The Young Turks - Bombs In Beirut

Episode Date: September 28, 2024

In the U.N. address, Netanyahu says the assault on Hezbollah will continue and warns Iran of Israel’s "long arm." Large explosions rock Lebanese capital Beirut as Israeli military says it targeted Hezbollah HQ. Kamala Harris holds a razor-thin lead across swing states in the tight 2024 race. SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE: ☞ https://www.youtube.com/user/theyoungturks FACEBOOK: ☞ https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER: ☞ https://www.twitter.com/theyoungturks INSTAGRAM: ☞ https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK: ☞ https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕 Merch: https://shoptyt.com ❤ Donate: http://www.tyt.com/go 🔗 Website: https://www.tyt.com 📱App: http://www.tyt.com/app 📬 Newsletters: https://www.tyt.com/newsletters/ If you want to watch more videos from TYT, consider subscribing to other channels in our network: The Watchlist https://www.youtube.com/watchlisttyt Indisputable with Dr. Rashad Richey https://www.youtube.com/indisputabletyt The Damage Report ▶ https://www.youtube.com/thedamagereport TYT Sports ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytsports The Conversation ▶ https://www.youtube.com/tytconversation Rebel HQ ▶ https://www.youtube.com/rebelhq TYT Investigates ▶ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwNJt9PYyN1uyw2XhNIQMMA Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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All right, of course, J.R. shows on watch list on YouTube and everywhere else we're on. Make sure you're checking that out along with damage report. But good to have you back on the main show. It's been a little bit, it's been a minute as the kids said. It's been a minute, I must say. Yeah. It's crazy just to see us three together. And also I know, you know, you're remote, you got a new setup. I know you were worried about like some tech thing with like the sharpness of your camera.

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Yeah. Anyway. Well, which side? I can't tell. All right. So guys, look, it was all fun. It's good to have the crew back together. But obviously, first story is about war.

So we're going to get angry in a minute. So that's just a reality of life, so let's do it. Downside, first story is about war. Upside, second story is about war. Yeah. Another one. But anyway, they're related. Okay, well, why don't we get into it and see what happens, starting with this?

I have a message for the tyrants of Tehran. If you strike us, we will strike you. There is no place. There is no place in Iran that the long arm of Israel cannot reach, and that's true of the entire Middle East. The really Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, obviously in that video, was speaking to the General Assembly of the UN earlier today. He was addressing in that video, obviously Iran, whose diplomats were not there.

Of course, while he's addressing Iran, they were launching attacks in Lebanon, which we will be, of course, discussing a great detail later on in this episode of the show. We want to give you a little bit more of his remarks where that topic actually did come up. As long as Chisbalah chooses the path of war, Israel has no choice and Israel has every right to remove this threat and return our citizens to their home safely. And that's exactly what we're doing. And we'll continue degrading Chisbalah until all our objectives. Objectives are big. So there he is saying that so long as Hezbollah keeps choosing the path of war, then they have

no choice, which is generally what people say after they make choices that are not necessarily popular. Of course, this comes just a day after he rejected a ceasefire agreement with that organization that the U.S. helped to broker and Israel also apparently was a part of. Now, White House spokesman John Kirby was asked earlier yesterday why it is that they rejected this proposal that they themselves helped to set up and John Kirby said this. What prompted the prime minister's comments, only he can say, we wouldn't have issued the statement we did if it wasn't supportive of conversations we had with top Israeli officials

yesterday. So John Kirby, professional, both spokesman, also diplomat, has no idea why he's doing or saying what he's doing. No theories, he's got nothing. Nanyahu apparently is a total black box, can't read his motives. Now, there are theories, I think that we can speculate about. Here is one, the far right national security minister, Ben Gavir said Thursday, he had informed Netanyahu that if a temporary ceasefire with Hezblah's agreed to, his party would not

vote with the coalition, and if the ceasefire became permanent, then his party would withdraw from the government threatening Netanyahu's hold on power. So if you take that serious, if you believe that that's a credible threat, then you could have the ceasefire that you claim that you want. But if you get that ceasefire, you yourself might lose your power. So I guess the war has to continue. Isn't it amazing that so many conflicts seem to rest almost entirely on the continuation of political positions for just a handful of people who get to choose who lives and who dies for their own personal benefit?

Yeah, so a couple of things here. Number one, if you, you know, you heard a little bit of applause there. That's more propaganda from the Israeli government. They brought in a whole bunch of people into the gallery to cheer for Netanyahu because they knew that the everybody else that were diplomats to the UN would hate his speech because it was a war mongering speech as you saw there he said the long arm of Israel can reach anywhere in the Middle East meaning none of you are safe we've already bombed the capital of Iran the capital of Lebanon we've already destroyed Gaza bombed the capital of Syria we can bomb and kill any of you it was one of the

most evil speeches I've seen and it made me think Remember guys, now it's easy to look back at Mussolini, Stalin, et cetera, and go, well, of course they were comically evil, horrible, black and white issue, and everybody at the time must have also known, oh, that's the thing deeply evil Stalin, the deeply evil Mussolini. No, at the time, there was a discussion and a debate as to whether Mussolini was doing the right thing or the wrong thing. In fact, there were people in America that defended the fascist and said, no, Mussolini is doing the right thing.

In fact, we should be more like Mussolini. And so this is one of the most inarguably evil leaders of our lifetimes. Here coming to the UN threatening it, you know, more quotes in a minute about how he called it a dark chamber, I mean, he would know a thing or two about dark chambers, and insulted it in every way imaginable and claimed that Israel has been sanctioned more than any other country, not because it has committed more war crimes than almost any other country, but because those things, even though they're facts, you should ignore and facts don't matter. The only thing that matters is he claims the entire UN and the entire world is anti-Semitic.

It's not that they are starting all the wars and they're creating all the problems, his right wing government in Israel, it's that, well, you know, if you guys realize we're the best of the best, and you should all listen to us, and you know that we could kill you at any time. And that's all right in our prerogative. And then you accepted that. Well, then we wouldn't have any problems at all. You see how the problem is yours and not ours? It's absurd.

And we have that video if you'd like. Yeah, I would. Yes, let's go to it. The singling out of the one and only Jewish state continues to be a moral stain on the United Nations. It has made this once respected institution contemptible in the, the eyes of decent people everywhere, but for the Palestinians, this UN House of Darkness is home court. They know that in this swamp of anti-Semitic bile, there's an automatic majority willing to demonize the Jewish state on anything. In this anti-Israel, flat earth

society, any false charge, any outlandish allegation can muster a majority. Yeah, okay, guys, so first of all, you should kick him out immediately. Not him, Israel should be kicked out of the United Nations immediately. I mean, if somebody came to my house and said, this is a house of darkness, and you are filled with hate and be like, get the hell out of my house. You grab him by the scruff of his neck and throw his ass out. And say, I dare you to set one foot in here and see what happens with a long goddamn arm. What are we sitting there taking insults from this maniac for?

The United Nations sits here, okay, sorry, a whole bunch of diplomats walked out, of course. Okay, and second of all, much more importantly, make Palestine declare Palestine a state right now. That's how Israel came to be from the United Nations. And so if the United Nations was good enough to declare Israel estate, obviously they could declare Palestine estate. And every day they don't, it's actually deeply, deeply racist against the Palestinians. Saying that the only nation, only people on earth who cannot govern themselves is that the maniacally racist thing that America and the United Nations and Israel agreed to.

And the fact is, yes, Israel and America are that deeply racist against Palestinians, Muslims, etc. You can't govern yourself. You're savages. That is the most obviously racist thing I have ever seen. And this piece of crap has audacity to talk about how the world is anti-Semitic because he's trying to start the biggest war in the Middle East that we've seen in our lifetimes? And of course, what's he going to do? He's going to come back and go, now I demand that America pay for it and America fight it. I order you to do it. And by the way, you're in a house of darkness. And of course, he attacked progressives and said that we're in league with Iran. You don't come to America and tell us that our citizens are terrorists

and you're the good guy that starting a giant war that we have to pay for. This is, look, I'm done with Netanyahu. Any decent human being would be done with Netanyahu. And the fact that our government, both Republicans and Democrats, fawn over him and serve him slavishly. It's disgusting and it's humiliating to America and to all of its citizens. So, no, I do not agree to any lie from the American media or from the American government about how this is the moral army that has murdered. tens of thousands of women and children in Gaza that just murdered 600 people in the middle

of Beirut, and then he's going to pretend, oh, we didn't start the war, what do you mean? He's trying to kill every leader of Hezbollah. Okay, now in America, you all believe, okay, oh, I heard from Dana Bash and Jake Tapper, Hezbollah, terrorist, evil, murder, murder, murder them. Okay, all right. Now, why are they terrorists? Because they have killed civilians. We agree.

So now Israel has killed far more civilians, 10 times, 20, 10, 30, 40 times more than Hamas than Hezbollah. So do we agree on the word terrorists? If we do, then Netanyahu is 40 times a terrorist than Hamas and Hezbollahs. So if Hezbollah killed Netanyahu, would we say, oh, yeah, that's normal. So when Israel was trying to kill Nasrallah, that's totally normal. When Israel tried to kill every Hamas leader, that's normal. So if they kill Israeli leaders in their entire cabinet, just like Israel's doing right now, that should be normal, right?

No, American media will say dirty, Muslim, savage, terrorists, right? When Israel does it, like moral army, great, wonderful, here's money, here's money, here's $26 billion. America's shut up and get them more money. $26 billion isn't enough. They said $8.7 billion to this monster, this fascist, evil terrorist just yesterday. I'm sick of it. How many more people is he going to murder with our money? Those are facts. So, no, I know, shh, don't say it, don't say it because you're not allowed to criticize Israel.

You can criticize everyone else on the planet, but the special, amazing ally that is so moral that he could kill stadiums full of children. We're not allowed to criticize because of freedom of speech, because we're a free country. Does it look like we're free? We're paying for his war crimes, and I'm sick of it. Yeah, as we're looking at the language that he was using at the language that he was using as he speaking. to the UN. When you come in with that kind of language and you're that aggressive and names are getting called anti-Semitic bile that flows from this place. What's the purpose? This would always have to ask. So what's the objective here? Just like these bombing campaigns,

what's the purpose? They say is to target this particular leader, but then they take out six buildings and there's 300, 500 people dead the other day and then now counting the dead right now and injured as we go through all this. So and even sending out pictures of the moment that he called in the attack. It's a very dramatic process, but it's to make sure that it promotes him. The whole purpose of this. And the reasons why, again, also as you're talking about, our government and many of our leaders are supporting all this is because it's based in politics. Politics is the controlling power that comes with it. He got the warning from other folks in the far right aspects of his government. Yo, we're not going to support you if you don't continue

to do what we want you to do. It's all based in politics. If you turn, if you're some kind of way as an American politician, a congressperson, senator, governor, anybody wants to say something that we'll get out of the normal process of what Americans may think of the right way to go about this, your political career is in danger. So we're dealing with politicians. It's like, you know, if you're a profession is to be an engineer and then you can't be an engineer anymore because you have a thought about something or you see reality for what it is, you don't want to lose your job. And that's across all of these, from international leaders to our leaders. And they're using those positions of politics to get what they want from whichever aspect it is,

from Netanyahu to people that also tell him what to do as well. So how do you how do you undo that is the hard for it? No, you've both been great points. I don't have much to add. I just want to say because I know some people will be, you know, they'll be, they'll be angry at you, Jank. Oh really? That'll be a first. It would be the first time. I think our comments have always been positive, but I'm worried that that tide may turn. So I know a lot of people will think, well, how can you use these terms to describe him? I mean, After all, as he said, Iran has attacked Israel and Hezbollah has attacked Israel and that's definitely true. And Hamas has launched attacks against it. That's true. That's true. And every

single leader has always had some justification for the wars that they start. That's not new. That's not unique. That's not special. That's not interesting. That's not brave. That's exactly how it always, always, always works every single time. And what you were saying about, you know, how we get to the point of deciding, is this group terrorists, is this country terrorist and all that? Like, I know some people obviously have so much vested emotion in this particular geopolitical situation that they can't necessarily understand. But like, think about, you know, when we, when we were attacked, 9-11, and then we invaded not even the countries that did it, but other countries and killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. We're not terrorists. And they

attacked us. Hey, we had a justification. We used it. We went, we did a speech. at the UN and we had a justification. We killed hundreds of times more civilians and we're not terrorists, we're just not. Because we're powerful and we're rich and the media's on our side and our media's part of us. So that's how it works. It's not a moral evaluation. It's not like the definition is just who gets to decide. And again, none of this, like I know a lot of people that they probably think I hate that these rocket attacks happen.

And I understand that on some level you do, but think about what those rocket attacks also do. They allow you to get to the mental place where you get to be okay with mass slaughter of civilians, which is a difficult thing to do. So isn't it convenient that this allowed you to get there where you can look at 700 civilians being blown to bits in a couple of days and it doesn't bother you anymore, isn't that an amazing thing? Just like Hamas, by the way, just like the terrorists in Hamas and Hezbollah, they say, hey,

you don't what, the occupation of the Palestinians is so brutal. so terrible, which is true, which is definitely true, 57 years of the most oppressive dictatorial, brutal occupation of our lifetimes, 5.5 million people imprisoned against their will in open air camps by the Israelis for 57 years. And they say, well, that is so horrific that I've gotten, like, I can't blame someone for killing their civilians. They vote for this occupation for 57 straight years. Now we say don't do that. That's terrible. Don't ever take it out on the civilians. Yep. Israel says, and the supporters of Israel say, no, let's be hypocritical. We should care about the beloved citizens of Israel who are the most holy, moral

and valuable, the most valuable humans on earth. But the Palestinians, we're allowed to slaughter their civilians. The Lebanese were allowed to slaughter their civilians. They're only Muslims and Christians, they're not important at all. Their lives are not valuable, and I'm okay with it. And I've gotten used to, as John was saying, I've gotten used to, Israel gets to murder as many civilians as they like, and call it self-defense, hiding behind human shields. Is exactly what Hamas and Hasblah say. They go, well, we had to attack their civilians because they're the ones that are,

they're hiding behind their civilians. Oh, we're a democracy. Ha-ha, we get to be dictators of you, but we're a democracy. We're hiding behind our civilians. Now, I don't agree with Hamas, Hezbole or Israel. Stop murdering the civilians. But no, no, but guys, here's the thing that you don't understand. Sorry I interrupted, John, but guys, you know, like, oh, why don't you condemn Hezbollah?

Well, first of all, I don't know how many times you have to do it, why did it like eight times in this segment, right? Okay, why don't you condemn Israel? No, it has to be one-sided. You condemn, I say they're doing 10 times, 40 times worse is awesome, it's fantastic. No, then I don't agree. Okay, if we say it's terrorism, then you're a monster for supporting that terrorism of Israel. And in here in America, just total blinders. And anyway, American media and American politicians are hopeless.

They degrade and humiliate all of us with their obsequious servitude to the right wing fascist government of Israel. So no, you do not get to murder and say, I'm the holy one. moral one. No, our lives are valuable too. Other lives are valuable too. Okay, I got to end here because I'm super mad that this monster was allowed to give a speech and then like there's, anyway, the American government is not, the reason I interrupt the job is not giving money to Hezbollah. They're giving money to Israel. They're not giving money to Hamas. They're giving money to Israel. So we can condemn Hamas and Hezbollah all day long and we do. But our money isn't finance. financing their terrorism. But our money is financing Israel's terrorism. And if you say,

no, Jank, you are a bad person for saying exact, for Israel doing the same exact things as Hamasana has blood, but 40 times worse cannot be called terrorism because it hurts my feelings. The problem isn't me or the facts. The problem is your so-called feelings. Because you only care about yourself and you don't care about other human beings being slaughtered with our money. And then you go, no, my feelings are more important than their children's lives. No, they're not. And I'm never going to let you get away with saying that. So this monster Netanyahu should be condemned by every decent moral human being.

He's the worst of us. And I cannot believe that my money went to that monster because of the historic piece of crap, evil failure, Joe Biden. Joe Biden is not a sweet man. Joe Biden is a man who funds genocide, lies about it. and lets this guy, this one of the most evil men of our lifetimes, run U.S. policy. A foreign leader runs U.S. policy. Now here, guys, last thing, I, you know, I do predictions on the show. Why?

Because I show you how the system works so that you could see it for yourself. So if I'm wrong about all this, then I'll be wrong about this prediction because it's in the future. I'm telling you right now that Israel, in order for Netanyahu to keep his job, as John said, is in the middle of starting an enormous war in the Middle East. They've already attacked Lebanon over and over and over again. They've already hit Iran. But the minute any Hezbollah or Iran bomb actually lands in Israel, not fired at Israel, but actually lands in Israel, does even any damage, 10 people killed. It doesn't matter that there's 40,000 dead, 41, 42,000 dead.

all around them, right? Those lives aren't worth anything to Israelis, they're not worth anything to the American government, they're just Muslim and Christian lives, they're useless, okay? But if 10 Israelis die, America and all of American media will say, Hezbollah started this war, Iran started this war, attack, attack, attack. And I guarantee you, they will make us pay for their war, I guarantee it. All right, now let's see what happens. Let's see who's right and who's wrong.

I just told you ahead of time, after Israel's, starts this war, US politicians will all get on their hands and knees and go, we have to, we have to take all of your money and give it to this Netanyahu guy, because he has a right to defend himself by attacking four different neighbors. So all of your money, get it ready to go, okay, save up, save up. Don't spend it on vacations, don't get a new car, because Israel's about to start the largest, no, they're not about to. They're in the middle of starting the largest war of our lifetimes in the Middle East. And they will definitely, demand that we pay for it and our corrupt politicians will definitely say yes. Everybody take

out their paychecks. You're going to give it to Israel to start this war. Guaranteed. All right, Young Turks. All right, back on TYT, Jank, John, and J. I have to read one comment from one of our members. Kelly K said, if Hezbollah had bombed six apartment buildings claiming they had military infrastructure underneath and their target was then Yahoo, the world would lose their mind. Of course. Rightly so.

And we would probably kill what, a couple hundred thousand people in Lebanon and retaliation because we would say that was the worst terrorist strike that we've seen. Israel does it and America goes, how much do you need? Can I send you another $9 billion? Okay, Peter Phelps and Andre Williams, thanks for joining us on YouTube in Dawn Whitehead and Bruce Salza. Thank you for the membership gifts. And remember, there are a lot of people in Israel that don't agree with any of this. And, you know, ideally, eventually different leadership, you know.

I mean, Israel, yeah, let's go, let's go. I've heard enough of people saying that they're theoretically against that, yeah, theoretically, Except you've reelected him like a billion times and he's gaining in popularity. So, okay, let's, I hope Israel does better. But right now, Israel's doing terribly. They're saying we don't care about any of our neighbors. We don't value the lives of any of our neighbors. All right, anyway, let's go do the next story.

You really worked up. Let's turn to something lighter to help you cool off. Israel's military launched an attack unprecedented in scale in recent history in Beirut's southern suburbs. with both dead and wounded being counted, literally as we're live on the air. Multiple residential buildings have been utterly destroyed, and we are going to show you some footage of it. It looks like what I imagine, I don't know, Dresden would look like, like massive craters and just an entire residential area turned into, it looks like the moon.

It does not look like Earth anymore, and that's what was done in the last day. the largest Israeli strike in Beirut since the 2006 war, they were, according to them, the reasoning for this was they were targeting Hezboa leader Hassan Nasrallah. The strike, of course, also brought down multiple residential buildings. We can show you right here, two of the buildings that were destroyed. I've seen counts of four to six buildings having been destroyed. By the numbers that we had at least when we were putting this together, there at least two people had been killed in 76 wounded. Of course, that is a very preliminary assessment of the casualties because when the buildings

are destroyed and many of them might well be filled with people, it takes a long time if ever that you actually find them and can count it. Now I did see video of two children being pulled still alive, but of course injured from the rubble, so at least two of the children whose lives were endangered by this attack were thankfully not killed, but of course many, many were. We'll find out over the next day or week or month exactly how many. Bear in mind that more than 700 people just within the bounds of Lebanon have been killed over the last 11 days of this fighting.

And that's a massive scale of violence. I saw one thing that stood out to me in one town in Lebanon. Dozens of people attended a mass funeral for one family, the Schwib family. A strike overnight had killed 15 members of the family. There was one survivor in that entire family to attend the funeral of 15 people killed during a strike because they lived in the wrong area. Yeah, okay, so let's break this down. First of all, Israel was yet another terrorist strike in the capital of a neighboring country.

This is the third capital that they've attacked, Damascus, Tehran, and Beirut. And of course, every time they do an aggressive attack against, against another country, they go, oh, we have a right to defend ourselves. Okay, so now, the Israeli supporters out there go, oh my God, Jank, how dare you, Hezbollah has fired tens of thousands of rockets. How many have landed and actually killed people? One. One. So does that need that Hezbollah's nice guys for doing that? No, no. You want to condemn them? Happy to condemn them. Of course he shouldn't do that, et cetera, right? So now are we going to be even handed? No, you're going to say has no right to do that. And I don't care if it barely ever even hurts us. We have a right to kill 700 of them.

12 kids were killed in northern Israel. So now we have a right to kill 700 and the 7,000 and the 70,000. We have the right to kill an unlimited number of human beings. No, you don't. That's not right to self-defense. Israel is definitely starting this war. So, okay, look, I'm tired of debating the nonsense. people that are so biased that they're borderline lunatics now, totally detached from reality. They, in their mind, Israel is little David, is surrounded by her, Goliath Palestinians and the Palestinians have all the power. And at any second they could make Israel not exist. Israel has iron dome.

In some ways, that makes it literally the safest country on earth. It doesn't have a right to exist. It exists. It exists since 1948. Does Palestine exist? No. No, and who's blocked Palestine's right to exist? Israel. And you go, well, they might, they might block our right to exist theoretically, hypothetically at another time. But we've been blocking their right to exist for 57 years. But who cares? Their lives aren't worth anything. And our lives are worth everything. Yeah, I know, but that's because you're a giant

hypocrite. And I can't stand it anymore. So I gave the analogy the other day on the show. So when I was a kid, I got into a little scuffle with another kid, and he threw a giant stone for at me in his driveway, had broken off the driveway, and it hit me in it, and I started bleeding from the head. So I murdered him, his mom in the entire neighborhood. Now, if I told you that story, the first part is true, he did throw a stone and it did hit me in the head, it was gigantic, and I was bleeding from the head. Did I murder him? No, of course not. You know why? Because I'm a decent moral person. But Israeli logic, according to their right wing government, but honestly, like now how many years, six decades of every government says, if you even throw a stone at me and it doesn't hit me or a rocket and it doesn't hit me, it doesn't matter, I get to murder you, your mom, because the mom came out in that story, and your neighbor who didn't do anything wrong. And in fact, I'm going to incinerate the entire neighborhood and murder all these innocent people. Because you threw a stone, it didn't even hit me, but who cares? because I'm the moral one, no, that's what a wildly indecent, immoral person does. And then if you only listen to American television, you'd never know this.

Do you know why Hezbollah has fired those ineffectual rockets? Right now, I debated a guy on Pierce Morgan. They comically, he's like, oh, I don't know, for no reason, because they hate Jews. I mean, but look, to be fair, I was going to say if anybody's stupid enough to believe that, If you watch American media, you literally wouldn't know a second reason why, right? So I'm not blaming the people who received that propaganda. I'm blaming the people who did that propaganda. No, Israel has been occupying five and a half million people, the Palestinians, for 57 years,

in a dictatorial control of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. And then they go around and gaslight the world and go, we're a democracy. Ignore the concentration camps we have for five and a half million people. They're not allowed to do. The minute they step, they don't even have to do anything wrong. They don't even have to look at us wrong like Emmett Tilded. I mean, if they look at us wrong, the settlers are going to murder them. If they don't murder them, the IDF is going to murder them.

And then there's going to be a kangaroo court that says 99% of them are innocent. Oh, they just, oh, they, well, that Palestinian deserve to be murdered. You know, their lives have no value at all. No, they are occupying in a dictatorial way, five and a half million other human beings. And then they say, we have a right to do it. We have to kill all of them because we have a right to defend ourselves. So now I'm going to ask what is for any normal human being, the most logical question on earth. But in American media, will be considered deeply controversial.

Do the Palestinians have a right to defend themselves? Do the Lebanese have a right to defend themselves? And if by defending themselves, Israel means killing 41,000 people in Gaza, do the Palestinians have an equal right? Now, nobody can answer that question because you'd have to say logically, they would, as human beings, have the same rights. But here in America, if you say that, you'll be canceled, fired, and maybe even arrested. Because are you equating Hamas or Hezbollah with Israel, when Israel's killed 40 times more? How dare you? Israel's obviously a moral one.

No, I'm here to break the spell. Wakey, wakey, America, you've been hypnotized by liars and propagandists. No, Israel does not have a right to murder anyone it likes and call it self-defense. Hamas doesn't have that right, Hezbollah doesn't have that right, and neither does Israel. It's the basis for how we do stuff. I mean, look, societies do this. I think since forever, there's been wars. You kill a large number of people.

There's always civilians and citizens killed in these wars. And the person who's the strongest and most savage and most brutal and most bloody is the one who wins. And then they make the rules. All these things have been said. Nothing about this is brand new. Nothing about it's new. You talk about how you got the rock thrown at you as a kid. There's street violence.

There's cliques. There's gangs. There's gang violence in the streets. A lot times it's retaliatory. You kill someone that's my brother, then it's going to happen back to you and maybe three other people with it. And we criticize that. This is just a larger scale of that. I'm not sure why that's, we've got everything right in front of our faces, about everything that we're talking about, from politics to wars, which always go hand in hand. But I think there's beginning to be these moments when people can see reality. There's so much more new information, not new information, just information that we decided not to look at before. So everyone can sit at

a home grab their phone and find out what's happening. That's why a lot of these journalists, a lot of these victims that are in these war-torn areas are showing us what they're experiencing, what they're seeing. And the tide begins to turn. But that's what makes people who kind of have been buying into the dehumanization campaign of this would go, how dare you? But if you can say how dare you not care about 40,000 people being murdered and you see children's bodies in bits and pieces, where's the shame? Why not? Because we've always been accepting of that. The nation was built off of dehumanizing people, murdering them, and then saying that's okay because it's for the greater good. Those human lives don't matter. And anyone who's affected by it that still hangs

around, that one person of the 15 of his whole family, his or hers whole family that was brutally incinerated, how should they feel? We don't think that far because that's not a human. same feelings I have. They don't have the same outlook on the world as I have. Think about a five-year-old that's been here for five years, looks up at the world and sees that there's constant bombing coming their way. And then apparently never hears this probably that the people who are saying it's okay are saying, well, it's because the people that look like you that are adults voted in the wrong person, wrote in the wrong party, votes in the wrong type of leadership. So therefore, you five-year-old child, your life is in danger. I think they would probably, again,

They're only experience in this existence. Think about it that way. Your only experience in this existence, you look up and there's this nation, a couple of them, that are killing everyone around you. That may be an idea that you're in hell. What is this world I'm in where this is acceptable, where I'm just living, and there's rockets and bombs and a ton, two ton times size bombs landing on my head? why is this acceptable? I feel like this is an unreal world. We can't see it that way because they don't matter that much. We can say who so and so doesn't matter. When you think about when

someone says so and so doesn't matter, it really goes all the way down to their literal existence and experience in this world. Yeah. And that's a really bad person. Yeah, I mean, you just described almost the entire American government, let alone the Israeli government. Those people that are saying that look guys the kids and the adults that were killed in Israel on October 7th and then that one strike from Asbelah that landed those are precious valuable lives the minute you find out about any of them I would hope to God that you have you feel empathy towards them and you go that's a real person they were at a concert they were on a farm they were doing something with their grandma they was do something with their aunt and they got

kidnapped they got killed etc I love that you care about the Israelis in that way and I care about the Israelis in that way. And I want Israel to be a safe haven for Jews across the world who have been abused throughout history. But this is not a safe haven. And what part of a safe haven is, I'm going to keep you in prison for 57 years. And you, your life doesn't matter. And I can, we have a right to defend ourselves, but you do not have a right to defend yourself. You have to accept your dictatorial imprisonment. You have to except that you live in a camp and that you're never going to be free. Netanyahu says, I will never allow a Palestinian state. If a Palestinian leader said that, that would be cause for Israel to murder them. Now those are facts. When they say Israel shouldn't exist, Israel says they're terrorists and I have a right to kill them. They just are bragging about how they try to kill Nassar al-A-Assan Nassarla today in the Beirut attack that we're talking about now.

They said, well, he says that Israel doesn't have a right to exist. But Netanyahu and every Israeli leader that is certainly in recent history has said that Palestine doesn't have a right to exist. I shouldn't say every Israeli leader in the recent history because there's plenty of liberals that are that aren't like that. But I'm saying his cabinet, okay? So no, we have America has this ludicrous, two different sets of rules for two different sets of people and as our heart breaks for Israeli citizens, their heart does not break for

Palestinian citizens or Lebanese citizens. They look at those dead Muslim kids and they go, so what? Hey, you know what? Not so what? Joe Biden would like to send Israel a thank you note and attach $26 billion as a thank you for murdering those Muslim children. Joe Biden, by the way, is a racist. Doesn't care about Muslim lives at all, has never cared, has voted for every war to murder more Muslims. 100% unjustly.

John is absolutely right in the earlier segment. America killed way more innocent civilians in Iraq than Israel is even killed in Gaza. And Joe Biden voted for it. And that's who Joe Biden is. If his donors are going to make money, the defense contractors, et cetera, Joe Biden will let you kill any number of Muslims you want. One of the most racist men in American politics. Then pretends to go and do civil rights and protests against apartheid with Nelson Mandela and get arrested.

Giant liar. He never did that. Huge liar, deeply racist, and a total loser who let this giant war in the Middle East happen on his watch because he refused to use his leverage with Israel. History will think of Joe Biden as a weak, pathetic war monger, and he earned it. He earned it. Congratulations, Joe. That'll be your legacy. All right on TYT, Jank John and J.R. Titan writes in on Super Chat, only Israel has a right to defend itself, no one else. He's being sarcastic, but that literally could be Joe Biden, because that is his official policy. Okay.

Yeah. Also the United States goes without saying is allowed to defend itself even against nations that don't attack it. That's right, but no one's allowed to defend themselves back against us because then they're dirty, dirty terrorists. But they have to be Muslim, no one else is a terrorist, only Muslims. Okay, only good vibes for here on now, okay? We got, we did the, we did the stuff that's dark and bad, and now it's all good vibes,

okay? Let's jump into this. More polls have been coming out that have been pretty much everything Kamala Harris would like to see and nothing that Donald Trump would like to see any more of. And we're gonna run through a lot of it. Now there's good news in the swing states, good news in the national picture, good news in the individual issue evaluations of voters. And I have been told that Jank thinks that it might not hold and has a prediction.

So we will get to that. But first we'll be set up the current situation as described by the polls. So if you take a look at this right here, we have Bloomberg, the swing state poll. So overall in the swing states, Harris is now up by three points. And you can see that breakdown with Georgia still being neck and neck. And that's obviously a state that if Harris wins, that's probably that's the election right there. Some of them are pretty tight. North Carolina is just two points right there. She's probably getting an assist from Mark Robinson in that. But some of the states, I mean, you've got three points in

Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, five in Pennsylvania. That's another one where if she wins, that, then that's a very significant impact on the election. And Nevada's now at seven points, so this is very significant. And again, overall three points in the swing states. Now, when you talk to swing state voters about the issues that are most important to them, no one will be surprised to find out that, you know, how they think the candidates will address the economy and inflation are very high up there on people's minds. Well, Harris has been drawing closer and closer on that evaluation over the last month or so.

Trump's advantage on the issue of the economy is now four points, just four points. It's been significantly higher, it was 50% higher just one month ago. And his advantage on the economy and I guess immigration, that's pretty much what he's got. So if that's his main weapon and it has now been 50% neutralized in just a month, that's not good for him. By the way, a related issue, when you ask people, who likely voters trust to help the middle class, up 11 points on that one, that would be the next graphics. So that's related to an overall evaluation of how they do with the economy, but how they'll

help people theoretically like you, that's very significant. And you can see overall in the changing picture of what people think about the candidates on the economy changing over time. And one of the big sort of meta-criticisms of Harris was we don't know enough about what she's going to do. She's not really talking about her policies, they're not very detailed, you could sort of lump in, you know, before we had the debate, we hadn't had that, she's not doing enough interviews, we just don't know her. Well, now, when you ask people, who has detailed

policy positions, 43% of likely swing state voters say that of Harris, just 40% for Trump. She's moved up five points in the last month. And so we can get into some of the other specific policy positions, but this is overall looking pretty good for Harris. What do you think? Yeah, so this is as good as it's ever looked. And so should you be encouraged by these numbers, definitely. These are comfortable enough that if the election were held today, she would win. And I could say that with good deal of certainty. So, and I haven't said that before. So like, this just happened over the last week or so that I've been saying, yeah, I think she's got enough now that I'd want the election today. And these are even better

than numbers from a week ago. So at this point, I mean, up to a North Carolina, doesn't mean you're going to win North Carolina, but it means you're definitely going to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin that you need to win. So the reason is, so it ain't going to get that North Carolina is a little bit complicated because there's a literal Nazi running as a Republican candidate there that Donald Trump is still supporting. And a guy who literally said we should bring slavery back that Donald Trump is still supporting and a guy who said that women shouldn't be allowed to vote that Donald Trump is still supporting. And the people in North Carolina know that a little bit better. I get all that. But having said that even, and you see, that's why you get the odd

situation where she's up by two in North Carolina but tied in Georgia. Normally Democrats in the last couple of elections have been doing better in Georgia than in North Carolina. So all these factors are true, but she's up everywhere. And she's now beginning to be up in the swing states in a way that is near comfortable, not comfortable yet, near comfortable, okay? Now having said all that, I think this is her peak. I hope to God, as always, I mean, I've said this a billion times on the show, I hope to God I'm wrong, and then she just keeps on going and landslides them. And that's not impossible. It's totally, it's It's the reason it's possible because Donald Trump is spiraling.

He's just saying crazier and crazier things. There's no end to how stupid he is and how maniacal he is. So every time he goes in front of a camera, he punches himself in the face like eight times. I mean, today, I mean, we'll talk about it later again with that Mark Robinson guy who says he's a Nazi. Trump still hasn't unendorsed him. So I guess there are pretty good people on both sides, according to Trump. Because very literally right now supporting a Nazi. Very, very, very literally.

Okay, we all know that Mark Robinson said he's a Nazi and Trump has not pulled his endorsement. So, all right, I'm going to get to why I think Kamala Harris actually might be in a little bit of trouble going forward. But, J.R. That is what I was wondering, because I thought there was going to me some skepticism as this polls. And John knows, man. When I was on his show, I hate polls. I hate polls. How are these polls conducted?

Who's the one answering them? Is this on a rotary phone in your house? I don't know. Who's picking up the phone call for these? Maybe there's online polls. Again, I pay so little attention to polls, I don't even know how they conduct them to the degree that they make them as accurate as they can determine them to be. But again, the self implosion of Donald Trump, when he's proposing his tariffs, and he's proposing raising the price on so many goods in roundabout ways, this man went and was speaking and directly threatened John Deere because we're a capitalistic society and companies do things like layoff workers and move some offices and manufacturing plants to other countries to make more money without paying people for it. Weird how that works. How can he get mad at John Deere and have a full proposal of a 200, what do you say, 200% tariff on your goods you can bring into our country?

So he's barking these things. So the question is, is he going to keep barking, which I think will help the vice president? Or will he stop barking and then people go back to the same old nonsense without really listening to what's being said, assumption that, yo, I should trust Trump on the economy more than I trust anyone else. You don't have to put another name as the versus. Donald Trump is telling us exactly why, along with other people that people say they trust, like, you know, economists, that he's looking to destroy the economy. But he doesn't care if he knows what he's talking about, because when has that ever stopped him from saying things? So I'm not, I guess the shaky part might be, I'm not sure if she's getting this boost because people are listening to what they're proposing, but more because they're listening to what Donald Trump is. proposal. That's the hard part. So he has to be the driver, I guess. So Jay, I think it's both. She looks stable and like a professional, et cetera, like a normal human being, whereas he looks

like a deranged bozo. So like I know Maga doesn't see it, but the rest of us see like him foaming at the mouth. And I mean, today he's like, I'm going to punish Google to the maximum if I'm in charge. Because Google hates me. Google. All right, and he's threatening. I've always felt like ask G's was very unfair to me online. Oh yeah, and they deserve to be punished. Yahoo Messenger, I'm gonna arrest them and put them in prison and my space as well if I get in office. Okay, anyway, this guy says, I'm in favor of freedom of speech, but I don't, I don't

like Google search algorithm, so I'm gonna arrest people at Google. He also threatened to arrest Mark Zuckerberg because he's for freedom of speech and freedom. No, he's a lunatic, and so anyways, look, so him being a lunatic is part of it, she looks professional, but two more positive things that I promised the turn on Kamala Harris. So number one, the fact that she is trusted by the middle class is huge, because Trump was winning the populist fight, right? He was, he's a giant fake, phony populist, but he was saying that he was a populist and he was winning that fight for the middle class. And then Kamala Harris came and picked him walls, the price gouging, all that economically

populist proposals totally worked and got the middle class on her side. If you remember, for the first two to four weeks, we were saying she was running a perfect campaign and that her numbers would go up. And boom, we were right. And her numbers went up. And then one last thing that's a positive. On the policy stuff, I can't stand this nonsense talking point on in media. Her policies aren't specific enough. No, she has a ton of policies and they're very specific. There's a bunch of places like health care where she doesn't have specific policies. That drives to be crazy. We pointed out. But when you compare her to Trump's policies, Trump's policies are like, duh, drill baby drill, I asked you about housing, moron, right?

Like policy, he can't put two sentences together. So buffoon doesn't know a single thing about policy. So what kind of absurd conversation are we having? Nevertheless, it's not who I'm going to vote for, it's who the American people are going to vote for. She's doing three things wrong. It went from a great campaign to right now, I think she's running a subpar campaign over the last two to four weeks, two to three weeks. So one number one, not doing the interviews is so dumb. She does perfectly fine in the interviews.

Tim Walls kicks ass in the interviews. Free Tim Walls, what are you doing? We got the balls to the Walls t-shirt. I can't even wear it. No, everybody's like, who's Tim Walls? Where are the balls? Yeah, I mean, where are the walls? Sorry, I meant walls.

Yeah. So guys, so that's a terrible strategy because then you're taking your two main players off the battlefield. It's like saying, oh, I got a great idea for winning this game. I'm going to take my star quarterback and running back out of the game. Why? They're the ones who are supposed to make the case for why they're the better candidates than the other side.

Taking them out is so dumb. It's classic old Biden campaign team. Okay, that's point one. Point two is she's now going, oh, neocons, I love him. Dick Cheney, oh, I'm so proud. Oh, my God. Disaster. Number three, oh, I'm so pro business.

Hey, Mark Cuban, go tell every NBC anchor in Amazon. Pro business, pro corporations, corporations are great. The crypto guys are great. I'm going to equip those fantastic Apex, fantastic. Defense contractors are fantastic. We're going to kill everybody. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no, no.

So let's see if I'm right or wrong again. But I think that these numbers are going to dip because she's going on the wrong direction. And the thing that frustrates me so much, guys, last thing on this. Why? You were going the right direction and you picked up massively in the polls. Why did you turn around for no reason at all? I don't know why. Go ahead, Joe.

So similarly, like they said, the reasons that Donald Trump chose J.D. Vance. Anyway, the reason they chose J.D. Vance because he's like, yo, I'm high stepping to the end zone. I got 10 yards to go, and Joe Biden is passed out on the 50-yard line. So he's high-stepping. I'll pick up this loser and head to the end zone. And then everything changed. Similarly, I think she's picked up this momentum. I mean, this isn't, again, a junk you ran a campaign.

I think this is highly handled to where there's campaign professionals that are making a lot of these decisions about, yo, you don't have to go on any interviews. I mean, she's done some. And again, she doesn't well. That's the thing. These narratives about how well she and Walls can do in interviews, they're wrong. They do well when they actually want interviews. I did see the Stephanie rule. And that was, that was, you know, she, you know, that was a conversation.

It's okay to be mixed every once in a while. You're not going to hit a home run in every interview. So what? Fine. And actually, that shows how human a lot of folks are. But I think they felt this momentum happening and they said, let's not do anything to mess it up. So there's the fear, that's the classic democratic move is the fear of doing right so long that you stop doing the right moves because just in case you might mess up. So let's stop and continue to put it in cruise control.

Maybe it'll work because, again, he keeps punching himself in the face. So let's just sit and watch and punch himself in the face. That's been the approach because why give them any ammunition? Yeah, I don't know if that'll work, but I think that's the reason that they're doing it. Yeah, JR's 100% right. I mean, there's a couple of factors. They're playing pre-vent defense, but they're playing it in this third quarter. Oh, hold on, hold on. We've got two quarters to go here. What are you doing? So if there was four days left before the election and somebody said, hey, should Kamala Harris do 12, she's got a seven-point lead nationally and she's winning the swing state?

Should she do 12 major interviews right now and say, no, no, no, no, no, four days left, let's coast, okay? Now we can play prevent defense. Now there's 40 seconds left, right? But now with two giant, 40 days left, you can't play prevent defense. J.R. Sorry. Also, the other thing that happened is she said price gouging, et cetera, and all of her donors roared back and said, how dare you declare you're a pro business? And she's like, okay, I'm pro business.

Donors, donors are on pro business, right? And that's the second factor. They already have so much money. Yeah, you already have the money. Yeah, just spend that money. You don't need that money. There's only 40 days left. Go, you, if you did more interviews, you'd get way more in earned media than you would from the paid media from your beloved donors.

Anyways, right now, things are good, I just don't want her to blow it. Okay, we're so past time, we can't go, all right, we're out of time. All right, so the good news is, you get to watch John on Damage Report and J.R. and watch this all day long, you're not gonna run out of time there, okay. Put it on loop. Gets better on the third rewatch. Yeah, kind of. Okay.

All right, guys. We've got a whole other hour coming. No Israel, I promise. And well, but amazing stories. We'll be right by.