The Young Turks - Strait-Up Israelification - May 7, 2026

Episode Date: May 8, 2026

Donald Trump reportedly reversed course on reopening the Strait of Hormuz after fierce backlash from allies, as soaring jet-fuel prices spark new fears inside the administration about economic fallout from the Iran conflict. Meanwhile, Thomas Massie is openly battling what he calls the treachery of Trump’s Republican Party, AIPAC, and the “Epstein class.” Thanks to today's sponsors: Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt Get 40% OFF the Ground News Vantage Plan when you sign up at ground.news/tyt Stay informed without the media spin at ground.news/tyt Go to cookunity.com/tyt or enter code TYT before checkout to get 50% off your first order. Use less data, get paid by switching to Noble Mobile: https://go.tyt.com/getnoble 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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Learn more at www.f35.com slash Canada. Welcome to TYT. I'm your host, Anna Kasparian. Jank Uger will be joining us a little later. He is late, but he will be back very soon, and we will be covering pretty much everything in the rundown together. However, I will be discussing at the top of the show today, just more of the economic fallout as a result of this now ongoing war with Iran. I say ongoing because one of the bigger updates is that it appears that the kinetic hot war

is back on. It could change in the next few hours because everything changes hour to hour when it comes to this war, but just stick around for that update. I will be doing that with Jank a little later in the show. We'll talk about the economy. Later in the second hour, we're also going to discuss us what the Israeli military, what the Israeli media admits just openly, overtly, they are totally confessing that the protests that took place in Iran earlier this year, the protests that the Persian diaspora

in Beverly Hills uses as an excuse to carry out the ongoing war in Iran, yeah, that's Turns out totally manufactured by the Israelis, which is what we suspected. So we'll get to that later in the second hour. We're also going to cover Jeffrey Epstein's alleged, and I really do mean alleged, suicide note. But right now, let's talk a little bit about what the Trump administration is concerned about, even though Trump himself made the decision to enter a war without a real plan. All right. The Trump administration is concerned, worried, if you will, about what is to

come for the Republican Party in the midterm elections. Now that we're dealing with higher gas prices, inflation was already bad and it is set to get worse. So this economic fallout, which is of course the result of the ongoing war against Iran is gonna have some real political consequences for the Trump administration. At least that's according to a new scoop from the Wall Street Journal. So per the Wall Street Journal, Trump has been privately communicated. with members of his administration about how he's increasingly worried, okay, and he should be worried that his party is about to suffer a shalacking in the midterms. And I think that the shalacking

is definitely going to come, because one thing that Americans absolutely loathe is paying too much for gas. And right now, we're paying too much for gas. It's all due to a war that could have been avoided. It was a war of choice. And it's a war that the American people know has been, you know, launched on behalf of Israel, not in terms of the best benefits or the best interests of the American people. So since the Iran war began, jet fuel prices have doubled. U.S. airlines spent more than $5 billion on fuel in March, and that's up from 30, up 30% from a year earlier, according to government data. And that, of course, was something that has already hit Americans when it comes to their summertime travel plan. So if you're trying to book a flight,

you're noticing that that flight is a lot more expensive today than it was just a few months ago. So in March, for instance, the price of a U.S. domestic roundtrip economy ticket rose 21% from just a year earlier to $570, according to Airlines Reporting Corps. And Trump's advisors are eager to end the war. They want to end it as soon as possible. At least that's what the Wall Street Journal is alleging. And they hope that if they end the war as soon as possible, by the time we get closer to the midterms, prices will moderate a little bit.

Now if you listen to economic experts debate this matter, many of them do not believe that prices will moderate by the time we hit midterms. In fact, we're not really suffering the full consequence of how much destruction has been caused to oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf. And by the time we experience what has already happened in terms of damage to that infrastructure, it'll be around August or September. At least that's what economic experts are alleging. And so Trump's advisors might think if we end the war today, maybe we can still save the

Republican Party for the midterms. Number one, the war is not gonna end today. In fact, things unfortunately got worse and now you're hearing stories about how the US is striking, you know, Iran, Iranian ports, Iran is also responding by targeting military vessels, US military vessels near, you know, near their coast. So it's not a good sign. But Trump's advisors, I don't know if they have any plan, really. It doesn't even matter what Trump's advisors tell him or what they want.

It doesn't matter if he's getting the best advice within his administration. The influence of a foreign country on this administration and the decisions that Trump makes in regard to foreign policy is what seems to reign supreme. So former New Hampshire Governor Chris Sununu, who has a name I love to pronounce, fun last name. He's now the president of Airlines for America. It's an industry group for the airline industry. Here's what he's warning. Ticket prices won't go down immediately. You're looking at elevated ticket prices through the summer and fall because, you know, it takes a while for the prices to go down. Now, when asked for comment, a White House spokesperson blatantly lied,

which we should all expect at this point, and said the following. The president and his entire energy team anticipated these short term disruptions to the global energy markets from Operation Epic Fury and had a plan prepared to mitigate these disruptions. Really? Really, what was the plan? Because if I remember correctly, and I do remember correctly, President Trump was shocked that the Iranians closed the Strait of Hormuz in response to U.S. attacks. Now, anyone with two brain cells to rub together, anyone who is paying attention to the hostilities between the United States and Iran knew that this is what Iran was threatening to do, and that's exactly what they did. Why are we surprised by that? So the idea that Trump

had a plan in place to mitigate the economic consequences of this war is laughable to say the least. So how do we know it's a lie? Well, one, according to the New York Times, Trump didn't even believe that, you know, they were going to close the Strait of Hormuz, and they did. And then on top of that, General Kane also flagged the enormous difficulty of securing the Strait of Hormuz and the risks of Iran blocking it. Trump had dismissed that possibility on the assumption that the regime would capitulate before it came to that. They ain't capitulating. I think that's pretty clear. And then on top of that, Trump has admitted that he thought the Iran war would be even worse for energy prices than it has borne out so far. However,

Trump decided to go to war anyway, and then you have this clip from just a few weeks ago. Take a look. I said to my people, the world gathered, all these wonderful guys, Scott Bass sent to the whole group, Howard, they're all doing a good job. I said, fellas, I get a little bad news for you. I'm going to put a little wrinkle in your numbers. Why, sir? We're going down to a place called Iran, and we're going to make sure that they never have

a nuclear weapon because they'll use it to blow it because they're religious fanatics. And they will use that weapon to blow up the world. but they'll start with Israel in the Middle East, and we're not going to let that happen. And they said, wow, that's going to be bad. I said, yeah, it's going to hurt the market, and it's going to drive up the price of oil and whatever it is. But that's peanuts compared to what would happen if we let this happen. And if you would have told me that the Dow is almost, I'm looking at your thing. I mean, literally we're at 50,000.

And if you would have told me that oil is at 90, as opposed to 200, I would be frankly surprised. So in other words, President Trump wants to tell the American people, despite the fact that you're paying a lot more for your summer travel plans, despite the fact that you are paying a lot more just to get to and from work every day because of rising gas prices, you're welcome, America, you're welcome. Isn't he such a great president? You're welcome. It could have been worse. It could have been worse. This is just the price you pay to ensure that Iran doesn't obtain a nuclear weapon, which they weren't pursuing in the first place. So let's hear from actual Americans and what they're going through. So for instance, there are some first responders in Maine who are claiming that surging fuel prices are adding up quickly for fire, EMS, and law enforcement agencies that rely on constant travel. Well, I mean, if they need to spend more on fuel, that must mean they need more resources to run their operations, which could mean higher state and local taxes.

Congratulations, and you're welcome, America. Let's get to other people, including the head of a meal delivery service for seniors in Missouri, who stated, quote, it's really put a hurt on us, you know, trying to deliver those meals daily. We just can't do it anymore. Well, Pam, you know, sad day for you. But don't you feel so great that our military is carrying out a war on behalf of Israel? Aren't you happy about that? Don't you feel good about it? One more.

Let's go to what's happening now that we have Mother's Day coming up. So a florist, an Omaha, Nebraska says the following. Quote, the gas has definitely gone up. You know, we do a lot of delivering. probably driving, you know, 200 miles a day. So, you know, delivering the flowers is definitely more expensive. We do have more delivery fees coming from our wholesalers. So in other words, businesses are gonna go under as a result of this, small businesses especially. But it's okay, because we're helping Israel fight a war that they desperately wanted us to fight for many decades

so they can expand their borders. So you're welcome America. Trump is doing you a favor. Cenk, you're two cents. So look guys, we've talked a lot about this. Lacking indicators are prices that oil effects and aluminum and helium and fertilizer effects because those are among the top commodities that are blocked. And so that pain is coming whether the war is over or not because it's just a matter of time before it hits you. So if the war is over and your prices go up, you're gonna go, what the hell is

just happened, I thought the war was over, right? But that's the reverberating consequences of the war. Now, at this point, it doesn't look like it's over. And if it's not over, then the reverberating consequences are not going to be significant waves. They're going to be a tsunami. And so look, and as we've talked a lot about, this isn't just counterproductive for America. But I guess I'm not sure that I've ever put it this crisply, like if that economic

tsunami hits America, we, this country's gonna be so furious towards Israel that our relationship will be totally unrecoverable. The entire globe will be furious toward Israel and the United States jank. Yeah. But no, no, I think the fury toward Israel though is only based on anti-Semitism. They can't possibly ever do anything wrong. And so any criticism is just, it's just our, our deep-seated hatred for, I guess, Jewish people. And they're minds. Well, so that's why that victimhood complex, it's feigned by a lot of people, but it's genuine for probably more people, is a giant problem because they think, well, they must hate us

because we're Jewish, that's what we've been taught our whole life. So that means we don't have to do any self-reflection, we don't ever have to change course, we're never wrong because everyone who hates us hates us, irrationally. And they hate us for something we can't change our religion and our identity. that lie is so effective, it used to be super effective externally, like hey, don't say anything against Israel, otherwise you're an anti-Semite. Now it's effective, unfortunately, in the wrong way internally, where they, Israel's support, is not all Jewish people at all, 63% of Jewish Americans are against the current Israeli government.

But folks who support the Israeli government think, no, no, if your gas prices went up, that's not Israel's fault, that's your fault for being an anti-Semite. And like, that sounds hilarious, right? But they genuinely believe that any criticism, even the slightest ones, is with bad intent. So that's why it can't possibly be their fault. I don't know if they genuinely believe it. I actually- I think the majority of them do.

Maybe the majority of Israelis have deluded themselves into thinking, any criticism toward their country or their government is just based on anti-semit. Maybe, I don't know. But in terms of the people in positions of power, in Israeli society. No, they're, I mean, they know what they're doing. They're totally weaponizing identity in order to silence anyone who disagrees with what they've been pushing the United States to do, not just with this war, but with multiple foreign

conflicts. Yeah, there's no question, Anna. I understand what you're saying. And actually, that's a super interesting icon. I wanted to talk to Peter Beinard a little bit about it. We did a substack conversation. You should check that out on our substack page. But we didn't get into it enough.

half got into it. And I wanna have it with someone else that is gonna have an intellectual conversation about it instead of freaking out, right? Did he freak out? No, no, Peter didn't freak out. But I wanna have a larger one. Because guys, what a lot of Jewish Americans don't realize, and not just about people inside Israel, but also here in America, is that they think, well, I'm not any part of any

nefarious plot. So there's all this stuff must be like weirdo, super anti-Semitic stuff that I was taught about when I was a kid, right? And from their perspective, I totally get it because they're not part of any nefarious plot at all, right? But their leaders are. And that has never occurred to them, that, hey, maybe I'm not involved, but some super powerful folks on my side are. Now, it's funny because honestly, like almost any other ethnicity and background, wouldn't be surprised by that. Why?

Not because Jews are particularly X, Y, or Z? No, no, no, no. It's because, like, if you're Turkish, do you know that Turkish leaders could be up to no good, even if you're not? Of course, of course you know that, right? So I just fill in the blank for any other group, you know that the guys at the top could be doing things, including Americans, right? We know the guys at the top are the worst of us, right?

Not the best of us. But because of the overwhelming propaganda about how, no, the whole world hates us, and it doesn't matter what we do. Everyone hates us. So whenever anyone criticizes you or Israel or anyone else, totally ignore it. It's and in fact, don't ignore it. Hate that person. And just yeah.

Because that person is attacking you for your identity, right? Yeah, that's so totally stupid. Yeah, and so too. It's a, but by the way, I just, these people are not dumb, okay? They're not dumb. So like, it's just common sense. If your government is pressuring and has succeeded in getting the United States to start a war that has already caused harm to the global economy,

and it's only going to get worse, why would you assume that criticism toward your government is just based on anti-Semitism? Because it's convenient. Yeah, because it's convenient because they weaponize their identity, Jank. That's what it is. No, no, I know. But look, last two things on that. So we all, to some degree, weaponize our identity, and we don't do it purposely.

So when you talk to a Turkish person, for example, about the Armenian genocide, eight out of ten times, they're going to deny it. Why? Because they were taught, no, no, no, everybody's just being against Turks, right? They think the Turks are barbarians and savages, and that's why they do the- Okay, pause. I want to make sure we're talking about the same thing. For me, weaponizing identity means getting something substantive out of using your identity to manipulate others. So a perfect example would be, right? I mean, you saw a lot of this actually.

I mean, when you look at the DEI era, for lack of a better way of phrasing it, right? You still have, you know, a ton of black Americans struggling in a lower socioeconomic status, no real effort to systemically lift them up. But the people who weaponized their black identity tended to be highly privileged and elite black people to begin with. Right, see, that's a perfect analogy, because that goes to point two that I was gonna make in this regard. Yeah.

So the people at the top weaponize it. Yes. And so like, but the people that are in that group have no idea, right? So if you're an average African American, they say, hey, you gotta support this African American politician because we need representation and et cetera and perspective. That seems totally normal and reasonable to you, right? And so you wanna do that. What you don't know is a lot of those leaders just came up with that as a talking point

to get everybody's votes and they shame and guilt others for not voting for them, right? The leaders are perfectly aware of that. I mean, oh my God, in this country, I mean, I can name a lot of names there in that category that are perfectly aware of it. But the followers are, and everybody else in that group isn't. Yes, I get what you mean now. I totally get what you mean. Yeah.

The people within that group, within that identity group are also manipulated by the weaponization of identity, by people in positions of power to get even more of what they want. In fact, they're the most manipulated within their own group. That's fair, that's fair. So for example, come back to the economy. So I tell you guys, you see higher gas prices, Israel did that to you. There's no quite, that's empirical. We would not have gone into this war, we have almost no American interest in it.

So you know that, right? But what a lot of Jewish Americans here is Jews did that to you, you should hate Jews, and so I'm super worried about this guy. It's so why do they hear it wrong, right? And they are, they're empirically wrong. So when I say the Turkish government did something to you like taking northern Syria, I certainly don't mean all Turks, I didn't do it, right? And Turks generally get it because they have a government, they've had a government for a long time,

and the government has done a lot of wrong things for a long time, right? So, et cetera. But what I'm trying to get Jewish Americans, I'm just, I'm trying to get Jewish Americans, I'm understand is we're not saying Jews. Your leaders are manipulating you to think we're saying Jews. We got no issues with you at all. Our issues is with the government of Israel that is doing these malicious and terrible things. And is it because of them and the war that they started that our gas prices are higher?

Yes, it's not your fault, brother. You didn't do it, right? But they did. And they've been, we've all been brainwashed, guys. I got brainwashed by Turkish propaganda. That's why I didn't believe in the Armenian genocide for so long. So I've been there, I've been there, okay? to Douglas Murray for the first time.

I've been there, okay? Have you been? Yeah, so I understand that mentality really, really well, right? But what I want to tell my fellow Turks, my fellow Jewish Americans, et cetera, not my fellow, but is that, guys, we're not, nobody's attacking you. We're just talking about what governments do and governments have done terrible things, including, yes, the Israeli government. They're not some special magical government that can't ever do anything wrong, let alone the things

they're actually massively doing wrong. So don't take it in a personal way. And the good news is again, I keep repeating this stat because it's so important. And it's part of the manipulation of the media that they never state this stat, right? That's 63% of Jewish Americans are against the current Israeli government, okay? So the reason why mainstream media doesn't repeat that stat is because they want to have the excuse of being able to call Israel's critics anti-Semites. And later in the show, we've got a story about that.

Yeah, so you see how the media. is manipulating not just all Americans, but particularly Jewish Americans. You should be afraid. You dare insulting you. All in an effort not to protect Jewish Americans who are against the Israeli government, but in an attempt to protect the Israeli government. And that's why I say mainstream media and our politicians serve that government, and it's really sick the way that they do.

I totally agree. All right, we're gonna take a break. When we come back, major updates, it does appear that the kinetic, Hot war has reignited between the United States and Iran. So I mean, anyway, just come back. I'll give you the details as we have them. And I'm sure they'll change within the next 10 minutes. Picture this.

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All of you are crazy, says Cypher. He snuck in. Are you sure Jenk done it this way? I was just getting mesmerized with Anna's hair and then Jenks showed up. Sorry. By the way, did you coordinate with my outfit today? I did not, but okay, but I- Both wearing pink.

Yeah, mine's much lighter than yours. Yeah. And we are not doing who wore it better. Jenks left-trys of a furor who's in the shadow. Ecclactic says, oh wait, Jenks actually there. Did he come in late like I did? L.O.L. New feature, what, okay guys, I came in a little late. I had some on to do.

All right. Drew 711 says Anna's outfit is giving first woman president vibes or energy. I don't know, but yeah, indeed. Newfie Dragon says the boss has never laid LOL. There you go. Karen Olo says that round trip US domestic flight ticket is going to go up to around $1,000 before it comes down a little before the midterms maybe bet on it, Polymarket or William Hill. Yeah, it's already going up, it's gonna go up a lot more.

Israel did that to you. Embedded dues is when gas is $10 per gallon. Will Mago still blindly support Trump? Probably. Well, the guys who are dug in are never gonna get, they're like the Japanese guy in the cave. They're never coming out. But he's already totally lost all of his independent supporters and about 20% of his Republican supporters.

Korky Kaka says, is it Iran's best interest to continue, which is the death knell for the end of Trump and the Republican's demise. Well, we'll see. We'll talk about that in a minute. All right, I'm out of time, but we'll be right back, guys. All right, guys. I want to shout out to Rosa Roscoe, who sent to Young Turks memberships. Obviously, Jenkinana here on the Young Turks.

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Project Freedom is defensive in nature, focused in scope, and temporary in duration, with one mission, protecting innocent commercial shipping from Iranian aggression. Fox News Alert, the president says, based on the request of Pakistan and other countries, we have mutually agreed that while the blockade will remain in full force and effect, project freedom will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the agreement can be finalized in signed. We suspect the president is letting the Iranians save face. Jesse Waters is a total clown. Okay, turns out it wasn't even Pakistan who persuaded Trump to end Project Freedom after two days. It was the Saudis and the Kuwaitis who refused to allow the

United States to use its military bases and airspace in order to carry out the operation. And now we're learning that they change their mind and will allow the Trump administration in the Pentagon to use their airspace, use their military air bases in order to carry out the project again if Trump chooses to do so. And by the way, the kinetic hot war has reignited between the United States and Iran. That is subject to change because this war seems to be changing directions at any given hour. But, Jenk, before I give you the details, as we have them at the moment, your two cents. Yeah, so we just bombed Iran right before the show and they say, yes, but it doesn't count.

That's not how bombings work. So though people who will decide whether it counts or not are the Iranians, and then they will either strike back or they won't. But us say, yes, we just bombed your ports, but it's okay, it doesn't violate the ceasefire, is the most meaningless thing that anyone's ever heard. So we're gonna tell you all about that. And then the real question is, do we have any chance of getting out of this war or is this latest bombing and all Project Freedom and the Gulf countries, they're very relevant here.

They're trying to pull us out of the war. Everyone on planet Earth is trying to pull us out of this war except Israel that's pushing us in. So who's gonna win that match? Go ahead. So let me just start with the latest news and then we'll work back to the older details and how we got here in the first place. So let's go to graphic nine.

Jennifer Griffin reports that a senior U.S. official tells me that it was a U.S. military strike on Iran's Keshem Port and Bandar Abbas moments ago, but added that this is not restarting the war or end to the ceasefire. Okay, I'm gonna pull my hair out of my head live on this show, okay? When you fire at the country you're at war with, that means ceasefire end. Not ceasefire start, not ceasefire still in place, it means ceasefire end because ceasefire means you have ceased fire. Yeah. Okay, are these people idiots? Like they're total, or they think we're idiots. We're not idiots, we're not idiots. I know what a ceasefire means.

The war is on. You guys are bombing each other. Go ahead, Jake. So look, on the one hand, I think are you insulting our intelligence in the same way that Anna is thinking. On the other hand, I think, well, I don't want the war to restart. So if they've already done the bombing, which they have, I would prefer that they're pretending we're still in the ceasefire.

No. So that there's a chance that we stay in the ceasefire. No, no. Now hold on. Because it normalizes this BS, Jank. Okay, ceasefire means ceasefire. If we normal, if we allow this to keep happening and we allow the administration to redefine what a ceasefire means, then like would an actual ceasefire ever exist again?

So that goes to the point number two that I was gonna make, which is here we go again with the Israelification of our policy. So when Israel does a ceasefire, they don't mean that they cease fire, they mean you ceasefire. So the perfect example, although literally every single instance has these example, but is in With Hezbollah and Lebanon. So Hezboa and Israel over a year ago make a ceasefire. Hezbo fires no bombs into Israel during the ceasefire. Israel did a thousand bombs, over a thousand bombing campaigns in Lebanon during the ceasefire,

okay? And then they go, well, it's a ceasefire, I'm just killing you, that's all, that doesn't count. The Israelis never ceasefire. Never, never, ever, ever, okay? And they never, in this latest iteration, for sure, they never tell the truth. truth, okay? Yeah, they were bombing Beirut just yesterday, by the way. So by the way, they're under a ceasefire and Netanyahu bragged about how much he was bombing

Beirut, and as usual, he said it was to help the Lebanese, he's murdering. Okay, so now we're starting to do the same thing. Oh, we're bombing you, but it doesn't count, and you're not allowed to bomb us back. But the problem is Iran is not someone you could just roll over, as we've seen over the last two months. So every time they say that the Iran, they go, yeah, we are waiting for you. Okay, so you bomb us. No, we're not schmucks, we're gonna bomb you back. And that's what they did today. Today, U.S. warships were targeted by the Iranians after the U.S. fired on Iran.

So we are at war, okay? A kinetic hot war, we are at war. Don't let anyone lie to you about it. Don't let the Trump administration manipulate you into believing something that's just patently false, untrue, we are at war. Anna, sorry, one more thing that's important in that regard. The other reason they do it is for propaganda. So they could say, oh no, our bombing didn't count. When Iran counterattacks our warships, oh my God, they broke the ceasefire. They're the aggressors.

Israelification. Yeah, that's right. Okay, so that is the latest update. But I want to talk a little bit about Project Freedom and why Trump abruptly out of nowhere, and after two days decided that he was gonna announce that we're putting a stop to it, it's ending. Well, it turns out it had a lot to do with Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, who were very salty over the fact that Trump announced this project without talking to them. And it's important to talk to them, since in order to carry out this project, you would need their military

bases, and you would need to use their airspace. And so Saudi Arabia was allegedly angry. The kingdom informed the U.S. it would not allow the U.S. military to fly aircraft from Prince Sultan Air Base southeast of Riyadh or fly through Saudi airspace to support the effort. This is actually, Saudi Arabia apparently saw this as a substantial threat to them because they understand that Iran will target Gulf countries if the U.S. is doing certain things, that they're not able to retaliate against because they don't have the capacity to hit the United States. So they hit countries in the Gulf region that have hosted U.S. military bases. So it would have been really helpful for the Saudis to know that Trump was going to carry

out this project, right? Project Freedom, but he didn't even advise with them, consult with them, talk to them before he did so, and they were upset about that. So because of geography, you need cooperation from regional partners to use. utilize their airspace along their borders. One US official said, in some cases, there is no other way around the official explained. Military aircraft were critical to protect ships during Project Freedom, essentially providing a defensive umbrella. So that's what Project Freedom is.

I mean, we've talked about it before, but just in case you missed it, all it is is the United States helping to guide cargo vessels through the Strait of Hormuz by shooting down Iranian drones and missiles. Now, what's amazing about that is prior to this project being announced, the Wall Street Journal had reported that the United States had depleted 80% of its missile interceptors. So I don't know how long the Trump administration believes they can carry out a project like this, but it's important to know what our military capacity is, what our capabilities are, what our arsenal looks like before anyone gets their hopes up about the Strait

of Hormuz being forced open by the Trump administration. That is not happening. So quick thing about that. So when you try to escort ships through a blockade, that's called breaking the blockade. That's what you're trying to do. You can call it a humanitarian mission as Trump did in the middle of a war, sure, and we're bringing our warships through, very humanitarian. And you can call it freedom, but it doesn't matter what you call it. You're trying to break the blockade. So Iran says, I've got a blockade, you're trying to break it. What am I going to do? I'm going to hit you. And so they did. And by the way,

you will find out a couple of weeks or a couple months from now that our ship got hit badly. Okay, it had to turn around our warship and abandon the project. That's another reason why we stopped Project Freedom because it didn't work. It turns out we couldn't break their blockade. So this was Trump's desperate attempt that trying to somehow save face by winning. And if he could open up the straight through sheer military force, then he doesn't need to do a peace deal. and he can go, ha, ha, I opened up the straight-ohormoos. I was kidding that it was a humanitarian mission.

We won the war, right? But since it didn't work, he had to tuck tail and turn around. Plus, the Saudis and UAE are super pissed, because when they try to break the blockade, Iran's like, okay, you violated the ceasefire. I'm now hitting UAE. I'm not even sure they hit UAE as we talked about. Abu Dhabi, yes. But today they hit Abu Dhabi.

So then the Saudis in the UAE and Jennifer Griffin is also reporting this are super mad. And they're part of the reason why we hit Iran back is that they demanded it. They're like, so now you're going to let them hit us without even protecting us or hitting back. When they hit Israel, you protect them to the maximum. Yeah. And you do overwhelming force back. Now you're not going to protect us. But then that's driving us further into the war.

Okay, pause, pause. I don't know if any people in positions of power in these Gulf countries ever watches this show. but on the off chance that someone does. I need you to understand something. Our government doesn't even care about us. So the fact that you think that by hosting US military bases in your countries means that the US would care about you is laughable, don't be stupid, that's it. Well, I'll add to that.

So look guys, when we have messages from Pakistan, that's not Pakistan, that's us. Because Pakistan is trying to facilitate peace. And if we go to them and go, hey, we're gonna do a conciliatory message where we're going to try to turn down the temperature, Pakistan goes, yeah, pretend we say that. Okay, so there's reporting on that, right? So Pakistan is not some neutral party that's getting us to change our position. Pakistan has no ability to do that, right? The Saudis in the old days, and UAE especially, were us and Israel.

So when they spoke, they were pretending to be independent, but they were not independent. They actually secretly, totally agreed with Israel. They don't care about their leadership, doesn't care about the Palestinians at all. And they're just like, let's make money, right? And let's all coales our power and crush our citizens, et cetera. Now that has changed because UAE and Satter-Arabah thought, well, if we're cozy with Israel and America, will be protected. Now they found out, oops, I can't.

You made the mistake of trusting the Israelis. Okay, that's hilarious. Yeah, exactly. And by the way, this is just a side note, but it's really important. So the prime minister of Armenia, Gluhutkuten, okay? Please learn from what the Gulf states are now suffering from. Yeah, and-Kulthutkutin. So please do not make an alliance with the United States.

The United States only cares about Israel. Okay, and to the good people of India, if you're gonna let the Israelis in, be careful what you wish for. Yeah, seriously. But last thing on this, but now things have changed. Since UAE and Saudi Arabia, Arabia finally belatedly realized that, now they are not us and they are not Israel.

They're disagreeing with us and vehemently so, and they're super mad at us. And when they got hit again this time around, they're like, that's it. We're closing off the air bases to America. And that's the second reason Trump was like, whoa, okay, okay, okay, okay, I didn't mean Project Freedom. I'm sorry, because if we don't have their airspace,

we can't land anywhere, we can't do any of the operations, and we can't protect beloved Israel. Right? So that's why they flipped out and reverse course. So now the latest update though is that Saudi Arabia and Kuwait let Trump know, okay, you can use our airspace. You can use the military bases to help guide vessels to the Strait of Hormuz. And that's what has led to Iran retaliating as the US attempts to get vessels through that straight and evade Iran's blockade. Now here's the thing, the important elements of this war, right, remain the same.

And what I mean by that is, what are the military capabilities of the United States? What are the capabilities of Iran? What do the weapon stockpiles look like? And get a load of this. We know that U.S. military weaponry has been depleted, not just because of this war, but because we've been providing so much military aid to both Ukraine and Israel for years, right? And so we don't have the capacity to build. the weapons as quickly as necessary to compete with Iran's incredibly easy to build and cheap

drones, right? On top of that, get a load of this. This is from the Washington Post today. John Hudson reports that a confidential new CIA analysis delivered two policy makers this week concludes that Iran can survive the U.S. naval blockade for at least three to four months before facing more severe economic hardship, a finding that contradicts, though, that's hailing an imminent collapse. U.S. Intel also indicates that Iran retains about 75% of its pre-war inventories of mobile launchers and about 70% of its pre-war stockpiles of missiles per

a U.S. official. The regime has also been able to recover underground storage facilities and repair damaged missiles. In communities across Canada, hourly Amazon, employees earn an average of over $24.50 an hour. Employees also have the opportunity to grow their skills and their paycheck by enrolling in free skills training programs for in-demand fields like software development and information technology. Learn more at aboutamazon.ca. Yeah. So, but guys, there's only a couple of groups of people who believe that Iran was nearly destroyed

and defeated. And people who watch cable news in America, they believed it. Of course. Because that's the only information they got, right? And Wall Street believed it. Outside of that, no one believed it. And so why? So Trump has been saying all this time, we destroy their entire military, we destroy

their navy, their Air Force, and then we see dozens of our planes got shot down. To me, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. I'm like, oh, the propaganda is not around the edges. Because I've covered a lot of wars now, unfortunately, in these last 30 years. And then during Iraq, before we'd gotten fully Israelified, we would largely tell the truth. Like, yeah, we might delay things two weeks. I don't mean in the start up to the war, everything there was a lie, right? But in updates on the war, right?

And we would always hear the BS about, oh, the success is around the corner. Just give us another six months, right? But hey, did a ship get hit? Did a plane get hit? Did we lose this many guys? We usually didn't lie too much about that. This is completely different. We're lying about everything, right?

We lied about casualties, we lied about the number of things that have been hit. And Trump is a pathological liar and only a moron would believe him, right? But the reason why mainstream media believed him is because Israel first is mainstream media. So they wanted everyone to think, no, go deeper into the war, it's okay. They're almost wiped out, we've almost won. Successes around the corner, right? And in this case, they're not saying six months, give us another six days, six weeks, you know, and we're almost won, they're totally destroyed, right?

So first Israel, first pun, it's like Mark Levin, Hugh Hewitt, business people, Bill Ackman, they all come out, Lindsey Graham, politicians, they come out and go, oh my God, Israel's totally, I mean, Iran is totally destroyed, all we have to do is just go further into the war and will win, right? And then all of mainstream media comes in and backs them up. They go, well, here's Lindsey Graham. And he settled on CNN, and no anchor pushed back, no one clarified. So they leave all of their audience with the impression that Iran is almost defeated.

And that's because they are all incentivized to do exactly what Israel has ordered, right? So that's why there's been such in-mass lying, especially on a war that is not going well. If you want to get out of a war that's not going well, easy. If you want to go further into a war that's not going well and not polling well, you're going to have to lie to people and you're going to have to lie in a big, big way. And that's exactly what's happening here. When we come back, we'll take a little bit of a break from the Iran war and talk a little bit about domestic politics, including the Republican primary for the House seat in the fourth district. That's the seat where Thomas Massey is the incumbent. And he just had a sit down interview with Tucker Carlson and revealed quite a bit about how far the pro-Israel crowd is going just to oust him from his seat.

That and more coming up. Don't miss it. Let's go to our, I think this is the first X comment I'm going to read on air. If not, it's the second one because we're now live on X. THC.com has the honor. And he writes in appropriately for THC.com. Rolling down the street smoking endo listening to Jenkin Anna. I wish I could get that to rhyme somehow. Yeah, well, we'll work on it.

That sounds so good. Yeah, maybe you could have come up with a rhyme if he wasn't high, but okay. Sometimes, I know this sounds bad, but sometimes I kind of think about how fun it would be. I know that the entire audience doesn't partake in the devil's lettuce, okay? Some of you are not as naughty as we are. I don't even know. I don't know if Cenk partakes. Oh, come on.

Okay, okay, good, Jake does party. Okay, come on. But how fun would it be to have like a meetup where we just, you know, partake and just laugh together? And everyone's high. Oh my God, that'd be so much fun. Probably never going to do it. But it's a fun idea. Okay.

Man, what the podcast is on Super Chat. I did a questionnaire today from Friends of Peace that was heavy on the Israeli government propaganda. I would love to share the questions. Yeah, guys, you're surrounded by Israeli propaganda. Like 80% of what you see in mainstream media is Israeli propaganda. The surveys are probably, like it's amazing how effective they are and how ubiquitous they are. They're everywhere. And then when you go, hey, that was Israeli propaganda and that was Israeli propaganda, they go,

oh, you're so conspiratorial and paranoid. Give me a double dose. James Kelly, sorry, Rosa Rosco, thank you for the super chat. Fawaz, Zamjad says, with gas hitting $5 a gallon, I've stopped checking my fuel gauge and started checking my hay supply. I'm out of here. All right, back on TYT, Jen could Anna with you guys. During the break, I was reading comments and super chats from you guys. If you want to get that, t.yat.com slash join.

It's a great way to get the member stream where you get that. Anyway, Favaz was writing in about how he's checking us hay these days instead of gas. And he said, I'm out here prepping the horse and wagon like it's 1849. Well, at least the first amendment was in check. So he's not alone. Tons of people have written in about maybe time to get the horse and wagon back. That's how bad gas prices are. Thanks, Israel.

All right, Anna. Well, we got to talk a little bit about one race that, honestly, anyone who cares about living in a sovereign country should be focusing on. and that's the primary race for the Republicans in Kentucky's fourth district. Here's what I'm talking about. Here's what happened. A congressman from Kentucky was challenged when 95 or 99% of the money came from an Israeli lobby to take him out for merely telling the truth. And not even attacking Israel.

These super PACs, again, they're not talking. They're taking, they're distorting my record instead of. telling you why they're trying to flush me out of Congress. They want to flush me out of Congress because I don't vote for foreign aid. They've spent about 10 million, their super PACs and their campaign. Insane, the Republican primary for the House seat in Kentucky's fourth congressional district. It's apparently tightening up, which is concerning because this is kind of a proxy war between the America firsters and the Israel firsters. Thomas Massey, the incumbent in this race, has voted consistently against providing foreign aid to many countries, including Israel.

Israel doesn't like that. And so their minions here in the United States are working overtime to oust Massey. And they are pouring a lot of money into his primary challenger. So he spoke about that during a recent sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson. And I think he revealed quite a bit about how politics really works here in the U.S. Before we get to those details, Jank, how much do you love talking about money in politics? Oh yeah. So the only thing I love more is that now our right wing brothers and sisters are also talking

about money in politics. So what you're gonna see here after the Massey stuff is I'm gonna show you even more money they spent against Democrats opposed to Israel. So this is bipartisan, they go after anyone who represents America instead of Israel, and they seek to destroy them. And we're gonna show that exactly how it works to you guys right now. I should also note that aside for from consistently voting against providing military aid and foreign aid to Israel.

Thomas Massey drew the ire of Zionists here in the United States over his activism in getting the Epstein files released, which I think is you're telling on yourselves. But okay, let's move on to just a little bit of context about the race itself before we move on to what Thomas Massey has to say about it. So right now he's facing a challenge by a gentleman by the name of Ed. Gal Rhine, who is heavily funded by Miriam Adelson, the same person who bought our president like a prostitute in order to carry out the best interests of Israel. Now, the primary election between Massey and Galrine will take place on May 19th. And look, there is some

polling. For instance, there was a poll conducted or released on April 9th by Quantis insights and it found that Massey has about 47% support while his challenger has 38% support. And that was about a month ago. So according to Massey, that lead is tightening up. And in an interview with local media, Gal Ryan said that his social media presence gives voters all they need to know about him, which is why he keeps refusing to debate Thomas Massey. Oh, come on. I know. This is what he said, I wanna give you his quote.

He was speaking to local media and he said, I'm debating him every day. Please look at the social media and the places I'm being, what I'm, I'm talking right to the American people just like the president does with no middleman. So he's welcome to come on out and you know defend his record in front of them. What do you, this guy is disaster. So first of all, Israel's not bringing their best. And so they have empty vessels like this because they go, anybody want to sell out America? We're gonna betray America and have you serve Israel like a prostitute.

Well, you're not gonna get quality guys, you're gonna get the bottom of the barrel. So the bottom of the barrel guy goes, oh, am I going to get to be a congressman? I am so happy about that, what do I need to do? They're like on your knees. He's like right away, sir. And so that's why you get these cutouts, these guys that are total losers. And so why is he hiding in social media? Now of course he doesn't want to go to debate because then he's gonna get humiliated, right?

Tom Massey's gonna say, hey, didn't you take about like $10 million from Israel and serve Israel? And that's gonna go viral and he doesn't want it, right? So if you're a pro-Israel candidate, you wanna hide. By the way, that's why most Republicans and Democrats never do interviews, because they're in the witness protection program because they actually serve Israel. So now the second reason is when he goes on social media, all the Israeli bots come in. And they're like, Ed Galryne is such a great American. Donald Trump and all the Republicans are in favor of Ed Galrine.

You're making them sound way smarter than they actually sound. Tom Massey is an anti-Semite. He is a Jew hater. You should all hate. He defied Donald Trump. Remember, Donald Trump is your daddy. We told him Trump is their daddy when we own that bitch, right? Totally.

So that's why Ed Galrine, the coward, is hiding online surrounded by an army of Israeli bombs. Exactly. Okay, so you have the basics of this race, this primary race. With that in mind, let's get into just how much money has been spent. I mean, we're talking about breaking real records here, especially as it pertains to a primary race. Let's take a look. What do you think that total your opponent has received both directly and on his behalf of the super PAC? I think all in, they've spent about 10 million their super PACs and their campaign. All in, we've probably spent about 8 million so far.

And I would guess all in by the time this is over, there's going to be $30 million spent in a Republican primary. It's right now the most expensive Republican primary for Congress in the history of Kentucky. $30 million pumped into a primary race for a house seat. Guys, if you believe we live in a democracy, please wake up. Okay, please wake, we don't live in a democracy. You think you're going to be able to, you're a normy American. I don't care what your politics are. You want to run for Congress?

You think you're able to do it if you're a working class. American? You have to have a freaking army of donors behind you to make that happen. And so how do you think Galrine, who's like the biggest sellout in the country, in Kentucky, in that district, got the 38%. He got there through Fox News and the ads, right? And the ads don't ever talk about Israel, because Israel's not popular. So they find some needle in a haystack, which is always a strategy. And they go, oh, look at what Tom Massey did in 1987. He is a terrible person, okay? And people think, oh my God, I guess Tom Massey's a terrible person. I guess I got to go with Ed Galrine, right? And then Jake Tapper comes in on CNN and goes, look at what Graham Plotner or Tom Massey has done. They are evil and terrible.

Very naughty, yeah, totally. In fact, let me give you a perfect example. So Massey and Carlson spoke about an ad that Massey's opponent has been using against him. You're right, doesn't discuss Israel at all. It does rely on AI and it's pretty gross. So I'm going to skip ahead, guys, to C6. Let's take a look. I just saw a spot they put up and you tell me who did this. But it was AI generated video of you with Elon Omar and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez suggesting that you were having sex with both of them and basically saying you've got the same politics they do.

Yeah, it's a 30-second. spot created with AI. There's a disclaimer at the beginning in font that nobody over the age of 65 could possibly see on the TV that says it's AI. And it's not cartoony at all. It looks like a real camera recordings that shows me walking hand in hand with the two of them, dining with the two of them, and checking into a hotel with the two of them. And uses the word thruple. Yeah, it's pretty disgusting. Pretty disgusting. And that's what politics is, right? Look, this galrine guy has no substance to him, which is why he's unable to even engage in a debate.

And by the way, I say this as someone who doesn't necessarily agree with much of Thomas Massey's political views, right? I agree with him when it comes to foreign aid, foreign policy, things like that. Certainly I agree with him when it comes to Israel. And we might come at it from a different point of view overall. With him, he's worried about our government spending too much as we are going deeper and deeper into federal debt. And guess what? He happens to be one of like, what, two or three members of Congress who are actually

principled. And I respect that because we need principled people to represent their constituents. Now with that in mind, I wanna fast forward to, not fast forward, I wanna go to the next video because here you're gonna see Massey, basically he goes into even more detail about these dueling super PACs in this primary race. So I want to go to C3. Let's take a look at that. You've got super PACs on each side.

And there's a super PAC helping me, not as large as the Israeli super PACs, which of which there are three. But there's a super PAC helping me. Now, as far as hard dollar campaign money from real people, I've raised over $5 million this election cycle, which is probably more than I've raised in the entire time that I've in Congress. Really? Oh yeah. I usually raise a couple hundred thousand, maybe four hundred thousand dollars in election cycle. This time I've raised over five million. It's because this situation is dire. Now the other side, you might say, okay, well, how much money has he raised for his campaign?

He's raised about one or one point two million per quarter for two quarters. So he's maybe raised two and a half million dollars at most. When the weather cools down, Golden Nugget Online Casino turns up the heat. This winter. Make any moment golden and play thousands of games like her new slot Wolf It Up and all the fan-favored Huff and Puff games. Whether you're curled up on the couch or taking five between snow shovels, play winner's hottest collection of slots. From brand new games to the classics you know and love. You can also pull up your favorite table games like Blackjack, Roulette, and Crops, or go for even more excitement with our library of live dealer games. Download the Golden Nugget Online Casino app, and you've got everything you need to layer on the fun this winter.

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grassroots are coming to save both Republicans and Democrats when they are attacked at this level from APEC. And so that's actually a beautiful thing. That's the American people going, we've had enough of this crap. And if you're gonna do it, you know, with a couple of billionaires giving a million, two million at a time, well, we're gonna give five bucks and ten bucks at a time, but there's millions of us. And so we're tired of you running our country. And they're absolutely right guys, because Massey votes with Republicans 91% of the time. So I'm going to disagree with them probably around that number, right? But this race is still the most important race in the country for 2026.

Why? Because if they take out Massey, then the message will go out all across Congress in both parties. Resistance is futile. You either work for Israel or you go home. There is no other option, they've bought the entire Congress, and if you dare oppose them, they will 100% eliminate, right? Because they will 100% try to eliminate you, and that's what they're doing to Massey right now.

If they succeed in that, we're all screwed. Not just Republicans, but Democrats, too. Because remember, most of the Democrats also take Israeli lobby money. Now they're worried about their own voters that are in rebellion. But the minute they see Massey lose, and I've literally talked to people in Congress about this, and they've said it to me behind the scenes very clearly. If Massey loses, the forces that are trying to keep America's sovereign are screwed. Totally.

Everyone will bow their heads to Israel. It doesn't matter of 98% of the country hates Israel. No, if you can, if Israel can continue to buy elections, then all of Congress will work for them and not for us. I wanna get to the Democratic side because we haven't gotten to Israel's bottom bitch yet. Wait, oh, perfect, okay, then let me play one more video because it actually relates to this. So the Israel lobby knows, the Israel lobby knows that the American people who are paying attention are onto them. And so lobby groups like APAC, for instance, realize that they have to find squirly ways to do their bribery without people taking notice. And that's what Massey is going to talk about in this next video.

And he does mention Democrats. So let's take a look. A PAC's sort of gone in hiding. And they're trying to secretly funnel money to campaign. And what we've realized and deduced is that they're funneling money hard dollars, not the Super PAC dollars, but they're funneling money from their donors to his campaign through a vendor, a payment vendor called Democracy Engine. It was started by one of the people who started Act Blue. It's not a conservative, if you will. Act Blue, the Democratic, yep, bundler.

Yeah. So when you see something come through a payment vendor called Democracy Enchant, engine, particularly $50,000 per quarter. So if somebody's reported $50,000 of expenses to Democracy Engine, and if the payment vendor, Democracy Engine has been charging 5%, that means a million dollars of money came through that payment vendor. And we've seen that in both of his quarters. So basically, as far as we can tell, about a million dollars of his $1.2 million every quarter that you would think may have come from grandmas who are digging deep in their pockets when they get an email from Trump that says give to this guy. That's not where his money's coming from.

It's coming from APEC donors. I mean, I think that that's amazing. And that's something that Americans need to look out for because you think the Israel lobby is going to give up just because we find them to be unacceptable and they've become unpopular? No, they'll find ways to continue their bribes, but a way to do it more low key and without drawing much attention. But like the use of a democratic platform in order to funnel money from the Israel lobby to Massey's Challenger is an interesting twist to the story. But it isn't that, I mean, it isn't that shocking considering the fact that we have a monopoly in this country when it comes to the pro-Israel stance, we don't have an option.

We don't have an anti-Israel party that we can vote for. Both Democrats and Republicans are completely captured. Yeah, it's not a Democratic website. It's they're saying the same people set up both sites, right? But either way, they're pretending it's real people, but it's not. Okay, so now let's go to the Democratic side, because if you think that Gal Ryan getting $10 million from the Israeli crowd is a lot, wait till you get a load of Wesley Bell. So as Associated Press reports, Bell's campaign received a big boost, this graphic number five.

A big boost from American Israel Public Affairs Committee, that's APEC, whose super political action committee, United Democracy Projects spent $8.5 million to oust Cory Bush. So did they ask Cory Bush because they were concerned about our policies are too progressive? No, they only cared about Israel, obviously. But if you notice there, they're not calling it the American Israel Public Affairs Committee anymore. No, no, no, no, it's not APA. It's United Democracy Project as they're killing democracy, right?

They used to have another group called Democratic majority for Israel. And then I started making fun of it when they used, spent four million against Nina Turner in that race, and I said, where's Democratic majority for Cleveland? Which is where the race was. So they've realized, oh, change the name to like, oh, we're pro democracy, pro kittens, pro puppies, right? So but Associated Press undersold how much money they'd given them. Because A PAC tracker has Wesley Bell's contribution in the Israeli lobby at 13 million,

$135,269. So that is a hell of a lot of money. But hold, he is not the bottom bitch. That title goes to our least favorite mutant George Latimer. So APEC spent at least $14.5 million on anti-Bowman ads through its PAC United Democracy Project as of June 20th, according to Federal Election Commission filings. Again, that's Axios in that case. I'm going to get to the real number in a second. But one more from Axios that's important.

They said a senior House Democrat said spending at this volume inevitably has a chilling effect on lawmakers saying of APEC, they do that a lot. What that chilling effect is is saying, well, if I say anything slightly critical of Israel or I don't give them every single dollar that they demand, well, I'm going to get my ass handed to me. They're gonna spend $4 million, $6 million, $10 million against me. So forget that. I work for Israel, okay?

And so as we've told you before, $4 million against Anita Turner, $4 to $6 million, I think, against Representative Marie Newman, and they eliminated her. $4 million against Andy Levin in Michigan. They eliminated him. And now we get to the reigning champion, George Latimer. So APEC tracker has him at $19,000, $150,000. $25,439 from the Israeli lobby.

So now guys, what frustrates me often, and that's why you'll hear me talking about it, is mainstream media sees that. Cable news, New York Times, et cetera, and goes, no, those are not bribes. No, Latimer is a free and independent guy. The Israelis happen to agree with them or people who support Israel, just a total coincidence, and they gave him $19 million, and then he votes with Israel every single time and never questions them. That's a coincidence because Latimer is a wonderful guy and if you say this particular lobby is controlling him Latimer's not the bad guy, the lobby's not the bad guy. You're the bad guy.

Disagree. You're the bad guy for noticing that he took $19 million in bribes from people supporting a foreign government. They literally say that. They literally, they go, oh, you got anti-Semitic trope to say that that lobby is controlling George Latimer, wonderfully honest and decent person. No, George Latimer is a trained dog, okay? And he's not a real person, he's a cutout, he's a puppet for a different government, and that's what $19 million will do for you. So, and the $19 million doesn't just buy Latimer, it buys you all of Congress when they see you spending $19 million against anyone who opposes Israel. And that's how this game is played, and that's why Tom Massey has to win that.

By the way, guys, that is a Republican primary. That is a very, very, very red district. Don't let him trick you into thinking, oh, you know, a Democrat could win that race. Don't help Tom Massey. No, no. What? No, it's a primary. If you're a Democrat in that district, I hear you brothers and sisters, you don't really

have much of a choice between Democrat or Republican. So if you can, I would personally advise you to vote for the principled Republican in this primary, who isn't going to prioritize a foreign country over your best in. Yeah, and lastly on that, nothing's stopping you from voting yes, Tom Massey in the general election. This is a Republican primary. If Galerine wins, he doesn't win that seat. Israel wins the entire Congress. So in that Republican primary, Massey must win. He must win, okay? Agreed. Otherwise, we're all screwed and we won't have any sovereignty. More news when we come back after the break. Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? Rich and powerful men, abusing,

assaulting and abandoning young women. These rich and powerful men donate to the politicians in Washington, D.C., play golf with the elites in Washington, D.C. They are foreign leaders who we don't want to offend. They interact with our intelligence agencies that we don't want to disobey. There is something rotten in Washington. And are people still talking about this guy, this creep? All those congressmen you just saw there are on the record as protecting the child rapists who were clients of Epstein.

They have not prosecuted a single person outside of Epstein and Maxwell. Yep. Not one. Is Trump engaging in this cover up because he's in the Epstein files? I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. So as the government keeps telling us, yeah, there's other people. Yeah, they rape those girls.

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That, you know, anyway, let's get, let's get to it. So a federal judge has ordered the release of an alleged suicide note. that Jeffrey Epstein allegedly wrote. And the real question is whether it will put an end to, you know, these theories that Epstein didn't actually kill himself, that he was murdered while he was in prison. Jank your two sons. Yeah, they won't. The suicide notes a joke. So you're going to see it in a second and see all the problems with it. But there was one thing else that I found out in this story that I did not know about Jeffrey Epstein's death. And that's a doozy.

So we got that here as well. Go ahead. Okay, so how do we have the release of this alleged suicide note? It turns out that the New York Times had been petitioning a federal judge to release it. It was part of the evidence in a separate case, believe it or not. Now, I'll tell you how it was part of a separate case in just a moment. But it was sealed ever since Epstein's death was announced back in 2019. If you're wondering, well, what does it read?

What does it say? Let's take a quick look at it. Here is the suicide note in question. It's difficult to read, but I'll go ahead and tell you what it says. They investigated me for months, found nothing. So 15-year-old charges resulted. It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye. What you want me to do, burst out crying.

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Yeah, that sounds like him. It sounds like someone trying to make it sound like him. Because remember, his emails are full of all sorts of like grammatical errors, misspellings, whatever. And look, we don't know. We don't know whether this is an authentic suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein. We have no way of confirming it. And by the way, the New York Times was unable to confirm it as well. Can I, all right, I'm just gonna say, the guy who founded is Nicholas Tardaglone. Okay, he's a cellmate.

Okay, former Italian American cop from New York. And I'll draw your attention to the second to the last line. What you want me to do? About it, crying? Okay, maybe it was Fstein, maybe it was. Okay, you'll see why it wasn't. Okay, by the way, we need to pronounce the, the Italian gentleman's name correctly, okay?

It's Tartaglione. Yeah, that's his name. He made Epstein an offer that he couldn't review. Okay, all right. So Epstein's cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, said he discovered the note in July 2019 after Epstein was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth wrapped around his neck.

Epstein survived that incident, but he was found dead weeks later at the age of 66, in the now shuttered metropolitan correctional center in lower Manhattan. When jail officials asked Epstein about the red marks on his neck after the incident in July, he first said that Tartaglione had attacked him and that he was not suicidal. Tartaglione has long denied assaulting Epstein, who later told jail officials he never had issues with his cellmate. Okay. So the cellmate, by the way, a former New York City police officers, Jank mentioned, was convicted of murder. And he claimed to have found the note while reading a novel after the incident happened in July.

Okay? So he gave the note to his attorneys in the event that Jeffrey Epstein tried to further accuse him of assault. Come on. Come on. Yeah. Tartaglione, I see you. I see you, former cop. of murder, I see you. Come on. Yeah, it's even worse than that. Even the Justice Department that's covering up Epstein and saying, oh, he definitely committed suicide. We never saw that note.

I mean, that's, come on. They never found what Epstein allegedly used to hang himself with. But it's worse than that. But they found a second noose in the cell. But golly, gee, why would there be two nooses? The one he used to hang himself theoretically and the one he left behind? It's a joke, man. As you all know, the video camera on the hallway is not working.

The guards are off duty. The guys are his cellmates are transferred out. But I'm going to read from mediate here. Epstein told jail officials after his apparent July attempt that the injuries he sustained were actually due to Tartaglione. Okay. Epstein claimed Tartaglione attacked him, telling officials he was not suicidal and had not tried to take his own life. Okay. The financier later said that he never had any issues with Tartaglione, because he was.

as Ann had read you, he's like, no, no, I'm good with him from now on because he doesn't want to get insulted again, right? But what's interesting is that Epstein kept, well, here, Epstein quote, adamantly denied any suicidal ideation, intention or plan, described himself as, quote, no need for regular mental health intervention. So there's- Come on. Ebsstein said over and over to the authorities, I do not want to kill myself, I have no ideas of suicide, I don't want to do it.

Now did you guys all hear that as soon as he committed suicide? No, is that weird that we never heard that? But now they say, oh yeah, he said repeated. And why did he say repeatedly that he didn't want to kill himself? Because he knew they were gonna try to kill him, right? And so this is the most, in fact, if you refer to it as a suicide from now on, you're not a real reporter. I'm serious.

Allege, you have to say at a minimum alleged suicide, right? And if you, and by the way, the worst of the worst, is reporters and this is like 80% of them go, conspiracy theorists say that he might have killed himself absurd. Like, come on, you're gonna call that a conspiracy theory? Jesus Christ. Honestly, this year has been the glow up of conspiracy theories, right? Conspiracies have suffered or not suffered, have enjoyed a major glow up. Because now when I hear something's a conspiracy theory, I look into it, I take it seriously. You know, we should do that poll because I guarantee you you do the national poll. I don't guarantee

But at this point, if you told the average American, are you more likely to believe a conspiracy theory or the official government position? Conspiracy theory. I think conspiracy theory probably wins at this point. Whereas if you ask mainstream media, the people who are supposed to challenge the official government narrative, it would be 100 to zero. Official government narrative, what do you mean, you sick, disgusting conspiracy terrorists? The government's always right.

I'm a reporter. Okay, all right, we gotta take a quick break. break when we come back, the New York Times wrote a piece about Laura Lumer and it was a bit of a puff piece. Not a bit, a lot of a puff piece. The woman has been doxing private citizens. No, she's- On a regular basis.

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So it's super important that you have that and fly the colors and invite others to join Team Hope and Team Joy. This is all at shoptyt.com, shopty.com, come spread the message with us. Okay, so now I want to let you guys know about, whoa, you guys have written in a lot. Let's go to TYT, Durge. I said, America's trying to pull a similar con. If we change the name of the operation every two months, it isn't war and Congress has no say, right? So that's going from Epic Fury to Operation Freedom to now we're officially at zero, nothing.

Because we took Operation Freedom away or Project Freedom away. So now there's no war at all, apparently, even though we just bombed them and they're bombing us. Anyways, part of the reason that people think that they might have changed the name is because everyone was, everybody online was calling it Epstein Fury. So they're like, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, we mean Project Freedom. Capsized Guam Dragon says, does anybody know if the Nazis claimed they weren't at war the whole time? Oh yeah, no, not that, but the Nazis claimed as almost every aggressor does, that they

were acting purely in self-defense. They had to protect the native Germans in the Sudeten land, okay? And there were so many native Germans being abused in Poland, it's self-defense. And if you're against it, you were just an anti-German racist. And the real problem wasn't with the Germans, it was with you. And that's what they would say. We'll be back. All right, back on TYT, Jankana, with you guys.

One of our members on t.com, progress for all, had a hilarious comment I just wanted to share with you guys about that note, theoretical suicide note that Toc-Taglioni handed in. He said, the note is only missing, forget about it. Totally. So good. We gotta talk about the latest puff piece that the New York Times has published about the craziest person on X, Laura Lumer. So let's get into it. You then went on to say our country was built by white Europeans, not third world invaders

from India. I think you should do more than just express regret. From what I can see, you're brazenly racist and Islamophobic. And I'm sorry to say that we have a titi-devo-day-a-va-vobos. in this country where we welcome all, but your comment smack of anti-Indianism was still Islamophobia and even worse, racism, which has no place, ma'am in today's world. So get real, ma'am. Sorry to say that, but that comments are unacceptable to me as an Indian and as a world citizen.

Well, I will say that I don't believe that Islamophobia is real. I believe Islamophobia is a hoax. Everything that gentleman said about Looney Laura Lumer is 100% correct, but you wouldn't know it if you relied on the New York Times to inform you about Laurel Lumer because they just published a Puff piece. Even as this woman is on X on a daily basis, literally doxing private American citizens because they happen to be in the same family with a public figure who's critical of Israel, simply critical of Israel. Jank. So there's two amazing parts of this story. The way that they sanitize Laura Lumer and made it seem like she was the angelic fighter against

the evil doers, it's unbelievable. I mean, that's basically the nearer time saying, okay, you caught us, we're not doing real news, this is just propaganda, okay? It's totally mask off. But the second amazing part is why they wrote the story in the first place. So especially if you're a Republican, you're gonna wanna listen to this. All right, go ahead. So the piece is titled, how the fight over Israel is playing out inside Maga, the war

Iran has added to a tectonic shift in public opinion, a bipartisan swing away from Israel. Some on the far right are fighting to keep President Trump's movement aligned with the Jewish state. Notice how they put in the Jewish state, right? Right away from the beginning. It's not that big a deal, but it's all about how do we frame things. So now remember, if you're opposed to Israel, you're not just opposed to Israel, you're opposed to the Jewish state. And against Jewish people, what a terrible disgusting person you are.

I've never seen them say, and the critics of the Muslim state, okay, Saudi Arabia. No, they just say Saudi Arabia. Right. They don't hide behind Muslims. They just, so. No, you guys, this is the, I looked into the writer of this piece. And Pulitzer Prize winning journalist. Hilarious.

Went to Harvard. Of course he did. His name is, let me look it up, Anton Trinovsky, okay, Troy Knofsky, and total puff piece. So for instance, he didn't include any of Lumer's racist and Islamophobic statements in any of the reporting here. Not one, and there's like a million. Not once. Didn't talk about how she docks, bullies, harasses, private American citizens, because again, they have a family member who has been critical of Israel. So here's how they describe Lumer, or how he describes Lumer in this piece.

Lumer who gained prominence last year after pushing Trump to fire White House officials, she deemed disloyal, is emerging as one of the president's most aggressive pro-Israel enforcers. So by the way, a Pew Research Center survey back in March found that 57% of Republicans under the age of 50 years old have an unfavorable view of Israel. So young people both left and right in the United States would like to sever our relationship with Israel because it's been detrimental to us. Let me get through the story first. No, I know, but real quick on this one.

So they say she's gained prominence, but they don't ask like they make it seem like it's a positive thing. They don't ask, wait, I thought for sure the next sentence was going to be, how, why? Why is this random hate, put aside that she's hateful, this random blogger or whatever she is, allowed to fire people inside the White House, but they made no examination of that at all. There's nothing negative about her at all in this piece. She's, she is so disgusting that even Republicans make fun of her. But this piece by the liberal New York Times doesn't say anything about who this woman really is, but okay, so they literally make her seem like she's heroic

or something. So they write that her attacks on what used to be her fellow allies of Trump are evidence of the urgency that some in the president's camp and supporters of a close relationship with Israel see and seeking to blunt the influence of right-wing critics of the Jewish state. Here we go again. Okay, I see you Anton. I see you Anton. No, Anton's disgusting. No, no, it's not just- This piece of crap is harassing and doxing people, okay, inciting violence toward them.

But hey, you know what? She's doing it on behalf of the Jewish state, right? So it's okay. So it's okay. So we're not gonna report who this woman really is. No, no, this piece is so bad. It doesn't just discredit the New York Times. It discredits the Pulitzer Prize.

What is this is garbage? Dumpster fire. Okay, I mean, the doxing, listen to how he characterized the doxing. In her ex account with nearly 2 million followers, again, sounds positive, Ms. Luma refers to Israel as our greatest ally and discloses purported personal details about prominent critics of Israel and Mr. Trump. So she doesn't docks them and endanger their family or try to get them fired. She purportedly put out personal information about Israel's critics who seem to have deserved

it. I know, that stood out to me as well, Jank, and infuriated me. Because look at the laundering of, by the way, can you imagine if let's say I was a lunatic like Laura Lumer and spent all day, every day on X, doxing the Zionist crowd, the pro-Israel crowd? First of all, I would never in a million years do that, okay? I'm willing to debate ideas, I'm willing to win based on persuading people that our alliance with Israel is detrimental to the American people.

I would never in a million years try to get Zionism. is fired from their jobs, I wouldn't harass their family members. This is what Laura Lumer does all day, every day. And in fact, Anton did her a favor. He advertised her up and coming newsletter. Yeah, that's the point of this piece, guys. So it's not just like randomly let's fluff Laura Lumer, which they most certainly did, but it's to say, Lumer is the legitimate Republican, and all the other Republicans that are

opposed to Israel are illegitimate. She's now raising money to go try to destroy them even more. But it's not to destroy them. They're purported this or that, right? And they're disgustingly against the Jewish state. And no Republican really likes them at all, right? And so all the framing is, maybe you should help Laura Lumer destroy Israel's critics. No, but you're right.

It's like a giant ad for her. So there are no quotes to counter Laura Lumer at all. No context to help people understand that, you know, she's putting out lies about Israel being our special ally. But anyway, they do quote people who bolster Laura Lumer's argument. So for instance, Anton chose to use a quote from a Florida House of, a Florida representative, a representative within the Florida House of Representatives, okay? So his name is Chase Tremont. And here's the quote that they used.

It's been very shocking. You have so many younger folks on the right that are actually singing the same tune that the radical left is singing. All these crazy people who are critical of Israel, Laura Lumer's a hero for going after them. So Anton couldn't find a single critic of Laura Lumer, but he found a whole bunch of people to say, yeah, you know, any Republicans that doesn't support Laura Lumer is actually a radical leftist, liberal. And all good Republicans should support Laura Luber and beloved Jewish state of Israel. And everyone else is an anti-Semite. Anton, man, you got to do better than this. You guys used to be more sophisticated in your propaganda.

This is just flat out. I love Israel. And if you don't, I'll destroy you. So Anton, let me, since you, I mean, maybe you need a little bit of help. You know, you won the Pulitzer, but maybe you need some help with research. Maybe you don't really know who Laura Lumer really is. So let me show you who Laura Lumer is. Let's take a look at a video two.

And for some reason, there's a lot of people that are really afraid of this nappy-headed black bitch who just has a lot to say but not really a lot to offer. So I'm not afraid of Candace Owens. And I'm happy to match her energy. I'm happy to wrestle in the mud with that bitch. That's totally okay. Now, if a critic of Israel said the exact same thing about Candice Owens. And Anton was writing about that individual, do you think he would, forget to include that statement?

Let's say they're doing a piece on, I don't know, Hassan Piker or Candace Owens, would they forget to write the lines? No, they'd be like, Hazzal Piker, who's terrible this, that, the other thing. Candice Owens is a disgusting racist, blah, right? Or whatever anti-Semite, all, but with Laura Lumer, they're like, oh, golly, gee, we just can't find the research. Watch one minute of anything she does, and she'll say something racist, against black people, against Muslims.

She said 2,000 terrible things about Muslims. Anton's like, I could not find it. I think everyone should support her new effort. I mean, you guys make the choice. Either you support her and save the Republican Party, or you're a terrible anti-Semite. So if you're worried about bigotry against Jewish people, are you saying, Anton, that you don't give a N New York Times? The editors said, oh, this is a brilliant piece.

Let's publish it just like this. So all those total propagandists at the New York Times, you couldn't find a single negative thing that Laura Lumer is said and you call yourselves journalists. But yet every time someone opposes Israel, did you know what kind of tattoo he has? Do you know what he said in 1993? Okay. Yeah, yeah, you liars. Final thing that I'll mention about this ridiculous puff piece.

And by the way, I'm done with the New York Times. you have Lulu Garcia Navarro saying, I'm the former Israel Palestine correspondent for the paper, and then she spends two hours attacking Tucker Carlson because he dared to ask questions about Israel's intentions on his own podcast. That made it clear to me, they're not doing real journalism when it comes to this particular issue. And then you have this puff piece on literally Laurel Lumer, which is, I can't believe it. I can't believe that the New York Times of all places would do this puff piece, but here it is. But final thing I'll note is, they did quote one other person, another ally to Israel, Elliot Cohen, he's a former senior State Department

official from the George W. Bush administration, here's what he said. Cohen is among those who see the shift against Israel as driven in part by ingrained anti-Semitism. Of course. Quote, There always was an anti-Israel and also anti-Semitic part of the Republican Party, he said. Yeah, so, okay, two things out of that. Number one, you see Republicans, you are all dirty anti-Semites. How dare you, okay? Now, what's interesting about it, guys, is that apparently the editors and the reporters at the New York Times couldn't think of any other reason why you might be opposed to Israel, like a genocide or a war they pushed us into that's been disastrous.

and invasion of southern Lebanon, displacing a million people there. No, there's only one theory in this article as to why you might not love what Israel's doing now. You're a dirty anti-Semite. The Democrats were already obviously dirty anti-Semites, but now all the Republicans are too, especially if you're under 50 years old. So they couldn't find a single person to oppose Laura Lumer, they couldn't find a single negative quota Laura Lumer, and they couldn't find a single other reason why people might be upset at Israel in this country.

So do you see how the entire times, your whole life, mainstream media in the New York Times, has been lying to you in this exact way. But of course, since before there was no online media, you couldn't find another person in mainstream media to show you how they were lying to you. That's true, that's exactly right. Right, now we're showing to you. So I have one last one. Now he frames all the politicians as, well, at least the politicians realize who the popular

and wonderful allies are, Israel. And of course, since he's a New York Times reporter, it never occurred to him. Maybe the politician's getting money from the Israeli lobby. You anti-Semi, how dare you state facts, right? But get a load of this final touch. So he's talking about Florida, and again, he talks about the legislature, and he's framing it, Anton, sorry, your last name is, you haven't changed it yet. So I know when you go to Israel, you will, and you'll pretend that you never had that Eastern

European name. But anyways, okay, so he's now pretending. No, no, no, no, support for Israel so deep in places like Florida, where Lumer is. He says, support for Israel runs so deep that the legislature last year lifted credit rating limits to allow local governments to buy more Israeli bonds. Yep. Oh, because it runs, because popular support runs so deep. Do you have a poll on that, Anton?

You don't have a poll, do you? Did it ever occur to you that Israel might be a little bit more popular in the legislature than it is among the population because almost everyone in the legislature is taking money from the Israeli lobby. That never occurred to you? No, you made it, you framed it like, oh, Israel is so popular in the country. And in Florida and within the Republican Party, there's only these radical liberals like Tucker Carlson and Marjorie Taylor Green.

And they're the only ones against this benighted, wonderful Laura Lumer, who's trying to raise money, remember all supporters of Israel, Laura Loomers trying to raise money to destroy Israel's critics. So, and remember, she's an angel, couldn't find a single thing wrong with her. Come on, absolutely humiliating. Not just for this writer and not just for the New York Times, for everyone who works at the New York Times. This is your company and you sign off on this stuff, you stay there and you don't object

when you're editors to make you, ask you to write a propaganda piece. to lie to your readers on behalf of Israel and try criticizing Israel in the New York Times. See how that works out for you. They'll threaten to fire you, right? But yet you stay there like someone who's working for money and not someone who's an actual journalist. Okay. It is tough out there in the journalism field, so I get it, but I wouldn't work there.

Anyway, we gotta take a break. Let's do that when we come back. We'll talk about Scott Horton's debate with John Bolton on Pierce Morgan Show. on the topic of the Iran war. What would it's like to be me? My life is ruined. Camp Corona Dad refers back to the guy who wrote in about smoking endo while watching. I was going to host a main show, but then I got hi.

That's funny. On Twitch, scuff meta says, one in doubt, call it Project Freedom. Catcher Butterfly says, both of you look good in pink. Thank you, appreciate it. Thank you. Jim Huggett writes in on YouTube member section, release the Trumpstein files. Yeah, oh no, no, no, no, Epstein has nothing to do with Trump, nothing to do with Israel. He's just a random guy and he didn't record anything at all.

Don't do, there's no blackmail, conspiracy theory. He put video in tissue boxes, but our government and our media tells us it's conspiratorial to think that he might have taped the people and use it as blackmail. You would, again, like, single digit IQ. You'd have to just escape the mental asylum to believe that. Spanish Jose TV says, time for me to get an 1800s of a wagon and go to Oregon Trail. Yeah, because of the gas prices. Faye Scott Smith says, what I pay in gas now compared to three months ago amounts to our water bill. So boom, that's like a whole other bill on top, right?

VGL says Anna, pink is your color. You look beautiful. That's so crazy. I literally just had a conversation today about how, based on color theory, pink is not my color. But maybe it is. I don't know. Thank you. I appreciate that.

So Michael Cotabelli says, not sure if you guys have heard, but Jewish Kern is reporting, California is looking to pass a hundred foot buffer zone, which would ban protests in front of synagogues having real estate events. Michael, I had not heard that. Yeah, I mean, they've been succeeding in New York City on this. Yeah. It's just, it's, anyway, okay. TYT, Jen and Anna with you guys.

More news. Scott Horton, man, threw it down. Got to watch. Take a look. I know what my objective is and has been for 20 years, and that is there is no route to peace and security in the Middle East in any lasting basis until the regime in Tehran is removed. That's why people were demonstrating in December. Yeah, but none of these people have been demonstrating since the war started.

Scott, you were, I would say, sniggering was probably a right way of describing it, some of the things you were hearing there from Ambassador Bolton. He's an entertaining guy. Today on Pierce Morgan uncensored, Scott Horton threw down with someone I have no respect for, and that's of course the war monger known as John Bolton. And of course the issue was the ongoing war in Iran. Now before we get to some of the highlights from this debate,

Jank, your two cents. Yeah, by the way, those protests were fake. The Israeli press just reported that it was egg down by Mossad. So John Bolton has been trying to start every war Israel wants for the last couple of decades. That is true. And so do you remember when Donald Trump was saying that John Bolton was a loser and no one should listen to him? I sure do.

Well, it's funny because Donald Trump is now listening to John Bolton. More on that. Now, Pierce Morgan kept pressing John Bolton to explain how regime change in Iran could possibly be accomplished now that the regime has been decapitated. But the regime remains in place and there are no mass protest trying to oust the regime. In fact, if anything, the United States and Israel attacking Iran has unified the country, has actually led to more support for the regime. Because now the Iranian people see that, you know, fighting back against this war on their country is about their survival.

So with that in mind, eventually Bolton basically coughed up unanswer. And that is to basically arm the Iranian civilians. But Morgan wasn't buying it. Take a look. If you look at the situation inside Iran, I think the regime is before the attacks was at its weakest point since it took power in 1979. The population is overwhelmingly opposed to the regime. The ethnic groups are dissatisfied.

the Kurds, the Baluchis, the Armenians, sorry, the Azaris. And inside Iran, the economy was a wreck even before the attack began. That's why people were demonstrating in December. Yeah, but none of these people have been demonstrating since the war started. So again, I mean, I know that that's, that's for sure. Yeah, but I know the Israelis, the Israelis. Because the gene murdered over 40,000 of them. Now it's 40,000.

I thought it was 35,000. Now it's 40,000. You know, the other day, Trump said it was 45. 5,000. Okay, it's all made up. Okay, I'm not saying that the regime didn't kill anybody. I'm saying that the numbers coming out of the pro-Israel crowd are made up. They're made up.

And I'm willing to believe it if you provide me some evidence. But they haven't provided any evidence and I'm just supposed to just believe that, but just trust me bro, no, I don't believe it. And by the way, I gotta go to the next video, Jank, because Scott Horton responds to that, take a look. I think it's so crucial that he continues and the war party on, you know, the media and the government continue to push this lie. This completely preposterous hoax, pierce, that the Iranian government massacred 40,000 people in January to put down that insurrection. First of all, we already know Donald Trump admitted, now that we're living in the future here, Donald Trump admitted last week or two weeks ago that Israel armed those Kurdish groups.

Those weren't peaceful protesters. There were peaceful protests, but the fighting was not the massacre of peaceful. protests, the fighting was fighting against Kurdish communists who were sacking police stations and burning mosques and trying to overthrow the government there. And then just think about that casualty count. 40,000, that's like the Battle of Gettysburg. You know, the worst, well, I don't know about all of them, but in Ukraine, the worst massacre of the Holocaust was at Babinyar in September of 1941, where the German Nazis corralled 30,000 Jews and massacred. occurred them and dumped them in a ravine.

Were to believe that the Ayatollah pulled that off something like that, maybe 10,000 more than that in January without carpet bombing his own city? That's such a great point. I mean, there has been carpet bombing taking place, I mean, previously by the United States and Israel at the start of this war against Iran. And you don't have tens of thousands of people killed in Iran? No, we have about 3,500 killed in Iran. after we bomb the living crap of them, including their girls' schools.

But somehow they killed 10 times more than that. And by the way, we have no pictures of it, we have no video of it, we have no satellites, we have no smartphones, we have no evidence at all. Now when Israel murdered 73,000 people in Gaza, we had overwhelming proof. We have the names of every person who's been killed. In fact, the number is much higher because of the people buried down the rubble, but since we don't have their names, it's not in the official count. That's how well documented it is.

and the IDF has agreed to. But the entire time, we were told, you can't trust those numbers, you can't believe those numbers, even though there was overwhelming evidence, right? Now they make up a number, they just pull it out of their ass, and all of media goes, yes, it's 30,000.

Oh, we changed it this week to 40? Yes, it's 40,000. Why is everyone in media saying something that has never been proven, never close to proven, that is obviously Israeli propaganda, and yet they're all repeating it without a shred of evidence?

And but guys, look, There are good people who have heard me say similar things like this. And they hate the IRGC so they think I'm like providing cover for, I don't get. Look, I live in America, okay? I have no love or strong hatred for the IRGC. I'm looking at the facts and everything that I say on the show, I want to back it up with receipts. So I'm not going to simply regurgitate death toll numbers that by the way change from one week to the next based on what propagandists, well-known propagandists are saying in the media.

Okay, finally, let's get to Horton revealing some pretty relevant comments that John Bolton had made during an APAC meeting almost 20 years ago. Take a look. We have John Bolton on a recorded conference call with APAC in 2007, saying that through all the sanctions and all the bullying, this is in the W Bush administration, they were trying to get Iran to withdraw from the nonproliferation treaty and kick the inspectors out of the country, as he said then, that would put us in a better position to launch the war. He wants full regime change. And then you hear his answer. He has no answer to how to do this. Oh, we'll arm some Kurdish communists from PJ. Yeah, it wasn't the most convincing way that this all gets resolved,

I must say. Yeah. And then, and then he says, oh, we'll arm the Balukis. He means Jundala, the bin Ladenite, head chopping, suicide bombing, lunatics. That's who he means by the Baluky descendants, which America and Israel backed against Iran in the W. Bush and Obama administrations. Both the United States and Israel have a history of funding groups that they later refer to as terror groups. Like, I just find it really interesting. I mean, how many Mossad, not Mossad, how many ISIS commanders were later discovered to be Mossad agents? No, but I'm being serious. There's reporting on that. There is reporting on it, but, Okay, we, we armed Al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria, guys.

Benjamin Netanyahu facilitated the funding of Hamas. I mean, it goes on and on and on, so please spare me the tears about, oh, Islamic terrorism. That Islamic terrorism is partly funded and supported and propped up by the very people who are whining about it today. Yeah, I mean, look at what Scott Horton said. Again, it's on tape, so it's not like it's disputed. Back in 2007, 18 years ago, Bolton is saying, let's make sure the Iranians are not in the nuclear proliferation treaty.

So meaning we want them to have the ability to have a nuke so we could use it as an excuse to attack them. They were never concerned about the nukes, not when Nanyahu started talking about it in 40 years ago, not 20 years ago, not today. The only reason why they care about their so-called nuclear program is to have an excuse to attack Iran, and not for Israel to attack Iran, they can attack Iran anytime they want. No, to trick us into attacking Iran. Oh, what if America got hit with a non-existent nuke that they've never had?

They said they won't have, they have no weapon to deliver, et cetera. So now guys, two more things that are super important here. We talked earlier in the show about, look, a lot of supporters of Israel genuinely think everything is anti-Semitism and that the Iranians are dangerous and are gonna have a nuke and are gonna kill them all, et cetera, because they are also the victims of propying. But the people at the top, they know they're the ones that are purposely lying. So John Bolton is a perfect example of that. So he knows that every single thing you saw in that first clip of his is a lie.

There wasn't 40,000 protesters killed, that toppling the Iranian regime is not at all easy, that the war is not going to go well. He was neck deep in Iraq. He knows exactly what went wrong, and he knows that that's exactly what's going to happen in Iran. He's not so stupid that he thinks, oh, no, it's a completely different dynamic, and this time it'll be easy. No, he's lying you on purpose, and why?

Well, it's funny, because that call was an APAC call. Yes, it was. So so many of the people you see on television actually work for Israel. And they never clarify that, they never tell you that they work for Israel, right? So that's part and parcel of the line. Finally, the most important part is this very presence on air to begin with. Because once the Israel first, pundits and politicians all go out in unison, that means they have gotten their tongu point from their Israeli handler.

That means Israel has made a decision. So when you see John Bolton, Lindsey Graham, Mark Thesson on Fox News, Bill Ackman on CNBC, it's all of these different figures all come out at the same time, go, no, we gotta go back in. Iran's really dangerous, they're killing protesters, so we have to murder them all first, and it's all America's, this is gonna be easy, it's only gonna take a couple more weeks. No, we gotta go back in. That means, yes, the propaganda has rebegun because Israel is demanding that America go back

into the war and serve Israel's interests. Yeah. And no one ever clarifies on television for you guys. These people actually work for Israel. This is Israeli propaganda. They're trying to manipulate you into this war so your kids will die instead of IDF soldiers and that you spend trillions of dollars instead of Israel spending it. That's right.

All right, one more story before we wrap up and Jake moves over to the revolution. I want to talk a little bit about what Israeli media is now confessing, admitting, and reporting about the protests that took place in late December and early January in Iran. So let's get right to it. Turns out, according to Israeli media, the Iranian protests that have been used as a source of justification for the attack and war on Iran turn out to be not so organic as previously reported and widely reported to be. be frank by the US media. If you want to know what the truth is, read the Israeli press, because they do tell the truth. And in this case, I learned about this thanks to the dissident, one of my favorite substack pages that I highly recommend reading if you want to be informed on foreign policy. So in that substack post by the dissident, they broke down the article by the Israeli

newspaper, Wynet, and here's what they report. A regime can be overthrown from above, by relying on senior officials, or it can be overthrown from below by cultivating mass protest and armed resistance by minorities. Israel has chosen both options at the same time. It will both chop off the chicken's head and cook its own legs. The sterile term influence, they further write, does not express the scope of the effort and sophistication, faced with a regime that is all poison. Israel has set up its own poison machine.

The organization began four years ago and reached operational maturity two and a half years ago. This is a weapons system that if activated at full power could be deadly far beyond the boundaries of the social network. So basically, I believe it was the Kurds in Iran. They were being armed by Mossad agents on the ground in the lead up to these protests. And the protest, by the way, I wanna be clear about something. The protests started off as something that you could consider organic because we have implemented crushing sanctions against Iran, and the Iranian people are suffering as a result

of that. So some of them took to the streets in order to protest the economic conditions, not the IRGC. They weren't trying to overthrow the IRGC. So once they take to the streets, that's when Mossad gets activated with the armed Kurds and things get violent. Because remember, even the New York Times reporting indicated that the protests were peaceful, and then suddenly it was like a flip of a switch. Things suddenly got super violent.

Yeah, so Mossad had actually said something online before about how they were next to the protest in Iran. Yes. And so that was already kind of rubbing in people's faces. Now Israeli press is confirmed, no, it was a Mossad operation to try to cause unrest. And part of the reason for that is the regime change, but the other part of the reason is to use it as an excuse to drag America into war. So, but after you see this, you will not see this reported in mainstream media in America.

Correct. The Israeli press is way more honest, partly because like they're either. Internally, they've got an election coming up, they're bragging to their own citizens. Oh, we're so good at manipulating America, a bunch of suckers over there, and this is how we manipulate them. They were so good at starting wars. So they're being more honest in their case. But American media was like, don't ever say anything that might hurt beloved Israel. But look, there was some reporting in the New York Times.

Obviously, they didn't clearly state that this was all manipulation, right, in order to push for war and regime change in Iran. But I want to give you a few excerpts from a March piece that was reported by the New York Times. They wrote that as the United States and Israel prepared to go to war with Iran, the head of Mossad, Israel's foreign intelligence service, went to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with a plan. Within days of the war's beginning, David Barnia, that's the Mossad chief, his service would likely be able to galvanize the Iranian opposition igniting riots. Let me read that again, igniting riots and other acts of rebellion that could even lead to the collapse of the Iranian government. Barnaya also presented the proposal to senior Trump administration officials during a visit to Washington in mid-January. And then Netanyahu adopted the plan despite doubts about its viability among senior American officials and some officials in other Israeli intelligence agencies. both he and President Trump seemed to embrace an optimistic outlook.

And then they proceeded with the decapitation strikes, killing the Ayatollah, and the war got started. So let's go back to the Wynet reporting as reported by the dissident. So on February 11th, Netanyahu arrives at the White House. Remember, the war starts on February 28th. In a meeting held in the situation room, Mossad chief, Barnaya, appears on the encrypted conference call monitor speaking from Israel, and he presents the plan to the president in all its parts. And as we all know, because this was also reported by the New York Times, the Israelis did a good job persuading Trump to do something that even some of his advisors discouraged him from doing, starting the war with Iran.

And using the protests that were totally manipulated by the Israelis as the justification for carrying that out. We want to liberate the Iranian people as we proceed to slaughter them with our carpet bombing campaign. So now let's talk about the rest of the media because I'm enraged about the New York Times as you've seen on the show many times, right? But we point out to you guys from time to time, oh look, that's an interesting piece that New York Times wrote, that one's actually accurate.

And it has real information, it's not biased, et cetera. And a lot of times, they'll put an important fact in the middle of a story. It'll be like in paragraph 17, oh, by the way, Iran hit our warships. I don't know why that's not the headline, that's a giant story, but they actually state the fact in the middle of the story. And then they kind of covered up in other ways. But a veteran of this, in the lead up to the Iraq war, we were on the air, oldest showing online history and Ben, Manquist and I at the time would show you all the time.

Wait, on the front page with big giant headlines, they warn about weapons and mass destruction. But what's really weird is on page 827, they have an article about how US intelligence says there is no weapons of mass destruction, right? And so it what's, so now when you see the New York Times reporting this one accurately, NYNet and an Israeli paper reporting it accurately. So what should you look out for? Well, is the rest of the press going to say, hey, and for them, the New York Times is the gold standard, right?

And the Israelis are the gold standard of everything, right? Will they all from now on say, oh no, those protests were not organic, they were organized by Mossad? And even if some of the protests were organic, the violence was organized by Massa. That's right, yes. And I'm gonna predict to you ahead of time. They will never say that. They will not say it on cable news, they'll all, every single one of them that talks

about it, we'll say that it was organic and they won't mention this reporting at all. In fact, other articles in the New York Times will ignore their own reporting and they'll come back around and say in every other article about how there was organic protests and the Iranian government crushed those protesters and without any evidence at all, they claimed if 30,000 or 40,000 people were killed. It's collective amnesia, it's done on purpose. So they could say, well, we did report that there were no weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq war, right? But oh, golly, gee, we forgot about it in every other story. And I guess you came

away with the impression that they did have weapons of mass destruction. All right, well, the revolution is next. And it's going to be lit. It is. Two things, Chris Rab, running in a really important race in Philadelphia. You've got to check that out. And I'm going to do a story about Israeli sciops on CNN. We'll be back. Do you know your brain rot index? Of course you don't. I didn't either because I don't know what that was. But you might want to actually after hearing this. Did you know that the average American checks their phone over 200 times a day?

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