The Young Turks - Down Goes Dow

Episode Date: March 4, 2025

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I'm so upset. Oh, my God. The God! All right, welcome the young Turks. Jake Gugrenica, sparing with you guys. And we've got a hell of a show for you all today. So do we have more on Ukraine fallout? Sure.

Epstein fallout, sure. Are we going to talk about democratic meltdown? Fine, we will. But I think one of the most interesting stories of today is the potential beginning of the demise of Musk and Trump. But that sounds like good news. Hold, why though? That's the bad news. We'll talk about that later in the program. All right, Casper, what do we got? Well, we will begin with something you might notice if you're an investor. If you're paying close attention to your retirement fund and you're noticing things are crashing a bit, might have something to do with this.

tomorrow tariffs 25% on Canada and 25% on Mexico and that'll start so they're going to have to have a tariff so what they have to do is build their car plants frankly and other things in the United States in which case they have no tariffs on the tariffs is there any room left for Canada and Mexico to make a deal before midnight and should we expect those Chinese tariffs the extra 10% to take no room left for Mexico or for Canada no the tariffs you know they're all set they go into effect tomorrow Well, the Dow went tumbling down following President Donald Trump's announcement today that he will be implementing 25% tariffs on all imports coming from Mexico and Canada, something that has not only impacted the markets already, but could impact prices here in the United States. Now, before we check in with how the stock market is doing, Jank, are you surprised at all that he's actually going through with this? I'm a little surprised because he actually got some of the concessions that he was looking for and so I don't know what they're expecting with the new round of tariffs.

I do know the potential danger that's coming and for the country and for Trump administration because this, there's a way that this ends very poorly and you're beginning to see that with the Dow. So let's come back and talk about the potential ramifications here and what the right way to do this would be. Okay, so before we get to the Dow, I want to to just kind of give you the details as we know them at the moment. And you know, Trump is known to go back and forth, sometimes renege on some of the threats that he's putting

out there in regard to tariffs against our allies. But here's what we know so far. Now, Trump had previously delayed tariffs on imports from Mexico and Canada. It was a one month pause as long as Trump got some concessions. And he did get some concessions from Mexico and Canada. For instance, Mexico said that it would help stop the flow of drugs into the United States. In addition to that, Mexico has increased arrests of people allegedly tied to criminal groups. Shinebaum, the president of Mexico, said Mexico was ready to respond to whatever Trump decides. She's quoted as saying, there will be coordination, but not subordination. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant told Bloomberg TV on Friday that Mexico made a very interesting

proposal to match the United States on tariffs for imports from China. Lutnik indicated that Mexico and Canada could face lower tariffs than the 25% that Trump had proposed, although based on today's press conference, Trump says that he's going to implement 25% tariffs against Mexico anyway. So that's where we currently stand on the issue. But let's talk a little bit about Canada, because Canada, in order to kind of put off the 25% tariffs last month promised Trump that they would help with preventing illegal immigration into the United States from our northern border. Canadian officials also met in Washington last week with U.S. borders are Tom Homan and members of Congress to press their case

that Canada was tightening border security in response to Trump's concerns about fentanyl and migration. But they left unsure of what Trump wants, said Canada's immigration minister, Mark Miller. He's quoted as saying it's a moving target and that's frustrating. But Trump claims, again, he's just not satisfied with what Mexico and Canada have been doing. So in addition to the 25% tariffs that he will be implementing on imports coming from those two countries, he has also decided to add an additional 10% tariff on Chinese goods coming into the United States. And that's in addition to the 10% tariffs he had already implemented on Chinese goods last month in February. So Trump will likely use something known as the Emergency Economic Powers

Act of 1977 in order to impose these tariffs unilaterally. If you're unfamiliar with the law, it's a law that basically gives the president wide latitude, wide authority to implement tariffs and economic sanctions in the case of national emergencies. Unclear what the national emergency is here, but Trump's been able to do all sorts of things unilaterally without much pushback from the opposing party. So before I get to some more details here, Jank, what are your thoughts? Yeah, so first I'm going to go to the audience and I'm going to get my thoughts. We're doing a poll in the live chat. Do you think the tariffs are going to be good or bad for the country in the long run?

So check that out when you get a chance. Watch the show live 6 to 8 p.m. Eastern everyday young Turks on YouTube. So our members are weighing in, Chris wrote in on t-y-t.com. I'm happy last week I liquidated everything I had in the stock market. The transaction is still going into my bank account, that's how fresh it is. Well, Chris, nice play, brother, way to go. I wish I'd done the same. I don't think that things are going to recover much going forward.

That's just my guess, you know, obviously do everything you can based on your own judgment, especially in terms of finance. So look, the reason I think that they're not going to recover. is because he's so erratic. None of this makes any sense. I'll get to that in a sec. Mooshine Dragon Road in the stock market is hanging so badly. It almost feels like we're being governed by someone who went bankrupt six times.

Oh wait. So that's today, it goes up and down, but yes, that's the overall problem. The reason Donald Trump went bankrupt six times and why I don't think he's going to be a good steward of the economy this time around is because he's not at all careful. He doesn't know how to husband resources. He doesn't know on a portion. He doesn't know how to plan ahead. It's a giant problem. Last time he was checked by the establishment, both for better and for worse at different times.

This time he does not have those brakes in the car. And so buckle up, brace for impact. Last one, and by the way, if you want to be a member on the website, t. com slash join, and you do get two months off annual membership there. Velvet Goldmine says, well, Trump's shift gears when he sees what happens with the stock market. That's on Twitch, and that's exactly the right question. And that's the one we don't know yet because he often does that. As we've told you a hundred times, he A-B tests right in front of us.

Why do I think this is a bad idea? I have no faith that Donald Trump can do homework or apparently anyone in his administration. They're a runaway freight train. So if you're a right-wing populist, I still wouldn't agree with you on at least 50% of stuff. But I could show you the right way to do it to achieve your objectives, not mine, right? And on the places we agree, I can show you how we could both accomplish our objectives. But this doesn't fit into anything in terms of populism or right wing populism or any of that. So do you have any confidence that he's setting the right rates on the tariffs?

There's no reason to believe that these are the right rates. These are gigantic, right? If you're going to do tariffs, you have to be very, very careful because they have significant downsides. So we're, Anna and I are not necessarily against tariffs. I believe in reciprocal tariffs. Part of what Trump did in the beginning, right? Hey, you set 20% on us. We set 20% on you.

But as you go to do that, you're likely going to cause inflation and you're going to create trouble some upsides for some of American companies, some big downsides for American companies, different companies, and certainly some downsides for the American populace. Have you thought that through what the right rate should be? And have you thought a couple of steps ahead? Okay, now, of course, when I do this, Canada's going to do that. Then I'm going to respond with this, and then they'll respond with that. And have you thought that's through? So far, I have not seen one person in the Trump and who's thought through the very next minute, let alone all the consequences of these tariffs. So it doesn't bode well, it doesn't bode well at all, at least how they've started here. No, and in fact, I'm gonna go even further because, you know, you're in favor of reciprocal tariffs, I'm in favor of reciprocal tariffs in addition to some targeted tariffs. And in fact, as I've said repeatedly on the show, in the first Trump term, he had implemented tariffs against China that were targeted, that did play out well without, you know, spurring inflation, and those tariffs were so good that the Biden administration kept them and even

expanded on them. What we're seeing with the 25% tariffs across the board when it comes to both Canada's goods and Mexico's goods, those are not targeted tariffs. And in fact, will impact the price of essential items like cars, for instance. And I want to talk about that briefly before we get to the stock market, because, you know, U.S. carmakers are concerned that these tariffs could blow up their North American supply chains. And they had gathered just last week, as they did a month prior with Trump's chief of staff. A month prior, they met with Trump's chief of staff, Susie Wiles. And during that meeting, she had kind of like calm their nerves about how this would all impact the auto industry. Now last week, they did not meet with her.

They met with Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik who addressed the companies. And, well, it's concerning. This is what the Wall Street Journal is reporting. So while Wiles had reassured carmakers, the administration would consider carve-outs for cars that comply with the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, the 2020 update to the North American Free Trade Agreement, Lutnik made no such overshur. People with knowledge of the call said, participants left unsure of what Trump would do. So that's a little concerning. But of course, you know, we live in an endless cycle of gaslighting. And so the White House denied that its message to industry and trading partners had changed over the past two months, saying there was no contradiction or change in message between the two calls with the auto industry, according to an administration official, right, not buying it. Now, what I'm curious about is whether or not Donald Trump supporters are buying what he's selling in regard to these tariffs and how it is likely impacting their, you know, stock portfolio. their retirement accounts, and this is what I'm referring to.

If you watch this next video, Trump is talking about the tariffs, and at the bottom right hand corner, you have the Dow ticker showing how the Dow is performing as Trump is speaking. Take a look at what happens. I'm a huge fan of Ronald Reagan, but he was bad on trade, very bad on trade. He allowed a lot of people, a lot of business to be taken. So I say that with due respect, because he was so great on other. things, but he was bad on trade. We are setting records right now, records like nobody has ever seen before. When you have companies like this coming in and almost 40% of their company

in one signature is going to be devoted to what he does, which is one of the most important businesses in the world. That's an unbelievable thing. When Apple now is going to start building all of their plants here. So there you have it. You can see the down. tumbling as Donald Trump is announcing these tariffs and going on and on about how he thinks these tariffs will spur new manufacturing jobs here in the United States. And look, that might be true in the long run, but in the short term, there will be significant economic pain for Americans. And you know, if you were worried about inflation under the Biden administration, which

was terrible, this could spark another round of inflation, in fact, hyperinflation, considering all of the items we rely on Canada and Mexico for, and I'll get into the details of that in just a moment. Yeah, so two more good comments coming from our Twitch audience. No Math Dragon, as usual, the good comment saying Doge isn't cutting enough spending to justify the tax cuts, and that's true, it's not even close. Tariffs are Trump's idea of justifying the tax cuts. Yes, that's why I think there's going to be a double whammy here. So they're doing all of this manic cutting and tariffs because they already introduced the tax cuts. That's always their number one priority, as I hope we'll get to later in the show, it's

$4.6 trillion in tax cuts for the wealthy and for corporations. But they now have a new accounting gimmick where they're going to count it as zero. Okay, because what by any means necessary to get the rich everything they wanted, right? Once those tax cuts pass, then they'll probably reverse course on a lot of these things. But the reason why that's a double whammy is because if you drive up tariffs and trade wars in the short term, you're going to have that pain in the short term and maybe cause inflation in the midterm and maybe even in the long term. And then if you backpedal out of them because the stock market's crashing or whatever else is happening, well, then you're not going to get any of the long term benefits of the tariffs.

So you're just going to have the short term and midterm pain with none of the long term gain. That's almost certainly what's going to happen. Occam's taser on Twitch says, why would Trump reverse course? This is clearly a Joe Biden market crash. And he's joking, but I know they could paint it that way. But guys, the chickens come home to roost at some point. Because when you go to vote in the midterm elections, the economy is either going to be doing well or it's going to be doing poorly. And that is going to be at least 80% determinative of how the election.

elections end up. I mean, the Democrats are the world's most incompetent party, but they can punch themselves in the face 200 times between now and then. And if the economy is shattered, then the Democrats are going to win easily, and that'll be the end of Trumpism, period, forever. Because then it'll be known not just as like, oh, extreme or divisive, it'll be known as a failure because his core promise was, I'm going to improve the economy. If he crashes it instead, Sianara. It's Trumpism is dead. So we'll see. And you know, you could cheer on them these irrational actions now. But when they cost you later, well, that's, that was your bed that you were just making right now as we speak. And look, it does make sense that the markets

aren't taking this news well. The United States relies on Canada for its energy needs, significantly so, along with meat and agricultural products, minerals, lime, cement, lumber, especially softwood lumber, and automotive parts. When it comes to Mexico, we rely on them heavily as well for passenger cars, trucks, and car parts to manufacture cars here in the United States. In fact, it's the leading supplier of cars to the United States. Also, we rely on Mexico for electrical equipment and electronics, including computers, monitors, phones, refrigerators, air conditioners.

Mexico actually exports 48% of its oil to the United States specifically. And we rely on them for all sorts of agricultural products, including tomatoes, berries, avocados, bell peppers, cucumber, squash, and snap peas. And we rely on them for some medical devices and orthopedic appliances as well. So this is going to be, if he goes through with this, And it appears he is hell bent on going through with these 25% tariffs. There's going to be a lot of pain for American consumers. There's no doubt about it.

So Mexico, by the way, surpass China as the leading source of goods imported to the United States in 2023. Yeah, last thing is, look, I don't know when the right wing is going to stop believing in magical thinking. And I get it that it happens on both sides. But in the case of the right wing, when Donald Trump invents things like, oh, we're going to do $2 trillion in tax cuts. I'm sorry, in cuts, spending cuts. There is no $2 trillion to cut from the budget. It's absurd. There's no $1 trillion to cut from the budget unless you take really heavily from the Pentagon.

And now they've said not only are they not going to take any, they're going to add to the Pentagon. That budget is never, ever going to get balanced. And when he tells you, oh, these tariffs, don't worry, or the gold card is going to bring in $5 trillion or $50 trillion, you've got to stop believing absolute nonsense. Because it doesn't help your side to believe in fairy tales either. All it does is set you up to run straight into a brick wall. Well, when we come back from the break, I want to get into some foreign policy and the fallout after Donald Trump and J.D. Vans kind of went to war publicly with Vladimir Zelensky of Ukraine. So when you come back, we'll talk about that and more. Don't miss it. All right back on TYT, Jank, Anna and Sean Baldwin.

Sean, thanks for joining, brother. He hit the join button below the video on YouTube and became part of TYT. We love doing the show with the members. Anna. All right, well, let's get into the fallout after what happened in the Oval Office last week. I don't think anybody had any idea that Zelensky would be so impertinent, so disrespectful, so insulting to the United States of America. Look, this is one of the great moments in the history of American diplomacy.

The way that President Trump and J.D. Vance stood up for American interests in the world stage, the way that President Trump defended Americans after years of being fleeced and abused and taken advantage of and take it for granted, Millions of American hearts swelled with overflowing pride today to watch President Trump put Zelensky in his place. Is that really the case? I mean, having a grown man demand that a president who didn't flee his country after it was invaded, like say he's thankful over and over again. Like that doesn't really inspire like strength, right? That doesn't communicate strength to me. But nonetheless, there you have White House Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, laying it on real thick following the brawl President Trump and J.D. Vance had with Ukrainian president of Lordemir Zelensky.

Yeah, I actually think that there are two ways to see what happened there. And I understand what the right wing is saying. I certainly understand what the left wing is saying as well. And I'll tell you where I come out on it. But I understand why Miller is making those comments. A lot of right wingers are looking at that and going absolutely right on brother. I get it, but like, anyway, I think a lot of what Vance engaged in was performative. I don't think it looks strong to like demand a thank you over and over again when Zelensky

has been thankful and has been clear in how thankful he is over and over again. But anyway, let's just get to the details of what's going on here. So look, Miller's statements do serve as an example of how the Trump administration is kind of laundering what happened in the Oval Office last Friday with Zelensky. kind of selling what happened to the American people. And our Americans buying it, honestly, at this very moment, we don't know yet. But there is some polling that I think might give us some insight into how Americans were feeling just before that Oval Office meltdown.

Before we get to that polling though, let's just do a little refresher of what we're talking about. You have nice ocean and don't feel now, but you will feel it in the fusion. You don't know that. We don't know that. God bless. You don't know that war. Don't tell us what we're going to feel. Have you said thank you once?

There's a lot of time. No, in this entire meeting, you said thank you. We gave military equipment and you met a brave, but they had to use our military. If you didn't have our military equipment, if you didn't have our military equipment, this war would have been over in two weeks. What if they, what if anything? What if a bomb drops on your head right now? Okay?

Why did they break it? This is going to be great television, I will say that. Okay, so look, my view of that whole thing, Jank, was Trump was actually pretty calm, and my read was he was kind of annoyed with Vance until Zelensky made that comment about how Americans will be feeling this, even though there's a great big ocean between us. What he was trying to say is we are part of the NATO alliance. If Russia feels emboldened enough to invade Poland, for instance, one of our NATO allies, the U.S., based on our agreement with NATO, has no choice but to put boots on the ground

to defend Poland. That's what he's referring to. The big ocean between us doesn't matter in that scenario, right? So I don't think Trump realized that's what he was referring to, but nonetheless, that's what kind of triggered Trump. But leading up to that, I mean, it was a clown show with Vance. Vance is the one who torpedoed the so-called deal, but it wasn't really much of a deal for Zelensky because there's no security guarantee. Why would you give away your natural resources for nothing in return? Yeah, so look, this has now become like the Zapruder film. And we went over and on Friday. My thought on it is Zelensky asked the first question of the others. They're normally addressed the press. Zelensky is the first one to address something to J.D. Vance.

was he just frustrated or did he do that on purpose, I'll come back to that. Then J.D. Vance goes over the top. Because Zelensky's question, was it aggressive? I don't know, I mean, I guess depending on your perspective, but was it rude? Like outright rude, did he say call him any names or anything? No, no, it was just a normal, relatively normal question, but it was a little aggressive to even ask a question of J.D. Vance in that context. Then J.D. Vance goes over the top, you know, I need you to get down on your hands at knees and gravel and your, you know, this and that. And he just makes the whole thing explosive, right? And I agree with you, Anna, that Trump doesn't really lose it until Zelensky's saying, you know, you guys are going to feel the pain and the ocean's not going to protect you. And as soon as he said that, I was like, oh, that's the wrong way to go. That's definitely going to trigger Trump and then immediately triggered Trump. Right. Because once you start talking about how we're going to feel pain, there's no way Trump's not going to get triggered, right? And so then if you notice, looking, no one's,

Look, I know both sides are seeing only what they want to see. I'm positive of that. So yes, the right wing sees that's a president standing up for us and say, hey, you should be grateful and finally American interests are being protected. I see that. I know the left doesn't see that. The left says, no, just a wild man, et cetera. No, I see him, you know, yelling over the guy.

I see him saying, I'm going to take care of American interests. I see it, right? On the other hand, and so I also see Zelenskyy trying to talk over Trump. That's not going to work. No, it's not. Well, the minute Trump starts talking in that situation, whether you like it or not, and no matter how painful it is, you gotta let him talk and then make your point, et cetera. But all of that, none of that really matters.

And left, I see you exactly, I'm more on the left wing side, which is to your point, Anna, J.D. Vance is mainly starting in the hostilities. This is crazy. Our president and vice president have a responsibility to not make an ass out of themselves on the world stage with one of our allies and start torpedoing our ally, which hurts our leverage, makes peace less likely, not more likely. Exactly. And that's again, not a left wing or right wing position.

We all decent people here want to drive towards peace, and they made peace a lot less likely in that room. But the bottom line is what we discussed on Friday and what Anna alluded to there, the whole premise was absurd. They brought the guy in saying they were going to do security guarantees in exchange for the mineral rights, they pull the rug out and go, ha ha, we're not getting any security guarantees. And rightly, that doesn't mean troops, guys. I don't want American troops in Ukraine, you're crazy? No way, no way, right? But there's a thousand other ways to do security guarantees,

and we offered none of them. So why would the brother give up his mineral rights? And then we spent 100 to 200, we sent out about one, actually 140 already, right? $140 billion. We're asking for $500 billion in return. First of all, that's an unreasonable ask. But second of all, even if you you do that and they're in a super tight spot, we got them. We screwed over our own allies and took their research. Oh wow, we're really proud. Okay, but fine, we did all that, America first, whatever. But in return, you have to give him a security guarantee.

Otherwise, why the hell would he do it? Yeah, I wouldn't sign that, I would not sign that. What's the point? Why would I give away all of my natural, or huge portion of my natural resources and get nothing in return, that makes no sense. And I know what the right wing is screaming into their screens right now. No, if our companies are there, then they'll, that's kind of a security guarantee. No, it's not.

Tons of our companies are in Middle Eastern countries, African countries, Asian countries, hostilities being. You know what happens? They pause. They withdraw. We don't go to war with Myanmar or Kenya or anyone else. They just withdraw for a little while until things calm down and they go back and then they keep taking all their natural resources. It's not a security guarantee at all, at all, not 1%.

So let's talk a little bit about. where Americans are on this issue, because there was a CBS poll taken from February 26th through the 28th. That disastrous press conference took place on the 28th. So it probably didn't have that much of an impact on the poll results, but it's still worth knowing where Americans stood on the issue and how Trump's been handling it so far. So let's get into some of these details. Anyway, so here's what the poll found. Let's take a look at the first graphic. Russia-Ukraine conflict Trump's actions and statements have. And so 46% of Americans believe that so far Trump has favored Russia over Ukraine, 46%.

43% feel that Trump has treated Russia and Ukraine equally. Only 11% of respondents believe that Trump has favored Ukraine over Russia. So the majority of American respondents to this poll indicate that they feel that Trump has actually favored Russia over Ukraine on this issue or in this war. And apparently Russia has the same interpretation as the American people because a spokesperson for the Kremlin was quoted as saying that the new US administration is rapidly changing all foreign policy configurations. This largely coincides with our vision. So I thought it was important context to share. Let's get to the next poll question and

and the results. So Americans do approve of how Trump had managed the war in Ukraine by a slim majority of 51%. Now again, this poll was taken like just before the Oval Office meltdown. But you take a look at it and you'll see that, you know, the poll's margin of error, by the way, is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points. But nonetheless, 51% feel favorably toward Trump and how he's handled this. Let's look at the next graphic.

The poll also found that another extremely slim majority of Americans, 51% again, believe that the United States should send military aid to Ukraine. But obviously this is, it really depends on how you identify politically. Democrats are far more in favor of sending military weaponry to Ukraine, 72% want to do that. Among Republicans, that number drops all the way down to 32%. So look, I mean, when you really think about it, think about it, Jank. Trump is playing to his base on this issue, right? His base, the majority of his base, does not want to send military aid to Ukraine anymore.

So guys, there's a difference between not wanting to send military aid to Ukraine and actively taking Russia's side and reducing Ukraine's leverage. So if we increase Ukraine's leverage, then Russia, which is currently, I know it feels like a stalemate, but certainly without our support, then Russia goes back to winning and probably winning significantly. So why would they want to get to peace? They would want to continue to take land, especially because Trump and Vance are declaring to the whole world, the only thing we care about is the mineral rights.

So Russia then goes, oh, well, then I should take more land to take more mineral rights, and I'll sell them later, and apparently it'll be worth more than what this war is costing me. So you've given them a huge incentive to keep fighting, rather than the conclusion that the populist left, populist right? wanted, the establishment didn't want, the unit party wanted this war to continue forever, right? And you're helping them by doing this insane thing where we go, okay, Ukraine started the war, we're gonna withdraw money from Ukraine, they're the ones at fault, and so we won't

give them any security guarantees. So Russia, they're easy pickings, do whatever you like to them, and they'll be nearly defenseless. How does that help get to peace? It doesn't. Now they don't care about peace at all. The only thing they care about is the lithium in those hills. So the number one mineral there that in Ukraine is lithium, which is what goes into the batteries in Teslas. So they're not even trying for peace anymore. Now they're trying to make Elon richer.

Remember the mineral rights or the oil rights never go to the American people ever. It's never happened. It goes to American corporations, which ones? the ones that are most closely connected to the government. That is exactly what's happened with oil rights for the last 75 years. And that's exactly what's going to happen with these mineral rights. You know what though, Jank, thank God that we're transitioning over to electric vehicles, which we still don't have the infrastructure for.

But hey, we're combating climate change and making the world a better place by, oh, oh wait. Anyway, let's go to the next graphic because we'll end with yet another slim majority here. According to the same CBS news poll, 52% of Americans support Ukraine in its war against Russia, but 44% of Americans say that they are neutral. Only 4% of Americans support Russia over Ukraine. Now look, many of those numbers have changed significantly since President Joe Biden was in office,

and CNN's Harry Enten is about to explain how. You look at Joe Biden back in 2024, he was 22 points underwater, Holy cow, you look at Donald Trump, it's just a different planet entirely. I mean, the gulf between these two is wider than the Gulf of America or Mexico, depending on which side of the aisle you stand on. He's at plus two Americans on the Russia-Ukraine war. Want a quicker end of the war, but Russia keeps its captured land.

Look at this. 50%, 50%, bare majority coming in here, support Ukraine's right to fight, even if it means a longer war. That's at 48. This is very, very close. But the trend line on this question is so important because that one, a quick end of the war. Look at this. You go back to August of 2022, it was at 31%. Now we're at 50%. I mean, that is a rocket ship upwards in terms of the Americans who want a quick end to the war,

even if it means Russia keeps the captured Ukraine land. Americans who say Russia is an enemy, you go back to 23, it was 64%. And that CBS News, you gov poll, it was down to 34%. Now, there is a chunk that believes that Russia is an unfriendly nation, but the percentage who believe that they're either an ally or friendly, that's up to 34% as well. Look, the notion that Russia is a friend or ally is hilarious to me. I've never bought into that. I would never even be tempted to believe that. But I will say this, I can understand, Jank, why there is this itch to end the war, regardless of what happens to Ukraine. I don't fall into that camp, but I'm also very

empathetic to those who are tired of seeing their tax dollars get to foreign conflicts or to corporations for subsidies. The quality of life for Americans continues to, you know, get worse year after year. So I know that that's likely what is motivating the way Americans are feeling in regard to this war and whether or not we continue supporting Ukraine. I just think everything that we saw in the Oval Office

last Friday literally like just ends the possibility of a real peace deal. peace deal. And it's also become clear to me that the Trump administration isn't really interested in a peace deal. They just want to pull out. They don't want to have anything to do with this war, but they want to see if they can maybe benefit from, you know, natural resources from Ukraine while they're at it. Yeah, the only slight difference I would have there, Anna, is that I think that they don't really care one way or another if we have peace or war. The only thing that's going through Trump and must mind is money, money, money, money, money,

right? And if it turns out that they thought they could make more money from the military industrial complex by prolonging the war, then my guess is they would prolong the war. If they thought they can get to a better result with both in popularity or money by getting to peace, then they would go for peace. But right now, peace or war has taken a back seat to minerals. Yeah. And there's no question about that. So I'm in the camp of get to peace as quickly as possible. I'm also in the camp of frustrated enough that we're probably gonna have to let go of some weed, the Ukraine has to let go of some land probably in this exchange. And that's super painful.

I don't think that that's like a thing to be flipping about. Because it does encourage Russia, it encourages bad actors, et cetera. But we're probably gonna have to get there and I don't want to keep spending money on it. But none of us are helped by our, by Musk and Trump's obsession with mineral rights that have nothing to do with peace or war. It has more to do with me, me, me, me, me, and the donor class getting more money out of this, like, they're basically saying, yeah, but what's in it for Elon Musk, war or peace? Yeah. And this is a sick way to run a government.

Last is from a comment on Twitch from one of our members, a funny handle, only dead on the inside says, is Israel going to sign 50% of its minerals to the U.S.? No, of course not. We give them $3 billion on weapons, one day after Trump and Vance put out this disgraceful performance. No, no, America is Israel's servants, okay? The American taxpayer, we're just servants for Israel's war against Palestinians. And who knows what other Arab majority country they might invade next. That's the reality, that's the reality. And Israel's Russia in that analogy, they're the ones who are prolonging an endless war.

And in this crazy analogy, we're not trying to help poor victims. just barely survive, Ukraine or Palestinians, we're saying, oh, Israel, please murder more of those poor innocent victims with our money. And we don't want any mental rights. We don't want anything, okay? No, how much more can we give you? So, I mean, you mentioned $3 billion a year. That's what we do for Israel every year, never gotten a single cent back. But we gave them over $20 billion last year. Where's our goddamn mineral rights? Oh no, when it comes to Israel, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give, give. So hey, Maga, where are you guys on this one? So because I hear a lot of complaining about Ukraine, Israel's gotten so much more money.

And we're never allowed to ask for anything. And what is Trump doing holding Netanyahu's chair in for him like a goddamn buck? No, no, it's worse than that though, it's worse than that. Okay, Netanyahu comes to the United States and trashes Americans who are protesting his slaughter of innocent women, babies, children, elderly people in Gaza. Okay, that's what he did. He came to the United States on our soil and trashed the American people. Where's Trump? Where's Vance?

Look, I don't hate the rest of the world. You want to talk about disrespecting America and Americans? This is why I didn't buy for a second anything that JD Vance said during that Oval Office Presser. Because we get, you know, debased by the Israeli government on a regular basis. Where's our goddamn, thank you, okay? I want Netanyahu to tell us that he thanks us and he grovels to us. I want his grove, where is it?

No, instead we have Trump in advance groveling to him. And again, don't get me wrong, we're an honest news program, good luck finding another one. Biden and Kamala Harris also on their knees groveling to Netanyahu. So I'm tired of the goddamn groveling. Look guys, I don't believe in the negative stuff of America first. Like I don't hate the rest of the world, I love humanity. I got nothing but love for the rest of the planet. But in terms of protecting the average American, I'm a hundred

hundred times more America first than Trump or Vansar, because I have the same rules for Ukraine and Israel. And they always say, no, Israel first. America's second or 18th or whatever, after Trump gets paid off by the Saudis or his brother-in-law or son-in-law does, another one gets paid off by the Russians, the third one gets paid off by Israel. Where is it for the average guy in America? No, it's all about the donors, donors, donors. That ain't America first. And this isn't America first. America first is get to a goddamn peace deal in Ukraine. stop spending our money and stop obsessing about god damn lithium. Yep.

All right, we got to take a break. When we come back, we've got more news for you, including a documentary about the West Bank, winning some pretty serious awards last night. We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT, Jankana and Ben Hayes. Ben, thank you for joining through the join button below on YouTube. We appreciate all you guys, Casper. Well, let's talk a little bit about the West Bank.

Thousand Palestinians face one of the single biggest expulsion decisions since the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories began in 1967. To gozoos, Desha. Mastafrieta, is the place that's where it's where. No other land, a documentary filmed before the October 7th attacks in Israel about a community in in the West Bank, facing ongoing violence, of course, from Israeli settlers and the IDF, won the Oscar for Best Documentary Last Night. Now, it was created by Palestinian activist Basel Adra and Israeli filmmaker and journalist

Yuval Abraham, who spoke out against ethnic cleansing of Palestinians during their acceptance speech, which I'm about to read a little for you in just a moment. But Jank, it is notable that this is the film that won best documentary, considering the fact that there were so many production companies in the United States who ran away from this film, terrified of working on it in any way. Well, it speaks well of the academy, by the way, that they did vote for this for the Oscar. So that's great. They had a great speech. We're going to tell you about that. And then, of course, Israel now ending the ceasefire and going back to annihilating the people of Gaza. So we have more on that as well. So, Adra, the Palestinian subject of the movie told the audience during the acceptance speech

that about two months ago, I became a father. And my hope to my daughter is that she will not have this, will not have to live the same life I am living now, always fearing settlers, violence, home demolitions, and forceful displacements that my community, Masafir Yata, is living and facing every day under the Israeli occupation, no other land reflects the harsh reality that we have been enduring for decades and still resist as we call on the world to take serious actions to stop the injustice and to stop the ethnic cleansing of Palestinian people. So then Israeli filmmaker, Yuval Abraham double down saying this, we made this film Palestinians and Israelis because together our

voices are stronger. We see each other, the atrocious destruction of Gaza and its people, which must end. The Israeli hostages brutally taken in the crime of October 7th, which must be freed. When I look at Basil, I see my brother, but we are unequal. We live in a regime where I'm free under civilian law, and he is under military laws that destroy his life. And he's, and he cannot control. There is a different path, a political solution without ethnic supremacy with national rights for both of our people. And I have to say, as I am here, the foreign policy in this country, meaning the United

States of course, is helping to block this path. And you know why? Can't you see that we are intertwined? That my people can be truly safe if Basil's people are truly free and safe. There is another way, it's not too late for life, for the living, there is no other way. Yeah, so I love that they got together, Palestinians and Israelis made this movie. It's a powerful movie and I like that they're both speaking out on behalf of peace and not just the Palestinians, but to Yuval's point, peace is going to make Israel safer and better

as well. So guys were blinded at this point by rage for each other. It's true in America between the left wing and the right wing. We just can't see past our hatred for one another. It's true way more so between the Israelis and the Palestinians. When the rest of us look at them, they look nearly identical, right? They're and I mean, you couldn't, those two sets of people are so similar having been neighbors for so long. And they're just killing each, well, one side is killing a little bit. The other side is killing a lot and taking their land and doing all the terrible things that they're doing. But I've never had any hatred in my heart for the people of Israel. And because oftentimes it's Israelis, it's Jewish Americans, et cetera, that are the best

fighters for peace. And this isn't about hatred. This is about getting rid of hatred. If all you do is you get to a deal where both sides still have that hatred for each other, it's just going to blow up again and again and again. So we've got to get to peace with decent, wonderful people like this. I wish they were in charge instead of the monsters that run our government, the Israeli government, Hamas, etc. Now, Egypt and Qatar are accusing Israel of blocking humanitarian aid into Gaza now that they have decided that, you know, we've gotten our hostages back, we don't really care about a ceasefire anymore, and we're going to continue slaughtering innocent people in Gaza. So they have now started to block humanitarian aid

into the Gaza Strip again. Mediators, Egypt and Qatar accuse Israel violating humanitarian law, as if they care about humanitarian law, by using starvation as a weapon, again, a weapon against innocent people who haven't done anything wrong other than the fact that they were born into a terrible situation in Gaza. The ceasefire's first phase, according to the Associated Press, saw a surge in humanitarian aid after months of growing hunger. Now the Palestinian people are likely going to suffer more and more deaths as a result of malnutrition, thirst and the like.

So that's where we're currently at. So, you know, they're not just starting the bombing campaign again. They're blocking humanitarian aid. So they're going back to starving the Palestinians of death. The most moral army. Come on. I mean, you'd have to be the most biased person on the entire planet to believe that. At least Stefanik, our new, useless ambassador to the United Nations.

I mean, to be fair, she's not useless. She serves Israel well. I went and gave a speech at the ADL saying that the UN is a toxic, terrible place. The place she's going to go serve and represent us. Why? Because it's a deep well of anti-Semites. The whole world isn't bothered by Israel's nonstop war crimes and their complete disregard for international law and how their own representative shredded his UN badge at the UN while speaking.

They're spitting in their face of the whole world. No, they're not bothered by all law breaking. They just hate Jews. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No one believes that crap anymore other than the people in power in America because they want to believe it. Look, I'm going to read the New York Times quote on this. Despite a string of honors and rave reviews, as Anna referred to earlier, no distributor would pick up this film in the United States, making it nearly impossible for the American film goers to see it in theaters or to stream it.

Okay, remember, they say, oh, anti-Semitism, it has a Jewish director from Israel, as well as a Palestinian director. I know, but he's not doing the bidding of the extreme far-right government of Israel, so sorry. Exactly. So this has nothing to do with religion, guys. Do not hate the Jews, do not hate the Muslims, do not hate anyone, and understand when they say, anti-Semitism, it's not, I know a lot of people genuinely believe that. And I know there is genuine anti-semitism, but when it comes to Israel, it's a super cheap, dirty trick to make sure that you never ever criticize Israel and you never see any bad critique of Israel, any real movies, any real facts about Israel, it has nothing to do with protecting Jews. It has everything to do with protecting this foreign government that at this point has committed 60 times the terrorism of Hamas.

If you're 60 times worse than Hamas, the problem isn't the rest of the world being irrationally mad at you. The problem is that you are irrationally driven by hatred towards Palestinians and wanting to take their land and the world is rationally upset at you. But no, no, keep calling everybody an anti-Semi, which by the way is another word for racist and bigot. So the whole world is racist against Israel, not because Israel's ever done anything wrong. You'd have to be a near lunatic to believe that, like our UN ambassador.

Of course, she's not. She's just corrupt and she's counting her money as we speak. Oh, APEC give me more money. That's how all these loser politicians are, impotent buffoons serving a different country. Well said. We got to take a break. When we come back for the second hour, I'm going to tell you exactly how social security is being dismantled before our very eyes. We don't even need Congress to pass a bill. We'll be right back.