The Young Turks - MTG's DIRE Warning - October 21, 2025

Episode Date: October 22, 2025

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You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Hey, welcome with the young Turks. We've got a lot of news for you guys today, of course, Jenk and Anna. Normally you know that we do the show 6 to 8 p.m. every day. And at 8 o'clock, we've been doing crowdsourcing the revolution, which is going great. But on Tuesdays, we'll always do Operation Joy.

So we've got that coming up for you guys, but it will be available to everyone. So if you want a little joy in your life, you stick around until eight o'clock Eastern. Okay, but before that, we've got death and destruction. So bombing in Lebanon. Well, bombing in Lebanon. A little light bombing. Light bomb. Well, and then some light bombing in Venezuela and Colombia, but we haven't gotten to the major events yet. There's internal warfare within the GOP. It continues and it's real. I've told you guys a million times. when it's fake. This one is not fake. It is real and it is interesting. So a lot to get to. Casper, take it away. Yes, well, we begin with a story about threats to Lebanon.

Because, you know, we aren't meddling in the affairs of various foreign countries enough. And so we're about to hear from the U.S. ambassador to Turkey-A. Is that how you say? Turquier. Turkey. Turkey-e. Turkey-e. That's not bad. Actually, I've always found Tootkae to be awkward. I'm like, I'm not going to do it. I'm sorry, Turkey. Yeah, it's kind of fun. No, Turkey, nay. I'm gonna say turkey.

So with that in mind, let's get to the story. Please be quiet for a moment. And I want to tell you something. The moment that this starts becoming chaotic, like animalistic, we're gone. Do you think this is fun for us? Do you think this is economically beneficial for Morgan and I to be here putting up with this insanity? It would probably suit U.S. Ambassador to Turkey, Barack appropriately to maybe consider the insanity of US foreign policy, but of course

he's not going to do that. He's going to double down on threats to Lebanon. Now the video that you just watched was actually from this past summer where he essentially talked down to journalists in Lebanon, essentially implying that there are animals over how they were acting. But nonetheless, it looks like he is reissuing a fresh new round of threats against Lebanon if they do indeed fail to disarm Hezbollah. However, what disarming Hezbollah looks like or how to determine that that goal is even achieved remains unclear. But I'm about to get to the details of the threat that was issued on a very lengthy ex post. Jank, any initial thoughts?

Yeah, so there's a theoretical ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah and Lebanon, but Israel never listens to ceasefires. They've been bombing and occupying Lebanon ever since. So to me, of course, the biggest problem among a series of problems is how they're going to drag us into it. So what you're seeing there and what you're about to watch is not the Israeli ambassador threatening war and destruction in Lebanon. It is the American ambassador to Turkey threatening it on Israel's behalf. I don't know if anyone inside the American government actually works for America. Yeah, I mean, it is kind of like, who are you to wave your finger? You must be out of your head.

Okay, I'm sorry, no. Tom Barrick is the U.S. ambassador to Turkey. Why is he meddling in Israel-Lebanon relations? Because almost everyone, especially in foreign policy, but also sometimes in domestic policy about who to round up, arrest, et cetera, they almost all work for Israel. I mean, one day I'd love to get an American administration and grab all these guys by the ear.

We're nonviolent, it's just an analogy and it's a loving way. And it's a metaphor, grab them by the ear and take them all out and throw them out of the house, okay? Not because we dislike any religion, what an absurdity, but because we don't like another country, 100% controlling our country. But you're going to see it here with your own eyes. Yeah, I mean, look, Barrick tries to make it appear as though disarming Hezbollah is beneficial to the American people. That's nonsense. This is really about providing security to Israel, right? That's the cover story as well, if you ask me, really at the heart of this matter is something that the Israelis, meaning the Israeli government, when I say the Israelis, I mean the Israeli government has been attempting to do for a long time now, which is essentially annexed parts of southern Lebanon. And it does appear that they are accomplishing that mission. So let's get to the details. Here is the heart of the threats Barrack had issued to Lebanon. The incentives for action now outweigh the cost.

of inaction. Regional partners are ready to invest, meaning invest in Lebanon, provided Lebanon reclaims the monopoly on legitimate force solely under the Lebanese armed forces. Should Beirut continue to hesitate, Israel may act unilaterally and the consequences would be grave. So essentially, Barrack and the United States government, along with Israel, of course, are pressuring Lebanon to disarm Hezbollah. Now, doing so is very likely going to lead to a civil war within Lebanon. And so the Lebanese government is musing about how to do this in a way that doesn't spark a civil war within the country.

At the same time, the United States, following through with Israel's demands, have given the Lebanese an insane timeline to disarm Hezbollah, right? 90 days. And if they don't meet that deadline, well, there's a threat being issued. And I'm gonna get to that threat in a minute. Yeah, I just wanted two quick points. One is these impossible standards, Hezbollah has to disarm. How do we know when it's all disarmed?

The same thing with Hamas, they have to disband and disarm. How do we know when they've turned in enough weapons or enough people? And the answer is, and by the way, no one in mainstream media asks, what an absurd thing, not to ask the most obvious question of all time, because it's supposed to be an impossible standards so that Israel can come back and go, they didn't do it enough. Now I'm going to have to kill them all and I'm going to have to take their land. They made me do it in self-defense. I had to take their land. But to me, Anna, the most outrageous part of this first quote that you read is that Israel may act unilaterally. They're not going to act unilaterally.

No, no, but hold on, hold on. No, unilaterally as in we're not, we don't care what Lebanon thinks or any other Arab nation or any other nation on the planet things. But wait, you're the American ambassador. Why are you putting out statements on behalf of of Israel. You're telling us how Israel is going to act. And the reason they're doing that is because Israel can put out that statement. They're making the American ambassador to Turkey put out that statement so that the region understands it's not just us threatening you. We control America and America is behind us and will obliterate you upon our command. That's why you're seeing this theater. Well, he also repeated the threat in this lengthy post saying that if

Beirut fails to act, Hezbollah's military arm will inevitably face major confrontation with Israel at a moment of Israel's strength and Iran backed Hezbollah's weakest point. Correspondingly, its political wing will undoubtedly be confronted with potential isolation as it approaches the May 26 elections. You know, two things are happening simultaneously and the two things contradict each other. On one hand, you have these incessant claims about how strong and incredible and miraculous Israel and the IDF is that they have weakened all their enemies and they have secured Israel's safety. And then at the same time, when it comes to these demands in getting the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah, without any granular details,

by the way, of how they would do that, what that would look like, how do you figure out that you've accomplished that goal. They always lean into the argument of we have to do this for Israel security. Well, which one is it? Did you guys like essentially decapitate Hezbollah? They have no power now and you're fine and your army and military is incredible? Or is Hezbollah still a grave threat? At the end of the day, Israel wants portions of southern Lebanon.

And in fact, they are currently occupying southern Lebanon, even though the ceasefire that was signed between Hezbollah and Israel last year, essentially indicated that Israel would have to withdraw from southern Lebanon. They have not withdrawn. Of course not. And in fact, Tom Barrick is saying absolutely not. Under no circumstances, is Israel going to withdraw? Okay, so they're just going to occupy land that doesn't belong to them?

A country that doesn't belong to them? So this is part of why we cover it, because you're not going to see this in American media, even though it's on tape, it's on the record, everybody, no one disputes the facts. Isn't that amazing? Israel never follows a ceasefire. This current government of Israel has never kept their word. So but the US media knows that but keeps that from you. The US media knows that they're occupying land in Lebanon, but keeps that from you.

They know that they're promising to obliterate Lebanon and have not agree, followed through on any of their commitments to Lebanon, but they keep that fact from you because they have to keep up the mirage of self-defense. Now the reality is, Hezbollah's leadership is not decimated, it's gone. gone. They literally killed everyone in Hezbollah's leadership. So they'll say, well, now there's new leadership. Well, yeah, but if you kill them, then there's going to be new leadership. Oh, right, it's endless and permanent, because their goal is not peace. Their goal is land acquisition for greater Israel. No, it totally is.

if, okay, well, I mean, even though there's supposed to be a ceasefire, Israel keeps conducting strikes in southern Lebanon. So that must mean that Hezbollah is engaging in military operative. Like, they must be doing something to either retaliate or to spur the airstrikes that the Israeli military is currently carrying out. So I did some digging, and here's what I found. Let's go to graphic five. In recent days, the attacks are increasingly focused, meaning the Israeli attacks are increasingly focused on preventing southern Lebanon from repairing damage inflicted on it by Israeli strikes in last year's war and this year's ceasefire ceasefire is in quotation marks for obvious reasons this

has included attacking construction vehicles and a major asphalt factory so look we doing what are we doing here yeah and when I read that I thought this is partly them just destroying every neighbor just destroying their economy, destroying anything in the country, just to be able to keep acquiring land. But the other part of it is, there is a paranoia that's built into Israeli culture of, we're all gonna die at any second, and there's greatly reinforced by right wing Israeli propaganda. And in right wing there is not the same thing as right wing here. Right wing there is maniacal, off the charts.

If you think the right wing here is a little touch, wait till you see the Israeli right wing. They're like murder all the Palestinians, greater Israel's take all their land, right? So, and that's near, that's slight majority in the country in Israel, right? So what they want, they think, unless we have obliterated every part of their economy, they might be able to put together a stone and a stick to hit us with, oh my God, our existence is in danger. We're the victim's waiting. And they think that they're not doing self-defense until their neighbors are totally wiped out,

back into the stone ages. That's why asphalt, I mean, yeah, you have to use asphalt and concrete to rebuild your city that we obliterated and we bombed, right? But you could, you could one day make a weapon that you could use against us 28 years. No, that's it. Bomb, bomb, bomb, destroy everything. But under that standard, guys, you have to obliterate everything in the country. That's why in Iran, they wiped out the nuclear facilities and they're like, yeah, but they can still have missiles. So wait, you don't want a giant country like Iran to even have missiles?

Are they allowed to have guns? Who the hell is Israel to tell any country what kind of weaponry they are and aren't allowed to have? They have illegal nukes. They have nukes that they won't acknowledge publicly and are not part of the non-proliferation treaty. I don't give a, like this is a thing. We have a political class in America that is completely captured by foreign interests and corporate interests. So as a result, they don't care about the American people and are totally willing to enable what Israel is. is up to. At the same time, though, if we had real leaders in this country who were willing

to actually look out for the American people and not what Israel wants, they would totally push back on this and be like, why, who are you? And why do you feel entitled as a government to go metal in other countries and determine whether or not they are worthy of having certain weaponry to defend themselves? You guys have nukes and you're not part of the non-proliferation Treaty, only nuclear power that doesn't, the constant worry. And by the way, I do think that the population of Israel is worried about their safety. Certainly with their- No, that's what I'm saying, they're paranoid about it. They are, they are, they're paranoid. And it doesn't help that you have someone as incompetent as Netanyahu and the current government that failed to keep

them safe on October 7th. No question about it. But at the same time- Maybe incompetent. Yes, I mean, there are some cases- There's a lot of reporting. There is. It was not incompetence. Yeah, because they want an excuse. Guys, everybody knows this. The only people who won't acknowledge it is American media whose job is the lie on behalf of Israel. They're like, oh, allowing a hit so that you could counter attack and take land. That is a crazy idea.

Nobody has ever heard of. What are you talking about? It's happened a million times through history. Like, are you denying that that's happened? Forget Israel, forget America, just a million times in history through conflict. Of course, that happens literally all the time. Not every single conflict, but so regularly, but they say, no, Israel's such angels. They would never do what other people do because they're the most moral army in the world,

even though Israel you can get across Israel like three minutes. Oh, seven hours. Oh, I cannot put my boots on. I don't know where to go. Oh, are they killing them? Come on, get out of here. I mean, they're not, at a bare minimum, the naivete of American media is depressing. And not one of them understands history, facts, news reporting.

Or they're just, they're cowards who serve Israel. On this issue, I don't think they're incompetent, the media, American media. I think the American media and commentators, pundits within American media, see what's happening, see it clearly. They're either cowards or they support what's going on. Or yeah, they just, I just, they're not journalists. Guys, again, let's be honest about this, right? So you're not allowed to be honest in American media, but let's be honest. Are there pro-Israel executives who will fire you if you criticize Israel?

Obviously. Of course there are. Of course, is everyone on television and in mainstream media worried about a pro-Israel executive who's going to fire them? If they go a smidge beyond a line in the pro-Israel executive's mind, not in reality, right? Like the genocide is super obvious, but there are pro-Israel executives. How dare you call it a genocide, you anti-Semite? So everybody's scared. No, no, no, no, no, I'm not going to say anything.

It's super obvious, but I'm not going to do my job, right? So Anna, the other part of this is to your point, there is a feeling like Israel is allowed to kill everyone near them, is allowed to destroy all the countries around them. Because they are, because they are. Because in American media and politics, we assume that Israel is superior, that Israel is almighty, and Israel cannot be questioned. They have a right to nukes, Iron Dome, and the entire United States. States military and our troops backing them up with their lives and all of our money,

$310 billion, $8 trillion on global war on terror. It's everyone in American media assumes, of course, you owe Israel, you owe them all of this. And of course they're allowed to obliterate all their neighbors. Of course they don't have to follow international law. It is there no good dirty Muslim neighbors who every once in a while will throw a stone back, well that they had it coming. How dare they resist?

How dare they defend themselves? They know that they should be occupied. They should surrender and be humiliated by Israel for the rest of their lives. That's a standing assumption from American media and American politicians. And that is why the world is beginning to hate us. Not just Israel, they already loathe Israel for what they did in Gaza and what they're doing to their neighbors. But now they're saying, so America, you think Israel is superior to all of us, that none of us have a right to defend ourselves? The only country in the old country in the region that has the right to defend itself,

and defend itself by attacking all its neighbors is Israel. Well, how do you not hate a policy like that? Okay, just a few more points before we move on. So Barrick in his post also expresses that the United States will now, will no longer stand for the existence of Hezbollah. So to say that this is a unilateral thing with Israel is ridiculous. Washington was willing to provide diplomatic cover for Hezbollah's peaceful political transition, coordination, regional statements connecting investment to progress.

I don't even like, what is this statement? Anyway, Hezbollah's peaceful political transition coordinate regional statements connecting investment to progress, whatever that means. That means we're not going to give you any money unless you do what Israel tells you to. By the way, like the Lebanese government, you want to be America's bitch. Like this is the thing. This is what we do. We do it to Egypt. We do it to all sorts of Middle Eastern countries, right? We bribe them to do as Israel says. Yeah, if they were our bitch, I don't have any problem with it. No, I mean, I do like I. But they're not ours. They're Israel's. We're making that.

I'm not talking about our perspective, Jank, as Americans. I'm talking about the Lebanese government. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Do you not care? Like the sovereignty of your country is in jeopardy. Okay, Hezbollah exists because of the fact that Israel, has tried to annex land from southern Lebanon, historically speaking. And Hezbollah attacked Israel because of what was going on in Gaza. That's the reason why they want to eliminate Hezbollah. Now, has Hezbollah also carried out terror attacks? Absolutely. So I'm not in any way justifying that.

But it's important to understand why Hezbollah exists in the first place. You do away with Hezbollah, I have no faith that the Lebanese military is going to protect the sovereignty of that country. And in fact, they haven't. And Israel has done a thousand times more terrorist attacks than Hezbollah. We just don't call it terrorism because almighty Israel. They have different rules. If a Muslim or any other religion or nation does an attack where it kills civilians, dirty savage terrorists, when Israel does it a thousand times more, well, they were just defending themselves.

They had to murder your children in self-defense because they were near an asphalt factory. And you're not allowed to have cement in your country because Israel commands it. Oh yeah, and going back to that, they're destroying anything that's being rebuilt. Because I want to take that land. You rebuild things, you're going to have Lebanese people move back to the parts of southern Lebanon that have been bombed to smithereens as a result of Israel's. Yeah, Israelis are destroyers. They destroy everything on the land so they can take it.

It's not like it didn't happen. It happened in 48. It happened in 67. It's happening right now. So it's not just this government. Let's be honest. The history of Israel is a history of destruction, terror, and land siege. That's an empirical fact.

Finally, I want to read this excerpt from Jason Ditts over at anti-war.com. Adding to the sense that nothing Lebanon does is going to ultimately matter anyway, Barrett concluded the argument by declaring peace is an illusion. These were earlier comments he made a few months ago, by the way. Peace is an illusion and that there's never been peace. There will probably never be peace. You know, when I read that Anna, I thought, wait a minute, Wait a minute, you know, there's so much Israeli propaganda in American media that it's hard to tell what's real and what's Alice in Wonderland, Hasbara, right?

So it's like, wait, the whole thing that people say all the time in America is, oh, it's impossible to get peace in the Middle East, impossibly to get peace in the Middle East. Now you think, well, that's normal because there's been these nonstop conflicts and this is a normal thing to say. And I thought, wait, was that also Hasbara? Like to get us to believe that peace in the Middle East is impossible. So don't sweat it when Israel keeps attacking all of its neighbors and taking their land. Man, just throw up your hands and go peace is not possible in the Middle East anyway. But wait a minute, we know it's possible. Israel and Egypt made a spectacular peace deal.

So what do you mean it's not possible? That is empirically incorrect, right? But Israel wants you to believe that peace is totally impossible so that you fund them, their military operations more. They're protecting themselves in a time of war. And it's okay when they bomb Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq, Iran, West Bank, Gaza, et cetera, et cetera, and take land because, oh God, we're not going to ever get peace in the Middle East. So I don't know. I don't know if it was just

intentional Israeli propaganda, but it's not true. Of course you can get the peace, as long as you want peace. The problem is the Israelis definitively do not want peace. They want land. This is yet another example. They're making our American ambassador tell Lebanon, we're I'm gonna rip you to shreds if you don't listen to Israel. No, listen, Israel can't make our American ambassadors do anything. So like don't take that agency away from Barrick. Barrick is happy to do this. Yeah, they're all corrupt.

Exactly, so with that in mind, we gotta take a break. When we come back, we're going to check in with Columbia because it looks like our longstanding ally is souring with the United States, probably because of some of the threats issued by the US government. We'll be right back. All right back. All right back. Medicare enrollment has started and it goes through December 7th. Look guys, this is not, yeah, it's an ad, but at the same time, it's we take ads that we think are going to help you. Okay, so these guys check to make sure you're on the right plan.

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Colombia. Yes, Colombia, it looks like tensions are rising. So let's get to the details. President Donald Trump has basically started beefing with Colombia out of nowhere. And keep in mind, Colombia is a bit of an ally and has been a longstanding ally of the United States. Now, this all started after the Colombian president, Gustavo Petro, accused the U.S. of murder after one of the Trump administration's strikes against a boat. Now, this was a boat in Colombian waters, and in response to the attack, Petro claimed that the U.S. struck basically a fisherman boat and killed a Colombian fisherman in the process. U.S. government officials have committed a murder and violated our sovereignty in territorial

waters. Fishermen Alejandro Carranza had no ties to the drug trade and his daily activity was fishing. The Colombian boat was adrift and had its distress signal up due to an engine failure. We await explanations from the US government. Now, while the Trump administration claims that these boats that they're striking are essentially drug boats with cartel members and gang members who are trying to traffic drugs, they have not provided much evidence to the American people or to anyone really to show that they're striking the right boats. Remember, they're doing this without any any type of oversight. Congress is out to lunch. I mean, they've ceded so much power to the executive branch. And so there are real concerns

that innocent people are getting killed through these strikes. Besides which, the so-called effort to fight the devastating fentanyl epidemic in America has nothing to do with what's happening in striking these Venezuelan boats, these fishing boats. It's really, about spurring regime change in Venezuela, which is something that the Trump administration doesn't even try to hide. They're pretty overt about it. And the Trump administration in the first term attempted to do this on multiple occasions to install Juan Guaido as the new leader of Venezuela and those efforts failed. So now Trump is accusing Petro of being a drug dealer because he can't ever take any backlash for anything he does and vowed to cut

Colombia off from any US aid. He says that President Petro of Colombia is an illegal drug leader, strongly encouraging the massive production of drugs in big and small fields all over Colombia. It has become the biggest business in Colombia by far, and Petro does nothing to stop it despite large scale payments and subsidies from the United States that are nothing more than a long term rip off of America. And then he made his big announcement, which was, as of today, these payments, or any other form of payment, meaning foreign aid to Colombia, or subsidies will no longer be made to Colombia. And Trump added that Petro better close up these killing fields immediately or the United States will close them up for him. And it won't be done nicely. Yeah. So there's a couple of different factors here. So, number one, you know, Petro say is said at one point that maybe U.S. troops shouldn't follow

Trump's orders. So that, of course, that gets under Trump's skin, but that got under a lot of people's skin. That gets under my skin, too. Yeah, I see you. He shouldn't have said that. Who are you to tell, you know, a foreign military? No, no, I know, but seriously. Like, I don't like that behavior when it's Israel. I'm not going to like it if it's Columbia either. Don't tell the military in the United States to not listen to the commander in chief, even if I don't like what the commander in chief is up to. I know, but he's not an American. He's representing his own country. Right. And America is bullying everyone on behalf of Israel. The reason he said it is because he's saying that the mass

genocide in Gaza is unbearable, which is what we're going to get to. But anyway, you could have whatever feelings you want about that. But he says that, that's certainly something that upsets Trump and upsets other people. That's legitimate, okay, that as a source of frustration with But the main issue here is all the left wing governments are targeted. Yes. Columbia is historically our top ally in Latin America. But what we've been cutting them off since they elected someone left wing. Why do they care about left or right wing?

Well, the reason is because the left wing, and this is a testament to the left wing of throughout the world, tries to protect the natural resources of their country for their own people. They tend to nationalize their natural resources. resources. Yeah, but I don't want you to think, oh, just socialism. No, some day just say, hey, like Sarapel ended in Alaska, this is our oil or these are our bananas or whatever it might be. And so we just want you to pay a fair market price. But our companies don't want to pay a fair market price. They want to pay much, much lower. So that's why we invade them, attack them, bully them on behalf of corporations who give money to American politicians, not on behalf of

American citizens. And that's got a long history, obviously, of the U.S. doing that in Latin America, hence the phrase banana republic. But he has a third thing that he did, that is unacceptable. By the way, when we cut them off from subsidies, they have nothing left to lose. Then they want to defy us even more. Of course. And in fact, I mean, the, the Bricks nations, like that alliance seems to be strengthening as a result of some of Trump's foreign policy. Let's, I mean, India also a long time partner of the United States, ally of the United States, due to this trade war, kind of soured on the U.S. And in fact, went to one of those conferences that was put together by Russia.

And there were all sorts of, let's just say, people who are not friends of the United States in attendance as well, right? So Iran participated and all of that. Saudi Arabia likes to play both sides. They were part of it. Nonetheless, and I did a lengthy video on that, you should check it out. Let me just give you a few more details, Jake. No, let me just finish the thought and then give us more details. So right now we need Colombia's help in fighting rebels groups there that are problematic

and actually do drug dealing, right? And now Colombia has less incentive to help us fight that group because we're not giving them any money. A lot of times our subsidies are just bribes to make sure we get what we want, except, of course, for Israel, which is we owe them apparently, et cetera. But that brings us the third factor when it comes to the Colombian president. The real reason, the number one reason why the U.S. is furious with him is because he said this statement after attending the United Nations. We need a powerful army of the countries that do not accept genocide.

Of course, he's referring to Israel and what's happening in Gaza. It's Graphics 7. That is why I invite the nations of the world and their peoples more than anything as an integral part of humanity to bring. bring together weapons and armies, we must liberate Palestine. And when President Petro said that, the die was cast. Israel says America, you have to destroy him on our behalf. And America is now busy destroying him on behalf of Israel. Anna, back to you.

Okay, no, just keep going. Okay, I was going to get to Venezuela. Okay. Okay, all right, so Jonathan Larson has a piece in his substack, your former managing here that tells you what's going on in Venezuela. So there's two folks who are trying to start that coup that Anna was referring to. Former CIA official Gary Bernstein and his top ally, Martin Rodil, who is Rodil. He's a Venezuelan born Israeli citizen whose work with the US government always pops up somehow,

okay? And so what are they doing? They are giving us a steady stream of false information. We'll put the link to the article down below in the description box. U.S. officials have praised Rodil in the past for mediating a pipeline of incriminating evidence against Maduro in Venezuela. Well, that sounds good until you hear this. A 2016 Bloomberg Business Week profile, however, declared some of Rodel's claims about Venezuela,

groundless. So he's making up things about Venezuela in order to get us to attack. attack. And why is he doing that? Rodel has been, quote, a fixer for wealthy Venezuelans who want to get out without landing in a U.S. jail or losing their wealth. By the way, that's code word for they have done massive illegal activities, probably drug dealing, and they want to make sure they don't go to jail so they get a fixture like Rodil to make up incriminating evidence against their opponents in Venezuela, get us to attack those opponents while they try to get out of jail free and take all their assets.

In fact, Rodil apparently has another specialty, and that is asset recovery, okay? So if you have illegal assets in Venezuela, these two liars are going to help you get it out by lying to the U.S. government. Rubio is going to love those lies. He's going to take those and go, fantastic. This helps me intimidate, bully, and eventually topple Venezuela's government. So there is, as always, one more factor. Years ago, Rodil's financial investigations helped shine a spotlight on Venezuelan ties with Hezbollah and Iran.

The prospect of nuclear collaboration was floated. No, it wasn't. So he's saying, no, we have to attack Venezuela and all the drug dealers and all the illegal robber barons and stuff that I I represent. I need to get their assets out. I need to get them out. We need to attack attack. They're doing nuclear weapons of mass destruction. These are the same lunatics that made up to Hugo Chavez, ghost of Hugo Chavez fixing the elections. If you read further down in the article, he connects them to the nonsense about, oh yeah, it was a Venezuela. Venezuela is like fixed the 2020 election. Everything they say is a lie, which leads to the last comment here.

But Bloomberg wrote that, quote, some of the information he passed on that Iran was about to place missiles in Venezuela, for example, proved groundless. So they are making things up to make sure that we attack Venezuela for the purposes of their clients, wealthy, robber barons, and probably drug dealers. We'll see, you read the article for yourself, that's my opinion, and perhaps, again, as always Israel gets into the mix and says, oh yeah, war and more war. When we come back from the break, we'll talk a little bit about Marjorie Taylor Green, continuing this trend of essentially pushing back against her own party.

Is she pushing back on the things that matter? We're going to dive into that and more when we come back. All right, back on TYT, Jane Canana with you guys. Guys, sorry our chats down on TYT.com, but we're working on fixing that. And we got Operation Joy later in old school at 930 as well. All right, Anna. Marjorie Taylor Green continues to push back against her own party in ways that I think are substantive and if they were willing to listen could actually be helpful to the Republicans.

It remains to be seen whether they are taking her warning seriously. Let's get into the details. Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green just gave Republicans, members of her own party, a dire warning. They will lose the midterms if they don't help Americans who are struggling financially in this country. So here's what she told semaphore in an interview, quote, I can't see into the future, but I see Republicans losing the house if Americans are continuing to go paycheck to paycheck. And I think that she's onto something here because remember, one of the top reasons why President Donald's, Donald Trump won the popular vote is because he really did focus on the cost of living and how he was allegedly going to do something to alleviate that financial burden on

Americans. But so far, that has not been the case. Further, she says, they'll definitely be going into the midterms looking through the lens of their bank account, because it's the economy, stupid. She's right, she's totally right about that. And a common complaint that I hear from people from across the political aisle is the fact that they're still very much concerned about the economic situation on the ground here in the U.S. Sure, you can point to the stock market, you can point to the GDP, but most normal people are not using those metrics to determine whether the economy is doing well. They're looking at their checkbook, they're seeing how much money they have to be able to afford just like the bare necessities,

housing, food, you get the picture. hit Speaker Mike Johnson once again for attempting to kill the healthcare subsidies without having a backup plan of fallback strategy. She says that healthcare, I'm sorry, healthcare should be the number one thing that we're working on. And I think that is going to be one of the top issues thrown in a 2026 midterm. I think that's the one area where she might not be right. I mean, we'll wait and see. But I think healthcare was still an important topic for Democrats to to focus on in the last election and they didn't. Health care was not at all a policy that was focused on by Kamala Harris or by Joe Biden before he dropped out of the race.

Mike Johnson is at the press conferences every morning saying that we've got pages and pages or we've got a Republican plan for health care. Yet I haven't seen one single page of the so called Republican plan. I haven't heard one single GOP conference call on this issue. It's like, where is it? This Republican Party is failing. Now, she's been critiquing her own party on a regular basis, and I love to see it. In fact, I think it's a good thing when this happens. It actually makes your party stronger, and Democrats should be a little more open-minded to constructive feedback.

And we've covered much of the critiques that Marjorie Taylor Green has had. But according to semaphore, Trump advisors don't believe she poses a major threat to the administration's agenda. For one, they say almost every other Republican lawmaker is in lockstep with whatever they want to do. And for another, they doubt that Green would be able to mount a serious campaign for higher office because of her long history of controversial statements, which is a rich thing to think as someone who's in the Trump administration or Trump himself. I mean, Trump has, I mean, who would Trump be if it weren't for his long history of controversial statements? Yeah, there's a couple things here. First, I love how clueless mainstream media is, because they have no idea what's happening

in MAGA. So they're like, Marjorie Taylor Green, MAGA will disown her for controversial comments. Do you, have you ever met a single person who's MAGA? What a preposterous thing to say? I mean, first of all, Anna's right, did you miss Trump the last decade? And you think controversial comments will eliminate you from seeking higher office as a Republican? I mean, I don't understand them. How could they be this blind?

This one has nothing to do with like corruption or anything like that. They just don't know how to do reporting. They don't know anything. They just go to their cocktail circuit and they're like, okay. Oh, and remember the first thing that Anna just told you. Well, they say every other Republican politician is following the orders given to them by the establishment. So Marjorie Taylor Green won't be a problem. Guys, the other Republican politicians don't represent their voters at all.

You're not paying attention. Maga hates those guys. They like the principles that Marjorie Taylor Green is saying. The issue isn't whether Marjorie Taylor Green is going to somehow outvote all the other Republicans. Or 90%, 95% of the party. The issue is who represents the base, because the base is going to vote people out or in, depending on how they act, right? And so that goes, now we go back to the main issue that you brought up, Anna.

These guys are so confused. They're like, why is Marjorie Taylor Green not listening to Mike Johnson and Donald Trump? They're the Republican leaders. Because she's listening to her constituents who matter more. And that that flummoxed them, they can't understand it. I know, it's crazy. They're like, wait, so you care about principles and what MAGA originally said? But wait a minute, we always play this game.

You say a bunch of nice things Democrats do and MAGA Republican politicians do for MAGA during election season, which ended. And those are two different things, but you're appealing to your base or whatever, to the. And then once you win, though, you never serve them. You just turn right back around and how jack up drug prices, lower wages, start wars, etc. So why isn't she going along? They're so unused to a principled politician that they're utterly confused by it. I never thought in a million years it would be someone like Marjorie Taylor Green to show that she's actually principled when it comes to bread and butter issues.

Because she, much like Trump, she also ran her campaigns focusing on those issues. I just never believed her because she was knee deep in endless, divisive culture war stuff. Yeah. But she has pivoted her attention onto the substantive issues that matter. Now, she might have some policy proposals or solutions that I personally don't like or don't see in solutions, but doesn't matter, I don't care. At least she wants to have that conversation. And she's essentially pushing back on her own party in regard to healthcare.

They want to repeal the Affordable Care Act, they want to weaken the Affordable Care Act. Okay, but what's your plan to help Americans once their premiums double? And that's really the heart of what she's arguing here. Now, she also focuses on the really dire financial situation that most Americans are are in at the moment. She stated that Republicans will lose power if they can't help Americans out when they're struggling. She focuses on things like credit card debt, for instance. So according to the Federal Reserve data from quarter two, Americans collectively hold, get a load of this, $1.21 trillion in credit card debt, and that figure continues to climb.

Now, look, I'm sure that there's some on the right, maybe even some in the Democratic Party. I wouldn't even say some on the left, but who argue that like all the people are being frivolous what they're spending. No, a lot of people due to inflation have been charging things on credit cards, things that they need, you know, groceries for instance. But there's more. A survey from Wallet Hub found that 43% of respondents say they're still paying off credit card debt from last fall. 33% of people predict they will have more credit card debt by the end of 2025. And nearly Two in five Americans say they can't handle more credit card debt, and one in five say they are very stressed about their debt. I wish our federal government were more stressed about our federal

debt, but they're not. They keep spending on wars and other nonsense. And when it comes to savings, also dire situation for a lot of Americans. Goldman Sachs released a report recently, finding that 40% of Americans, working Americans, are now living paycheck to paycheck. If current trends continue, Goldman Sachs estimates that 55% of Americans will be living paycheck to paycheck by 23. And another 40% of Americans state that they are not making meaningful progress on saving for retirement. And that's the other, that's the other bomb here, right? I mean, think about how many people are living paycheck to paycheck and are unable to put any money aside for retirement. And I'm sorry, Social Security is not enough for people to live on.

It was meant to supplement the retirement savings of Americans. And the problem is, most Americans don't have retirement savings because they don't have the disposable, the income basically to put that money aside. Yeah, so the core of the issue is who do you represent? The reason why Democrats say all these beautiful progressive policies and never actually pass any of them, and the reason why the Republicans promised MAGA a bunch of cultural war stuff, and sometimes they do some of the cultural war stuff, but never the economic stuff.

Oh, we're gonna stick up for the average guy, right? But do they know? Why? Because who do they report to? They both sides report to the donors. So the donors love the cultural wars because it divides us and gets us fighting each other instead of looking up. And what the donors want is to pay you as little as possible and to extract as much wealth from you as they can through the government and funneled back them. That's why they give the politicians collectively billions of dollars. They're not doing it for their health. They're not doing it for charity. They're doing it so they could take your money and put it into their pocket. So that's why Marjorie Taylor Green being principled is not necessarily a great thing for progressives like me.

Because there's still a bunch of things we disagree on, immigration, some of the cultural war issues, etc. But it is great in that I would much rather have someone that I disagree with that is principled and honest Because I'd rather disagree with the actual representative of the 14th district of Georgia, representing those real American voters, even if I disagree with the majority of those voters, then having a representative represent Exxon Mobil, Lockheed Martin, Pfizer, Israel, Qatar, whoever else. You want real people, not empty suits that are bought by corporate interests. And I agree with you wholeheartedly. I mean, I think with what Marjorie Taylor Green has been saying recently,

I have more agreements with her on some economic issues than I previously knew or thought. No, yeah, I think she changed, to be honest. No, I definitely. I think that she, look, guys, people do evolve and people mature and they, if they're open-minded enough, they will see the light on issues that, you know, they had a completely different take on. But putting that aside for a second, even with someone like Thomas Massey, I have way more economic disagreements with Thomas Massey than I do with Marjorie Taylor.

Green at this point, nonetheless, I totally support him in this fight against the efforts to oust him because he's not willing to spend unlimited amounts of money on foreign wars. Yeah, he's a person, he's principled, and he can't be bought. And I appreciate that. That's what we need more of in the country. But I don't want you to miss the most important underlying phenomenon that's happening that's affecting Marjor Taylor Green, in her case more than Massey. Massey's always been principled. He's kind of an outlier, bless his heart For that, same with Bernie Sanders. He didn't need any extra incentives.

He was always principled, right? So for Marjorie Taylor Green, different phenomenons have it. Same thing for Rokana and some others on the left, which is their grassroots fundraising is so significant that they then become responsive to their donors. But their donors have now switched to the average American as opposed to giant corporate donors or foreign governments. So then Marjorie, somebody like Marjorie Taylor Green goes and asks, hey, you guys, you're giving me a little all this money five bucks at a time, 25 bucks at a time. So what is it that you want? And they go, well, I want higher wages and I want lower drug prices. It's the most obvious thing in the world. What else would I want, right? And she's like, are you sure you don't want more land acquisition

for Israel? They're like, what are you talking about? Are you sure that you don't want higher drug prices? They're like, are you insane? Of course we want lower drug prices. So when she goes and talks to the new boss, which is the American people, but right wing, right wing American people, They say to her things that are obvious. And so she then comes back and goes, well, I talk to him and it looks like they want lower drug prices. So I'm gonna fight for that. So that's true for in the case of the healthcare premiums and the shutdown and her disagreement

with the Republicans on that. It's also true in the bill that she just joined that we're crowdsourcing a revolution on here at TYT. We reached out to her and she said, oh, Rokana's bill taking Trump's executive order to make the same drug prices for us as all the other developed nations. She's like, where's the question? Yes, I'm in. I'm co-sponsoring because she's being more responsive to our actual constituents and citizens. Exactly. All right, when we come back for the second hour, we're actually going to check in with the government shutdown, which is,

in fact, still happening. And what the Democrats are now pretty concerned about, plus how this is all impacting how Americans view Democrats versus Republicans. A lot to get to. Don't miss it. We'll be right back. You know, Bhop. Bhop. Thank you.