Netanyahu Targets Whistleblowers - October 13, 2026
00:00 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. And I watched up and down. I looked at his ass. And then I looked at his hands. Well, hello. It's Jake U. Granite Kusparian with you guys. We've got two great interviews for you today. Tara Palm Mary on the Cornell 7, which we're going to do in a second. Very controversial, very interesting story.
02:30 talking about the Middle East and fascism on the rise. That's in the top of the second hour. Then we've got throughout the show, the Israelis up to their usual tricks, we're worried that they might murder the filmmakers that expose what they have been doing in Gaza. Of course, they're Israeli Jewish filmmakers, but Zionists don't care at all. So, and then later in the show, Paxton's madness. the way that he's wasted, all of our money is unreal. And then some tech bros weighing in, including defense contractors, saying they can't wait for
03:10 the televised executions. So lots of interesting, though disturbing material on the show today, as usual, unfortunately these days. Okay, Anna. Well, we're gonna get into the Cornell 7 case, which I wish. wasn't up to the media to cover. We're not lawyers. We don't have access to all of the documents and evidence. Yet here we are attempting to adjudicate a case involving gang rape. So let's do it. So you might have heard of the controversial Cornell 7 case in which an anonymous former student
03:48 known only as Jane Doe alleged that seven fraternity brothers from the Chi Phi or Chi Phi chapter at the University gang raped her while she was heavily intoxicated in October of 2024. Now days later, Jane Doe reported the incident to officials at Cornell. At first, it was as though, or it appeared as though Cornell totally failed to adequately investigate the incident. Additionally, the district attorney who reviewed the case decided against pursuing the prosecution of the seven men. He claimed that there was insufficient evidence. Then on September 16th of this year, nearly two years following the night of the incident, Jane Doe filed a civil lawsuit against Cornell University, the fraternity, her own sorority,
04:39 Delta, Delta, Delta, and the seven men. Now she claims that the university failed to protect her and that she was unable to consent to sex since she had too much to drink and had snorted ketamine. This is an excerpt from some of the reporting that CNN did on the story. They write that when plaintiff arrived at the chapter's fraternity house, plaintiff was visibly intoxicated as she had consumed about 10 standard drinks within the past three hours. The complaint said. So that's directly from the lawsuit. The suit also alleges that inside a friend gave Doe a beer and the two danced before he proposed a threesome and took her to another room.
05:21 in the house. There, the friend and another fraternity member allegedly pressured Doe into snorting a substance. They described as ketamine and gave her more alcohol, the lawsuit says. Now at that point, Matthew Ingalls, that's one of the fraternity brothers, proposed a threesome with Jonathan Newell, another fraternity brother. Now both fraternity members then sexually assaulted Doe while she says she was incapable of consent, according to the complaint, which noted one of the men slapped dough on the buttox resulting in bruising. Now Jonathan Newell, again, one of the men who took part in the initial encounter along with Matthew Ingalls, both wrote disgusting and also incriminating messages in a Snapchat group.
06:09 Now on that night, Newell sent a message saying free P-word in the frats Snapchat group, which included dozens of the Frat brothers. Inglis also allegedly wrote, quote, I like, quote, like you can walk in and whip it out. Now the two were expelled from the university. So why did Tompkins County DA decline to prosecute back in 2024? So a six page statement that she gave two investigators at Cornell also seems to conflict with some of the claims in the lawsuit. In a six page statement signed by Doe to Cornell police, Doe said she was pretty okay
06:51 with aspects of the initial encounter that night, but she did not consent to other sexual activities later at the fraternity house. We've also seen text messages from Jane Doe in recent days that further complicate the story. So this is a difficult and nuanced case, one in which many people in the media have strongly taken one side or the other, but I think it's a lot more complicated than that. And luckily, journalist Tara Palmeri is here to help us weigh through the details of this story. Paul Mary, if for those of you who are living under a rock and are unfamiliar with her, is the host of the Tara Palmary show on YouTube and the red letter newsletter on Substack.
07:32 Tara, thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me, Anna. It's great to be here. So this story is disturbing to say the least. And I think that, you know, people who kind of jumped on to one side or the other in the very beginning when it started to garner national attention are kind of making a mistake because the story continues to develop with more information coming out. And in fact, there was additional information that came out today. So let me just start off by asking you, you know, look, before we get to the other text
08:02 messages and the evidence that we do have access to, can you just tell us about the different men involved in this case, right? So I've mentioned two. So, you know, you have Newell and Ingalls, but there were seven people listed in her lawsuit. Can we just go through the various men? and what she is alleging about them. And I don't have all of those details right in front of me right now.
08:27 Okay. I know that she, you know, one of the men alleges that he did not have sex with her, but he was, he went into the room and that nothing happened even though he entered the room. I know that there are some details in which she says that she curled up in a ball and hid from them when these few, these other men came into the room. But I, you know, I just don't have the facts of that case in front of to me right now. Okay, let me just, let me quickly go over it.
08:54 I have some notes on it, but the gentleman you were talking, the man you were talking about earlier who says that he didn't even have sex with her. That was Scott Kretzmar. He's accused of being part of a group of men who entered the room after reading Newell's Snapchat message, but he didn't engage in any sexual act. At least that's what he's claiming. Winston Lee is one of the other individuals involved in this. Jane Doe has accused Lee of inhaling ketamine off of her body and forcing
09:21 oral sex on her. Then you have Jillio Lopez. She alleges that Lopez had sex with her without her consent. Diego Sarabia, Jane Doe, accused of forcibly kissing her. So there are varying degrees of accusations against the various figures involved in that night. Scott Norris is the final person accused of being part of a group of men who entered the room after reading Newell's Snapchat message. So, okay, so according to this exclusive. from the New York Times.
09:52 It's titled how a Cornell student went from shame to action. Jane Doe didn't really seem to think she was a victim of rape until after she spoke to roommates and I guess kind of processed what happened that night. So can you talk a little bit about that? I think that's a common thing that you hear from people who are assaulted or victims of sexual assault and rape is that they don't want to see themselves as a victim. They don't want to go through the process of reporting. They don't like the idea that their social life, that they might be ostracized by making this known.
10:28 Maybe they want to normalize it because, you know, there's so many bizarre ways human beings respond to trauma. I mean, animals respond bizarrely to trauma. And I think humans do as well. She obviously initiated sex or it's unclear if you could say it was consent because, you know, She's saying that she was too inebriated to really consent. But at some point, there was an agreement, whether that is legal or not with two men. But everything from there, you know, it's not like you can just let someone in your car and then they can beat you up just because you let them in the car. So I think that's where it gets really it gets really dicey.
11:13 And I think that's what's so difficult about these, these sexual assault cases. Yeah. It's he said, she said, we weren't in the room. In some cases, though, there were multiple people in the room. And the text messages are pretty damning and disgusting. And the behavior is really foul. None of the parties look particularly good. And yeah, you see this a lot though with people who become involved in these sort of scenarios.
11:40 I mean, a lot of people who are traffic, they don't even see. see the people who are trafficking them as they're abusers. They normalize it. Yeah, so Tara, I think this is an extraordinarily difficult case actually. And I think there's two components to it. One is the legal and we're just not equipped for that here because that takes a whole trial. And I'll preview right now, I think it is going to be extraordinarily difficult to prosecute these guys for reasons I'm going to get into in a second.
12:10 The other is the court of public opinion. And that's what everybody's engaged in here. We try to be super fair to the best of our abilities, which often gets us in trouble, because both sides think, what do you mean? What's there to be fair about? This is the worst gang rape I've ever heard of. And obviously they should all be severely punished and Cornell is totally wrong. And I know a lot of people who are in that category.
12:36 And it says I'm on the left, I think I know more people in that, way more people in that category. And then there are others who say, are you can't. kidding me, this is consensual all the way, you're gonna really ruin these kids' lives. And so, if you're unfamiliar with the case in terms of the audience, if you're watching this, and you think, how could anybody possibly think that? Well, Tara, when you get into the text, she does talk several times about being okay with doing basically what colloquial is called a threesome with the two main guys. In the beginning.
13:07 In the beginning, right? And she once refers to four guys, I think, and then there's a guy who walked in later but didn't do anything. And then so that's certainly not a clean cut case, right? And then, but mainly though, Tara, what I wanted to ask you about is to me, it looks like a roar shock test. So if you are on the side of people saying obvious brutal rape. You have the pictures of the guys sending it around going free.
13:43 We have to say P word, but I don't want, because there's a lot of P words, I don't want people to be confused, the one that's the cat, right? And so basically saying come and get it. Yeah, it's disgusting. Outrageous as it gets, right? And that's what's turning everyone's stomachs 100% rightfully so. Because in that case, while there's no evidence that we've seen so far to show that she was unconscious.
14:05 And it's important to point that out because. of New York law, right? So in California, if you are drunk and you're incapacitated or you're so intoxicated, you could make a case that you're unable to consent, there is a law in California that you can actually, you know, look into to make that case. In New York, the laws are different. So you have to literally be unconscious to make the claim that you were too intoxicated to consent. And what she's arguing in this suit is that she was too intoxicated to consent to any of it. Now, if you go back to when she officially reported this to the authorities over at Cornell, there's a six page document.
14:50 We don't have access to it, but we have seen some excerpts of it. And apparently she had said that she consented to the initial threesome. She had a crush on one of the boys. She didn't have a problem with that. But it did get to a point where you have fraternity brothers inviting other men into the room. She didn't consent to that. And so could it be, could it be that it started off as consensual and then turned into something non-consensual? Yeah, I think that's what I, when I read the text messages, when I see this story, again, I'm not a lawyer, but I see someone who consented to sex with two men and then did not consent to the rest of it.
15:30 I see someone who was clearly inebriated. I don't, I've never taken ketamine before, but I've heard that it can literally send you to another planet. You know what I mean? Like, it's not the type of drug that you take and you have any sort of, I think, wherewithal. And if she had really arrived at the frat, 10 drinks deep, I mean, that's, that's a lot. I'd be dead.
15:55 I could not handle 10 drinks. glasses of wine and I'm like, well, you know. So there's there's a there's a lot of different factors going into that. Those the thing that really upsets me and concerns me is the culture there, though. The idea that let's send this text message out to 57 guys and see who take who wants to come in and and get at her next. I mean, like whether she felt that she was gang raped in the beginning or not, something shifted inside of her and made her believe that she was a victim, right? And she never saw those messages. I mean, there must have just been something that clicked in her head later on where she was like, actually like that wasn't fair. That wasn't what I wanted. That wasn't what I signed up.
16:39 Like that's not what I was I came in there for. And and she wasn't really wrong because like she wasn't a party to those text messages. Like if you read that later, it's very clear they're taking advantage of her. It's like she's basically like lying there and they're and they're all just. like they called it free. I mean, that's pretty. Yeah, no, no. Yeah. I mean, there was a clear inference to come and get it. And basically either she can't do anything about it or whatever that inference is. And that's very, very important, especially for the trial. They're basically saying that she's not able to resist, like free. It's just there. Like grab it. It's like, you know, scraps on the side
17:20 the road, it's really, it's really, really terrible. And I don't, I, I, you know, like, you hear these stories about the Epstein survivors, which I've covered. And they were really young girls, you know, they were in their teens, some of them as young as 13, 14 with braces when they met him. And they kept going back to him and recruited their friends. And it's like, why? You know what I mean? Like, this is, this is a man who, who in many cases took their virginity and he's in his 50s. And it's just that these kinds of crimes, they cause shame. People try to create, they create a narrative around it to protect themselves from that shame, you know, to protect their identities. And I don't think people react normally when something like this happens.
18:03 Yeah. I think that they create narratives in their head that that make them seem like less of a victim, not more in fact. So I gotta go back to the Roorshaw test because I want to make sure the audience has this perspective. Because so one of it is, hey, look, there's text saying it's consensual in some parts. We've already discussed that. But the second part of it is really important. When she's originally talking to her friends, her roommate, her sorority sisters, she doesn't paint it as sexual assault at all, okay?
18:36 And she seems to indicate that it was consensual. And then they keep telling her, no, it was assault. No, it was rape. You're thinking about it the wrong way. You should think that it's right. And in the meantime, as they're telling her that, the people in the school who are aware of what happened that night are basically slut shaming her. Yes. They're shaming her.
18:59 Yeah. So Tara, I mean, that gets into not just two different ways of looking at this, but multiple different ways of looking at this. Because you have the terrible behavior of the Snapchat and the sending out the message and the actions themselves Then you have the people who then jump in when they think it's consensual and go ha ha Look at how guilty the girl is and the guys are heroes and the woman is You know all the words that they usually use and to me that actually is One of the biggest problems one of the biggest icebergs and that's never ever addressed The guys are heroes and the woman's a villain, and then her friends say, since you're being
19:44 painted as a villain, and we think this is, from our perspective, sexual assault and rape, you should also think that. And over the next two days, she does change her mind, it seems, based on the text, from I think it was consensual to I think it was rape. Can I provide the examples real quick, Jane? Yeah, go ahead. Yeah, because I just, I, we're talking about it vaguely, I gotta be honest with you, I'm super uncomfortable, but I just want the audience to have the information.
20:11 You guys can do with it what you will. But this is from the New York Times reporting on it. They say since the evening that began on October 19th, 2024, Jane Doe had recounted the night's events to her roommates without identifying herself as a rape victim. She had exchanged friendly text messages with men she would later accuse of assault. On October 21st, Jane Doe went to her big sister, a woman designated as a mentor at Cornell's Tri-D delta sorority, and told her there were rumors circulating that she was a slut. The big sister, a junior at Cornell, told investigators that Jane Doe added with a laugh
20:49 that unfortunately they are true. And then, you know, through conversations with her roommates, she decided or she came to the conclusion that, no, this wasn't consensual, this was actually rape. And then on October 21st, she also received a text message from Jonathan Newell, one of the initial men who took part in that threesome. And she also accused him of sexual assault. This is what he wrote in that message on October 21st. I just wanted to apologize for how things went down the other night.
21:22 Newell wrote, he then said that both he and Matthew Ingalls, another of the men she would later accuse of assault, both felt terrible for being too under the influence of drugs and alcohol to shut it down and kick people out before it got way out of hand. By the way, we later also found out that Matthew Ingalls was too inebriated and passed out and couldn't partake in the threesome initially. And then Jane Doe replied and reassured him, quote, at the end of the day, none of the sexual stuff was illegal. And honestly, I really like being with you and Matt, she wrote. And then the next day she texted Ingalls saying, bro, everyone knows. And that knows about the episode, what happened.
22:08 Ingalls assured her that it would all blow over soon, noting how fast nonsense spreads at this school. And she said she did not have anything to be ashamed of. You are right. Jane Doe wrote, it'll get better. So to finish the question with that context, a really important context in mind. So Tara, some people, usually guys, usually young guys, certainly old school and apparently still some new school, who look at that and go, I don't know what you guys are talking about. So she has text saying she's into it.
22:39 Her friends tell her she shouldn't be into it and she's being perceived as a slant. She changes it to rape. Outrageous, definitely not rape, right? The other side will say, are you kidding me? This kind of thing happens where she's on ketamine and she cannot possibly consent. And because of the overwhelming shame that people put, it makes it seem like, no, you gotta say that, you know, it was fine. was fine because you feel embarrassed and humiliated. And you have to say, no, no, no, I was part of it.
23:11 Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, right? And didn't realize, no, no, that type of stuff is not acceptable. People having sex with you when you're passed out. And you shouldn't be fine with it. She reached the right conclusion two days later. By the way, we don't have evidence that she was passed out. We have to be clear.
23:27 Right, no, I'm saying that people are telling her that. Right. Like she says she was like in a basically like made herself into a fetus kind of like position to try to stop like curled herself up in a ball with blankets in a way to sort of like stop the guys from touching her and stuff like that. Yeah, that's what she. Yes. Yes. So you see what I'm saying that both of those people are never going to see the other side's. I'm worried are not going to see the other side's perspective. Totally. And it's almost like, you know, they say men are from Mars, women are from Venus. And I know that's very like it sounds cliche. for such a serious story like this. But I think like a sexual experience for a woman is very different than a sexual experience
24:08 for a man, right? And the shame that is connected to these sorts of crimes is like it's like there's a reason why one out of every four women. I think it's one out of every three now, which I think is good, actually goes to the police and does a rape kit and reports it. I mean, so many of these crimes too happen within families, they're crimes of shame. They're not the types of, and so the break. like rearranges itself because it doesn't want to be a victim. I mean, I really know,
24:36 I know so many women have been sexually assaulted. I mean, more than I can count and I can tell you that none of them went to the police, not a single one. Yeah. No, if you look at the numbers on percentage of people who were raped that actually get justice and they and their perpetrator goes to jail. I even try to get it. It's who's so that number is so depressingly low that I, that I almost don't want to put it out there, okay? And the reason for that is, number one, you lose a giant chunk because of people don't report it because of the shame. Then you lose the people that can't, you know, go through the process, et cetera.
25:13 There's a million different ways that these are hard to prosecute. But what you're saying, Tara gets to the point I'm making, which is I actually think the cancer is the shame because they make it seem like, and for time immemorial, it's It's made it so if women have sex, it is in a way that is not pre-approved, monogamous, blah, blah, blah, right? It is deep, deep shame. So the sex itself is the shame, not whether it's consent or not consent. And then that gets people into the wrong mindset.
25:45 Whereas I think that the sexual act should be no big deal. The massive question that should surround the issue of shame is consent or not consent. But since it, in the real world, it doesn't work that way. The shame is what drives so, the non-reporting, the false reporting, the feeling of, well, it must not have been. So, but I don't think that that's getting addressed in this story at all. So I'm just curious your take on it, especially having dealt with so many survivors. The thing that I think about this story is what she was up against, okay?
26:24 So like in the maybe in the first two days, she's thinking to herself, if I report this, if I decide that I was a victim, if I decide like I need to make it known that I did not consent to this. Think of how her social life would change. Think of how her life changed because she ultimately did that. I mean, she left Cornell, right? It's unclear if she finished her degree. Her life is we don't really know, but we know she didn't finish, she didn't finish an Ivy League university, but to decide to go out there and tell, you know, to report this, to take on her classmates, that's causing a lot of social ostracization as well. She's basically deciding to, like, light a fire to her life. And I don't think everyone makes that decision right away after a
27:08 crime like this happens, which is a lot of the reasons I think two people don't report, right? Because, you know, a lot of its date rape, you know, it happens to people you know, they're the ones who get you close enough. It's not in a dark alley. that rape often happens. It's when you've already let someone into your life. That's when it happens because you've let your guard down. Rapists and predators, they look for easy prey. They don't look like, they don't look for the girl who's carrying mason her hand and a knife, you know? So I think that's something to consider about these crimes. There's a level of consent just by knowing the people being a part of their world and not wanting to lose those social structures and the ostracization. And we're also
27:49 talking about a girl who is 19 years old. I mean, God, at 19, it's just like you're, you don't even have a fully formed frontal lobe. Okay, so we're running out of time, but I got to ask you one final question at least, and it has to do with the prosecution of this case. So initially, the district attorney decided against prosecuting this case. He said that there was insufficient evidence of rape. Then the story garners national attention, everyone's talking about. about it and Governor Kathy Hokel of New York signs an executive order to appoint a special counsel. In this case, it's Letitia James in order to prosecute this. And you know, Letitia James is the top law enforcement official in New York City. And she posted online
28:40 in support of Jane Doe saying that quote, what this young woman has been forced to endure is horrific and unacceptable, I'm holding her in my heart and in my prayers. To her and to all survivors, you're not alone, we stand with you. And so that is calling into question whether there will be a fair prosecution of this case. Already, two of the individuals who are part of this, Gileo or Giulio Lopez and Winston Lee say that they filed a petition saying that she has a bias and so she cannot carry out a fair prosecution of this case. What are your thoughts about that? I don't think they're wrong to say that honestly. I mean, she made it pretty clear that she's in favor of the Jane Doe.
29:23 And I'm not saying, and I know, and I say this at the same time by saying that women are very, very rarely by justice in the court system when it comes to these sex crimes cases either, right? But she did tweet out that this woman has already gone through so much. I don't, I just don't understand why she was chosen to be the, the independent prosecutor in this case. if she's already made it clear that she favors one party. If I was going into a, if I was going into any sort of trial and the judge said that the other person had, you know, endured some sort of hardship, I would be very skeptical as well. Although you know what's interesting? One of the, one of the guys, one of the seven, he actually said that he was fine with her not being,
30:02 proceeding as a Jane Doe. And there have been a lot of questions of, well, if she can name all of these guys in a civil case and shouldn't she also be named? But I thought that was interesting that one of them was was fine with her moving forward as a Jane Doe. But yeah, I would have I think I would object too. Yeah. So look, my last question is I think the culture has changed in a lot of ways. And I would argue definitely for the better. And I think that this might as painful story as it is might be a step. For all of us to learn and to get better on this. But I'm gonna preface that with this question. So right now, if you have, if you're a guy who's participating in having sex with one woman
30:49 with multiple men, unless you have legal written consent, the idea, like, and she's intoxicated, you're taking your life into your hands. That you open yourself up to a rape allegation, I think, very, very clearly. And so I don't think that's just gonna happen anymore outside of like official swinger club. or whatever. But then that gets to my point, which is, yeah, if you're all truly consenting, it should be none of our business, but probably nine out of ten times when it did happen in the past in context like this, it was not consensual.
31:27 So it probably, people should get through their heads, don't do that. That's my sense of it. What's your take on that phenomenon? I think, I don't know about you, but the psychology of people I've profiled that tend to do the darkest things, they never see themselves as monsters. And they never think that they are doing anything wrong. So I think the guy who's going to be cautious would probably would never have done it in the first place.
31:51 And I think the type of person who probably realizes that this was an unfair situation and this woman was inebriated and wasn't one of the 57 men in the room, he, you know, one of the seven, he would, he wouldn't even have thought to do this in the first place. He probably would have known it was trouble. Yeah. Yeah, that might be the case. Certainly that's the type, I totally get it. But I think eventually it does have an effect on society, right?
32:19 No, it's not cool and if you send out something like, I guarantee if you sent out something like that in the 1970s that all the guys on campus would have high fived and there would have been no issue at all, right? And I say 70s to be safe. I don't think the culture has changed as much as you think it has jank. That still happens today. Well, I mean, this happens, so you're right. Yeah.
32:41 But yeah, sorry, Terry, what you were going to say. I was going to say, when I was in college, there was a fraternity Epsilon Iota that the university literally warned us about because of hazing and alcohol. But really what they were doing, they were roofing people. Like they were putting, and they eventually lost their charter. And finally, like 17 years or something after I graduated, they finally expelled about 18 kids from the school. This is from American University.
33:08 was a huge story about it. But like the fact that it took almost two decades after I graduated for them to finally do something about this fraternity that was on campus that had this horrible, horrible reputation, like it just shows you how enough these institutions are, how much they can't handle this and how it's just such a rampant problem on campuses. These kids are too young. I just think they're, I don't know, fraternities and sororities maybe? I don't know, I don't know.
33:37 A lot of degenerate behavior. you're happening in these frat houses. And it just keeps coming up over and over again. So I don't know what the solution is other than get rid of the frats and the sororities potentially. I don't know. Something about these people congregating together. They get hyped up on each other's testosterone and estrogen.
33:55 And I don't know why, but they seem to make a lot of bad decisions. Yeah, teach kids how to make friends without paying for them. You know what I mean? Like, yeah. No, I got you. I mean, look, last thing from comment and then we got to wrap is that, yeah, Part of the problem with the fraternities, you get a bunch of young guys together. It's already going to be like not necessarily toxic.
34:14 I was together with a lot of young guys. We didn't do anything wrong, right? But like be careful, that could be toxic. And then what you add in the element with fraternities is just like with any toxic situation, don't question the leaders. Because how do you get into a fraternity by following every single order that the leaders give you no matter one? That's why I never joined a fraternity.
34:37 The minute I saw one of the brothers say, get down on your knees and tie my shoelaces, I was like, I'm out. I got no interest in this at all. But once you teach people, obey authority, and then you put toxic dudes in charge, we're gonna have situations like this. Oh my gosh, there's an, I just saw this update. Associated Press reporting, Cornell bans fraternity parties in wake of gang rape allegation and says the state police will investigate campus sex crimes.
35:03 Well, I don't want to say we're very influential, but there you go. I think he did it. I think you did it. Yeah. Tara, thank you so much. This is a difficult case and I wish we didn't have to talk about it at all. But you made it easier for us. So thank you. I appreciate you having me. Appreciate it as always. Thank you. All right, we're gonna take a break and when we come back, we'll talk about things that we have. I think more expertise in commenting on. We'll be right back. I'm reading these blind. I know it's a sensitive topic and it might be different things.
36:07 But let's dive into it. TYT.com members, sexy speed racer says, I'm sorry about the whole fraternity system. It's some degree, the sorority system as well is set up to protect its members from responsibility for their individual and collective behavior. To me, that's disgusting. So that's the point that Anna was making as well. So great minds and all that. Radical Republican 1854 says, seems like we're losing any sense of morality in our society.
36:31 100%. Poor leadership and a failure of culture similar to the fall of the Western Roman Empire. Yeah, can I just, I can't, I can't get over how they how careless it is to like invite a bunch of dudes, like dozens of men in that chat group. Oh, free P word, come and get it. You know, you could just whip it out. That part, I think, is what made this story capture nationwide attention. Yeah. And, you know, initially the reports were false. Cornell carried out dozens or over a dozen hearings over this.
37:07 They did investigate it. But at the end of the day, a university is not the same as a court of law. You get what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. So like proving it beyond a reasonable doubt is going to be extraordinarily difficult. I want to keep your expectations, realistic. Serenity analysis for everyone that's reported 10,000 or not.
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38:30 Okay, Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered authorities in Israel to identify and prosecute the anonymous soldiers featured in the movie Naza. Since they told the truth about the horrific war crimes that Netanyahu ordered, he wants them severely punished. And in fact, what we're really worried about is the safety of the filmmakers. They're Jewish Israelis, but there are people already threatening to kill them for. for saying what Israel actually did. Anna has the whole story.
39:02 So for those who are unfamiliar with the film, Naza is a film that was actually directed, co-directed by two Israeli filmmakers, Rachel Zor and Yuval Abraham. Now, you can understand why Israeli society is absolutely furious about the film because of the fact that it features IDF whistleblowers who explain how the Israeli forces had no about the number of civilians killed in their strikes in Gaza. They used shoddy AI in order to identify their targets, oftentimes inaccurately, and that they waited for targets to come home to their family in order to carry out the strikes, which would kill all of their family members and anyone else in the building.
39:53 In other words, these two Israelis directed a film that provides evidence. and testimony from IDF soldiers who confessed to committing genocide in Gaza. That's what this is. Now here is a short clip that will give you a better sense of what this film is about. Take a look. You're at 20, 30, 30, 300 people, Kiyo. What the number of the most of the first, you think that there was a attack one?
40:22 I don't know to get how they're going to be able to do it, but there is sure of 500, Kilo. on one. So they got the green light to carry out a strike that killed 500 civilians in order to kill one target. And the issue is the AI technology used, which is known as lavender, was inaccurate oftentimes. So who knows if they had the right target? So as you can see, the soldier's identity was concealed or obscured. And the film featured 23 additional anonymous soldiers in addition to the one you just heard from.
41:08 And this has led to death threats and harassment toward the filmmaker. So dozens of far right Israelis gathered outside of Zor's family home on Wednesday, September 16th, calling for her to be hanged. According to Haret's, some protesters called for the death penalty for traitors. One protester said that when Zor and Abraham returned to Israel, they should be tried and go to the gallows and their family should be expelled and the house sealed. I should note at this point, neither of them are in Israel at the moment and their own family members and friends are telling them do not come back. It is not safe for you here. A Channel 13 news poll found that 68% of respondents did not believe the film's claims of intentional mass killing in God. While 13% said they did.
41:59 They're in a total state of delusion. Totally detached from reality, 100% cult. That's what cults do. How dare you oppose us and tell the truth? We'll murder you. 48% supported banning the film in Israel. I don't under, here's the thing, they're lying in that poll. They know that people are being intentionally killed because their
42:20 politicians say that Palestinians are being intentionally killed every single day, every day, every day. Every day, I could put together a five hour compilation video of various Israeli officials talking about slaughtering the Palestinians intentionally. But okay, they're lying. They know, they know the truth, they love it, they know the truth, okay. So the two have left Israel, they can't return due to safety concerns. And then to add fuel to the fire, you have Benjamin Netanyahu, the warlord of Israel,
42:51 saying that he wants to reveal the identities of the IDF soldiers who took part in this film. Let me just read you what he posted on social media. I demand that the chief of the general staff, the head of the Shimbet and the attorney general initiate a comprehensive investigation against the participation, participants in the film Naza, and bring them to trial for serious information security offenses, criminal defamation, and harm to Israel's political and security interests. The film presents a false misleading and biased plot that defames the state of Israel and the IDF in the world and severely damages Israel standing. No, no, no. Israel damages Israel standing in the world. Netanyahu, I mean, if you just want to focus on one person and one person only, Netanyahu alone has totally damaged, destroyed Israel's reputation.
43:45 So under his standards, he's the one who should be arrested. Under the standards of the standards of the of modern day Israeli society, he's the one who should be hanged. But anyway, there's no justice in the world, so we're gonna go after the, like, handful of Israelis who have a conscience in that country right now. Yuval Abraham has been sounding the alarm on this issue, by the way, for years. This is not something that he has just decided to draw attention to for the first time. In 2024, he wrote about the IDF's AI targeting system. Again, it's known as Lavender.
44:18 This was an article in plus 972. I'm going to read you a few excerpts. He says, additional automated systems, including one called Where's Daddy, also revealed here for the first time were used specifically to track the targeted individuals and carry out bombings when they had entered their families' residences. He also wrote about how the IDF knowingly bombed homes with innocent people inside and had civilian death thresholds. He wrote, for every junior Hamas operative that Lavender marked, it was permissible to kill up to
44:50 15 or 20 civilians, well now we're learning hundreds of civilians in some cases. In the past, the military did not authorize any collateral damage during assassinations of low-ranking militants. I'm not sure I believe that. But nonetheless, he also writes in the event that the target was a senior Hamas official with the rank of battalion or brigade commander, the army on several occasions authorized the killing of more than 100 civilians in the assassination of a single commander. So look, we have more evidence of the IDF's indiscriminate attacks against the Palestinians
45:26 in Gaza. I mean, just take a look at this B roll. Look at this footage. They leveled Gaza. How are you gonna argue that you're carrying out surgical strikes when you have leveled the entire enclave, the entire region is gone. There is no Gaza anymore. And they have, they have the audacity, jank, to treat us like we're effing morons, that we don't see what we're seeing with our own two eyes. We didn't hear what we've been. hearing over the last three years with Israeli official after Israeli official after Israeli official expressing their genocidal intent.
45:58 Yeah, I actually think we're past the tipping point now. And I think Naza actually had a huge role in it, guys like Benjamin Moser coming out who we interviewed yesterday saying the true history of Zionism and how it's a fascist strain that came out of Europe, exactly what we've been telling you. But our media in America is so racist that they won't listen to. to anyone who isn't Jewish, to be honest. That's why Naza is Jewish filmmakers. So they go, oh, okay, that's, we'll let you have a voice.
46:29 Benjamin Moser and Peter Beinart and others are Jewish Americans, so they get to have a voice. And we appreciate and love them for using their voice for justice and to protect others. But if you're someone like me from a Muslim background, no, not only will they not allow you to speak, but they'll try to smear you and destroy your life, our media does. On behalf of the terrorists in Israel. So I can't begin to tell you how guilty our media is, but that's okay. Because at this point, what I'm saying is I think that literally almost everyone outside of the Zionists who are still in the cult, which let's be honest, is about an overwhelming
47:10 majority of our media and an overwhelming majority of our politicians. But just them. It used to be that they dominated the rest of us, that there was no other. media and you couldn't get information in any other way. Israel's approval rating until pretty recently was at 80% because the media kept telling you they're the victims, they're doing self-defense, you have to murder the Palestinians. And this isn't new, they've been murdering Palestinians for 75th Street years. They did a genocide in in 1948 to start Israel, and our media lied to you because our media
47:42 honestly is Zionist, and they believe in the Zionist ideology. So they're part of that sick cult. And so they've been lying to us our whole lives. But now it's too late. The whole world knows, almost all of America knows. So the more that the media lies, especially with all these powerful Jewish voices coming out and going to go, not on our watch, not in our name, and I'm gonna tell you what actually happened.
48:05 Now it's for the Zionists in the media, they're getting caught red-handed because they kept hiding behind Jewish civilians. But now it's harder to hide behind Jews when the majority. of Jewish Americans say these are war crimes and we don't want any piece, any part of it. So it makes it much harder for Dana Bash and Jake Tapper to pretend, oh, we're just protecting Jewish people. Now they have to, now we all know, no, they're a smaller strand, not of Judaism. This has nothing new with religion. They believe in a nationalist, fascist ideology, and they've been trying to shove that down our throats for my entire life.
48:46 Now, this particular story has two giant aspects to it. One is the sheer horror of it that Anna explained to you, the two parts where AI picks the person who's going to be murdered. Just yesterday on the show, we talked about how sometimes AI is now firing people independently in America and that's caused a huge scandal and an outrage. How could AI, without any human interaction, fire a poor person here? In this case, they're murdering the guy that AI picked. Knowing that oftentimes it selects targets that are inaccurate, not the actual target.
49:22 I mean, you guys, anybody who's dealt with AI knows the errors that it makes. And the Israelis are like, who cares? The reason why they say who cares is because they're trying to murder innocent civilians. So they're like, oh, AI gave us innocent civilians, perfect. Why? It's in the story itself. The second part, where's daddy? They purposely wait till he goes home, the guy who might or might not have done anything,
49:49 and they murder his kids with him and his family, his entire family with them. Do you know who does that? Indisputably, terrorists do that. Now, I'm going to get to the kill ratio numbers in a second, but Anna. So I've watched the film. Ryan Grimm got me a screener to it and one of the more haunting parts of it, the idea of Soldier talks about how he was about to carry out the strike and all he could hear in the background was an infant crying, you know?
50:26 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is real, this is real. And look, the fact that I can't stop thinking about that, despite all of the horrific things that we have covered that has gone down in Gaza, that is precisely why Netanyahu wants to punish anyone who took part in this film. And I have to be honest with you, I have no empathy at all for the IDF soldiers, for the ones who took part in this film. I'm glad that they did take part in it. I'm glad that they're letting everyone know about the crimes against humanity that they have committed, but I also think that they believe, I believe
51:05 that they should face punishment for what they did. They carried out the most disgusting war crimes of our lifetime. Listening to an infant crying in the background, then you decide you're gonna carry out the strike anyway, not knowing whether or not you have the right target, by the way. Yeah, no, who murders babies, terrorists do, fascists do? There's no question about it at all, and now it's absolutely indisputable. Look, they're human beings, I've told us, said this a million times. So look, and a good example is Germany.
51:35 Did everyone, you know, participate in the Holocaust? No, they were good Germans and they protected people. They hid them in their attics, et cetera, you all heard the stories. So, but a lot of them did go along with it because when the beast of fascism comes into a certain nation, ethnicity, whatever it might be, it will have a certain predictable outcomes. A lot of people unfortunately will go along with it. And if someone, I mean, look guys, this is our most classic psychology experiments that we all learn freshman year in college, right? If a guy in a white lab coat tells you to press a button that hurts someone else, if he keeps telling you authoritatively, you keep pressing the button. An enormous percentage, about two thirds of people keep pressing the button until they can't hear the person anymore, meaning that they think that he's dead and they still keep pressing the button.
52:26 That's in our nature, that's in all of our nature. And a third or whatever the number is, go, no, not on my watch, no way, okay? So right now, Israel is clearly under fascism. But what's really disturbing for us here in America is that we have paid for that fashion. We support it. We actively support it, we block anyone from taking action against it in the United Nations, and we have given hundreds of billions of dollars to those fascists to murder babies. And they're about- No, no, but this is very, very literal.
53:00 We're saying here, here is money, here's a gift, here's a positive incentive to murder more babies. And the people who did that are incredibly dirty corrupt politicians who will serve anyone, including literal Nazis if you pay them. They are the very worst of us, they are the bottom of the barrel, and right next to them is our media that enabled this genocide, to this day, not a single cable news anchor has called it a genocide. Why? No, no, no. We must protect Israel, must protect Israel,
53:34 must protect the fascists, must protect the terrorists, and the extra dirty, dirty trick is take their victims and call them terrorists. And say that they're the bad guys, and they're the only ones who understand violence, and that's why their babies had to be murdered. Why? Because they were hiding behind civilians. So which leads me to the second point. Israel on the record admits they do 100 to 1 kill ratio to begin with and are read it to you.
54:01 So 100, 300, 500, they're barely hiding it. And I want you to think about that guys. Imagine that there's a bad guy on a loose in your neighborhood and he actually did significant harm to your family. You'd be super mad, right? And you want to get vengeance. I don't want to get vengeance. He goes into a neighbor's house and he's surrounded by the families of four of your neighbors. And there's about 20 people in the house.
54:25 Would you bomb the house and kill everyone inside, including your neighbor's kids? And then go, well, I got the bad guy. I got the bad guy. What difference does it make? So what I murdered my neighbor's kids and my neighbor's grandparents and my neighbors? Who cares? I got the bad guy. Would you do it if there was three kids in the house?
54:47 30 kids, 300. And the Israelis say every time, yes, yes, because they don't view their neighbors as human. Because once you slipped into a fascist state of mind, murdering your neighbors is very, very normal. In fact, what you do is you blame the person you're murdering. The Nazis did it. They said, well, it's not our fault. The Jews did this, this and this. We had to murder the Jews.
55:13 The Jews made us murder them. Now the Israelis have turned around and saying, we had to murder the Palestinians. We didn't have any choice at all. We had to murder their babies. Light them on fire. And our media goes, out boy, way to go, Israel. Here's some more money, more money, more money.
55:30 And if anyone objects, they're like, how dare you object to the fascist? Now you will be canceled and destroyed in America. So I'm tired of the fascist running our government, running our media and then pretending to have moral judgments of the rest of us who are desperately trying to stop a genocide, desperately trying to stop financing, taking our money that we worked so hard for, and using it to murder babies and children. It doesn't get any more fastest than that. So when the American people collectively rise up, and I don't know how we're gonna do it,
56:09 because 98% of our politicians and our media are with the fascists. But when we take our government back, there is going to be an accounting for this. And I don't mean in the same way that the fascists say it and the terrorists that currently run our country say it. Oh, violence, all they understand is violence. We should do violence. No, no, we're the good guys. We don't do violence. But if we found out, find out that you have been coordinating with that government and you did not register as a,
56:39 foreign agent, they should be very significant criminal sentences attached to that. I mean, how do you punish a guy who actively worked to steal American money and give it to a bunch of fascists to kill children? Geotines? No, lifelong sentences? Yeah, yeah, life in prison, if you stole our money, you secretly worked with a foreign government and murdered children with it. I mean, you're a serial killer at that point.
57:10 Okay, well, you're lucky to get a life sentence. Well, in the meantime, our Congress is working overtime in order to merge these disgusting war criminals with our military. And keep that in mind as you watch this next clip, because this is one of the filmmakers, Yuval Abraham, pointing out that footage that you're about to see, basically pointing out why it is that the Israeli government is unwilling to allow journalists into the Gaza Strip to do reporting on the ground there. Take a look. It is, I think, important to point that in this message that you read, that the IDF is open
57:50 to genuine criticism, it's puzzling because the, I don't, because the IDF is not allowing the international media to enter the Gaza Strip freely. I mean, international journalists, including journalists to work for this channel and other channels in the United States. should be allowed to enter Gaza and see with their own eyes. I don't think this burden of documenting what is happening there should fall only on Palestinian journalists, many of whom paid with their lives. And the fact that the IDF is not allowing that, the Israeli government is not allowing that after three years, almost more than three years after October the 7th is quite telling.
58:32 And I think it shows that they are not open to such criticism. They leveled Gaza. It is leveled. Every building has been struck. Every single one. There are people who are so desperate for shelter. They're not even allowing tents into the Gaza Strip right now. So people, if they're fortunate, are living in tents that are just a little tattered.
58:59 And for those who have completely destroyed tents, they're risking their lives in entering these severely damaged buildings, in one instance, which we didn't even have time to report on, one of those buildings collapsed with a family in it and a bunch of people died. Okay, we see it, even though they're not allowing international journalists, we see the aerial footage. We see the footage that's being uploaded by Palestinians in Gaza before all those journalists were slaughtered by the Israelis. They were getting reports out. We all know what's going on. Yeah, so just real quick last things here. That MS now is a fraudulent channel. So now they're finally three years into a brutal, horrific genocide having a conversation about whether the
59:48 idea of always tells the truth or only sometimes tells the truth. And the directors here are wonderful human beings. They're allowed on, let's be honest, because they're Jewish Israelis. So they are legitimate humans. You want to let me on and talk about the Palestinian perspective? No. People against the genocide are still banned on that same channel pretending to be humanitarian, pretending to be on the left. They will never allow a voice like ours on a channel like that.
01:00:20 And I know for a fact, I was booked on the channel for the first time in over a decade. decade, I'm in a plane and they canceled it. Why? We read a New York Times article about how you might be an anti-Semite. I mean, you know, you're anti-genocide, so obviously we're not gonna allow you to be on our airs. Everyone on our air must be pro-genocide, right? Now, oh, we're having a slight conversation with people who are human, but you non-humans,
01:00:51 you Muslims and non-Israelis, no, we're gonna cheerlead for that genocide. So MS now is totally and utterly guilty of being a giant cheerleader for this genocide while pretending to be on the left. Oh, it's okay, we're the good guys. And even we're telling you, you should murder the Palestinians. And you should take everyone's money and murder them with it. And if you don't, you're an anti-Semite. Okay, so FMS now in their fake interviews pretending that they care about the genocide. Don't let any of them get away with it.
01:01:27 None of them protested the genocide. None of them even named a genocide to this day. One of them did. Joanne Reed. She's not there anymore. Oh, that's right. Oh, look at that. Oh, you know, I criticize Israel.
01:01:40 I'm not there anymore. Medias, I criticize Israel. He's not there anymore. I'm sure it's a giant coincidence. Hey, you know what? They can rectify it right now, both MS now and CNN by having some, one, two Palestinian voices. No, 100% of their pundits. Israel's right, Israel's right, everyone's an anti-Semite.
01:02:00 Where's your Palestinian perspective? Where's a human perspective? A decent moral perspective? Never, because our media are the enablers of fascism. And then they go on and go, oh, I'm so worried about a danger to democracy. I'm so worried about the fascists. You are the fascists. All right, we gotta take a break.
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01:07:22 All right. Well, it is my pleasure to announce. Joining us now is Naomi Klein, who co-authored a new book titled End Times Fascism and the Fight for the Living World. Astra Taylor is the other co-author of the book. Naomi Klein is an award-winning journalist and documentary filmmaker, and the best-selling author of many books, including doppelganger, no logo,
01:07:47 and my personal favorite, the Shock Doctrine, and other classic books, which have been translated into 35 languages. Naomi, thank you so much for joining us. Very nice to be back with you. All right, great. I'm going to jump in. So Naomi, you talk about three different end times, religious end timers, tech end timers, and ethno-nationalist end timers. So I want to get to the last two in a second because there's important, and I think not a lot of people know about how dangerous they are. But let's start with the religious ones.
01:08:19 These are, to me, obviously the number one threat to the planet, more than climate change, more than AI, more than anything. because honestly, I mean, you tell me, but all I see is basically the Zionists, the Jewish and Christian Zionists who are rooting for, I mean, the Christian Zionists are very actively rooting for the end times and for all of us to be killed. I don't think the Jewish Zionists believe that, but they're very happy to help the Christian Zionists because of their fundamentalist beliefs that they get to murder other people and there should be no consequences. And a lot of them literally believe they're chosen by God to kill their neighbors and take their land.
01:09:04 So how big a threat is this? Well, you know, I don't think it's a competition for who is the bigger threat. I think there are lots of threats that are really intersecting with each other, making these strange alliances. And they are, it's the alliances themselves that are so dangerous with the ethnonautics. nationalists with the religious end timers, with the tech end timers is what is so uniquely dangerous about our moment. And all of them are feeding off of real crises. You mentioned climate change.
01:09:37 And the thing about end times theology, right, is that it interprets disaster, not as a message, like, you know, if you are noticing that the natural world seems to be in crisis, that could be a message to pay attention. You know, it could be a message that you need to take climate change more seriously. But instead, if you subscribe to this end times theology, it's a sign that the end is nigh, that it's all happening, it's all going down. And because you believe that you are among the chosen and what is about to begin is the messianic age, all will be revealed, you know, a utopia, then you are excited about these things that.
01:10:25 that should be alarming, right? So there is that that's why end times theology always accelerates during times of real crises, right? Plagues, natural disasters. But it's not just their imagination, we really are living in times of extraordinary global crises. And the kind of fascism that Astro and I are writing about is a fascism that really is in conversation with our era of planetary scale risk. Yeah. So quick follow up on that.
01:10:56 Look, I think that what you're talking about is it becomes a vicious cycle. They start creating situations which are disastrous and then they go, oh look, great, disaster. That means the world's going to end. Let's do it again and again and again and it makes it worse rather than better. But now I'm gonna ask you a controversial question in regards to that though, and I'm not sure you agree at all, so that's why I'm asking it. I think that Western media is an enormous enabler of it. I remember talking about Christian Zionism during George W.
01:11:25 Bush and how he said we were gonna be, I remember this one particular case that we covered on the young Turks, he was gonna be even handed with the Palestinians and the Israelis, and a whole bunch of church leaders rode in saying, don't you dare, you are not allowed to be even handed. And when I talked about, look, these Christian Zionists, they're kind of lunatics, right? They're talking about how they want to see the world end and seven billion people killed. And our media was like, don't be ridiculous, that's outrageous. And every reaction I got was, how dare you?
01:11:57 And my thesis is, honestly, that's because our media loves Israel. And so those Christian Zionists were helping Israel. So they didn't, our media said, don't you dare talk about the Christian Zionists. There are beloved friends for beloved Israel. So they covered up how super dangerous these guys are. That's my theory. I'm curious what you think. I think there are a few different forces going on.
01:12:22 I don't think that's the only one. And I think that there is generally a reluctance among sort of coastal, urban elites to take religion seriously at all. You know, I started paying attention to Christian Zionists and the sort of the fantasy of the rapture when I was writing the shock doctrine because that was when those books were really flying off the left behind books were really bestsellers. And then there were like all of these movies, like I think six or seven of them starring Kurt Cameron. And, you know, these were the kind of Hollywood does the rapture, right? And it was, you know, it was planes falling out of the sky because the pilots had been raptured. I don't know how familiar you are with this genre. But I think that there is just this tendency not to take like religious literalism seriously to.
01:13:20 to believe that people couldn't possibly believe that because you don't happen to know anybody who actually believes in the rapture, even though it is a huge part of the evangelical tradition. And what Astro and I write about in the book is the way the rise of Christian Zionism is not just a force in the United States. It's getting stronger and stronger in Latin America, played a major role in the recent Brazil elections while they're ongoing, the next ballot. huge backers of Bolsonaro. You see rallies in Brazil just with with Israeli flags. And it has very little to do with Israel. It's this idea that if you bless Israel, you will be blessed.
01:14:03 But you can't really understand the rise of Pentecostalism without understanding the U.S. role in stamping out liberation theology all over Latin America. And, you know, Brazil is one of the countries that had the strongest liberation theology tradition. And this was a church. that brought together social justice, Marxism, fought for land reform alongside peasants and indigenous people, and it was crushed in bloody massacres with a lot of complicity from the church. So, you know, it's really in the wreckage of those kind of dashed hopes that a great many impoverished people now see their only horizon of hope as in the hereafter being, yeah, lifted up.
01:14:49 to a golden city in the sky because life down here has become so impossible. So Naomi, look, I was raised Christian and I was not raised with the bastardization of Christianity that evangelicals have been raised with, right? Basically this false interpretation of the Bible to indicate that you must support the modern day nation state of Israel. And in order to see the second coming of Christ, to usher in the second coming of Christ, you would need to support anything and everything the Israelis do. That was propaganda that was injected into the Christian religion starting in the late 1800s. And so it goes back to supporting the Zionist project in the Middle East. And what's really interesting about, you know, the whole point of your book is that
01:15:39 I mean, it actually predates it. It predates it. Like in our book, we talk about how Christopher Columbus when he was going looking for India for the spices and took a wrong turn, right? That actually the reason why he was so interested in colonial pillage was because he was raising money to go fight in the crusades and retake Jerusalem. So actually it does predate like modern Zionism. But my point is it's an interpretation of Christian doctrine that's It's very contestant. Right, exactly. And it has been very beneficial to the modern day nation state of Israel.
01:16:22 And what's really interesting is, you know, in your book, you also get into the ethno-nationalist end timers. And when I think of ethno-nationalism, I do think of Israel, or at least what, you know, what the current leaders of Israel want that country to be. But they're not driving toward the end times. In fact- No, they're not, they're not messianic. They're not messianic Jews. But although there are messianic Jews in the coalition in Netanyahu's government, you know,
01:16:51 I think Itamar Ben-Givir, who just, you know, every time he brings a larger crowd to Alaksa, right, and takes more and more inflammatory action, right? Yes. So, I mean, he is, you know, and he has said that he believes a third temple will be built, and Smotrich has said he will pay for it, you know, he's in charge of the budget. So you definitely have this inside. Netanyahu's coalition, but Netanyahu himself is driven by geopolitics and a desire to control the maximum amount of land.
01:17:26 And that's where you see how the end times prophecy aligns actually quite perfectly with the end game, right? They want no horizon of a Palestinian state. They want to stamp that out. They believe that the ethno state itself of Israel is the kind of kind of promised land, right? And that, that, that, and they're building that bubble, right? So one of the, what, what Astor and I write about in the book is how, well, first of all, I mean, and if you, you know, I mean, I wrote the shock doctrine a long time ago. It came out on almost 20
01:18:00 years ago, but the end of that book, the last chapter is about Israel. Right. I don't expect anyone to remember that, you know, it was a long time ago if they read it. But I ended that book in Israel because I made the, the argument, that this was a glimpse of a future economy if we continued to allow all of the current trends to continue to accelerate, right, including the climate crisis. Because when I wrote the shock doctrine, the shocks were fewer and further between, right? They were actual shocks in the sense that there was a kind of a baseline normal, and then there would be a shocking event like 9-11 or Hurricane Katrina,
01:18:40 and then things would kind of return to normal. And what I was describing was how those shocks were exploited. But we're now in an era of pandemics, rolling climate disasters, rolling supply chain shocks, endless wars, right? So there is no baseline normal that things are returning to. But Israel has been really important because that was Israel's economy starting in the early 2000s, where they really understood that they could have a thriving economy that was built off of marketing their own technologies of fortressing themselves in a quote sea of enemies. And so that model is now the model that is being embraced by the United States, right?
01:19:24 Trump says he wants a golden dome, Europe wants to fortress itself. So yeah. Yeah, you make such an interesting point. I hadn't really thought about the frequency of the shocks, which are of course also being exploited. You know, they're happening. happening more rapidly and being exploited at the same time. And you're right, I can't even think of what our country or the world would look like in an era of normalcy. Like what is normalcy at this point, right?
01:19:55 We never get a chance to revert back to whatever is normal. But anyway, go ahead, Jake. Yeah, so look, we've been worried about the Israelification of our society for some time now. And so, and today an Israeli think tank put out a piece saying- I just want to be clear, Jake. I mean, I really think it's important to show that Israel is a model for what the rest of the rich world wants to do in their own countries. Yeah. The idea that this is just about what Israel is doing, I think is missing the way in which Israel is a model.
01:20:27 No, that's what I mean by Israelification. Like we're Israelifying America. We're training our ice guys are training with IDF and then they murder people in the streets. You know, we bomb double tap, triple tap, a girl school, elementary school. It's very normal in Israel. We're killing random people in fishing boats in the Caribbean. Yeah. And so, and you're totally right.
01:20:48 Which is why, yeah. Netanyahu and Ariel Sharon, they don't believe in end times theology. They think those guys are suckers, but they use them for their own advantage. You're totally right that a lot of our problems come from the fact that our media was like, oh, it's all sensationalistic, don't be ridiculous, don't be hyperbolic, right? They're never gonna do any of this stuff because they think, yeah, like Sharon and Netanyahu, they think these guys are all helping, is very, But they're never gonna do any of the bad stuff.
01:21:13 So we don't really have to worry about it. Okay, but so that's all established. We've got the ethno-nationalists, which I always find to be amazing. And in that case, I don't mean the Zionist, I mean the Christian nationalist. And so like the Steve Bannon's of the world who really believe like, oh, if we just make it a Christian state, everything will be fine. Yeah, that'll be great. You know, look at Israel, how did that turn out?
01:21:35 Because it's not about the religion, it's about basing a country around religion, right? But to me, the one that is least known about and one of the most dangerous ones is the tech end timers. So can you tell us who they are and what they believe? Yeah, I will. Yeah. But just to finish, close out the loop of what we were talking about before, like what Anna was saying, like what would normal be? Like we never, we don't have any expectation that we're going to be returning to normal. And that is, that is the shifts that we're trying to track here in this book.
01:22:10 is that these fascists are different than the fascists of the past because they are not offering a horizon in this world. In the same way that Mussolini and Hitler, yes, they embraced apocalyptic violence, but there was a future horizon after the violence ended, where supposedly you would live happily ever after on a farm stolen from the Slavs or a house stolen from the Jews in this world, in this realm, right? And what ties together the alliance that we're tracking is that they are all taking some kind of ending for granted, right? That's why these Western countries all want to fortress the borders.
01:22:51 They understand that large parts of the planet are becoming uninhabitable. And rather than address the crises, they are just bunkering down. And so they're offering their in-group a bunker of one kind. Maybe the bunker is in the sky like you get to be chosen and ride that celestial else. elevator or maybe the nation state itself becomes a bunker. Now, when it comes to the tech guys, I think we all know they've all got bunkers like literal bunkers in New Zealand and and Argentina and Hawaii. We've been hearing about billionaire bunkers for a long time. It turned it into forms of mass entertainment on all the streaming platforms where we can imagine it going badly for them.
01:23:35 But what we track in the book is how the race to reach. AI, artificial general intelligence or super intelligence, which is not what Trump says we have now. But this idea that there's going to be this moment where AI becomes godlike in and of itself, it takes over the vast majority of human economic activity. And the drive is so great because the rewards are so tremendous. I mean, this race towards AGI has already minted the first trillion. in history, Elon Musk, you know, they believe they're fighting for the entire economy. You know, Trump says whoever wins AI, wins it all, wins everything.
01:24:21 They really do believe this. And they're willing to let the world burn in the quest for it, right? And so in that way, you have real similarities with the religious end timers in that in their quest to bring on the MSAanic age, right? They really are triggering apocalypse for the rest of us. You know, some people are more on the front lines of that than others, but, you know, they're willing to take enormous risks with nuclear-powered nations in order to fulfill their prophecies. And in the quest to build AGI, we are, you know, seeing people who just a few years ago were handing out Earth prizes
01:24:58 and marketing themselves as green billionaires, you slam their foot on the fossil fuel accelerator to build their data centers. And the effects of this are ecological, they're material, they're economic. And this is all before the AI bubble bursts all over our economy. So they are taking massive risks. But do they actually think that they're saving our economy and doing wonderful things with AI technology? I mean, didn't we just hear from a parade of AI executives, tech executives, discuss how they're developing technology that's going to end humanity? like you'd like lead to the apocalypse, but they're gonna do it anyway because they want to get their first before China. Like I just, how do you square that circle? Because it just seems
01:25:45 like they're communicating one thing about the importance of AI while simultaneously telling us all that it's gonna kill us. Like I just, how do you make sense of it? I think they've lost their minds. I think their wealth has deranged them. I don't believe they're primarily driven by whatever they're claiming about how their AI is going to, you know, usher in what sounds very much like a messianic age. Like the early Sam Altman, you know, was saying, oh, all the secrets of the universe are going to be unlocked. No one will ever have to work again. We'll all lead lives of leisure as we just make art and contemplate the universe because the robots are doing everything. I mean, it sort of sounds like he's describing
01:26:32 You know, it sounds biblical in lots of ways. But I don't think that that's what's really driving them. I think that this really, what's really driving them is, is that this is the biggest bubble we have ever seen. It's already making people wealthier than they have ever been by magnitudes. I mean, Anthropic has told investors that they believe that their future market is potentially $30 trillion. dollars. Now that is just two trillion dollars shy of the entire US economy. So I believe that that is what's driving. And I think Silicon Valley has always chased the next bubble. We know this, right? And the bubbles often burst, but they always seem to manage to come out on top. But we have never
01:27:13 seen stakes like this. And I do believe that they've convinced themselves that there's only going to be like two or three companies left in the world. And I don't think they think much about us. I think is the short answer. And I think they think about each other. They think about each other. Like Elon is obsessed with beating Sam Altman. Sam Altman is obsessed with beating Elon and Google. Like that's the realm at which they're thinking.
01:27:39 And whatever the costs are to the world, to workers, to anything, it doesn't matter. Because they have bunkers. You know, Naomi, I can't help it. My mind wanders back to a debate I had with Charlie Kirk. I don't have children. That is a decision I made for my own life. And his argument was people who don't have children don't care about the future of the country. They don't care about the future at all.
01:28:02 They have no stake in the game. Elon Musk has a bunch of kids running around from a bunch of different women. And this guy couldn't care less about the future of our globe and what he is doing to destroy it. It's kind of amazing. Well, actually, it's a very interesting point, isn't it? That argument that J.D. Vance has also made about childless cat ladies, that you need children to care about the future, but here they are aiding and abetting, all of these companies who are
01:28:27 openly saying that they are willing to risk all of humanity to build, as you said, like to beat China towards AGI. I don't know whether they genuinely believe that this is a 10% or a 35% chance, but nobody should be allowed to gamble like that. That's all I know, you know. And on the off chance that they're right, we should, we should, we should, we should regulate the hell out of AI and put all kinds of guard rails around it. You know, and they really are in a revolt against that.
01:29:01 That never gets talked about. China has guardrails on AI, especially when it comes to certain technologies landing in the hands of young people. But anyway, that's beside the point. Go ahead. No, it's important. It's important because people need to know that actually China has shown itself more willing to regulate AI than the United States. And also that the United Nations was beginning to come up with international agreements around AI as they have about biological weapons and nuclear weapons and other civilizational risks. And it's the United States that is waging war on all of those regulatory structures.
01:29:38 And of course, then you have Marco Rubio getting ever more threatening about destroying the ICC because they're very worried about being held accountable for the crimes that they've already committed. Yeah, so look, we're basically living in Lord of the Rings meets Hunger Games. So, you know, everybody's after precious, precious power, power, and I'm going to get it, I'm going to get it. And they've driven themselves all into becoming Gallum and the rest of us live in the districts. So and the capital is Silicon Valley. I was thinking about hunger games the other day similarly. Yeah. It's getting there. So that leads me to my last question because Look, you know, you guys mentioned Charlie Kirk and J.D. Vance and they both said the same thing.
01:30:24 And it surprised all of us because it's not our perspective. And it makes you wonder why was it their perspective at all that if you don't have kids, you don't care about the rest of the world? Well, who's the one guy that they both know really, really well? Peter Thiel. And Peter Thiel doesn't have any kids and doesn't seem to care about the rest of humanity at all. So I don't know if they, after their interactions with him. I think he does have kids. Oh, is that right? Oh my bad then, okay. Yeah, okay. All right, so thank you for correcting that. There you go, a journalist. Okay, all right, we'll find out in the second.
01:30:56 Didn't he just move his family to Argentina? I'll check it out in a second. So, but either way, and that's my theory on why I came up, but that theory is apparently wrong, but what, but the reality is what, what's important and what I want to ask you about, right? He has two daughters. He has two daughters, okay. So now look, in the midst of like Palantir and Peter Thiel, and carp and Lonsdale and all.
01:31:21 Honestly, that's the first thing that shocked me that he has daughters. Because Elon Musk makes sure he has sons. Sorry. Yeah. A bunch of lunatics. So Peter Thiel has given these speeches about the Antichrist
01:31:34 and there's apparently a little bit of a cult around him. And since he is so close to power, not only is he a billionaire, but he's connected to Palantir, which might be one of the companies that takes over everything. He created Jay D. And Andrew, don't forget Anderle.
01:31:51 And Anderle. And he created J.D. Vance in a Petri dish. And that's the vice president of the United States. So what does the lunatic Peter Thiel think about end times or what's going to happen to all of us? Yeah, well, he's been on this for quite some time. I mean, he gave his speech in 2009 where he declared that he no longer believed in democracy, if he ever did at all, that there was no way to reconcile. his vision of freedom, which is basically just means freedom to do whatever he wants with his money,
01:32:22 with the fact that people have the vote who would stop him. And he named women and he named people on welfare. So he gave up on that. And then he explained how he planned to find real freedom. And he had a few different domains. One was online with currencies that could not be controlled by the U.S. government. So this was kind of proto-crypto that he had. he was describing, this is 2009.
01:32:50 And he talked about sea steading, which is this idea that he had that you could start your own country on floating oil rigs. And he bankrolled this for a while until they discovered that rich people don't actually want to live on floating oil rigs. I'll remember that. And there was no rules and then they got worried that they were going to get killed. Duh, that's the whole problem with libertarianism. But anyway, keep going to- He does.
01:33:14 He does have this idea that he's going to start his own. their own corporate city states. There's one in Honduras that is a gated community with a deregulated med spa. It's building on something that does exist, which are free trade zones, export processing zones, right? Which are kind of zones of exception within countries, very popular among libertarians, right? You say like, yes, we have labor laws and environmental laws and, you know, taxes, except in this part of the country, right? these zones of exception. And the idea for their city states is that they would just move into them and live there. And he also was an early investor in SpaceX. And one of the things he claimed was
01:33:58 impinging on his freedom in this speech was mortality, which he does seem to believe that eventually he's going to be free from his earthly body. This is why there is this kind of like very stark overlap between the religious end timers and the tech end timers because they both seem to share this desire to be free of the animate, earthly realm to see it as something to overcome, which is why we call the subtitle of our book is, and the fight for the living world, because we think most normal people think these people are insane and like where they live and their earthly bodies and think things can be better. And that's, like, like, I think that creates. an opportunity for a level of bipartisanship that we've never had before.
01:34:46 I agree with you on that actually entirely. So yeah. No, no, you've, I was already in an apocalyptic mood, but you've totally convinced me. Now, when you put in the tech guys along with- We write in everybody's book, our little message is let's stay. As in, let's stay here. We like it here. There's so much great stuff.
01:35:06 No, no, it's a super dangerous idea, this idea of escape. I mean, that's why Elon Musk is, oh, let's rebuild on Mars. No, how about we built here? Exactly, exactly. The planet we're born on and evolutionarily the one we are best adapted to, you lunatic. I know. Our beautiful multi-species planet, he's out there telling us we're going to be multi-planetary, living on, eking out in existence off of two dead orbs, as my co-author Astro Taylor says.
01:35:33 Yeah, yeah. So if they're looking to escape this planet, I'm worried what they think is going to happen, to this planet and that it's going to become a self-fulfilling prophecy as these utter lunatics drive us into oblivion. So, yay. The margins have moved to the center. And it would be wonderful to be able to ignore them, but they have way too much money in power.
01:35:58 And so we have to organize in large, large numbers to bring them back down to Earth. Yes. To realize they live in the messes that they are creating. And then they will be more invested in the future with the childless cat later. and everyone else. Naomi Klein, you are wonderful. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks so much for having me.
01:36:15 Take care. Our pleasure. You too. And the book is End Times, Fascism and the fight for the living world. Definitely check it out. We'll have a link down below as well. We'll be right back.
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01:40:12 We'll tell you what they are and why they're totally false. Interesting evidence along those lines. Meanwhile, there are charges against Ken Paxson, and they are totally correct. And boy, Ken Paxon, man, that brother's a smooth criminal, except he just got caught. So let's show you how he got caught. Yeah, I gotta say, man, jet setting with your girlfriend while you're married, not a good look. All the corruption, all the crime that should have led to his full impeachment in Texas. Not a good look, but anyway, the latest is a Wall Street Journal exclusive.
01:40:49 They write that Ken Paxton partied in Dubai with fugitives ahead of high stakes Texas Senate race. Now, in this exclusive, the Wall Street Journal reports that, well, this story has to do with a previously unreported New Year's Eve, 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn't his wife. His wife has since filed for divorce because of the fact that he was not faithful to her, which is shocking, which is honestly like, Ladies, what are you doing? So what are you doing ladies? Later in this story, I'm gonna explain why I think his wife is still putting out positive messages about Ken Paxton, even though she seems to have been significantly betrayed. And it has to do with the corruption in this story.
01:41:44 What are you doing, lady? Okay, well, you're gonna see what she's doing in a sec. All right, women, we're not bringing our best. Okay, anyway, among those at this event in Dubai with Pakistan, were two Americans, Anosh, Ahmed, and Samir Suhail. And these are the two individuals who were fugitives at the time because they were facing some pretty serious charges. And they fled the country, but they're back now. The two had been indicted on federal healthcare fraud charges and failed to return to the United States initially,
01:42:15 but they have returned since. The two fugitives at the Dubai event had been both indicted in federal court in Illinois in 24, on charges that they embezzled $15 million from a Chicago hospital where Anos Ahmed was chief financial officer. A businessman with interests in Texas, Ahmed was later charged in a much larger scheme involving at least $195 million in alleged payments from the government for fraudulent COVID-19 test, to which he has pleaded not guilty. So I just want to remind everyone that Ken Paxton is like the top law enforcement officials,
01:42:55 in the state of Texas right now. They're a bunch of criminals. Attorney General of the state of Texas and he's parting it up with two fugitives in Dubai. Because birds of a feather. True. I mean, why is Ken Paxson even in our lives? Believe it or not, that Texas Republicans were going to do accountability here. The House voted to impeach him in Texas saying, no, no, this guy is an unbelievable criminal.
01:43:20 Let alone breaking the law and use. and using a taxpayer money, which we're gonna tell you more about in terrible ways, he makes us look bad. Yeah. And who rescued him from the impeachment and then endorsed him and why he's currently the candidate for the Republicans in Texas, Donald Trump. And why did Donald Trump rescue him over and over again? Because he thought, oh, that's a criminal just like me.
01:43:44 I rip people off, I got into this for corruption, same with Ken. So he greatly empathized with him. And that's why Ken Paxton was hanging out with those fugitives. Because he also thinks, oh, they're criminals just like me. Perfect, that's why I like them. So Paxton was accused of securities fraud, and in 2020, that was when the impeachment took place. Eight of his deputies actually reported him to law enforcement for using the Attorney
01:44:07 General's office to help a donor, and that also spurred an FBI probe into Paxton's behavior and actions. Now, getting back to the party in Dubai, well, just yesterday, the Wall Street Journal actually published a video showing the event. Again, this is from 2024 in Dubai. Take a look. All right. There you see Ken Paxton with Tracy Duhon, his mistress. There's Samir Suhail, one of the fugitives at the time. There you go. Okay. All right, so you guys get the point. That was some of the evidence that was provided by the Wall Street Journal in their reporting. Now, as I mentioned, both men are back to the United States to face charges.
01:45:00 But let's get back to Ken Paxton, because he sure does love his donors. And Ahmed, a health care executive, had donated nearly $200,000 to Paxton, $190,000 to be specific. And that's according to campaign finance records, including a $25,000 a day, including $25,000 days after he was indicted. Right? So there could be some quid pro quo there. And what's amazing about this story is that, well, Tala Rico is being smeared pretty aggressively by right-wing influencers on behalf of a literal criminal like Paxton. Tala Riko, by the way, did respond to this whole scandal by saying a party with multiple fugitives and Ken Paxton is still the sketchiest guy in the room. True, true, good point. On top of that, Paxton's been picking your pockets in Texas in order to fund his jet setting lifestyle.
01:46:01 So there's a in-depth report in ProPublica that details this, but I'll give you the important excerpts. So in the summer of 2023, Paxton took at least 17 trips over three months, including to resort destinations, Park City, Utah, and Vale, Colorado. He visited the Oklahoma town where he owns a vacation lodge and a Utah community with a golf resort where he later bought four condominiums. By the way, you know what was happening in the summer of 2023? He was being investigated for the impeachment. Okay, so basically he was told there's not much you can do right now. So lay low. He didn't lay low.
01:46:42 He decided to go on these trips. State police joined him each time costing taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars for trips unrelated to his job as attorney general. The Texas Senate ultimately acquitted him on the impeachment charges. And since assuming office in 2015, Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips with a state-funded security detail costing $3.3 million to the state's taxpayers. Yeah. Amazing.
01:47:11 So I remember when I was running for office, I once accidentally stated a stripper hotel in New York. Why? Because I was so desperate to save money because average people had given it to me at five bucks, 10 bucks, 20 bucks at a time. And I didn't wanna waste it. Meanwhile, this guy's like going to Dubai and all these amazing foreign trips on your dime with no conscience, right? And then, but the part I don't understand is, and it must be about their ego.
01:47:42 Why needlessly bring security? Like you don't need any security on 98% of the trips that he was. went on. That's a good point actually. Right? And that costs so much more. Like it's one thing to rob people for you to get your nice plane tickets and hotels and in these fancy places. But why bring the security? It costs so much. So my guess is, I look so tough and strong with the security. Well, no, no, no, no, no, hold on. Remember, he was accused of securities fraud. We don't know about what kind of crimes he may have committed, what kind of enemies he may have made. Interesting.
01:48:16 I'm just saying there is a possibility that there are certain elements or details to this that we don't even know about yet. You get what I'm saying? Yeah. Because I don't travel with the security detail. I'm not worried about getting killed. Yeah. You know what I mean?
01:48:33 Yeah, I hear you. I hear you. Okay. Other than potential scientists, but okay, go ahead. Who have threatened me specifically. So in the ProPublica piece, again, brilliant job by ProPublica, you have a lot of publica. You have to go to independent outlets like them because mainstream media is like, oh, dirty, corrupt politicians will never cover them. We'll never tell you the truth, right?
01:48:54 Even as someone is violent, disgust and reptilian as Ken Paxton. So in this case, they do hint at unexplained wealth that Ken Paxton went into office with very little money and now has a very substantial sum of money. And he's been in government office for a long time. So, and it's not clear how he makes his money any other way, right? So then in the middle of the story, they dropped this little hint in. So one of the properties that he bought in Hawaii in 2021, he bought at $410,000. Now it's worth just five short years later, $1.2 million. dollars, that tripled in value theoretically.
01:49:40 So you say, well, you know, I thought I know real estate, maybe he improved a lot or he built a home and that makes sense, right? Nope, it's an empty lot. It was an empty lot then, it's an empty lot today. But magically it's worth 300% more. So now what is a common scam that is done to help government officials is usually done in non-American countries but now apparently done all over America? But I'm not saying this is the case, I'm just using it as a hypothetical, where someone says,
01:50:09 oh, I will sell you my property. Oh, did I give it to you at one third the price? And then you could sell it at three times as much. And that way, I'm not bribing you. You just suckered me on a deal in a massive, massive way, and then turn around and sold it for a tremendous profit the next day. See, it's not a bribe. No, it is a bribe.
01:50:32 It's just a different way of doing a bribe. So in this particular case, I don't know that. I do know that it went from 400,000 to 1.2 million. And that is very questionable. Is anybody going to look into that? Is anybody going to investigate that? I don't know, they were in the middle of investigating when Donald Trump was like, how dare you?
01:50:51 That is a beautiful white-collar criminal just like me. He's allowed to rob the people of Texas. And that's why you write another. And hey, you know what though? Apparently, they might have taken one risk too many. Because Trump thought, who cares? We just lie to our voters all the time. And it's Texas.
01:51:09 We'll just tell him he's a good guy when I know he's deeply evil like me. He's a huge criminal, and that's why I like him, he's part of my mafia, right? And we got these guys there are suckers. And Trump said it the other day, he said, I could say that, he literally said this, I could say the dumbest things up here, he was giving a speech at a rally, and you guys will applaud anyway. That's their mindset. So that's why they're neck deep in this corruption, thinking they're never going to get caught, but in Texas, they might get caught this election. Well, Ken Paxson is such a slap down, a ridiculous hoax that was pushed by right-wing
01:51:45 influencers. They've gotten caught, let's give you the details to the story. So basically, Tala Rico was the target of this insane disinformation campaign that a that he was hospitalized in a mental health facility in Ohio. Now, turns out he was actually recovering from the flu and he's never even been in Ohio. So he got about of the flu, needed to recover from it. So he was off the campaign trail for some number of days, about nine days. Now the claims that he had checked himself into a mental health facility in Ohio was made by a conservative influencer, Nick Sorter, if you're not familiar with him, let me show you
01:52:31 what he posted on social media. He says, breaking exclusive, Ohio Mental Hospital confirms James Tallerico was discharged from the facility earlier this week. The flu thing is a big fat lie. And then he talks about the reporting that they did and that he was allegedly a patient at the Linder Center of Hope near Cincinnati, Ohio, which specializes in around the clock mental health treatment and then he pretends like he has some sympathy saying while I sympathize with those dealing with mental health crises.
01:53:02 Like you? This man is clearly not suited to become a US senator representing over 30 million Texans. Where's Mitch McConnell come get your boy? What are we talking about here? Okay, like you literally have half alive corpses like, you know, wandering the halls of Congress And you're talking, like let's say, first of all, this was a total hoax. Tala Rico did not check himself into a mental health facility in Ohio. But let's say he did.
01:53:31 Let's say, you know, the pressures of running a campaign got to him. He had some sort of episode and need a little bit of help. How are you going to compare that to the 120-year-olds who are barely even functioning in the halls of Congress right now? The ones who haven't passed a single piece of legislation to make our lives better, please. Yeah, and we don't mean just Republicans like Mitch McConnell, also Diane Feinstein, also Joe Biden. Also by the way, today Donald Trump, I mean, he says the craziest things. And we just all like go out water under a bridge.
01:54:06 He once said that he's considering the military option for the bond market, meaning like he might bomb Wall Street. Oh my God. He's a like, these guys are all like falling apart at the seams. But why do they keep giving money to these guys? because they give good return on investment. The donors know all the guys that they've been bribing for decades are 100% in their back pocket. So they could rely on them to be criminals.
01:54:34 And that's why our government is filled to the room with criminals. And so now in this case- Hold on, hold on, hold on. Okay, so I read you his post. Okay, this is really important. Tala Rico denies that he was there. He says, I've never been to Ohio. But more importantly, on Nick Sorter's point.
01:54:52 post on X, there was a community note and that community note specifically noted, actually let's go to Tala Rico's post, this is 11, it noted that the Linder Center had denied that Tala Rico was there. Representative James Tala Rico has never received treatment from Linder City of Hope. Now some people are saying, well, isn't it a HIPAA violation for them to come out and say that he was in a patient, right? because that's personal, that's private. I'm gonna venture to say that Talarico gave them permission to put that out there,
01:55:26 because it would be a HIPAA violation otherwise. And what they had done, the right wing influencers, is they had shopped this story around to other right wing publications, like the Daily Caller, for instance, also to the blaze. They turned it down because they saw massive red flags. So that was- So that's gonna get to the point that I was gonna make. So look, as Anna can attest to yesterday, we were to do the story and we didn't get to it. And I said afterwards, I said, look, he definitely didn't go to the mental hospital.
01:55:57 There's 100% made up, but like 10 days, that's a long time that he was incommunicado, right? At least with the public world. And three days, you got the flu, 10 days, like I wonder what actually happened. Not the mental hospital, but was he really sick or did something else happen? And then today, he turned in the security cameras from his home to the New York Times. Yes, exactly. And so it showed for sure he was there, he was sick, so that's all, okay? So now it's definitive, there's no question about it, right?
01:56:27 So that brings me to my point about media. Guys, now we've gone over this many times about how mainstream media is fraudulent and they just do propaganda and they try to get you to believe the status quo is great, the politicians are great, the bribes they get are great, but totally irrelevant. Foreign nations are great, corporations are great, but the average guy should get nothing, how are you gonna pay for that? We've been over that a million times. But remember, all of the new media, online media, isn't angels either, right?
01:56:55 So is online media better than it, establish for media? I'm approximately a million times better. There's at least some truth in online media. In mainstream media, there's almost no truth. And so in my opinion, in terms of their framing, they're purposely trying to deceive you. So now, when you come to right wing media online, there's a new right wing, the Tucker Carlson's, the daily callers, and even Glenn Beck's The Blaze with some, you know, from time to time calling out Trump.
01:57:25 And that for the tuckers of the world, a lot of times calling out Trump, calling out the Republican party, and even saying no to made up stories, right? In the old days, I got bad news for you, if you're a right winger, it was all made up, okay? They all started on Fox News, almost all the stories were fake, and you, like a lot of you believe them. I think you're over thinking of this. Look, Jank, at the end of the day, these publications have lawyers and the lawyers do not want the publications to get sued.
01:57:56 They don't want to deal with the lawsuits. No, Anna, they did a million fake stories. The right wing never gets sued on stuff like that. So- On something like this where you are smearing someone? A politician, zero percent chance of winning a lawsuit. They can smear politicians all day long and they should be able to. I mean, they could lie about, I don't like that they lie about this particular case. I know, Jank, but there were certain things that were done in this investigation into
01:58:23 Tala Rico that were wrong and illegal. For instance, they called this mental health facility pretending to be a family member of Tala Ricos in order to see if they could get information from, you know, the facility about whether or not Tala Rico is there. What I'm telling you, Anna, is this is not a one-off. It's not like Nick Sortor thought to do this. No, there is still a propaganda machine that funds part of right wing media online. Yes, I know.
01:58:52 And their job is to lie to you. And so what your job is as a viewer is figure out who's telling the truth and who isn't. Sad day that it's not as easy as the old days, and by the way, you were wrong in the old days. The left thought, oh, MSNBC is totally right, total nonsense. The right thought, oh, Fox News is always right. nonsense, not remotely true. Now you've got to use independent judgment because half these guys are totally lying to you. Find out who the liars are and who the guys who are telling you the truth
01:59:21 are. And you don't have to be right wing or left wing. You don't have to be any wing. You can go to Tucker and go, hey, I like him or don't like him, but he's being honest these days, right? And you can go to the next sort tours of the world and go, oh, he's a preposterous liar. I will never believe him again. And they start to eliminate people based on the preposterous lies they tell you, stop believing that Haitian immigrants are eating cats and dogs. It's obviously made up, right? So you gotta get better at this. By the way, I think it's good news.
01:59:50 I think we all are getting better at this. I think the audiences are beginning to discern things and now go, hey, you know what, I used to like that guy, but that story is utter crap. And now I'm beginning to realize, maybe he was lying to me in the past too. So we're the rare show that goes, please watch everyone. As a viewer said, and we'll do and talk about it in the next segment recently, they said, look, once you come to the young Turks, you can't unsee the things that you've seen. And so we're super confident that we're being as honest with you as humanly possible.
02:00:26 So we don't mind you guys looking around. We want it so that you realize, oh, there are some people who tell the show, we're not the only ones, right? But go find the honest shows, whether they're right, left, or middle, and listen to them. Don't get duped like you did in the old days with this junk, this garbage. That has a political point. All right, Operation Joy is next. I could say the stupidest things in your clap. Back on TYT, now we do Operation Joy, which is our absurd and awesome segment trying to bring happiness into the world, because that's what news shows do.
02:02:27 I don't care what new shows do. I care that you guys are in good shape and that we're all this beautiful community that brings a little bit of light into the world. Okay, speaking of which, I'm gonna read a couple of comments from left from the show because they give me joy. And then the first comment I'm gonna read for, for, that's prepared is just mana from heaven for me. So it's not just doesn't bring her joy, bring, brought me joy.
02:02:53 But first, let's start with Eclectic Rodin on t.com. I'm excited to see Naomi Klein on the show. TYT's on fire with these interviews recently. Thank you for saying that. That makes me feel good. Because a lot of times in the past we did interviews and then people were like, eh, you know, I don't know. But these days, people want to be informed.
02:03:10 They want to see super smart people like Naomi Klein and have a really interesting conversation. And I don't mean you guys, you guys were always on that train, that's why you're here. But out in the world, like when we put it up on YouTube, now the more intellectual and interesting and informative, of the interview is the more views it guess, which is definitely different than it used to be. So that's a beautiful thing in the world. So as YouTube's algorithm has a lot of problems, but that's one rare bright spot. I don't know how they did it, but that is a good thing. Nevinix says, what would Jenk's secret service code name be?
02:03:49 Now that's a random one, and why did I read that as part of Operation Joy? I don't know, come up with my secret service code name, I don't know why we're even doing it. and we'll have fun with it. And then that'll be joyous. Okay. All right. We'll go back to your comments. And if you're right in now, we'll try to read them while we're live here.
02:04:06 But I want to go to Laura for as she emailed in at hope at tyt.com. And she wrote this. Hello, Anna and Cheng. I recently became a TYT member. Wow, even saying that feels weird, she wrote. If you've, if you told me years ago that me, a three-time Trump voter would become a religious paying consumer with the young Turks, I would have died of laughter. I thought I knew, I thought I knew how the world worked, but golly was I wrong.
02:04:37 However, this version of Trump and Israeli propaganda has completely changed my entire outlook on life. I truly bought into the drain the swamp narrative. I'm ashamed to say I fell for it. I fell hard. What a damn sucker I am. I feel so stupid. Laura, I'm gonna come back and defend the old version of you in a minute. So don't, you're being too hard on yourself. But but thank you for being beautifully open mind. She's got a lot more. She writes in, I mean, don't get me wrong. I knew politicians lined, but for some reason, I bought it when he said no more endless wars in the Middle East. But listening to you guys has taught me that they're all evil, or at least all the mainstream politicians and media personalities. They're all money hungry,
02:05:19 war mongering, soulless talking heads. How could I have been so wrong about everything? And I know this is supposed to be content for the revolution section, but I'm having trouble finding any inspiration in the political sphere. I mean, who do I vote for? I'm a Republican, but how can I in good conscience vote for someone that plans to kill Palestinian people with my vote? How can I vote for someone that plans to literally rob the American people to fund a foreign war that no one wants and doesn't benefit us? Why are there no Republican candidates that have a decent soul? And anyone that does is immediately removed, like Tom Massey. Where does someone like me go from here? I tried explaining to my boomer parents that Fox News and everything they've taught me was a lie.
02:05:59 The government is a lie. And my father's response was, wait, so you hate Jews now? Oh my goodness. That is so disheartening to hear. But we'll come back to that too. She says, needless to say, I've given up on that endeavor. But I can never go back. I can never unsee behind the curtain.
02:06:18 Thanks a lot, guys, L.O.L. Once you go TYT, you can never go back. That's a beautiful thing to say, man. That gives me enormous joy. All right, last comment from Laura. She said, thank you guys for showing me that even though we don't agree on everything, we have the same morals. We see everyone as human, even the Palestinians, Israel gasps.
02:06:40 She writes in brackets, yes, even the Palestinians or anyone else in Israel's way, for that matter, with appreciation. a used to be Republican and a forever fan, Laura in Tennessee. I have so much to say, Laura, because you had a similar awakening as me, right? And obviously I came from the Democratic side. You're coming from the Republican side. And I feel your pain because I look at the political landscape. And Jake is way more optimistic than I am.
02:07:16 I don't see a lot of talent. and I don't see a lot of good representation on the Democratic side either, right? There's like a handful of people that I can maybe make the case for. But overall, like I think our political leadership and our congressional lawmakers are pathetic. I think they're trash, and I don't think they do a good job representing us. And besides which, what does it even mean to be a Republican or a Democrat? at, like, those values for each party used to be a lot clearer. And now it's just this hodgepodge of nonsense.
02:07:53 Like, what does it mean to be a conservative Republican in America today? Like, does anything in the Republican Party right now look conservative to you? I mean, they indulge in greed. They indulge in theft, certainly of our money. They indulge in, you know, infidelity. I mean, look at the one of the crime. I mean, the top figure. Someone that is idolized on the right right now is Elon Musk who just willy-nilly spreads
02:08:20 his seed and has a bunch of kids with a bunch of different women. And look, I'm not the type of person who's overly judgmental about personal decisions people make about their intimate lives, but I'm gonna be judgmental about a guy who literally makes it a point to go around impregnating all these different women depriving those kids of like a father who's present, who's there, which I think is actually. important, right? Well, no matter what you think of that, that certainly was not the conservative position. It was not exactly.
02:08:49 And then I look at, you know, there are certain things going on in the Democratic Party where I'm like, ew, you guys remind me of, you know, Bush era Republicans. You know, you have Kamala Harris campaigning with freaking Liz Cheney, neocons like Liz Cheney, and then people get mad at me that I didn't support her. No, I'm not going to support you if you're campaigning with Liz Cheney. Sorry, I'm not interested. Oh, you'd like to fund a genocide, but you demand our vote based on- Sorry.
02:09:13 Based on what? A moral plea? Like are you appealing to our morals? No, no, no, no. You have to do the right thing and support someone who's gonna murder people with your money. So we've exited the matrix. Like we have, we've exited the matrix. We are wide-eyed and very aware of how much our political system and how much both parties
02:09:32 have let us down, how they're not actually interested in representing us. And once you admit that you have a problem, you can finally get to the next phase, which is fixing it. The problem is a lot of Americans are still hell bent on this tribal two party system when in reality we live in a uniparty right now. We're corporate interests, moneyed interest, foreign interests, overwhelmingly fund these politicians. They're the same on the issues that matter the most to us, right? Yeah, so look, last thing on the Kamala Harris thing, and I want to address some of the
02:10:04 things that Laura said specifically, I voted for Kamala Harris why I was absolutely positive that Donald Trump is worse. And it turns out I was right. Great, congratulations me, right? But it's not the fault of people who didn't vote for Kamala Harris. They're not the immoral ones. It's the fault of Kamala Harris for being immoral. And going, I would rather have Zionist money than serve 80% of my voters.
02:10:31 I will betray them. And to make sure that I serve my donors instead, my benefactors, because that gives you a window into her soul. Even on an issue where people, innocent human beings are being killed, murdered, she goes, no, I'm still going to serve my donors and not my voters. And then people who professionally support her have the nerve, the audacity to talk about voting, not voting for her was an issue of morality? No, you better check yourself first.
02:11:08 Why don't you actually maybe nominate someone who isn't deeply, deeply immoral? Maybe you can excite people to actively vote for them. All right. Now, to what Laura said, look, you shouldn't feel ashamed because we all got brainwashed, including me. So we got to stop with the shame, right? Oh, you believed in Trump. Why did you believe in Trump?
02:11:32 Because Laura, you had a correct instinct, which is the establishing, is corrupt. You were right about that. And then in your desperation, you're like, I don't know, Trump has changed. And so I'm dying for change, let me try him. I totally get that. I was billion percent against it. But I understand it.
02:11:56 Our establishment has driven people to desperation. And so that's why in their desperation, they picked Donald Trump, and we're in the state that we're in. But you shouldn't, you shouldn't feel the shame. The people who lied to you should feel the shame, right? And to the point about your dad, and he says, oh, you tell him all these smart things about how what's right and wrong and different things and appeal to his morality and his conservative beliefs.
02:12:25 And he goes, oh, so you hate Jews now? But why did he do that? Because he has been the victim of 24-7 propaganda. Anytime that anybody questions Israel, everyone on television, not just Fox News, has said my entire lifetime that they are immoral and hate Jews. MSNBC said that a billion times. CNN said it two billion times. So we were all lied to.
02:12:50 Look, I thought that Israel was attacked in 1967. I was literally taught a false history. I was, and they all, they 100% lie to all Americans. was not attacked in 1967. Israel aggressively attacked their neighbors in 67, which by the way, same thing for 1948, same thing for the Gaza genocide. Today, an Israeli official at a think tank put out a statement saying, we should not do defense, we should do offense. What have you been doing? Yeah, and by the way, he said we have been doing, we are right, and we should do further offense. Okay, great, the show, I mean, mask off. It's been mask off for a while now.
02:13:34 Then don't cry when we acknowledge what the whole project is. No, no, no, he was very upfront about it. Now Israel's gotten to the point where they're like end times fascism, like so peak fascism or whatever you want to call it, because he then said liberal Jews have no place in Israel, okay? You have to make a choice. I mean, they're literally saying you either have to be a fascist to be Israeli or even if you're Jewish, even though we're the Jewish state, we don't give a damn about you.
02:14:02 So everyone, please stop pretending like this is a about creating a safe place for Jewish individuals to live. No, that's not what this is about. That's not what it's about. It's about, 100% not about that. Zionist, it turns out, and by the way, the people who are the biggest victims of propaganda is always within your own ethnicity. Why did I deny the Armenian genocide when I was younger?
02:14:23 Because I was taught propaganda. And what was I taught? Well, we didn't kill them all. We moved them for their own safety. They hit us first, and they were hiding behind their civilians. The same exact things that the Zionists say about Gaza today. And so how was I supposed to magically know that everyone around me was wrong and that it was propaganda? So that's why the biggest victims of propaganda in America, I think, are actually Jewish Americans, constantly being told you're all going to die, you're all going to die, the whole world hates you.
02:14:56 Benjamin Moser, and we talked about it with him yesterday. He's a Pulitzer Prize winning author, a Jewish guy who wrote a book about how Zionism is fascism. And then he was tricked. He was a liberal Zionist. Same exact journey I went through on the Turkish side. He went through on the Zionist side, right? So that's why I'm saying this is Operation Joy. This is not the revolution.
02:15:19 The Revolution, I get people amped up because we've got to take action, right? In Operation Joy, do not beat up on yourself. That's not the right way to go. Or even your dad, let's all patiently try to get everyone out of these cults as much as we can. Last part of that, these guys, Zionism is not the only cult around here. They didn't start out as cults necessarily. But the Republican Party and the Democratic Party are in a sense cults. Yeah.
02:15:44 Because before it was, hey, my beliefs. My beliefs are. My values. Right. And my values. Look, I'm pro choice. Laura, you might be pro-life. And that's a good normal debate to have, right?
02:15:55 in favor of LGBTQ rights against whatever, right? So those are interesting and important debates. But it then devolved into you have to support everything the Democrats do. Otherwise you're a heretic and we'll say that you support Trump will drive you out of the party, we'll call you a Bernie bro or whatever it is, and we'll destroy you. That's a cult. Yeah, totally. And on the Republican side, multiply it by two, four, ten, right?
02:16:24 If anyone dissents from Trump, we will destroy you. You're a heretic, right? So we've lived in these cults. I fought these cults. I fought the left wing cult, I fought the right wing cold, I fought the establishment cult, and we all have the scores to prove it. So whatever you do, do not beat yourself up. Let's just, as much as we can, friends, family, neighbors, slowly start to talk them out of it.
02:16:48 And eventually they do get it. I mean, look at all these wonderful people. I was talking with Benjamin Moser today. Right, after we did the interview yesterday. And talking about, he's saying, look, I think the rebellions come is, it has started. Exactly what I told you guys a couple of weeks ago, a Jewish rebellion going, what are you guys doing, man? We weren't taught any of this. We were taught to be good, moral people and question authority.
02:17:13 And most Jews are very liberal on the left. And now you're telling us genocide's a great thing? No, no, no, no, this is wrong. And we're not going to let you say this in our name. So that rebellion has started and that's super important and that gives me tons of joy. So all right, now let's keep going to non-political stuff. Boomer Dragon Cat says, my grandson, Mike on the left, we're going to show you the picture in a minute. And his two buddies came up and helped grandma and grandpa get ready for winter.
02:17:43 They busted their butts, knocking out chores that would take Jesse and I alone beyond the first snow. It's a joy, but even more so a blessing, so grateful for my family. And then here's a picture. That's beautiful. You know. Oh, God, that look at that land. Yeah, the land looks good. And the whole, and the judging your chores by the, when you finish them before the first snow, sounds kind of ideal.
02:18:11 I forgot about the snow. No. Never mind about the land. Okay. But come on, guys. Think about that story. Her grandson brings up a couple of friends. And the friends help to do this couple, the grandparents, chores for them.
02:18:30 That's a beautiful day in America. So as we see all this darkness around us, don't forget these rays of light. Because people, the great majority of people are wonderful and have good souls and try to help others. Unfortunately, the portion that are not such great souls wind up with power. That's why wrong forever on the throne, truth forever on the scaffold. But that scaffold right there, the picture you looked at, sways the future. Okay, so that's why I'm more optimistic. All right, let's go to mulling it over, which is already a fun handle.
02:19:06 And these folks are written on t.com slash joy, and you could do likewise throughout the week. That's the color of my lipstick, by the way. Mulling it over is the name of my lipstick color. Really? Yeah. Fascinating. Okay. Nowadays I'm forced into buying so much more like lip gloss and skin care.
02:19:24 Oh, for your daughter. Okay, I was gonna be like, wait, what? No, that is the very, very last thing I would buy. My dad is older now, so the other day, he had to get his first pedicure ever. Okay. And he's like, what is this? He didn't like it? He was just like confused by it.
02:19:45 Other people cut your toes? The toenails? To nails? Yeah, they don't cut your toes. No, no. Well, thanks God. Okay, other people cut your toenails and then they bothered to try to make your feet look better.
02:19:59 Yeah, you pay them to do. He's like, this is strange. Yeah. But anyways, that's the old school. But yeah, my daughter is forcing me into these shopping sprees, which I trying to turn into browsing sprees. Have you been in a Sephora yet? Oh my God, we can't get out of a Sephora.
02:20:16 Hell on earth. Yeah, they're always packed. No, Sephora does brilliant marketing right into the brains of like 10 to 16 year olds. No, it's it should be criminal actually. Yeah, I mean, if you go to a mall with a 14 year old, as I did recently, or soon to be 14, you will know exactly who's advertising online. Yeah. Every company that advertises online, she wants to go to. The other companies, she's like, never heard of them, don't care.
02:20:46 Okay, that's the power of advertising. And by the way, most of those morons are still advertising on TV to like 98 year olds while they try to sell merchandise to 14 year olds. Yeah. Okay, anyways. All right, mulling it over says, hi, Jenkin, Anna, what a week last week. Let me tell you what happened. My sister came to visit me to visit Sunday and stayed until Saturday.
02:21:06 This has never happened because we both are very busy and live 1,200 miles apart. She was here for all of this. I finished radiation treatments Tuesday in response to a small lump that was removed in August. I am clear. I have been sending healing energy to those dealing with scary cancer. I am keenly aware of my luck. In July, before I could replace it, my car is engine blue. I also have a beater RWD truck, but I live in the mountains, so I need a strong AWD.
02:21:35 I have no idea what you're saying, but my nephew, Maraud does. All wheel drive. Okay, rear wheel drive. Okay, got you. I am such a city slicker. Anyway, she could, they continue. I've dreamed of owning a Toyota forever, but couldn't afford one. Wednesday, I finally purchased my Toyota.
02:21:52 The car has higher miles and several scratches, but was affordable. It has a clean title, six cylinders, and all wheel drive, because I know that. Good for you. By the way, I'm a big fan of buying used cars. Don't buy a new car. What a waste. Second you drive it off the lot, it loses like thousands of dollars in value. Use cars, way to go.
02:22:11 All right, rock and roll, I gotta use cars. So if you wanna call me. No, I'm just kidding. All right. They continue. Thursday, Hurricane, how do we pronounce this? Isaiah's. Yeah, Isaiah's was threatening my daughter's area.
02:22:26 We searched online for a hotel for her to evacuate to. Everything was booked at 5.30 a.m. Friday, my daughter found a hotel in Columbus, Georgia. She and her best friend each arrived at the hotel by 11 a.m., two hours before a landfall. As of now, Sunday p.m., they haven't returned. There is no power in their areas. We don't know if their homes are damaged. I'm just happy they are safe. We're sending healing energy to those who couldn't evacuate and have suffered losses.
02:22:48 My heart goes out. Now, mind you, these are all happening in the same week. She's explaining all these different tragedies, right? And she says, I am celebrating by telling you all on the joy page. I want to include a photo of me in my safe but scratched up Toyota. And here it is. Nice, all wheel drive. Yep.
02:23:12 And so the reason that she's telling you all this is, look, she got cleared of cancer. That's beautiful and gives her joy. Got to spend time with her sister, which she never gets to do a whole week. So that made the tragedies more bearable. And that goes to show you the two things that we always talk about that are the most important, according to meta studies done on happiness. One is appreciation. She appreciates that she's clear of cancer.
02:23:38 She wants to help others and she appreciates that her sister came. And all of these are making her happier and happier by focusing, concentrating on the good things in our life, right? And the second thing is social bonds with family and friends. Her sister's over, they're making sure that her daughter is okay, and they're focusing on those bonds that give them joy. Beautiful chef's kiss, exactly how you do it. And we're all incredibly happy that you are cleared of kids. cancer as well. Okay, so love that story. Now, a lot of good stories today. So now we go to Broletariat 97, which is already a funny handle if you think about it. They write in, hi,
02:24:20 TiT, my name is Stephen Farkas. I've been an avid viewer of your program for the last few years. What gives me joy is working out at the gym. Same. When I started seven years ago, I could barely lift a barbell. Same. Now I feel unstoppable. Just last week, I hit my personal best deadlifting 400 pounds. Not same. I go so often, people approach me asking if I live there, LOL. The gym is my fortress of solitude. Exercise helps to clear my mind and body. By the way, if you want a kick-ass playlist, check out bands like five-finger death punch from Ashes to New, Papa Roach, and Lincoln Park. And ends with Free Palestine. Love it. So look, I think that's a super healthy and wonderful habit.
02:25:05 My son got into lifting over a year ago. And you always start out with a barbell when you're benching, etc. Now as he loves to tell us around the house, he benches 225. And he's 16, right? That's awesome. And I'm proud, he's proud. And that pride gives him the confidence to do better in other areas, right? You're improving your body, but you're also improving your mind.
02:25:31 through that. So perfectly done. So I love that you guys are sharing these stories, right? So Casper, tell me a little bit about your, when did you start working out? I'm looking great naked these days. That's what I know. So yeah, it's great for your body. No comment. No, no, look, here's the thing. I'm 40 now. I know you can't tell, but. And the reason why I started lifting isn't because I enjoy it, right? I didn't enjoy it, I do now. But the reason why I started was because like you start losing bone density and I don't want to be on like medications. So you start doing it because you want to take care of your body, but then you start seeing results. And then I realized when I lift the weights, it feels like I'm releasing demons because I know you guys probably can't tell.
02:26:18 I'm full of rage. And I need a positive way to release it, you know, and working out. And especially weightlifting has helped me with that. So that's why I love it. I had no upper body strength before. Now all of a sudden, like not only am I starting to see a little bit of this definition in my arms that I previously didn't have. And my legs as well. My legs are always great, but like they're even better now.
02:26:42 Thanks God. Yeah, everyone was worried, but don't worry. But like that motivates you and then you kind of becomes addictive once you start seeing results. Yeah. Right? So it's not just physically good for you, it's psychologically good. It's psychologically good for you. 100%.
02:26:59 And I didn't expect that. But I mean, it's been more effective than therapy in terms of like dealing with the rage I feel over the kind of stuff we talk about. Like it affects me. I wish it didn't. I really wish it didn't, but it does. I don't know how people in news are able to compartmentalize as effectively as they do. I can't. Like I need a way to decompress that's physical and going to do.
02:27:25 And going to the gym is what helps me. Great. Yeah. So later tonight at 9.30 p.m. Eastern, just for the members, Brett Ehrlich and I are going to do old school. So great time to join right now. Hit the join bottom below or t.com slash join. And we will maybe we'll solicit more secret service code name. So I'm going to save that for old school.
02:27:45 Okay. But I'm going to read your last couple of things here, both from the Operation Joy board and what you guys wrote. And first of all, Agassanti, thank you for becoming a member. Really appreciate it. Women AF, thank you for gifting five Youngters memberships. Always gives us joy, both of those things. We love you for it. And then I just wanted to read this one super chat because it made me laugh.
02:28:07 Brandon Kaiser 5849 said, legend says if you say mainstream media three times, Jenk will appear and rage. 100% no, you don't know three times. Are you kidding me? Just say mainstream and he'll be there. Yeah, yeah. Because who's the worst of all? the people who lied to you and tricked you into doing the wrong things.
02:28:25 See, you almost did it. You almost did it. You had like two hours of this. Please. All right, salt in the union says, this one is more for jank. I'm at a point right now during my last session, an older 65 to 70 year old man who's being treated next to me told me I had hey son Piker's eyes. Then proceeded to tell the therapist the top five worst things are.
02:28:51 Haas is done. Was really funny and I thought you'd like to hear about it and know how bad Fox wants Haas to be a topic. Oh, for sure. So there's so many funny parts of that. You have Hassan Piker's eyes is actually, I think a compliment accidentally that he tells you the five worst things about his son. But look at the power propaganda. Main Street, no, I'm just kidding.
02:29:13 Where they're like, you gotta hate this guy, Hassan Piker. It's super important for you to hate Hassan Biker. Why? Does this is this is Sam Piker run the world? or the country or the city or anything. No, that's why we're trying to distract you by making a villain out of him. Look at all the things you should hate him for. God, it's both disastrous and yes, a little bit hilarious.
02:29:35 I mean guys, remember the first time Hassan was on air here? Who would imagine that young guy that the Republicans would choose, and the Israelis, choose to make him the villain of the 2026 elections and try to turn the whole election cycle into a referendum on him. That is amazing. So I don't know, we've created a lot of things at TYT, for better or for worse, and thank you for helping us, great those things. All right, last one from the Joy board, that's tyt.com slash joy.
02:30:07 Physics dragon wrote in, I made a huge life change back in April of this year. I quit my engineering job because I was tired of being overworked and underpaid to maximize profit for shareholders. In this economy, everyone is overworked and underpaid, so I decided that I might as well choose a career that help people too. I applied for a program in New York City that subsidizes an education master's degree
02:30:31 while you teach full time. I'm now approaching my first month as a full-time high school physics teacher. Between teaching and my own schooling, I'm working much longer days, but I also hate my life significantly less. I teach at a high school in the Bronx, and I love my student
02:30:47 so much. A few weeks ago, one of my students told me that my class was one of the only ones that she felt safe in. I'm still riding on that high. This is a harder path, but I've surrounded myself with great school community and a new sense of purpose. I'm in the business of supporting and protecting children, and I wouldn't change a thing. So far at least, wish me luck. Nice. Oh, physics dragon, we love you brother. Takes balls. Yeah, yeah. Takes balls to do what you did. Absolutely. And look, so there's two things to talk about there. One is, so my other nephew, Morad, I also have a nephew and niece that's my cousin's kids, but Morat is an aeronautical engineer, right? So he works on satellites, submarines, these amazing things, right? But on top of his
02:31:42 incredibly he takes time to go teach robinics that went on the local high school. There's nothing better than when his kids win a prize, right? He does it because he likes to spread the joy of physics and technology and robots and seeing these kids learn it, blossom, and then create something of their own. Guys try it. Try something like that on your own, meaning like whatever you're an expert in, gardening, poetry, it doesn't matter what the topic is. Go teach some kids about it or go to a community that cares about it, whether it's online
02:32:21 or in person, and immerse yourself in it. It's healing. Why? Because human beings are social animals that need purpose. And so the minute you find some degree of purpose, you feel much, much better. Why do I cover these super dark topics, but on my spare time, I'm honestly really happy. because I am doing the thing that I am sure is my purpose. And so, and your purpose for me, since I'm an atheist, I think it comes from your DNA.
02:32:53 You're allowed to think it comes from anywhere you like and God bless you for it, ironically, appropriately, right? But once you start fulfilling what you feel is your purpose, you feel so much better. That's what we're all supposed to do. We're all supposed to have a role in this larger humanity. to serve that role and we automatically, our genes trigger positive feelings when we're serving that role. So I can't recommend what physics dragon did highly enough. Now look, be careful, obviously we live in the real world, you gotta pay your rent and your
02:33:32 mortgage and all that stuff, right? But he's still paying the rent and he's done something beautiful that I would recommend really highly to everyone. And just because you find your purpose, by the way, doesn't mean that you're doing that you You have to be poor or middle class or whatever. I mean, there's nothing wrong with that. Middle class life in America, I think, can be, you know. Doesn't exist these days.
02:33:53 These days doesn't exist, but when it existed in that magical time, it was the most beautiful thing in the world. I grew up in a suburb where we were middle class and we had the time of our lives. It was the golden era of America. And so that's definitely out there. And trust me, the super rich, in my experience, it looks. least 80%, at a bare minimum, 80% are miserable. Because the money robbed them of their purpose. And then they accidentally think that their purpose is just to acquire more money.
02:34:29 And as greed becomes their purpose, and that'll rot you from the inside out. That's why so many of them are miserable. Good. So go find the thing that you love and spread that in the world, do that. And if you can get to middle class, it's a beautiful place. All right, I think we're out of time. We're out of time. Okay, we love you guys, old schools at 930 for the members.
02:34:50 TYT.com slash join or hit the join button below. Bye bye. You're gonna vote for me because you're gonna try it. No, I'm not gonna vote for it.
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