The Young Turks - Jumping The Ship - March 17, 2026

Episode Date: March 18, 2026

Top counterterrorism official Joe Kent resigns from his post, breaking with the Trump administration over the Iran war and exposing deep internal divisions about the conflict. Meanwhile, Israeli strikes reportedly kill two senior security officials as Iranian leaders signal they’ve been ignoring backchannel outreach from U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff, suggesting diplomacy is stalled. Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

You're listening to the Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Jake Cougar, Anna Gisperin with you guys. So at the end of the two hour show, we'll have Operation Joe for you guys today, and I think you'll love it. So to stick around for good times. But before that, lots of stories about the war. So are we winning or losing?

Well, that's a really interesting question. And so it turns out that has a lot more complexity to it than you see on television. Of course, right? Obviously, one of Trump's top team members has resigned over the war in Iran and says it's because of Israel. We'll get to that in a minute. And my God, Israel first is furious. They brought out everybody, Republicans, Democrats, politicians, media to attack this guy.

So we'll tell you all about that. And then a little bit later in the program, in political prison. for Israel has been released from an American jail. She was taken as a prisoner on behalf of Israel and her first amendment rights and every other right was taken away because Israel controls our government nearly completely. All right, so we'll talk all about that on this show. All right, Casper, let's try to solve it. All right, well, we begin with the, my hair is real wild today and you guys are just going to have to deal with it, okay? No, they're dealing with it. There's nothing they could do about it. They buckled up and braced

for impact on your hair, which is. It's out of place. And I just, anyway. So let's actually start with what I think is the biggest story of the day. And that has to do with a pretty big resignation from the Trump administration. Joe Kent, he just resigned today. He said he can't support your conflict with Iran. What's your reaction to that?

And did you- Well, I read his statement. I always thought he was a nice guy, but I always thought he was weak on security, very weak on security. When I read a statement, I realized that it's a good thing that he's out because he said that Iran was not a threat? Yes, the President of the United States who insists on gold millwork in the Oval Office is talking about Joe Kent, who just resigned from his administration.

He was the director of the National Counterterrorism Center because Trump thinks he's weak. No, Joe Kent actually stepped down, put out a open letter to Trump explaining his reasoning for why he's stepping down from this position, and it has led to a chorus of people calling him an anti-Semijank. Yeah, so he was weak on security, and that's why you hired him to be your national counterterrorism director. Only a moron would say that. Okay, so now you're gonna see why Joe can't resign. It is a scathing and beautiful letter, and then one of the most patriotic things I've seen in a long time. That's why, of course, almost everyone in Washington had to attack him, so we'll show you both of those things right now. Yeah, and he is getting attacked

from the left and the right. Of course, yes. And I'll explain why in just a minute. But for the purposes of this discussion, I want to focus on his letter, his reasoning for why he's stepping down, and then we'll share our thoughts. So he posted on X the following. After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as director of the National Counterterrorism Center effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. It has been an honor serving under the President of the United States and D&I Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, and leading the professionals at the National Counterterrorism Center. Now, in that post, he also embedded his open letter to President Donald Trump in which he explains his reasoning in more detail.

So I'm gonna read you the most relevant excerpts, it's most of it, but nonetheless, he says, I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby. Further, he writes, I support the values and the foreign policies that you, Remember, he's writing to Trump, that you campaigned on in 2016, 2020, 2024, which you enacted in your first term. Until June of 2025, you understood that the wars in the Middle East were a trap that robbed America of the precious lives of our patriots and depleted the wealth and prosperity of our nation. So I'm gonna pause right there and just quickly comment on what he had to say about Trump's foreign policy in his first term.

To be very clear, Trump was not a dove in his first term. Trump was hawkish in many ways. He assassinated the top general in Iran, Qasem Soleimani. Trump ripping up the Iran nuclear deal got us to where we are today. And he did all sorts of other things. I mean, he expanded Obama-era drone strikes and the collateral damage, meaning the deaths of innocent civilians, was so horrific that his White House, in the first term, stop publishing reports about it.

Okay, so this idea, he attempted regime change in Venezuela twice in his first term. So he's not a dove. I want to be clear about that. And the fact that Kent says I agreed with this foreign policy in his first term indicates that Kent is not a dove either. Oh, Kent's pure manga and totally right wing. So like his other views are a different matter for a different day, this action was here. In fact, we've got a poll about that and I'll share with you guys later. But for now, I just wanted to say he made, the reason why they're so furious with him is not just because he resigned and not just because it's over the war.

But most importantly, it's because he said we did this for Israel and mentioned their very powerful lobby in America. So that's that pierces the veil. And so that's a huge problem. And that's why you're going to see some of the attacks against them now because the rest of Washington, the politicians and the media, pretend that Israel does not have a powerful lobby. that affects our politicians. I mean, that's how you know that almost everyone in mainstream media is disingenuous at best. It's preposterous to say that Israel doesn't have a powerful lobby in America, yet they universally lie about it. So he continues to write in this letter to President Trump.

Early in this administration, high-ranking Israeli officials and influential members of the American media deployed a misinformation campaign that wholly undermined your America first platform. And so pro war sentiments to encourage war with Iran. I think he takes a little bit of Trump's agency out of this, but nonetheless, he continues. The echo chamber was used to deceive you into believing that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States. And that should you strike now, there was a clear path to a swift victory. This was a lie. And is the same tactic the Israelis used to draw us into the disaster. Iraq war that cost our nation the lives of thousands of our best men and women,

we cannot make this mistake again. Now, that particular part of his letter to Trump is what has infuriated the intelligency at Washington, D.C. So I'll get to them in just a moment, but one final part to read to you. He says, as a veteran who deployed to combat 11 times, and as a gold star husband who lost my beloved wife, Shannon in a war manufactured by Israel, she was killed in a suicide bombing. I cannot support sending the next generation off to fight and die in a war that serves no benefit to the American people nor justifies the cost of American lives. Now we're gonna get to some of the loathsome attacks against him, and I do really believe

that they're loathsome because they're just smearing him as someone who's motivated by anti-Semitism. I don't think that's the case at all. Come on, man, the oldest trick in the book. And not only that, Anna, my favorite part is some of them are claiming, no, we're worried about is Islamophobia. That's what- Come on, come on. Lie better, please lie better.

But let's actually do a little bit of sound critique here. Yeah. Trump is not some angel who was wickedly manipulated into doing this. Now, were the Israelis agitating for this war? Of course. I mean, Netanyahu has been agitating for this war for the last 40 years. And he said so as this war popped off, right? He's like, I've been dreaming about this for 40 years.

So that is true. But Trump is the president of the United States. Okay, he chose two unelected Israel first d-bags to go negotiate a peace deal with Iran. I don't think that they were negotiating a peace deal at all. I think that they have their own interests that they're pursuing. And so yeah, like we got dragged into this war, but at the end of the day, fish rots from the head down. That's the president of the United States.

So don't take that agency away from him. He did this because he wants to do this. Yeah, but you see, like I think it's a false dichotomy. There is no either or here. Was it Israel or Trump? The answer is both, of course, obviously. And by the way, the third option, which is the advisors. So the way that this works is almost everybody in Washington works for Israel.

So Marco Rubio has gotten $5 million from Larry Ellison after being pre-reble. approved for Israel, we're a million from APAC tracker, and I can go on for every single person in the White House, all paid for by Israel. So it's true what Kent is saying here, that all of his advisors are like, oh, yeah, Donnie, it'll be really simple. Oh, you're gonna be considered a hero. Oh, you're, if you go to war, you'll be a wartime president and your polling will go up to 80%.

So did they trick him on behalf of Israel? Yes. Did Donald Trump make the decision as president of the United States? Yes. Did Israel push for it? And only Israel? Yes, there's no other country on earth that wanted this war. So the Gulf nations didn't want it, Iran didn't want it, America didn't want it. We added at 21% approval before the war began. So the only people who wanted this war were people who support Israel.

That is a stone cold fact, and almost everyone in our national media will lie to you and pretend, And oh yeah, there was some sort of vague American interest, which they can't even name. And then every one of those guys hates this guy now. And why do they hate Joe Kent so much? Because he said a simple truth and something that's undeniable. Everyone knows that we did this war for Israel. And so they can, even though, it's like one of those things that they feel like if you just say the truth in a way that the whole country will hear, and since he's the national counterterrorism

director and this is a spectacular resignation, the whole country's hearing it, it makes it harder to stuff back into the bottle. Oh yeah, that cat, that cat escaped. It is out of the bag. Yeah, so that's why they're furious at him. They're like, oh, we had the truth bottled up. We had that cat in the bag and we nearly strangled it. But this son of our gun let it out.

And now the American people are going to find out on a greater scale how much Washington works for Israel. and not at all for America. In fact, right now, the Trump administration, along with Republicans in Congress, are working to pass a supplemental funding package for Israel's war against Iran, to the tune of $100 billion. Now, in order for something like that to pass Congress, the Senate in particular, well, you'd have to deal with that pesky little legislative filibuster that requires 60 votes to pass anything, unless you do it through reconciliation, which is what Republicans are.

are planning to do. Reconciliation means they can pass $100 billion in funding for the war in Iran through the Senate with a simple majority, just 51 votes, as long as they're willing to cut $100 billion from other programs in the country. You know, programs that benefit the American people. And for Washington, that's gonna be a no-brainer. They're gonna do it. Of course, they're like, wait, American lives versus Israeli lives, that's not even close in Washington.

Look at, I can prove it right now. There's not even a discussion or debate about whether we should send American troops or Israeli troops. And they say, no, the ground troops have to be American. Because it is assumed in Washington in mass that Israeli lives are too precious to lose, whereas American lives are expendable. So they won't even entertain a debate. Look here, I'll just start off the festivities of attack.

People attacking Joe Kent with one of your observations are a member on TV. WIT.com wrote this in saying that they were watching CNN, sorry, and here's what they said. Kelly Kay said, I was watching CNN cover this live and the CNN anchor said this resignation letter was anti-Semitic. No, okay, so let's get to that because- And full of tropes and so- No, they're not full of tropes. It's not full of tropes, it's full of truth and it makes our Zionist-controlled media very uncomfortable. Yeah, I said it, I said it. Okay, David Ellison buying up CNN, CBS, its Zion is controlled.

Let's just keep it 100. I'm not interested in coming on the show and lying to you guys about like, oh no, it's totally fair and balanced media. No, they push pro-Israel propaganda, including the notion that his letter is full of tropes. It's not full of tropes and I'm gonna prove it to you in just a second. Let's start off with this by the way. Jake Tapper retweeted this post by Republican Congressman Don Bacon,

Who called Joe Kent an anti-Semite? Goodridden. Of course he did. Of course he did. Iran has murdered more than a thousand Americans. There, what is that? EFP landmines were the deadliest in Iraq. You know it was also deadly in Iraq?

Al-Qaeda, which we then armed in Syria so we can topple Bashar al-Assad on behalf of Israel. There was many more roadside bombs by our so-called allies, the Saudis. Yeah. The Saudis killed us over and over again in Iraq, and there was no consequences. because they bribed enough people in Washington just like Israel. Yeah, and by the way, there are some people in the audience who get mad at me when I talk about Alshara in Syria being an al-Qaeda terrorist. Get mad. Get mad. He fought our soldiers in Iraq.

He tried to kill our soldiers in Iraq. There's no amount of rebranding you can do that'll convince me that that's a good guy that we should be supporting. Anyway, but let's move on. So that's what Don Bacon posted. Jake Tapper retweeted it because- No, no, hold on. then said, you didn't read the last part, anti-Semitism is an evil I detest, and we surely don't want it in our government.

Wait, so Don Bacon that has taken $3.1 million from the Israeli lobby, says that it's anti-Semitic to point out that politicians might be controlled by the Israeli lobby. Do you see the level of lies here? So now to Jake. Jake Tapper, then he felt the need to just post on his own rather than retweeting. He says, NCTC director Kent resigns over war in Iran, and as with some prominent MAGA commentators, blames the whole thing on Israel, all but absolving the president of the decision. It's notable how little agency certain folks give the most powerful elected official in the world.

Look, to be honest with you, I know I disagree with Jake Tapper in that he thinks anyone who doesn't go along with Israel's wishes as an anti-Semite, but I don't have a problem with that particular post. Oh, I have a huge problem with him. I mean, I think he's right there. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Hold on. Can I say why? The reason is he says, yes, Trump has agency.

That's true that everybody knows that. We just discussed that earlier. But why is he posting this? He's posting it because he's like, not Israel, not Israel, not my beloved Israel. Trump, it's Trump, it's Trump. Look away, it's Trump. It's definitely not Israel. Yeah, Jake, we're tired of it, man.

I got it. You love Israel. Do you know, Jake spent a year in Israel and has said over and over again, how much he loves Israel. loves Israel and it shows. So anytime Israel's in trouble, you can send Jake Tapper out to go, squirrel, Trump, Akeem Jeffries, Chuck Schumer, whoever, just please not Israel. So obvious, go ahead, Ann.

My favorite was Israeli insider Barack Ravid who moonlights as a journalist over at Axios. I mean, the fact that this guy is treated as a serious journalist blows my mind. He worked for Israeli intelligence within the IDF. Okay, but he says this. Important background, Joe Kent is considered a member of the populist wing of the Republican Party. Some would say the far right wing. His appointment sparked opposition from both the Democratic Party, which claimed he is racist and Islamophobic, and from senior figures in the Democratic and Republican parties who claimed he is anti-Israel.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I looked at Barack Ravit's timeline on X. line on X. First of all, half of it is in Hebrew. God knows what he's saying to the Israelis. And so, yeah, he's also an Israeli reporter. Like, he doesn't hide it. He's Israeli. And he hides that, I don't know if he hides or doesn't hide that he was part of IDF intelligence, but it's funny because they're like, yeah. Oh, you're part of IDF intelligence. We don't know if you're retired or not retired. Welcome to American media. You're perfect, right? And so he had reposted like multiple smears of Joe.

He's like, Joe Ken, bad, bad, bad, anti-Sem are terrible, how dare, how do he? Objective reporter at Axios. You know his objective is Matt Stoller, you saw his reply there saying, and the smear campaign starts. So there's a lot of these guys who are trying to smear Jewish Americans and go, hey, if you criticize Israel, that means you're criticizing all Jews. All Jews are responsible for all the terrible things Israel does. That is not remotely true.

They spread anti-Semitism more than anyone in this kind. country. Matt Stowe, for example, is a Jewish American. Glenn Greenwald had this brilliant conversation with Tucker Carlson yesterday, also a Jewish American, and they actually care about America, they care about what's right, they care about all human beings, and so do not buy into the smears of these Israeli traders, honestly, they're trying to like pretend that it's all Jews who agree to this. No, no, you don't speak for all Jews, you just speak for your own country, which is Israel and obviously not America. America. But I saved the best for last, which was this post on Vox written by Zach Bukamp,

titled, A Top Trump Aid resigned over Iran. Liberals should stay away from him. Anti-war, anti-Semitism is still anti-Semitism. Now, in it, Zach talks about how like, you all know my feelings about the war in Iran. It's disastrous. I'm against it. Sure, sure. Right. But it is worth noting that, He does have some, I guess, there's a motivating factor here. So let me just read a few excerpts and I'll tell you what I'm talking about. He writes, the actual text of Kent's resignation letters suggests a very different conclusion that he is not taking an admirable anti-war stance, but laying the groundwork for an

anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. Oh, get out of here, you loser. You're pathetic. Pathetic man go ahead Anna but laying the groundwork for an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory that could define the future of the GOP Kent's resignation should not be celebrated by principled critics of the Iran war But rather serve as a cautionary tale for how a just cause could be hijacked by extremists to promote something awful And then the final part that like yeah you know what's awful Zach the Iran war and all the dead Americans because of beloved Israel.

That's what's awful. But every time you go to criticize, oh, you're not criticizing it the right way. You have to be really gentle and not actually stop the war, actually fund the war, and make sure the war goes on and on and on for Israel.

Don't do it in the wrong way. And you're a liar, right? You're saying the Israeli lobby that spent $100 million? You're a progressive and you don't know that $100 million might affect politicians? You think it has no effect on those politicians?

All those bribes? What a liar you are. What a preposterous liar you are. You're not against the war. As long as Israel pushes us into it, right? Please spare me. Go ahead, Anna. Tell us what more lies this guy said.

Ken's letter paints a picture of U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East as being one giant Israeli conspiracy. That's exactly what it is. I know, I know, Jane. Just please, let me, please, for the love of God, just relax. Let me get through this. The 2003 invasion of Iraq was, in his telling, not the result of U.S. intelligence failures or post 9-11 rage or even neoconservative hubris.

Rather, he says, it was the result of an Israeli lie. What exactly that lie was is never explained. I can explain it. Go ahead, Anna. No, go ahead, you explain it. Just get it out, get it out, go. Okay, they told us that we, oh, they got weapons of match destruction. Where do we get that fake intelligence from, Zach?

Oh, conveniently, we got it from Israel. What did Israel's prime minister say at the time? say at the time. They said that Iraq was their number one enemy and had to be taken out. And then you want to talk about lies that Iraq didn't attack us on 9-11. Iraq hated al-Qaida and Saddam killed al-Qaeda. So they lied to us on the two most important parts that Iraq attacked us on 9-11 and that they had weapons of mass destruction. And where do those lies come from? They came from Israel, they wanted us to attack Iraq. And all of our media who totally worked for Israel, apparently including you, came out and said, oh, yeah, yeah, weapons of mass destruction,

oh, the general region where the al-Qaeda guys came from. And guess what? When we went to war with Iraq, 70% of Americans thought that we were directly attacked by Saddam Hussein, because all of Israeli assets on television and in government told them, oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, Iraq's our enemy, wink, wink, wink, no. Israel's like, that's our number one enemy. You morons, go attack them. You know how many troops that Israel sent for that attack that they definitely wanted?

Zero. Zero, because American lives are expendable. Israeli lives are precious. Benjamin Netanyahu testified before Congress and said, if you take out Saddam, it'll stabilize the entire region. He said that. But that's not the only point of evidence. The other point of evidence is something known as the clean break. A clean break, a new strategy for securing the realm is a policy document that was actually

authored back in 1996 by a group of neocons, okay, Richard Pearl was part of it, and they prepared it for Benjamin Netanyahu specifically. Okay, this is all the way back in 1996. And the idea was to carry out regime change or to destabilize the following countries on On behalf of Israel, Iraq, which we invaded in 2003, Lebanon, 2005, Libya, 2011, Somalia, 2012, Sudan, 2019, Syria. Well, that went on for a while, but Assad was finally toppled in 2024, and then you have Iran, interesting. Now, how do we know about the clean break memo? Well, there are amazing authors who have shed light on it, but this is also really relevant. Here is General Wesley Clark describing the aims of the clean break strategy back in 2007.

About 10 days after 9-11, I went through the Pentagon and I saw Secretary of Rumsfeld and Deputy Secretary Wolfowitz. I went downstairs just to say hello to some of the people on the joint staff who used to work for me and one of the generals called me and he said, sir, you got to come in and you got to come in and talk to me a second. I said, well, you're too busy. He said, no, no, he says, we've made the decision we're going to war. with Iraq. This was on or about the 20th of September. I said, we're going to war with Iraq. Why? He said, I don't know. He said, I guess they don't know what else to do. So I said, well, did they find some information connecting Saddam to al-Qaeda? He said, no, no. He says, there's nothing new that way. They

just made the decision to go to war with Iraq. He said, I guess it's like we don't know what to do about terrorists, but we've got a good military and we can take down governments. And he said, I guess if the only two you have is a hammer, every problem has to look like a nail. So, I came back to see him a few weeks later

and by that time we were bombing in Afghanistan. I said, are we still going to war with Iraq? And he said, oh, it's worse than that. He said, he reached over on his desk, he picked up a piece of paper. He said, I just got this down from upstairs, meeting the Secretary of Defense Office today. And he said, this is a memo

It describes how we're going to take out seven countries in five years, starting with Iraq and then Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, and finishing off Iran. Is that an effing conspiracy? Is that an anti-Semitic conspiracy? And not one of those countries, did we have any American interest in? Like Somalia and Libya, what are we doing in Libya? But all of those were put on a list by Israel as people who were aiding and abetting the Palestinians who they were crushing and oppressing and murdering, and they didn't want

anyone to help the Palestinians. So they said to America, oh, you guys are really mad about 9-11? Here's seven countries we hate and we want you to attack and destroy on our behalf. So the Palestinians are completely defenseless when we occupy them for the rest of time and steal parts of Gaza and the West Bank, which is exactly what they're doing now. So spare us. Look, anyone, okay. So I'm just can't take it anymore when you say, hey guys, these are very normal, rational things. When Big Pharma gives all this money to the politicians, the politicians all of a sudden

say we can't negotiate drug prices. And then we have people on the left, et cetera, that go, oh yeah, that's true, that's obviously true. That's not like an anti-pharmacist conspiracy theory, right? I love pharmacists. Yeah, and then you say the same exact thing, I'm kidding, of course, oh, Big Pharma, are we being racist against Big Pharma? But when you say it about Israel, and Israel this cycle actually beat Big Farmer, which they don't normally do.

And they were the number one donors to Congress and gave 100 million dollars. Overall, they've given billions of dollars. They've donated 94% of Congress. And then people like Zach Beauchamp come around going, anti-Semite. But wait, Zach, is it true or not true? And wait, if it's true for Big Farmer, why isn't it true for the Israeli lobby? And they're like, shut up, shut up. You're going to tell everybody it's Israel.

That's right, Zach. We're going to tell everyone it's Israel. You know why? Because it's Israel. And it's not Jewish Americans and stop saying that. You're endangering Jewish Americans by constantly smearing them as if they agree with this genocide and this war that Israel pushed us into. Massad and the IDF pushed us into.

And all the bribes they give to dirty scum politicians, most of whom are not at all Jewish. Okay, but they are scum. So the minute they were bribed by big farmer or oil or Israeli lobby, they said, Yes, sir, who can I murder for you on behalf of? By the way, Big Farmer kills 70,000 Americans every year. I'm sorry, the health insurance companies do by making sure that insurance is not public. So is that a conspiracy theory against health insurance companies? No, it's a stone cold fact.

Our politicians are the worst people in America. They don't care about us at all. They sell us out to every lobby. But when you touch the Israeli lobby, all of a sudden, all of Washington comes down on He goes, cancel them. The anti-Semites, they should never be allowed to speak against our beloved Israel. But we don't control anything. We don't control anything.

Okay, all of you, coincidentally, all over cable news, all over mainstream media, attack Joe Ken saying a perfectly reasonable and obvious thing. Out of coincidence? No, you did it to smear him on behalf of your beloved, beloved Israel. And the American people are absolutely sick of it. So there you go. You said, by the way, next time you call us names, we call you names, and then you can go and get offended and cry in a goddamn corner as you send one American after another in a coffin after coffin after coffin, because Israel can't be bothered to fight their own wars.

I hope this really lobby is utterly destroyed in this country and has no power at all. Oh, is that anti-Semitic? No, if you don't allow Israel to control American government, you're an anti-Semite, right? Right? Okay, I can't stand these people. And by these people, I mean corrupt sons of bitches who demand that we die for Israel. That's a different country. Americans rise up, rise up, rise up against your scum politicians and your scum national media who demand obedience to Israel. America doesn't kneel. All right, we'll be right back. Andifa.

Kelly Kay, who I was reading earlier, after just saying this, CNN is every anchor is calling Joe Canton anti-Semite, et cetera, says, she said LMAO, of course, you can't criticize Israel without being liberal anti-Semitic and smeared all over the media. That's right, because all those people work for Israel, they're disgusting, and they want to destroy any American who would raise their head against the country they actually love and care about. Bloded ego says he wasn't a dove in his first term. He just had some semi-sane people around him. He doesn't have that now. That is true. T.O. 1790 said, Ken probably knows that we cannot defeat a country like Iran. Well, we can't defeat them on

the ground and besides which doesn't matter. We shouldn't be in the war in the first place. It's a disastrous, dumb war, but it's not dumb for Israel. History's like, yeah, we'll get those sucker Americans to die for us, to pay for everything for us. And then if anybody objects in America, we crush them using our media and our politicians. All right. Rudy Tudy says, TYT persona non grata, Jimmy Door, ran a video about how all of Netanyahu's recent videos on Netanyahu's own site are AI generated. B, B, B, B, are you okay?

So look, I don't care about non-grada, blah, blah, Jimmy door, not Jimmy door. That is fact is true. You see that? Forget old grudges. The only thing that matters is what's true. And by the way, yes, the video is showing that Bibi is alive and well in Israel. our AI, which then makes you go, why did you release an AI fake video telling us he's fine? I don't think that that means he's dead, but it is very weird that they're putting out

fake videos. Our guy says, Jenkins America's strategic rage reserve. Well, the rage reserve has been released and more to come. All right, back on T.YT, Jencan Anna, with you guys. And CM, Dr. Guero Maranaro. Thank you for gifting five memberships. Sorry if I didn't get the name right. But we appreciate you guys, guy.

And tyt.com slash join. And if you sign up for membership through there, we read your comments during the break. I'm going to read one from a YouTube member now because I really appreciate it. Solo Rick said, guys, I'm not going to lie. After October 7th, I felt like I had no voice. I felt like I couldn't speak about the truth because of the backlash. But TYT has given me hope again. I no longer feel powerless.

Love your brother. So we do truth here. And the rest of the media can suck it. And those politicians were coming for you. We're tired of your lies and we're gonna make you pay for it politically. Anna. All right. The IDF has killed two high level Iranians in airstrikes, possibly eliminating one of the remaining

good faith negotiators and moderates that could have brought an end to the war eventually. Now that includes goal. Ress, I'm sorry, Goli, Reza Soleimani, who is the head of the Basij militia. Apologies if I'm mispronouncing some of this. And Ali Larjani, who is the, or was the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council. Both were killed in a strike last night. Now, before we get to the details, Jank, your two cents. So I think that the two important parts of the story is, did this, did these killings help or hurt?

our cause in Iran, and why did Israel do them? So that's very important. Anna, tell us the facts. So President Trump did address these killings in a meeting this morning with the Irish Prime Minister, so they had a bit of a press conference, and Trump decided to weigh in on this. So let's take a look. Everything is gone, their leaders are gone. I guess one of the top person was, they say, a lot of people say their actual top was killed.

yesterday, along with somebody else, who was responsible for the killing. The man that was responsible for the killing of 32,000 people over the last two weeks, he was in charge of the killing of protesters. It's an evil group. I mean, they've killed much more than 32,000 people. And the man who was responsible for that was also killed yesterday. The 32,000 number that gets thrown around by people who love this war in Iran is made up.

It's totally made up. I thought it was 30,000, now it's 32,000. Totally made up number. I had one of our producers do a deep dive to figure out where did that number come from? Maybe there's a source. Maybe we can at least understand it from that perspective. No, no, it's totally made up, totally made up. And also, if you're gonna tell us that there are Mossad agents on the ground

agitating, arming people, and those armed individuals are doing things like, I don't know, breaking into the Palestinian ambassador's office to try to kill her, that's gonna make me realize, oh, well, you know, maybe some of the killing wasn't carried out by the IRCG. Maybe some of the killings were carried out by the armed agitators. So when I say we don't know how many people were killed by the IRCG, this is why I say it. And so this goes to the bias of the so-called objective media. So when Gaza Health Ministry had verified numbers that all the human rights groups agreed with,

they were like, well, there could be Hamas, I don't know, no, skeptical, skeptical about the numbers. Almost everyone in media put a caveat on it, but it's given to us by dirty Palestinians. Now the Israelis make up a number about the Iranians, nobody even asked for a source. We're literally the only one saying, hey, look guys, we're curious about it because we think the Iranian regime is bad overall, minus Israel and this ridiculous war, I wish they weren't in charge. I believe that they might have killed a lot of protesters. But so where's your source? They're like, shut up anti-Semite.

The Israelis are allowed to make up anything they like. So that number is 100% made up. Yeah, sorry for that detour, that's not really the heart of this story. But it's important because you should know that the media lies on behalf of Israel very regularly. I mean, Pierce Morgan did. Pierce Morgan got mad at me because he like, like, shot it out that number. And I pushed back against it. Yeah, he's just like, when he's just, like, when he's just, like, when he's just, like,

Whenever you challenge him, he gets all his dander up. But anyway, let's keep going. Anyway, so per the New York Times, Ali Larjani had a reputation for being able to bridge the country's hardline military elements and more moderate political factions. His killing in an Israeli airstrike on Tuesday could open the way for Iran's military to tighten its grip over the ruling system. In other words, by killing this guy, the IRCG will be far. more hard line. Okay, so kill the Ayatollah who put out, you know, who was against building

nuclear weapons, by the way, to Iran's detriment at this point. And now he's replaced by his son, who is probably more of a hardliner now that many of his family members have been slaughtered by the U.S. and the Israelis. On top of that, though he was a veteran conservative politician, Larjani had a reputation as a relative pragmatist within a system increasingly dominated by hardliners. Internally, he had pushed for a moderate supreme leader to replace Ayatollah Khamenei. Now that Israel has killed him, assassinated him, and I honestly think they did it on purpose. You think that Israeli intelligence didn't know that he was one of the individuals who had bridged divides, was more moderate, was more likely to be the individual engaging in peace negotiations.

There's no question they knew, Anna. So first of all, their intelligence is excellent. So they knew that he was one of the few guys who actually could have made a deal with the Americans to end the war. They don't, it's a well-established fact that Israel does not want to end the war. It's also well-established fact that on several occasions, Israel either killed peace negotiators or tried to kill peace negotiators. And in fact, they've killed Iran's peace negotiators in the past. Why? Because the Israelis are war mongers. They've attacked seven of their neighbors. They are constantly expanding their territory and taking more and more land from all of their neighbors. And they love war. They hate peace. That's why they've occupied the Palestinians for 58 years. So in this case,

oh, did we kill the only last potential peacemaker? And plus one last thing about it, guys, think about it. We already have intelligence, and it's all over the papers. So obviously, both governments know that the regime is getting dug in and the more you kill their leaders, the more they dig in because you're only leaving the radicals behind. And not only that, you're teaching them a lesson, which is if you go to negotiate with the Americans, they murder you. But if you're a hardliner, then you're relatively, you're at least a little safer, right? You're a little safer because they can point to you as the reason why they feel threatened.

Exactly, so they tried the regime change at the beginning, oh, well, let's kill the top 49 guys. But they also killed two or three guys in there that Trump has said repeatedly, we could have made a deal with. Right. Oh, Israel. Oh, did we kill those guys too? Okay, but you tried to topple the regime by doing a decapitation strike, and it didn't work. They dug in. So now you do another one.

At a bare minimum, guys, they could do this three, four, 18 times. it's not going to move them except digging them in more and more. Every new guy becomes more radical. And you think the Israelis don't know that? Obviously they know that. And they want to drive us further into war and they want our ground troops on the ground. Or they're trying to liberate the people of Iran. Yeah.

You really have to be the dumbest person in America to believe. Well, they exist. They're in Beverly Hills. It's the Iranian diaspora. No, but those guys, I get it. Like, they're biased. They want Israel to murder Iranians so they can go back. can get rich again and again and again.

So I've got no love for them and I got no use for them. Rich again, they're living in Beverly Hills. I know, no, they want to get richer. And they're like, oh, I want more money, more money, more land and power like I had in Iran, right? So I got it, guys, I got it. You don't care about America at all. You don't care about the Iranian people. You only care about you, okay?

But that's not, to me, that's, I get it. At least that they're, we know what their motivation is. Our media, oh, we don't know why Israel's killing these peace negotiators. Don't ever say it, anti-Semitic. Is it true? Yeah, it's true, but their job is not to cover the news, it's to cover up the news. So we're now, we're further into the war and Israel is demanding we sending ground troops to get the regime out.

So one more thing, the Basij militia, they're over a million people, and so I'm not in favor of the besiege militia, they're the ones that are like religious police, et cetera, As an atheist, they'd come for me, I got no interest in them. But did killing their leader make them less likely to stay in power or more likely to stay in power? Every day that these guys are killed, more Iranians rally around the flag and go and defend them. So you're making the job of ending this regime actually much harder. But you know what? There is one way you could solve this.

They think in their minds. If we could just trick America into putting in ground troops, then they'll have to go and further and further into the war until we finally eliminate the one million strong besiege militia, which will probably take tens of thousands of American lives. But it doesn't matter for Israel and Persians who live in Beverly Hills. It's no skin off their ass. It's not like they're signing up for the war. They're just going to feed Americans into the meat grinder on their own behalf. All right, well, Trita Parsi from the Quincy Center for Responsible State craft had similar analysis. So let's skip through that. But there are serious questions about

how effective these attacks really are. So the Washington Post reported that despite more than two weeks of relentless airstrikes, U.S. intelligence assessments say Iran's regime likely will remain in place for now, weakened, but more hard-lined with the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps security forces, exerting, yeah, exerting. in greater control. Western officials and analysts who study Iran said they see little near-term prospect of a regime change end to the 47-year-old Islamic Republic or the rise of a more democratic government. Iran more or less confirmed these concerns when their foreign minister publicly denounced a ceasefire on face the nation.

President Trump said this weekend he is not ready to make a deal with Iran, because the terms aren't good enough yet. His administration is saying this war could last another three and a half weeks or so. Has Iran asked for a ceasefire? No, we never asked for a ceasefire, and we have never asked even for negotiation. We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes. The Iranians see this as a fight for survival, and so they're not interested in a ceasefire. They're interested in punishing the US and Israel to a point where this war will finally end.

They're not gonna have to worry about more war six months from now. And by the way, as this war drags on, Trump's loyalists are quietly concerned. Let's just put it that way, at the very real prospect of not having an end in sight. So more than two weeks into the campaign, some allies believe the president no longer control how or when the war ends. That's reported by Politico, I guess they're anti-Semitic. Sounds like an anti-Semitic conspiracy theory. I'm kidding.

Further, they write that they fear Iran's attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, which have rattled global crude markets and threatened broader economic distress, are boxing Trump into a situation where escalating the conflict, potentially even putting American boots on the ground, becomes the only way to credibly claim victory. So the framing of all the articles is, well, I guess Donald Trump doesn't have a choice. He's going to have to put in ground troops. Otherwise, it would be humiliating.

And there was a red line. And they have all of these triggers and talking points and propaganda to make it seem like ground troops and an endless war. It's inevitable. There's nothing we could do. I mean, there's no way Donald Trump can win unless he puts in ground troops. Then he'd have a really good chance. And then once they get killed, then obviously you have to avenge them and put in bigger ground troops. Otherwise, you're super weak, Donald.

You don't want to be weak, do you? I mean, it's almost like the media and all of his advisors and all the politicians are working in concert, almost as if. Remember, you have no choice but to do Israel's wars, no choice at all, and you have to put in the ground troops. All right, meanwhile, drop site news reporting that no, Iran has definitively refused to answer any of our calls for ceasefires. They're like, no, not interested. Not interested in the ceasefire? Because if we do a ceasefire like we did the last time around, all you're gonna do is reload and hit us again.

So why would we do that? You know, as George W. Bush once famously said, as a saying in Texas, maybe in Tennessee too, fool me once, shame on you. Who may can't get fooled again. So basically, Iranians are saying, no, you're not gonna fool us again. We're gonna keep going and going and going until your interceptor missiles are out.

And then Israel and your bases and your ships are vulnerable. So no. Oops, now how are you going to get out? You can't. So Israel, well played. You got us into a quagmire we can't get out of. By the way, there is a way to out. You just leave and go, hey, Israel, you wanted this war?

Your problem, not my problem. By the way, Iran, the minute we stop attacking them, they stop attacking us and are no longer our problem at all. They never were our problem. Anyway, we got to take a break. We'll be right back. The key for me is to keep expectations low. All right. So first off, let's go to Solo Rick at Super Chat. I got my notifications ready Monday through Friday.

Thank you. Appreciate it. So shows a 6 o'clock Monday through Friday. Corey Brown writes, pretty sure I read a raw story months ago that it was concerning that a J6 ultra right wing conspiracy peddling nut job was being put in charge of counterterrorism. This is getting hard to watch. Hey, Corey, if you are in favor of attacking people who are against this war and who are pointing out how Israel is controlling our government, because some left wing outlet or host or whoever told you you should hate the right wing, even if they're on our side on the war, by Felicia. Like, so all the people who told me about, oh, marginalized communities and how they wanted to

protect them, Muslims are getting slaughtered everywhere. And we and then a couple of people step up to help Tom Massey, Marjor Taylor Green, Tucker Carlson. And some on the left are like, oh, how dare you? Muslim lives aren't that important. This war isn't that important. My partisanship is more important. All right, well, if that's how you feel, that's all right.

There's a lot of other shows for you. They don't care at all. What happens in the war? What happens with Israel? As long as they can smear anyone that they want to on the right or the left. Anyways, Refactorous Spirit Rosa, thank you for the. a super chat, Rosa Rosco said, Jenk, I feel a rage, but please buy Anna breakfast.

No problem. Happy to do that. Absurdly overpower, halal patriot says Trump rips, Joe Kent for resigning. He said Iran was no threat. Total weakling on security. Moron, you just find the only guy whose actual job was no threat. Totally weakling on security, moron. Yes, I mean, Trump's obviously stupid.

If you thought he was bad on that, why did you hire him? All right, we're out of time. We'll be back. I put on the blinders. I say I just do it. All right, back on TYT, Jank Anna, Ms. Squeeze and Joey Murdo. You guys are awesome for signing up. We really appreciate you guys. They hit the join button below.

And Constantine Kaviris, American Hero, as always, gifted 10 memberships on YouTube. You're awesome, Constantine. All right, Anna. What's next? All right, let's get to our next story. Has Iran asked for a ceasefire? No, we never asked for a ceasefire. and we have never asked even for negotiation.

Are you afraid of a U.S. invasion in your country? No, we are waiting for them. You are waiting for the U.S. military to invade the ground troops? Yes. Seems like President Donald Trump is wrong about Iran begging for mercy. And that's what this story is really about, because Dropside News has done some reporting on where Iranians are at when it comes to the, this war, and it seems to conflict considerably with narratives coming from the Trump administration.

So before we get to the details, Jank your two cents. So in this story, first of all, you're gonna see why Iran wants us to use ground troops so badly. And you're also gonna see the difference between real reporters, the ones that dropside news and mainstream media, and how they cover the same story and how one is clearly telling the truth and the other isn't. So it's an amazing story. Anna, tell us about it. So Steve Whitkoff, Trump's Middle East envoy and real estate guy is at the center of this story. And so the framing in drop site news is very different from what you'll see in the legacy media and the mainstream media. So Araghi, who is the foreign minister of Iran, not only made it clear on face the nation that he isn't seeking a ceasefire, Iran is not seeking a ceasefire.

He even reiterated that during the foreign ministry's final press conference of the Iranian calendar year. Here's what he said. We don't ask for ceasefire, but this war must end in a way that our enemies never again think about repeating such attacks. They now understand what kind of nation they are dealing with. Iran is ready to take the war wherever necessary. And according to a new report from Dropsite News, it is the Trump administration that has been asking for talks. Two Iranian officials told drop site that Trump's special envoy, Steve Whitkoff, personally sent messages to officials in Tehran,

including Foreign Minister Abbas Aragqi, last week exploring possibilities for resuming negotiations. Remember, the U.S. and Israel is running low on missile interceptors. Iran knows that. They further write over at drop site that Iran has, not replied to Whitkoff. The Iranian officials told DropSight that Iran has also received messages from the White House via third countries.

In fact, a senior Iranian official spoke to DropSight telling them that because of decisions made by Iran's top authorities, no response was sent to his messages. The message here is clear. Iran has once again closed the window for any direct negotiations. The authority to declare a cease by arrest solely with the government. country's supreme leader, it's not something the foreign minister or any other official or organization in Iran would send messages about to a foreign party. Now, why would they want to ceasefire when you consider the fact that the new Ayatollah was,

I'm sorry, the old Ayatollah was murdered, as we all know. The new Ayatollah has lost several of his family members. Mosh Tabah is his name, and that includes his wife, his son. his sister, his brother-in-law, obviously his father, his mother also died of her wounds. And the opening salvo by the United States in Iran was to slaughter hundreds of elementary school girls at an elementary school in Manop. Okay, 175 people total died as a result. And so as you can imagine, he's not really interested in a ceasefire. According to foreign ministry spokesmen, these foreign ministry spokesperson, he says Iran entered the negotiations with open eyes. He said, accusing Washington of ultimately undermining diplomacy.

Tehran had engaged in talks in part to demonstrate to the international community that it was not responsible for the conflict he added. Now, less than an hour after DropSight News published their piece, Israeli insider Barack Ravid tried to spin this as something entirely different. So what did his reporting say? A U.S. official and a source with knowledge said Aragshi sent text messages to Whitkoff that focused on ending the war. The U.S. official claimed the outreach came from the Iranian side, but the U.S. is not talking to Iran. But they add, neither, neither of the sources spoke in detail about how many texts had been exchanged or about their content. Interesting.

And again, Arakshi denied this, writing on X. My last contact with Mr. Whitkoff was prior to his employer's decision to kill diplomacy with another illegal military attack on Iran. Any claim to the contrary appears geared solely to mislead oil traders and the public. So why is the US seemingly trying to spin this? Well, one of the sources, a senior Iranian official who spoke to drop site on the condition of anonymity, said the US outreach indicates that the Trump administration underestimated Iran's resolve and is seeking an off ramp. Many direct and indirect requests for a ceasefire have been coming from the US. Now that they've seen the Iranian side isn't responding to those requests, they're trying

to make up for their embarrassment by twisting the narrative in the media. The responses that we provide to third party countries for a ceasefire are being publicly presented by Trump as if they were his own positions. So basically, Iran is saying, no, we're not reaching out to the US, okay, we're done with the diplomatic talks. We see what the US does when we're engaged in diplomatic talks. They essentially engage in the military equivalent of a sucker punch and attack us. So no, we're at war and we don't want a ceasefire, we don't want negotiations.

That's their perspective. But for whatever reason, Barack Ravid over at Axios has a completely different take, Jank. Yeah, so I read the reporting of both. And in drop site news, it was one piece of evidence after another, after another, both from the Iranian side and the US side and the actual facts on the ground to support their hypothesis that no, the Iranians are not asking for a ceasefire. In fact, they won't even return our calls for a ceasefire. Axios goes, yeah, bro, I talked to somebody in the White House and somebody in Israel, and

they say that they want us to believe that the Iranians are begging for a ceasefire. So we printed it so we could lie to you guys and trick you into believing that this war is going to be easy. So you go further into the war and we get our objectives in Israel. Oh, that's really convincing. Okay, anyways, seriously guys, the Axios report had no evidence, nothing, nothing on the ground. So for example, only 10% of the ships are now getting through the Strait of Hormuz. And so the Iranians feel like they have an advantage there. The Iranians are saying all over media, please come use your ground troops, right?

So now if you're, and here's the juxtaposition so you can tell with your own eyes. In the first war, the 12 day war, the Iranians did ask for a ceasefire. We told you that, drop site news told you that, because it was true, right? And it was obviously they were trying to avoid the war. In fact, they would put out these attacks that were, telegraphed and they told us which way they were coming. It was obviously they were trying to avoid a war and end it as quickly as possible. Here in every single instance, Iran is saying, no, no, you're not getting it.

We like that the Strait of Hormuz was closed. We think it's gonna do massive damage to you and we want to damage you so badly, you never come back. No, in fact, they have been trolling the Trump administration to send ground troops, which I don't want to happen. I think it would be disastrous for our troops. I think many of them will either be severely injured or lose their lives. And if you don't believe what I'm saying, here's what I'm talking about.

You're about to hear from the spokesperson, a spokesperson from Iran. He put out this video recently. He's basically egging Trump on to send troops. A message to the president of the United States. The outcome of war cannot be determined by tweets. The result of a war is determined in the field, the very place where you and your forces, Do not dare to approach and you can only talk about it in your tweets. It's better to name this war as epicure instead of epicure.

Jenk. Yeah. So when they send their top commanders and their top diplomats and politicians to say, we welcome you, we are waiting for you. Okay, your tweets will not decide this war, the field will decide this war. Okay, so what they're doing is they're getting in our faith. So you could hate that, you could have different opinions about that. But what's clear about it is they're saying, please get on the ground.

You don't say this if you're worried about America hitting you, right? You don't get, you're gonna get in Trump's face. Remember Maduro did a dance and that's why Trump was like more agitated and wanted to take him out more? You think they don't know that about Trump? They're very familiar with Trump's inclinations. So they're trying to poke him and poke him and go. Come a little further, come a little further.

Why? Because if we're fighting in the air and in the water, we have a massive advantage. We have aircraft carriers, we have jets, we have everything in the world. We've already wiped out their Air Force and their Navy. But if we get on the ground, we're sitting ducks. And we're in their home turf, filled with mountains. And so that's why they're like, please stop your tweets and come on to the field. And did you hear what he said?

He said, it sounds like this is Operation Epic Fear. Okay, Jake, look, I'm not a military expert at all. Okay, so you can take this with a grain of salt. But I'm also aware of what we get involved in worldwide, what we win, what we lose. Do the Houthis have a Navy? So the Houthis are an interesting, they have boats. So it depends on what you call a Navy. They've got boats.

Okay, do they have a Navy? Air Force? No. No air force? No real official Navy. We beat them, right? We beat the Houthis in Yemen? No, we didn't, Anna.

Oh. Oh. They have a couple of dinghies and they have a couple of bombs. But we couldn't beat them in Yemen, and the Saudis couldn't beat them in Yemen. And so we gave the Saudis tons of weapons. By the way, the Israelis, last time they tried to take southern Lebanon, they couldn't take southern Lebanon. I hope that's going to be the case this time around too. And we hope so too, because that imperial fascist empire needs to be, well,

brought back to within its own borders. And so then, oh, the Vietnamese for the mighty American army, that's easy, right? Was it easy in Vietnam? I think they spanked us. In Afghanistan, where when we went in, they had like three rocks and a stick to fight us. And like morons, we brought in a bunch of weapons, we handed it to them, and then they used it against us. Was it easy in Afghanistan for 20 long, brutal years?

Was it easy in Iraq? And by the way, who told you it was going to be? easy in Iraq, easy in Iran, easy in Libya, easy in all these places. Oh, look at that. Israel and all of their supporters in American media and American politics told us, yeah, it's gonna be easy. Hey, by the way, if it's gonna be so easy, why doesn't Israel go do it? It looks like the Iranians are waiting for them so Netanyahu could put down his

tweets and engage in Iran if he'd like. I have no interest in American troops landing on the ground there and falling into their obvious trap. If Israel would like to use their troops to fall into that trap, Israel can do whatever wants. That's up to them. Exactly. I mean, Israel is a sovereign country. Do what you want without our money, without our soldiers, and without our involvement. But they drag us into this mess anyway. And I really don't want ground troops. I don't want our soldiers to be a part of this mess. But it does seem like we're headed in that direction. Trump sent 5,000 additional Marines to that to that region of the

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that frees up the IDF's time to continue terrorizing and slaughtering people in Gaza, of course. That's their favorite thing to do. But on top of that, now they're invading Lebanon and attempting to annex the southern half of the country. Great. So without further ado, let's get to the details of the story. Hi, I'm reporting to you from the town of Bridge Callaway, where two days ago, the Israeli army targeted a medical center with an airstrike killing 12 medical staff. In recent days, the Israeli army has killed 20 medical staff in first responders in a series of blatant war crimes.

aimed at terrorizing the population in the south and in Beirut and in the Bacca. Americans, all of this is happening on your dime. Yeah, I would like to know, considering that we've heard now multiple stories about how Israel targets and slaughter's medical staff and humanitarian aid workers, since we're all supposed to be so scared of Iran and what a threat Iran poses jank, how many medical staff has Iran He's unslaughtered. None. Oh, interesting.

Who's the real terrorist here? Yeah. So Israel is of course done this repeatedly in Gaza. They're now doing it in Lebanon. In fact, their leaders have promised that they're going to turn Lebanon into Gaza and they destroyed every building in Gaza. So the fascist empire is now moving into Lebanon. And let me guess American media, self-defense?

Come on, what a joke they are. In fact, I want to go to graphic four here. This is Major General Uzi Dyan in an interview on Israeli press. This is quoted verbatim. He says, quote, we need to act fast and with full force. Conquer the territory there, expel everyone who is there, destroy everything there, and turn it into a death zone, which means no one moves around there. He's talking about Lebanon.

Of course he is. Who are the real terrorists? Who are the real terrorists? I think the Israelis are the real terrorists. Oh, there's no question about it. Yeah, in fact, later in the story, I'm gonna give you the kill ratios of Hezbollah versus Israel, and you will see that Israel is infinitely bigger terrorists than Hezbollah. Now, the whole reason why Hezbollah exists is because Israel invaded Lebanon in the 1980s and attempted to steal land.

That's what the Israelis do. They think that they're entitled to expanding their borders. In order to prevent that from happening again, Hezbollah forms as a militia to protect its borders, Something that we as red-blooded Americans would love if we were being invaded by our neighbor. But we're supposed to pretend like the good guys here happen to be Israel. Israel, not the good guys. They're looking to steal land, and they want to disarm Hezbollah. In fact, they're demanding that the Lebanese government disarm Hezbollah.

And since they're unable to do so, it would spark a civil war. Israel claims that they're doing this. Their only mission is to disarm Hezbollah and build a buffer zone. which is a euphemism for steal more land. That's the context that you're not going to hear in legacy media, and I want you to know the truth. And that context is important to know as we go on with the rest of the story. One quick thing here, guys.

Every imperial fascist empire has an excuse and has different propaganda techniques and talking points. So the Germans would say not a buffer zone, but they needed breathing space. So now the Israelis are like, let's just switch it up a little bit and call it a buffer zone. Now who would own the buffer zone? Israel would. Who would live in the buffer zone? The Israelis would. So wait, didn't you just take that land? Yes, but we'll get American media to lie and pretend it was self-defense.

Not us though, we're not going to lie. Exactly. And yeah, Hezbollah has attacked Israelis in response to Israel's aggression. Do they have a right to defend themselves or is not only for the Israelis? They do. They have the right to defend themselves. But American media says, our traditional media says, no, Muslims and Arabs have no right to defend themselves. If they try to defend themselves, they're terrorists.

But when Israel kills way more of them and slaughters their children and their doctors and their schools, well, they're beloved Israel. So they're allowed to do that. No, they're not allowed to do that. They're terrorists. Now, I want to give credit to the incredible journalist that we showed you at the top of this story. Her name is Courtney Bano, and she's on the ground doing incredible reports. from Lebanon that are important to know about, right? It's important to know what's actually happening on the ground.

So let's get into some of the details here because so far more than one million people in Lebanon, one million people have been displaced, forced out of their homes because of Israel, okay? Some are sleeping outside in tents, some are sleeping on the beach, just desperate people forced out of their homes. So Israel can expand its borders under the false pretense of we need to deal with high Hezbollah. Okay. Of the 912 people who have been slaughtered already by the Israelis in the latest offensive, 67 of them happen to be women, 111 children. They really do specialize in the slaughter of children, don't they? And 38 medical workers have been killed by the Israelis.

Lebanon's state-run news agency is reporting that at least some of those workers were killed in double-tap strikes, another specialty of the IDF. In fact, just yesterday, two paramedics were killed and another was wounded in a double tap strike. Someone should write to Bill Maher and inform him about that because when I told him about the double strikes that the IDF was carrying out in Gaza, he was shocked and chagrined. Now, an IDF spokesperson made clear that the occupation forces intend to do to Lebanon what they did to Gaza. And if you're paying attention to what's happening on the ground, they are making good on that promise.

And that includes targeting hospitals while pretending they're being used by terrorists. I'll give you the latest example. Here's one post by an IDF spokesperson. Urgent warning, as part of its terrorist activities, Hezbollah is making extensive military use of ambulances. We warn that the military use of medical facilities and ambulances must be stopped immediately. This is their way of saying we are going to bomb paramedics, ambulances, ambulances. and hospitals. We're gonna do that. So why are they doing that, right? Because they're terrorists.

So they did that in throughout Gaza. And so the voice of Henry Job is a movie about what happened to six year old Henry Job. And they have our actual voice on the movie and it's a six year old pleading. Israel has already murdered everyone else in the car, which were our relatives. And she's screaming, please someone help me, please someone help me. So they tell the Israelis, they ask for triple permission, the Israelis finally our later grant permission for an ambulance to go rescue her just so they could murder the people in the ambulance and then they murdered the six year old. So they, and anyone who does a double tap is a definitive terrorist.

There is no ansips or butts about it. A double tap is when doctors and emergency workers come to rescue the wounded, you murder the doctors and the medical workers. That is exactly what terrorists do, and it's IDF 101. And the IDF almost never fights a fair fight, right? They won't be like, hey, why don't you, for example, you want the war with Iran, why don't you use your ground troops in Iran? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, no, they could get killed.

Their specialty is murdering women and children from the air, bombing them. And again, this is backed up by the numbers I'll get to at the end. So there's no question about it, Israel does these double taps, Israel's taking you. more territory and guys what's driving all of us crazy here is the gaslight. Yes. Because if our media just reported this factually and they were without any opinion, without my rants or anything like that, just hey, this is what's happening. Israel is taking more land.

They've again, they've killed 111 children. They killed over 20,000 children. Instead, American media goes, no, you're the terrorists that are resisting Israel's expansion. And you're, and you know what? saying that they kill children while true is blood libel, makes you an anti-Semite, and you should never be allowed to speak in media again. Then you guys are making blood libel seem like a good thing, because human beings are disgusted by the loss of innocent lives.

And when your response to that is how dare you speak out against it, you're doing a blood libel, you make blood libel seem like, or a good thing, right? Obviously it's not, because- Charges of blood libel-a-do. Charges, yeah, charges of blood libel a good thing. Obviously it's not because drawing attention to this is not blood liable. This is the truth. Okay, that's the truth.

So the bad people are not the people drawing attention to Israel's terroristic activity. The bad people are the terrorists who are carrying out the slaughter of innocence. Yeah, so last things here. Jesus, man, these people like, and oh, but you're hurting their feelings. You're hurting their feelings. 111 Lebanese children are dead, so you'll excuse me if I don't give a damn about your feelings. Same. You know, stuff your feelings right up your ass, okay?

If you're an Israeli supporter who are like, oh, yeah, we slaughtered those children. But I have my feelings were slightly ruffled when you criticize the mass slaughter of children. Good, good, I'm super happy that you're offended. And I think your feelings should be crushed to pieces because you're a monster who doesn't mind murdering all these kids so Israel can take more land. God, everybody should offend your feelings. Okay, so by the way, to give you a sense of what deep liars, the American media is, and how much, much they work for Israel. Blood libel was a crazy trope against Jews back in like the 1800s, 1900s, we're talking about drinking the blood of children. That's crazy crap, okay? No one said

that, then what is drinking the blood of children? We're talking about how they target women and children and civilians, that's a fact. That's nothing to do with that old trope. And they know it has nothing to do with that old trope, but they use it anyway, callously, to protect Israel and then pretend they're objective. Come on. All right, so finally, here's the numbers. This is an Israeli magazine plus 972. They reported back in August of 2025.

Data from an internal Israeli intelligence database indicates that at least 83% of Palestinians killed in Israel's onslaught on Gaza were civilians. So recent studies have suggested the health ministry's death toll, which currently stands at around 62,000, that was back in August. Now it's over 72,000. also likely a significant undercount of the total number of casualties from Israel's onslaught, possibly by as many as several tens of thousands, which means that their civilian kill ratio is actually worse than 83%. So yes, but what was Hamas on October 7th? 67%. So what

was Hezbollah? So Israel has done 70 October 7th and they are bigger terrorists than Hamas. Their civilian kill ratio is worse. And finally on Hezbollah, well, since October 7th, They have actually killed 45 Israeli civilians, Hezbollah has, and they've killed 73 Israeli soldiers. So we did the math on that. That's a civilian kill ratio of 38%, which is way, way lower than Israel's 83%, leading you to believe, and to conclude if you're a rational person, that Israel is targeting civilians more than Hezbollah and Hamasar. So the whole point of calling people terrorists was supposed to be, are you targeting innocent civilians or not? Now they've changed the meaning to terrorist means dirty Arab were allowed to murder and including their entire family. And Israel is allowed to kill any civilian they like at gargantuan rates worse than any terrorist group on planet Earth and 70 times more and take their land.

But if you object, we're going to call you an anti-Semite and try to destroy your life. But by the way, we're objective reporters. No, American media and American politicians totally and utterly work for Israel. That is why they hide these truths from you, because the American people found out what we're funding, the genocides and the wars were funding, they wouldn't want to fund it. And that's why now more and more because of online media, people are finding out. And that's why they're getting so mad at the American people and starting to call us anti-Semites in mass.

Yeah, they can call us whatever they want. If I were the leader of Lebanon, I would demand that my military joined forces with Hezbollah to defend my country. That's what I would demand. But- And by the way, the leaders of Lebanon, you think like the leaders of UAE, you think if you make a deal with the Israelis, you're gonna be safe? Oh, they're always gonna come for you. Go ask the United Arab Emirates.

So what happened to Dubai in all those places? Bingo. They thought, oh, if we'll make a deal with the Israelis, then they'll protect us. No, they, and the Israelis convinced of Americans to only defend Israel, and UAE, And UAE got hit all over the place. And they're packed with Israel, only screwed them over. And these idiots in Lebanon, not the Hezbollah, but the leaders are like, oh yeah. If we just help them kill our own people, then later they'll be nice to us.

No brother, after they take southern Lebanon, guess what they're gonna take next? Northern Lebanon. All right, we gotta take a break. When we come back, I'm gonna tell you about the fate of one political prisoner who dared to join a pro-peace protest at Columbia University. Let's go to YouTube members. Lady A.F. says, it bothers me that the global aggressors aren't putting proper effort into convincing the world that any of this is justified.

Like they don't care how the global population feels in the aftermath. No, they don't. They view us as cattle to be like manipulated and used. So Duncan, your mate says, Hexith likes to double tap fish persons. Yep, he's also a terrorist. When you go to help kill people who are rescuers, you're a terrorist. Dean Williams says the revolution will not be televised, it'll be considered, it'll be covered meticulously by TYT.

Thank you, Dean, that is right. The rest of the press can suck it. They're not gonna get us to shut up. We're backed by you guys, and that drives them crazy. Christina Lisa Brown says, America pays Israel to be terrorists, and it's humiliating to know what that makes America. It's not our fault, Christina. It's our disgusting scum politicians who are the very worst people in the country.

Hello Marto says Canadian here. Everyone I know sees through the war propaganda and understands what's really happening. I know it feels hopeless, but you and Anna and other prominent voices truly have broken through. Thank you for saying that. We appreciate it. Iki Taku writes, and thanks to IT for your authenticity. The mainstream media is clearly sold out and compromise. We need more people like you.

Thank you brother. Samurai champion says this is what we do. lead to anti-American sentiment after the coup of 1953 and the Iranian revolution leading to the rise of the Shah and the Iranian the Iranian theocracy in the first place. That's right. When we meddled in their political affairs, we created something that was worse and more radical and came back to haunt us. And the Israelis are saying, do it again. Back on TYT, Jen Canana, with you guys. More news. Well, I wanted to give you an update on one of the Columbia University protesters who was arrested under the Biden administration.

What happened her after that? A Palestinian woman named Leca Cordia has just been released after ICE threw her in prison for over a year without a trial. Now, Jank, before I give you the details on this, I think it's important to note that she was arrested for being part of the pro-Palestinian protests at Columbia University in 2024, meaning that Biden's administration was okay with detaining. Of course they were. Yeah. Because no matter who you elect, you always get President Netanyahu. So it doesn't matter, Biden, Trump. And now they're taking, Israel is taking political prisoners inside the US.

Literally. And they're saying you should burn your constitution. You don't have any First Amendment rights to criticize us. We're superior to you. Know your role, otherwise it'll stuff you in a prison like we did to this poor lady. So Anna, tell them the details. So as I mentioned earlier, Cordia was arrested. back in 2024 for being part of these demonstrations at Columbia University.

It hurt the feelings of some of the other students. However, she was quickly released after she was detained because she was found to have done nothing wrong. Now look, to be clear, there were some students who were engaged in chaos or might have genuinely made Jewish students uncomfortable with anti-Semitic attacks. But the majority of the protesters, the bulk of the protest was meant to pressure Columbia University to divest from Israeli connected companies, which I think is a totally legitimate thing to call for, especially if you're a student paying tuition. Now, she then, so she gets released, and then soon after that, Trump comes into office, he gets inaugurated, and he decides, I'm going to reopen her

case, okay? And so that happens, and she ends up getting arrested, along with Mahmoud Khalil. Now Cordia was detained on March 13th of last year and they, you know, charged her with some interesting charges. Money laundering, overstaying her student visa, which was expired in 2022, so they might have actually had a case there. But the third one was being a terrorist sympathizer. Come on. Okay. So obviously the money laundering and being a terrorist sympathizer, total BS charges, overstaying your visa, okay, but do you deserve to be in prison for that? Well, she was in prison for over a year, okay? The Trump administration claimed that they were looking into payments that she sent overseas.

You want to know what the payments were? Trisha McLaughlin, a disgrace and the spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement that Cordia had been found to be providing financial support to individuals living in nations hostile to the United States. Oh, that's fascinating. So it turns out that she did send money abroad. She's Palestinian, and she sent money to her family members in Gaza. And apparently that's offensive to the United States government.

I should also note that 200 of her family members were slaughtered by the Israelis in Gaza. That's not offensive. That doesn't at all offend the sensibilities of Trump administration officials. But the audacity of this woman to send $1,000 to her family members in Gaza, well, she should go to prison for that, right? So the Israelis are not bad guys for slaughtering her family. She's a bad person for sending a tiny amount of money so that they could eat and live as the Israelis were trying to starve them to death. Okay, so they're setting some dangerous precedents that they should be very careful with here. Because they're saying you get to go, you're going to go to prison in America if you're a terrorist sympathizer.

But we just showed you earlier in the show that the biggest terrorists in the world are the Israelis. And that's an empirical fact. Civilian kill ratio of 83% worse than any terrorist group, worse than Hamas and Hezbollah. So if you're a terrorist sympathizer who is providing money to Israel, should you go to prison? Because it's an empirical fact that the Israelis are worst terrorists. The IDF is the biggest terrorist organization in the world. So and the charges that they might have done against Tucker Carlson, we don't know yet, but he talked about a couple of days ago was coordinating with a foreign government.

You sure you want that precedent if you're an Israeli supporter here? Because there are tons and tons and tons of media and politicians in this country who are coordinating with a foreign government called Israel. So they're putting out all these precedents. Oh yeah, yeah, go get the Muslims. Make sure that they're not allowed to talk. In fact, forget Muslims. Make sure no one's allowed to criticize Israel.

And we'll just call them terrorist sympathizers. You gotta get them out of our country, man. Do you guys not see how they're, they're carrying out a full blown assault on our liberties here, okay? All right, let me get back to, let's get back to- They hate America. They do, they do. They, I mean, it's obvious. A tool for them.

Were there, were their ATM machine, our soldiers are disposable? for them, it makes me sick. But anyway, getting back to Cordia. So she gets, you know, detained, again, in a Texas facility and is treated in a way that can only be described as torturous. Okay, so in one particularly horrifying instance, she had a seizure and was shackled to a bed for three days after. Three days, shackled to a bed. Shackled. For the crime of having a seizure. The entire time I was- having an opinion that Israel does not approve of in America. Right, the entire time I was chained, I felt like an animal.

Ice detention facilities are built to break people and destroy their health and hope. I want everyone to know what happened to me because the same things are happening to other women who are locked up there or here. So get a load of this, a judge ruled on two different occasions that she should be released. ordered that she be released. But the federal government used all sorts of legal loopholes to keep her in prison. Last month, the New York City mayor, Zoran Mamdani, who is a real leader, actually met with Donald Trump and simply asked for Cordia's release. And luckily, Trump did it, he did release her, okay?

So actually, a judge waited after that one more time and demanded that she get released. And now she can finally return home. A Department of Homeland Security spokesperson told BBC, the facts of this case have not changed. Cordia is in the country illegally after violating the terms of her visa. That might be the only thing they're saying that's truthful. The Trump administration is committed to restoring the rule of law and common sense to our immigration system and will continue to fight for the arrest, detention, and removal of aliens who have no right to be in this country. Any comment on the fake charges of her engaged in money laundering?

Anything to say about the trumped up charge of her supporting terrorist organizations? Nothing? You think she deserved to be tortured in a prison for over a year because she overstayed her visa? No, but guys, people overstay their visa all the time. But as long as they don't speak out against Israel, they don't get stuffed into a prison without any charges for a year. What determines whether you're punished or not is not your visa status. It's your opinion about Israel.

And so you think they're going to just leave it at people with visas? Do you know that the Supreme Court has ruled repeatedly for hundreds of years that the First Amendment applies to everyone in America, including non-citizens? So if they're allowed to destroy the First Amendment for non-citizens, guess what? That sets a precedent for destroying the First Amendment. for citizens as well. Well, they're working on it. And that's right.

And Israel demands that we destroy our own constitution. They literally say it out loud. Like various, you know, government officials within Israel, there's all these conferences that get carried out where you'll hear people like Jonathan Greenblatt talk about, you know, dismantling First Amendment rights. I came across, Jake, I don't know if you've seen this video. It's from January of 2025. Jonathan Greenblatt is at one of these Israeli conferences, and he literally suggests that maybe the best way to combat anti-Semitism is to consider doing the beeper method.

Oh, okay. I tweeted it out. You guys could look at it for yourselves. He's like, you know, the conventional ways of dealing with this isn't working. So he's pretending to be a civil rights leader. Yes. Arguing in favor of genocide and terrorism. I don't know if they're going to give the beepers to Americans who disagree with Israel.

That's what he's talking about. Okay, so, and by the way, he's attacking Roe-Kana now and Senator Van Hollen, because there are the two Democrats who've had the courage to speak out against Israel. This guy is out of control. No, he's a full-blown fascist, and by the way, he would put me in prison for that if he had his way, because a lot of states have passed laws and also on college campuses. There's a new definition of anti-Semitism and they, I think it's called IHRA. And there's like 18 different things you're not allowed to say about Israel, including

saying that they're doing the equivalent of what the Nazis did. So if- They are. Fascism or genocide or anything along those lines. They are. So they say if any American accurately, including the genocide scholars, say that it's a genocide, which almost all the genocide scholars say it is a genocide. Like Bet-Solome, you mean? Yeah.

that's it, that you're saying that we're like the Germans, so you should be arrested and your freedom should be taken away from you. Or if you're on a college campus, you should be arrested, you should be kicked out of the school day you're in, and we should use a thuggish police state against any critic of Israel here in America. And anything you say, oh, that triggers this, that triggers that, that triggers this definition. And so we'll take, we'll rob America of its freedoms and get them to serve Israel. So they're literally taking political prisoners now. This is outrageous.

This is a direct assault on the principles and idea of America. And obviously they don't mind because they're not America. They're a different country. And they think, well, we don't like America's freedom. We want to shut them up. We don't like that you have a democracy where your representatives are supposed to represent you. We want them to represent us.

So we paid $100 million in that last election. to buy your in almost your entire Congress. And then we had the Aedelson to give $300 million to Trump, number one lifetime donor to Joe Biden, Hakeem Jeffries, and Mike Johnson. We bought all your politicians. Oh no, you can't say that. Stuff him in a prison.

Stuff all Americans into prisons if they don't agree with Israel and they don't bow their head to a foreign nation. I can't wait for these guys to run away from this country. The minute people start finding out. They're never going to run away. They need to be pushed out. And more Americans are waking. Americans are waking up to the very insidious impact our alliance with Israel has.

Yes, and let me be super clear guys, because I don't want anybody ever getting the wrong idea. Never assume that about a Jewish American, okay? Some of the best fighters for peace, for decency to stop this genesis, stop these wars, are Jewish Americans. Jeffrey Sachs. Okay, we can go on forever, Robert Greenwald, Glenn Greenwald, and Dave Smith. And look guys, there's like literally thousands of them. I'm not gonna spend hours doing this.

So do not ever do anything physical or violent. That would be what Israelis do. Do not take away anybody's freedoms. That's what Israelis would do. Do not attack people who are innocent. That's what Israelis would do, okay? So we never do any of that. But if you're from a different government, whether it's Hungary, Israel, Brazil, I don't really care.

We've got to root you out of our government because you guys are spies and traitors, whoever you are. And remember, most of Israel first is not even Jewish. It's sellouts like Lindsey Graham and Christian Zionists. Ted Cruz and all these guys who've taken money from the Israeli lobby and now serve them loyally. Well, if you're gonna go coordinate with the Israelis about how to push us in the war, which is what Lindsay Graham did before the war, well, then you shouldn't be in the

American government. There's a good chance that you're a terrorist sympathizer who's coordinated with a foreign government. And those are actually illegal things. So we have the greenblot video. that I had referenced earlier. I think it's important for you all to watch it. Now remember, they're discussing how to tackle anti-Semitism,

which he purposely conflates with criticism of a foreign country, Israel. Take a look at what he said. Oh, we don't have it yet? Oh, my bad. Okay, we're grabbing it. Okay, when we come back from the break, we'll show you that video. And then we've got a lot more to get to. So come right back.

So let's go to super chat. Ricky Rage Dorazio writes in, As a parent who lost a child, my heart is broken so much when children are being murdered. The Zionists and the U.S. fascists are making me rage. The IDF and the U.S. government are child murdering cowards. I wish to God that weren't true. But our disgusting politicians have decided they're going to serve Israel instead of us. And Israel regularly hits civilians, schools and hospitals.

So now we're hitting schools as well. Samurai champion says, I would never thought that I would be pro-Iran, but after the last Iran war, I'm pro-Iran now, and I'm becoming more pro-Iran as the war continues. This is why I stand with Iran. So that's their opinion, not my opinion. All I know is I want Americans to be safe. I want America to leave this war as soon as possible. It has nothing to do with us.

I want America to stop funding the Israeli terrorists. They have nothing to do with us. All they do is put moral stain on us and they get the world to hate us. They are not an ally. An enemy couldn't possibly do as much damage as Israel has done to us. I just wanna get rid of our alliance and our allegiance to them and get back to serving our country. Lady A.F. wrote in YouTube member section, our American forefathers fresh from corruption

in Europe understood how important it was to fight for freedom of speech and freedom of religion. Yes, but now the Israelis say, no, you should trash that on behalf of our country. Christina Lisa Brown says whatever happened to the Geneva Conventions, Israel says they won't follow any international law, that they are superior and above the law. And we fund them. Back on TYT, so look, we appreciate everyone who rings the bell. That way you can keep track of the show, somebody said earlier. They've got their timer set, but ringing the bell is an easy way to do that and it's free and available to everybody. I just want to read two quick YouTube member comments. Amy Meganson says, I don't know if this is true, she's just reporting it from what she saw.

Apparently there's fighting on the streets all over Israel right now. That is true, yes. And they are demanding that Netanyahu leave. Yes, that is true. So, and they haven't really gotten hit that bad yet. Wait till they, you know, they start running out of defensive missiles. I've been, I have been monitoring Hebrew Twitter, right? And they're struggling, like even though the death toll is low, which I don't want, look,

I don't want civilians getting killed, I don't. That's not something I'm interested in. They're sick of living in the shelters. The underground bunkers, yeah. So, like, it's starting to break them. But it's amazing because, like, good, that's perfect. You guys have shelter.

Think about that. And by the way, the time point. The tents that are being bombed in Gaza, maybe comment on that. Maybe consider what it's like to be a Palestinian living in a tent, knowing that an airstrike is coming your way. By the way, one of the most frequent talking points from the Israelis is, oh, the Iranians are cowards hiding in their bunkers.

No, they're not. Meanwhile, they're out in the street. I saw the foreign minister walking in the streets of Tehran today. Meanwhile, the Israelis are in their bunkers. A BB hasn't been seen for a week, right? And so look, them being tired and nervous, etc. And all these negative feelings is perfect. It is.

Because they're not dying, I don't want them to die, right? But do I want them to be uncomfortable over a war they started? Of course I do. 100%. Right? Yeah, and so are you looking for sympathy? As Anna said in a debate, are you having trouble with the war that you ordered? Because you guys wanted this war, 82% of Israelis loved it.

That's when they thought they weren't gonna get hurt at all, they were just gonna hurt others. Unfortunately these days, that's Israeli one-on-one. Love to hurt others, but don't want any pain for themselves. Oh, you're in pain? Oh, you were a little inconvenienced? Good. Yeah, all right, I want to get to the video I promised you. So here's the video from January of 2025.

It's Jonathan Greenblatt, the head of ADL, anti-defamation league. Discussing how to tackle anti-Semitism in America, he has found that the conventional means haven't worked, so he suggests something else. We've got to start doing things differently. And the same goes here in Israel. This means that the problem won't be solved by yet another new Knesset task force. It won't be solved by the government just throwing money at the problem. It won't be solved by the IDF spokesperson's unit issuing updated talking points or suddenly using TikTok.

Like us in America, you need to adopt new strategies to experiment with creative tactics to study the results and scale what works. Maybe it's a whole new IDF unit, call it 8300 to lead this fight. But we need the kind of genius that manufactured Apollo, gold pagers and infiltrated Hezbollah for over a decade to prepare for this battle. We need the kind of courage that executed Operation Deep Layer inside Syria and destroyed Iranian missile manufacturing capabilities to undertake this mission. Jonathan Greenblatt is a threat to U.S. national security. I want to be clear about that. What he just suggested there was disgusting, boasting about pager attacks to combat anti-fellate.

Semitism? What was that? How is that okay? Yeah, so there's two things here. First, Jonathan Greenblatt once misspoke on television and called Israel his government. Now, there he is talking to the Israelis. He's the head of the Anti-Defamation League, pretending to be a civil rights group, but is actually deeply right-wing Israeli group, now working in alliance with APAC to try to destroy any opponents of Israel inside America. They've given up any pretense of civil rights. They're only using civil rights as a gimmick. Oh, you complaining about our genocide is affecting my civil rights. Wink, right?

So shut up, you dirty Americans and serve Israel. So now he's in Israel in that clip, giving guidance to a foreign government about how to manipulate America. Wait, I thought Tucker Carlson talking to someone inside a different country made him a foreign agent and he should be arrested for it. Well, there he is an American citizen telling the Israelis and coordinating with them on how to manipulate Americans to serve Israeli interests. And then he layers on top of that, maybe like the genius we had and with the Pagers, we should

bring that to America. And by the way, what did Netanyahu give Donald Trump and John Federman? Pagers. They give him golden Pagers. Accepting literally anything as a gift from the Israelis, like you're asking for it. You're spying on you. Yeah. It's bugged.

Like don't be an idiot, but who knows? John Kierkow, who's former CIA agent, said Mossad would always come to the CIA headquarters and every time they would bring gifts and every single time there was a bug in it. Okay, so this is not complicated. They hate us, they want to take advantage of us. And by the way, the geniuses who infiltrated the Syrians and the Lebanese also infiltrated the US with Jonathan Pollard and stole our secrets. And Robert Maxwell, father of Galane Maxwell, who stole our nuclear secrets and not only use

it to build an illegal nuke for Israel, but also then sold the technology to the Soviet Union at the time are mortal enemies. Well, they have infiltrated us, Jonathan, so great job. I don't know what other devices you've got ready for Americans, but it's pretty obvious. You'd rather be serving the Israeli government than the American people. That is crystal clear. All right, let's move on to our final story. Let's talk a little bit about the economy.

Most of the analysts that we've had on, and granted, they're all kind of dealing with the fog of war trying to figure it out themselves, have said that they don't think prices will come back down to the 60s anytime soon. Do you? Is that in your forecast? Oh, you know, if you look at futures markets, they've got them going down into the 60s again by the fall. And I think that's relatively pessimistic. I think 75 was what the WTI was for the December contract yesterday.

If it were to be extended, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers and we'd have to think about if that continued what we would have to do about that. But that's like really the last of our concerns right now. Last of our concerns right now. Consumer pain, not a big deal. We can manage. That was the Director of National Economic Council, Kevin Hassel, Hacet and you'll be shocked to find that this loathsome clown cares very little about Americans,

American consumers, and even insists that the economy isn't on fire now that we've been dragged into a war on behalf of Israel. Jane, your two cents? You went to business school. What do you think? Yeah, I'm pretty sure that when 20% of the world's oil is blocked, that oil prices are going to go up. You don't have to go to Wharton to know about supply and demand, and Hassett knows that too.

He accidentally told the truth, we don't really care about America. That's right, that's right. And Anna, what were the two major things that Trump ran on? Getting control of inflation. Right, affordability, yep, and being anti-war. How's that working out for us? Not so great, not so great. Now here's more Cope from a very wealthy Kevin Hassett.

When you math out the possibilities within your own group, about the economy and this impact here and you say it's going to end sometimes soon. What does that look like? Do you say 10 days is one version, 30 days is another, 60 days is another, or are you on a different timeline completely? What the president has said, which is that it's a four to six week program, and we're ahead of schedule and we're in the third week. And so then you could say call that a base case. The U.S. economy is fundamentally sound and that if it were to be extended,

this, it wouldn't really disrupt the US economy very much at all. It would hurt consumers and we'd have to think about, you know, if that continued what we would have to do about that. But that's like really the last of our concerns right now because we're very confident that this thing is going ahead of schedule. What does that mean ahead of schedule? Like what does that mean? Honestly. Yeah, well Donald Trump one asked, how do we know when the war was over? He said, I'll know it in my bones. Okay, yeah.

What standard is that? What goal is that? So wait, wait, wait, do we need to do regime change? Do we need to knock out every ballistic missile? Well, it's a mystery, it's Donald Trump's bones will decide it. So don't worry, we're right on schedule? For what? I've heard those bones have spurs.

Yeah, you gotta watch out for those spurs. Could be on either foot. Okay, I know God knows you don't want to go to war. We live in hell, we live in hell, we live in hell, okay. So real quick, look, Baghdad Bob was this hilarious spokesman. person for the Iraqi government after we launched a war. And he would say, we are slaughtering the Americans. The Americans are not here. And there'd be an American tank behind him in the video, okay? And he would say, oh, the Americans, they're not dropping bombs, those are pencils.

He just make up like hilarious lies. And that's what has it sounds like here. Oh, no, the economy's doing great. Oil price, what do you mean oil prices are great? It's got up 25% since the war started. More than that. So, oh, no, this. The economy crashing will eventually help the economy grow. No, it won't, it just means it's crashing. This is Baghdad Bob on steroids. Absolutely. Now before we get to what's actually happening with the oil markets, I do want to just, I want to help you guys understand why Kevin Hassett is not really all that

concern. It goes beyond providing cover for a failing administration. He also happens to live in a completely different world from the vast majority of Americans. So when he hears that there's gonna be some consumer pain, he doesn't really understand what it's like to be an ordinary American worker who's struggling economically because we got dragged into a war we shouldn't be involved in. So with that in mind, let's take a look at this. I looked at his public disclosures, something you have to do if you're working for the administration. ProPublica makes it easy to find these disclosures, so I got this information from ProPublica.

Now, his reported assets are anywhere between $6.1 million and $25 million. And the reason why there's such a disparity there is because when they do their disclosures, they can give you like a ballpark amount that they've invested in certain companies and stocks and things like that. But he was also earning some pretty nice money in the form of salaries and speaking fees up until he joined the Trump administration, the second term of course, including nearly $200,000 salary at Affinity Partners, in addition to a $234,000 salary from the Milken Foundation. Then you also have a $275,000.

By the way, this was money he was earning simultaneously. $275,000 salary from Stanford University, $80,000 from the National Review Institute, $100,000 speaking fee from city Bank, those are just a few examples. But when it comes to the reality of our economic situation right now, if you're an ordinary American, you're already feeling it. But let me give you the exact details. So the price of Brent Crude, the global benchmark for oil, rose about 2% to around $102 a barrel on Tuesday. And just one day it rose 2%. On Monday, it settled at just over $100 a barrel after retreating. Prior to the war, it was $70 a barrel. Gasoline prices increased to $3.79 a gallon, which sounds like a bargain here in California, but we're talking about the national average,

right? But that does mark the highest price since October of 2023, and that's according to AAA. The overnight increase, about seven cents a gallon on average, means the cost for drivers increased 27% since the start of the US Israeli war with Iran. And if you need diesel, you're in bad shape because diesel prices, which have increased even more quickly than regular gas climbed to $5.4 a gallon on Tuesday, AAA said, up 34% since the start of the war. So again, the price of, you know, oil per barrel was $70 prior to the war kicking off. And now we're at $102 per barrel. How explain to me how the economy is going great and it's not really affecting the war is not really affecting us. So I'm going to go a little further than you, Anna, because some of those organizations that he works are not all of them, but some of them will give him even more money for starting a war with Israel.

So everyone who was participated in destroying the American economy, but helping Israel to start a war is going to get greatly rewarded afterwards. So he might just be doing projection. He's like, what do you mean? That's why he's always smiling on TV. He's like, what do you mean? After I leave here, I'm going to be so rich, even richer than I already am. The economy is great for me. Oh my God, the Israel First crowd has a lot of money, and now I'm going to get a lot of that myself. Oh, you guys are suffering because your bills are up 25%. Who cares? You're just Americans. You're not even Israelis. Actually, Jank, the way that you described it right now, it seems extreme, right? Like no one's actually saying it that bluntly.

Except for one general on Fox business, why don't we take a look? Are we really saying that we cannot accept several weeks of oil prices maybe being higher than what they should be to take Iran off the map as a predator in the Middle East for decades to come, is that what we're really saying, that we're so preoccupied with that, that we're not willing to make that kind of a sacrifice here? I think not. I mean, I think we've got to open our eyes, get a little clear right about what is really happening here. And if we fall prey to walking away on this prematurely over oil prices, we've just given Iran a win. They certainly want that. Well, that's a great point. So that was General Jack Keene. And as we were playing that video,

our stage manager kept saying, yes, meaning we're not willing to accept the higher oil prices just to go to war with Iran. And I happen to agree with that perspective. So he's saying, look, this war, the Israelis wanted it. And if it causes pain for Americans, you're not Israeli. Isn't it worth it? I mean, it's worth it for Israel and for all the people paying me. And if you don't know, Jack Keene, of course, almost all the retired generals, including him, we covered him on a different episode, take money from defense contractors. So I don't know if Israel is his like thing. He's mainly getting paid by the defense contractors. And so they literally make a killing when these wars start. They make billions upon billions of

dollars. And they grease corrupt ex-generals like General Keene, who's very happy to drive American soldiers into war and have them die so that he can make more money as a defense contractor. Now, does Fox News tell you that he's a defense contractor? Does NBC or ABC or CNN tell you when they bring on defense contractors for retired generals? They literally never tell you. They don't, they never tell their audience. This guy's profiting from the deaths of American soldiers. That's why he's saying, what's the big deal about your stupid gas prices? Besides, we're all millionaires, so gas prices don't affect us at all. The final thing I'll say is, aside from how devastating this has already been for the economy,

and it's only going to get worse, the longer this war goes on, you have to also consider the fact that our government right now is looking to pass legislation to provide supplemental funding for the war against Iran, to the tune of $100 billion. Now, there is still this pesky little legislative filibuster in the Senate, which would require 60 votes in order to pass it. So Republicans are thinking about passing it through reconciliation where it would pass through simple majority. It's just that they would have to cut funding, $100 billion in funding from our budget in other areas. Meaning you, my fellow taxpayers, will experience cuts in programs that benefit Americans in order to ship $100 billion over to the Middle East to fight Israel's war with Iran.

And who's that going to help? It's going to help Israel and the defense contractors that General Keene works for. Oh, look at that. And it's going to help all the politicians who get bribed through campaign contributions from Israel. Wow, look at that. Everyone in Washington is going to get very wealthy off this war, and the rest of us are forced to pay for it, because none of our representatives represent us, and the national media is in league with the bad guys and lies to you on a regular basis, the sheep herd you into wars we don't.

don't need because they're all gonna get rich off of it. Okay guys, by the way, on our, I forgot to say the poll from earlier, I love this poll, it's on t.com. Joe Kent resigned as Trump's National Account of Terrorism Director over the war with Iran and said Israel pushed US into the war. What's your opinion of him in regards to this decision? A, patriot slash hero, B, traitor slash villain. So you guys are 100 to 0, so is Washington, but in the opposite direction.

They almost everyone in Washington, politicians and media today, Joe Kent, unacceptable traitor, traitor anti-Semite, how dare he stand up for Americans. All right, I'm done with that. Operation Joy, when we come back, if you've never experienced Operation Joy, I think you're going to love it. We're going to spread some happiness, and it does work. It's available to everyone, so stay right here. We'll be right back.

I forgot it's St. Patrick's Day, you're crazy. Happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody. in this country these days. Yeah, all right. But hey. Pay freaking federal government so they can ship your money off to a genocidal country. Okay, it's Operation Joy.

I know, whatever. Okay, hold on, okay. And let's celebrate our Irish brothers and sisters. Oh, you guys are so lit. Oh, the Irish are the best. You guys are on point when it comes to Israel and I love you for it. Yeah, Irish and the Scots, both lived under occupation, right? from an imperial empire.

And so both have been called, especially the Irish, were called terrorists over and over again. So when they see the Palestinians being called terrorists by an imperial empire that's occupying them, they're like, yeah, we've been to this movie. Yeah, I love them. I love them. Yeah, amazing. And I love the Spanish for standing up to Israel.

Oh, I love them so much. What are the immigration laws in your country? Okay, so let me read some of the comments from the left from from the show, it's loosely associated with Operation Joy. Then I'll read some of the comments we've got prepared for you guys. But in the meanwhile, write in, share your moments of joy. By the way, if you have a question about how to get happy, I'm happy to answer that. And we have a fun video for you guys today.

That's very moving, okay? So, all right, so let's get started. First, this person just wrote in, YouTube member, absurdly overpower Halal Patriots said, hey guys, how can I send Operation Joy messages next week? So go to tyt.com slash joy, and that's where people write in all the time. And they interact with one another. It's a beautiful little pocket online of just joy, right? And so I love this community.

So that's your literal answer, t.yt.com slash joy. Okay. J. Dub wrote in, I'm a conservative who voted for Trump three times, but I would vote for Jenk in a second. We need genuine, genuine America first. I don't know what, like I have no idea with the political makeup of our audiences these days. And I love that, by the way. And I don't know what portion of our audience is still in like the hardcore, we don't talk to the other side, you know, part of the left.

Very, very few these days. Thank God. Okay, good. Yeah. But for those who remain, first of all, thank you. because you apparently have more mental stamina than others. You can handle opinions that disagree with yours. But more importantly, like, the person who just wrote in is proof of what we've been saying. Please be kind to your fellow Americans.

Don't hate them because they voted differently from you. They're human beings. We all make mistakes in our voting. I know I have. And people can be persuaded, right? But the most important thing, even if they're not persuaded, is that if we don't come together as Americans, if we don't stop dehumanizing each other, can I curse right now?

No, not yet. We're effed, like we're totally effed. Like, I'm sick of the division. I'm sick of the hatred. Look, I've had a bunch of people reach out to me this week about a former colleague who's, like, still going on shows and talking bad things about me. I don't even care. She's on the right side of history when it comes to the Gaza situation.

When it comes to Israel, I'm not going to attack her, okay? Because to me, the- No, she's not. I don't know, whatever, I don't care. I'm not going to- I care about. Yeah, no, the people who said that they were cared so much about vulnerable communities are now saying, even if some of the right are on our side on these super important issues, we should reject them because, well, they might help us end these wars, but that saved

Muslim lives. Who cares, I guess? Yeah, you've got to believe in something bigger than your person. personal branding, you know? Yeah, it's just, it's disgusting the way that they're so flippant about about the need to end these wars and the need to end our alliance with Israel. It's not that they don't say that we should, they do say, we're not gonna be like that. Okay, I can't, you brought it up.

No, no, no, no, don't know, please, I really don't want to get into it, Jank. Like, it's the worst thing in the world to get dragged into that kind of stuff. So let's move on, let's do joy, sorry. It doesn't matter. No, I have to say one thing, she said there were no persons of color, or LGBTQ people that work here. What a monstrous lie? What? Dr. Rashad Ritchie, J.R. Jackson. You? Me. Is Jank a white guy? Like, when did he become white?

But like look at Rebel HQ. There's about a dozen minority hosts, right? But they don't care, they don't care. Hold on, hold on, hold on. But like, what about everyone else that works at TYT that isn't in front of a camera? First of all, there's two white hosts. Me, I'm Armenian, but whatever, I'm white. And John, other than that, all the other hosts are people of color. The film- Jordan, too. Oh yeah, Jordan Yule, yes. So we're stretching to find a white person.

Meanwhile, they're like, everyone who works there is white. But when you say stuff like that, you're also erasing all of the other people who work behind the camera. No, so there's somebody here who is LGBTQ and someone who's Asian. There's a lot of those actually, but two people in particular, and they were They're pissed, they're like, so what? We don't exist, we don't count if we're not them. If we're not that particular host, we don't count, right?

It erases us. But hey, look, I know you're looking out for vulnerable communities. Are you? Are you? It doesn't look like it. Anyways, okay, let's put it aside. Put it aside, just- I don't want to feed into division and nonsense, feuds.

It's not important. It's just not important, period. All right, back to joy, back to joy, okay. Lady AF, good, this, this, from earlier in the show, but fits perfectly. Not going to drive me to hate anyone, though. Always love our Jewish American brothers and sisters. Love all of our neighbors.

That's how Goodwin's. Exactly, Lady AF, exactly. We love you for writing in with that. Zulu Dee said, and the only thing missing from that ran, from the earlier rant was Jank yelling, Young Turks at the end. And he also wrote, and Jank had too much, too strong coffee. And this one gives me hope.

Tricia Briggs says, or Joy, I hope Joe Kent resigning gives many other officials the balls to do the same. That is very, there's like three balls to go around in D.C. They have no courage at all. Now, Operation Joy comment, after we got started, Joyce Currier says, some ducks flew into eat while the turkeys and deer stayed away for the moment anyway. That's a beautiful little moment. But the other day I saw this blue bird, what was it, Northwestern Blue Jay? I think so, yeah. Yeah, and it was just such a beautiful little moment.

So I love that you wrote in on that. When it spreads its wings, it's like this beautiful color of blue going through the sky. And so just like soak in those little moments. If you're new to Operation Joy, we have a very low bar, okay? So just appreciate everything in your life. And we have so much misery and pain in the world. They don't need to have more, okay? And if they've got you depressed and doom scrolling and hopeless, that's exactly where

the bad guys want you, okay? Don't give in to that, okay, they don't want you to have hope, they don't want you to have joy in your heart, they don't want you to have energy so that you could fight back when that is called for. So defy them, happiness is an act of defiance, okay? So it doesn't mean that you don't care about the issues that are so important. It means that you've got to get yourself in fighting shape to do that. How do you get yourself in fighting shape by when you take those moments that are your own,

please fill them with joy so that you're rejuvenated and ready for the fight, okay? That's a much better way to go. All right, so now these are the folks who wrote in on t.com slash joy. Here I'll pass this over so I don't read any more political comments. So co-fefefe, I love this one, wrote in, My Joy Today, my daughter. She just started her first real job. She reached out asking for some advice, something I was more than happy to give. It turned out to be exactly what she needed, and later she texted me to say, thanks. Then she added, you know, Dad, if we grew up at the same time,

we'd be best friends. I haven't cried in a long time, but that one went straight to my heart. Cofefefe, I nearly cried when I read that. So that's a beautiful moment. Nothing gets me more than parents in like in a movie or a show or in real life even better. Parents being wonderful to their kids or the kids being wonderful to their parents. That's always a beautiful moment. In fact, I want to show you guys a video. You guys got the video of the basketball.

This I think happened 19 years ago. randomly, I think Ben sent it to me today. And so it's a kid with autism. Oh, I didn't know he had autism. Yeah. Okay. Okay. So, and he, I forget if the video explains this or not, but he loved basketball.

So he tried out every year, but he's five foot six, he couldn't make the team. But his mom begged the coach, please involve him the basketball team somehow. So the coach, wonderful, big-hearted guy made him the manager of the team, okay? So for four years, he managed the team is the most enthusiastic guy out there. And the last game of the season of a senior year, the coach says suit up, okay? And so he dresses up. But you know, they gotta win the game, it's important. But with four minutes left, they have a big lead.

So then this happens. A hard practice tomorrow, all hour and a half. And let's get ready for Acadia. Let's go. One, two, three, two. Because he has been so devoted to the team, for the last, Last game of the season, Coach Johnson decided to let Jason actually suit up. Not to play necessarily, just to let him feel what it's like to wear a jersey. At least that was the plan. But with four minutes to go in last week's game, Coach Johnson stood up and pointed to number 52. Jason McElwain. After years of fetching water and toweling off other people's sweat, Jason was actually in a game.

His first shot was a 20-footer from the right baseline. Was it close? Did you almost make it? I just air-bolled it. I'm like just, dear God, please, let's just get him a basket. His second shot missed too, but the third was a charm, a three-point, no doubter. And Jason wasn't done yet. Not by a long shot. If I wasn't there to witness, I wouldn't have lived it, you know.

You caught fire. It just caught fire. That was hot as a pistol. Jason ended up shooting six three-pointers. One right after the other. He had 20 points total, and each time a shot went in, his teammates and the crowd went a little crazier. His last basket, right at the busser,

created total mayhem. Because he is autistic. Jason says he's used to feeling different, but never this different. Never this wonderful. Steve Hartman, CBS News, Rochester, New York. Okay, that's sweet.

That's super sweet. Are you crying? I'm the biggest softening there is in the world. I can't watch that and not cry. Wow. Wow. The crowd going nuts and then lifting him up on their shoulders. Yeah, I know.

You know, come on. You don't even make me cry. Stop it. Yeah, he was the leading scorer in that game. Okay, so that's a beautiful moment. So anyways, okay, you got any comments there? Like, don't make me cry, come on. Or I can keep going.

No, but you're right, you're right, like, do you feel, that was 19 years ago, I'm sure there are moments where people are super kind to each other like that. I don't know, I just feel like the country is in such a bad place and everyone hates each other, and I'm trying to find a way to bring them together. It's so hard to do, you know? I mean, guys, that be connects. People think you're a bad person when you try to do that. Sorry to interrupt you, but it's true.

Like people have been demonizing the crap out of me for trying to do that. And I get it, I get it. People have political differences. I totally get it, but constantly focusing on those political differences and driving a wedge, driving a wedge, driving a wedge, driving a vote. We need to find a way to get working class Americans to love one another, despite their political differences. Otherwise, we're effed.

Like that, it's just, I've been. been doing this for a long time and the driving a wedge, driving a wedge, there are enemies. We've accomplished nothing through that, nothing. And so what am I gonna do? Dedicate my life to this career and then one day retire and look back and say, oh, things are like a million times worse today than they were when I started my career. Yeah. So look, I think we're gonna get to a better place, but yeah, the light comes after the darkness.

And I mean, look at what we just talked about a minute ago, right? So people, some small group of folks on the left are mad at us, they hate us for not hating the right wing enough. I mean, that's where we are, okay? So but at the bottom of Pandora's box after all the demons fly out is hope, okay? So unfortunately, we're almost out of demons, that's how many have flown out. So okay, but look, I know they don't believe it. There's people that are making videos this week are no right winger flipped at all.

All the right wingers love Donald Trump, love this war, love Israel, et cetera. Okay, and I get it, there's some polling that makes you go, that's interesting, right? So we care about facts, so I care a lot about that. And I'm like, hey, maybe look, we all got to be careful about our bubbles and not get too stuck in our bubbles. Then you look at the polling further and there's a super clear divide, the age of 50. Under 55, Republicans are mad at Trump and getting madder and matter as we go. And then when you get to 18 to 34, tons of Trump voters have already left the building

and are never coming back. Above 55 are staying loyal because they watch TV and they watch Fox News. But think about it guys. The guys who used to watch Fox News but now get their information from somewhere else are saying, oh, I see now, it's not what I was told. So did that person have hate in their heart earlier and now doesn't have hate in their heart? Or did they just get the wrong information? And before you judge the others too much, were we all positive that Joe Biden was not young

and dynamic? Because I remember a lot of Democrats. And then the Republicans would say, oh, look at them, what a bunch of liars. Let me actually- Right? And we weren't lying, you just didn't know because the media you were consuming, not us obviously. But if you're out there and you were Democrat and you consumed other media, you were told that Joe Biden was perfectly healthy mentally, right?

So how were you supposed to know? I think you've probably already read this comment, but it bears repeating because it touches on what we're talking about here, right? I mean, when I think about my perception of Marjorie Taylor Green when she first came onto the political scene, I mean, I couldn't hate her more. But here's a comment from pessimistic progressive. Marjorie Taylor Green was on CNN talking about the attacks on all Palestinians as Hamas and now Israel is doing the same to Lebanon.

Is she the only person talking about this in the media? She has been one of the most, she's been the loudest voice. First as a member of Congress, now she's resigned, so she's a private citizen, I guess, although she's still a public figure. You get the point. She's still making the rounds and she's doing her best to draw attention to what's happening to the Palestinian people. And yeah, I disagree with her on a whole host of social issues, for instance.

She's very much pro-law, you know, anti-abortion. Anti-choice, right? Like, whatever. It's okay, it's okay, I can sit with the fact that we have some disagreements, but she's doing the right thing when it comes to what's happening to the Palestinian people and trying to get the word out about what the truth is. Yeah, look, some say only support Democrats, don't, but wait, but wait. Shouldn't we care about policy?

Because here, let me just last, super last thing on this guys. So who has been a tougher fighter against this war and against Israel controlling our government? Cory Booker and Rachel Maddow or Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Green. If you're being 1% objective, you know that it's Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson. So what they are saying to Americans, to Muslims, to Palestinians, to the Iranians, to everyone is, Yeah, even though Cory Booker and Mato and 98% of the people in the Democratic Party, et cetera, have done nothing to help, nothing at all. Those are your friends and allies that you should love them.

But they're even going to fund the war. Why would I, why should I love those people? But the people that are actually fighting tooth and nail against the war, you should hate them. No, I won't. And they've been doing it. And it's, by the way, it's like a very privileged position. to say, hey, Muslim boy, attack the people that are trying to prevent this war and getting your people killed.

Yeah. Shut up and be a good boy. No, I'm not going to. And above all else, and this is probably the most important thing for me, I want to think for myself and I have the freedom to talk to whoever I want to. I'm gonna talk to whoever I want to, right, left, center, doesn't matter, I'm gonna talk to everyone. No one gets to dictate who I get to have conversations with. No one gets to dictate what I think about. I just I'm out of that club. I don't want to be in

that club. I want to be in the club of free thinkers. People actually understand the world around them because they're willing to have conversations with people they disagree with. I love this community because it's open-minded and open-hearted. All right, so let's get back to joy. Benjamin Rodin, our white dwarf phrengeia poni is flowering. Sorry for butchering that pronunciation. Also are flowers just plants, boobies? Even more joy, educational joy. And then he included a picture and then a description that says, yes, a flower is the sexual

reproductive structure, sex organ of flowering plants, angiosperms containing both male and female parts. They go on to further explain. But yeah, I love nature. I love how beautiful it is. And I love, you know, the explanation that you get. Okay, this individual seems like a bit of an expert. So I bought a cumquot tree.

I don't have a yard, so I'm trying to grow it in a giant pot inside, you know, the place I live. And I'm gonna need it to produce the fruit. That's the reason why I bought the cumcote tree. Do you know what comquots are? No, but they are unfortunately named. They're the most delicious fruit. I don't even like fruit. I hate fruit.

I like veggies, hate fruit, except for cumquots. Comquots are amazing. Oh, they're so good. It's like nature's sourpatch. Sour Patch, okay? It's got the, you're supposed to eat it with the rind. They're like these tiny little, they look like miniature oranges. Just pop them in your mouth, okay?

With the rind, the rind is sweet and the flesh is sour. So it's like a sweet and sour thing. Oh, they're so delicious. There's a guy who has a cumquot tree in our neighborhood. And I've been known to take a cum quad or two until there was a note left on the tree to stop doing that. Okay, so I'll tell you the story. I often tell about my neighbor Mark.

I love this brother. And so he's got an orange tree, it's a beautiful orange tree, and he's got a sign on it in Spanish, English, and Persian, or Farsi. Farsi, yeah, mm-hmm. And he says, don't take my freaking oranges. Oh my God, that's hilarious. Basically, so then, and he always tells me and anyone else, like he tells me just because we're talking, but he'll tell the people if they're taking his horns.

Yeah. You know, if you're stealing, you don't get caught, it's still a thief. Okay, so I saw him do this once, you guys have heard this a couple of times if you're old school. So he catches an older lady taking his oranges, he comes out and goes, hey ma'am, how you doing? And I'm like, oh oh, here we go. He's like, she's like, good. See, I see you enjoy the oranges. She's like, yeah. And he's like, so what's your address? She's like, What do you mean? He's like, what's your address? I'm gonna write it down. I want to come over to your house. She's like, why? Well, you're taking my stuff, so I just want to come over to your house and take your stuff. She's like, ah, she runs away. That's hilarious. Is the orange tree in his yard? Yeah. Oh, yeah, you can't do that.

Well, well, anyway, yeah, I'll leave it at that. Okay, all right. Somebody else wrote in with plants. So this is a good day. I'm going to skip all down to E for a second. This is Christina Salazar. She writes an often. Our mountain laurel is blooming. for the first time since planting it four years ago, and now our backyard smells heavenly. Isn't there, that's awesome. So. Oh, that's Laurel. Okay, so I love that flower.

Yeah, honey. I'm gay for purple. And I love the color purple. And but also I love flowers that smell. I mean, it's a funny thing to say, but there's this one kind of flower, of course I'm totally ignoring about any of the names. Describe it.

Like it almost smells like strawberries, but it's not at all strawberries. The color. It's like little pink and red. It's impossible. I'll take a picture sent you. You'll educate me, okay? But they smell amazing.

So when you walk by them, you get this like aroma and it's, I love it. It's spring, it's spring. It's the best time of the year. Well, we're in LA, it's spring. It's basically summer today. Like in LA, everybody's been talking all week about the heat wave. Oh, I love it. It's in the 80s.

I don't mean for all of you out there suffering. Okay. Sundress time. All right, let's go to Jack Callahan, another Operation Hope veteran. He says, this is deep. My recent joy is following up on a sponsor that nobody knows about. What do you mean nobody knows about, Jack? All right.

He says, Jenkins mentioned it a few times as NobleMobil takes the spotlight. It's Cook Unity and I love it. I've tried various websites like the Green Chef and Sunbasket, But I can't stay on my feet for a long time to cook due to pain. But when Jake mentioned Cook Unity, okay, now we're talking. For me to shop, I have to use an Uber shop, call another Uber to get home, tip to driver to bring my groceries, and the second floor, and it's a production. So with Cook Unity, I get six prepared meals by actual chefs, some prepared by James

Beard award chefs. I swear we didn't plant this. This is Jack actually right again, okay? And he says, and usually I can make two meals out of one. beautiful. They delivered to me on Sunday morning. He's on a fixed budget. That's why the two meals out of one is really important. Anyway, they delivered to me on Sunday morning, hey Jimmy, in a bio pouch, not FedEx or UPS, and Shabang, we're set. I just had the lamb meatballs with veggies and chickpeas with Bandol Rouge. A friend gifted me and I was out of the

nine rings of hell by Dante in a flash. Thanks, TiT, for offering a big solid in my life. That's awesome. Jack, that makes me feel so good because we try to so hard to find the right sponsors and people give us crap sometimes. Oh, you did a gambling. But I love gambling. He does. By the way, can I address that real quick? I don't. Like I mean like it's not- But you never lose a bet. No, no, I know, but I don't bet often. And my bet's like, I don't even know what the over-under thing means. Like I just say that team is going to win. I give you money and let's see if that happens, right? Like I'm not a big gambler, but I do think the online gambling thing is a problem. It's become a huge problem.

Yeah, I hear you, I'm getting more and more conflicted about it. Yeah, thank God, okay, good, good. Look, I don't want people to suffer. Exactly. But I also don't want to take away their freedom, so it's a conundrum, it's a conundrum. Anyways, I'm not reading that to do a plug, but sure, cookunity.com slash t. In case you're interested, but no, the reason I read that Jack, it made you happy, it worked out perfectly in your life, right? Because of the situation you described, but you make me happy too.

Since we try so hard to give you guys good sponsors that actually help you for you to write back and say, yeah, it worked. Oh, thank God. So thank you. I appreciate you, brother. Anna, what were you going to say? I don't know if this was submitted for Operation Joy, but I agree with the message. So I'm going to read it. So this is from original props who says, I know it doesn't sell, but the world could use a little more feel good from everywhere.

Let's abandon the high school mentality, change the algorithms, and get back to being adults. Oh guys, if we had more resources, I want to do an algorithm that actually is for positive change and rewards good behavior instead of bad behavior. If we could only do that, but we're constantly short on resources and being opposed to Israel has not helped. No, it has not. Anyway, Lady Yak writes in and says Operation Joy, I finally got out of my horribly toxic job and micromanaging boss and got a new job where my skills are being utilized, grateful.

Oh my God, micromanagers are the worst. Some people like being micromanaged. You don't, I don't. And when you don't like being micromanaged, it is the worst thing in the world. Like, it's like offensive. Jank, by the way, does not micromanage me. I'm looking at you, but I'm not looking at you, looking at you. I do my thing, like I'm a self-motivator, right?

Others need a little bit of a push. So it really depends on the kind of person you are, But like man, if you hate micromanaging, having a micromanaging boss is the worst thing in the world. Look, I mean, I've also been an employee many billions of times, right? So maybe not billions, but so and I hated my boss looking over my shoulder. And I thought, look, brother, you give me an assignment and then see how I do with it, right? That's it, period. Right? So that's how I try to operate here. If you did this, you know, what your task was,

your role was, we all have important roles here, right? Then amazing. I don't really care how you did it. Or when you did it, I just don't care at all. All I care about is, is it done, is it done well? That's it. And I don't like looking over people's shoulders. It's creepy. It's weird. Lady AF says cum quads are self-pollinators, but indoor gonna have to pollinate by hand and Q-tips. I don't know what that means. I just want the fruit, man. I should just give it to my mom so she could plant it in her yard. Yeah, and then go over and just take them.

But I want to have- Pull in Israel, just take him. Just get her. Have her do the work, and I just like show up and pick the cum quads. Okay, well, if you're stealing, you don't get caught. Still thief. And she does know where you live. She does, she does. But you know what?

Good advice, I'm probably gonna transport it over to my mom's. Yeah, we're not doing the Q-tip business. I don't even know what that means. I mean, I'm sure you could Google it, but I'm gonna put up graphic A here because first, happy St. Patrick's Day, everybody. It's a beautiful holiday. You should get a little intoxicated for it. Top of the morning to you.

You took my line. Top of the morning, tell ya. I'm gonna tell you the most unbearable thing in a second. So remember t.t.com slash joy. You don't even have to write anything, just go and read it every once in a while throughout the week, it'll make you feel better. And you have every right to feel better, and you don't need everything in your life to be going great in order to be happy.

You can create pockets of happiness. Start to learn how to compartmentalize, so I have had to, because of the nature of this job, If I didn't compartmentalize, I would just take all that criticism, including super unfair criticism, and let alone the injustices of the world and the gaslighting, and you stew it and stu it and stuant and then you'll drive yourself crazy, right? And by the way, the bad guys want you to do that. So especially in our case, it's like they literally run sciop operations to try to get inside your head and to create psychological issues for you, so you stop fighting them.

So sad day for them, I figured out how to compartmentalize. So I give it everything I got here, as you can tell, I think you can tell, and everything I got in terms of work, I worked 12, 15, sometimes 18 hour days. And then when I'm done, I go, I left it all on the field and a lot of you, same thing for you guys, you already did your hard work, you already tried to help, right? So when you're on your own time, please re-energize and do the world of favor and do yourself a favor and say, okay, I'm gonna go back to fighting the good fight in a minute, in an hour, tomorrow, but for this minute, for this hour, for the rest of the night, it's okay to be happy.

It's okay to do something I enjoy and that I love, and I don't have to feel guilty about it. And yeah, so let's wrap this up so I can go home, smoke some weed, and be with my husband and dog. There you go, she's already implementing it. See, she's a door, I don't have to micromanage. I'm a self-motivator. There you go. All right guys, no old school tonight.

People are traveling, but much love. We'll see you tomorrow. Bye, bye.