The Young Turks - Israeli Staffers Killed - May 22, 2025

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. All right, welcome the Young Turks. Jake Eugenna Casparing with you guys. Look, do we have plenty of stories today on the rundown that are not happy news? Yes, we do. Okay. So it ranging from lots of death destruction and calls for more death than destruction to disastrous tax cuts.

But the details of the tax cuts and the cuts to Medicaid, Medicare are super important, so don't miss that. And then in the second hour, a surprising turn where we catch a break in a Supreme Court case. And then it looked like we caught a break at the health department. And then it turns out we didn't and the lobbyist one anyway. So a lot to get to in the show. So let's get started. Anna, what do you got? Well, we begin with the biggest news story of the day, which is certainly going to work against the Palestinian cause. And I wish people were a little bit smarter about how they engage in politics. But nonetheless, here's what I'm talking about.

The man you're watching get arrested is the suspect behind the shooting deaths of two Israeli the embassy staffers. Take a look. Free, free palestine, free palestine, come the law. Don't the law. The shooting occurred at the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C.

and is being treated as an act of terrorism by FBI director Kash Patel. Pam Bondi, the Attorney General, has stated that the shooter here will be, be held to the fullest extent of the law will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. The fatal shooting happened just after 9 p.m. on Wednesday night near the Capitol Jewish Museum in Washington. The American Jewish Committee was actually hosting a reception for young diplomats. The event was organized by A.J.C. Access, the young professionals

division of the American Jewish Committee. And the police have said that the suspect, who is a 30-year-old by the name of Elias Rodriguez had been pacing in front of the museum before the shooting. In a statement expressing shock at the killings, Israel said that the event had focused on bringing humanitarian aid to Gaza through Israeli-Palestinian and regional collaboration. Now, let's talk about the victims. In fact, before I get to the victims, I want to kind of go to you, Jank, and get your initial thoughts on this pretty terrible story. Yeah. So shooting is terrible, immoral, counterproductive, stupid. Let me break down those one by one. So first of all, if you think you're for peace

and you kill people over it, you miss the memo. You don't understand what the peace movement is at all. And as he's yelling free, free Palestine there, I'm thinking, shut up. God, you couldn't do more damage in both directions. First of all, to those innocent people that you murdered. And then on top of that, you put the entire Jewish community in America on edge. And that is terrible for their own sake and their psyche. And there are American brothers and sisters and you don't do that. And so in this case, yes, they're Israeli staffers, but you put the Jewish American community on edge understandably because of this. And I hate that and I can't stand it. We're supposed to be good guys. And so this guy is not one of us. He's, we'll get to his stupid

motivations in a second. But then secondly, Anna, look, how deeply counterproductive this stuff is, is maddening. Maddening. I loathe people like this. I loathe people like this. I find them to be narcissistic, wannabe revolutionaries who are obsessed with being the perpetual underdogs and never succeeding in any damn thing. Okay, and I say that because guess what? You have a government right now that was already heeding the advice and the demands of the Israeli government in coming down hard on pro-peace, pro-Palestinian protesters. Okay, do you think the situation is going to get better now after this piece of crap

decided to gun down two people in Washington, D.C.? Yeah, so look, it. It hurts everyone in every way. First, of course, the number one victims are the victims, the people who were killed and they were about to get engaged. This second set of victims are the people who are terrorized by that action. And then the third set are the side that he thinks he's on, but I don't think he's on at all.

And it's an act of despicable selfishness. Like in his sick mind, he thinks, I'm the hero. I'm the one who would do murder on behalf of. of this cause. And what does that do? Now we've been telling everybody that the protesters on campus have been peaceful and they have, except some pro-Israeli protesters did commit violence, and some on the Palestinian side, for lack of a better way of describing it, yelled at folks, etc. So I hate any kind of religious strife, I don't want any of it. But they largely were peaceful. Now you kill two people. Now they're going to smear every peaceful.

protester from here to eternity as the same as this ludicrous, selfish, egotistical maniac. And I've got more where that came from. Yes, and I wanna get to the details in regard to the victims and more in just a moment. But for anyone who thinks, how dare you criticize this guy who is on the right side, because Israel's carrying out a genocide. Okay, I just want you to answer this question, because this question is, never answered. What happens next? After two people get gunned down, what happens next in your imaginary revolution other than this guy going to prison likely for the rest of his life? I mean,

Pam Bondi claims that they're going to seek the death penalty. So he might even get executed. Outside of that, what happens? So let me give you some details about the victims. The victims who both worked for the Israeli embassy were 30-year-old Yaron Lechinski and 26-year-old Sarah Lynn Milgram. Yaron had recently purchased a ring. He was planning on proposing to Sarah's, but we'll never get the opportunity to do so because they were gunned down last night. One witness discussed how attendees of the event unwittingly provided aid to the shooter after he had gunned down to people. And I want to go to that clip next. Let's take a look.

There was a man who came in and he's like saying like call the police and he's covered in rain and he looks very distressed. And so we're trying to offer him some like some help. And even one of my friends asks him like, are you okay? Can I get you some water? And he's like, yeah, actually that'd be great. And I'm like, so do you like this museum. And he's like kind of playing dumb with me. He's like, oh, what kind of museum is this?

And I'm like, it's a Jewish museum. And he asks, do you think that's why they did it in reference to the gunshots we had heard? And I was like, yeah, maybe. I don't know, but I don't think so. I hope not. And that's when he reaches into his bag and pulls out a kofia and says to me, I did it. I did this for Gaza. The police also shared that he had confessed to the murders and said that he did it on behalf of Palestine and what's happening in Gaza.

So counterproductive, so stupid. So stupid. It accomplishes absolutely nothing. Now, the suspect who's in custody, as I mentioned earlier, is a 30-year-old by the name of Elias Rodriguez. He's a Chicago resident and was employed by the American Osteopathic Information Association. There isn't really much in his background that would help authorities predict that he would carry out this kind of violence. According to the Washington Post, under the title, Escalate for Gaza, bring the war home. The suspect condemned what he called atrocities committed by the Israeli military against

Palestinians. The post did not refer directly to the shooting on Wednesday evening, but it justified armed action. So far, that's the only foreshadowing thing that I've seen reported about the suspect here. Now, FBI agents raided his home in Chicago, and in the window of that unit, you can see that he had two signs related to Palestine, one. One read Justice for Wadea, that's a reference to a six-year-old Palestinian-American boy who was actually killed in Chicago two years ago. Another sign read Tikun alam means free Palestine, and for those who don't know what that means, it's Hebrew for repairing the world.

Now the Muslim Public Affairs Council has strongly condemned Israel's conduct of the war with Hamas in Gaza, unequivocally denounced the killing of two. Israeli embassy staffers in Washington in a statement. Now more than ever, we must reject hatred and division, whether it's anti-Semitism or scapegoating of any group. And I think that's the right take on this issue and on this matter. Every time there's an act of violence like this, you know, usually there's a statement released by various Muslim organizations and groups, and simultaneously you'll hear all sorts of disgusting rhetoric on cable news denouncing Muslim religion or Muslims in general as if all of them are carrying out these acts of violence, which of course

is not the case. I want to go to one more video here and this is the neighbor who actually knows the suspect. They wanted to interview him about, you know, obviously the suspect, but he actually used it as an opportunity to mention something else. Take a look. We have two people dead in DC. We have 50,000 dead in Gaza. In 1956, Israel invaded Sinai. They invaded Gaza. The United States President at the time,

Dwight Eisenhower, put his foot down. Now, where would we be today? We had a president that could have said that two years ago. I mean, he makes a pretty devastating point. And it doesn't matter at this point, whether you're dealing with a Democratic president or a Republican president. They aid in a bet what's happening in the Middle East and violence begets violence. I mean, this keeps getting worse. There needs to be a ceasefire. There needs to be an end to the violence.

And anyone in this country who's under the impression that you're going to be able to solve issues by gunning people down, You are mistaken and you are part of the problem. Yeah, so first of all, violence is always wrong, especially if you're part of a peace movement. And secondly, it's a sign of surrender. And it's what I tell you guys every time they're shooting like this. It's saying I'm so stupid, I can't win this argument on my own through strategy. Strategy, exactly, political, moral, rhetorical, and every other way. Now look guys, it's a super hard battle to win.

I understand that, no one understands that better than we do. We've been fighting this battle to get peace to Gaza and to stop to slaughter, et cetera, right? But giving up and then using violence, just like the government of Israel is using now, how does that help? No, it's a sign of surrender. And I hate the weakness involved in that, let alone the immorality, right? So now, second of all, lumping in, so Jewish Americans with these folks is a thousand times wrong. and we've said it a thousand times with the government, the actions of a foreign government, right?

So while we say that a thousand times, I hope that people will also say lumping in Palestinians with this guy is also wrong. All Palestinians didn't do this shooting. In fact, no Palestinians did this shooting. Lumping in all peace protesters with a guy who was violent makes no sense. But will mainstream media do both of those things overwhelmingly, over and over and over again? they will from this day to the last day pretend that this guy represents peace protesters and Palestinians, etc. In fact, it's already all over media. And every Israeli supporters on camera are going, we see we've got to do more violence against the Palestinians. I will get to that later in the program. Some of the most disgusting things I've ever heard.

Two things can be true at the same time. So we've talked about the Armenian genocide many times before, right? And so after the Armenian genocide, there was a string of terrorist acts by Armenians. Now some were directed at people who had committed the genocide, like Israel went after some of the people who did the Holocaust. And so a lot of people understand why that happened, right? But then some of the radicals in that community kept going and they started killing Turkish diplomats all the way into the 1970s, right?

And so that was terrible thing to do, counterproductive, violent, wrong. Does that mean the Armenian genocide didn't happen? No, it doesn't mean that at all. Two things can be true at the same time. The Armenian genocide did happen and was terrible and the terrorism was also terrible. Okay? And so in this case, is the slaughter and the genocide happening in Gaza? Yes, is this shooting terrible?

Yes, both of those things are true at the same time. Because what I'm seeing all over American media instantly as we expected is, well, since this guy, this one guy did this act of violence, you see why everyone in Gaza had it coming. No, I don't see that at all. That's a maniacal statement and a deeply immoral and racist statement, okay? Okay, yep. So now what are there going to be the ramifications of this? As Anna pointed out, what's step two?

And for radicals, they never think through a step two because they're morons. So step two is going to be now a crackdown in America. You think that's not going to happen? Of course it's going to happen. Oh, but it was already happening. Yeah, and it's going to get way worse. And every time anybody complains, you say, oh, they remember the terrorists who killed the two Israeli staffers, you're all violent, you're all violent, we got to take away

all of your rights, you're not allowed to criticize Israel anymore. If you think that's not gonna happen, you're an unbelievable, not, well, let's put it this way, you're intensely naive, okay? So now already, again, a talking point has gone out and I see it every, every platform, every channel, which is, see, this is part of the global intifada. What global intifada? What is this made up thing? I've never seen a peace protester refer to a global intifada, I've never seen a Palestinian

refer to a global intifada, but I am now seeing dozens. of Israeli supporters pretending there's a global intifada so they could do a crackdown all across the world and say no one's ever allowed to criticize Israel again. So this moron of morons did a deeply immoral act kill those two poor people who didn't do anything. That you've gotta, guys, you gotta stop the government of Israel from committing the genocide. Killing two random people doesn't help you at all, I don't care that they're Israeli. They're two random people, don't do that.

It's so terrible and disgusting. And so now the crackdowns will begin and Israel will use this viciously. And so two things can be true at the same time. This could be a despicable act and Israel will still use it viciously against innocent people and make sure that no one ever criticized them again. Rodriguez gave Israel a big gift. Oh, it was an unbelievable gift. And again, what was step two supposed to be?

How exactly was this supposed to lead to a ceasefire? And by the way, Jake, the one thing that I really want to emphasize here is, you know, suddenly you have people like Pierce Morgan who was very like shy about calling what, we were all seeing in Gaza what it was. He didn't want to call it a genocide. Just yesterday though, he had Medi Hassan on and he said, you know what, Medi, I now agree with you and he called it a genocide. Yeah.

But you know what, what happens when you use violence to get your political point across, you lose the moral high ground. Yeah, yep. So losing the moral high ground is a disastrous idea because it has consequences. It's not like, oh, okay, what do you mean? Israel killed 53,000. This guy killed two. We didn't lose any moral high ground.

No, brothers is the first of all, that guy's not part of us, okay? Second of all, it doesn't matter what you think. It matters what the people in power think. And can we move them or can we not move them? Because whether we like it or not, they're the ones making the decisions. So we had made a great momentum in the most unfortunate, horrific ways, because Israel is literally starving two million people right now as we speak. And so people were so horrified.

Their consciousness is shocked by it. And then this moron comes along and he's like, oh, I'll kill two Israelis in America. So now all those people, I guarantee you, look, people will criticize us for saying this even though we've condemned them 800 times over. And what they'll try to say now, and I guarantee you it's on all over TV right now is that's it, that's it. If you criticize Israel, you're just like this guy. That's exactly what they're doing right now.

Go to social media. I mean, Barry Weiss is using these two deaths, these two murders, okay, as an excuse to try to censor Americans in media. who have been critical of how Israel has been prosecuted this war. Okay, let me ask Barry something then. How about the 53,000 murders that you celebrate and cheer every day? Does that mean we can silence you? Because if two people getting killed, which is despicable,

silences the great majority of Americans now who are opposed to funding Israel's genocide, how much can we silence people for murdering 53,000 people? How about when you murdered over 16,000 children, are we allowed to silence you then? No, I don't want to silence you and I'm never going to be silenced. Same. Okay, so killing two people is despicable. Killing 53,000 people including over 16,000 children, deeply, deeply despicable. And if you can't see that both of those things are true and you think one of them is not true,

I don't care which side you're on, there's something wrong with you. Agreed. Well, you're already fired up. So I hesitate to go to this clip, but I can't help it because, you know, there have been various public figures who have exploited, you know, the tragic killings last night for their own disgusting agenda and they're airing their grievances in some of the most horrific ways. So with that in mind, I want to talk a little bit about a video that's been going viral. The fact of the matter is the Palestinian cause is an evil one.

Yeah, and Congressman, there is a ceasefire deal on the table right now that the White House is hoping both Israel and Hamas will sign on to. Does this shooting change anything when it comes to the course of the war or the negotiations to end it? Well, I think it speaks to the importance of the only end of the conflict is complete and total surrender by those who support Muslim terror. In World War II, we did not negotiate a surrender with the Nazis. We did not negotiate a surrender with the Japanese. We nuked the Japanese twice in order to get unconditional surrender. This Republican Congressman Randy Fine from Florida, who seems to think it's totally okay to kill a ton of innocent people to nuke. I mean, he's referencing what the United States did in using nuclear weapons against Japan as if it's a good thing.

That was his response to a question about how the killings of two Israeli embassy staffers is going to get in the way of a ceasefire. He doesn't want a ceasefire. No negotiating, no ceasefire. In the past, we just nuke him. Yeah, so Randy Fine is obviously deeply racist. He's a disgusting pig of a man. And he's also incredibly stupid, and you can attach any adjective you like to that, and I don't

care. And so this pig comes on TV and goes, can you believe they killed two people? It's terrible and discussing, which is of course true. Then he turns around and goes, you see how violent they are. That's why we should kill two million of them. We should nuke them and kill two million of them because of how violent they are. Yeah, that's- No, no, no. First of all And you find definitely doesn't speak for all Jewish Americans, not even close. Don't ever think that this guy's deeply fascistic and Jews in America are not that way, okay? So I don't want anyone confusing him for any a decent moral human being. Okay, second of all, when he talks about a call for violence, he's just so preposterously unintelligent.

And by the way, moron, if you use a nuke in Gaza, where do you think the radiation is going to ago. But he's just, I think he's disabled. I really do. I think he's mentally disabled. And so he's like, oh, this is wrong and they're all very violent. So let's kill him all. He says with a straight face, with a straight face, what an idiot. What a genocidal monster. That's a U.S. Congressman, by the way. Yeah. I hope we're all proud. And so this is, and then earlier in that clip, he talked about Palestinians, Palestinianism. I've never heard of that. I don't know what that is. He just made it up. So that's a thing where now apparently that's going to be a thing where if you support

Palestinians and don't think they should be slaughtered, you're a Palestinianist. And Palestinianists are of course violent, and that's why they need to be murdered, according to Randy Fine, right? And he smeared all Muslim people, and you see, he's like, you see this Muslim terrorism. The guy isn't even Muslim that did the shooting. But it doesn't matter because Randy Fine can't wait to murder Muslims. So he's like, let's nuke him, you see how I'm against violence? No, I don't brother.

I think you're massively pro violence. And so what he's, the second thing he's saying, Anna, is, you know, those two Jewish lives that were lost at the shooting in DC matter. And I agree with them there, they matter massively, okay? He says, but the two million Palestinian lives don't matter at all, they're not really human. Yeah, and you know who says things like that, Nazis do. So the word Nazi is way, way overused, okay? Oh, I disagree with you slightly, Nazi, okay, oh, you voted for Trump.

Nazi. Okay, you did this, you did that, Nazi. No, no, no, no. And there's a difference between fascism and Nazi. Fascism is we're worried about authoritarian tendencies and an authoritarian takeover. Nazi is mass extermination, right? So you should not use that word unless it's a Nazi like Randy Fine who says, let's do mass extermination. Let's kill millions of people because they're not my people. Since they're not my ethnicity, let's murder them all. That is exactly what a Nazi would say, which is what Randy Fine is. I think the most painful part about this war and what's been going on for the last, you know, over a year and a half is the fact that there's so many people in our country

who have effectively dehumanized one side so much that they just don't see them as human at all. Like they don't care about their slaughter. They can see those videos. I mean, that That video of those two sisters who lost everyone in their family, the older sisters carrying the younger sister because the younger sister had her leg injured and can't walk. How do you watch that video and think to yourself, oh, they're Palestinian, I don't see them as human, who cares? I'm a 38 year old woman and my mom is in the hospital struggling with cancer and I fall apart thinking about it. Can you imagine a little eight-year-old girl who's now responsible for

her little sister and has no adult to look after them, to protect them, there's bombing everywhere, hospitals have been bombed, schools have been bombed, refugee camps have been bombed, how do Americans look at that and think to themselves, it's totally fine, that doesn't bother me at all, Oh my God, but the two Israelis who were murdered, they matter. And by the way, they do matter. Human lives matter. But I don't understand how you can look at one side and dehumanize them. Whether you're dehumanizing Israelis or dehumanizing Palestinians, it's just sick.

It's sick. This whole situation has been a giant mask off moment for some Americans, really. Yeah. So that's the second reason why I called him a Nazi, because he's dehumanizing the Palestinians, like the Nazis do it doesn't matter their lives are worthless oh we already butchered 16,000 Palestinian children who cares they're not really human is the way of thinking for guys Nazis like Randy Fine and so I know we had congressional hearings over anti-semitism and I'm worried about anti-semitism I'll get back to

that in a second and I know we've arrested people deported people on the theory that criticizing Israel is anti-semitism even they're actually against anti-semitism So if you go within a million miles of criticizing Israel, let alone actually being anti-Semitic, you're in a world of trouble and there's gonna be national headlines over and over again. I guarantee you this story, this is the last you'll hear of it, at least in mainstream media, they'll never bring it back up, they'll never be congressional hearings, he won't be arrested, nobody will be deported, right? And he's calling for the mass murder of Muslims. The mass murder of Muslims, he's a U.S. congressman. By the way, remember when she had

Telib was censured and Ilhan Omar was censured for mild, mild criticism of Israel and lobbyists. Will this guy be censured? No, of course. No, he's calling for mass extermination. But it's okay, it's okay as long as you're a support of Israel. You can do anything you want. Any Muslims, they're darned. They have no rights in this country.

No, there's no anti-Muslim task force. Nobody's going to do anything about it. And this guy's going to go on in this. And nobody's even going to bother criticizing him. That's, they, because you know why? Because half of Congress thinks what he thinks. And having, or half of Congress thinks, as long as the APAC check cleared, I don't care how many Muslims you murder.

I don't care, right? Because they dehumanize Muslims all the time while pretending to care about bigotry. Oh, I care so much about anti-semitism because I'm worried about racism and bigotry. Oh, it's happening to Muslims? Calling for mass extermination from my buddy Randy Fine here. I don't care at all, who cares? So then you don't care about bigotry. All you do is care about protecting Israel because A-PAC paid you.

Okay, now, this is really important, guys. Hatred never solves anything. So this guy's filled with hatred. So, okay, like when it's a specific person like this who's a Nazi, you have every right to hate him. But if you spread that hatred to, God forbid, Jews, that would be the worst of the worst. But even to Israeli citizens don't do that because hate can never beat hate.

The only thing that could drive out hate is love. So the minute that Israelis see Palestinians as human and Palestinians see Israelis as human and brothers and sisters is the minute they're going to stop killing each other. Because you don't kill your brother or a sister. You kill someone who you dehumanized and thought it doesn't matter who they are. They're not really human. I could slaughter their children. I could kill this lovely couple who's about. to get engaged, right?

And it doesn't matter because I dehumanize them. Don't be like Randy Fine. Don't be a Nazi. Don't hate the other side because that's never going to solve this. At some point, we all have to love each other so that we could stop rooting for mass extermination like Nazis like Randy Fine. Let's take a break.

When we come back, there was a huge story, a huge incident in the West Bank where IDF were fire shots at diplomats from around the world. So we'll give you the details on that story and more when we come back. and we read the comment about, you know, basically the gist of it is, you know, there's no hope, right? Right now, a lot of Americans aren't feeling a lot of hope. The point that I was trying to make in response to that is resorting to violence is essentially caving in, like basically giving into becoming the very thing that we hate. And I refuse to do that. And so, guys,

that's the reason why what we've been doing so far in being like insulated and only working with people on our side. It hasn't worked. And that's the reason why we here at the main show specifically have taken this massive risk in trying to find areas where we can collaborate with the other side because you do need a broad coalition to win on the issues. Okay, The far left on its own is not gonna change US foreign policy as it pertains to Gaza and Israel or the Palestinians in Israel. It's just not. But none of the leftists. So I wish we had more power, but right now we're not in charge and there's a four brutal years left.

So I look, I keep saying this, but Anna, radicals don't wanna hear ideas. But I'm not speaking to the radicals, I'm speaking to the open minded folks who are watching the show right now. And I want them to understand where I'm coming from, where you're coming from, and why we do what we do, even with all the backlash we get, even with all the hate we get. I want to win. I do not find pleasure in being a perpetual underdog.

That is not my identity, it never has been, it never will be. I will try anything to win and it's not about being selfish. It's about actually giving a damn about the people in Gaza. Dave Smith is a libertarian who literally thinks that social security is a Ponzi scheme. I don't care. He is right on the issue of Israel and Palestine. I will work with him in that regard as much as it takes if it means building a coalition with like-minded individuals like him on this issue means that we can apply appropriate pressure to change U.S. foreign policy. I want to win. I don't want to be a perpetual underdog

And it's about fighting for the right causes, fighting for better U.S. foreign policy. So Palestinians can finally have their own statehood. Look, I'll say the last two things. So Dave Smith is totally wrong on Social Security. And he's totally right on Gaza. So what harm is there in saying both of those things? Why it's so, like, is it really that hard to understand that concept? Like, I sometimes I can't understand what the other side is even saying.

They're like, oh no, if you agree with one thing about a person, that means you have to agree with all of the things they say. But that doesn't make any sense at all. So what, unless a person agrees with you 100%, you're not allowed to ally with them, you're not allowed to talk to them, you're not allowed to know them, be nice of anything. No, oh, you disagree with me, I'm one issue, that's what I cancel you. Well, that's dumb, that's preposterously dumb. If your mind cannot hold the concept of, I agree on this and disagree on this,

Your mind is feeble, super feeble. And if you're using BS excuses like, oh, that would normalize Dave Smith. Does he need your permission to be normal? He has a certain number of people who like what he says. You agreeing with him on Gaza is not going to normalize or unnormalize him. That is a preposterous, stupid way of thinking. Oh, well, Trump will get normalized if you say, hey, I'm glad he didn't attack Iran. He's the president, how much, like what do you need to get through your head that you are not the cop of the world?

More importantly, you have no power. Yeah. You have to acknowledge your own power level. So that gets me to the selfishness. So now they say, well, no, I'm going to be morally pure. I'm the greatest, most morally pure person in America. And I will not normalize Trump or Tucker or Dave Smith or anyone, right? Well, they're already in power.

So too late, right? And so it makes it seem like they're in charge of the world. And if they want, they could just cancel Trump. Well, that'd be nice. But that's not how the world works. And if you don't understand, that's not how the world works. Again, tiny mind, tiny mind, okay? Now they are in charge.

So you're going to do one of two things. Either you're going to go, I hate you, you're not too, baby, blah, blah, blah, to Trump. When he doesn't attack Iran, then he thinks, oh, well, okay, I guess that didn't help at all. And so, and what does my right wing base care is saying? Because I don't give a damn what the left wing says, okay? What is my right wing base thing?

And if you say, well, I don't want to work with them, okay? Well, but their position will help save Palestinian lives. Not Mark Levins, not Ben Shapiro's, but Tucker Carlson's and Dave Smith. No, don't work with them, don't work with, but wait a minute. Would, are they more likely to move Trump who is in power? Or are you more likely to move Trump because you didn't normalize them? Come on, come on, how could anybody believe that? But no, no, your goddamn purity is so much more important than Palestinian lives.

So I will do anything to stop that war. I totally agree with you. I will do anything to save Palestinian lives. But if you are too precious for that, please let grownups do some work here and step aside and go do another profession. Well said, let's talk about the West Bank. We're going to make.

Kish al-hapal, he'll let's let's let's let's let's knock on the wafinglidl. Tawajudan, he'll kick in a In shape of it, in the government of diplomatian. Yesterday, the Israeli defense forces fired what they referred to as warning shots at a group of approximately two dozen diplomats in the West Bank. They were shooting at diplomats from several different countries. Palestinian officials and journalists were also present, but as we know, there's usually no problem with them shooting and killing Palestinian journalists.

Thankfully, though, in this case, no one was hurt. Now, the diplomats were from a wide range of countries, including Brazil, Canada, China, Egypt, France, India, and the United Kingdom. They were in the West Bank specifically to see the humanitarian situation in Janine for themselves. The warning shots have been met with outrage, and they should be met with outrage. It is unacceptable for the IDF to shoot bullets at diplomats from around the world who are specifically there to see the humanitarian situation in Janine. And of course, the occupied West Bank has been a target of Israeli settlers who have been driving

Palestinians out of their own homes, bulldozing their homes, and the continuation of illegal settlement construction continues in the West Bank. So Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, and Uruguay summoned Israel's ambassadors or said they would raise the issue directly. The Israeli defense forces said the diplomatic convoy had strayed from the approved route, and entered a restricted zone prompting troops to fire warning shots to steer the group away. You couldn't, you know, maybe shout at the diplomats and tell them, hey, you're not allowed to be here instead. You've got to shoot bullets at them.

Yeah. This is a belligerent military, belligerent. And the reason why they're belligerent is because they've been enabled by the United States government, which is the top military superpower in this world. this is unacceptable. Can you freaking imagine, can you imagine if American troops did this? If American troops fired warning shots at diplomats who were here on U.S. soil to do whatever they're here to do. Yeah. But it's okay. It's okay if the IDF does it. Yeah. No, no, guys, so this is beyond anything I've seen. So they're so used to being above the law.

They're so used to getting away with terrorism that they're like, we'll just shoot at foreign diplomats. It doesn't matter. No one can hold us accountable. And you know what? We'll get their politicians to send us more money because there are dogs. They could have shot all of them dead and all those countries would still send Israel more money. They would. They would.

You're totally right about that. Yeah. That's why they feel they're acting like they're above the law. They could do terrorism anytime they want. So is it terrorism to shoot at diplomats? Yes, it doesn't matter that you're shooting above their heads. By the way, bullets go places. I remember in the old days, you know, the Palestinians would shoot guns into the air and

Israelis would say, how stupid, you know, the bullets come land back down to earth. Well, those bullets went somewhere, they could have killed somebody, right? But it doesn't matter because it's a refugee camp. All would have done is kill Palestinians. And the terrorists that are the IDF think it's no big deal to kill Palestinians. That's what they do for sport, right? And they do it to steal their land. So if these countries had any steel in their spine, what they would do is say, did you just

shoot at our diplomats? No, that's it. Never sending you any funding ever again. Second of all, I'm sending a giant ship full of food and it's going to dock in Gaza. You fire on it. I fire on you, okay? You want to shoot at my diplomats? That's an act of war. I'm going to dock that goddamn ship and I'm gonna feed those Palestinians. And if you don't let me, we're gonna go to war. You wanna go to war with NATO? Let's go to war, okay? Because you terrorists in the IDF are starving people to death right now. It doesn't get any worse than that. And the Israeli cabinet is bragging about it. They're like, let's keep them at minimal levels. So they're starving, but they don't die. That way, these idiot foreign governments with all their corrupt politicians

that we bought will send us money to finish the genocide and drive all the Palestinians. They're saying they're going to drive all the Palestinians. Guys, if you are a decent, normal person or government, what would you do when someone's going into a restricted area? You would go up to them first and politely and say, sorry, but you're not allowed to go there. That's a very normal thing to do. We're concerned about your safety. We're concerned about your safety.

And if they resist, although the diplomats would not have resisted because they're diplomats, Okay, but if they said, hey really, we do want to go in there, you could shepherd them somewhere else. The very, very last option you would do is shoot over their heads and risk killing them and others. But that's the first option for Israel, because for Israel, violence is always the answer. It's the first answer. It's the only answer it appears. By the way, the IDF referred to that as an inconvenience, possibly killing international diplomats, just an inconvenience. Apologies for that. Now, I'm gonna go further. Anyone who had a diplomat there should declare war on Israel, because they just declared war on you.

I mean, look, man, I don't know what Turkey would have done. And I don't know, Erdogan's a corrupt guy. I have no idea what you do. But the Turks I know, if you fired it Turkish diplomats, that's an act of war, okay? And that should be met with war. So now I don't want that. I don't want a giant, goddamn war. But I also don't want the terrorists in Israel to slaughter people, to shoot at diplomats to do act like they're above the law and above humanity and that they're the rulers of all of us and they get to kill and shoot anyone they like. I'm sick of it. And by the way guys, last thing for me, if you can't see that this is building up rage for the whole world against Israel, you're a moron. If you're in favor of Israel, why do you want the whole world to despise you?

you? Why do you want that? Why are you so stupid that you want the whole world? If this was Turkey and we lit the place on fire and the entire world hates us, even if we said, we controlled our politicians, I don't want everybody to hate Turks, I would hate that. I would do everything in my power to stop that awful Turkish government at the time from doing horrible things because it's going to bounce back on all of us. But no, Israeli supporters. No, no. Nope, nope, nope, nope, no. Slaughter, slaughter, slaughter, slaughter, slaughter. It's never enough.

It's always the Palestinians' fault. Oh, it's the diplomat's fault. It's everyone's fault, because we're the perpetual victims. No, the Jewish people have been victims throughout history. The Israeli government is not the victims. They are the aggressors, they are Goliath, they are terrorists, and they're terrorizing the whole world, and they've lit a bomb.

And at some point the populations of these countries are going to explode in anger and rage. What are you doing? It's going to hurt Israel. It's going to hurt Israel real bad. But in their infinite ego and hubris, the Netanyahu cabinet goes, no, who cares? Just shoot at the rest of the world and they're stupid diplomats. We own them. Jesus Christ, man, you can't do more damage to Palestinians or to Israel. So there have been some consequences in the form of, you know, severing economic ties, at least for now. Worldwide economic boycott instantly of Israel.

We'd be nuts not to. Don't buy anything from Israel. You want to starve Palestinians deaths? Are you going to cry about an economic boycott when you've got a full blockade of 2.2 million people? No one should spend a dollar in Israel. No one should ever buy a toxic Israeli product besides. which it might kill you.

Oh, here's a pager, we murdered you. Ha ha ha ha ha ha, yeah, that's so funny. That's so, great, never buy a product from Israel until they change. Then I would love to welcome them back into the decent nations of the world. So Britain has suspended trade negotiations with Israel that same day. Sweden's foreign minister stated that she would be working with the United, I'm sorry, the European Union to place sanctions on individual Israeli ministers. individual Israeli ministers due to the treatment of Palestinians in Gaza.

Additionally, the EU's foreign policy chief has stated that the block will be reviewing its political and economic agreements with Israel, which was instituted in the year 2000. The PAC specifies that all signatories must show respect for human rights and democratic principles, and that hasn't really been the case, especially in the process of this disastrous war in Gaza and the persecution of Palestinians in the West Bank. Now the Israeli government is stating that Europe is partly responsible for the killing of two Israeli embassy staff. Who is responsible for it? The Israeli government is stating that Europe is partly responsible. Europe? I mean, there's no end to their insanity.

Let me give you the statement, Israeli foreign minister, Gideon Saar, blamed what he called anti-Semitic and anti-Israel incitement by leaders and officials of many countries and international organizations, especially from Europe. Because, you know, European countries or representatives within European countries have been a little more vocal about the slaughter of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip. And Israel doesn't like that. They want to be able to do whatever they do without any. any criticism, that's the thing that really gets to me.

They have the backing of the United States, the US's military might, they've been able to act with impunity, but on top of that, they want everyone to shut up and avoid criticizing anything they do. And sorry, that's not gonna happen. When you're killing all those innocent people in Gaza, when you're allowing settlers to run Palestinians out of their own homes, when you're bulldozing their homes, when you're bulldozing their homes, when you're building settlements on land that doesn't belong to you, you're going to get criticized in the very least. And you're not going to be able to stop it. Okay, accusing people

of being anti-Semitic when they're specifically criticizing the government of Israel. It's just not going to work. That tactic doesn't work anymore. No, no, no, it's worse than that, Anna. Look at this what this idiot. They're trying to blame Europe for murders. Well, look at this what this terrorist leader is saying. We nearly murdered your diplomats and we shot at them. Yep. You complain. about us being your lords and superior to you and being able to murder you anytime we like is anti-Semitic. That's anti-Semitic. If you weren't anti-Semitic, you would know that you should shut up and let us terrorize your diplomats. Your diplomats were using themselves as human shields. Israel was acting in self-defense. And your diplomats only understand violence.

Because Israel never does anything wrong. Oh, they're just defending themselves. The diplomats had a coming. The diplomats are the terrorists. It doesn't matter. It's all nothing but nonsense, grotesque propaganda. So, okay, okay, great job, Israel supporters. You got the whole world to despise you. And how did that help in defeating anti-Semitism? Let's take a break. When we come back, we'll move on over to other news of the day, including what the House just passed in the Trump agenda, the massive tax cut bill that we have some details about. So we'll be right back. Thank you for the Young Turks membership.

Jenkin, Anna. Go ahead, Anna. All right, let's, I'm gonna try to calm down a little bit so we can talk about other news. I want to move over to these big updates in regard to the big beautiful bill, as Trump likes to call it. It just got advanced in the house, let's watch. Well, I'd love to stand here and tell the American people, we can cut your taxes and we can increase spending and everything's going to be just fine. But I can't do that because I'm here to deliver a dose of reality. This bill dramatically increases deficits in the near term, but promises our government will

be fiscally responsible five years from now. Where have we heard that before? How do you bind a future Congress to these promises? This bill is a debt bomb ticking. Well, despite Congressman Thomas Massey's best efforts, House Republicans have narrowly and very narrowly passed President Donald Trump's tax cut and border bill, which includes several several of his campaign promises, but adds trillions of dollars to the federal debt, while nickel and dimming the poorest and most vulnerable Americans among us by cutting

resources to food stamps and Medicaid. Now, the majority of the so-called fiscal hawks who claimed that they planned to torpedo the bill did no such thing. They actually folded and voted in favor of the legislation. Congressman Chip Roy was one of them, despite speaking up against the bill like a real tough guy, he folded quicker than a wet paper bag. Let's watch. We didn't draw red lines on purpose because we didn't want to hamstring our leadership too much, but we did create a framework. And we were very strong in saying, guys, we need to address Medicaid. We need to address the Inflation Reduction Act. And you know what? We got a lot. We got a lot of really good stuff in that. So we will continue that way of doing things.

But I do think we will draw a few red lines because we learned a little bit from the Salk Caucus. They're like, look, guys, we're going to get our state and local tax or bust. And guess what? They got a $40,000 pop that's $350 billion worth of cap increase. That's really expensive. I'm not so sure the Senate is going to just say a thumbs up to that, right? The constituency in the Senate for the Salk Caucus is not as strong as in the House. So we've got a lot of work to do and going back and forth.

So Chip Roy is hoping that Senate Republicans will save him because he's not willing to cross Donald Trump in voting no on the bill. So let's take a look at the final vote in the House. So the bill passed 215 to 214. Okay, so as you can see, two Republicans voted no. Two more Republicans didn't vote at all. And one Republican, and that's Congressman Andy Harris, voted present. Among the Republicans who voted no on the bill, you have Congressman Warren Davidson of Ohio, and of course Thomas Massey of Kentucky. And among the Republicans who didn't vote, Andrew Gaborino of New York was one of them. The other was David Shukert of Arizona.

So the Republicans who did not support the bill cite the irresponsible spending as their reason for doing it. And I'm gonna get into the nitty gritty in regard to how much this adds to the federal debt, which currently sits at $36 trillion. We spent close to a trillion dollars last year on service our debt alone. So for anyone who's under the impression that racking up more and more debt isn't a problem, they're mistaken. But what could the Republicans do? They got to give their

donors and themselves that nice, sweet little tax cut. Yeah, I'm going to give you a stat here that perfectly explains the bill in a second. So first off, told you, they never cared about balancing the budget. They're never going to balance it. They're not even going to try. But trillions and trillions and trillions on the deficit, because between tax cuts for the rich and the deficit, tax cuts for the rich wins every single time. And so is Trump a populist maga? This is very different than the Uniparty? No, this is exactly what the Uniparty does. I've seen this movie dozens of times. This is Uniparty 101. Oh, we care about the deficit. Put another $5 trillion on the dead. Oh, the rich get it, the rich get it.

Oh, but that's okay, let's cut from the neediest people in America, because that's what Jesus would do. By the way, we're the party of Christianity and family values and religion. No, you're not. All right, anyways. So now, when it comes to, funny thing first, the two guys who missed the vote, why didn't they vote? Gavarino fell asleep, and Schweikert was late.

So they were going to vote yes, they were just schmucks, okay? So that's just a funny little fact. Now to the two guys who did the right thing, Warren Davidson and Thomas Massey, would I agree with their proposed budget? No, I wouldn't because they're on the right and I'm on the left, and I'm sure they would cut things I would never cut, and they would probably do some tax cuts that I wouldn't do, okay? But at least they're honest.

They said they care about the deficit, and it turns out they actually do care about the deficit. Every other Republican in the house is a liar. 100%. And that's right, I was gonna say the same thing. They're 100% liars. They never, ever cared about the debt or the deficit. It's now indisputable. There's no, you can you can say, hey, no, I love the rich and I need them to get another tax. Or there's a tax cut I like in there. Or there's a cut I like in there. But you can't say that you care about the deficit or the debt. And if you support this bill, here's a giant glass of shut up juice about the budget for the rest of your life. Okay. So don't tell me. you care about the budget. And when a Democrats in office, I don't want to see you guys crying about the deficit or the debt. Okay, we are consistent and principled. And we are, we think it's a problem when the Democrats create a giant deficit and when the Republicans create a much

larger deficit. The Republicans have added so much more to the debt than the Democrats have. All right, now the studying fact. So the cuts to snap, that's food stamps for the needy, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act are the exact same number as the tax cuts for people making above $500,000. That number is $1.1 trillion. So steal from the poor to give to the rich? Literally, literally steal from the poorest people in the country who are desperate for food. Now are you going to take food stamps? I'm not going to take food stamps because you have to go through a process, it's embarrassing, and it doesn't have to be and it shouldn't be, but it is for a lot of people. So people aren't going and like, oh, let me get food stamps when I don't need it.

Let me go get Medicaid when I don't qualify or don't need it, etc. You find fraud, no problem we cut it. This isn't fraud. This is cutting the heart of the programs, okay? So they're taking $1.1 trillion from the people who need it the most. And if they did it because God damn it, we're out of money, there's nothing we could do. We got to balance the budget. That's one thing. No, they're doing it because they want to get people making about $500,000 and another $1.1 trillion. It's absurd. Absurd. And nowhere near populism.

This is the most fake populism you will ever see. So for me, this bill ends it, okay? Trump, he loves the rhetoric, he went back to his 2016 greatest hits to appeal to working class Americans. in lieu of Democrats who can't even muster the energy to pay lip service to working class Americans. So Trump comes in, pretends like he cares about working class Americans. But in reality, you know, don't eff around with Medicaid, remember? That was a big story this week. Don't eff around with Medicaid, Trump allegedly told the Republican caucus in the House.

Well, they effed around with Medicaid, Trump. What are you going to do, big, bad populist? He's celebrating the passage of this bill in the House of Representatives. I can't, no, I can believe because I live in America and I've been doing this job for 18 freaking years. I can believe that the Republican Party with a straight face thinks it's totally okay to take our taxpayer money, okay, funnel it to whatever pork barrel garbage they do for their donors, whatever subsidies they want to pay for for corporations. At the same time, nickel and dime the American people when it comes to the social safety net so they can give more handouts and more goodies to the rich. people in this country. They are going to destroy this country. They've been hyper-focused on destroying this country. It's disgusting that my taxpayer money goes toward all sorts of things

that don't actually benefit my fellow Americans, that don't actually help my Americans when they're in need. Okay? Instead, it gets sent abroad, whether it's Israel, Ukraine. I know people get touch you with Ukraine. We're supposed to give them hundreds of billions of dollars over and over and over again, an award that they're not going to win. I get it. I would rather that money go toward helping vulnerable people in America, but Republicans don't want it. Honestly, Democrats, I question whether they want it, they never really fight for it. We have two garbage parties that are not working for us, I need you to realize that. And for all the lefties who think everyone who voted for Trump is a bad person, can you just

please explain to me, when you look at the two different parties and the two different options they had in the last election? Do you really think they had great options? Do you really think they had great options? Yeah, so just to back that up real quick. So Trump is renewing his tax cuts from his first term, and that's part of the devastation here and why it cost so much. Bush did tax cuts in his two terms, but he couldn't make them permanent. That's why Obama and Biden did. After they got into office, they pretend to be against the tax cuts, but they did what Bush literally couldn't do electorally. Because the way that they did it was like, no, it's okay, we're Democrats. So obviously we don't want tax cuts for the rich. Anyway, Obama sent Biden to do

negotiate a deal with McConnell, and over 90% of the benefits of those tax cuts went to the rich. So why do you think the Democratic Party lost the faith of the American people? Because while they talk a good game. They come behind the scenes and sell us out. Always. So now look, this is mainly about the Republicans and how terrible they are. But last thing on the Democrats, whenever they're in charge, oh, the parliamentarian, there's, oh, Philipus, there's just nothing we could do. They're garbage. Hold on. And now when they're in the opposition, you know, you see how Republicans fight when they're in the opposition, right? Oh, Obama wants to dominate a Supreme Court justice. We'll block it for a year. Doesn't matter. We'll do anything

to block. Can I jump in? I'm sorry, Jake. I have to. I have to. I'm sorry to interrupt you. What was going on with Biden when Democrats wouldn't fall in line for his agenda? Was he doing what Trump did? Trump's been at Capitol Hill every single day this week. Doing what? Bullying the crap out of the Republican caucus, ensuring that deals are getting made, so the bill gets passed. Okay, what was Biden doing? Biden was giving speeches about his good friend Joe Manchin, who was torpedoing his agenda. And it's either because Biden didn't actually mean it, or he was so out to lunch that he was just going to support the very guy who was standing in the way of passing his legislation, his big agenda. Yeah. And so it's so embarrassing.

Now that the Democrats are in opposition, did they fight back as viciously as the Republicans? Now look, even the Radlips, the Biden lovers, the Kamlo lovers, even they're like, wait, why don't you guys fight back? Well, we all technically voted no. Oh, do they have enough votes to give me and my donors a tax cut? I guess they do, don't they? Well, there was nothing we could do. Really?

Why aren't you all on TV talking about what I just said, the $1.1 trillion tax cuts for people making about $500,000? That outrages everybody. Where are you guys? There was nothing we could do. There was nothing we could do. They're so full of crap. But back to the Republicans who are the ones who are the most full of crap.

The Republican politicians are loaded up to their eyeballs in crap. So, oh, we care about the deficit. Now, oh, don't mess around with Medicaid. They're messing around with Medicaid. Why about Medicare? Oh, no, we're going to protect Medicare. They cut 500 billion from Medicare. They're so disgusting.

They're so disgusting. Look at your pay stub. Look at how much of your money goes toward the Medicare program. Okay, you're paying into the program, Republicans are stealing it from you. They're stealing your money. That's what they did in this bill. That's what they did in this bill. The Republican Party, but I'm not done with Democrats yet. Let's go to the, let's go to Graphic 8. Because I told you what the vote was, right? It passed in the House 215 to 214. Okay, there was a Democratic vote that wasn't there

because he died, and that was Jerry Connolly. Oh. Okay, so go to Graphicate. Another geriatric Democratic congressman dies in office, and then within hours, the Republicans passed their big, beautiful, behemoth legislation by literally one vote, fitting encapsulation for the current era. Michael Tracy, that is a winning tweet. I totally agree with you on that.

So look, obviously we feel terrible for Connolly passing away. We did a story about it the other day, but it is massively egotistical for these politicians to keep running for office when they're in their 70s, 80s, 90s, Pelosi's still running. She's 84 years old, Clyburn's 84, he's still running. Are they gonna die in office and we're gonna have another giant bill pass because we didn't have one more Democrat or two or three? Yeah, probably. And are they gonna, do they care about that? No way. Besides which they want the tax cuts. Okay, but back to beating up Republicans.

Let's give you some more details. Sure. So I want to talk a little bit about how much this adds to the debt. There have been differing figures reported. The latest projection from the Congressional Budget Office showed that it will add 2.4 trillion dollars. That is the most conservative estimate I've seen. That's the most conservative. I've seen estimates at $5 trillion.

This was the latest that was reported in most of the news reports that I read about. But $2.4 trillion over 10 years to the national debt, which already exceeds $36 trillion. Now keep in mind, Moody's downgraded the US's credit rating. We had a AAA credit rating, not no more, okay? And it's because of our growing debt and this concern that the United States isn't going to be like the land. and always pay their debts because we might not have the ability to do so. That's why our credit rating got downgraded. So the debt, even though there's a lot of fake concern about it from the Republican Party,

it is actually true that the debt is a problem because it costs a lot of money to service that debt. Last year it costs close to a trillion dollars to do so. But Republicans don't care, our lawmakers don't care. They'll probably all be dead when we're responsible for dealing with it or, you know, aftermath of this disaster that they're creating. They don't care. Yeah, so the estimate is if these cuts are permanent, the tax cuts are permanent, which they are. So I don't know why they say if, then it would cost $5.2 trillion. So the real cost is

at least $5.2 trillion. So, but you know, mainstream media play, in my opinion, plays along with the Republicans. I would be surprised. They love the tax cuts. They love them. So they're like, Oh, yeah, Trump's saying something mean or bad or naughty, huge deal, huge deal, right? Oh, trillion is going to the rich, putting $5 trillion on the debt when the Republicans have been pretending and lying our whole lives about how they care about the debt? Nah, barely a word about it. I mean, this is the most consequential thing that Trump will do in his presidency. It was the only thing he did in his first term.

And it's just passing with like barely a fight. And with media barely noticing, it's unbelievable. So you'll get stuck with this, your kids, your grandkids, everybody gets stuck with this. Already they're putting all the costs on the middle class and the poor, but wait till we all have to pay this debt. You think the rich are going to be around and go, oh, yeah, it was our fault. You think the corporations are going to be right and say, oh, you're right. We're the ones who took trillions of dollars in tax cuts. Now we'll pay it back.

No, they won't. They'll be gone and we'll be stuck with this bill. The measure would slash spending on social safety net programs by more than $1 trillion. $1 trillion over the next 10 years. And that's not even the full extent of the cuts we're talking about. According to analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, the mammoth legislation could also force nearly $500 billion in cuts to Medicare over the next decade to keep the national deficit within legal limits unless Congress later adjust the limits. The legislation could strip Medicaid coverage from 8.7 million people and lead to 7.6 million more uninsured people over 10 years. So they're cutting 16 million from people off of Medicaid with this little cute trick that they've got.

Oh, if you're unemployed, you don't get Medicaid. If you're employed, you don't get Medicaid because you don't qualify for Medicaid because you're making too much money. So they're squeezing everyone out of Medicaid while, but Trump gets the credit in the press for saying, don't mess with Medicaid. Well, all of the press, including right-wing media, are you guys going to go back and be honest to your audience and say, oh, by the way, Trump was lying. The Republican Party was lying. And they did mess with Medicaid. And you know when they said they wouldn't cut Medicare, Trump's a liar. He did cut Medicare. $500 billion from Medicare.

And so, okay, he puts this gimmick in there about, oh, we won't, you know, have taxes on tips and overtime. So it makes it seem like, oh, it's for the, masses for the average American, right? No, did you know that 41% of the tax cuts are going to go to the top 5%? Yeah, they are. Let's go to Graphics 7. Let's show you. This helps you visualize, like, the entirety of the bill and what it does, okay? So this will put together by the Washington Post.

It's excellent. It shows you that, you know, extending Trump's 2017 tax cuts will cost this country $2.7 trillion over the next 10 years. The increase to the standard deduction will add another $1.3 trillion. There's a child tax credit in there, which I would like to keep. I would like to help families in America. So that I'm totally fine with. That's $797 billion.

Oh, look at that. An additional $150 billion in defense spending. Then you have the border wall and immigration restrictions. That's another $147 billion in spending and more money that is, or more debt, I should say. Then you look at what they're cutting and look at what their priorities are. $792 billion in cuts to Medicaid, $678 billion to rescind climate change money, cuts to anti-poverty food assistance, those are the food stamps we were talking about, They're going to cut $295 billion from that.

And they're going to cut $295 from student loan changes. So you're going to be settled with more debt if you went to college. And if you're hungry, too bad, we're going to cut it. You're sick and you're poor, too bad. We're going to cut it. But if you're making over $500,000, boy, we have great news for you. You're getting trillions. So this is a sick bill that and on the defense spending.

So look, I love Grock. It's such a, this is a random point, but so one thing Elon Musk has done brilliantly right. Okay. And so Grock does fact checking and the right wing on social media keep asking Grock, is it true? What Jenks saying? No way, right? And Grock says, yeah, you know, he, Jake is right. Why?

Because I bothered to look it up before he posted it, right? right? There was one time their grok said I was wrong. They said, oh, no, they're only going to add $100 billion to defense spending. What now, Grock, I told you, $150 billion. Okay. So, and for, by the way, just another side note here, for the schmucks and the radical left who were like, oh, you thought they were going to cut defense. No, I didn't. I said, I challenge you to cut defense, which then exposes them when they don't cut defense, but adds to it. Okay. So Elon, where are you at? You said you were going to cut defense? Oh, wait a minute, I want to tell you about one last thing in the bill.

It's also funding $25 billion to Golden Dome. Now Golden Dome is this nonsensical project where we're theoretically going to defend America from space, okay? And you know who's the leading contender to get the money? Oh, look at that, SpaceX. That's Elon's company. So you put in $290 million, but if you get back billions, out of that $25 billion honey pot, right?

Well, then you made a great investment, Elon. He invested in the corruption of Donald Trump and the Republican Party, and it looks like he's going to be handsomely rewarded. Hey, look at that, more money to the richest people on earth. And they were full of crap on cutting defense. They were full of crap on Medicaid and Medicare. And yes, the great chunk of this money

is going to the richest people on earth. This country's so corrupt, it's disgusting. We gotta take a break. When we come back, Jenk's gonna read some of your comments.