The Young Turks - SNAP, Crackle, Pop - October 31, 2025

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everything. Corporations are the best things in the world. They're the most American and patriotic things. And when they give money to politicians, it is for charity. And you should thank them from the bottom of your heart. And those beautiful politicians that represent us are in the middle of hearty debates to find out which Americans are correct and are doing an amazing job of keeping up the status quo, which is the most beautiful thing there is in the country. Oh, right, I'm playing a character of mainstream media anchor for Halloween. Okay, so happy Halloween, everyone. I wasn't sure where you're going with that, but I like it.

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It's hilarious and also horrifying. Okay, anyways, lots of trick-or-treats today on the show, Jank and John, obviously, here in the first hour. So the Civil War within the Republican Party is now massive. Okay, so now the Heritage Foundation has joined Tucker Carlson, but has it, and the warfare is amazing. Trump's polling among the young, craters, like unreal cratering. And I'm going to explain to you guys why that's happening. Later when we do the revolution, that's at 8 o'clock, good news, there's a revolution at 8 o'clock.

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of Israel basically. And so the Israeli position will be taken into account, but anyone criticizing Israel will be banned. So they're just saying it now. It's amazing, okay? So I guess she's an anti-Semi. She's, of course, you're gonna be shocked to find out. You'll see later, give you the details, all the stories are amazing. She's a former Israeli government official. That just censors everything on Facebook and Instagram. Well, but are you, are you sure that every country doesn't doesn't have a former official embedded inside of meta? That's fair, I looked into it also Paraguay.

Paraguay. You might not have expected it. Okay, God, Italy step up your game. Yeah, but I'm, oh my God, I'm so sorry, I was just Paraguayist. And I want to apologize to all the people who have been offended by my Paraguayna. That's paranoia. Paraguay, I don't know. All right, so all the Paraguayists out there, you're downpan.

Okay, so guys, let's get started. So guys, let's get started, John, you take it away. Yes, okay, let's, let's, this is a scary show, scary theme. Let's talk about the impending cuts to snap, which are jokes aside actually scary. And the propaganda that's being used to get people to accept it. Take a look at this. There are 42 million people in this country that need food stamps on a weekly basis. And we're saying people deliberately instead of Americans, because most of the people that are on food stamps aren't even from this country.

Yeah, so that's a lie. You'll be shocked to find out being that it's on Newsmax, a professional journalistic organization. But no, they're playing fast and loose with the math, or they just don't understand how it works. It's also possible. That was Rob Figertie, the host right there, who wants everyone to be okay with the fact that 40 million plus are going to lose access to their food stamps, which is going to include a lot of Republicans, a lot of MAGA people, a lot of his viewers, and he doesn't want them being mad at him, so he's got to convince them that it's all going to damn dirty immigrants. Jake, what do you think?

Yeah, there's two things that I love in this story. One is the facts that we're going to about to show you on what Snap is actually about and who it actually applies to so you don't miss the reality. And the second is the Great Awakening continues. It started with Epstein and Israel. Now there is right wingers going, yeah, wait a minute. Why are we cutting my benefits? That's a good question.

Let's see if we can answer it in a second. Yeah, but also they don't want waste, fraud, and abuse. We got to put the money where it matters. Like, I don't know if you saw it, but earlier today it was announced, Trump put out that he's actually renovated the Lincoln bathroom, and it's now floor to ceiling marble. I'm not even joking, that's totally true. It was a regular bathroom, and now it's just everywhere you look, it's marble. And I think that that's going to make a lot of people feel better about the fact that their kids go to sleep hungry.

Yeah, when you're losing your ability to feed your kids, what you really want is a marble bathroom in the White House. And you think like, I don't, then it makes me feel much better. Because the elites are even more elite now, and I hope that ballroom is just nothing but golden. Just it's covered in gold. But whatever you do, do not send us any relief or food. We'll just starve over here in our corner. We're just Americans.

We're not even Argentinians. So it doesn't count. Yeah, yeah. Jokes aside, I actually don't really. really mind the makeover because it does look pretty slippery in there. In any event, why we go to the rest of the segment from Newsmax where Figured he's going to try to get you to be okay with these massive cuts? Forty-five percent of Afghanistan immigrants are on food stamps. 42 percent of Somali immigrants, 34 percent of every immigrant from Iraq, 23 percent of

Haitians, 59 percent of all illegal aliens are collecting food stamps, meaning that most of the people getting food stamps from the U.S. government and the U.S. taxpayer are not even Americans. Think about that. And we didn't know about any of this before the government shutdown started. But thanks to Democrats, we can confirm tonight that millions of Joe Biden, illegal aliens, people who crossed the border when Joe was president, are now collecting food stamps from a program funded by hardworking American taxpayer. Okay, so there's a lot in that little video they showed you that is subtly discriminatory and also dishonest. The fact that he's like, he's just like, yeah, here are some countries of origin for immigrants.

I'm gonna pick them randomly, like, you know, war zones that we devastated and then brought over a limited number of refugees. Gee, I wonder why Afghans and Iraqis would be more likely to be on food stamps. Weird that he's choosing those rather than the countries they typically demonize when talking about things like illegal immigration. like, I don't know, Mexico, the rest of Latin or South America, it's weird that they didn't focus on that. But right in your face was the biggest lie, which is the 59% are on food stamps, which means the majority of the people on food stamps are illegal immigrants. That's not even remotely how that works. That's not how anything works. And he is a full grown man being paid, probably a significant amount of money to make persuasive arguments on the news there.

That's just not how stats work, buddy. So we're just, going to get into the actual numbers, which when you know them, probably not going to be as horrified by the current status quo when it comes to food stamps. But just understand, he says the thing, he vomits it out. And then the rest of what right wing media can just reference that they're not making the claim. So when the Blaze then tweets out the segment with 59% of food stamp recipients aren't even American? Well, no, actually. I'm glad that you ask the question. That's not actually true. But why would the Blaze do any fact checking? I mean, they're just an incredibly well funded media company with tons of employees.

They can't be bothered to look into the thing that they're claiming. And what I love about it is they used question mark exclamation point implying, huh, but didn't think to actually look into it. You guys seem surprised by that, maybe do a little bit of Googling. Talk to Grock, I know you love Grock. In any event, there was actually a Grock fact check after that, which pointed out that almost 90% of SNAP recipients are born in the US and another 6% are naturalized citizens, leaving very few people who are illegal immigrants from Haiti or Afghanistan or whatever it is that Rob,

whatever his name is, wants you to believe. So just 11% of SNAP recipients are foreign born, 6.2% were naturalized citizens, which previously they would have pretended to think are citizens. I think they're past that now, we learned that on Pierce Morgan. But I can consider them to be Americans, I'm old fashioned in that way. 1.1% are refugees, another 3.3% are other non-citizens, including lawful permanent residents and other eligible non-citizens, leaving basically nobody who is someone who just leapt over the border wall and is now stealing money out of the pocket of the American taxpayer. That's what's actually going on, Jake.

Yeah, so if you're wondering what is eligible non-citizens means, it does mean as someone who was a translator in Afghanistan for our troops that came over here. And whoa, look at that, he's not a millionaire. He was living in a valley in Afghanistan before. And so now he's here. And sometimes they need like a little bit of help for in the beginning until they get on their feet. So I'm going to give you an example of that in a second. So the only stats that to my knowledge aren't preposterously wrong are percentage of immigrants from that particular country that take food stamps, right? And that is not at all surprising.

I'll get back to that in a second, but so first on the rest of it. So yeah, what is this like constant distinction now between naturalized citizens and natural born citizens? We're all citizens, we're supposed to have the same exact rights. So why are we even making the distinction? So over 96% of the people who get SNAP are US citizens, period, period, okay? And then there's a small number that we just explained, right? So but then you might say, well, look, there might be a lot of fraud. That's why John, I mean, he said 59% of the people getting snap are illegal immigrants preposterous, right?

But then you think, okay, maybe 59% of illegal immigrants get snap. Okay, now what he might want to tell you is undocumented immigrants are banned from getting snap. Oh, he forgot to tell you that? Okay, well, well, there might be fraud, though, because they could be banned and they're still getting it. So they did an analysis of the amount of fraud at all these different kinds of programs where they benefit Americans, right? So welfare, you know, Medicare, food stamps, etc. So SNAP, that's food stamps, came in at number one for least fraud in any of those programs at one and a half percent. And getting out like one and a half percent becomes nearly impossible because it's such a small number. you'd have to expend an enormous amount of money to get that one and a half percent out.

So it's, it's about as tight a program as any government can run. And it affects 42 million Americans. And John, so, okay, I'll explain the Afghanistan thing, one more, one quick thing. And then I want to get to the very heart of this. So guys, we had a guy who worked here, Steveo, did some good progressive shows for us, also was an executive for us. His family came from South Korea a long time ago, like I did. He came in when he was seven, I think, and I was eight when I came from Turkey. And so again, when they got here, they needed a little bit of help, right?

Because they were incredibly poor, right? And eventually his dad worked and his mom worked so hard. The whole family worked, and they eventually were able to get a 7-Eleven. And then that, like, built their family. And when we were growing up, Steve would always have to leave and go and do a shift at the 7-Eleven. And it wasn't optional because they were living the American dream. They were building themselves up. If they didn't have that tiny bit of food stamps to help them get through like close to starvation,

then they wouldn't have been able to do all those things. And by the way, then get to a place where he could hire a lot of people, whether it was at that 7-Eleven or the other businesses he wound up setting up, etc. Because those handouts, those hand-ups, as Clinton used to call them, are really not handouts just for the sake of handing out. Like, oh, here's some charity. By the way, Jesus believed in charity, charity is not a dirty word, right? But it's also to actually elevate people and elevate the economy overall in the long run, okay?

So it's none of this is evil as they're painting it. So now, John, to the heart of it, they don't want you to realize that they took over $4 trillion dollars and gave it to the richest people in the country in the tax bill they just passed, right? And so they're going to have to get that $4 trillion from somewhere. So they're going to get it from the poorest Americans, the 42 million that need food assistance. They're like, oh, great, we'll take it out of the mouth of babes, like literally snatch it away from hungry children. The main people that get snapped, by the way, are children and people above the age of 60. So it's literally grandmothers and kids who are hungry and don't have enough money or the ability to get a job at that point in their life.

etc and they can either starve in the street or we could help them and what administration after administration in this case the Republicans are way more guilty okay say are no let's take it from the poor let's take it from the middle class and let's give to the very richest people and why do they do that are they just like evil rich people well some of them yeah okay but but mainly because those are their donors and people that are on snap don't have money to donate to scum politicians. So they're like, well, you have been bribing me. So I'm going to snatch the tiny amount of food you got in your hand, and I'm going to give it to billionaires.

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tested. On the right, here's an example of one. I mean, this is a program that has exploded over the last 20 years. And we are just dumping a hundred billion a year into a program that we all know is being so woefully corrupted and exploited. People are selling their benefits. People are using them to get their nails done, to get their weaves and their hair. I mean, this is a really ugly program. It's weird to me to hear Josh Hawley screaming that we have to protect this. Sorry, there was a little problem in the middle of that video. I couldn't hear what he was saying. I just heard a dog whistle going off as loud as possible. Maybe we can fix that. for when we upload it to YouTube.

He knows what he's doing, he knows the game that they're playing. Yep, we shouldn't have this program, screw all those damn kids and their hunger, because somewhere a black woman is getting away with something. And by the way, that's how they typically would advance that message to their audiences. A guy who looks exactly like him saying that, but I've also seen going around, maybe you've seen it on like TikTok and Instagram Reels and everything. There's all these AI generated videos of black women, surrounded by six to 15 kids complaining about how they need to get their benefits and like

trying to get one over and conservatives then respond to the videos like this is why we need to cut it's all fake it's all made up nobody's actually making those videos but now they're using this new technology to advance the same old racist message which is you should be okay with the benefits that you need being taken away because maybe there's someone who you really hate that also is getting those benefits. And you know, there's an example of this actually, you know, people could speak out or audience members maybe who get these benefits could like could chime in about what it's meant to them.

But I also read J.D. Vance apparently when he was young, his family was on food stamps. And that's why he has been doing interview after interview to defend this program day after day talking about how important it is. Because he got to where he is and thanks in small parts of that and now they're gonna cut it. it. Well, actually, they already are. I mean, they're screwing us over now. Everybody remember, they cut 20% of food stamps out earlier this year in that bill that you were talking about. And it's not like they haven't done multiple rounds of cuts over the last decade. It's a regular thing. They have slashed it to the bone already. Yeah. So, John, to be fair, I got a weaved

the other day. So, I mean, it looks great. Thank you. I appreciate it. I think a lot of non-black folks get weaves. I don't know about weaves, but my sense is, no, John might be right about that whistle, right? So, but guys, why are they doing that? And why are they did the AI is a great point? Because that is an organized campaign with money behind it, right? Oh, let's get you to hate black people and make you think that only black people get food stamps. But as one of our members on t.yt.com pointed out, Funkin for fun said a lot of Trumpers get snap. Who are they trying to fool? Really? And that's the thing, guys. The rubber hits the road at some point. Like they can do all their AI stuff. And if you're like a rich Republican in the

suburbs, you're going to go to your country club and go, I do declare, I hear the food stamps are all going to black people for the hell and for the undocumented. It's a good thing we cut it so we can get more amenities at the course. Yeah, that might work with those guys, right? But if you're a Trump voter and all of a sudden they cut your food stamps and your kids are hungry, And not going to work. It's not going to work. So like, that's why the economy is hurting Trump the most in the polls. Because maybe you could tell a story about how we had to invade Venezuela and kill

the fishermen and you get people to believe, oh, the Latino drug dealers. Maybe you could do that. But when the prices go up, you can't trick them. The prices actually went up, right? When you take away their benefits, you can't trick them to you actually took their benefits. So, and by the way, can you actually get your hair done? with food stamps? No, that's why they're called food stamps. You cannot spend it on anything other than food. So that's another lie. Oh, but what about fraud? Oh, right. This is the

program that has the least amount of fraud in the government, right? And then, and the main thing I want to tell you guys is, look, to the point that our member made there, and by the way, hit the join button below, become a member, be part of the show. We love doing a show, you guys make great points. And to John's point, actually, real quick, Moonshine Dragon wrote, And my EBT is $23 per month. So that's what we learn from you guys as we interact. And to be, I didn't know you were that rich, $23 a month. Okay, wow, that does sound like it's bankrupt in the country.

Anyways, so guys, instead of hating your fellow Americans, I'm not telling you to hate someone else. Just find out who's actually robbing you, right? You think the guy in a West Virginia holler who's getting food stamps for his kids is the one that, rigged the system against you, or by the way, a black woman in the Bronx who is also your fellow American, who also has to feed her kids, you think she rigged the system? Or do you think maybe the incredibly wealthy donors rigged the system? Yeah, yeah, and by the way, again, right wing hosts like Finnegan or Smitty or whatever the hell their names are, nobody cares, they'll be like, ah, it's free money, it's not free

money, we pay taxes, person on the holler, the woman in the Bronx, they all pay taxes. And it goes to that. And of course, many, many, many times as much goes to corporate subsidies that Newsmax was created to get you to not pay attention to. And so by the way, it's not just the media. Representative Clay Higgins, he's saying basically, I don't want to go through the entire thing, but he's saying 22 million households get 4,200 per year. You could fill so many pantries with that. Any American who's been receiving $4,200 per year, free groceries, is again free and does not have at least one month of grocery stock should never again receive snap because wow stop smoking crack and he chose which drug to reference they're totally at random

it wasn't a conscious choice or a strategy or anything by the way the reality is that the average snap benefit is six dollars and 20 cents per person per day is that is that even a big mac i don't even know anymore but that's supposed to get you by six 20 per person per day do you know how Representative Clay Higgins gets to spend every day in D.C. on food, $79 per day, that's 12 times as much. I guess he's got a bigger appetite though. But I think we should go to his apartment, check his pantry. He better be saving half of each one of those meals, or else he never gets it again, that's what I say. Or maybe he's using it for crack. Maybe, I don't know, it seems to be on his mind, I'm not sure. And so a lot of people

consider this utterly heartless and inhumane and not just, you know, commies and libs, Bruno Pereira is the chair of the New Jersey Libertarian Party who tweeted during COVID I was spending $200 a week for baby formula. That's over $10,000 a year. So what the hell are you talking about 4,200 as if it's a lot? When was the last time you went grocery shopping completely and absolutely out of touch? You should be ashamed of yourself, which he should be, but he already should have been, clearly he's not capable of experiencing that. Now, the big update, though, is that there have been a couple of judicial decisions. One more recently in Rhode Island said that they would have to pay, saying that the federal

government does have to pay out the SNAP benefits. And so there was a previous one that was requiring that by Monday, the Trump administration sort of provides some additional information about why it is that they can't. So now there's been a couple of different cases, including one where the judge is just saying, you have to pay this out. And obviously they're not going to want to do that. So this sets up another battle between the executive and the judiciary. Yeah. So my last point, sir, Josh Hall is trying to be a populist. That's why you mentioned him earlier. He's saying, yeah, maybe we should actually pay the SNAP benefits, right? Because why, he's trying to get

actual votes. And the Republicans are so mad at him. They're mad at Marjorie Taylor Green and Tom Massey on other issues. But also on some of the government shutdown things that Marjor Taylor Green has been saying why because they're like well you just shut up already we have this beautiful system where we rob everybody for our donors what do you blabbing about with the freaking voters and Holly's like yeah but there also are donors and why is Holly doing that because he's a good guy no because he stopped taking corporate PAC money so he's now going populace as a strategy but I'll take it I wish they would all go populace as a strategy so he's like no but we

got to look out for the voters and they're like no we don't we just lie to them and the real problem, and by the way, I got this on the Democratic set. The real problem isn't that the Democratic politicians aren't delivering. The real problem is you're telling people that the Democratic politicians aren't delivering. So that's exactly what they're saying to Josh Hawley. No, the problem isn't that we're robbing them. The problem is that you're beginning to let them know that we're robbing them. And so that's creating the conflict.

And finally online, mainly MAGA is still like holding on, go, no, no, I think. This is good. This is my rough sense of it, right? But a bunch of them are breaking and going, wait, why is this good? What, why, wait, why do we give $40 billion to Argentina, but we can't feed our poor? Yeah. So now Argentina's going to feed their poor. And of course, Israel's all covered to, you know, to the end of time, et cetera, and all the corporations and everybody's fine, except Americans. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah, no, 100%. But, but, By the way, as I'm sure you guys have probably covered this, I might have missed it, but every dollar spent on SNAP benefits generates more than a dollar in economic activity

for a number of reasons. Any program that puts money in the pockets of four people, they spend a percent of it, that then goes into those local economies. I mean, all of this should be obvious. Any actual serious journalist like the ones on Newsmax pretend to be would have looked into that and would know that. And then also, I just think about like what the point of these programs are. So like, you're campaigning and you see that there's all these desperate poor people and they feel like they're being screwed over in some way. And so all this work is done so that they'll, for instance, be okay with ICE being given $100 billion a year, more than the vast majority of the world's militaries. Because then they're going to go out and get rid of the

immigrants who are making things so tough for so many poor Americans, right? Meanwhile, we shouldn't do the $100 billion in stat benefits. The direct thing that puts food in your stomach. So maybe we can clear out all of the Guatemalans or whatever. You're still going to be hungry. You're going to have nothing. There's no money left over. We gave it all to ice. It's just, it's so strange to the game that's being played. And I really hope that you're right that they're waking up to it. In any event, we're going to take our first break. We come back. Jank had reference following poll numbers for Donald Trump. We're going to reveal those to you after this.

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most proud to do relatively well with in the last election. See, when it comes to younger voters, those under 30 years old, he is at 20% approval. 20%. And that sounds like a joke. That sounds like something they just say on newsmax or whatever. But no, it's actually true. 75% disproval, 20% approval. That is, since February, a 30 point drop. He's lost more than half. He was at 50, 1 and 2, which isn't great, but you know, honeymoon period or whatever. People are like, ah, the Biden years are rough. I don't really have a lot of hope in the future. Roll the dice, maybe things will turn out well. And then since then, well more than half have been like, nope, I don't like what I'm seeing. And so he has dropped in every age,

category since he was inaugurated, but there's no age category where he dropped nearly as much. And this I think makes very clear. I mean, you saw all the dissections of the 2024 election how it's all done. They got the 18 year old Joe Rogan fans or whatever. No, if it was an ideological shift, if it was something like that, he wouldn't be dropping this fast, especially when his power hasn't been constrained, he's delivering on the things he said he would do and then a lot of corruption on top of it, it's that they're paying attention to what he's doing, it's not helping them. And they're not being given any reason to think that they will be helped. They see what's going on with the tariffs, with inflation, with health

care, they saw the big beautiful bill. They see all of this chaos and nonsense and criminality and corruption and younger voters who are very tapped in and they're consuming a lot of news are not liking what they're seeing. Yeah, so I want to give credit to a whole bunch of people here. I'm actually gonna ironically start with Trump. I don't think that it was a flash in the pan that he got to eight points in the positive for with young voters. I mean, 50 to 42 for a Republican to be winning under 30 year olds, that is amazing, right? I also don't think it's a coincidence that he's now gone from 50 to 20 and from eight positive to 55 negative. That is a 63 point drop. So the other two sets of folks that I'm going to give

credit to are young people and online media. And I'll explain that after we hear the rest of the story. Exactly, yeah. And so I reference that he's going down overall. And so that's worth acknowledging. His overall approval is at net negative 19. He's at 39% approval. That's the lowest I've seen. Usually I've seen him at about 41, 42. He's now below 40. And according to the economist and you gov, that's the lowest net approval he's received in any of their polls in his second term and lower than all but one for his first four years in office. So he is now in historically low territory for himself and the first year isn't even done. That by the way has swung 22 points since February. He was at plus three back in February. He is now negative

19. And if we want to break down the demographics again, you know, he had talked about how totally different change of the game in the last election for Latino voters, for black voters, well, perhaps it was. But right now, he's at 16% approval among black Americans and 30% of Latinos. So even more so, and particularly for black Americans, far more than average for Americans, they're not buying what he's selling. Yeah, so guys, this is not a small thing. He's underwater with the entire American population by 19 points. That's a disastrous number. And then as we've been telling you with the young, to be down minus 55, I mean, that goes

back to not only a democratic advantage, but like bigger than any democratic advantage I've ever seen. So, okay, now, it's a little bit of a misnomer because as I'm about to tell you, the young are not in what, how mainstream media thinks about it. Oh, it's a generational shift. Trump has won the young over forever, and he's done, you know, really got into black and Latino voters in a significant way. And now this will be like that for the next 20, 30 years.

No, you're not getting it, guys. So I mean the mainstream media, things are moving so much quicker than you realize. So what are young people looking for? Are they now just going to swing back to the Democrats and go, okay, I now love Democrats? No, what they're looking for is real change. and they're not interested in your BS. So they keep telling them, well, it's okay. You're going to get something at a later time, right?

Democrats are famous for that. There was nothing we could do. There was nothing we could do. I mean, if you elect us, there's nothing we can do. Well, all right, then young people told you to go take a long, walk off a short dock, right? And that's why in their frustration, they turned to Trump because at least he was promising change. So now Trump gets into office, doesn't take long. They look around and they go, where to F is the change?

What happened? I thought we were against war. Now we're like, going to go to war with Iran and Venezuela, blah, blah, blah. I thought we were America first, and everyone is like licking Net Yahoo's boots. What the hell's, what part of that is America first? And wait, I thought we're going to look out for us. And now what was on Argentina's got $40 billion and everyone's got money. Rich got another gigantic multi-trillion dollar tax cut.

where's when are we going to get anything and you know young people until we kind of do a political peaceful revolution my answer is clear to you you're not ever going to get anything these guys are all crooks they all work for giant corporations and some foreign governments they don't work for us at all the donor class has been robbing us not just now for about 50 years straight and the worst thugs of all are mainstream media who hide that fact from you, their whole job is to make sure you don't see it. They're like, no, no, no, no, no, they're donors, donors, like how can you not be furious with the donors? How could you be in the news business and not understand, all right, it looks

like the politicians do what the donors want nearly 100% of the time? That's complicated. You couldn't solve that? So now the good news, online media is destroying mainstream. media. And before they're like, oh, there's online media has disreputable people. They're not as serious as Jake Tapper, who's so serious, he'll look down his nose at you and go, you don't deserve anything. The status quo is great, okay? No, it's not. The status quo is deep, utter corruption that you're hiding from everyone. Well, guess what? You're caught. Okay, online media is infinitely better than mainstream media, and we caught you sons of So now you know how many people under the age of 30 are watching television?

Zero, none, zero. So why did they flip so much? Because they weren't brainwashed by mainstream media. They're not watching mainstream media. And that's why they're traditional media and politicians are so mad right now. They're like, get back to the brainwashing machine. We set up this beautiful machine. It's called a television set.

And we scrub your brains clean. your brains clean. Oh, y'all don't know, once the rich get it, they'll trickle all over you. Oh yeah, 40 years later, don't worry. No, we give everything to the rich, we give everything corporations and other governments, and then they trickle on you, and you should celebrate that. No, brothers and sisters, you're caught, mother efforts. So what you're seeing for under 30 now is soon gonna be the whole country.

It's gonna be under 45, then under 55, and so 99 mainstream media and all these corrupt politicians. So Trump, you thought you had to be, oh, you're the younger on my side. Are they? They already left the building. You didn't even realize it. Yeah. I think you're definitely right at the read right now. I hope that going forward it works that way.

I harbor a lot of fears about the weaponization of algorithms and AI and we'll see. But so far, I find this to be like it is, it's one thing that no matter how wildly unpopular he grows, he still will do anything he wants. All that like prior talk of like whether you have a mandate or not, he's so far beyond that almost to his credit. And so that sucks. But it's good to know that people are paying attention and they don't like what they're seeing. If you've ever felt like maybe you're crazy if the results of the last election make you think, well, I guess we've been wrong this whole time. No, people aren't into this at all. And the final thing I want to say about

this is so amazing is like, I think it's like one thing when people take a look at Joe Biden and they're like, ah, he didn't do anything or what he did was too slow or not enough or like, oh, he said he was going to do something and then I got overturned or he said he was going to do something and then Kirsten Cinema did like a thumbs down like people I think got really sick of that sort of like lazy do almost nothing kind of thing with Donald Trump it's not the same thing he's aggressively doing terrible things he is wielding as much power as he wants but if you're a regular person you're saying he can do anything he wants and none of it is with an eye to me or my family so

he can throw the money to Argentina it's like okay so we had supply chain problems, Joe Biden didn't do enough, there was inflation. Trump's just like, no, I'm gonna do tariffs, I'm gonna cause inflation. It's an aggressive version of the incompetence, let alone all of the other stuff that he's doing. And so what's been most amazing for me is that Donald Trump is supposed to have these amazing political instincts, and I don't see it. He doesn't seem to understand, or maybe he just doesn't care that he's so wildly unpopular. But the fact that this guy is at the worst economic numbers, any president has ever been at,

at this point in their presidency, and the dude cannot go a day without talking about marble this, gold that he's like, he's cosplaying Joanna Gaines in the Oval Office every day. It's like he was tasked, like a challenge mode, how disconnected from the struggle of the American people can you seem to be? That's what's been so strange to me about all this. Yeah, because once he got what he wanted power and now crypto is, it gotten them $800 million in ill gotten gains, he's like, I don't care about you guys, I'm back. to all the only thing I care about is marble bathrooms and golden ballrooms.

And it lined with both gold and national secrets, of course. Exactly. Because if he's got a bathroom in a ballroom, he's gonna put classified documents in it. Yeah. Okay, I think we should probably take our second break of the hour, but when we come back, apparently we're back in the nuke game. We'll break down why Donald Trump is doing what he's doing after this. That's annoying.

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Any details around the testing, sir, like where or when? We'll be, it'll be announced. You know, we have test sites. It'll be announced. So Donald Trump has announced, and this is a big thing that for the first time in literally decades, the United States supposedly will begin nuclear testing once again. And importantly, he decided to announce this on true social right before meeting with the leader of China.

Cenk, what do you think? Yeah, so there's one thing we needed was more nukes, and you know, for a guy who promised to be anti-war, I'm really glad he's getting our nukes ready, as we have Venezuela surrounded, and we've already attacked Iran, and Indian Pakistan almost went to nuclear war a little while ago. So I'm glad that war thing is totally done with. Exactly, yeah. Okay.

Yeah, and the best thing about it is that developing and building more nuclear weapons is super cheap too. So that's gonna be awesome. Nobody's gonna make a buttload off of this. In any event, here was the initial announcement on true social. The United States has more capital and nuclear weapons than any other country. This was accomplished, including a complete update and renovation of existing weapons during my first term in office.

Let's pause for a second. All of that would seem to indicate that we in fact do not need to do more nuclear testing, evidently, we already have an overwhelming stockpile that has been recently updated. But we're going to spend a couple hundred billion dollars on it anyway. He says, I had to do it, blah, blah, blah. Russia is second and China is a distant third, but will be even within five years. Because of other countries' testing programs, I have instructed the Department of War to start testing our nuclear weapons on an equal basis.

That process will begin immediately, except not immediately. Someday they will announce it, supposedly. And so that was the message. There's a couple of problems with that. First of all, I guess this is a small thing, we don't have the most nukes. Everybody agrees that Russia has the most nukes. We may have more big nukes than Russia, but they're nukes. If they all start going to have a bad day.

We have more than 4,000, they have more than 5,000. It's a lot, but he just feels the need to fit in an extra lie. And so he says that he's ordered the Department of War to conduct the test, but there's a couple of problems with that. First of all, it doesn't exist, it's the Department of Defense. But more importantly, it's that the Department of Defense doesn't test nuclear weapons. It's the Department of Energy. But why would he have to know any of that?

He's given off Rick Perry vibes, by the way, there's an old reference for you. And so he didn't do the homework, he didn't think about this. And I've quibbled with a couple of small things. There is a bigger problem here, which is that first of all, he says, because of other countries testing, we have to do it on an equal basis. There's no testing going on anywhere, nowhere. And by the way, you might think, well, the world's a big place, maybe people are hiding it. No, you can detect a nuclear test, it's a big boom.

You could kind of tell when it goes off, there's been no tests. We haven't done one since 1992, China hasn't done one since 1996, Moscow was 1990. And so the entire reason he's given is a lie. This is not based on other countries testing because other countries aren't. not testing. North Korea hasn't done one even in many years. There's no indication that they're doing anytime soon. So obviously there's some other reason that he'd be doing this. And of course, he did do it right before meeting with China. So maybe it's just a scare tactic. Or maybe it's a convenient way to funnel tens or hundreds of billions of dollars into the companies that

are going to be producing these nukes. Of course. So, oh, I bet that they didn't donate a lot to Trump or to Republican and Democratic politicians. No. No, those defense contractors, You know, they don't like corruption, no, no, no. Have you seen the most recent renders of the Lockheed Martin ballroom? It's beautiful. Okay, so guys, number one, I was just coincidentally reading about some of our earliest nuclear tests. And back then they're like, oh, we found an area that was largely unpopulated, except they didn't really double check. So it was a little populated and 13 year old girls all got cancer and died.

So except one, one survived. So, and that happened to a number of people. Now look, I hope we're better than that these days, although, mm, okay. So now Trump used to call nuclear the N word, the other N word, you remember that? Yeah, okay. He did it recently actually. Yeah. And so, so then why would he be the one, if he's like, if he thinks it's such a dirty,

terrible thing to be the only country in the world testing nukes now, right? Because he also thinks nuclear means strong. And since he has a very, let's be polite and call it an instinctual brain. Others might call it a lizard brain, but like simple, like nukes big strong. We test nukes, we big strong. Everybody already knows we have the most nukes. Don't worry, we could wipe out everybody. We don't have to show it.

Like if you have a big one, you don't have to show it, okay? But if you have a tiny one, then you're like, Trust me, I've got a big N word here, trust me. All right, all right, all right. Okay, so now, I don't, you guys probably don't remember this. But if you watch Young Tourists long enough, you might, because I was so amazed by it. In his first term, he suggested to his cabinet, and he's like, nooks, that's a word strong with the nukes. Let's do tenfold of the nukes we have now.

And they're like, do you have any idea how expensive they are? Tenfold would literally bankrupt the country. We'd have no money left, right? So that's when Rex Tillerson, his secretary of state at the time, walked out of the meeting and said, that guy's an effing moron. And then did they actually do what Trump asked 10 times our news? No, they didn't do anything, they just ignored him, and then he forgot. Because that's the kind of strong leader he is.

Exactly. Yeah, wildly expensive, totally unnecessary, and also potentially counterproductive. Well, from the point of view of a rational person, because if we start doing it, so he's saying we have to do it because other countries are doing it, except that other countries aren't doing it. But if we do it, other countries probably will do it. And that's a bad thing, right? Like an arms race? But like, what if he doesn't care? What if a lot of his donors want us to start jacking up our defense spending, even more than the trillion or so dollars we spend per year? So we'll end with this.

He was asked about whether resuming the testing could escalate tensions, and here's what he had to say. Do you worry that we're entering a more risky environment when it comes to nuclear issues? No, I don't think so. I think we haven't pretty well locked up. But we, you know, we have more than anybody. But I see them testing. I say, well, they're going to test, I guess we have to test. I'd like to see a denuclearization because we have so many.

And Russia has some. Russia's second and China's there. And China will catch up within four or five years. I think de-escalation would be, and they would call it denuclearization would be a tremendous thing. And it's something we are actually talking to Russia about that. And China would be handed to that if we do something. So I'd like to de-escalate, but I'm going to do the exact opposite with no provocation whatsoever. Again, strong leadership there.

But he's so confident that they've been testing. And it just makes me remember, do you remember what he said about Portland? about like what he's seeing. Are people seeing something other than what I'm seeing? Yeah. Like is he just being like totally just let around by his advisors at this point? Did someone, did Stephen Miller tell him they're doing nuclear testing, they're laughing at you, they're gonna eclipse us? John, I thought the same exact thing. He said that one so confidently, I think he really believes that others are doing testing, which led me to believe, oh, somebody lied to him, or maybe a group of people inside the White House lied to him about

how they're doing testing because Trump can't help himself. He's just going to say what's the top of his mind. So if he thought they're not really doing testing, he'd like, well, they're all doing the testing. I mean, they're not, but they are, right? Like he'll, he always accidentally tells you what he's thinking. So the way that he said that John and I had the same thought independently, oh, somebody lied to him. Yeah. And so then that made me much more worried, because why are they lying to him? Exactly. It's easy to get Trump like to riled up, Oh, if you were strong, you do this nuke testing. I mean, all the others are doing it.

I guess you're being weak, right? But what is their agenda for testing those nukes? Who are they trying to intimidate, scare? Which war are they trying to win without using the nukes but threatening the nukes? So, and the fact that the president has no earthly idea what's actually happening in the world is also deeply problematic. Yeah, yeah, I hope that in a couple of years, Jake Tapper writes a book about the skits to the bottom of it. Violating federal court orders right now. You're not wanting in our city.

Violating federal court orders right now. You are not wanted in our city. You're not wanted in our neighborhood. I don't understand how you can think this way, man. You're scaring the children. I've sent a letter to Christy Knoem and to the Department of Homeland Security leadership, asking them to pause all of their federal agent operations for the entirety of the Halloween weekend. Give the children and the families of Illinois a break.

That is, of course, Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker begging the government to just take one day off the brutality and the repression so that kids could have their Halloween. And the reason he had to do that is because as he saw on that video, border patrol agents had disrupted and deployed tear gas at a gathering of kids that were going to be doing a Halloween parade earlier this week. So he's hoping maybe if he asks nicely, they'll let us live our goddamn lives for one day. But I don't know how optimistic I am. Jank, what do you think? Yeah, so I remember when Trump was And he said, look, the main thing I want to do with ICE is scared a living crap out of American kids.

Okay, to be fair to him, maybe he thinks this will add to Halloween. You like trick or treat. I'll send actual mass men to come and kidnap people in your neighborhood and throw smoke bombs. And, you know, trick or treat. Okay, so we got a poll on this that I want to tell you about in a second. second, and I want to give you the details of how they're coming after our Halloween at this point. And then I want to talk about what terrors they're going to have for Thanksgiving. Oh my God, Jesus. Well, he, again, asked very nicely. Why don't we jump to our third video

so we can get the actual response from Christy Knoem about J.B. Pritzker's request there. Do you have any plans to alter activity tomorrow on that day? No, we're going to be out on the streets in full force and increase our activities to make sure kids are safe. Every day in Chicago, we're arresting murderers, child pedophiles, those who have perpetuated assault and pornography against children. We're going to be out there to make sure that they can be safe, enjoy the holidays, spend some time with their families and their neighbors and their communities, and they don't have to be the victim of a crime because of these illegal aliens that are in our country victimizing them. Yeah, so very Orwellian there. They're specifically saying, we're being brutalized. Your border patrol and ICE are doing this and she's like, no, we're gonna keep doing it and

then the immigrants won't get you or whatever. And I look, I don't know that I was ever optimistic that anyone in the Trump administration would have been okay with J.B. Prisker's request, but I thought at least with Kristy Noem, she's such a fan of putting on costumes. I thought she'd be more of a pro Halloween sort of person, but unfortunately not. Yeah, no, she did once for fun. She had someone dressed as a dog and then she shot him in a, okay, I'm kidding, I'm kidding, no one dresses a dog. She shot an actual dog, which is actually true. Dark humor.

Jesus, anyways, so look, I get it. You thought that this thing of like scaring everyone to no end every time, oh, we're picking up murders and child pedophiles. Yeah, but when you did that in the beginning and you actually did, right, your numbers were really high. And that's what the American people did vote for. Now, we know you got those guys already. We know you're not going after them anymore. We know you're going after. Yes, people who are undocumented, generally speaking, but that have been here for 20, 30 years.

You're like getting them out of their workplace and their homes, et cetera. And on top of that, you're also arresting a bunch of American citizens by accident because they're Latino. And so, and did we cover this earlier in the week in Chicago? Yeah, the ISIS throwing tear gas in neighborhoods. They dragged out a 67-year-old American guy, kicked the crap out of him, broke six of his ribs. Jesus. So, and why are they doing this to Chicago?

Because Illinois and Chicago would not allow Trump to bring in the National Guard. He wanted to bring in the national guard. He wouldn't let him to death. You're going to punish Chicago. No, Chicago is an American city. You're not supposed to punish the city, and it's American inhabitants. you were supposed to get the criminals, which again were fair show in America.

In the beginning, they did get the criminals, and that's why his polling on immigration was really high. And now when he's doing these weirdo tactics against American neighborhoods on Halloween, his polling is now very low. And earlier in the show, we talked about how he's down minus 19 on his approval number. That is a disastrous number. And so, like, what's he going to do next with other beloved American? holidays. Like, all right. Now, I remember Sarah Palin with the murder of the turkey in the

background? Like this was the bartender turkey and she was behind like a turkey grinder where they would take live turkeys and put him in the grinder and the turkey's like, I don't know if Trump's going to do some ISIS version of that. I don't know. Oh my God. And at Christmas, please, please, Santa is documented. Yes, he's from the North Pole. He's not from here. He's not technically an American. Please do not grab Santa or his elves or his reindeer okay there's a caravan coming in we found the caravan okay did any of these sort of this tracking thing with the red bulbous thing going off the whole time all right anyways guys come on how is this protecting America

you know it's not protecting America all right and we asked this question on t yt.com combining a bunch of our stories from today which of these headlines is the scariest makes sense for Halloween a newsmax host says snapper says are getting their nails done. B, Trump orders nuclear weapons testing for the first time since 1992. That one seems to be winning. Meta's chief censor boasts about banning political opinions. We're gonna get to that later in the program,

but of course only political opinions against Nicaragua, right. No, Israel, Israel, what a coincidence, it's Israel again. And D, Nome ramping up ice presence on Halloween. You know what, we do this whole scary story about the ice in Halloween, only at like 5% or something. Just because they're going to launch nukes. You guys are scared more by that. All right, well, we're still laughing for now.

But by the way, last thing is, in Chicago, they're not laughing. If you don't live in Chicago, you don't realize what's happening there. But I'm getting reports from Chicago. ICE is terrorizing the whole city. They're everywhere. They're constantly doing raids. Everybody's worried. They now have whistles.

So when you see ice, they whistle. So, like, so you know that something is coming down the street. at you. This is not how our government is supposed to terrorize us. Again, guys, if they were doing things in an open way, no mask, you got the badge, they're American law enforcement, and they got a bad guy, no one's against that. We're against this kind of weirdo Gestapo tactics. Yeah, I get the 20% of the country or whatever is like ecstatic about this, but the rest of us hate it. Yeah. Yeah. All right, we got to go. John, you're awesome. Happy Halloween, brother. I'll be off next week, by the way, but Jordan, Yaz and Sharon will be filling in.

All right, beautiful. And when we come back, we do have that story of Israeli censors bragging on tape about how they're banning anyone against Israel, they're making sure that there's pro-Israeli stuff. It's amazing, it's an amazing story. We'll do that when we return.