The Young Turks - Ceasefire Announced

Episode Date: May 21, 2021

Sen. Bernie Sanders to introduce resolution of disapproval on $735 million U.S. arms sale to Israel. A near-complete ban on abortion is signed into law in Texas. Ron Johnson claims it wasn’t an insurrection and goes on to say it was by and large a peaceful protest. Rep. Tim Ryan: “We need two political parties in this country that are both living in reality and you ain’t one of them!” Joe Biden crushes Trump in a 2024 election poll – also, they’re polling 2024. “I’m scared”: AP obtains a video of the deadly arrest of a Black man. Former officers face charges in the rough arrest of a 73-year-old Colorado woman with dementia. Los Angeles County is accusing Vanessa Bryant of putting law enforcement officers at risk after the widow revealed the names of the deputies who took and shared photos of her late husband’s, Kobe Bryant, deadly helicopter crash. Taylor Lorenz reportedly called Maggie Haberman a “b*tch” on the New York Times’ Slack. “Stop attacking me, punk!” Geraldo Rivera calls out Dan Bongino in a heated segment on Israel. Cenk Uygur, John Iadarola   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. All right, well, the young Turks, Jake and John, I roll up with you guys. Why, hello there. How are you guys doing? Indeed, this Captain America Shield sent to us by Rob Shively. Look at Rob sending us this.

Yeah, awesome member of the community sent that a while back. Yeah, okay. I could pretend that I'm handing this off to Falcon, but really, it's not Falcon, it's the original Captain America. Yeah, I believe this belongs to you, Mr. Yeah, I feel very comfortable about the imagery of this groundbreaking show where it's passed to a black man and then you hand it back to little whitey again.

So thanks, I'm glad. We have it back, everyone! No, no, I'm good. Anthony Mackey, you can have it. You're really, you're great. Thank you. Okay, A, let's note for the record. I look way too much like the bad Captain America, by the way.

Oh, by the way, that's a little true. If I grow my facial hair out, I'm done. Oh, my God. But in Young Turks, we like reverse things a little bit. It's a brown man handing it to a white man, right? So, yeah, kind of, but no, John's the original Captain America, no question about it. So some have speculated that we're the adventures. I hear it in the streets, I hear it, you know, the political equivalent, we're going to bring change,

you're going to save the country, I guess, I guess that's what we're going to do. We're eventually going to have a civil war. Yeah, well, well, that has kind of already happened, if you think about it. Yeah. Okay. And some people that were on some shirts are, you know, now on the other side of things. Anyways, but I love our audience. How fun are you guys?

You know John's Captain America that you send him to Shield. Rob, who doesn't love you? Okay? Not anyone here. We're all on the Rob bandwagon here. Someone's got to send you the oversized green fists. Yeah. So Hulk is such a natural for me.

I get it. Secretly Ironman. Anyway. All right, look, guys, as you can tell, I'm in a mood, which is quite often, let's be honest. And we have some super fond stories, super controversial stories, two stories about cops, probably more, but two that I remember off the top of my head. One, where there is such an obvious, unbelievable lie. And even the stories minimize the size of the lie. So it's a really interesting story.

That's a little bit later in the program. And then Kobe Bryant's widow and the cops in L.A. are now kind of at loggerheads. And that's a super interesting story for social, cultural reasons, et cetera. Who's right, who's wrong? Spoiler alert, as usual, not the cops. Okay, anyways. But we obviously have some very serious stories and some positive developments in those serious stories. So, having said all that, Captain America.

I'm glad that you did that transition because I was getting so into just talking about Marvel that then you had to remind me, oh, we're doing the news. Oh, yeah. Okay. And now I think I'm good. Okay. Although basically all of the details are at least at the point that we are filming this absent, apparently the Israeli government is ready for some sort of ceasefire under certain conditions at some point. Here's the statement. The political security cabinet unanimously accepted the recommendation of all security officials, the chief of staff, the head of the Shinbet, the head of the Mossad, and the head of the National Security Council to accept the Egyptian initiative for a bilateral ceasefire, which will take effect at a later date. The chief of staff, the military echelon, and the head of

the GSS reviewed before the ministers, Israel's great achievements in the campaign, some of which were unprecedented. Seems ominous. The political echelon emphasizes that the reality in the ground will determine the continuation of the campaign. So that provides obviously a great deal of free space for whatever ever-changing interpretation of whatever needs to be seen to be happening to allow the ceasefire to end, I suppose. But theoretically, we've reached the ceasefire that we and others have been pushing for. Yeah, so good news. Basically what a ceasefire means is that Israel feels like they've done enough damage. So Hamas had been calling for a ceasefire for days now, and then Joe Biden in the U.S. dragged their heels for a long time. Finally,

Joe Biden was like, ceasefire. And then he went a little further and was like, no, really, guys, ceasefire. And partly what's driving that is what we're going to talk about next, where Bernie Sanders and other progressive leaders in Congress are doing something on precedent, which is actually having resistance within Congress to the Israeli right wing. And that almost never happens, it's happened now. And the recognition of Palestinians as actual human beings previously unheard of in American politics. And so that's pushing Biden to push Netanyahu. And that's part of the equation here. But the biggest part is Israel usually stops. It's never, it's almost, you can argue about who started in different conflicts. This one is inarguable.

There's no question that the Israeli government started by attacking Alaksa Mosque. Now a lot of the media like Jake Tapper doing revisionist history, which Anna pointed out yesterday on the program. Oh, and Sean Hannity and Jake Tappers is a rare point of agreement. They're like the Israeli right wing is awesome. We will accept all of their propaganda that Hamas started it. And we'll leave out the fact that we were evicting Palestinians from East Jerusalem and attacked the Alaksa Mosque. You should, of course you don't leave these out. Why do you think Hamas fired the rockets in the first week? So all of that is true. But at the end of the day, no matter who starts it, Israel always finishes it. And you can say, oh, if you're a fan of the Israeli

right wing or just, you know, oppress the militaries in general, you go, yeah, we're the ones who ended. Yeah, of course, you have jets and fighters and giant bombs and missiles and the Iron Dome in the entire United States of America and it's military behind you. Of course, you're the ones who choose when it stops, because you have almost all of the power. So, John, this is in essence them saying, we've killed enough. 65 children dead, 230 Palestinians dead overall, and

you know, the Defense Secretary for Israel, Benigantz, said that Gaza would burn, and it did. Netanyahu said that they would pay, they, meaning Palestinians in general, and apparently they did. And now satisfied

with what they got, the Israeli right wing now says, okay, we'll just go back to a normal occupation, we rob you of your freedom and keep you in open-air prisons and deny you of all dignity and human rights. So back to business as usual after we did the pounding and the kill. Yeah, assuming that the ceasefire holds, it's substantive and that, you know, in three days we're not back into this, which is entirely possible. I mean, who knows? But Netanyahu was saying just yesterday that he's not taking anything off the table,

including a full military reoccupation of Gaza. So maybe we have that to look forward to. But at least as of right now, ceasefire. I suppose the remaining apartment buildings aren't impressive enough to demolish, I guess. That's the point you have to reach where they're finally ready to be done. And really fast, just because so much of this from Biden's, a clear perspective, from the Israeli military's perspective, from Benjamin Nathya's perspective, is so abstracted from the conflict, this is about considerations.

It's about considerations in terms of have we dissuaded Hamas enough or have I done enough to reinforce my domestic political situation? All these considerations that have nothing to do with the fact that they could have done the ceasefire yesterday or two days ago or three days ago and maybe we would have 60 dead kids instead of 70 or 50 or maybe 40. Maybe we could have saved a couple dozen kids' lives as well as other civilians. But no, we have considerations. You know, I'm having trouble forming a government. I don't know, I really want to send a strong signal. A few more dead kids, and then that'll probably accomplish it. Yeah. And for the two things that you hear about

the ceasefire. One is, look, if you're at love Israel, this isn't about Okay, people who are pro and anti-Israel. I know that the world loves framing it that way, and, you know, everybody wants to see things in black and white. No, this is about right-wing governments abusing their power against the powerless. And so that is consistent throughout the world and throughout world history, and almost always how it goes. And that's what's driving this.

Then Yahoo, as John points out, he has this current political situation that is not favorable to him. I've said this on many shows before, he could not form a government. The other side was about to form a government, and they might have needed the Arab coalition for their, to form that government. It's a parliamentary system. And now it's going to be much harder to form that coalition that does not include Netanyahu, but includes the Arab coalition within Israel.

And he has got corruption charges that were conveniently delayed because of the bombing and the murder that Netanyahu started. Okay, so it isn't about one particular country. It's about the powerful versus the powerless. And that's just the reality of what's happening in Israel and also Saudi Arabia and Yemen, et cetera. But today's news is about Israel. And one other small consideration that might have gone into it, remember, they say, oh, Gaza might be reoccupied. It's kind of a joke, right?

So Gaza does not control its own borders. And there has been a blockade for seven years in Gaza. And so that means that during the bombing, number one, they could not escape. It's very residential areas, very densely populated, a couple million people there. And so they're just dropping bombs in the middle of people, okay? And they got nowhere to run. Number two is they were running out of supplies. Because of the blockade, no, they're having trouble with food, water, and they were down to half their medical supplies while coronavirus is ranging. And then when the buildings get bombed and destroyed, people

are forced into schools where the UN shelters them. But then they're all together. and possibly risking more coronavirus spread. It is possible that some in the Israeli government, there's so right wing that it feels a little unimaginable. But I hope there's still a shred of humanity and left in those right wingers might have thought this is, or without the humanity, it's going to look really bad for us. If people start dying in mass, not just from the bombings,

but from the fact that they run out of medicine and food. And then we really, then people might realize, forget the whole shred of morality thing. For right wingers, it's almost never into consideration. But in terms of the optics of it, some might have thought we will look even more barbaric and people might begin to realize this isn't just a two-week war, this is the fact that we've been occupying them, keeping them prisoner for over 50 years. Yeah, and just really fast, I want to continue on from something that you had referred to.

There are things that when you hear someone say them, either directly to you or in a conversation that you're watching, like a political conversation or a news coverage, that way more people should be offended just by hearing. Because they are so inherently condescending. There is such a baked in assumption that you must be stupid that you would accept the way we're going to frame this. And that would be referring to someone as being pro a country or anti a country. And we only allow it in two cases, Generally now, it's about Israel. You're pro-Israel or you're anti-Israel.

Back during the Iraq war, you were pro-America or anti-American. Republicans still try to make it a thing. But if I were to say to you, are you pro-Canada? The hell does that even mean? Like, their government, their people, their fresh maple syrup? Like, which party of their government? A particular policy? Like, if I'm against this pipeline he wants to build, did I then become anti-Canada?

Are you pro-UK? What? Like, under Thatcher? Under, like it doesn't mean anything. That's the thing. But they deploy it strategically to mean that if you don't like a thing that a particular politician in a particular coalition of parties did, then you're against the whole thing, everything, and especially the people somehow or the soul of the nation. And we roll that out for Israel and we occasionally roll that out for the U.S. to silence dissent. That is basically all it is. You don't hear people talk about like if we don't like something that Boris Johnson did, we oppose Boris Johnson. We're not anti-UK. If we don't like something that like Trudeau did or, you know, Sarkozy or something like that, we don't talk about that as being fundamentally about the country. So don't stand for it when it comes to these countries. It is obviously an attempt to deceive you, an attempt to silence you, and people need to be more vocal when they see it being used. Yeah, John, that's such a great point.

First, I want to correct myself real quick. I said the block has been in place for seven years. I meant since 2007. So it's actually been in place for 14 long, brutal years. And that was immediately after the Palestinians held elections. And what was theoretically unoccupied Gaza, they elected Hamas. And then Israel said, oh, no, we didn't mean any of it. No, no, you don't actually get the rule yourself.

And you voted for people we did not approve of. So now we will surround the prison and make sure you cannot get out and we control what goes in and what goes out. So there is no freedom there. And to call Israel a democracy when it occupies millions of people is absurd. And finally, John, yes, Canada can have positions that are wrong if they were, for example, doing something to Native Americans within Canada, et cetera. And you could say that position of Canada in left wing and right wing governments is wrong. But you are absolutely right. You cannot then turn around and say, I am anti-Canada.

Or you wouldn't say that someone else is anti-Canada. That would be so childish. It makes no sense. It just means you're against that policy of Canada. And you wish for the betterment of Canada and the people that they are affecting that they would get better on that policy. To then say, that's it, you hate all Canadians. Wait, why would I hate Canadians? I just don't like that policy.

and I wanted to change it so they get better and that would help them. And yet, John is 100% right. And the last thing I'll say about that is, think about why that's in all of our heads. Because the American media put that out, like it was normal, like it was real. Like no news anchor I've ever seen said what John just said, right, in all this time. And you turn on cable news and everybody talks about, are you pro-Israel or anti-Israel? Not just cable news. So one website I go to quite frequently, Common Dreams, this is a good, good website.

And they referred to some group as being pro-Israel because it's just, it's out there. It's in our brains, it's infected us. Yeah, it's absurd. Absolutely absurd. We never, like for progressives, we don't buy into it in the domestic landscape. When somebody, when a right-winger or a centrist or cable news anchor talks about being pro-America or anti-America, we all know that's absurd, right? which America and which policy, right? And so California passed a $50 minimum wage.

Love that. Does that mean I love all of America? By that logic, I guess, right? So again, completely nonsensical. The reason they do it in the case of Israel is because they want to say that if you disagree with Israeli policies, you are anti-Israel, and let's be honest, by extension, anti-Semitic. It is a way of shutting down the dialogue artificially for a specific purpose. Yeah.

And erasing people like those in Israel, Israeli citizens that are fighting for human rights for Palestinians. They don't exist. They don't count as Israel in this narrative. Yeah, absolutely. And do you ever hear anybody talking about being pro-Palestine or anti-Palestine? No, they frame that as being, are you pro-Hamas? You better be anti-Hamas. We never talk about Palestinians.

We only talk about Hamas. And then we call Hamas a terrorist group. So wait, they want a democratically held election by according to the international community. No, they are terrorists. Well, how about Israel? They are boiled down to the good guys. And all the Palestinians are boiled down to the bad guys under the umbrella of a terrorist group, Hamas. And hence, you cannot allow the Palestinians to have humanity.

Yeah. And that's the game that's being played. And we're here to tell you, we're not, we refuse to play that game. And you should know what the reality is. And thank God you guys support us in being able to bring truth to American media, which apparently sorely lacks it. Yeah. Well, we have a little bit of good news that we'll turn to.

But we do need to take our first break. We come back. Bernie Sanders, step up to the plate. We'll give you the details after this. You know, All right, during the break, I normally start with our members' comments on t-y-t.com, and obviously go to t-y-t.com slash join and become a member, be part of the show. But I'm going to start with Super Chat today, some really interesting comments there.

Let's start fun, and then we'll get into the serious issues. Rob Schibbley writes in, I'm dying over here. Jake is such a huge dork. Love you guys, even though John has better triceps, I guess. That's fighting words. Where's the shield? Give me the shield fast. Okay, you may. You need that shield, okay. The only thing they can break Captain America's shield, my triceps.

Not a big deal. It's canonical. It's just, look, yeah. Is it Captain America's Cryptonite? I guess. Okay. Mark Moore says, why are you using Canada as an example? Are you anti-Canada, John?

Exactly. LMAO. Okay. I guess. I guess. Peter Hamby says, wait, John's Captain America? I don't know. I think Jank fits the role a little bit better.

After all, he yells, progressives assemble, better. I don't know. That wasn't Captain America. That was a little bit scarier. Yeah, he wouldn't do that. But I could see that. I mean, I'm willing to give it to you. I guess I'll take Iron Man.

I guess. Wait a minute. I was there at the creation of Iron Man. I should tell that story of the members. I don't know this. That's a slightly secret story. Or bonus episode. Let's do it in the bonus episode.

Are we not merciful? In order to hear the origin store of Iron Man, and I'm not kidding, I was there, okay? You don't know this story. No, I have no idea what you're talking about. So you'll see, you'll see. Not the comic book, obviously, but the movie. So t-y-t.com slash join. That's how you become a member, get the bonus episode, or you go get at essentials level

at YouTube by hitting the join button below, okay? All right, let's keep it going. Dango's, no, Prescott Small says, seriously, riddle me this. How come there are no viral videos of good cops arresting bad cops committing in crime? Excellent question. Never seen one, not once. And we've interviewed good cops that did actually turn in bad cops and how they were, they told stories that they were hounded, rats thrown on their cars, their houses broken into by

fellow cops, okay? All right, now, Dango's 11 writes in, it's great that a ceasefire was announced, but it just, I just had a terrible thought. What if they only announced a ceasefire to prepare for a ground invasion, they wouldn't want bombs falling on their own forces. I hear you, I guess it's possible. The facts seem to lean towards that it's real, but, you know, I wouldn't bet on it. I don't know, but that's an interesting bit of speculation. Fat Long grass-filled donkey logs, fascinating. Right, so no one talks about this. They are in prison. Where are they going to get the rockets from? Are we sure they're not being supplied by Netanyahu or maybe even being fired by him to create the excuse? No, that is too conspiratorial. No. Other groups have confirmed it is Hamas firing about 4,000 rockets. Luckily, most of them did not land and they get it through the tunnels. We got more. We'll be back. Thank you. All right, back on TYT, Jank, and John with you guys. And also, of course, Julie, Janae and Henry, as you all know.

Those are folks who just joined. Awesome. Henry King, Julie Geisel, Janay Jones, all hit the cute little joint button below. Walla, they come out of American heroes. And they get to hear your story about the making of Iron Man. Oh, that's true. That's true. So that's, of course, just for the members in the bonus episode. All right.

Okay, let's do this. Earlier this week, it was announced that representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and others, including Rashida Tili, Mark Pocan, were going to try to stop the sale of about $735 million worth of J-dams and small-diams to bombs to Israel. But that was not going to be enough to stop it. It would require, within one day, a senator to step up and do that, and I'm sure basically everyone watching this now knows that Bernie Sanders is that senator. We've got all the details. But before we get to it, I want to ask Jank, did you think he was going to do it?

I wasn't sure. No, I had it at 50-50. So first, let me announce. This is an announcement. Bernie Sanders, an American hero. So lately I've had some disagreements with Bernie Sanders' legislative strategy, such as it is, right? But that doesn't mean that his heart isn't in the right place. and that doesn't mean that his policies are across the board still fantastic.

But here's a case where he went beyond having great policies and took bold action. Now, is this likely to pass? No, and so it's not quite as bold as the 15-9 minimum wage because if they fought for that one, that could have passed, and it would have made a lot of Democrats uncomfortable. Still, this one is a little bit more, it puts some people in discomfort, But overall, since this is not likely to pass, it's not as controversial. But I'm being, I'm giving you a needless caveat here. On this issue, Bernie is fantastic and made the right decision.

But I'll go a little further. Look, John and I in the last segment talked about how in American media and politics, there's within this absurd thing of you're either pro-Israel or anti-Israel. So that creates a shield and a weapon for the Israeli right wing to do what they're doing and then hide behind being that anybody that disagrees is against their entire country, right? And it's a proxy for calling people anti-Semitic, which makes no sense because, well, what if we agree with the, a left-wing position that Israel has, right? But it was used very, very effectively in this country for decades. And if we're being honest, it needed a Jewish leader to break through to go, no, that's absurd. And I'm not going to stand for it.

And if they're not going to do the right things, I'm going to stand up to the government, to the right-wing government of Israel, as I stand up to the government of America when they do the wrong things, especially when it's the right-wing government. So it took tremendous courage to lead on that. And I was hoping that he would, I was, and given what he said in the, in the last five years about Palestinians and this issue overall, I was hopeful that he was going to do it, and he did. And it makes a giant difference. Yeah. Because even if this bill doesn't pass this resolution, we've now actually have a conversation for the first time in my lifetime in America. Hey, is the government of Israel doing the right thing or the wrong thing? And you're actually allowed to have that conversation. And yes, as I predicted in the 2020 run, absurd right wing backers of the Netanyahu government called Bernie Sanders, who's Jewish, and perhaps the most successful Jewish politician in American history, they called them anti-semitic.

Why? Because they only have one trick. They were one-trick ponies, so they used a trick. I said they would do it even as absurd as it was, and they did do it, right? So my guess is they'll double down on that one-trick pony, because that's all they got, right? But for most people, you can see, that was not that hard, right? Like the corporate media in this country, again, there's a lot of folks that do this, right? But Sean Hannity and Jake Tapper just did it in like the last 24 hours.

Their propaganda in favor of the right-wing version of the Israeli government is so overwhelming that it makes it nearly impossible to even have a rational conversation about Israeli government. policies, right? And this is Bernie saying, hell no, we're going to have a real conversation. And if it comes down to it, no, the U.S. support of your military is not at all guaranteed. I've never seen that before. And Jake Tapper and Sean Andy can say all the nonsense they want. For most people, they see Bernie doing it, and they're like, no, no, we're not, no. You guys are ridiculous. Obviously, Bernie's not anti-Semitic. And half the people that are backing this are Jewish politicians. Obviously, they're not anti-Semitic. You guys are not anti-Semitic. You guys are not.

are being absurd. No, we're going to have an actual conversation about this issue. Yeah, and while I totally agree, there's been some insane media coverage, there is also, thankfully, a little bit more balance. And by balance, I don't mean accepting some equal left-wing absurd view, but like talking to Palestinians, it's a novel concept, they've like dipped their toe in that pool this time around. You've seen viral footage of the buildings going down. There was the young girl, Nadine, her video that went viral. Like, we've got that, which we didn't have in 2014 nearly as much and in past conflicts. But I want to give you a little bit more details about what Bernie is doing, for which I agree he's going to be attacked viciously.

So he has the resolution. There is going to be now a guaranteed vote on it. It would require a simple majority to pass the Senate. Good luck on that. if it were to be vetoed by President Joe Biden after that, it would need a two-thirds majority in both chambers. So a joint resolution of disproval like this has never been successfully used to stop an arms sale. In fact, multiple times under Donald Trump, attempts that were successful in Congress to stop him from selling weapons to Saudi Arabia,

and I believe the UAE, were vetoed by Donald Trump. But they did try. It's becoming a little bit more common. And it's good to see that the same sort of tactic that can be used to try to stop some of the wanton murder of civilians by countries like Saudi Arabia can also be deployed when Israel is doing similar things. So that is all good. I want to read just a little bit of what Bernie Sanders had to say about this. He said at a moment when U.S. made bombs are devastating Gaza. And by the way, these are the ones we're about to sell them are the same ones that are being used right now. So it's already a little bit locked in. At a time, when they're devastating Gaza and killing women and children, we cannot simply let another huge

arm sale go through without even a congressional debate. I believe that the United States must help lead the way to a peaceful and prosperous future for both Israelis and Palestinians. We need to take a hard look at whether the sale of these weapons is actually helping do that, or whether it is simply fueling conflict. And I mean, I think we both know how this is likely to end up. But I agree, it has at least now maybe indicated to a few other politicians that, like, you can do this. I mean, if Bernie can do it, you can potentially do what we all know is the moral thing to do. And maybe it will, if not stop arms sales like this or the, you know, billions of dollars of military aid per year. Maybe at least we could get some conditions on them,

some sort of considerations for human rights, the lives of civilians, those sorts of things. So last two things here. First, now giving credit to Rashida Talib, Ilhan Omar, and others, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it turns out diversity and representation makes a difference because before there were no Muslims in Congress, then we had Keith Ells and Andre Carson, then Talib and Omar, and Talib and Omar have been much more vocal

than their predecessors, and they're proudly Muslim. So they come out, and Talib is Palestinian, and they said, what do you, you want me to speak out against my own people? I'm not going to do that. I'm going to support Palestinians. because, not because they're better, not because no one is guilty in this, there are no guilty

Palestinians. No, Hamas does fire rockets, et cetera. But I'm, and Omar has called that out. She's called out the human rights abuse of Israel and Hamas, right? And I just point to her because APEC is attacking her with smears, as always, right-wing, awful lobbyist group in America. And so, but that diversity in representation made a difference because their voices were heard for the first time. And then the rest of the just, a lot of the just Democrats joined in, AOC, Iona Presley had a wonderful speech, Cory Bush, et cetera. Look at that, just Democrats make a difference, right? But if it was just them, it would not have as had as much of an impact as when Bernie Sanders joins the fight and others in the Senate. And it becomes a broader movement. And so that's why

we're giving Bernie so much credit here that he deserves. But I want to give credit to one other person and then generally. Look, a long time ago, I said that I think that the only way that Israeli-Palestinian issue gets resolved is if and when, I really believe that it was going to happen. I still believe it's going to happen. American Jewish population says, that's it. We've had enough. And we've got to make the right-wing government of Israel stop.

Otherwise, there's going to be no check on this. Because why is Israel act in the vicious way that it does recently? because power always corrupts. And absolute power corrupts absolutely. We all know this. It has nothing to do with anything other than the power structure, right? And so why do they have absolute power? Because America backs up 100%.

It doesn't matter if the entire rest of the world is united in condemning any particular action or policy or war of Israel, right? Or a war crime or anything like it. It doesn't matter. China, Russia, everybody can agree. As long as U.S. is backing Israel, they have absolute power in that. dynamic, okay? And that is going to, by nature, corrupt Israel. There's no question about it. The only way the things could turn around is if American Jews stood up and said, no, no, no, no,

don't stop calling people anti-Semitic, stop pretending that this is anti-Israel, when we're all trying to help Israel be better, right? And they have, and they have, I think I was right, okay? And so when I said that, I don't know, a decade ago or so, people said, oh, you're hopelessly naive. Now, why did, by the way, why did some good people say that? Because the old guard in this country remembers the bad old days when the Jews across the world were beleaguered and victimized in literally historic proportions. And they said right wing, left wing government of Israel, I don't care, right? Israel must be protected at all costs. And is there an old guard like that here in America?

Yes, of course there is. And I understand their loyalties, and I don't mean to question their loyalties that. America as well, don't get me wrong. I just get that, I know, I'm from the old country, right? I know Turks that still love Turkey, even though they're 100% American, and I know that this, oftentimes they get biased by that, right? And they can't see straight. But I suspected that there would be young Jews in America who are, you know, in total,

very progressive, not just young, but remember Jewish Americans are the second most loyal group for the Democratic Party after African Americans, 70% on average vote for Democrats. So they're actually very progressive overall. So there's so many misconceptions of the media. That's why I want to clear it up. And so as I suspected, those young progressive Jews now leading many different Jewish American groups and now in power have risen up and said, no, no, this isn't right. And we're going to do the right thing. And I think it's having a giant impact. And so I tell you all that in pretty little to tell you, again, as I told you, it's not just Bernie Sanders. There's a lot of Jewish legislators that were leading on this, including John Ossoff.

So I didn't even know he was Jewish, but it turns out he is. And he was the one that led the letter saying, right now, ceasefire, right now. Okay. So, and remember how Jewish Americans stood up for Muslims during the Muslim ban under the Trump years. And the Anti-Defamation League was wonderful in that fight. See, now this is what America looks like. When Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists, et cetera, we all get together and we decide what's a rational policy, get beyond the old biases, and work together for truth and justice. That's what I love, and that's what I saw with Bernie Sanders effort. And that's why I don't think it's hyperbole to say he's an American hero for this. Yeah. Well, I think we should transition, yeah, I think we should transition

from these great feelings of religions coming together to one religion just saying, nope, it's our way, you'll deal with it. So let's turn to our next story. The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott just signed basically the most extreme anti-abortion legislation currently in the United States. It's known as the heartbeat law, although I would really love if it would stop being known as that because that's scientific nonsense. It amounts to an outright ban on abortion. As many women are not aware, they're present. pregnant at the six week mark that it would actually ban abortions at. It would also allow any private citizen to sue doctors or abortion clinic employees

who would perform or help arrange for the procedure. So it's not just that it's based on something that's totally unscientific, it's emotional manipulation to talk about this as being about heartbeats. It also allows a country full of Cairns to personally involve themselves in trying to shut down these clinics and get these doctors put behind bars. Now that is now law in Texas, across all of Texas, this massive, populous state. In some areas of Texas, is actually worse, though. So Texas chapters of Planned Parenthood and the ACLU recently filed a lawsuit against Lubbock, Texas,

where voters approved a sanctuary for the unborn ordinance this month. The rule effectively bans all abortions in the city of almost 260,000 residents. And I would like to at least give them credit for honesty. Because this stuff about 20 weeks or 14 weeks or heartbeats or whatever is nonsense. They're, at least in Lubbock, doing what the Republicans really want to do, which is totally get rid of it. To say that more than a half a century of Supreme Court precedent and Roe v. Wade and all of this, people have born and lived and died under a constitutional guaranteeing of reproductive rights. We're done with that.

Either for whatever reason, because we have the power to do it and our base likes it, or because we honestly believe that this is what our virulent form of conservative Christianity requires, we're gonna ban it, it's gonna be wiped out, and as of right now in Texas, it is effectively that way right now. Okay, well, there's gonna be some twist and turns of what I'm gonna say here. One, I'm actually gonna give, and John's gonna hate this, Donald Trump some credit in this story. All right, we'll get to that in a second. But I want you to know that there's a more absurd part of this law.

So the six weeks means basically we're ending abortion, as John explained, right? But that's what Republicans said they were going to do. Did you think they were lying? So if you don't agree with that, don't vote for Republicans. So does it have a constitutional problem? Yes. Might the conservative Supreme Court now overrule Roe Viva Wade? Yes.

And then it'll be a political issue. And then a lot of folks will be enraged. You should be. But understand the consequences of voting for Republicans. They believe in big government that intrudes in your personal life in the most personal way you could possibly imagine. They literally want the government to go inside your body and dictate what you do with it. So that's who Republicans are. They're loathsome.

But if you like that, if you say, I love it when they regulate what I can and can't do with my own body, I hate freedom. I'm a woman who hates having any freedom at all. I can't wait to give away choice about my body and my entire life, my entire life, to a bunch of Republican politicians who have never met me. Okay, well, then vote for Republicans, right? And by the way, they also hate gay people, they also tell you what kind of sex they have, etc. And they're also amazingly against contraception. So you like these idiotic, barbaric laws with these cavemen, that you vote Republican, that's clear.

The second part of this law says that anybody in Texas can sue doctors or anyone that's a part of a facility that provides abortions if they hear that they're doing abortions past six weeks. How is that legal? That's not a thing. So this is the modern Republican Party. So the anti-choice, anti-abortion wing of the party has been around forever, right? So that's not modern.

The second half this legislation is the modern version, where they go, well, normally you have to, the way to sue someone civilly is if you were hurt, right? This is not criminal action. This is civil action. John did something to me, and I, and so I'm suing him to either get him to stop doing it or pay me damages, et cetera, right? In this case, nothing happened to you. You claim you have information that somebody else got an abortion at that clinic and you sue the doctors. That's not recognized in American law. That's not how it works. Like, that's not a, I don't know how to describe that because it makes no sense.

It's, it's like, I don't even have an analogy. That's how nonsensical it is, okay? And Republicans know that. You think Republican politicians are the governor that signed that don't know that this is not the American form of government? They know that, right? Like, who cares? Because we're not attached to logic anymore. And that's why they, you know, the, the, the, the,

MAGA guys are like, ha ha, we live rent free inside your heads, right? Because you just can't figure out how dumb we are. Well, that's true. And it bothers you that we don't care about facts or logic. Yeah, it does kind of bother me. Yep. Right? And the

fact that, you know, 40% of this country has lost its mind, is maniacal, and doesn't even care about the concept of logic. It's just an amazing phenomenon. And this is yet another example of it. Yeah. Yeah. It's, It's bizarre. I don't know what standing these people would have. And an idiot might think that

putting in the thing about allowing you to sue them would then provide some cover for the overall law by changing the concept of standing. But no, that's not how the Constitution works either. None of it makes any sense. Credit to them, I guess, for so many of the things the Republican Party has tried to do, especially when it comes to women, has seemed ripped from the pages of the Handmaid's Tale. But I've read the Handmaid's Tale and the Testaments. There's nothing about people being able to sue clinics that they're not involved in. So at least they're experimenting. They're coming up with something new. I do also want to reassure a lot of Americans and especially our international viewers. You might look at this and think, oh, there is something seriously

wrong with Texas. And there very much is. This is their government, partially as a result of gerrymandering and all that. But this isn't actually representative of what Texans think about reproductive rights. In a recent survey, about 40% of respondents there identified as pro-life and 41% as pro-choice. Those are obviously loose labels. They can refer to a lot of things, but I don't think the pro-choice people believe that there should be no abortion under any circumstances, which effectively is what this produces. So you have a very split population and what's your law as a result of a split population. Is it unity and bipartisanship that the Republicans say they want? No, it's the most extreme legislation in the entire country.

worse that pick and pick a red state they're worse than that even though their elections are within a couple points of flipping blue in any given case and yet this is what we get there you ever notice i mean isn't it amazing that american media doesn't tell you this that whenever they're at democrats in office we hear non-stop unity and bipartisanship whenever republicans hold office we never hear about unity and bipartisanship john's right in the coverage of this Texas issue. I've not heard one instance of anyone in the media saying, huh, there's evenly split on this issue in Texas. And yet the Republicans did not seek unity or bipartisanship. Yeah. Because nobody would even think that. Of course, I'm not going to seek unity or

bipartisanship. That's for idiot Democrats when we sucker them into agreeing with Republicans even when they won. But Republicans aren't that stupid. I just told you how maniacally detached from reality that they have become. And even they're not stupid enough. to do unity of bipartisanship against themselves when they're in power. So that, you know, we're stuck between dumb and dumber in this country in terms of the political parties. Now, back to Trump. Now, why give Trump credit on this? I don't. Just don't. Well, I'm going to, because I'm fair and honest. So what Trump started was a rebellion against

the establishment. Now, it was in the form of a maniacal, egotistical con man who lies nonstop and is a buffoon. But the phenomenon is real. And it heart, so this story reminded me of when Mitch McConnell went on the Senate floor and said if the Democrats killed a filibuster, here's all the things we're going to do if we're ever in charge. And he listed the wish list of all the Republican voters, including getting rid of a portion, which then led us to ask the question, then why didn't you do that when you

were in charge. And the reason is because the Republicans only use that as political gimmicks. And the only thing they actually want to do is tax cuts for the rich. Now, Trump was the person who was in charge. He could have done those things that he chose not to either. And he also chose to give tax cuts for the rich. So he went along with all the Republicans. So don't get me wrong.

Again, con man, the worst of the worst, all of that. But that rebellion is real. And like it or not, he's the one that started the rebellion, at least on the right wing side. And so now that is spreading like wildfire. And so now in states like this, the voters are saying the Republican voters, now we're tired of you not doing what we want.

Now I'm completely against what the Republican voters want in Texas, okay? But they're at least saying, no, I'm tired of you just telling me, oh yeah, that energy company that killed us during the freeze. They're awesome, and you got a couple million bucks. And that barely got covered by the media because the media is awful, right? And I don't know that a lot of people know about that,

but they weren't excited by that. It's not like Republicans in the text who were like, yes, we froze the death. Way to go, Governor Abbott! Right? Maybe they were excited by cultural issues, and, hey, he took the mask off earlier, etc. But when he does this, they're like, there you go.

Okay? So even though I think this law is insane and wrong, at least it is the beginning of some portion of our electorate saying, you better serve us, otherwise there's going to be political consequences. And the right wing has begun that. And unfortunately, it was started by the worst of people, Donald Trump. The left wing has barely started it. I'm being honest with you guys, even though I'm on the left, I wish it was better.

Our rebellion is a little bit later than their rebellion. Our rebellion is way more logical. It's a thousand times more reasonable, right? But I think that's the phenomenon. Thoughts. I guess. I got an I guess out of John. I'm giving any kind of credit to Trump.

I mean, yes, they do expect them to deliver on some of the insane things that right-wing media has trained them to want in lieu of solutions to their economic crises. So filtered through nonsense and ignorance and hatred and xenophobia, they have a want and they expect it to be delivered on. That is true. Yeah, whereas Democratic voters will get our asses handed to us, 99 out of 100 times. and we'll go back and go, oh, no, those are great. Don't, don't disagree. Don't just have to support them harder. We have to support them harder.

Joe Biden, way to collapse on $50 million in a wage. I'm supporting you even harder, right? And so honestly, up and Adam left wing, you guys kind of suck at this rebellion thing. And we've got to get way better at it. As obviously you saw on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, it has begun on some issues, now progressives boldly challenging the establishment of their own party. It's about damn time. On this one, you could learn a lesson or two from the Republicans, just minus the lunacy.

Yeah. So form a chai tea party, basically. Well, I don't know that I would frame it that way. Anyway, okay, so we are going to take another break. But when we come back, more on January 6th, insane things that the Republicans are claiming to believe about it. And a response from someone we don't often pay that much attention to in the program, but we will. After this. So, you know,

I'm sorry. So, I'm going to be able to be. All right. Back during the break here, let's go to our members section. Jenks Kiki Kat writes in, in other words, we're running out of bombs. Let's quit until the U.S. arm sale goes through, or maybe I'm just being cynical today. Well, it's hard to be too cynical with Netanyahu. The way you framed is not exactly right.

They're definitely not running out of bombs. There are other reasons for the ceasefire, but we talked about that earlier. But certainly you'll be forgiven for being cynical about anything that Netanyahu does. Skylar Gman writes in, hey John, I'm watching the show 20 minutes behind you. I'm just to realize that you're doing a little over an hour TDR, Q&A video for tier three members, and two and a half hours of TYT. That's a lot to do in one. I hope you enjoy your time off. You deserve it.

Are you doing an hour of TYT power panel tomorrow? I am. And I appreciate the recognition. You left out the TDR pre-show, though, which we did for half an hour. But anyway, thank you. Yes. No, it's fun. There's a lot to talk about today.

It's a big news day. It is indeed. Thanks for being here, John. I appreciate it. And thank you for appreciating how hard John is working. Thank you for appreciating. I'm appreciating me. Thank you.

Okay, now we're done with that. I appreciate that. Okay, I'm so done with it. All right, we're moving on. So, witchy woman writes in, Hamas equals Palestinian. By that logic, all of us are CIA psychopaths. I love you guys. You're so smart.

Such a great analogy. Yes, by the way, we're not. A little Macawick, G. I'm super anti-Canada. How dare they take so long to be allies. instead of the fort ticcundaroga. Thank you, defenders. I can't spit that word out for some reason.

It's a weird one, yeah. Except they're so nice and their police force set a standard we should be learning from. Okay, for the rest of my life, I shall be pro Canada. I shall love all Canadians, except hockey players because it's not an American enough sport. See, that's irony well done. Or sarcasm well done. Thank you. L.J. Wombology writes, and the irony of John's comments about talking to Palestinians

being a novel concept. Sadly, it's a very unusual concept in the media, given that they're prioritizing the interruption of brunch over the IDF leveling of buildings and killing families. So, unfortunately, you're often right about that as well. Now, fortunately, wonderful American heroes have joined the Young Turks. T.Y. Pruitt. That's a great name. And Brad Maidman, T. and Brad, just hit that join button below. They're going to get that member's only bonus episode where I'm going to tell you the origin story of Iron Man. I know things.

We'll be back. All right. All right, back on TYT, Jank and John with you guys. I'm going to read one from a comment from YouTube super chat. Jeremy Vela writes in, tricep and bicep dragons always bring the passion, logic, and humor. Okay, all of a sudden you became bicep dragon. I don't know how that happened. No, I think you just became bicep dragon. No, I'm tricep dragon. No, because I'm definitely tricep dragon. Oh, no, it's on. Okay. We have to do a video in a gym.

Who can lift the most or with tricep? We'll see. We'll see. Give me a month to train. Yeah, all right. Well, you can have a year, the rest of your life. It doesn't really matter. Unless you're maxing out the machines, this is over. Which machines? The one where you sit down and you push down. I can max it out. Oh, you can max it out? I can't.

I can't. I can't. Whatever the max is. I don't look. It doesn't matter. I love this. Okay, it's on. It's on.

All right. All right. Let's do the next thing. Awesome. Awesome. Okay. This is not awesome, though. The political conversation around January 6 has been a little bit ridiculous over the past few weeks with multiple Republican representatives claiming that it was perfectly fine, orderly, just Taurus, and then looking like idiots when photos of them cowering behind men with guns or barricading the doors come out.

So all of that has already happened. That's out there. You would have to be truly stupid, truly craven, truly dishonest to then come back in after all that. And claim once again that January 6th wasn't a big deal, nothing to worry about. And we found a senator stupid enough. Here is Ron Johnson. To say there were thousands of armed insurrectionists, you know, breaching the capital intent on overthrowing the government is just simply false narrative. You know, I got into, you know, I was vilified for entering into the record a 14-page, I went to succumbed of a very knowledgeable observer. They really laid out exactly what happened. I've been back in Wisconsin.

I've taught to people that were there. By and large, it was all peaceful protests except for, you know, there were a number of people, basically agitators that whipped the crowd and breached the Capitol. And, you know, that's really the truth of what's happening here. Most of that was nonsense, but he is right. There were a few agitators whipping the crowd, and one of them was impeached, and Rudy Giuliani was there too, and then the crowd went there and did a bunch of violent stuff. And he knows that, he knows that.

trying to throw in a qualifier that, well, you guys are saying there were thousands. We're not claiming specific knowledge about exactly how many people were there, but we know what they did. And he's claiming they didn't breach anything. Marjorie Green in her speech called it breaching the Capitol. Like, we've moved past that at this point. And we'll show the B-roll, and I'm sure we'll show the videos. This is such nonsense.

I mean, we're not doing fact-checking now, Jank, about, like, specific stats, about the growth of health care spending over the next 20 years. It's was there a violent murderous mob? We know that there was, but we have to continually reiterate to people that that is true because they have people who are ridiculously accorded respect because they're senators who are willing to tell you that the sky isn't blue and the grass isn't green. Yeah, to me, the facts of this are not worth discussing. I mean, again, we can show you the videos and you've seen the pictures and the videos

a thousand times. And so is Ron Johnson. So of all the Republican voters. This is more of a story of Republican politicians saying, I get it. Our voters don't want the truth. And so, you know, is Ron Johnson really that dumb? I got it at 50-50. And so he might not, he might just be, not just a Republican politician trying to cater to Republican voters, but also the same mindset as a Republican voter, but which doesn't happen often. Usually their politicians have different mindsets. Their mindset is usually, where's the money? Where's the money?

Corporate donors, give me the money. What are these voters want? Oh, yeah, oh, I hate abortion, right? Oh, yeah, oh my God, I'm so bummed about Latinos or whatever you guys are upset about. J.P. Gordon, Chase, where's the money? Where's the money, right? That's usually a Republican politician, not that distant from a corporate Democrat, unfortunately. But anyway, here Ron Johnson is saying repeatedly, this is now almost half a dozen

times. He's come out and said, oh, do we had a picnic? It was lovely. And, you know, the day of Lindsey Graham, after things were settled down, is screaming, I'm out, right? About his Trump support. And they're all sweating and they were all begging for security. And they're like, what? Isn't there enough security here? Now they're like, oh, whatever, dude, man. We said, we had blueberry jam. We had, you know, we got a nice sandwich, we had a spread, right, tea party of a different sort, et cetera. Because they think, it doesn't matter. Our voters not only don't mind lies. They actively want lies.

They demand it. Yeah, they demand it. They want a different version of reality. I'm about to go on for election. I can't make the mistake as a Republican politician of telling the truth. That could be fatal to my political career. And that actually is correct analysis. Yeah.

Yeah, and I don't know that there's ever been as narrow of a gap between elected Republicans and right-wing media personalities. I saw Greg Gutfeld like dip and dodge like Neo for minutes trying to not come out and say that the election wasn't stolen or that what happened on the 6th was bad. Like you could tell from his face he knows exactly, he'll be grilled. If he says Biden won, it was legitimate, the thing wasn't stolen, then that's it for him. Like there are, we can talk about purity tests and all that, but there are a lot of impurity tests on the right. You have got to continually reiterate to people, then no matter what Donald Trump says or does, he still support him, that you believe that he will never lose anything in his life. If a business goes down, it was somebody else's fault. If he loses an election,

it was stolen from him. You have to continually prove those things, whether you're in Fox News or if you're an elected Republican. And Ron Johnson, you say you have it 50-50. I think there are others that I think are doing it out of stupidity. I think Marjorie Green is, I think she believes most of what she says because she's an idiot. I think he's lying. I think that most of them are lying. They know what happened there. Andrew Clyde, Anna and I talked about this yesterday. Have you seen the photos of him, like, cowering behind the guy with the gun? Yeah, no, that was my favorite. You know what?

It was a bunch of tourists walking around, no big deal. Yeah. May you see the picture. He's like, ah, you know, he's not. Right? Take him first. No, if you've ever been afraid that you were about to die, you don't forget that. You don't, after a couple of months.

Forget that you were worried that you were about to be murdered, that a mob was about to beat you to death with their bare hands. You don't forget that. He didn't forget that. He's lying. Some of them are stupid. Marjorie Green is stupid. They're liars. Yeah. But last point to back up all of that, guys up for reelection. Poll just came out, confirming every other poll that's ever been taken on this issue. 70% of Republican voters think that Joe Biden lost the election. Donald Trump won the election. And that Joe Biden and his team stole the election through fraud from Donald Trump,

who's the legitimate winner. 70% believe that with all of their hearts, right? So if Ron Johnson made the mistake of telling them the truth, he would get primaried and lose almost as a certainty. There's almost no question that he would lose. So he, in order to preserve his political care, he must lie. Can I give you a quote that demonstrates that? Yeah.

So Ron Johnson had this to say. This was back in February. The group of people that supported Trump, the hundreds of thousands of people who attended those Trump rallies, those are the people that love this country, they never would have done what happened on January 6th. There he's spreading the conspiracy theory that it was somehow Antifa. That apparently was totally fine. It was Antifa, but they were law-abiding. Anyway, that is a group of people that love freedom. That's a group of people we need to unify and keep on our side. And I hear, I need to keep on my side. That's the base. There's some Trumpers, but you can't get elected in a primary or a general election as a Republican, just trying to get them to support you. He needs those people, like right here, right here. You're seeing right here, he needs those people. Every one of them, from the Boberts to the Gohmerts, they all need those people to continue to support them. And all of those people have very high expectations for the quality of the lies that they will be told. And so Ron Johnson is

just doing his job. It's just that it's a really sick job. Yeah. Okay. Should we take the break or really fast to him, Ryan? All right, Edward tells us to take the break. Edward was in charge. We listen to what he says. All right, we have many amazing stories left, including some, oh, the Candace Owen stories just for members. That's in the bonus episode.

But the absolute destruction of Candace Owens is awesome. So hit the join button below if you want to see that or go to t.yt.com slash join. But later in this program, we still have the story of one, police department saying one of the most outrageous lies I've ever seen and then another police department at war with Kobe Bryant's widow classy folks all right we got that when we come back thanks for listening to the full episode of the young Turks support our work listen to ad free access members only bonus content and more by subscribing to apple podcast at apple dot co slash t yt i'm your host jenk huger and i'll see you soon