The Young Turks - Costs Of War - March 12, 2026

Episode Date: March 13, 2026

U.S. intelligence reportedly concludes Iran’s government is not at risk of collapse despite the escalating conflict, undercutting claims of imminent regime change. Senator Ted Cruz warns the threat of a terrorist attack is now higher—after previously insisting America was “much, much safer” following the Ayatollah’s killing. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: ziprecruiter.com/tyt If your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — check out plaud.ai Explore opportunities in more than 60 countries and apply at http://PeaceCorps.gov/serve Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/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. Earth responds to that. It's Jank you, Granikasperin, with you guys. Big show ahead. So there's two shows, two facts in this show that are absolutely enraging to me. So we'll share those with you in a minute.

We're gonna tell you the unfolding calamity of the war, how many ships have been sunk, how much as oil prices going up, how many people have been murdered by Israel lately in Iran and in Lebanon where they're doing an invasion of another country because they can't ever stop. We're being forced to pay for, we'll tell you how much we're paying for it. But no, never enough, and all over television, of course, all of Israel first attack. every Muslim in the country saying they're the real problem. No, no, don't look at Israel starting all the wars. The real problem are Muslims, right?

So that's, of course, Jake Tapper leading that parade. All right, Anna, take it away. All right, well, we begin with some updates on the ongoing war in Iran. Some pretty devastating details here, so let's get started. Both the United States and Israeli intelligence have now officially concluded that the Iran war will not, N-O-T-not, lead to regime change, which is exactly what Charlie Kirk had predicted prior to his passing. Here he is less than a year ago.

If, this is a big if, if bombing Fordo can't permanently destroy the nuclear program, will advocates of a limited intervention pivot to immediately demanding a full regime change war. Because a lot of people are calling for regime change right now, Lindsay Graham, James Langford, Tom Tillis, what does that even look like? Here's a big one because you better believe the intel community has done this. They run these war games. One of the most important questions that we deserve an answer to, what are the refugee estimates of such regime change?

A million? Five million? It was six million in Syria. Who is most likely to take power next? If the Ayatoll is taken out, who's the front runner? Who's the Kalshi Polymarket odds-on favorite for being the successor to the Ayatollah. What do we know about him? Is he more moderate?

Is he younger? Is he more religious? Is he more radical? It's Mosh Tabi Kaganini. Motschabha Kamani. Okay, fine. The son. Is he more moderate?

Is he more radical? And if we take out that guy, who comes after him? What is the line of succession here? I hadn't seen that video before and my head just exploded because I don't think anybody predicted that Ali Kameenay's son would end up being his successor because the now assassinated Supreme Leader had said that he was against dynastic rule and was against the idea of one of his sons doing this. That's amazing, Jank.

Anyway, wow. Yeah, so look, two things about that. Number one is there's reports that Israel purposely took out all of the 49 top leaders, not just because Ayatollah was in there, and not just because most of the regime was in there. That was intentional and everyone acknowledges that. But also because there was two or three guys in the room that America was thinking of using to replace Haminae like we did with Maduro and Venezuela. Venezuela. But if you kill those guys, then they're gonna go with Hamanese son, which is going

to extend the war until they get what they actually desire, which is regime change. And as you're gonna see in this story, we'll talk a little bit about how Netanyahu has now said that he's doing this so that Israel can be the sole regional superpower and maybe even a global superpower. To, that's what this war is about. And then I want to tell you about the different layers of regime change that they want and need before they let America off the hook. But until then, as you're going to see, we're going to pay a super heavy price, including financially. Yeah, and look, before we even get to that Netanyahu video where he again says what's supposed to be the quiet part out loud, which is what the Israelis do on a regular basis. I just want to understand for my detractors.

anti-Semitic? Because when I merely point out what the Israelis say they're going to do, because they say they're going to do it, I get called anti-Semite. It's amazing. But anyway, let's move on with what's going on in Iran. So an anonymous source spoke to Reuters and said the following. A multitude of intelligence reports provide consistent analysis that the regime is not in danger of collapse and retains control of the Iranians. public. Because look, I mean, just think about this in your own terms, my fellow Americans is watching this right now. Even if you loathe our government, which I do, I loathe our government, okay? Would I be okay with a foreign power coming in and attempting to topple our government

and replace it with a puppet government? No, I would not be okay with that. And what that does is it galvanizes the population around the regime. But the Israelis are morons. So they, you know, love these unforced errors. Further, the U.S. Intelligence Report indicates that the IRCGC and the interim leaders who assumed power after Khamenei's death retained control of the country. There are no protests, there's no civil unrest. In fact, we've seen a massive crowd that gathered in order to celebrate the naming of Moshaba Kameh as the new Supreme Leader. Now, President Donald Trump has, of course, been incredibly inconsistent, flip-flopping on whether or not regime change is the real objective and goal for the United States. But that's not the case with the Israeli government who absolutely

demands the toppling of the Iranian regime. And whether the regime gets replaced with a democratic system or a good leader, they don't care. They're perfectly happy to see the country fall to anarchy, ruin, instability. They'd love to see another Syria or Libya, because it'll help them with what their main goal is, which is expanding their territory. Now, an anonymous Israeli official spoke to Reuters and said this. Israeli officials in closed discussions also have acknowledged there is no certainty the war will lead to the clerical governments collapse, but here's the catch. Israel has no intention of allowing any remnants of the former government to stay intact, said a fourth source familiar with the matter. It would likely require a ground

offensive that would allow people inside Iran to safely protest in the streets, said a source. So in other words, the U.S., as we know, and we've known from the very beginning, we don't really have a clear objective. And it's become increasingly clear to me that Trump realizes that he got trapped and fooled into a trap and now wants to end the war, but doesn't know how. We also know that Israel's objective is impossible without ground troops. And I was on Al-Arabia yesterday, Jank. There was an IDF commander or something like that on the show. And the host asked a good question, which was, you know, you're not going to get regime change unless you have boots on the ground. So would you like to see American boots on the ground? She's not asking me. She's asking the Israeli.

I was like, oh, good question. And she skirted the question like crazy because, yes, of course they do. Of course they want Americans to risk their lives in Iran to try to topple that regime on behalf of Israel. And according to Tom Ellsworth, who is from the PBD podcast, he sees this as devastating quagmire. That's what we're running toward. Take a look. Talk about quagmire. And maybe this is pessimistic, but I think we're there. I think we're at the front door of quagmire. And now we've got to figure out a way to get out.

And there's no good way to get out. And if you back out, think about it. I never thought I'd be saying this. But if he backs out, this could be like a failed retreat from extraction from Afghanistan. This could be like Carter backing out. This is the one country. Cheney said it's all about Iran. It's not Iraq.

It's going to be about Iran. Even Cheney said that when he was getting the president to look for weapons of mass destruction that were not there in Iraq. Everybody has looked at Iran and said, this is the guy. It's like for 20 years, this is Muhammad Ali, and everybody, everybody wanted to get to him. And it wasn't until age got to Ali that he ever lost. And so this just drives me a little nuts. I think we're at the, I mean, maybe this is pessimistic, Pat, but I think we're at the front door of Quagmire.

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Meet your match on ZipRecruiter. Donald Trump needs to pull American troops out of that region. He needs to end this, or at least the U.S. involvement in it. And Netanyahu says that he's going to keep the war going. That's great. Handle it on your own. Handle that and Lebanon and Gaza and all the other neighbors that you're terrorizing. Handle all that on your own.

We're done. That would be the winning strategy at this point for Donald Trump. But something tells me that they won't let him pursue that strategy. What do you think, Jake? Yeah. So only one thing that you said that I disagree with. You said the Israelis are morons. No way.

They're not at all morons. They think America are suckers. So we are. Yeah. We are. I agree with you on that. But they are morons. Do you think anything they've done is going to keep Israelis safe?

No, but that's not their objective. Yes, they're going into shelters underground shelters multiple times a day. You guys enjoying that? You think you're more safe? Have you defeated Hamas? No, but Anna. How many more extremists have been reproduced by the Israeli regime? They're never going to be safe.

No, but that's for regular Jewish folks, Israelis, et cetera. The Israeli government doesn't care by keeping Israelis safe at all. They care about land acquisition and greater Israel. So do they know they're endangering Israelis by starting another giant warfell? Of course they know. Did they know that about October 7th? They literally told us, yeah, we knew about October 7th, and they didn't take any precautions. Did they know that all of these wars could endanger Israel and there would be rockets

fired? Of course they knew. They did it on purpose. And then by the way, the more they scare not just Israeli citizens, but Jews across the world, the better it is for them. Because then American Jews, European Jews, instead of sending more money, more money. Oh my, Larry Ellison says $16 million to the US. IDF as a charity.

And he's not the only one. Tons of people do it. Oh my God, kill more Palestinians, kill more Iranians. Here's more money, here's more money. Why? Because, oh my God, I'm so scared. I'm so scared. They're going to kill us all. No, the Israeli government does all of that to scare those people so that they get more money, more power. They could do more war and take more land. So now that brings us to Iran.

So there are layers of regime, destruction, and collapse that is. Israel has planned, but you can't do even the first layer without ground troops. Because Iran, the Revolutionary Guard guys, has a giant infrastructure throughout the entire country. Like we do with our military and our police, imagine trying to take out our entire military and all of our police when you invade America, as an example, right? You know how difficult that would be?

That would be extraordinarily difficult in any country, right? So you think Iran doesn't have an infrastructure of military and police? Of course they do. And will they resist? Of course they're gonna resist and they are resisting. So now we have to go through that entire, at a bare minimum, a million Iran revolutionary guard, let alone the entire military, let alone all the cops, let alone the citizens, who are gonna be radicalized when their family members are killed by Israel and unfortunately

America. So Israel knows all of this. That's why they need to reel you in a little bit by a little bit. Oh, we're doing it because nukes. Oh, they're going to kill you with the weapons of mass destruction. The same exact horse crap that they fed the American people through the collaborators in the American media about the Iraq war. Oh, look, Israel's such a great ally. We give you intelligence all the time. Oh, really? What's the intelligence? Is it the attack America? No, it's fake intelligence telling you that these guys have weapons of massis school. That an elementary school is a military target that the United States should bomb. Is that the kind of intelligence Israel supplies the United States?

These are questions that should be asked. Okay, the U.S. is now culpable, responsible for slaughtering 175 people at a girls' elementary school in Manab, Iraq. Where did we get the bad intel from? Yeah, look, where do we get all of our bad intel from? Israel. And when you ask them, hey, you're a special ally. You've now robbed me of over $300 billion. You've made me pay $8 trillion on the global war on Israel's neighbors.

You now have forced us into another war, which you're about to find out, it's cost because $2 billion a day, a day. We borrow from China. We have to pay interest to China for the rest of our lives because precious Israel can't pay for its own wars. Slaughter house after slaughterhouse, wait until you get to later in the show when we show you the new slaughterhouse they've opened up in Lebanon. And all those disgusting crimes against humanity lumped on America's shoulders. You have to pay for it. Israel's not going to send any ground troops to fight against a million Iranians?

No. Americans back to the meat grinder, back to the Middle East. You use your troops, not precious Israeli troops. No, Israelis are worth a million other people, right? So one more thing, Anna, you read there, the Israeli plan is to kill what? About a million Iranian Revolutionary Guard until there are no more remnants of the regime. Oh my God, how many people are going to kill it? How much is it going to cause to kill all the remnants of the regime until Israel is satisfied with their bloodlust?

And now they've done another genocide in Iran. Then they say, okay, maybe we'll let America off talk. And they won't, as they've announced, Turkey's next. So let me understand something. All of these Arab countries and Muslim majority countries that are on their knees, their leadership is on their knees to Israel in the United States. Did that pay off for you? Hey, are you Gulf countries who thought, oh, we'll be safe as long as we play nice with Israel.

Did that work out for you? Did abandoning the Palestinian people for a genocidal state work out well for you? Yeah. I want to reset. Let's reset for another part of this story that we need to talk about. You ready? Yeah. All right.

We are now hearing from the new Supreme Leader in Iran. It is the son of Ali Khamene. His name is Mosheba Kamenei. And in a speech today, which you did not see on video, he was not on camera. He said the following. The demand of the masses of the people is the continuation of effective and regret-inducing defense. So you got to remember, not only was his father killed, his wife, his daughter, multiple family members of his have just been slaughtered by the Israelis and the United States.

So he does not have an appetite clearly for diplomacy here. So let me continue with the rest of what he has to say. Certainly, the leverage of blocking the straight of Hormuz must also continue to be used. Studies have been conducted regarding the opening of other fronts in which the enemy has little experience and will be highly vulnerable. And their activation will be carried out if the state of war continues and in accordance with strategic considerations. I assure everyone that we will not forego avenging the blood of your martyrs. Our neighbors must clarify their position regarding those who have attacked our beloved homeland and killed members of our people. I recommend that they shut down those bases, meaning American bases, as soon as possible.

Because by now they must have realized that America's claim of establishing security and peace was nothing more. than a lie. I'm pretty sure our Gulf allies are understanding that now. Now Netanyahu gave a speech of his own, and I want you guys to just listen carefully and believe what he's saying. They say what they're going to do. They always carry out what they say they're going to do. And then people like me or Jank who call it out get called anti-Semites. Well, here's what the reality is if you want to know the truth. Let's go to Netanyahu. of the Messiah, but this will not happen next Thursday. You have said that Khomeini is incapable of appearing to the masses. What is his fate and what's the fate of Naim Qasem,

and what is happening with the nuclear weapons development and the enriched uranium that they have? If I was an insurance agent, I wouldn't issue them life insurance to these two individuals. You know the hardest part of starting TYT? It wasn't being on camera. I'm pretty sexy, so that was easy. And it wasn't trying to figure out a new thing called YouTube. That was fun.

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hegemon. Yeah. So first of all, one of our members on YouTube, Carol Gosh, wrote in, from what I understand, Moshtamba is more radical and religious. So that's right. That's right. So Israel told the morons who run the United Arab Emirates in Saudi Arabia, oh, trust us, we're your friends, We're your allies. By the way, if you don't know, they told Iran the same thing back from 1979, after the Islamic Revolution, all the way to 1993. Because at the time, Israel was fighting against Iraq. And they're like, Iran, we're your friends, we're your allies.

And the minute they could, they stabbed Iran in the back. And Israel started the hostilities against Iran. Iran never joined up with Hamas or Hezbollah until Israel first started. striking against them, okay? So Israel does this all the time. Oh, hey, dumb Middle Eastern dictators, come work with us. No, they are dumb. They are dumb. They are dumb. They're super dumb. Okay, so they inherited a bunch of oil. They don't know what they're doing. And they're like, oh, I'm a prince, are you? And so they invited Israel into their countries. And now Israel's like, ha, I'm gonna start this war and it's gonna get you guys killed, and it's gonna get

an even more radical cleric in charge of Iran. They said, oh, don't worry, UAE, don't worry, region. We'll take care of Iran for you, and you won't ever get hidden. You'll be perfectly safe, and we'll have a less radical person there. No, now you have a more radical person as someone who's furious, because we killed almost his entire family and not just at Israel, but now in America and all the Gulf countries. So never trust Israel. And what happened, I mean, we're gonna get into it later in the program.

They did a ceasefire with Lebanon and they violated it a thousand times, a thousand times, because the Israelis never keep their word. So okay, now here we are, and now finally, in Hebrew, Netanyahu tells you what the actual point of this war was. He talked about now that our competitors in the region will be wiped out, we will be the sole regional superpower in the Middle East. Told you. Told you that's why they were doing it. This is the global war on Israel's neighbors. But they're allowed to say it, we're not, Jenk. We're not allowed to repeat as people who work in news what the Israelis say they're going to do as they are pursuing it. We're not allowed to talk about that. We're supposed to pretend like it doesn't exist.

Yeah, no, no, it's okay, Anna, look, or the Jake Tappers, the Jonah Goldbergs, the Mark Levins, all those guys. Supremicists, yeah, they're just bigots. They, they, they're just bigots. Yeah, supremacists. Yeah, they hate Muslims, and they think killing them is no big deal at all, and that Israel should get to do it endlessly. And if you dare object, like, wait a minute, aren't Muslim lives also worth something? They go, anti-Semite, how dare you say that a Muslim life might be worth anything at all, okay? No, slaughter them in Lebanon, slaughter them in Gaza, slaughter them in Iran.

But by the way, we're doing this for the Iranian people, okay? And never question Israel. Otherwise, all of America, as we're going to show you, there's a poll that shows the majority of Americans think that this is for Israel. They're all anti-Semites. Cancel them all, fire them all, they say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It doesn't matter.

We're the majority, guys. Let's all wake up collectively together. The Israel first is not the majority. They're a tiny, tiny minority in this country. Yes, they bought off 94% of Congress. Yes, national media works for them. So what? Go vote.

That's the real power. I don't mean vote Republican or Democrat play their stupid games. Oh, look at that. Both the Republican and the Democrat in the general election are pro-Israel and have taken money for meat back. No, hold on, Anna, hold on. No, voting does make a difference. There is no other alternative.

Go vote in the primaries. Vote out all the son of a bitch incumbents. There are almost all of them work for Israel. Go into your own primaries, Republican and Democratic primaries, and vote all of them out. Look, can we get them all? Of course we can't get them all. But if we wiped out 20 or even 10% of Congress politically, and we did it the right way through democracy, they'd call the whole country anti-Semites, they'd go out of their minds, they'd increase the surveillance state, the police state, they start arresting more critics of Israel, but they would be in a cold sweat panic, because that would be the most significant political earthquake of our lifetimes. So yes, you can do it, but you gotta have the guts

to take power back from the disgusting people who hold it now in America, who almost all serve Israel. When we come back from the break, we'll talk a little bit about how much this is all costing us Americans as we carry out Israel's wishes. And later in the show, we'll also give you some of the details on what Israel's been doing to Lebanon. We'll be right back. Back on TYT, going to read these comments blind, largely, eclecting miscellaneous, says, hi, all, ready for Jenks, rage about the insane war and hope it breaks through the gaslighting, the mainstream media is trying to pull on the American people as usual.

Well, from your mouth, the gods of euclactic. And yeah, you know, if my shouting breaks through the gaslighting, then I'm super happy about my shouting. Can't wait to shout in Israel's face for as long as I'm alive. And so that was a haunting video by Charlie Kirk, by the way. And then he was just killed right afterwards. Weird, yeah. Guys, I get comments or questions from audience members, young audience members who want to pursue a profession in journalism. I can't stress enough how important it is for you to graduate and launch your own thing.

Do not try, do not think that working for CNN or NBC or ABC or any of these network news outlets is going to fulfill you. It's not. It will silence you on the issues that matter the most. I guarantee it. And I've seen it myself. Okay. In real life, it's happened to me. Don't be stupid.

Don't believe in these legacy media outlets. They're propagandists for foreign countries. They basically make you do a de facto loyalty pledge to Israel. I talk to reporters who work inside these mainstream media organizations, and they're like, oh, everybody knows, you cannot write negatively about Israel. If you do, your whole career is in jeopardy. So they're disgusting. They work for a different country.

It's unbelievable. Jack Callahan says, I heard it's costing us $1.8 billion a day in this stupid war. That amount of money could probably fix the infrastructure here in New Orleans. You're gonna see the real number in a minute. We're gonna cover it. And of course, $2 billion a day could fix so many things in America, but you're just Americans, not Israelis. Yep.

All right, back on T.I.T. Jank, Anna and CDN, North Dogdad. Thank you for gifting membership. Melody Loves Music. Thank you for gifting six. You guys are beautiful people. We're gonna win this battle together. Because if we don't stick together, the Israeli forces inside America are,

Very, very powerful. They're incredibly rich and they want us to kill as many Muslims as possible so that Israel can take more land. So we all have to unite in a rebellion against traditional media and against our own politicians. Okay, look, I gotta tell you about a sponsor here. So if you're trying to hire people, you're doing a small business like us, we use ZipRecruiter. I think they're exactly the right way to go. So they're rated like best in the business.

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All right, let's get to. how much we're spending on this war in Iran. And remember, we're supposed to rebuild Gaza, too. Amazing. The Iran war has no end in sight. But the financial burden for Americans is pretty dizzying if you've been paying attention. Now, if you haven't been paying attention, it's okay. I'm about to give you the details because the defense department, or at least officials

within the defense department, believe that in just the first six days of this war, the United States spent over $11 billion. That's billion with a B. And that's, by the way, the lower estimate. That is an underestimate because the Pentagon has admitted that they did not account for all possible expenses. I'm surprised the Pentagon accounts for any expenses, considering the fact that they can't pass a single audit, but I digress. So that does pale in comparison to the human cost of war, by the way. Yesterday, the United Nations Children's Fund stated that so far over 1,100 children have been either injured or killed.

That includes 200 children reportedly killed in Iran. I mean, the number has been 200 for a while now and considering the aerial bombardments that Iran's been dealing with, I would assume the number has gone up. But nonetheless, 91 children have been killed in Lebanon, four in Israel, one in Kuwait. If the Israelis aren't slaughtering children, I mean, what good are they for, right? They excel at it. Yeah, back to you. So now add this to our tab, Israel is now making us pay $2 billion a day, a day for their war that we had nothing to do with.

This is not my two cents. I'm gonna give you 20 cents, I'm gonna give you 200 cents, 2,000 cents, okay? So these guys say, we owe them, we shut up America. You're all anti-Semites unless you pay for Israel's war and by the way, are we actually paying it? No, we're borrowing the money So we're borrowing it from China Israel isn't borrowing it from China Israel's getting the war for free We're borrowing from China me and your kids and your grandkids have to pay the interests on that

Israel doesn't have to pay any interest Israel doesn't have to pay anything America you're all anti-Semites shut up and pay for Israel's war They yell at us, they yell at us. Not just me and Anna, but at all of you guys. The war is deeply unpopular. And they say that's because Americans are dirty bigots who don't appreciate Israel enough. And so give me your wallet.

And if you don't give me your wallet, you're an anti-Semite, okay? So guys, how long is this gonna go on? If it goes on for a whole year, oh my, that's another over $700 billion. In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon employees earn an average of over $24.50 an hour. Employees also have the opportunity to grow their skills and their paycheck by enrolling in free skills training programs for in-demand fields like software development and information technology. Learn more at aboutamazon.ca. What if it goes on a decade like Iraq did, two decades like Afghanistan did? And the Israel's demanding regime change.

You have to go through different layers of the regime, almost a million people before you get the regime change. And Israel says, shut up America and pay for it. And so now we have to borrow more money. And so is there ever an end to it? No, there's never an end to it. Never. So right now Israel is also invading Lebanon.

We also have to pay for that. We have to pay for all of their wars. And if you question it, that's it, you're canceled from national media, you're never allowed on CNN, you're never allowed in any of these national media, kiss our ass. You go and sit there at your stupid studios in CNN with three bigots who hate Muslims and demand that everybody pay for Israel's war crimes against Muslims. Almost everyone in mainstream media are bigots who don't mind Muslims being murdered at all. In fact, if you object to Muslims being murdered, they say, you're an anti-Semite.

You are the big aid, you hate Jews. That's why you don't want all these Muslims murdered. You have to murder them in Lebanon, you have to murder them in Iran, you have to murder them in Gaza on behalf of Israel, and you have to pay for it, and you have to borrow it from China, and you have to pay the interest. Shut up, you stupid Americans, and do exactly as Israel orders you to do, keep the slaughterhouse going at $2 billion a day. I'm so sick of paying for their wars and their war crimes, that literally comes out of

checks guys, you have to work extra hours and extra days and extra weeks to pay off Israel's war crimes. And then you've got to work again for the interests and the interest and the interest. Why don't you at a bare minimum pay for your own wars? Nope. And Anna, who's going to do the ground troops? There are no plans for Israeli ground troops. There were no plans for Israeli ground troops when they pushed us into the Iraq war. No, only American ground troops. You pay for for it, in treasure and in blood. And if you don't, we're going to call you an anti-Semite and try to ruin your life. Dropside News did a poll, an actual poll that's nationally representative, because they were curious to see how Americans were feeling about Donald Trump's decision

to drag us into this war with Iran. Now, as we've been talking about on previous episodes of the show, multiple polls show that the war is incredibly unpopular. already. But when it comes to ground troops, even among Republican voters, it is wildly unpopular. Now, with the Israelis, we know that this war is very popular because we're the ones paying for it. We're the ones who could potentially send our soldiers, our troops to put boots on the ground. So I was listening to Gideon Levy, one of the most wonderful Israelis on the planet. Okay, he writes over at Heretz, but he was on Pierce Morgan show today. And he was talking about not only the fact that all of these wars have made Israel less safe,

but he was also talking about the fact that, you know, the Jewish Israelis, 90% of them are in favor of the war in Iran. That's what he claimed. In the U.S., obviously, the numbers are reversed. And so the poll that Dropside did ask, if Trump is acting on behalf of Americans or Israelis, and here's what they found. 47% said that he is more responsive to the American people than to Israel. So less than half, 47% think that Trump is more responsive to Americans. And 46% said he was more responsive to Israel. Among independents, these are the kingmakers, these are the deciders in our elections, half, 50 to 45% said that Trump prioritizes Israeli interests over Americans among Republicans.

Only 17% said the same because they're watching Fox News slop, but I'll continue. Democrats overwhelmingly held that view 75% versus 17%. So interesting results from that poll. I just, for the Republicans, and I'm talking about normie Republican voters. Not trying to get on your ass about this, right? But I am curious, have you sat down to really think this through? Because if you think that Trump is doing this on behalf of Americans, that's what he's prioritizing. How does going to war with Iran help or benefit Americans?

How does spending $1 to $2 billion a day on a war on behalf of Israel benefit the United States of America? How is that prioritizing the American people? And maybe you have an answer that I'm just not privy to, but I don't see it. I just don't. So around half of the country thinks that we're doing this to on behalf of Israel and and also to distract from the Epstein files. So the Washington Post had an opinion article that was attacking Roe-Conna because Roe-Conna doesn't think we should give endless money to Israel.

He's one of the very rare politicians who says it and means it. It's even worse than that, Jank. They're upset at him because he pushed for the release of the Epstein files, continue. Yeah, which by the way is of course telling on themselves. Why is- 100%? Why are Israeli supporters upset about the Epstein files being released? I don't see the Norwegians upset. I don't see the Bolivians upset. Are you telling on yourself? Okay, and then they said anyone who says that it's because of Epstein or calls it Operation Epstein's Fury is an anti-Semi. And they should be canceled or no one should be canceled or no one should

talk to them. Like, Roe-Roc, it should be dismissed. And never be, no one should ever talk to him. No one should consider him a presidential candidate. He should be shunned in Washington for representing the American people. So wait a minute. So if you think it's connected to Epstein, you're an anti-disgusting anti-Semite filled with hatred in your heart.

But that's 52% of Americans. So they just called a majority of Americans anti-Semites for being opposed to Epstein? And this disgusting war that's costing us $2 billion a day, let alone the seven dead, the 150 injured, et cetera. No, you're never allowed to disagree with Israel. And if you do, anti-Semite, they say, they're so disgusting. And then they celebrate the murderers of all of these Muslims in the region. Oh, we shall we have, they're all terrorists. Kill them all, they're all terrorists, they say.

Main Street media disgust me. Okay, so by the way, we also did our own poll. The reason why DropSight and Zateo and us have to do these polls, which are expensive, and thank you guys, you financed our poll and their audience financed their poll, because mainstream media's like, oh, no, we're not going to ask anything that might hurt Israel. No way. Asking the question of whether this war is for Israel, that question is anti-Semitic. All Americans are anti-Semites.

They yell at us. They yell at us. And then they wonder why they lost credibility. Well, I don't understand why American people aren't forced to listen to the, objective traditional media when we call them all bigots and racist who should hand over their wallets and their sons and daughters for Israel. And if they don't, we're gonna try to ruin their lives. All right, so our poll asked, lately there's been a debate about America's relationship

with Israel. Some say the US should continue to provide financial support for Israel. Others say the US doesn't owe Israel any money, even if it isn't exactly right. Which of the following is closer to your view? The US should continue to provide financial support for Israel, a solid 30%. The US doesn't owe Israel any more money, 49%, not sure, 21%. So only 30% of the country thinks we should continue to financially support Israel. So obviously seven out of 10 Americans are dirty anti-Semites, right?

I mean, that's what mainstream media tells me every single day, every single day, anyone who doesn't support what Israel wants, that's it, you guys should all. be fired, okay? And by the way, guys, it's not just in media. They, of course, they try to get everybody in media fired who opposes Israel because then no one will be able to object to Israel's demands. But now I go to Muslim American events and they say, oh yeah, if I post anything on social media, there's groups that come in and tell my boss to fire me. And to just, or if I run my own business, to destroy my business. And they put out pamphlets and emails, etc, saying, oh, this guy's an anti-Semi, ruin his business, make sure his family can't eat,

he objects to Israel, destroy all Americans who oppose Israel. That's what these sick people are doing. So our poll was run by UGov, over a thousand people, national poll. By the way, more Republicans than Democrats, very even, very near to even. So it's a representative sample. But it doesn't matter of seven out of ten Americans or nine out of ten Americans or ten out of ten Americans, or ten out of ten Americans. Say, I don't want Israel's wars anymore. Mainstream media will say you're all racist bigots.

None of you should have a job and all of you need to pay up for Israel. Well, one of the ways that our captured lawmakers manufacturer consent for these types of wars is they fearmonger about the scary Muslims. And when we return, I'll show you a prime example of that. First comes strength, then comes peace. All right, let's go to. Super chat. Constantine Kavira says, 1.8 billion dollars a day is about $5 per American. $35 of bad in my name for the week. Here's $35 of good in my name. And he gave $35

of super chat. Constantine, you're amazing brother. Thank you. I love this country where Greeks like Constantine, Turks like me, Armenians like Anna, can all come together and oppose a genocide. Oh, I love you guys. Okay. Yeah. Well, I mean, the Greeks and Armenians know what they you're too about China. But real quick, Constitius, do you live in Greece? And if you do, what's going down in Crete? Because I know that the U.S. was like building up military assets there. Is that still the case? I don't know. Okay, got it. All right. So Liliwovar wrote in a couple times. Hi, Iranian here. I don't know why people claim Mujtab Khomeini is a hardliner where no one really knows him. This is all speculation. Diplomacy isn't an option because Iran was stabbed twice

during the talks, not because they killed his family. That's also true. That is also true. Yes. The reason why I say it is because he's a human being. And so I know this is difficult for the Israelis to understand because they keep making the same error over and over again. But when you wipe out someone's family, that radicalizes them.

That would radicalize me. I would be out for blood. How dare you? If anyone opposes the murder of their own families, they're anti-Semites. Right? No, Israel specializes in one thing and that is the reproduction of more and more extremism.

That's what they do. That's what they specialize in. Nathalie Espinoza says, last time I voted was for Bernie. This time around my husband, my son and I will vote in our primaries. We need to make a stand. That's right.

Back on TYT, Jenkinana with you guys. Tomorrow, interesting power panel. Myself, Nina Turner, and Marjorie Taylor Green. So we will be talking about the war. We will have populist left and populist right here. And so John and I in the first hour, Nina Turner, Marjorie Taylor Green in the second hour, do not miss it.

It ought to be very interesting. All right, Anna, what's next? Well, there is a lot of fear mongering on some platforms these days, and it's meant to draw attention to how important it is to defeat the Iranians. So without further ado, let's get to the latest example. This opportunity is here, it is now, and removing the Ayatollah makes America much, much safer. Well, Sean, as we sit here right now tonight, the threat of terrorist attack is higher now than it has been in decades. At Desjardin, our business is helping yours.

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went from saying America is now much safer since we went in and, uh, we went in and, uh, assassinated Iran's supreme leader to now saying that we're in grave danger. It's amazing. So what shifted in his opinion? We're going to give you all the details in just a second, but jank, first, your two cents. Yeah, so why do they need to scare us? Why are they talking about these non-existent threats to California, et cetera? And in fact, Donald Trump is now threatening the Iranian soccer team. because they need you to think that your life is in danger. Not, oh, not, oh, no, no, no, this isn't for Israel.

Iran's about to kill your family. Make sure you hate them so you could pay for all their death and destruction. So we got more, but Anna, give them the facts. Now, I want to remind you all of a very important piece of information that everyone in the country should have known prior to the US going after Iran. Iran does not have any military weaponry that, can reach the coast of the United States. They don't have the ability to do it. Their ballistic missiles can't reach us. Their drones can't reach us. But that didn't stop every single legacy

media outlet from regurgitating the complete nutter BS they received from the FBI, which of course is run by a complete buffoon named Cash Patel. So here's an example from one of the pieces or articles that was published just yesterday by ABC News. FBI warns Iran inspired to attack California with drones and retaliation for war alert. The warning came in a bulletin that was reviewed by ABC news. I always wonder, Jenk, like, do they even bother to like, I don't know, check in on Iran's military capability before simply acting as stenographers for the FBI? It doesn't look like they do. No fact checking, no nothing. And so in other publicate, yeah.

Real quick on that. So the Palestinian Health Minister, Gaza Health Ministry, said these super accurate numbers about the number of casualties. In fact, the undercount, because they wouldn't count people that were under the rubble. And every single time people in traditional media, which by the way, later the IDF confirmed that was true. Okay. Every person in mainstream media was like, nope. Well, could be, but you know, a bunch of liars in Hamas, terrorists. terrorists reporting these numbers. So don't trust the numbers of dead in Gaza.

Israel then says, hey, there was 30,000 dead in the protests. And they're all like, oh, I don't need any evidence. I don't need any facts. 30,000 deaths, 30,000 dead. So they're not really reporters, Anna. They're not, they're just doing propaganda for the powerful. That's it. Other publications ran with this, including the LA Times, where the headline was, California could be attacked by drones because of Iran war, memo warns. Officials downplay threats. Now, officials downplay threats.

What? You guys are getting this messaging from officials, right? Well, get a load of this. Even White House press secretary Caroline Levitt responded to the ABC News report. She quote posted it and said, this post and story should be immediately retracted by ABC News for providing false information to intentionally alarm the American people. Yes, Caroline, yes, yes. I think you need to have a talk with Cash Patel because this information, disinformation, I should say, came from the FBI. She further writes,

they wrote this based on one email that was sent to local law enforcement in California about a single unverified tip, the email, even states the tip was based on unverified intelligence, then why did they send it out? Yet ABC News left out this critical fact in their story. Why, to be clear, no such threat from Iran to our homeland, exists and it never did. Nonetheless, the press worked overtime to terrify, well, look, I say terrified Californians, but I live in California and I can confirm that no one took it seriously because we're not idiots.

We knew what was going on. This isn't our first rodeo. We know exactly how consent is manufactured for Israel's wars. So found in the LA Times reporting was this fun excerpt. Law enforcement agencies across California were recently warned that the Iran war could lead to a surprise drone attack in the golden state. But sources told the Times on Wednesday there's no credible intelligence to support it. Then why did you write it? Why did you publish this? Why are you wasting our time?

By the way, L.A. Times, pretty sure there are some pretty serious matters that could use some attention in L.A. and California. But God forbid you guys do in-depth investigative reporting on any of that. But just go ahead and be stenographers for the FBI with no credible intelligence backing up the claims. Amazing. According to a memo that was sent to agencies part of a joint terrorism task force, they say, quote, we recently acquired information that as of early February 26, Iran allegedly aspired to conduct a surprise attack using unmanned aerial aerial vehicles, drones, from an unidentified vessel off the coast of the United States homeland, specifically against unspecified targets in California,

in the event that the U.S. conducted strikes against Iran. Now, Iran has come out to say, their foreign minister in particular, to say that their beef is not with the American people, but they are interested in targeting American military assets and bases. And that is what they've been doing. Want to know why? they're retaliating for the U.S., doing strikes against them, attacking them, assassinating their leaders. What did you, I mean, what did our government think was going to happen?

They made the mistake of thinking that Iran's restraint after what happened last summer was weakness. But it wasn't weakness. It was just restraint because they wanted to avoid this war. But, you know, how are you going to avoid war in the Middle East when it's, Israel basically controls our government. And Israel is an endless war machine, never satisfied. By the way, they had their ground troops certainly going to Lebanon as soon as the war was launched. Why? Oh, look, we'll get to take more territory in Lebanon, and the liars in American media will say that we did it for self-defense.

But wait, you started the war, and you violated the ceasefire a thousand times in Lebanon. Shut up anti-Semite. So pay for Israel's endless wars. And like they said, if they knock out Iran, which it looks like they're not going to be able to, but if they could, they said they're gonna move on to Turkey next. And after Turkey, who knows? There's no end to Israel's wars, no end at all. Okay, so now, there's a curious thing that happened in this story.

Caroline Levitt is putting out a statement saying this isn't true at all. But wait a minute, if it's propaganda, why is the White House against it? The White House is pushing this war. Because it's not propaganda coming from the American government, it's propaganda coming from the Israeli government. The American government doesn't want you to think that this war is going to be super dangerous to you. Trump and his administration want you to think, oh, this war is going to be easy, don't worry.

We're not going to have to pay any price. I mean, a couple of soldiers will die, but hey, they signed up for it, okay? They signed up to die for Israel. But overall, it's going to be lovely and there's going to be no problems. But the Israeli government wants you to think, oh, this is a lot of it. for Israel, Americans are in danger. Oh my God, the Iranians are so evil and they want to kill all of the Americans. They're terrorists. So remember, support Israel's war because they could kill your family. But what's interesting, Anna, is, so that distinction is clear because

the White House is clearly coming out and going, this is not our propaganda. I don't even know how it got in the news. Well, I'm a pretty good guess. But what's interesting, Anna, is that the source came from inside the government. So this happens all the time. There are people who support Israel within the U.S. government. And every time Israel needs a leak that helps their cause, oh look, there's another leak from the government. There's another leak.

Even if it doesn't help Democrats or Republicans, it doesn't help the Trump administration or anyone else. But somehow those magical leaks of nonsense stories, Oh, Iraq's got weapons of mass destruction. Meanwhile, we covered it right here on the Young Turks, oldest show in Internet history. And we would show you the intelligence from the actual American intelligence, buried in the New York Times, Washington Post, etc. Where they said, no, no, there are no weapons of mass destruction.

Where is this coming from? And it was coming from other parts of the American government that has Israeli assets inside of it. So how controlled are we by the Israeli? there's, God, I would love to have an American president for the first time in my life. Also, who actually represents us and routes out these foreign agents from our, from that are buried inside our government. Yeah, I totally agree. I'm a single issue voter at this point. Whoever seems genuine in wanting to sever our alliance and relationship with Israel, they've got my vote, period. Anyway, so of course, Ted Cruz,

then used these headlines based on absolutely no evidence, no intelligence, to engage in his fear-mongering campaign. Let's take a look at that. The threat of terrorist attack is higher now than it has been in decades. And there are two causes of it. Number one, we had four years under Joe Biden of open borders. We had 12 million people flood across the border. Basically, an open invitation to every terrorist, every Hamas and Hezbollah and IRGC terrorist come to America. We have seen in just the last week two terrorist attacks unfold. We saw just over a week ago in Austin, Texas, a deranged killer showing up in a sweatshirt that said, Property of Allah, in a t-shirt underneath with an Iranian flag, opened fire at a bar in Austin,

Texas. It was a brazen act of terrorism. Then we saw just a couple of days ago, two ISIS terrorists from Pennsylvania, traveled to New York and throw two handmade bombs, bombs filled with nails and bolts designed to kill as many people as possible. They had hoped to kill a lot more people than the Boston bombers did at the Boston Marathon. Those are the two terrorist attacks we've seen, and we're at danger of more. One Plus one equals more of the greatest stories. Hulu on Disney Plus. Stories about survivors.

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Have it all with 3-1 Disney Plus. I think that ISIS isn't what everyone in the United States has been taught to believe it is. ISIS goes out of its way to target Arab and Muslim countries. has never once attacked Israel, which I find a little strange. But I do want to just comment on what he just said there. So to clear some of this up, okay, the shooting in Austin is being investigated as a potential act of terrorism. That is correct.

But investigators have not linked the shooting to the conflict, the war, the devastation in the Middle East, and the motive is still being investigated. So he's being intentionally misleading there. And in regard to the incident in New York, two men have been charged by federal prosecutors in Manhattan with attempting to support ISIS and use of a weapon of mass destruction for their alleged roles in a demonstration outside Gracie Mansion on Saturday that turned violent. A lot of people up in arms about New York City being governed by a Muslim these days. So it's just, it's so sick. Like the open bigotry against Muslims, even peaceful ones, even ones that got elected to public office because they have a message that resonates with the American people, which is open bigotry against him. It's amazing. It really is. You don't like

his policies, fine. I can have a discussion in a debate about that. Hating him simply because he's Muslim is amazing. And it's just, it's talked about overtly. It's said overtly. Yeah. So first, I'm gonna tell you about a ray of hope in a minute in the midst of all this, believe it or not. But let me explain some of the tricks that Ted Cruz used. First of all, ISIS is Sunni. Iran is Shia. ISIS and Iran are mortal enemies. Why would there be an ISIS attack to support Iran? But you know, the thing is, if you're an average American, I get that you don't know that, of course. It's a detailed thing about the sex in Islam, etc. But do you think Ted Cruz doesn't know that?

No, he knows that, right? Do you think all the politicians know that? Well, I wouldn't say all of them, but a lot of them do. The people that are putting out this talking point, they know. And they lie to you on purpose anyway. So you should take note of that. So number two, have there been a couple of terrible attacks recently inside America? Yes, including today, there's a synagogue that was attacked in America.

Michigan, luckily no one inside the synagogue was hurt. The perpetrator was killed by in a shootout with security, okay? So first of all, throughout the internet, there's allegations of false flags everywhere. So why are they saying that? Because, not because it's necessarily true, right now, let me be super clear, I've seen no indications that, that, or any evidence that those people did anything other than what the authorities are saying, okay? So I'm not bringing up the false flag operations because I think it's true.

I'm bringing it up because that's the mood of the country. They just don't believe anything politicians or the government says anymore. So the minute like Ted Cruz like figure or even just the government in general says, oh, those who are Muslims doing this and et cetera, they're like, yeah, now I don't believe you. Because we've been lied to so often. So now the ray of hope is, and I was around, as I said earlier in the during the Iraq War, We covered it, we're one of only two national shows who were opposed to the Iraq war, us and democracy now.

And back then, people that did the fear mongering that you saw from Ted Cruz there, they're going to kill us, oh, they're constantly attacking, it's the dirty Muslims that are at fault, we have to kill, kill, kill them. And then we did, we killed hundreds of thousands of them in Iraq, right? That was literally everyone on television, everyone in the papers. It was just me and Ben and the Young Turks and Amy Goodman going, no, it's a lie, it's propaganda. And they beat the crap out of us if they even noticed us, right? Oh, how dare you, you are on American and you support the troops, you hate the troops, etc.

But these days, there's people collectively shouting back and not just Democrats, not just independence, but tons of Republicans despise Ted Cruz. So when they see Ted Cruz speaking like that or Lindsay Graham talking about non-existent 11 nukes of Iran, what a weirdly specific number for a thing that doesn't exist at all. He's 100% lying. All of us shout in unison now, we hate you, we know you're lying, and we know you work for a different country. Okay, none of that existed during the Iraq war. So they've lost the American people, and now we're in a battle between the American people.

and the people in charge of the American government and American media. So in the short term, they have all the power, they have most of the media, they have almost all of Congress, but we have all the people. So and they're not getting any more popular. They're getting more and more unpopular every day. Every day I see waves of Americans waking up and realizing, oh, we're not in charge of our own government. So politically, their days are numbered.

All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, we have a wonderful interview to share with you all. We will be talking to the veteran who was forcibly removed from the Senate as he protested the war in Iran. His name is Brian McGinnis. And I can't wait to talk to him. So stick around. God bless you. Going forward is keep fighting forward, okay?

But we don't fight with arms and physical and anything of that, right? We fight with love, we fight with peace, we fight with hope and belief and faith in one another. And we do that's right with knowledge and facts and truth and things that are real. Objective reality matters. So much of our audience, scientists, teachers, engineers, data analysts, people who believe in objective reality, right? So thank you guys for believing in that. Thank you for believing in hope. And thank you for making it happen.

I appreciate all of them. I really love what y'all do on the Young Turks, man. And it's just, it's just, it's a very refreshing, you know, voice. You know, y'all don't lean to one side. I tell people all the time, if this is the, if you want to go really hear what's going on honestly, and in our society, you should tune in to the Young Turks. Thank you, Charlemagne. We appreciate that.

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And now we are hearing from more and more members of our military and even some veterans who are not happy about the situation. Now, one of those veterans decided to take the protest to the Senate. And so we all witnessed how Marine Corps veteran and firefighter Brian McGinnis was treated as he protested the war in Iran on the Senate floor. Take a look. Stand up for America. No one wants to fight for Israel. Why are you here?

Why are you getting arrested? Three Palestine from the halls of Manzoupa. to the Georgia, Tripoli, Palestine will be free. My God, they broke his arm. Oh, man. We just witnessed a Marine veteran interrupting the hearing, and they broke his arm. Why did he interfere? Because there is a war in Iran, and our military brothers and sisters are going to die for Israel, and we are here to say no.

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Brian, thank you so much for joining us. Thank you so much for having me. It's an honor to meet you, Anna Kasparian and Shank Huger. You guys have been a voice piece for us who have been suffering with the Palestinians. And so I appreciate being here with you. Thank you for having me. It's an honor to have you on our show. And it's an honor to know that there are wonderful people in this country who are willing to fight for what is right.

And let me just start off with the first question. Why do you feel so passionately against getting involved in this war in Iran? I feel very passionately because of the last two and a half years, witnessing and being reminded of the brutalities of war and the senseless killings of family members and the unnecessariness. unnecessary nature of it. And so we've all known that, but well, we don't all know that veteran, combat veterans do. And as a combat veteran, I just feel like I have a little more insight. And I want to amplify that insight to others. And I mean it from the bottom of my heart.

I'm just saying that war is nothing anybody wants. And I feel like this unprovoked war with Iran is just going to cause more of the same. And that's why I'm speaking out. So Brian, you know, they say it's patriotic to, you know, go and fight and be a combat veteran. And obviously, you know, signing up to defend our country is intensely patriotic. But did you wind up defending our country or did we wind up in these wars for a different country? And did you lose your brother in arms? And in your case, now broken arm, by the way, but from a senator who takes a ton of money from APEC,

at the Israeli lobby. Did they lie to you? Was it all for a different country? Chank, real quick, I appreciate you being such an advocate and your comrade in this effort. Yeah, it's been a very deceitful campaign of weakening all the states surrounding Israel over the last 25 years. There was a whistleblower from, you know, the military ranks that said, You know, this was the plans, you know, take out seven countries and the next seven years is taking longer than that.

But we've all known Iran who's in the end of this list as the strong established power they are. And they've they've greased the wheels of public opinion somehow or have hypnotized people to think that this is a rightful, just as justful campaign of war. And it's all been for Israel or colonization. And you can recognize a tree by its fruit. And the fruit of this has just been senseless murder and killing. And it's about time we've all woken up.

I think 9-11 did do a job on all of our emotions and gave us some weird justification for just conflating all Muslim countries as if they were Afghanistan or part of the, you know, Twin Tower terrorist crew. But so much has come out. So I do, yeah, I think all this war has been very baseless. Yeah, I mean, look, I have so much I want to ask you about, you know, when it comes to the war in Iraq, for instance, I'm not sure if you were deployed to Iraq, but that war never made any sense. Even the allegations that we did it for oil didn't quite make sense to me,

because we don't import Iraq's oil even now, right? So like, what was that really about? And then you go back and you watch the videos of Benjamin Netanyahu. And then you hear what General Wesley Clark testified about during the Bush administration. You learn about the clean break memo that did seek to move away from the Oslo Accords and the whole notion of a two-state solution to instead, you know, avoid diplomacy and just kind of go for the entire region, for Israel to go for the entire region. And then they also talk about it openly, publicly just today. Benjamin Njahou gave a speech where he says that they are pursuing that region as the hegemon, as the dominant power.

And in order to do that, you have to disempower. You have to destabilize some of the developed countries there, including Iran, including Turkey, which is next. Turkey wasn't even included in the list of countries to attack, but the Israelis are already talking about invading Turkey. So were you deployed in Iraq by any chance? And if you were, okay, if you were, what did you believe you were going to Iraq for? And when did you realize it was all a sham?

Part of my problem with wanting and trying to convince people of the sham these wars are is understanding my own personal perceptions back when I was 20 or 21 years old going to Iraq in the Marine Corps. I had no concerns about the world. I had no contextual information about the world. I was this young, fresh out of high school, right into the Marines and ready to execute orders and be a good Marine. And so I understand that there's such a, so such a irrational mindset of so many. the conflation and and the propaganda can do such a job on people to trick us that war is justified. And until you get there, I don't think you know what you're signed up for.

And I know we can power through it. And people are going to do amazing things. But when all the noise dies down like it has for me, and I've had four children, and you do learn about the world, the things you've done and things you've done, and things you've done, you're seen in war or combat really come back and make you have to, you know, come to terms with them. And when I met my wife, who's a Palestinian American, she can see things from an oppressed point of view and seeing things through her point of view and being in love with her and really seeing things through her eyes and then seeing the, you know, that, you know, that.

the genocide unfold and has just really done a job on helping me see it on all from all sides. And so I'm just taking my perspective and my experience. And I'm just really trying to genuinely help others to try to be able to conceptualize it instead of having to experience it themselves. Just a quick follow up before I toss it to Jake. Does she cook, your wife? Yes. You being good.

You be eating good, Mr. Brian. Okay, I love to hear it. Okay, let's go to Jake. So Brian, give me a sense, and I know it's just one person, and so you don't speak for all veterans, et cetera. But among the veterans that you know, how much are they waking up and realizing that they didn't, they weren't defending America? that they were sent again like you realized to defend another country or to attack another country on behalf of a foreign government? I work at the fire station with a few veterans.

And they are up to speed. They know what the true reason for this wars are, money, greed, and now even more specifically, Israel and so the veterans that I know personally seem to show understanding of that. Now I know a lot of more veteran friends that I don't see day to day, but I know through social media and are all across the United States and I don't know exactly where they land. Sometimes they tell me we don't have the same politics, but you know, you're always being my friend and that kind of thing. So I don't know where they see things. And then one last set of veterans I was thinking about, I forgot my train of fast.

So that's okay, Brian, let me just follow up real quick and you'll remember in the midst of this answer too, which is I'm now noticing more and more veterans, interestingly enough, running in the Green Party, right? So Lieutenant Colonel Anthony Aguilar also running as he's a whistleblower for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. in North Carolina as a veteran. So Brian, is that a trend, which is veterans going, no, no, no, war doesn't make any sense. We're gonna go all the way to the Greens because they've always been for peace. And tell us a little bit about where you're running to. It seems to me like that is a trend. There's a lot of unconventional candidates in this election.

And that makes sense. The system is really showing itself to not work. and be of the people. And so that would motivate unconventional people to step up like myself. The last thing I would like to do is file with the FEC and do a bunch of administrative work to get myself in the position to do this. But I'm so thankful I did and it was only the passion to try to fight against the genocide and fight against the senseless wars and murder that motivated me to want to enter into this

arena. And so yeah, and I am so pumped to be with Tony Aguilar. His words towards Senator Shehee delight me so much and make me feel that camaraderie and someone that's on my side and gives me strength in this fight. Because it really is, we're not being listened to by our governments and they are just doing anything they want without just checking in with anybody. We used to think checks and balances was something that was unique or special about our government, and that's all falling flat. So anyway.

Yeah, and you know, for the audience members who live in North Carolina, he's running for the Senate seat in North Carolina as the Green Party candidate. And in regard to Senator Tim Sheehe, it's pretty clear who he works for and it's unfortunately not the American people. He's a Republican out of the state of Montana, and he stepped in for no reason at all to assist in violently kicking you out and breaking your arm in the process of doing so. Let's take a look at this APAC tracker graphic because you'll get a sense of just how much money he's been taking from APAC specifically. So the number is $641,337 total. $79,253 comes from packs, and then you have another $562,084 from bundlers. But just going back to what happened to you, you were the one who was roughed up. You were the one who had your arm broken.

But we later learned that the officers who arrested you, they were treated with kid gloves. They were treated for minor injuries. but you were charged with assault on a police officer resisting arrest and unlawful demonstration. Now look, obviously, when you engage in these types of protests, you will get detained. It's kind of expected, right? It's part of the, what is it called again, Jank? When you get into good trouble and they arrest you, you know you're going to get arrested. There we go, that's what I meant.

Yes, civil disobedience. I was having a brain fart. I forgot the wording. But tell me about those charges and what you've experienced so far after that whole incident. So those are my charges. Due to being in the legal process, I might not talk too much about those things. But definitely was, I think the video is really evident of what happened. And I think it's pretty abysmal to say that I assaulted anyone when I'm the one here with my, you know, my ulna and radius were broken.

And so, yeah, I just think that that was pretty absurd. And I never had any phone call offered to me or and I requested it my attorney while in the hospital. Now the hospital took great care of me, but I don't think, I think they were really trying to silence me and quiet the subject. Do you think the American people are free? We hear all the time that our soldiers fight for our freedom. Do you believe that the American people are free? No, not at this time with everything is going on. So much killing is being done without our advice or our opinion being taken. And ICE has really been brought authoritarianism to our states in our homes and to our streets. And so I really am concerned about the direction our country is going in in terms of liberty and justice for all. I think that's crumbling.

Yeah, my last question, Brian, is do you think APEC might have thrown in extra money to Senator Sheehee to break your arm? Like not to do it ahead of time, but afterwards. Like hey, nice job. Way to break US Marines arms and hurt them on behalf of Israel. How dare they protest Israel? Do you think maybe the guy he got a tip or gratuity for that? Jank, I really am not concerned about him, whatever he was trying to do. My whole purpose really is to just bring awareness to the Gaza genocide,

bring awareness to these unnecessary wars and the horrible consequences that come from the them and trying to speak from a place of experience, a place of compassion, and speak as a voice, which I've received so many emails from people in support of what I did through my campaign website. And they are so heartwarming and so supportive. And to me,

it's saying that that's the pulse of the nation. And I'm really excited and I'm really, I really hope that I've encouraged others to want to take action and in any way they can. in any little way they can. And I really encourage people to just take a small step in that direction and that those steps will grow and you'll become more confident. When I first went to protest, I felt out of place.

But something in my heart spurred me to want to be an activist. And being an activist is the easiest and the hardest thing to do. All you have to do is say you're an activist to be one, but then you have to find out and you have to push yourself daily to see what you can do to affect change for your cause. And so I just want to encourage that. And that's what that's all my message is. And I really appreciate all the support. And I really hope that I can win my election because I will be for to people.

And I hope people can just see that from what I am. I don't have nothing else to offer except these, these opportunities, these great opportunities from you guys to speak to the people. And hopefully people can see that. Where can our audience go if they're interested in supporting your campaign? I have a website, Brian McGinnis.org is my campaign website. and all my social medias are attached to that website, I've got a TikTok, I've got an Instagram, and I've got another one, you know.

X, maybe. Yeah, that's it. Thank you. Thank you. You're welcome. Well, Brian McGinnis, you are a hero in my book, a Patriot, and I really appreciate you for giving a voice to the voiceless. Keep on fighting. You have our support. Thank you for coming on. Thank you so much. I appreciate it. Yeah, I hope a lot more patriots following your footsteps. Thank you. Yes, me too. All right, everybody, we have to take a break. But when we come back, we've got a lot more to get to,

including a hit piece on Zorab Mamdani's wife by the free press and how it was signal boosted by Legacy Media. We'll be right back. Of course. All right, let's go to YouTube members. Faye Scott Smith says, thank you for your service, Brian. Brian, Dana Booker says, I have a work friend from Iran.

She told me her mom's house was blown up a few days ago. Her mom is alive, but she can barely talk to them. There's no Wi-Fi or cell service here. Then I do want to correct you a little bit. Her house was liberated. And I'm sure that she greeted us as liberators. We were told by propagandists that Iranian people couldn't wait to be bombed. And we were forced to debated by morons in the media who were like, I don't know, maybe they do want to be murdered.

by Israel. Let's debate it. Is it good for them? Young in 24 film says, I love the passion of TYT. People who make history are almost always passionate people. And by the way, thank you for saying that. I don't know if we're among them, but I do know that anytime somebody takes bold action to oppose the status quo, they're considered called radicals. And you shouldn't do it that way. You're doing it the wrong way. If you politely ask the powerful, I'm sure they would change their mind. Oh yeah, wait on that one. Mark Francis says, even if the war ends today, the Oil will not come back to normal for many months. We're in for a long road of pain.

That is definitely true. Robot engineer says, good point for journalist Anna. That's why Tara Palmieri left mainstream media to start her own reporting business. That's right. And she's actually great on the Epstein files. And look at that. She's out of mainstream media.

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That really helps the show, stay, you know, abreast of what we're doing and when we're going to be live. All right, Anna. Let's get to our next story. Zoran Mamdani's wife, Rama Diwaji, liked a post calling October 7th a mass rape hoax. That was only one of more than 70 anti-Israel posts I found, liked by Mamdani's wife. One post from October 9th, 2023, just two days after October 7th, characterized the terrorist attack as a defensive action

against a, quote, system of oppression. There is still no evidence of mass rapes on October 7th. But with that in mind, Olivia Rheingold, an Israeli propagandist or a propagandist for the Israeli government to be specific, who works for the free press, where she belongs, just keeps posting her else. So after publishing a piece denying famine in genocide and genocide in Gaza,

she shifted her attention to obsessively stalking the New York City mayor's wife and her activity on social media. Like, is this what journalism is supposed to be now? You're stalking someone online to see what kind of posts they like. And what's amazing to me, Jank, is that the post that she's whining about, aren't even that bad. And I'll give you an example when we come back from your two cents. Yeah. So there's two parts of this. One is can you believe anyone would be anti-Israel in the middle of a genocide and endless wars that Israel started? Obviously they must be anti-Semites and you should hate them and cancel them.

And secondly, remember, hate all the Muslims. You're going to see later in this segment, a CNN panel, where everyone agrees it's all the Muslims's fault. sure you hate the Muslims so Israel can get endless wars against who. Oh, they're Muslim neighbors. Tell us more. So look, before we show you more of her panic attack over the mayor's wife liking posts on social media that Olivia disagrees with, let's actually take a look at what she posted on social media about her story. She says, I found 70 plus posts liked by Rama Doaji, Zoran Mamdani's wife, of radical anti-Israel content and even Holocaust inversion. Okay. The reason why I wanted to show you that post is because Ryan Grimm, an actual journalist, responded to Reingold's revelations to say, you are a disgrace to our profession. I agree, although I wouldn't quite put her in the same category of work as someone like Ryan Grimm. Now with that in mind, let's get to some more of Ryan Gold's freak out over what Zerun Mamdani's wife is liking on social media.

Many of the post traffic in anti-Semitic themes, including Holocaust inversion. One post liked by Duaghi refers to a controversial Israeli prison, as a quote, concentration camp. This is what the post says. The concentration camp has a singular aim to exterminate Palestinians and destroy their resistance. Yeah, honestly, the post that's making Rheingold or pearls as hard as she's clutching them,

it didn't even go as far as I would have liked to describe the absolute depravity and inhumane acts that are carried out in the Stett Temen prison. If you're unfamiliar with that prison, It happens to be some, it used to be a military base that they converted into a detention camp for Palestinians after October 7th. And that also happens to be where the IDF soldiers gang rape, the Palestinian detainee. We'll get back to that in just a minute. But here's how the human, the Israeli human rights organizations describe the detention camp.

Take a look. We've been hearing stories of sexual assault, of intimidation, of torture. This has led the Israeli human rights organization of Bethlehem to release a report called Welcome to Hell in reference to the laymen and other Israeli detention and prison centers where Palestinians after the war have been subjected to horrendous practices by the Israeli forces. A lot of the detainees who have been arrested were held under what Israel's calls the unlawful combatants law, which is illegal in the international law, which allows Israel to hold Palestinians with no rights whatsoever, up to 45 days without anyone knowing where they are or what's happening with them or under what legal ground they're being held under. Meaning they are hostages. They are not charged with crimes.

They never stand trial. They're just gathered up, blindfolded, by the way, and thrown into a detention camp. Sounds familiar, doesn't it, Reingold? But as I mentioned earlier, this happened to be the detention camp where the Palestinian detainee was gangraped by IDF soldiers. It was all caught on surveillance. And I just, I, I, we learned that Israel has decided to drop all charges against the IDF soldiers because gang rape being a Palestinian detainee is totally okay in Israeli society. So let's take a look at the next video so you understand how disgusting this is.

Footage of the attack was leaked to Israel's Channel 12 news. Shows Israeli soldiers dragging and allegedly sexually abusing a Palestinian prisoner, hiding their actions behind riot shields. But video evidence of the assault has not yet led to justice for the victim of abuse. Instead, a criminal investigation was launched into who leaked the video. Late last month, Major General Yifat Tomear Yur Shalmi, the person who investigated the original attack, resigned, admitting she released it. Major General Yifat Tama Yer Yerushalmi,

me resigned saying she took full responsibility for the leak. She's now been detained on suspicion of obstruction of justice and breach of trust. Some of the accused reservists appeared outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem. Hiding their faces with the black balaclavas, they demanded the dismissal of their trial. Instead of a hug, we got accusations. Instead of thanks, we got silence. They gang raped, a Palestinian detainee on camera. reports indicate that they used a knife to anally rape him.

So let's go back to the post that Zeran Mamdani's wife liked that Rheingold is so upset about. This is what it said. Stedemin or Temen is a Zionist black site, a concentration camp located 18 miles from the Gaza Strip. Palestinian men presumed to be part of the resistance are captured from Gaza by the Israeli occupation forces. blindfolded, handcuffed, humiliated, and beaten by prison guards. The post didn't go far enough, Olivia. It didn't go far enough. Yeah.

You were a bad person, okay? Terrible person, bottom of the barrel. You are not a journalist, you are a propagandist for genociders. Go ahead, Jank. So first, obviously Israel approves of gang raping Palestinians. That's why they drop the charges. Obviously. And that's a stone gold fact now, it's empirical.

So they're on tape, there's no question they did it. And Israel goes, oh, you raped Palestinians? Kind of a mass rape there, right? A gang rapes kind of a mass rape. That's great, great, we love it. You're free to go. Congratulations. Oh, the person, I should say, the woman who turned them in, a good Israeli.

There are good Israelis like Oscar Schindler and was a good German. And they're trying to just have some modicum of morality and decency inside Israel. And then I love them for and they're good people. And they're like, no, put her in prison. She's letting everyone else know that we like to rape Palestinians. Meanwhile, when October 7th happened, let's just say that they can rape everyone. Do you have evidence of that? No, who cares?

Shut up anti-Semites. Okay, now look, there's allegations of, were there any sexual assaults on October 7th? I'm not getting into that debate, okay? So you could go look it up online and see what allegations. exist, what was verified and what was not verified. But this idea that there was like mass rape, right? They just came in on raping everyone. That's the kind of stuff.

And then there was also other lies about how- Yeah, they beheaded babies, right? What happened to beheaded babies? What happened to the babies that they allegedly put in ovens? Remember that lie? Yeah, sounds like Holocaust inversion. Anyways, we're gonna figure out what the hell that means in a second. So all this gigantic amount of propaganda,

I'll remember how evil Muslims are. And then Israel does 70 October 7th in Gaza, and they're like, oh, that's totally fine. They're just Palestinians. Then Israeli guards rape Palestinians. They're like, yeah, but they're just Palestinians. They're not really humans, right? But you're worried about bigotry? No, you're not.

You love bigotry. All those Israeli supporters like Rheingold and our boss Barry Weiss and Jonah Goldberg and Jake Tapper were about to show you, they're disgusting. bigots who love to drive hatred towards Muslims so we don't mind murdering them with American dollars and American forces. That's their whole point. So wait, what we heard about the Israeli hostages nonstop, and that makes sense. I wanted those hostages returned, right? But as Anna told you, and we've been telling you all along, the Israelis take thousands of hostages.

They never try them, they go do these giant sweeps, they don't have any evidence that they're part of Hamas and they wait and they go, okay, now we'll trade them for different things, okay? All right, and did American media go nuts over all the hostages Israel took? Way more than Hamas. Nope. If you say it, we're gonna call you an anti-Semite and eliminate you from the national conversation, okay?

So that's their, but a Holocaust inversion, I was like, what is that? What does that mean? So she just explained it there. What it is is, they say, if you accuse the Israelis of dealing with, doing anything that is akin to what happened in the Holocaust or any genocide, then you're doing Holocaust inversion. Okay, great, I'm doing Holocaust inversion because Israel is carrying out genocide and Holocaust.

Yeah, so but- Big deal, go ahead and call me whatever you want. I'm not gonna live in a fantasy world with magical thinking where the Israelis are not capable of doing anything bad because they're God tier people who are just above everything. They get treated with double standards, where Everyone else, everyone else would be demonized. Any other society would be demonized justly demonized for behaving in the way the Israelis are behaving. But for some reason you're not allowed to criticize the Israelis for behaving like barbaric animals.

And yes, I'm talking about the government and the military. But quite frankly, the majority of Israeli society wanted to back up the IDF soldiers who were seen on that footage. gang raping someone. And they support the atrocities and genocide that happened in Gaza. And 82% of them support killing over a thousand innocent people in Iran. They love it and they want more and more, more, more, more. And of course, America has to fight it. America has to pay for it, et cetera.

But so wait, under this dirty trick of this new propaganda thing of Holocaust inversion, Well, then couldn't Israel do a genocide or two or ten genocides or even a Holocaust? And the minute you legitimately criticize them for something they are doing, like the rape that we just saw, like the tens of thousands murdered in Gaza, they go, oh no, you're not allowed to criticize me for doing a genocide because I came up with a cute propaganda trick called Holocaust inversion. So that means we get to do any genocide we want. If we want, we could do a Holocaust.

We could do anything we want, because if you legitimately tell people what we're doing, and it's factual, we'll just say a Holocaust inversion. And so that way we get out of jail-free card and do as many genocides as we like. And of course, make America pay for it. And last thing, Anna, she talked about it, can you believe that Mom Dani's wife talked about fighting systems of oppression in Israel. Yeah, I can definitely believe it. Yeah, what do you think keeping five and a half million Palestinians as your prisoners for

58 brutal years is? Okay, I don't know what to call it. Like I called the Israeli prisons where they kidnap and take hostage innocent Palestinians and abuse them, humiliate them, and rape them. I call them gulags because they are most definitely gulags. I don't know what to call the occupies. territories, it's like it's too clean a term. Are they open air camps? Are they concentration camps? Because if you object to Israel, you get slaughtered in those camps, right? And now Israel has

reclosed the borders of Gaza and they're back to starving the Palestinians. Not according to Rheingold. According to Rheingold, even though Gaza has been raised, it's been leveled. There's no famine going on in Gaza. You know, the fine people of Gaza can just leave their tents and walk over to their local shuk, as, you know, Dershowitz likes to call it, and buy themselves a little Sammy, right, Rheingold? God, these people disgust me. She's disgusting, okay, absolutely disgusting. But you know what's also disgusting?

When Jake Tapper decides to signal boost this gross propaganda, take a look. The one-year anniversary of detention, Rama and I were honored to welcome Mahmood, meaning Mahmoud Khalil. Nor and their son Dean to Gracie Mansion to break our fast together. It is Ramadan. Mahmoud is a New Yorker and he belongs in New York City, unquote. Now you might remember Mahmood Khalil as the anti-Israel protester from Columbia University, to say the least. He was exercising his First Amendment rights. I get the talking point.

Part of my problem is that we live in a culture now that the second you're discriminated against or face state action because you're doing because of your First Amendment right exercises. It makes you a martyr, makes you kind of a hero. This guy's not a hero, he's a putts. This comes on the heel of this other controversy of Zora Mandami's wife being revealed to have liked a whole bunch of social media posts saying that the mass rapes were all a hoax and that Hamas was justified and all that kind of stuff. And Mondami's defense as well, she's a private person. It's not anyone's business.

Once you are elected and once you are in a role like this, people are going to be curious about. your spouse, period full stop. They're going to look through your social media. They're going to, and politically, yes, your spouse can be used against you. Let's roll what Mayor Mamdani said when asked about the story in Jewish Insider and the Free Press and the New York Times about her liking the social media post you described. Here's Mayor Mammani. My wife is the love of my life and she's also a private person who has held no formal position on my campaign or in my city hall.

I, however, was elected to represent all eight and a half million people in this city. And I believe that it's my responsibility because of that role to answer any questions about my thoughts and my policies and my decisions. Two quick things that I have to say before I go to you, Jank. Number one, Jonah Goldberg, who was the gentleman commenting in the video that you were just watching, I found it fascinating that when he was discussing First Amendment rights, he decided to put that in scare quotes. Okay. The other person on that panel is Karen Finney. She's the former communications director for the DNC.

This is what I have to say about the calls for Zoran Mamdani to essentially condemn his wife for liking posts that are based. Yeah, I said it. They're based. Trying to get someone to condemn their spouse in public because you're sensitive about criticism toward Israel. is some of the most depraved, but also childlike behavior that I have witnessed myself personally. Okay. So when these gross Zionist organizations decided to target my husband because they realized, oh, we can't get Anna fired from TYT. Why don't we start going after her family members? By the way, he's not a public figure at all, okay? And also not a political figure at all.

You know what he was pressured to do repeatedly to put out a statement condemning his wife? These people are so sick that they try to get in between people's marriages. That's how gross they are. Let me tell you something, okay? I would never in a million years condemn loved ones, family members, and friends to appease a mob. But what's also really important to remember is that I certainly would never do it, even if my life depended on it, to appease a Zionist. Back to you, Jank.

So most of the posts are very simple, post criticizing Israel. It's anti-Israel. Yeah, anti-Israel. Say it, it's okay. Yeah, yeah, no, no, it's, of course it's okay. But why was it anti-Israel? Just because, oh, she hates Israel for no reason. Or as these liars and bigots would say, oh, she hates Jews?

No, she was legitimately criticizing specific actions in the middle of a horrific genocide. And they're like, how dare she? She should know, no Muslim is allowed to criticize Israel's beloved genocide. Israel gets into a genocide, but if you dare complain about it, oh, we found one out of 70, we don't like the word she used for the gulag. We like her to use a different word. So when the Israeli soldiers are raping the Palestinians, she should use the correct terminology over it. That's your big complaint.

And I'm Mahmoud Halio. Can you believe he dare having Ramadan dinner with this, Mahmoud Khalil? Wait a minute, they didn't say a single thing that Haleel had said wrong. Like Jake Tapper was like, at the least, and then Jonah Goldberg, his whole job in media is to smear anyone who's against Israel's wars and called them anti-Semites. And guys like that are brought on to panels like this, so in the past they could unilaterally cancel people, now they can't, and it's driving them crazy, right? But they would come, and the whole point of this panel is to say, Mahmoud Halil is a dirty Muslim,

Mom Johnny is a dirty Muslim. His wife is an even dirtier Muslim. Condem them all. But did you give any evidence of what Mahmoud Halil said? No, they did six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Oh, Khalil talked to someone else and then so he talked to someone else and he said something I didn't like about Israel. That's what you got?

And that's how you smeared all these Muslims who, one of them who's the mayor of New York and the other one who's the wife of the mayor? They never gave any evidence outside of what we just told you, right? And they all assumed it. That's why I don't know who I should be more mad at. I get Jonah Goldberg, right? His purpose is destroy all of Israel's enemies in American media. And by the way, if you don't know, he's one of the principal guys who pushed us into

the Iraq war, right? Oh, America has to do it. Shut up and go to war. Oh, look, Israel's prime minister at the time said Iraq was their number one enemy. Oh, what a coincidence. But if you'd complain, anti-Semite, that said, cut his mic, eliminate him from him. for media so there could be no Israel's critics. So I know Jonah Goldberg, I get it, right?

And he's done this trick a thousand times, right? But then there's Jake Tapper who invites him on to do that trick and have plausible deniability. Well, I didn't say anything. I mean, I said, Haleel is dirty Muslim, right? I didn't say those words, but I said, oh, he objects to Israel. A terrible, terrible, Haleel. Why are you even doing this segment, right?

And you bring on this propagandist because you love Israel's wars, and you do. You demand that America fights them, and then you hate all Muslims, and you want all Americans to hate the Muslims. So, oh, look at that. They happen to be Israel's neighbors, and Israel happens to want their land. So we're going to tell you about how the dirty Muslims are the ones you should hate, and then and then wrap it up. This is so deeply ironic, guys, in the guise of fighting against bigotry.

Oh, we're worried about anti-Semitism being bigots against this poor little genocidal Israel. They were in the middle of slaughtering 20,000 children in Gaza, and these terrible bigots complained about it. Wait, wait, wait, isn't murdering the 20,000 children way more bigoted? Isn't cheerleading for that genocide way more bigoted against Muslims? They're like, yeah, but Muslim lives don't count. We're not gonna put a Muslim on that panel. We're not gonna put a single Palestinian support.

single Palestinian supporter on that panel, which brilliance me finally to Karen Finney. Karen Finney's job there is to be a patsy. She never once defended Mahmoud Halil or Mamdani or his wife, never once criticized Israel. Watch the whole segment. There's a painful eight and a half minutes. And he's like, oh yeah, they're all terrible, terrible, terrible. And I tell people, you know what? You know, you shouldn't say terrible things like that because people could use it against you.

Oh, I'm a Democrat. I'm trying to help Mom Dani. Remember, you should shut your wife up and not let her say those terrible things against beloved Israel. Oh, thanks so much for helping us, Karen. Yeah, embarrassing. Absolutely embarrassing. We gotta take a break. When we come back, it's a devastating story, and I hate to end on it, but we gotta give you an update on Lebanon. All right, let's go to you, t.yot.com members,

Seagatius Dragon says, lately I've been thinking how Israel's using us to fight its wars, but that they never join with us and ours. The Israelis refuse to fight with our troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan. They don't understand shared military sacrifice. It's not that they don't understand it, brother. It's that they think Americans are suckers to be taken advantage of. And they're like, why would we fight and die when we could just get the Americans to kill all the Muslims? And then that way, Hamas and Hezbollah and anyone fighting against Israel will be completely neutered. All of our neighbors will be neutered. We'll be a regional superpower. And we could take southern Lebanon. Oh, right, like they're doing now, which is what we're going to get to in a second.

Don Dada Dragon says, T.YT, I'd love it if anyone gave a shout out to Seymour Hirsch, a Jewish journalist who broke Watergate and My Lai in Vietnam. He hasn't stopped. He got so sick of being censored by CBS and New York Times that he started writing for a substack. He's covered Gaza to make sure Israel faces justice for their war crimes. American Jews in the media are not the same as the Zionist in the media. I could not agree more. Hold on, Anna. Hold on. Yes, go ahead. Go ahead. Seymour Hirsch is a legend, okay?

And that's why I tell you guys, don't ever go after Jewish American brothers and sisters that we have, okay? And they're oftentimes the best fighters for peace and for justice. And Seymour Hirsch also wrote about the Samson option that Israel has, which is if they feel like they're in trouble at all, they're just gonna nuke everyone. And we wouldn't know that if it wasn't for Seymour Hirsch. I have the privilege and honor of knowing Seymour Hersh and I've interviewed him, and I also know his son, and we're really good friends. So never, ever, ever take it out on Jewish people. So understand who your real enemy is. And that's the Israelis and the Israeli government. All right, back on TYT,

Jank, Anna, and No See for Hattie. Thank you for joining. They hit the join button below on YouTube. Really appreciate you guys can do it through t.com slash join and that through that during the breaks, you actually get content instead of the ads. All right, Anna, I cut you off during the break when you were going to say something about Seymour Hirsch. One of our viewers wrote in about Seymour Hirsch, who's a hero and happens, you know, look, the point is you judge people based on the content of their character. Okay, I take that seriously. So our criticisms, as harsh as they are toward Israel, and I do hate the government of Israel and their military, I don't hide that. I don't feel

like I need to hide that. I do not conflate that with the entire Jewish population. So, Seymour Hirsch, hero. Jeffrey Sacks is a personal hero of mine. I love him and I watch every interview he does. He's Jewish, he actually lived in Israel. So like please don't make the mistake of allowing hate to take over your heart to the point where you think the entire Jewish population is evil or deserves discrimination or any hatred. Don't turn into the Israelis, okay?

Yep. All right, let's get to our last story. This beachfront area in Beirut is usually bustling, but on Thursday it was sealed off by security forces after a deadly overnight Israeli strike. The victims included people who had pitched tents along the promenade, always sleeping in their cars after being displaced by Israeli strikes near their homes. They thought central Beirut would be safer, but the war caught up with them. That's because no one in the region is safe as long as a belligerent Israel is empowered by

the United States. The Israeli government, and I know this based on statements they're making publicly, is planning to turn Lebanon into Gaza. They're using the same tactics. They're leveling parts of Lebanon. And Jenk, they're just being overt about what their strategy is here. Before we get to that, your two cents. Yeah, real quick. First, they had this war planned. As soon as the Iran war was launched, they'd know that we were distracted. and the world wouldn't notice as they took southern Lebanon. And that leads to point number two. They've now forced the evacuation of a million people. So here comes ethnic cleansing round two.

They will then take that land and American media and politicians will pretend it was self-defense. When they started the war and they had a plan to acquire that land and slaughter and ethnically cleanse the Lebanese, They were planning it from day one as soon as they got America to launch the war against Iran. All right. When the Israelis tell you what they plan to do, you should believe them because they do end up carrying it out. So C-14, which is an Israeli media platform, hosted IDF Major General Uzi Dian, who stated clearly what Israel intends to do in Lebanon. Now he says it in Hebrew, but luckily the outlet posted what he said on X. So I'm going to read it to you verbatim. He said, quote, we need to act fast and with full force.

Conquer the territory there. Expell everyone who is there. Destroy everything there and turn it into a death zone, which means no one moves around there. Okay. So as we're conducting Israel's war against Iran, a nation of 92 million people. And if Israel gets its way, it'll be destabilized, causing another refugee crisis. Where exactly are they supposed to go? As Israel intends to ethnically cleanse Lebanon, where are the Lebanese people supposed to go?

And when I say this, when I pose this question, I pose it to the Americans, I pose it to the Europeans who spend much of their time losing their minds over the Islam. of their countries over mass refugee crises and how they absorb massive numbers of refugees into their countries. Why are you empowering Israel to do this? Because that is what you're doing. The United States in Europe empower Israel to do this. Does Israel absorb any of these refugees? No, of course not. I mean, in the United States, I mean, we both bankroll this garbage. We lose soldiers as we support this garbage. And yeah, we spark, we help Israel spark a refugee crisis that impacts countries around the globe. I mean, not to mention the homeland of the individuals who have been victimized by Israel's depravity and genocide. Yeah. So he just, Israeli,

Major General just said that they're going to turn Lebanon into a death zone. Now, I guarantee you, In the future, when we quote him, they'll say it's anti-Semitic to quote him accurately. Good, say whatever you want. We're going to quote all day, every day. We're going to tell the truth. Okay? Go ahead and put it in your pipe and smoke it. So let's talk about the death toll. Because right now, according to DropSight news, at least 63 people were killed and an additional 142 people injured in a single day of Israeli strikes in Lebanon. on, okay, total number killed since March 2nd. It's only been a few days. 634 killed, 1,586 injured, and more than 800,000 people have been displaced.

The number is likely higher than that because those are just the people who have registered with the Lebanese government about how they've been displaced, how they've been forced to evacuate by the Israelis. Not everyone registers with the Lebanese government when that happens. So the number is very likely much higher. Go ahead, Jane. Yeah, I've read that it's up to a million when you account for the things that you just mentioned. Okay, so have you seen this all over cable news? Oh my God, Israel is invading southern Lebanon. Oh my God, they just cleared out 800,000 to a million people.

Ethnic cleansing again. Oh my God, they murdered 634 people. Nope, I haven't seen almost anything on it. Right, because it's no big deal. They're just, oh, by the way, they're not just Muslims, by the way. They're also clearing out Christian towns. There's tons of Christians in Lebanon. And they're also getting-

They killed a Catholic priest. They just killed a Catholic priest. Yeah. They did, yeah. But you're anti-Semitic if you object. The priest must be murdered and anyone who objects is an anti-Semite, okay? So, well, is everybody going nuts over that? Now imagine if 634 Israelis had been killed.

Do you think cable news would cover it? Do you think that's all they'd cover? Do you think there'd be congressional hearings over it? Do you think we might launch a second war over it? Of course, right? Because those are precious lives. But Christian and Muslim lives in Lebanon are worthless to American media, American politicians, and obviously to the Israelis.

So guys, we just started with the slaughterhouse. This is just the beginning. And Smotrich said they're going to turn it into conunis. So conunis is leveled. Every building is destroyed. All hospitals, schools, everything is destroyed. And so they say, we're now going to destroy Lebanon and take it over. And we're going to turn it into a death zone. And cable news and American media barely find that interesting. They're like, well, is it worth even covering? I mean, I know, Jank, but what about Zaron Mamdani's wife? What kind of social media post is she liking? Yeah, they had a segment. They had an eight-minute

segment on that. I don't know that they've had a segment on Israel's invasion of Lebanon. And isn't it interesting that it was all ready to go? Like as soon as the Iran war starts, oh good, everybody will be focused on that. So meanwhile, when we launch an invasion, we've been planning for a long, long time into Lebanon to take more land and never return it, American media will conveniently not notice. And of course, every Muslim and Christian killed, Is irrelevant to American media? They think we're just cannon fodder for the Israelis. And they will lie to you and pretend it's self-defense.

And one last thing, guys. Who started this? Well, Israel and Hezbollah had a ceasefire. So you guys heard us talking about it. You heard all the news talking about it? Guess who violated it? Israel violated it over a thousand times. They fired a thousand rockets into southern Lebanon.

Hezbollah did not fire one back until the Iran war started. And after the Iran war started, then Hezbole finally fired back. And Israel then goes, self-defense, which is a gigantic lie. They're an aggressive imperial fascist empire in the middle of the Middle East. They are taking more and more land, killing more and more people, and forcing all of us to work harder here in America while we're barely hanging in there. So that our taxes can go to that slaughterhouse and to those death zones. And if any of you object, you'll be called an anti-Semite and you might be fired from your job.

That's the sick occupation that America is living under. All right. When we come back, I've got the revolution for you guys. We have a candidate for you. And then later for the members, I'm going to go back to reading your comments and interacting with you guys. in the member's only episode that we're going to do. And so your super chats and the member comments on YouTube and on tyt.com. So all of you stay right here.

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