The Young Turks - Trump's Christmas Crashout - December 26, 2025

Episode Date: December 27, 2025

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Hughie, All right, Welcome to the Young Turks, Jane Huger, and John Iderolo with you guys on a lovely, A lovely Friday evening, post-Christmas pre-New Year's. So we've got a lot of Trump antics today. Some coal has been cleaned up before putting into stockings.

We've also are apparently talking about how Colbert is dead man walking. We've got, you know, more of that kind of madness. But on top of that, we have an attack on another country. apparently we're at war with Nigeria. Who knew? It's a Christmas miracle. Okay, so especially from the anti-war president. All right, I mean, it's both funny because it's absurd and deadly serious because we literally

bombed another nation for apparently very little reason other than a Fox News report. All right, we'll get to all that. Israel clamps down more on American media, buying more and more of the top news outlets in the country and being quite brazen about it. Wait until you see the Allison's latest connections to Netanyahu, which I did not know, and even I'm a little stunned by. So we'll get to that a little bit later in the program. And a million more Epstein files are going to be released.

So tons and tons of news. So, John, let's get started. Exactly. Before we launch it in this, I just want to say, I have a theory as to why we started this new war that we'll get into in just Oh, yeah, I want to know that theory. I thought a lot about it. And by the way, there's also updates on the updates on the MAGA Civil War.

Another round today, even after decisive round yesterday. So we'll tell you all about that as well. All right. So, John, let's do it. Exactly. Okay, let's jump into this. I'm not going to start war. I'm going to stop wars.

No more wars, no more disruptions. We will have prosperity and we will have peace. Under Trump, we will have no more wars, no more disruptions, and we will have prosperity and peace for all. I am the candidate of peace. I am peace. We are learning new details about the deadly strike operation that President Trump says he ordered on Islamic State terrorists in Nigeria. Listen to this. That, as you can see, released from the Department of Defense yesterday evening, the U.S. military, reports, multiple ISIS terrorists were killed in the attack, which the president first announced

on social media. This comes after the president for months has warned that the United States could take military action in African nation, claiming that ICE. Yeah, we'll get into all of the claims that they've made. But Donald Trump, the peace president has once again delivered peace, or at least pieces of people and buildings blown apart by our weapons and yet another country around the world because the peace president seemingly can't go more than two or three weeks without starting another foreign conflict. In this particular case, as you saw, it is in Nigeria over what he is calling a genocide against Christians in that country, which we're going to dive into the facts. See if we can figure out what's really going on. But, Jank, let's start with your two cents. Yeah, so wait till you

see what's actually happening in Nigeria. This idea of Muslim versus Christian is kind of hilarious. There's some of that going on, but there's such a wide variety. I can't wait to tell you about it now that I know all about Nigerian politics and tribalism and bandits and the different kinds of attacks that are happening there. So that's part of this story. I think that unfortunately Israel is another part of this story, even though it's Nigeria, it's always Israel. And I'll explain how. And of course, the hypocrisy of Trump on anti-war is enormous. We have a poll about it in a minute for you. And John's third or fourth cent here is that he knows

why this happened. And I'm very curious about that as well. Yeah. Well, I'm glad that you have read up a lot and become an expert on this topic. I've read a little bit, but I'm not an expert. I thought that it would be elitist of me to know more about this country we're going to war with than the president does. So I know next to nothing. So I feel like I'm on Trump's level with this. But anyway, he posted this is Christmas Day. He launched this conflict. That's great. Tonight, at my direction as commander-in-chief, we launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS terrorist scum, saying that they're viciously killing primarily innocent Christians

at levels not seen for many years and even capital C centuries. Blah, blah, blah, I previously warned the terrorists, the Department of War, as he calls it. That's its preferred pronouns, executed numerous perfect strikes, as only the United States is capable of doing. They're not going to let radical Islamic terrorism prosper. May God bless our military and Merry Christmas to all, including the dead terrorists. That's, I think he gets the holiday spirit. I do think that he gets that. So look, we're going to dive into the facts about the supposed genocide. Also, bear in mind, we're going to talk about the facts about this being ISIS terrorist, because that's not necessarily as cut and dried as he would have you believe either. A lot of this

feels pretty dishonest. But let's see if we can rewind a little bit, figure out how we got to the point that the United States is launching what were it to happen to us, we would label it obviously as a war. For some reason, when the United States bombs the country, it's just like a cool thing you do on Christmas Day. It's not war mongering or anything. But anyway, it seems like a Fox News segment about a month and a half, two months ago was what kind of kicked this thing off. And in this segment, we're going to show you a bit. John Roberts had on Ryan Brown, the CEO of Open Doors, U.S., an organization supporting persecuted Christians, and take a look at this. Yeah, Open Doors keeps track of Christians who are killed around the world in religious violence.

Here's your statistics for 2025, 4,476 Christians murdered so far worldwide. 3,100 of them in Nigeria. I mean, Nigeria is a country that the United States has a fairly close relationship with. Does this president need to step up and do more or does the United States a large need to do more? I mean, what could the U.S. do to try to stem the killings? I love the distinction he makes between the president doing more and the United States doing more. Like Donald Trump's going to fly over there and deal with it single-handedly or something. But anyway, they're obviously, they're hoping to get the United States military involved.

More conflicts. Good for Fox News. Good for the defense industry and all of that. And almost immediately after that segment aired, which Donald Trump was obviously watching because he's never not watching TV, he posted this onto true social, saying that if the Nigerian government continues to allow the killing of Christians, apparently the Christians are the only ones that need to be protected. The other people dying there, it doesn't matter. The USA will immediately stop all aid and assistance in Nigeria. And may, this is going to be a literal verbatim quote in case you're listening, and may very well go into that now disgrace country, guns. Ms. Ablazin, the president of the United States says, to completely wipe out the Islamic terrorists who are committing these horrible atrocities. He's saying basically there's cherished Christians warning the Nigerian government better move fast. So he waited about six weeks, I guess that's something. And they did these strikes, killing at least five people leaving over 30 seriously wounded. And I think at this point, Jake, we should probably get into the conversation around this because the reason that he seems to be interested in this is the reason

that Fox News was interested in it, is that they can spin a very selective interpretation of the conflict to make it seem as if this is people hunting down Christians. And of course, the right is always looking for opportunities to feel that they are an aggrieved minority. That's why they are saying this about Nigeria. It's why they have pretended there's this genocide against white farmers in South Africa. On the damage report this morning, I pointed out that I also think it's convenient to them to have these narratives at a time when they've probably begun to feel after a couple of years of what's going on with Gaza, kind of feel like maybe they're on the wrong side of this whole thing. These people sticking up for Palestinian kids who are

being killed certainly look like the good guys in this story. Wouldn't it be good if they had a conflict they could pretend puts them on the right side of calling out genocide? So what do you know? what is a fairly complicated civil conflict in Nigeria gets reinterpreted as a genocide against Christians, which is more palatable for their domestic audience. But what do you think? Yeah, so we're going to play a series of macabre fun games here about this, okay? Because all this is disastrous, but we're going to nevertheless do a poll about it. And I'm going to poll John and he doesn't know the geography of Nigeria, apparently as well as I do. So that'll be fun and you could play along as well. The first poll is on t.yt.com and we're asking when Trump said

he was anti-war, what did he mean? A, I'm going to bomb Iran. B, I'm going to bomb Nigeria. C, I'm going to bomb Venezuela. D, I'm going to bomb every country I can think of and see if I can still get people to believe I'm anti-war. Okay, so, ding, ding. Okay, that's a tough one. A lot of bombings for the anti-war president. So take your time with that one on t.com. All right.

Now we move to the interesting little thing that John alluded to there, which was, well, they said on Fox News there's news there, 3,100 Christians killed in Nigeria. They didn't say who killed him. Oh, that's interesting. But we're gonna come back to that in the midst of this quiz and give you a sense of what's happening in Nigeria. First of all, quick fun facts about Nigeria, split nearly evenly between Christians and Muslims. About 53% Muslim, 45% Christians. Anytime there's a split like that, you're gonna have trouble no matter what the religions are,

the backgrounds, or the ethnicities are, and there has been some trouble among those clans. But that is not the only thing dividing Nigeria. In fact, Nigeria is a gigantic country. in Africa, 230 million people, 300 different languages spoken. Now that's going to play a big role in what we're going to describe here. All right. So John, there are several different areas of Nigeria. There's the northeast where there's Boko Haram, a very dangerous Muslim fundamentalist terrorist group. Okay. So they're a big problem in northeastern Nigeria, often attacking the Nigerian government. The Nigerian government has Muslims and Christians in it. But it's,

Again, a majority of Muslim country, nevertheless, Boko Haram is attacking within that country as Muslim fundamentalists tend to do, right, when they go in the jihad violent direction. Okay, so then we've got in the southeast a massive separatist war that occurred, that killed nearly a million people. And so a lot of Christians died there. Now, it's Christian separatists that have done that war, so take that for what it might be. Now we go to the northwest and the northwest there's bandits. And so the bandits are of different varieties, tribes, clans, et cetera. And they mainly, they do a lot of different kind of crime. It originally started as a vigilante group, but then developed into basically a mob mentality,

which is usually what happens once you go towards violence. So they started doing different crimes including kidnappings. And there they have kidnapped 52 Christians out of a Catholic school recently. Aha. So that's your anti-Muslim. Now, it turns out they also kidnapped 25 Muslim students from a Muslim school because they're banditos. They're bandits. Okay. So then you go to central Nigeria. And in central Nigeria, we have a war between the farmers and the herders. I mean, you want to talk about old school. Herders versus farmers like the oldest battle there is. It happened in Central Asia. It happened in Scotland. And so they're doing that battle and they're hacking away

at each other. Now the problem is that the farmers are largely Christian, the herders are largely Muslim, so that gets into some tribal and religious issues. But what people noticed is actually the people grabbing the land the most are just wealthy folks from Nigeria who are using the farming and the herding and the Christianity and the Muslim and all that stuff is an excuse to do more land acquisition. Okay. So now John, out of all those different problematic places in Nigeria, Where do you think we bombed? The northeast, the northwest, the southeast, or central Nigeria. Now, a lot of Christians dying in a lot of those areas. So, and a lot of Muslims dying in a lot of those areas. So where do you think we bombed? Well, I'm going to be honest. I was not expecting

to be quizzed. And now I'm really second guessing myself, but I was fairly certain up until about 90 seconds ago that it was the northwest. Yeah. You are correct. We bombed the bandits in Northwest, nice job. So the bandits have no religious, you know, affiliation necessarily. Like I said, they kidnap Christian and Muslim students for ransom. They're mainly just criminals. Boko Haram's in the Northeast. We didn't bomb them. The people that killed a million people in the Southeast are mainly Christians, so we didn't bomb them. And the landowners that are stealing everything in the middle of Nigeria, we certainly didn't bomb them. Obviously not. Well, first of all, We just point out, and if you're Maga or whatever, feel free to disagree in the comments.

Do you believe that Donald Trump could have extemporaneously given a cogent breakdown of the conflicts across Nigeria like Jenk just did? He wasn't reading that off the script. Do you think Donald Trump could have done that? And if he had done it, do you think he could have done it without referencing winning Pennsylvania three times in a row or something like that? Come on. Anyway. So, you know, I look, forget saying it extemporaneously. Does Donald Trump know 10% of that? Yeah. No.

So apparently he saw a report on Fox News a little while back that said that they were killing Christians in Nigeria. He's like, so let's bomb it. So that's part of the answer. I think Israel's part of the answer. But John, you said you had part of the answer. Yeah. Is it the distraction you mentioned earlier or is it something else?

No, I mean, I'm only about 30% serious. but six weeks ago, he says, you know, if you keep killing Christians or whatever, we're going to do this. That's quite a while ago. What's closer? Nikki Minaj appearing at the Turning Point USA thing and talking once again about genocide against Christians in Nigeria. Now, she paid a price for it. She supposedly lost something like 10 million followers on Instagram and is in fact fled Instagram following that. But perhaps she got her ultimate goal, which is she called Donald Trump hot on stage, fluffed his ego a little bit, and her number one political issue, all of a sudden the American government snaps into action, starts doing strikes within like

six days of her appearance on stage. Yeah. I'm just saying. I'm just saying. Yeah. So your theory dovetails with mine to some degree. So under the rubric of everything is Israel. So here, I think the number one group pushing this in America is Israel first, and why do I say that? Number one, my evidence among other things, and it's just circumstantial, as you'll see here. I'm certainly not claiming I have definitive proof and et cetera, right? But number one, social media reaction. So before the bombings, there was a lot of talk of, oh, yeah, for genocide. Why aren't we doing anything about the genocide in place X, Y, Z, right?

They've been saying that for a long time. And recently, the momentum picked up for Nigeria. Oh, forget the genocide in Gaza. Real genocide is by Banditos in northwestern Nigeria. No, it's the bandits, the Nigerians, they're the real terrorists. And so, and it's not to say there is a terrorism in Nigeria, there is, right? And you, and there could be, there was, I think, 8,000 people killed overall last year. I think more Muslims than Christians in Nigeria.

If I remember that right, but just don't quote me on that. You can look it up yourself. We can show the data going back to 2020. If we bring up graphic eight, as you discuss, it does the breakdown of the last five years, basically. Okay, great. Let's show that so you can see the real facts and the exact facts, right? And so you're seeing that there on the screen. Meanwhile, obviously, in Gaza, there's 70,000 dead at a bare minimum.

But the idea here is distract and the Israelis believe that things have gotten religious, just partly because they pushed the religion angle here nonstop. No, if you blame Israel, you're blaming the Jews, you're blaming the Jews, right? And make everything about religion. It's a dirty Muslims. The real problem is the Muslims. And I told you three months ago, there was a propaganda campaign started, and all of Israel first did it at the same time.

The real issue is in Israel. The real issue is Muslim terrorists and Israel's at the forefront of protecting you against the dirty, savage Muslims, and the bigotry towards Muslims went into hyperdrive, hyperdrive. with no breaks in the car at all. And now this is another wave of, no, the real terrorists are the Muslims in Nigeria. And if you care about religion, you should care about protecting the Christians in Nigeria from the Muslims. Remember, don't think about Israel. Don't think about our slaughter of the Muslims.

Only care about hating Muslims. And we've got a good opportunity here in Nigeria where we can get you to hate them and pretend that it's only violence against Christians. and that that's the real problem in America. And of course, John, among the hundred things wrong with that logic is, yes, but we're not funding any of that in Nigeria. Whatever atrocious attacks are happening by Muslims or Christians or bandits or farmers or herders in Nigeria, we didn't pay for any of that, whereas we paid for all of Israel's genocide and all of their war crimes and all of their wars.

Yeah, it is ironic to be told by people who have some sort of biological opposition to ever exercising empathy, that those of us using it actively should be using even more of it in more circumstances. First of all, lead by example, and not just opportunistically like in this. And you're totally right. It's not hypocrites. Like, first of all, we should acknowledge conflicts in other areas. But as you point out, it's not exactly the same thing. We are much more directly implicated in one of these attacks than the others. Also, it's the sheer amount of death over a very small period of time. There are a lot of substantive differences between these conflicts. But let me also say, in closing, like the fact that if you actually care about the Christians that have died,

it is a tragedy that these people have died. It's just an equal tragedy to the tragedy of the more Muslims who have died in that conflict. It's terrible that all of these people are dying. And it would be one thing if Donald Trump was saying, you know, I've been really paying attention to Nigeria. It's a lot of chaos. They feel terrible for that country. So we're going to get involved and we're going to try to do the right thing and take down some of these bandits or whatever. But that's not what he's doing. He's not being. He's not being. honest. And does anyone actually believe that he that he even gives a damn about the Christians of Nigeria? You think Donald Trump would spend five minutes talking to a group of Nigerian

Christians? You think he actually gives it any more than he cares about white farmers from South Africa? He doesn't even care about that. It's a convenient thing that he knows. Some of the conspiratorial people in his base love to talk about on Twitter. So it's easy. He can say Pete Hanksith, go bomb them or whatever. I don't care. I don't want to hear anything about it. It's the dishonesty and how obviously they're using people's lives or deaths just to distract or to earn some points. It's just gross. And to then hear people like getting pissed off at us because we care about what's happening in Gaza when this is clearly so artificial, so like just self-serving the way that they approach this. Being told that we're not

exercising empathy in the right way is disgusting. Apologies. I know that we're over. Any final thoughts before we go to the break? Nope. Other than don't go to war with Nigeria. Exactly. Okay, let's take a break. We have a lot more after this. All right, let's go to our funny and smart. internet.com. Embedded news says it was a perfect bombing. Cenk's left tricep of Fury says, Jenkins John, okay, now it's a party. Okay, well, God bless. Ecclectic rights, said for anyone who had bombing

Nigeria on their 2025 bingo card, they just barely got under the wire, but seriously, it's absolutely horrible to the military industrial complex, finally found a president who might bomb anywhere at any time for any reason. And how ironic is it that that's the anti-war president? I mean, what a joke. What a joke. And they're like that you're totally right. Rebel Dragon says, but the Christians that Israel is killing is okay. It's not about Christians. Of course, it's not about Christians. Israel's bombing church in Gaza. People were holed up there for over a year. So because they were worried about Israel murdering them in the streets of Gaza. So when Israel kills Christians, shh, When they're killing Muslims, oh, that's okay. Just you can publicize that one.

Who cares? They're killing the Muslims on your behalf. Give me another $100 billion. Scoopster says, Johnny looks good, cute hair. All right, God bless. All right. We'll all take the compliments. Okay.

There you go. There's Johnny Cutie Pie. Oh, a new nickname. New nickname. Okay, Cabbage says, a war day keeps peace away. Well, it certainly does, doesn't it? Again, from the anti-war president. Okay, Mark, NYC says, well, the U.S. and Nigeria both have grifters in government. That's one thing we have in common. Yep. And by the way, the Nigerian government is halfway okay with the

bombing. They coordinated with the Americans as long as we're bombing someone that's against the government, presumably. Kelly Kay says, new rule of Trump cannot find the country on a map. he's not allowed to consider bombing or attacking it. That would be a great game. If you just put a map, blank map in front of them with the borders, but no names. Like, if you could find Nigeria on the map, we will allow you to bomb it. No chance. No chance.

Venezuela, what do we got? 5, 10% chance he finds it. Boomer dragon cat says, hey fam, even though I live in nature, we took time yesterday to be out and about in the forest, present as Jenks says. It was so good for the soul. Highly recommend me too. That's awesome. I love that you did that. Guam will capsize dragon says if we go to war with Venezuela, a lot of Christians are going to die.

That's a really good point. But on the other hand, they're working with Hamas and Hezbollah and have to be destroyed for humanity's sake. Of course, not for Israel's sake, just for general humanity. No match dragon says on Twitch, start a war tyrants playbook. ZZZZ, Dirty Boxer ZZZZZZZZ, Dirty Boxer ZZZ says, man, John is the best in Dragon New Jersey points out the obvious other than John being the best. Just thinking about all the Palestinians killed. Of course, that is entirely true as well. Everybody check out shop t-y-d.com for exclusive TDR gear. All right, back on TYT, Jay and John with you guys.

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Okay, just before Christmas Eve, Donald Trump did what you do when the holidays are coming. Start thinking about your enemies and how much you'd like them to die. So in this case, it's Donald Trump on Stephen Colbert. He called him a dead man walking and instructed CBS, which he now has quite a bit of sway over, thanks to Barry Weiss, to put him to sleep now. Which, the guy already lost his job, Jank. His show isn't going to be around for much longer. It seems a bit petty.

What do you think? Yeah, I mean, look, Trump was born petty, so that's not the surprising part at all. We really need to bring down the temperature with the language. We were told by Trump and his allies, apparently not. The language is back to an 11 about comics who dared to criticize politicians. But the more important part of this story and where I'm going to get more animated is his threat to shut down any media that doesn't agree with Donald Trump. If you don't get that that's what authoritarian leaders do, well, you might accidentally be in favor of authoritarian leaders. 100%. This is a great show for the...

John, I think you might have pressed a mute button accidentally on your mic. It is the easiest button to press in the world. Well, I guess Stephen Colbert has an easier time pressing Donald Trump's buttons. But anyway, so here's what the president posted on Christmas Eve. Stephen Colbert is a pathetic train wreck with no talent or anything else necessary for show business success. Now after being terminated by CBS, but left out to dry, he has actually gotten worse along with his non-existent ratings. Well, I don't know what his ratings are, but I know one guy who's watching him. By the way, really fast before we continue, Stephen Colbert wasn't

broadcasting. They played a rerun of a Stephen Colbert episode where he was critical towards the president, which he often is. And Donald Trump freaked out over a rerun of Stephen Colbert. Colbert. He says, Stephen is running on hatred and fumes, a dead man walking. CBS should put him to sleep. Now it is the humanitarian thing to do. And what I think of Stephen Colbert and Donald Trump, and specifically Donald Trump posting about Stephen Colbert on Christmas Eve rather than spending time with his wife or kids, I think Stephen's the one running on hatred. I think the president's right about that. But anyway, that's at the end of Donald Trump's crash out on Christmas. He posted, there was one period where he was posting on

average every two minutes for an extended period of the holiday. But I just want to remind everyone when they were braiding us that we need to lower the temperature. Take a look. I don't know enough about that particular organization, but what you increasingly see, Jesse, is you see people in the trans community and other members of the far left who are saying they are so threatened by negative rhetoric that they must take arms and attack people. If your movement is telling you to commit acts of violence against people for speaking words that you don't like, number one, you're evil. And number two, you are engaged in a terrorist movement.

And that's part of what we have to root out in the White House. And this is very important, Jesse. Talk to a lot of people about this. I've talked to, you know, Stephen Miller probably seven times in the past two days. We are working very hard to ensure that the funding networks for left-wing violence, that the radicalization networks for left wing violence, that if you encourage or fund your fellow Americans or anybody else to commit acts of violence because you disagree with political speech, you are going to be treated like a terrorist organization and we're going to go after

you. Yeah, and so there was a lot of that all over the place. It might be worse coming from J.D. Vance because, of course, he obviously, like, is so incredibly horny to be president in 2028. And he's showing there that he is willing to knowingly lie about the left. He knows that that's not a thing the left does. There's no funding apparatus. There's no constant calls for violence or anything like that. And he knows that when there is calls for civil war and for violence, 95% of the time it's coming from the right. He is knowingly lying about that to justify cracking down.

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and their late night shows are almost 100% negative to President Donald J. Trump, Maga, and the Republican party, shouldn't their very valuable broadcast licenses be terminated? I say yes. And that's what he is saying about, you know, a number of different networks, but obviously CBS is one of them. And it's, well, first of all, look, Jank, as I'm sure you're going to point out, the idea that they're for free speech is an absolute, it's a, it's ridiculous. It's an utter lie. But they already have taken fairly direct control of CBS News. They've already defanged CBS News's ability to do actual journalism. But so long as there is anything, even comedic criticism of the regime, he's not going to rest. That's how viciously opposed to free speech they are. What do you think? Yeah. Look, there's a couple of elements

here, too. First of all, Trump's supposed to be a tough, maga guy. Oh, yeah. Well, I mean, when a comic makes a joke about you and you catch feelings and you start crying like a 13-year-old girl, sorry, not that tough, okay? Not at all tough. I mean, one joke will try. We'll try. the hell out of him. I mean, a lot of Magas, you know, proud of the trolling. And they're like, ah, we troll you guys. You catch feelings. We have a good laugh. I mean, who's easier to troll than Donald Trump? Just the simplest little joke. And he's in a ball of tears. Oh! Gobech is a dead man. We should cut down anything that is opposed to me. I mean, how do you not see it, guys? What a bitch. Okay, so that's point one. Point two is,

if you think that it's like pro-freedom to take away freedom of speech and freedom of the press because a politician's fee-fis have been hurt, I don't think you get the concept of freedom. Okay, so let me do shoe on the other foot, see how you like it. So while Biden was president, all of us, including me, who was saying that he had mental difficulties and maybe had dementia, Biden could have said, that's it. I'm suing, you know, Betty Johnson and Tim Poole and Patrick Med David and Jank Uger and the Young Turks and everyone. I don't have dementia. I have mental decline. You guys were wrong. Ha ha, defamation, shut them all down. You all owe me $15 million, $150 million, a billion. That's it. Tucker Carlson, Kandisone, everyone's bankrupt because you hurt my feelings.

Okay, you want that? I don't want that. That's garbage and that's authoritarian junk and it's super weak. So, hey, if you want to support that, that's the bed you're lying in. But I'm for America and I'm for freedom and this ain't it. Yeah, 100%. Look, I'm really worried about, you know, this, how much control he's taken over the media, not only like allowing, like allowing for some mergers, blocking others,

getting his toadies and his hacks embedded inside of these, you know, like CBS news, but also the legal settlements that he's had. The fact that, you know, Bezos wants Donald Trump to go easy on him. So Washington Post isn't really in the journalism game anymore. They've done all this one year in. Like this feels like hungry, but even faster, their control over the media. And so I can't even imagine if this goes on for three more years, how much control they'll have taken over all of these different channels.

And I think that people should be really worried about it. And honestly, to some extent, I feel a little bit like, like the threats he makes against Stephen Colbert are serious. Stephen Colbert was fired. But also, it almost feels a little bit like a convenient, hyperbolic, clownish distraction from like Barry Weiss, who's like doing more damage, but it's less sexy, you know? Like people don't think about it as much because it doesn't involve a celebrity like Stephen Colbert or like what Larry Ellison is getting up to. I almost feel like he's sort of taking people's eyes off of the more substantive, like, but less exciting business side of this. Both are dangerous.

Anyway, just something to think about it. Yeah, you know, I want to read the last quote here because it's important. Trump has privately said that George Soros assured him that he would turn CBS News, which Ellison took over when they bought Paramount. I'm sorry, the Soros people took over when they bought Paramount into a more liberal outlet to people with knowledge of the president's comments. Oh, right, no, sorry, that's not Soros and it's not liberal. It's Larry, it's more conservative and it's Larry Ellison.

So basically, when conservatives complain all the time, Soros was buying this or that, Zoroz is doing this, and he's making everyone more liberal. Now, Ellison is buying everything. And he's not making things more conservative. He doesn't care. He used to donate mainly to Democrats before. The only thing he cares about is Israel.

So in order to help Israel, he's saying to Trump, oh, for now, I'll make it totally more conservative. so that you'll like it so that you'll help bomb Iran and all the other things that Israel wants, right? By the way, later, when a Democratic president gets into charge, then I'll turn it into a liberal news outlet as long as they're in support of bombing Israel. So this is the hilarious junk media that we have. The only upside of, like, Trump attacking all of these establishment media networks, there's no upside to it. It's just they're useless anyway.

So if you didn't know they were doing junk propaganda in favor of donors, the establishment, the powerful, and yes, Israel, wakey, wakey. So they're just more useless than they were before. So you could say that without saying, I want them all shut down because they have offended me. They can say whatever they want. We can say whatever we want. And don't worry, we're going to win. Okay. So that's how you deal with it in a country that's free. Yeah, but also to have that position, you'd have to be strong. And Donald Trump just can't make that happen for some reason. Okay, well, why don't we move on our next story? It's a little maybe important one that I think you're going to have some thoughts about. Let's jump into this. The Department of Justice revealed a little bit over the holiday break that there are actually a few more Epstein documents that they came across. Just a few. one million additional Epstein documents that, oops, we hadn't realized we should probably release, you know, when we were required by law to do so earlier this month. And so maybe we'll

eventually get those. Maybe they're really important. We'll have to see. It is interesting that they revealed that over the Christmas break, almost as if they were hoping that people wouldn't notice it or pay attention because they were busy with their families. And of course, this is coming after they missed that congressionally mandated deadline, after they've been releasing little dribs and drabs very heavily redacted, releasing some documents, Jank, and then taking them back. And so we'll get into some of the specifics that we know. But first of all, what did you make when you saw there were a million additional documents out there? Well, I'm glad to see that the dog that ate the million files has vomited them back out, okay? So that's good news, I suppose. It might also

be a convenient excuse as to why you're not releasing them when you're supposed to. Will there be consequences for that? For that, we're going to go to Massey and Kana in a second. But I think maybe the more interesting story here is the 10 co-conspirators that we now know more about because of the files that have already been released. So what happened to the 10 guys the FBI thought were working with Jeffrey Epstein, we'll tell you in a minute. Yeah, yeah, we'll turn to those in just a sec. But I wanted to give Brokana and Thomas Massey a chance to respond to this amazing revelation. Rokana said, quote, there are no more files, case closed.

Six months later after Thomas Massey and My Epstein Transparency Act, there are a million files. Exactly. How is Pam Bondi still employed? She closed the case. And oopsie dopsy, there's a million additional. documents that we hadn't been checking yet, is that, look, obviously, this is a cover-up. She was never intended to look into those files or figure out what was actually going on. But the cover story is that she's a serious lawyer doing serious work. So how is this not the

most incompetent handling of a significant case that we've ever seen in American history? Thomas Massey goes on to say, today the DOJ claims the Epstein-Maxwell file exceeds 1.7 million documents, and they still expect you to believe this involves only two guilty people. Yeah, that's what Pam Bondi said, said there's no clients list. And that's what all of those former QAnonors and all of that that got into the government, particularly into the FBI and the DOJ, they pretend to believe. Cash Patel, Dan Bongino, all of them are part of this cover up. A mountain, like a massive pile of documents. It was just Epstein and Gile Maxwell. And not even really Gilein Maxwell. Don't worry about her. We can send her to a resort. Maybe we'll actually.

pardon her, not a big deal. And that's what they would have you believe. So anyway, we're going to see what comes out of those. I mean, it's taking them so long to release the documents that they already had, Jank, that is it six months for them to release all these million a year? Never? I don't know. But you would reference the co-conspirators. So this is from the files that had been released several days prior. And there's references. A lot of this goes back to around 2019. A lot of this was in the run-up to Epstein killing himself. And so there were questions about the status of 10 potential co-conspirators. And so some of them, interestingly, are named in the documents and some are not. So Jean-Luc Brunel, a modeling agent and an

associate of Epstein is one who is actually named in the documents. But importantly, some of them are still redacted, and we have a little bit more information about where they were distributed, at least as of 2019. So three were in Florida, interestingly, one in Boston, one in New York City, one in Connecticut as well. And then they had these little updates, one in Ohio, they had updates about their attempts to make contact with them. And then it's difficult at that point, Jank, to know exactly what ended up happening, how many were cleared and all that. But what do you make of what we discovered earlier this week? Okay, so lots of interesting things here.

So there were 10 potential co-conspirators, as John explained to you. Three of them, the FBI had trouble locating. So we're down to seven. So one is Galane Maxwell. She was arrested. She's now in minimum security club fed prison where we've gotten reports that she basically runs the place. like she'll have dinner alone

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And then mysteriously committed suicide in prison. Interesting. So Epstein and Brunel were arrested and both mysteriously committed suicide in prison. Those are the only two that were arrested on serious charges. I mean, obviously, Maxwell's are serious charges, but not treated as serious charges. They're treated like a, you know, jaywalking ticket. So, okay, what happened to the others? Well, there's one other guy that's named.

Wexner. So Wexner is the guy who owned Victoria's Secret and all those big brands. He's the one that gave Epstein Power of Attorney over all of his money. And then Epstein used it for his own purposes to help pro-Israel charities in America. And other Zionist causes, all coincidence, of course, of course, of course. And Wexner says, oh, golly, gee, I was one of his victims. But we have emails that drop site news is found that show that Wexner was not a victim. He was a co-conspirator. He worked along with, I don't know about the actual assault on the women. I'm talking about all of the other activities.

Hey, how we're gonna help Israel with this? What should we do with our planes on that? And then after Epstein gets arrested, Wexner, who theoretically at that point has broken up relations with Epstein and is terribly disappointed in him, writes of an email saying, see, Jeffrey, you broke your number one rule. You had to be more careful. He's upbraiding him for revealing what they were doing by not being careful enough. Ironically in an email where Wexner was not careful enough.

Okay. So now we have that on the record. But no, no, no, don't look into Wexner. Because Wexner is super rich and connected to Israel. So do no way, no way do we pursue him. Even though the FBI had him as one of the people that they were supposed to look into. They got, they went and talked to grand jury about a bunch of these folks. What happened to the grand jury? What happened to the investigations? Right? And then there's another guy who was they looked into it was of course you guys all know, Prince Andrew. And then Prince Andrews, they say, here, you need to answer some questions. He says, oh, my lawyers will write the answers. And the FBI says, no, you got to come in for questioning. Then he never comes in for questioning and we drop it. It's absurd. It's absurd. Right. And then if you don't know this, you know they found a fake passport of a lot of you do know this of Epstein. It is safe.

It was from an Australian passport. It was from the 1980s when, as again, drop sign news is reported, he was working in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair. He was a go between Israeli intelligence and American intelligence as Wexner was buying the planes that we used in Iran-Contra to basically launder them and clean them up and pretend they were doing legitimate business when they were being run by the CIA and Mossad earlier.

Do you know how many civilians had fake Australian passports? By the way, his alter ego was Marius Fortelny. Okay, so fake Australian passports in the middle of the Iran-Contra affair. There are zero civilians who match that description. So obviously, Epstein is intelligence. There's no question about it at all. And yet everyone pretends he isn't, and it's absurd. And finally, you see in the release files other people working inside the

FBI and the Justice Department going, Epstein committed suicide inside one of our prisons? And they talk about the prison. They're like, how in the world did that happen? And then no more questions. Yeah. Fascinating stuff. I wonder what might be in the million documents. Maybe in the next decade or so, we'll find out. Anyway, we need to take our last break. We got more after this. So, I'm going to be able to be. I'm going to be able to be. All right, back on T. Wait, let's go to a YouTube member section. Steve 1.Y.S. They never talk about loving one another. Terrorists are everywhere, like a new McCarthy era. Oh, yeah. I mean, the biggest McCarthyites are the Israel first crowd. We've got a list of anti-Semites and we put no

98% of the country on it. We should fire them all. Okay. Oh, we found 2% who love Israel and think we should send them $100 billion. Okay, they should have, they should be all, 94% of Congress and almost everyone in media. I'm sure it's a coincidence. All right. Actavis says, we can't have grandpa around the kids in Christmas.

Stick him in an attic with a phone and see what happens. Actually, that's later in the show. Trump goes on the phone with kids. Doesn't end well. About Santa Tracker, 2.301 says, Crashing out on Christmas, not on my bingo card. Well, with Trump around, it's always on the bingo card. Steve wrote back in saying, glad you're feeling better, Jank.

Well, 50-50, that's why I'm not in the studio. This thing, cold won't go away. But we're hanging in there, we're having fun anyway. G-1872 says, I love everyone, and people have the right to religious freedom. There's extremists in all, but wars are leading back to one group and starts with a Z. Okay, I put that one together. Okay, is Smith 754 says. Jank, brother, no mixing black shirts and brown blazers.

We need Anna here to approve this wardrobe. The one day I don't dress like John. Okay. So you know what? Okay, you guys win asking you shall receive. I thought black and brown went together, but what do I know? I literally know nothing about fashion. That's what I know.

So I'm taking it off. You see, Jank, really fast. I sort of know that you're not supposed to, but I think it looks good. What do I know? Even if I thought it looked good, it doesn't mean anything. to like normal human eyes. It might still not look good. Deli Alexander says copy, paste all one million files through chat GBT and let it

decipher them. As it turns out, it might be able to. So sad and angry Patriot says Trump will pardon Maxwell on his way out the door of the White House, enormously possible if he waits till then. Anyways, these are members on t.yt.com. Buddy ex-Lakondo says, get a little disappointed at Christmas dinner last night, but a brother works for Lockhe and Martin. I found out last time my cousin who moved back to the U.S.

from New Zealand recently now works at Raytheon, disappointing just because it makes sense. Those are the two smartest in the family and get paid the most money. War is awfully profitable. And it does suck. And I know a couple of super libs who work for defense contractors because they hire physicists. And physicists are generally progressive, but that's a top job that they have available to them. So, but don't sweat it. I have a family member there too. more news brothers and sisters. You crazy? Let's do it. We do. Let's jump back into the Maga Civil

War starting with this. Candice Owens is the new queen of black-pilled cue. It was white-pilled insane cue that thought everything was fine and get your popcorn. And now the dark cue has risen. I don't say that because she's black. It's like four-ndes-cose-Jones. It's more hardcore now he's he's he's he's dark jones dark night dark you know dark spider man no it's literally dark cue I dub her the queen of dark Q the empress of dark Q

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Opinion. Now, winning actual power is a different matter, and we'll talk about that in this video as well. And Megan Kelly is a huge part of that story, and she's back at it again today, more of Kelly versus Mark Levin, Mark Levin versus the world and his psychological problems. So we'll get into all that too. But the Alex Jones, Candace Owen stuff is trippy. Half the time, I don't even understand what they're saying. But, and it's super, like now I, I don't even know which side Alex Jones is on. Like, I don't. So we'll try to decipher all that for you guys as we do this story. What do you not understand? Dark Spider-Man. Anyway, you know, it's funny that you say that, Jane, because I went into this thinking,

like, I know that I know the Ben Shapiro thing. I know the Tucker Carlson, but honestly, I haven't really been following this because I find every one of these figures so utterly repugnant. How am I supposed to, it feels like somebody who's way too into the MCU expecting everyone to know all of the rivalries. And yeah, and I'm glad that you who do follow it also are a bit confused. Okay, so one of the big fights coming out of the, uh, Turning Points America Fest is like, should we be condemning the like most explicitly racist and

anti-Semitic, not we, but they, should they be condemning conservatives, the most explicitly racist and misogynistic and anti-Semitic and just basically Nazi members of their side? And there are big disagreements about whether they should. So Candace Owens, let's see, she's been questioning what actually happened with Charlie Kirk being killed. She's also been making some anti-Semitic statements. Obviously, McFuentes has been doing that latter part as well. Owens, on the very least, is not backing down.

She posted this. France, Israel, Australia, the Daily Wire, Prager, You, Turning Point USA, Alex Schoens, Christian influencers, the entire mainstream media, A-PAC, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Big Farm in Hollywood, versus me with a sad face and then a smiling, laughing face. is like are we supposed to believe that she's sad to present herself as being the one truth teller speaking up like that's the whole point of all of this it's such a sell it's a branding exercise but anyway she is being attacked by some conservatives and you also have Mark Levine and Megan Kelly so Jank you might have to help me out with this a little bit so Mark Levine is mad that

Megan Kelly isn't denouncing another character in this saga which is Jack Posobie because Jack Pesobic was hanging out with Myron Gaines, who I guess is a real person, an anti-Semitic influencer. So he's, and then Pesobic brought rosaries on stage at America Fest, which I don't understand why that's a bad thing, but I'm sure there's a good reason. But then Mark Levine tweets to Jack Pesobic that he's going to send him rosaries. I don't, I don't understand, Jank, what's going on? Yeah, so there's a chance that I'm involved in this play too. So this is fun. So I'll do a wrestling

analogy for you to make it more entertaining. Okay. Thank you. And so if you want to watch my entire wrestling analogy and why I declared America First the winner last night, that's up on YouTube. Make sure you check out that video. It's a lot of fun and it has more gory details. Okay, now the quick version. So Myron Gaines and Jack Sobiak are hanging out in the ring. Myron Gaines has this terrible shirt. It's a reference to the Holocaust, et cetera, right? And Pesobiac is apparently smiling with him and has not denounced him or choked him in the picture. So Mark Levin then comes in with a chair and smashes not Myron Gaines.

Okay, which would be a logical target in that context. But Pesobiac for not harming Myron Gaines in some way, okay? Like you should have been punching him in the face on behalf of Israel and Jewish people, et cetera, and you weren't. So now, I don't know that you have to do any of that. I think that Myron Gaines says things that are clearly anti-Semitic. So, okay, there, right? But Posobiac and whoever else is not under an obligation, in my opinion, we can agree to disagree or argue over that, et cetera.

But anyway, I've got no interest in myring is. So Mark Lippon comes in with a chair, right? So, okay, now Pesobiac goes on stage, and this is also part of the thing. And he brings out a rosary. Now, they say that he brings out rosaries every once in a while. I don't know if that's true. But Levin freaks out because he's like, aha, that's anti-Semitic. Why?

Why is it? Well, John, I did a post about this, not even about this, about something else. And I said, Merry Christmas America at the end. And someone said, I knew it, you're an anti-Semite. And I don't know if it was parody or if they meant it. That's the world we're in right now. So Mark Levins says bringing out the rosary is anti-Semitic because you're trying to rub Christianity in Jewish faces and you're treating Jews like vampires, trying to chase them away with the rosary, et cetera. That's just all made up in Mark's head, right?

And plus it sets up Posobian to come back in and go, so you're allowed to wear the Kippa or whatever or do whatever you want with your religious things. But I bring out a rosary beat and all of a sudden I'm an anti-Semite. So more pylon, I guess, Mark Levin. So, yeah, go ahead, John. Yeah, so really fast. First of all, does Mark Levin know that they have been rubbing Christianity in people's faces every opportunity they have for decades? Like, that's what these events are. It's fireworks and people wearing crosses.

Like, they do that. And by the way, I also can't rule out, I'm not really online with a lot of this crazy stuff. But maybe there's memes with the rosary or something. If it's literally just, this is the first incident with a rosary. and he's saying you're treating us like vampires, that seems crazy. I don't know. Maybe it's a meme, maybe it's a 4chan thing, I don't know. No, it's not a meme.

Okay. So no, he's, Mark Levin is emotionally unbalanced and stupid. So that leads to the next part of this. So then Megan Kelly jumps in because she now hates Mark Levin and the Israel first crowd that keeps telling her denounce, denounce everyone you've ever known on behalf of Israel denounce, right? So she's like, no, no, I got tired of that. So she says, you know, I like the rosaries too. And then Mark Levin is more upset about that.

And I did the video and that got spread around a little bit about, hey, you know, Mark Levins is an idiot. Even if you thought that it was him chasing away of vampires, which is there's no rational human being could possibly think that. Don't say it because you're falling into his trap because then he's going to say, why can't I exhibit my religion, right? And it's not like he doesn't know any of this, John, because you're right. It's not like, oh, oh, Christians are being, you know, like using Christianity for political reasons.

As we talked about earlier in the show, that's what Israel's first is doing right now with Nigeria. Oh my God, it's the Muslims killing history. Christians in Nigeria. Attack the Muslims. Attack the Muslims. So he knows how to use Christianity to rile people up. Mark Levin does, Israel First does, et cetera. So I call them stupid, and I'm like, you fell for that trap.

You're such an idiot, right? So I don't know if that had anything new with it or not, but this morning, Levin then comes on and ex and goes, no, no, Rosam Beards are fine. Fine. The rosaryments are fine. Okay, he realizes, oh, I went in the wrong direction. What am I doing in Sultan Christianity?

Jenks right, I'm an idiot, right? And so tries to backpedal out of it. So this is the state of affairs now. That's why I say, okay, that I understand all of that. And to me, the most important domino is Megan Kelly. She's now flipped on Israel first, can't stand them. And Pesobiac is a person who knows where the winds are going. He's now trolling them and attacking them.

So Mosa Maga's gone. They're back to totally America first. They now, the curtains pulled back. They see Israel first. And they realized these guys were inside our house. And they were manipulating and messing with us. And now they're super pissed about it. But the thing that is new that I can't understand is,

is Alex Jones attacking Candace Owens. What? What's that about? So Candace has one foot in the rational Israel's behind a lot of things. And they donate to 95% of Congress. It's 94% of Congress. That is true, right? Israel's making us pay them hundreds of billions of dollars.

Israel's committing a genocide. The Palestinian kids are innocent. All those things are true. That's one, I love that foot inside of rationality. The other foot, she keeps talking about Talmudic Jews and stuff, drives me crazy. That's more Myron Gaines, Nick Fuentes, type of stuff that I'm not in favor of, okay? So, but Alex Jones, I think that he's, I can't tell which side he's on,

what he's doing. On one hand, he'll be buddy, buddy with Nick Fuentes. On the other hand, he'll be attacking Candace Owens. I don't know if he's mad that she's glommed on to his conspiracy territory, and this is now a turf battle, and he's like, oh, yeah. And then when he calls her like the dark Q or whatever, I'm like, wait, in your world, is that a good thing or a bad thing? I'm not sure. Like, is he making fun of Q? But why would Alex Jones make fun of Q? Didn't he like Q? So, like, is he saying that she's cue but the wrong kind of cue? So apparently I need to do more homework on that.

So back to the wrestling analogy, at some point, Mark Levin dragged Megan Kelly into the ring. Megan Kelly then took out of brought in a MAGA army, and they started beating the crap out of Levin and Israel first. And then Candace Owen and Alex Jones get on the top rope. And instead of body slamming any of the participants below, they go. and body slamming each other in mid-air and fall to the ground. I'm like, I'd watch that match. That sounds pretty good, actually. Well, we're all watching that match right now.

Yeah. So, yeah. By the way, it's really going well for this side after they won everything in 2024, a year later, they're all at each other's throats. Yeah. No, but you know, John, as I say, look, I give them credit because they realized that there was somebody inside their camp or a group inside their camp, a policy group, etc. That was not on their side. And they outed them. And they're taking action to remove them politically, right?

And I mean, we have corporate Democrats on our side. And they're not our allies. They're our opponents. They work against us 24-7. And we never do anything about it. I mean, you know, But the young Turks, we try and try and try it. We help try it with Bernie Sanders and Justice Democrats. We're going to try again with rebellion pack. But if you're not fighting the establishment, you're not doing anything productive. So at least the MAGA guys for all the mess that it is, et cetera, they have accurately assessed who the establishment is and they are engaged in a good and necessary political

fight against it. Well, I think we're out of time, unfortunately. I know there's a lot coming up in the second hour, obviously. Yes, there is. So we're not done yet. So Barry Weiss taking full control of CBS, of course, for Israel. But some of the, this is the most important part, guys, and do not miss this. New York Times with a story about the Ellison's, wait till you see who David Ellison considers to be his uncle. Oh, it's a doozy. We'll do that when we return. Our audience has given us everything, so we couldn't be more connected. When we first started, people would start giving us directions and say, okay, the mics are too large, move them, turn them into loud mics. I mean, they were incredible.

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Check that out on YouTube and on t-y-t.com as well. And we've got amazing stories for you guys, including this doozy to start with. So, Yaz, what do you got? You have these 60-minute producers who are living in comfort and security in their West End contos, trying to make us feel sympathetic for these monsters? Have you seen the tattoos, the face tattoos, the body tattoos on these killers? Would one 60 Minutes producer, a writer, agree to spend 30 minutes? I'll make a deal.

We will pick someone at random that we sent to Seacot, just a random lottery drawing, and they will spend one day overnight in your apartment. Who was taking that deal at 60 minutes? Nobody, because they know that these are monsters who got exactly what they deserved. I don't know why he's yelling like that, but earlier this week, Stephen Miller had some very harsh words for the producers of 60 minutes. Jank, got to get your two cents on that tirade that we just heard. So the more important part of this story is Barry Weiss takeover CBS in which direction she's

taking it. But wait till you see the quotes about the Ellison. So that's Larry Ellison, the founder of Oracle, and his son, David Ellison, who is now has bought CBS. So there will be changes. And we're going to tell you about those changes. They've also bought TikTok. It'll be massive changes there as well. And they're trying to buy CNN. And why are they doing that? Well, some of you might already know why they're doing that. But amazing revelations in this article, things I did not know about the Ellison's, you're definitely going to want to know. Yeah, absolutely. So we have a lot jam packed into this one story. So CBS News has been engulfed in controversy ever since the editor-in-chief, Barry Weiss,

decided to pull a 60-minute segment on Seacot at the very last minute. So Weiss explained her decision to the staff of CBS News in a memo, and we have some excerpts from that memo here. She said, right now the majority of Americans say they do not trust the press. It isn't because they're crazy. To win back their trust, we have to work hard. Sometimes that means doing more legwork. Sometimes it means holding a piece about a controversial subject to make sure it is

comprehensive and fair. Okay, so that's the reason that she is giving for why they pulled the Seacot piece. So there are conflicting accounts, however, of what actually happened to that pulled segment. According to a source who spoke to Axios, CBS News reached out to the Trump administration for comment. The White House Department of Homeland Security and the state department all issued written responses, but none of those responses were included in the final segment. However, according to 60 minutes to a correspondent Sharon Alfonzi, she said, we requested responses to questions and or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement not a veto. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical

maneuver designed to kill the story. So yeah, this was a huge story when it blew up that there was this piece that was detailing, you know, and there were clips of it that were floating around. I think you could also, if you had a VPN, you could still access it. I didn't watch it myself personally, but I did see some clips, and it was like very graphically detailing what is actually going on at these immigrant detention centers like Seacot. It didn't look good. It didn't make the Trump administration look good. It felt unnecessarily cruel.

And, you know, you have to assume that that is the real reason why it was pulled because it didn't make Trump look good. Jank, I know you've got more. What do you say? Yeah. No, look, they're not. hiding it anymore, as you know, one of the quotes from the New York Times piece says. Mr. Trump has privately said Larry Ellison assured him that he would turn CBS news, which Ellison

took over when they bought Paramount into a more conservative outlet, two people's knowledge of the president's comments said. So look, as you're going to see later, Larry Ellison doesn't really care about conservative or liberal. He only cares about Israel. But in this case, in order to help Israel, he's saying to Trump, yeah, yeah, will bury any news that's bad about you and we'll highlight news or pretend that there's news that's good for you. And so, look, a lot of these traditional media outlets have always been for propaganda purposes. But now this is a new layer of it where they're just being brazen and they're saying, yes, this is not really news. This is propaganda. For the moment being, it's propaganda to help Donald Trump.

But really, of course, there's a second reason. This we'll get into a little bit later. Yeah. And one of the things also that is that stands out about this piece is that this is all happening kind of in the middle of everything that is happening with CBS and with, you know, people like Stephen Colbert. And, you know, all the, you know, they're pulling funding from all these different outlets that we're used to having. They're compromising what is actually being reported to the people and they're saying that they're doing it for whatever purpose. But we know that it's really all about censorship. But, you know, something of note is that Barry Wise, she was put in charge of CBS News after Skydance acquired Paramount. So there's also all of these acquisitions and mergers that are happening in the midst of all of this, right? And Barry Weiss is very much a part of all of the transformation of the media that this administration is trying to do. So David Ellison is the CEO of Skydance and his father, Larry Ellison, is the CEO of Oracle and David's business partner. So Barry Weiss is an outspoken critic of American liberals. She is now accused of pushing the Trump administration's interests.

But according to the New York Times, there's another big issue that is even more important to the heads of Paramount. So Larry Ellison was once a stalwart Clinton-era Democrat, but he has gravitated toward Trump in large part because of the president's support for Israel. Several people who have spoken to him said both Ellison are close, both Ellison are close. both Ellison's are close to Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, whom one associate described as like an uncle figure to David Ellison. So, Jank, this sounds super boring, but like it's just Israel all over again. Like Israel is not only, you know, paying off all of our politicians and our Congress people, but they're also very, very much affecting our media and the news that is transmitted to Americans and the ways in which that news is transmitted to Americans.

Yeah, there's no question about it. It's in the New York Times. They're openly talking about it. So, look, David Ellison looks to be a son who really didn't do much growing up. He went to USC. Nothing wrong with that. Our own J.R. Jackson went there. My wife went there.

But it is known as the University of Spoiled Children. And David Ellison is a perfect example of it. He eventually dropped out for an acting career that didn't really exist. His dad financed a movie that flopped. that he was an actor in, et cetera. So now he goes to daddy and he says, hey, daddy, daddy, can we use your tens of billions of dollars to buy almost half the media in America on behalf of Israel?

And his dad, Larry Ellison, says, I thought you'd never ask, right? So they go on this shopping spree, they bought Paramount pretty cheap that has CBS in it. They go and buy free press, which is Barry Weiss's publication. And they announced that they're buying it And that they're paying a higher price because she's pro-Israel.

So we're at the point where they're not hiding anything anymore, right? So they put Barry Weiss, whose main thing that she's known for is being pro-Israel. That's the only thing she really seems to care about at all. And they put her as head of CBS News. So her job is to be a hatchet man to keep Trump happy. So that's why she kills this Seekot story. Anyone taking her excuse as real is a joke, right? Everybody knows she killed it for Trump.

and the right wing knows it, the left wing knows it, et cetera. But it's not that she loves or cares about Trump. If Trump does not listen to Israel, I guarantee you CBS and every other thing that they buy in media will turn around and say that Trump is terrible. He did the Epstein thing and it's all his fault and et cetera, and they'll attack him voraciously. Because as you see here in that killer quote that he has just read to you from the New York Times, I mean, David Ellison grew up with Benjamin world's biggest terrorist Netanyahu as a de facto uncle. So these are not normal like, oh, we like Israel, we love Israel, we have a connection to Israel, et cetera. No, they're zealots.

They're maniacal pro-Israel radicals. Larry Ellison donated $16 million to the IDF in the middle of the genocide. He's like, you guys are doing such great work and slaughtering Palestinians indiscriminately. And I wanted to give you my money so that you could do more, right? So total radicals. And now they're saying, yeah, we love Netanyahu. We love Israel. And if you don't know, drop site news revealed these emails as well.

Larry Ellison talks to the Israeli ambassador back in the 20, during the 2016 election cycle. And he says, I'm going to go talk to Marco Rubio and see if he's pro-Israel. He comes back and reports back to the Israeli ambassador. Larry Ellison is supposed to be an American citizen, okay, and says, oh, I talked to Rubio, he's approved, he will definitely serve Israel. So I gave him $5 million to a super PAC to run against Donald Trump. And so the Israelis and Larry Ellison were convinced that Rubio was 100% in the tank, for Israel. So that was the American politician they were going to support the most.

And Ellison immediately gave him a $5 million check. So all of their efforts have been completely in favor of a foreign government. They have now captured CBS in favor of that government. They've captured TikTok in favor of that government. And again, these are all now out in the record. Netanyahu on tape said, well, TikTok's causing a lot of problems. But we fixed it because we now got it and now it's going to be basically said something a little effective. It's going to now be pro-Israel. So now if you say, hey, it looks like the Israelis are doing a land grab in media to do propaganda on behalf of Israel. They'll say, how dare you, you anti-Semite? But Netanyahu said it. Larry Ellison said it. I'm giving you quotes from them, right? And they're like,

yeah, yeah, yeah, there are a lot to say it, but you're not allowed to repeat it. Okay. And now they're also trying to buy CNN. So look, I have massive problems with mainstream media to begin with. I think that they were doing an enormous amount of propaganda for the establishment to begin with. I think they were doing a massive amount of, and have been my entire life, a massive amount of propaganda for Israel to begin with. But this is basically the Israel supporting radicals saying not enough.

It's never enough. You're not allowed to have a scintilla of criticism of Israel. And you are to crush anyone who dares to criticize them, and we're going to use the media for not hidden propaganda anymore, but overt, brazen propaganda. So as they spike this story, that's CBS is done. Put a spike in them. Put a fork in them. They're done.

They're not doing news anymore. So the old CBS you had in your mind, and they did some great work, a lot of BS. But the Walter Cronkine and the Dan Rather and all those legendary news guys from back in the day, 60 minutes when it was at its best, that stuff is all gone, erased from history by Larry and David Ellison and Barry Weiss. Yeah, and it's so sad because these are legacy institutions. And even though, you know, we have our criticisms of it, a show like 60 minutes going down or being targeted the way it is, that one is, I think, particularly hurtful because that is

a show that seems that it's at least being run by journalists. who are trying to do good journalism and are trying to do the work that they've studied and practiced doing. And they got into this line of work because that is the work they wanted to do. But, you know, in this case, during this administration, the media across the board has really complied in advance of a lot of things, right? They thought that if we give a little bit to Donald Trump, then, you know, he'll back off and leave us alone. But we know that that's not how it works. We know that he's a narcissist. We know that he's power hungry. We know that he has a very, very fragile ego. So if you give a little, all you do is tell him that he can take even more from you,

and that's exactly what we're seeing. And, you know, there's always been this narrative from the right that the mainstream media is too left-leaning and too liberal. But, you know, that's always been kind of a funny thing to hear as a progressive because the mainstream media has never been as left-leaning as maybe it could be. It has always been beholden in some way, shape, or form to corporate leaders, even to the government at times. So there have always been things that could not and would not be said on the news on mainstream channels like, you know, MSNBC or whatever it's called now and CNN and all that. The reason, however, that I believe these media critics have always said that the media is left leaning is that regardless of how

it's being run, the media always has to report the facts. We saw what happened to Fox News when they when they did not report the facts, they got sued for a billion dollars, right? And the facts that are being reported on outlets like, you know, PBS, CBS, CBS, CNN, MSNBC, they were often not very flattering to people on the right or particularly to this administration. And so that has become a problem. There's two sides to doing the news, right? You have to give people the facts as they are, and then you can commentate on them and put it into context and help people to understand what all of this actually means, what it means for the country, what it means to the planet, what it means to people's everyday lives.

And they can do as much of that as they want on right-leaning media to try and spin things. But there's only so far you can get with that whenever the facts are just not in your favor. Even on Fox News, what we've seen lately is the facts are so bad that they have to report on it anyway. And then they try to like, oh, you know, like let's not blame Trump for this because, you know, it's just his first year. You know, like that's kind of been their go-to line lately as they're reporting about how unpopular he is and how bad the economy is and how dissatisfied the American people are, especially, you know, this year leading into the holiday season.

People were wildly unhappy with the state of things in this country. So that's, you know, what I'm afraid of is that this news about what's happening over at CBS is not going to reach the people for regularly getting their news from places like CBS. And so they won't necessarily notice that there's been a shift. And they'll just, you know, go off a reputation and think, you know, this is CBS. So I should be able to trust to a degree what they're telling me. Yeah. My last two quick things are, I don't want anybody to get what I'm saying wrong.

I think 60 Minutes was one of the best things on television. And I think that they were a rare place where they actually did journalism quite often. You know, we could have, I'm sure had issues with some of their reporting in the past. But within the context of the rest of traditional media, they were terrific. And now it looks like they're dead. So any remnant of news is being spiked everywhere we go. And then finally, if you notice in that quote that he has read you about Ellison, not only are they super tight with Nanjahou, et cetera,

but Larry Ellison mainly used to give the Democrats before. And now he's mainly given to Republicans. And so he doesn't really have an ideology outside of Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, Israel, right? So if it turns out Democrats are doing Israel more favors, he'll then turn all of those media outlets back to supporting the left theoretically, right, as opposed to the right. Whoever is kissing Israel's ass is who those media companies will work for. And by the way, if you don't know, there's already like IDF soldiers that do hate speech policing

at TikTok, at Meta, they're former IDF people, former in brackets. And they're looking for hate speech, which of course means anything that's against Israel. But if you want to do hate speech against Muslims, they'll probably promote it in the algorithm because they love bigotry towards Muslims. That helps Israel attack Muslims and take their land. So that's the state of playing in American media. The only upside to it is now because of online media, so many of us know it and the walls have been breached. So their propaganda, once the curtain is lifted, everybody can see the Wizard of Oz. So go ahead, keep doing your Aussie stuff, right? But nobody's buying that crap from the Wizard of Osreal.

Yeah, Oz. I think the word you're looking for is Ozian. I think that's the official term for things of Oz. But I'm actually going to leave it there because that's a really great segue into our next story. All right. Oh, we got to take a break for us, though. What a bit a good segue. Okay. But apparently you're going to love the next story as well, so we'll do that very soon as we'll read. All right, let's go to super chat, Jedd Cousack writes in. It made me, it made me, it made me smile that a satirist pre-brought the Trump Kennedy Center domains. Okay, that's funny. You know what else is funny? All my lib friends caring about the Kennedy Center and Trump

caring about the Kennedy Center with like equal force. Like I don't know any, I don't mean to say that my friends aren't real people, but like I don't know any middle class people who are like, oh my God, what's happening at the Kennedy Center, right? But like my friends are obsessed and they're like, oh my God, what's Trump going to do next with our beloved Kennedy Center? And Trump's like, ha, ha, ha, ha, the Kennedy Center is finally mine. Okay. I don't know why you give such a crap, but okay, all right, God bless. So, but I'm a ruffian. I'm a barbarian. My beanbags writes in, instead of it being CBS, now it's CBS. I like it as it. I'm seeing, BS. Okay, that's a good wordplay, right, along the type of thing that I would love.

All right, happy American idiot rights, and at least Jane didn't wear a tan suit. So that's true enough. LGNN4TR says, Jenk, it's time to look at socialism. The root of all these problems is capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy. We need a totally different system. Well, so I think the root of the problems is corporatism, and I talk about it a lot, and I continue to talk about it, And I think that it has destroyed our democracy. It's destroyed capitalism, et cetera. I think socialism and capitalism are like catchwords and people put meaning into them that they want in them. So I think this is a long, giant conversation.

But part of the reason I read your comment, brothers, because, well, no matter what I think about the nuance of that topic, if we keep going like this, yeah, everybody's going to think socialism is the right answer. And then the people in D.C. are going to be even more like surprise. It's like, how could the country turn to socialism as we kept telling them we're doing amazing capitalism that has destroyed their lives? Well, I don't think you were doing capitalism, let alone amazing capitalism, but yeah, it destroyed their lives. So that's why they hate it, and that's why they're turning to socialism. On Twitch, it's just Vegas right. I hope you're wrong, Jank, but I'm afraid you're right about Israel. I've been thinking the same thing for a long time.

Sexy SpeedRacer on t.com member section says, all former IDF people in the U.S. say need to be outed and they need to be out of now and possibly deported back to their homeland as well. But look, even I wouldn't go that far. I mean, I don't think we need to deport anyone, but yeah, if you're a former IDF, we should know. I mean, if I was former Turkish military intelligence, for example, and I didn't tell you, that would be relevant, wouldn't it? Right? Like, okay, maybe it affects it, maybe it doesn't. But there's former idea of all over your media, all over your politicians, and they never tell you. And in fact, if somebody tells you, they go, oh, giant is Semite. How dare you tell people relevant facts?

No, they literally work for a different country and they probably still do now. All right, back on TYT, Jay and he has with you guys, more news. More news. Let's roll it. And so I was like, you know what, let me see if I can add some tabs for some other topics that I'm interested in. And so I tried to create a tab for, you know, the Middle East. I keep tabs on what's going on there a lot.

So I like to kind of stay abreast of all the development. So I created a tab for Israel. and it let me do that. And then I wanted to add a tab for Gaza and Palestine. And it said these topics are not supported. That was Aman. He's an anchor over at MS now. And he discovered something recently that he thought that we should all know about.

On meta platforms, which are Facebook and Instagram, you're allowed to curate your own algorithm, but only, of course, for meta-approved topics. Jank, what are your thoughts here? Yeah. So, oh, look at that. Censoring on behalf of Israel, would have never guessed as former IDF soldiers work in censoring meta and now TikTok, now that adolescents have bought it. So we've got a lot more of those damning details for you guys in this story. And hopefully this will make it out to you. It's through all the different algorithms blocking it on behalf of Israel. That's a really good point. So Amon said that he does get a lot of, you know, parenting content and food content, you know, like the basic everyday fun things that we all like to see. But as a journalist, you know, he likes to keep up with what's going on in the world.

That includes the Middle East and social media is a big part of that for a lot of us. And that's what he was trying to do when he ran into trouble, trying to add Gaza and Palestine to his algorithm. And so then he got to thinking and here's this. And it had me thinking a little bit about how important the algorithm is to what we're able to see on a daily basis. You know, a lot of organizations, Human Rights Watch, tech organizations have been tracking this topic and have talked about how big companies and algorithms suppress content from specific regions, depending on criteria that is not always transparent or even clear as to why they do it. But I just experienced it firsthand there, and I thought anecdotally would be something that you all should be aware of. That's why I'm sharing it with you guys. Happy holidays. So if you're wondering why this could possibly be that META would want to suppress content pertaining to Gaza and Palestine,

we had previously reported that Jordana Cutler, the director of public policy for Israel and the Jewish diaspora at META, admitted to something that feels very relevant here. We banned content with harmful stereotypes about Jews, such as the claim that Jews run the world or other major institutions. We updated our policies to recognize that the term Zionist can be used as a proxy for Jews and Israelis. We banned content claiming Zionists run the world or control the media, and we do not allow for dehumanizing comparisons of Zionists. You know, and it does feel weird that META actually has someone in this position at all,

that even is a position at Meta, but Cutler was certainly the one to fill that role. She had previously worked for the Israeli government serving as an advisor to Benjamin Netanyahu himself. She was a campaign advisor for the Lakud Party, and she was the chief of staff for the Israeli embassy in Washington, D.C. And algorithms are, you know, of course, they're very complicated to understand and control, even for the people who are coding them, the behind-the-scenes people. but executives like Cutler certainly do have influence over them. For instance, she can't exactly delete or censor posts, but she can flag posts that she feels should be censored.

Also, she's very influential when it comes to company-wide policy. For example, there was the time that she fought for META to refer to the West Bank as disputed rather than occupied territory. And, you know, this is something that I think about a lot, how much of our worldview is shaped through these tiny screens. through a short form video where you can never really get a good idea of what's happening. And we're seeing the world and we're coming to understand the world through someone else's eyes. And usually these are strangers. These are not people that we know. We don't know much

about their background, their personal history and experiences, things that would maybe like shape the way that they would see things. And, you know, it's always a battle between trying to stay informed with what's going on in the world and also trying to check your biases and things like that. And then these social media platforms come out and they say, you know, this is a free space. Everybody can post whatever they want and, you know, the algorithm is going to send you exactly the things that you seem like you want to see. And there are certain things that we as consumers or as just like users of these platforms can do to curate our own feeds. But even then there's all these blocks that are happening that generally the public is not made aware of.

So we don't even know what we're being prevented from seeing. And these companies, they wield so much power and influence and they are very, very aware of that. I was talking about this on Rebel HQ earlier. And I was like, it's like Mark Zuckerberg didn't even learn any lessons from Myanmar and what happened there with Facebook. But then I was like, I don't know, maybe he did learn something. He learned about how influential he can be with this platform. He learned about how powerful he can be. He learned about how easy it can be for him to manipulate people to a certain end.

And at the end of the day, he's making money off of it. He's becoming more influential and getting more ingrained with world powers and things like that. So it's a scarier, bigger story than what it might seem on the surface. Yeah, this one I don't think is about money, to be honest, because there's a lot more people not just in America, but in the world, that are on the side of the Palestinians and the Israelis. I think this is ideological for a lot of folks. I don't know anything about Mark Zuckerberg's ideology. I do know that, as we just showed you, he hired Israeli thought police to monitor so-called hate speech on Facebook.

And she just explained to you that if you criticize Israel, she considers that hate speech. So that's absurd. That's maniacal. That's saying, yeah, Facebook is literally has his. Israeli thought police censoring your content. So I didn't, she said it. You saw it with your own eyes. But that's not all.

Now turn to TikTok there, the motivation is more clear and obvious. And then Yahoo said we need to buy TikTok to help Israel because there's too many videos of people seeing what's actually happening in Gaza, basically. And then Larry Ellison and David Ellison bought TikTok. And so they're pro-Israel zealots. Ellison is given more to the IDF as charity than any other person there is. He gave him 16 million in the middle of the genocide. David Ellison considers Benjamin Netanyahu to be an uncle to him, according to the New York Times. And so what happened at TikTok?

Well, I'm going to quote here, not a far right site, not an anti-Semitic site. I'm quoting the Jerusalem Post in Israel. Headline, TikTok's new hate speech manager is former IDF soldier and proud Zionists. And they explain Erica Mendel's new position involves developing and driving the company's public policy positions on hate speech. Hate speech, quote unquote, which of course is about declaring anything that is critical of Israel to be hate speech and not allowed. And of course, if you want to do hate speech against Muslims and Palestinian and Arabs, that is wildly encouraged. And please, please do some of that so that Israel can smear Muslims in the world. And unfortunately, they don't have a lot of human beings doing that.

They have bots, trolls, some Israeli influencers paid by Israel is $7,000 a pop, right? And they have almost all of traditional media anyway. But it's never enough. So if you're not sure about Lindel, this woman who's hired to be the, I'm sorry, Mendel, who's hired to be the thought police at TikTok, this is again the Jerusalem post I'm quoting. On her LinkedIn, she says she was responsible for quote, developing and managing high level advocacy and policy delegations to Israel for political press slash media, religious and civic and academic thought leaders. So her literal job

earlier was to do propaganda for Israel among politicians, the media, religious, civic, and academic leaders. So they got not just thought police, But literal IDF, literal job of propaganda, brought them over to TikTok, and now she'll be thought policed for Israel there. So, but they don't, back to the money part of this for a second, it's a, I think in the long run it'll be a huge financial mistake for them. They're paying an enormous amount of money for TikTok. And yes, what I remember is Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace thinking, oh, I'll be in with the cool kids and I could do pro war propaganda on MySpace and yay and pro Israel everything on my space and then as soon as he bought it it collapsed because

people are like oh it's now junk it's stupid Murdoch propaganda so if they turn Facebook and TikTok into that they'll eventually collapse and purely into that they'll eventually collapse and then Israel free things will pop up platforms And they'll do way better because you know who wants all their thoughts and ideas and content controlled by the Israelis? Literally no one but the Israelis. Yeah, you know, shout out to Tom, but it's so funny that you mentioned MySpace because I, you know, I'm a solid millennial. I was in high school whenever MySpace was really, you know, the thing to be on, right? And I remember that.

I remember how like overnight it seemed like the entire platform went to just crap, you know, just wasn't good. It wasn't usable anymore. And it happened very, very quickly. And, you know, I like your optimism, Jank, as far as, you know, if the same thing happens to Facebook, that maybe we'll see a repeat of what happened with MySpace where people just kind of got off the platform and became disinterested. I think it's a little bit different, though, because with MySpace, you know, we didn't quit it. We went to something else. We went to Facebook, you know, so we had something to replace it. We also had, you know, things like Zango, but that was a little bit different. But then also at the time, it was still such a new thing, social media. We weren't

used to having something on our phones all the time. We didn't even really have like iPhones at the time. And so it was a much more controlled environment. We'd go to school. We'd come home and get on, get on MySpace and that was it. And when we were off it, we were off of it. And so like this dependency that we have now on social media and to our tech in general, that really wasn't a thing back then. I fear, and maybe you're more optimistic than I am on this one, but I fear that, you know, we're a little too addicted already at this point for that to happen. But, okay, well, what were we going to say? Yeah, so, but yes, I hear you on that. But now everybody's getting outed. And I love what online media is doing. It's like an enormous number of

detectives all at once. So before we'd yell and scream on young turks. about hey guys these are all coordinated scripted talking points and all the way back to the Iraq war and we've been around forever so we were on the air then going don't it's obviously scripted look at these talking points about weapons of mass destruction and their connections to 9-11 they have no connections line so now i tell you that in the context of this clip i'm going to show you about from mike pompeo so was one of the top uh cabinet officials for trump in the first term. And now in the old days, he would have done this and nobody would have noticed. They would have thought, oh, okay, yeah, this is a normal thing, right? Now, after we watch

the clip, I'm going to tell you what people are saying now. Let's talk about why Prime Minister Netanyahu wants to go to Marilago and talk to President Trump. Reportedly, the NBC News and other outlets are reporting that they believe Iran is expanding its ballistic nuclear program, rebuilding its nuclear program again, reconstituting it, and they want permission to take it out. Should we give them that? permission if that indeed is the ask? Of course we should. And frankly, though, they're going to do it if it's necessary. The Israelis are going to do the necessary for themselves.

Brian, none of us should be surprised that Islamists, theocrats in Tehran haven't changed their stripes. This is who they are. It's embedded in their DNA. In the same way, Hamas is not going to go peacefully give up its weapons. The regime in Iran isn't going to give up its desire to build out a nuclear weapons program. Yeah, if they're rebuilding, we should do the necessary, go take it out. We're capable of doing that. We can't let them rebuild their air defenses that would make it more difficult to achieve that mission. So time will be critical in making sure the air defense systems in Iran aren't capable of taking down Western aircraft. If we do that, we should continue to go after their program every time

they try to rebuild it. In old days, people would have bought into that hook line and sinker. Oh my God, Iran's developing weapon. Hurry up and attack them for Israel. Please, please, please. We have to spend all of our money and our forces and everything. Please, we attack Iran. Now that bitch goes out there and as simps for Israel, left, right and center, everybody's like, what a sellout. How obviously corrupt. That's obviously an Israeli talking point.

Lizzie Graham says it. Tom Cotton says it. My Pompeo says it. They all work for Israel. So you see the guys in traditional media, still doing their propaganda for Israel. You see them trying to buy social media so they could do propaganda for Israel and put in their thought police, et cetera. But as they're doing that, since the dam is broken, people are pouring in from everywhere and pointing it out. And Pompeo was like, oh, I'm the former head of the CIA, otherwise known as Mossad these days.

And I'm the former Secretary of State. Yeah, and Marco Rubio is the current Secretary of State. And guess who Mark Rubio was funded by? The Ellison's who work for Israel, right? So they, in fact, Larry Ellison got him approved with an Israeli ambassador, sent him a $5 million check. These guys are all owned. But now the curtain has been pulled back and we all see them for who they are. So maybe the clamp back down, maybe in 28, you know, one of their robots will win.

They'll bring in Palantir, they'll call it national security, the clamp down on all Americans call us all anti-Semite. whoever disagrees with Israel goes to jail, First Amendments, and by the way, if you think that's like hyperbolic, no, they already did it on college campuses, right? They literally said, oh, you wrote an op-ed against Israel, you're going to jail, you're going to a dungeon, and then we're going to have you removed from the country, etc. So that kind of authoritarian state has already been, has begun here in America. If they win again, it's going to be on hyperdrive. and now it's going to be against the left and the right, and anyone who dares speak up on behalf of this country and not a foreign government. So that's definitely what's headed in our

direction. The main question is, will the people win or will the powerful win? And those are two freight trains that are on a collision course. Yeah, no, that's a good point. And I think the pro-Palestinian movement that we've seen over the last couple of years is actually a really encouraging indicator of the fact that people are paying more attention. They are looking elsewhere to actually find out what's happening in the world instead of just accepting the talking points that they're given. And you're absolutely right about the inherent authoritarianism of these people who are trying to rule over us. They named their company Palantir. And I'm like, like when that came out when it was revealed, the first thing that I thought it was obviously

the thing that it was named after, which is the, you know, the Palantir from Lord of the Rings. And I'm like, are we not like watching these movies anymore? Are we not reading enough books. We need to read more as a society. That's my hot take. So, all right. Well, it's going to be super interesting to see who wins this battle royal. And if we could find a way to talk to one another to keep this rebellion going as the Israeli radicals continue to swallow up more and more of the media. All right, we've got to take a quick break here. We'll come back, do another amazing story for you guys. Thank you.

I'm going to be able to be. All right, back on TYD. Let's go to TY.T.com members, progressive 1776 says, I just wanted to share my Christmas miracle with the TYT community. Yesterday, me and my husband got an email that he got an interview for immigration in Juarez on February 19th. I heard Trump was trying to suspend a green card program. Do you think that Trump is going to succeed to suspending the green card program? Chang. Oh, I wish I knew. And that's great news and I'm thrilled to hear it and I hope it comes through for you. I don't have enough information to be able to tell you whether he's

going to actually suspend that program or not. So let's all find out together as we go here. Now obviously I don't want to suspend it overall, but now you got me rooting even more so knowing your personal story behind it to make sure it doesn't happen. Text Stan says, I think JD Vance is morphing into Ted Cruz. Who knew another person would ever be so obtuse, smug and unlikable? Yeah, that clip we played for you earlier in the show where he was talking about how the media needs to like clamp down on and left wing groups are terrorists, and we need to get to surveillance state on them. Man, it had huge Palantir energy to it. So if he wins in 28, I think pretty much the bad guys win. But I'm not like, so when I

I say I'm not sure, I don't mean I'm not sure about J.D. Vance overall. It would be shocked. Find it nearly impossible at the thought of voting for J.D. Vance, right? So that's not what I'm talking about. But in terms of where he is in the America First Israel first fight, he plays his cards pretty close to the vest. I mean, the whole Peter Thiel crowd is pro-Israel just because they have business interests and et cetera with them. But that clip made me think, oh, she's going to put a total Israeli surveillance state on us in 28. Don Donna Dragon writes it a couple times saying the left is both soft wusses and also the most dangerous terrorists who have ever lived. Obviously that's according to the right wing. And yeah, I'm with you, brother. They should make up their mind.

He also wrote in saying, Jen, going back to your book, I absolutely love how you label capitalism, socialism, and Bernie's strategy of labeling himself as a socialist. I agree with you. Because of corporatism, I've never truly known capitalism. I think you'll be very important conversation to have before the midterms. Well, I hope we do have that conversation, brother, and that would be great. Jack Callahan says, Jake, the Kennedy Center is by law cannot be changed. The Kennedy Center is the pantheon of American arts and artists. Kennedy was a huge supporter of the arts.

The reversal of the arts having no importance is manifest in these Orwellian times. Jack, you're right and you're right to bring up the artists and that it's a pantheon, et cetera. And I should care more and I'm a bad guy for not caring more. But I love you for bringing it up. Everybody, Turks and Jerks coming up on Monday. Make sure you don't miss that. We'll be right back. All right, back on TYT, Jank, Yaz, and Big Stand 402.

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Yes. What's next? All right. One last story. Let's get into it. I did not real. I mean, I actually did realize that the AI companies had money and lobbyists and were willing to spend. AI is real.

this job displacement phenomenon is going to affect people of every geography, every political alignment. All right. Well, as we close out the year, 2025 is done. It is very natural to take a look back. And our American Congress has had a record-setting year. It just hasn't set any good records. Here's what they've done. With fewer than 40 bills signed into law as of Monday, the House and Senate set a modern record for lowest legislative output in the first. year of a new presidency according to data maintained by C-SPAN and Purdue University. Despite that lack of productivity, the Senate held more roll call votes, 659 of them, than any odd number year this century, with almost 60% of them focused on advancing President Donald Trump's nominations to the executive and judicial branches. So other records that Congress

has set in 2025 include these. The House, meanwhile, set a 21st century record for fewest votes cast, only 362 in the first session of a two-year Congress. It held barely half as many votes as in 2017, which was Trump's first year in office and when the Republicans held the majority. And perhaps not surprisingly, an unusually large number of House members, 24 Republicans and 19 Democrats have decided to leave the chamber either to retire or run for other office. That places the chamber on pace to set a 21st century record for retirements in one Congress, according to C-SPAN and Purdue. So the reasons for this seem to be the obvious ones.

It's that Trump has decided to rule primarily by executive order this term. Congress has like kind of just passed the big, beautiful bill. And then they're like, okay, we did it, we're done. And of course, you have Speaker Johnson, who has been running interference this entire time for Trump as his right-hand man in Congress. He has constantly shut down the house to block votes. And in fact, he actually set a record. himself doing so because we experience a 43-day government shutdown this year. Congratulations to us.

So they're not only not doing a whole lot for Americans, but honestly, that seems to be kind relative because they are doing a lot for American corporations. And Trump's big, beautiful budget bill was a big part of that. For instance, the artificial intelligence industry is planning to buy off their share of politicians. And they've announced that they want to do this. And so it's not a secret. This entire year, they have been pushing for a federal moratorium on AI that would wipe out state level regulations. And this month, President Donald Trump signed an executive order that does exactly that.

Meanwhile, the AI companies are setting their sights on Congress. And here's this according to the Washington Post. The largest of the pro-AI super PACs leading the future has a war chest of more than $100 million from prominent investors and executives the day after, Leading the Future was announced in August, META revealed its own super PAC. The company announced a second super PAC in September. Meta has donated tens of millions to each group. So leading the future has connections to the Trump administration, and it's funded by a venture capital firm by Andriesan Horowitz.

Mark Andreessen, the firm's co-founder is, of course, a Trump advisor. You've heard his name before. Joe Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir, when the people tell you who they are, believe them. They name their company Polantir, which is insidious. Anyway, so Joe Lonsdale, he and his friend, he's a friend of Vice President, J.D. Vance, and they're also seeking, they're also funding the PAC. And then you have Mark Zuckerberg. He has been very tight with this administration ever since Trump got reelected.

And now the AI industry is launching an all-out siege warfare on our government. But it's not exactly an original strategy. So the strategy aims to replicate the success of the cryptocurrency industry, which used a super PAC to clear a path for Congress this summer to boost the sector's fortunes with the passage of the Genius Act. So we're going to find out if that worked. Jank, there's a lot going on here as far as the cryptocurrency industry, but also the AI industry. And they're really just like forcing this on the American people and our government.

government is complicit in doing this. What are your thoughts? Yeah, so this proves exactly what we've been telling you on the young Turks. And so I said, look, Trump's going to promise X, Y, and Z. When he gets into office, there's only basically two things he's going to do. One is tax cuts for the rich, boom, nailed it over $4 trillion in tax cuts for the rich and for corporations. The easiest prediction in the world, I should get no credit for it. You should all know it by now. By the way, the next time a Republican wins, it doesn't matter if they call themselves a populist or establishment, it doesn't matter. They're going to pass another $4 trillion tax cut for the rich. It is literally what they do every single time.

So number two is deregulation. And so not only have they broken a record for no real bills passed, right, and for executive orders, so they're just shifting all the power to the executive branch. so Trump can more easily give away money to donors and not do any real legislation, not any real democracy. But on top of that, they've broken a record for the most amount of deregulatory actions. As an example, in 2009, Barack Obama as president withdrew no regulations that George W. Bush had put in. This year, Trump repealed 22 pieces of legislation that involved regulating his donors, corporations. And what are the regulations about? Oh, boo, regulations are always bad. No, regulations are often about worker safety, community safety.

They can't dump poison into your local lake, et cetera. No, all the brakes are out of the car. this is complete corporate rule. The Democrats do it more subtly. The Republicans are totally over the top on it. And they gave you exactly what we told you they were going to give you nothing for the average guy. Nothing. But instead, what you got was massive deregulation so corporations can continue to rob us blind and put us in danger. And giant tax cuts for the wealthy and for the corporate world. And finally, by the way, don't forget, you know, Yaz brings up AI and it's a good point. They're the new donor class. So they're now bribing all the politicians legally, according to the Supreme Court. And so what do they want? They want

their data centers backed up. And they want you to pay the electricity bill, by the way, for their data centers. They want subsidies. They want the government to back them up. The crypto guys bought almost all the Republicans. And by the way, an important number of the corporate Democrats, they spent a ton of money on Democratic primaries, buying corporate Democrats and Democratic leadership, and all of them together have deregulated crypto, deregulated AI, given them subsidies, given them breaks. This is not capitalism, guys. This is corporatism. This is corporate rule. Corporatism hates capitalism, hates free markets. What it does is it buys off politicians and rigs all the rules to their benefit and against

their competitors, against their consumers, which is all of us. So this is what the great American robbery looks like. This is what they do. Nothing for you, everything for their corporate donors. Yeah, and this is just kind of the way that things are going in this country right now. And it doesn't feel like a democracy anymore because these AI companies and these tech companies are able to pay off the government, get their guy in power. You know, we have J.D. Vance, who is the protege of Peter Thiel, as our vice president right now, he is in the White House, he is at the top of the executive branch, he's on that ticket. And, you know, whatever they want to do, they told us, though, what they were going to do, right? We saw all these tech

CEOs sitting in the front row in front of our actually elected Congress people at Trump's inauguration. So it was very clear what the priorities of this administration were from the get-go. And yeah, the people, you know, I guess it's our fault for electing Trump in the first place, but, you know, this is this is not really what anybody wants. Nobody wants these giant AI data centers using up all the water in their local areas and then driving all of their electric bills up through the roof that they have to pay, as you mentioned. And I really don't feel like people are paying enough attention to that. And then also like the noise and then just like they have to clear out land for it. It's all a bad idea. And the thing is, the public is not on board with this. This is not a thing that the American people want, but it is being forced on us. And they're saying use it, use our stuff. Every, everything that we interact with now,

it's like, oh, do you want to use the AI? It's like, no, nobody asked for that. I wasn't like trying to do anything with AI now. But this is the reality. And hopefully, you know, Andrew Yang has been very outspoken about the AI industry and just like about tech in general. And he has some personal experience there. But, you know, he was saying, you know,

this is what I was talking about. all those years ago when I first started running for president, and I became more known through doing that. But, you know, this was a problem that was foreseen and nothing was done about it. All right, guys, we got to go to the next segment. Yes, you're awesome. Thank you. Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. When we come back, we've got a candidate running against one of the worst Republican congressmen of our lifetimes. You're going to want to hear what he has to say. And also, unfortunately, one of the really great guys behind the scenes just passed away. You might not have ever heard of him, but I want you to hear of him because he was one of the quiet heroes on the left.

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I'm going to be able to be. All right, welcome back to The Revolution, and we've got a couple of amazing things for you guys today. I want to tell you about a guy who's behind the scenes, who's a bit of a legend that I really want you to know about a little bit later in this segment. But first, we want to do a great interview for you guys. Joining us now is Amar Kampanajar. He is a great candidate. He's running against Daryl Issa. Oh, boo.

So Issa's been around a long time. not been a good guy for a long time. One of the wealthiest members of Congress, you'll be shocked to find out he's always in favor of tax cuts for the rich and deregulation for companies like his own and companies that are as donors, etc. You get a sense of how I feel about ICEA. Amar's run before, you might remember him.

He was just Democrat. And now the district is very different. So we've got a different race on our hands. Amar joins us today. How you doing, brother? I'm good, man. Happy holidays. Good to be with you.

Good to be with you, man. So let's dive into it. So this district is not the same as before and all of a sudden ICE is in trouble. Tell us about what happened there. Yeah, so now we got a newish-blueish district. Thanks to all the redistricting that's going on, California's 48th district went from a district that Trump won by 15 points to now a district that Kamala Harris won by three points. So when I ran for Congress before with your help, we came within single digits in a district that Trump won by 15 points, people who voted against Biden also voted for me, right?

Some Trump voters voted for some skinny brown guy, the funny name, a Mexican-Palestinian guy. And it's because I talked about working class issues. It's because I talked about the grift, the greed, the corruption, the tyranny that we see in Washington. I talked about, you know, making sure that we overturned Citizens United and get money out of our politics. And I was running against a guy who literally has been, for 20 years, to your point, has been selling his votes to the highest bidder, where there's big oil, big pharma, the big gun lobby, big tech, foreign interests, you name it. And I say it's time that we push that shit back forever and have somebody who will have a bold agenda to bring down costs, raise wages, get rid of our forever wars,

and get money out of our politics. So I think with that message this time, Daryl's dates are numbered. You know, it's an interesting thing about Issa. So you know, you're half Palestinian, he's Lebanese. So this is one of the rare Arab v. Arab races in the country, kind of. But so Issa, I found out recently, used to actually say that what Israel was doing was an apartheid state. But it sounds like he's not saying that anymore. I wonder if it's because he took APAC money. Did he take APAC money, Amar? You know, and throughout his history he has, he's taken about $90,000. And he changes to him pretty drastically in the form of a flip-flop. So it's, I don't know where he stands on it.

And I can't wait to get to him in the general election and ask him, where do you stand on this? You know, personally, I think what happened in Gaza is an atrocity. There were 30 members of my family who were killed in Gaza. Of course, you know, what happened on October 7th was awful and it's an atrocity itself and two wrongs don't make a right. But, you know, Daryl ICE has been rubber stamping every single unpopular policy from this administration, whether it's his views on the Middle East, whether it's the tariffs, the big ugly bill what's going on in Venezuela and Nigeria, the perpetual forever wars that are starting all over again, that's been Daryl Issa. And I have to wonder, is it because he's being funded by interests who want to perpetuate

war, the industrial military complex, right? And I'm a naval officer. You know, I support the military, but I think that, you know, we need to focus less on the wars that we wage abroad and more on the battles that we have here at home, right? The cost of living, housing, health care, groceries, people are being crushed. And there's a lot of Trump voters who have talked to me and they're like, Trump fucking lied to us. And Daryl Isis is, has been rubber stamping all these policies that make us weaker, sicker, and poorer. And so I think people want a candidate who will put this country first and not the bidding of outside influences.

Yeah. You don't take A PAC money? No. Do you take corporate PAC money? I don't take a single penny of corporate PAC money. In the seven years that you've known me never once. Yeah. And that was a rule of just Democrats.

And he and Amar was part of that as well. So, and that's huge because then, you know, if somebody's working for the voters or if they're working for the donors. I mean, my opinion is I said, quote unquote, changed his mind on Israel when he got paid to change his mind. And I think Amar is right. It's not just about Israel, you know. And in that case, he apparently, you know, had some moral misgivings about what Israel was doing. But the money mattered more than his morality. and that seems pretty clear on the record, but it's also on every, you know, donor class. So you bring up the military industrial complex and they've probably given away more than APAC has,

etc. But another issue that's huge, Amar these days, of course, and all these, and has been for a long time, is things like drug prices, right? Health care overall, but drug prices in particular. And so has Issa done anything to make sure that Medicare can negotiate drug prices? And the fact that he can't is obviously very anti-free market, very anti-capitalist. So a guy pretending to be a capitalist, has he done anything to help the American voters on that? Not a single damn thing. He just keeps lining his pockets and selling his votes to the highest bidder. And, you know, I don't take any corporate PAC money at all.

I support the idea of allowing Medicare to negotiate. all prescription drug prices, not just the few that we got under Biden, all of them. I support raising wages, lowering costs, I support, you know, making sure that private equity firms aren't buying up all the homes, no more forever wars, no more money, big money in our politics. Does it sound familiar? Yeah, it does. And of course, last but not least, paid family leave, so both parents can go to work full-time and support a dual-income household.

So while he's focused on funding the wards that we're waging abroad, I'll focus on the we have here at home. And if I'm elected, I would be the first Palestinian Mexican-American elected, the first person elected to Congress who's lived in Gaza, where I maybe saw more combat there, more war than I may ever see as a naval officer at the age of 12 years old. This is a very deeply personal issue to me. And I think that we need to make sure that our American dollars travel with American values. That's what the Leahy laws are there for. So when it comes to any of our foreign allies. We should not be sending weapons of war if they are not complying with the rules of engagement and the laws of armed conflict that all of us as military officers here in

America have to abide by. I mean, if I did half the Shidna Anyahu did, I would have lost my commission. I'd be court-martialed today. So all I'm asking for is for us to live up to the same values and encourage our allies, whether it's Saudi Arabia, the Emirates, or anybody else, to live up to the same rules that we have to live by as American military officers. Yeah. So it is kind of amazing that we just say to our allies, you don't have to follow any of the rules of war, rules, international laws. And yes, we would court martial our own guys if they did what you did. But we're going to send you money anyway. And so that's the power of the donors. And, you know, Amar, when you first ran, I remember, you know, they were going to come after you for being

a Palestinian and you were concerned about that and the media reaction. But now, eight short years later, we have a completely different dynamic where, number one, you're not taking APEC money. So instantly people think, okay, well, he's more trustworthy than someone who is, whether they're on the left or the right these days, they think that. And then on top of that, the interesting irony of the moment is that what you were concerned about eight years ago is now potentially an advantage for you because even when Republican voters is definitely independent voters, let alone the left wing voters, when they see that you're a Palestinian, part of what that triggers is, oh, that brother probably believes in American sovereignty.

America should run itself and not let a foreign government run us. So has, do you think it's become a slight advantage at this point? If you asked me, told me eight years ago, Hey, Marr, wait a minute, in a couple of years, you know, being a Palestinian American will be an asset politically, but you're crazy, Jank. You're living in a different world. But lo and behold, we do live in that world now. And I think, you know, maybe it's shorthand for Amar believes in no more forever wars. Amar has compassion for those who are, you know, struggling in this country. And, you know, and he's going to punch up against elites and corporate interest. Maybe that's what that means to people. And, you know, I look at like, you know, Trump and the right, you know, not everybody. from the right. Some of them are coming along for the ride. But I often look at Trump's rhetoric. And he punches down at the immigrant, the undocumented, Muslims, trans kids. And that's 1% of the population. That's the wrong 1%. You gotta be focused on the elites and the oligarchs and the corporate interests and the corporate welfare that's going around this country. And for me, my focus is I'm gonna put people first. I'm gonna put this country above all else. And those are my

policies and you know my goal honestly if i get to congress i'd love to do shell diplomacy and help broker a peace deal between the palisians and israeli so my heart breaks when i hear an israeli child was killed by hamas the same way i despair over the killing of an innocent Palestinian child or young or woman or non-combatant by weapons that we sent over right my heart breaks and in fact i don't think those are mutually exclusive If you're gonna be morally consistent, you need to feel despair for both. And my hope is that we could live in a world

where Palestinians and Israelis could live side by side in peace, prosperity, and self-determination. And I'm deeply invested in that kind of future. So I'm in no way saying, you know, screw Israel. What I'm saying here is we need to have peace and prosperity for everybody and the safety of Israelis is inextricably bound the safety of Palestinians. As someone who lived there, I'm telling you from lived experience

that we need to have peace for both people, not just one side. Yeah, and there are important distinctions, right? So I would say screw the Israeli government today, but I wouldn't say that about the Israeli people. Right. But we wanted to end, because we're for peace, we're for nonviolence, we're for common humanity, and we don't discriminate based on religion, race, nationality, et cetera.

So we all want a safe and independent Israel and Palestine. And so, and I think that the great majority of Americans want that. Okay, so now, how's the race? Because in the past, as you said, this was a plus 15 district for Trump. So very, very hard to win in that district. Now, current district has changed, current polling. Blueprint polling. Let me read that to you. In the initial head-to-head, Amar Kampanajar leads Darrell Issa, 43 to 40. Compenajar leads ISA among moderates, 45 to 26 among moderates, women 47 to 38, and voters are under 45 years old, 46 to 30. Geographically begins with a 15 point advantage in San Diego County, 49 to 34. After voters heard short biographies of both candidates,

Amar Kampanajar's lead expands to 48 to 40 for ISA. So my dog's very good. So first, what's your website? So yeah, go out to help. So the way we're going to win this race and increase that margin is by people going to our website, going to Amar, A-M-M-A-R, 4-F-R-C-R-C-R-C-R-C-R-C-C-O-R-C-C-P. Pitching what you can, $5, 10, $15, $20. I don't take any corporate money, but they are going to be coming after me because I'm out there saying we need to tax the shit out of wealth and not work. We need to raise wages, lower costs. We need to expand health care. Look, I'm a military officer. I have TRICARE. It's government-run health care. And it works pretty good. So we need to expand more health care coverage for more people, no more forever wars.

and we have to make peace more profitable than war by investing here at home. Those are the things that I believe in, but you know those corporate interests are going to be coming after me every single step of the way. They're going to accuse me of being all this shit. They're going to call me a terrorist, even though a naval officer serving my country. They're going to say all kinds of stuff. So what I need from you is to pitch into our campaign to help us just get the truth out. Because if we do that, we win this race.

Yeah, and volunteer in whatever else you can do because, guys, This is all of a sudden, first of all, a lot of seats are in play that were not in play before. Number two, this now is arguably a Democratic district. And so, and ISA is one of the worst guys in Congress. So there's a lot of factors going in here towards the Marr's side. So if you want to help, that makes sense to me. And obviously you saw his policies were literally nearly identical to the populace plank, which obviously we support here.

So that makes a lot of sense to me. Amar, last question. What do you think is the, this is a question I'm asking everybody that comes on the show. What do you think is the biggest problem right now in America for basically our government? And how can we fix it? Good question. I know, people keep asking me, Amar, is our democracy going to save us? And I don't think so.

I think we have to save it. And I think the biggest threat to any democracy is apathy. I mean, shit, if every person who believe what we believe actually showed up and voted, We would never have the government we have today, but they just get tuned off. So apathy, I think, is the biggest challenge that we face. Apathy is the reason that we have income inequality in this state where the richest and poor state in the union. It's the reason that we have a concentration of power, both political and economic at the top, because the rest of us are just going about our lives.

We're too busy. We don't think politics actually has a role in our lives, but it does. It does. So I think the biggest problem is apathy. And what we need to do or what I need to do is knock, talk, walk, talk to voters, inspire them not just by being the opposition party to Trump. God, that's exhausting and tiring. We have to be the opportunity party for working class people with an affirmative message to bring down costs, raise wages, and have a real backbone. And say, we're going to fight for the things that matter.

We're going to fight for a populist plank. We're going to fight to lift people up and encourage them to believe that there are people like us who are actually willing to do. do the bidding of working people, not corporations of special interest. All right, Amar for Congress.com, and we'll have the link down below in the description box, wherever you're watching this. Mark Kopp and JAR on the precipice of knocking out, one of the worst Republican congressman in my lifetime. So thanks for joining us, brother.

We appreciate it. Thank you. And I'm really happy to be with the original YouTuber, Jank, so many years later. Good to be with you, man. Thank you, brother. I appreciate that. All right, guys, so a last couple of things for you guys on today's episode. And after the episode, I'm going to do a bonus episode.

You'll be amused by the topic of the bonus episode for the members. It's a quick story time. And this is about how I lost the bet and how painful it was and how much I enjoyed that. So check that out by hitting the join button below or t.wit.com slash join. But first, I want to tell you about an American hero. and a guy you might not have heard about. His name is Howie Klein. And Howie was, apparently in the music industry, I barely knew that, but it turns out he was kind of huge in the music industry. How did I know Howie? Howie did a site called Down With

Tyranny. But more importantly, you might not have ever seen Howie on camera, but whenever someone who was a progressive needed help, Howie would be there. And I called a many times to get advice, to get counseled, to get connected to others who are the progressive movement. And so Howie just passed away. And I didn't know that he had cancer, but apparently he did. And he was a quiet hero. He was not in front of the scenes much at all. And so I want you to know that there are quiet heroes out there who are doing incredible work behind the scenes that you never find out about, there are these angels that fight for you and don't ask for any credit at all and how he was one of those guys. Ironically, after he passed away,

which is very recently, I went and read his bio and found out all the things I didn't know about him. So he was a DJ for a while in San Francisco. He co-founded 415 records, but But then it got amazing. So in the mid-1980s, he joined Sire Records and worked closely with Lou Reed, who he brought back for apparently a kick-ass revival. The Ramones talking heads to Pesh Mode, Uncle Tupilo, I'm so bad at music. Anyway, in the mid-1990s, he was a president of Reprise Records, and he put together this awesome lineup, Green Day, Alanis Morescent, Neil Young, Jody Mitchell, Wilco, Fleetwood, Mack, Paul

Bergen Enya. He wound up more importantly supporting Rock the Vote. He opposed censorship, received honors including the Spirit of Liberty Award with his co-honoree, Rob Reiner. He also got the ACLU's Bill of Rights Award, and he was on the board of People for the American Way. But mainly, I knew him again, not through any of that, but through Down with Tyranny, which was his blog and his help from behind the scenes. I'm going to add one quick thing here that I normally wouldn't add, but because of the times that we're in, I want to mention it. So there's a lot of folks who in the pro-Israel crowd who always attack people and call them anti-Semites and stuff. It's almost like they try to get you to be an anti-Semite. And I never give into that. And I never

given to other voices driving anti-Semitism and never will. And one, because it's not rational. We're at the same species. It's absurd. It's absurd to make decisions between religions and nationalities, et cetera. And I would never be that irrational. But also because I've known angels like Howie Klein. And so don't tell me that it's Jewish people or all Jewish people or any of that crap. It isn't. It isn't. And how he tried to help everyone. He never asked for credit for it.

And in fact, I literally have him on my to-do list to call him for advice. And then I was going to do that and I found out that he passed away. So for all the quiet angels you never see, no matter where they're from and what their background is, we love you guys. Thank you for fighting for all of us. Thank you for, you know, all of the time, energy, resources, and everything that Howie put into this movement. We love you, brother. We're sorry to see you go and you will definitely be missed. So that was Howie Klein.

And now at least you know one of the heroes that existed in this movement. He didn't want any publicity. But now that he's passed, I want you to know that there are some good people like that fighting for you behind the scenes. So don't despair. There is a rebellion out there. And there are wonderful people trying to help that rebellion along so we can get our government back. We can get our democracy back and be on the side of the better angels of this country. And that's exactly where Howie Klein is today. We love your brother. Okay. We'll do a bonus episode for the members when we return. Thank you.