The Young Turks - Cuomo Crashes Out - August 7, 2025

Episode Date: August 8, 2025

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All right, welcome to the Young Turks, Jane Hugger, John, I'd roll out with you guys. John is, of course, the damage report, and you should also check that out on YouTube. and everywhere else where we broadcast. So big show head for you guys. Unfortunately, we have more updates on Israel's, quote unquote, full conquest of Gaza, which has begun. And their latest absurd, totally over the top excuse, which they, everyone in media will repeat as if it is true. Okay, so you buckle up and brace for impact on that. But it is over the top.

Okay, and then a little bit later in the program, JD Vance changes the flow of a river to go vacationing. Like literally, but hey, waste fraud and abuse. So that's later in the program. Okay, today's a special day, what we're going to do is we're going to carry the bonus episode live for everyone, whether you're a member or not. And then I'm going to interview the foreign minister of the Uyghurs. Believe it or not, that is not me. Okay, we're talking about the actual Uyghur people and a foreign

and security minister of the Uyghurs exists and he lives in Oklahoma. And so you're gonna get to hear about that and unfortunately that particular genocide that's actually happening in China later on today's show. All right, John. I think if you'd asked me where he lived, I think Oklahoma would have been the last place that I suggested, actually. So good hiding spot until we revealed it. But anyway, yes, a lot of over the top things going on. Why don't we start with tariffs, which are also over the top? How much revenue have you brought in so far just from tariff's secretary?

So last month it average just over $30 billion. And as of last night, midnight, the tariffs went up. I think we're going to be heading towards $50 billion a month. month in tariff revenue that no one's talked about except for the president. So about 50 billion a month and that's where we are now. And then you're going to get the semiconductors, you're going to get pharmaceuticals, you're going to get all sorts of additional tariff money coming in. And as the president says, this could continue to head towards and ultimately reach a trillion dollars. Wow, those are some big numbers being thrown around there. And we're certainly going to

return to that dollar figure, but bear in mind that today Trump once again jacked up the tariff rates on more than 90 countries and that produces an outcome where the average U.S. tariff rate is now at its highest point in nearly a century. So those numbers are high. Right there you saw Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik talking about how he expects that soon tariffs will bring in $50 billion in monthly revenue even before the semiconductor stuff. And that's a really high number. And also you don't generally see this on the news very often. Very rarely do politicians come out and brag about how much they're going to tax their voters. It's a bold strategy, but he's going with it. We'll return to his claim about the dollar figure there. But first,

here's a map of where tariffs have been jacked up even more. And you can see in the orange, there's a new higher rate in the yellow. There are upcoming deadlines, like in Mexico, where the deadline was not going to be delayed until it was delayed the day after Trump said that China as well. And in the blue you have the deals that Trump made, the 90 deals in 90 days, which worked out to something like five or so deals across more than 100 days. And so some of these increased tariffs are very significant. So Brazil got an extra 50%, because Donald Trump doesn't like that his buddy Bolsonaro is being prosecuted. And so he's using American trade policy as a tool to meddle in the judicial system of a foreign country.

You have like a, you have some rates where it's not that much higher than what's considered the baseline of 10%. So for instance, in Japan and South Korea, the EU, that's at 15%, places like Taiwan and Vietnam are at 20%. But the important thing to know is that there is nowhere on the entirety of the earth's surface where there is not a tariff that is higher than it was before Donald Trump. And so no matter where Americans buy things from, we will be paying more. 10% in some places, 50, 100% higher in other places. And right now on average, it's at 18.6%. That is the highest it's been since 1933. Generally, it's somewhere around 2 to 3%. And so Donald Trump has times nined that on average. And you saw Howard Lutniks there trying to pitch this as a good thing. Money is going to be flowing into the US government's coffers from all these tariffs. And

Donald Trump is trying to make the same case. He's very excited about this saying, reciprocal tariffs take effect at midnight tonight. Of course, they're not reciprocal tariffs. They're just new tariffs he's putting on. They're not in response to other tariffs. That's not what that word means. And he says, they've been taking advantage of us. And by that, he means that we have a negative trade balance with many of these countries. And he doesn't understand that we being a far wealthier country will naturally have a negative trade balance with poor countries. He thinks this is a personal insult. It's just a sign of high American spending power. But anyway, he goes on to say 15 minutes later,

it's midnight. Billions of dollars in tariffs are now flowing into the United States of America. And the money is flowing. They did collect last month about $30 billion in tariffs. But importantly, the money isn't flowing into the US. Those checks are written by importers in the US. they are going to have to pay the United States government for what they import. And you know, generally they might get some from the corporations in exchange for that, but the corporations are almost certainly going to jack up the prices to make up for that. And if they do, then the prices are the price increases are going to be passed on the American taxpayer. And so in the end, what you effectively have is they have

this ever increasing number, 30 billion, 50 billion, but we're we're paying for that. And it is not just a new tax on the American taxpayer, but it's a natural, it's a regressive tax, the more of your income that you spend, which poor people do, richer people don't. They save most of their money, you're going to be paying even more of this. And so at the same time, Jank, that they cut the taxes on the wealthiest, they're now bragging to their poor voters about how much extra they're taxing them. And I really feel like the Democrats need to figure out a better way to get that across, because it seems like a massive missed opportunity, but what do you make of it? Yeah. So I'm going to shock the world and you by

saying that there's, I'm going to fess up to something that I think it was a little bit wrong about. Okay, so that's coming up in a little bit. And then I'm going to nevertheless make a new prediction. Be fun for everybody first. All right, so look, these tariffs are totally unsustainable. So they won't last. There's no chance. So I had said that in the past then I was right about that. He put up 145% tariff on China or threatened to. And then it lasted about 13 seconds because that's mental. And then he's like, I'm taking you back because I'm getting very strong concessions. China's like we didn't concede anything. India says now they're going to fight him to the end of time. Obviously prison is like 50%. What the hell is this? Okay.

And why? Because you have a bromance with the corrupt politician that robbed this country blind? I don't care, you know, how much you love corruption in America and Brazil. But a 50% tariff is like totally random kills all trade is insane, right? But if you thought 145% was bad, on August 12th, he's promising a 245% tariff on China. What's the point, right? Like, once it passes 200, jank, I'm not gonna buy as much Chinese stuff and $199, I'll do it, but. Okay, I mean, to give you guys a sense, right? So let's say you had a 15% tariff on something that costs $1,000.

It would go up to a thousand, like if all of it is passed on to you, and the great majority is, right? So it would go up to $1,150. Well, now you're really uncomfortable about buying that thing. that thing. You add about $1,000 in your budget. Now they're adding 150, that hurts, and you're paying it, right? Okay, now if you had a 245% tariff on that same $1,000 product, it'll be $2,450. And absolutely no one will buy it. Of course not. It's insane. Nobody's gonna buy it, right? And so whether it's like, in fact, I might have done the math wrong on that, might be even more. Anyway, whether it's 2,450 or 3,450 is totally irrelevant. Because once you get

past a certain barrier, right? I mean, what, max 20% of center? People stop buying it all together, right? So we have not fully hit the impact of these tariffs at all because the major tariffs just started today, right? And what, but on top of that, all the companies had been hoarding products, imports, because they knew the tariffs were coming. So they're also have some stock ready to go, and they're hoping that they won't run out before Trump changes his mind again, you know, or before it's Taco Tuesday again. And he's like, I mean, I meant 2.45%, right? So it's not totally unsustainable, been right about that from day one, absurd, right? It's, oh, one more thing about how much you guys have to pay. On average, this is insane and goes to John's

point. The average, according to Yale Budget Lab, average American is going to have to pay $2,400 more dollars because of these tariffs per year. $2,400. That is an enormous tax on the average American and a regressive tax. Like the billionaire doesn't care about the $2,400 at all when he's buying bubble gum and t-shirts and sneakers, right? But $2,400 to the average guy's back breaking. Remember, 40% of the country can't afford an extra $400 hit. What it didn't do with an extra $2,400 hit? Okay, so John, did you pay attention to any of that or were you just looking forward to the part where I admit I got something wrong? Oh, I thought that, I thought you were going to surprise me. I didn't know you were going to

surprise me of something wrong. I was all ready, you already had my interest, but I forget the rest of that quote. It's been a while since I watched it. What, what were you right? wrong about. Yeah, so I thought the tariffs were largely, not exclusively, because Trump's believed in them for a long, long time, and we showed on tape, he's been talking about him for decades because he's an idiot and thinks that since there was no income tax in the 1890s, because of the tariffs, you could just get rid of income tax. So I know all that.

But nevertheless, I thought it was largely a trick to say, oh, we're gonna get a lot of new revenue, so don't worry about that $4 trillion. an extra debt we're going to pile on because of the giant tax cuts. And hence, the ones the tax cuts had passed, he didn't need that excuse anymore. And he'd largely drop the tariff talk. But he didn't. So, okay, you got to own up to things you got wrong. Facts matter. Okay. So that was my educated guess. And I told you guys, not a fact, but a prediction or speculation or yes. And that guess was wrong, okay?

It turns out that Trump is really mental about tariffs. Like it not, it wasn't largely about the taxes. It was largely about how mental he is. And guys, seriously, he thinks he can get rid of the entire income tax, his own income tax, if he does enough tariffs. It's not the 1890s. You're crazy, dog. You know what's the one dish I make? It's called spaghetti a la Janka.

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I think it's fine for him to be corrupt on the taxes thing and dumb on the trade thing. I think he can be, he contains multitudes. But even if, let's say it was designed to do that, and all of the money that we raised did go to paying off the extra debt that he generated, which it definitely wouldn't. Like to give you an idea of how much he just handed the wealthy, so they're saying $50 billion a month. I mean, that's a lot of money, right? A lot of money. That's $600 billion a year. It would still take like eight years to pay off just the new debt that he's.

he decided to give to the, that's a crazy amount that they gave to them. And we would still be paying for that because we're the ones paying the tariffs. And so even if he used it for that purpose, it would be utterly unacceptable. Now we're of course expecting increasing prices, as you said, there's been some strategies that corporations have used to try to ward it off. And to some extent they haven't even necessarily had to because very often that tariffs were announced and then they didn't happen. they were going to happen and that it was delayed. I defy anyone to say what the actual

tariff rate has been in any given country two months ago. But the price increases are happening. And so the latest monthly measure of inflation showed that appliances, clothing and furnishings have become more expensive. In just the past couple of weeks, Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Nike and Hasbro have already said that they plan to raise retail prices to compensate for their rising tariff bill. And as we know, when companies have an excuse, a big worldwide thing, an excuse to raise prices. They never raise prices as much as they need to. They raise prices as much as they can. And so I fully expect them to pass on as much of this as they can and probably a little bit more, especially if people are forced over the

next year or two to get used to ever increasing prices. Well, then who's to say they're not going to do an extra 2%, an extra 4%. It's going to be like the supply chains. People are just used to that sort of thing. And all of this one would have to imagine politically is going to be terrible for the Republicans or whoever is the incumbent party when this is going on, Jake. Yeah, and at least to my prediction. So Trump's going to crash really hard. I don't want to say soon, but soonish, right? Two months, four months, definitely by six months. So now you have to understand the context. There's other shows that go around saying, That's it. Trump is done. It's over. Okay, he said some word wrong or he did some buffoonish thing.

That's it. He's melting down. Now, and we've told you a million times. No, it's not true. I mean, it's wishful thinking. It's fantasy land. It's just to appeal to people who want them to melt down. So why is this one, from my point of view, my prediction, why is this one correct? Okay, and why am I saying it now when I haven't said it before? So number one, he's going to pull off a little bit of a miracle here of stagflation. So normally what happens is when you have a low unemployment, that means the economy's doing well, everybody's employed, but then that'll heat up the economy and you might get high inflation, right? If you can keep employment and inflation down, that's beautiful.

And actually, we did that for a couple of decades here in America. Since a lot of folks don't have the perspective of the rest of the world, you don't know how miraculous that is. That's amazing that we could do that, right? But usually those things yo-yo, okay, and so, but in this case, the reason why you'll have higher unemployment and higher inflation is because the tariffs are pushing up prices, so that pushes up inflation. But because corporations now also have less money, they hire less, right?

So now you've got less hiring and sometimes firing to make up for the fact that you can't sell, you can't move your products, right? If you have 245% tariff on a product, you obviously can't move it. That hurts your bottom line, you fire people, and you certainly don't hire anyone new. So unemployment goes up, but because of the tariffs, inflation also goes up. And that's stagflation, and that's an epic economic disaster. So now that the tariffs have actually started, unless he tacos immediately, right? This is gonna start to do some heavy damage.

That's why I say in two, four, six months, right? Because they got to run out of the stock that they have, the prices have to go up, and then you're going to see both of those effects, and then the American people are going to start to panic. But not just on that, but also now mixing the fact that Donald Trump has given up tweaking Israel at all and is just fully in bitch mode now. And so if Netanyahu says jump, like he says, how high, how many Palestinians, would you like me to murder, whatever.

So he's 100% Israel first now. and doing an over the top in a way that is infuriating MAGA. So he's eating into his base, let alone the independence, right? And then on top of that, you got the Epstein files. And so all of these lead to the, to similar conclusions. A, he's not really for us. I mean, to John's point, so they put a $1.1 trillion tax cut into that bill for just people making over $500,000, $1.1 trillion.

So even if all these tariffs, quote, quote, work, they, you know, they raise, $600 billion while creating stagnation and all the other disasters, but they raise $600 billion. That's coming from the average American who's spending $2,400 extra every year. So you have to have two years of you guys paying about $2,500 a year in extra regressive taxes, and all of that will then go to the rich. People make it about $500,000. Look, you could do marketing and you could do propaganda for a little while, like, oh yeah, no, Israel's not killing anyone in Gaza, it's all lies until we all see the starving children, right? And you know, you can say, oh yeah, the tariffs, they're not going to create unemployment or inflation, and they're

going to create nirvana and Xanadoo, right? And that'll go for a while until reality hits. And when they go to Walmart and prices are much higher, and then their cousin lost his job, it doesn't matter what you BS them with. It doesn't matter what kind of marketing you do. And by the way, if Trump's unsure about that, he should go ask Democratic leadership. Oh, we're gonna pass this or we're gonna pass this or we're not gonna pass anything. We're just messing around with them. The donors told us not to pass anything. And how'd that work out for the Democrats? Reality has a way of catching out with you after a while. Yeah, and I'll just quickly say it's it's pretty amazing that like,

that they're choosing to do this when they just won largely on these issues. Like it's not even like we criticize Biden for not doing enough coming out of the pandemic. to fix the problems, to fix the inflation, all of that. But we know that at least there were, there were exogenous shocks. Trump is totally just choosing to do this. He didn't have to. Nobody was demanding this trade. I mean, maybe some of his voters, I guess, because they understood it as little as him. But like he just is choosing to double down on high prices, inflation.

The same stuff his base was so angry about, and enough independents were angry about, angry about that they put him back in power. It seems like the strangest political own goal maybe of our lives. I don't know if I'll ever understand it. No, I understand it. Just real quick on that, John. Look, it's the donors, period, right? So he says, oh, we're going to release the abstain files. And then he gets in, no, you're not. He's like, no, I'm not. They suck. They don't even exist, right? John, I'm going to stand up for America first. And then gets in office of donors are like, no, you're not, Israel first. He's like, yeah, sorry, I don't know what I was thinking about, Israel first, America, third or fourth, right? And on and on and on,

right? So the reason why he's doing the exact opposite of what he promised is the same reason why Democrats do the exact opposite of what they promised. The donors, they lie to you to get your vote, and then once they're in office, they're like, I'm not doing any of that. Where's the corporate subsidies? Let's increase those. Happens every time. It's almost enough to make you think we should try actual economic populism rather than just right-wing identity populism. It's almost enough. Rebellionpack.com. But anyway, we should probably take our first break.

Why don't we talk about an economic populist on the other side of this? Oh, I'm sorry, I was just going through our new substack. All right, seriously, check it out. TiT.com slash substack. It redirects you to our account on that platform. TiT.com slash substack. We're on there. It's been around a week.

So check it out if you can. I'm doing exclusive videos there. So that's a good reason to go among others. Well, if you like my videos. but you are here. So anyways, and by the way, John's shirt that is the ceasefire shirt, and that's on shoptyt.com, and a portion of the proceeds goes to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund. Okay. So, all right, John, what's next? Yes. Although I'm wondering now if we need another one, we've, there's no ceasefire, it's not going to happen. Maybe we need an end the

cleansing shirt or something like that. But anyway, we will get to that later in the show. First, Let's talk about this. I would be remiss if I did not directly address some of the news that we saw come out just a few hours ago, which is that the president of this country, Donald Trump, has been coordinating with Andrew Cuomo in direct conversation with the former governor. It is Trump billionaires who have been opposing our campaign's vision for a city that New Yorkers can afford. Yesterday, Zornam Dani addressed a recent report in the New York Times that stated that President Donald Trump could get involved in the New York mayoral race. Or in fact, to a certain extent, has already gotten involved and he clearly has a dog in that fight. We're gonna give you

all the details of Trump's apparent conversation with Cuomo. But first, Jank, what was your reaction of this? Do you see this one coming? Yeah, I don't know why he's underselling his endorsement by 50 Cent, who was in that press conference with him. Okay, I don't know if that joke is allowed, but I just made it anyway. Okay, seriously guys, we've got, we're asking you a question on t-y-t.com, a place where all the cool kids are. Will Trump's involvement in the New York City mayoral race make it more or less likely for Zoron to win? I have a very strong opinion on that, which I'll share with you in a minute.

But this goes to prove exactly the point I was making, John, on my Jubilee Surrounded episode. Democrats and Republicans, they're classic, you know, establishment politicians. And yes, I hate to break your heart, but Trump is now a classic establishment Republican politician. Are birds of a feather, all of a sudden when economic interests are involved and donor interests is involved, does they magically agree? Cuomo and Trump who've been fake fighting for all these years are now smooching over how much they're like, oh, my God, he's gonna raise taxes on our donors and doesn't even bow down to Israel.

We have to defeat him. Oh, look at that. They totally agree. Yeah, it could be that. It could be that Cuomo maybe has some secret legal issue that he knows the Trump DOJ would use against him, just like Adams, we don't know for sure. But what we do know is this report for the New York Times, they had eight anonymous sources, which look, I'm glad that they're, you know, double and triple checking.

But once you get to like five, that's good on 80 more sources. You've been ethical. In any event, they spoke to a number of people who said that in recent weeks, Trump has been quizzing Republican congressmen and New York businessmen about who can take down Mamdani. And apparently in recent weeks, Trump has spoken about the race directly with Cuomo. Apparently also donors and allies of both Adams and Cuomo have pined for weeks for the president to intervene, arguing that Trump, a lifelong New Yorker with strong views about how the city should be run, could play a role in consolidating the anti-Mandani vote behind a single opponent. And yes, Trump did live in New York for many years. He's also badmouthed it really viciously for the past few years. But still, their loyalties lie along class lines rather than like NYC pride lines. Trump has denied this.

story. He was asked in the Oval Office if he'd spoke with Cuomo. He said, I haven't. No, I haven't. But the issue with that is that he is the biggest liar in American political history. So it doesn't mean anything that he said that he didn't. He also said he hadn't to prove Tulsi Gabbard's attempted hit job on Obama and the Russia story. But he did give the OK for that. So not a lot of credit can be given to what he says. Cuomo's team, on the other hand, like half denied the story. So in a statement, a spokesman for Cuomo said that Cuomo in Trump, have not spoken in a while, but did not clarify what a while meant. As far as I know, they have not discussed the race, okay?

And since that story came out, Cuomo has taken to Twitter to attack Donald Trump, to give the facade of independence from our dear leader, and at the same time has argued that it's Mamdani who won't stand up to Donald Trump. He tweeted, Donald Trump would go through the no-show assemblymen like a hot knife through butter. And I'm learning that when Andrew Cuomo has come up with a line or a phrase that he thinks is good, he will run it into the GD ground because I found tweet after tweet with no show assembly men over and over and over. And then on the knife through butter, he later tweeted, as usual, you're short on facts and long on nonsense talking about mom, Donnie, and said, while I'm here, let's be real. Donald Trump would go through you like a hot knife through butter. You would be a dream come true to the Republican Party. But I think that that's sort of undercut, Jank, if the head of the Republican Party is desperately trying to figure out how to get you to win. What do you think?

Yeah. Oh, Donald Trump's going to go through you like a hot knife of you butter. Well, for me, I don't have to worry about that because we're best friends. I don't think that that's the win you think it is. Okay. So look, there's an important warning I'm going to give you guys on what I think they're going to do and why. I don't get too cocky, they could still pull this out in a hundred different ways, okay? But this idea that Trump is going to help Cuomo is, I mean, honestly, idiotic.

There's only one saving grace, and I don't know that they actually talked about what I'm going to suggest in a second. Okay, but otherwise, it's an albatross around his neck. Eric Adams got a pardon from Donald Trump, and his polling fell down to 6%. They're not in, I don't know if they know this, they're not running for the mayor of Tuscaloosa. They're running for the mayor of New York City. It's one of the most liberal, progressive cities in, in the country. Oh, yeah, I got this on lockdown. I'll get Trump's endorsement and that'll help me win Vermont.

What? No, no one. Oh, yeah, San Francisco loves Trump. Like what? Do they not know any politics? That's so weird and insane, right? And it's not like it's around the edges where you're like, well, actually Bernie could help you in West Virginia. No, it's like campaigning with Hillary Clinton in West Virginia.

Like it makes no sense. So I know what they're doing. So now that being public about it will never work. The middle ground is, oh no, we are not coordinating at all. Send me your donors. Oh, yeah, the donor money's coming. And that's why Cuomo's calling you, mainly for, hey, my corrupt Democratic donors aren't enough. I need an army of donors.

Can you send them the cavalry of corrupt Republican donors? And Trump's like on it. And he's like, oh, by the way, did you, you know, pleasure Netanyahu today? Of course I did. How dare you? Of course. I pleasure it before you did. Okay.

So that's the conversation that apparently happened. Maybe over dramatizing a little bit there. Okay. I had trouble spitting that one out. Okay. So that's what Cuomo said after talking to Netanyahu. Anyways, let alone Trump. Okay, so but the part where I go, uh, at some point, sometimes I get a little bit afraid

to say these things out loud for fear of giving them an idea, but they're going to figure it out eventually. They're going to offer Eric Adams a very lucrative private job in the private sector. Wall Street is all of a sudden going to decide that he has a lot of financial expertise. And, you know, in a cushy, beautiful giant office, which ironically he'll never have to go to, right? And so he's going to find his way out of the race when one of the donors figures out, giving him a couple of million bucks for a couple of years is going to do the job, right? So that's how they'll spend some of the donor money.

And then Cuomo will pick up Adams vote. I thought they might do the same thing, John, with Curtis Slewa. But Slewa looks like he's kind of dug in. He's the Republican goofball, the guardian angel guy. I mean, look, I ran for president when I wasn't born in this country. But I think that has a better chance of winning than a guy wearing a beret for any office in the country. Well, that's entirely possible. Look, in terms of the polling, if they get Eric Adams to drop out,

and if all of Eric Adams vote goes to Cuomo, which I imagine the vast majority would, perhaps not all, I don't know how that shakes out in the overall voting. Right now, Mamdani still has a big lead. But one interesting little tidbit that we can end on is all of them, including Cuomo, are constantly trying to make the case that he, that Mamdani is anti-Semitic. Many Democrats are trying to make that case. And their argument seems to be, I mean, look at him, he's got to be. And it doesn't seem to be working, thankfully. There was a recent poll that showed that 43% of Jewish voters in the city would vote for Mamdani, including 67 percent of Jewish voters between 18 and 44.

Interestingly, Cuomo got 26 percent, Eric Adams, 15. So even if you combined their vote, they don't match him in terms of specifically the New York City Jewish vote, despite months now of just constant, he's an anti-Semite, he's an anti-Semite, he's an anti-Semite. Yeah, so look, last two things about that. As you're gonna see later in the program, Alan Dershowitz is losing it over a parogi, again and he starts accusing everyone of anti-semitism and one person is like, I'm Jewish. The other person is like, I'm Jewish and my grandparents died in the Holocaust.

He's like, doesn't matter, anti-Semite, anti-Semite. You don't need, like, American press and the people in power in America don't need a reason to call you an anti-Semite. They'll do it anyway. They'll be like, oh, what are you having for lunch, bologna? Anti-Semite, right? So why not have hummus? Whatever, they'll find a reason.

You had it with your hands. Okay. Okay, so the last thing that I found amusing is Andrew Cuomo's people that John referred to with their non-denial denial, they said, Cuomo and Trump have not spoken in a while. Okay, but they didn't clarify what a while is. And they said, and the same spokesman said, as far as I know, as far as I know, they have not discussed the race. Yeah, they definitely talked. They definitely talked about the race. Yeah, yeah. Now, what you'll know when Elon Musk starts doing a $1 million a day registration drive for Cuomo or whatever. And I'm sure we'll see that soon. Well, I think that we've talked enough about the Cuomo's jank.

Why don't we turn and talk now about the Cuomo's, starting with this? You're listening? I was wrong. I was tweeting today and saw a clip of AOC saying that Sidney-Sweeney ad was racist. And so I replied to it and I said, why do you care about this and ignore what matters most? Why in all the times that you've called on Israel to stop, why have you never told Hamas to stop, told Hamas to surrender? So that is Chris Cuomo on his program apologizing for getting something wrong in regards to AOC, kind of. Technically, it's an apology. It didn't feel much like one or sound much like one.

He came out of it sounding more confident about himself and his position that he went into it. But he does kind of need to apologize because that the video that he retweeted was the most obvious deep fake that I've literally ever seen. The original Will Smith eating spaghetti videos were more convincing than this one of AOC. And we're going to show it to you. But first, Jank, both of us have been on Cuomo's show. We agree with him on some stuff, disagree on others. He's really doubling and tripling down on this whole thing with AOC. Yeah, there's a couple of different things here.

I think, look, as you guys know, I like Chris as a person and but some of his statements drive me absolutely crazy. I'm sure mine does for him. But lately he's been going off to deep end on Israel. And I don't know what's driving it. I don't know if it's his brother's race and the fact that, you know, 1, 128% of his brother's donors back Israel. I don't know. I'm left to speculate. In fact, we're speculating on our live chat poll here. Why does Cuomo dislike AOC? She's A is she's too progressive, B is she's too pro-Palestine, C, I'm not sure. I kind of want to vote for all of them, so I guess I'm not sure.

But like I think that the Israel thing might have to do a lot with it. But so by the way, watch the show live at 6 o'clock every day. And then you get to participate through the chats, et cetera, too progressive. Maybe you guys are right, I'm not sure. So, okay, I'm gonna come back to how absurd the deep fake was. fake was, I mean, in the deep fake, you're going to see it in a second. She talks about how people masturbate the Sydney Sweeney. How could you possibly think that was real?

On the floor of the house. Okay, it's insanity, right? Yeah. And then I want to come back to Cuomo's obsession with how much he loves Israel and how Hamas made them do it. Like Israel is such tiny little big. They keep getting bullied around by Hamas, who is just such a bigger military than Israel. You know, and that's why the Israelis have lost 61,000 people and had 25,000 of their children massacred. And that's why the Israelis are starving to death and tell, wait, oh, it's the opposite.

Can you guys tell Chris, it's the opposite? Okay, go ahead. Yeah, well, why don't we start with a little bit of that actual deep fake? Sydney Sweeney looks like an Aryan goddess. And the American Eagle jeans campaign is blatant Nazi propaganda, skinny. attractive, blonde-haired, blue-eyed cisgender women descend from the slave daddy oppressors of this nation. And any man who cranks one out, while thinking about a woman like this, probably hates black people, probably hates gay people, and they certainly hate the diversity of our

great nation. So I say, instead of simping for the Sydney's, we should be celebrating the Shaniquas. Instead of worshipping the hot straight blonde, what about the obese alphabet, people with blue hair. They need love too. And to all the haters who say companies that go woke, go broke, I'd rather be poor than a Nazi. Same. But the rest of that obviously was fake. Again, the very beginning of the video where she's talking about her looking like an Aryan goddess. If she was being critical of the video, Chris, why would she say that? Why would she call her a goddess? Why would she talk about her swinging fun bags on the house floor. It's the most like her mouth was like Ronan O'Brien used to have like a still image of a celebrity and then a person would do the lips on a green screen.

That's more convincing than this deep fake. And Chris Cuomo was like, I buy this. I'm running with this. And again, you can get stuff wrong. I've been fooled before too, but you just apologize. And then that's it. Maybe you promise to do better. And then that's it. Not you apologize, but actually when you think about it, I'm even more right than I thought I was. That's not how apologies work.

In politics or in personal relationships, that's not going to get you anywhere. And so he put out that video and he put a tweet with it saying nothing about Hamas or people burning Jews cars, but sweetenie jeans ad, deserve time on floor of Congress. What happened to this party? Fight for small business, not for small culture. wars. Again, this is a culture war topic. And it is 99% as far as the media is concerned,

the right wing. Do you know, Jank, Media Matters did analysis? Last week, Fox News used the name Sidney, 100 times more than Jeffrey Epstein. But you tell me the Democrats, the ones focused on this culture war. It's absurd. So she responded saying, this is a deep fake dude. Please use your critical thinking skills. At this point, you're just reposting Facebook memes and calling it journalism. And he responded, and this is a great first opportunity to apologize. He says, you are correct. That was a deep fake, and then in parentheses, but it really does sound like you. No, it doesn't. It doesn't sound like any actual person because it's obviously a joke. It's obviously a way over the top caricature of what the person who made it thinks

a leftist would say. You can't seriously watch that and think that's what AOC sounds Sounds like, or if you do think that, that says so much more about you than it does about AOC. What do you think? First, I just found out that Chris got a new dog and the family's super excited about it. It's triumph to insult comic dog. Thought it was real. He brought it home. Just keeps insulting the family.

It's really annoying. Okay, we're forced to make these chokes. There's nothing we can do about it. All right, here's why we're forced. Brother, first of all, it literally said in the video, this is AI parody. Okay, if you looked at the watermark. Second of all, she said the F word several times. You think she say that on the floor of the house?

Third of all, the words didn't match her mouth at all, not even close. Okay, you guys saw some of it. You watched the whole thing, and she's like, I'm not going to imitate it, but the words of mouth doesn't match at all. Okay, then you think she's going to say things like she's a hot, straight blonde, and by the way, that her own followers are obese and have blue hair. Okay, less likely to say that. okay if you're a progressive or a decent person but why am I still having this

conversation she said swinging fun bags come on Chris how'd you miss that one okay come on come on come on that is a statement that is not likely to be made on the floor of the house and I AOC could live 200 lifetimes and never say that phrase yeah no no no she's not like that's That's like she, AOC is not going to go on the house floor and talk about someone cranking one out. That's not a thing that AOC says. That's a thing that right wingers do while hate watching AOC.

That's how that works out. Okay, and she called Sidney a tempterist and all that stuff. So let me now address the last two things, which is the Sydney Sweeney and the, and the Chris's obsession with Israel. So Sydney Sweeney was mentioned by a couple of criticized, that ad was criticized by a couple lefties like two to three lefties and I at that point when it was like a minute into the controversy it was like no no no don't do that don't do that it's super stupid it's going to annoy people right and then so those two to three human beings right

did say something and then that was followed by two to three million right wingers going sit this way to sit this evening I got it guys I got it you found two to three people who said something comical and absurd I agree with you that it was comical and absurd. But what's what much more absurd is pretending that like 75 million Democratic voters agree with three randos who made a comment about that ad and how you guys can't stop talking about it. So culture wars meant to divide us. Somebody does something wrong on the right on the left or the right by the way. Say something terrible about black people, gay people, et cetera. And then there we go, we fight. And then for the next month,

That's all we talk about, right? So I'm gonna save the Israel part. Fras, you wanna give us an update on that? Yeah, on what he was actually referring to there? Yeah. Yeah, so they go back and forth, but this is the incident that he was referring to when he talks about the cars being burned.

So there's this thing, death to the IDF being scrawled on a Clayton Street where there was a fire that did damage three cars. And it's believed to be an intentional attack. It's a death to the IDF is written. It was an intentional attack. Thankfully, no one was injured. It was just cars.

And Leo Terrell, the head of the US Department of Justice's task force to combat anti-Semitism, stated that the attack targeted an American citizen who had come back from serving in the IDF. And so he referenced it there. And then on his show, we actually talked about it a little bit more, which we can go to. He was right. They got me. AI. It was really good and it did seem like something she would say, but it wasn't her.

So I thanked AOC for correcting me. But I then reminded her, she ignored the part of the tweet that mattered, okay? Not Sweeney, which really should have never been a thing, let's be honest. Why did AOC, the most popular Democrat in the country, powerful, reportedly ignore what I asked about calling on Hamas to surrender to end the war they started? She has never said that that I could find. Think about that. She also ignored my question about saying nothing about the American IDF soldier who returned home only to have his car fire bombed in America by anti-Semites. Why? Why wouldn't you say anything about that?

She was also silent on the New York Times posting a picture of a Gazan boy with cerebral palsy and making him the face of starvation in Gaza. Okay, so really fast, Jane, just a couple things on that. First of all, him saying, yeah, they got me, But it was really good. No, it wasn't. It wasn't good and it doesn't sound like her. You're not apologizing. You're basically saying anybody could have been fooled and no, it's really bad that you were fooled. And then saying, why hasn't she called on Hamas to surrender? Yeah, that is what Hamas is waiting for. If only the junior congresswoman from New York had called for that, they would have done. Why didn't she talk about the fire? Because it happened like 2,000 miles from her district and she can't comment on literally every hate crime that happens

in America. This is America in 2025. There's hate crimes constantly. Okay, she's not going to comment on literally everyone. And so it's just like, he just desperately wants to make this point, this point about everybody being mean to Israel, and he wants to tie it to someone who is notable and popular. That's what this feels like to me. Yeah. So look, we don't know who did that crime. So they've already made a whole bio of a guy that we don't know. And so if it turns out to be what was logical, and we all think, which is an anti-Semite who, or gave someone who hates Israel, but did this violent act, right? Chris, that's, would you think that's hard?

Like, I think that a lot of people on the right, and apparently, Chris, they think it's hard for us to condemn that. It's not hard at all. It's so obvious, oh, are you pro or anti blowing up a car? I'm anti blowing up a car. Is that like a bit, like, do you think that we are pro blowing up a car? And do you think it's like a controversy or something? It's not a controversy.

Of course you shouldn't do that, obviously. Condemming Hamas. Brother, okay, actually before I move on to that, wait, and I don't know, maybe he could correct me or not even correct me, but tell me because I'm not sure. Did Chris Cuomo cover on air the six-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was killed in this country because his landlord thought the Palestinians were terrorists and murdered that poor kid? Did he covered the Israeli supporter who ran over peace protesters by Colombia with his car? Did he cover the Israeli supporter who shot at two people in Miami thinking they looked like they were Palestinians? Turned out they were Israeli tourists. Okay, were all those covered?

The thugs who attacked the peace protesters at UCLA and got away with it as the cops stood by for three hours straight, letting them assault the peace protesters viciously. Maybe he covered one or two of those. Did he cover all of them? Did he make a giant big deal out of it? Because if we're going to go crime for crime, I mean, there's so many more. And then if you get into Israel, the crimes of Israel are a thousand times. Did he cover every starving child?

I mean, did he cover every child that Israel has murdered? Well, no, of course not, because that would take his entire show every day, a time. times a day, right? But no, no, no, beloved tiny little victim Israel. Little victim Israel. I mean, they only slaughtered 61,000 Palestinians at a bare minimum. So okay, now on to Hamas. They always think this is such a big gotcha. Do you condemn Hamas? Yeah, I do, it's easy. Okay, check. Okay, now let me ask you something in return. Israel has murdered 50 times the number of civilians as Hamas. And over 500 times the number of children as Hamas. So do you condemn Israel? Okay, I'll wait. I'll wait the rest of my life before any of these is the lovers of Israel's

genocide turn around and go, oh, you're right. Israel's 50 times a terrorist Hamas. What they'll do instead is, oh no, how dare you say that? Don't you know, Israel is the greatest moral country in the world and our special ally, we owe them. We owe them all of our money, we owe them a genocide, we owe them murdering all the Palestinian kids and us cheerleading on the side. We don't owe them anything. I don't know a country in the middle of a genocide, murdering kid after kids, now starving children to death.

So do you condemn Israel, Chris Cuomo? And every Israeli supporter, do you condemn Israel? Because if you don't, you love terrorism. And that's just a stone cold fact. We're honest and principled. We condemn all the terrorists. For them, if you're a Muslim, I condemn you terrorist Muslim. Oh, Israel murdering 50 times as many people, bravo, here's more money.

Now, not mine. American taxpayers, you owe Israel, you haven't slaughtered enough Palestinian kids. They didn't intend to, that's why there's sniper shots in the head on the chest, reported by doctors over and over again. That's why they dropped 2,000 pound bombs. That's why they cut off eight to the point where nearly 200 people have starved, 90 children have starved to death. How could you do an unintentional starvation campaign?

But nope, nope, no, beloved Israel, beloved terrorist Israel cannot be condemned. But the real problem is AOC talking about city, wait, she didn't even do that. So you see all of these distractions to protect a government that is doing genocide, in arguable, ethnic cleansing and genocide. In fact, today they announced, yeah, we're taking over all of Gaza. And by the way, here's a new prediction for you guys. When Netanyahu today was covered it later in the show, said, oh, we're gonna take over all of Gaza. Then later, we'll give it back to the Palestinians.

I guarantee you Cuomo is on the air tonight, go, oh, of course they will. They're such humanitarian, after they remove all the Palestinians and they slaughter way more of them, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, then after they murder and move and ethnically cleanse all of them, then they'll give it back. Are you really going to say they're going to give it back? Come on, man, go ahead, make one more ridiculous, ludicrous argument on behalf of a genocidal government, one after another, after another after another after another. you get tired of it, doesn't your conscious bother you? So that's what I think.

Greed. Let's take a break. So real quick, I was just reading about, somebody asked if there are free stuff on our substack account. Oh yeah, like the videos I make are all free, the posts are free, and we're gonna talk more and more about the rebellion on substack and how we could rebel against this system. So check that out at tyt.com slash substack and doodle dragon Amron wrote in, that shirt looks excellent, John. Love you, TYT. That's the ceasefire shirt. That's on shop tyt.com. Part of the proceeds go to the Palestinian Children's Relief Fund and also doodle dragon Emron created that shirt. Okay, so pretty convenient compliment. No, he's doing it out

of purpose, of course. And Ron, you're awesome brother, love that shirt. All right, John, what's next? Okay, let's talk about something truly awful. A Democratic firm called Mothership Strategies has apparently scammed well-meaning Democratic voters out of literally hundreds of millions of dollars and all this is according to an expose by Stanford political scientist Adam Bonica and so Mothership Strategies has this network of affiliated pacts they're mostly like fronts what they do is they send out these text messages you've almost certainly gotten text messages like this not necessarily from mothership strategies if you've ever donated to like Pelosi or whatever you

probably got about a thousand of these but they're all like super emotionally charged Like we're close to tears. If Asaf wins Georgia, Dems flip the Senate, but no one is donating, or they're not mad, they're just disappointed that you haven't donated, or there's this huge match coming, you have to donate. And lots of candidates do this sort of thing. People generally hate it and I hope that it gets phased out, but this particular firm did a whole bunch of it. And here's the issue. If you actually donate to these packs thinking that your money is going to go towards the candidate they're talking about or the party or dealing with the with a particular issue, not so much. Only a tiny fraction of your donation actually went to those

causes or individuals. And so since 2018, the PACs that are linked to mothership have raised more than a half a billion dollars. That's a lot of money. But of the $678 million raised, only 11 million, or about 1.6% has gone to Democratic campaigns or committees, according to the analysis of that political scientist. And I, I, I, I, I guess nothing they did was technically illegal. It kind of feels like it. I mean, Donald Trump ended up having to do a $25 million settlement because of his frauds and there were charity frauds and everything. This feels like fraud if less than 2% is going towards it. But a few more details. The mothership strategies, it was founded by alumni of the Democratic

Congressional Campaign Committee. And so you're probably wondering if only 1.6% goes to the thing it was donated for. What does the rest go to? Well, these organizations have a lot of expenses kind of by design. They pay consultants huge amounts of money. So the organization gets paid, their friends who are consultants get paid, and the founders get huge paychecks too. And about half of the money that does go to the PACs at all is spent on the party's official campaign committees. And we have more analysis, Jenk, but these are some pretty crazy numbers. What do you make of it? Yeah, look, the tenor of the emails, everybody's guilty, let's be honest, okay?

So I'm not as worried about that at all, right? But, and we all got used to it from like a decade ago when we started getting those emails of Nancy Pelosi's about to be murdered by Donald Trump, unless you give $3 right now, right? And so like, okay, we got that one kind of almost happened, Jank, actually. Actually, there you know, now I feel bad about it, but okay, but seriously, um, but seriously, um, But 1.6% went to candidates and the rest went to you guys. Nah, guys, look, this is like when people do false accusation of racism, it's so damaging because then people don't believe it when you, there actually is real racism or sexism

or whatever it might be, right? And so it's like crying wolf and so many good organizations are fighting so hard on on really important issues, but stuff like this burns everyone's house down. Because people then go like, I don't know who's real, who's fake, right? And so they stop giving entirely. So not only do they do the first crime, which is taking all hundreds of millions of dollars and keeping 98.4% of it, but then the second crime is arguably larger, moral crimes. I'm not saying that they're technically illegal, right?

for others to sort out. But the second problem is even bigger, which is that then people, we need grassroots money in order to beat corporate politicians, especially when some representatives have been bold enough not to take corporate PAC money, but then people don't want to give because of scams like this. There's one group in particular here that I am livid about, but I'll get to that after John gives you the rest of the story. Yeah, so why don't we jump into a little bit of what the political scientists who did this

analysis and broke this story said about it. He says this parasitic ecosystem could not thrive without the tacit approval of the democratic establishment. The relationship between the Mothership Network and the official party is not adversarial, it is deeply symbiotic. The Democratic establishment itself is a client actively hiring the firm at the heart of the vortex. And here's an example of how this actually works in practice. One of the biggest groups in the Mothership Network and Citizens United presents itself as an advocate for campaign finance reform. But it was launched by Mothership Founding Partnership's Founding Partners, Greg Berlin, Charles Starnes, and Jake Lipset, and has paid more than $16 million to mothership and its associated vendors, while the small amount it is actually given to politicians has gone to those who serve the interests of the mega donors and corporate lobbying groups empowered by that exact Citizens United decision.

And, Jank, I have no idea why this one in particular would bother you. Yeah. So look, I'm part of the movement to get money out of politics and have been proudly for, you know, long, long time. And so I formed Wolfpack back in 2011. You know, I'm a believer in Larry Lessig's drive to get a constitutional amendment. He's Harvard law professors, wants to bring both sides together, right wing and left wing. We've both been saying that for 15 years now on that particular issue. Because you need an amendment and you can't get an amendment without both sides of green, too many blue and red states to be able to pass something that only one side wants. Okay. So in the middle of that super earnest movement, there's a lot of groups.

not just Wolfpack. By the way, fight corruption. Us. They're the most earnest people in the world. They're trying so hard to get money out of politics. That's a real place, fight corruption. Us. Okay. So we're in the middle of that movement, a while back around the 2020 election, this group, at least that was the first time I heard about it, and Citizens United pops up out of nowhere. And I'm like, huh, I never heard of them. And I ask around. And it's not just Wolfpack, there's a lot of great, wonderful earnest groups trying to get money out of politics, right? And I might agree or disagree with their tactics, but I love that they're trying, right? So then I asked, you guys ever heard of them? No, no, no, no.

And then En Citizens United starts giving money to like Cory Booker and Kirsten Gillibrand and every corporate Democrat. I'm like, wait, what? I'm like, those are the corporate Democrats who love money in politics. their entire career is based on money in politics. What are these guys doing? And it turns out this is what they're doing. Oh, there's so many greasy, greasy scammers in Washington, D.C. Look, I don't know the details of story well enough to tell you,

oh, the people who founded this are wrong or guilty. I don't know. But I do know 1.6% is so. No unjust, it's it's maddening and I do know that the people that they endorse and supported, I don't know if they gave them money or if it was just an endorsement to be fair, but they were, I remember being shocked that they were backing Booker and Gillibrand and almost all the corporate Democrats. I'm like, I don't understand it. That's when I started to wonder what the hell's this thing about, right? So I'm not making any legal claims, etc. But I'm just telling you,

Based on the facts of this story, it's truly disgusting the way that they are taking advantage of Democratic voters. And John, one last thing about that, this is like when Steve Bannon was raising money for a fake wall. He never no liberals, progressives or left wingers given to Steve Bannon's fake wall. He was robbing his own supporters, right? And that's why his co-conspirators went to prison. Of course, he got pardoned by Trump. When Trump did a fake university, people came and thought, oh, I'm gonna learn real estate from Donald Trump. He scammed the people who most believed in him.

Also the same thing with Trump charity, right? So the people who attack their own side and use them as their, like their desire to do well, especially for people trying to get money out of politics. And they weaponize that good intention of those votes. Weaponize it and use it against them? I don't know that there's anything worse than that. Yeah, that's grotesque. Okay, all right guys.

We're out of time for the first hour. When we come back, Israel says all out conquest, and they have a new excuse. And the new excuse is unreal, and you will hear it thousands of times by the lying propagandist in mainstream media going forward. forward. What is that new unbelievable excuse? We'll tell you when we come back.