The Young Turks - Trump's Got Beef - August 26, 2026

Episode Date: August 27, 2026

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I didn't start with Trump, but he has made the situation worse, if you will. So we'll talk about that. In the second hour, Trita Parsi will be joining us to talk about some of the goings-on in the U.S. military and, of course, some updates on the Iran War. As always, just want to encourage you to like and share the stream if you guys are watching us live. And you can also become a member, help keep us independent, help me run. my mouth without fear by becoming a member at t.wit.com slash join or just hit that join button. And before we get started with the stories that me and my team dutifully produced for you today,

I just want to say I'm really struggling today. And I think part of the reason why or a big reason why I'm struggling is because of what's playing out with the Democratic establishment and how they intentionally twisted. One of the things that Hassan has said that I do not find objectionable at all, which is that Jewish people or Jews in general are not a monolith, and that you shouldn't conflate Zionism with Judaism. You shouldn't conflate what Israel is carrying out with the desires of the entire Jewish population. The way the democratic establishment coordinated with one another

and twisted his words in order to hurt Abdul Al-Said's chances of winning that Senate seat in Michigan. It's just, as you guys probably can already tell, like, I'm not really a hopeful person these days, but whatever hope I had left was kind of squashed by that. And it's scary to not feel that there's someone to root for in our government. So I'm going to hang in there, but I just, I needed to get that off my chest. because it's been very, it's been very heavy on my soul. Let's just put it that way. And it's really difficult to stomach the fact that these are our representatives. These are people who are supposed to be serving us. And they are more outraged over this made-up narrative about Hassan Piker than they are about their colleague, Randy Fine, discussing openly and overtly how Palestinian children should be starved to death.

These are lawmakers who have aided, abetted, and funded genocide. So it's tough. And I think, you know, we put on a brave face on this show every single day, but we're people too. And I just came home yesterday and I was sobbing because it's, who do you root for in this government? No one really. Anyway, let's get to our news of the day. Let's start with an economic update. The Trump administration is withholding $289 million appropriated by Congress for loans to Main Street.

Now, the elimination came through an executive order last year with President Trump saying the program was woke and promoted gender extremism and climate radicalism. The criticism did not come with any real backing of evidence of problems with these loans. Well, Trump's criticism came with no evidence because there isn't any. And essentially what he did is he took nearly $300 million that Congress had allocated for loans towards small businesses and said, no, who cares what Congress allocated the money for? I'm going to put a freeze on it and we are not going to send it over to small businesses. But you want to know what's really interesting? Get a load of this headline in the New York Times today. Trump administration wants billion dollar businesses to qualify as small. Higher revenue and employee limits for small businesses that get federal contracts and loans could disadvantage the smallest companies, their owners said. In other words, Trump is looking out for his billionaire buddies slash donors. And in this Times report, they note that the scale of the proposed increase would place

small businesses indirect competition with significantly larger rivals for contracts and loans, raising alarms that the agency, the small business administration could hamstring the very businesses that it created to help. I think that was the point. That's the point of what Trump is doing. Crush the small businesses, help his billionaire buddies. In some industries, for instance, like the financial investment services, companies would earn up. up to $1 billion or employ as many as 3,000 employees and still under Trump's view, be considered small businesses worthy of receiving small business loans. I mean, it's so brazen what's going on here.

Just to give you a sense of how much he is increasing the amount a company can take in or how many employees they can employ in order to be considered small businesses. previously the rules were you can make up to 47 million, 47 million and have fewer than 1,500 employees. So as we learned last week, the $40 trillion of federal debt that we are currently dealing with here in the United States has translated to investors no longer having any interest in buying U.S. treasuries unless they get a higher return on their investment. So this has to do with the 30-year bond, and that is very relevant, okay, to this story because Scott Besson, as we all know, is working to tamp down the 30-year bond yield through, you know, buybacks of treasuries,

basically manipulating the market, manipulating the bonds. And another driver of all of this, all of the problems that we're seeing in the 30-year bond, the long bond, if you will, is the ongoing boom in AI investment. So a lot of investors are focusing on that, as opposed to buying US treasuries, plus our debt makes them very concerned that maybe the US isn't good for it. Maybe the US isn't actually going to be able to fulfill their debt obligations. Okay. So that's all relevant because this has to do with credit. This has to do with being able to take on debt in order to carry out various projects.

And so Scott Bessent's Bond Buyback Program, which he recently said that it could, amount to $1 trillion. Now we know that he's already poured $4 billion into treasury buybacks, but he says we're not done yet. We've got a massive tool in our toolbox. We can go up to $1 trillion. Of course, that devalues the dollar. And it does make things a lot more complicated for our new Fed chair,

Kevin Warsh, who is about to address the country at the annual Fed conference in Jackson, Wyoming, that's going to take place on Friday. So Warsh has made unequivocally clear that he is committed to getting inflation down after five years of the central banks overshooting its 2% target. So remember, the whole point of the Federal Reserve is to keep track of inflation, and if the economy is too hot, they raise interest rates. And raising interest rates is supposed to translate to inflation coming down because the cost of borrowing is going to be. more expensive. It's supposed to tamp down demand in a hot economy. But here's the thing, we're not dealing with a normal economy right now. We're dealing with an economy that has inflation

tied to foreign policy, for instance. It's inflation tied to Trump's tariff policy. Secretary Scott Besant is trying to lower the cost of borrowing by manipulating the bond market, as we talked about at length on the show. And Warsh has been critical of the Fed doing exactly what the Treasury Department is doing right now. If you don't know what I'm talking about, here's what it is. So the central bank, having established a large footprint in markets by snapping up government bonds and mortgage-backed securities during past crises, has distorted the process of how financial assets are priced. Warsh argues. So here's Warsh, who's looking at the Federal Reserve's portfolio, looking at how much the Federal Reserve has bought up

treasuries, bought up mortgage-backed securities. Essentially, it's quantitative easing, which we've talked about at length here on the show as well. But the issue is that the inflation that we're experiencing right now is mostly driven by foreign conflicts and Trump's trade war. So right now, considering the fact that inflation has gone up, and I'm going to give you the numbers in just a minute, there are some economic experts and analysts who are predicting that Kevin Warsh is likely to increase interest rates. Okay, so I'll walk you through all of this. So for example, let's talk about the foreign policy I'm referring to and how it has contributed to this inflationary period that we're experiencing. It's not because consumers are flushed with cash.

That is not what's causing inflation. So let's take a look at this chart and it shows you you know, the average price of diesel, U.S. average price of diesel. This was a graph that was put together by the New York Times. They actually had a pretty excellent piece out that notes that the Ukraine and Iran wars have increased the price of diesel to dear record levels, which is absolutely crushing truckers and farmers here in the United States. So the average price of diesel in the U.S. was about $5.62 a gallon on Wednesday, which is 53, 53% higher than a year earlier.

That's according to the AAA Motor Club. The last time U.S. diesel prices shot up pretty high was back in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine. At that time, it hit a peak of $5.82 a gallon. Now, keep in mind, diesel is very critical to large sectors of the U.S. economy. So according to the New York Times, which has generally been very favorable, toward the U.S. supporting the ongoing war in Ukraine, supporting Ukraine, of course. Russia's ability to make diesel has been severely hamstrung because, well, Ukraine has damaged many of its refineries, which is just demonstrably true. So people are very upset when I mentioned

that. But my job is to tell you what's actually happening. So this is demonstrably true. In July, Bank of America's analysts said Russian refineries were processing around 3.9 million barrels a day down from 5.3 million barrels a year ago, that has forced Russia to suspend diesel exports. So if you're suspending diesel exports, what does that mean in a global economy? It means that we have even less supply of diesel, which is going to cause the price of diesel to increase significantly. Analysts say that 40% of Russian refining capacity has been impacted by Ukraine carrying out drone strikes. Russia has remained undeterred. They continue to slowly but surely gain more territory in Ukraine. And so many of the male soldiers have died in Ukraine that they're now

considering forcing women to fight in this war. Then there's the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, of course, which has led to 20% increase in the global oil price to about $86 a barrel. Obviously, it fluctuates, but that's where it's at today. The volume of crude oil refined in the Middle East has dropped to about 8 million barrels a day in 2026, down 1.6 million barrels a day from 2025 levels. And that's what S&P global analysts said in a recent report on August 1st. So this has all translated, this along with Trump's tariff policies, his stupid trade wars, including one that's really heating up against Canada for some reason. All of that has contributed to an inflationary period that is not helpful to the U.S. economy. It's not helpful to the global economy, that's for sure.

But in terms of the affordability crisis here in the U.S., things are not getting better. In fact, they're getting worse. Take a look. The market actually pulled back about 40 points or so, 50 points on this one. All right, so July PCE, we came in a little bit hotter than expected month to month, a gate of two-tenth percent month to month. The expectation was one-tenth. Three point seven percent year-over-year. This is July PCE. That's hot. That is a hot number. Yeah, the expectation was 3.6. Core came in line at two-tenths of a percent up, and then core year-over-year came in line with expectations 3.3. But we have seen a reversal in futures because of this data.

GDP for the second quarter is still 1.5 percent. This is, of course, the second reading of that number. It does show us that the annualized growth rate of GDP is actually slowing. No need to sound the alarm bells or certainly not in recession territory. But we really like to see what's called a Goldilocks zone. GDP coming in somewhere between 2 to 3 percent. That is healthy growth. Q1's number, I believe, was 2.1 percent. So came in a bit lighter than what we've seen from earlier in the year.

So inflation is up. Growth has slowed down. And I just want to remind you all of what Treasury Secretary Besson had to say about our $40 trillion in federal debt. He argued that we will grow our way out of it. Will we? Will we? We all know he's lying about that, right?

So now there is increased likelihood that Fed Share Warsh is very likely to raise interest rates, not lower them, maybe not even keep them where they're at. Now, we don't know for sure this annual Fed conference is taking place on Friday. So by Friday, we'll have our answer. But there are some pretty significant downsides for Americans, American consumers, should Warsh decide to increase the interest rates in order to try to get inflation out of control. So as the Times notes, several officials have already embraced the need for the Fed to raise interest rates. This cohort does not believe that rates at the current range of 3.5% to 3.75% are inflicting any constraint on economic activity

With multiple sources of price pressures, they argue that the prudent path forward is for the Fed to raise rates gradually now. So not only are Americans forced to pay for genocide and barbarism carried out by Israel in the Middle East, we're also forced to pay for and fight their war against Iran as they're plotting to start a new war against Turkey. So we're bankrolling all of that. And then on top of it, that leads to inflation. And in response to that inflation, we're all going to have to pay more for our mortgages, auto loans, credit card debt. And by the way, speaking of credit card debt, high ratio rates mean American consumers will

pay more for that credit card debt, right? And that's a huge problem. You want to know why? Take a look at this. Consumer spending. Where is the money coming from? swiping the plastic going on to credit card debt. That is largely what's keeping the engine of the US economy running right now.

This economy is a house of cards. And this didn't happen by accident. This happened on based on conscious decisions our politicians have made, not just through one administration, but through several administrations, especially in the aftermath of the 9-11 terror attacks. And especially after Obama responded to the global financial crisis the way that he did through bailouts toward the very industries and the very hot shots, you know, that fat cats that that destroyed the economy to begin with while, of course, allowing Americans to be foreclosed on. And then, of course, the Fed under Obama engaged in the quantitative easing that has distorted the markets. And then every president after that has only compounded the situation.

Every federal reserve chair after that compounded the situation. Americans are worse off for it. We are poorer. We are more debt-ridden. And now we get to look forward to higher interest rates. So when Trump says that he's bored by having these discussions about affordability or housing costs, you should believe him because his actions prove it. When we come back, we'll talk about something else he messed up, including the supply of safe beef here in the U.S.

We'll give you some details on that and more when we come back. Don't miss it. Why would I want to blow up the global financial system? Funkatron says they will criticize Hassan without actually having him on air to set the record straight. They're cowards. Yeah, look, I totally agree with you on that. And I hope you guys understand I'm in like a really difficult place because I have held a little bit of a grudge against Hassan after that woman Olai shared a deceptively edited video of me that was made by right wingers where I'm just saying the N word. And she said that I'm calling black people the N word when in reality that deceptively edited video, which she knew by the way, was just a compilation of me quoting racist who we then condemned on the show. Now, did Haas defend me? Because he knew the truth. We worked together at TYT. No, he didn't defend me.

If anything, he uplifted Olai in her deceptive attack on me. So yeah, I'm a little irritated that what I'm doing is not ever reciprocated, but at the end of the day, I don't care because what's right is right, what's wrong is wrong. Asa says all sorts of things I disagree. Like the stuff about Mao and like, what are you doing? But that's what he is, that's what he does. He likes to be edgy. So I can be critical of that. The problem is what he said about not conflating Zionism with Judaism is accurate. What he said was right.

And the way that they're twisting it to use it, not just against him, but to try to destroy a Democratic candidate's Senate campaign just really, really makes me sick. And why do they want to ruin his Senate campaign? Because he speaks out on behalf of the Palestinians. It's gross. I'm going to tell you about our sponsor in just a minute. But I want to read one comment real quick from our member boss scavenger who says, you're right, Anna, but you give us hope.

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That's tyt.com slash switch. Okay. Now, let's talk about beef because if you are, tasked with doing the grocery shopping for your family, you've probably noticed the cost of beef per pound has been ridiculously expensive and prohibitively so for many families. Trump claimed you wanted to do something about it, but it seems like he's made the matter worse. Let's get into it. I'm that a beef deal. Which countries did you make that deal with? What are the sources of the beef deal? I don't want to say which countries, but there are a few countries, but they're going to be sending in the highest quality beef and it's something that we need. Federal officials announced the recall of nearly 30,000 pounds of raw beef imported from

Argentina. The packages from a company called Corté Argentino sold to distributors and retailers in Florida and Texas. Hey, the United States is not the only country that processes all sorts of meat items that could get you sick. It turns out imported beef from Argentina also problematic. Okay, this is a story and as you saw in that video, Trump's imports of foreign beef, which is said, which he has said, is meant to help lower the cost for consumers who are looking to purchase beef for their families, has actually blown up in his face in more ways than one. So bear with me, buckle up. I'm going to walk you through this entire debacle. Some of you might have, might not have any idea about

what is going on, why the cost of beef is so high. And honestly, I think this story is a microcosm of a broader problem that we're experiencing in our economy, where we have essentially allowed our politicians to gut our economy. We don't make anything anymore. We don't care about our farmers. In fact, one of the biggest issues, the heart of this problem, is the fact that we don't have as much cattle as we used to. So we can't rely on our own beef. here in the United States. So let's get into the details here. So Trump announced that he would temporarily pause U.S. tariffs on foreign beef. He made this announcement last week, writing on truth social the following. That he announced that the U.S. would allow up to 300,000 metric

tons of product for ground beef to be imported tariff-free and claim that beef would be sold at 25% below current market rates, which I will admit are pretty high. And then look, Trump is right to point out the high price of beef. It's at record highs these days. And there are a few reasons why. This is a smaller reason, but I do want to mention it because it's worth mentioning. There's something known as screw worm, which sounds super gross because it is. But it's a disease that's impacting cattle. And as a result, cattle has to be put down because its meat is no longer safe. So screw worm has been an issue.

But there's also another huge issue, a much bigger issue. The United States has spent years shrinking its cattle herd, which translates, of course, to lower supply of beef for U.S. consumers. So the beef cow herd has declined by 8.6% since 2020 alone. in six short years, but I've got some more numbers for you, according to the USDA. The U.S. started the year with the smallest herd since the 1950s, about 86.2 million cattle and calves. Now, the cattle shortage has driven consumer beef prices to record highs, with ground beef selling for $6.89 a pound on average in July. And that was up 10% from a year ago, according to the labor department.

So bringing in foreign beef was Trump's solution to this problem. Like we've got limited supply, so why don't we just increase the supply? And typically that might make sense. But the problem is it doesn't address the underlying issue, which is the reduced number of cattle in the U.S., the inability to rely on ourselves when it comes to our own food supply. And so he decides, you know what, I'm going to go ahead and bring in Argentinian beef. Okay. Now, that upset a lot of people, including our ranchers, including our farmers.

We'll get to that in just a minute. But again, bringing in foreign beef is not going to fix the underlying problem here. It's just de-it incentivizing ranchers from increasing their herds. Because why would you do it? Why would you want to increase supply that's already increased? You want to, you know, to some extent, limit supplies, so you're at least making a profit off of selling beef. So it's just actually making the situation in the long term worse.

And so let's actually hear from Casey Parker. This is the founder of the American Rancher Alliance who explained how this all undermines American ranchers and cattle farmers. Take a look. We're losing 66 farms and ranches a day, right? now, which is just absolutely insane. And there's no way that you're going to incentivize any ranger to be able to afford or even be able to retain their half-thurs by undercutting them. And then if there's that 25% that he's taking off of that, the consumers are not going to see

that. They're going to see pennies, maybe, because it's all going to be captured by those big foreign packers and then the distributors and the retailers. It's just, It's not doing anything but undercutting the American ranger. What would you make of the argument that the herd still needs to catch up with demand? And this is a temporary solution to get beef prices down across the board for a large population of Americans who can't go to the grocery store and afford that beef. I think the solution would be to cut exports by about 5% and then be able to keep our beef here in America and help us retain. Those cattle. Yes, Casey. Yes, cut the exports. I actually really love that idea. I wish I had thought of that myself. But she's absolutely right about that. And in fact, remember, Trump wants the foreign beef that's being imported here to be sold at 25% at a 25% discount from the market rate, which sounds a lot like price fixing, doesn't it? I thought the right wing hated price fixing. I thought it distorted the market because it does. price fixing not good, bad.

I actually totally disagree with price fixing, which is why when Kamala Harris was running, the way that she communicated about affordability made it seem like maybe she's considering price fixing. That's not what she was actually considering, but it was hard to make out what she was thinking at any given time. So let's just put that aside for now. But I totally agree with what Casey Parker said there.

Now, there's another huge issue. Trump imports the foreign beef from Argentina. And then it turns out there's an issue with that foreign beef. We don't know the specifics per se, but it's been recalled. Let's get into the details on that. So Justin Tupper, the president of the U.S. Cattleman Association, points out that the imported meat might not be safe to eat. Take a look.

We live in a free market system where it's supply and demand. Right now, the demand is higher than the supply. in foreign beef that does not have to live up to the same standards or any of the things that we go by here in this country. We don't think one of two things will not bring down the price of beef in the store and it's not going to help the ranchers to increase their herds. It takes three years once a calf is born for her to get into the production system to raise more beef to put back into the chain. So we definitely respectfully disagree that we don't think that bringing in this foreign beef's going to help at all.

In the cattle industry, this is when most people are selling their calves. This is when the highest amount of cattle are going to market. We just opened the Mexican border. It just puts a lot of pressure on a market that has to operate by itself and independently. We do not want outside influences in there. Let supply and demand work. Make sure that we get to put the safest, best protein on the planet on the consumer's plate. And we want it to be labeled.

That's another thing in the farm bill we're working on. Is M-Cool trying to get this beef labeled so the consumer knows where it comes from? Exactly where it's coming from. Okay, we need to just briefly discuss what he referenced at the very tail end of that video when he mentions M-Cool. What is M-Cool? Why is he saying it has to do with labeling? Well, it's because it's the mandatory country of origin labeling.

Doesn't it, like, shock you how little information we get about the very food we put in our mouths? Like to the point where you don't even know where the meat is coming from, that's insane. So again, M-Kool is the mandatory country of origin labeling. Currently, there's no labeling to indicate where beef is coming from. I think that's a problem. Now, Trump originally did not want to say where this imported Ford beef was coming from, but we were able to deduce. Everyone was able to deduce that it came from Argentina.

Now, back in October of 2025, Trump said that he was open to importing more. more beef from Argentina, specifically due to his friendship and alliance with the leader of Argentina, Javier Malay. Okay, great. So he authorized an additional 80,000 metric tons of lean beef imports from Argentina to come into the country this year, 2026. Now, as you heard in the first video we showed you in the segment,

already 30,000 pounds of frozen beef from Argentina, has been recalled in both Florida and the state of Texas. So it's unclear exactly why the beef was recalled, but keep in mind, like, these types of things don't just happen lightly. The recalls happen due to safety concerns. So there's something wrong with the beef. Regardless, it isn't really shocking, seeing as there's health and economic concerns with Argentinian beef.

And if you're wondering, like, what are you talking about? Well, it turns out that the National Cattlemen's Beef Association noted to Trump back in October of last year. Okay, so nearly a year ago, Argentina also has a history of foot and mouth disease, which is brought to the United States and could decimate our domestic livestock production. That's not good. Foot and mouth disease sounds pretty gross. And Trump was warned about this, but of course, he usually ignores the advice of informed individuals, opting for the corrupt or individuals who have bribed him, you know, individuals who just happened to be his friends or family members, he'll listen to them, or if they're Israelis, of course.

But when it comes to sound advice, including advice from members of his own cabinet, he'll totally ignore it. Additionally, China has rejected 22 tons of beef from Argentina after discovering that there was this antibiotic used in raising the cattle. It's known as chloramphenicol, chloram phenocall. And China's like, that's not good for our people. We don't want them consuming this. So we're going to go ahead and ban the beef. It's an antibiotic that's actually been banned in food producing animals because it poses a severe

health risk. So according to straight arrow news, the shipment originated from the RA beef facility. It's a beef plant in Buenos Aires, Argentina. And the USDA data shows that the U.S. does import beef from that very plant, the plant that China has rejected beef from, because they care about their population.

They don't want their population to get sick by, you know, eating this beef that's pumped with this antibiotic that will make you eventually resistant to antibiotics when you are prescribed antibiotics. buy your doctor for some ailment or some issue that you're having. China's like, now, we're not interested in that. Whereas Trump, I'd be shocked if he was fully aware of it. Because the second you try to have a conversation with this guy and give him sound advice, his eyes glaze over.

Like, where's the picture book? You didn't give me a children's picture book to understand what you're talking about here. It's unbelievable. So in 2016, China rejected a different shipment of beef for the same reason from a different beef plant, echo carnis, according to Claren, an Argentinian news site. The U.S. also imports beef from that plant because of course we do. Of course we do. But you wouldn't know if you're consuming that Argentinian beef because we don't label it. So congratulations Americans. Your government hates you. It's unclear where the recent shipment of rejected beef products

is now, but the U.S. would also reject it if it detected any level of this, you know, antibiotic as Chinese agriculture officials did. The USDA's food safety and inspection service is tasked with testing agricultural products entering the U.S. before they hit store shelves. Now, that's how things would theoretically work. But as you can imagine, I wouldn't put too much weight behind our government functioning the way that it's intended. Now, seeing the response to the ongoing, I never know how to say this word, cyclosporia outbreak? Yes, I did it. This doesn't really give me much hope in the USDA. I'm just keeping it very honest with you guys. So let's talk a little more about Trump's response to all of this.

There's still a lot of support for the president, but I think it's definitely taken a hit because This does not support the America First Agenda. And the American cattle ranchers are very proud people. They work hard every day to produce something and feed the world. Or ranchers and farmers, and I'm not talking about Big Ag, I'm talking about family-owned farms and ranches. These are the most hardworking Americans, backbreaking labor. What they do in providing sustenance to our country is so incredibly important. So I just want to really emphasize that.

Trump's decision to import foreign beef free of tariffs is hurting them big time. So they were already in a lot of pain due to the increased price of diesel and fertilizer, which of course is the result of Trump's foreign policy and his decision to start war against Iran on behalf of Israel. And now Trump is escalating a trade war with Canada that is also not solving the problem. It's not helping the problem at all. But farmers aren't the only ones who are upset, shockingly. As we all know, members of the Republican Party typically provide cover for Trump, regardless of how bad his behavior is.

But in this case, you do have some Republicans who are speaking out, including Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming. This is what he posted on X. Americans want U.S. beef on the table, not foreign imports. Wyoming ranchers produce the highest quality beef in the world. Our ranchers don't ask for special treatment. they simply want a fair marketplace. It needs to be easier, not harder, for Wyoming ranchers to feed America.

I will continue to fight for policies that strengthened Wyoming. You get the point. But he's clearly being critical of what Trump has done here. But he's not the only one. Chuck Grassley is another member of Congress who's speaking out. He says, after Tyson closure in Illinois last week, I'm concerned for the cattle markets. Plus, President Trump's decision to temporarily open up subsidized, imports. Okay, so again, the price fixing that's involved in this is adding insult to injury,

as you can tell. He also mentioned screw worm and the need to expand the domestic herd here in the United States. Let's hear from one more senator. This is Mike Rounds. I just want to be clear, these are politicians that I generally hate, but I agree with them on this issue. He says, this hurts. American cattle producers have been disadvantaged for far too long, What our market really needs is a stable America First national policy that promotes American beef rather than continuing to import foreign beef as a quick fix. And look, I agree with that wholeheartedly. Why are we importing meat? I don't want to eat meat that's being imported from other countries. I want to have good regulations that ensure that we're consuming meat that is safe, number one,

that there are proper inspections. But I want my meat to come from, you know, as close to where I live as possible. I know that living in a big city, that's not an easy thing to ask for. But why are we relying on other countries for our beef? That makes no sense to me. Shouldn't we incentivize our ranchers and our farmers to increase their herds so we can be self-reliant? I think that would be far better. It would be better for their economic situation.

It would be better in regard to us being self-reliant. I just don't think that responding to this crisis by importing foreign beef, engaging in price fixing on that foreign beef, I just don't think that that's going to help us. Certainly not in the long run. And as we just saw, it's not helping us in the short run either. So with the midterms approaching many Republicans are absolutely nervous that this move alongside the stubborn inflation rates, you know, could hurt their chances of winning real. election, it likely will. I don't think that our situation here in the U.S. is really going to change

that much if Democrats take control of the House, to be honest. A recent Associated Press, NORC poll showed 80% of Americans had changed their grocery habits because of high prices, and 41% said they were worried about being able to afford food over the next few months. That is what they are experiencing now. Keep in mind that J.P. Morgan put out an analysis. that says the current war against Iran has led to a shortage of fertilizer, which will translate to increased inflation in the first half of next year when it comes to the price of food. They're also predicting a global food crisis. So everything this man touches falls apart. This was not a solution. He did it anyway. He ignored advice from people. people who actually know what they're talking about.

And at the end of the day, the people who suffer are the American people and our ranchers. We got to take a break. When we come back, we will switch on over to some of what's happening internationally. I wanted to give you an update on Lebanon because, well, the war crimes carried out by the IDF in Lebanon has not stopped. In fact, I want to talk about how they are using the Gaza model in southern Lebanon and more when we return. There's something known as screw worm. That's kind of nasty. Rebel Dragon says, we have standards.

I don't know what that was in response to, but some of us do. Some, like individuals have standards. I don't know about our government, though. Avenger Dragon 89 in our Twitch community says, bail out the people for once, here, here. Shytown's finest says AI bubble burst coming. I know it's going to be bad. Based on some of the reporting I've seen on that, I'm not an expert on the alleged AI bubble.

The research I've done, though, seems pretty convincing that we are experiencing an AI bubble. And you've got to keep in mind, our entire economy now feels like it's just hinged on AI succeeding, which also is a lose-lose for us, if you ask me, because if AI succeeds in the way that the, let's just say incredibly optimistic individuals are claiming. Well, that also translates to a lot of people losing their jobs. I mean, Bill Gates of all people, who previously shrugged off the notion that AI is going to be disastrous for American workers is now raising the alarm about it, which is amazing. Maybe we'll cover that tomorrow. But yeah, thank you for bringing that up.

I think you're right. Microgram says they're all taking the Hassan clip out of context on purpose. As usual, CBS did a better job showing some context than CNN did surprisingly. That is super surprising. It's amazing to me that these Democrats have way more heat for a freaking Twitch streamer than they do for, I mean, the country that they're funding as they're carrying out genocide. It's amazing to me, but maybe I shouldn't be so amazed. These are super corrupt politicians who take the APAC money. So let's get back to this.

This guy, Hassan Piker. Everyone, welcome back to the show. I wanted to read a really sweet comment from Val, who says, Val's pure alternatives, who writes it in our member section and says, you're terrific, Anna, glad I found you through your interview with Candace. Thank you so much. And, you know, I'm guessing you were a fan of Candice before you ever discovered me. But I do want to just say to our viewers, thank you for keeping an open mind. I thought that that interview was important. And I made sure to just focus on the material as opposed to airing theories about what we think happened. Because I think that's where she gets into some trouble with her critics.

And I just, I wanted the audience to know, here are the weird inconsistencies that you should be aware of, especially because we're dealing with a situation in which a young man is being charged with aggravated murder, which carries the death penalty. So you want to make sure that we have the right guy. We know all that actually happened that day. And look, it could end up being Tyler Robinson. It could be that he is proven without a shadow of a doubt to be the individual who pulled the trigger and killed Charlie Kirk. But I also do not appreciate how quickly some have just decided like he's 100% guilty before a trial.

We're going to totally pretend like all these inconsistencies don't exist. And we're going to push this narrative that he's guilty and should be convicted and potentially executed. So I think we need to assume people are innocent until proven guilty. That is the way our system works. But anyway, thank you for your kind words. I hope you're enjoying the show. We've got a lot more to get to lots of super chats.

Let me just start off with one from a solid pack American horseman. I see you changing your handle there. Western naval forces have hit a total wall in the Red Sea. The conditions for peace are very clear. End airstrikes on heavily populated areas, drop economic sanctions, stop regional operations, and block U.S. military bases access. Leverage has completely shifted in Iran's favor, which I agree. I agree with you on that.

I think that's also demonstrably true. Old school military pressure just isn't working over there anymore with these concrete demands on the table, local resistance is calling the real strategic shots while Western Coalition Strategy has their hand forced, has their hand forced, they're now basically forced to adjust. I mean, they would feel forced to adjust if our leaders kind of lived in reality. But I don't think Trump is ready or willing to do a really difficult thing, admit defeat and approach this issue, diplomatically for the good of his own people, right? You want to make a deal with Iran to get the straight of Hormuz open.

You should want to end the barbarism that's taking place in the Middle East right now. But that would take a real leader, a strong leader, someone who's so confident in his abilities that he's able to admit when he's wrong. That's the kind of leader we need. Okay, speaking of war criminals, let's get into the next story because while we haven't really talked much about Lebanon, in recent weeks, the war crimes being carried out in southern Lebanon have continued, and they are really working hard to make that area of the country unlivable, as they did with Gaza. So let's get into it. The Israeli defense forces have continued carrying out unspeakable and brazen war crimes

in southern Lebanon with very little attention being paid to these war crimes by US media. Now, keep in mind, we U.S. taxpayers are forced to fund aid and abet Israel's brazen war crimes. And we should be informed about where our money is going, what it is supporting. Now, since we can't rely on legacy media to do that, let's go ahead and talk about what we're hearing and reading in independent media. So there's a new report out by Janet Abou Elias in Responsible Statecraft. They've been doing really great work in pulling this, like pulling the wool over our eyes and helping people understand what we're actually financing in the Middle East. And she does show that Israel is making good on its promise to implement, and they've said

this, Israel Katz has said this, to implement the Gaza model in southern Lebanon. And this goes beyond their barbaric slaughter of civilians, although there's plenty of that happening. So across southern Lebanon, a combination of incendiary munitions, systematic demolitions, and now aerial herbicide. Okay, aerial herbicide spraying has degraded large stretches of Lebanese territory to the point where it's difficult to farm, unsafe to inhabit. that was the point, and in many places unrecognizable. In fact, 24 Lebanese villages, including Christian villages, by the way, have been raised to the ground by the IDF in southern Lebanon. Those are people's homes, gone. And it has gotten so bad that hundreds of thousands of Lebanese citizens will never be able to go back home. And again, that was the point. So let's start off

with white phosphorus. You heard that right, white phosphorus. So since 2023, Israel has been unlawfully deploying white phosphorus munitions across southern Lebanon. I don't think you guys need me to explain why that's a problem, but if some of you do, I'll go ahead and walk you through it. Amnesty International reported on October 31st, 2023 that the Israeli army fired artillery shells

containing white phosphorus, an incendiary weapon in military operations along Lebanon's southern border between 10, between October 10th and 16th of 2023. I just want to remind you all that Israel is now justifying, slaughtering children in Gaza because they, they fly kites that they made with paper, just homemade kites, no weapons on them, nothing. And sometimes the kite will break off and fall onto Israeli territory. They have used their fear of kites to justify slaughtering Palestinian children. And then they turn around and use white phosphorus in southern Lebanon and act like they're the good guys.

Let's go back to Amnesty International. One attack on the town of Daira on October 16th must be investigated as a war crime because it was an indiscriminate attack that injured at least nine civilians and damaged civilian objects and was therefore unlawful. It might have been unlawful, but this is what the Israeli forces intended to do. This wasn't an accident. So Amnesty International notes that the use of white phosphorus is restricted, banned under international humanitarian law, as if that even matters or even exists at this point. Because starting with the Biden administration and their willingness to aid and abet the butchers in Israel, well, international law was dismantled.

It means nothing. There are no consequences, nothing. So although there can be some lawful uses, it must never be fired at or in close proximity to a populated civilian area or civilian infrastructure due to the high likelihood that the fires and smoke it causes spreads. Such attacks which fail to distinguish between civilians and civilian objects, again, that's the point. And fighters and military objectives are indiscriminate and thus prohibited. I should repeat, okay? The indiscriminate nature of it is the reason why the IDF is using it, deploying it.

In response, the IDF claims only to be using it for smoke screens and denies using it to start fires intentionally. But as usual, they're lying. Investigations by outlets, including Al Jazeera, have documented phosphorus shelling that torched oak and pine forests destroyed decades and centuries old olive groves. They love doing that. That's one of their favorite things to do. just check out what they've done to all of groves in the West Bank, and left soil and left soil contaminated with lead and other heavy metals, which makes it really hard to grow anything on that soil or on that land, thus making the land unlivable. That is the point. These effects, let me read the rest of that. These effects persist along, persist long after any potential tactical need for concealment has passed. And then,

And finally Lebanon's National Council for Scientific Research has estimated 25 billion in environmental damages from strikes between 2023 and 2024 alone. As we know, the barbarism has continued far past that. But it includes thousands of hectares, hector, hector's, no, hector's of destroyed forest and orchard. So you get the point. They're intentionally destroying the land there. destroying the soil, so no one's able to grow anything there. And why are they doing it?

We all know why they're doing it. I mean, Jank has talked about the oil field, you know, in the ocean near Lebanon. And if you look at the maps that the Israelis have drawn out, indicating which part of Lebanon they tend to take for themselves, oh, wow, what a shocker. The oil fields would be part of that. So we know what they're doing here. But, It's not just white phosphorus that's, you know, starting fires, destroying the land in southern Lebanon. It's the brazen use of explosives to just wipe out entire villages and neighborhoods. So the Guardian has put out a report.

They reviewed footage of mass detonations in the villages of Taibe, Nakura, and Deer Seryang. In each case, raising entire villages to the ground in a single blast rather than targeting individual structures. And you take a look at the map and you'll see 24 villages in southern Lebanon gone. And, you know, they'll say, well, you know, Chizbullah, they're hiding in those villages. We just have to do something about Chizbullah. Really, the, the Hizbullah militants are hiding in the Christian villages too. They're hiding in those churches that you guys bombed. Is that what's happening? Because I'm not buying it. I'm not buying it at all. And no one should. They They're known liars.

They get caught in their lies again and again, but they're free to continue carrying out their disgusting behavior, their crimes against humanity. They love butchering people and stealing land. That's what they do. So according to Dr. Hisham Yones, he's the president of Green Southerners. That's a Lebanese environmental organization working to protect South Lebanon's,

you know, environment, natural heritage. He says what our documentation increasingly shows, particularly over the past two months, is a sharp rise in fires coinciding with or following large-scale Israeli detonations and the demolition of entire neighborhoods, particularly in occupied border areas and their immediate surroundings. And then there's glyphosate. Let me tell you a little story about glyphosate. A lot of Americans, including Trump voters, were excited.

when we heard that RFK Jr. was going to work really hard to ban glyphosate in our crops because it is a dangerous chemical. It's not good for our health. He failed in doing that because he was never going to be allowed to do anything good from his agenda. But apparently the IDF has been using glyphosate intentionally to cause a lot of. of damage to southern Lebanon. So they started aerial spraying of glyphosate. That's an herbicide and carcinogen. It's a carcinogen, okay, that we're by the way consuming because it's not banned here in the United States. But in the case of Israel, they are using it in southern Lebanon across 11 miles of the southern border. So the herbicide is banned in Lebanon and the European Union.

But Israel sprain away. Israeli officials described this to Lebanon's UN peacekeeping mission as routine vegetation management using approved substances. It's banned in Lebanon. It's not approved. They say it's intended to clear dense brush that could conceal infiltration. Lebanon's agriculture ministry found levels 20 to 50 times higher than normal agriculture. cultural use, 20 to 50 times higher. So while, yes, we use it here in the United States, obviously it's not used at such high levels. The Israelis, though, are using it at such high levels.

Why would they do that? Well, it could sterilize soil and prevent regrowth for years, for years. Making that land unlivable, that is the point. It's the Gaza model. It's the Gaza model. The herbicide is blanketing land already stressed by years of phosphorus and heavy metal contamination, compounding damage to soil, pollinators, and an agricultural economy that roughly 80% of southern Lebanon depends on. So altogether, these tactics that are carried out by the Israelis have prevented, as far as we know, number could be higher, 600,000 Lebanese citizens from being able to return to their homes, from being able to return to their land. That's the business Israel is involved in. Making countries, regions of the world unlivable so they can swoop on in and take it.

They're the chosen people. Chosen for what? Destruction, death, forcing people out of their homes, theft. I guess that's what it is. Anyway, we're supposed to pretend like these are the good guys, please. We gotta take a break. When we come back, we'll give you an update on that nun attack that we had talked about on the show several weeks ago. Did the Israeli settler who viciously attacked her actually faced punishment for it?

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and it has to be checked. My friend, my big homie, attorney at law, Benjamin Crock. I just want to thank you, man. An educated, articulate brothers like yourself speak truth to power. It makes a great difference in changing the landscape in America. Listen, no matter what you do, don't allow the politics of people. ideology to evaporate the soul that still exists inside of you. They don't stop, I don't stop. Racism won't stop. I won't stop. Systemic bias won't stop. I won't stop. People still need

health care, so I won't stop. People still need criminal justice systems reform, so I won't stop. I'm wearing one of our pieces of merchandise. So the funny thing about the Dragon Swat, and that's what our viewers call themselves. That's the name of the group, but every individual chooses their own name. You might have Cincinnati. dragon. You might have Harry Potter dragon. We have a grandma sunshine dragon is one of those that I remember. These are people that like to have an element of themselves, their lives what's significant to them reflected as a part of the community. But the concept of the Dragon Squad is just something I threw away as a joke. I was mocking the proud boys, these right wing groups that come up with a

name for themselves that they think is cool, but it's actually really lame. And I thought, you know, off the top of my head, I can come up with something that's still kind of lame, but much cooler. And so I threw out Dragon Squad and I just moved on with my life, but everybody liked it. And so they kept it going. And so we've embraced it. And I think again, it was this was during the period of the pandemic. I think it was it was sort of nice to have a renewed sense of community, a feeling that you're a part of something when everything seems so chaotic. And as a result of that, we've got independent artists online streaming, making beautiful digital art of dragons. We've got You know, we've released a number of people to be like you can probably see in the background like a knitted dragon. Someone sent me. There's a dragon book they sent me. Dragon board games they send me. People have done like custom ironworks making dragon bottle openers. Like the fans are super invested in diamond art and things like that. And so it's great that they send this stuff. Sometime we're going to have to set up a wall of all of it. But yeah, it's definitely brought the community a lot closer together. The fact that we were no longer in this big studio, I felt.

a lot more personally attached to people. It felt very immediate and I know that I personally needed the connection. I've got a lot of comments piling up. So I want to read them. I want to do some of these comments some justice. So let's go to Thomas Daniel, who says, we lost Dolly Parton and Tim Curry in the same week, but Trump is still kicking.

Someone please make sense of this. Only the good die young. Although one could argue Dolly Parton, Dolly Parton did live a nice long life. Jammin John says, hey, Anna, I know times are tough, but one guy's life that gives me hope is singer-songwriter Pete Seeger got smeared as a communist endlessly, but always stayed positive and hopeful for the future. I love people like that.

I think there's the strongest people on the planet. I probably can learn a thing or two from them. Dav Mill says, I'm old enough to remember how computers would cause unemployment, internet shopping would cause unemployment. and so on, never happened. Deb, you make a good point, but that doesn't really answer the reality of these, you know, tech titans telling us to our face. We are developing this specifically to replace human labor.

Like that is the whole purpose. Like some of them also pay lip service to like, yeah, yeah, we want, we want you to be more productive. That's the ticket. They do say that too. But they're also very open and honest about how they want to help maximize profits for companies by replacing human beings who they have to pay wages to with AI and robots. And so that is going to happen. And even the very people who denied that that was going to happen are now realizing,

oh, it's going to happen. And they're worried about it because think about the unrest. Think about what happened in the summer of 2020. Okay. So the George Floyd murder was disgusting and wrong. And yes, it led to widespread protests. But that unrest in those protests wouldn't have been possible if most Americans weren't stuck at home due to COVID closures and shutdowns. So imagine tens of millions of Americans losing their jobs. They're angry. They're abandoned by their government entirely. What do you think that's going to lead to? So I am worried about the future, but we'll see. Hopefully you're right and I'm wrong.

I would love to be wrong on this. I would love to be wrong on everything I say, actually, because everything I believe and everything I say, things are looking bleak. Dab also says, problem with health care, government subsidy, government subsidizes everything, hospitals, insurance, pharmaceutical, and everything else.

The more government subsidizes something, the higher the cost, lower the quality, more corruption, less accountability. I think you're right when it comes to certain things, especially when it comes to the university system, for instance. The government subsidizing loans for university students has, in my opinion, contributed quite a bit to tuition exploding. But anyway, good point.

Solid pack American horseman says this is exactly why Americans need 100% halal meat. At least then the cows get a proper send-off instead of. of a one-way ticket from Argentina with no blessing, no transparency and 25% discount coupon, make America halal again. I don't know if it's ever been halal, but I hear you. I don't know too much about halal meat, to be honest with you. So I can't disagree or agree with you. But, you know, promote a way if you think that's the right solution. Okay, let's get to our next story because I wanted to do a quick update on a story that we covered several weeks ago. I was always curious to see if there was going to be some consequences.

And it looks like this guy got off a little easy. So let's get into it. Back in April, the man that you're watching run up to that nun, his name is Yona Schreber. Well, he was caught on video violently assaulting a nun in Jerusalem. It's a difficult video to watch because imagine running up behind a nun, pushing her to the ground. it as you saw in that video, he then proceeds to kick her as she's on the ground. Okay. So today, we learned that his charges were dropped after he was found to be in a psychotic state. So is that, is that what they're going to use now? Are all the Israelis who

are carrying out all of the butchering that we're seeing right now? They're all just in a psychotic state. I mean, I agree, they're definitely psychotic, but I don't think that should be used as a defense. Now, the court's decision came after a psychiatrist alleged that he was unaware, totally unaware of his actions and couldn't stop himself from attacking the nun. But if you ask me, it seems like he knew exactly what he was doing. There are other people in frame. You can see it in the video, but he didn't go up to the other people. He went straight to the nun, pushed her to the ground, and then proceeded to kick her. So the attack happened on April 28th in Jerusalem's old city.

Many Christians have been spat on. Churches have been targeted. We have done these stories. We know that this is not rare. The nun is actually a researcher at Jerusalem's French school of biblical and archaeological research. And this attacker, Yoda Schreber, is an Israeli subject. We know what settlers are like. They are violent, unhinged, and have no problem literally lighting homes on fire with children sleeping in them.

In fact, he's living in an illegal settlement called Padool in the occupied West Bank. So given that brief biological, not biological, biographical information about him, I think you could deduce that he carried out this act of violence, not because he was in a psychotic state, but because he was targeting the nun. That's what he was doing. We're not stupid. But as you saw in the video, he ran up behind the nun, violently body slammed her, and then he returned back to kick her. The nun came close to really, really harming,

like getting devastatingly injured because she did hit her head. And later the Israelis did put out, I don't know if it was the Israelis, to be fair. Later, we did get this photo showing her injury in her head. And, you know, a head injury can be very serious. She could have suffered a serious concussion. Luckily, she's okay right now. It could have killed her.

Luckily, she's okay. But Israeli police, yes, it was the Israelis. Israeli police were the ones who released the images of the nun's injuries. And so what happened to the Israeli settler? Well, Schreber was, he assaulted another person who attempted to intervene, which is another thing that makes me not believe. this whole defense of him being in a psychotic state. So you'll notice, let's take the video back up.

I want to kind of describe what you're seeing. You'll notice that there are other people there. So you see someone who's kind of walking in on the left of the video who did not act or rush to help. Look at that guy. Couldn't care less. Just walking by, not a big deal. To be fair, it could have been a Palestinian individual who knows that if they do get

involved, they will probably get killed. but I don't know the identity of that individual. Then someone does try to intervene and they're met with violence from this psychopath. So he was arrested following this attack on suspicion of racially motivated assault. I'm shocked that that's even a charge in Israel, you know, but apparently it is. And in May, he was formally charged with this and simple assault. That was the second charge. Now he's been acquitted of those charges by the Jerusalem magistrate.

the state's court after a psychiatric assessment. So Judge Ofer Tishler accepted an assessment that came to conclude, that came to conclusion that Schreiber was in a psychotic state when he carried out the attack and had been unaware, unaware of his actions. He had no idea what he was doing, totally unaware. The district psychiatrist says that he just couldn't stop himself. And according to reporting in the Jerusalem Post, the district's psychiatrist did diagnose him with schizophrenia, and he had been psychotic for many years and lacked insight into his illness. I just don't believe it. I don't believe it because this is the kind of violence that we see play out in Jerusalem all the time. We see it playing out in the Armenian quarter, by the way. Armenians are overwhelmingly Christian. They get spat on.

Their churches get vandalized with all sorts of graffiti that says hideous things about Christians. Reporting further found that there was no conclusive evidence that specific psychotic thoughts directly caused the attack. The psychiatrist said, the psychiatrist even said this. He nevertheless concluded that Schreber's illness directly influenced his actions and that at the time, He could not understand what he was doing or refrain from doing it. It is interesting, right? Because this kind of defense gets used often. You know, sometimes you'll see someone who's clearly having some difficulties out on the streets.

But when they assault someone, they never seem like they're not in the right state of mind when they carry out the assault because they always go for vulnerable. Votable people like elderly people or women. In this case, you have an Israeli settler. Israeli settlers are known for carrying out violence against anyone that's not a Zionish Jew. And he carries out the violence, as you would expect from an Israeli settler. And we're just to believe this psychotic episode defense. I'm not believing it for one second.

Now, the court ordered him to undergo, and I am happy about this. inpatient treatment at a psychiatric hospital for six years, which is the maximum amount of time a judge can sentence someone with a mental health issue to an inpatient treatment facility. But, and this is a big caveat, he could be released at any time. If the doctors, if the mental health professionals at this inpatient facility decide, no, no, no, he's totally fine. There's nothing wrong with him. He's totally stable. Well, they could release him in a week if they want to. So that caveat's important.

The nun's attorney argued that Schreber was actually, that if he was actually experiencing a mental breakdown, why did he only target the nun? And the council on American Islamic relations care. This is an organization that Laura Lumer targets viciously when they've done nothing wrong. All they do is fight for the rights of Muslim Americans. God forbid, right? Laura Lumer can't have that. Anyway, Kerr put out a statement about this that I think is worthy of bringing up and reading. So here's part of that statement.

We strongly condemn the Israeli government's unconscionable but predictable decision to acquit and free the Israeli settler who attacked a nun from behind in the occupied West Bank, slamming her to the ground in a clear and deliberate attempt to murder her. The Israeli government does not respect the rule of law or the rights of Christians or Muslims to live freely on their own land. I like that solidarity between the Muslims and Christians here because they are both victimized by unhinged Israeli terrorists. So it's not an isolated incident. I want to give you some actual numbers to back up what I'm saying here. So Christians have been the target of more than 88 incidents of harassing.

harassment and assault in Israel so far this year alone. Okay, we're not even in September yet. 88 instances of assault, okay? Most of these incidents took place in the old city of Jerusalem, which is where this nun was attacked. In 2025, there were 181 incidents, and those incidents included spitting and verbal abuse. Remember, this is just toward the Christians, spitting and verbal abuse, vandalism of graves. Can you imagine how disgusting you have to be to vandalize graves? They also vandalize the

tombstones, statues, and crosses. We saw what they do to some of those statues just a few months ago. And as I mentioned earlier, they carry out like racist graffiti and desecration of Christian religious sites. So these types of stories are important because it pulls the wool over your eyes and helps you to understand that the defamatory statements that the Israelis make in regard to Muslims is a lie. And it's just meant to provide cover for the barbarism that they carry out against all Muslims. Muslims make up the majority of the population and not region of the world. And they live in land that the Israelis want. So they perpetuate BS about the entire Muslim population in order to get you to be okay with their slaughter of innocence.

But there are Christians in the region too. And when you see the way that they treat Christians in Lebanon, in Jerusalem, in the old city, you get a sense that this is not really about threats to the Israelis. This is about an ethno-supremicist state that's seeking to expand its borders, and they will stop at nothing to remove anyone that isn't part of the state. their supremacist ideology. That's what this is. Anyway, don't fall for the bait. Don't take it. Don't believe it. Do your own research. Don't even believe me. I want you guys to hold me accountable when I'm wrong. But on this, I ain't wrong. All right, we got to take a break. Trita Parsi joins us

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And I love it. Welcome back to the show, everyone. Well, as you know, there's been a lot of news in regard to this ongoing war against Iran. Now, we've kind of shifted away from military action and Trump is doubling down. on an economic war. If you ask me, it's mostly because he has no choice. We've depleted some of our missiles and our interceptors, plus military action wasn't really working to get Iran to behave any differently. So now there's this talk of an economic war. Secretary Scott Besson of the Treasury says that, you know, there's now a new D-Day, although D-Day came and went, nothing really seemed to happen. Here to help us make sense of All of this is one of my favorite experts, Trita Parsi.

Trita is the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft, and he has a fantastic substack that I highly recommend you guys check out. You can check it out by going to Substack, look up his name and- Treataparcy.substack. Exactly, exactly. Treata, welcome. Thank you for joining us. Thank you.

Thank you so much. So before we get into some of the latest news in regard to what's transformed firing with the U.S. military and this effort to basically hide the number of casualties. I actually want to get your thoughts on what Secretary Scott Besson announced earlier, which is that he would be implementing secondary sanctions that would impact countries that continue to do business with Iran. That includes China, Turkey, Pakistan, India. I think that he's bluffing, but I'm curious to hear what you think. I think there's a high likelihood that at least this will end up becoming a bit of a bluff.

There's a lot of bark, but far less bite. I'm not saying there won't be any bite, but far less bite. And for a couple of reasons. One, if you really want to bite, you have to go after India, China, Russia's trade. And particularly when it comes to China, I just don't see the administration doing it. Hardly because she is coming. And at the end of the day, there are other elements of the U.S.-China relationship. that you don't want to sacrifice or risk as a, you know, just for this issue.

But also because of the fact that at the end of the day, it is very much thanks to the Chinese that the oil prices never went much above 120 and never reached 150 or 200 because they dramatically reduced their demand and shifted to other sources. Had they not done that, we would have seen much higher oil prices. Now, the Chinese didn't do this to help the United States or to undermine Iran. they did so because they are very, very disciplined in following their own self-interest. And their own self-interest was to make sure that they did not suffer from the consequences of a global economic recession. So they helped stabilize oil prices in a manner that ultimately was far more beneficial to the U.S. than to the Iranians.

So under these circumstances, if Trump really wants to pick a fight, for instance, by going after Iranian oil on the high seas, the vast majority of it going to China, I mean, it would just be insane. But then again, this whole war is insane. So we should perhaps not completely rule it out. But also because I think what I'm sensing from the administration is that they're just going for some sort of a status quo in which there isn't any major escalation by either side. But they want to do something that kind of gives them the edge, certainly leaves the impression that they're in control, but not pressure the Iranians so much that the Iranians are more or less incentivized to counter-escalate. If that's the space you want to be in, if you want to calibrate it that way, then you're not going to bite a lot. You're going to have a lot of bark, but not a lot of bite. No, Trita, to be honest with you, I don't even know what the U.S. government is trying to accomplish at this point.

Like, what is the goal? Because in Treasury Secretary Besant's speech about this, he made sure to say something about regime change, which makes me think they're still angling for regime change. Iran, but on different days, they'll say different things. So sometimes it's just about the Strait of Hormuz. Sometimes it's allegedly about nuclear weapons. I mean, let's just roll our eyes at that. I don't think it has anything to do with nuclear weapons personally. But I do think that Trump is having a difficult time admitting defeat. I don't think that he is willing to accept Iran controlling the Strait of Hormuz. He's also not willing to accept that there's nothing he can do about it. And so have you even, have you been willing to accept? seen any clarity at all from this administration in regard to what they need from Iran in order

to lift these sanctions? I think you put your finger on something absolutely critical, which is what are your demands? If you take a look at, for instance, when the Trump administration on the Trump won first imposed maximum pressure sanctions in late 2018, it was combined with the list, I think was 13 or 14 points, Pompeo's 13 points. with a bunch of demands. And those demands were so outlandish.

It was very clear. The U.S. was not really looking for the Iranians to live up to those. It was just an excuse to kind of give the impression that there actually was a strategy to get the Iranians to come to, yes, but there wasn't. But this time around, there's not even a bother to have that list or have any demands whatsoever. In his press conference, it was not a mention of it. In his op-ed in the Financial Times, there wasn't a mention of anything in particular

that the U.S. was asking of Iran as a way of avoiding the sanctions. And I think this reflects something that is even more dangerous, which is there is no goal. There is no red line. There is nothing there. There's just blind anger and frustration that they believe that the Iranians have screwed him over, that they started shooting at the Strait of Hormuz. A lot of anger from both sides. Of course, both of them believe that the other one is not serious, that the other one has been untrustworthy. But this is lashing out without an objective. I'm not saying lashing out without a strategy, but without even an objective. And I find that to be very, very odd. I can't recall other examples in which you have done something, in which the US government

have done something like this. And it makes me quite worried about whether the reason for this is that the administration actually can't come to an agreement on what its objectives should be. And if you don't know what your objectives are going to be, how are you going to achieve them? How are you going to have a diplomatic engagement? How are you going to be able to tell your diplomats, okay, go and negotiate. Here are your parameters. This is the goals I want you to achieve. If you can't formulate that, there's not going to be any negotiations and there's not going to be any way out of this.

It's crazy. And obviously, everyone is seeing the impact of this on the global economy and certainly our national economy as well. And it couldn't come at a worse time, given the fact that we're 40 trillion dollars in debt. We are still bankrolling these conflicts. The 30-year bond yield is indicative of how little trust investors have in U.S. Treasuries. They don't think the U.S. government is good for it, good for the money, and probably won't be able to pay back its debts eventually because of how unmanageable our national debt is. And so you have market manipulation taking place with secretary,

you know, literally doing buybacks of U.S. Treasuries. At the same time, you have the

Federal Reserve now genuinely discussing raising interest rates when previously there was talk of lowering interest rates,

which means the cost of borrowing for American consumers will shoot up. Not good news since we're dealing with

record consumer debt in this country. It's just a complete, another disaster. And that's just on the

economic side of things. Very little attention has been paid on the human cost of this situation. So thousands killed in Iran, even though we were all led to believe, I didn't believe it, but a lot of people were under the assumption that we started this war to free the Iranian people from an evil regime. Now we're trying to starve them to death, okay? The kinetic warfare that we carried out killed a ton of innocent civilians in Iran. And then we're learning more and more about our own troops

and the actual casualties that have been kind of concealed by this administration. The Intercept had a report today, and I want to read you a few excerpts from it. They write that an additional 60 service members have been injured in the Iran War, lifting the official toll to 776 troops wounded or killed. Some 345 of these casualties have occurred since July 7th after a second ceasefire imploded. There's a government official who's anonymous. They accuse the Pentagon of slow walking announcements of casualties, probably because they know this is an unpopular war. And when Americans hear about more of their service members, either being wounded or killed as a result of this war, makes them furious, they wanted the heat on them to slow down after the really devastating attacks, that source told the intercept, referencing air strikes on U.S. base.

last month that exposed the vulnerability of U.S. troops to Iranian attacks. And so, Trita, I think what this war has done, one of the worst things that this war has done, is, and excuse my language here, I mean, we have shown our whole ass on the international stage. We are showing everyone how vulnerable our country is. Everyone knows about our depleted weaponry and interceptors. everyone knows that we can't get countries like China to abide by our demands. I've never felt more vulnerable or weak on the international stage that I do right now. I can tell you that having just come from another country and spend a lot of time with foreign

officials, it is remarkable how clearly they are viewing this as a dramatic American defeat. not a single one of America's objectives, strategic objectives have been achieved. And if you take a look at the statistics that you just mentioned, and you keep in mind that the first round of the war was 38 days, the second round of the war was 13 days, one third of it. Yet, roughly a half, if not a bit more than half of the casualties came in the second round that was only one third in the length of that war. It tells you how things have shifted militarily in the sense that the Iranians with whatever success they had from their standpoint and inflicting damage, they had clearly far more success in the second round. So it tells you what the trajectory of this is going. I think it was something else that was very important that you mentioned. You mentioned that this is economic warfare.

That is actually the same language that Besant himself used, which is very fascinating. Because for so long, I actually frankly, for all of the history of the U.S. imposing sanctions, there's been a very clear desire to make sure that this is presented as some sort of a humanitarian measure. This is an alternative to war. And something that is only hitting the governments, not the population. And a flat out denial that these sanctions actually have anything to do with the misery of the Iranian people, the Cuban people, the Venezuelan people, or any people that have been under these type of. sanctions. But Besson just clearly just says this is economic warfare. He's actually using the language of the critics of economic sanctions. And I think it's quite telling in the manner in which there is a desire to signal massive and maximal intent to destroy, to destruct, to inflict damage on the other side, without any discrimination as to whether this is hitting the government or hitting the civilian population. And in some ways, I have to say this is far more honest.

This is far more honest than when the Obama administration, for instance, talked about crippling sanctions. We're going to cripple their economy, but also at the same time said whatever economic misery is happening is because of the incompetence and corruption of the Iranian government. And the Iranian government has corruption and incompetence, undoubtedly. But to deny that these sanctions that so blindly hit the entire economy is, actually primarily affecting the civilian population is just fundamentally dishonest. And the Trump administration, bizarrely here, is actually more honest about it.

And this economic warfare certainly seems to have a bit of a boomerang effect that harms the global economy and the U.S. economy. Because, you know, while these crippling sanctions might be, might create an environment that is far worse for the people of Iran, at the end of the day, Iran still has quite a of leverage due to the control of the Strait of Hormuz. And the choke point that's limiting the supply of oil, you know, liquefied natural gas, that's clearly already having an impact on our country's economy. Inflation is up.

So it's just anyone who's under the impression that economic warfare that's being waged against Iran is, by the way, waged against Iran with no specific goal in mind, If you think that it has no negative impact on the United States, you are very wrong. It does have a boomerang effect. But I do want to ask you, I do want to ask you one question about what I personally think might be a miscalculation by Iran. Because lately, I think they've been feeling a lot more confident given the fact that, you know, Trump is defeated.

They're now threatening European countries that carry U.S. military bases. And I'm curious what you think about that, because I do think that that would be a miscalculation. I think on the international stage right now, save for the Zionists, Iran is not the country that looks like the bad guys right now. We attack them in an illegal war. They defeated us. But I think attacking European countries might change the equation a little bit. What do you think? I certainly think that there is the risk about, let me just first clarify what I think they are saying. Okay.

They're saying that any base in Europe or anywhere else that is used by the United States in order to attack and kill Iranians is seen as a legitimate target by the Iranians. And so far, that has definitely been the case when it comes to bases in Kuwait, and the rest of the GCC state. And they have attacked them and, of course, also Jordan. They have now issued a threat against Bulgaria because the Bulgarian parliament had voted in favor of allowing the United States to use bases in Bulgaria for the war.

Now, I am not sure as to whether the U.S. ended up using those bases because we've not seen any attack by the Iranians. Perhaps the Iranians were bluffing. We don't know. But I had conversations with people on that side and try to better understand exactly how serious they were about this. And the signal they were sending was essentially that they're dead serious. And when I raised the fact that Bulgaria is a NATO country, such as the European country, it's in NATO. This would be seen as an attack on NATO.

The interesting response I cut was very quick. They said, well, so is the United States. So if they're already attacking the U.S., which is the main NATO country, the idea that, Bulgaria also being a NATO country would be some sort of expansion in their view is not the case. And I think it would reflect something that we have spoken about before. The attack and the assassination of many of the senior leaders of the Iranian government have had them replaced with different people who by and large, the generalized trend is a much more radical, much more risk-willing bunch of leaders and strategists who have now demonstrated

that extensively in the manner that they have conducted this attack. As you remember in 2024, when the Israeli struck Iranians struck back, but it was very limited. They actually deliberately made sure that there were no casualties. When the US killed, when the US struck Fordo, the Iranians had somewhat of what the Pentagon called a polite response. Those days are clearly over. The Iranians have been very aggressive in their retaliations. That's why I would actually take the threat against Bulgaria quite seriously.

And to the best of my knowledge, the U.S. has not used those bases as a result. Well, I hope they don't. But I mean, honestly, I kind of agree with that assessment. If the U.S. is using military bases in European countries to carry out strikes against Iran, then, yeah, I mean, those are legitimate targets for the Iranians. Now, it doesn't necessarily mean that carrying out those strikes is a good idea. or would result in a good outcome. I don't want to encourage Iran to do that. I think the point is to discourage European countries

from getting involved in this war at all in the first place. If we flip the equation and say, let's say that the Russians were using bases in Iran or in Turkey, which obviously they wouldn't, but let's say, just as an example, we're using bases there in order to attack Ukraine. I don't think a single person or government in the West would question Ukraine's justification,

not necessarily wisdom, but justification for striking at those bases in those countries. Again, I'm not, again, would you? I certainly wouldn't want to encourage it. But I do find it to be a credible threat and should be taken very seriously rather than thinking, okay, this is just Iranians bluffing and, you know, there's nothing to worry about. I think there's quite a lot to worry about. Trita, thank you for coming on. I know that you have to go.

But thank you again. Thank you. Thank you so much for having me. Very, very valuable. Thank you. Have a good one. Thank you. Have a good one. Everyone go check out Trita's substack because he writes in depth about these issues and really gives you some incredibly important insight. So again, check them out. He's over at substack. Just type in his name and you will find his account. And everyone, we got to take a quick break. When we come back, I'm going to switch gears a little bit because I have to talk to you about the Fed Slop on X. It has been unraveling.

Someone has been identified. We're going to tell you who data Republican is and more when we come back. All right. Let's read some comments here. Let's make it make sense. Says, shameless plug. If you are in Arizona, Tanopa processing open Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 4 p.m.

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I think he's a loathsome human being. With that being said, I really don't want to get into the habit of stripping people of U.S. citizenship. I think that's not a good trend. Let's not do that. I would like him to leave and go live in Israel on, you know, based on his own decision. But I think it's a slippery slope. And I've seen how that argument has been used by Laura Lumer against all sorts of Americans.

and I find it pretty sick. So I want to be consistent on that. Fernando writes in and says, Anna, Ukraine has been hitting Russian oil facilities since 2022. You're right about that. So if there is a shortage in fuel, it has more to do with the U.S. starting a war. No, but we've been depleting our petroleum reserves since then. So welcome back to the show, everyone.

There's a story that I've been wanting to cover, but we just haven't had time. So I'm going to cover it now because it has to do with social media, how it's being used to manipulate you. And I want you to be a little bit suspicious of some of these accounts that don't really reveal the identity of the individual behind it. And very clearly are trying to spread propaganda on one side and one side only, on one issue and one issue only. Now, that's not to say that all of these accounts that are operating under anonymity are questionable or nefarious, but just be aware. And I'm going to give you one of the prime examples that unraveled this week. So let's get into it. Sorry. A popular pro MAGA account on X has been revealed to be a deep state operative embedded within the Department of War. I'm not kidding. This story is amazing and it has so many twists and turns. So buckle up.

The real question is, how did that reveal happen? And how does it provide some of the juiciest insight into the paranoid circular firing squad surrounding the current Trump administration? That's what the story is about. So the story revolves around an X account that you may have come across if you're an avid social media user, the account is known as Data Republican. And while the account boasts nearly a million followers, we didn't actually know the identity of the person behind it or the fact that the person behind it was hired by the Department of War to carry out their feds law. Okay, so now we do know the identity. The person behind it is a woman named Jenica Pounds. If you haven't heard of her, don't worry. I'm going to tell

exactly who she is, some of you might have heard of her because she was a public figure for a period of time, especially during the Doge era where Elon Musk was having his cronies come in and cut all sorts of programs, mostly programs that benefit ordinary American people. For instance, he cut down on funding for social security offices. So elderly people who need questions answered about their social security payments, you know, a system and program that they paid into, thus they are entitled to social security, they would be unable to go talk to a live person because those offices shut down, especially in states like Georgia. Well, Jettica Pounds was Elon Musk's number one lap dog in defending the Doge actions that actually ended up allowing the tech

industry to collect all this data on Americans while cutting programs that we've paid into. So that's who Jenica Pounds is. Now, she's an administration favorite. They love her, which is why they decided they wanted to hire her for the Department of War. Now, how do we know that data Republican is Jenica Pounds, well, because she outed herself in a pretty hilarious fit of paranoid thoughts. So she was, as I said, an administration favorite that the Department of Defense hired as a special employee to basically exploit her ex-following to spread propaganda. And prior to that, and up until June, she was actually a credentialed member of the Pentagon Press Corps. Now, after getting hired by the Department of Defense slash Department of War,

whatever you want to call it, as a special employee, a woman by the name of Sarah Rogers, who's the undersecretary for public diplomacy at the State Department, reached out to her and offered her a leak on a government document regarding Cuba. So basically, Sarah Rogers approaches her and she's like, oh yeah, that's right. You're our little propaganda person for X. So I'm going to leak a story to you about what we're going to do in Cuba and you're going to do what you were hired to do. Spread our propaganda.

And it's a scoop, right? By the way, this is how a scoop works. It's not just when it comes to these deep state operatives. whenever you're reading legacy media, like Axios, for instance, and they title their headline with scoop, it's a government official who is leaking something to them, but not because they're trying to do the right thing and get important information out to the American people. It's because they're trying to manipulate the American people with that leak. There's an agenda behind it. You get what I'm saying. So I want to be clear, while Jenica

pounds is gross in what she was hired to do and essentially manipulating the American people through her special employee role in the Department of War. What she's doing is very similar to what we see playing out in legacy media every day. Okay, so I want to just be fair and mention that. Now, the point of Sarah Rogers sharing this leak to her is again, to get her to put out information about it as an exclusive. But here's the thing. Jenica Pound seems to be a little bit paranoid. So this is where things start to unravel, and it's kind of amazing.

So while Pounds was initially enthusiastic, markings on the documents prompted her to panic that she was being set up. Had she published the documents, Pounds felt, she would have exposed herself to criminal prosecution. She took the news of her supposed entrapment directly to her audience. And that's when she outed herself as a deep state operative who got hired as a special employee by the Department of War. Amazing.

So in a now deleted X post, Pounds wrote the following. I'm not okay when the deep state sets you. Girl, you're part of the deep state. It's not okay when the deep state sets you up to. commit a crime. I have never been more angry in my life. Well, as you can imagine, some of her followers on X were very angry as well, not necessarily at Sarah Rogers, but at Jennifer Pounds for failing to disclose that she was a special employee of the Department of War. So Rogers did respond to her and said, to prove this isn't a trap, I will happily disclose

the documents myself. Bitch, why didn't you do it in the first place? Why did you have to, rely on a special government employee to put out information to bolster whatever agenda you have in regard to Cuba. Come on. So there are no good guys in this story. There's no one I'm rooting for if you couldn't tell. But after the Department of Defense acknowledged that Pounds was hired to work for them, Pounds wrote the following on X. I began working as a special government employee for the Department of War in July to serve the country in a more hands-on way. I just didn't disclose it with people or two people. Anyway, that was my ad. She continues. My press credentials at the Pentagon expired in June, and I did not seek a renewal of those credentials. I currently am not a member of the

Pentagon Press Corps and no longer attend briefings or events as a journalist. Now, I don't believe Pounds was every journalist in the first place, she was always a propagandist for the Trump administration. It's just that she later was officially hired as a special employee by the Trump administration to manipulate her followers with stories, documents, whatever that gets leaked to her, again, with an agenda. That's not journalism. What she's doing by being a special employee of the federal government means that she's a government operative. She is a government operative. She is a federal operative. Now, she was hired in July, and this is based on her own admission.

She was hired in early July as a special employee. So I was curious, well, what was her first order of business? What was she up to in early July? What kind of campaign did she roll out? And this really stood out to me. This is something that was brought to my attention by Mel on X, Village Crazy, According to Data Republic, she started working for the Department of War in July, and what do you know? Her first big thread after the 4th of July was a full-scale attack on Candace over Erica Kirk,

featuring that NCR report that claimed Candice was inciting violence against Erica Kirk, you know, the one pumped by Andrew Colvin. Is the Pentagon running propaganda operations against American citizens on behalf of Erica Kirk or Turning Point USA? That's the question she's asking. And I went in to see if it's true that this is something amplified by Andrew Colvitt. And it turns out, yes, he did amplify it. Wow, thank you, Data Republican, for doing this. This thread exposes how Candace and her ilk created the requisite permission structure for some lunacy to try,

come on, to try and kill Erica Kirk. That's a bit much, Andrew. I don't think Candice always is trying to get Erica Kirk killed. But put that aside entirely. I don't know if Andrew Colvitt knew that that Data Republican was working for the Pentagon as a special employee. I don't want to accuse him of that, but I do find it strange that this was the first thing

that Data Republican does after getting hired by the Department of Defense. It's unclear whether the Department of Defense put her up to this, but we should ask that question because if it is proven that this woman was used to target honestly a content creator who wants to do her own investigation of the Charlie Kirk assassination. Like what are we doing? Why is our Department of Defense focusing on something like this? And why would they put the weight of the federal government behind trying to stop Candice Owens when it comes to, you know, investigating who killed Charlie Kirk. I think that's strange. I don't know. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks that's strange,

but I do think that's strange. Either way, the moral of the story here is, just be careful of what you believe on social media. If it's an account that operates behind anonymity, you don't know who that person is. You don't know if that person's working for the federal government or is, you know, misidentific. who they are and what they're trying to do. So always, always, always double-check things. Do your own research. I know that people have limited bandwidth.

I know that it's hard, but especially when it comes to attacks on specific individuals, bold claims that could really harm someone's reputation. If it's an anonymous account making those claims, definitely double check. I definitely double check. But by the way, she's a special government employee hired by the Department of Defense. Where do you think the money to pay her comes from?

Our pockets. So we're essentially paying for our own manipulation. Fantastic. Anyway, I'm really happy that she has these paranoid thoughts because she out at herself. And I think more information about who's running these accounts, way better than less information. So anyway, everyone, that does it for the main show for the most part. We will be having a bonus episode for our members immediately after this. I'll be interviewing a Palestinian from the West Bank,

whose village was raided and set on fire by Israeli settlers. I also want to give you some information about what's happening in Kusra. That is a village in the West Bank that has been besieged for 17 days straight. And even Israeli politicians who are trying to help them have been blocked by the Israeli military. So I can't wait to share that story with you. It's super important. TYT.com slash join to become a member. I'll read a few comments from our Twitch community before we go, starting with Lake of Fox. Reminder that the sticking point in reopening the Strait of Hormuz is that Israel will not leave southern Lebanon. Thank you. I wanted to ask Treet about that during our interview, but we ran out of time.

and he had a heart out. But you're absolutely right about that. The MOU made it clear, Israel's got to leave southern Lebanon, but Israel doesn't want to leave southern Lebanon. So even if the United States, and this seems like a Herculean task, even if the United States decides, you know what, we want to end this. So let's make some sort of deal with Iran. You still have the monkey wrench that is known as Israel. And they want the war to keep going. So 81 Gina 223 says it wouldn't be defeat if he could. could just end it diplomatically. I think we need to start using different vocabulary words.

Because he's a child. I get it. I get it. By the way, happy half hour will air tonight on Twitch after the bonus episode. That's Twitch.tv.tv slash TYT to watch. Happy half hour hosted by our very own Brett Erlich. It's a lighter show, a fun show.

It's a good way to decompress from all of the bad news that we talk about on this show on a regular basis. And then finally, Jonah writes it and says, imagine a nun getting beat up in Jesus's hometown. Oh, wait. Exactly. I mean, the stuff that we've witnessed over the last several years, like, blows my mind. And there's no end to it.

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