The Young Turks - "Peace President" - December 30, 2025

Episode Date: December 31, 2025

A new report claims the CIA carried out a covert drone strike inside Venezuela, raising alarms about escalating U.S. intervention. A Mossad-affiliated X account is openly encouraging protests in Iran, fueling speculation about Israeli operational involvement. Alan Dershowitz claims Trump has to back Iranian regime change in order to be the "peace President." Meanwhile, the Pentagon announces an $8.6 billion Boeing contract to supply F-15 fighter jets to Israel, underscoring the scale of U.S. military support. Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/TYT and use code TYT and get $50 in lineups when you play your first $5 lineup! Hosts: Ana Kasparian, Cenk Uygur SUBSCRIBE on YOUTUBE ☞  https://www.youtube.com/@TheYoungTurks FOLLOW US ON: FACEBOOK  ☞   https://www.facebook.com/theyoungturks TWITTER  ☞       https://twitter.com/TheYoungTurks INSTAGRAM  ☞  https://www.instagram.com/theyoungturks TIKTOK  ☞          https://www.tiktok.com/@theyoungturks 👕MERCH  ☞      https:/www.shoptyt.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Israel takes seemingly another $8.6 billion off of us. And we're all supposed to think that it's normal. It's not normal. One of the biggest robberies in American history is happening as Israel continues to take money out of our pockets and funnel over to them with our politicians and our media complying in just the most outrageous way. And then it turns out, I mean, drop site news just doing incredible work. Now it turns out Epstein was one of the most powerful people on earth.

As you're going to see, he arranges deals that the Israeli prime minister can't arrange. The head of J.P. Morgan Chase can't arrange. He was stunningly powerful while the New York Times pretends he was a minor actor that just got lucky. I mean, there's something wrong with our media. You're going to see it throughout today's show, one cover up after another after another, and it's always in favor of Peru. Oh, I know I mean Israel. Never for any other country, only for Israel.

All right, anyways, you wonder why we focus on it so much. It's insane how much power they have and how much control they have. Insane. All right, Anna, take it away. Well, we do have a lot of foreign policy-related stories in the rundown today. And I actually wanted to start off with Venezuela as opposed to Israel. We will get back to Israel in just a moment. But first, there's this.

There was a major explosion in the dock area where they load the boats up with drugs. They load the boats up with drugs. So we hit all the boats and now we hit the area. It's the implementation area. That's where they implement. And that is no longer around. There you have President Donald Trump confirming that the United States has significantly escalated conflict with Venezuela, with the CIA carrying out a drone strike on a port facility in Venezuela last week. This marks the first time the U.S. has actually struck Venezuela on their territory.

And the strike was carried out on a dock where U.S. officials claim that the Trenda Aragua gang was storing narcotics that they suspected were going to traffic later. Now, they also told the New York Times that no one on the dock, there was no one on the dock at the time, so no one was killed. But honestly, anything claimed by the Trump administration at this point, especially in regard to Venezuela, should be taken with a grain of salt. since they have been caught lying again and again. But so far we haven't heard or seen any type of response from Venezuela. Before I give you more details though, Jank, your two cents. Yeah, it's still a huge mystery who's driving this war against Venezuela. But at least now we know we're bombing them alongside Somalia,

Nigeria, potentially Iran soon. We have a poll up on t-y-t.com asking you, what's the dumbest place to bomb? So check that out when you get a chance. But certainly, Venezuela is high on the list. Let's find out more. So the Times also reported that the CIA has allegedly developed intelligence on a number of purported drug facilities in Venezuela and Colombia as part of the planning for an expanded campaign. So this is a little bit of foreshadowing information. right? That this could expand into more strikes on Venezuela. And to your point, Jank,

the Trump administration, you know, this anti-war president has bombed like six different countries in his second term. It hasn't even been 12 months yet. It's insane. Now, this attack comes after the U.S. continues striking random fishing boats suspected of trafficking drugs. The New York Times published a pretty damning expose on some of the damage that's been caused. And, you know, there's been one instance in which they think they might have found marijuana. But when it comes to the global drug trade, Venezuela is not a major player. If anything, they traffic cocaine. But even in that regard, it is a tiny percentage of the cocaine trade in the United States.

The U.S. military also launched its 30th strike on a fishing boat this week on Monday. the U.S. has also been seizing Venezuelan oil tankers. Now, the latest killing bring the total number of people extrajudicially executed by the U.S. military at sea to 107. Now, again, the Pentagon has failed to provide a shred of evidence to the American people, proving that they are, in fact, going after, you know, narco-terrorists, you know, a phrase or word that they kind of made up in order to drum up support for their military operations. And even if those boats were supposedly trafficking drugs to the United States, again, no evidence of that.

Those boats can't even reach the United States. We don't just extrajudicially murder people, especially when it comes to trucks, right? Like there's usually, you know, you intercept, you ask some questions. If they're trying to traffic drugs, you bring them to justice in a different way. You don't just kill people, everyone on a boat. Now, the regime change is really what the Trump administration wants. Now, they don't say that publicly, but privately they have said it time and time again. And in fact, the chief of staff for the White House, Susie Wiles, admitted as much during an interview with Vanity Fair, saying that President Trump wants to keep on blowing boats up until Maduro cries uncle, meaning Nicholas Maduro.

And people way smarter than me on that say that he will. However, if you just check in with Venezuela, you will see that Nicholas Maduro seems to be, I'm sure it's all for show, but he's putting on like a cheery face. He has no intention of stepping down despite the military, the U.S. military buildup off the coast of Venezuela, despite the fishing boats being struck, despite the oil tankers being seized. He remains steadfast in staying in power and has offered the Trump administration pretty much everything they want in regard to oil reserve. But clearly, that's not what the Trump administration is really out for. They want regime change. And for someone like Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, this is also very much ideological. Yeah.

So here's what we know and what we don't know. Number one, we know it's not about the drugs. Donald Trump Jr.'s knows holds more drugs than Venezuela does. So if you bought into that hype, you just, you got totally lied to and you should be furious at whichever host you're watching that's feeding you those lines, simple Google search, Ask Rock, anything, will tell you that Venezuela is a very, very small supplier of drugs. That is not the reason why we're going to Venezuela. And so, by the way, the fact that they're 100% lying about the reason should give you pause for concern.

Why are they lying to you? Why don't they tell us what the actual reason is? Well, obviously, they don't want to share the actual reason. So that leads us to speculate. Oil is the number one guess, logically so, largest oil reserve in the world. We almost always attack countries with large oil reserves and no way to protect themselves. So that's why we're partly mental about no one else getting nukes. So later if they have natural resources, we or Israel or a combination of us can attack them and take their natural resources and they won't be able to defend themselves.

Okay, so that's great strategy. But the problem here is, so that would solve the mystery And we'd be done with it. The problem here is that the oil companies are saying we don't really want to spend more money developing the oil in Venezuela. Trump is almost pressuring them to do it. Richard Grenel working for Trump actually got a deal from Maduro saying, yeah, we'll turn over all our oil to the Americans because he wanted to stay in power. But that didn't do the job.

So here's the third thing we know. We definitively want regime change. Now, if we already are getting their oil at whatever Price Exxon, Mobile, Chevron, et cetera, wants, why do we need regime change? Well, there's only two reasons why we'd want regime change. One is Marco Rubio is obsessed with toppling the Cuban government. He thinks the Venezuelan government is backing them, so he's got to topple the Venezuelan government so he could topple the Cuban government.

And the Cuban Americans in that diaspora here in America, to be honest, they can get mad all they like are the closest thing we have. to the pro-Israel cult in this country, right? So they're mental about, we have to, who cares about America? We have to topple Cuba by any means necessary. That's our number one priority. We don't have a second priority, right? So could that be it? Well, Marco Rubio's Secretary of State.

So he's uniquely powerful in that case. Otherwise, that community has a little bit of power, but not overwhelming power. The second group that apparently wants to topple Venezuela and the folks who are famous for insisting on regime change are Israel. And Israel says they're working with Hamas and Hezbollah on a tiny little, you know, slingshot program or whatever imagined scenario they've come up with for them to get panicked about it. And Israel believes that no one should ever be, say that anybody who's been critical of Israel

should ever have any arms, not just nukes, but you can't have ballistic missiles, you can't have drones, because that's what they say that Venezuela might be working with the Iranians on, et cetera. So no drones allowed, no nothing allowed, no weapons allowed, no rocks allowed, nothing. And you saw in that clip where Trump is talking about it like an idiot, he's a secret covert CIA plan. You are not supposed to announce it to an international audience. But anyway, was it him or was it Netanyahu? Because Netanyahu is sitting there like ventriloquist, smiling next to him, right? All right, so I don't know.

I really don't know. I'm not saying it's Israel. I don't have enough evidence of that. It might just mainly be Rubio or it's a combination of the two. And the last thing that's clear is how painfully dumbness war is. Literally, no one in America wants it. We can't even figure out who the secret people are that want it. and yet we're somehow must, must, must go to another war.

Yeah, I mean, look, it's just, it flies in the face of everything that Trump promised on the campaign trail. And look, I'm not stupid. Most people who campaign campaign on things that they don't actually intend on fulfilling. But one of the areas that he really gave himself plotts over was the fact that he didn't start any new wars during his first term. I mean, he certainly engaged in existing wars. He took Obama's drone war, expanded that so much so that the collateral damage was so embarrassing to the U.S. government. They stopped reporting on the number of civilian casualties tied to the drone wars. Look, if you paid close attention to Trump's first term, you would know that he's anything but a peace president. So none of this is surprising to me.

But in regard to Israel, I don't think that Israel's the main driver of what Trump's administration is doing with Venezuela, but I do think the fact that, you know, Venezuela is more hostile to Israel as opposed to a country like the United States has motivated Israel to vociferously support what the Trump administration is doing in Venezuela. So much like Iraq, like was Israel the main driver in pushing us to invade Iraq in 2003? Some might argue yes. I would say they were more taking advantage of the situation and egging the U.S. on. And I think the same thing is happening here with Venezuela. Either way, it's stupid. And this is happening at a time where the United States is already struggling with, what, $38 trillion in debt? All of this costs money.

And so while programs that help our fellow Americans are getting slashed left and right, we're spending more money on bombs, an additional, you know, $8 billion for Israel's jets. I mean, it's just crazy. So it really shows what the priorities are for our government, Jen. Like they don't care about us. They care about continuing the enrichment of the defense contractors and basically spurring new wars in areas that we really shouldn't be involved in. So that's what we're dealing with. Yeah, my last point is one I'm going to remind you about the poll.

What's the dumbest country to bomb Venezuela, Iran, Somalia, or Nigeria. That's on t-y-t.com. The reason I'm reminding you that is because the Venezuela bombing was done a little bit earlier this month. Nigeria and Somalia were bombed on Christmas Day. Somalia has been bombed 127 times. And after Netanyahu came, Trump talked about bombing around Iran again on behalf of Israel. So Iran is winning there because this would be a bigger conflict, 92 million people, potentially disastrous war in the Middle East. But guys, the biggest takeaway from all that is no matter who you vote for, you always get a neocon.

Trump ran on anti-war. This is the most pro-war administration I've seen since Dick Cheney. But, I mean, he's putting Dick Cheney to shame. Dick Cheney had to work super hard to get us to invade Iraq, right? And Trump doesn't work hard at all. He's invading, I think he's bombed about eight countries so far. Doesn't ask anybody for permission, doesn't declare war through Congress, doesn't make a case. We can't even figure out why he's bombing Venezuela.

And so he just does it anyway. So the real problem isn't any of this. The real problem is corruption. Because as long as we have bribery legalized in this country, you're always going to get a deeply corrupt president. It doesn't matter which party they're from. And they're always going to start wars and make you pay for it. And it's always going to be on behalf of someone else and not us. Totally agree.

Well, let's move on to one other foreign policy related story because, well, there's a notable difference in the way U.S. media is covering the protests in Iran versus the way Israeli media is covering it. And I want to show you how. Riot police deploying tear gas on crowds and thousands have come out onto the streets angry about inflation and corruption. Protesters can be heard chanting, don't be afraid. We are all together. But others chant death to the dictator. And the concern for the government will be that this anger at the economic situation morphs into a broader anti-regime movement. Iran's currency has collapsed to a record low, pushing an already heavily sanctioned economy deeper into turmoil. Protests have broken out in Iran, and while the United States is basically treating the demonstrations as organically fueled by economic frustration, Israeli media seems to have a completely different take, right, Jank? Yeah, and I actually think that their reaction is a super interesting mystery,

because they could either mean that they've got Mossad all over the streets in Iran or they're pretending to. And why would they pretend to? That's also very interesting. So let's dive into it. So if you look at the headlines in American media, you'll notice, well, something's similar to what I'm about to read from the New York Times. Their headline read that surge of economic pain pushes Iranians to the streets, high inflation, and a currency collapse have squeezed

Iranians' budgets challenging the country's leaders. Now, let me just say that it is true that Iran is really suffering economically. Part of the reason why is due to Trump increasing economic sanctions and making it more difficult for Iran to sell oil. So that certainly has something to do with it. But their currency seems to have collapsed. And so I don't deny for a second that Iranians are unhappy. I'm sure that some of these protesters decided to hit the streets organically. However, what's interesting is when you juxtapose that headline with what's being reported in Israeli media, well, you get a completely different story. So why don't we take a look at the Jerusalem Post, which noted that Mossad spurs Iran protests, says,

agents with demonstrators in Farsi message. As protests grow across Iran, the Mossad posted an unusual Farsi message urging demonstrators to act, saying it is with them in the streets amid rising economic pressure and public unrest. So it could be that people were frustrated with how the economy is going in Iran, started to take to the streets, and you might have Mossad agents involved, essentially egging them on. or serving as provocateurs. And in fact, if you look at Mossad's Farsi X account, they have multiple accounts on X.

One of them is in Farsi. They posted the following. Let's come out to the streets together. The time has come. We are with you. Not just from afar and verbally, we are with you in the field as well. And the Jerusalem Post reports in that same article that I read the headline from

that the statement was a rare open acknowledgement from the Mossad regarding ongoing operations in Iran. Following the 12-day war, Mossad director David Barnia released a rare statement foreshadowing the spy agency's activities in Tehran, telling the general public that Israel will continue to be there like we have been there. And as we know, Israel has been pushing for regime change in Iran, so it wouldn't surprise me at all if they had operators within Iran, Mossad agents, within the country. country serving as provocateurs to egg on civil unrest. But I'll give you a sense of how Iran is

responding to the protesters in just a moment. But this is a little bit concerning, right? Because the United States, luckily, has not been dragged into a full out war with Iran yet. We know that Benjamin Netanyahu has been pushing Trump to engage in a regime change war, as he's been doing, by the way, for many decades now. But, Jenk, what do you think? is really going on here because you did raise an interesting question. It could just be that Mossad is bluffing here. Although I feel that Mossad has agents pretty much everywhere in every country. It would not surprise me if they had Mossad agents operating out of Iran right now. No, the Mossad's all over Iran. That's no question at all. The question is why are they publicly

announcing it? So let me take it one step at a time. First about American media. Look, their Their job is not to cover the news, their job is to cover up the news. So when you're talking about unrest in Iran, is Israel or the CIA driving that unrest should be one of the very first questions you ask as a reporter, but it's religiously not covered by the American press, because God forbid, they should challenge power, right? So yes, inflation and the currency are giant issues and an actual part of the reason, huge part of the reason for those protests as far as we can tell from the outside, based on all of the reporting, but to leave out one of the biggest factors, as usual on behalf of Israel,

is always super strange. So be wary of American media, they don't, they purposely don't tell you the whole picture, and that's the best case in error for them. All right, now you go to Israeli press where it's much more open, it's fascinating, maybe because it's harder to call the Israeli press anti-Semitic, but they have a much more open press and we learned a lot, from them. So in this case, why is Mossad announcing in the Israeli press and in Farsi so that the Iranians hear it? Oh, we're right there in the streets with you. So there's a couple of possibilities. One is general siops, just confuse your enemy, make them wonder if Mossad's in the crowd making it more likely to fire into the crowd

so that then the crowd gets angrier, maybe, but that gets confusing. I'm not quite sure. sure which way that breaks out, right? A second reason could be that they're just at the point, Israel's at the point where they're rubbing in everyone's faces. We control the planet, there's nothing you could do, we're the ones creating this riot, we're going to topple you. Sheldon Adelson is going to fly Jonathan Palard, the American traitor, back on his private jet. Ha ha, America, we serve Israel, we don't serve you. They're just letting us all know, Israel's in charge. Now, that doesn't have much of a purpose, but I don't know, their hubris is unmatched. I've never seen a country this arrogant before in my life, ordering everyone what to do,

toppling regimes, attacking all their neighbors, and getting anyone who objects across the world fired through their agents in all these different countries. So maybe they're just at the height of their power and overly arrogant. But again, that's so stupid that it's unlikely coming from Israel, who's usually pretty good about strategy. All right, now finally, the third possibility, Anna, is one I don't think a lot of people are thinking about. So look, what does Israel always demand, regime change? They say, you know, getting rid of your non-existent nukes is not enough, non-existent weapons of mass destruction, non-existent ties to al-Qaeda or ISIS.

never enough, now any kind of missiles, not enough, and soon, slingshot, not enough, invade, attack, attack, until we get to regime change. Why? Because they want to permanently neuter that country. They want the leader of that country working for Israel instead of their own population. It's not like they're the first country to think of this. The CIA did this religiously throughout the world and probably still partakes in it, maybe along with the Israelis, etc. But you need a puppet to run that country. The worst case scenario is not the Ayatollah is not a general or a dictator. The worst case scenario is democracy. Because if you had democracy in Iran or in the Arab countries, well, they would, the leaders would be responsive to the local population

and would despise Israel 20 times more, maybe 200 times more. So a democracy is super dangerous for Israel. They don't want it anywhere near the Middle East. So it might be that they're concerned that this is an organic uprising of the Iranian people. And if it succeeds, they might have an organic leader of the people of Iran, which would be more dangerous to them than the Ayatollah. Dictators are easier to control. You see what I'm saying? Yeah, I do. I do. You actually bring up such an important point because there's something that's true that the Israelis use to their advantage, but they twist it to their advantage. So the people of Iran are dissatisfied with the regime in Iran. They do want regime change. But they also do not want Israel and the United States

to come in and install a puppet government, much as was the case many decades ago, right? The Ayatollah and the revolution that happened with the Ayatollah was a direct response to the U.S. overthrowing a democratically elected leader in Iran and installing the Shah. So the idea that Iranians are like, oh, yes, please, Israel, we are begging you to come in, destroy our country. Actually, I mean, Israel is pretty open about the fact that they want to balkanize Iran, which I'm pretty sure the residents of Iran would not want. But in terms of wanting a different regime, I don't deny that Iranians want that. And in fact, if you look at the reaction of the Iranian population after the 12-day war, it actually ended up

rallying support for the regime in Iran, at least temporarily so, because they felt that they were under attack. And usually when a country is under attack, the population will rally behind their leaders. So we'll see how this plays out. One thing that I do know is that Israel just is not going to give up on this effort to essentially destroy every country they can and essentially make them pathetically subservient to them, much like the United States. And so since Iran is not subservient to Israel, I mean, they've been wanting regime change for a very long time. Yes, Israel has been funding proxy groups that have attacked Israel as Israel has engaged in their expansionist land theft policies. But nonetheless, we'll see how

this plays out with Iran. I want the people of Iran to live in a country under the type of political leadership that makes them feel happy and represented. But that is very different from what Israel's agenda is here. So that's something to keep in mind. My last two things are, look, the pro-Israel crowd does a lot of projections. So they're like, oh, so you like a pro-Islamist government? No, no, we're not ethnic radicals like the Israelis. No, we don't want an Islamic government at all, let alone a radical Islamic government, et cetera, in Iran. And yeah, the country's, you know, largely Shia Muslims, so they're going to presumably have Muslim leadership.

But we don't want it to be fundamentalist or radical in any way, shape, or form. We want the best representation for the Iranian people because we believe in peace and democracy and all those things we're supposed to believe in here in America. And we do actually believe them. So whereas the Israelis look at it as like we would favor our own ethnicity over everything else in the world and we'd be super happy to, you know, impose our will upon. No, no, we're not thinking like that. I don't want to impose my will on the Iranian people. Look, I'd like to have nice trading relationship and I'd like them to be free, but otherwise I don't really

care. I want them to run their own country, right? So the second part here is attacking Iran would be deeply counterproductive because it would rally people to the flag as Anna's talking about. But the neocons have tried this before. Oh, if we attack Iraq, they want. Canada can be a global leader in reducing the harm caused by smoking, but it requires actionable steps. Now is the time to modernize Canadian laws so that adult smokers have information and access to better alternatives. By doing so, we can create lasting change. If you don't smoke, don't start.

If you smoke, quit. If you don't quit, change. Visit unsmoked.ca on us to bomb them and they'll be super happy and we'll be greeted as liberators. And I've debated people on this issue of Iran war and the same neocons, the same Israel first crowd is still saying that maniacal thing of no, the Iranians want to be bombed. They love the idea of being bombed by America and Israel and they hope it falls on their head and their family's heads. I mean, they're really lunatics, right?

Like, you'd have to be the dumbest person in America to believe that. So, but the only way that bombing Iran, like we just did with the nuclear sites, works, is if you go all the way, you know, for Israel's purposes. And you get regime change, you put the puppet in place, and that puppet stays for 20, 30 years, robbing the Iranians, keep making them subservient to Israel, et cetera. So that's why I think Nanyahu is getting a sense, and Israel's getting sense. This is my best guess of the entire context. They're a little, they want to topple the regime, but they're a little worried about that movement in Iran being authentic. And they're like, we don't want that. No, no, no, they wouldn't put our puppet in place.

No, okay, forget it. Trump, just go in all the way. Go in. It's missiles. It's whatever, right? But we need a puppet. We need the regime change. And I'm not sure that these guys are going to give us the regime change.

We want. The regime change we want is for Israel to be in charge. All right, we got to take a break, but when we come back, we got to get to the fact that Alan Dershowitz, despite everything that's been uncovered about him in the release of the Epstein files, is still being invited on various U.S. media shows as if he's someone who should be taken seriously. And he opines on whether or not the Palestinians deserve statehood. So that and more coming up, don't miss it. All right. Tons of great comments on TY.T.com. So let me get to that. I live in America, right?

Why does Israel be afraid of democracy? Look at what they're doing to the U.S. But there's a glitch in the American democracy, which is that we allow, unlimited bribery that we legalized it. So Israel's like, oh, yummy for my tummy, this is so easy. But for other democracies, it won't necessarily be as easy to control. I mean, listen, you see them losing support in Australia, France, Ireland, Norway, et cetera. A lot of the democracies are flipping on them. It's just that we don't really live in a democracy.

It's a fake democracy, it's corporate rule and Israel rule. Pessimistic progressive says, it's interesting how some in mainstream media and Democrats are critical of Trump bombing his enemies. But if it were the other person present saying the same thing, Netanyahu, all those same people would trip over themselves to defend Israel. They're doing the exact same extrajudicial killings. I gotta say that's a brilliant point. Like when, because it, when Trump does an illegal bombing, at least half the country

and mainstream media goes, that's bad. When Netanyahu does an illegal bombing, all of mainstream media goes, bravo, way to murder the anti-Semites who had a coming, they should all be killed and slaughtered on your behalf, dear Lord Netanyahu. If anyone disagrees, fire them, right? So, look, I used to think that we didn't do Iraq because of Israel, I thought that was, I didn't even consider the possibility. Now I think there was a huge part of the reason we did Iraq. I know a huge part of the reason mainstream media totally supported the Iraq war. Seven out of ten Americans thought Saddam Hussein had attacked us on 9-11.

The media lied to them, lied to them to get them to do Israel's war for them. And before, if you asked me, is the media controlled by Israel? I would have said, no, I know there's some friendlies in the media, et cetera. No, I'm stunned. Like, I feel like the curtain's been revealed for me, lifted for me. And every single thing American media does is pro-Israel, pro-Israel, pro-Israel, and don't let anyone say otherwise. Call them anti-Semites.

Right? No, you're not doing the news, you're covering up the news. It's ridiculous. They have, I don't think it's a conspiracy guys, but they don't have any idea how deeply, monstrously, grotesquely biased they are. I mean, they just love Israel so much that when they do a slight criticism, they're like, what? I mean, I criticize them 2%.

Is that not enough for you guys? What else do you want me to do? Dude, that's beloved Israel. They look like maniacs to me. The most biased, ridiculous, clownish maniacs all just in tripping over themselves. Yes, Israel, bomb more Palestinians, bomb more countries. Oh, Trump's doing a bad. Come on, it's a great point.

Gary Donahue says, 250 years ago, we were subjects of England. Now we're subjects of Israel. Time for another revolution. Yeah, a nonviolent political revolution. Absolutely. We are totally controlled by Israel. Art guy says Trump bombing countries, well, that can't be run. That can't be right.

He won the FIFA Peace Prize. Okay, that's hilarious. And at this point, I wonder if he's bombed a quarter of the countries in the World Cup. Okay, so we'll have to look into that. Kelly Kay says, U.S. bombing multiple countries and carrying out assassinations a sea, they wonder why people worldwide have hatred for the U.S. The world is tired of the U.S. acting as the world police. And you know what bothers me, Kelly, is that it's not on a lot.

our behalf. It's on behalf of corporations and other governments. That's what's so frustrating. We'll be right back. Back on TYT, Jank and Anna with you. Also Moroccan elixir organ. Thank you for joining, we love that. It's a hell of a name, yeah. Hit the join button below like they did or tyt.com slash join. It does help a lot and God knows we need it, we are besieged.

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One of my friends, Sean, wrote in and made a really good point about Venezuela that I feel like we don't make enough. So I just want to emphasize it real quick. Remember, Venezuela provides oil to China. And China is considered our big competitor. So I'm sure that that probably plays a role in what's motivating the Trump administration and attacking Venezuela. But you should also understand, attacking Venezuela for its oil or preventing China from buying its oil from Venezuela means that it's going to limit the global oil supply, which is going to at least temporarily drive oil prices up. So that would be disastrous. But I just wanted to make that point.

I thought it was a good one. Anyway, let's get back to Israel because, well, Alan Dershowitz is still being invited on shows. And he's still being taken seriously, regardless of anything that's been uncovered about him in the Epstein files. And here's what he has to say in some of the more recent interviews he's done. There'll never be peace in the Middle East unless there's regime change in Iran. The current Iranian regime is the major barrier to peace in the Middle East. And if President Trump wants to be known as the peace president, he has to be in support of regime change. I would like to know why anyone would take any advice or consultation from the good buddy of Jeffrey Epstein, who literally volunteered to serve as Epstein's lawyer and secured that sweetheart deal with him.

And now the Epstein files identify Alan Dershowitz as someone who colluded with Jeffrey Epstein to smear the reputations of political scholars like John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. But anyway, Jank, curious what you think. Why are we taking advice from Alan Dershowitz, especially when it comes to something like a regime change war in Iran? You guys call what he said, right? If Trump wants to be the peace president, he has to declare war on Iran. And not just war, but regime change war. So that means simple bombing of their nuclear facilities won't cut it.

They're now saying we have to bomb all their ballistic missile program as well. That would be all over Iran. They're not allowed to have any defenses at all, and in order to assure all of that, we have to actually go into Tehran and take over the regime, so have boots on the ground. I mean, that's all on behalf of Israel. Is Israel going to do it? No, no, no, no, no, no, of course not. No, they're going to make you fight that war, and they're going to make you pay for that war.

Alan Dershowitz, obviously, it cares only about Israel, doesn't care about America at all. So he's doing this Orwellian thing of, oh, yeah, yeah, war is peace. Now shut up, you stupid Americans and do what Israel commands of you. Otherwise, we're going to call you all anti-Semites. And oh, by the way, my good friend Jeffrey Epstein raped all those American girls and had his other powerful friends raped those American girls. I was there. By the way, Dershowitz was there and got a massage, but he says he kept the shorts on.

And he, and but to Anna's point, Dershawitz jumped in to say, oh, Epstein, you raped. all those American girls and you turns out you were helping Israel behind the scenes, I'm here to help. I'll be your defender. He didn't have to do that. He wasn't appointed by a court. He jumped in voluntarily to help that rapist because that's who Alan Dershowitz is. And is, of course, his number one goal is help Israel by any means necessary. That's exactly right. Now, I want you to keep in mind how the country of Israel was formed, how that land became Israel's. As you listen to Alan Dershowitz discuss the likelihood of Palestinian statehood.

Palestinians haven't earned themselves a state. They have to earn a state the way the Jewish people earned the state over hundreds of years of state building. And you can't just create a state out of nothing. Maybe someday there'll be a Palestinian state, but it can be a state without terrorists, without Hamas, and without the current Palestinian leadership. So I think it's a possible dream for the future, but it's not a reality in my lifetime. If I'm not mistaken, Jank, I believe that the formation of Israel was created through, what was it, three different terrorist organizations?

Yep. Like, what are you talking about? Oh, oh, Israel earned statehood by shaking down American taxpayers using their resources to engage in an expansionist project of land theft and genocide. Yeah. I mean, if we arm the Palestinians and green light, you know, anything they want to do, much like we've done with Israel, pretty sure that they'll earn land just like Israel has. It's just so, it's unbelievable, man. It really is. So there's two different parts to it, Anna, right?

But one is saying that the Palestinians haven't earned their freedom. So let's break that down in two different ways. Number one, that's deeply racist, right? So if, for example, the Afrikaners had said about the black South Africans, well, they haven't earned their freedom, they haven't groveled to the white South Africans enough. They haven't assured us of all the different things they need to assure us of. So no, we're never going to give them their freedom. black people haven't earned it, everybody would have been outraged, right? But when pro-Israel

people- Except for the racists. And it would be deeply racist. Obviously, brazenly so. And this is exactly that. But since it's pro-Israel people saying it about Palestinians, American media, who's like, oh, great, wonderful. Of course, the dirty Palestinians haven't earned humanity yet, and you should treat them as subhuman. Just like the Germans, wait, awkward. Okay, yeah, all right. So that's who Alan Dershowitz is. And now the same. The second part of that, by the way, is if you just flip it and any time a pro-Israel person talks, think about flipping Israel and Palestine, and you'll see how atrocious or Muslim and Jewish, and you'll see how atrocious their talking points are, if a Palestinian had

gotten on TV and said, the Jews haven't earned their freedom, they should be enslaved for another 58 years under the occupation of good, wonderful Muslims, and if they don't love Muslims enough, they should continue to be captives of the Muslims, the Jews haven't earned it, obviously people would be rightfully outraged and that person would never appear on TV again. But he says it so casually about the Palestinians and bravo, bravo, bring Alan back on. Alan, you're so smart to be so deeply racist against Palestinians. Tell us more. But there's a second part of it, which is what Anna was referring to. Wait, wait, you should get it like the Israelis got it. Well, the Israelis got it in a couple of different ways. The three groups that

is talking about are Ergun, the Stern Gang, and Haganah, three terrorist organizations. No one disputes that they're terrorists. And by the way, the leaders of those organizations became the first prime ministers of Israel. Manahem Begin ordered the bombing of the hotel, David Hotel in that area. It was the worst terrorist bombing at that point that the Middle East had ever seen. They did terrorism over and over again against the British, the British civilians to drive the British out. Meanwhile, they had the Balfour Declaration earlier, and that was, honestly, Zionist bankers who put pressure on the UK government saying you owe us a lot of money, and we want that piece of land. And what did Dershowitz say there?

He said, you can't just create a state out of nothing. That's literally what the Zionist did in Israel, literally. At the time that Israel was created in 1948, Jewish people only owned 6% of the land. But the United Nations gifted them half the country. So, but wait, if you only own 6%, how are you going to get up to 50%? You're going to get there through the Nakhba. The Nakhba is the catastrophe. That's what it's called.

That's because that was their original wave of ethnic cleansing. The terrorists who ran Ergun and the other gangs, the terrorist groups that started Israel, then came in and started doing terrorism within Israel. So they started murdering the Palestinians, dragging their bodies through the villages, hanging them on trees, burning them alive, and saying, you all better leave. Otherwise, we're going to murder all of you. Remember, we got the state through terrorism and financial intimidation. So we're gonna kill you all and 750 to 800,000 Palestinians and their children, making it a much larger number, ran for their lives.

In Israeli mythology, they say, oh, no, we were attacked. And you know, these Palestinians, well, how did they leave? I mean, if they attacked you, why did they leave? Oh, they voluntarily decided that they wanted to go somewhere else. 750,000 people at a bare minimum in 1948 decided to leave all of their worldly possessions, the homes they grew up in, to go live in tents voluntarily. You'd have to be completely brainwashed to believe that. No, they ethnically cleanse them to start their state to begin with.

Now I don't think the Palestinians should do likewise to the Israelis, because we're decent moral human beings, but Alan Dershowitz obviously is not. And so he's saying that Israel is should be able to do infinite terrorism, financial intimidation. And by the way, get the UN to declare it for them. Funny enough, Anna, the last part is the Palestinians a while back went to the United Nations and said, can you declare Palestine and state just like you did for Israel, identical. You know what the Israelis called it? Terrorism. Amazing.

Amazing. It really is. All right, well, look, we got to take a break. But when we come back, we'll talk a little bit about additional billions that the United States will be providing Israel so they can have F-15 fighter jets. So that was an agreement that was basically agreed upon after Netanyahu met with Trump for the fifth time in less than a year. So we'll give you the details on that story and more when we return. All right, let's go to super chat, SOG Logosan says, according to US media, it's always Iran's fault, of course. It's always everyone's fault, but beloved Israel, they're the only innocent victims in the world.

I mean, again, if you work in mainstream media, I do wonder if you know what kind of a joke you're participating in. Stephen Matthias 2949 writes in a YouTube member section. New Year's resolution was to have more international conflagrations for no reason. So this is going well so far. That's your New Year's resolution. You're in a lot of luck. So way to think ahead. All right.

Now let's go to our members on t.com. Boomer dry and cat says, I just love how. or community is, Cat, I couldn't agree with you more. I love doing this show with you guys, constantly making terrific points that I then use, not just in the show, but in other places as well. Jedi 6 says, can everyone on TYT please call or email your rep in Congress and tell them no more money to Israel, enough is enough, vote them out. Couldn't agree more, we, in fact, we have a tool for that on TYT.com, go check that out.

You can email your congressman and call them through that tool. Nerd Ferguson says, if we're bombing the place, and by the way, you could also sign a pledge to never vote for anyone who takes Israeli lobby money. That's on t.com slash no more. It's just the pledge. And that's why we have primaries, so you don't have to vote for the other party. So you could just vote out. Anyone who's taking Israeli lobby money at this point is obviously corrupt and is obviously saying, I work for Israel and I'm loyal to Israel and not to America.

Let's be super clear about it. Yeah. So, Jank, I wanted to jump in really quick because I don't know if this is going to go anywhere. But I do see it growing and kind of just percolating on X. Conservatives who are furious about us sending more and more money to Israel are now saying that they're organizing an effort to get people to stop paying their taxes. I'm curious to see how that goes. And that's going to take a lot of organizing. But more and more people I'm seeing, like public figures, conservative media people.

are saying, no, like what are we paying our taxes for? No, no more. Yeah, okay, great. You know what? We'll find the leaders of that movement and we'll bring them onto the revolution and talk about their plans. That'd be great. Yeah, revolution is totally nonpartisan, we don't care.

We just want our government back and I'd love to have debates with the right way. Wouldn't that be amazing? That'd be great. Yeah, where we're Americans and we participate in our own debates and control our own government? No, no, we're on two freight trains on a head-on collision course. The American people are totally sick of Israel's control, and everyone in power is still

pretending that that's an anti-Semitic position, and that the entire country is filled with people who hate Jews, and we should all be fired or canceled. Okay, so I don't know what happens when rational people run into the lunatics that are mainstream media reporters and the lunatics that are our politicians. Nerd Ferguson says, if we're bombing the place responsible for drug addiction in America, Everyone stay away from big pharma. Okay, of course. But those are also huge donors.

Even if you've had bigger donors than Israel, so you're not allowed to say that either. SM says they want Amazon water for data centers and cobalt slash lithium for batteries. Also colonialism is in vogue, so why not? By the way, that's a good point, SM. We should look into that more. Is it for the lithium and the data centers? Could be. I mean, all the donors get whatever they want.

And Betidu says, join the military, you'll see the world, you'll see the world and learn Spanish and Farsi. Unfortunately, that might also be true. We'll be back. All right, back on TYT, Jank and Anna with you guys. Also Shan Shan, thank you for sending in 10 Young Turks memberships. I'm gonna do one quick super chat for you guys, free meatballs and linguine. He said maybe helping Israel is Dershowitz's top priority, but a close second is lowering the age of consent. Pretty sure he's pushed that for like 25 years or so. But remember, those are- He wrote an op-ed, he wrote an op-ed about it, literally wrote an op-ed about it.

sorry I had to interject with that because of course that's right he's on the record yeah yeah yeah and but to be fair that it creates synergies because then no actually that would hurt Israel's cause because they're the ones trying to get you to you to you know getting the powerful to rape underage girls and if you lower the age it might get harder for the Israelis to run their plots so Alan you take that back to the drawing board all right Anna all right well we got to talk a little bit about more promises made on behalf of Israel on, you know, on things that the U.S. has to pay for. So let's talk about it. You know, Netanyahu, Israeli prime minister, of course, had another play date with our president,

Donald Trump yesterday. And it proved to be very lucrative for the foreign nation state of Israel. Shortly after the Mar-a-Lago meeting that they had, the Pentagon announced that it was awarding Boeing $8.6 billion, an $8.6 billion contract for F-15 fighter jets that will be delivered to Israel. Now before we get to the details, Jank, I'm sure you've got two cents on this. Yeah. Guys, one of the things you need to look out for in this story is, where is this money coming from? And what's amazing about it is literally no one in American media will tell you, It's amazing. So it's definitely coming from you, the American taxpayers, but which bill, which appropriation,

did they just get a free $8.6 billion new? Well, the media won't tell us. It's stunning. Anna's going to give you the facts and we'll discuss. Yes, and luckily we have a team of incredible producers and our producer, Kate Petino, did a deep dive into this to figure out who's funding this. So we do have the answers. So let's go through all the details.

Yesterday when the $8.6 billion deal was announced, the Pentagon said in a statement, this contract provides for the design, integration, instrumentation, test production, and delivery of 25 new F-15 IA aircraft for the Israeli Air Force with an option for an additional 25 F-15 IA aircraft. They also said that this contract was expected to be completed by the end of 2035. Just as a reminder, we're still in 2025. Nonetheless, this is an expansion of a U.S. finance deal that was signed just last year. So last November, Israel signed a $5.2 billion deal for 25 F-15 jets, which were slated to be supplied in batches of four to six per year, starting in 2031. With Monday's announced deal, another 25 jets will be made for Israel, bringing the total number of F-15s to 50, adding to the 66 other F-15 variants in the Israeli Air Force's fleet. So not only are we spending an arm and a leg on our own military, we are aiding and abetting the expansion

of the Israeli military. So Israel is the only country, by the way, in the Middle East that has F-35s, and they've used jets extensively in their campaigns against Iran, the Houthis in Yemen, Hezbollah in Lebanon. You guys get the picture. So Trump also recently announced the sale of F-35s to Saudi Arabia, which Israel is not happy about, right? But at the end of the day, Trump is looking to sell the weapons. But he tends to sell the weapons to other countries. When it comes to Israel, it's a completely different story. So U.S. officials tried to temper Israel's concerns about the sale by assuring them that the jets being sold to the Saudis are less advanced than those used by the IDF. Now, Trump also said that he was thinking very

seriously about selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey as well. And Israel is not happy about that whatsoever. In fact, Turkey wanted to be part of the coalition of countries, you know, helping to keep peaceful relations between Israel and the Palestinians. And Israel's like, no, we don't, we don't want, no, we don't want Turkey involved whatsoever. They hate Turkey. They don't want Turkey involved. And I'm sure they're very upset about Turkey getting these F-35 fighter jets. Now, how is this all being funded as it pertains to Israel in particular, right? Well, the Boeing deal is funded through U.S. foreign military financing, aka American taxpayers. Congratulations, everyone. So reporting on this is pretty shoddy, but it appears that the deal is part of the

U.S. and Israel 10-year military aid pact called a memorandum of understanding. So I just want to make it abundantly clear to everyone. Once the MOU is signed, it is not set in stone, meaning that it can be revised to add additional billions of dollars for Israel. And that's, that's, that appears to be the case here. So this MOU ends in 2028 and is worth about $38 billion, meaning the U.S. is supposed to give Israel about $3.8 billion worth of aid each year, including $500 million per year for missile defense. And according to the council on foreign relations, most of the aid is provided as grants, meaning they get the money, we give them the money. It's not a loan. It's not really financing. When you think of financing, you think about getting paid back. That's not what's happening here. We are giving them money under the foreign military financing program, FMF, which funds countries purchase of U.S. military equipment through the foreign military sales program or in some cases through direct commercial contracts. Now, Israel has historically been one of the top recipients of U.S. arms sales. In April of 2025, it had 700, 151 active foreign military sales cases with the U.S. worth a total of roughly $39 billion.

In the past few years, America has shelled out money to Israel well beyond what was appropriated in the memorandum of understanding. An October analysis published by Brown's Cost of War Project found the following. The United States has provided at least $21.7 billion in military aid to Israel since the start of the war in Gaza on October. 7th, 2023. However, under both the Biden and Trump administrations, an additional tens of billions of dollars in arms sales agreements have been committed for weapons and services that will be paid for in the years to come. And just a reminder of the United States is $38 trillion in debt, yet we continue to build Israel's empire. And the real question is why? Yeah. So I've got more details, but go ahead, Jake.

Yeah, so look guys, we of course we're paying for it. So that's not really the question. The question is, wait, wait, wait, wait, when did Congress approve any of this? Or do they just have a right to go into the US Treasury and take out whatever they want? So I'm gonna break it down for you guys. So first of all, there's two exceptions for Israel. One is everyone else has to buy the weapons, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, even though Turkey second largest military in NATO, a bulwark against Russia,

bullwork against Russia and Iran, one of our most strategically important allies, we averted the Cuban missile crisis because of Turkey. An enormously strategically important ally, but no, you got to buy it, you got to buy it. The only people who get gifted the weapons is Israel. And somehow that's supposed to make sense. And Israel does nothing but get us in trouble. The second exception is Israel gets to block our weapons sales to other countries. Wait, Turkey's a NATO. Are you all, is Israel also allowed to block weapons sales to France or to Britain? What do you mean?

And you know, and why does Israel even care about Turkey? Well, they're in the Middle East, so I don't want them having any weapons in case I decide greater Israel expands into Turkey, which, by the way, if you look at maps, it does. So in case I finally get to Turkey and I want to destroy them, I don't want to have any, that When I'm doing my self-defense, I don't want them to have any weapons to defend themselves, okay? So that's the sixth state of Israel. Now let's turn to our sixth state and find out what the hell is going on here. So in case you don't know, these memorandum of understandings are also only for Israel. And they are in these giant blocks of time so that that money is guaranteed,

no matter what Israel does. So Obama did a 10-year one earlier, and it's about to run out in 2028. and that's why that's where we promise them $3.8 billion a year. Now that then goes into the appropriation bill every year and Congress then checks it off a list and if you try to take it out of the bill, of course you're an anti-Semite, you'll have a primary where Israeli lobby puts in at least $20 million to eliminate you, et cetera, and $20 million is nothing compared to the $4 billion they get every year. But they have a new memorandum of understanding that they want this time for 20 years of 80 to

$100 billion. The press reports that they're demanding a 20-year MOU, but they won't say the number. They say the last number was definitely not enough, so it's going to be higher than $4 billion, but they won't get into the number because then you might be outraged at what Israel's doing. So the press cannot have you finding that out, which leads to this part. Now, look, we've confirmed our producers did a great job of finding out, oh, for sure, you're paying 100% of it. Don't be ridiculous. Israel never has to pay for anything in this country. You owe them, take your wallet out and give it to the Israelis. Okay, we all knew that already.

Then the question is, wait, is this coming from the old memorandum of understanding? Is this part of the 3.8 we give them every year? Is it coming from the new memorandum of understanding? But that one hasn't even been signed yet. Or is this a new appropriation on top of either one of those? But remember what Anna just read you, there's all of these secret appropriations. They're not secret in that they're public and we know them and they're taking it, but we don't know where it's coming from. So Congress at least voted on the $21.7 billion and the same

94% of Congress that takes donations from the Israeli lobby said, oh yeah, please slaughter the Palestinians. Here's 21 billion more to slaughter more of them. Please keep going. This is a gift for your genocide. So that's how sick our Congress is. But as she just read to you, there's tens of billions more. Wait, that never got voted on. What do you mean? There's tens of billions more, where is this 8.6 coming from? That's more than two years of the old memorandum of understanding and we don't have a new memorandum of understanding. So where's this money coming from? And the press, this is the amazing part, doesn't even ask. The Pentagon said that they were slated to allocate the $8.6 billion. And not one reporter asked, slated when to allocate

through what? That would be the most normal question that a reporter would ask. But it's about Israel. Shish, you better not ask. All of you Americans out there, otherwise known as anti-Semites, you all better shut up and pay that bill no matter what it is and we don't know what it is. And no matter whether we voted on it or not, it doesn't matter. Israel runs this place. Yeah, no, you're absolutely right about that. And in regard to the media's negligence in reporting the details of like where this money is going to come from. I mean, just consider the fact that the U.S. struck Venezuela Wednesday of last week, and we didn't know about it until very recently.

You got like you guys aren't paying attention to what the Trump administration is doing in Venezuela as this military buildup continues as they, you know, seize oil tankers. I just think there's a level of incompetence and a lack of intellectual curiosity when it comes to the journalists in this country. And I know I'm making a blanket statement, and I hate doing that, especially as it pertains to journalists, because there are fantastic journalists out there. Barely. But whether it's what's happening in Venezuela, how all this money is being funneled to Israel, or even when it comes to us bombing Somalia, I mean, Trump administration has really ramped up their bombing campaign in Somalia. There's no reporting on that. The only person I've seen do any reporting on that is Dave DeCamp over at anti-war.com.

So they're just failing at their jobs. And it's to the detriment of the American people because we should know what our government is up to. And we should know what they're doing with our money. Yeah. My last two points are don't forget the interest. We borrow all this money from China and Japan to give to Israel. So that way, not only do they get all of that for free, but they also don't have to pay the interest. We do.

We're gonna pay that interest for the rest of our lives so that Israel could have more money and more weapons to attack its neighbors and commit genocide. Number two is, the Israeli's talking point on this, I love it, it's the funniest thing you've ever heard. They're like, oh no, no, no, taking the $8.6 billion from you actually helps America. It spurs your economy on, we're doing you a favor. Oh, really? That's great news, because we're ready to do the favor back for you.

Give us $8.6 billion and it'll help your economy. Oh, you know what, even better. Give us back the $300 billion you've taken from us so far. I bet it'll help your economy so much because you just said it. That's your logic, right? So come on, give us the $300 billion back. Oh, you know what, that memorandum of understanding we're about to give you for $100 billion extra? Forget it.

You guys are so nice to us. Thank you for trying to help our economy, but we'll help yours. You give us the $100 billion instead. And you know, what will happen if you ask for that? Andy said, Mike. Why? I don't know. Trope. All right.

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Back on the Young Turks, Jenkins. Anna, with you guys, more news. I want to talk a little bit about an internal study that was commissioned by the Israeli government and what they learned about themselves. Because if you are under the impression that the Israeli government doesn't know how much they're hated internationally, you would be mistaken. So let's get into it. Research that has been commissioned by the Israeli government reveals that, Israel is considered to be a genocidal apartheid country in the eyes of many Europeans. Again, this is based on a study that was commissioned by the Israelis.

Back in September, drop site news got a hold of this preliminary report that was commissioned by the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs and carried out by an organization known as Stagwell Global, an American polling firm. Now, it's run by Mark Penn, who donated $100,000 to APAC after October 7, 2023, and has ties to the right-wing Lakud Party in Israel. So, again, this entire study, it's commissioned by Israelis, it's supported, and the very polling agency is run by a massive Zionist who donated $100,000 to APAC. So this isn't in any way, you know, like shady and made to lie about public perception of Israel. I just want to be very clear about where this comes from. Now, the firm set out to discern what the public's attitude toward Israel currently is and what they know about the genocide in Gaza.

The survey asked people in the United States, Germany, the United Kingdom, Spain, and France, how many people believed Israel had killed in Gaza? And what portion of those people killed were civilians? Respondents in all the countries overwhelmingly said that they mostly killed civilians. And they're correct. If you believe the IDF's own data, which pointed to an 83% civilian death rate. In addition, the research found Europeans in particular agree with language of Israel being a genocidal apartheid country. So the study tried to evaluate the best method for combating negative attitudes toward Israel. And honestly, I think the answer to that is pretty simple.

Maybe stop committing a genocide, stop the greater Israel project, which is an expansionist project that involves land theft from neighboring countries. But they're unwilling to do that. So here's what they determined. Israel's best tactic is to foment fear of radical Islam and jihadism. Which remain high, the research finds. By highlighting Israeli support for women's rights, unless they're Muslim, then they'll get slaughtered, women's rights and gay rights while elevating concerns that Hamas wants to destroy all Jews and spread jihadism,

Israeli support rebounded by an average of over 20 points in each country, especially once the situation in Gaza is resolved. The room for growth in all countries is very significant. The report concludes. So whatever you do, don't stop the genocide. Keep that going. Instead, just fear monger about the Muslims. That'll help you out. Yeah. So they did this study earlier. We have already seen the results of that study being implemented here in America. As we've been telling you a couple of months ago, all of the Israel first pundits in this country started talking about radical Islam at this.

same time. Now when you see, oh, they did a study and found out, that's what moves public opinion by 20 points. This is a concerted strategy. That is what we suspected and told you about on air. Now it's confirmed. So they're like, we can't defend Israel. That's too hard. We don't want to change what Israel's doing. We want to keep slaughtering and taking land. So instead, we're going to go dirty Muslims. You should hate the Muslims instead. Radical Islam, jihadism, etc. Guys, so number one, what am I supposed to do with a country that is purposely trying to drive hatred towards the community I grew up in? Am I supposed to like Israel after this? Is that a fair ask? Imagine if another country thought, oh, you know what, it helps

our cause to get more money from America by doing this. So let's try to drive up hatred towards Jews. And let's talk about how the Jews are dirty and the Jews are terrorists and the Jews are the worst people on earth. And that way we'll get more money for our Muslim country. Well, I hope I certainly would condemn that to no end, right? I think it was the worst thing that happened. And my guess is that American media would think that's the worst thing that ever happened

to the point where they might start to agitate for literally attacking and bombing that country and killing its leaders. Israel does it, nothing. Oh yeah, of course, you're supposed to hate the Muslims. Well, no, we're not supposed to hate them. It's literally Israeli propaganda so that we'll help them attack their neighbors and keep financing them. And then the second thing I'm kind of conflicted about. I don't want to have evil people determine how I think.

At the same time, it's hard not to say now, oh, Jank, you have to keep. care about anti-Semitism at a microscopic level. Oh, one person's feelings were hurt because you criticized or somebody else criticized Israel in a way that they viewed to be 5% out of bounds or 10% out of bounds is slight reference to a potential trope. Meanwhile, that country is saying, hate the Muslims, hate Jenk, hate his family, hate his kids, hate his parents, hate everyone around you. Well, it's leading me to having a moment.

emotional reaction that I hope I get past, which is, I'm not really interested in your, look, if you show me a real case of anti-Semitism, I'm always going to hate it, and I'm not going to be in favor of it ever. You give me all of your fake charges of anti-Semitism. I now loathe it an extra amount. I can't stand it, and I'm not interested in it at all, at all. So yes, that also includes people telling me about I have to cancel Tucker Carlson or Megan Kelly or anyone else, because they might pop out of a cake and be anti-Semitic at a later time. No, all of your pundits, all of the people in America that is driving pro-Israel policy are vicious, racist, and bigots against Arabs and Muslims.

So I have no interest in placating them 1%, and I'm not halfway done through this study. Anna, back to you. Well, one other thing that I wanted to bring up is that today it was announced that Israel, is suspending over two dozen humanitarian foundations or organizations, including Doctors Without Borders, from Gaza. So they're now banning humanitarian organizations, including Doctors Without Borders. They claim that it's because these organizations failed to meet its rules, its new rules. No, we know what this is about.

So here's the thing. I want people to understand this. If you happen to be a voracious defender or I should say vocal defender of Israel, people are angry with Israel. People have bad feelings toward Israel, not because Israel is the Jewish state. People actually care when they see images and videos and all these stories of innocent people, including many children, getting slaughtered day after day. And what makes it even worse is the powerlessness that most people feel when they realize their government doesn't care about them and there's nothing we can do to stop it.

Yeah. I mean, that's that powerlessness feeling, it's like the biggest black pill ever. And it makes it hard to really care about anything else that's going on because if our government doesn't care about us, if we don't actually live in a democracy where the government listens to the people and sees, hey, the majority of Americans don't want to fund this. Majority of Americans do not support this, but it doesn't matter. We get dragged into Israel's conflicts and we get forced to pay for Israel's expansionist policies anyway. I mean, that has a demoralizing effect on the American population. And yeah, it leads to really negative feelings toward Israel.

And it has nothing to do with Jewish identity. It has everything to do with an ongoing genocide. And again, expansionist land theft policy that has been implemented by the the couped party and the current government of Israel. Yeah. So that's the reality of the situation. Yeah, I mean, look, of course they don't want more human rights workers. That means they'd have to murder more of them.

They've killed 3,200 human rights workers in the last two years in Gaza. It's a slaughter unlike anyone has ever seen them with human rights workers. More human rights workers killed than all other conflicts combined. Why? Because Israel targets civilians, 83% civilian kill ratio. They target the press, 253 journalists killed. Again, more than any conflict combined, all the conflicts combined. So it's a vicious genocide. It's as vicious a genocide as I have ever seen in my lifetime.

Now, yes, unfortunately, not just pro-Israel zealots, but a lot of Jewish people are taught, hey, the rest of the world hates you. They hate the Jews, you should be really worried about everyone that isn't Jewish because they hate you, and they probably want to kill you. And oh my God, if they're Muslim, they all want to kill you. So remember, hate the Muslims, be wary of everyone else on planet Earth. So I'm here to assure Jewish Americans and Jews across the world. No, I understand why your parents told you that, because obviously the Holocaust, the pogroms, et cetera. There's good, legitimate historical reasons for being deeply concerned, right? But I'm here to tell you,

We don't all hate you. We don't, nobody wants to kill you. So yes, that happened in the 1940s, yes, it happened in the 1800s. But there isn't like some worldwide movement of all, let's all secretly try to kill the Jews while they don't notice. Believe me, you'd notice, okay? So it has led to a massive paranoia, and Israel is now feeding into it.

And they feel that if Jews across the world are worried, They're worried, they'll come home to Israel, or even if they don't come home, they'll support Israel no matter where they are. Because remember, if you don't support every single thing Israel is doing, they're going to kill all the Jews. All of yours lives are in danger. That's the central fabrication. I understand where it came from, so it's not just a lie. Your parents didn't lie to you. They really didn't mean it, right?

But they're living in a different world, and now it's aided and embedded by Israeli propaganda to make you worried to make you honestly worry your whole life about whether you're all going to die and if everybody on the planet hates you. That's not what's happening at all. I grew up with, in a town that was heavily Jewish, with beautiful Jewish culture, I had no issues at all, it isn't about the Jews, nobody's got that kind of hostility, et cetera. Guys, we're criticizing Israel not because they're Jewish, despite the fact that they're Jewish, we're still have forced into criticizing them for obvious reasons, this horrific genocide, 20,000 kids dead. Last thing for me is, and as I looked at that study, I was really dispirited by how Israeli

propaganda overall has worked. Like they're doing this study because they're like, oh, golly, gee, it's not working as well as it used to. Let's find a new way to trick people. Let's hire these Americans, et cetera, and make sure that we could do better propaganda and mainly driven by hatred towards Muslims while we pretend to carry. about bigotry. But even despite that, despite their concerns, the average European thinks there's only 30,000 dead in Gaza when the number is well above 70,000, at a minimum.

Well above. Right? And the average American thinks 10,000 Palestinians have been killed. So their propaganda was so successful, even as the Europeans are enraged over it, they don't know it's more than twice as bad as they think. It's seven times worse. worse than the average American thinks. And the average American doesn't know anything about the journalist killed, the human rights workers killed, this 83% civilian kill ratio. They don't know any of that because American media favors Israel so much that they view their job as not covering the news, but covering up the news.

So that's why Americans never find out, because he can't get past established media working as the defenders of Israel. Yeah, and it's not just American media, right? I mean, I think the Western world has been totally cuckolded by Israeli genociders, and it's a damn shame. But even despite that, even their best efforts, still, the international community sees Israel for what it is, a genocidal apartheid state. It is what it is.

It's the truth. So we got to take a break. When we come back, I want to get into the detail. of the latest drop site reporting on the Epstein files, which prove that, well, Jeffrey Epstein was far more powerful than our media would have you believe. Everything's a computer. All right, back on TYT. Let's go to super chat for a second.

CDN North Dog Dad says Canada said we're buying the Griffin, not F-35D. And does it now it looks like you're selling them to Israel instead. But Kegzeth, that's a funny version of Hegseth's name, is trying to force Canada to buy the F-35s, too, even though we said no. So the main thing I got out of that is Canadians, you're not special enough allies. Since you're inferior to the Israelis, you have to buy our weapons. The Israelis are gifted our weapons because they're superior to you. Enjoy that, Canada. 0-0-083 says, not paying your taxes is an idea in a tool that belongs with your state government because they can deal with the IRS better.

than us regular citizens. Now, the big problem is getting your governor to do it in my view. Well, there's no chance. It's not going to happen. Israel covered their bases. They bought almost all the governors, too. Why? Because they wanted them to pass laws, making it illegal to criticize or Israel or to do BDS, a sanction of Israel, et cetera. So almost all of our politicians work for Israel. So until you get money out of politics, they all will. They're never going to represent the voters. Never until you get money out of politics. I tried to explain this to the just Democrats going into Congress, but apparently they were too thick-headed to get it.

They're like, what do you mean? We'll try for some other policy first. How are you gonna get it passed without getting rid of money in politics? I don't know, I don't have a plan. Okay, great, how'd that work out for us? Okay, Brandy Young Kempkewrites in on YouTube member section, what you're saying right now is the exact reason my friend who is Jewish gave me for why Israel is justified. about Jewish people being paranoid, of course. And for the regular Jewish person who's worried about that, I don't blame it for it.

I get it, they were taught their whole lives that everyone hates them and most people are trying to kill them. Imagine what kind of a paranoid, jittery mess you'd be if you were taught that your whole life, right? And so that actually is a great harm to Jewish people. That harms them way more than it harms anyone else. I would hate to go through life thinking, oh my God, everyone hates me. Everyone hates me. Everyone hates me. Who's out to kill me? Oh my god, that'd be a terrible way to live. And by the way, if you think that, it's a little bit easier to sell you, hey, we should kill them first before they kill all of us. That's another reason why Israel loves that

and pours fuel on that fire. So now let's go to our members on t.com. Art guy says, one day I hope to see the vast number of polite, quiet, tolerant people, finally have their fill of all this nonsense going on in the world and finally step up to fix things. Let us whisper of a dream. Yeah, look, guys, for better or for worse, that's what I'm doing on the revolution at 8 o'clock every night. Tonight we got Operation Joy. You can start writing in on that. We already have some great things.

But yeah, we all need to get up and take nonviolent political action to change. Otherwise, we're going to be ruled by the donors for the rest of our lives. Huang John says, don't get too hopeful. European media is still very much pro-Israel. During my trip, I notice how quickly they'll change the subject or straight up ignore it. They're still acting like the so-called peace deal was legitimate. Look, the reason why the American press and the European press don't look into, hey, who's paying for all this? When did it get appropriated?

Hey, is Israel doing the right thing or wrong thing? Is, be honest. They all know that if they say something that is 1% out of bounds, according to the most pro-Israel person in that organization, they will be fired. They'll be fired if they oppose Israel. We'll be back. This damn fat drug I take. It's not working. All right back on TYKinnana.

I think Shanshan might have gifted another 10 memberships on YouTube. We appreciate you guys so much. Anna's got more news. Well, DropSight is absolutely killing the game when it comes to reporting on the Epstein files. They're willing to report on things that, well, for whatever reason, our media here in the U.S. is ignoring, but I want to get into it. I want to talk a little bit about this oil reserve issue that Epstein was very much involved in. Let's give you the details. Turns out that Jeffrey Epstein was coaching, former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak,

while he courted investors for an Israeli oil field. And that's according to new reporting from drop site news. They've been looking into the Epstein file. that yes are heavily redacted, but were released. And in those files, we're learning more and more about Epstein's extreme power and just how involved he was in helping the Israeli government financially, economically. Jenk, your two cents. I want people to pay attention to this story to how incredibly powerful Jeffrey Epstein was. He was more powerful than the Israeli prime minister and many world leaders and the heads of top banks. How did he accumulate that much power? That is super interesting. Let's give you the facts first. So this report has to do with the Leviathan oil field in Israel.

And just a few weeks ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced a $35 billion deal in which Israel will sell natural gas from the Leviathan to Egypt. Now, the deal marks Israel's largest energy export agreement ever, but a lot had to be done behind the scenes in order for this to happen. For many years, it was uncertain if Leviathan, which was discovered back in 2010, could even ever be operational. Now, the Israeli government clashed with their courts over whether or not some of the oil from this reserve could be allocated exclusively for foreign, exports. Furthermore, an Israeli energy mogul by the name of Yitzhak, Tshuva, who partially owned the

field, was also wrapped up in an antitrust case. So Ahud Barak went looking for allies and financiers in order in other countries, essentially, to help Tashiva's company become compliant with Israel's anti-monopoly regulations. Okay. So it's likely that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was also doing the same simultaneously. But in this case, you have Barack working with Epstein in order to find international backers of this oil field. So prior reporting has already revealed that Epstein helped to connect Netanyahu with J.P. Morgan leadership back in the 2010s. So it wasn't just Epstein's relationship with Ahud, Barack that's notable. Epstein also had a relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu as well.

The reason for the meeting and the nature of Epstein's involvement was not disclosed in court documents, which are heavily redacted. But whether by chance or by design, Netanyahu agreed to the meeting on March 23, 2011, the same day the Knesset Finance Committee voted on a major tax increase on natural gas exports, a key hurdle to beginning commercial development of Leviathan. So after the antitrust dispute was finally resolved in 2016, J.P. Morgan financed a multi-billion dollar plan to develop the oil field. Okay. As for Ehud Barak, well, Barack was in close correspondence with Epstein as he spoke to Tshuva, courted a Russian-Israeli billionaire, shopped the deal to an American private equity firm, and even pitched a partnership to Azerbaijan. state-owned oil company. So Epstein coached Barack throughout the process.

That's the notable element of the story. At one point, Barack even told Epstein, thanks for the time and energy you invest in supporting my efforts to bring home more bread. These exchanges are highly valuable for me. At one point, Epstein even chided Ehud Barak for bringing on a partner that he disapproved of writing, and by the way, we didn't edit any of the way that he wrote this. He was just atrocious when it came to spelling, grammar, punctuation. You get the picture, but here's what he wrote. This is total 100% BS. I told you on the phone before sending or asking

anyone about it. You should do your own homework. You cannot be seen to be selling garbage, frauds, bad things, or trouble, and or trouble. This is a total waste of your time. And Barack complied immediately and shut down all communications with this potential partner. Eventually, though, Netanyahu was able to get the oil field up and running by utilizing an obscure piece of Israel's antitrust law. And Netanyahu and Ehud Barak, as we all know, our political rivals, they are still feuding today. But nonetheless, when it came to this oil field, they certainly had the same goals in mind.

But so what united them was the Leviathan oil field. So they wanted to make sure that it's operational and it is now. And Epstein had a lot to do with that. Yeah. So there's two things here. One is the power of Epstein. In different parts, you see Ehud, Barak and even Benjamin Net and Yahoo can't get a meeting. And Epstein makes it happen for them.

Wow. I didn't think there was anyone more powerful than that. the Israeli prime minister, but it turns out it was Jeffrey Epstein. And at any time, he can get a meeting with almost any country's leader and anyone in finance that heads of JPMorgan, et cetera. So, and both sides are constantly surprised at the amount of power he has. So Ehud Barack is constantly like pleading with him and then Epstein gets him something and he's like, oh, thank you so much. And so for example, when he said, thank you for letting, you know, helping me bring this home, referring to Israel, Epstein agrees.

and it says, oh, I'm happy to do it, et cetera. So they both consider Israel to be home, while Epstein is pretending to be an American, okay? So, and then as Anna read you, he chides Barack every once in all, the former prime minister of Israel. That's not how you do it, this is how you do it. And Barack's like, okay, thank you, sir,

of course, sir, right? Amazing. Then on the JP Morgan side, there's a memo where they say, Outwardly, you should know this, they're all pretending like, oh, this is all normal, no big deal. Of course, meetings like this are set up by anyone. You know, it could be a bob down the street. And he happened to bring the head of J.P. Morgan together with the prime minister of Israel, et cetera.

No, the city, the J.P. Morgan Chase's emails say, I can't believe we got a meeting with Netanyahu by just asking Epstein. They say to Epstein and they say, thank you so much. And he's like, basically, you're welcome. Okay. So who is this guy? Because here's what he's not. A rando that was just a pervert and doing things on his own with those massages. And it didn't have anything to do with international politics or power players or intelligence agencies or governments. That's an absurd, totally made up thing. I mean, if you believe that, that's a wild, ludicrous. conspiracy theory that EFstein acted on his own when he has all of these connections to all

these things. And in every one of the deals, by the way, there's deals with Senegal, with Kazakhstan, with Russia, and trying to get cyber weapons for Israel. He's in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair. He's the Forrest Gump of intelligence agencies. He's in almost every deal. It's amazing. And as they're doing all of that, they say, oh, no, no, he's not connected it to any government. Come on. Yeah, it's totally absurd. And if you want

more, DropSight has been following this story closely, reporting on details of Epstein's relationships with various governments, particularly with Israel's government. They had an incredible piece about how Epstein was even involved in the funding of the Contras

during the Reagan administration. Just absolutely mind-blowing. So he was more than just a disgusting pervert and pedophile, apparently. He was wheel in dealing with various foreign countries, including the government of Israel. All right, go ahead, Jane. Yeah, one last quick thing.

Part of the reason why when Trump said to the president of Israel, you should pardon Netanyahu, and then the president just said the other day, no, I'm not gonna do that, is because Netanyahu is also ripping off the average Israeli citizen. You see in the emails, they're concerned that the Israeli citizens are going to to be charged too much by this monopoly. And then I was like, who cares? Call it national security because he's arranging the deal. And then his son, Yair, runs into the son of the guy who owns the oil fields at a strip club,

yet secretly taped and brags about his dad's corruption. And he is asking for money to hire more strippers. And he says to the other son, bro, my dad now arranged a $20 billion show for you. And you can't spot me 400. shekels. So this is not on behalf of anyone other than the super powerful connected leaders of Israel, which include Jeffrey Epstein. When we come back from the break, we'll talk a little bit about why a legendary investor is shorting Navidia and Palantir. You don't want to miss that story. We'll be right back.

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So he's from Maryland, let alone Bernie and some of the others. I say some of others. Like those three, I don't know. Maybe there's a fourth, but I'm not sure. CK Progressive says, thank you, TYT for going in-depth explaining how Israel was formed. You're the only outlet, whether corporate or independent, the elaborate stories like this one, that elaborate on stories like this one. It's why I continue to support TYT. I appreciate you.

Look, half the Progressive shows are actually doing good work on this, and I appreciate them. The other half are pro-Israel, and so they never, ever talk about it. It's funny how we get criticized nonstop for the smallest infractions. And these giant shows never talk about Israel's genocide and no one notices. Fascinating. So John Campbell-Rees says, let's not forget the Jews actually live in Palestine in the early 20th century, despise the Zionist terrorists. Yeah, I'll look more into that, John. I only know a little bit about it.

It's an interesting point. I want to research it more. research it more. Thank you for contributing. Jack Callahan says, just wait for the economic collapses. We're printing money on an ungodly scale because Bricks is going to take over the world currency, knocking the dollar off as the number one currency. Yeah, unfortunately, I'm worried about being on that path. The only good news out of that is that that Israel might leave America and go to the Bricks countries and start taking them over. Oh, we got all the money we need from these guys. Leave those suckers alone. No, no, Judeo-Christian heritage. No, Judeo-Hindoo

heritage. That's why India, yeah, Judeo Buddhist heritage. You know that. Come on, we're special allies with China, are you? Sina Hoga Boom says, sorry I'm late fam, damn, Anna lashes are fierce today. Okay, so there's that. Oh, thank you. Thank you. Okay. Thank you. At the gray pit writes in, don't forget they have a handpicked cushy right wing and more highly pro-Israel press pool in the White House these days. Those press briefings and Q&A sessions are a sick joke. By the way, if you're watching any right wing media and they're kissing Israel's ass, they never ask about Israel in any of the press rooms. You know that they're Israel's bitches and you shouldn't trust them about that or anything else because that means they'll sell you out to the highest donor no matter who it is. Teddy Lucy Linda says I've been an activist for decades believe me there are millions of

Americans fighting for justice every day in this country oh believe me I I know that and I appreciate that we just got to organize everybody and direct them in a way that could be productive and we can we could block that memorandum of understanding but we all have to unite to be able to match their mind All right, back on TYT, Jank, Anna and Brendan Kaiser. Brandon, thank you for joining us. We appreciate you. Anna.

Wiser with Kaiser. Anyway, all right, let's get to our next story. You were very defensive, for instance, around short sellers. Michael Burry putting the short on this weekend. But by the way, I was defensive about, not defensive, I would say offensive about, I don't like short sellers. And you know, everyone's like, oh, it's price. It's covered great. That's like saying you're a lawyer. You don't have to defend the pedophile. You know, yeah, I'm all in favor of everyone having a defense. I'm in favor of civil rights and defense

for the innocent and for the guilty because that's how you have civil liberties. If you're a lawyer, you don't have to work for a terrorist. You don't have to work for a pedophile. If you're a short seller, you do not have to actually short a truly great company. That was hilarious. Palantir CEO Alex Carp riled up over the fact that legendary investor, Michael Burry, has decided to short Palantir in addition to Navidia. Apparently, Carp is very upset at short sailors, not in favor of that allegedly. Jank, what do you think about that? I think it's hilarious. Michael Burry, go get him, go get him. Okay. So, and was he referring to? Alan Dershowitz there? Because it sounded like he was saying, why did Alan Dershowitz defend child predator Jeffrey Epstein for no reason? Interesting, surprising take on that one. But I'll tell

you what short sales are actually about and why Bury might be right and these guys might be in trouble, which would be amazing news. Yeah, and look, what you think about people who engage in, you know, shorting stocks, it doesn't really matter. What matters here is the reasoning behind why Burry is shorting these specific stocks. So look, he is famous for predicting the housing market crash of 2008. Doesn't mean he's right about everything, but he was very right about that. Now, these days, he's been feuding with the leadership of Palantir and Navidia because in November, Burry announced that he had shorted the stocks of both those companies. And if you're not familiar with shorting, all you need to know is that Burry will make money

if the value of the stock for these companies drops by 2027. In other words, Burry is betting that both companies will lose steam or fail outright. Now, let's watch more of Alex Carp absolutely raging out about this for fun. And then I'll give you more details in regard to Burry's reasoning. When I hear short sellers attacking what I believe is clearly the most important software company in America, therefore in the world in terms of our impact, simply to make money and calling, trying to call the AI revolution into question where we have

these anomalous numbers, 114, rule of 40, et cetera, it just is super triggering because these people they can pick on any company in the world. They have to pick on the one that actually helps people, that actually has made money for the average person that is actually supporting our warfighters. Why do they have to go after us? And I'll tell you what, though, it's crazy motivating because I'll tell you why the short sellers are constantly getting screwed by Palantier. Every time they short us, we just are like tripling down on getting the better numbers.

And part, honestly, to make them poorer. So Carp seems very stressed out. And if you're watching Landman, my only hope is that he's just as stressed out as Monty is or was. And if you get that reference, you get what I mean. But nonetheless, Navidia has also tried to push back against Burry's arguments, and saying, following Burry's series of social media posts, arguing that the artificial intelligence investment boom is replaying the dot-com bubble from the 1990s. Navidia quietly circulated a private memo to analysts that explicitly name-checked Burry to push back on many of his claims. For

his part, Burry argues that massive Cap-X plans, extended depreciation schedules, and soaring valuations as evidence, the markets are, again, mistaking a supply boom for durable demand. Now, I am totally okay with admitting, I'm a moron, and I don't know what that means. But, Jake, I feel like you might know what that means. Like, what does massive CAPX plans mean? Yeah, so it's not about being smarter, stupid. It's about whether you just know these terms or not. So look, none of that is important. So X's expenses and so a cap is for capital. There's a lot to explain in the business world, et cetera.

Bottom line is what Burry is saying is it's overvalued. He's not making a value judgment on it in terms of morals. He's making a value judgment in terms of finances. He's saying that there's a big boom in supply. So Palantir is producing a lot of things. AI is producing, I'm sorry, Navidia is producing a lot of things, but that doesn't mean that there's going to be demand for those. If there is demand down the road, then okay, then it makes sense and maybe their valuations are right. But he's saying that there's not going to be as

much demand as they think there's going to be. That's a huge problem. Then he gets into the internal workings of their finances and their leverage and their debt and their CAPEX, et cetera. He sees problems there as well. But his number one issue, and what I think he's most right about is, There's a craze right now where people are buying Navidia especially, more so than Palantir, but Palantir as well, in an irrational way. And you know it's irrational, you know that we're near the peak of the bubble when two things happen. One is when people tell you that a stock can't go down. And I've now been hearing many times, oh, Navidia can't go down.

It's a new kind of market. That means the bubble's on the edge of bursting, okay? Literally the same exact thing I heard about the housing market back in 2008 and the dot-com bubble back in 2008. No, this is a new market, Jank. You don't understand. This doesn't go up and down anymore. It just goes up. Sure, brother.

I've seen this movie before. The second way you know that the bubble is about the burst is when Michael Burry starts shorting it. Okay, so now you can tell that I'm right. How can you tell? By the CEO of Palantir, Karp that we just showed you, by his reaction. Because he's a cold sweaty mess. I've never seen an executive act like that on television. And if you're wondering, really?

Yes, in the business world going, it's so unfair to short us. Is the equivalent of crying? Like that, brother, it's free markets, deal with it. Capitalism, it's a bitch sometimes. Everybody's allowed to bet long, everybody's allowed to bet short. If you're betting short, that means I think your stock value is gonna go down. That happens 50% of the time. So that's a very normal bet.

When a CEO comes out, goes, oh, this is so unfair to us. Oh, you're in trouble, aren't you? That means he's really worried about that short. If the shorts work, guys, it is a huge problem for those companies. But Anna, that's all the business contexts, et cetera. But my favorite part was he's like, why are they doing this to such good companies? We're here at Palantir trying to spy in on all the world. And we just helped Israel destroy Gaza.

And we'd like to do that for America and the rest of the world. Why are they hurting the poor good guys? No, it is amazing how they view themselves, right? How I genuinely think Alex Carp thinks he's a good guy and that his company is doing great things. But I want to give you a few more details about Burry's rationale for shorting Navidia and Palantir because, and you did touch on it briefly, but I want to emphasize it.

Because he talks about how these companies are too over-reliant on welfare, on government contracts. The other reason he gives is that executive pay for these companies is too high. I'm going to go ahead and bet that Alex Karp doesn't take kindly to anyone drawing attention to his high pay. So Burry actually wrote in his substack that Palantir has the distinction of being the first billionaire revenue ratio greater than one that I have ever seen, or I have seen, Five billionaires due to stock ownership and less than $4 billion in annual revenue. So in other words, they're paying their executives more than what the company is even worth. As for Navidia, take a look at this graph.

I know it looks crazy. I'll explain it to you in just a moment. So what's important here is the pattern that you see. So each of those arrows represents money or services flowing from one company into another. Open AI, Navidia, Oracle, Microsoft, and other companies are visible in this chart. And critics like Burry have argued that those companies are passing around the same hundreds of billions of dollars back and forth to each other. Innovation, baby. Innovation. So that's where we are with that. Anyway, any final thoughts, Jim, before we move on? Yeah, real quick. On the point that you made, I just want to make a quick correction.

So they're paying their, the net worth of their five executives are worth more than what the company makes, not what the company is worth. And so therein lies the rub, right? So he's saying, look, you guys are paying these folks so much that it's more than even combined. Now, again, it's little apples and oranges because that's their net worth versus the revenue of the company. It's more than the revenue of the company, even in this year where you're doing great. So that's way too much. A Palantir would say, yeah, but our worth is so high, the company's worth is so high that the revenue is not the relevant number. And Burry is saying, that's exactly my point, guys.

You're pretending the valuation of the company is gigantic, and hence why you're paying these guys billions of dollars. But you haven't made that money yet. It's all speculative and I'm speculating that you are going to make all that money and that's why I'm shorting you. And he has every right to do that. It's a free market and carp should learn how to deal with it. But my guess is he won't. He'll bribe more, legally bribe more politicians, try to fix the rules. And in fact, soon you might be hearing corrupt politicians working for these guys, start to talk about,

well, maybe we should limit the markets and maybe we shouldn't allow shorting in the way that we're talking about here. because they have to protect their donors. I want to get to one last story before we wrap up the main show and head over to Operation Joy. This is a little bit out of left field, but I think it's an important topic. Let's talk about how we measure obesity. Obesity is the number one driver of chronic disease. 50% of our adult population are obese or overweight, and it drives about 50% of the number one. of health care costs in this country?

Well, RFK Jr. is very much concerned with the rate of obesity here in the United States, and to be sure it's a real problem. But while many health officials believe that almost 50% of American adults suffer from obesity, it turns out that calls to measure weight differently could actually identify a higher percentage of American adults as obese, as high as 75%. But is it accurate? Is this new method of measuring weight an accurate way of determining obesity? Now, this is all about changing how obesity is determined. So far, doctors have used something known as body mass index or BMI. And I think most people understand that it's not the best way to determine whether or not someone is overweight or obese, because you just

basically divide your weight with your height. So it's an easy and inexpensive way of measuring weight or overweight or obesity, but it has drawbacks. For instance, it does not account for body type. It also doesn't account for muscle mass or bone density, which obviously is going to lead to higher weight, but doesn't necessarily mean that it's going to translate to being overweight or obese. And you know, BMI also doesn't indicate where in the body someone is carrying weight. And that actually does matter. Where you're carrying fat matters in regard to your health, which leads us to the new way in which health officials want to determine whether or not individuals are overweight or obese. The Lancet, Diabetes, and Endocrinology Commission proposed a revised

obesity definition that included waist circumference, waist to hip ratio, and waist to height ratio. So the idea is to further account for fat distribution and aid in differentiation between muscle and fat mass. I just don't know if this is necessarily going to be the better way of measuring whether or not someone is overweight or obese. And based on this way of determining it, health officials believe that the formula will indicate that 75% of American adults are overweight, or I'm sorry, obese, not overweight, obese, which I think is crazy. I don't think 75% of Americans are obese. But I'm curious what you think, Jank. First of all, there isn't any story we can't make political, but it really is political, right?

Because I think there's a lot of the pharmaceutical industrial complex. They need you to think that you're in disastrous shape so you buy their products. This is marketing 101, right? Oh my God, you're missing the coolest, latest pants. If you don't have those pants, you're not cool at all. Oh, my God, you don't have these sneakers? That means you can't jump that high. That means you can't play basketball that well.

That means you're not cool. So now when it comes to drugs, you're all obese. So three quarters of you are tubby and, you know, terrible. You need to take these drugs to make sure that you lose. that way. Otherwise, you should feel terrible about yourself. So look, RFK Jr. was supposed to go and make us healthier. Where's his attack on processed foods? Gone. Big food didn't want it, right? High fructose corn syrup, gone. I can go down the list. How about the drug companies? So we still are forced to pay whatever prices they want us to pay, et cetera. We didn't get anything good

out of it. In fact, now we're going to get this nonsense where all Americans are going to be made to feel terrible about themselves. So you buy more junk to combat it. Well, hold on. I got to jump in real quick. I mean, look, this could just be a coincidence. And I'm speculating here. So I want to be clear about that. But the timing of this new way of determining whether or not someone is obese comes on the heels of this explosion of, you know, the GLP1 injections, right? Things like go Zempic or why go we? And I do wonder if this is a way of increasing the number of Americans who are considered obese in order to justify prescribing those drugs to them. I mean, again, just speculation, but there's got to be a better way of doing this. Because look, the issue that I

have is there are all sorts of body types, right? There are people who are apple shaped. There are people who are pear-shaped. And so someone like me, if I let myself go, for lack of a better way of describing it, I have an apple-shaped body, right? And so I don't have a tiny waist, but I'm also, and my hips aren't huge. And so my hip-to-waist ratio would probably indicate that I'm overweight, which is insane, because I'm not. You know what I'm saying? So it's like you have to account for different body types and you have to have a better measure of fat versus muscle. I agree that BMI is not the best way of determining whether or not someone is overweight or obese, but I also don't want to rely heavily on body type. I think that there should

be a more precise way of determining whether someone's obese. Okay, I mean, I have high BMI, but that's obviously because of my muscle mass and the densest bones you've ever seen. But these days, I'm even getting Ozempic shamed. Like, why haven't you taken Ozempic yet? So there's a lot of that going around. Guys, bottom line is, look, stay healthy, try to eat good food for you. It makes a difference to be healthy, so we're not dismissing it all together. But don't buy into the hype that you're all obese or morbidly obese. Makes it sound like you're going to explode any second.

So you better do X, Y, Z, and most importantly, buy X, Y, and Z. Eat healthy, stay away from processed foods, do the best you can. Yes, I'm not the best spokesperson for that. Nevertheless, that's the obviously logical thing to do instead of hating yourself over this nonsense that they're shoving down your throat, kind of literally. All right, Operation Joy is next. We'll see you there.

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