The Young Turks - Bombshell Trump Allegations - December 23, 2025

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They're calling them dumps, massive dumps, as Trump would say, on Epstein files. And man, there's a lot of incriminating evidence about Trump in there. I think one of them is fake. We'll explain that, but the rest appear to be real, we think. So we'll share that with you guys. And it's amazing the material that was dropped today. So if you haven't seen that, make sure you stick around for that. That's coming up in a little bit. And then ladies and gentlemen, Megan Kelly flips. That is another person now, I guess Israel first.

And so that is an awesome development. Happy to have Megan on the correct team on this particular issue. And then later in the program, Bill Maher attacks me. Fun for everybody. I'll respond. It'll be fun. All right, Jordan. Well, Jank, as you mentioned, the latest batch of Epstein files contained passages so damaging to President Donald Trump that his Department of Justice came out to call them fake news. And we'll get into some of these really horrific details. But what do you make, Jank, before we get into that, of this spin attempt by the DOJ to try to dissuade people from giving any of these files any weight? Yeah, there's one letter in there that I'm pretty much positive as fake. And so we'll share that with you guys too. And so I'm worried that that's going to discredit the rest. No, make a decision

on each individual piece of evidence by itself. The other parts are very damning. So let's analyze it one by one and see what's real and what is it. First, a warning to the viewer. Some of the material we're going to cover is very graphic and very disturbing. This morning, like we said, the DOJ released almost 30,000 new Epstein files. The department also issued a statement that read some of these documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false. And if they had any shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already. Nevertheless, out of our commitment to the law

and transparency, the DOJ is releasing these documents with the legally required protections for Epstein's victims. Now let's dive into those untrue and sensationalist claims as they describe them. We'll start with a letter that Jeffrey Epstein allegedly wrote to Larry Nassar. And if you aren't familiar, don't remember Larry Nassar. He's the former team doctor of the U.S. Women's National Gymnastics team. He was charged with sexually abusing over 250 young women and girls.

Epstein seemingly wrote the letter when he was in jail in 2019. It reads, in part, as you know by now, I have taken the short route home. Good luck. We shared one thing, our love and caring for young ladies at the hope they'd reach their

full potential. Our president shares our love of young, nubile girls. When a young duty walked by, he loved to grab snatch, whereas we ended up snatching grub in the mess halls of the system. The Department of Justice has disputed the authenticity of that letter posting on Twitter today. Department of Justice is currently looking into the validity of this alleged letter from Jeffrey Epstein to Larry Nassar, and we will follow up as soon as possible. In the meantime, three facts stand out. The postmark on the envelope is Virginia, not New York, where Jeffrey Epstein was

jailed at the time. The return address listed the wrong jail where Epstein was held and did not include his inmate number, which is required for outgoing mail. The envelope was processed three days after Epstein's death. Later today, the DOJ announced they had officially determined the letter was fake. For what it's worth, others like Dropsite's new drop site news is Ryan Grimm have reached the same opinion. Here's another excerpt from the Epstein files. It has to do with a tipster who shared a chilling story about Trump. The details came from an FBI document, which is dated October 2020. It is difficult to decipher because it is heavily redacted, but from what we can gather in 1999, the tipster was telling a woman about his experience meeting Donald Trump as a limo driver.

In response to that story, the woman told the tipster that Trump raped her. Here are some excerpts from that FBI document. During Redacted's time as a driver, he had met Donald Trump. Redacted noted he picked up the president in 1995 and took him to the DFW airport. Redacted, noted Trump continuously stated the name Jeffrey while on the phone and made references to abusing some girl. This part is harder to parse because both the tipster and the woman's name are redacted. as redacted talked about his time meeting Donald Trump, redacted immediately, redacted demeanor, went stone cold, as redacted stated he raped me. Redacted said what, as redacted replied Donald J. Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.

Redacted noted some girl with a funny name took me into a fancy hotel or building. That's how it happened. Redacted advised to call the police regarding the incident, as redacted and stated, I can't. They will kill me. One day later, the woman told the tipster that she changed her mind and told the police about what happened to her. Sometime later, the tipster found out that that woman was dead and her death was ruled a suicide. Redacted reached out to Redacted, stating was dead and noted she was found with her head, quote, blown off in Kiefer, Oklahoma. Officers on the scene and Redacted stated there was no way it was a suicide. Coroner stated it was a suicide. Redacted

feels the murderous cover for Gislane. And we've got a lot more, but Jank, I want to bring you in here. Both of these might seem fishy, especially the former, but what do you make of both of these? Yeah, no, I have very different opinions on those two things. So the first letter, the minute I read it, I thought, this is BS. So, and in fact, I don't want that letter disregarded. I want to track because whoever sent that letter, it might be a rando, right? Or it might be someone who actually did the killing of Jeffrey Epstein. Why? Because there's a million things wrong with that letter.

First of all, nothing's misspelled. Jeffrey Epstein couldn't spell if his life depended on it, okay? And so that's just like tiny little clue number one. Number two, really Epstein, one of the worst child abusers, is talking to Larry Nassar, the other super terrible child abuser, and they say, but Trump is worse than us? Man, that is awfully convenient, right? And then the third thing on top of that is, oh, I am going to take the shortcut home, as you will soon find out, I am committing suicide. It is definitely suicide. Is it, brother? Is it? So that's what I was thinking, even before we found out, oh, it was mailed three

days after he died and or process at least three days after he died and and and you know from the wrong place to the wrong place, et cetera, et cetera. So that is, it has at least a 99% chance of being fake. But who faked it and why did they insist? Remember, I'm taking the shortcut home, meaning suicide. It felt a little like Tyler Robinson's engraved bullets. Remember, I am doing this because I am a leftist and I do not like those fascist right wingers. Maybe, maybe. And remember, it was just me and no one else. He writes that in all the texts. Maybe, maybe, okay? But this, that letter is fake eight ways to Sunday. All right. So number two, now you get to the rape charges and the lady who lost her life. Well, look, I have no reason to believe that's fake and I have no

reason to believe it's real. Well, I have a reason to believe it's real. It's in the files, right? On the other hand, so was a fake letter. So I'm at a, I don't know, but here's what I do know. Should that be investigated? Of course. Was it already investigated? Some of the stuff goes back to 1995. If it wasn't investigated, then I become 10,000 times more curious.

If there's a witness saying this lady was raped by two powerful people, it doesn't matter what their names are. Could have been Bill Clinton and Larry Simpson. I don't care, right? But two very powerful and wealthy people, rape this girl, and then all of a sudden she blows her head off after she was worried they were going to kill her. Brother, you better look into that in a big, big way before you dismiss it. I said, I bet that's crazy. Nothing, nothing to see. Is it true that the local cops thought there's no way it's a suicide? I mean, look, a lot of the Epstein victims wound up committing suicide, including Epstein, right? Jufre they say Virginia Jufre committed suicide.

Yeah, I know she said she was depressed, et cetera, but that's also usually a good cover story. So look, it's, if it's not investigated thoroughly, then I turn around and go, that's super weird. Why wouldn't you investigate that no matter who was involved? So, no, that one we have no reason to believe is fake. And I certainly wouldn't just trust it on its face alone. Both of them require significant investigation, but the fact that if the second one was not adequately investigated, that would be another red flag. Yeah, I'm with you on the first one. I would need to be proven otherwise, but until then, I'm just going to assume that someone who tried to send in a fake letter. Again, I don't want to credit the DOJ or anything like that, but the timing on some of these are very suspicious.

It's all right in the run up to the election. It's a mess. If you look at some of the early files that were released, they're taking from everything. It wasn't just stuff that they gathered through their own intelligence gathering or their own investigation. It was just catch-all, anything that could possibly relate. That's why you had an entire page-by-page scan of someone's book in the first batch of documents. So this, I think, for the most part, that letter is just somebody being a crank. Maybe not, but I would need to see evidence otherwise that also addresses like the really

suspicious flags about the date where it was postmarked, that kind of stuff. On the other one, we could, I mean, maybe there will be an investigation, certainly not by the DOJ, but even like local reporters in Kiefer, Oklahoma can look up and see if there was a suicide. around that time. And you could find in the police records, if there was something like that, that would validate that major point in that story. So I would hope that the Oklahoman or local affiliates around there would take a look at that. But until then, I would just need more evidence. We've got more that they have released and will end with an email from 2020. We don't know who sent or received that email, but both have been redacted. All we know is that whoever sent

the email was serving as an assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. Here's what they wrote. Wanted to let you know that the flight records we received yesterday reflect that Donald Trump traveled on Epstein's private jet many more times than previously has been reported or that we were aware, including during the period we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case. In particular, he is listed as a passenger on at least eight flights between 1993 and 1996, including at least four flights on which Maxwell was also present. He is listed as having traveled with, among others, and at various times, Marla Maples, his daughter Tiffany, and his son, Eric. On one flight in 1993, he and Epstein are the only two listed passengers. On another, the only three passengers are Epstein, Trump, and then 20-year-old redacted.

On two other flights, two of the passengers, respectively, were women who would be possible witnesses in a Maxwell case. Jank, this one, to me, has a lot more weight in is way more damning from Trump. What do you think? Yeah. So, look, to me, did Epstein and Trump party together? Well, that's not in question. They definitely did. Did they have relationships with women in questionable ways, which I'll explain in a minute. Of course they did, right? So was it with underage girls? I don't know. We know with Epstein. We don't know with Trump. So that brings us back to the

same place. It's possible that you go on that plane and you don't go to what they're calling rape island, right? It's possibly you go to different places. Lots of powerful people and connected people knew Jeffrey Epstein. They didn't all do it. Okay, now, having said that, he said he wasn't on the plane, and now it turns out very likely he was on the plane many, many times. So that's another big red flag, right? So there are other things in the documents. So there's a mysterious subpoena of Mar-a-Lago and who's working for them at a time when the poaching for Mar-a-Lago might have happened. by Epstein and Galane Maxwell. So why is that stuff redacted? What was the subpoena about?

And then you connected to the other development that's from today where there was a witness who said that there was a woman named Galane Lisa Villeneuve. I don't know if that's a name that Galane used otherwise, saying that they were going to go to a party at Mar-a-Lago and Galane told them don't, that party's just for prostitutes. So did they have parties with basically prostitutes coming in to service the older, wealthier men? Hard to know, but on the other hand, that one seems super real. Like if you think that doesn't happen with wealthier dudes, I my experience in covering the news tells me that it does so guys I wish we could tell you we know definitively on any of this stuff but they redact so many so much of it and there's some

stuff in there that's just total bogies and it makes you wonder about the rest so that's why it's hard to reach definitive conclusions on any of these but I brought that up in the context of the jet because if you told me Trump and Epstein are flying around and having sex with youngish, like 20 year old, but grown, but adults, right? Prostitutes throughout the country, the world, etc. I'd believe that in a flat second. In fact, I'd be really surprised if it didn't happen, okay? So, and here's some evidence that it did happen. You do that with that what you will. Jordan, do you reach any conclusions from this? On this one, I mean, this is something he's disputed, right?

The whole time, he's, oh, I knew him, but I cut him off. They're saying, look, not only were they close, we knew that. There's photos and videos of that proving that they were close. But I'm almost certain he disputed ever being on that plane. And now we know not only was he on it, he was on it a lot. And I think this point, he said it was the, this redacted name said, including during the period, we would expect to charge in a Maxwell case. Something that Trump has long maintained is that their friendship ended before any of this stuff was known. And the reporting, especially over the past several months, has shown, no, no, it was maybe at its peak during that period where it was public.

I mean, the letters, the acknowledgement, the association extended well beyond when Trump will admit that they were friends. And this adds another layer to that and another piece of supporting evidence that not only were they close, they were close when everybody knew that this was going on. Yeah, last couple of things for me. Look, guys, if you think nothing untoward happened when Trump and Epstein were friends for decades, you're cray cray. Of course, bad things happen. The only question is how bad, right? And all this circumstantial evidence about what was happening at Mara Lago and the

mussooses that work there and the women who work there and the poaching back and forth between Epstein and Trump, that also is problematic. How problematic? It's frustrating that it's nearly impossible to know right now. Right. So, but I think we could all agree on what Marjorie Taylor Green is saying. Believe it or not, that's a funny sentence that I didn't think I'd speak two years ago. Anyway, she tweeted, this is horrifying. Trump called me a traitor for fighting him to release the Epstein files and standing with women who were raped, jailed in stalls, and traffic to men. Only evil people would hide this and protect those who participated, I pray for these women. So no matter what you think

about the veracity of every piece of evidence in here. And by the way, she refers to the stalls because there was another story about how Epstein kept some of the girls in stalls like horses and the men would come by and check out the goods and then select. Oh, like crazy stuff. Okay. And so that's why she refers to that. So we can all agree they all hit it, right? So no matter who did it, Trump hit it, all the Democrats hit it. They all, all the presidents hit all of this information. And look, Jordan, there's an extra layer of skepticism that I have here. Because as a lot of the, in the stuff that's the most fake in some ways, it keeps pointing to Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump. I have every incentive in the world to say that it's Trump. I don't like Trump at all. I've never liked him.

I think he's a giant con man. I think he's bad for the country, okay? Very bad for the country. But as the everything is saying, oh, look there, look there, look there. It's like a magician's trick. You should be looking somewhere else. And in none of these articles from traditional media, do they ever talk about the intelligence agencies? So Epstein was somehow involved in the Iran-Contra affair, was organizing planes and making deals

between the Israeli secret intelligence and U.S. secret intelligence and Iranians as a civilian? As, oh, golly, gee, I wandered into the middle of Iran-Contra, right? But yet, we're told, look there, look there, squirrel, squirrel, squirrel, but never, ever mentioned the intelligence agencies. So when I see, oh, Epstein committed suicide, but there's no video of the hallway, there's no guards, there's no nothing, and then there's a convenient postcard. Remember Larry Nassar, it is us and Donald Trump together, and I am committing suicide of my own volition. Okay, man, I go, yeah, I don't know, look at the intelligence agencies. That is by four the most likely answer.

Yeah. And first of all, the reason we're seeing this is because of the discharge petition from Thomas Massey, a Republican, and Roe Cona, a Democrat. Trump, his administration, denied these existed. They said they didn't have anything. They said there's nothing to see here. We've released everything. And then once they forced that discharge petition, got enough signatures. It was mostly Democrats joining them. And I think Marjorie Taylor Green did as well. then did you see Republicans in Congress join to vote for the support or vote for it, supported it? And that's because in part also of public pressure also on the right. They were worried this was going to come back and bite them. They ran on it. They promised it.

He had to do it. But to your point, Jank, the one exception in addition to victims' names was national security. So if it is in there, and it might be, we're not going to going to see it. They are going to redact the hell out of anything about intelligence agencies, domestic or otherwise. All right. Well, I'll make one promise here and people should hold me to it. If, if, if, if, it's a giant if of all ifs. I am involved in any candidate. You and Santa, best rappers out there. But Reese's wants to know, what about the best unwrapping moment? Rees's peanut buttercups put your unwrapping skills to the test. And with, With three cups of creamy peanut butter and smooth chocolate per pack, you get your practice in.

Experiencing that sweet and salty satisfaction again and again and again. Santa gets cookies. You get Reese's. Nothing else is Rees. That winds up making it into the White House, who would very, very likely be a left-wing populist. It would be an enormously high priority for us to tell you what actually happened with Epstein. And if the CIA or anyone else comes in and goes, no, you don't understand. We had to do this for the benefit of the American people.

I would hope that any candidate that I supported would say, my ass, you had to do it. You're all under a goddamn arrest if they did it, okay, and trot them out and show you who's the sons of bitches who's been doing this all along. It looks like we're getting a, maybe we'll update after the break, but there might be a new development on this. Larry Nasser envelope that could just change everything we just talked about. So maybe after the break, we'll talk about it. Okay, fascinating. All right, let's take the break so I can figure out what it is. It just broke.

All right. We'll be right back. How does Santa go down? Does he go headfirst? I'm going to be. You know, and I'm going to be able to be. All right, back on TYT. Let's go to our members on TYT.com.

Hi, all, happy last day of TYT before Christmas, eclecting mistletoe says, you're right to point that out, brother. Merry Christmas, everybody. Last show before Christmas. Art guys says, I'm all for damning evidence, but I'm a huge fan of concrete consequences too. Yeah, I mean, consequences for the powerful. I'd love to see it for once in my life. Stiff, upper lib says, if they were false, why didn't Little Donnie just come out and say that the false accusations have been laid against him in regards to the Epstein files asking for a friend?

Well, he eventually did when he found out that they were going to be released. They started calling them fake, et cetera. But I don't think that that proves anything in either direction. Ashura Azumi says, if Trump did nothing wrong, just hung around young girls. But that's all, yeah, that's ew. But if that's all he did while fighting so hard to keep everything so quiet and playing stupid games, I know he only cares about himself. So it's not going to do anything other than and it's not nothing to do anything with other rich and famous people. So look, bottom line

is like you're basically saying the same thing that MTG was saying, which is he did the cover up no matter what. So the cover up is damning enough whether we know Trump actually broke the law, with underage girls or not. Buddy X, LeCondo says, this is why I watch TYT. I've seen all this throughout the day on social media, but where it's coming from, I can't tell if it's real. But if it's real, TYT will tell me the next day or two, keep doing the digging that I can't do, L.O.L. Thank you, brother. We, look, we try really hard to be fair and objective. And I appreciate that people are noticing our honesty and that we're not skewing it just based on bias or perspective or ideology.

Theater goddess says you may not have gone to rape island, but it's damning that you took a flight on rape airlines. Yeah. So again, that goes to how much they knew. But of all the people who might have known what Epstein was actually doing, it seems like Trump knew. I mean, he literally said in public comments that he knew that Epstein liked them young. So if you're going on that guy's plane, it's good point, theater goddess.

Already, that's a huge problem, especially Trump who seem to know the most. Nerd Ferguson says, no matter what smoking gun, we find, a chunk of his base will claim fake news. Even with actual picture slash video evidence, they will claim AI. Decades from now, the Epstein files will still be viewed as assumptions, conspiracy theories, and shades of gray. We need one honest guy to become president. All right, we'll be right back. They call them dumps, big massive dumps. Fuck you, man.

Merry Christmas. All right, back on T.I.T. Jank and Jordan with you guys. A couple of programming notes. Jordan also does a podcast called The Insurgents. Check that out. We also have Stephen. My here out with us. Sorry, it's hard to pronounce the handles. But thank you for joining, brother. We appreciate it. He hit the join button below the video on YouTube. You can do that. Or t.yt.com slash join helps the show a lot. We need it. We're often besieged because of our opinions that do not conform to the conventional wisdom or establishment. So your contributions make a huge difference. So you can also, by the way, contribute through t.com slash join. CDN North Dog Dad, thank you for gifting your membership.

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There's never been anything like these ships. These have been under design consideration for a long time. And it started with me in my first term, because I said, why aren't we doing battleships like we used to? Trump's narcissism was on full display yesterday as he announced plans for a new golden fleet for the U.S. Navy, including two brand new Trump-class battleships. Because this is totally what our, quote, pro-peace president should be focusing on right now. Isn't that right, Jack? You're muted. Sorry, guys.

There are two sides, there are two parts of the story. One is Trump keeps basically hinting that he's fabulous, fascinating. We'll come back to that. And number two is the enormous boondoggle these ships are likely to be. I'm going to tell you a disaster scenario with these ships, and let alone the fact that he's wasting our money as Jordan's about to explain. Now, Trump is talking a big game with these battleships, saying they will be bigger, badder, and even more lethal than any ship before it. These cutting-edge vessels will be some of the most lethal surface warfare ships.

It will be actually the most ever built other than our submarines. Each one of these will be the largest battleship in the history of our country, the largest battleship in the history of the world. built. And again, it's 100 times more powerful than the previous Iowa class. It's called, those are the big ones that you see on a show. Victory and Sea. I don't know if anyone's seeing victory at sea, but it was a classic. In addition to these ships, Trump also announced a new class of aircraft carriers, but didn't go into much detail about those. Because the Trump class, The USS Defiant are to be armed with a wide array of missiles, including nuclear-armed and hypersonic types, as well as electromagnetic rail guns, laser-directed energy weapons, and more.

Trump says the goal now is to build at least two of these vessels, but that fleet size could grow to 10 halls or more. There'll be an upgrade to the Navy's current destroyers. Construction is apparently set to begin almost immediately, and will take about 2.5 years to complete. It could range anywhere from $5 billion to $15 billion per ship. But not everyone is convinced that this is necessary. Mark Montgomery, a former Rear Admiral, who was senior director at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, criticized the Golden Fleet Plan as exactly what we don't need. We do not need ships that are not optimized to provide lethality against the Chinese threat, Montgomery said, adding that the new frigate has zero tactical use

because it won't be equipped with a vertical launch system or the Aegis ballistic defense system. According to the warzone.com, the Navy has been stressing a need for more surface warships overall, not super capable ones built in small quantities. That is not what these are focused on. They are focused on the president's visual that a battleship is a cool looking ship. And that's what this boils down to. The Navy is tasked with leading the design of the new battleships, which are expected to be ready early next decade, according to the Defense Department. Trump said he will also play a role because I am a very aesthetic person. And here's the concept rendering they came up with.

And yes, that's Donald Trump's attempted assassination photo right at the front. This shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone. Trump has been determined to make everything in America big, bold, and his, especially things that don't meet his standard. Mr. President, the ballroom is four times the size of the White House. He said, Jesse, it's a monument. I'm building a monument to myself because no one else will. Since President Trump moved in nearly eight weeks ago, he has more than triple the number

of paintings that you see hanging on the walls of the Oval Office. There's so many that there's almost not really any wall space left when you're inside the Oval. But the president hasn't stopped there, also in keeping with a style that he, he is adhered to for decades. There's a lot more gold inside the Oval Office. If you look above the mantle, there are several golden figurines lined across it. And often, when the president is greeting a world leader, sitting in those two chairs before the fireplace, you can see the golden medallions that are now in front of it. And if you look over to the tables, the sign tables,

you can see golden figurines of eagles placed there. And he's also attached his name to the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace. And he's added banners with his face and or policies to the Department of Agriculture, the Department of Labor, the Department of Health and Human Services, National Park Passes. I mean, this is just, Jank, it's obscene, but it's almost beyond parity. The guy slapped his name on everything for decades, and now he's doing it to our entire government. Yeah, well, let's start out fun and go more serious as we go along, right? So this brother is obsessed with design.

He's like, you remember in his first term, he talked about, you know, I'm the one that picked the colors for Air Force One. Look at all my gold trimmings, everyone. You know, I'm a very aesthetic person. All right, bro, all right, I got it. Okay, so fascinating obsession with aesthetics. Okay, that's fun.

We'll put that aside, not important. Okay, now next, obsession with himself. Now this one is important. Guys, the president is supposed to serve us. That's how it works in a democracy. He's supposed to look out for all the people. He's not supposed to say things like, no one else is going to look out for me. So I'm looking out for me and I'm building monuments for me, me, me, me.

I mean, you can't get a more narcissistic, selfish, useless president than that. And so I know the politicians have huge egos. They're almost all narcissists. Biden was an absolute disaster in that category. We'd rather burn the country down than lose a shred of power for his own, you know, dementia riddled mind and his family, etc. So, but Trump takes it to a different level, man. If Biden has said it is now the Biden Kennedy Center, people have been like, ew, what are you doing? Why are you putting your own name on it? Like I couldn't care less about the Kennedy Center.

Also interesting that Trump is like obsessed with the Kennedy Center, right? You know why? because he always wanted to be among the elites. And so they never let him into his club. He was bitter about it. So he did this whole spiel. Now he's like, oh, yeah, I'm going to name after me. I'm going to myself. But that ballroom would be twice the size of the White House.

So we're going to have this giant, gaudy, insane ballroom. By the way, paid for by Palantir and Mary Madelson, they'll probably get plaques in there, twice the size of the White House, looking like this, some sort of monstrosity. And everything is Trump, Trump, God, this, his narcissism is deeply problematic for a person who was supposed to be representing other people, all of us. And if you think he's not a narcissist, I can't talk to you because you've, like, detached from reality and you're floating in space like Sandra Bullock, okay?

So now, when you get to two most serious things, one is this, they're going to, do you see the numbers that Jordan just told you about? They're going to spend so much money on this. This is the defense contractors thinking, we'll just tell the idiot that we'll do sharks with freaking laser beams on their heads. And he'll believe it because he's freaking Dr. Evil, right? So they're like, oh, yeah, lasers and this. And you're right, sir, we should have bigger giant battleships named after you, sir.

And what they've done is they've spread out suppliers so that they're in all 50s. states so that the senators and the congressman could then have an excuse to say, well, I'm protecting jobs in my district, in my state, I'm protecting jobs. So they've covered themselves eight ways of Sunday to steal our money with this giant useless boondoggle. Guys, the number one problem today in warfare is drones. So if you build a giant island that is very hard to move. It's a sitting duck for endless drone attacks. But they don't care. They don't care about security. All they care about is how much can we rob the American people before they find out that it's a damn robbery. Okay? That's what's going on here. And finally, is it working

for Trump, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, Trump boats, Trump golden ballrooms, Trump Kennedy Center, etc. No, he's getting his ass handed to. him by the American people as well, he should. He's down on 36% approval rating in the last Gallup poll. He's down minus 23 overall. He's at minus 43 with independence. Those are the numbers that when Biden had him a year and a half before the election, I said 90-night.

This thing is over. Biden can't possibly win. Now Trump's hopefully not running again, but these are devastating numbers for Trump. the Republican Party, et cetera, in the midst of people being super angry about many issues, Epstein, Israel, we don't control our own country, a million things. The number one thing they're worried about is the economy. 68% of Americans say it's headed in the wrong direction. And Trump says, but don't worry, I'm building a grand ballroom and I'm naming ships after myself.

Is there going to be musicals too? Probably at the Kennedy Center. So, yeah, this is why he's unpopular because people don't want this crap. Yeah. I mean, on the Kennedy Senator thing, he's hosting the Kennedy Senator awards tonight. And he seems very excited about that. He posted earlier on X that if he does a great job, maybe he'll leave the presidency and just be a full-time host. That's what he wants. But a couple things here. The cost, again, here's another example, billions of dollars that he is just unilaterally allocating for this stuff. No conversation about how are we going to pay for it. It's only health care. It's only SNAP benefits.

It's only things that benefit the working class do they question how we might pay for it, how we might afford something like that. And then on all these monuments to himself, my dad's watching the show and texting me pretty soon he's going to start calling himself Pharaoh. But that got me thinking, we're only a year or two up, maybe even sooner, before he demands that the government construct an opulent, massive burial site. for him. I mean, that doesn't seem too far-fetched.

True. Probably not a pyramid, but we're going to see something. In addition to a presidential library, there's going to be some massive, ridiculous gold-plated burial site for Trump at the taxpayer's expense. And I have a good idea as to what will be the centerpiece of that? A golden calf.

Okay. We got to take a break. Yeah. All right, when we come back, we do have that breaking news for you on the fake letter. Is it really fake? Well, we'll cover that in a minute, too. Come right back. Christmas, peace on the world. You know, I'm going to be able to be. You know, I'm going to be able to be.

All right, so let's go to YouTube members, Carol Gosser writes and F. Bill Maher and the horse he wrote in on, the snarky horse he wrote in on, probably. Yeah, yeah, we'll be doing that later. American Viking 73 says, Merry Christmas from Nevada. Lady AF says this is my first dose of media for the day, starting out dark. I mean, what are we going to do, right? Kevin Shea says the sad part about all this is that I doubt he will ever be held accountable. That's what really pisses me off. Oh, Kevin, yeah, let that go.

Deal with that with your therapist. There's no way Trump's ever going to be held accountable. The only people who could ever hold him accountable is if MAGA realizes he's a con man, then he might be in a little bit of trouble, all right? And so that's, that's the only conceivable way. Liddell 50101 writes in Nina Turner 2028, maybe. Look, I look, the best people in politics are Nina Turner and Rokana. And they have been ever since they paired up with Bernie Sanders.

So I would love that. Of course, established from media, they would be beside themselves in their fury against Nina Turner. How dare you even suggest that? By the way, I'm not kidding. Like when I suggest her name to reporters in Washington, they look at me like I have eight heads. How dare you? An outsider. Sid Life says, Jank, I love your passion, bro.

Jank, 2028. That's not going to happen. But thank you, brother. Kane's World says Trump has said and done so many damning things around the story that you could use the mountain. Mounting circumstance to hold back a large body of water. Look, islands are surrounded by water. Big water, ocean water. Maybe that one could do.

Anyway, Oral Pod says essentially for 37 months, but been a listener since Air America. Wow. Love that you've been with us all along. Love this community. Alex Collins writes, and Trump wants to be Kim Jong-un so bad, L-O-L. Oh, he says it all the time that he, oh, my dictators are amazing. People just stand up and applaud them no matter what, and everybody listens to what they say and they can't question it. Yeah, otherwise they murder them.

Okay. And he seems to think that that might not be so. I don't know. He's crazy. Oropazosa wrote it now Superjic. I can't wait for my grandkids to look at me like I'm crazy when I tell them about these times. I know, right? And we're living through them. We'll be back. Okay, that Merry Christmas, my Melania is getting me through the holidays. Okay, so Jane and Jordan with you guys here on Young Turks. So we looked into the reports that the fake letter might not be fake, and we're worried that the source might be fake.

So we're not going to bother reporting things that we're not sure about. So if it becomes more real, we'll let you know about it. We'll let you know about it later, but so far it's too suss to really air out. All right, Jordan, what's next? Take a look at this. So no, Tucker Carlson, it is not an excuse to go silent on Candace's targeting of TPA USA. Or to mirror her bullshit lines of questioning because you love Candace personally. The same holds true of Megan Kelly, a person I consider a friend,

characterizing Candace as a young mother and thus shying away from condemning her actions or thinking me about them. That is a non-starter. Megan Markle is a young mother. Ilhan Omar is a young mother. That doesn't matter. After being singled out by Ben Shapiro at Turning Points America Fest last week, Megan Kelly fired back. And not just at Shapiro. Barry Weiss also was collateral damage and we'll get into more. But, Jank, this civil war on the right just keeps growing with new factions and new people joining the fray. What do you make of it? It's beautiful. It's a great awakening. Our right wing brothers and sisters are finally beginning to see what we've seen for a long time. Israel is not your friend. And I think that this one is very critical because the

Megan Kelly flipping on Israel first is a very important domino. The dam is broken. Let's talk about what happened. here and then the consequences of the dam breaking on Israel. So Kelly talked to Vanity Fair about the ongoing civil war on the right, the onstage spats at America Fest and the future of the MAGA movement. On that attack from Ben Shapiro, Kelly responded in her own appearance at TPUSA Amfest. I find it kind of funny that Ben thinks he has the power to decide who gets excommunicated from the conservative movement.

It reminded me when the girl who was the head of our middle school chorus told me she was going to take all of my friends away from me. She compared the demand that she condemn Owens to progressive purity tests, saying, I never posted the black square and I never raised my fist at a restaurant. And I'm certainly not going to condemn the people Ben Shapiro demands. I condemn in order to be in his imaginary club. Denounce, denounce, condemn, disassociate, blank you. She continued taking shots at Shapiro for being Israel first. She understands that Shapiro would consider such a charge anti-Semitic. And I'm sorry, but his behavior has proven that charge to be correct.

Why would you divide the American conservative movement, which was jelling, which was becoming much more cohesive for a moment after Charlie died over Israel. Shortly after his speech, newly minted CBS editor-in-chief Barry Weiss posted about Ben's comments on X and celebrated them. Kelly took notice. On X, she criticized Weiss for knowing nothing about television. And to Vanity Fair, she added, it's this very loud group of pro-Israel activists that is trying to make this the litmus test about whether you get to call yourself a conservative, and they lack standing to do that. Barry in particular has made her career on the anti-cancel culture thing. Meanwhile, she's never been canceled, and she's basically supporting Ben's attempt to cancel me from the conservative movement, of which she's not a part. What Charlie and I saw at the same time was that the country is turning, Kelly said, and young Republicans are turning on Israel.

She argued that figures like Shapiro and Weiss are actually fueling the rise of anti-Semitism through their attempts to censor criticism of Israel. They are making anti-Semites, she said. Tucker is not making anti-Semites. They are. Jank, what do you make of her comments here? I only agree about 100%. So there's no one that's creating more anti-Semitism than Benjamin Nanyahu and Ben

Guevira Smortrich. And then that's internationally. And by the way, the ADL puts out a comical statement about you are not allowed to blame Jews for the rise of anti-Semitism. So even if there's a Jewish leader who's committing a genocide and killed 20,000 children, if you say that that's what's causing people to hate Israel or Jewish people, then you're Troop, troupe, trope, trope, trope, trope, trope, trope, trope, trope, you did one of the 258 tropes we have. No, yeah, ADL is now a pro-bigotry movement trying to blame Muslims for everything so that Israel can continue to attack their neighbors. And ADL can justify it. So it's turned into the opposite of what it was trying, what it claimed to do.

And of course, as it turns out with a lot of the things that were pro-Israel, It was never again bigotry for us, bigotry for you 24-7, right? So anyways, he is, did Net Yahoo's cause anti-Semitism to go through the roof in the world? Of course he did. You'd have to be an idiot not to see that. You'd have to be the blindest, most ignorant person in the entire planet not to see that, okay? So now here at home, when you have Mark Levine and Ben Shapiro and Barry Weiss going, If any of you criticize Israel, denounce, cancel.

All right. Well, how are people not going to hate you? It's like, look, and then when you get personally attacked, if you don't, you've never felt it, you don't know what it feels like, right? And apparently Megan Kelly had never felt it, which is kind of amazing to me. But so she begins to get this bullying probably about 2% of what we've gotten through these last two years. And she's like, whoa, what is this? Who are these thugs telling me, you can't say that word. You can't say that.

Shut up. You can't talk to that person. You can't do anything. Shut up. Better support Israel, right? Well, she's saying, like a lot of right-winger's natural reaction is who made you the boss of me. Just tell me who the name of the person is who made you the boss of me. And then they'll say, trope, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump.

You can't say we're the boss of you, but we're the boss of you. shut up and don't ever talk to him don't ever talk to her denounce him and who stop giving the orders brother you're not the ben Shapiro is not the boss of any of us if he gives you an order you should laugh your ass off at him and so no it Shapiro is now a laughing stock in right wing circles and in all circles and Megan Kelly's a hundred percent right he could take his midget horse and ride off into the sunset because nobody's interested in his pro-Israel BS anymore. So that's my views on it. What do you think? Oh, I think the fracturing on the right is interesting. But you can't deny. I think our conversations on this topic have gotten

heated in the past. But one thing I'll say, there is a split now. And I think it reflects how undeniable the horrors in Gaza are. I've talked to multiple conservatives that I know who have changed their minds on Israel. I think that's a good thing. What I'm worried about is how sometimes the conversations about that split can get distorted and also ignore the long-term risks of people

weaponizing that or trying to turn that split into something else. I think we both agree Nick Fuentes is anti-Semitic. He's somebody who's used that to peddle anti-Semitism. Myron Gaines, the guy who runs a podcast out of Florida.

He's popular on YouTube. Same thing. He was walking around America Fest and is in pictures with America Fest speakers wearing a hoodie mocking the Holocaust.

So we can't deny that there is a very real problem, even in that movement, even at that event of people who are openly anti-Semitic and using this split to push anti-Semitism. I think when we get into conversations around what creates anti-Semitism, it's important for us on the left who denounce all forms of bigotry and hate to acknowledge and point out and try to be clear in our messaging to those people, hey, the problem here, the problem in Gaza is not Jewish people. It is the Israeli government. You can clearly distinguish those. There are people who are Jewish who are firmly opposed to what's happening. And even in Israel have been speaking out and condemning it since day one. To just talk about it and describe that problem that in that government, in terms of a religion or ethnicity or a background,

is wrong and leads people down a wrong path. So I think when I see people who are talking about it, who have histories of anti-Semitism, and I'm worried about where they might lead their audiences or people they're close with next,

I'm not telling them to shut up. I'm just not going to celebrate it. Megan Kelly, to my knowledge, doesn't have the same sort of background that some of these other people who have prominent shows on the right do. I don't think she has that same problematic commentary in her past.

So for her, it's great. Yes, if you can lead people down this path and show them, look, this government is a problem, this leadership is a problem. Okay, go for it. But for the others, I'm just going to, it happens, but I'm going to try to fight back against how it might be weaponized. Yeah, it's, it's, I'm hesitating to say, because I don't want to insult anybody.

who thinks it including you, Jordan, but it feels like an entitled position. So let me explain. So am I going to celebrate Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly understanding that Israel first is actually controlling this government? And they've taken away American sovereignty and they've bought 94% of Congress. And not only have they slaughtered innocent Palestinians with a tens of thousands at a time, but they've also, you know, get our politicians and our media to do Israeli propaganda, I'm gonna celebrate that with bells on. I love that. I appreciate it and I thank them for it, okay?

And most especially Tucker Carlson that has done more to change the opinion of the right wing single handedly than any human being alive. And I appreciate him so much for that. So if you say, now the reason why I say it's a little entitled is people go, well, that risk 1%, 2%, 5%, some small percentage that this movement could then get co-opted. So Tucker has said, I've said, Megan Talley said, everybody has said literally hundreds of times, this has nothing to do with Jewish people. It is about a foreign government that we should judge as a government. By the way, the pro-Israeli crowd then goes, no, it's about Jewish people. Make it about Jewish people. Make sure that if you don't like Israel, you don't like Jews. And we're like, no, don't do that. Don't do that. It's a government. Governments do

bad things, stop blaming Jewish people. They're like, no, no, we're going to blame and we're going to hide behind Jewish people. By the way, pro-Israel crowd driving anti-Semitism 2,000 times worse than Tucker Carlson. There's no dispute of that because every time we say it's not Jewish people, it's a pro-Israel crowd that goes, no, it is Jewish people. And you're attacking Jewish people and they hide behind them, right? So it's disgusting and it's also ironically anti-Semitic, okay? So I blame them so much more.

But you say, but what if Tucker Carlson's side loses or it was always a trick and he's some sort of anti-Semitic devil and he was hiding the whole time and he takes a Scooby-Doo mask off and Fuentes and him partner up and they take over the country? Max 5% chance. I think 0.000% chance. But okay, what is the other side of the ledger though? The other side of the ledger is that people like Tucker Carlson are trying to stop a genocide that isn't a potential. or hypothetical problem 10 years or 20 years from now, it's an open slaughterhouse that is happening today. So the fact that they are helping to stop that genocide is a million times more important than some potential theoretical hypothetical problem that might arise many years from now. And so when people say, well, my feelings were hurt, well, the 20,000 Palestinian kids were hurt way worse when their heads exploded when Israel dropped a bomb on them. So I'll get to your feelings many, many years from now, after I'm done dealing with that genocide, ending and ending the

funding to this monstrous state that continues to attack all of its neighbors and the Palestinians and occupy them infinitely for 58 years. And they say, we're never going to let go of these people. We're going to hold them captive forever and ever. So that is a much greater evil. And it's not close. It's happening now, now. And so when people say, oh, yeah, no, you should be more concerned about my feelings. My answer is, hell, no, I'm not. No, I'm just not. Sorry. When are you, Jordan, when are they going to be concerned about my feelings, our feelings? My feelings is don't murder 20,000 children, period. And everybody goes, yeah, it's just a part of war. What's a big deal? What's a big deal? My feelings, my feelings. No, I don't care about

you're feeling. I don't care about them at all. I care about ending that goddamn genocide and ending the funding to this state that is causing massive damage across the world and to America. So I think we're capable of chewing gum and walking, right? And this, I don't, I also don't want to downplay, you know, mass shootings that have been inspired by anti-Semitic rhetoric or white nationalist rhetoric. I mean, this isn't a new problem. I mean, anti-Semitism has been a problem for years. I think it is separately being weaponized by interest groups, you know, PACs, C-4s in the states to deflect from what's happening in Israel or in Gaza. That is, that's not something I want to give much weight to. But the tree of life synagogue shooting, you know, the shooting in El Paso, the shooting in

Buffalo, those shooters in their manifestos echoed anti-Semitic and white nationalist conspiracy theories. That's a very real and present danger. We're seeing that time and time again. People committing acts of violence and are inspired by that type of rhetoric. That's a problem. We can condemn what's happening in Gaza. I think what we should do as people on the left is with clarity, with a moral authority, speak to both. I don't think they're mutually exclusive or have to happen in a subsequent order. I think they can happen consecutively. No, I don't think you don't think we can do both at the same time. Look, condemning the shootings is the easiest thing in the world, of course we condemn the shootings. Those are poor, innocent people that didn't do anything

wrong. We always condemn any violence. That's the easiest thing in the world. But it's the, it's condemning the, I know you're- But no, no, no, no, no, but I want to let me clarify. The rhetoric that inspires it's the people who encourage it, yes. No, I don't accept it. So if you say Tucker Carlson caused those shootings, I think you're insane. No, he didn't cause that. And so, and in fact, I didn't say that's only used, that's only used to shut down his speech so that you don't find out that Israel's not around. He's talking just fine. No one's shut him down. He got fired from Fox because of a personal issue between him and Rupert Murdoch. It wasn't because of his rhetoric. In fact, they were fine with it and they protected him as advertisers were fleeing his show for multiple years after that. It was only when he had a personal issue with Rupert Murdoch did he get fired from Fox. He now is his own show.

Are you claiming, Jordan, are you claiming, are you claiming? that people who have criticized Israel are not besieged by Israel first crowd that tries to destroy their careers? Is that, are you not aware of that? Can you tell you stories off there? Several years. Name, name one prominent media figure who has successfully been canceled by these people. Powerless people, yes, but one prominent media, just name one. Wait a minute, Jordan, hold on, for decade after decade, everyone in mainstream media knew that if you said anything against Israel, you were going to get fired.

Has that happened in the past? Definitely. Can you ask me to recall a particular reporter or whatever? Almost no one has had the temerity to do it because everyone knows you're going to get fired. And I can name you one, Rick Sanchez. Rick Sanchez talked about money in politics on CNN. And then he made some comment he shouldn't have made about John Stewart or something. But they're like, that's it.

Get him out. Get him out. Oh, he might notice that, oh, look, the money in politics is leading to all of our politicians. being corrupt and serving Israel. Anytime anyone has said something, like 1% offend anyone who's pro-Israel, you don't cancel. Jordan, you don't know. I'll tell you all fair. The 800 ways the pro-Israel crowd has attacked this business, this company, this network, me personally, Anna personally, if you're pretending that that doesn't exist, a network of thugs in this country who value Israel above America, you're nuts. We all experience it. If you fight

hard enough, you experience it. And every time they hide behind anti-Semitism, every time they make up false charges of anti-Semitism every single time, and they do it a thousand times over. It is their number one strategy. And in fact, they want to drive up hatred towards Jewish people so they could use it as victimology so that they can get Israel another hundred billion dollars from us. No, I'm not denouncing anyone speaking out accurately against Israel. I welcome them. Now, for guys like Fuentes and Mayan gains, et cetera, that are saying awful things about Jewish people, I do not agree, and I will never agree. But I know, I'm not going to go around ritualistically denouncing the very people who are helping us the most.

That is a really, I'll try to be as polite as I can be, ineffective, counterproductive strategy built by pro-Israel crowd to actually destroy any unity between the right and the left. So they say, oh, if they're on the left, you better denounce all these people. All the best critics of Israel denounce them. No, no, no, no, hard no, hell no, F no, not ever. So the end, last thing, Jordan. there's only one fact pattern by which in which I would consider denouncing anyone on the right who has criticized Israel accurately. If the pro-Israel crowd, the Israel first crowd,

the Ben Shapirs, Mark Levins, Laurelumers, and by the way, literally every anchor on cable news, if any of them actually come out and show real concern about Palestinian deaths, They're like, what if something happens to, like, oh, the people I care about, right? Well, something is happening to the people you don't care about. 70,000 of them at a minimum are dead. 20,000 of their innocent children are dead. And I've never seen them get one damn about it. So now I'm supposed to care about their feelings when they say, who cares about you?

your stupid feelings and your stupid children, and Israel had to massacre them. And if you criticize Israel, we'll destroy you. Israel had to massacre them. You want me to care about those sick sons of bitches? No, I don't. And I'll never listen to them. I hope that's clear. I think it was a total mischaracterization of what I was talking about.

Of course, the Israel lobby will try to get people fired. I'm saying they aren't typically successful with prominent people. The Rick Sanchez example is 15 years old, and he made a comment about how the people who run CNN are a lot like John Stewart. People were debating whether or not he meant Jewish or liberal elites. If you want to, sure, we could give him a generous read. Maybe it was misinterpreted. But Tucker Carlson has by no means been canceled, which was my point. And as for prominent anchors, Amin M. Yelden on M.

MSNBC has routinely done great pro-Palestinian coverage on MSNBC for the past couple of years. He's on frequently. He has a weekly or weekend show. He's on in prime time throughout the week sporadically. Oh, my God, Jordan. Come on, man. They also got rid of Medi Hassan, didn't they? Did they have the Muslim anchors covered in genocide?

How is that? How is that connect? But okay, okay, yes, they did. That's not good. Amon is still on the network. Are you saying he isn't a good person to talk about this? No, that's a trick. No, you want me to denounce Amon now?

I'm not giving MSNBC credit. I'm saying he is somebody who isn't. Hold on, Jordan. You want me to answer the question? Is Amon free to say what he really thinks? Absolutely not. And I know that for a fact. So keep going.

Keep coming up with BS examples. No, Jordan. No one who works in mainstream media thinks that you're free to criticize Israel. No one thinks that. What isn't he saying? First of all, has I don't look, I'm not going to denounce, I'm not going to talk about Eamon who's a decent and wonderful person and like get into a thing of like trying to somehow get him in trouble. I'm not in the business of getting him in trouble, okay? So Jordan, not

one cable news anchor has called it a genocide. Are you pretending that that's all a coincidence? We just have to happen to have the very worst people in America as all of our cable news anchors. It's just a coincidence. None of them think they're going to get in trouble if they call it a genocide. It just so magically happened. Almost every reporter in mainstream media, no one calls it a genocide. When Israel does the killings, when Hamas does the killings, they're slaughter, terrorist, savages. When Israel does the killings, collateral damage had to happen. There's nothing you could do. Human shields. One husbanda propaganda after another, after another. If you can't see that mainstream media is totally in the tank for Israel, I can't help you. I mean, that is unbelievable.

It's an industry-wide problem, but we covered on this show, Amon calling it a genocide when he grilled Corrine Jean-Pierre for the Biden administration's failures to do anything to stop it. I don't understand why you're- One exception one time from one Muslim anchor. Congrats. Doesn't that prove the rule? Look, you're saying there's nobody other than Tucker Carlson in the media doing this. I'm telling you, there is somebody who also.

doesn't push anti-Semitism, who doesn't have a Holocaust denier on his, multiple, sorry, multiple Holocaust deniers on his show. Yeah. Okay, yeah. Where's the brave Rachel Maddow? Where's the brave Chris Hayes and R. R. Mellberg? And where's all the other MSNBCOs? Isn't it weird that not one of them independently came to the same conclusion as almost every genocide scholar and every human rights group? Ghali Chi, how about they're on-air reporters? Other than I'm, Can you name any that has called it a genocide that has said it's disgusting and they shouldn't murder 20,000 people? We should care more about the feelings of the dead 20,000 children than the feelings of pro-Israel's sons of bitches in this country.

No, I can't find a single one from the liberal network. Oh, what a funny coincidence. They happen to agree with Fox News on the genocide and they happen to agree with CNN and New York Times and Washington Post. What an amazing coincidence. Okay, whatever, dude. It's like, I mean, you're, you literally found one guy who once said it during one interview. That definitely proves my case, not your case, Jordan. Like you had to dig and dig and dig and find one critique of Israel.

I can, okay, I just Google Chris Hayes, genocide Gaza, and I can, I'm pulling up dozens of segments over the past couple of years where he's talking about the genocide in Gaza. Amen again, right? No, Chris Hayes. Chris Hayes, okay. Look, I'll look at your evidence. Send it to me and if I'm wrong about Chris Hayes, I'll come back and retract it. But again, you're desperately trying to find one exception when we could all see the rules. That took 10 seconds.

That took 10 seconds. Are you saying that cable news and mainstream media have been fair and impartial about Israel and Gaza? No, but you're acting like Tucker Carlson is the only person talking about this. And that's not true. Okay, so no, Tucker Carlson has done God's work in making sure that the right wing understand how what Israel is actually doing. Under no circumstances will I condemn that. None. You can tell me, oh, but he winked this way and he referenced the wrong food item and he had the wrong historian on. No, anyone against the genocide is a friend of mine. And by the way, imagine this,

under a different crime of humanity. So crime against humanity. So if people made the argument and almost all of them made it in all of mainstream media and during World War II and they're like, you're offending the Germans. Who cares about the dead Jews? You've offended the Germans and this could lead to anti-German violence. So since it could lead to anti-German violence, you should never criticize the Holocaust And anyone who does should be denounced, right?

No, I would hate you for that. I'd fight you to tooth and nail on that. And I'm going to fight you too. I don't mean Jordan. I mean generally. Fight the Israel first crowd, tooth and nail to stop a genocide. And I love any brother or sister that are trying to help us to fight that genocide. And no, I'm not going to be worried about the Germans' feelings at all.

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Yeah. And her co-host, Chank, he's also in The Young Turks, tweeted, I think Belmar is the biggest racist in American media. I'm happy to challenge him to debate on the issue of his favorite country in the world, his beloved Israel. How do you respond to that? I'm assuming you didn't even see this way. Why doesn't he answer the question that she won't answer?

All right, good news, I'm gonna answer that question. He's gonna say yes to a debate, okay, we'll find out when and where. I have a lot to say about what Bill Moore just told you. But first, let's show you everything he said, and then I'll come back and respond to it. So, yes, what else is there? All right, well, everybody knows that Bill Maher is a very staunch defender of Israel. He loves to talk about Israel, but he was just interviewed by the free presses Maya Salkin, and she asked him about his viral sit down with Anna.

And the question that was referred to in that first video was a moment during their debate, where instead of actually grappling with the issue of Ghazans who are being slaughtered by the thousands, everyone knows this. Instead, he wanted to talk about how evil Islam and Muslims are. And specifically, he demanded to know where in the Middle East Anna would want to live, and here's how that went. If you had to live in the Middle East, so tomorrow, Anna, you've got to go live in the Middle East, where would you live? Where would you live? What city would you live? And where do you think you'd be comfortable in that dress? Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, oh, none of the above, none of them, or Tel Aviv.

None of them. I think given my very harsh and vociferous criticisms of the Israeli government, I probably wouldn't feel so safe living in Tel Aviv right now, under this government, under this government. First of all, they have free speech there, so they would, it would not be an issue. But that was a side issue. We're not really talking about. Well, we'll just say just a person, not you with your vociferous talking about, just a regular, a woman of your age. I'm sure a woman of my age who grew up in the Western world would probably feel the most comfortable in Tel Aviv.

I will concede that. Wow. Okay. But we're having a discussion about which culture we like, when in reality I'm having a discussion about the value of human life. All right, well, after that conversation, during which Marr only wants. wanted to discuss Islam being inferior and also more dangerous than other religions. Here's what Jank, this is Jank what you wrote on X. He said, I think Bill Maher is the biggest racist in American media. His hatred of Muslims would make Mark Levin blush. If anyone said

anything about Jewish people or countries that Marr has said about Muslims, they would be banned from U.S. media forever. He's both ignorant and unintelligent. And then you also said, I'm happy to challenge him to a debate on the issue of his favorite country. in the world, his beloved Israel, and how he drives anti-Muslim bigotry and hatred in order to protect the genocidal ambitions of Israel, happy to have Pierce Morgan or anyone else host. All right, so asked whether he would be willing to take Jank up on that offer for the debate. Here is what Bill Maher had to say. Would you challenge? Would you?

Yes, well, I'd love to hear his answer, because there is no answer. Anybody who thinks they're a social justice activist, which these people do, and your number one issue isn't gender apartheid in the Muslim world, you're a joke. You're a joke. It's so obvious where the biggest amount of oppression is. You people who hate oppression so much. I feel like it's a credential thing for that generation. It's like they have to like be these useful idiots who somehow, again, as the world's big liberals found their way to this position of marching with the most oppressive people in the world. All right, well then he called anyone fighting for Palestinian rights a joke, and he claimed that he was bored by the whole debate. I'm the racist. First of all, Islam is not a race, morons, it's an idea, it's an ideology, people of all races

follow it. It's just more fundamentalist than other religions in this century. That would not have been the case in the 14th century. But we don't live then. We live now. And the fact that you won't call this out, like the fact that these Muslims in America, the way you live here, you couldn't live that way in most of these countries where your ancestors are from. And certainly your wife couldn't. The fact that this isn't your biggest issue as people who hate oppression, you're a joke. So, you know, can we want to debate? Sure, I mean, I debated her. I'm bored. As I said at the end of that, I said, I'm bored. All right. Well, first of all, I think Anna was right to redirect his question because the issue

is about genocide that is being done by Israel to the Muslim world. And it has nothing really to do about whatever he's trying to make this about oppression and things like that and Western women living in Eastern countries for some reason, Muslim or not, why would anyone from the Western world go live in the Eastern world and assume that there's some kind of assimilation there? I don't know. Jank, I want to get your thoughts on this. What do you ask? So I'm super happy to answer his question. First of all, Istanbul. You could go and live in Istanbul and be perfectly fine in any outfit you like. You could live in southern Turkey or any parts of Turkey and wear any outfit you like.

In fact, a lot of Israelis go to southern Turkey to vacation, a lot of Russians do, et cetera. But in Bill Maher's mind, like some Muslim extremists, a small percentage of the religion, is everything. Why? Because he wants to smear Muslims. Hey, you ignorant ass, have you ever been to a Muslim country? Have you ever been to Istanbul? Have you ever been to any of these countries that you talk about?

Do you know any Muslim people who aren't paid shills of Israel? And you know, if you did, if you talk to them, what you would find out is that they're normal human beings. The grandmothers love the grandkids, they have, they play soccer, they watch TV, they're just like you, except they're not pro-genocide like you are. So here's another answer to your stupid question. So Berlin might have been an amazing place to live in 1941. Oh my God, the Germans have all the top technology in the world and they have amazing nightclubs.

Oh, you're just complaining about this minor holocaust that they're doing when Berlin is such a lovely city. And have you seen Stuttgart in the spring? What does having nice cities like that, theoretically, have anything to do with whether you're doing a genocide or not? Apparently nothing. But he is trying to distract you in every imaginable way from the real problem. He thinks the number one issue is burqas? No, the number one issue is the slaughter of 70,000. people in Gaza, 20,000 innocent children. If those 20,000 innocent children were

Israeli, Bill Maher would go nuts and he would demand that Palestinians be murdered and murdered. But it doesn't matter, he demands that now. There is no amount of innocent children that Israel can kill before Bill Maher condemns them. So he's busy condemning every Muslim on the planet. Oh, they're all so dark and savage. You should hate all of them, right? Meanwhile, this atheist, when's the last time he criticized Judaism? In his stupid movie, he smears the living crap out of Muslims.

Okay, at least if we're being consistent, no problem. He bullies and attacks Christian. Again, if you're an atheist, no problem. Then he gets to Judaism. He's like a bunch of, the only dumb people in this religion are the ones that are opposed to Israel. He literally did that. Okay, a guy who never criticizes Judaism, never, right? And he turns around, all the Muslims are wearing burqas and et cetera.

No, brother, the number one problem right now is the genocide that your beloved Israel is committing. But you don't want to condemn that because you're biased and you're disgusting. And right now you say, oh, you'd feel safe in Tel Aviv. Are you insane? You'd feel safe, Bill. I wouldn't feel safe at all. Israel has murdered nine Americans in the last three years. The accountability has been zero.

One of them was Shereen Abu Ackley, one of the top journalists in the Middle East. And Israeli snipers shot her in the neck, literal assassination murder of a Muslim American. Our government did nothing, nothing. They bowed down to your beloved Israel. So no, of course I wouldn't go to Tel Aviv. Are you insane? For a Muslim American, there is no country on earth. that is more dangerous than Israel.

They can literally murder us and our own government won't do anything about it. It is a vicious terrorist state that has killed 70 times the number of people Hamas has. It has killed more civilians indiscriminately. IDF's own numbers, 83% civilian target rate as opposed to Hamas, terrible at 67%. We condemn Hamas, he's constantly all of these pro-Israel guys, condemn every Muslim, condemn every Muslim. When you come to Israel, how dare you? You anti-Semite. I can't believe you're criticized. Beloved it, Israel, give me another $100 billion. That's what you want, right, Bill? You want us to take another $100 billion in a 20-year memorandum of understanding and ship it over

to your friends in Israel? No thank you. No thank you on that robbery. I'm not interested in that robbery. He says he's fine with a debate. I'm a bud of it. I mean, I already called everyone an anti-Semite. And I already said that all Muslims are dark savages we should finance Israel to murder. So I'm so bored of it. Okay, debate anytime, any place, brother, you name it. There's no way you survive a debate with me because you're so ignorant and you're so biased that you can't see straight. When people go 20,000 children, for God's sake, you have no humanity.

He's like a collateral damage, whatever. They're the terrorists. We had to murder them. And all this bulge propaganda, okay? But if it comes to Israel, oh, those are real human beings. Their lives count unlike Muslim lives. So no. And this dumb sophistry of, if you're against the genocide, that means you're pro-Burka.

I know your mind is tiny bill, but let's see if it could encompass this simple thought. I could be someone who's an atheist and who doesn't agree with the burqa, but agrees a lot less with murdering 20,000 kids. But you cannot agree to that. You say no, the burqa offends my sensibilities so much more. And it doesn't matter what tiny percentage of Muslims were at burqa. It doesn't matter. I'm gonna blame you and you don't you ever dare criticize Israel, right? Kiss my ass, Bill, and your stupid Israel love that blinds you completely. Anna and him were having a perfectly good conversation. You could have a normal conversation about Gaza, and I've done it countless times.

But you can't with people like Bill Moore, because he immediately goes to, oh, your Muslims are terrible. You should condemn all Muslims first. We had to kill them and kill them and kill them. That's what you look like to the rest of us, Bill. You look like a monster. Come on, brother. Come on. Anytime, any place. And you know you're not going to do it. There's no chance he's going to do it. It's a giant coward whose ideas are so stupid, so indefensible that he

can't possibly defend them. Yeah. And you asked at the beginning of that if Bill Maher had ever been to a Muslim country. But even before that, I was wondering if he had ever even interacted with Muslims even here in this country. And I'm not talking about people like me. You know, like I'm Muslim in name only really, but even practicing Muslims here, it's bizarre to me whenever people rail against Muslims in this country because really they live relatively peaceful lives here. They don't bother people. Maybe only 3% of the U.S. population is Muslim, but they've become so demonized by people like Bill Maher and the evangelical right. They keep saying to watch out for sharia law, things like that, but it's all just a fake threat. It's not real. The Muslims are not about to take over this country anytime soon. And most of them live their lives, mostly unnoticed by the general population. And of course, you know, the culture is different between the United States and the Middle East, obviously. But you can say that about any other culture. And to Anna's point, you know, she conceded that a Western woman would feel most comfortable in Tel Aviv within the Middle East. But that's because it's practically the United

States. It wasn't a win for Bill Maher than Anna conceded that point. And it proves, if anything, that the point that Israel is just an extension of this country here, and it's an extension with better health care, better education, maternity leave, et cetera, all of which we here in the United States are paying for, even though our president says that we're in America first country. And then on top of all of that, he keeps glazing over the point, Jank, that you said several times when you were speaking just now, the point is not about burkas. The point is not about women's rights or anything. like that right now, right now. That is not the point right now. That is not the point that the

American people are worried about. That is for those Muslim countries to deal with if they so choose to. But as far as people just being killed, as far as the genocide actually happening, that is something that we are concerned with, especially a genocide that we are funding with our tax dollars. Yeah. Israel's already taken 300 billion off of us because of propaganda like Bill Mars that say they're a special ally. And they resemble us why. They stole us. our nuclear secrets. They stole all of our technology. They took $300 billion off of us. They have universal health care. They have free college. And they have Iron Dome. We don't have. They're a nuclear armed country. They're one of the top economies in the world. They're a

grown up country that is attacking seven of its neighbors, has committed a genocide. And now they say, give me a 20 year guarantee of another 80 to 100 billion dollars because America owes us. No, we don't owe you. And Bill, we don't owe your beloved Israel, okay? We don't own them or owe them a goddamn thing. They're not at all the victims. All of your propaganda is geared to paint Israel. Oh, tiny little Israel that always attacks their neighbors and always takes their legs.

But look, don't look. Keeps Palestinians prisoners and captained for 58 brutal years in occupation. in apartheid like state, a dictatorship in the occupied territories that took the Golan Heights, that took all this land around us, that is now occupying Lebanon, that is now occupying Syria. But Bill says, no, we needed the breathing space for that. We needed to take the Sudeten land for self-defense. Don't look at all the land we've taken. Don't take, don't look at the 300 billion we took off the Americans.

Don't look at the 100 billion and we're going to take off of them. next, remember, we're the victims. Israel's nowhere near victims. There's no chance, Bill Mar will debate me. Because if he sees this, he knows he's 100% wrong, and his arguments are not just indefensible. They're obnoxious, and they will only make Americans hate Israel more. So come get some, Bill. I'm pro-America. You take the pro-Israel position, and let's see who wins. Let's get a break. All right, we'll be back. I'm working like my ass.

I know, Christmas stop. All right. All right, box rights in on super chat. women's rights in Islamic countries tend to suck. That's Bill's point. And to a degree, it's true. Can we not point it out it's derived from the religion box? One thing at a time, brother. Okay, so look, I grew up Muslim and I left a religion and I'm an atheist. So I'm not going to defend burqas. I'm not going to defend treatment of women that I have issues with, okay? But that's a distraction now. There's a much, much bigger problem, which is that

Israel is constantly attacking and murdering their neighbors. And they want you distracted. So once Israel stops and is a safe independent state along with a Palestinian state, and Israel stops butchering everyone around them, then let's turn and have a conversation about the burqa. That's a nice luxury to have because those people aren't complaining about their own burqas. You know, this debate happens in Turkey. And a lot of people, I grew up a secular Turk, a lot of secular Turks are against burqas. Where is that on my priority list? I don't know, maybe 198th on my priority list.

The murder of 20,000 children is number one. But Bill doesn't think so. Why? Because he's trying to distract you. In Liberty and Guns, we trust says, just watch that whole back and forth, meaning my Jordan and me while eating my steak. That's thanks for the quality entertainment, fellas. No problem, can do.

SOG Logosun says, who cares if a Jewish supremacist or a Zionist is offended by it, that they use fear as a bad faith tactic? Israel is a problem, not Tucker, Candace Kelly, et cetera. Look, I know there, it's not just guys, it's not just the bad guys who are Zionists and radicals and stuff. I know that there are real Jewish people who are worried about it. But God, I love you guys, but I would love to see you that concerned about the genocide.

And a lot of Jews are that concerned about the genocide and a hell of a lot more. And I love them for it. For the people in media, let me see you show any. humanity, any humanity towards Palestinians, then I'll believe that you care about bigotry other than just me, me, me, me, me, me, me, me, my people, my people, my people, slaughter your people, who cares? I'm sick of the media and it's disgusting, overt, over the top racism, and bigotry towards Muslims.

And it's still so stupid with that sophistry on racism, okay? Yeah, you're racist against Arabs, you're the most racist person probably in America against Palestinians and you're a bigot towards Muslims. I hope you're happy Bill. Okay. Kevin Shea says, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to the entire TYT staff. You all do a fantastic job and we all appreciate you greatly. Charlie XX says DJ Bart killing it. Merry Christmas from Greenville, South Carolina. Merry Christmas. Okay.

I Metallica says this administration looks like old Rome saying bread and circus, but this time looks like the billionaires stole the bread. Sounds about right. DJ Payton writes any. He can call the about Battleship to SS Epstein. Seriously, it's really necessary to even have a battleship. Warfare has changed and not the same as in the past. Totally right. He also said, happy anniversary, T.Y.T. Sorry, I missed a lot of yesterday's live. But regardless, Merry Christmas to the entire family. If you're a member, you could watch the whole special. It was really fun. Make sure you check it out. All right, back on T.Y.T. Jank and he has with you guys. He has got more news. Got more news. All right. Now, congressional Democrats are furious that they're actually getting primaried by candidates to the left of them. More progressive candidates are trying to enter this race. Jank, I feel like this is long overdue. What is your two cents? Yeah, thank God. Now, what I want you to pay attention to in this story is how the Democrats

bellyache about, oh, but we got all this money from corruption. And now they're gonna use some of our corrupt money to fight honest Democrats. Boo! We don't want honest Democrats. And of course, CNN helps them with that framing. So I've got a lot of thoughts on this. But number one, make sure you're voting against almost all Democratic incumbents in primaries, okay? They're almost all corrupt and what they don't want you to find out is that all the donor money is the only thing they serve for 95% of those corrupt Democrats in Congress. The fact that the Republicans are 99% corrupt is not a saving grace for the people that Yaz is about to tell you about. So tell them the story. Yeah. Yep. So there's a lot of them. Not everybody is happy about this.

And yeah, as Jenk mentioned on Monday, CNN published an article about these very annoyed Democrats. who feel as though they're owed another term. For context, over two dozen congressional Democrats are staring down a competitive primary. So privately, many see the surge in far left challengers as an expensive headache that distracts from the party's goal of seizing control of Congress next November.

Very inconvenient, yes. So Democratic Representative Greg Meeks is not one who is being primary, but many of his colleagues are facing primary challengers. So Meeks told this to CNN. And he said, I think we've got individuals who might be caught up in the moment, caught up in the internet. To me, it is them missing the boat, though, because what they're upset about and angry about is the president of the United States. And what we should be doing is uniting behind Grace Meng and Adriano as Bialta and Richie Torres.

Yeah. Yeah. So that alone is very crazy to me because it's like, oh, you're just so caught up in the internet. And I feel like what they're doing is they, the Democrats for so long have been all about, you know, we're anti-Trump. We're not the party of Trump. We're not Trump. We're not Trump is bad. We're going to, we need to get rid of Trump and get out of Trump, you know, just whatever.

Everything has been very Trump-centric for the last decade. And, you know, Meeks is mad that now there's a different strategy. And he's like, we need to, you know, keep focusing on Trump because that is what the Democrats feel have been working for them. And they might feel emboldened after the primary. But anyway, representative. One Vargas stated this, he said the problem is they're attacking their own. It's like attack the other guys. We will have spent this energy and money fighting amongst ourselves and it's really dumb. It's not dumb. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries is projecting confidence though.

He said primaries are a way of life in the House of Representatives. Our members are going to fight hard, make their case to the voters, and come back to office. All right. Well, some of the primary challengers are styling themselves after New York City mayor elect Zoran Mamdani. They're taking a note from him. Democratic Representative Richie Torres is doubting that that strategy is going to pay off for them, though. Mamdani is exceptional, he said. Not every candidate who claims to be in his mold is the real deal.

And of course not. That's why we have an election. That's why we have campaigns. So the people can vet that and decide that for themselves. And according to CNN, the reason that these Democrats are peeved. is because they are being forced to spend their own campaign money on defeating a primary challenger now, as he was saying, it's a waste of their time and money. Instead, they would rather help swing purple seeds back into the hands of the Democrats.

And I don't agree with that strategy at all. Jank, as you said, you know, these people are already corrupt. They already have not been serving their constituents, the way that their constituents would like to be served, and people are naturally looking elsewhere. And when you put that into the greater context of these last 10 years, years under some version of Trump, Democratic voters, including me, especially progressive voters, are very tired of seeing the Democrats not fighting for anything, constantly on the defensive. And somehow, they're always still being caught off guard, even though we've

been dealing with this man and this party and this administration for years by now. Nothing they do should be surprising. Why can't the Democrats just be better, even if you're going to be a minority party? Why can't you be better at protecting the American people, protecting their rights, protecting the things that matter to them, instead of just constantly capitulating, losing, and expecting the American people to just vote you back into office. Yeah, so number one, corporate Democrats are not my allies. They're my opponents. So he's like, oh, we're all the same team, really? Did you pass paid family leave? Did you pass minimum wage? Did you pass the public option, which is so simple? All these things poll is 70, 80%. Did you do any of that? Oh, you didn't do any of that.

In fact, you blocked it, didn't you? A lot of you? And did you help us negotiate drug prices like Obama promised and Biden promised? No, you didn't, right? Why didn't you do it? Oh, golly gee, I just, I'm a moron. I'm incompetent. I don't know how to do things. Paid family leaves at 84%. How stupid are you? How incompetent are you? How terrible politician are you? Okay, fine. If you're a terrible politician, we should fire you anyway. It's at 84% and you couldn't figure out a way to pass it. It says 74% with Republican voters, but you're dumb ass. Couldn't figure out how to pass it. No, you never tried because your donors told you not to try. You're all bought. You are not my friends. You are not my allies. In fact, you are interlopers, pirates that have taken over the Democratic Party and you're now posing as Democrats when in reality you kill most of the Democratic policies. So and then my favorite, though, yes, is that they come in and they go, I raised all this money from Exxon Mobil and Pfizer. and APAC, and now the AI bros and the crypto bros, and now I gotta use some of it on destroying an honest Democrat before I get into a fake fight with the Republicans. Yeah, they have the same money. You guys will do your fake fight

and it won't matter who wins because you'll both be pro AI bros, pro crypto bros, pro Israel, pro defense contractors, pro oil companies. No, you're not my friend and you should get the hell out of our party. For God's sake, everybody. primary all the incumbents. There are a couple of good guys like Rokana and a couple of others,

but as a blanket rule, you should, unless proven otherwise, like Greg Casar, Rokano, Mark Pocan, I could prove to you about a couple of dozen at most that have actually tried to do things for you guys. The rest of them are all sellouts, their turncoats, their corporate stooges, their Republicans pretending to be Democrats, and yes, make them spend all their money fighting against an honest Democrat. My God, guys, last thing, Democratic voters, please stop listening to the liars at CNN who frame this article as like, can you believe? How dare these insolent populists make us spend any of the hard-earned money from Exxon Mobil and AIPAC? How dare they? Right? No, no, primaries are democracy. If you want to protect democracy, you would love and cherish primaries. It's the only

place where we have a real choice. This is not a message against Democratic voters. This is the most important pro-democratic voter message you will ever hear. Fight for your own policies. Fight for honest people who will represent you in the Democratic Party. If these corporate sellout goons win one more time. They're going to destroy the Democratic Party because once they get back in charge, they will do what they always do, which is nothing. And then the American people will hate Democrats forever. Don't make that mistake. Make sure you vote all the bums out, especially Richie Torres, who's a giant sellout to a foreign government. One last guy I actually come to think of it, Dan Goldman. So Dan Goldman is one of these people crying and crying,

Oh, I'm an incumbent. They're making me waste my money. Oh, right? Dan Goldman prioryed an incumbent. He was up against Mondair Jones when he won his first race. So, oh, good for the goose, but not good for the gander, right? No, no, no, no, I'm a lot to show. They were anti-Israel.

They were anti-Israel. Make sure you defeat them all for me to garbage. Anti-A-PAC. Where's the money? Where's the money? Those are the Democrats you should despise and you should vote against. I want to be perfectly clear about that. And so Dan Goldman, no tears for you.

So go ahead. Not that Mondere was a great guy, but at least Mondere chose was a Democratic incumbent. You chose to run a primary against them. So spare your totally BS fake tears for CNN who scoop it up and drink and be like, oh, Dan Goldman tears. Oh, I love it. I'll write the article on his behalf. Poor Dan Goldman. Hey, the San Am Schmuck reporter, did you not know that he ran against an incumbent?

All right. Yeah. Well, I just want to point out real quick. In 2024, 95% of incumbents were reelected into office. So once you become a member of Congress, however you get there, there is an understanding that I'm here to stay. As long as I want to stay here, I can stay. And that's not how our democracy is supposed to work. And, Jenk, that was a great point about where and how these Democrats raise all their money. They got it from all these corporate donors. And this is now the money that they're mad about having to spend in service to the actual American people. And the irony of that is that the Democrats, they announced last year that they're going to actively and openly begin courting big corporate donors going forward. Right?

They said that to the American people. And prior to that, the Democrats had always prided themselves on having the support. of the majority of actual real Americans, right? And every time you would get, whenever you're looking at who is raising all the money during elections, you would see that the Democrats have a lot of smaller donations from more people. So that would suggest that they have more voters behind them. But now the Democrats are saying, we don't want to do all that work.

We don't want to actually represent the will of the people. We're not even going to try to appease the people anymore, try to give them what they want. The Democrats really are doing the bare minimum as far as even pretend. to like fight for the people at this point. And so yeah, so they announced that they're going to go after this corporate money. And so they're saying this is our priority. These are the people or the corporations that we're trying to appease. And this is who we're governing on behalf of. And that is hardly a democracy. And I don't want Democrats in our Congress who feel that way. So yeah, primary them, get them out just because you won one election doesn't mean that

you're entitled to win every election after that. All right, guys. We're going to take a quick break. be right back. How does Santa do it? Does he cinch up his belt? All right, back on TYT. Let's go to YouTube members for a second. Burning Knuckles says, Demarcy now just interviewed a U.S. reporter that was attacked on the West Bank. So I don't know if it's the same guy,

but we covered a guy who was actually a Jewish-American reporter, went to the West Bank, got attacked by settlers. And by the way, Bill Maher claims he's against religious lunatics and never noticed the Israeli settlers. I don't know that there are bigger religious lunatics on the planet than the Israeli settlers. But Bill Maher couldn't find him. Couldn't find him. So anyways, yes, they attack Americans with impunity. They've learned through USS Liberty and every other kind of attack and every murder they've done of Americans. They own the American government. There'll be no accountability. That's a fact. You can cry

about it. You can say facts are anti-Semitic. You could do any kind of Hasbara you like, but It's BS. Israel, I can't wait to get their oppressive cloak off of all Americans. Okay, on Twitch, Sepachro 1223 says, if Jank realized that MAGA is a lost cause, why does he still believe they're good for in a movement? No, I never said they're a lost cause. No, independence have swung billion percent to our sign and a lot of motive for Trump. And then when you get into core MAGA, a lot of those guys just want lower drug prices, lower housing, all the things that we want. Yes, there is a portion of MAGA that are radicals and you could say all the bad things that you want about them. But when you do that, the other two thirds or half or whatever

the number is of Trump voters think you're talking about them and you drive them away. Don't do that. That's a bad idea. So that's okay, but it's a fine question. I want to make sure you understand what I'm saying. Lake of Fox says, I was the first bar mitzvah from the Daniel Pearl Education Center. Name for the murdered Jewish American journalist and the lesson lesson I took from that was that I had a religious obligation to stand against the murder of journalists. Oh, I love you. That's exactly right. See, it's not that complicated and good decent people, they know, it doesn't matter what religion you're from. You don't murder journalists. Dave Chappelle had a great line about it in his special the other day on Netflix.

He said, you know, they said, oh, they criticized me for going to Saudi Arabia and what they did the Jamal Khashou, it was terrible. And I agree with that. And that's one murder journalist. Israel murdered 240, but Bill Maher can't find a way to criticize it. And Chappelle mentioned Bill Maher and said what an a hole he is, okay? 240 journalists, more journalists killed in that war than all other conflicts in the world combined. Why? Because Israel is literally targeting the journalists. They're murdering the journalists on purpose.

Shereen Obokle was crystal clear. And throughout, they've had sniper shots taken out journalists. They've known where journalists are and bombed them on purpose. Later they smear them and go, oh, they were all probably Hamas. Who cares? Let's murder more Palestinians. But anyway, like, yes, thank you for being, learning the wonderful morality and decency of Judaism at its core, the things that they taught you were right. You should care for the underdog, you should challenge authority, and you should care about

everyone like they're your own. So thank you for learning the right lessons. from Judaism. And, you know, I, we covered the story. The parents were like, oh my God, we taught our kids to be moral. It was such a mistake. Bullard, thank your brother for joining in Sidlife, 365. Thank you for gifting five memberships. All right, yes, what's next? All right, one more story. Let's roll it. About Venezuela, sir, have you spoken to American oil companies that have had their assets seized about what a post-Moduro Venezuela would mean for them? What kind of back and restarting?

The big ones. Well, Trump still has regime change in Venezuela on his mind because he needs the American people to know that he is tough on crime and also tough on drugs. But now he's confirming that he has discussed the aftermath of military action in Venezuela with the American oil companies. And I wonder why that could be. And this comes as the U.S. Coast Guard is currently pursuing a third oil tanker in international waters. So during last night's press conference at Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump was asked about his intentions for Venezuela, including what exactly he plans to do with all of the oil, America has seized.

Speaking of Venezuela, what are we going to do with the oil that we have? Going to do with what? The oil that has been seized. The United States seized 1.9 million barrels of oil on December 10th. We're going to keep it. We're keeping. Are we going to sell it or put in the strategic oil?

Maybe we'll sell it. Maybe we'll use it in the strategic reserves. We're keeping it. We're keeping the ships also. I'm laughing. It's so dumb. We're going to keep it. So we're just stealing oil down from Venezuela. So he confirmed that he's discussed the prospect of Venezuelan regime change with oil companies that could stand to

benefit from Maduro's ouster. He then hinted that military action could soon be taken on mainland Venezuela in addition to other South American countries. Take a look. You just referenced the lower amount of illegal drugs that are coming by sea and you just said that you're going to start that same program on land soon. Are you just referring to Venezuela or are you referring to other countries of land? Anywhere drugs are pouring in, anywhere, not just Venezuela. Anywhere drugs are pouring in, that's what he said. So Trump isn't the only member of his administration making it abundantly clear what his intentions are.

So Secretary of Homeland Security, Christy Noam, she was asked about the two Venezuelan tankers that the U.S. has already seized and the third one that it's true. Tracking down, here's what she said on Fox. This operation specifically against the Venezuelan shadow fleet is led by the Coast Guard. And the Department of War has been fantastic partners in making sure we're not just interdicting these ships, but we're also sending a message around the world that the illegal activity that Bernarro is participating in cannot stand. He needs to be gone and that we will stand up for our people. They're using these dollars to funnel and purchase and proliferate drugs around the world

that's killing the next generation of Americans. So don't forget what this is about. This is an enemy of the United States that we're taking strong action against. And our Coast Guard is doing a rock star job going out there and interdicting these ships safely, but also sending a strong message that we will stop this flow and we will continue to stand up for our country. And of course, in her viral interview with Vanity Fair, Trump chief of staff, Susie Wiles, made this blatant admission. She said, he wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle.

The people way smarter than me on that will say that he will. So yeah, so that is basically an admission that he is going to keep antagonizing Venezuela. He's doing all this, by the way, Jank, without talking to Congress, there has been no actual any kind of legislation that allows him to do any of this stuff. but he has weaponized, his Department of War, as he has called it. It's very childish. But, you know, Jake, I am kind of confused, though, and maybe you can help me understand. Is this about drugs or is this about oil?

What are we actually doing? And why can't he just say what his actual motives are? So it's definitely not about drugs. There's no fentanyl coming from Venezuela. There's a tiny amount of cocaine, but Mexico, Colombia, and others have much more cocaine. It's just a fabricated reason. And then they even bothered to signal to us that it's a lie. when they, he said, oh, those drugs coming from Venezuela are weapons of mass destruction.

And why don't you just say, I've turned into a neocon. I lied about everything during the campaign on pro-war. I'm going to start a totally senseless war with Venezuela, partly for oil, partly for the defense contractors. It turns out amazingly, partly for Israel, because Venezuela dared to once work with Iran on drones or something, and because Marco Rubio wants to depose Venezuela and then Cuba. So those are the real reasons why this is an insane ludicry. potential war. But I think what offends me more right now immediately is us, they've turned

us into thieves. We're just going around stealing other people's ships. One of the ships is from Panama. Look, who cares? Just steal it. Take it. We'll take the oil. We'll just take your stuff. We're a bunch of thugs. Well, I love America. I don't want America to be seen like that by the rest of the world. So that's a huge problem. I want America to be the good guys. I don't want us to be like, these people that are war mongers that are starting wars for no reason with a whole bunch of people that happen to have a lot of oil. And then whenever we don't like things going in a certain direction, we just take your stuff. And then the second giant problem is that international law and order are completely breaking down. So now the Chinese are like,

okay, well, that oil was probably going to go to China. So, okay, now I'm missing some oil. Should I steal someone else's oil? Should I steal your shit? Whose ships should I steal? Because apparently there's no law anymore. So I guess whoever is the big countries, we're all going to start stealing from all the other countries. And next thing you know, we'll be in perpetual war throughout the planet. And this is from the anti-war president, anti-war my ass. This guy lied to you, he's a great A con man.

And the minute he got in office, what did he do? The same exact thing that everyone in the unit party and everyone in the establishment does. He started creating more wars. He started doing tax cuts for corporations, and he did nothing for you. He cut your snap, he cut Medicare, he got all the essentials. He fired a whole bunch of innocent people, all to serve the donor class. He's just, he's the same kind of global elitist that he ran against. He's the swamp he ran against.

No, we don't need a war with Venezuela. And no, we shouldn't be stealing other country stuff just because we feel like it. just because Rubio and Trump want to feel more manly, okay? And whatever other donors want money for themselves at great cost of that American people. For God's sake, for once in our lives, we've got to elect one honest man to actually serve America and not the donor's interest and global interests. Yeah, and I'm just confused as to how the people who voted for a president who explicitly said he wasn't going to start any new wars, he was going to pull out of other countries,

he didn't want to give aid to them, how that guy is doing everything that he's doing now, and they still support him. And what's puzzling to me also is that they act as though they're like surprised that he's doing the things that he's doing. But like why? For 10 years, Jank, like on networks like this one, we have been saying this is exactly who he is. This is exactly what he's going to do. In a lot of ways, he is very, very predictable.

But these people have, they're like blinded by their love for him. They say that we have Trump Duran syndrome. them. They have something else entirely, right? They look at him like a cult leader. And so they just don't see him the way that the rest of us do. And, you know, how many times have we been wrong about the things that he said he was going to do? And then he did it, you know? So if we can call it out, then it's out there. There's enough information there that some people are able to pick up on it. So it's obvious. But, you know, now he's building a fleet of battleships for God's sake. Like he's going to plate them all in gold probably because he said he has a very aesthetic eye. And so he knows

what needs to happen with battleships. Pete Hegg says things he's like Jack Sparrow out in the Caribbean pirating all these oil tankers or something. Like what is going on? And Congress at this point really doesn't have any what means to stop him because he completely, he has the Supreme Court on his side. He has the Department of Defense on his side. And Congress is not going to do anything because they haven't done anything thus far. All right. And look, even half his base has gone already. So the half of you just follow whatever Trump wants. But the other half is like, wait, I'm positive. We said anti-war. I'm positive. All right. So guys, believe it or not to end this fiery show, Operation Joy is next. So stay right here. There's some amazing comments.

And finally a question for me on what to do to regain happiness. Oh, fascinating. We'll do that when we return for everybody. Thank you. I'm going to be able to. All right, guys, so we're going to do Operation Joy here, Jenkin, Yaz, with you guys. So as we do that, first I'm going to read some comments left over from the show, but they're perfect for Operation Joy.

Then I'll get to the Operation Joy comments and question for me. And actually, one of the other folks kind of halfway answered the question that was asked, Accidentally, coincidentally, you'll see that in a second, a lot of good stuff in here. So let's get started. Newfie Dragon writes in, I got to share with my TYT family. This will be the best Christmas for me in many, many years. You have no idea how good that makes me feel. Like, that's part of the reason why I love Operation Joy.

Just like picturing you guys being happy and satisfied wherever you are, just even for one Christmas, one period of time. And it's a, it makes me feel infinitely better. So thank you for writing in. Christina Salazar says, always love seeing you as such a positive light. So that's beautiful. And then Don Dada, Dragon wrote in. It was my first TYT anniversary over the weekend. I've been watching since the Occupy movement.

I was just a kid then. I loved how authentic the reporting felt. I saw TDR and clips of Anna via Snapchat while I was in Florida. You guys gave me hope when I was in such a deep red part of the state. In the wake of the election, I needed hope again. Naturally, I turned to TYT. Not only did I find hope, I found joy in a community filled with compassion and empathy as well. Thank you, Jank, for starting something bigger than TYT.

And thank you to the staff of TYT for leading the charge to change. Thank you, TYT. Brother, you're amazing. Thank you for that beautiful and thoughtful message. And yeah, I love this community. This is, to me, this is a, everybody's got a different idea of what's good, what's perfect. But to me, you guys are nearly perfect. And that's because my sense of perfection is not actually being flawless and not making mistakes and et cetera.

No, it means trying your hardest to do the right thing, right? And that's all you could do, guys. So you're already open-minded, open-hearted in every way. And so I just love this community. Thank you for believing and for having purpose in your life and for trying to help others. All right. So we have an anonymous question. I'm going to read that first.

And then I might go to one of the other guys who, like I said, partly answered it. And then I give you the full answer that I have. So anonymous writes in, I would love some help on how to push you. Alyssa, I think you're odd. That's okay. I would love some help on how to push through feelings of regret. For example, my joy from this past week was getting to spend some great time with my cousin, who I do not see often.

However, it is a bittersweet feeling because I have not done a very good job of keeping in touch with him over the years. I wish I could go back and change that. I look back at the past several years of my life, and more often than not, I tend to focus on the mistakes I've made. I feel like I'm lagging behind my peers in several aspects of life because I did not make better decisions. I would love your advice on how to feel joy in spite of that regret. I hope that it will be helpful to anyone else in the audience who's also dealing with those feelings. That's a terrific question. So I have a multi-layered answer to that, one that includes an explanation of fantasy football. So, oh, okay, bear with me, hold, you'll see. But first, one layer of that is

reading Happy Warrior Dragons comment. So they write in, a friend and I once argued about what a, all right, let me see if I can get this right, a Shulayla is, and I'll come back and explain what it is in a sake, and I eventually convinced him afterwards, he thanked me and said that was one of his favorite things in the world. I asked jokingly why being wrong was so fun for him. He said it wasn't being wrong, but having his less accurate interpretation of the world proven wrong and improved with a more accurate one that brought him joy. In that same vein, I want to thank TYT slash Jank for giving me joy and improving my interpretation of the world.

All right. First of all, that is an amazing comment. So thank you for that. I appreciate you so much for saying that. But wait, he's got more because it's relevant, like I said, to not just this comment, but the earlier question. He says, I was a major detractor for having MTG on the network. I felt the way that Jank interviewed her didn't push back enough on her when she lied. I felt there could be nothing gained from having someone on the show who had such horrible and bigoted things as well as shown a complete inability to tell the truth.

I was wrong and Jank was right. Now that we made sure this will be read on the show, that's hilarious. Wink continues. I'll continue. I believe encouraging Marjor Taylor Green in her small act of rebellion against Trump did help lead more acts of rebellion against them, making the interview important and me wrong. I will say that I think that the instinct I had wasn't entirely wrong. I think making sure people are making the right decisions for the right reasons is important. Evidence Fetterman, especially with people like Tucker or MTG that may have presidential aspirations. We You must stay vigilant, but perhaps allow a little more for change in the right direction.

Happy, thank you, Jank and TYT, free the USA, free Ukraine, free Palestine. Okay. All right, guys. Well, so let me tackle both of those things. So number one, guys, I know sometimes when I go in a different direction, strategically, tonally, et cetera, it's jarring. And so I don't blame you for doubting it. I don't blame you for wondering about it, right? But what I'm hoping is that after 20 years of doing this and shown over and over and over again that we have good intent and we're trying to bring positive change in the world, that the next time I do something like that, you might think maybe Jank is up to something and maybe it's a good thing and maybe he sees something we don't see, right?

So what I saw was Marjorie Taylor Green, Tucker Carlson, et cetera, all starting to break from Trump, starting to break from Israel, starting to break on the Epstein files. I mean, if all you cared was about democratic strategy, and that is not all I care about at all, right? You would obviously want to encourage that. And at the same time, almost everybody else on our side was don't. Don't encourage that. Don't talk to them. just keep calling them evil and racist. I'm like, she's going against Trump.

We're against Trump. What are we doing? Right? But I know we get dug into these places. But much more importantly, happy warrior dragon, you have exact right attitude, brother. And your friend has the same attitude that I have, which is goes to the advice that I'm going to give anonymous. Look, we all make mistakes. There is no human being that hasn't made hundreds of mistakes throughout their life.

And some are small, a lot are small, good amount or medium sizes, and some are pretty big. But that's because you're human. That's not abnormal. You're not the only person that has that. You're having a very, very normal reaction. And in fact, the fact that you recognize that you made mistakes puts you above a lot of folks because your eyes are open, your mind is open, and you can recognize that you've made mistakes. Now you gotta take the next step, right? Which is, what do I learn from that mistake?

Oh, I wanna spend more time with my cousin? Or, oh, I, those folks took a certain route and maybe you like that route better now, I don't know, right? Okay, is there something I could learn from that? And so then the third step is, okay, this mistake was a gift to me because now I know better, I've now become a person that knew more than before I made the mistake. I'm richer in knowledge, I'm have a better perspective now, and armed with this information and this perspective, great. Now I could hopefully never make that mistake again because I learned from it. And now I could be a better person or be better in whatever ways that you measure and career, et cetera, et cetera, having grown from the lessons you learn from those mistakes.

And the earlier you make them, in a sense, the better because then you'll have a whole lifetime armed with the knowledge that you gain from those mistakes. So now the goofy example. Look, guys, where you got this TYT Fantasy Football League that I talked to, and I mentioned every once in a while. Anna greatly frowns upon it, but I do it anyway. Okay. So, and I had a great team this year. And so a lot of guys from TYT are in the league, obviously. And, and I wound up losing by basically less than a touchdown that me. And I made a couple of critical mistakes. And Chris Huck from the Pittsburgh office beat me this weekend. I'm so proud of Chris. What he doesn't know, his team's name is Artie Burns.

Brother, we've been talking about Artie Burns in this household for the entire year. Okay, watch out for Artie Burns. Artie Burns is dangerous. Artie, et cetera. So we had this rate time. And at the end, I make a couple of mistakes and Chris wins. So for the rest of you, you're like, so what? That's like the least relevant thing I've ever heard.

No, for a fantasy football player and those of you out there, you know, oh my God, you had a great team. This was your year to win a championship and you made the wrong call. You blew it. You blew it. So when I was feeling that way on Sunday, and I was, I thought to myself, all right, Chank, you better apply the same damn lessons that you tell people about to yourself, right? So I said, okay, what was the central mistake I made? So I can learn, like, I receive that gift that I got from that mistake.

And the central lesson I learned from that particular exercise is actually not relevant to fantasy football, it's relevant to all of our lives, which is I had an instinct all year long, not change this team. This is the team that could win. And on the last week, I changed it in two ways that cost me the championship. So sometimes your instincts are a collection of all the experience you've had that's in your subconscious. It's not just like, oh, it's a gut reaction, ignore it. No, I've learned the hard way in my life that your instincts are probably more accurate and you should trust your instincts, not universally, not if they're totally irrational, but as a general thing, that's going to help you a lot more. And in fact, I was doing

things that work, to be honest, that haven't fully trusted my instincts. And I need to get back to that. And that's what this, that loss reminded me up. So I gained from that. I hope I'm a better person for having learned that lesson and apply that in my life and in my career. So Anonymous, you got a million miles ahead of you. And you're now better off than you were before. So And one last thing about it. I know I've over talked and I still got to tell you what a Shulaila is. And I got to let you ask in here and we have more comments, but there's like so much road ahead of you, brother, that you're going to learn more from more mistakes in the future, et cetera. But whatever is done is done.

There's, you can't ever go backwards, right? So since it's already done, the only thing you can gain from looking backwards is positive stuff. What did I learn? What did I learn? If you focus on what's positive from the past, then you're in much better shape. But if you focus on what's negative in the past and you can't fix it and you don't learn any lessons, then the past becomes an albatross around your neck. And that focus on the past that you can't change is another mistake. So don't make that mistake. look forward and and make the best decisions you can going forward, armed with the confidence that you're doing the very best you can.

Okay, that was a lot. Yes, thoughts. Yeah, lots of thoughts. A lot to comment on there. So, like, you were talking, though, about instincts and listening to your instincts, listening to your gut. And that is something that I think is so important. And I think it's something that we're losing, like a skill that we're losing these days

because there's so much noise everywhere. And I know that I talk about this a lot, but I believe it, we have to be able to hear our own thoughts. And if there's always something playing in the background, if we're always, you know, looking elsewhere for how we're supposed to think and how we're supposed to feel, then we can't hear our own thoughts. Literally, we can't, right? Listening to your body, just sitting with your body and understanding the signals that your body is giving you and not discounting those, you know, feeling the wisdom that is within you and listening to what your body is trying to tell you. And I think that's so relevant, not just in daily life, but even, you know, on a network like TYT, right? I know that whenever I'm presenting here also in Rebel HQ, whenever I'm doing a story,

I always want to give the audience all the facts first, give you all the data, all the information that you need to know, and I try to condense it for you, put it into context, but then I'll give you my analysis. But I always say how I feel about a story is not the story itself, right? That's how I feel about it. And I want the audience to listen and to take what you can from that. Maybe something I say or something the co-host says helps you to make sense of things. But at the end of the day, you have to be able to understand your own feelings with anything, right?

And even whenever we're about to cover a story, you know, like we have to sit with it a little bit and know what we're going to say about it. You know, stay informed, of course. But then also listen and, you know, understand how your body interprets things and interprets the world around you because those things inform the way that you go forward in the world. And then it kind of goes hand in hand with the regret, right, and living with certain regrets. And yeah, obviously there's nothing you can do about the things that have happened in the past. You can only move forward, everybody knows that, but it is much easier said than done. And I feel like my personal way of dealing with things like that, if I have an issue with

anything or if I wish I'd done something better, I usually would just come out and say it, If I have a problem with a friend, I'll say, hey, this is how I feel and, you know, what are we going to do about it? You know, and it just helps to move things forward. And, you know, sometimes I have varying degrees of success with that approach, you know, so I'm not saying that everybody should go out and do that. But you just have to take a step forward, right? Whatever it is that you're doing, there was another issue about lagging behind or feeling like you're lagging behind your peers. You can't sit in that feeling.

You just have to take a step forward towards something. you know, and I'm almost 40 years old now. I've switched careers several times. I also have like a side business that I do. So there's a lot of things, but I've learned not to feel like I'm behind anywhere. It's like this is just my own timeline. This is where I am. I hit certain milestones later than my other friends, but I'm grateful for it actually, right? I got married at 36. I'm so grateful that I waited until 36 to get married and that I'm waiting, that I'm doing so many of these things later on in life because I know who I am now way better than I did 10 years ago, right? I have learned to trust that things happen when they're supposed to happen for

you, right? I would not have been ready for marriage 10 years ago when most of my friends were getting married. And at the time, I didn't necessarily want that for myself, but I did feel like, am I supposed to want this? Am I supposed to be doing this right now? Is this where I'm supposed to be? Am I behind? But jumping forward 10 years, I am much more secure in myself. I have a much, a very happy, fulfilling relationship that was 100% worth waiting for.

And I think that's what it comes down to, Jank, is that these things are worth waiting for. And you can't compare. And we have to be able to sit in our own lives and, you know, be able to live within this world. Yeah. But you just said the most shocking thing out of the whole show. How old are you, yes? I'm 37 years old. Wow.

I just turned 37, yeah. Okay, you don't look 37 at all, that 1%. Okay. And look, one more thing about Anonymous. Look, I have not made as much money as some of my other friends. I have not necessarily gotten to the status as some of my other colleagues, et cetera. But that was an active decision. So those are not the only metrics.

Instead, I chose an interesting life, a very interesting life. It has that upsides and downsides. But you know why I chose it? Because I'm me and not them. That's why I made those decisions. So get comfortable with you. Jed Cusack writes in, oh, by the way, also look up, right? So look up not just to, in a political sense, but to yourself.

Like, look up and think through what do I want? What instead of like, okay, career, career, career, or, you know, whatever other precious people are putting on you, it creates like downward blinders, right? That's why I tell people to look up. All right, Jed Cusack writes in a super chat. It's Christmas Eve here in New Zealand, wishing festival cheers to all the TYT family. Well, right back at you, brother. And I like that I'm getting my first Christmas Eve message from you all the way across the

world. We started watching physical Asia, Asia. That's on Netflix. And Australia's in it and Turkey's in it. And so I got all sorts of hilarious, nationalistic pride pent up because it's irrational and I'm not allowed to feel it. So I feel it in physical Asia. And I'm like, every time the Turks would, I'm like, take that Bill Maher. I'm kidding. I'm kind of. Boxy Brown 6,900 writes in, my wife left me back in the house less than one week ago. It's a Christmas miracle. That's a thing to be joyous about. I mean, that's keeping it super real.

So thank you for sharing that. That's a YouTube member. Another YouTube member, Lady AF says, doing things for other people makes me feel warm and fuzzy. I think it does for a lot of us. And that's a big part of the reason why we're all here together. And so I'll read more of those in a second. But first now, I'll go back to, so what is a Shalala that they were debating in the comment that I read? Throughout history, there have been many styles of stick which have been referred to as a Shalala.

The earliest known reference dates back over a millennium ago. Wow. These sticks were a club, which became associated with people who used them extensively for warfare and personal protection. So apparently you beat it with a Shalala and they will do. Okay, now I learned something. So thank you for contributing to that. All right, Kyle has a simple message for us at t.yt.com slash joy. Taking hikes with our dog every Sunday.

Nothing beats being in nature 20 minutes from home in any direction. Well, that is awesome. And then they have a picture. Can we show the picture? I love these pictures. And guys, that makes me feel serene, right? And so holiday is a good time to go to t yt.com slash joy and share your stories. I'm going to be checking it out throughout the holidays.

All right, Zane, the Magic Puffer Dragon, says, my joy today was, I'm in my new room in an amazing house in my old area in SoCal. It's near my kids and everything else I need. And everything else I need is close enough that I'm writing my new e-bike. My mom got me for transportation. It's amazing. I'm loving being on my own, even though I'm going through a divorce right now, but it's been great. And my TYT family has been amazing and extremely supportive and financially supportive for groceries this month. So I didn't starve to death.

And I just loved them so much for being in my life. I'm so thankful for all of my TYT family. Here's the picture of the pool. And the pool does look nice. And it does look very much like Southern California. So God bless on that. But most importantly, God bless this community that's helping your brother out. I appreciate you guys.

NorCal Girl 717 says, I'm joyful to have my dog Monroe, Mone for short. He recently turned 11 years old on Sunday, December 14th. I love him so much. Although I'm extremely scared because of a health scare he had last night. I'm obviously going to continue loving him for as long as I can. Happy birthday, pup. And then here comes Money, Money, Mony, Money, all right, that's awesome. Okay, God, we love those pet pictures.

Mitrian writes in, my joy today, getting the results of a scan I had yesterday. No evidence of metastic disease. I'm now three years cancer free. Awesome, fantastic, best news there is. I love it. Thank you for sharing it, okay, we all wanna celebrate it. Unicorn Dragon writes in,

I feel joy when I listen to Jenks calming voice while taking a hot shower. This is me now interjecting. Wow, really? Okay, it continues or they continue. It's cathartic even when he's worked up because it feels like someone else is doing all the screaming for me. Oh, and keep the dad jokes coming. Can do, can do. Okay. So don't you worry about that. I'll keep him coming. Although I let one slip today. I had one in the middle of the show and I forgot it. But thank you for saying that. I appreciated. I'm in a constant internal debate about how to contain my rage on the issue of

and different issues throughout, you know, TYT history, the Iraq war, the bank bailouts, the genocide, now Israel's control, etc. And I don't know, you're all my therapy in a sense. All right, last one from the t-y-t.com slash joy. Tubestock dragon, formerly tugging the tubin. Okay, so they're changing the name. That's a big change in the TYT community. We've noted it. We updated our handle to honor the best Christmas album ever, Sox.

We followed J.D. McPherson for years, and the title track claims Sox are the worst gift. But my little boy will tell you that Children Books, Sox, based on the album, is the best gift. I love how every year is a little different, and this year I got to have my own birthday. My birthday was yesterday, December 22nd, and I'm a rare twin, and I also share my birthday with my older twin brother, although he's seven years older. I lost you on the twin part. Oh, it's in quotes, okay? And I've been sometimes overlooked and sometimes treated special because our birthday falls

within the holidays. The last few years, he was off work for Christmas and stayed with me to be closer to his adult children for the holidays. But he got promoted so we're not together on our birthday. So this year was the first birthday in years that I wasn't having to coordinate with Herschel to figure out what time to go with all the kids, cousins, and friends to a Mexican restaurant. He's difficult but worth it, but it was joyful spending my birthday in Chicago with my husband and kids. We had a nice brunch while the German Christmas,

visited the German Christmas market, stopped by Wrigley Field, had a nice dinner, and Marty and I even got to have a sneaky cocktail. Okay, love it. And here comes the formerly tugging the tube in picture. Now tube sock dragon, the joint account used by these two wonderful people that have been sending us a lot of messages for Operation Joy. And I love it. Thank you, guys. Okay.

I'm going to take another breath here. Oh, we're already out of time. Jesus of Lord mercy. And I have more comments in the hijacked document. But, yes, I want to give one second to jump in here and say something, too. Thanks so much, Jank. Yeah, you know, I think just generally I want to say thank you to this community. I know we're going into the holidays.

It's a very strange time. It's a very weird time in the country. There's a lot of money that is being spent. Like, people are stressed, right? But this is a time when people are at least off from work, right? However you choose to spend the holidays, please just spend it with people that you care about. Even if that is just, you know, us here at TYT, we're not going to be like working too hard on Christmas, but, you know, we'll be back on Friday. I'll be back on Friday too. But, you know, these holidays, you know, somebody was talking about gift giving and how gratifying that can be, how nice it is to give gifts to people. Jank, my husband's birthday was December 17th. So he also has kind of like a birthday Christmas thing going on. And this is just a funny story, but I ordered him for his birthday Christmas. gift. I got him the Lord of the Rings vinyl, all three soundtracks on vinyl. So cool. And then I got it in

the mail. I had to order it from the shop in Brooklyn because I couldn't find it anywhere. And I noticed I had two of the fellowship vinyl. And I was like, why would I order just a separate vinyl for fellowship? So now I have an extra fellowship one. And my husband said, oh, I actually ordered that for myself. And it came in at the same time. And so I thought I just ordered it twice. But I had just gotten him such a good gift that he had already bought it for himself. So, you know, so that was fun. But, you know, going into the holidays, you know, I'm baking an apple pie. We're doing Christmas at my parents and then with my in-laws.

So, you know, it's great to just see everybody. And please, just everybody, I know things are crazy. I know this week alone has been crazy, especially since last Friday with the Epstein drops and everything like that. But just take a day or two. just kind of like let it go from your head. And then we'll come back on Friday. And I'm sure a lot will have happened over the two days when we're off. But, you know, just, you know, unplug a little bit. You know, this is the one chance that you get. This is what the holidays are actually for. It's for your family. It's for, it's a time to just reset. It's the winter also. We're

supposed to be sleeping more and relaxing more. I know that never happens, but that's what we're supposed to be doing. So I just want to leave everyone with that. And I hope everybody has a very Happy holiday. At first, I'm going to say, you nailed it. I mean, it's a perfect gift when the person you're getting the gift to got themselves the same exact thing at the same time. So nicely done. So last two things, guys, are one to just remind you of the programming schedule here.

So we're off Christmas Eve and Christmas, so the next two days. But we are back on Friday. So make sure you come back and check us out on Friday. On Monday, we're going to do the Turks and Jerks special, who's the Turk of the Year, the jerk of the year. And so that's going to have a lot of our hosts with us, John, Brett, J.R. So make sure you're checking that out Monday after the show. So obviously shows 6th, 8 p.m. And then at 8 p.m. Eastern, we'll do the best and worst people of 2025. And, okay, and now the last thing is reading your last couple comments from the

members on t.y.t.com. Visionary says, congratulations on your 20th. My joy is that the TYT family is still here and as outspoken as ever. Happy holidays. Thank you. And I, you know, look, guys, I keep telling you we're besieged. We've been besieged from day one. This Israel thing has made us more besieged. And I feel like, you know, every day we get to do this is a win. Every day we get to get the message out and be honest and represent you guys in a way and be a very a voice for positive change is a win. So let's keep going one day at a time. Burrito Bandido Bandito said, I'm folding my son's laundry and came across one of his t-shirts. And it says on a quote, our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. Martin Luther

King Jr. This is my Christmas gift, they wrote it. Oh, yes, yes, yes. If my kids one day wear a shirt like that without me telling them to, I'll think like, oh, such a good parent. I nailed it, right? So Burrito Bandito, you nailed it. Nice job. Visionary writes in, last comment before Christmas. The best way to gain, join from your mistakes is to learn from them. Oh, see somebody else helping out here. When alone, when it's quiet, and when you can be objective as possible. Think about what makes you feel good or how you could improve upon your own actions and directions to best serve yourself and others. Helping others feel better or good is also surprisingly good self-therapy. A great example is sharing laughter with others. It's contagious.

Goodwill and good feelings help analogously. Fourth Generation MD physician slash surgeon, life scientist, educator. So that is a person of authority right there, okay, telling you, let's go. Let's look towards a beautiful, bright future, and one you're going to tackle, armed with even more knowledge and experience and expertise. Okay. Now, Oh, one more programming note. We are doing old school tonight. So me, Michael, and Dave, the questions, the topics will be as absurd as ever, and we will share laughter as we always do.

So if you're a member, come check out old school. That's just for the members when it's live. You later get the podcast in our podcasting network. But tyt.com slash join to become a member and check it out tonight and or hit the join button below. We love you guys. Thank you, Yaz. Thank you to the whole TYT crew behind this.

the scenes. Merry Christmas, everyone. Oh, ho. Okay, we'll see you guys. Actually, Oh, what about the children? Keep me a freaking break. Merry Christmas.