The Young Turks - Blowing Wind & Smoke

Episode Date: October 1, 2024

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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. All right, welcome to the young Turks, the online news show. Jake Ugar, Anna Kasparing with you guys, live from the Polymarket Studio in LA. We have as usual devastating stories and hilarious stories later on that in the In the program, there's fake families that are being used because apparently the Republicans have run out of real families and several other amusing ploys by the Republicans.

But in the beginning, we start with a war. We sure do. A lot of news from the weekend to get to, including how that news has spilled over into today. So let's get to it. Israel launching attacks against two Iran-backed groups, Hezbollah in Lebanon, those pictures you're seeing there, the Houthi rebels in Yemen. Hassan Nasrallah, in my view, after Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of Iran, is, as was the most important member of this axis of resistance.

We're at the site of an Israeli airstrike that took place at 1 a.m. on Monday, this apartment on the fifth floor was hit. Following a brutal weekend of Israeli defense forces bombing Lebanon's capital. of Beirut, along with southern Lebanon repeatedly. Israel has confirmed that they're also planning a ground invasion into Lebanon. And it has now also been confirmed that the leader of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, has been killed by the Israelis in their bombing campaign in Lebanon. Now Israel's planned campaign, meaning the ground invasion,

would be smaller than its last war against Hezbollah in 2006, and would focus on clearing out militant infrastructure along the border to remove the threat to Israeli border communities, according to the United States, or at least a U.S. official who spoke on the condition of anonymity with the Washington Post. An Israeli official who also spoke to the Washington Post on condition of anonymity says that Israel has plans for a limited operation that will be imminent. They are in line with the Americans. The understanding is that they are not going to do another Gaza.

Now, what does President Joe Biden have to say about this, especially considering the fact that he had declared to the international community that Israel was going to agree to a ceasefire with Hezbollah? Well, let's take a look. Can an all-out war in the Middle East be avoided? It has to do. We really have to avoid it. We've already taken precautions relative to our embassies and personnel who want to leave. But we're not there yet, but we're working like hell with the French and many others. The fact that Israel may be now launching a limited operation into Lebanon. Are you aware of that?

Are you comfortable with their plans? I'm more worried than you might know, and I'm comfortable with them stopping. We should have a ceasefire now. Well, you could potentially get a ceasefire if you pressure Israel by holding the weapons that you've been funneling to them leverage. But of course, Biden refuses to do that. Just a few more details about this ground invasion. There were concerns that this would be much bigger than what Israel is alleging they're going to do with limited ground invasions.

But they say now, no, it'll be limited, and they're specifically focused on destroying Hezbollah. They claim that Hezbollah is in the tunnels, so they're going to go after Hezbollah's infrastructure, meaning the tunnels, also rocket launchers, weapons, and other infrastructure. And then they claim that they plan to pull their forces back. And just to get a little more specific, Miri Eisen, who's a former IDF senior intelligence officer, named a specific group of Hezbollah fighters that Israel is targeting. The Rodwan force, no matter how many times we attack, you cannot destroy that from the air

to be able to get to that subterranean arena, which is two to three kilometers from Israel's border, you have to go in. So the ground troops, the IDF, are planning on going into the tunnels and attacking Hezbollah in that way. So I have more details on this, but before I get to it, Jank, thoughts. Yeah. So first of all, interesting choice of words, they're access of resistance. So, you know, what I would ask Israeli supporters is, are people not allowed to resist your occupation? So at what point, like what amount of surrender and groveling would appease the Israelis? So because the occupation has been going on for 57 years. Now this is really important if you watch American media, you probably have no idea what the reality is.

So they, the Israelis say in the Americans puppet, oh yes, we are attacking because they're anti-Semites who are going to destroy all of Israel and kill all the Jews. And if we don't do it, it's imminent, they're about to kill all the Jews. Okay, nonsense. Total, total utter nonsense. So the reason why Hezbo is attacking is because, and what they're totally ineffectual fire rockets, is because of the occupation. And that why did Hamas attack? Because of the occupation.

Now, you could hate the attack. You say the attack is wrong, and I believe in nonviolence. So I don't want violence from either side. But you could rashly acknowledge that obviously they're doing it because Israel continues occupation of West Bank and Gaza Strip. But if you're claiming that's not the reason, it's because these deranged, savage Muslims just hate Jews so much. So at the last second we saved our lives by killing them all and attacking and invading

and bombing, et cetera, it's absurd. So now, how does the pattern normally work? Israel attacks, and then they occupy, and then after they occupy, they go, well, these violent Muslim savages continue to resist them. us. And they're gonna kill all the Jews. They're gonna kill everyone in Israel. Israel's not going to exist. Israel's like a nuclear power. Where are they going, right? You guys have all the might, all the weapons, all the money, right? Sent to you by blank checks from America. You're not going anywhere, right? And nor would we want you to go anywhere. But then you don't

allow them to exist, the Palestinians to exist, you occupy. And then the minute anybody fights back, they're like, I knew it. Violent Muslim savages, ignoring that you're the one who grabbed the land in the first place. Right? And then by the way, when you press them on, they go, so what, they lost the war. Ha, ha, Kai Harder, we won the war. We're going to take land, just like Russia, and just like all imperial empires. Oh, no, no, we're not colonialists. Don't call us colonialists. Okay, so then at that point, if anybody ever resist their occupation, and so I'm worried this is going to repeat in southern Lebanon, they've now tried to take southern Lebanon several different times. So I'm sorry, defend themselves for security reasons by taking way more Arab

land. And then once anyone resist, they attack again and take more land and go, we can't give that back either. We just can't give anything back because we're not the violent ones, even though we're the ones doing an invasion. We're the ones that kill so many more innocent civilians. They're the violent ones. That's why we can never give their land back. So that's what I'm worried is going to happen in Lebanon. I hope that's not the case. The Israeli states a limited ground invasion, but they're giant liars. And they've lied every time, including agreeing to a ceasefire on Wednesday that Anna is going to tell you about. And then what's drawing it?

Because it turns out they were lying and just stalling so they could just kill more people in Lebanon. Exactly. I mean, hours after Joe Biden had declared publicly that both Lebanon and Israel was going to agree to a ceasefire, Netanyahu changed his mind, and they proceeded with this bombing campaign in Lebanon. But let's just briefly talk about the safety and security of Israel. and the alleged threat that its Arab neighbors pose to Israel. Because as we have said on this show, and as Hezbollah has said repeatedly, they are attacking Israel over the fact that Israel is just leveling Gaza.

Okay, Hezbollah started attacking Israel recently, right, during this war because of what's being carried out in Gaza. And they said that they would stop as soon as Israel stops bombing Gaza. But Israel doesn't want to stop bombing Gaza. In fact, the bombings have continued in Gaza, even today, Central Gaza was hit pretty, pretty badly today. And so instead of pursuing a ceasefire, which is what the United States claims it keeps pressuring Israel to do, Israel keeps denying or rejecting ceasefires.

And in fact, I thought that this statement from the foreign minister of Jordan was really interesting because, you know, again, Israel keeps saying, well, we're surrounded by our enemies And remember, Jordan recently helped to protect Israel from Iran's missiles and drone strikes. And so keep that in mind as you hear what the foreign minister of Jordan has to say in response to Israel's justifications for broadening this war and bombing other countries. Let's watch. The Israeli prime minister came here today and said that Israel is surrounded by those who want to destroy it an enemy. We're here members of a Muslim Arab committee mandated by 50. 57 Arab and Muslim countries.

And I can tell you here, very unequivocally, all of us are willing to right now guarantee the security of Israel in the context of Israel ending the occupation and allowing for the emergence of a Palestinian state, independent state, along the defense that we all agree. He is creating that danger because he simply does not want the two-state solution. And if he does not want the two-state solution, can you ask the Israeli officials, what is there game other than just wars and wars and wars. I'm telling you all of us in the Arab world here, we want a peace in which Israel lives in peace and security, accepted, normalized with all Arab countries in the context

of ending the occupation, withdrawing from Arab territory, allowing for the emergence of an independent sovereign Palestinian state on June 496, 7 lies with occupied personal and capital. That is our narrative. That is, and we will guarantee Israel security in that context. Can you ask Israelis what's the narrative other than I'm going to continue. to go to war, I'm going to kill this and kill that and destroy this and this that. The amount of damage that Israeli government has done.

Thirty years of efforts to convince people that peace is possible, this Israeli government killed it. So I just want to reiterate, you know, that was Iman Safadi, and he's not just talking the talk. Obviously, Jordan also walks the walk as, again, it intercepted strikes by Iran against Israel during this current war. And so all he's saying is, look, we want peace. We want the 1967 borders that guarantees Palestinians, their own state, something that Netanyahu has been very clear in wanting to fight against. And so he has served as an obstacle against that. And so look, their unwillingness to allow for self-determination and for a state for the Palestinian people has led to the wars and the conflicts that have been going on for many, many decades.

And so there are two options, either expand this war, which is what Netanyahu seems help it on doing, or end the war by pursuing diplomatic means and allowing the Palestinians to have their own state. Yeah, so as we'll show you later in the show, Netanyahu is now threatening to expand it all the way to Iran. It's okay, half the American fleet is there, so we'll be fighting that war for them. But that clip we just showed you is so important, because it puts a lie to what you've heard in American media thousands of times.

said, oh, the Arabs won't make peace. The Arabs won't, they're all such rabid anti-Semites. They want to kill every Jew. No, no, no. It's Israel that is preventing the Palestinians from having a state. That is all of the Arab nations. You just saw it with your own eyes, saying we will guarantee Israel's peace and security. So that's the safe haven for Jews that Israel was created for and theoretically yearning for.

And Israel says, no, I don't want it. I want war. Well, why don't you just take the deal? Every one of them says they're going to give you exactly what you want. Because they don't want that. Why don't they want that? I mean, you would think that they would. And a lot of Israeli citizens do, right?

It's because they're taking more and more land. And if you're like deeply offended by that, yeah, you should be offended by the Israelis. So it's inarguable. If actually they've taken more of the West Bank as they've scuttled one peace deal after another, after they've, you know, continue to encroach and build settlements and put 700,000 lunatics in the West Bank, the most fundamentalist, theocratic, you know, dangerous people in the whole world who don't value other lives as human beings. They view Muslims as dirt and they kill them on a regular basis. They've stolen a giant piece of the West Bank. They're never going to give that back.

They're obviously not going to give the back, the land that they got in 1948. That's gone. Okay, and now they're saying let's reoccupy Gaza, let's do a central corridor, let's do a southern quarter, let's take more land, let's go into southern Lebanon, take more land, and then they'll put in lunatic settlers and then go, oh, what, what, I can't believe they're attacking us, we're so innocent. All we did is take all of this land over and over and over again, and I can't believe these Muslims are resisting, they're obviously the savages. And obviously what this does, the path that the Israeli government has chosen to take,

guarantees war in perpetuity. Because think about it, look, on one hand, you know, they're celebrating the fact that they have decapitated the leadership of Hezbollah. But at the same time, they have killed thousands of people already in Lebanon through their bombing campaign in order to do so. Which will create a lot more, Hezbole. That's exactly right. And so what does Israel really want?

Do they want war in perpetuity or do they want to pursue diplomatic means, allow for Palestinians to have their own state so they can live in peace, so everyone can live in peace. So let me be clear, because we're the only show that's honest here that covers it in a real way that isn't taking sides. So for example, in this latest bombing where they got Hassan Nasrullah, Nostrullah was under the residential buildings. So that's a rare time where Israel was like, hey, I think they were under, like, when they bombed the hell out of Gaza for like any, for almost all of the time, they couldn't show one dead Hamas leader. They kept killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, and they couldn't name a single Hamas leader that they'd taken out. In the last couple of months, you see when they actually do kill Hamas and Hezboa leaders.

Hamas and Hezboa come out and go, yeah, they killed our leaders. They killed this guy, this guy, that guy. It's not like there's any debate about it, right? So the first bunch of the campaign for many, many, many months in Gaza was just slaughtering civilians and getting no Hamas leadership. But in this case, to be fair to the Israelis, Nostralo was hiding under a residential building, And that's where they got them. Yeah, they just leveled six apartment buildings in order to-

They did, they did, but at least they were telling the truth that Nasrallah was under those buildings. Okay, fair, but again, like, I just feel like it's counterproductive because while, yes, you kill Nasrallah, you also kill hundreds of innocent people and their family members are gonna want revenge. Oh, of course, you're creating a whole new set of Nasrallahs. I'm just saying what's factual, right? So now, on the other hand, they say, oh, the dirty Muslim Sabbath,

You can never do peace with them because they want to kill all of us and they'll never change their minds because it's innate to Islam that you that they want to kill all the Jews this is the racist tropes that I've heard for my entire life in America as if it's not racist, right? So but in reality Israel already did a giant peace deal with Egypt and did the dirty violent Muslim savages continue to attack Israel as every right winger in Israel said no they never attacked Israel ever again. Yeah, the peace deal works spectacularly. So if If Israel wants a successful model for peace, they have one in their own country. With Israel and Egypt, one of the most successful peace plans ever. And so they know, and now all the Arab nations are saying, yes, yes, peace. And you get peace and security forever. And Israel says, no, I don't want it. I want more land. So let's be honest about what's happening here.

And Joe Biden, let's be honest about him. Oh man, Israel is doing something wrong by going to Lebanon. And I want a ceasefire. Brother, look, I mean, your best case scenario is you're deeply incompetent. You don't know that you could use your leverage, that you have $26 billion in leverage? You don't know that? Now, the reality is, of course Joe Biden knows that. He's choosing not to use his leverage because he's corrupt.

And then he comes out and does these propaganda things for himself. Like, oh, I am such a good and sweet guy. I, golly, gee, I don't know how to stop all the death and destruction on war. Oh, golly, gee, me and my party taking millions and millions of dollars from APEC has nothing to do with it. Oh, I was trying so hard, but I couldn't. It's absurd. This is the reality. So God knows what's going to happen here. But at some point, guys, here's what you have to understand. Hezbollah or Iran is going to be able to do a successful counter attack. And when they do, all, everyone in American media and every American politician will come out here and

tell you, we have to. We have to. Israel's a right to defend itself. You see them starting the war with your own eyes, ground invasion of Lebanon, and America will pretend that Israel is defending itself later after it starts this massive war, and Biden just put in a whole bunch of easy targets for Iran to head. So if you hit one of them, and they put out a statement today, say, if any American is touched, any American property is touched, we're going to abhorate them. Okay, of course, of course, because Israel asked you to do a giant war in the Middle East, and that's what Biden and America will deliver for them. In fact, when we come back from the break, we're going to get into that because Netanyahu

did issue a threat against Iran today, and there are some questions about how far the U.S. is willing to go in order to fight that war with Iran on behalf of Israel. So we have that story and more coming up. Don't miss it. We'll be right back. All right, back on T.O.T. Chang and Anna, with you guys. Also, these amazing people, Queen Inky and Amber Sir, thank you for gifting five-year-uncturts memberships. And Drew Wilson, for gifting 50. You're amazing. We appreciate all you guys. We do this show together. Thank you for being part of our community. Anna. Well, we have some more news out of the Middle East, and this one should be concerning. I want to address you, the people of Iran. There is nowhere in the Middle East Israel cannot reach.

There is nowhere we will not go to protect our people and protect our country. When Iran is finally free, and that moment will come a lot sooner than people think, everything will be different. Iran will be a lot, will be free a lot sooner than people. people think. That is what Netanyahu said in a recent video message to the people of Iran, essentially giving us a hint that he intends to engage in war with Iran. I mean, what is he trying to say there? Now, the real concern is whether Israel will expand the war to Iran, which would be a disaster, mostly for America, which of course will fight that war on behalf of Israel and bankroll that war, as we've been bankrolling Israel and providing the weaponry

for the destruction it's been causing in Gaza and now Lebanon as well. Now following Israel's assassination of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah and Beirut Lebanon on Friday, Iran did issue threats of retaliation. Iran's supreme leader has said that the death of Hezbollah's leader, Hassan Nasrallah, will not go un avenged a day after he was killed in an Israeli air strike in Lebanon. Earlier on Saturday, Ayatollah Khomeini urged Muslims to stand by Hezbollah with their recent resources and help, but did not promise to retaliate for the strike that killed Nasrallah, the fate of this region will be determined by the forces of resistance with Hezbollah

at the forefront, he said. Now, as for Israel, Matthew Seville, a military sciences director at the Royal United Services Institute said that Netanyahu may instead be tempted by a generational opportunity to deal a setback to Iranian regional influence. And he has all already to some extent, especially when it comes to decapitating the leadership of Hezbollah and causing some serious damage to Hamas in Gaza as well. But the question is, how far is this going to go? And will Netanyahu and the Israeli government drag the United States into a regional war? Now just a week ago, the president of Iran said that they do not want a war with Israel,

but it's not really up to Iran. It's really up to Israel, which is obviously calling the shots when it comes to the conflicts in that region with the United States enabling it, of course. Yeah, so classic neocon speech there. First of all, he says it in English, as if the people who speak Farsi and Iran are going to be moved by the speech. No, this is intended for an American audience. The media and the politicians are just using it as an excuse to justify what they

were going to do anyway. And it's also meant for gullible people, like he's trying to liberate the people of Iran. He's going to liberate them by dropping a bomb on their heads. So this is the neoconservative ideology that we saw in Iraq, which is as soon as we bombed them into oblivion, they will love us and they will greet us as our as they're liberators. And, you know, I don't know if Israel plans to occupy Iran as well. They usually occupy wherever they attack. But oh my God, once we kill you and occupy you, you will be free. Wow, that seems really compelling.

And I bet once you start dropping bombs on Iranian citizens, they're going to just rush to your side like they did in Iraq. They rushed to our side. You know that Dick Cheney and other neocons said that we would be greeted as liberators. Right. And Nanyahu, by the way, was one of the neo-conservatives that pushed for the Iraq war. Not for Israel to get involved. In fact, Israel said they were going to get involved and then chose not to. And they said, America, you go fight it.

Why would I get involved? Why would I lose my precious, precious citizens? The most valuable citizens on earth. The rest of your citizens are useless. We can kill them any time we like. Okay, no, America, you go kill those people in Iraq for us, and you go spend a couple of trillion dollars, and by the way, Iran's four times larger. Why do you think the U.S. moved a bunch of aircraft carriers, submarines, et cetera,

ground troops into the region so that Iran could hit one of them, and then we can go, oh my God, we have a right to defend ourselves here, let's go fight this war for Israel. So he just told you he's going to go into Iran. He said it's going to happen sooner than you expect. So when Netanyahu warns of a war, that is the one time he is not lying. He will give you exactly the war that he has promised to. So let's just really think about this. Like let's think it through.

And we're probably going to think it through way more than Netanyahu and the Israeli government is going to think it's more. Or the U.S. government. Or the U.S. government. Okay. So Netanyahu ends up dragging the United States into a war with Iran. Let's say, I guess, best case scenario, the U.S. succeeds in pursuing regime change in Iran. And then what?

I mean, like, what happened in other countries that we've pursued regime change in? In a lot of cases, it creates a power vacuum, no? And what happens when there's a power vacuum, Jank? So, and a terrific point, because of obviously democracy and happiness and unicorns will flourish all over Iran. Once we've invaded them and started a giant war with a power vacuum, with the same thing that happened in Iraq and worse will happen in Iran, which will, which is that once you have that power vacuum, who steps in to fill it? Do you think it's moderates?

It's never moderates. Moderates do not win in war. So we're going to create a civil war in Iran. And when we do, the most radical fundamentalist Muslims will arise, even more fundamentalists than the Ayatollah. And they will gain power. And then Israel will go, you see, we have to attack them even more. And we have to occupy them even more.

And that's what they do every single time. What do you think Hamas came from? There was no Hamas before 1948. There was no Hezbollah before 1982 or 1985, right? They came out where Hezbollah was created when Israel invaded Lebanon. Exactly, yeah, in the 80s. Yeah, so who created Hezbollah? Israel did by constantly attacking its neighbors and never ceding any territory that it has conquered.

It just subjugates the local people and says, I'm going to do it forever. Netanyahu says that there will never be a Palestinian state. And now if he attacks Iran, that would be, let's see, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Yemen. Yemen was just recently. And, well, Iraq, they haven't attacked recently. Oh, I thought they did. Maybe I'm mistaken. Okay.

Yeah, so I don't think so. So five neighboring countries, Netanyahu, has bombed or threatened to bomb when you include Iran. Right? And he says, oh, golly, gee, you see how the Muslims are so violent? You see how violent those guys? We just are defending ourselves, we only bomb five countries, or four so far. Now some might argue, okay, well, I mean, Iran is issuing threats against Israel, right? They're threatening to retaliate.

Yes, they are threatening to retaliate, but remember, they have threatened to retaliate many times before and did not make good on that promise. A good example is actually when they promised to avenge the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Hanier in Tehran back in July, they haven't retaliated for that. And in fact, when they do retaliate, the one time they retaliated during this war, they let Israel and the United States know our drones are coming. They will be there in a few hours. And the reason why there were no casualties and no real damage as a result of that retaliation by Iran is because they intentionally did it that way to calm,

or ease the frustrations of their own people for not retaliating, while also preventing a broader regional war because Israel, I'm sorry, Iran does not want to go to war with Israel and the United States, but Israel keeps provoking, provoking, poking Iran, you know, threatening them. I mean, that threat that you just saw was from Netanyahu. Yeah, so I want to juxtapose that to how Israel lied about the ceasefire in Lebanon in a minute. But first, are they not supposed to retaliate? Is there expectation in Israel and America that we get to bomb every country in the world? And if they dare to fight back even in the tiniest way, that we have to bomb them again and invade them again and attack them again.

Yes, that is the thinking, too. Yeah, and it's like, it's okay if the corrupt politicians here in America say that because APEC paid them. But I don't want anyone being misled into thinking that that's a normal thing. So what Israel's doing here is they're going to Iran and they're punching them as hard as they can in the face and going, I had to do it. Why? Why did you punch him? Because he might retaliate. He's much more likely to retaliate after you punch them in the face. That's exactly right. And I think that's intentional. Of course. Of course it's intentional.

Yeah, it's more like punching them in the face and saying, what are you going to do about it? Come on, come on, what are you going to do about it? Yeah. Now, of course, Joe Biden is very concerned about Iran retaliating. He is very concerned about war with Iran. And so he's doing everything he can to bolster Israel's defenses, even though Israel keeps provoking Iran for a larger war in the region. Now, the Pentagon said in a statement on Sunday night that should Iran, its partners or

its proxies, use this moment to target American personnel or interest in the region, the U.S. will take every necessary measure to defend our people. Remember, we already had 40,000 troops in the region. And recently, the Biden administration announced that they would be sending additional U.S. troops to the region in order to bolster the defense of Israel. Now, defense department spokesman General Patrick Ryder also noted a significant amount of capability in the region, including the USS Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group. Now, regardless of what Iran decides to do, there have already been some retaliation. retaliatory strikes against Israel, as I mentioned earlier, but missiles have been intercepted and caused no damage. And Israel and the United States were warned hours ahead of time that they were doing this retaliatory strike, mostly to send a message to their own people. But it doesn't matter. I mean, I just feel like this is now escalating day by day. And the escalations are more frequent jank and more intense. And I just, I at this point have no hope because there are

no brakes on the car. Yeah, none. And we enable that by sending them blank check after blank check. And the more wars they start, and the more death and mayhem there is, America goes, oh, do you need a bigger check? As if to reward their war crimes and crimes against humanity. Okay, so let me do the juxtaposition that I imagine. I'm going to go to Graphics 4 and 5 from the previous story about Lebanon, because while Iran was saying, we are going to attack, it's going to take many hours, you can shoot them down, go ahead. Here's what Israel did about the peace negotiations in Lebanon. Biden administration officials are also defending their decision to announce the breakthrough

of a ceasefire proposal last week between Israel and Hezbo that quickly turned into an embarrassment for the administration when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made clear Israeli forces would instead continue to pound the Lebanese militant group. So CNN explains that we thought we had a deal. 11 Arab nations signed on to it, Hezbollah signed on to it, everybody's U.S. signed onto it, and Israel said we sign on to it. And so Biden came out like an idiot like he always is. And he comes out and he goes, okay, Netanyahu is in favor of a ceasefire deal.

Yay, the Israelis are so wonderful, right? And it turns out that the Israelis were lying all along. And in fact, they were using that as a cover for the massive bombing they were about to start in Beirut. So as soon as Biden announced to ceasefire publicly, Israel then humiliates them by starting the bombing of Lebanon and the invasion of Lebanon. So in this case, there is absolutely no question reporting from CNN that every single, single party, including Hezbollah, had agreed to a ceasefire in Lebanon, including Israel. And Israel violated it, lied about it, and did an aggressive strike instead. They chose war instead of peace.

There's no question. One more quote from CNN. U.S. officials argued that Israel changed its mind Wednesday night after the proposal, which was signed on to by 11 other allies, was announced. Israel decided they had an opportunity to target Nostrala, a U.S. official said. Yes, an opportunity created by the fake ceasefire they were pretending to do when they had always intended to go to war. Exactly.

And look, I'll say one last thing here. I don't like, did Iran fund Hamas and Hezbollah? Almost certainly. Did Hamas and Hezbollah at different times attack Israel? Certainly. Whether it was effectual like October 7th or ineffectual like Hezbollah has been doing for the last 11 months. It's not like they haven't counter attacked. But I don't want you to think, oh, it's because, oh, they're just rabid anti-Semites. So they were just trying to kill Jews for

no apparent reason. They are resisting the 57-year occupation of the Palestinians in concentration camps. And so I checked the definition of concentration camps. It is a ethnic group that is put somewhere for so-called security or political reasons. That is exactly what the West Bank in Gaza Strip bar, and they say, we've only been running concentration camps for 57 years. Can you believe they're resisting us? Okay? So that's what this is about. And finally, if you're wondering, really though, does Israel pretend they're going to do peace, but then allow for some attacks so they could counterattack viciously and take more land? Well, we all know they already knew about October 7th. That's reported all over the Israeli press, American press.

Nanyahu knew October 7th was coming and conveniently didn't do anything. And they said, oh my God, we have a right to defend ourselves. Let's go get him. And he annihilated Gaza. And now he's invading Lebanon. All right, we're going to take a break. Unfortunately, when we come back, more devastating news, we're going to give you some updates on the hurricane that has devastated six separate states over the weekend.

We'll also talk about the disgusting political game. that Donald Trump is playing with this devastating story. So that and more coming up, don't miss it. button below. I see you. That was the correct pronunciation of a Turkish name, correct. Tay 24, thank you for gifting your membership on YouTube. Guys, you'll know you could become a member by hitting a beautiful join button below, right?

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North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Alabama, and Tennessee. That's a big one. And the devastation wrought by this storm is incredible. It's so extensive. Nobody thought this would be happening, especially now it's so late in the season for the hurricanes. Well, despite what you heard from former President Donald Trump in that statement, it turns out that a lot of people predicted that this hurricane would be devastating. And even though he says that the hurricane hit late in the season, in reality, we are currently in peak hurricane season. Now, according to the Florida Climate Center at Florida State University, hurricane season on the United States Atlantic Coast lasts from June 1st until November 30.

with the peak coming between mid-August and late October. But there were a lot of predictions about how devastating this hurricane would be. And devastating it was. We now know that at least 128 people have been killed as a result of this hurricane. It has been a complete, and utter disaster across six separate states. The hurricane was described as a monstrous category four when it made landfall in Florida. As I mentioned, at least 128 people are dead, but the death toll is expected to rise. Entire communities have been wiped off the map.

56 people have been reported dead in North Carolina as a result of this storm alone, and an estimated 600 people are still missing. CNN reports that in addition to the 56 people killed in North Carolina, Hurricane Helene also killed at least 30 victims in South Carolina, 25 in Georgia, 11 in Florida, 4 in Tennessee. and two in Virginia. But remember, the numbers are expected to rise. And again, the destruction spans six separate states. Right now, survivors are struggling to get the food and other essentials they need to survive. And part of the reason why is because the roads and bridges necessary to get aid to them have either been severely damaged or no longer exist at all. It is a complete an utter nightmare. And look, I get that we live in a hyper politicized world right now, but can we just take a beat and not attack political opponents by using this storm as an excuse

to do it? And when it comes to Donald Trump, the answer is no. Now, I'm going to get to more of his attacks, this time against Kamala Harris and other governors in the state in just a moment. But Jenk, 1.5 million people currently are left without power. It is absolute devastation. Yeah, so look, hurricanes are sometimes defined how a politician has empathy or doesn't have empathy. And so there's the famous picture of George W. Bush looking down at the people of Louisiana as he flies over Hurricane Katrina. And so that was obviously not the right way to handle that. There's, of course, Donald Trump, we'll talk about it in Trump brackets.com, segment a little bit later, where he throws the paper towels of the people of Puerto Rico flippantly, et cetera.

So Trump is trying to recreate that for the Democrats, except it didn't happen. They responded immediately. The Republicans, including Governor Kemp of Georgia, thanked them profusely for responding immediately. They've done everything they possibly can, so Trump has to just lie about it. But that's not at all surprising. If you don't know that Donald Trump is a massive liar, you should never take anything. He says, seriously, you're already maga, and you're not going to listen to the reason anyway. Okay, so before we get to more Trump stuff, let me just say this.

My heart breaks for the people who have lost everything as a result of this storm. I think of the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Most families who lost everything as a result of that storm have still not been made whole. I think about the wildfires in Maui and how the people, the residents of that community who are devastated by that fire have still not been made whole. These insurance companies continue to give them the runaround. Many of these people have remained homeless as a result of these natural disasters and disasters caused by utility companies in some cases.

It makes me so angry to look, we obviously have resources. This is a wealthy country, but we never take care of our own, and it really upsets me, Jank. Why do we abandon our own again and again and just we fund all sorts of nonsense? We fund conflict and wars abroad. We fund all sorts subsidies for tremendously successful and wealthy corporations. I mean, we've got the money, but it never goes toward our people, and it bothers me. Okay, I just want to get that out. No, I want to add one thing to that and then add one lighter note.

So on an unrelated story, Benjamin Nanyahu in the video we showed you earlier in this show to Iran said, can you believe the mullahs are spending all your money on military equipment instead of giving you the education and the health care you need? And I thought that's hilarious, right? Because Israel spends almost no money on military because we give it to them. And they have paid family leave. They have universal health coverage. They had a budget surplus in 2022. They had a budget surplus in 2022, something that the United States has not had since 2001.

But the U.S. is paying for their weapons. So we've given them over $300 billion. And you can say, hey, listen, if it's going towards peace and part of it is because of the peace they did with Egypt, there's good reasons to give aid abroad, right? But are there bounds of reason where you give in other country hundreds of billions of dollars, but you refuse to take care of your own and you refuse to spend money on your own? Now, look, you could put aside Israel and take any of it. of these things. I mean, we still have over $20 billion in subsidies every year that the American

taxpayer gives some oil companies. The oil companies need it more than the people who are dealing with a hurricane or natural disasters, because the American citizens always come in dead last. Dead last. They're the ATM, right? All of these Americans who have been victimized by this hurricane, they're just seen as an ATM, right? Pay your taxes, like good boys and girls, and that money's not going to go back to improving your life or taking care of you if you've lost everything in a devastating hurricane, that money will go to all sorts of nonsense, and you're going to shut up and take it. Like, that's what I'm getting so frustrated with. So I- So let me light in the mood for you just a second, and then we'll go back to the frustration.

So Trump said there, nobody knew that there's going to be a hurricane this big in the middle of hurricane season, peak hurricane season. So now if you remember, this is what he also said at the beginning of his first term about healthcare. Watch. It's an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew that healthcare could be so complicated. Yeah, everybody did. Everybody knows it's hurricane season and that health care is complicated. What Trump does is he takes his own ignorance and projects it on to everyone else. Yeah. No one knew healthcare was complicated. No, you didn't know healthcare was complicated because you're not very bright.

You didn't know it was hurricane season, even though you were president for four years and even moved a hurricane with a Sharpie. He didn't actually move the hurricane. He thought he did in his own mind. And he still doesn't know what hurricane season is. He's unbelievable. It's just like the lack of curiosity about the world around us, right? I mean, you want to be president of the United States. You would want to know, okay, what policies are broken? Our healthcare system has been broken for a long time. How did you not know that healthcare is tremendously complicated? Anyway, but let's get back to the storm and how he is unfortunately using this moment where

people are in a lot of pain to weirdly attack his political opponents with lies. So Trump attacked Kamala Harris by accusing her of abandoning the victims of the hurricane and leaving them to drown. He did so in a truth social post. What he did is he shared a screenshot of something that Kamala Harris had posted on X. She was apparently taking a phone call about the hurricane on Air Force 2. And she talks about how she was briefed about the hurricane and the ongoing impacts of it. We also discussed the administration's continued actions to support the emergency response

and recovery. I also spoke to North Carolina's governor about the ongoing rescue and recovery efforts in North Carolina, you know, just kind of keeping the public up to date on her involvement in the rescue efforts and the aid efforts. So Donald Trump does a screenshot of that post and just like loses it on true social saying another fake and staged photo from someone who has no clue what she is doing. You have to plug the cord into the phone for it to work. Wait, let's look at the photo again.

No, no, he's not crazy about this one. You see how she's got the one hanging from her right ear, the, the, those are her headphones. Headphones, but it's not, it doesn't appear to be connected to the phone on the desk. I see, it might be the angle that they took it at it, it might be connected. But at least it's not one of those lunatic conspiracy theories about how she AIs her whole crowd and no one actually shows up. I was looking to see if it was crazy, but this one's officially not crazy. Also, the photo is definitely staged. Oh yeah, definitely.

The photo stage, but like is Kamala Harris involved in the relief efforts and the rescue efforts? That's the real question. Yeah, and I got an answer to that too. But the reason that he talks about stage photos is because when he was president, they did endless stage photos. Everybody does stage photos, everybody. Yeah, and he was going to say to be fair to Trump too. Every president does stage photos and every vice president does.

So that's why he would do these hilarious stage photos in these tiny desks. You remember those? I do. And he looked like a little kid in school, right? I'm like, if you're gonna stage the photo, find a better desk, right? I mean, I appreciated the tiny desks. It reminded me of my elementary school days, it was fun, it was fun. Yeah, now do the vice, does the vice president normally get involved in stuff like this?

No, she, if she's involved at all, it's because they want to say that they want to be able to say that she's involved, but normally a vice president, unless they're assigned by the president some menial task involved in this generally are not involved in this. Now going back to what you were saying, Jank, about Donald Trump projecting, I think that he was also projecting when he accused the Democratic governor of North Carolina, Roy Cooper, of abandoning Republican constituents and refusing to help them in Republican areas. And the reason why I say I think it's projection is because Donald Trump did like to punish blue states through his policies.

Yes. And he bragged about it. And he bragged about it. So they didn't vote for me. Okay? You know what if we did? So hey, Texas and Florida were very strong for me. So if they're, I got to help them. Okay. I mean, he's such a knucklehead. He just says whatever's in there off the top of his head. Now, I want to go to video three here because NBC news correspondent Garrett Haak was like, all right, well, he's throwing out some pretty serious allegations. here. And I want to know where these allegations are coming from. You know, is there any meat on the bones? Let's watch. He had been saying on truth social that he believes Democrats, specifically the governor of North Carolina and the federal government, had been intentionally denying aid to Republican parts

of the Tar Hill state. I asked him, what, if any, evidence he had to back that up? You can see what he said here. What was that in reference to me? Governor Kemp did call. Where's that coming from? Biden did call Governor Kemp yesterday. You got to vote Trump, people. So his only response was you'll have to take a look.

And then he walked away, didn't provide any receipts. Of course. But we're going to provide some receipts real quick, because he made some allegations about Georgia's governor, Brian Kemp. He says that Brian Kemp was having a, hard time getting President Joe Biden to help with the relief efforts. But it turns out that he said that after Brian Kemp had disclosed something about Biden. Let's take a look.

We do need some help from the federal government. They have to get together. Ideally with the governor, that governor needs to, he's been trying to get them. And I'm sure they're going to come through, but he's been calling the president hasn't been able to get him. I just spoke. The president just called me yesterday afternoon. I missed him and called him right back. And he just said, hey, what do you need? And I told him, you know, we got what we need. We'll work through the federal process. He offered that if there's another things we need just to call him directly, which I appreciate that. Oops. So look, I get it. It's a presidential election, everyone's campaigning, but maybe just hands off this issue, considering

the fact that people are still missing, family members are finding out about their loved ones being found dead as a result of this hurricane. Like, just bounds of reason, please. There are no bounds of reason. Come on. There are absolutely no bounds of reason. He couldn't care less about those people, just wants to use him as a political gimmick and a punchline. And so that's what he'll do. And, you know, look, at this point, we're a little less than 40 days before the election. If you don't know that Trump's a pathological liar, you're going to vote for Trump, right? I get it. You think, oh, yeah, whatever he says is more true than all the evidence in the world. Even if I hear it from a Republican governor's mouth, the President

Biden called him and that Donald Trump was lying about it, and he offered him any and every assistance, and Donald Trump was outrageously lying about it, it doesn't matter. It never matters. He was trolling. He was kidding. He was taken out of context. He's a demigod. I'll let him sleep with my wife. Whatever, Maga, you do you, okay? But the rest of us understand, this Trump guy is a pathological liar, and he's going to terrorize us for four more years if he wins this race. Every day he's going to come out with a new lie, something outrageous. He's going to smear this person and that person. He's going to put lives in danger by, like, look, the Haitians are afraid for their life in now in Ohio, because he got his lunatic followers and believe

They're eating cats and dogs. So will his followers believe that Biden didn't help when he overwhelmingly helped? Of course they will, because they believe every lie from this pathological liar. And by the way, just to answer any questions about whether or not the victims of this hurricane are going to get the help they need, it doesn't matter which party is in charge. Okay, recent natural disasters and the aftermath of those disasters have shown us that the victims never get the help that they need. Okay, how many of them are still homeless from previous natural disasters? So that's the real injustice here, and something's got to give, something's got to change, especially when it comes to insurance companies that these people do to fully pay year

after year, and then once they need the insurance companies to pay out claims because of these natural disasters, they're left abandoned by the insurance companies. That's a huge problem, maybe we discuss that a little bit. Anyway, we gotta take a break when we come back for the second hour. We've got a lot more news to get to, including Donald Trump letting his mask slip when it comes to overtime pay during a rally over the weekend. And of course, we've got Trump brackets as well, don't miss it.