you. All right, absolutely. Good to see you, brother, when we come back. J.R. Jackson joins us.

And I read more of your comments on Turk and Jerk of the Year as well. We'll be right back. Hey, Andrew, what's up? Hey, Jank, you ready to make the switch? Yeah, I guess. I promise it's easy. universal basic and you get income yeah you keep saying that but you sure I'm gonna have coverage of course you will you think I would have bad service I'm

Andrew Yang of course I have good service now right let's try but I'm so bad at tech so wait should I do this thing of the hashtag business major you're still on right yep oh I see it you Chris oh wait I don't oh yeah I do see it here we go I actually did not realize that You'd be searching in real time, but I love it. How much do people actually normally say? Yeah, the average American is going to save between $500 and $1,000 a year on Noble. Yeah, no.

You know what I'm going to do, Andrew? Are you ready to become a Noble member? The two buttons are do it and go back. There's no going back. We're doing it. We're doing it. Here we go, Noble Mobile. Oh my gosh, I just called you and are you now on Noble and not Verizon?

Why didn't you tell me it was going to be super easy? I know, man. Now you just stay away from your phone and watch the money roll in. I can do that. You got a phone, yeah. What the fuck? Jenk, you still there?

Andrew? Oh, well, at least I got an Oblemone. It was really just one take. The whole thing is wild. It's in my shoes. It's in my shoes. Hi, I'm Brett Ehrlich with Breaking News with Brett Ehrlich. This is Breaking News with Brett Ehrlich.

Hi. Red Ehrlich here. According to EPA head Scott Pruitt, climate change is not happening. He cited a meme on Facebook he saw. When pressed to back up this source, he said it must be accurate because the watermark said it was made by a scientist. So, your moon, truth? I'm going to be able to be.

All right, back on Turks and Jerks special at the end of 2025 here. Jake, you're John. I know or Jared Jackson joins us. What's going on? What's going on? Is my mind going to you guys hear me? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Happy people.

I mean, I was just on this morning with John after the watch party and he tried to knock me off of my normal pessimism. And you know what? For the first time, just for like five minutes he got me. So I guess maybe I can re-up it here. up it here a little bit more. All right, good, good. Until we get the jerk of the year, then we'll be back to the pessimism.

Then I'm back. Yeah, so I'm gonna go to JR in a second, but first I wanted to do some shout outs here. First, box, thank you for gifting 10 memberships on YouTube and he wrote in on YouTube as well. My biggest jerk is Trump. My biggest Turk is Anna, interesting. Then Ashanti Holmes did a shout out for John.

John, you're a meme. Someone said it to me today. Your response to Ivanka Trump saying, how white supremacy must be destroyed. You simply replied, maybe bring it up a dinner or something. You know that you're a mean? It was from a few years ago.

I occasionally see it going around like on Instagram and stuff. Yeah. Okay, that's awesome. And then JR, I don't want to leave you out. Virginia, South Carolina wrote it on t.yt.com member section. I want to give J.R. a shout out for his hard work on the watch list. Thank you for always keeping us updated. And don't worry when you can't do the show.

We love you. Well, what do you know? Every once in a while. I mean, I like to be the morning show since I'm loud and get up way too early anyway. I mean, I was just slide right back into the spot. It's fun times. All right, everybody check out JR on watch list. All right, J.R., who's your Turk of the year? Well, I heard you guys on the first half here, and apparently we're all on similar same veins, but it's multiple people also as well, similar to Brett, and I believe also you, Jank, Ugar. But we've got reporters that are doing, I think, some of the work that will require us to avoid the normalcy of this fascist administration that continues to want to use their pillars of beating down the press.

One of them specifically is Rachel Scott. So multiple press members in the United States, specifically, they have to face off directly with Donald J. Trump. And he calls all them any kinds of different names. Now, we've seen some of the ones, specifically one of the main ones, was when he was on Air Force One, yelled at one. particular woman and called her piggy. That was Catherine Lucy, a Bloomberg reporter. He went after Rachel Scott, as I mentioned. But I wanted to bring up Rachel Scott first, because as you guys all know, she's a USC alum, so you know, best damn school in the world. And then also Caitlin Collins over from CNN, also their main White House correspondent there, Mary Bruce, ABC News's

chief White House correspondent as well. They've all been called names like obnoxious. That was Rachel Scott. Stupid and nasty, Caitlin Collins. Mary Bruce, apparently it's not the question that she asked specifically about the Epstein files and whether or not he's going to be releasing more information or what he's hiding and covering something else up and why his stories just don't make any sense. But he doesn't like, it wasn't the question that bugged him. What bugged him was actually her tone and her attitude, which I guess is a problem when you're lying all the time. Also a standard. And I haven't seen her in too many battles directly with Donald Trump this year. But Yamiche, Alcindor, she's a long time up to Donald Trump.

I mean, by asking normal questions like, so why is it you're breaking the law today? You know, simple things like that. But this is I think where it breaks down to why it's so important. If you have this suppression of the press, suppression of the media directly with reporters that have direct access to you, the normalcy that comes with that is we don't think it's normal for folks to ask questions. We don't think that it's American for us to have a press that actually. digs into details about what is that you've said, what is that you've done, and then ask you

later whether or not those things match up. We've seen that energy sweep across this entire administration. Also to Caroline Levitt, the way she berates reporters in the press briefing room, like, you know, every day. And every time she's caught in a light turns into switching over whether or not you're going to answer that question and then goes into personal attacks. I mean, it's kind of the standard for this administration. So I just wanted to to give like that that big head nod to the folks who even when it seems like they're being quiet or shutting down and allowing this guy to bully and bulldoze his way through these press conferences and all these at least they're still one to come back and answer those questions

ask those questions yet again despite all of the potential pressure that's put on them because another aspect of this is to pressure their bosses the owners of these national big media corporations to shut them down and keep them from those areas of access, only because they don't want anyone to really know what they're doing, despite the fact they've called themselves the most transparent administration in history. We've seen the way that worked with the Pentagon over with the Department of War, Pete Heggseth, shutting down completely anybody that's going to ask any questions about what they find is probably the most important aspect of things they want to cover up. That is, their switchover from all of this fascism, from policy to their

then they're violent and their violent approaches and bloodthirst for international conflicts. It's the type of thing that they don't want us to know about. That is until they've already done it. Yeah. So first, again, for a network that criticizes the media a lot, we picked a lot of reporters here. You know why? Ferris Network in America. That's why.

So we'd love to give credit where credit is doing. If you're doing a great job of reporting, oh my God, we love it. We want great journalism. We don't want less journalism, we want more journalists. All right, so let me do a couple of folks from the community. Then I'm gonna go back to JR for Jerk of the Year. As we start to head into Jerk of the Year, bloated ego writes, and my dark horse for Jerk of the Year is Mike Johnson.

So good dark horse on that one. Jedi 6 says Barry Weiss for Jerk of the Year. That's before Brad Ehrlich even suggested her. And then Nerd Ferguson says, my Jerk of the Year is AI. Oh, interesting. That might be a very hot contender next year. Costing jobs, making people believe falsehoods, ruining social media videos. And I'll save Turguer the Year for, no, you know what?

I'll read their Turk of the Year, too. Turguer of the Year is Epstein victims for speaking out, going out in public, living their nightmare over and over every day. Another excellent point. All right. So, Jared, let's transition over to your jerk of the year. Oh man, you guys are getting me nice and comfortable again now where I want to be. So as I mentioned, we've got this administration. It's full of folks that are looking to detail and execute exactly what is that they're trying

to carry out, which is, you know, the suppression of democracy and this installment of fascism. You know, they're about halfway there. I'm not sure what's positions we can get into, but there's always the drivers of those types of movements. And it's very easy to say Donald Trump, because yeah, it's true, it's Donald Trump. But also some of the voices behind him that maybe think further than just his own self-aggrandizing statements and hatred towards anyone else that disagrees with him. But one, Stephen Miller, Stephen Miller has been Stephen Miller since, you know, like birth.

There's that old clip that I'm sure many people have seen him on a bus with this xenophobic hatred that he's talking and spewing every chance that he gets. But he kind of goes down the list of everything that embodies a true fascist. the person who's behind the scenes, but every once in a while pops his head up and then, you know, gets upset about anyone saying anything that he just doesn't like. So Stephen Miller, there's many aspects. I looked them all up. There's, there's multiple aspects of what really, you know, characterizes fascism. So there's that nationalism. Steve Miller definitely embodies that. He has this cult following for the dear leader, even though he's, you know,

many times the one that's helping push those levers for it, militarism and the violence that he's spewing. He's told those police officers, you can go into these cities and you're going to have absolutely no handcuffs on you. He specifically used the term handcuffs. We're taking the leashes off of you and putting them on real American citizens that we're going to allow you to then go after. He called opposing Democrats a domestic extremist organization. So setting up the possibility for once, you know, they start calling everyone an extremist that disagrees with them, that they're an extremist domestic organization that, you know, they can do things to that they would also say they do to terrorists. And we see who they call terrorists in the Caribbean waters who they've blown up already.

He's just a bloodthirsty, hateful person and goes down every aspect of these things. Let me give you a few more. He also wants to control the media and the truth. Of course, when he goes on CNN, there was one very specific time that stood out to me when he glitched and his brain just stopped because there must have been someone in his ear, or maybe, you know, he didn't follow the true memo when he said that Donald Trump has plenary authority. And he was saying with just with such gravitas and such definitive words about how there's this point that they're giving us these signals that they want to get to where we have fewer rights. They control what we say. They control what we think. They monitor us and they watch us. And then tell us what is that we will do with all this anger. And if you want to get along and get by in this country, you just go along with whatever it is that they tell you to do. Well, he has this energy and this anger behind it. Even Donald Trump himself has said, I don't even want to repeat the things that Stephen Miller said behind closed doors about immigrants,

which also leads to one of the main points. I know Tom Homan is, you know, marble mouth hateful guy who's running the whole mass deportation policies. But Stephen Miller is the guy who's also given him that same birth, wide birth of authority to do these types of things. And I think his main objective is this whole thing with this, the minimum of 3,000 deportees a day. It doesn't matter whether or not they've committed any crimes. It doesn't matter if they're American citizens. It doesn't matter of any level of their citizenry and their citizenship in this country.

He's looking to just get rid of people that don't look like him or who he thinks aren't like him. It's he's the kind of guy who when you hear him speak, you wonder, who's friends with that guy. Why would anybody actually want to listen to a person who whines and screams and cries like this piece of garbage does? That's Stephen Miller. I thought that was going to lead into, I guess the answer to that question would be Katie Miller or his wife who also threatened to denaturalize and deport me because she didn't like what I was saying about Israel. So what a lovely family, good choice. They wake up in the morning and Katie Stets that's next to him and goes, what are you going to do today, Stephen? He goes, what I do every day, try to take over the world.

And she goes, narf. I don't know if Jen gets that reference. I don't, but it sounds fun because everybody, that does sound like that. All right, John, who do you have for Jericho here? Okay, I, after listening to both Brats and now J.Rs, I don't know. feel as good about mine anymore how did i not choose yours is excellent and i was i could have i was the first person to respond to the email but um mine i i wanted to make sure that there's some people that are so obvious Elon musk or whatever he's in your face all here but there's other

people that are doing terrible things on a slightly lower level and they don't necessarily draw as much attention and sometimes the attention is very merited and so i feel a little bit weird about this one but i'm gonna go with Greg abbott because i feel like through the course of this year on the damage report. We have talked a lot about Texas, probably because we have Yaz on all the time. But also it just constantly pops up and not just for people like Ted Cruz or for Elon Musk or whatever. Greg Abbott absolutely sucks. He is a constant reminder that you can get to the point where you are the chief executive of a very big and important state and just have nothing, nothing in terms of, like anything that he individually brings to the

table. He's like Mike Johnson, but governor of Texas. He's just doing whatever Donald Trump tells him to do. And we've seen examples recently in other states of Republican parties that have stood up to Donald Trump, particularly for his desire to gerrymander. There are states they've stood up to him, not Greg Abbott. He doesn't have a goddamn backbone. He's got nothing. He just gives his, he gives Fox News the moments it wants with his cut, like non-stop identity politics, attacking not only the LGBTQ community in general, trans people and trans kids specifically, constantly. He is 100% on that identity politics, grift culture war, nonsense. But also the absolute BS investigations that he's launched through the state government

against both Muslim organizations, including care, but also civil rights organizations as well. And that's a great follow up to a number of years of working to suppress the votes of Texans as much as possible. The gerrymandering is kind of a natural evolution of that as well. He's fundamentally undemocratic. And that's the biggest individual thing, is that he was the first big example of just bowing down to Donald Trump's desire to gerrymander his way into continued power. He knows Donald Trump, Greg Abbott knows, they all know that their agenda is going to fail because it's not designed to actually succeed for regular people. They don't have the single testicle necessary to be willing to try to fight to maintain power. So instead they try to cheat. They try to

rig it. And that is what Greg Abbott is doing. It's kind of funny in hindsight that it resulted in California doing the same thing. It's even funnier that in the end, it's possible that with the way some of the, what looked like changing demographics, like Latino voters going to the Republican Party in 2024 doesn't seem like it's necessarily going to bear out. And this plan might actually fail and produce more Democratic seats. But I have to wonder if he hadn't done it, would all these other states have tried to gerrymander one or two states individually? We were already a country that had barely any democracy, any competitive elections when it came to Congress. And thanks to Greg Abbott's absolute cowardice just rolling over and letting Donald Trump dictate what happens in Texas, we have effectively none.

Even in California and Texas and all these states is going to be basically nothing. And I have a lot more stuff that I could talk about. The cover up that he's done, the insane cover up of his communications with Elon Musk about what he promised to get Elon Musk to move some of his factories to Texas. He's refusing to comply with the law in disclosing documents having to do with that. The plan that he has to effectively allow every area to basically stop having property taxes fund education so he can kill public education even faster in Texas. And by the way, my in-laws have a lot of teachers in it. Public education in Texas is basically done anyway. They've effectively absolutely destroyed it, defunded it. No library. Like it's just it's terrible

what they've done there. Weird culture war stuff like saying he's going to put tariffs on people moving to Texas from New York, if Zoran Mamdani won. Just all of this, it's just garbage. He doesn't deliver anything for regular people, even regular Texan Republicans. He just gives them identity politics and culture war nonsense. That's my garbage person. All right, strong cases for jerk of the year so far. I'm batting clean up on this one, and I'm going to go with the Michael Jordan of Jerks of the Year, Benjamin Nenya. So look, you could argue that Donald Trump is the Michael Jordan. Well, one of them Michael Jordan, another one, LeBron James of Jerk of the Year.

And who are we kidding? It should be MVP almost every year. So, and certainly in the middle of the genocide that Netanyahu committed. So, Alyssa, I'm gonna go back to Graphics 5 through 10. Give you a little bit of rundown of the damage that Netanyahu has done and it'll never do it justice. Look, to be fair, there's so many good candidates here, and I know people at the end of the year get a little bit more weight than, for example, Elon Musk, who ripped through the federal government, firing hundreds of thousands of people through Doge, all to save us money, but couldn't find a way to save money, couldn't find a way to cut the Pentagon at all. They added $150 billion. Couldn't find a way to find the $35 billion in oil subsidies as a giant rip-off. I mean, there's a million things that are ripping us off. He didn't do any of that, he fired all these people, et cetera.

And I could add to the list of the Stephen Millers and the, and throughout this administration, the Cash Patel's been an absolute disaster throughout, Pam Bondi, Marco Ruby, you can name any of these guys, and certainly Trump himself. But when it comes to the granddaddy of evil, that's got Benjamin Netanyahu written all over it. So let's go through some of the numbers. Latest total number of fatalities in Gaza, 70,945, but way more than that, because the people rubble buried underneath the rubble, and that's getting added to every day as they pull bodies of children and grandmothers out of that rubble.

20,000 children have been killed since October 2023 in Gaza. 109 of those children were killed were under the age of one. So that's over 1,000 babies for the pro-life folks out there, murdered by the terrorist government of Israel. headed by what I would consider the world's worst terrorist, and I'm going to prove that to you in a second. And 21,000 children left permanently disabled, or one of the Turks of the year. Ms. Rachel sometimes features the disabled Palestinian kids in a moment of, you know, showing great heart and compassion. So, of course, Netanyahu's dogs here in America have attacked Ms. Rachel. How dare you show Palestinians as humans when our dear beloved leader is in the middle.

of massacring them and slaughtering them. But those children aren't the only people he slaughters. A total number of aid workers killed in Gaza's over 3,200. Worse than all the other conflicts in the world combined. Just slaughtering aid workers. That is a stunning number. It's almost three times the number of people. Hamas killed her on October 7th.

We were told October 7th was the worst thing that happened since the Holocaust. Well, I guess what happened to the, just the aid workers, human rights workers, people trying to feed starving Palestinian children, three times as bad as the worst thing since the Holocaust, apparently. But, oh, those are people trying to help Palestinians. So, of course, our media doesn't think that they're important. The journalist, well, you know, the Saudis killed one journalist, Jamal Khashoggi, as Dave Chappelle pointed out recently in his stand up on Netflix. And everybody said the Saudis are the worst people alive. And that's super fair. And the way they killed Jamal Khashoggi was horrific.

Israel and Benjamin Nanyahu has killed 253 journalists in Gaza in just the last couple of years. More journalists killed than every other conflict combined. Because unlike the other conflicts, Israel is purposely targeting and murdering journalists. As they murder A workers, they murder children and babies. and all led by what some call, his nickname is Satan Yahoo. So unsurprising that he'd win jerk of the year for me. So over 171,000 injured so far in Gaza, but he wants to add to that toll. This is the ceasefire, so-called ceasefire agreement on October 11th of this year, 2025,

a total of 110 fatalities and 1,134 injuries have been recorded. 654 bodies have been recovered. So he's so evil that he has killed 410 people during a ceasefire. That's his version of a ceasefire. He's like, I only murdered 400, 10 of them. I mean, he's got a lot more murder coming in our direction. By the way, of course, all of you are forced to pay Netanyahu's salary, to pay for all of Israel's war crimes and genocide by our disgusting politicians in America who you can make a case. worse than Netanyahu, because they make us pay for his war crimes and his moral crimes and his crimes against humanity. Those are the sick, disgusting Republicans and Democrats. The overwhelming majority, over 90% of our Congress, works for that monster and not for us. Finally, plus 972 magazine in Israel pointed out that data from an internal

Israeli intelligence database indicates that at least 83% of Palestinians killed in Israel's onslaught on Gaza were civilians. Why is that so important? Well, civilian kill ratios, how you determine whether folks are terrorists or not, are they killing civilians as collateral damage, which would already be horrific enough? Or do they intend to kill the civilians? Well, you tell through the civilian kill ratio, for example, Hamas has had a civilian kill ratio on October 7th of 67%. Obvious terrorists, two thirds of the people they killed were civilians. You can't pretend you're not intending to kill civilians when two thirds of the people you kill are civilians. As I just told you, Israel's kill ratio, civilian kill ratio is 83%. Far worse than Hamas and literally

worse than any terrorist organization in the world. Benjamin Netanyahu intends to murder civilians in Gaza, and he does so at an unbelievable rate, tens of thousands dead. Never any evidence that anyone was part of Hamas, but even if you take the IDF's internal numbers, worse than any terrorist group in the world, and that terrorist leader, the sick, disgusting terrorist leader of Israel is Benjamin Netanyahu and deserves jerk of the decade, the century, but for now, my jerk of the year. Okay. So thoughts on this overall before we go to the community's votes? I do, Jank, real quick, because Benjamin Netanyahu, right?

I think a lot of people always talk about the things, the atrocities of what's going on over there and the tens of thousands of people that are just indiscriminately murdered and just looks up and says it's nothing. And we've been, well, not we specifically, but so many Americans would be desensitized to the killings like this. It's just normal. And I wonder, you know, because you mentioned how we literally pay him. I've heard people talk about how our healthcare system, their healthcare system is paid for also by us, by the tons of money. So this crosses, you know, party lines. I wonder focusing on the fact that we pay this, you know, murderous monster money to be who he is and, you know, carry on his life.

If that's something that I was, I'm always looking for different ways for people to really see and grasp the devastation to which we're paying all of our, money as we complain about our economy and our taxes and all this stuff, going to people that are doing the things that apparently we've begun to start accepting, which is the indiscriminate murder of certain kinds of people because of who they are. I just wonder if that's ever going to be something that can stick to, because I don't hear it enough of how much our money goes to his actual pockets and makes him, you know, who he is. Well, today Trump said that Israel should pardon him for his corruption. So whatever money is going into his pockets, he can keep it. He's also put a moral stand on old.

of our so-called leaders. Biden funded his genocide. Trump funded his genocide. They both got walked around the park like dogs and he's humiliated this whole country, put a moral state on us because he made our politicians make us pay for that genocide. And currently Israel has stolen 53% of Gaza under his leadership. And of course they're never going to give it back. John, last thoughts. Yeah, 100%. I mean, it's hard to argue against. It almost feels like, and I know it's why he's he's won previously. It almost feels like he can't even be contained within jerk of the year. I mean, he is perhaps the greatest force for evil on earth right now in terms of what he has done so constantly. And it's it's just it's grotesque. And to have our

country and our government be such, you know, avid and enthusiastic supporters of it is absolutely gross every day. Yeah, I mean, look, the only case I can make for someone being more jerk of the year is almost all of our politicians that serves that person that we just said, and I think most of the world would agree, probably the greatest, you know, force for evil on the planet. And we're all made to pay him. We're forced as American citizens to pay for his war crimes, his genocide, and that moral stain is then on us.

And the whole world looks at America and goes, oh, I guess they're dogs of Netanyahu. I guess they'll do anything Netanyahu orders them to. They'll finance any genocide, et cetera. Now, I know the hearts of the American people are not there at all, but our politicians will do anything for money. They're the most disgusting, corrupt people I have ever seen. And yes, both Republicans and Democrats to serve Netanyahu loyally

instead of the voters, they disgust me. So I think I'm pretty clear on it. All right, guys, we're out of time for this special for now. But hold, because wait a minute, we didn't get to the community yet. Well, if you're part of that community, good news, you're going to see the results first. We're going to go to members only now, and when we do, we'll give you the results of the polls of the Turk of the Year and the jerk of the year for the community. read some more of your comments and then come to an overall conclusion on who should be the Turk and the jerk of the year once we take your votes into account.

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