The Young Turks - Trump Begs NATO - March 16, 2026

Episode Date: March 17, 2026

Trump and Hegseth insist that the United States have already won the ongoing Iran war. Meanwhile, Trump begs other countries to help the U.S. secure the Strait of Hormuz. Trump admits that the Iran War is great for our “very good allies” in the Middle East. Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at shopify.com/tyt  Just go to this exclusive web address right now to try ZipRecruiter FOR FREE: ziprecruiter.com/tyt  Check out Pocket Hose and use my code TYT for a great deal: https://www.getcopperhead.comIf your work depends on conversations — interviews, meetings, calls — check out plaud.ai  Explore opportunities in more than 60 countries and apply at http://PeaceCorps.gov/serve  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

You're listening to the Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Jane Cougar, Anna Kis Faran with you guys. So we are now several weeks into the Iran war. And we've got mixed news for you guys. So Donald Trump can't seem to make up his mind. Are we winning so thoroughly?

They're decimated. They're about to surrender. They're on their knees begging, begging for us to stop. Or, or we desperately need NATO help and European allies, please, please help us with the Strait of War moods. Well, which one is it? Okay, so that's going to be a consistent theme throughout this show. We are waiting for them. Yeah, apparently they are.

So look, it's not like Iran is winning, and it's not like we're winning, because there is no winning except as Israel. was about to take southern Lebanon. So that'll be a huge win for them. So as usual, the only winners, the Israeli government. Okay. Yeah, let's get started. Yep. Our powerful military campaign to end the threats posed by the Iranian regime continued in full force over the past few days. They have been literally obliterated. The air force is gone. The Navy is gone. The Navy is gone. Many, many ships have been sunk. They're war fighting ships, but I guess they didn't know how to use them. And anti-aircraft is decimated. Their radar is gone, and their leaders are gone. Other than that, they're doing quite well.

Other than that, they're doing quite well. Well, which one is it? Because as you just heard, President Trump repeated, yet again, that the United States has obliterated Iran, thus claiming victory over Iran, right? But why is the Strait of Hormuz still closed? Why did Trump send thousands of additional U.S. soldiers to the region? And why is the president asking other countries for help? Shanker, two cents? Yeah, so just a couple of comments on what he just said, we literally obliterated them. Great, then let's leave. Like, what else could we do in a war other than absolutely and literally obliterate our enemy? So obviously mission accomplished. Number two, he said they had a Navy but they didn't know how to use it.

He seemed to have known it well enough to close the strait of Hormuz and have oil prices skyrocket and really screw our economy, which you're in a stone cold panic over it, which leads me to my one poll question here for today before I kick it over to back to Anna on the facts of what's going on and all look at the contradictions Trump's about to give you. But on t.yt.com we're asking, and you've got to keep this in mind as we give you all the facts, Why are we begging other countries to help us open the Strait of Hormuz? A, because we're winning. B, because Iran is decimated.

C, because Iran is about to surrender. Or D, because we need extra help in this war that is not going as we planned. So let's find out. Now, Trump claimed victory by also addressing the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. This was aboard Air Force One. It's kind of difficult to hear. I don't know why these interviews take place when there's like a loud jet engine. in the background, but nonetheless, here you go.

As far as I'm concerned, we've essentially defeated Iran. I guess they can have a little bit of fight back, but not much. Not much. We've taken out their air forces, you know, we've taken out their navy. We've taken out their air defense, no air defense whatsoever. We've taken out their leadership times two or three, might be three. We'll find out soon. But the hardest where they have the bucks.

Trump says that he can capture the straight of the state of the military. Hormuz in five minutes but chose not to do it yet. Right. Okay. But he also claims, Jank, that Iran wants to make a deal badly. You just heard him say that, right? Now, here's the real question, is that true? Well, here's foreign minister of Iran.

He answers the question during, you know, meet the press. Let's take a look at what he had to say. President Trump said this weekend he is not ready to make a deal with Iran because the terms aren't good enough yet. His administration is saying this war could last another three and a half weeks or so. Has Iran asked for a ceasefire? No, we never asked for a ceasefire. And we have never asked even for negotiation. We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes. That wasn't meet the press. That was faced the nation. Who cares? What we do care about, though, is that Trump lied. Iran is not looking for a ceasefire. They're not looking to

negotiate because they don't trust the United States. On two separate occasions, the first one being last summer, the second one being recently, the US pretended like they were engaged in negotiations with Iran and then proceeded to carry out the military equivalent of a sucker punch against Iran. So why would Iran trust the United States in negotiating in good faith? I certainly wouldn't trust the United States if I were them. Yeah, every time Iraq cheese asked how he feels about the war, and ground troops, et cetera, he says, we are waiting for them.

We are waiting for them. Okay, so if they're so decimated, et cetera, why are they so looking forward to us bringing in ground troops? Because obviously when you make landfall, the advantage goes to them. It's a mountainous region. And the obvious guerrilla warfare, insurgency, roadside bombs, all the things we got in Iraq, but times four in Iran. And Trump's writing like, ah, I got Carg Island, hey, mate, okay, all right, great, wonderful.

But like, why are you sending the 5,000 troops? So Anna, we're going to get to all that. But I have a fundamental question that I want all of you to think about as we're giving you more of this story. So we're sending in 5,000 ground troops. Why doesn't Israel send in the 5,000 ground troops? This is a war they wanted, not us. Because Israelis could, I mean, ground troops.

crown troops in Iran, which they know about Iran's military capability. So that war is for American soldiers to die in, right? Let's be clear about that. And in the meantime, Israel is carrying out a ground operation to annex more land in Lebanon. Yeah. So but furthermore, isn't it super strange that no one else is asking that question? That there's not a single minute or second of debate on cable news, New York Times, anywhere else, hey, who should send in ground troops? Should it be America or should it be Israel?

I mean, we're the two countries that attacked Iran. No, the assumption on Washington is that the Israeli troops are way too precious. No, no, Americans must enter the meat grinder, and it's not an open question. And if you want the Israelis to go in, instead, you're an anti-Semite. And so lastly, straight of Hormuz, as you're seeing here, Donald Trump's like, oh, please, you're being countries. Help us. Well, hold on, let me get to that part, change. You're going to get to that part, but as you're getting to it, what I want people to think about is, well, we already have an ally in this war. Israel. Why don't they help us with the Strait of Hormuz? Because we're their slaves, where their cattle, that's why.

Okay, so let's talk about the Strait of Hormuz because that question still remains, right? It's still closed, and Iran is not allowing any vessel with any ties to the United States or Israel to get through it, including oil tankers. They have made exceptions for other countries. So they're doing this to ensure that there's economic pain for the US and Israel. But remember, when it comes to oil and gas, we're talking about a global market. So a lack or a limited supply of oil and gas on the global market is going to hurt all of us, which is why many Americans have already witnessed the prices at the pumps increase significantly, and they're only going to go up from there.

Now, here is Trump addressing the question of the Strait of Hormuz. Strongly encourage other nations whose economies depend on the strait far more than ours. We get less than 1% of our oil from this rate. And some countries get much more. Japan gets 95%. China gets 90%. Many of the Europeans get quite a quite a bit. South Korea gets 35%.

So we want them to come and help. us with the straight. The president is speaking with our allies in Europe and also many of our partners in the Gulf and Arab world to encourage them to step up to do more to open the straight of her moves. And our NATO allies especially need to step up. Look, President Trump has been very frank with our friends in NATO for a very long time. He got them to increase their defense spending up to 5 percent, and now he's calling on them

to do the right thing. So if you're winning a war, you wouldn't start begging foreign countries to help you, including members of the NATO alliance, which Trump previously had a lot of insulting things to say about. And then on top of that, he is sending 5,000 additional troops to the Middle East as a result of this war. You wouldn't do that if you have obliterated or defeated Iran. And when he was asked by an ABC reporter aboard Air Force One, can you say, Can you say why we're sending 5,000 Marines and sailors? Here's how Trump responded.

So he shushed her and said, you're a very obnoxious person. I guess that's the way you handle a question you don't like because the way you're handling this war is embarrassing. The fact that Trump got goaded, dragged into a war on behalf of a foreign country, pretty embarrassing, pretty embarrassing. Yeah, so I think the great majority of the country is wondering about the ground troops. Are we sending them in? We're not? Apparently we're all very obnoxious people. Very obnoxious. I mean, you're worried

about American soldiers dying? You're so obnoxious. Okay, so again, think about when they ask the next week, if they'll ever ask it. Honestly, if they'll ever ask it. But why isn't Israel sending them in instead? I can't wait for one person that's called a reporter in Washington to figure out the most obvious question in the world. Now, something that also needs to be addressed is what the reality is in regard to the damage Iran has managed to do to US military installations in the Middle East. They've bombed every single US base in the Gulf region. In fact, the first order of business for the Iranians was to take out our radar systems

at these bases. And those radar systems give our soldiers early warning of missile attacks. They don't have that available anymore, which is why the United States isn't using those bases right now in these Gulf countries. Now, both the United States and Israel are also low on missile interceptors. We knew that about the United States. Now Israel is crying about it. Trump had to lift sanctions on Russia so that they could sell oil to India and essentially

lessen the economic pain that people are feeling internationally due to the limited supply of oil and gas on the global market. And Russia is also selling a lot more fertilizer due to the Strait of Hormuz effectively being closed. A third of the world's fertilizer comes from that region of the world and travels through, is transported through the Strait of Hormuz. Since it's closed, there are concerns that there's going to be a global food shortage. But Russia also produces a lot of fertilizer. And as a result of this incredibly stupid war, Russia is now able to sell more of their fertilizer, thus canceling out much of the economic sanctions the US has imposed on Russia as a result

of their war against Ukraine. The other, one of the other thirds of the fertilizer comes out of Donald Trump's mouth. So that should be a steady stream that we're okay on. I'm gonna read a couple of super chats here, because I think they're exactly on point. Grey Scout, Epsilon said, perhaps imposing tariffs on your allies before asking them for help with an illegal war was a miscalculation. Pretty good point. And 0-00-83 writes in on Super Chat. Hmm, I do remember Israel. First people say that they have a right to defend itself. So the same logic applies here. Iran has every right to defend itself. Okay, yeah,

Exactly, thank you for writing in and in sharing that perspective, because if you notice, the foreign minister of Iran, he's been pretty generous with his time in the American media, right? They request that he do interviews, he does the interviews, and in almost every single case, they ask, well, why are you attacking these Gulf countries? No, no, they're attacking U.S. bases and U.S. embassies in these Gulf countries, or something I don't think they should do is attack like hotels, for instance, where they believe American soldiers are staying at. Yeah, this is what you should expect Iran to do. Of course, they're

going to retaliate if you start striking them, if you start killing their people. What do you want them to do? Just sit back and take it. Of course they're going to do this. The fact that the US, the government was blindsided, did not expect Iran to do what it's been doing in attacking these US bases in Gulf countries. Like blows my mind. mind, Jake. Yeah, do see of all people for Fox News asked. You know, you said you were really surprised that they attacked our bases and our Gulf allies.

Do you think that maybe somebody made a mistake in your preparations in not letting you know that they might do that? And of course, he had gibberish as an answer, right? We're winning, everything's great, we decimated, their heads are gushing with blood. We need help, I'm sorry, Nato, please help us. Wait, which one is a jerk? All right, anyway. So obviously he doesn't have an answer to that.

And that goes to the point about incredible lack of planning. Like Trump apparently thought there's a different report that he would be considered a wartime president and his polling would go up to 80%. Oops. And so he was like, well, I know of course Americans are gonna die, but my polling will improve. Okay, yes, but how are you going to get out of the war? Well, Iran will surrender. Well, what if Iran doesn't surrender, right? Oh my God, I can't believe they hit our bases?

How could that not be your very first thought? Of course, we all know the answer, because the first one through 100 thoughts was, how do we help Israel? How do we protect Israel? How do we defend Israel? How do we help every precious Israeli citizen? You didn't think through what if Iran hits the radar of the bases, then that bases become totally useless because then you can't see incoming drones or missiles. That means that we have to abandon our bases, which is what I'm hearing now.

How do you attack a country with a formidable military, something that everyone knew? Okay, even like the top normies in the country knew. How do you do that when you know that you've depleted 25% of your missile interceptors by giving them to Israel and Ukraine? How do you enter a war with the formidable military? I think it's even worse than that. They actually, I mean, yeah, they gave some to Ukraine. My understanding is that we use about a quarter of them in the 12 day war with Iran protecting Israel, of course, beloved Israel, right?

So, but if we already use the quarter of them in 12 days, do the math. Look, I- It's asking too much. We're whistling past the graveyard here, which is like, we're gonna run out of interceptor missiles. That's, we don't have an infinite supply, and they cost a lot of money. It costs about $4 million. Iranian drones close 35,000. I don't know how much Iran has left.

I really genuinely don't know. I hear things like Iran has got all this 100,000 left, we've talked about that. And then I hear that, hey, you know what? The number of missiles and drones they've sent has been greatly reduced. So I don't know. But I do know that at some point we will run out of defensive missiles. And then there'll be a panic that which they apparently they haven't even thought through at all, which is what do we do with our ships when they have?

have no defensive missiles. Are you just gonna let them sit there like sitting ducks? Or are you gonna do what we've done with our bases? Panic and pull out immediately and then go to hotels where Iran finds you anyway and bombs, right? Thereby greatly angry United Arab Emirates, Saudis, et cetera. And so they haven't thought through a single thing. Nothing.

So- And that's the reason why, Jank, Iran is not interested in a ceasefire. Because at this point, this is a war of endurance and Iran knows that the United States and Israel, they're low on interceptors. And on top of that, since Israel used this as an opportunity to go after Lebanon, well, Hezbollah actually wasn't as weak as the Israelis believed. And Hezbollah has been conducting strikes against Israel simultaneously with Iran. Thus further, you know, depleting what they have left in terms of missile interceptors and things like that. So last two things on that.

First on Iran, Trump is not wrong that we've sunk most of their navy, destroyed all their planes, and done great damage to their nuclear program, which is actually obliterated, their ballistic missiles, etc. Okay, but that's why, but he thinks hence we won, but Iran and hence he thinks Iran is going to give up. But Iran's like, why would we give up? You've already done maximum damage to our entire infrastructure. And Israelis are already bombing our oil facilities. Like we have incurred about 90% of the damage we're going to incur. And there's no way you can uproot us unless you come on the ground. And on the ground, everything flips and is our advantage.

So they're like, no, we're not going to stop because especially because if we stop, we know the minute we start building any new defenses, you're going to come in and bomb again and again and again. So no, we do not, not only do we not surrender, we are not going to stop the war. We are waiting for them. Yeah, and so they have, they have not, it appears that our guys, and maybe even the Israelis didn't take that in the account. The Israelis don't care. We're the ones suffering the human and financial costs of this insane stupid war. And by the way, you know the war is not going well for the United States when the neocon douchebags who had been cheerleading this war for many, many years are now

turning around and saying, ooh, things are not going well. So for instance, on NPR, John Bolton of all people, said that the plot for regime change has failed. Robert Kagan and Bill Crystal, two individuals I loathe, were essentially admitting that the US war on Iran was destroying the US empire. Okay, Robert Kagan in a podcast admitted that the Iran war was debilitating America's ability to wage a new Cold War on Russia and China and isolating the United States Empire globally. By the way, I should note, South Korea is a little upset with the United States because we took the missile interceptors that we had in South Korea. Recently, we took them out for this war. And the whole purpose of those missile interceptors,

being located in South Korea was in case of a war with China. And North Korea. So congratulations. There is no country more vulnerable on planet Earth than South Korea. They could be decimated, like literally millions of people in minutes, because of all the missiles and now the nukes that North Korea has pointed at, Seoul, South Korea and so many other cities in South Korea. And they are top economy and a top ally that is, we've done.

everything we've ever asked them. And so now we're betraying them because Israel needs those interceptors. Who cares about you stupid South Koreans? There's only one precious ally, the one bribing all of our politicians. I know, giant coincidence. So last couple of things here. So why is Israel not helping with the ground troops? Why are they not helping with the Strait of Hormuz?

Because they've got their entire army ready to invade southern Lebanon. So that's not an exaggeration. They have an enormous number of troops that had already gotten ready to have. ahead of this war thinking, oh good, we'll have America fight Iran for us. We'll have them die on the ground. We'll have them die in the Strait of Hormuz, et cetera. And then meanwhile, while everybody else is busy, we'll sneak into Lebanon and annex more land. Okay, well, and then we'll tell Jake Deppard, it's self-defense. And all of cable news will tell us, chance, self-defense, self-defense, as they do another invasion. That's why they're not helping us

in anything, because part of the point of this war was to distract everyone. as they stole more land, in this case Lebanon. Finally, Mark Levin tweets at me all the time. It's a fun thing. And so I wrote over the weekend the same thing I just told you guys, which is why doesn't Israel send the 5,000 ground troops? Why do Americans have to die instead? And he quote tweeted, deport.

He's such a piece of crap. No, no, it's okay. So wait, but I want to understand that better. So he says if you support American troops not going to die, But that our ally in the war, and I said in that same tweet, the first one that he said deport to, 82% of Israelis won this war, only 21% of Americans did. So why do we have to die for your war? And he says, if basically he's saying if you don't agree that Americans should die instead of Israelis,

we should deport you from America? Wait, I couldn't make the counter argument that if you think that Americans should die instead of the Israelis for a war Israel wanted and started, that we should deport your hairy ass, okay? So what do you mean deport? Okay, so if you're a traitor and you say Americans should die instead of Israelis, we should think about, well, okay, are you coordinating with the Israeli government? Of course he is, Jake. Are you an Israeli asset? Are you a foreign agent?

Do you really think there'd be consequences if that were confirmed? There's no consequence at all, guys, we already know. Look, I did a video about Tucker Carlson, super last thing here. Over the weekend, they're threatening to potentially arrest them. But wait a minute, Lindsay Graham has admitted that he worked with the Israeli government to convince Trump and the U.S. government to go to war on Israel's behalf. If that's not a foreign agent, I don't know what is. That is directly coordinating with another government against our government's interests.

So why come he hasn't been arrested? Oh, right, because people supporting Israel are above the law. All right, when we come back, we'll talk about the oil and gas markets, more on the Strait of Hormuz. You don't want to miss it. Has a huge impact on our economic situation, not just here in the United States, but globally. We'll be right back. I love cows.

All right, back on TYT, so let's go to TYOT.com members. Mystery in between says Levin is both an Israeli ass hat and Israeli asset. Okay, probably true on both counts. He's a pretty good army says, this is actually not a left versus right, conservative versus liberal comment. The first real America's first president to come along, we need them to do a modern day big corporate breakup like Standard Oil and AT&T and breakup to Ellison's stranglehold on US media.

I actually think more than that, what we need them to do is to find every Israeli agent and asset in our government. They're gonna have to spend a long, long time doing that. I think the number is at least in the hundreds, maybe the thousands. And they should uproot them from the US government, the traitors that are working for Israel. And there is a ton of them inside our government. Remote Dragon says, LOL, every time I see FAT Hitler leaning out the door of Air Force One, I wonder what's really going on that it's hiding.

Then I remember it's a pito. Don't shoot on the goalkeeper says, friends with NATO, LOL. We have no friends left in NATO. The entire world hates us. Deb Jamm 1 says, Trump doesn't have a clue on how to negotiate or now. with the Iranians continuing to fight how to get out gracefully. He's a moron with bad actors advising him, kissing Israel's boots. All that is obviously true.

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2%. China as an example gets about 90% of it's about from the hormone straight. And nice to have other countries police that with us and will help, we'll work for them. And be interesting to see what country wouldn't help us with a very small endeavor, which is just keeping the straight open. Really, I'm demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is near territory. It's the place from which they get their energy. And they should come and they should help us protect it. President Donald Trump, who launched an illegal war against Iran on behalf of Israel,

is now asking and actually demanding that other countries help the US in securing the Strait of Hormuz, which of course Iran has effectively closed to the United States and Israel specifically. Now, Jank, you're two cents on what Trump is asking for here. I was led to believe by the president that we've defeated Iran, but it doesn't seem like that's the case. Yeah, it is weird that we're asking for help. It's also weird the one country we're not asking for help. We'll get to that in a minute. And what the oil companies think, because that's a bit of a doozy.

It's not what you think it is, and that might give you a sense of what's actually happening in the Strait of Hormuz. Absolutely. So oil prices have absolutely already. increased significantly about 40 to 50% since the Iran war began. Prior to the war, the price of oil per barrel was about $70. Now it's hovering around $100 per barrel. And so the Trump administration claims that he secured some sort of coalition of countries that will help escort ships and tankers through the Strait of Hormuz. But there is a little bit of a catch here. So according to the Wall Street Journal, they are still discussing whether those operations would begin before or after hostilities end.

And that's because, you know, other countries, this so-called coalition of countries is probably concerned that they are putting themselves in jeopardy by escorting ships through the Strait of Hormuz. Because make no mistake about it, Iran has threatened to strike them and has been striking tankers and ships. So judging by the response of Germany's defense minister, they won't be taking part in this coalition. They were pretty blunt about it. So he says, quote, what does Trump expect a handful or two handfuls of European frigates to do in the strait of Hormuz that the powerful U.S. Navy cannot do? This is not our war. We have not started it. In addition to that, the European Union's foreign policy chief also responded frostily

to Trump's request for help, saying the straight is out of NATO's area of action. You have other countries who have waited on this, including Japan, Italy, and Austria, who have announced that they will not be joining this so-called coalition. I don't really know which countries are in the coalition. Trump hasn't given us any clarity on that. While, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant just announced that the United States is allowing Iranian ships to travel through the Strait of Hormuz, as if the U.S. is in control of the strait. Obviously, they're not. But it doesn't surprise me that they're not attacking Iranian

vessels because of the fact that more oil supply will hopefully help to alleviate some of the pressure in the oil markets. But nonetheless, here's Besant. We are seeing more and more the fuel ships start to go through. The Iranian ships have been getting out already, and we've let that happen to supply the rest of the world. We've seen Indian ships go out now, so the Indians who rely very heavily on Gulf oil, we believe some Chinese ships have gone out. So, you know, that, and that should start ramping up before there are any, the, the, uh, the, uh, flow to, are protective armadas in the Gulf. So we think that there will be a natural opening that the Iranians are letting out.

And for now, we're fine with that. We want the world to be well supplied. For right now, we're fine with that. Of course you're fine with that. Of course you want more supply of oil. Real quick, I misspoke. Australia, not Austria, noted that they will not be part of the coalition. France apparently has suggested that they have some interest in joining that coalition,

I think, to their detriment. But by the way, the oil that's being transported by Iran is barely helping to lessen the economic blow of this war. For reference, Iran exports about one and a half million barrels of oil each day. In total, 9 to 10 million barrels of oil were being shipped out of the Strait of Hormuz prior to the war. Yeah, how do you know if your country is independent or controlled by Israel, whether you join this war or not? They ask the Japanese, they're like, no, why would we do that? Because there really is no reason to do that unless all of your politicians are bribed or blackmailed by the Israelis. What the hell does Japan want to get into a war with Iran for?

What kind of a mental ask is that? You know, we got no beat with them. In fact, we don't know why you're in the war. So Israel hasn't bought them yet. No, apparently not. So that's gonna give you your handy-dandy list of countries bought by Israel and not bought by Israel. So France is apparently halfway bought and they're like, I don't know, I don't know, what

you do I go, give me more money. Of course, not for France, but for the corrupt politicians and the corrupt media. Anyway, so gives you a sense of our desperation that we are not hitting the Iranian ships going through. We're not even, we've let the Russians sell their oil that was previously under sanctions. We're letting the Chinese and the Indian ships through. Why? Because we're so worried about the price of oil. And the more the price of oil goes up, the more pressure there is on Trump to get the

hell out of this war because of significant damage to the American economy. And again, not just about gas, guys. Oil goes into plastic and almost everything we make. So now market analysts are warning about economic destruction in America, okay? So that's why we're like, oh, Chinese, Russians, they're fine, fine, fine, Iranians, even the guys who were at war with, fine, just please sell the oil, sell the oil. So of course, who are the only people who can't go through the Strait of Hormuz, all of our allies, which now think how much damage is it to be an American ally?

That's exactly right, I love that you brought that up because look, What Iran is doing by attacking U.S. military installations in the Gulf region is to basically communicate to these Gulf countries. There's a price to pay when you're aligned with the United States. And where is the U.S.? Looks like they're not defending you? And the reason why the U.S. is unable to defend these Gulf allies of ours is because we're low on interceptors. So the interceptors that remain are being used to protect Israel and U.S. troops in the region.

And there are about 50,000 US troops in the region as we speak. And by the way, according to the Wall Street Journal, the Trump administration is apparently admitting defeat behind closed doors. Now what I hate about this is please, like if you're gonna make these types of statements, identify yourself, but for obvious reasons, they don't want retaliation. So they don't identify themselves. However, the Wall Street Journal reports that a senior administration official said that the administration knows prices are going to continue to rise, but there isn't a lot.

It can do at the moment. Yeah, well, there's one thing you could do. You could ask our beloved ally who got us into this war in the first place to help us with a straight of Hormuz. It's funny, we ask the Japanese, we ask the South Koreans, we asked like Luxembourg. So embarrassing. But we won't ask Israel, why Israel's busy using its own military to invade Lebanon, which was part of the point of this war.

So they're like, no, shut up, you stupid Americans. Go die for us and use your ground troops over there. Use all of your money and energy on the Strait of Hormuz. We're busy conquering new territory. Thanks a lot, suckers. That's what Israel says and doesn't help us with our top priorities, ground troops and Strait of Hormuz at all, at all. By the way, I mean, it would also benefit the Israelis if the United States is effectively

pushed out of that region entirely. I mean, why would these Gulf countries want to continue being aligned with the US? And keep in mind the incredibly important resources in that region. Pushing the U.S. out means that it would further reinforce Israel's dominance in that region. Look, honestly, I hadn't thought of that. That is, you know, there's a couple layers deep. So I don't know if they've gone that far, but I see what you're saying that if America just says, hey, we'll come in and use our military whenever you needed Israel and we'll continue to give hundreds of billions of dollars to you. But we'll remove our bases, then

then Israel really could do greater Israel, because then the Gulf would be completely vulnerable. vulnerable as well. Exactly. They've just been attacked. You take away American defenses, which is what's going to come out of this war potentially, then Israel thinks, thank you very much. That's exactly right. You eliminated all of my enemies, all of my neighbors, any ability to defend themselves.

So here I go taking more and more land. And then we'll get our idiots in American media, who are the worst so-called reporters in the world to tell you that we're doing self-defense. Well, let's move on to the oil executive, shall we? because what they've been saying is worth listening to. Oil executives are giving the White House some pretty dire warnings about the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and the spiking oil prices that are already resulting from that. Now according to the Wall Street Journal, many in the oil industry fear that the menu of options

available can do little to stem the crisis and that the only solution is to reopen the the Strait of Hormuz. Now, Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. They are unwilling to open it and allow US and Israeli vessels to travel through it. And of course, they are bringing the global economy to its knees in order to apply pressure to Donald Trump for starting this stupid war to begin with. Now last week, the Trump administration, without Trump present, officials within the administration met with the CEOs of Exxon Mobile, Chevron, and Conoco Phillips.

The meetings were described as productive, and none of the executives blamed the Trump administration for the crisis. Of course they didn't. I mean, if you do that, then the Trump administration is going to be incredibly hostile toward you. But they are really worried, Jank, that this war and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is going to lead to a full-blown Depression, not just recession, depression. Yeah, so as we've been telling you, oil goes into everything, unfortunately. So number one is plastic, and half the things are made of plastic. So what that's going to do is not just gas prices, which are very obvious and visible to the naked eye,

or the price of a lot of your goods are going to go up. And you might think it's generic inflation, but no, that's also related to oil. So now, a smart president who cares about America would have thought, hey, I wonder what this is going to do to our economy. How much price increase in oil can we withstand and how long can we withstand it? Hey, maybe I should talk to the oil companies before I do this. Will they be willing to do this, that, or the other thing? Coordinate ahead of time so you know exactly how many interceptor missiles you have.

When they close this trade of hormones, which is nearly inevitable, which now their first Trump said we didn't, nobody could have seen it coming. Now he's saying, oh, of course we knew they were going to do. Ahexon says, of course we knew they were going to do that. Okay, then did you plan ahead? Well, you obviously didn't. And so now when they talk to the oil companies, they're like, guys, we're going to hit $120 per barrel.

And when we do utter destruction of the economy, we already passed 100 the other day. So we're back down to 95 today, but 120 is enormously doable. Iran is threatening 200. That would be cataclysmic, right? But 120 is bad enough, and we're definitely on that road, and it looks like we have no idea how to open up the Strait of Hormuz. Just complete, an utter disaster. And that's the reason why the US lifted sanctions on Russia to allow Russia to export its oil,

much to the chagrin of Ukraine, as you can imagine. So here we are. Anyway, we gotta take a break. When we come back, we've got a lot more to get to, including Pete Higgs seems unhinged, and I'll tell you why when we come back. Let's go to super chat. Jed Kuzak says, why would Arabs continue to host U.S. bases if deterrent failed? So Jedd, that's an excellent question, but I'll layer on top of it.

Now if you're UAE, Qatar, et cetera, and you say, okay, if I have U.S. bases, not only did it not protect me, it actually got me attacked. And when I was attacked, America didn't even defend me, they were busy defending their beloved Israel. So yeah, they just, we just taught them, don't listen to us, don't have our bases in there, because all it's going to do is get you in bigger trouble, not less. So cylindrical fare says, the silver lining of this war is the destruction of our empire. You can't convince me that our empire serves our citizens. Every U.S. base in international land was a waste of our money.

This is the destruction of the military industrial complex. Well, no, guys, you have to vote to destroy the military industrial complex. Otherwise, it doesn't matter how destroyed the rest of us are. They're just going to bleed us dry. As long as they continue to bribe our politicians, you won't have any choice at all. You've got to vote in your own primaries. You've got to vote against all the incumbents. Almost all the incumbents are totally corrupt.

They're leading to the destruction of this country. Timmy D. says, but Rachel Maddo said the U.S. started this war on behalf of the Gulf states. Well, that's because Rachel Maddo is a liar and can't criticize Israel because her bosses told her, shut up and serve Israel. And she said, oh, yeah, as a good progressive, I will. Yes, sir. Oh, oh, the Arabs wanted this war. They wanted to be bombed and killed, not Israel. Yeah, whatever, Rachel. Back on to her two, we should do a poll. Who's more disappointing Rachel Maddo or AOC? I haven't heard any peep out of any of them. I haven't heard a peep out of almost any Democrat in the middle of a disastrous war. Anyways, guys,

we've got two minute breaks down, sort of four minute breaks. We're trying to give you guys way more show. And one of the things is if you're a YouTube member, make sure you connect to your TYT membership. It's free. You already paid for it. And what it does is it allows you to read, hear me reading the super chats and your member comments during the break instead of the ads. So tyt.com connect to do that. And if you're not a member yet, you just join through t-y-t.com slash join. That's the easiest way to do it. All right, Anna. All right, let's talk about how every once in a while you'll hear Trump say the quiet part out loud. Maybe we shouldn't be there at all because we don't need it. It's almost like we do it for happen,

but we also do it for some very good allies that we have in the Middle East. There you have the president of the United States declaring that maybe we shouldn't even be near the Strait of Hormuz. But we're doing this. We're trying to secure the Strait of Hormuz in which 20% of the world's oil and natural gas travels through. On behalf of a special ally, who do you think that special ally is, Jake? I'm sure it's Luxembourg or Bolivia. I can't, look, if I was a national media reporter, I would be flummoxed. I would have no idea how to answer that question. Anyways, important thing here is he said maybe we shouldn't be there, then great, why don't we leave?

We should leave, yeah, it's a good idea. Yeah, so now you're gonna see reactions here from different commentators throughout the political spectrum. Let's see how they view it. And if it's viewed through the lens of that special ally or not. So let's actually start with more from President Donald Trump. This is what he had to say with more context. Remember, it only takes a couple of people to screw up the strait, a couple of terrorists.

You don't need their military as big minds here or there and sit up. So we need, I would really, I'm demanding that these countries come in and protect their own territory because it is near territory. It's the place from which they get their energy. And they should come and they should help us protect it. You could make the, maybe we shouldn't be there at all. Is there anywhere in the release level? Now I think it's-

The notion that a decline of 20% of oil and gas in the global market isn't going to negatively impact America is insane. Because as we know, this isn't about like, oh, we're an oil-producing country and we keep all our oil and gas to ourselves. And we're gonna be great. No, it's a global market. It's traded and sold on a global market. So when 20% of the oil and liquefied natural gas that goes through the Strait of Hormuz is effectively shut down, that negatively impacts supply and hurts the global market, meaning we end up paying more for gas.

We end up paying more for products because energy is at the heart of everything, really. And so that's why you're experiencing prices go up at the gas pump already. But nonetheless, he's like, maybe we shouldn't be there. And in the full context, what he's effectively trying to say is, why don't these other countries handle it? Maybe we shouldn't even have to deal with it. But we're doing this for Israel. So I mean, there's the easy answer that there.

I've been saying all day, why doesn't Israel take care of the straight of hormones? Oh, right, they're busy invading Lebanon. So I mean, this is a joke. It's a total joke. Anyone who can't see that we're let around by the nose by Israel is either completely ignorant of what's happening or lying you on purpose. I just wanna say one quick comment about his answer that. He said, you know, we're almost there out of habit.

Wait, didn't you run on breaking that habit? He sure did. Of like constantly going to the wars in the Middle East for no reason at all, except Israel wants them in the military industrial complex. Once at this point, even the oil companies don't want them, right? They're saying that it's such a, like oil can get to such a high price that it actually causes such devastation that once the war is over, less people will have money to buy the things that oil makes and will hurt the oil companies in the longer.

So even they're out, so the only people that are left are Israel and the defense contractors. So yeah, we're doing it out of habit because all of you politicians in Washington are bribed by those guys. It's not hard to figure out. Now we've heard over and over again, dating back to the Biden administration, that, But there's just this massive disagreement between the White House and the Israelis, right? The White House wagging their finger at the Israelis. Just like mine.

We disagree. Barack Ravid, in my opinion, an asset of the Israelis who moonlights as a reporter for Axios reports the same BS over and over again. Well, Trump is here to tell you, no, pouring cold water on that. Me and BB, thick as thieves. What's this real doing to help secure the straightforward moves? They're doing. They're working with us. The relationship with Israel, that was other fake news.

It was saying, oh, did I have an argument with people? No, we can really get along well. And he would tell you, we're leading the whole thing. And I don't think you can say it or not say to dissimarily. The main thing is to get it done. But my relationship with Bibi Nanyas, I would say extraordinary. God, that is so embarrassing. Oh my God.

Okay, well later, Trump happily recounted how much free military aid the U.S. provides to Israel. Take a look at that. What do you want to see in a deal with Iran and the war? And how does that differ from Israel's objectives? I think, you know, I think we have similar objectives, really, but could be a little bit different. You know, they're there and we're very far away. But I think we probably have pretty similar with Israel. The relationship has been very good.

The militaries are very well coordinated. Ours is the strongest by far in the world. And they have a real good military, really good. They have a lot of our weapons. They have our planes. They have our missiles. They have our patriots. They have a lot of our weapons.

We make the best weapons in the world. What do we share in common with Israel when it comes to our objectives here? First of all, what are the objectives here for the United States in attacking a foreign country with a formidable military and control of the Strait of Hormuz in which 20% of oil and gas travels through? Like what do we get out of this? How is this bad? 13 of our soldiers are dead, dead, gone, dead.

Jake, we have to decouple from Israel. We gotta deal with the deep state. This goes beyond elections, okay, we're talking about unelected. traitors to our country who are operating on behalf of a foreign country to our detriment. We have to dismantle the deep state. Otherwise, this is just going to continue. Yeah, so let me talk about all of that. So first he said, they have all of our weapons. So that's what we should. Yeah, we gave it to them. We've given them now about $330 billion that they used largely to buy our weapons, not exclusively. But we gifted it to them. Okay, so how

How does that, like all you're saying is, oh, we've also kissed Israel's ass in other ways. Wow, that really makes your case. And he's what's the difference between our, you know, objectives here and our interests? And he says, well, they're there and we're really far away. Oh, great answer. Great answer. Wait, that means they should take care of it. We're so far away, Iran can't even hit us. Unless you start a war with them right next to our bases, in which case they can.

But other than literally starting this war on behalf of Israel, there's nothing Iran could have done to hit us. So he's got, again, that's a second confession accidentally. They're there, we're really far away, but we're giving him all of our weapons and we're doing this war for them. Okay, and then, but credit to that brother who asked a good question, the question I've been asking for. So I'm sorry that I don't know him and which organization he's from because I'd love to give him credit. He said, yeah, why doesn't Israel help us with the Strait of Hormuz? And if you notice, Trump immediately evaded that question. Like a good boy.

Yeah, he's like, there somehow, we're kind of working together. They have all of our weapons, they have all of our planes, they have everything of ours. No, no, no, the question was, how are they helping us in the Strait of Hormuz? And the answer is, they're not helping us in the Strait of Hormuz because they don't care about us, they think we're suckers, and that our ground troops should be used instead of Israeli troops, we should die instead of them. They're busy conquering Lebanon, okay? And annihilating Iran, including their civilian infrastructure, and to make the Iranians defenseless.

And by the way, the Israeli military, in this war, like put aside Lebanon, all they're doing is bombing defenseless Iranians, which is an Israeli specialty. Wait, no, no, they're liberating them, Jane. Oh, right, right, right. I was told by the Zionist Persians in Beverly Hills that this is all about liberating the Iranians. Scumbags, you guys are scumbags. Okay, and I hear the IDF is so legendary. Yeah.

But, like, of course, they need to be facing little children and women and people who are defenseless and can't fight back. That's when they're legendary, when the genocides and the slaughters of the innocents begin. But when you ask them to actually fight against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz, Israelis, where are you? Where are you? All of a sudden, you can't find a legendary idea. Now, back to our deep state. So, Anna, I could give a million examples, and I couldn't agree with you more. I'm now, I didn't know this before.

I'm now positive that there are Israeli assets all over our government. Yeah. And so, okay, let's talk about one that seems kind of obvious. And I'm not saying that he has a direct relationship that I could. prove all I can show you is what he has done in the past and how brazen and over the top it is. And it's John Kirby. Oh, wait. John Kirby, he's not part of this administration, he's part of the Biden administration.

Tell me more, you are. So he's the spokesperson for the Biden State Department and he would come out and he would say like, oh, the Israelis are great, they're the greatest people on earth and there's no genocide at all. We need to rush them more money to kill more policies. We are so concerned about the Palestinians. All right. But he's long gone.

No, wait. He's back. He's all over TV now. Yes, yes. He's on Fox News and every other station. And guess what he's saying? Will you look at that? The Unip Party agrees.

He's like, well, now that we're in this war, we've got to go further into the war, deeper into the war. We have to help Israel. Israel, Israel, my beloved Israel, go deeper into the war, war, war, war. Wait, I thought you were the Democrats saying you didn't want war. Oh, it turns out you're not working for America. You're working for Israel, whether you're in the administration or Trump is in charge, but you both agree because you both work for Israel and not for us.

Well, guys, I mean, when you really think about it, just take a step back and think about the continuity in US foreign policy regardless of which administration is in charge. So you have, let's start with the George W. Bush administration, right? The neocons launch an illegal war against Iraq, tried to make it seem like the Iraqis were behind 9-11, which was not true. They just wanted to drum up support for a war that we shouldn't be involved in, right? That led to a lot of young voters feeling galvanized to support Obama, who very vaguely differentiated himself from the Bush administration with hope and change, and you're thinking

he's gonna go in a different direction with foreign policy. No, no, no, not only did Obama continue Bush era foreign policy, he is. expanded it and he even put boots on the ground in Libya. He armed al-Qaeda terrorists in Syria on behalf of Israel to topple Bashar al-Assad because Assad was friendly with the Iranians. Okay, now we have an al-Qaeda terrorist as the leader of Syria. Congratulations everybody. And then you know, then you have Trump.

And I know people like to believe that he was like a dove in his first term, but he wasn't a dove. He was a warhawk in his first term as well, it's just that he's gone off the rails entirely in his second term. That continuity exists for a reason, and that reason is the deep state, period. Unelected, anonymous officials who are pulling the strings here within our government. Yeah, and some of them are elected, some of them are officials that you see like John Kirby, Mike Pompeo, another obvious asset of the Israelis. He nearly murdered Julian Assange for the Israelis earlier. So, and anytime you see Mike Pompeo or Lindsey Graham or John Federman or John Kirby or any

of these assets on television, they're always telling you war, war for Israel, war! And Israel's our greatest ally, right? Yeah, Americans should go die for Israel. And you're telling me, you're not an asset? If you're not an asset, why are you doing it for free? It's weird, okay? And so one thing I got to say about Obama, at least the one thing he didn't do, which is the only time than in my lifetime and the US president has defied Israel. It was when Obama did the original peace deal with Iran and got rid of their uranium, so which took away their excuse or Israel's excuse for creating this war. And they were livid about it.

And they hate Obama to this day. Yes. Because how dare an American president not follow Israeli orders once? No, that's a great point, Jank. And Obama does deserve his flowers for that, right? The JCPOA was a good deal. People keep saying it wasn't perfect because it didn't deal with Iran's ballistic missiles. Guess what?

That's absurd. I support sovereign countries having ballistic missiles. They need to have a way of defending themselves, especially if they live in a region with a belligerent country like Israel. Sorry. Such a nonsense excuse for Israel to declare a war. Everybody's got missiles. It's our job to get rid of the missiles of the entire planet so Israel can invade any country

they like. So that's that made up thing, do not believe that junk, that garbage, okay? So we're giving Obama credit for once, once doing the right thing, once not listening to the Israelis. He listened to them 99 other times, and they still hate him for defying Israel one time. Whereas all the other presidents, Democrat and Republicans, have been very good little boys and have done exactly what they're ordered by Israel. Well, when we come back for the second hour of the show, we'll talk a little bit about

But, well, Ben Shapiro's advice to the administration and more. Oh, can't wait. You don't want to miss it. We'll be right back. You're goddamn wrong, because you should be angry. Young Turks. It was genuine. He was bad.

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They want him off the air. Check took an incredible risk. We're supposed to challenge the government. That's the role of the media. The Democrats and the Republicans are here to screw you. And who on the air is saying it? I wouldn't have done what he did. That if I'm going to be a talk show host,

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And Jessica Ray 500, thank you for gifting 10 on Twitch. We really appreciate you guys. We love everyone watching in all the different places that we're on. All right, Kastor, what do you got for us? Let's get right to our next story. I think that the president's move here is the single bravest foreign policy move of my lifetime. I think it can be the single most transformational foreign policy move since the fall of the Soviet Union. Because Iran has been a thorn in the side of the United States and our allies for 47 years that the president has made clear.

They're responsible for the deaths of hundreds, if not thousands of Americans. They're developing a nuclear program and they were moving more and more quickly toward a nuclear weapon that would have made it virtually impossible to stop them from spreading their terror tentacles around the region and then beyond that. Maybe we should have a discussion about Israel's terror tentacles. But as you heard over the weekend, Lara Trump interviewed a very ecstatic Ben Shapiro, who argued that starting a war with Iran, genius foreign policy move, Jenk, genius. That is so weird that he's backing Israel here. Has he done that before? No, no, Ben Shapiro's concerns,

I didn't know which way he was gonna come out. Always about the United States. very concerned about what's best for the United States, which is why he advocated aggressively for dragging us into a war that doesn't benefit the United States at all and has already claimed the lives of 13 of our service members. But anyway, back to you, Jank. Yeah, no, I'm gonna break down every one of his talking points after you see it. So here's more of what Ben, I Love Israel, to the detriment of the United States, Shapiro had to say. If you had to grade his leadership during this time in our country right now,

What would you give them? I mean, A plus right now, I mean, again, I think what you're watching him do in Iran is not only unprecedented in terms of its political courage. I think that it is and has the potential to be a true game changer for America's role in the world, not only for the next 10 or 20 years, but for the coming century. Because what he is doing is he's reasserting American authority in the world. He understands on an innate gut level. The president's foreign policy has always been rooted in that peace through strength principle,

in the idea that the best way to achieve peace is for people to understand that inside the velvet glove is an iron fist. You actually have to throw your enemies off their game. They actually have to make the hard decisions that make your opponents understand that they cannot cross us. And I think the president, you know, it's a real estate negotiation to him. And guess what? The rules of New York real estate actually apply incredibly well to the politics of the Middle East, for example. Oil prices have already spiked as a result of Iran closing the Strait of Hormuz, where 20% of oil and liquefied natural gas travels through. Our European leaders are now reconsidering alliances for security reasons.

They don't think that the United States is really interested in protecting allies, certainly not in the Gulf region as we've seen through this war. But European countries are pretty sick of the United States. Trump in particular pressuring them to join this war against Iran. They don't want to do it. And so now they're looking at reworking alliances, again, for security purposes. How does this benefit the United States again? How is this an A plus for Trump?

Yeah, so he actually had seven talking points there. I'll go as quickly as I can. They constantly mentioned 47 years, why? Because they forgot to make a case that we have interest in this war. That's why the war started at 21% popularity in this country. So now they're going backwards and go, oh, remember Iran attacked us 47 years ago? And that's why the threat is imminent. Then of course he brings in the nukes to fake weapons of mass destruction just like in Iraq.

Not only did they not have a single nuclear weapon, but we already bombed all their nuclear facilities and Trump told us that we obliterated all their facilities. And then we rebomb them in this campaign, so they are gone, gone, gone, but you need fake weapons of mass destruction to scare the crap out of the American people. I got a comment on that real quick. I mean, if Ben Shapiro was very concerned about the human rights abuses and the criminality of using weapons of mass destruction, what about the fact that Israel's been using white phosphorus, chemical weapons against the Lebanese.

And how about the fact that they have nukes? And if nukes are such a giant danger in the Middle East, why don't you get rid of your nukes? You know, remember the ones that you stole from us, the secrets of how to build nukes? But of course not. No, they're superior to everyone else. So they're allowed to break every law and have every weapon and you're not allowed to have a single weapon or defend yourself.

Okay, so then he goes to the terror tentacles. So that's a talking point that a lot of people are using about Israel and their tentacles all over the world. He says, no, it's not Israel. Iran secretly controls the world. They do? That's why Iran got us to attack Israel, right? Oh, right, no, Israel got us to attack Iran.

Okay, A plus, do you remember when Ben Shapiro used to be a never-trumper? I do, I remember when Mark Levin was a never-trumper, and all of the Israel first were never-trumper. It's just like Mary Madelson used to be a big supporter of Bill Clinton. And now she's a big supporter of Trump. Larry Elson used to be a big supporter of Bill Clinton, now a big supporter of Donald Trump. Because Israel first has no alliances or principles. All they care about is Israel. So when Trump is on Israel's side, a plus, okay, when he doesn't do exactly as Israel orders,

F minus, I'm never gonna support that guy. It's all Israel, Israel, Israel, that's the only thing that goes through Ben Shapiro's mind in the track. He says, we need to reassert American authority. That's John McCain, Joe Lieberman, Neocon, Dick Cheney talk, is the exact opposite of America first on what used to be MAGA. And he says, now the best way to achieve peace is war. Okay, thanks George Orwell. Yeah.

Appreciate it. And finally, the real estate talking point. Why does he say that? One is he's flattering Donald Trump. You know the real geniuses are real estate developers in New York, right? But there's a second reason why he's saying it. Because right now, the people who are pretending to do peace negotiations, but actually driving us to war are Steve Whitgoth and primarily Jared Kushner, both who work in New York real estate.

So what Shapiro is signaling there is, you gotta keep Kushner on the job. He's doing a terrific job of making sure we go to endless wars while pretending to be a peace negotiator. Kushner is obviously working for Israel, so that's why Shapiro loves the real estate guys who are in charge. So let's talk about the very obvious difference between Americans and Israelis when it comes to support or lack of support for this war against Iran. As Ian Bremmer posted on X, when it comes to Americans, only 36% approve this war against Iran,

54% disapprove. The numbers are very different for the Israelis, though, 82% approve, 13% disapprove. Unclear whether their opinion of this war is going to change. as Israel quickly runs out of their interceptors. But I guess we're just gonna have to wait and see. For now though, why don't we move on to our next story? Because I wanted to talk a little bit about Israel dismantling American liberties and our constitutional rights.

Let's get to it. So the other day I found out that the CIA is preparing some kind of criminal referral against me, a crime report, The Department of Justice on the basis of a supposed crime I committed. What's that crime? Well, talking to people in Iran before the war. They read my texts. So the crime under consideration apparently would be the foreign agent act or something like that,

acting as an agent of a foreign power. And I don't expect this to go anywhere. I'm not too worried about an actual criminal case against me for a bunch of reasons. One, I'm not an agent of foreign power. Unlike a lot of people commenting on U.S. politics and global affairs, I have only one loyalty, and that's the United States. As you just heard, Tucker Carlson is alleging that the CIA has been spying on him, reading his text messages, and essentially preparing some sort of criminal case against him that the DOJ will go after him for,

essentially framing him as some sort of unregistered foreign agent. Now, as we all know, Tucker Carlson has been a target of the pro-Israel crowd because of the fact that he's been a vocal critic of the U.S. alliance with Israel, along with Israel's genocide in Gaza. But more importantly, Tucker Carlson has lobbied pretty aggressively to prevent the U.S. war against Iran. Unfortunately, he didn't succeed, but it has made him a target. Jank, or two cents? In a stunning coincidence, you're about to see that Israel first is ecstatic over this, but probably had nothing to do with this case starting in the first place. How many assets of Israel are in our government? That's a really important and interesting question.

And then you have to wonder if Tucker does get arrested. Are we next? Oh, there'll be riots, by the way. Like, the unrest that will ensue will be significant. But nonetheless, here's more of what Tucker had to say. I have only one loyalty, and that's the United States, and have never acted against it. Its interests are the only interest I care about because I'm from here and I have a lot of kids. So that's not a concern.

I've also never taken money from anybody, don't need it, don't want it, and that's provable. And moreover, it's my job to talk to everybody all the time and try and figure out what's happening around the world. That's literally what I do for a living. And I'm not going to stop doing that, nor should I, I don't think. I'm also an American. I can talk to anybody. I have no secrets to divulge. So legally, I think the case is ludicrous, and I doubt it will even become a case. I'm bringing this up for a couple of reasons, though, and they're pretty obvious. One is that countries tend to become more authoritarian in wartime. It's just the nature of war. People are dying. The stakes are high. People's emotions

have risen to a very high point, to a crescendo. And so there's much less tolerance for any kind of dissent in the homeland. The irony, of course, is the United States fights wars on behalf of freedom, but there's always less of it here in our country during war. I would like to dispel the notion that we get involved in wars for freedom. Okay, that's not what's happening here, obviously. But also, just a quick note on the whole idea of people engaging in anti-Israel commentary because they're getting paid to do it.

Okay, for the pro-Israel crowd, at some point, you have to actually engage with the substance of what people are saying instead of just blowing it off as, oh, they're probably getting paid by Qatar. No, you don't want to address the substantive arguments that are being made, and that's obvious. Tucker Carlson is super wealthy. And even if he weren't super wealthy coming into media, his show is incredibly successful. He doesn't need to get paid by a foreign power in order to say the correct things he's been saying so far about Israel, our relationship with Israel and this disastrous war. Look, he made tens of millions of dollars at Fox News.

No, the reason why they say that is because every Israeli accusation is a confession. 100%. Israel literally pays influencers here $7,000 a pop. They are buying our media. Larry Ellison is, TikTok, CBS, CNN, etc. They're not making good on those payments, by the way, and they're getting sued. Okay, good. Oh, wow, the Israelis betrayed you.

That is so stunning. I love it. Yeah, oh, they didn't deliver on their promise of paying you. Huh, that is super, super surprising. So yeah, they do that accusation because they think, well, why else would you do it? We're all crooks who serve Israel because we got paid to, and the politicians and the media, so they assume that others must also be doing that. No, there's a thing called patriotism.

I know you don't know anything about it, and like you don't care about the truth, you don't care about Americans, but other people in this country actually love this country and care about it, and we don't want our troops dying, we don't want to waste our entire fortune on Israel. But since you're all crooks who work for them, I know that's a foreign comment. concept to you. But even if you think that is the case, you still have to address the substance of the arguments that are being made.

And it's just so lazy, it's so pathetic. The thing is they don't have an argument. They can't refute the claims that are being made. So it's like, oh, he's paid, it's Tucker Katarlson, which is a, it's a little bit of a clever insult. I don't think so at all. I think it sounds super dumb. Anytime somebody says Tucker Katarlson, I think, oh, that's a person literally being paid

by Israel to betray America. No, I think that too. So Katarlson just sounds funny. That's all I'm saying. Okay, now as you said earlier, Jank, there are certain people who were very happy to hear what Tucker said there, including Laura Lumer, unsurprisingly, who says, I can't wait to see Tucker Carlson go to prison. Yeah, likewise. Okay, not for Tucker.

But one day, Laura, one day. Even Israelis are weighing in on this. So Israel's special envoy for trade and innovation weighed in to give the Trump administration orders, Tucker Carlson should be arrested and tried for treason. Oh, we'll take it under consideration. Yeah, that's Israeli. How about you shut the F up? How about anybody who listens to you should literally be arrested for treason?

Because they would be a foreign agent taking orders from a foreign government, the thing you're charging Tucker Carlson with. Now here's the thing though, Axios bullet point compiler Mark Caputo says that the White House denies Tucker's claims. Okay, so he says specifically I'm told there's no CIA investigation of Carlson. In his meeting, the two politely disagreed, meaning Tucker's meeting with President Trump. They disagreed and Trump held to his position. Iran was a threat and didn't mislead him.

Said one source, Trump wasn't participating in an op. Okay, so what is he referring to about Trump not participating in an op? I do believe that this, I don't know if Trump is part of it, I doubt it, right? But when we talk about the deep state, it does seem like there's some sort of concerted, organized attack against Tucker Carlson. Because as soon as that video came out, there was a message that the pro-Israel crowd was putting out that was very similar, right? So let's go to Shabos Kestembaum.

Okay, that's the former Harvard student who's a propagandist for Israel and one of the most dishonest and disgusting people I've ever had the displeasure of having to interact with. He says on January 17th, I called a friend of mine at the White House to express concerns about Tucker Carlson visiting the Oval Office. Who the F are you? Yeah, who are you? To like gatekeep who the president can talk to? Like, who are you?

Like, okay, but let me continue. She answered rather cryptically, quote, just trust the plan. Little did I know. The plan meant we know, Tucker, is speaking to the Iranians, so we're using him as a useful idiot to bait the Ayatollah and kill the IRCG leadership. Oh, and then we'll arrest him for espionage when this is over. So wait, you're now coordinating with the White House, this Shabal Shalom guy or whatever his name is. Kestim bow. Okay, yeah. And so you guys are coordinating to figure out how to help Israel

and catch an American media and use American media guy as a casualty of your secret plan to help Israel, but he's the one working with a foreign government. I know, it's amazing. Shabos has never defended any country

but Israel in any of the debates we've ever been in. It's always like, Israel's the greatest, greatest, greatest, greatest, greatest, great act. Israel's never done anything wrong. You're the most moral. Everyone who is opposed to Israel

is an anti-Semite, and they should all be canceled forever. So now this guy has enough access the White House where he's doing secret plots on behalf of Israel. I mean, it doesn't get any more ironic than this. There's Avi Yamini, who's not even an American, he's in Australia, apparently. He says this video, I'm sorry, this photo is hilarious in hindsight. Trump knew Tucker was talking to Iran.

So he invites him to the Oval Office before the strike, knowing Tucker will run straight back and relay it. Iran sees this photo, thinks Tucker has Trump's ear, thinks Trump's. Trump is bluffing, meanwhile, and then he, you know, he basically repeats the same alleged plot that Chabot's Kestimbound put out. So my point is, Jank, immediately after Tuggar comes out with this video, you have the pro-Israel crowd coming out with similar tweets or posts on X, which communicates to me that this is orchestrated. And look, it's not like the Trump administration hasn't gone out of its way to violate the speech rights of Americans and green card

holders if they dare to be critical of Israel. In fact, here is Secretary of State, I'm sorry, Secretary of War, I should say, Pete Hegesith, essentially chiding the media for its coverage of the Iran War. Apparently the White House doesn't like it. It's not favorable enough. They're totally okay with like speaking out against the media, attacking them. Here's the latest example. Some of this crew in the press just can't stop. Allow me to make a few. suggestions. For example, a banner or a headline, Mid-East war intensifies, splashing on the screen the last couple of days alongside visuals of civilian or energy targets that Iran has hit, because that's what they do. What should the banner read instead? How about Iran increasingly

desperate? Because they are, or more fake news from CNN, reports that the Trump administration underestimated the Iran war's impact on the Strait of Hormuz. Patently ridiculous, of course. For decades, Iran has threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. This is always what they do, hold the Strait hostage. CNN doesn't think we thought of that. It's a fundamentally unsurious report. The sooner David Ellison takes over that network, the better.

You guys didn't think about the Strait of Hormuz, which is why Iran has effectively shut it down, you moron. And then on top of that, Iran increasingly desperate, you guys are begging other countries to join the war because the US is increasingly desperate. What are we doing here? The media, by the way, has actually been embarrassing in the way they've covered the war in Iran, right? They've been much more deferential to the administration and the Israelis. Yeah, so he says it's

It's patently ridiculous to think that they didn't think of the Strait of Hormuz. Of course they did. That's why it's blocked now and we have no answer at all. Oh wait, it doesn't look like we had, if we had any plans at all, apparently they were terrible plans because Secretary of War, Hegzith, is the Strait of Hormuz closed or isn't it? Yeah, we're not gonna take advice on how to do our jobs from a drunk who can't do his own job. How about that? Look, there's a bottom line here.

Right now, the president, Caroline Levin and others, are best. our European allies and our Asian allies to come help us with the Strait of Hormuz because it's closed and we don't know how to reopen it. So the only thing that's patently ridiculous is that Hegsuth has any idea what he's doing. Okay, now to the larger point here about Tucker, so as you saw in the in the tweets, there is no question that the Israel First Alliance in this country and other countries in Israel, in Australia, in America, they're all saying the same talking points. So as Anna pointed out, that is orchestrated, that is coordinated, which then leads to the question

of who did they coordinate that with? Mm-hmm. Was it with a foreign government? Because it's helping a foreign government, okay? Yeah. I've got more on that, but go ahead. Okay, but let's stay on that point for a second, Jenk, because I want to go to this video from Tucker's show today, because he addressed something that Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida,

did in regard to violence. violating the speech rights of Americans. Here's what I'm talking about. Take a look. There was a not famous enough moment where the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, who's, I think, been a pretty good governor in some ways, but traveled to Israel to sign what looked like hate speech laws that are applicable in Florida. He actually went to Israel twice to sign laws in Israel that applied to people in Florida.

the first one was kind of benign and had some connection to Israel. The second one, though, which was in, I believe, 2022 when he was gearing up to run for the Republican primary nomination, a big part of what the strategy was was they were going to get. And they did get most of the hardcore fanatical Zionist groups and pro-Israel activist types and pundant types. They lined up, not behind Trump, but behind Ron DeSantis. And I don't want to completely mischaracterize the law because there is some, you don't want you can overstate it. But it absolutely was a law that took certain speech and prescribed it, not for the people in Israel,

but for the people in Florida. And it was about funding hate speech programs. And again, only about anti-Semitism in Israel. And he went to Israel in order to sign it. When you go to a different country to sign a law that doesn't benefit your citizens but benefits that country, that looks like coordination with a foreign government, doesn't it? Sure does. Guys, it is enormously strange for the governor of Florida to go to any other country to sign a law.

Can you imagine he's like, I really want to go to Honduras to sign this bill for Florida because it's going to help the people of Honduras. You'd be like, what? You're the governor of Florida. What are you doing, right? But when it's Israel, all of the press and all the politicians go, out of boy, way to serve Israel. Okay, no, there's assets all over Washington that work for Israel. And it is exceedingly obvious.

And a lot of the governors, over 30 of them have passed laws that limit American speech rights. If you are criticizing Israel or you're calling for a boycott sanction or divestment from Israel, you no longer have First Amendment rights in over 30 states in America. I don't know if all those governors went to Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, and Haifa to sign it and then to, like maybe they could shine Netanyahu's shoes while they're there, okay? A bunch of traitors to this country. You're talking about Tucker Carlson's a traitor? Let's talk about traitors. Yeah, yeah.

No, hold on, hold on. I got to ask one more question about coordination. Then we'll come back to the rest of it. So, okay, now all of the media figures coordinated for Israel first as we showed you. But Trump says he doesn't know anything about this. And I actually believe him on this one because of the context of this story. And so if Trump doesn't know it, but Tucker's right that a reporter called him with his text, knowing, so obviously his privacy has been invaded because a reporter knew what his texts were.

How else would the reporter know? And the reporter says they got it from inside the government and potentially the CIA. So are there people inside the CIA and the Justice Department also coordinating what those same media figures and that same foreign government. And how deeply ironic is it to coordinate to attack an American media figure in this country for opposing Israel with the Israeli government while pretending he's working with a different government? It's amazing.

Let me just note that our Justice Department under the Trump administration has declared repeatedly that they do not intend to open up any investigations into any of the individuals who have been named in the Epstein files. So when it comes to potential pedophiles, can't be bothered to pursue prosecution. When it comes to the U.S. ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, his secret meeting with convicted traitor to the United States, Jonathan Pollard, something that the U.S., the White House,

was not informed about ahead of time. It was a secret meeting, no punishment whatsoever. He literally met with a convicted trader to the United States, to the United States? To coordinate. That is also someone from a foreign government. And I'll say this every time Mary Meadoson and Sheldon Adozen flew out Jonathan Pollard in their private jet back to Israel and gave him a hero's welcome for betraying America

on behalf of Israel. And those are the guys who gave Trump over $300 million. I mean, you want to talk about coordinating with a foreign government, we literally had, they ordered our president to coordinate with a foreign government that had spied in on us to to give the traitor back and give a hero's welcome. But one last one, Lindsey Graham, practically bragging about how he went to the, and talked to the Israeli government in Netanyahu and gave them advice on how to convince the American government to go into this disastrous war.

Well, that is obviously coordinating with a foreign government to influence our government's actions. But they admit their treason in front of everyone, but since almost everyone in Washington is a traitor and works for Israel, everybody gets. He goes, oh, that's normal. That's normal. It's not at all normal. And those same liars in Washington today pretending to be outraged potentially at Tucker Carlson.

Can you believe that he might be working with a foreign government? You're all working for a foreign government. In fact, when people announce it and declared in front of everyone, you congratulate them rather than going, hey, wait, isn't that illegal? All right, we gotta take a break. When we come back, we'll talk a little bit about what's It's currently going down in Gaza. The bloodshed continues there.

Don't make the mistake of thinking that it's ended. Unfortunately, everyone is distracted from it, but we'll stay on the story and give you the latest details. Come right back. They want to make you drink Starbucks every day from now until forever. All right, let's go to t.com members. Pessimistic Progressive says the fact that we start a war that none of us want, but don't pass paid family leave that everyone wants, make you sit abundantly clear our government doesn't work

for us. Billion percent, I actually thought that interviewer that I did with this New Hampshire State rep was so clarifying where she went to her own Democratic leaders in the state and said, why don't we pass paid family leave? It's super popular. And they're like, shut up, you're helping the Republicans. Why would I be helping the Republicans? Because if you try to pass anything for the American people, they'll blame us for it.

Why would they blame us for helping the American people? And so what if they do? Why don't you fight back? If you can't win on something that has 84% of popularity, you're a miserable loser, which defines 100% of democratic leadership all across the country. All verifiable, pathetic losers who don't serve the American people or the Democratic voters at all. All they're busy serving Israel nonstop.

Anyway, SM says, I wonder if Jan Sixers will Jan Six again when they cannot no longer afford the groceries. Well, look, I'll join them. I'll do a prediction for you guys. I think that if Trump has any concern about his physical safety, it is not at all from the left or independence or anyone else. It's one from Israel if he defies them and two, from his own voters when they get super livid when they find out who he really is. I'm back on TYT, Jen and Anna with you guys. Also, J.S. Die 28556 and Scott X70.

You guys are awesome for signing up through tyt.com slash join. And that way during the breaks, you can read, you'll hear us reading member comments instead. All right, Casper. All right, I don't want to go to the cold open guys. I should have communicated that earlier. So I'll just start with this. Just yesterday, just yesterday 13 Palestinians were killed in airstrikes in the Gaza Strip, including two young boys, a woman pregnant with twins, her partner, a 10 year old boy, and

nine Palestinian law enforcement officers. Now, we'll get to more details in just a second, but Cenk, the bloodshed in Gaza continues. Yet we keep pretending as though the Israelis are the good guys. Yeah, so they ran out of excuses. They said, oh, we're doing this because they attacked us 17 years ago. Oh, we're doing this because they still have hostages. Well, the hostages are returned, all the excuses are out. No, like, never mind, we're doing it to slaughter them and steal their land.

So we're gonna show that to you now from the merciless, endless war and genocide creating Israelis. And they have also moved on to doing the same in Lebanon as Israel's politicians are saying openly, candidly. But for the purposes of this discussion, let's focus on Gaza. We'll cover Lebanon later this week. As of March 10th, 72,134 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, with thousands, by the way, still trapped under the rubble.

So the number that's officially noted. is still an undercount. And on top of that, at least 171,828 Palestinians have been wounded or injured. And since everyone is distracted with the illegal war, the United States launched in Iran on behalf of Israel, Israel has taken the, again, the opportunity to essentially implement some pretty strict blockades and restrictions on travel for Palestinians. And by the way, that also includes volunteers in the Gaza Strip, like the seven American doctors that remain trapped in the enclave. So no one can get in or come out of Gaza.

And according to the intercept, Dr. Salman Khan and six other American doctors were scheduled to return to the U.S. on March 10th, following a two-week medical mission at Nassar Hospital and Khan Yunus. The group has been blocked twice from leaving the territory with Israel's border security officials citing a security assessment without further explanation. Well, they're above the law, so who cares if American doctors are trapped in Gaza and could potentially get killed by the Israelis as a result of that. Now, Kogat, the Israeli military unit that controls the borders between Palestine and Israel, confirmed it had closed crossings into Gaza due to the ongoing missile threat and said the restrictions are temporary and meant to protect people's safety. It refuted claims that it was

blocking doctors from leaving Gaza to harm its civilian population. I choose to believe the American doctors that remain trapped in Gaza. The Israelis can't be trusted. They are notorious liars, And they're lying about this. Al Jazeera noted that right now, there are more than 20,000 sick and wounded Palestinians on waiting lists for medical treatment that's unavailable in Gaza. They need to travel outside of the enclave in order to get that medical attention. 4,000 of those individuals are cancer patients. Maybe Susie Wiles would have a little more sympathy for these Palestinians considering she was just diagnosed with breast cancer, but who knows? That remains to be seen.

She won't. She won't, of course. Because they don't see these people. people as humans because the American leaders and individuals who fill the halls of power in the United States are absolute monsters and they don't see Palestinians as human beings. There are also nearly 440 cases classified as immediately life threatening. They need to get out of the enclave immediately from medical attention, but they're being blocked from doing so. And because of these restrictions, they can't get out.

And since the start of the genocide, the Israeli government and the IDF have essentially weaponize these blockades to further punish Palestinians and further their war aims. So the war in Iran gave them another excuse to do this. Once the US and Israel began their war on Iran, the Israeli government once again shut all aid crossings into Gaza. Food has been allowed through a single border entry point, the Kerem-Shalom crossing. But the amount of aid allowed in is well below what is needed according to the United Nations, which I believe is very much intentional starve people to death. I mean, Israel literally blocked all humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip for three months straight. And by the way, let me remind you all,

this is supposed to be happening during a ceasefire, right? Like there's supposed to be a ceasefire at play. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed by the Israelis since the ceasefire. And according to Gaza's Ministry of Health, nearly half of all essential medicine, totally out of stock. Two-thirds of medical supplies have run dry. And those who are in line for aid, as we've learned in the past, are in line at their own peril. I'm going to show you footage. Let's put the video up and I'll explain what it is as you're watching it. So the footage that you're viewing right now was leaked to the public by David McIntosh, who worked at an aid distribution site in Gaza. This was specifically the aid distribution sites that were run by the

Gaza humanitarian foundation. And what you witness in this video is lines of Palestinian civilians who were being shot at by the Israelis as they were desperately waiting in line for food. So to the scum bags over at the free press who do nothing more than perpetuate propaganda on behalf of Israel, making it seem as though the Israelis are the press, are the precious victims in this mess. You got anything to say about the video that we just showed you? Or no? These people make me sick.

No, no, they were, the Palestinians purposely ran in front of the Israeli bullets. Of course, it's always their fault. Yeah, to try to get the Israelis to run out of bullets. Yeah. So that's why Israel is actually the real victim here as they were slaughtering innocent Palestinians looking for food because Israel had earlier starved them and their children. So that leads us to a couple of important things here. Number one, Israel never follows through on a ceasefire.

Never, I've never seen them follow through. Okay, so they said did a ceasefire with Hezbollah and Lebanon violated it over a thousand times. They bombed Lebanon over and over and over again. You know how many times Hezbollah did before this Iran war? Zero. They actually followed the ceasefire, even though Israel violated over a thousand times. And there's supposed to be a ceasefire in Gaza and they're supposed to give the 53% of Gaza back. Don't be ridiculous.

They're never going to give it back. They stole it. They're thrilled that they stole it. They're in the middle of annexing the West Bank right now. And they're violating the ceasefire and they're back to starving the Palestinians. And then one of them caught feelings one day the other day when someone described it as a concentration camp. Well, their prisons. But in reality, the occupied territories are one giant concentration camp.

Anytime, you know, they'll do say things like, oh, we gave Gaza back in 2005 to the slaves we've been imprisoning there forever. But they didn't even appreciate it, okay? They didn't give anything back. They couldn't control their own borders. They didn't have any military. And any time Israel wanted, they could cut the electricity, the water, the food, the medical supplies. And they did repeatedly. It was a giant concentration camp where they could brutalize, humiliate, oppress,

and kill those citizens anytime they like, and they did it again and again and they're doing it now. You know who keeps 4,000 cancer patients who have to leave to save their lives? Lose some genociders. Nazis do. Yeah. Okay, so like regular human beings go, oh my God, that kid has cancer. We got to let him out. But Israelis, the new fascists of this world, go, no, no, we don't care about kids.

We don't care about cancer patients. Let's start starving them and murdering them and never following through on a ceasefire and grab more land or more land as we pretend we're doing self-defense. And we'll get our lying jackals in the American press to pretend we're the victims. Everyone on TV is a giant liar. Almost all of them are working for Israel. I mean, I got set off earlier when one of our members reminded me that Rachel Maddo, so-called progressive, on MS now or later or tomorrow saying like, oh, you know, we're really going to this war to help that Gulf states.

Right. Oh, come on, Rachel. I'm sure they feel, Jesus. I'm sure they feel helped. What part of your check was given to you by literally by Netanyahu? That's amazing. Anyway, so whatever, she gets paid tens of millions of dollars to spread those outrageous lies.

So, and I give you that as the person who's supposed to be the most left wing on the way. the most left wing channel in mainstream media. And what do we have? Nothing but propaganda for Israel. So 10 years from now, I guarantee you that Jewish leaders in America, I don't mean normal Jewish people, they didn't do anything wrong, nobody coordinated with them, nobody called your local accountant or your lawnmower guy or whoever, right? But the leadership, the head of the ADL, et cetera, and the heads of the APEC is, well,

not APEC, they'll never apologize, okay? But I guarantee you 10 years from now, they'll be like, oh, we didn't know. No, you know, we were actually against the Netanyahu government the whole time. Did you know we were actually against Netanyahu? No, no, no, no. We didn't know. Well, if you didn't know that you were murdering and slaughtering and starving these people, you might want to listen to the people telling you, but instead of listening to them,

what did you do? Anti-Semites, destroy them on behalf of Israel. That's Jonathan Greenblatt and most of the Jewish leadership, if you're from the Jewish leadership, we're being honest, not most of the Jews at all, but the leadership here in this country has been in favor of genocide, disgusting wars, and doing whatever Israel commands of us, and they should be filled with shame. Instead of saying never again, they're like, do it again and again and again. Okay, that's what they're saying as they slaughter these innocent people.

All right, we got to take our final break when we come back. We'll talk about micropenuses, literally. All right, let's go to t.y.com members Scott X70, who just joined saying, I just started following you all after this war started and I appreciate everything you're doing. If you have any plans on a way to get A-PAC out of our government, I'd be willing to help. Yeah, guys, first, please listen to me when I tell you, you gotta go vote in the primaries and you have to vote against all the incumbents. It's not because you're gonna get rid of them all. It's that if you got rid of 10% of them, it would be an earthquake.

And it would scare the other cowards and servants. The politicians are not big, smart guys and all this thing that media's hyped them up to me. They're a bunch of lowly servants. And they're all like gullum. And they're like, oh, pray. So you show them, you have the power, you slap them around a little bit, not physically, but politically. Then they're gonna start worrying about their own beloved power.

Right? Take power away from them. Go into your primaries and vote out all the incumbents. They're all crooks. They all work for Israel. Literally 94% of them work for Israel. That's what you should do. Blooded ego says, I plan to travel to Israel when I retired. I will never step foot in Israel now. I would love if others followed in that also. Yes, you'd be nuts to go support the economy of a genocidal fascist government. It's like saying, oh, it's thinking of traveling to Nazi Germany, and then I found out, it's a little unpleasant. Yeah, yeah, oh, I'm saying it, by the way, and you can kiss my ass if you're offended by him.

I'm offended by Israel slaughtering 30,000 kids. But I know our feelings don't matter, and our lives don't matter. The raging atheist says, if this is winning, I don't want to see what losing looks like. Here, here, brother. We'll be. All right, back on T. Jank and Anna with you guys. Rosa Rosco says on super chat, happy birthday, Zhang.

Thank you, it's on Saturday, but Ilana Ida already sent in a gift membership on YouTube. You guys are amazing. I appreciate you all, love you all. What's the date today? Okay, anyway. Yes. Thank God. All right, by the way, before we get to the next story, I just have to read this.

I don't know why, but for whatever reason on X, and a lot of people have noticed this, a bunch of posts from Israelis based in Israel have been popping up on people's feeds. I will allow it because I love their posts. So one woman named Iris Lial says this, and it's translated from Hebrew. Trump is a wounded animal right now. The media is beating on him. The polls are bad. The Europeans are refusing his call to join him in policing Hormuz.

The leaks that he's plunging into war without any prior thinking are multiplying, and the midterms are threatening him. And the whole world is looking at him with contempt. And everyone agrees he's BB's bitch who dragged him into this mess. Yeah, well, they know in Israel. You know why? Because they don't have to suffer under the American press. The Israeli press is varied and pretty rich and full and gives you a lot of different angles

to this war and the international relations and to the Israeli government. Here in America, we have the worst press in the world who are loyal to the Israeli government. And so our, people watching TV here are so much more ignorant than actually the people in Israel who are getting a variety of news. Yeah, not only that, guys, Israelis based in Israel are mocking our president for being their leaders bitch. Congratulations, America first. All right, let's get to our next story. I'm a clan member.

I'm a neo-Nazi. I'm a grifter. I'm an anti-Semite. I'm reading here, I'm quoting from Mark Levin. I'm evil. I'm a narcissistic lunatic, bottom feeder, sick, sicker, a disgusting fraud. hateful propagandists, low life sleazy, mentally unhinged, lunatic, pathetic, flailing, disgraced. I mean, I could keep going.

Mark Levin has tweeted about me at least 111 times. Just over the past few months, I've risen up here or there to say, would you stop? Well, the so-called MAGA Civil War continues. This is a feud between who has now been dubbed micro penis Mark Levin and Megan Kelly. It's definitely heating up. and it got super fiery over the weekend. So even Donald Trump has now gotten involved in this mess, leading to fierce backlash, by the way, from a significant faction within the Trump base.

We're gonna get to all of it in just a minute. But before we unpack, Jank? I think this is Trump jumping the shark. And I'm seeing it all over online. They can't stand that he's now being servile to Mark Levin. So we'll give you all the details. So Megan Kelly and Mark Levin have been at odds. It all started when Megan Kelly refused to condemn Candice Owens.

The pro-Israel crowd was demanding that of Megan Kelly. She doesn't like to be bossed around. She doesn't like this whole guilt by association thing. She's like, no, I'm not going to condemn anyone because there's a mob demanding that of me, which, by the way, I gave her credit for that. I can't stand when the mob comes and demands that you condemn certain people. How about you be responsible for your own behavior instead of having to go around condemning people. But nonetheless, Kelly has been a pretty vocal opponent of the war in Iran.

And she does maintain that the 13 American service members who have died so far in said war should not have died in a war on behalf of Israel. Now, Israel's zealot, Mark Levin, hasn't been very happy about this commentary. And things really came to ahead just yesterday when Levin, posted this on X. Poor Megan Kelly and emotionally, get a load of this, an emotionally unhinged. Coming from Levine. Seriously, lewd and petulant wreck. She's completely revealed and destroyed. Yeah, revealed and destroyed herself. She's everything people say she is, but much worse. Never an intelligent, thoughtful or substantive comment. Utterly toxic. Utterly toxic, you're like

advocating for the mass slaughter of children because they're Muslim. Yeah, I mean, he's, He's totally described himself, constantly lewd, toxic. Every accusation. Totally, and not remotely intelligent. The only person who calls him intelligent is him and Sean Hannity. Seriously. No, it's true, it's true. Like the two dumbest people in America.

Now, Megan Kelly did respond, okay, and she did make it a little bit personal, just a little bit, very little bit. She says micro penis Mark Levin thinks he has the monopoly on lewd. His tweets about me obsessively in the crudest, nastiest terms possible. Or he tweets about me in the nastiest, crudest terms possible. Literally more than some stalkers I've had arrested. He doesn't like it when women like me fight back because of his micropenus. By the way, gentlemen, it's okay. It's all about how you use it.

Size doesn't necessarily matter all that much. But I move on. Further, she writes, we just went back and counted. Micro penis Mark Levin has crap posted about me over 100 times since November. I've responded a total of six times, starting with asking him to tone it down, saying he's going to get someone killed. In response, he amped up his attacks tenfold in the nastiest most personal, misogynistic vile terms possible on his show and on X. Fox News allows this. MicroP is obsessed. It's sick. MicroP is definitely obsessed. I mean, all he does all day is post about Tucker Carlson,

Megan Kelly, Candice Owens on X and how they need- And you, demanding that Jenk get deported. No, he's an American citizen. Dozens of times. Yeah, he's an American citizen, more American than you are. Let's be clear about that. Oh, it's not even close. I don't hear Jank lobbying on behalf of Turkey all day. But Mark Levin, on the other hand, all he does is lobby on behalf of Israel.

How exactly are you more American than Jank is? Yeah, no matter what I say, he says deport on almost all my posts. And so I'm like, okay, including this I mentioned earlier in the show, I said, why doesn't Israel sent in the 5,000 ground troops instead of us. Why do we have to die for Israel? And he's like, they're part! Because he thinks Americans should die instead of Israelis. We're just cannon fodder, right?

But so when all of us said and done, we should have a conversation about who to deport. Now Kelly went on to speak about why she finally spoke out against him on her show this morning. Let's take a quick look at that. I've risen up here or there to say, would you stop? In the beginning, I said, please stop. You're going to get someone killed. I was talking about Tucker because he was so nasty. He's calling him an anti-Semite neo-Nazi.

Me too. Gryfter, neo-Nazi. Like, I'm a neo-Nazi. Okay, Mark, sure. And it was very close in time to when Charlie was assassinated. I begged him, just please stop. Stop. And the reason he's coming for me is because I do have an audience.

And he's very, very angry about that fact. But finally, I had enough. I mean, it is true. The reason why people like Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly are being targeted by people like Mark Levine who want nothing but propaganda in favor of Israel is because they are influential. They do have large audiences. And God forbid, they think for themselves and have concerns about our alliance with Israel and don't want to go to war with Iran on behalf of Israel. Now, at this point, believe it or not, Donald Trump, the president of the United States jumps into this whole debacle to put out a lengthy statement in favor of Mark Levin.

Let me give you a few excerpts. Mark Levin, a truly great American patriot is somewhat under siege by other people with far less intellect, capability, and love for our country. Can you pause for a second, Anna? Trump didn't write that. Trump didn't write this. Okay, you could tell because the capitalizations are not random. The capitalizations are in places that someone copying him would do.

Yeah. The grammar is correct and I get, I bet you Mark Levin wrote that. Yes, less intellect and the great Mark Levin. Okay, here, bitch, post this on behalf of me and Israel. Go ahead, Donald. And he did it, he did it. Now there's more, Mark is tough, strong and brilliant. Hence the nickname, the great one.

Who the hell calls him the great one? Received by our MAGA friend, the wonderful Sean Hannity, oh, that makes sense. After years of dealing with Mark in legal media and other capacities. Why would Trump be talking about his, Hannity and Levin's legal connections? No, come on, there's more, there's more, hold on, there's more, there's more, okay. Other than for his wonderful wife and family, Mark Levin only cares and wants one thing. and success for America. Those that speak ill of Mark will quickly fall by the wayside, doubt it, as do the people whose ideas, policies, and footings are not sound. They are not MAGA.

I am, and MAGA includes not allowing Iran a sick, demented, and violent terrorist regime to have a nuclear weapon to blow up the United States of America, the Middle East, and ultimately the rest of the world. Maga is about stopping them cold. And that is exactly what we're doing. Is there a betting market on whether Mark Levin wrote that? Definitely. Because I'd like to make some money. No, definitely.

There's a betting market for literally everything. Like it's insane. Now Levin denied that he spoke to Trump about releasing any sort of statement. I believe him because he just wrote the statement himself. That's what I'm speculating about. And so is jank. But Megan Kelly says micro penis, Mark Levin is such a small man that he had to go beg the president for a pat on the head in the middle of a war to make himself feel better about,

well, you know. This, after one mean tweet about him following his 111 nasty nonstop personal misogynistic attacks on me, Fox has an obsessed harasser on its hands. Just like all feckless, weakling bullies, micro can dish it out, but he can't take it. After just one post putting the so-called great one in his place, he ran crying, Daddy. Well, he's got makeup on Trump though, so maybe he went crying to mommy, but Mommy, mommy, man. Okay, so well, how is that received not well?

So tons of MAGA weighed in, I'll just give you a couple here. Drew Hernandez, apparently according to Trump, if you do not like Mark Levin, you are not MAGA now. Trump is handing MAGA over to the neocons, disappointing. Chris Burnett, MAGA is completely 100% utterly dead. Maga is now just a zombie skin suit worn by Mark Levine, Bill Ackman. Barry wise, Jared Kushner, captive dreamer, Ben Shapiro, Douglas Murray, Chris Rufo, Mark Dobowitz, Shrabos, Castenbaum, E. L. Yacabi, John Podorz, and Batya Ungar Sargon. I read all those names because he nailed it. He did. That is exactly who was taken over the White House, and they don't want anyone ever disagreeing with them. And so these type of. But the last one is Cernovich. Cernovich is as a right wing as it gets, okay. Was a Trump loyalist? And it was super Trump loyalist.

He said Trump is coming off is extremely angry for someone who has already won the war. And then he says demanding subservience and showing loyalty are not the same. And so implying there's a lot of subservience going around. So look, last thing guys is that there is this huge disconnect between older MAGA and younger MAGA, TV MAGA and online MAGA. So Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Green, Tom Massey, Megan Kelly. Now Alex Jones just came out, joined them, right? Now Cernovich, et cetera.

All of those guys are online and have a younger audience under 55. And they almost all universally hate Israel now because they actually believed in America first, right? But TV still has older MAGA and they're still getting the brain rot of Fox News. injected into their heads every day. And so they don't know anything. They've never turned on a computer and they're like, oh, we hear that Donald Trump is winning the war and that Israel is our greatest ally. Oh, thank God we did this for Israel.

And so it's like the MAGA zombies that still watch TV versus this new generation of MAGA. Who wins that battle? I don't know, you're gonna see it. None of this matters until the voting starts. So if the neocons start winning those races, well, then I guess TV wins again, Fox News, and the neocons win again. But if younger MAGA starts overthrowing these incumbents like they did with my patched John McCain. Oh, Crenshaw.

Yeah, Crenshaw. Or the guy who replaces them isn't much better, but at least they threw out an incumbent, right? If they start replacing Israel controlled politicians in their own primaries, that's real and that'll decide who's in charge of Magna. So far, there's only an inkling of it, a little bit of it, but let's see who wins that war. Because right now, Mark Levin, Laura Lumer, and all those guys are telling everybody that voted for Trump, ha ha, we own you. Megan Kelly and Marjorie Taylor Green and Tucker Carlson are traitors.

They don't support America, and you all have to serve Israel, and that's actually America first. And you all have to go to war for Israel, and that's actually anti-war. Okay, so it's zombies versus online guys. I don't know who wins, but a lot is rioting on it. Yeah. Okay. We got to go. Thank you, Anna.

I'm going to come back for the revolution. We got a great guest for you guys. And we're going to, we got to go start actively beginning this revolution. So we'll start talking about it more and more as we go. go here, including when we return. All right, welcome to the Revolution. I'm your host, Jane Huger. So this is a show where we try to bring folks together to get our government back. So we recently, in order to do that, we have to have fair elections, real elections,

so that we know that our voice counts. So on Friday, we had a power panel with Marjorie Taylor Green and Nina Turner, and they had a little bit of a disagreement about the Save Act. So we want to bring on an expert. We're going to talk to Rebecca Crothers. She is the president and CEO of Fair Election Center that is a national and nonpartisan voting rights and election reform organization. Rebecca, welcome.

Thank you. All right. So before we get to the SAVE Act, let me ask you, what are you concerned about in regards to these 2026 elections? It depends on the day. If you would have asked me a couple months ago, I would have told you, you know, there's a possibility that ICE is going to show up to polling locations. If you would have asked me the next month, I would have said, hey, you know what, there's some changes to the U.S. Postal Service. And now there's going to be delays of postmarking mail, including ballots.

If you would have asked me the following month, I would have said, you know what, I am concerned about some crazy executive order that this administration is going to send out. and they're gonna try to take over elections. So I would say in the last week, I've been concerned about all three things, and I'm convinced there's going to be something worse. Yeah, so the thing that I'm most concerned about is nationalizing these elections, grabbing, the federal government grabbing voting stations, booths, machines. And so that's super extreme, but could they physically do it if they would. wanted to? And then what's the, I mean, how do we fix it legally if they physically grab the

machines? So here's the thing. According to the Constitution, and by the way, we still have a Constitution here. According to the Constitution, states determine how elections are going to be carried out. The only thing that you see in the Constitution is every four years, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November, there's to be a presidential election, right? And so what? What, What we know is that states get to determine, you know, how they're going to have elections, whether or not they're going to use paper ballots, whether or not they're going to use machines, whether or not they're going to have tabulation machines to add up the Scantron ballot. So states make that determination.

And even across all 50 states plus the District of Columbia and the other territories that cast ballots, there are still upwards 9,000 voting jurisdictions. in this country. There's thousands in the state of Wisconsin alone. And so the only way that the federal government can do the things that this person in the White House is claiming that he could do, they would have to fiat or overrule these thousands and thousands of jurisdictions. So I would say our decentralized election setup is one reason why the president can't do what the president is claiming that he wants to do. Okay, well, it seems like a bit of a release. because that's my number one concern.

So now for people on the right, they're concerned that there could be fraud in elections. And so they're in favor of the SAVE Act. So if you're talking to them, what would you say about the SAVE Act as to why the A shouldn't be overly concerned about voter fraud if that's what you think? And why the SAVE Act does or does not address voter fraud? So according to the Heritage Foundation, over the last few decades, less than 100 people who weren't actually able to register the vote, registered the vote, and then attempted to cast a ballot.

But all of them were, all of them were found out. So if you're telling me over the last 30, 40 years, less than 100 people across the country, according to the Rights Own Heritage Foundation has attempted to commit this type of fraud, has attempted to pretend to be someone else in order to register to vote and then to cast a ballot, that that lets me know that our current system is working. And so for a, if your point of view, if your worldview is that we ought to have small government, and if your point of view is that we shouldn't waste taxpayers money, then why have additional burdensome federal regulations that will actually cost local election officials, state election officials.

It will cost them lots of money and lots of time. In fact, the SAVE Act says that if you don't correctly get the required documents on someone who's actually legitimately able to register the vote and you register them in the vote and you miss a step, you could face civil penalties. You could even face criminal penalties, i.e., go to jail, go the prison. So I would say that if you care about small government, if you care about being fiscally responsible, then it needs to make sense. And the same act simply doesn't make sense. And that's what the Heritage Foundation's data. Yeah, so Rebecca, here's the thing. So your facts are just true about about 100 people out of 350 million Americans over 30 to 40 years.

That's a microscopic amount, and they were caught, right? So let's say that some weren't caught, but it gives you a sense of the context of the problem. not an overwhelming issue, it would appear. I know others have heard things on Fox News that no one's ever been able to prove, but they're worried about. And I hear what you're saying about, okay, it costs more. But what a lot of, not just people on the right, but independents and podcasters would say is, yeah, but why not have voter ID? I mean, that seems fair and that you get to verify.

So what's the, okay, if you're telling me it costs a little bit more, fine, I'll pay a little bit more to make sure that there's no voter fraud. What's wrong with that are you? So if this was just as simple as proving that you are who you say you are in order to register the vote, and then in turn proving that you are who you say you are in order to cast your ballot, then the current system works. Right now, across the thousands of jurisdictions that administer elections, they make the determination on whether or not someone is actually eligible to vote.

Once they make that determination, then that person is able to register the vote. They are then, once they're registered the vote, they're able to cast their ballot when it's time to cast the ballot. So these things are working already. So these things are already working on the state and local level. Why is the federal government coming in and attempting to restrict who gets to vote? After all, the only times we've seen the federal government get involved with elections, including local and state elections, has been to enforce voting rights. What we're seeing here is a demonstrated effort to restrict and to determine who gets the right to vote. When it's the states that make that determination, not the federal government.

The federal government is trying to kick people out. So I would tell those people on the right, look, right now, it might be the person who you voted for in the White House making this determination. What does this look like if the person in the White House is not who you voted for? Do you want that person all of a sudden arbitrarily kicking you off of the voter rolls? I would think that. So I know that in the SAVE Act you have to have not a driver's license, but a passport or birth certificate. And so 50% of the country doesn't have passports, by the way, probably slightly more Republicans don't.

And 9% of people in the country don't have birth certificates. So that just means they have to go through an extra expense and time. to get those things, then they might not get it in time to vote. But now people are saying, you know, that might affect Republicans more. Their voters are slightly older and they could kind of get discombobulated by this. And especially within the Republican primaries, the status quo guys, the Trump guys are older. The like MAGA rebellion is younger. So this might actually hurt Republicans more.

Is that convinced you that maybe we should do some of these things? So after our election center, we're a nonpartisan organization. And we believe every year, every vote, our mission is to defend, expand, and facilitate voting rights in this country. So regardless of zip code, regardless of political, a political affiliation. If you are eligible to register the vote and you want to register to vote, if you register the vote and you want to cast your ballot, if you cast your ballot and you want to make sure that your ballot counts, that's what you're eligible to register to vote.

fair elections that are jumps in. We call balls and strikes. That's our job here. And so I would say any American ought to be concerned if your first amendment rights are starting to get tampered with. If your first amendment rights are under challenge, you ought to be concerned because there's some other rights in the bill of rights that I know some of the people on the right care about. So if all of a sudden we're we see an administration arbitrarily going after the first Amendment going after the right to vote and trying to chip away at American citizens from actually carrying out the right to vote, there should be some concerns there. Yeah, that makes sense. If you're nonpartisan, of course you

want everybody to vote, right? And vote as much as possible and it doesn't matter which party it helps. So now let's talk back to the SAVE Act for a second. So it looks like because the filibuster is going to fail. It does, I can't really see any way that it's going to be rescued because it would so many Democrats to switch over. Yeah, maybe you'll get like a Federman and stuff, but this would be a core betrayal of their own voters. I mean, it doesn't get it.

And besides which it affects their power. So that's why you know this is the one thing that Democrats will hold strong on. So okay, with the SAVE Act potentially going down without being really able to seize all the voting machines, is there much left to be overly concerned about in this upcoming election? Or does it look like it might come off okay? So let's not assume that the SAVE Act just goes away because we understand like I used to work on Capitol Hill. I worked for the laid Congressman John Dingell. They are all sorts of parliamentary procedures, especially on the Senate side versus the House side, where you see things that you thought were dead get resurrected.

And so I want people still to be vigilant because there are still continuing resolutions. There's still budget bills. There's still ways to attach pieces of the SAVE Act. So I want people still to activate, to call their senator, to make their voices heard. Don't just believe the rhetoric that you're hearing from Washington right now, that the SAVE Act is dead on arrival. You're going to have to stay vigilant about it. Because one thing that we know is that even if it fails during this Congress, is going to be introduced again in the next Congress.

And so this is going to be something that we're those who support voting rights in this country are going to stay vigilant and keep fighting back. The second thing that I will say, pay attention to the states because we just saw that the Florida legislature just passed their own version of the SAVE Act. It goes into effect in 2027. We also see in other states that it has passed one chamber or it's moving through different committees. So I need people to pay attention.

We see in South Dakota, we see in Missouri. I think there's another half a dozen states. And where we're seeing this wash, rinse and repeat, bad voting legislation that's being introduced. Yep. And look, from my point of view, it's totally nonpartisan because I want everybody out there voting that's eligible to vote. And both parties don't want that. Republicans don't want it in the general election when it comes to some areas that happen

to be Democratic, right? a lot of voter purges of the of the voter rolls. Wisconsin. Yeah, yeah, so that happened and that continues to happen. But on the other hand, Democratic leadership does not want you to vote in primaries. They hate it when you vote in primaries against incumbents. So defy both parties, make sure you go out there in primaries and general elections, and make sure you keep voting.

All right, Rebecca Cruthers, president's CEO of Fair Election Center. Thank you so much for joining us, really appreciate it. Anytime. All right, glad we checked in on that. to feel a little bit better. Guys, so we've got a little bit of time left. So what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna read some of the comments left over from the show, because one of the things I wanna do, and we'll start doing this more and more on the

revolution. We've had a lot of guests, but I wanna transition back to interacting with you guys more. And so we'll do a mix and a balance of it. And so if you have any good ideas on how we can encourage everybody to vote in the primaries, vote against incumbents, operationconsequences.com, populousplank.com, what? Whatever you think is an interesting way to spread the message because we need everybody voting in the primaries. We need Republicans voting in the primaries.

We need Democrats voting in the primaries because the incumbents have a huge advantage. And the more people do not participate in the process, the bigger their advantages. So make sure we've got to find ways together to combat that. All right, so I want to say first, Joji Mathi, thanks for joining in the middle of all this. We appreciate it. hit the join button below. You'd also do it through tyt.com slash join. So let me go to some of your comments here

and then I'll react to them somewhat related to this and also related to some of the things we talked about on the show. Ilana Ida asked on Superchat, where are all the lefties who've protested against Trump for years? Is anyone demonstrating against this war? Anyone against the Israeli occupation? So it's a good question

and it totally relates to the revolution. Because a lot of the groups that organize those protests on the left are in bed with the Democratic leadership. And Democratic leadership secretly wants this war. Their donors definitely want it. That's why they are not fighting against it at all. And I mean, honestly, like it's a new level of corruption and cowardice. Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries are owned by Israel, that's obvious. And so they're not,

they're gonna tell indivisible and all the other groups, oh, stand down, stand down. Don't, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. I'd say on TV, but they barely ever appear on TV. They'll put out a strongly worded letter going, tis, tis, we are against this war of Trump. And then when it asked, hey, are you gonna fund the war, the Democrats panicked. I covered this story about two weeks ago or so, 10 days ago, whenever it happened. They're like, you said you were against the war, so you're going to vote against war funding, right? They asked about a dozen Democrats, almost all of them, corporate establishment Democrats in Washington.

In fact, I think they all were. And all of them were like, whoa, wait, wait, wait, I didn't say I wasn't going to fund it. Israelianers, please, please, I'll fund it, of course. I'm just kidding about they're posing it. So that's why they're totally absent. But I know that those guys are crooks and I know a lot of the unfortunately a lot of the groups based in Washington pretending to be lefties are totally in bed with Pelosi and Schumer and would never defy them. And so I don't have a lot of hope for those guys.

But the guys that I'm most angry at, honestly, are the so-called progressives in Congress. Other than Rokana, I'm not seeing anything, anything from the progressives. They don't take corporate PAC money, they don't take A PAC money, so I guess they're just cowards. So I checked AOC's timeline just to be sure. Near the beginning of the war, she put out a strongly worded letter and hasn't done anything since. Nothing. Nothing. Nothing.

Nothing on X, nothing on anything else. Nothing on TV. Nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. So believe me, guys, if they were out there fighting like hell against the war, we wouldn't miss it. It wouldn't be subtle, right? I'll say it too. I don't know where Rashida Talib is. I mean, of all people, so I know you're, it's like you can't say anything about Rashida Tili because she's Palestinian. Where is she? Is she in the witness protection program? Greg Kassar, head of the Progressive Caucus. Does anybody even know that? Has anybody seen him in the last couple of

months, be good little boys and girls. If leadership tells you not to defy Israel, then I guess don't defy Israel. Where are you guys? Where are you? I only see one Democrat. I don't even see Bernie anymore. I don't see one Democrat, Ro Khanna. He's all over the Sunday talk shows saying this is a war for Israel, we shouldn't do it, and backed up by zero people in the Democratic Party. Anyways, okay, Gallego. Gallego was like, oh, he's had a nice line about Israel. And then when I asked him if he'd fund the war, he said, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, hey, hey, don't blow my cover.

Okay, yeah, where are you, Rubin? Where are you? All right, Dan Haley writes, and I told you after the election if he did this crap referring to Trump, I was done with him. Man of my word, I am done. I voted for him three times. I would say, let's vote them all out. But they're all bribed, so how do we actually do anything?

Then that's why I came out with idea for operation consequences.com, right? So it's just a pledge saying, hey, I'm not going to vote for anybody taking Israeli lobby money. And guess what? Yes, almost all of them take Israeli lobby money. So, but a lot of their challengers, not all, but a lot of their challengers haven't had time to get bought yet. A PAC hasn't bothered to buy them. Corporate PACs haven't bothered to buy them yet. So not all of them, but a lot of them.

So go in blanket, sight unseen, vote. against incumbents. Unless they're name is Roe Connor or Tom Massey, they've done squat against this war. I'll give Rand Paul a little bit of credit. I mean, I want to give Bernie credit, but honestly, I don't even see Bernie. I'll give Chris Murphy a little bit of credit. He once, he said one comment against Israel, which I was like shocked by, I'm like, whoa, whoa, is a Democratic senator allowed to criticize Israel a little bit, right?

Oh, Chris Van Hollande, good senator from Maryland. Okay, that brother's for real, okay? So about a handful, and then outside of that, at best case scenario, sitting on their ass waiting for orders from either Democratic or Republican leadership, which equals really just Israel. So vote all the bums out. You take out 10% of Congress, 10% of incumbents, you have an excellent chance of being back in charge, because then they'll be. new Amazon giant deliveries of depends to Washington, as those legislators are, we'll have to

worry about their voters for the first time in their lives. They normally have the incumbents have it on lockdown. They get bribes from all these different lobbies. Israel's not usually the largest. It is this last cycle, Big Pharma, all those guys, they collect all that, the bribes. They use it to run all these ads. The guys, their challengers have almost no money. again, Republican or Democrat doesn't matter.

They can't run any ads, but that's not even the biggest problem. The biggest problem is legacy media. The traditional media comes in and goes, the person with the most money is the leader. What a wonderful number one leader that they are. And remember, the incumbents have a lot of experience. And experience is the most important thing. You cannot vote for a non-incomement.

They don't have any experience taking bribes from Israel or Pfizer or Lockheed Martin or ExxonMobil. How could you vote with someone who has no experience? I don't vote for anyone who isn't an incumbent. So that's generally the media. And tell me that you don't do that. I'll show you a thousand articles where you do that. And they do it subtly.

They do it in framing. And oftentimes they'll do it over the top. If they've got someone who is honest and is about to win, then the media goes into hyperdrive, as they did with Nina Turner. So I'll give you, look, last one and then I gotta get through more of these comments for you guys. But so classic example, Nina Turner, huge lead. The Israeli law in Cleveland, when she's running the first time for congressional seat, the Israeli lobby comes in, spends four million against her, and then they plant in the media,

this talking point of, she said that voting for Biden was eating a half full of, a bowl, half a bowl of crap. She also, but then she continued, voting for Trump is eating a full bowl of crap. Every liar in the media cut out the second half of the sentence on purpose, because they're not at all objective. They're hacks who are deeply corrupt and work for the establishment and nowadays for Israel. And so they purposely lied about her to make her seem like she was more right wing and against Democrats in general, and they smeared her and smeared her.

Meanwhile, Chantel Brown came in with all the Israeli lobby money and bought almost every ad on television and every ad in the radio. So that they battered Nina Turner's lead until the pro-Israel pro-corruption side won. So that's how this game is played. And mainstream media is a huge part of it. Look, the one thing that Trump got right, and kind of accidentally, because they were against him, he has no actual guiding philosophy or principles. But in a lot of ways, mainstream media is the enemy of the people.

They lie to you all the time to deceive you into voting for the very worst people, the most corrupt people. And if you think to, hey, Jake, that's too much. That's hyperbolic. You kid me? You work as a political reporter and you can't tell that the campaign contributions are affecting the votes. That's never occurred to you. You've never written an article about it in the middle of legislation.

You never talk about it in the campaigns and the general election. In fact, you make it seem like having more money makes you the leader and is a positive thing. And you don't think that they owe anything for those campaign contributions? Well, if you're that stupid, you shouldn't pretend to be a reporter. But I don't think they are stupid. I think they know and they actively support the more corrupt candidates every single time. Because that's literally what they're paid to do. In legacy media, they're paid to lie to you to get you to support corruption.

So prove me wrong. By the way, I welcome any mainstream media reporter from New York Times, Washington Post, ABC, CNN, come on here and debate it with me. Prove to me how amazing you guys are and how objective you are. I would love to see it. I would love to have that conversation, but they won't do it because they know they're wrong and they think, oh, I am superior to you. I will not deign to debate you.

I shall tell everyone that you're an anti-Semite. I shall tell everyone that you are to be counseled, that you're a ruffian and outsider that no one should listen to. Now everybody back in line, vote for the incumbents, right? Right, right? Come on, debate me, come on. You're not gonna do it, of course. They love to go on shows where they don't get challenged, where they get patty cakes.

And by the way, I know that even good people on our side get a little upset with me when I make such blanket statements about mainstream media reporters, find me one who isn't a liar. Okay, and I go, oh, okay, you know me, I love credit what creditors do, okay? Show me a guy saying, oh, no, this is the corruption. Big Pharma paid this Democrat $860,000, that Democrat then voted with Big Pharma every single time, even though it's the opposite of her campaign promises. She's a fucking liar. Oh, sorry.

So show me that, right? Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, never an article about it. Oh, follow the money. I'm a reporter. I don't know how to do that. You guys are, all of them are pathetic. Oh, but, Jake, they went in with a good purpose to inform the American people. How's that going for you?

You went in to inform people and then instead, oh, but my editor told me to lie to them. So I lied and lied and lied, but I'd like for you to pretend that I'm a reporter because you're hurting my feelings. I don't really give a damn about your feelings. Try reporting the truth for once. Okay, guys, I'll kick it over to membership section. We read a couple more super chats to some of the member comments, and then we'll wrap up. Love you guys, if you want, join so you get more of this commentary.

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