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Episode Date: May 17, 2025

Yanni explores some of our alliances in the Middle East and wonders what will come of them. Is it just the people in power making loot and caking off?! Yaaaaaaa! Support our show: https://www.patreon.com/yannispappashour #news #comedy #comedian #comedypodcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hello everybody, welcome to another episode of the Yanis Papas Hour. How are you doing? It's been rainy here in Shanghai. It's been rainy in Guantanamo Bay or where my other studio is, which is in El Salvador. I am coming to you from the prison camp in El Salvador part-time. I'm coming to you from Shanghai part-time. A little Singapore part-time. I'm in a lot of different countries. Singapore is a very rich country. We don't think about it a lot. There's a lot of opportunity over there. As long as you

can, you know, keep your mouth shut. Don't do crime. No graffiti. And if you do go off the rails, just take a couple lashings You know, it's a good place to be and I am coming to you from Qatar. I'm coming to you from Saudi Arabia There's a lot of players on the block that got some loot now When we were kids, it was like America had some loot and then there was like, whoa, there's this communist powerful thing over there. And then everything else just, everything else just really kind of looked like Detroit now in your head.

But now there's all these different countries that just got money to just give away. They just give away their rich countries, like very rich countries. There was no Dubai when I was a kid. They built Dubai in like 10 years. built it they built it up you get into a cab in Dubai you're getting into a supercar that's a cab if you do a crime there they kill you they take your arm they kill a relative the crime rate in Dubai you know it's like zero and they built their tower with Indian slave labor you know all it's like zero. And they built their tower with Indian slave labor, you know, all those towers were built with like, just the exploitation of Indians. They're not Indians. I know it's a

little confusing to some Americans. It's confusing to me. You got South Asians, you got Arabs, they're different. The Arabs, God gave them land with oil, we needed the oil and they got rich. They got very rich. United Arab emigrants is another one I'm recording from. I'm recording, I'm setting up operations in all these places. From what I understand, there's a comedy scene in Bangladesh. I'm gonna hit it. I met a comedian who owns a comedy club in Bangladesh and he said, it's pretty good as long as you you don't say he said they try to shut him down once because of a comedian we take for granted here how crazy it is you know there was a comedian from Singapore who said something bad about Malaysian planes and

it became an international issue I don't know if you remember that and it was just a clip she filmed at the Comedy Cellar. And it was like the leader of Singapore. They almost went to war over it because she made a joke about Malaysia. So they're different countries, but they got money and they're high tech. So that is the interesting thing, right? That's where we're at.

It's like, there's these countries that have money, they have influence, they have power, their first world or second world, whatever you want to call it. They got, you know, they got a place that looks like Times Square. And that's how you know you're in a pretty good place. But like, who are they? What are they going to become? What do they stand for?

Where do they stand on human rights? Does it matter? Does it not? Because we always get into bed with certain people at certain times because we have some sort of short-term interest or we're doing this sort of soft power thing. You know, we're kind of doing a war makes for strange bedfellows kind of thing. And then it always ends up biting us in the ass. And then it always ends up biting us in the ass. It always ends up biting us in the ass Like a dog off the leash

Who's been rescued and has just a little white lady as its owner that can't control it we get bitten in the ass We got bitten in the ass by Osami bin Laden. We got bitten in the ass by Saddam Hussein You know we controlled him for a while and then he started getting out of pocket and then we had to go in there. We get bitten in the ass a lot. We like to get bitten in the ass. But it's a very complicated world over there in the desert. You know, you got your Indians, you got your Pakistanis, you got your Bangladeshis, you know, they're Hindus,

they're Muslims, and then you got Muslims, some of them are Sunni, some of them are Shi'i They hate each other, you know, we over here just go you're Islamaphobic, but you're going like, okay No, I'm actually Sunni phobic You know, do you even know? Do you even know do you even know the facts of like what's going on? Who do you think is the victim of the most terror attacks in the world? I'll tell you This is gonna be tough for you to hear well not my audience because I assume I still got a Rogan trickle down

So I don't think there's too many liberals to listen to this podcast, which makes me upset I want more of them as well But the problem with them is you say one thing reasonable or something an adult who lives in the country with a family would say, and they just throw you out of the club. It's not right. You guys are losing allies.

Not that I'd be your ally anyway. I'm nobody's ally. I'm a fucking sigma wolf. I'm a sigma, whatever it's called. I'm the guy who's alone I'm the lone ranger on a very narrow path of 20,000 listener 30,000 20,000 30,000 are a good day which is still impressive I'm still one of the bigger podcasts when you consider how many shit ones there are thank you for that by the way I'm

glad you're all out there because it makes me feel really good. I don't look great when I look up, but I look great when I look down. But to answer the question, the biggest population of victims of terrorism are drum roll Muslims. And do you know who committed it? I mean you knew that answer before I asked other Muslims. So Muslims kill other Muslims the most with terrorism. I like I get it right because you have to practice before you make the big leagues so they practice on themselves and then they go out there and they do things in Paris they do things on airlines they get out there and they do things in Paris, they do things on airlines, they get out there. No, that's a joke.

The truth is they hate each other, right? They hate each other because of some thousand year old disagreement, much like the Protestants and Catholics, whatever, some little details that change being Orthodox to Catholic, little details like Orthodox, we just we let children play in the street, Catholics, they capture them and put them in basements, little details. Sunni Muslims believe that the caliphate should be chosen by consensus, while Shiite Muslims believe it should be passed down through the Prophet Muhammad's bloodline. There are a little bit more divine right of kings, there are a little

bit more monarchy divine right of kings, and the other ones are more democratic, I guess. They want it by consensus. We need a body that elects one. So it's really that's the difference right there. one so it's really that's the difference right there so soon he's believed Abu Akbar was the rightful successor while she has believed Ali was the rightful whatever somebody was gonna be a successful Mohammed now Mohammed is unique he's unique historically and I know you get nervous right every you know it's funny as everyone goes everyone on the internet's going who can't you going, who can't you talk about?

Who can't you talk about? That who controls you? And everyone always says that about the Jews. You go on X, that's all people are talking about is the Jews. I'm going, who's preventing you from talking about the Jews? And then an international fucking music star creates the most anti-Semitic song and you're going, who's stopping this guy? Which Jewish music industry is stopping this guy? They're all because he's on the internet, he's not acting, they're banning him from these places. Yeah, you know what? It's not only offensive to Jews.

Hitler killed a lot more non-Jews than he killed Jews. There's a lot of people, a lot of countries who are not fans of Hitler, including my family. And we're not Jewish, not a fucking one ounce that could have helped me with math. Not one ounce in my DNA is fucking Jew. But you know who everyone's kind of scared to talk about when you think about it. They're scared to talk about Ellen. They're scared to talk about Ellen. You know who I'm talking about. Muhammad. Let's talk about him historically.

Muhammad is unique. And when I mean unique, I mean kind of really the only prophet or founder of religion who was also a political and military leader all in one. So it wasn't the traditional expansion of the religion like you know at the time like Jesus or Buddha or Zoroastrianism or what's some other ones? Hindus, you know, at the time of whoever the guy was, they didn't spread it the way Muhammad's. Muhammad was kind of like more like an Alexander the Great-ish person in that he was also a conqueror. So he spread via the sword. You know, they went and they killed certain peoples and they took

over lands and while he was alive And it was him who was leading the charge So he's a little unique in that way, you know this jihad was like let's go spread the word and that meant let's go conquer some lands and So that's what makes him kind of you unique Anyway, that's an aside because yeah, they fight over it. They fight over who should be the rightful leaders and they still keep going to this day. So that's why Saudi Arabia hates Iran and Iran hates Saudi Arabia. One of them Sunni, one of them Shiite and they blow

each other up and they also try to contain each other with their alliances and America, Russia, China, we all try to get in there and exploit those divisions for our own purposes, etc, etc. It's a complicated world. It's a complicated world. It's not as simple as you're Islamophobic. It's not as simple as Palestine is a state, Israel is not a state, Israel is a state, Palestinians is a state. It's not as simple as Palestine is a state, Israel's not a state, Israel's a state, Palestinians a state. It's not as simple. It's not as simple because the Jordanians are also for all intents and

purposes genetically the same as the Palestinians. So, you know, what are they? They're Jordanian. I mean, it's like, what do we call everybody? We're all human beings. Okay, we're all human beings with just different Franks and beans beliefs That keep us fighting. It's a complicated world because the Jordanians don't like the Palestinians as much The Egyptians also don't want them coming in But they don't get as many terror attacks as the Israelis Because the Israelis displaced them in the Kaifkah or whatever it's called. Whatever that's called. They took their land. They did.

So there's all these countries on the playing field now, man. You know? Is you going to bite a shini-ish? I don't know. It's always weird when I look back in history and you see like George Bush making a deal with Saudi. Remember the neocons when they used to go in there and you see just some guy in a freaking full head wrap, stormtrooper, and him and Bush, he's in a suit like a western outfit, they're just shaking hands making deals. Because these guys are caking off.

They get into office and they cake off. You say to yourself, how much does Elon Musk hate the woke mind virus? Was this about the woke man virus or was this about caking off? Because once they get into office and everyone, all the population is still fighting about the walk-mine virus guys start to cake off big time big is it a coincidence that Elon Musk started supporting the party that was gonna grant him his own city in Texas where he could save a lot of taxes as well. Is that a coincidence? Is that a coincidence that he aligned himself with the party that was gonna line his pocket the best? At best, you could call it just like a real sweet,

a real sweet side benefit. And people go, oh, he's not in for the money. He's not in for the money. I love when people say shit like that. I love when people say, oh, Putin's not in for the money. He's not in for the money. I love when people say shit like that. I love when people say, oh, Putin's not in it for the land. Like they don't understand the personalities of people. Like how did they get to be where they are in the first place?

Was it because they weren't about the money? Was Putin the Dalai Lama? Is that how he rose to power in fucking Russia? By being nice? How did Elon Musk become the richest man in the world? Is it because he wasn't about the money? He didn't care about money? He didn't care about profits?

Why not just give the Teslas away? So Texas gives him his own country. He's basically got a Vatican in Texas. The Republicans grant him that. He's setting up his factories there. No taxes, baby. Very low. All profit.

Nothing back to the people. All in his pocket to create jobs. That's all creating jobs. I'm just creating jobs and a little bit more of a profit margin. And he goes with Trump and he strikes a massive deal with Saudi Arabia for Starlink.

So that's nice. That's a nice added benefit. Saudi Arabia approves and they get some they get some more money. You get some more your marketplace increases, your markets increase. He also discussed his I can't even believe that he's ambitious. What are they even talking about? This is a good man trying to save humanity. Okay, this is Gandhi. What is it? Can you scroll back down? What did that say? That he also talked about his other, Musk also briefly discussed his other business ambition. What's the word ambitions even doing with such a light shining beacon of altruism who's just cares about the

people and and how much we're getting ripped off from our benefits that are the fraud all that what is what does this mean? Why does he even care he's got all the money in the world why would he even do that? He doesn't want to be famous, dude. It just comes with the job. He doesn't, of course he doesn't want to be famous. You know? There's nothing about him that likes fame. So what does this mean, his other business ambitions? He has other business ambitions? They're all for the benefit of humanity though, right? Okay, good. That's what he's carrying. I'm just making sure we're clear on that. Elon Musk cares about America and the benefit of American people first, right?

I'm not saying that sarcastically. I'm just asking a question. I love Tesla. I'm an investor. I got my toes in and I love the product. So it's got nothing to do with that. But at the end of the day, he's an owner of a company that sells product is what I'm saying. He wants self-driving cars, humanoid robots, Robots is key, he says are the key to future profits. So he's, he wants that to happen in Saudi Arabia. And Saudi Arabia was like, okay that's a nice thing but the robots have to pray five times a day. Are they gonna have Muslim robots that have to get down, hit the mat five times a day? Yeah. And the female robots, they're gonna be covered up. It's gonna be funny to see these non-scented beings have to, you know, just like when McDonald's goes to a different country,

they change their menu versus the, you know, to comply with the culture a little bit. The robots are gonna have to comply a little bit, so you're gonna have to see a female, a female robot kind of covered up, right? Female robot will be covered. Yeah. There will be Muslim robots, right? Yeah. There'd be robots to be Amish robots. The humanoid robots are gonna have to cover up. They're gonna have to cover up. Yeah, so there's a lot of money flying around. Trump is out there, a lot of money. Everyone, you got to give him

credit, dude. He goes up to a hundred and forty five percent tariff right and then he comes down to 30 which is still very high but people are just like thank God not even noticing it's still 30% tariff. We're still gonna eat that cost. Somebody's gonna eat it right? Right? At some point we got gotta do something. You can't touch Medicaid, you can't touch Medicare, you can't touch Social Security, we got a spending problem. They definitely can't touch the military.

That's always gotta go up. That's gotta go up. So you can't touch those things. So what do you do? Do you raise taxes on the people who you just promised not to raise taxes on and then get yourself kicked out of office? Because that's who gets kicked out of office is when you raise taxes. We need to raise taxes, but you can't politically or you get kicked out of office, right? You can try to raise taxes on the billionaires, but then they assassinate you. So you're between a rock and a hard place. You got your voter base, which is the numbers,

those are the troops that get you in office. And then you got the people who make sure you stay alive. And those are people who have billions and multi millions of dollars who say you're not going to do anything to us, right? Because the way we react is not the voter booth, we, we get you in a honeypot or we assassinate you. So don't touch my money either. So what he's doing is a sneaky thing called the tariff. Right, he's got a sneaky thing called the tariff. Where he's just going, it's a tariff against China, fuck China, fuck China, but then people gladly pay it, rich people aren't affected, right?

Like the congestion pricing in New York City, I think it's great. Doesn't affect me. I don't have to get on the subway. I can afford it. I like it. It's a little, I'd gladly play an extra $9 to be able to move a little more.

So the rich people won't feel the tariffs. They'll still be eating in their restaurants, talking like that. And then the poor people are just, you ral them up with patriotism and So they're just thinking fuck China. Meanwhile Trump is just raking in the money that they're gonna be paying for our

deficits Is that an accurate summation? Right, so it's a sneaky way to do it. It's a sneaky way I'm not saying it's I'm saying in some ways if you look at it that way, it's a sneaky way to do it. It's a sneaky way. I'm not saying it's, I'm saying in some ways, if you look at it that way, it's kind of politically brilliant, manipulatively brilliant, right? We have a spending problem. What do we got to do? If we didn't have a spending problem, would we have these taxes? Would we be that upset with China? Would we really be making a big deal out of it? Why weren't we before? You know, I don't know. Yeah, they take advantage of us or whatever. These tariffs have been there

between administrations forever. So what are we doing? So the US spends, just so you know, the US spends... Wait, go down the other one. What did the other one say? The government, what does the government buy? 13% health, 13% medicine, 13% national defense, 11% income security, 5% veteran benefits and services. So if you fight for this country, fuck you, you get nothing. 3% education, training, employment, and social services. Fuck you teachers. Transportation, if you need the bus, it's gonna be a shithole. 2%. Fuck you. National resources and the environment. Fuck you to the trees. Now go back up. So this is, but this is, who's Peter, you know, who's, who's this guy? Who's Peter Peterson? Peter Peterson from Seinfeld. Is that who it is?

Because he's, I mean, these are different numbers. Yeah, this is from the US Treasury Fiscal Data. So we'll trust that over what Jesse wants me to read. 55% of federal spending, 3.8 trillion went to Social Security, Defense, and Pay. So that's what we spend the most money on, Social Security and Defense. And you can't mess with Social Security because people like to have retirement and you can't mess with defense because defense contractors like steak we just have you know we spent a lot We got bases all over the place.

That's not managed by the McDonald's Corporation. That's managed by our tax dollars. Two hundred and something countries, bases, military equipment keeps coming in. You know, we treat them like Jordans, dude. It's like you have the, or iPhones. It's like you have last year's ballistic missiles. Have you seen these ballistic missiles? This is the updated iPhones. It's like you have last year's ballistic missiles. Have you seen these ballistic missiles? This is the updated version. Okay. It'll fall directly on the population that

you want it to fall on with precision and will incinerate. The last one would just mangle. This one incinerates. You got to get the last one. 2024, Social Security 1.46 trillion, 20% of the budget, health programs 13% of the budget, national defense 12% of the budget, Medicare 12% of the budget, net interest on debt 882 billion, 13%, health programs 13.45%. Health programs, good for society. Medicare, okay, there's gonna be a lot of fraud 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14,

14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, 14, Influence, which you could also argue is a good thing or a bad thing. It depends. You don't want to leave a vacuum for untoward actors. Personal household, household spending the year before that housing, 25,000, transportation, 13,000 personal insurance and pensions, 9,000 health care, 6,000 food at home, 6,000. God, these people are really living on a budget. I spent a lot more than I'm paid food away from home.

3000. Um, what's the total there? So the house, an average American household spent 77,000 in 2023. Um, that means you have to be making what? 200,000, 150,000 to live decent now? Wow. That's not cool. That ain't cool, dude. That's not a lot. It's not a lot left over to play catch with the kid. Not a lot to go to the ball game when you're spending that. And what's the average American make?

Yeah. When you're spending that and what's the average American make Yeah, is it as much as the Qatari royal family So there's a lot of countries out there with a lot of money and Oh My god, so we're running a deficit for people to have a good life. Not cool. First quarter of 2025, families, the medium salary was $62,000, which is an increase of 4.8 from 2024. So if the expense is to live good or 77,000 and the average income is 62, it's not good.

People need to get their beak wet. Wet the beak, baby. Why don't you take that plane that you got from Qatar and sell that shit to UAE for double the price and give it to people. How much did that plane cost?

So Qatar just gave Donald Trump a nice, big, beautiful present of Air Force One because the old Air Force One Because the old Air Force One is being updated to the new Air Force one So in the interim Qatar said we built you this great gift. So a Lot of Arabs in the region with rich countries oil rich a rab money

Which is how they got rich off of us Moving our cars our planes our wheels, our plastics. This is how they got rich. Back in the day, what you would just do, back in the day, what you would do before rule of law, you would just go over there and enslave all them and then it would be America. That's what you do before people start thinking about like, you know, what's the right thing. You know, if you just do things economically, you know, we would have no enemies because it would all just be America and their populations. Kabutzky. I'm not saying that's good, I'm just saying that's the way it used to be handled.

Now you have to deal with some prince or some guy and you go, you know, you take care of your local, but you starve your own people. You control. We'll lend you some military to help expedite and to ensure that you're able to starve your people and they don't rebel as long as we funnel the money to the certain families and corporations that, you know, make all the money from this industry. And that's what's going on. Trump's in the game. You got to understand this was a big move for him as a businessman. He is not one of the formidable businessmen

that this country has produced. He's just not, that's an objective fact. There was a one point he did an interview with Barbara Walters, where she's like, I've talked to your bankers. And he was still Trump back then, which is funny. He's like, all night drill. None of that. Just got to get mad at Barbara Walters. She's like, I spoke to your bankers. She's like, you're this is your bankrupt. Like you're spending more than you make your business aren't going good. He's just like, none of it.

But he's a guy who's tireless. The thing you gotta say about this guy, he's tireless. He never packed it in after his failures. He just found a way and that way was always his personality. He was always very good with the media, going on Howard Stern, going on talk shows. He was always hawking ties or stakes or board games, he was always doing this cheesy shit. I'm like, I'm looking at my gold toilet,

I'm dating this Ukrainian model, I'm hanging out with fucking bad boy rappers, I'm hanging out with Russell, Russell Simmons, he's down with, you know, he's just, he was a tabloid guy. He was like, he was like a reality star before there was reality television. He just was in the gossip column. And most of the money he was getting was his name because he became this recognizable celebrity was just slapping his name on buildings. But he didn't have a lot of money in it. It was other people saying slap your name on this because it'll be good for me to make money. So he was like a celebrity. He's being used as a celebrity the same way Michael

Jordan's steakhouse. You think Michael Jordan owns the majority of that? He may own half of it, a quarter of it. There's other investors. He slaps his name on it. Just like Steph Curry's shoes. He don't own whatever the company's called that never took off because the sneakers suck. fucking whatever this company's called that never took off because the sneaker sock what's it called doesn't own under armor jordan's got so big that he was able to get his own shit because it was just so undeniably phenomena still a phenomenon and makes nike of so he we had the leverage to

finally get a little ownership become a billionaire but that's trump he's a celebrity he's a gossip column athlete. And that, and he had some real estate, which he inherited. He inherited the real estate and the money to build more real estate from his dad who was a beast at real estate. And without his dad he would have been out, down, and out. He first of all, he never would have, we would not know who he is in this capacity.

And initially, he had so many failures that his dad bailed him out, and because his dad saw him as the son that was gonna take over. His dad guessed right, because here he is, now he's getting his beak fucking wet. He's got Jared Kushner in there with him, they're gonna build in Gaza.

They're building in Dubai. And you're going like, is this any of this a conflict of interest? And you're going like, I don't know, dude, who's what anymore? Who is what anymore? Right? We're on there listening to people calling, you know, the Jewish state an ethno state, but then you're going, but isn't also all the Arab countries Arab? Dude, we're not yelling at them right now. We're yelling at Israel, but you go, don't they have like 2 million Arabs? You go, yeah, but they don't have the same rights. They can't fight in the military. You're like, okay, like the blacks here are fucking disenfranchised. We're not yelling about that right now. We're not yelling about that right now.

We're only yelling about Jews. Right now, we're just yelling about Jews. When you talk identity politics, you got to say Israel's got to be the biggest violator. I mean, you know, if you're against identity pugs, how can you be for pro- You're like, OK, are they are they the only ones that have a state based on their fucking ethnicity or religion? I mean, why don't you take a fucking look at the Middle East and ask me how many African-Americans live in Yemen?

and asked me how many African Americans live in Yemen? How many Swedes? How many Germans? How many Jews live in those areas? Aren't they all? Isn't Greece mostly Greeks, Christians, what do you call it? What neighborhood do you live in? Person making that argument, do you live in a Puerto Rican diverse neighborhood or did you buy your house based on identity politics? What are we talking about? Because a lot of the people who argue

against identity politics is funny. On the right, they're also into identity politics. It's just different identity politics. They like something that identifies a little paler. They are into more of a parallel situation. They're not into a board diverse. They just want the identity to be paler. But they couch that in like, I'm against this, you know, mixing pod and lowering of standards and all that shit. Which there's some points, but let's not pretend

like we're all not hypocrites. This holier than thou shit of everyone who needs to go on the internet and make their fucking points, you know? Like they've been given the knowledge and none of them are in the fields that they're talking about. And what I mean in the fields, I don't mean like, you know, even study. They're just not, they're not in that field

It's like asking somebody how the Department of Defense works who's never worked at the Department of Defense But they read a book about the Department of Defense. It's like you can get anyone can read a book. What's your experience? I've read books about stand-up comedy. You're gonna like You know, that's that's his experience You know, that's his experience. Who has a monopoly on objective reality? No, the only thing you can say is I don't know shit. That's why Soccatrees is so brilliant and that's why I like to bring it up right now because we're living in an era of fucking sophistry run amok.

People who got a little bit of a cute mouth are just fucking seducing these morons with their bullshit. Is it safe to say that Iran also is an ethnostate, Jesse? I think so. Is it safe to say? Here's the funny thing too, on the one hand you may hear someone criticize Zionism, whatever, I'm not making a judgment, I'm just pointing it out. They may criticize Zionism and criticize Jews for wanting a state for Jews only. They may do that and then they also say we got to get rid of all these immigrants.

So you're going like, hmm, that sounds like you want to create an ethnostate. So what are you for? You're not for the ethnostate there, but you want all the immigrants out here so you can create an ethnostate here. Do you understand hypocrisy? Was that clear? Did you get what I'm saying? Right? A certain type of person will say, fucking Zionists, they want, it's not, it's fucking an ethnostate, it's fucking apartheid, all this shit, they just want Jews, only have rights, and then, and then they also go, and also domestically in America, we got to get rid of all these immigrants, all of them out, out, and you're going like, so if you get

rid of all the immigrants, all of them, which is what you want in your heart, essentially, you're advocating for an ethnostate. I'm just pointing it out. I'm not saying what I believe what I think is good, bad or what's true. I've just noticed that. Tunisia, a prominent Tunisian Jewish businessman and senator in the upper house of Tunisia's former parliament. He was active especially under president bin Ali and was a known figure in Tunisian politics. What's this about? These are Jews in government other than Israel in the Middle East. Oh we got a few. There's three. Oh there's just three. There's three. So there's more Arabs in the Israeli

government than there are Jews in the entire Middle East government outside of Israel. Yeah, we looked it up. There's about, I think it was 12% of... 8 or 9% or maybe the Israeli government are in the Knesset. Right, so they have some seats, the Arabs have seats, Muslim Arabs have seats in Israel, and in the entire Middle East, there's three Jewish people. Three. There's not a percent after that. Just three guys, which is, I'm staggered by.

I can't believe. What's this guy doing in Iran? He is the current representative of the Jewish community in the Iranian Parliament Iran officially recognizes Jews as a religious minority and by minority it means seven people That are left and reserves one Parliament to receive for them Historically, Iran has maintained a Jewish population and while many have immigrated That's a cute way to say it emigrated a few thousand remain a few thousand so basically a um there's enough to fill a Theo von show in st petersburg florida

so there's two million arabs in that tiny little fucking Israel, but there's a few thousand in all of Iran. Population 90 million. 90 million, you have a few thousand Jews. Now don't try to tie this to Netanyahu and what he's doing in Gaza. I'm keeping that separate. I understand people are upset about that. All innocent people dying is bad.

I'm just saying it's just interesting when I hear certain things and I hear people say certain things that are so, how should I say, full of shit. Like it's just so full of like, it's just the basics are gone. It's just like basics. So 90 million people and 3000 Jews. How many Christians in Iran? Well, not Christians because they're still, you know, Middle Eastern. How many non-Middle Eastern people are living in Iran? Non-Muslims? How many non-Muslims? Let's put it that way. Although ethnic, how many non-Muslims in Iran? Which is actually an

ethnostate where the government is Muslim. Same as Israel. Okay, I want you to listen to me and I want you to listen to me good. I want you to listen to me good. 98.5% which is just about as close to a hundred as you can get of the Iranian population is Muslim. Okay, the only diversity they have is between Sui and Shia. Shia and Sunni. That's an ethnostate. That's an ethnostate. I'm just saying if you're gonna call Zionism identity politics and if you're to call the Jewish state an ethnostate as a critique, you also have to mention that there's a few other ethnostates in the region as well, right? Am I wrong in anything I'm saying? Do you think 98.5% constitutes an ethnostate?

Not high enough. They should go for 99. You're right. You got me on there. There's 1.5% that are not. Still work to do. Still work to do to get the rest out. million people, 21% as opposed to 1.5%. So which one, just based on the numbers, is more of an ethnostate? I told you, I said it before and I'll say it again. The argument here is more about just quantity. It's not about really morality.

It's about quantity, right? It's like quantity. It's like force. Who's got more force? That's all it is. It's not about who's right and wrong. You know? I think if the Arabs had all the weapons

and they were shelling all the Israelis, we'd feel bad for the Israelis. I think it's just an underdog story. I think we're basically just watching Rudy That's all Palestine is Rudy. We're just rooting for Rudy The Arab citizens do in Israel enjoy full civil rights and have a right to vote in Democratic elections But they are also not allowed to join the military. They are. They do face discrimination. They do.

They do have some systematic discrimination. Um, they can't join the military, which I don't think so bad. I mean, if I was at Arab, I'd be like, that sounds good to me, dog. That sounds fine. That's fine by me. It's an area that is so... You know, I went to American University, not to brag, but what I learned there, what I learned there, I think the one thing I can take from there is that the School of International Studies there is one of the best in the country, right? My school produces so many fucking spies. dress roles, you know, my school produces so many fucking spies. I mean, it's just all about like intelligence and, um,

and I've known some people, it's a complicated world. And from our perspective, it's so monolithic to us. We think like, you know, it's, we think like you know it you just you know I'm a fucking PLO inner fighting I'm gonna chill sitting head wrap here head wrap there head wrap down here head wrap here and around there it's very there's a variation you know one eye here you you go to Afghanistan, two eyes here, full here, just a head wrap. Yeah, then you got the desert ones, then you got the Turkish ones, the Turkish ones are white. What about them as colonizers?

How come nobody mad at them? They're basically whitish. I mean they're Turkic people. They came down, they're more Caucasian. Most of them, they bred with the Arabs a little bit and whatever, but they conquered the Arabs. And they conquered what you like to affectionately call now Palestine. They were conquerors. They were colonizers. Nobody mad at them anymore because they're not there anymore. So that's the thing. But there was no big movements even at the time to get the Turks out. They didn't treat the Arabs great. They treated them better than the Christians and Jews. But the Arabs still had to pay tribute, right, because they weren't Turkish. They liked them better because

they were all Muslim, so they definitely got favorable treatment there. One of the Ottoman Empire's rules for their empire was non-Muslims could not prosecute Muslims, which basically means if you were a Muslim, you could do anything you wanted to a non-Muslim. But I'm sure within that, you know, because the Turks were the ones with the power. I'm sure there was some Arabs had some problems. The Turks are not Arab. They're not Arab. They're just Muslim. They're the same religion.

This is all kind of the complicated stuff that you need to get into the weeds of to understand this region. My point is I know people who dedicated years to study the, it's like the, this minutiae and you, you really only pick it up when you go like when I went to Scandinavia you're just thinking like they're all fucking the same and then you go there and the Norwegians and the Swedes and the Norwegians can understand the Swedes but the Swedes can't understand the Norwegians and the Norwegians hate the Swedes because the Swedes conquered

them and then the Swedes are scared of the Russians because the Russians conquered them yada yada yada scared of the Russians because the Russians conquered them Yada yada yada. It's the same reason if you go to Romania and Poland right now They're all going like we're scared of Putin and you're going like we're here going. What are you scared of Putin? Zelensky's the bad guy So everyone's got their own thing It's very complicated But in that world there was a thing called oil that was under the ground that we needed

and every country needs up until it seems now seems to be a turning point where and you got to give credit to where credit's due. Elon Musk has really pushed it forward he hit tesla single-handedly has Accelerated Solar Accelerated electric has accelerated solar, accelerated electric, he pushed it forward. He was the engine that forced all the success of Tesla and the amount of people buying those cars forced all the other car companies to create electric cars. It wasn't for morality. What is? What really

is in this fucking shit fucking planet? To compete, they were all like, we got to make our own lines of electric cars. And so Saudi Arabia probably seized the writing on the wall. Also a little lobbying from Sam Altman, a little lobbying from Elon Musk, a little lobbying from these new tech overlords who make no mistake are going to run our world for better or worse. These transhumanists, I throw you a bone Steve Bannon, I kind of agree. These transhumanists who who are trying to convince us that Armageddon's coming and we got to get off the planet in five years and go to Mars which is much more habitable.

Right? Because the funny thing is the sun's going to explode, so we got to go to Mars. You're like, isn't it going to take Mars out too? And you're like, shut up. I'm lying to the people right now. Scientists say it's billions of years away, but I'm saying it could happen in 10. Because I want funding. But the Saudi Arabians who've made all their money from oil

are probably looking at the writing on the wall and going like, we need to start investing in AI, we need to start investing in solar and in electric and all this stuff. The oil will run out one day, but even before it runs out, it looks like the world's moving forward. You gotta give credit to Tesla. The popularity of the Tesla car, it has evolved now.

God knows what it's gonna be, because I remember when I first got my Tesla, that fucking self-driver thing was scary. It'd go, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep. It'd give you alerts, like it wouldn't know what to do. Now you just go, boop, and you just watch the game. You're not supposed to. I hope I'm not incriminating myself. But you just put the game. You're not supposed to. I hope I'm not incriminating myself.

But you just put the game on the wheel and it stops. It stops. I mean, it's like a person's driving. It's nuts. So there's cars in Arizona. There are cabs. There's nobody in them. I've seen them. There's nobody driving the cars and they just do shifts and drive like regular people. So they're going like, okay we got to get in bed with somebody. Elon over here. Elon's in with this administration. Trump's coming over. Here's some tribute Don. Here is some tribute. Here's, what is it, 600 Billy? Here's 600 Billy and us all and a knob For you to help us and will help you We need weapons

We need things we Iran is right next door Give us some fucking shit and Trump's going gladly our boys love money, too So we're gonna take this 600 Billy. I'm gonna give a couple of Billy to Lockheed Martin I'm gonna give a couple of billy to Lockheed Martin I'm gonna give a couple of billy to Boeing. I'm gonna give a couple of billy to fucking Blackwater who's now called what peace leaf Give a couple the peace leaf. I'm gonna give it out to the usual suspects who love steak medium-rare right suspects who love steak medium rare, right? So they are strengthening strategic partnerships for economic prosperity. Ready? They had to pick and they picked us, which is good I guess, and that's how it works.

People are going, what about their human rights? And I get it. I do get it. And that's why I'm saying who are these people? What are we going to create? Frankenstein again? Are they going to take all this money and start enriching uranium? We've been through this before.

Who are we aligning ourselves with? War makes for strange bedfellows. What's the consequence of this? Could they be bad? Yes, they probably will be. But for now, in the real world, these countries have options. Everyone is looking to expand and get bigger. You know, it's just expand and get bigger. I you know it's just Putin just want Putin. You know if Hitler didn't start the war he's just a guy. He was just a guy just trying to right-wing German people. Who rises to power who doesn't want more? What kind of personality? You know I have comedian friends they're always going I gotta get number of biggers number of biggers, number of biggers, number of biggers.

Those are the people who usually rise in the top. And then when they get to the top, they don't go, I have enough. I've never heard one comedian go, I've had enough. They start going to the next frontier and the next frontier. So why do people think it's different with despots of all people? I'm asking you a question. Is it because they're stupid? What? I know I'm a little more direct and less surreal. I get it. I know I'm a little less diplomatic and more harsh. I can understand why some people will hate this.

But I'm asking you a question. Is that not odd to you that people believe that just, But I'm asking you a question. Is that not odd to you that people believe that just He'll just want to just a little piece of pollen He'll just want to be teeny little piece. Let's just say tiny little dispeedy piece of pollen. Then he was gonna stop Putin just String There's Russians here. It's just NATO.

Just because of NATO. He doesn't want anymore. He's made it clear. It's him. He wants no more. He's happy with what he got. He's not even looking for money. Elon Musk, not looking for money, not looking for anything.

Looking for the betterment of humanity. He's looking out for us only. Not saying that there's not elements to these people's personalities, people are very multifaceted, but I'm saying that it's so funny how they ignore certain aspects for other ones, you know? Like these people don't have ambition,

like they don't wanna grow. What's Saudi Arabia doing now? Are they just happy being Saudi Arabia? Just cool? Is that how people in power are? We're just cool. Leave us alone. We don't need anything in the United States. Peace dude. Muhammad, you know, taught us peace. They're Shi'i. We're Sunni. Sunni. Shi'i. I don't remember which one's which but we're all cool because Muhammad was a man of peace. So we have no problems with Iran and we don't foresee any problems. We don't need any military We trust in God. So this money is just a gift out of the pureness of our heart because we love America

We want to give a little money for health. We want to give a little money for AI investment We want to give a little money. We just care about the relationship. This is purely love Hug me. This is love. This is mother and son love. This is pure love with no conditions. None at all. This is just, we're just strengthening strategic partnerships for economic prosperity. But like I was saying, they have options, right? So you're saying, whoa, whoa, what about the human rights violations? You're going, yeah, I know. But if we don't, they have options. Right? So you're saying, whoa, whoa, whoa, what about the human rights violations?

You're going, yeah, I know. But if we don't, then they will. Do you want them to? Who's them? The Chinese or the Russians? It's got to be somebody. So we're over there. And we're doing that.

And you got all those countries over there Qatar doing the same thing I just here's your plane give us some weapons we want to keep people out of our foyer too we want to keep some of these neighboring countries we have disputes with out of our lands too do you remember when Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait? Why'd he do that? Why? Why is that? I remember Kuwait had some oil there. Probably had something to do with that, right?

It's a jack. It's an NBA player walking into a club with a fucking $800,000 chain on. You want it. It's a Jack move. That's why he went in. Why did we go in to defend them? Cause that's our bitch.

Not your bitch. That's our bitch. Keep your hoes, your hoes are your hoes. Don't fuck with my hoes. So now he's in Qatar and he gets a plane and there's controversy across the aisle like oh you know should he accept this? Qatar is a little bit of a complicated ally right? We did the whole thing last episode about Tucker Carlson not understanding Israel and

what an ally even means but understanding fully what it means when it comes to Qatar because We have a base there It's a complicated ally, right? I think we have a base there, but you know, I think they Hamas heads live there I think they support they funnel money through all to all types of groups that we us and Saudi Arabia You know oppose right even in what was it was in Syria or Libya? us and Saudi Arabia, you know, oppose, right? Even in, what was it?

Was it Syria or Libya? I mean, who can keep track of the fucking hummus? One's got garlic in it, one's got, one's got sun-dried tomatoes. I mean, is it Libya or Syria? There was Assad and then there was the rebels and Saudi Arabia and the United States supported the rebels and Russia and Iran supported Assad who killed all these people and then Iran and Qatar secretly

funnies money to the Houthis and Hezbollah and all these fucking hummus people. Some got garlic, some original flavor. The point is Saudi Arabia United States usually on the same side funding against that and then Iran is funding those groups and they're all firing missiles at the Jews. Right? Or in Syria they're, you know, fucking Assad and fucking Russia, it's all proxy shit, it's all proxy shit. So that's the point.

But who are these countries and what are the consequences going to be as I started out the episode? So Qatar, friendship, Saudi Arabia, again, just like the neocons, just like everybody friendship guy in a business suit, Brooks brothers just going guy in a bath sheet, shaking hands, money, planes, money for planes. boom, boom, boom. It's all happening. But there's one place he didn't go, which was very interesting.

He did not go to Israel. He did not, he snubbed them. He's starting to get a little tired of Netanyahu and say you better clean this up quick. You're losing this moral, you're losing the international PR award, You gotta figure this out. You're making me look bad. Get it done.

Get it done. Get it done. Which is very interesting. Very, very interesting. Very interesting. So when you say why are we in the Middle East at all, I just want to say, you child. You child.

You child. I mean, I remember having all these opinions when I was in college too. It was fucking, you know, you want to be an idealist. You want to have peace everywhere. We all want peace. We all want no wars. But we don't live alone on this planet. And there's people who have different philosophies than we do.

And those philosophies come from places. They were born out of places that make it very complicated to get along. You know? I brought up at one point, you know, how Islam was founded. Read into that what you will. I'm scared.

Just cackle that part out or just cut it. People are different. They believe different things. But the one thing we all have in common is everyone wants to grow and have power, right? You have a tree and then a tree under it. is everyone wants to grow and have power, right? You have a tree and then a tree under it, they both want to grow. If this tree's bigger, this one won't be able to grow because this one's blocking and taking all the sun from this one and this one will die. So that's at the heart of it. We're all string beans trying to spread and

the only ones who really don't look to spread that much, I just can't help but notice Jews and Buddhists. I'm just saying they don't do a lot of recruiting. The Buddhists, you usually come to them after you've been disillusioned with your family and your religion and you've lost everything and you're just going, I need to get my chakras right. Buddhists is usually people, Westerners who have two options, meditate or suicide. And they choose Buddhism. So they usually go to Tibet or whatever and the young girls sit there and they get over their ex-boyfriend. And that's what Buddhism is. The Jews just keep inbreeding and making more of them but they don't go and like

try to make more Jews like the Muslims and Christians they don't proselytize, they don't go conquer and try to make those people Jews. It's interesting but they also probably want to expand Israel. The Arabs want to get rid of them and expand what they have. So it's just if you take one side, you're ignoring that the other side wants the same thing is what I'm saying. And that's what makes the world complicated. You're not alone on the planet.

Peace is very easy if everyone's like-minded. But have you met people? How many times do I have to say the same thing? We're not all like-minded. But have you met people? How many times do I have to say the same thing? We're not all like-minded. We're all not like-minded. So Saudi Arabia's got their agenda. Qatar has their agenda for Qatar. We have our agenda for us.

China's got their agenda. And that agenda is more power and more money for them and a little Flick of water to their people to keep them out of their foyer and that's the name of the game wet my beak and I flick and hopefully that flick is enough to keep you out my foyer and To keep you occupied to not look how much water I got because the water is going to keep building up. The Saudi Arabian royal family has just got richer somehow and Trump is just getting richer somehow and a lot of these other

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