The Young Turks - Bon Voyage, Bannon!

Episode Date: June 7, 2024

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You're listening to the Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome, thank you. Donald Trump's a style icon. That's what I do. Baga! All right, welcome to the end Turks live from the Polymarket studio in L.A. So we've got Trump's potential VPs.

Who's on the list? Who's not on the list? Jerome's. Okay, unfortunately we have a whole heap of bad Israel news. Of course, wouldn't it be amazing if we got great news out of Israel? Like, oh my God, there's a peace deal and Israel Israeli tourism is flourishing again. Everybody's thrilled to be there. Well, for some portion of the country, there is great news coming out of Israel. Well, I hear you on that too, unfortunately.

Okay, and great news for everybody. Steve Bannon is going to be sent to jail. So we've got a lot of news for you. Let's get started. There's a lot of controversy over who Donald Trump is going to pick as VP. and now we have a better idea. We have a little bit of a list here, so let's discuss. A list of Donald Trump's vice presidential picks offers a first glimpse and a real sign of,

you know, the individuals that are actually in the running as VP picks. Now, there are eight conservative figures in this list, and I think who didn't make it on the list is also really interesting. So let's start off with the so-called short list. You have, in no particular order, Tom Cotton, Marco Rubio, which I just can't see. There's no way. Donald Trump is trolling Marco Rubio, and it's a little bit funny. No, I think I have a sense of why he's on the list. Because Donald Trump, and this is a big part of the story, has been going around trying

to please giant donors. So the VP list is a lot of, oh, I could pick Marco Rubio, and you guys know Marco Rubio will do anything for donors. So there's a lot of that and that's going to lead to who I think is the actual, the actual three that are the most likely. But let's give you the rest of the list. So the rest of the list includes J.D. Vance, Tim Scott, Byron Donald's who's actually been making headlines recently. Elise Stefanik, who has no interest in governing and all the interest in political theater with all the hearings that she's been engaged in. Doug Bergam, who's the most boring man in the planet and definitely would not outshine Donald Trump.

So I think he's definitely in the running. And then you have Ben Carson, who's also incredibly boring, soft speaker, slow speaker, usually looks like he's falling asleep, certainly will not take any limelight away from Trump. You just have to think about who Trump is as a person. Yes, he's going to pick someone who's politically advantageous for his campaign, but I think he's also concerned about choosing someone who might grab a little too much attention. Yeah, so there's a couple different notes here on. on the list. And again, we got to get to the people not on the list. That's super interesting,

too. So first of all, there's three black folks on the list, if I'm counting right. Yeah, one, two, three, yep. So that's Trump saying, I think I can get a bigger percentage of the black vote than other Republicans have in the past. I think you can. And enough to swing the election. So that's interesting. Number two, the neocons and the establishment figures on the list are interesting. and I think the one's most likely to be picked. So that is Tom Cotton, Elise Tephanic, and Tim Scott and Marco Rubio are also on that list. But, you know, Tim Scott's solidly on that list.

J.D. Vance is kind of a wild card. He'll do anything a donor tells him to do, but he's got theoretically populist streak. I mean, they're not, they're all fake populist anyway. So to me, I think he's definitely going to go with someone at least authorized by the donors. And so I got a wild car in here that has some chance of getting picked and that I really like, and that's going to surprise you guys. That you really like? Among the murderers' row of terrible people on this list, there's one I would definitely pick over the others.

Oh, that's interesting. All right, I'm going to get to that in a second. But let's talk about the people not on the list. Yeah, that's, listen, I'm not a huge. fan of most of these people. Let's just be real about that. But at the same time, there are people on the didn't make it list that I'm really glad didn't make it. So that in that list, you have Vivek Ramoswamy, Christy Noem, who I think was excluded for obvious reasons, all the lies in her books and the fact that she had those terrible interviews following getting caught in those lies.

But mainly for murdering a dog. I mean, yeah, Americans like dogs. That's the one thing that Americans agree. Yes. You have Nikki Haley, Marjorie Taylor Green. I'm so glad that she's not getting chosen. Same with Tulsi Gabbard, very happy that she's no longer in the running. I had predicted that she was going to be his VP pick. That was a bad prediction. And I'm very happy that I was wrong. Then you also have Tucker Carlson, who again, very happy he didn't make it on the short list. Yeah. And then there's Carrie Lake. Carrey Lake didn't even make our list of the people who didn't make the list. And I had her at number one for a long time. She's struggling in her Senate race.

Yeah, so I thought he was likely to pick a woman, Carrie Lake, Marjorie Taylor Green or Christy Nome. I thought he was, this was a while back a couple of months ago, and then he's so obsessed with looks that he would lean in a certain direction. I shouldn't say anything more. I think you might get a sense of that. Anyways, it turns out he's not going in that direction. And so this is an interesting list.

I think that there are a couple of factors that I said, The donors are a huge factor. And as I've said before, at the end, he's going to pick based on what happens five minutes before this election. So that's the kind of fickle, idiotic guy that he is. George W. Bush was similar, but Bush got headlocked by Cheney early in the process. That was such a legendary move. He puts Dick Cheney in charge of picking the vice president.

Dick Cheney picks himself. That's amazing, okay. Anyways, so yeah. Before you go on, because I don't want us to forget this point. I have to make a comment about a quote that was given to Politico because this should not, in my opinion, this should not have been printed, okay? This is what it says, graphic four. Trump likes people who are rich and have hot wives.

One person not associated with the campaign, but closely following the vetting process told Politico. I'll tell you what that means. That means it, that is a like that has no merit and is not a credible quote. No, no, no, no, it could be a donor. So not associated with the campaign, but closely following the vetting process. It could also not be a donor and it could be a Democrat who's just carefully following everything that Trump is doing in terms of VP picks. If that's true, political ought to be super embarrassed for writing that.

So anyways, look, the fact that the donors helped pick the candidate and then the vice presidential nominee, etc., is awful, awful, and is clearly a huge reality. in America, it's been a reality for Democrats and Republicans for a long time. Anyways, in this case, my pick for, if I had it my way, who would be VP? Doug Bergam, landslide. Okay, so why? Yeah, why? Okay, so I watch the debates, and I watch them carefully.

Doug Bergam is not insane. And so first of all, on not insane alone, he vaults to the top of the list, okay? Number two, he's a successful business one, not a guy who plays a successful businessman on TV like Trump. So he had to actually live in the real world and deal with real world consequences to actions. So like does that mean businessmen would be great candidates? Not necessarily. But remember, most of these people on the Republican list are totally detached from reality. So the fact that he had to live in reality and realize that there are ups and downs to different decisions and decisions are not black and white, those are all relevant.

Those are all relevant. He did a decent job in North Dakota. And so that's my job to be honest with you on that. And he's complicated on climate change. He loves the oil companies. So if you wanna say he's corrupt on that, especially with how much oil they've gotten out of North Dakota, totally fair.

On the other hand, he's not like a robot on climate change and I had an interesting discussion about it. Again, these are like, it's the lowest bar in the world. But if you have rational thoughts within the Republican Party, you're in like the top 2%, so like I take Bergam in a second. I think that if something happened in Trump, Bergam would be able to dock the ship without, you know, like Tom Cotton, total fascist,

I'd be very worried what Tom Cotton would do if he was president. He would totally enable Donald Trump to implement martial law to get his way. Like I just see Tom Cotton as that type of figure. So out of that list, I think the individual that I would, be the most concerned about would be Tom Cotton. I'm actually, you know what, you never cease to surprise me, Jank. Doug Bergam is such, to me personally, an uninteresting political figure that I just couldn't get myself to really dig into his political career or what he accomplished in life.

But what you're saying is interesting, and he seems like an unoffensive kind of guy for the most part. Yeah, I mean, look, one last thing about it, when you, unfortunately these days in American politics, most politicians say the most absurd things, and they say it based on talking points or what donors want, it's what the propaganda that mainstream media is doing. There are lots of different factors, but they all look like robots, they all look fake. We've talked a thousand times about how Trump is not honest, but he has the air of authenticity and that's why it's a huge advantage for him, right? But so in that like says toxic cesspool, the The fact that Bergam can have an intelligent conversation that doesn't sound like a robot written out for him ahead of time by a lobbyist is, like I said, it's a super low bar, but he clears it easily and way above the rest of him. Like at least Stefanik is a great example of donor robot. They just wind her up, and then she comes in and goes, we must give all of our money to Israel and drug companies and oil companies. They are the greatest. Anyone who protest them should be arrested and kicked out of the country? Move along, move along.

You're an uninteresting, terrible, despicable, immoral person. Yeah. Which I can't say that for Bergam yet. So. That's the best I got on a Republican, not bad. So the reason why we know these various political figures made it on this list is because the Trump campaign has requested the financial and biographical information of these people. They're vetting them. You wouldn't be vetting them unless you're genuinely considering them as your visa.

VP pick. But I do also want to say, well, it is premature to say hashtag Jenk was right. So far, a prediction he made on this show is headed in an okay direction. Let's watch. It's the donors who want an establishment VP. And so Trump is thinking, well, if they're going to give me money and the VP doesn't really matter too much, sure, I'll pick one of your scubs. Who do you have? And among the the scrubs that he, has among the establishment guys. Yeah, there's at least Stefanik, there's Nikki Haley, there's Tom Cotton, and Tom Cotton is both militaristic in a way that Trump likes and his fascist in a way that Trump likes, but there's also a giant neocon and pro establishment.

So he checks off a bunch of boxes. So obviously Tom Cotton is on that list. You mentioned neocon. You see Donald Trump as a neocon? No, not at all. But Trump is- Well, the donors would want a neocon. Yeah, donors definitely, definitely want a neocon. And in fact, since they're not sure about Trump, like Trump will do anything that you pay him for. Later in the show, we're gonna talk about how one donor is considering giving him $90 million to let Israel annex the West Bank. And Trump will do that in a second.

He's like, where's a check? But on the other hand, if Hamas came to him and said, here, here's $100 million, we want to annex Israel. He'd be like, okay, fine, who's got more money, right? So the neocons are upset about that. They're like, well, I don't like, yeah, we're bribing him and it's easy. But I mean, he could, he's fickle, right? Whereas somebody like at least Sephanic and Tom Cotton are 100% controlled, 100%. They will do exactly as the donors order them and they're already neocons.

So they don't need it. So look, I appreciate that you're giving me credit for that. I think that's relative layup in this case. But remember, I thought Carrie Lake and Christy Nome would lead and they didn't even come close to the list. So I was also wrong about that. So it's a mixed bag. All right, well, let's move on to some other news today, starting with this. This is about shutting down the MAGA movement, shutting down grassroots conservatives, shutting down President Trump.

Not only are we winning, we are going to prevail in every number and every poll shows that. There's nothing that can shut me up and nothing that will shut me up. There's not a prison. There's not a prison built. There's not a prison built or jail built that will ever shut me up. Steve Bannon has had a no good, very bad day. And while he's acting as though he's very cocky there and everything's going to be fine, he's going to spend some time behind bars. And that's why he's all worked up. Now, Ben, go ahead, Jay.

So I want to note an irony right here before we go any further. Nothing will shut me up. There is a single thing in the world. He was arrested for not testifying in front of Congress. Yep. So apparently the one thing that can shut him up is himself. That's ironically what he's arrested for. So he's been found in contempt of Congress.

He was convicted of that. He's been attempting to appeal the guilty conviction. but he has not really done well in persuading the courts to side with him. So the subpoena was issued by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots. Bannon refused to show up. He also refused to turn over documents related to his involvement in those riots. The defense has said Bannon had been acting on the advice of his attorney at the time, who told him that the subpoena was invalid because the committee would not allow a Trump lawyer

in the room and that Bannon could not determine what documents or testimony he could provide because Trump has asserted executive privilege. One problem, though, that defense was also utilized by Peter Navarro, and if you were following that case, you're fully aware that it did not work. Peter Navarro has been in prison since March, and he was another one of Trump's, you know, advisors who refused to comply with subpoenas. So Bannon was convicted of two counts of contempt of Congress in 2022 and sentenced to four months in prison. And so he is to report to prison on July 1st.

He claims that he's appealing this and he's gonna fight this and this isn't the last of Steve Bannon. I do believe that it's not the last of Steve Bannon, unfortunately. But I also believe that it's very likely he's gonna serve four months behind bars. Yeah, and he has absolutely no like to stand on. So the problem with the so called populace is that they, I don't think they understand what the word means. So they say, look man, the establishment is terrible and it doesn't serve the people.

I agree with that. Then they said, that's why I should be above the law. Wait, hold on, you just weirdly jump from no one should be above the law to I should be above the law. Navarro says it, Trump says it, Bannon says it, and remember Banna's co-conspirators in a different case where they were ripping off their own viewers to build a wall, which they didn't build, already convicted and in prison. And so the only reason Bannon's not already in prison for that crime is because Trump pardoned him right before he left office. He's like, oh, you're a criminal who rips people off for a living? Well, that's what I did with Trump University and Trump charity. And besides which you used to work for me, and we're both goddamn liars and condom.

man, so here, get out of jail free card. So the reason Bannon is like all worked up is because he's been trying to delay and delay and delay and delay so that Trump can get back in office and pardon him a second time. That's exactly right, but it appears that won't be the case this time around. And Trump is worked up about this. He posted about it on truth social saying that it is a total and complete American tragedy that the crooked Joe Biden Department of Justice is so desperate to jail Steve Bannon and every other And every other Republican for that matter.

Yes, that is, that's what the Justice Department is doing right now. They're looking to arrest and imprison every single Republican in office, maybe even every Republican voter. So if you're a Republican voter watching the show, you better be careful. They're coming for you. I mean, come on, come on. Look, it's very simple. In fact, this is a talking point that was very common among conservatives whenever you would

cover a story involving an unarmed black person running away from the cop and getting shot and killed. The argument was, just follow the law. Just don't run. So Steve, what happened, honey? Why did you run? Right? When are they going to take personal responsibility for the criminality that they engage in? No one forced him to refuse to comply with subpoenas. No one forced him to do that. He did that. That was based on his own free will. And what I wanted to add to that, Anna, is what does Maga want? Do they, like, so Bannon clearly broke the law. He got a subpoena. You have to show up, no matter who you are, if you have a subpoena.

He says, like, oh, I had executive privilege. What are you talking about? You weren't in the White House for three years. Like, that is a nonsensical point. It doesn't mean, like, some people could actually say, well, I was in the White House with Trump. We were making decisions together. And you have at least a plausible case for, you know, executive privilege, et cetera. But Bannon has no case for it.

So is Maga's contention that Republican leaders should be able to break any laws? Yes, I guess. And never be prosecuted that they should just be above the law. So if he can break this one and Trump can break all the ones that he has, because remember, they're not even like most of MAGA doesn't even bother saying he's innocent. Like on the falsifying business documents, I've now seen endless debates, every Republican acknowledges he falsified the business documents, they'll say, oh, it should be a misdemeanor or not a felony, and the case shouldn't have been brought, and it's no big deal, blah, blah,

blah, blah. But yeah, of course he did it. Of course he took home the national secrets. Of course, he had fake electors, et cetera. So I guess your argument is we don't care. Our elites should be above the law and should rule you guys and should be able to do anything they want and break any law they want. But not you guys. You're elite, say we're going to send them all to prison. Whether they broke the law or didn't, we're just going to get revenge. Like they keep, like if Trump said, hey, you know what, I'm going to bring real justice, everyone who committed fraud, they tried me with fraud, you committed fraud, you're on Wall Street,

you're a politician, you did insider trading, I'm going to come for you. I'd say, well, that doesn't sound too bad. That actually sounds populist, right? But he doesn't say that. What he says is, I'm going to arrest Joe Biden, I'm going to arrest all of these political opponents of mine, and every bag of guys out there, we're going to arrest them all. For what? What did they do?

It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Let's just arrest them for no reason. Okay, then you don't give a goddamn about the law. Why do you think people call you fascists? Because you say that your guys should be able to break the law whenever they want, and the other side should go to prison whether they broke the law or not. Okay, gee, I wonder why people call you fast. You still can't figure it out? I just, there's nothing. There's nothing out there with our politicians. It's just bottom of the barrel, worst people on the planet. And by the way, like, there's nothing.

Nothing to root for, that's the hardest part about all of this, right? Like what are you rooting for, Jank? Yeah, I know, I know. Let's see what happens. Anyway. So I don't know what's gonna happen on the Democratic side and Joe Biden certainly has a hundred problems, but I know, you know that the Democrats are filled to the rim with problems, but you can't vote for a Republican.

I mean, you can't vote for guys who say, I should be able to break the law whenever the hell I want. And by the way, like, Bannon, he like, I can't get past. He robbed his own voters and viewers. And Trump thought that was a great idea and gave him a pardon. I have to make a point here because I totally hear what you're saying. But what you're saying kind of reminds me of the crime debate happening in the country, right? About how no, no, no, crime is down, crime is down, it's not a big deal.

Okay, yes, but are people reporting the crimes and more importantly, are the crimes being prosecuted and noted in the records? You get what I'm saying? There are all sorts of crimes being committed by politicians on both sides of the political aisle that just go, you know, without any challenge, without any investigation, without any, you know, criminal case. I can't get past the fact that our own government is selling us out. They sell out the, we are a dying empire. You guys know that, right? This country is a dying, decaying empire because our politicians sold us out.

Every politician, almost every politician, in Congress right now, they all sold us out. They don't love this country. They don't care about this country. All they care about is their insider trading, which we would all go to prison for in a heartbeat. They won't even get prosecuted for that, okay? And of course, their precious campaign coffers and the political bribes that they can take in order to secure, what, another term in office so they can rob the American people more. So yeah, I hear you.

Steve Bannon, without a doubt, is a criminal and should go to prison. And I'm glad he will. But it is interesting to see what kind of crimes get prosecuted while other crimes go untouched. Yeah, but last thing I'll say on it is, look, yes, but, and I don't say that flippantly. And it's 100% right. And if all you did was take the things that are currently legal, like being able to be bribed through campaign contributions and then do insider trading when you're in Congress, it's already the biggest outrage. And it's just atrocious. But why, so then between Democrats and Republicans?

Well, the Democrats are the party that has the very, very few honest people in politics. So why did we not feel hopeless in 2016 and 2020? Because Bernie Sanders was running. And you could say, hey, if you're a conservative, I don't like Bernie Sanders. I think he's a socialist. I don't like his policies. But everybody knows Bernie Sanders is honest. And in American politics, an honest politician is like one in a billion.

So our side had the one honest guy. And then now on the exact opposite end of the spectrum, the Republicans are saying, hey, we're not just happy with the normal corruption. We already do the normal corruption. Any foreign government can bribe us, any company can bribe us, and we'll do exactly as they order us to do. On top of that, we're going to add in personal corruption, where Trump's son-in-law gets $2 billion from the Saudis after we let them chop somebody up. And Trump is now selling off the West Bank to the highest bidder. and he says all of the his, him and his allies should be able to break any law and get away with it. Well, then it becomes a no-brainer.

So our side is at least one good guy. Their side says we should be allowed to be fascists. So as just like Biden's policies on Gaza are disgusting. Corporate Democrats taking endless bribes through corporate cash and contributions is disgusting. But among the two horrible choices that we have, I know the one that is eliminated already, and that's Trump and the Republicans. I'm not let, you know, I would do anything to make sure to see Ben is not back in the White House. Biden will never.

And if Trump wins, ban is definitely back in the White House. Yeah, well, I'm sorry, I just, I'm never gonna support Biden. I'm not, this is, this is it, this was my red line. This is the election where I'm done with the same argument. How many, how many election cycles are we're gonna get fed that same line, that same argument? Oh, but you know, Biden's not Trump, Biden's not Trump, Biden's not Trump. I mean, Biden is greenlighting the slaughter of countless children in Gaza, but he's the decent guy.

He's the good guy. I mean, he's the guy who'll make promises and then as soon as he's in office, he'll nickel and dime the hell out of the American people while circumventing Congress to get hundreds of millions of dollars of additional weaponry to Gaza without congressional approval. Okay, I'm supposed to be okay with that. I'm supposed to say that's the decent guy, that's the guy who's representing my best interest. No, they're both trash. They're both gonna rape and pillage the way that they have their entire careers.

This is what they do. And I'm done with the same argument. And I'm done with the judgment. I'm done with the judgment of, oh, Anna, both sidesing. I'm both sidesing. What has Biden done for you? Ask yourself, what has Biden done for you? And why are you okay with Biden taking your hard-earned money and funneling it to a country that had a budget surplus in 2022? Yeah. But again, Biden is very, Biden is very standard normal, and that is both bad and a little bit better than Trump. So it's bad in that, yeah, every Democrat and Republican has funneled our money to Israel, and they've slaughtered the Palestinians endless times.

They've occupied him for 57 years. We gave them $300 billion. Every Republican and every Democrat said, yes, sir, absolutely, sir. Can I give you more of American taxpayer money, sir? And they also do it for, as I've said, a billion times for all of the companies that give. The number one donor is not A-PAC, it's pharmaceutical companies, and they buy almost all of our politicians. That's why we can't even negotiate drug prices. What kind of free market system doesn't allow you to negotiate drug prices that says, you know, you must pay whatever the company sets as a price that's unheard of, unprecedented.

So I already know that almost every American politician is 100% corrupt. So Trump is just adding a layer of corruption. That's why I'm saying I'm against them. That doesn't mean Biden's a good guy, doesn't mean the corporate Democrats are good guys. If you think they are, you're super naive. On the other hand, if you say, look, my heart is broken over all these terrible choices, but I got to make a choice that while I'm on your side. And so I know I'm not picking Trump.

Let's see what happens with Biden. By the way, Biden could actually do, he won't. Biden is trash. Biden will do nothing, Jank. Come on. I know. I mean, right now, he can get a piece deal done. today. You treat your voters with disdain. There should be consequences. Time for consequences. Revel in it. We got to take a break. We'll be back.

Jank and Anna with you guys and Ryan Rockenbach. Thank you for gift to the membership on YouTube. We appreciate you. Casper. Well, why don't we talk a little bit about what Biden continues to enable in Gaza? Worth discussing. You're watching the aftermath of an Israeli strike on a United Nations school in central Gaza. Dozens of people were killed as a result of Israeli strikes through fighter jets targeting the building where thousands of displaced Palestinians had been sheltering.

and sheltering. Of course, as is the case with every strike that Israel conducts in Gaza, children were among those who died as a result, just absolutely devastating. And this is happening with such consistency in Gaza that I feel like the more it happens, the less media attention it receives. But it is worth discussing because this is the pain, suffering, and destruction that the United States government using American tax dollars is enabling and funding. So if you're wondering what the death toll is, we don't have an exact figure because some of the bodies have been basically destroyed to the point where it's hard to identify the individuals. But the Gaza Ministry of Health put the death toll from the school attack at 40, including 14 children and nine women and said 74 others were

injured. The Alaksa martyrs hospital said that they had received as many as 40 bodies. However, there are some estimates that the death toll is higher, somewhere between 40 and 45. Now, UNRWA communications director Juliet Tuma told NBC News that the number of those reported killed in the Israeli offensive in the Nusarot school was between 35 and 45, but added that the organization could not confirm the exact numbers at this stage. Now, when you hear what the IDF has to say, you're going to want to rip your hair out of your head if you are a moral person and can't stand being lied to, especially from individuals who are getting funded through our tax dollars to conduct these types of military operations. So the IDF literally alleges that they haven't even heard that any civilians have died from the strike. I'm not kidding. Okay.

And they're not in Rafa. There's no ground offensive in Rafa. Yeah, that's the other thing that they're trying to gaslight the American people with, that they haven't been. conducting military operations or that they haven't invaded Rafa? Maybe it was Norway. I don't know. But look, apparently some portion of the American people, probably at this point a fairly small portion, but 99% of Washington and 99% of cable hosts will believe anything. Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, an IDF spokesperson, said in a news conference Thursday that

20 to 30 Hamas and Islamic jihad fighters were operating from a compound inside the school in in Nusarot. I mean, the statement from the IDF is the same, like regardless of what kind of, you know, strike we're talking about or what the death toll looks like. It's always a Hamas compound. It's always the excuse for carrying out, you know, an airstrike or an attack where they know that a lot of innocent civilians are going to die. Laughably, again, Lerner claimed he was the specific individual who claimed that the strike had previously been called off twice to limit civilian casualties. Oh, yeah, he's a real humanitarian.

And if you thought maybe there's truth to that argument, maybe, then you hear him say that he wasn't aware of civilian deaths resulting from Thursday's attack. Yeah. How do you take anything he has to say seriously? The IDF has lied on almost every occasion after these bombs. And because there's a logical strategic reason behind it, because the American media feels obliged to run anything the Israeli government says, they have to put it in. in the story, it doesn't matter how outraged.

If Israeli government said, no, it was the Norwegians on a bunch of unicorns that actually did it, plus it didn't happen, every paper in the country would write the Israeli government says blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, right? Now they don't have to say, do that when Hamas does it, because Hamas is not trustworthy. And I totally agree with that. Hamas is not trustworthy, I don't believe any statements that they put out when their political or military arm does it. But Israel is killed 30 times the number of civilians, has long.

with even greater regularity, but nope, they're a beloved allies, so we have to pretend that they might be right. So anyways, look, one of these days, they're actually going to be right, and there is going to be a couple of militants. They've never proved it before, but maybe in this case, there were. I have no idea. So, and the point of the lie is so that I have to say, well, technically I don't know, so I guess it's possible. And that's mission accomplished when you're doing propaganda. Look, there have been, I can think of one example where they said they killed two Hamas militants, and then they named the Hamas militants, and Hamas confirmed that those militants were killed. That's right.

And so that's the exception proves the rule. Exactly. Exactly right, Anna. I remember that one too. And we said, oh, look, there's the names, right? And so, all right, so we'll see if there was any militants. But it doesn't matter. Why doesn't it matter?

So number one, they're using U.S. made bombs. So that's we paid for that and we kill those children today and those women, et cetera. Number two, they bombed a UN school, which is now being used as a shelter. And so they literally, do you know how many times they've bombed UN facilities in Gaza in this conflict alone? 170. No, more than that. At a minimum, I was going to say. So what's the latest number?

So I actually want to go to a quote from Felipe Lazarini. He is the commissioner general of UNRWA and he says, let's go to Graphics 6. Since the war in Gaza began, over 180 UNRU buildings were hit and more than 450 displaced people were killed as a result. Okay, so 180 times they bombed United Nations facilities. And then they went and shredded the United Nations charter at the UN, if you remember that scene. So they constantly spit in the face of the entire world and go, what are you going to do about?

America's giving us all the money. We need to kill these people. We're above the law. And now this scum in our Congress are saying, oh, if the International Criminal Court is condemning you guys accurately, we would rather cut their funding and be despicable to the people trying to do a tiny bit of justice and be catered to the people

who are doing the injustice. Guys, we've been over this, but if you watch mainstream media, you might not know this. APAC is spending $100 million in this election cycle. So they're and they've scared the crap out of everyone. Primal Ajaya Paul's sister Shishila Jayapal ran in Oregon. They spent five and them and their allies spent five and a half million dollars against her.

They spent half a million dollars against Jamie McLeod Skinner. They spent four millions in earlier cycles against Andy Levin and Nina Turner. And right now they're in the middle of spending $10 million against Jamal Bowman. And the idea here is no one better ever oppose Israel in America. And if you do, if you're a student, we'll have your If you're a student, we'll have you arrested and make sure you don't get your diploma and rob you of the money that you spent on that diploma. If you're a politician, we will make sure to spend $4 million, $10 million against you, eliminate you, eliminate you from politics.

So what message does that send to all of our other corrupt politicians? You better serve Israel first. If you don't, you're going to be in a world of trouble. So now, I want to go back to why it doesn't matter if there were Hamas militants, in my opinion. So again, in American media, that's an outrageous. thing to say, oh my God, if there was two militants, of course you could murder hundreds of citizens if you want. No, you can't. No, that's a despicable, immoral thing to do. So they say, well, Hamas hides behind human shields. We'll finish the sentence. So I murdered the

human shields. I don't think that makes you a good person. I think that makes you a terrible person. If you said to me, had asked a bad guy and that harmed your family, killed your family, And he's hiding behind 40 people, 14 kids, nine women. I would never tell you to murder them. Never, never, never. And if you say, well, as long as they're Palestinians, who cares? Kill them all. You're a disgusting racist and deeply immoral.

So that's what's happening here. Anybody else can lie to you about it. But these are numbers, these are facts. And we keep financing the wholesale slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. General McKenzie decided against a commercial flight that Iranian general McKenzie decided against targeting a commercial flight that Iranian general, the top general in Iran, Kassam Soleimani was on, because it was a commercial flight and there were 50 other innocent innocent civilians on it. Yeah, look, Washington.

The US, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, Jake. I have to say, the US government in our military, not doves. That's not what they're known for. But I mean, to know that there is a military, a foreign military that our tax dollars support that's even worse in committing war crimes, even more brazen in committing war crimes, even more dismissive and flip it about human lives, innocent human lives, it's amazing. Yeah, it is, it is something that I feel deep shame about literally every single day that this war in Gaza continues. I'm disgusted by our government to the, they don't represent us, okay?

They are so greedy and so self-obsessed that they will sell out the American people. They'll sell out the American country, all in order to do the bidding of a foreign government that doesn't even respect us. Yeah. Does it respect human life? Yeah, they haven't been an ally in any way, shape, or form. No one can name a single thing that Israel has ever done for us other than give it. Oh, they're like, oh, they help us with intelligence. They tell us which Muslim enemies of theirs that we should murder.

Wow, what a big help in intelligence. Wow. Oh, here's more Muslims to kill. More Muslims to bomb. Oh, I'm such a helpful ally. Now give me $300 billion. Give me $300 billion. I'm such an ally.

And I'm going to get you in trouble with the whole world. You guys are going to look at ridiculous defending a genocide. I'm going to order you to do it. You're going to everybody, the whole world is going to see that you don't run your own country. You're going to look pathetic. But I will tell you, American military officials interviewed by the Washington Post and other publications, gave me a tiny bit more respect for at least the American military. Because even the American military that killed hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, as an example, was like, well, we would never drop a bomb that size in a civilian area.

We would never use this type of bomb that they used in any, in a densely populated area. It's not even close. The white phosphorus that they're using in Lebanon, America has used white phosphorus in the past, but never in densely populated areas like Israel is doing. So again, Anna's right. We've done endless crimes ourselves here as America. But it's even shocking the American military, how, I mean, we invaded Iraq because they theoretically had chemical weapons. It turns out they didn't.

Israel is using chemical weapons in attacking a foreign country, Lebanon, and we're giving them money to do it. And our own military is saying we would never do that. That's unconscionable. And then we go, okay, then let's give them $20 billion to use chemical weapons against the Lebanese. Finally, I want to go to the last graphic here. This is John Hudson.

He's a reporter at the Washington Post, and he wrote a lengthy piece about this, but he condensed it in a post on X, and I think you should know about it. Israel announced today it signed an agreement with the United States for 25 F-35 aircrafts worth $3 billion financed by U.S. taxpayers. Delivery is scheduled to begin in 28, regardless of whether Netanyahu and Hamas come to an agreement to end the war and exchange prisoners. You know what that signals to Israel? Go ahead and carry out your genocide.

You're gonna keep getting your weapons. And we're gonna make sure that American taxpayers pay for them. Don't worry, you can kill any Palestinians you like. You could bomb the United Nations all you like, any of their facilities. You're totally and utterly above the law. And we're gonna give you money to do it. Because it's not our money, stupid American taxpayers. They think we live in a democracy, in reality, we just do whatever the donors tell us.

In the meantime, you have Congress working overtime to find ways to punish Americans and prevent them from engaging in free speech, if that free speech means they're going to be protesting Israel. Okay, so our rights get targeted. We're just ATMs for Israel's disgusting genocide in Gaza. And all of those things are true, but a lot of people say you can't say any of those things because it would hurt our feelings. Good, get your feelings hurt. So wait, let me get this right. 14 kids are dead today, let alone, what, we're up to what, 15,000 dead kids already?

They're actually dead, some of them, heads exploded, et cetera. But your feelings are more important than all of those dead kids. Well, sorry, they're not, you're wrong. The dead kids are a thousand times more important than your feelings. So we're gonna keep pointing out facts here no matter what. We'll get into the SIOP operation that Israel was conducting on our lawmakers here in the United States when we come back from the break. Jenk, Anna, Derek Steele, Judy Phillips, and Caroline Sunawar with you guys. They all hit the join button below the video on YouTube.

We appreciate you guys. Literally can't do the show without you. So thank you, Anna. Well, let's talk about the PR war that Israel has been losing and will continue to lose because they're, you know, conducting a genocide in Gaza. But anyway, Israel deployed fake websites and social media accounts in its information war meant to propagandize lawmakers in the American government. government and ensure that they're firmly in support of the ongoing war on Gaza. Now according to this extensive investigation that was done by Haretz and the fake reporter organization, this operation actually began shortly after Hamas' deadly attack

on Israel in October. So as soon as that attack happens, they're already thinking about ways they can win the information war. Dozens of Israeli tech startups received emails and WhatsApp messages that month. inviting them to join urgent meetings to become digital soldiers for Israel during the war. Some of the emails and messages were sent from Israeli government officials, while others came from tech startups and incubators. Eventually, they found a group to oversee the campaign, and the name of that group was

Stoic. It's a private online political campaigning firm. They were hired for the operation, and according to sources and information obtained by Heretz, The operation was commissioned by Israel's diaspora affairs ministry, but carried out by a different party for fear that its exposure could entangle Israel in a crisis. A crisis with whom? What with the United States? You were worried that the United States government would find out that you guys were doing a SIOP operation against them? You think our lawmakers are gonna turn on, as long as APAC is funneling in that campaign money into their campaign coffers, they're gonna do exactly what Israel wants them to do.

Like the pathetic little, like the pathetic little politicians that they are. Yeah, so good news though, there's been a special counsel appointed this trying to influence our elections, just like Russia was in the 2016 elections. And you remember what a giant, wait, I'm getting news that no, a special counsel has not been appointed, nothing's been appointed, even though this is what Russia did to get the special counsel to investigate Donald Trump and their connections. Since Israel did it, No one cares, no one will be punished, there'll be no consequences. And what Israel will learn from this is, oh, we shouldn't have spent 2 million,

we should have spent 20 million. We're above the law in America, we could do whatever we want. So, and I read some of the things that they wrote, and it's exactly what I've been telling you guys about trolls and bots, not just about Israel, but about every single troll and bond. They say, look, I used to support you, but now I don't anymore. So I told you that this was already happening. This just confirms it.

So the ministry allocated $2 million for this project. Let's get to the meat and potatoes. So it begins with the establishment of three fake news sites that copied reports from official media sources. At the end of April, the news sites began promoting a site called Good Samaritan, hilarious, which mapped, I know, which mapped and ranked American universities according to the amount of alleged anti-Semitic incidents on their campuses. and whether it was safe for Jews to study there. Hold, hold, that's so important. Totally manufactured.

You see that that's literal propaganda. The whole thing about, oh my God, there's such anti-Semites started as Israeli propaganda to shut down criticism of Israel. But think about- Just like we told you. So think about how awful this is in a number of ways, right? Not only is it fake propaganda, but it also instills fear in the minds of Jewish students, who in reality didn't have anything to worry about. Now look, you've given a few examples, and there are examples of terrible people,

you know, the isolated incidents where they do engage in anti-Semitic rhetoric, and we condemn that and it's disgusting. But to argue that it's a widespread issue to the point where Jewish students should feel unsafe is ridiculous, and that's what they were doing. They're instilling fear in the minds of Jewish students. And that's another point that I made earlier. I said, look, I know Jewish people who are scared to death that anti-Semitism is going to like swamp these college campuses and my God, they're on the verge of all getting

attacked, et cetera, because of this propaganda that Israel, a foreign government fed in to make our citizens nervous, either to smear our citizens if they're on the peace side or to scare the living crap out of them if they're Jewish. And so they don't care about Americans. Remember, APEC took out Andy Levin, one of the great congressmen who was a Jewish-American et cetera, because he dared to say that Palestinians should also have rights. So the whole anti-s, look guys, again, I've got Jewish friends and family, and it breaks our heart when people say that this was all a trick and the anti-Semitism wasn't the issue at all and they got lied to, right?

But you got lied to, it's so obvious. So here, I can give you a similar example. Now you can say, hey, they weren't as large, et cetera. But when I was going to college, Armenian students would often protest the Armenian genocide and the fact that Turks and then America, the American government hadn't recognized it, et cetera, and would they say terrible things about Turks? Not only they say it about Turks and gentlemen, they said it about me, they said it all the time, et cetera.

Does that give me or the Turkish government the right to shut down every Armenian protests in the country because it hurt our feelings? No, of course not. That's preposterous when you use it in any other context. But when you use it in Israel's context, they're like, shut down all the protests. I heard on Twitter, turns out it was from an Israeli agent that it was about anti-Semitism. And lo and behold, Israel gets everything they want. Shut down all the protests against them, have the, all of these guys that they targeted, like Richie Torres.

What do you bother targeting Richie Torres for? He's already your bitch. Let me get to more details, Jank. There's a lot more details. So look, for all the adoration that tech firms in Israel get, they're apparently not sophisticated enough to realize that if you, use the exact same IP across several different websites, you might get caught, and that's what happened here. So other websites also use the same IP address, including United Citizens for Canada, which disseminated heavily Islamophobic material, Arab slave trade, which repeated

Wikipedia passages about Arabs being slave traders in Africa to target black Americans. That's the propaganda that they targeted black Americans with. And then there's Serenity Now, Serenity Now, which branded itself as anarchist and anti-establishment, sought to convince young Americans to oppose the creation of a Palestinian state because states are man-made structures and a Palestinian state would hurt the goals of the progressive movement. So, Jake, what do you think? Would a Palestinian state hurt the goals of a progressive movement? It's absurd. But look, the super sad thing is that propaganda works, that there's a lot of naive folks out there, they see it and they think it's real.

And so it's having gone through many layers of siops against us from every quarter there is in the world. Twitter is nothing but a talk successful filled with bots and trolls. So to be to be fair to Israel, it's not like they're the only ones doing this. Russia did do it during the 2016 election. China does it, tons of people do it. There's a giant difference though. There's two big differences when Israel does it. Number one, they're supposed to be an ally, which is hilarious, okay?

In fact, everybody in media and politics says that there are most special ally. They never provide any evidence. They've targeted us with spies before. They sank the U.S.S.S. Liberty. They've targeted us in the Psiops operation. They're, you know, funneling. Anyway, it's, where's the ally? There's no ally here.

But in this case is theoretically a friend of ours who is targeting us. And the second giant difference is that they're above the law. There'll be no investigation. If Russia did it, there'd be a giant investigation. If China was alleged to have done it like in TikTok, with no evidence at all, they banned the whole platform with not one piece of evidence. I know, but is China bribing our politicians, Shank? Not effectively.

So maybe they should think about it. Because I'm telling you, our politicians will sell out our country to anyone for anything, as long as it's enough money, as long as the check clears. There's no question about that. And it doesn't have anything to do with which country or which religion or any of that stuff. All you need is cold hard cash and American politicians will immediately get on their knees. So finally, I want to just quickly go through the social media angle because we went through the fake news sites. But they're also targeting people via social media.

And specifically black members of Congress, including Rishi Torres, Hakeem Jeffries and Raphael Warnock. Now, the people running the operation used hundreds of fake accounts on X, Instagram, and Facebook to promote articles that served the Israeli narrative. And many of those accounts focused on, or they posed as like these fictional American students concerned citizens and local constituents. So on Facebook, the fake accounts posted on Hakeem Jeffrey's public page by asking if he had seen a report about the United Nations employing member of Hamas in Gaza, which there's no evidence of. That's the situation with UNRWA, which, by the way, the U.S. government, without a proper investigation, pulled funding from, just based on an accusation, an unfounded accusation by Israel.

Many of the posts also urged them to continue funding Israel's military, and the campaign, which used, this is amazing to me, the campaign used chat GPT to generate many of the posts. What did they spend $2 million on? Yeah, look. Like same IP address for the fake news sites. You're using a free AI service in order to, you know, create the posts. I mean, it's so sloppy. All of this is so incredibly sloppy.

In at least two instances, accounts with profile photos of black men posted about being a middle age Jewish woman on 118 posts in which the fake account shared pro-Israel articles, the same sentence appeared, I got to re-evaluate my opinions due to this new information. Now, last week, META and Open AI confirmed the existence of the influence operation. So this isn't some made-up story. I mean, you have investigative reporters breaking it, and then it's confirmed by the social media platforms. Now, META said that it had removed 510 Facebook accounts, 11 Facebook pages, 30. 22 Instagram accounts and one Facebook group tied to the operation. It's unclear if any of the accounts or the posts have been taken off of X.

Based on the number of bots on there, I would venture to say they're probably still operating. Yeah, now remember, it's Heretz in Israel that's reporting this. Heretz is doing such a great job of journalism that they're probably in danger of getting shut down like Al Jazeera was and different times associated press was by the government of Israel. being reported by the New York Times, which explained that a lot of the messages had anti-Islamic sentiment. Of course! And by the way, so the people who say, oh my God, I'm so concerned about anti-Semitism, that's why no one should be allowed to criticize Israel ever, because I'm worried about anti-Semitism.

Well, these messages from the government of Israel were deeply racist and bigoted against Muslims And Palestinians. So do we have a concern about that? No, because Muslims and Palestinians don't count. They're subhuman. You could say anything you want about them. Nothing ever gets shut down. So you could do anti-Palestinian, anti-Muslim protests till the cows come home.

You can say they should all be killed. A 36,000 dead isn't enough. In fact, they say that all the time online. Just look at my account, look at the comments. You'll see hundreds of racists who wantonly talking about murdering Muslims and Arabs and Palestinians. Has there been one cable news segment on it? Has there been one congressional hearing about it?

Has anything been shut down over it? No, you could say the most viciously anti-Muslim things all day long in America. No one cares. But if you say anything that is legitimate and true about Israel, anti-Semitism, I'm offended, shut them up. Okay, and it turns out a lot of the people saying that weren't people at all. They were Israeli bots. So now our government will do absolutely nothing because in America, Israel is above the law.

When we come back from the break, we'll talk a little bit about how Trump is working with Miriam Adelson in order to enable Israel to annex the West Bank. So if you think Trump's any better on this issue than Biden is, you'd be mistaken. We'll be right back.