Cringe & Unhinged - September 10, 2026

0:00You're listening to The Young Turks, the online news show. Make sure to follow and rate our show with not one, not two, not three, not four, but five stars. You're awesome. Thank you. Well, the Young Turks, Janko Granik is very much with you guys. And just before the show started, I decided to be in a weird mood. So God knows what happens next. So on today's show, very serious

1:06topics and some fascinating topics, silly topics. They're in the news, they're real, but they're ridiculous. So first on the serious stuff, as we're going to show you in a little bit Iran, reconstituting their ballistic missiles. Oops, I thought we had them totally destroyed. It doesn't look like it. We're going to bring on an expert talk about it. Yemen has renewed its civil war, Houthis have taken huge swaths of land, including the town of Mocha. So we will explain why that is so important later in the show. And then on the lighter side, Donald Trump promises $5,000 to everyone if they win the elections. I'm just trying to see if there's a single person in the country dumb enough to believe that. God, please, I hope not. I hope not. They're people clapping after he announced it. I know. But we'll get to that. We'll get to some of the right-wing reaction. Like, oh, for God's sake. Anyways, and then finally, we've got socialists. And they say that exercise is fascism.

2:11I did fascism on the last night. Yeah, they'll take that out of context. And losing weight could also be fascist in general. So watch out. Okay. So anyways, are we going to have a debate about whether or not exercise is fascism like we did with Trump and I ended up being wrong? Oh, oh, interesting. Okay, no, I don't think we're going to have that debate. But we are going to have, we might have other debates on the show. So buckle up, everybody. Brace for impact. Let's get started. So if the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000, it will be called the Trump dividend. We'll call it the Trump dividend. Congratulations. Oh, man, they are so excited. But it's not the 5,000 laws because no one believes that. They should have picture of Hassan and his underwear. Like, yes, yes, finally. The homoerotic image they were looking for. Anyways, we'll get to that in a second in this story.

3:13This is their dumbass convention. And Trump is promising this dumbass prize, which is never, ever going to happen. But one of the things that we'll talk about is, is it legal? There's actually two potential legal problems with it. One, I think, is not a problem. The other one is, we'll get to that in a second as well. And what's the whole story here? Well, as we all know, the Republican Party is holding its first-ever convention for the midterms. And the whole point is to rally the voters, get them to show up to the polls, even in the face of Trump's incredibly low approval rating to help either re-elect or elect Republican candidates for congressional seats. And also in gubernatorial races as well. But Trump made this offer during his speech at the convention, in which he said that he would be providing $5,000 dividends or $5,000 checks to Americans if the Republicans win, and he's calling it the Trump dividend. Now, he gave no details on how it would work or how it would be funded in a country that's grappling with $40 trillion in debt

4:18in an ongoing deficit that only adds to that debt. But he did say that the money would have to be spent here in the United States. Unclear how he would enforce that, but the fact of the matter is, he's not being serious about this. That's my take. But let me give you more details. There are nearly 270 million American adults, meaning a $5,000 payout would cost the United States government some $1.3 trillion. That's trillion with AT. So Fox News' bread bear actually sat down with Vice President JD Vance to get him to kind of weigh in on some of the criticism that was already coming out in response to what Trump said. And the Vice President decided to lie to the American people. Take a look. President is bribing voters to vote for Republicans to take over the House. And then he's bankrupting the country because the deficit and debt is huge and inflation would come back if this comes into place. So how do you answer those criticisms?

5:19I say first of all, what the President is talking about is fundamentally a dividend for American workers. We're taking in an extraordinary round of revenue because the President of the United States is actually standing up to both foreign companies, but also foreign countries who have been taken advantage of America's workers for pretty much my entire life. Those penalties have generated a lot of revenues. They've helped us pay down debt. What the President is just saying is, if you keep it going to the American people, if you keep us in power and allow us to continue to do these things, then you're going to share in some of the benefit of this incredible wealth that weren't we're creating in the United States of America. Does this sound like you? You're lying in bed, and suddenly you realize it's 2 a.m. and you've been doom scrolling for hours. That late night doom scroll doesn't just wreck your brain. It spikes your internal temperature. And when you're overheated, your body never hits that deep restorative sleep. The fix isn't in a new mattress or a renovation. It's your bed temperature. That's where chili pad 2.0 comes in. This water-based topper slides right over your current mattress and runs from 55 to 115 degrees. While fans just

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7:41$300 billion can not fund a $1.3 trillion payout and distributing funds requires congressional approval. Previous cash dividend promises were also never delivered, including the 2025 Doge dividend and proposed $2,000 tariff rebates. In fact, Senator Bernie Sanders really wanted to emphasize all the broken promises from Donald Trump. Similar broken promises from Donald Trump in the past. Yes, the Doge dividend checks, that was a lie. The $1,000 checks for repealing the Affordable Care Act. Do you remember getting that check? Because I don't, because it never happened. A 10% cap on credit card interest rates that ended up being a lie. The lowest drug prices in the world, another lie. $2.00 a gallon gas? Are we out with gas? Not $2.00 a gallon. It's actually more than twice that. It's over $4 now. Yeah. And it's a dollar more than it was a year ago. And don't worry, he says it'll come down

8:46immediately after the election. Right. Right. Okay. Hold on. Now look, I want to be fair because naturally many Democratic voters saw that. And they're like, well, he's trying to bribe voters. This is wrong. This is illegal. I just want to be clear that Democrats have made similar promises. For instance, Democrats in Georgia promised $2,000 relief payments if they're party to control of the Senate at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. If you guys can remember, it was the special Senate elections that took place in Georgia that year. And Biden seemed to make good on that promise to some extent. It ended up being $1,600 checks instead of $2,000 checks. Now Robert Moran, who's a former Republican strategist and a current pollster said that Trump's pledge should be seen for the BS that it really is. Now, he didn't say it that way. Here's what he actually said. It is an extraordinary promise. And I'm not sure where that money is going to come from, but it's campaign season. Meaning, it's campaign season and you should expect our politicians

9:53to lie to you. Okay. In other, the other thing that Trump accomplished during this convention was one of the best promotions for nuclear weapons imaginable. But before we get to that, let's do a little with the $5,000 dividend claim. Yeah. And we are going to get to Haasen his underwear, right? Yes, that'll probably be in another video. You guys are watching this after the live show. Hi, see okay. Hey, watch the live show six to eight PM. You'll get old underwear pictures you need. Money through Friday. Okay, seriously, there's a lot of things going on here. First of all, he's like, yeah, I got to spend it here. Okay, cannot spend it in Canada, which apparently is our number one enemy now, or Germany or China. Now, he didn't mention Israel, because of course, if you want, you can take the whole $5,000, give it to his. Don't even spend it, just give it to them and go, like, you know how like charities are like, how many kids, how many orphans can you say was in Israel? How many orphans can you make with this $5,000 offer? So okay, but more importantly and relevant to us here, $1.3 trillion is a lot of money, right?

10:57So we can't afford that, that's crazy. But I want you to remember that they're proposing a defense budget that's one and a half trillion dollars, even larger than that. We also cannot afford that. Correct. And if you said to me, take one out of the one and a half trillion and give it to the Pentagon or give it to the American people, that's a no brainer. I'm going to give it to the American people right away, which leads me to what Anna referred to there. No, no, no, saying that, hey, I'm offering this money if we win is not a bribe, that's not illegal. Okay, so Elon Musk, I know some of you, some of the members are writing in like, Nerd Ferguson did, etc on TYT.com. Well, have an Elon Musk. Well, that's a little bit different, and that was a very arguable case. That's a really interesting case. But he was kind of doing it to get them to physically vote, whereas Donald Trump is being a campaign promise, right? And campaign promises are normal, as they're the most normal thing in the world, they're not remotely illegal. And by the way,

12:00for progressives, we don't do what Fox News claims, like, hey, vote for us, how long have you ever checked? Like, it's literally what Trump just did, right? So he's a blunt instrument, etc. No, we're talking about policies that help you, right? So we're not going to give you the money, but we want to increase minimum wage because that increases your wages, and it pushes up wages for everyone else. We want to give you paid family leave. But those are not bribes, those are policy positions that help you, instead of corporations, foreign governments, etc. So overall, you can, there's no reason why you couldn't do a amount back to the American people. Now, Trump has, Anna pointed out, has never delivered on any of those promises. You remember the 1776 promise? All because of, you know, our 250 of that, a burst, I'm going to give you $1,776. You promise that every citizen, he promised it to the better, to the soldiers, he's given it to no one, he's just giant, giant liar. But there is a, but it is legal. But there is one potentially illegal thing, which is he's like,

13:01oh no, it's okay, I don't need congressional approval. No, you definitely, you need congressional approval. You need, you need, so look, I know he's never read the Constitution, but I don't know, does anybody, like, to be fair to the people who voted for him, a third have already broken off. And now you see it in the polling, right? The polling is like, no, no, no, we're done with this guy, right? But the two thirds that remain, I mean, can you, like defend them in any way, shape or form? Do you really, are you really that gullible that you think for the billionth lie in a row? You really think he's going to send you $5,000? I mean, you've got to be a world class sucker to believe that. But also, doesn't it bother you that he doesn't care about our Constitution at all? Congress passes spending bills, Congress, Congress, Congress, it's not unclear. It's one of the clearest things in the United States Constitution. If the president gets to spend any money he likes, he becomes king. Won't you oppose to that at some point? Don't you care about the Constitution? I think, look, you're making a legitimate point

14:04about what is constitutionally allowed. Congress controls the purse strings. That's their role in the system of government, in the system of what's supposed to be checks and balances. Everything feels and I think to some extent is fake. Like, everything just feels like BS because there is no enforcement of actual constitutional violations. So look, can Trump actually do this on his own? You know, literally no, he can't because you do need Congress to allocate the money for something like this. That being said, as much as I would love to receive a check for $5,000, at the end of the day, I care about the future of the country a lot more and we do need to pay down our debt. We do need to cut spending. Let's start with the Pentagon, okay? There's all this talk about like, we need to modernize our military. I agree actually. How about we stop spending money on these like antiquated carriers or these military bases that just end up being targets in the

15:09middle of our conflicts as we're experiencing right now in the Middle East? That's an incredibly expensive thing to maintain. You can do away with that. Maybe we focus more on ballistic missiles and drones. Yeah, guys, two important things here. First of all, of course, Anna's right about the money we waste because right now we'll tell you a little bit later in the show, super worried that they're going to sink one of our ships. The two ballistic missiles are on fire towards one of the ships. Apparently it was a super close call. And as experts have said, well, what if they send four or 20 ballistic missiles next time? So as I'll explain later in the show, we're cooked, okay? So building more aircraft carriers is beyond moronic. The only reason they do it is to rob you of your money and give it to their donors, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, whoever builds their aircraft carriers. But there's the second thing. If we didn't spend a trillion on the defense supposed to extra trillion on the defense budget, well, we get to keep it. You see what I'm saying?

16:11If they give you, because that's the taxpayers of money. If they give you 5,000 dollars, since we're in massive debt, we'd actually have to borrow the money. Exactly. So we'd have to borrow from China to give to ourselves. Japan these days. Yeah, both, both. Japan historically China more these days. And so we have to borrow the money, pay interest for the rest of our lives to give it to ourselves. That doesn't make any sense. Why don't we just keep it and not pay the interest to China and Japan? So it's just moronic in 8,000 different ways. And look, it might surprise you when I say I'm a fiscal conservative. You're not a long time viewer of the show. But I have called this out under Democrats and Republicans. When they say deficits don't matter, that's just not true. It's not even close to true. It just doesn't understand economics at all if you say deficits don't matter. They matter a lot. And I don't want to keep piling up deficits. And I certainly don't want to do that for nonsense programs and 98% of what we spend our money on. Helping corporate donors and helping foreign

17:15government donors. And remember, after the Supreme Court ruled that Trump's trade wars and liberation day tariffs policy was unconstitutional and that these companies, US based companies, would have to be reimbursed for the tariffs. They were reimbursed for tariffs. I just heard a report today about American Eagle, one of the clothing brands in the United States. They were able to bolster their revenue for investors, when they have the investor calls and everything. But a lot of the money that bolstered their earnings came from the tear of payback. And the American people, the American consumers who actually ended up bearing the burden of those tariffs because it ends up being a tax that's passed on to consumers. Did we get any money back for that? No, of course not. So it was a way of redistributing wealth from ordinary consumers to corporations that are already doing pretty damn well given the tax cuts that they received under

18:16Trump, given the fact that they were reimbursed for the tariffs that at least partially we paid for. It's just- Yeah, so that adds a second element of absurdity to this and this is important. So it's not like Trump didn't have the opportunity to give the money back from the tariffs in the first place. He says he's going to get the $5,000 to give to all of us from the tariffs. The Supreme Court already ruled that he has to return the money from the tariffs. So I don't even know why we're having this conversation, but so he returned $100 billion already and that's why you got to check- Oh no, you didn't get a check and neither did any of us because he gave the $100 billion directly back to the corporations. Why? Because you didn't donate to Donald Trump or if you did, he thinks you're a sucker and you didn't donate a big enough number. But all of those corporations gave to Donald Trump. So Donald Trump's like, oh, $100 billion, I'll lie and say I'll give it to the American people. And the Supreme Court said he could give it to anyone he likes. He just has the return to the term money and we're the ones who spend it. And he's like, I'm not going to give it to the stupid people. They didn't give anything to me, they didn't give me millions. These corporations

19:17gave me millions. Here, here's a hundred billion back. So he's a proven liar. All right, since I promised it, we'll end on this video featuring Donald Trump. Letting the entire world know you must develop nuclear weapons immediately. Take a look. Calling the Supreme Leader. And I'd be saying, Mr. Supreme Leader, how are you, sir? Is there anything we could do for you as opposed to bombing the crap out of them?

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21:22code TYT for 20% off. I would try to develop a nuclear weapon immediately. Yeah. Look at what was that? That was painfully stupid. Like, you're encouraging them to do the thing we don't want them to do. I mean, we've told you a military has verbal diarrhea. They, I'm sure that the officers who advise and from the military have told them, sir, we can't attack the countries that already have nuclear weapons. I mean, we'd love to attack everyone on behalf of Israel, but some of them have nukes and we can't do that. So we've got to attack them before they develop nukes because that way we can steal their oil, we can make Israel happy, you can make all your donors happy. But we got to make sure that they don't go in that direction so that we can do illegal wars against them. Right. So they want to have a deterrent. And so I disagree with you. I actually think it would have been better if they did have a nuke. I don't think we would be involved in this war at all. Well, Donald Trump just, that's right. So he reinforced your point. No question. He just said that Anna's right. If Iran had a nuclear weapon, we wouldn't be in this war.

22:24We would, the straight of Hormuz would be open. We wouldn't have wasted a hundred billion dollars so far on the war. We wouldn't have going high gas prices, etc. So apparently there is one thing that even Israel can't get past, which is San Antonio and Seattle getting nuked, right? So Trump just told the whole rest of the world, you better hurry and develop nukes as quickly as you can, which is so counter to our interest. But he's too stupid to know to keep his mouth shut about that. And of course, the last thing is that he is best friend, Kim Jong-un. The one he said he literally fell in love with, a communist dictator in North Korea, built eight nuclear weapons while Trump was in his first term. They had none when Trump came in and they built a giant nuclear fleet. Why? Because they wrote Trump a nice letter. No, no, no. Trump started writing the love letters back and forth after the nukes. That's what happens. You build the nukes. Trump goes from talking about his big button and how he's going to annihilate you to, we wrote love letters to each other.

23:26But why didn't we attack them before? Because North Korea is not next to Israel. So we didn't have a reason to attack them. I don't want to attack them. I don't want any of these wars. But if you'll notice, outside of Venezuela, which is a very specific case where we knew at an inside person who could get us the president, basically for free, and we get all of their oil, outside of Venezuela, every war has been for the benefit of Israel. That's why we're like, oh, North Korea, all the nukes you want. It doesn't matter. You're not next to Israel. We have not been ordered to attack you. Now, we are going to take a break when we come back, the Hassan Piker scandal, which I believe proves a large portion of the Republican elite are gay. We'll be right back. Why? I'm going to read these. Blindless go to members on TYT.com. CBW says, yeah, you can promise

24:38anything when you have no intention of following the through. It's Trump 101, totally right. Theta goddess is champion in a weird mood, the equivalent of having the zoomies. I think it's weird. I actually don't know what the zoomies are. So maybe I'll get educated on that in a little bit. Radical Republican 1854 says, the left are their own worst enemy. I can't believe exercising and being healthy as fascism. Apparently losing weight also fascists. Yeah, you'll get those clips in a little bit. And by the way, remember, it's not the left. It's a tiny, tiny, tiny minority of the left. Again, we'll discuss. Guber Dragon Cat says, 5,000 plus gas will go down and your energy bills will be cut in half and the world will be one. Yeah, all right after the election. Those are all promises he actually made. And again, I mean, I kind of want to meet the people who believe that because I'll just tell them, hey, give me a thousand dollars and tomorrow you'll be 10,000. And then they'll just give me the money right away and then I'll never see them. Like you just take their money, you can take their house, take anything you want because they're so incredibly gullible. Pessimistic Progressive says, wait a minute, I just give the Israelis

25:42idea. They're like, what if we took a people without a land to a land full of people who will give us anything we want? Hmm, anyways. Pessimistic Progressive says, want to give everyone 5,000 dollars, cancel the memorandum of understanding to Israel and all the corporate subsidies worth around $300 billion, give that directly to the people annually. You literally could do that. And that would be great, but they won't because Israel's superior to you. At the gravel put says, the 5,000 dollar thing has major running for student council president energy. LOL. LOL indeed, that's really funny. Nice job. We'll be back. Back on the young Turks, Janky and I'm gonna

26:50experiment with you guys in cheesy finger 79, gifting five memberships on YouTube. We appreciate it. Doritos. Oh, for me football season is Doritos season. So I got my fresh bag in Doritos and opened them last night in the first NFL game. Loved it. All I meant I was checking out the Republican midterm convention. At least you weren't engaging in fascist workouts. I know I was doing neither. I was eating his sub and having Doritos and go, all right, anyways, let's keep going. Your public has had a convention for the midterms. I guess it's mainly a Trump show, but it turns out no, wait a minute. My nephew was involved. The soundpiker with a big, big showing in his underwear and Republicans apparently loved it. Let's tell you all about it, Anna. Okay, so if you were at the first day of the GOP midterm convention and you were paying particular attention to the jumbo tron, you might have seen this image. Let's take a look.

27:51So that is Jank's nephew, Hassan Piker, and he appears to be in his underwear. Now, it turns out that it was actually part of a video that the event displayed on the jumbo tron. And I want to give you a little taste of what that video look like. Take a look. Okay, okay. The only thing funnier than that, I mean, I would have died. If we were there, we would have died. That's hilarious. Okay. But the only thing that was more funny than that was Hassan's reaction to it. So here he is reacting to it once he realizes it happened. Take a look. Oh, oh my god. What is going on? No, no, no.

28:57No, no, no, no. Shot. Oh, oh, oh, my god. They blurred my penis. It gave me Fox News complaining about spring break vibes. Oh, yes. Okay, I don't think they do this anymore, but this is like oldie book goodie. They used to have like the b-roll, meaning like video playing while the anchor would like Bill O'Reilly, especially like, can you believe these young spring breakers scantily clad and you like all these women like boobs bouncing around and everything. Yeah, yeah, they loved it. They love it. They love it. They love to wag their finger while loving it. Their finger. So, you know, Sean Hannity's the thing about. He used to do it every spring, break. Look at these terrible liberals. They're like, women with their chest out like this.

29:59Are they all liberals? Are you kidding me? A lot of them are conservatives too. Like, especially the ones in Florida, like with spring break in Florida, you think they're all liberals? Come on. Yeah, I mean, speaking of underwear, the most of their older male audience there was watching that stuff in their underwear. And so, like, and but what's interesting about this one is like, it had, they're talking about communists. And while our communists known for being posing in their underwear, like, it had no logical connection to anything. Other than, I guess they thought it was a thirst trap for the people attending. Well, why don't we talk about that? Okay. So naturally, what occurred led to what the internet does best, memes. And this is why I don't quit the internet because these memes are hilarious. Let's start with the first one. Let's go to graphics six here. Lindsey Graham's ghost. Totally. Okay. Now that he's dead, by the way, can I just say, there are mainstream media with all the, oh my god, this guy's tattoos and that one's uncle

31:04and that one's cousin and now we're gonna attack everybody. Do you know that everyone in DC knew that Lindsey Graham would be carried out a gay bars at night, like regularly. And all the reporters knew and they never reported it. So I- Because he's for war in Israel. I know. So you had to protect him and never, ever invest the data. Why was he so staunchly defensive about Israel? Why was he such a big supporter of Israel? Was it genuine or what did Israel have some dirt on him that they- But by the way, so that's totally, is that possible? 100% possible. If you think it's not possible, you're a giant sucker. Oh yeah, no intelligences. He's never used honeypot operations or blackmail. Never. Well, you're the only ignorant person or reporter would say that. But Anna, Israel had the goods on him. I'm sure, right? Everyone had the goods on him. But so did everybody else, right? No one's opposed New York Times and they're like, no, no, no, no, no, he's wonderfully corrupt. Do not report anything negative about him. And by the way, being gay isn't negative.

32:07Being against gay people and against gay rights while being gay is the actual problem. But mainstream media would never dare touch one of their beloved insiders. Yeah, and look, after Lindsey Graham died, there's a YouTube channel. I believe it's called Soft White Underbelly. I could be mistaken. But the content creator interviews, all sorts of people, sex workers, drug addicts. And he interviewed a transgender escort who never came out, was never public about her rendezvous with Lindsey Graham. But after he passed, she did. And was very detailed. Apparently, they exchanged text messages, which is how he was able to confirm that she's not full of it. She's not making this up. But anyway, let's move off the uncomfortable discussion about that and get back to the fun memes, including this next one featuring a well-known conservative commentator, content creator, Benny Johnson.

33:09When he sees it, I just thought this was hilarious. There are rumors. Rumors have been made. I don't know how true those rumors are. So I'm going to move off of it. I do. Okay. But this was my favorite one. Let's take a look. Hassan Piker Haters, when they see Hassan Piker, it's like a little character wearing an APAC hat. And he has like an angry, like disappointed face. And he also has a boner. Yeah. I look, there's just no reason to show that picture unless you thought it was appealing. And now, how jazzed is Hassan? How jazzed is he? Because like, honestly, they're like a giant PR machine for them. They really are. They really are. I mean, they posted a photo of him looking, by the way, what made him think it was a good idea to post that picture online? Well, apparently it was because the Republicans loved it so much. Now maybe he's going to have a lot of right-wing fans. It ended up being a win. But it's just, I don't know. I don't know if I would post something like that, but it's different for women.

34:11I know, but it's such because he didn't get the note from the socialist that fitness is fascism. I wonder what they think of him now. No, I thought about it. We'll talk about that later in the show in that story. I'm not joking, I thought about that. But to be fair, now I remember the connection to communism. Maybe they were referring to the hammer and sickle. Okay, okay. Final, final meme. Let's take a look. This one features Republican lawmaker Tim Scott. It says, Tim Scott saw this and damn near tour his shirt off. Now you might be wondering, what is this a still image from? Well, I'm about to show you. Let's take a quick look.

35:12I will not grow weary. Are you with me? I said, are you with me? We will keep the majority. Will you? Will you keep the majority that came across as a bit insincere? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We love the things that happen in our culture. Put up our songs underwear again. We will make America nearly naked again. Okay. What culture are you referring to that people like? All right, keep going. By the way, did he ever wind up getting married? I didn't see a ring. Because the only time I ever heard that was when he was seeing a running for president and all of a sudden there was a Mrs. Tim Scott potentially. And then now she's out of the picture. What is it? Who knows? Maybe their self. Maybe their self Carolina. Maybe they're still engaged.

36:14And the wedding hasn't happened yet. Maybe that's the reason why we haven't seen a ring on his finger or anything like that. We'll see. We'll see. And honestly, I don't care. I think it's pathetic. If you might be gay, we don't know for sure, but that's the rumor. And you're literally, like, prancing around with a beard in order to try to get elected to public office. It's gross. Don't do that. Just be who you are. Anyway, let's move on to our next story. You ready? All right. Now we get to substance because there's a lot going on internationally, especially when it comes to the Houthis. Jank, take it away. Let's roll it. With fists raised in the air and shouting, God is great. These Houthi rebels are celebrating amid reports the group has taken control of the Red Sea city of Moucchah. The move gives the Iran aligned fighters further leverage over the Babel Mandib street, one of the world's most important shipping routes. An advance would enable the Houthis to strengthen their ability in threatening maritime navigation and restrict the energy exports of Gulf states.

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39:23port town of Mocha. And this victory is huge for the Houthis due to the geographical, like location obviously, of this historic port city. Now, in order to really fully understand and grasp that, let's take a look at a map and why this is so important. For the purposes of the Houthis, take a look. Mocha is located on the Red Sea coast, making it a gateway for maritime trade. It's also less than 80 kilometers away from the Babel Mandab straight, where the Houthis are trying to gain more leverage. These are the latest images, which appear to show Houthi vehicles in the city of Mocha. The group has intensified attacks targeting Yemen's western coast in recent weeks, and attempt to take control of the entire Red Sea coastline. Okay, so why is the Babel Mandab straight so important? Well, the Babel Mandab or the Gate of Tears, as it's called, named for its perilous navigation conditions, is the southern

40:24outlet of the Red Sea between Yemen and the Arabian Peninsula and Djibouti and Eritrea on the African coast, making it a major prize for the Houthis who control Yemen's most populist areas and much of the north. It is one of the world's most important roots for crude oil and fuel from the Gulf bound for the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal or the Suez Mediterranean pipeline on Egypt's Red Sea coast, as well as commodities bound for Asia, including Russian oil. So this essentially gives the Iran-backed Houthis a lot more control and power in regard to the flow or transit of oil and incredibly important commodities. Additionally, the port of Mocha will offer them a new stream of revenue, which is a pretty big deal when it comes to consolidating power for the Houthis, and they now have direct oversight over the Babel Mandab straight because

41:25they can implement a blockade. What we've heard from the Houthis since this developed is that they intend to allow for vessels to transit through the strait with the exception of the Saudis, which I think is obvious, I think we could have expected that. Now, here's more on how the Houthis have now increased their leverage through capturing this port town. Take a look. The southern Red Sea and access to the Gulf of Aden and access to Manator, the shipping that's coming through the Arabian Sea and even the Indian Ocean. What we can expect is the biggest advantage that the Houthis have right now is taking the city. Basically, they cut off three main supply lines, three main supply routes for the internationally recognized Yemeni government. They cut off the main road that leads between a Mocha and there is a main road. This was the

42:26lifeline for the internationally recognized Yemeni government forces station and Tahriz. That has been cut off with the takeover of the city of a Mocha. It also cuts off the other supply road that feeds and reinforces Yemeni government forces in itself of a Mocha in places like Aden and also in areas of Lahj and Aden and further south. Okay, so this is a pretty big deal and after that was reported, the Houthis only continued to advance. So before I talk about how they've advanced land-wise, let's just discuss something else that they did today. So it looks as though the Houthis possibly struck the east-west pipeline at several points both this morning and later this evening. So it's a Saudi pipeline that runs across the width of the Arabian Peninsula to the Yanbu at the Red Sea. And it was specifically built during the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s in order to bypass,

43:33for the Saudis, to bypass the straight-of-hormouse because it was dangerous to try to transit through the straight-of-hormouse during that war. And so the straight that we're talking about, the pipeline that we're talking about here that was struck, these were the go-arounds in order to keep the flow of oil going, regardless of what happens in the straight-of-hormouse. Now, the straight-of-hormouse is still incredibly important, but the idea was to have a work around for the Saudis, which has now been basically destroyed by the Houthis. Okay, so this is a really, really big deal and that's why we're starting to see it reflected in the price of Brent Crude. Now, NASA's firms detected fire less than an hour ago and satellite images showed a significant plume of black smoke over the south of Medina indicating that the pipeline was struck. Additionally, when it comes to other advancements by Ansar Allah, better known as the Houthis, the Houthis have reportedly seized Zooker Island in the southern Red Sea following rocket attacks and a ground

44:38assault using boats carrying armed forces. So, seizing this island gives the Houthis major military leverage over the Babal Mendebs straight and that is the vital narrow water passage for global trade and oil. The island sits directly in the southern Red Sea near the Babal Mendebs, where about 10 to 12% of global shipping and huge amounts of oil passed through daily. That is a big deal and that was reported, the sourcing for that was the AFP and BBC. So, what happens now? Okay, well, Tariq Saleh, who is the nephew of the assassinated Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh, said on Thursday that he directed his group, remember, these are the Saudi-backed Yemen military members, right? He directed his group on the West coast to establish an alternative command center in a safe location. So, the Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces and their allies were supposed to relocate to an area known as Dubab,

45:40which sits directly on the straight across from the island of Perim. But Ansar Allah took that over too. So, yeah, the Yemeni forces had said that control of the Dubab and the island that the Houthis have now taken over is key to gaining hold of the Babal Mendebs straight. So, it doesn't appear that that's going to happen. Look, guys, I'm not a genius. I just, I have pattern recognition. I speak to actual military experts to figure out what's going on, what's possible, what's impossible. And here's what I know. I know that President Donald Trump pulled out of the war against the Houthis. He just gave up. And the reason why he gave up is because we, the United States of America, with our fancy military and our fancy weaponry, were unable to defeat the Houthis. What made anyone think the Saudis would be able to defeat the Houthis? Yeah. So, a lot to get to here. Number one, why are the Houthis winning so easily? So, there's

46:47the official government of Yemen that they're fighting against. Those are real forces that they were locked in a battle with for over a decade. But now, they have so much popular momentum on their side, so much energy on their side. Because think about it, guys, the other side is back by the Saudis and the Saudis are allies with Israel. Like, you might not know that if you watch mainstream media here, because they make it seem like, oh, what a big deal that Israel is allied with the Arabs. See, they're not racist, they're wonderful or whatever, right? How are they want to spin it? But the reality is, the they've been allies for a long time, because the Saudis are dictators who oppressed their own people, and Israel helps them oppress those people. And so now, the Saudis have been attacking Yemen for a long time. And by the way, ironically, some of the Israelis will then say, like, did you guys criticize them? Oh, yeah, we did. Go back and watch the clips of us saying, this is a terrible war. We shouldn't be supporting the Saudis. What they're doing in Yemen is totally unacceptable. But so, no matter what you think of that conflict, on one side, you have a bunch of popular forces, whether we like it or not,

47:52who are saying we're opposing the Saudis, who the people in Yemen hate, because of the giant war. Plus, we're doing this to oppose Israel. That is a deeply popular position in Yemen. On the other side is we're doing this to help a couple of dictators in Saudi Arabia. You've probably seen our band in the UK shirt, the one we dropped after the UK government, tried to silence the sun on me. And thanks to our partners at Shopify, we were able to get that shirt up on Shop T or T quickly and painlessly. We've been running our store through Shopify for a while now. And if you're thinking about starting your own business, whether it's your own merch, a side hustle or your dream project, Shopify is the place to do it. Here's what I'll tell you straight up. The checkout experience matters. People are impatient. If you're checkout sucks, you'll lose the sale. Shopify's shop pay is the fastest, easiest checkout on the market. One tap and people are done. It saves shipping and payment information, so customers don't have to type it out. It's good for them. It's good for you. That means more sales less friction. And when we were just getting started,

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50:03not racial, but religious divides, sectarian divides, etc. But overall the Houthis have huge momentum. Number two, it's important that you know that the Houthis didn't do this out of nowhere. They had sent a delegation that was coming back to Yemen and the Saudis bombed the airport and kind of restarted hostilities. And I guess in their infinite arrogance, even though they couldn't beat them for over a decade with so much more money and firepower, they still thought like, ha ha, we could show the Houthis and we'll boss them around. And it turns out, no, it's not so easy to boss the Houthis around. So now they're getting blowback from it. And of course those guys hated the Saudis to begin with because they've been killing them for over a decade in the past. And so now you get to, how is this going to affect us? Well now if we've got not just a straight-o-hormouse, but the Red Sea blocked off, that's two giant routes for oil, fertilizer, and so many other goods to get through. And they can't get through. And not only

51:04the ones that start at the top of the straight can't get through, but now the Saudi oil can't get through either. But on top of that, they're bombing the oil pipelines in Saudi Arabia. That's why oil is skyrocketing. And remember, they were barely keeping the price of oil together with duct tape with Trump's and Besson saying every other day, oh, Danny second now the war's almost over. The gas prices are going to go away. It's going to be like $2, $3 at most, right? And the idiots in Wall Street are like, oh, oil's going to go down soon. Okay, so now that everything is blocked and all the oil pipelines are getting hit, they're like, oh, Trump might have been lying. I guess they're like the last people in the country to realize that. I mean, is it guys, ask yourselves this question because it's important and we need to really consider what our values are. Isn't all of this worth it to help Israel out? And special ally. And you're higher gas prices. And so commend because you're going to be around for a while, because later in the show,

52:08we're going to share really important article saying that we might stay in the Iran War all throughout Trump's turn, right? So that's years more war. That means years more those two routes being blocked. That means gas prices are going to be astronomical. That means more. This is the tip of the iceberg. We haven't even hit the iceberg yet. Now, you're totally right about that, Cenk, because the longer this war goes on, the more instability you have in the Middle East, the more likely it is that more oil and gas infrastructure gets bomb to smithereens. And that's not an easy thing to fix once the war is over, right? This is a complete nutter disaster. Now, one other thing that I want to show you is well, much like we experienced with the Taliban in Afghanistan, with the Houthis now being victorious in these areas of Yemen taking control. They now have access to the tanks and weaponry. Let's take a look at the footage of this. These are the US supply tanks that were given to Saudi Arabia to try to fight off

53:13and also the Yemeni forces to try to fight off the Houthis. Now, the Houthis have access to all that weaponry and these tanks. So congratulations, everybody. But this is what happens. You play dumb games, you win dumb prizes and we shouldn't have gotten involved in a war that even if we were victorious in, even if we won against Iran. What would we be winning exactly? Like what was the benefit to the United States of America, a country that Iran did not have the capacity of harming? They don't have the missile capability to harm us and they weren't building nuclear weapons. As our own director of national intelligence, former director of national intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard had testified under oath before Congress. Yeah, so it looks like a giant loss for us. But remember, who is us? Because if you think the American government represents us, the American taxpayers and citizens, that's a funny joke, right? You'd have to be as dumb as a mainstream media reporter to think that. They represent their donors.

54:17So it's not just Israel wants this war and they want to be a regional superpower. And if you have to pay much, much higher gas prices and by the way, oil goes into all of our plastics. So all the prices are going up big time. But you pay a lot more on your limited budget, plus you get paid Israel directly, plus you buy them more weapons. But to be fair, the Israelis then get to be a regional superpower and dominate their neighbors and take more of their land and do more ethnic lesings. And I know how much you guys all love that because mainstream media tells me all the time that the country is so Zionist and loves Israel so much. We would sacrifice everything for Israel. Or maybe those outlets are owned by radical Zionist who want to plant that thought into your head. Yes, yes. So that's you said it. I didn't have to say you said it. No, but that's a fact. It is a fact. I'm not talking about every outlet in this post. But Larry Elson is

55:17indisputably a radical Zionist who promote our cuz indisputably a radical Zionist. That's after media right there. Let alone every other radical Zionist that runs every other media organization. And don't tell me they're not because they say it. If they say that I'm wrong, great. I'm super happy to report it to you guys. Okay, it doesn't matter. Let's keep going. So now there, but it's not just about Israel guys, it's about all the donors. So the defense contractors, we lose when they take all of our weapons. We paid for all those weapons. Now they're going to use it against us. But guess what that means? They're opposition in Yemen and in Saudi Arabia has to buy even more weapons. Wait a minute, didn't this happen already? Oh right, it happened in Afghanistan. It also partly happened in Iraq, right? Where we sent them a whole bunch of weapons and oops, the weapons got captured. Now both sides are going to have to buy even more weapons. That's a loss for us. A giant gain for Lockheed Martin, Rathion, Boeing, and all of the defense contractors. So they're not unhappy about this donor class, both APAC and the defense contractors are like, we love this more, more lighting your money on fire for their benefit because it's

56:24not lighting it on fire. It goes right into their pockets. That's how this robbery is structured. Now back to Yemen, we keep making the same mistake. It's a racist and arrogant mistake. Like a racquet fight back against that's it. Rax is going to be so easy. A bunch of dumb Arabs won't take it over in a couple of weeks. Iran, four to five weeks at a bunch of dumb Persians. They think they could match America and our genius leaders like Donald Trump who wears the pens at this point and doesn't like one of the dumbest guys in the whole world. And you think and then the who sees a lot of them are black and they're Muslim and they're poor. They're running through you like a hot knife through butter. So who's the dumb asses now? Yeah, that has been my experience. Usually it's the poor people who are weak and lack resilience. It's usually the fat, wealthy, constantly comforted people who are the real warriors and fighters.

57:32And so by the way, maybe that's their plan because now the hooties since they're going to be able to control that body of water are going to get a lot richer. Maybe we could defeat them after they get wealthy. Yeah, after we become poor at that, it's a good point. Yeah, last one, a fact I promised you, some pronounce it as mocha or mocha. Wait a mocha. Or mocha. I heard that. Mocha, right? So that sounds familiar like mocha, the coffee. Well, fun fact that you severe coffee port. Oh, I don't know. Because coffee originally comes from Yemen. And I didn't know that. Well, all these fun facts. And the mocha you drink is named after that town. It's not a coincidence. It is literally named after that town. That's pretty cool. So next time you have a mocha. Think of the hooties. Think of the hooties. But if you like it or you don't, they now have the mocha. We'll be right back.

59:05Let's go to Super Chat. Metalhead says, I just found out that Zionism was designated by UN as a form of racism and discrimination. It was only revoked because Israel made the revocation a condition for participating in the peace process in 1991. So look, guys, I've now come to a new conclusion on that. And this war has revealed a lot of things about Israel. Zionism is obviously racism. That's literally racism. It should choose, should own that land and control it, not Palestinians. Well, that's the definition of racism. My race over your race. And by the way, the Palestinians didn't ask to control the land and not let, you know, Jewish people have any say. Like the whole point originally of a one-state solution was we shared the land, we coexist, we live together. Zionists didn't want that. So I don't. They wanted to be a Jewish state. That is by definition racist. If you say, well, the Saudis are a Muslim state, is that racist? Obviously. Okay, but Israelis always say no.

1:00:09We get to call everyone else anti-Semites and races. You're not allowed to do that to us. I don't give a damn what you think we're allowed to do. It's obviously racist by definition. Miyaga wrote in Kamal Harris, failed her presidential campaign partially because she failed the distance there. So from incredibly unpopular president. So happy to Jeannie. . They blurred my penis. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. All right, back on TOT, Jake Anna and Marissa Wanita. Thank you for sending in five memberships on YouTube. Really appreciate it. Guys, that join button's beautiful. Participating that we appreciate it. And then a super chat I was reading during the break. I was making fun of JD Vance for going with Kamal Harris's strategy. Oh, why don't I wrap myself around a really unpopular president, which is a funny point. All right. Now let's do our next story. So I think the war is going to end immediately after the election. I think the war will end

1:01:15immediately after the election, because they can't hold out any longer. They're desperate to try and affect the election so that we can get a nice week group of people in there and leave them alone and let them have their nuclear weapon. All they want is a nuclear weapon. And if they had a nuclear weapon, the whole world is in deep trouble. You need proven experts who can execute on what you need right now. I know I run a small business. Upwork is where businesses find highly skilled freelance professionals for specialized work from software development and AI implementation to marketing and design and business operations. Upwork gives your business fast access to highly skilled specialists with deep expertise so you can fill critical skill gaps, launch projects faster and scale support up or down without committing to full time headcount. You can browse profiles, review past work, and get help scoping the role so you can hire with confidence and get started quickly. With Business Plus, you can access the top 1% of talent on Upwork. AI-powered shortlisting delivers a curated list

1:02:22of top freelancers matched to your goals in under 6 hours. Upwork also reduces operational hassle by handling contracts and payments in one place so you can stay focused on running your business. Thousands of growing businesses already trust Upwork and with over 170,000 freelancers holding five star ratings. You're hiring people with a verified track record, not a hope in a prayer. It's free to sign up and posting a job is easy. Visit Upwork.com right now and then post your job for free. That's Upwork.com to connect with a top talent ready to help your business grow. That's UPWORK.com. Upwork.com. This is literally the same guy who said he destroyed their entire nuclear facilities and that they have no chance of being able to make a nuclear weapon until Israel ordered his stupid dumb ass back into the war. So now he wants you to be dumb and think, oh yeah, I bet right after the war,

1:03:22after the election is the war will be over. Okay, but wait till you see what the reality is. It turns out his own administration is planning to stay for years and years. And it's got the whole story. I sure do. So Trump not only created a mess for himself, according to a new Wall Street Journal exclusive, both the vice president, J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and other advisors have basically told Trump, listen homie, this ain't ending anytime soon. In fact, this economic blockade is unlikely to work. It will not bring Iran to its knees. And that this could potentially extend the conflict past inauguration day in January of 2029. Now look, if you are someone who happens to have two brain cells to rub together, you already knew. If you've been paying attention to the war, you already knew it's not going to end anytime soon. In order for it to end, you would need a president who's willing to take his ball and

1:04:25go home because we've lost. And we've lost big. We need a negotiated settlement. Trump is unwilling to engage in that. So we're stuck in this quagmire war. Now, Suzanne Maloney, who's an Iran expert and the vice president of foreign policy at the Brookings Institution, that's a think tank, says that the US naval blockade is unlikely to produce a decisive outcome in the near or even medium term. So the only realistic use of this tool would have to be predicated on plans for a long term siege. Something that we don't have, I think the appetite to do because obviously that hurts us economically. It hurts the entire globe economically. Further, she says that even then its prospects for success are dubious, mainly because of the unintended consequences she added, such as attacks on energy and economic targets in the Gulf states. Now, this all checks out,

1:05:25considering the fact that Defense Secretary Pete Heggseth has already extended some Middle East troop deployments through 2027. Also, the Pentagon has planned to extend the deployment of some air defense units in the Middle East with no firm end date. A third marine expositionary unit is preparing to deploy to the region this fall, a US official said, signaling a continuing rotation of the amphibious units that operate from a group of warships. We need to just get the hell out of there. Further, the Pentagon also is rotating Air Force fighter squadrons in the region with air national guards or air national guard F-16s replacing war planes that are returning to the US base in Italy. Now, obviously what Trump is being told behind the scenes conflicts significantly. I mean, it's a complete 180 from what Trump is telling the American people publicly. He says things like, you know, if this is going to end immediately after the midterms,

1:06:27Iran can't hold on any longer. And this is why history and learning history matter so much. And I'm not even talking about history from hundreds of years ago. I'm talking about history from decades ago. If you study the Iran-Iraq war, you could have predicted that defeating Iran would be very difficult. We literally supplied Iraq with chemical weapons that they deployed on Iran. And Iran still didn't bend to their will. Hannah, that's such a great point. And I bummed I didn't think of that earlier. You're absolutely right. We gave Saddam Hussein weapons of mass destruction. There's the infamous picture of Don Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand back in the 1980s when he sold them those chemical weapons. And then we instructed him to use it on the Iranians because we hated the Iranians at that time. And we were friends with Saddam. Later, we would invade Saddam's Iraq pretending he still had those weapons of mass destruction, which we sold them. But we know he didn't have him

1:07:28because he used him on Iran. And so Iran, after getting gasped, still didn't surrender. You think they're going to surrender because they're having slight economic problems? This idea that they're going to surrender after the midterm elections. Again, you'd have to be totally detached from reality and completely delusional to believe that. Trump at this point is just talking to whatever is left of his base. He's like, those more ones will believe anything, even though I told him it's going to be four to five weeks and now we're in the seventh month, I'll tell those idiots two more months and it'll magically go away. He really does on a daily basis, insult them, scam them. I mean, it's pretty disgusting and I hate to see it. But anyway, I want to just add a few more details to this story, a little more color to it if you will, because fascinatingly enough, Marco Rubio was named as one of the advisors who basically told Trump this isn't going to end anytime soon. And this timeline obviously

1:08:30harms the chances of the Republican ticket winning in 2028. I mean, this is a deeply unpopular war, which is precisely the reason why Marco Rubio has announced, I'm not going to run in 2028. Marco Rubio privately said that he's not planning a 2028 presidential bid. According to a person familiar with the matter, Rubio has said he would support JD Vance, who he knows is going to lose as the nominee if he runs. And again, this Iran war is deeply unpopular and look, if you don't trust me, you should trust someone who's actually a conservative on the right. And that's Tucker Carlson, who just yesterday in his monologue pointed to Trump's massive betrayal when it comes to his promises on the campaign trail versus what he has done as president in his second term. Take a look. Intanguimates, he wasn't going to have another Neo con war. And he knew that going into a regime change war with Iran would spike energy prices. He said that privately, including to me. So it's

1:09:35not like he didn't know this was going to happen. But for whatever reason, and again, historians will maybe untangle this mystery. He chose following Israel into this war over lowering energy costs for his own population. And so that was inevitable. Like this was always going to happen once he decided to follow a foreign country into an unwinnable regime change war. So maybe the lesson here is don't do that. And of course, this gets the core of everything. It gets to the reason that Trump betrayed his voters because he followed not their wishes, but the wishes of a foreign government. That's just a fact. Trump was inaugurated on January 20th and on February 4th, Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel was at the White House. Here's the first press conference between the two. This is again, February 4th 2025. Today I also took action to restore a maximum pressure policy on the Iranian regime. And we will once again enforce the most aggressive possible sanctions.

1:10:39I just got word that diesel is now at $216 per barrel. Jesus man, that is unreal. So there's different price for diesel and Brent crude Brent crude is the one that is most often quoted. Diesel's usually a little above them, but over $200. Oh my god. That's going to impact the entire economy. It's going to be devastating. And guys now what was holding oil prices in the market together was this the unbelievable phenomenon of those guys believing Donald Trump. True. And Scott Besson was a huge part of it because remember Scott Besson is one of those elites from Wall Street. So when he comes in and goes on his stupid elitist, oh god, he almost won the war runs about to get off. They all go, oh Scott said it. Scotty says we're about to win. Oh yeah, keep low prices low. And now they realize, oh my god, we're going to stay there for years. There's no hope at all. The hoothies have taken

1:11:42huge portions of Yemen. And now we're going to have two different straights that are blocked. And Trump has been telling us the whole time the straight of hormones open and turns out it's not remotely open. Oh my god, and panic has set it. We were wondering when panic was going to set in. It turns out it's right now. So now look, what Tucker Carlson said in that video is indisputable. Did he choose Israel's war over us paying higher gas price? Of course he did. So we're not paying that heat. Everybody knew we were going to pay higher gas prices. Everybody knew Iran was going to block the straight of hormones. And Trump said yeah, but I prefer Israel to Americans period. And of course the guys, this is not anywhere near Induspeud because he said he was against the forever wars, especially in the Middle East. And now he's in a forever war, like his entire administration is going to be war in the Middle East. And why do they keep doing these senseless wars in the Middle East that never help us? All they do is drain our resources, trillions of dollars. Our boys and girls get killed and injured and maimed. So what the hell are we

1:12:48doing this for? Because Israel is occupying our government. It's not subtle, it's not close. The only people that deny it are the media that work for Israel and the politicians who work for Israel. Literally everyone else knows we have no interest in this war. Like we honestly had no interest in the Iraq war. Iraq didn't attack us Iraq and Iran in case you don't know this and you won't know this because mainstream media never ever tells you that. They're both dead set against Al-Qaeda. They were enemies of Al-Qaeda. Saddam would hang Al-Qaeda on the spot. Iran is from a different sect of Islam and despises Al-Qaeda. But maybe we don't actually hate Al-Qaeda as much as we were led to believe, right, Jank? Because we were arming Al-Qaeda in Syria. And you know Netanyahu after 9-11 said that it was good for Israel and now that America has felt that pain, we would do what Israel wants and attack all of his Muslim neighbors. And so I guess that was good for Israel, what happened? By the way, ISIS and other dangerous radical

1:13:55terrorist group never attacks Israel. They only attack Israel's neighbors. Again, it's probably a giant coincidence. But so far Al-Qaeda and ISIS hasn't hurt Israel one bit. In fact, if you're being very empirical about it, whether it's on purpose or not, they have helped Israel a great deal. Then you take out two of Al-Qaeda's enemies, Iran and Iraq, and also happens to be Israel's opponents, regional opponents. And so all of this makes a lot of sense if you're Israel. It makes no sense if you're America. G.I. Wonder Who's controlling us. It's not close. And so buckle up guys, because if this is not going to end anytime soon, which of course it isn't, and now it's confirmed, the Trump team internally saying not going to end ever under Trump. Then economic collapse is imminent. And I'm not exaggerating, it's not hyperbole. It has already begun. And I think what's going to happen next,

1:15:00my spidey sense is screaming. We should talk about this more as we go along. But no, no, no, not about that. That's a different thing. But so last night, sometimes I get these senses, and you remember three days before 2016 election when I was like, no, Trump's going to win, right? Sense of doom and foreboding. And I did that exact same sense last night. Something terrible is going to happen. Like something we haven't seen in our lifetimes. Because you know, Mark Twain's old quote about change happens really gradually. And then all of a sudden, yes. Last night I had this sense of all of a sudden is right around the corner. We haven't had an economic collapse like this one. And so it hasn't happened yet. And we had 2008, and we had the bubble crash in 2000. And you think like, well, I can't get worse than that. I think it definitely can. I think we're about to hit a perfect storm. You got AI,

1:16:03who's going to take unbelievable amounts of jobs. Now, they're warning, there's a 10% chance it might kill us all. You've got this war that's totally out of control. You've got a budget, that deficit totally out of control. And the treasury 10 year yields the most important numbers. And they can't get their panic. Best it puts $6 billion in. It didn't even dent the markets and it continued to rise. Inflation is going to skyrocket. The feds thing of raising interest rates to try to get ahead of inflation. So all of our debt is going to be compounded both personal and the government debt. And I'm worried about a tsunami. That's about to hit us. And this report saying that's it. We're under Israel's orders to stay in Iran forever until Israel is satisfied that we've destroyed them enough. Oh, that's it. The economic collapses is definitely going to happen. And then we move on to Turkey for Israel because that's war is all they want. Oh, by the way, they're now right. The biggest MFers on the planet when it comes to

1:17:06bloodshed in the Middle East. Anyway, we got to take their threatening guitars, we speak. They want to go to course. Of course, of course they are. Okay, periah state. At some point, a responsible party on the international stage needs to stop them. Unfortunately, it's not going to be us. We got to take a break. Treat a party as next. They blurred my penis. Can you use a little bit of a soft touch? Are you still talking about Jeffrey Epstein? Rich and powerful men, abusing, assaulting and abanding young women. These rich and powerful men donate to the politicians in Washington, DC. Play golf with the elites in Washington, DC. They are foreign leaders who we don't want to offend. They interact with our intelligence agencies that we don't want to disobey. There is something rotten in Washington. And are people still talking about this guy? This all those congressmen you just saw there are on the record as protecting the child's rapists who work clients of Epstein. They have not prosecuted a single person outside of Epstein at Maxwell.

1:18:10Yep, not one. Is Trump engaging in this cover up because he's in the Epstein files? I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff. So as the government keeps on us, yeah, there's other people. Yeah, they rape those girls. So what? We're going to cover up for them. Why are you guys so mad? A nation that chooses impunity for the rich and the powerful at the expense of our children is a nation that has lost its moral purpose. Are you on the side of the people? Are you on the side of America's children? Or are you on the side of the rich and powerful who've had their thumb on the scales and shifted Americans for decades?

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1:21:41Back on the intro, Jank and Anna with you guys. We got a lot more news but a fun interview first. Well, interesting interview. Well, also fun because we love having treated a par seon, especially when there's a lot going on in the Middle East and with foreign policy. TREEDA PARCY is the executive vice president of the Quincy Institute and the author of the TREEDA PARCY SUBSTAC where he shares his analysis on geopolitical events. Everyone please check that out. TREEDA, welcome to the show. Thanks so much for having me. Love to be on. So there's a lot going on. We're going to talk about what's going down with the Houthis. We'll also talk about how long this seemingly forever war with Iran is going to last. Before we get to that though, a video that caught my attention on X this morning featured

1:22:42Hillary Clinton saying what a lot of liberal Zionists tend to say about Israel. So I want to take a look at that and get your reaction. Let's watch. I love Israel and I hate Netanyahu's government and his policies. I love America and I hate Trump's government and policies. I think it's bad in the first case for Israel what's happening. And I think it's really bad for the United States what's happening. Netanyahu had been literally called by, you know, Sheikh Mohammed, MbZ from UAE and warned that Hamas was planning something. And either he didn't believe it or he wanted to say he wanted to see what they could plan so that then he could come down hard and it would enhance his position. I don't know what his thinking was. But the bottom line, talk about a failure of imagination. This was a failure of leadership. If the Israelis want to vote for that again, then I think the United States has to take a very tough position. I think we could work with the new government and I did an interview

1:23:44with Mike Fromin and, you know, a week or so ago. He said, well, does it really make a difference of Netanyahu leaves? I said, yeah, I think it really does make a difference. And of course, it depends about who's in the coalition. He said, well, give me one example. I said, well, I would hope that a new prime minister would crack down on settler violence in the West Bank. So, Trita, this is again a common statement that I hear from liberal Zionists who want us to continue supporting Israel, but want to fool people into, in my opinion, fool people into thinking, this is just a Netanyahu problem. It's just a Netanyahu problem. Can you explain to our audience whether she's right or wrong and then elaborate? Well, obviously she's wrong. I've got to keep on thinking, my there's a long list of things we can say about what Hillary Clinton has done in the Middle East and with Israel and on the Palestinian issue that is quite disastrous, but we don't have to go that far back. We can just go back to the op-ed that she had just a couple of weeks ago in which she endorsed the Trump Board of Peace, which is an absolute disaster, which is nothing more than justification for

1:24:48the Israelis to annex all of Gaza. It's already under 70 or plus percent control of the Israelis at this point. So, I think it's very clear what's happening. This is operation, make Netanyahu the fall guy. Save Israel. Make sure that the U.S. goes back to the previous policy of just giving unchecked, unfiltered support, a blank check to the Israelis on almost everything and just say that whatever happened before was just because of Netanyahu. That was the problem. It's not a systemic problem. There's nothing wrong with the occupation per se. It's just what Netanyahu and small church in Ben-Givey are did. And I think this is the hope of a lot of centrist Democrats that they can just have any other face, even if it is someone like Naftali Bennett that in many ways is actually more hawkish than Netanyahu, just someone that they can say, well, this is not Netanyahu and now we can go back to business as usual. One other thing I want to say about this, keep in mind that

1:25:50article revealed, of course, that the Biden administration knew a lot about these things. And that Tony Blinken did not intervene or they tried to put some pressure on Netanyahu and when it didn't, when it didn't work, they went back to just defending whatever he was doing and blaming Hamas for everything. I think it is a reasonable conclusion to draw that as a former secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was oftentimes consulted by the Biden administration and probably was informed about a lot of these different things. But chose not to go out and say anything about it until now, meaning that for a very long period of time, a lot of these people sat on this information. They could have come out and said actually the hostages could have been released on day one. Let's put some real public pressure on Netanyahu in order to save the hostages and they chose not to do so. Yeah, look, you're in DC, but look, I'll just say I think Anthony Blinken and most of the folks in DC work for Israel. So I don't think

1:26:50it's that complicated as to why they hit all that damaging information for Netanyahu, but that goes to the point I want to ask about in the case of Hillary Clinton. It feels to me that there's now a battle between the two different sets of Zionists here in America. The Zionists who are hardcore Netanyahu supporters and say that genocide wasn't big enough. Let's go keep killing and taking more land. This is our moment. We control America completely. We're going to lose control soon anyway. We might as well milk them for everything we got. And the other group of Zionists who go, no, no, no, let's go back to long-term control and make people forget that we're in control. The problem with the genocide isn't even so much the genocide for that group of Zionists in my opinion. It's that it's exposing what Israel actually is. So hence you send Hillary Clinton out here and you could see it and you could hear it in her language because she said if you can go back and rewatch the tape. She said like first of all this is really bad for Israel and then also

1:27:51bad for America. Like as if she's talking to her Zionist donors and a lot of Democratic politicians do this. If you listen like as an average voter you're like I don't it's kind of a weird thing to say to me right? I just want to get out of the war, etc. But they seem to be talking to their donors now. Remember out there I'm here on Morning Joe on purpose to remind all of you the strategy we blame Netanyahu and say Israel is great right after the elections in Israel right? And so am I seeing that wrong or is that basically what's happening behind? No, and I think your first point about these two different categories of Zionists I think is a very valid point because this is what always has been the case. People who are willing to just straightforward they don't care about the backlash, they don't care about the bad press, they just want to give Israel whatever it wants and then justify it. And others who are more in the business of war crimes and management which means you're still supporting it. You just wanted to be done at a lower pace, at a lower level of transparency just to make sure that the backlash against it

1:29:00doesn't create problems for Israel or doesn't create problems for you so that you can sustain that policy for as long as possible. But the trajectory of what they are doing, of the situation they're creating is the same. That's why when Trump came out with the Abraham Accord back in 2019 or whatever it was. To me it was the logical conclusion of long-standing American policy. It was not a paradigm shift. It was just skipping all the intermediate steps and going to the logical conclusion which is you're going to throw the pastime is under the bus you're going to give the entire land to Israel and then you're going to pressure or give incentives for the Arab countries to go along with this, normalize with Israel and just forget about the pastime is all to get to throw them under the bus. There was never a difference in the trajectory or where the end station of this would be. The question was always how fast would you do it and how blatantly would

1:30:01you do it and that's the difference we're seeing now. She's in the camp of saying let's blame Netanyahu let's go back to a slower pace but it's going to be pretty much the same. Policy we're going to blame a little bit on some of the most extreme settlers as if that is the problem whereas in reality the settlers are a symptom of the larger problem of occupation as a whole. Well let's talk about what appears to be the only group on the international stage that has any interest in defending the Palestinian people and that would be Ansar al-A' the Houthis who the latest news is pretty big. They managed a major victory in their fight against Saudi-backed forces in Yemen. They've now captured the port city of Mocha and that gives them more control over transit through the Bab al-Mandab straight and so we're losing this war against Iran that's clear our military bases have been annihilated by the Iranians. On top of that you

1:31:02have the issue with the straight-of-war moose which is a major choke point that the Iranians are using as leverage. Then on top of that the work around for the Saudis happened to be the Bab al-Mandab straight which now the Houthis control entirely. So my question to you is regardless of our corrupt politicians on both sides of the political aisle doing the bidding of Israel. None of that is really going to matter. When we lose power we're running out of interceptors. We're not able to bring Iran to its knees. Iran is more empowered and actually at this point does pose a threat to Israel. When the US does not have the capacity to come in and defend Israel as we've been doing what happens to Israel and does Israel believe they have a right to exist because they're not acting like it. So first of all in terms of what the Houthis are doing I think what you're pointing to is something very very important. There's been a narrative that has been created that has some

1:32:03elements of truth that it almost all narratives do that the efforts that the Trump administration has done in this trade has partially opened it and put a lot of pressure on the Iranians. Here's where things go off the rails. As a result the narrative in the West and media has been the US is winning this. Iran has doesn't have time on its side. This is soon going to be over with and that's where everything goes completely wrong because reality is that the Iranians still have a lot of leverage that they have not exercised. We're seeing already that they're willing to be more aggressive in targeting US ships targeting US bases. We saw what happened in Jordan. We know now at least I spoke to a former US official who told me earlier today that the only reason why the Iranians have not blown up an American ship is simply because they have chosen not to do so. Not that they can't that they've chosen not to do so and it could be many different reasons why they have not chosen to do so yet. But the other element of it is the Houthis. And we knew that already before that one of the additional escalatory steps counter escalatory

1:33:09steps the Iranians could take was to work with the Houthis to close the bubble mandal and what you just pointed to is that now we're seeing that taking place and this is the problem with the narrative, the very superficial narrative that we have had in Washington which is just because the Trump administration has managed to get some additional leverage vis-à-vis Iran perhaps does not in any shape before me that the strategic situation has changed because for that to have happened you have to then assume that the Iranians do not have any counter escalatory options and they clearly do plenty of counter escalatory options and now we're seeing two of them what they're doing against ships and of course even more importantly perhaps their willingness to choke the global energy markets by closing also the bubble mandal. And I think it's going to be extremely difficult for the United States to simultaneously fight the Houthis in the Red Sea and fight the Iranians in the Persian Gulf and we see all prices are now around $106.007, the dollars gone up about $20

1:34:16just in the last couple of weeks which clearly shows that any belief that the U.S. could just maintain the situation, comment, have some level of stability before the midterms was truly false and overexaggerated in terms of what the capacity of the U.S. is. So Trader, I'm going to ask you two questions that follow up on that. So you know we reported here that Trader Hormuz about 25% opens 75% closed roughly speaking. So yeah we did manage to open a little bit of it as you just alluded to there but not enough because it's all about how much oil can come out. Now if you block the straight by Yemen then okay we're in bigger trouble than when it was just a straight a Hormuz even if it was 100% earlier. So those things are clear, those are leverage hitting our bases clear leverage and they've done that very very effectively no one can deny that. But the two biggest ones on the board are hitting the Gulf countries oil and gas fields which would affect gas prices massively. They've held back from that a little bit

1:35:17because they don't want their gas fields hit. But that's certainly an option for them and they could do that at any point. And then I'm going to ask you to correct me where I'm wrong here if I'm wrong at all. And then but to me you alluded to it there. I said it on day one of this war. I think they're going to sink one of our ships if we keep going. And what it looks like when they're reporting is that they fired tubeless thick missiles. They barely missed right through our actions to counter them, etc. But that leaves me with an impression well if they fired four or eight or 20. They'd almost certainly sink one of our ships. Is that do you think that's true and accurate? And then the follow question that is so when did they press that button? When does this because now that it looks like we're not leaving at all period, you know according to Wall Street Journal we're going to stay for the rest of Trump's term. Well then they have less incentive to hold back. So do they do it before the midterms or after the midterms? Okay on the first one I think there's different narratives out there. What I've been hearing is

1:36:23that they shot these missiles. It's apparently not the ballistic missiles. I'm sort of a new missile deliberately exploding it above the ship, causing some damage but not a direct hit at all, deliberately as essentially a warning. And those ships did leave the that area after this warning and apparently they take the US a bit by surprise. So now if let's say it was the other narrative, the one that you mentioned that they shot two and they missed. Yeah absolutely if they shoot four or eight or so at some point they're going to hit. And if it's a direct hit it will cause significant damage, large number of casualties and potentially even sinking one of those ships. So I think it's only a question of time if this gradual escalation continues in which that unfortunately will happen. And then it comes to the question of when will they do it? I think they are now on the impression that Trump simply is incapable of making a deal. He's uninterested in making a deal and he is waiting to do a major escalation after the midterms. And in that major escalation that Israelis

1:37:26likely will participate. The reason why Trump pushed back against these railings being part of round two, you know, these 13 days in between and which there was some fighting was because he doesn't trust these railings. He knows that these railings will escalate beyond what the Trump administration wanted at the time. They didn't want to see these salination plans etc be attacked. But if Trump now is under the impression that the only thing he hasn't tried, he's tried diplomacy, he's tried sanctions, he's tried limited war. But in his mind he hasn't tried all out war. Well, if that's what he's going for, he's going to want the Israelis to be part of it because then they're actually aligned. The Israelis want all out war as well. This is part of the reason why the Iranians are hitting Jordan. Those bases in Jordan are crucial for defending Israel in case the Iranians shoot missiles at Israel, which they likely will do in round three if the Israelis enter the war. And that raises the question, okay, when will they do this? If they believe that Trump is destined to do this after the midterms, if they come to the conclusion that there's no other way, there's no

1:38:27way to avoid it, he will do so after the midterm elections. Then I find it to be more likely that the Iranians themselves will trigger the third round of this war and they will do so a week or two weeks before the midterm elections in order to maximize not just the military impact, but also its political impact. Wow. Trita, your analysis is indispensable. Thank you so much. Everyone, please check out Trita Stack. Of course, our pleasure and we'll talk to you soon. Have a great night. Thank you so much. Talk to you soon. All right, everybody. We're going to take a brief break. When we come back, we've got more news for you, including, what are we going to talk about? The compatible left, as it's called. I don't even know what that means. Well, you're about to find out. Yeah, we're going to find out together. All right, look back. All right, guys. So we're on Substack and X as well. So I'll go to GWB on Substack season,

1:39:41generational warriors versus mercenaries paid by the Saudi perfume princes. So basically saying, of course, the who these are winning because on the one side, we have princes who put on their perfume and the other guys who are seasoned warriors. I think that's true. Clare Hart, a little less true, but we still love you. Hello there, Alex and Turk. Prince on Malian on X writes in, of course, Grindr broke on the first day of the GOP midterm convention in Texas. That tends to happen. That does tend to happen. Yeah. Viva Sumud, a pack of resistors says, and Israel led US War with Iran, dragging out for years means gas at $20 per gallon. NetNiaw gets us forever. War, you pay $300 to fill up a civic debt to the moon. Trillion's doesn't drain the, doesn't the drain. So Trump can tweet total victory. They continue while the economy crumbles. Super power in decay, America burning trillions on foreign misadventures while its own infrastructure crumbles, showing the world a

1:40:44decaying empire that can't even govern itself, but servant to genocidal Israel. This thing's the whole thing's going to blow. I mean it politically and culturally and socially. There's going to be a giant, giant change soon. So, and it's going to come with a lot of pain. That's my opinion. Micro Dave says the 25 year remembers of 9-11 keep in mind the same country that 15 of the 19 hijackers were from. The country were almost all of the funding for 9-11 and the USS Colbombing originated is getting nuclear technology from Trump. That's true. That is Saudi Arabia was not a rack. All right. Back on TYT. Now it's Jankin Anna and I got to share important news with you guys with

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1:43:56That idea is fascist in and of itself and it races the history of less struggles around the world. So apparently fitness is now fascist and that's obviously why I haven't been doing it. I hate these. This is a socialist conference and they have said some absurd things are going to break down. But hey, for the first time, we're not the only ones on the left saying, guys, can you cut this crap out? So Ryan Grimm is waiting and others have weighed in as well. Let's tell you the whole story. Yeah. Well, I just want to quickly make sure and emphasize that she said dysgenic is good. We should root for more dysgenic. That means biological deterioration. Like, why are you advocating for that? Why do you think that's a good thing? What are we even doing? Okay. This is a bad thing, being healthy is a bad thing. I know. I lifted some fascism last night. Okay. I did some curls while squatting and like now I'm a bad person. I should

1:45:00pursue being more dysgenic, I guess. Okay. Anyway, let's talk about this. Now, this was the socialism 2026 conference. It is different from DSA. DSA also has their conferences, but this was not a DSA event. This took place this past weekend in Chicago. And over 3000 people attended and the speakers included Hassan Piker, Angela Davis and more. I watched Angela Davis's talk and it was interesting in a weird way, not in an impressive way to be honest with you. She was talking about justice for animals, but not in the way you would expect. It was rambling. I don't think she really had a thesis to her speech, but anyway, putting that aside, Aiden Grogan, who someone named Aiden Grogan and Stu Smith documented the conference in detail on X. I don't know too much about Aiden, but Stu Smith in particular is part of the very right wing

1:46:02Manhattan Institute. So you can understand some of the motivations of sharing clips from the event. Now, they're the ones who broke all of the viral clips and we're going to watch two more featuring a speaker arguing that GLP1 drugs are fissistic and a professor admitting that defunding the police would be catastrophic, but insist that it should be done anyway. Let's watch. The political deployment of GLP1s is fascistic, not because individuals take them, but because the conditions under which they become necessary are shaped by a world fixated on genociding fat people. I was in the belly 10 years ago. I was coming to you know kids who have been on the wrong side of law enforcement. And I had just ran Goldgula and I was like, oh, we should have polished a whole bunch of stuff. Let me tell you. I brought up the police and you know, I think five or six different people's

1:47:15well, that's crazy. We can't do that. But it can go up immediately if we polish the police. I don't think that that, even if that's true, that doesn't mean abolitionism is arisen as true. Okay, I am against abolishing both police and prisons. I think policing needs to be reformed and I think our prisons need to be reformed in order to be rehabilitative as opposed to just punitive. I've been consistent on that and I was under the impression that that was always the goal until I realized that wasn't the goal for some on the left. Okay, but putting that aside, Aiden Grogan apparently went to the event and he watched some of the panel discussions that were not broadcast, they were not on camera. And he says that included family abolition workshops, discussions of communist sex forest, which actually sounds kind of fun if you're into that kind of thing. I don't know what's happening, but I don't want to find out. Again, there might be some hammer and

1:48:19sickle action there. But like family abolition workshops, what does that mean? I don't know what that means. What does that mean? Okay, don't start a family. I don't know, trans feminist abolition. I don't know what that means. And lectures about the cis sexist motherhood regime. Okay, what does this have to do with labor power? What does this have to do with the working class? What is this? And also it is okay to have your own hangups about things, your own issues with whatever. But centering yourself in what is supposed to be a movement focused on labor power, empowering ordinary working class people seems selfish to me. Yeah, all right, look guys. So I have a unique opinion on this. So Anna and I have gotten into some of these battles with these folks on the left. And we were the first ones to engage on the idea of abolishing prisons.

1:49:21And people came at us with two different things there. One was, you're wrong. Of course, prisons should be abolished and you haven't read any books. That was that we heard a lot about that. And then I read the books and I read the books and they gave me no answers. Yeah, and by the way, none of the people we debated have read those books and they never had a single point for many of those books. They never had a single point to begin with. And so, so it's easiest for us to go, haha, right? But I'm not going to do that. Like I think it's absurd. So everything they're saying is patently absurd. In fact, let me stay on that for a second and then I'll come back to what I think we should do. Look guys, that gentleman was talking about earlier how people are fixated on genociding fat people. Nobody's genociding fat people, okay? And I mean, and the GLP ones get rid of your fat, maybe a genocide's the fat. I know and then you're not fat anymore, which means a genocide has been committed. Yeah, I mean, you have to stop talking in these ass and I in ways. You don't have to stop.

1:50:23You can do it all day long. So that brings me to the point that I want to make. Just like, as long as you say, look, we know we're a tiny minority. Not a lot of people agree with us. Even within Democratic Party or the left, we are nearly microscopic. But we're going to grow in might and we're going to convince everyone that fitness is terrible and we should all be obese. And we're going to win the country over. No problem, no problem. But don't tell me that you speak for the left because that does damage, right? Because then you wind up ironically agreeing with Fox news. Fox news and these guys, we're the left, we're the left. And we, you know, and fitness is fascism. No brother, like 99.8% of the left does not agree with that. So okay, before I get to the good stuff, and will you disagree with that? Yeah, I do disagree with that. I think that you're underestimating the influence that they do have. I mean, I've seen that influence in Los Angeles specifically. They've had success on a local level. So for instance, you know, Los Angeles, and I wrote a lengthy investigative report about this before real clear investigations fired me

1:51:27because someone on their board doesn't like my commentary about Zionism. But okay, putting that aside, I did have blanked the investigation into it because after 2020, the LA City Council actually made good on their promise of defunding the police. And they actually did defund it. They got rid of a ton of sworn officers. So then we ended up with a shortage of sworn officers. And we ended up as taxpayers in Los Angeles spending a lot more on policing because the remaining sworn officers ended up getting paid overtime because we had a shortage of cops. So that's empirically true. We covered it on the show. We showed you the numbers. Look, but what I'm saying, Anna, is not that they have no influence at all. And we've talked before about why they do better in local elections as opposed to national elections. But if you pull Democratic voters across the country, do you want to abolish prisons? I don't think it would get higher than 2%. Do you think it

1:52:29would get higher than 2%? Probably not. So my point is, but they don't say that. Whenever we've debated them, they always say, we're the left. And you guys are right wingers. All of the left wants to abolish prisons. Well, that's maniacally untrue, not remotely true. And they have to stop saying things that aren't true. So also we pay, it'll lower crime to get rid of cops and it'll cost less. Well, those things prove to be untrue. So we have to deal in the reality-based world, not in the fantasy world you'd like to live in. Now having said all of that guys, we can keep that fight going forever. And there's nothing wrong with debates within the party and within the movement. Why are we all supposed to agree? We're not all supposed to agree and they don't agree with me. So what? And we've had those debates. I said by side, they say their side. No problem. I would rather focus on the things that we agree on. And so I say that when it comes to Tucker Carlson being anti-war, I disagree with him a lot on a lot of things, but your anti-war great, I agree with you on that. And DSA or socialist, you're for Medicare for all, I love that. You

1:53:32want to get money out of politics. I love that. Your anti-war, I love that. Okay. So let's do the things we agree on first. Can we run on that? Because those are super popular. Let's run on things that we all agree on. And that the whole country loves instead of then coming out and be like, oh, we're going to abolish Thanksgiving or fitness or whatever. Because then at that point, you're helping the other side. And it doesn't make any sense. We should all fight back and go, no, no, no, no, no, that's for another day from a tiny little group. And maybe they'll get larger, but they're not large yet. Let's focus on the things that we all massively agree and prioritize like Medicare for all money out of politics and the war. Yeah, but okay, but just look, putting the whole political strategy part of this discussion aside, because I just, I don't even want to get into that. Okay, I think political lines are, they don't make any sense in today's day and age. I think the left-right paradigm as we have come to know it makes absolutely no sense

1:54:37in the world that we're living in right now. So putting the political strategy aside for a second, I just want to talk specifically to the individuals who see that message, they agree with it, they not along. You need to take care of yourself too. Okay, I get it, fitness is hard, it's annoying. Okay, we want to not have to worry about exercising regularly. We want to eat what we want to eat. And we want to feel good about the fact that we're making those decisions. But the fact of the matter is, if you are not taking care of your personal health, that is a bad decision. You should care about your personal health, that is not fascistic. Okay, I just, and more importantly, when you're putting a message like that out there, are you trying to make people who do care about their health and their fitness feel bad? Also, we have a broken healthcare system, there's no question about that. But if you look at the statistics in the United States versus other developed countries, one of our big problems is that we are overmedicated and we are overweight. And that is leading to an extreme amount of cost to our

1:55:44healthcare system, right? So if you want to push for Medicare for all, for instance, well, how are you going to make the case for Medicare for all under a system in which we're $40 trillion in debt? We are spending a lot more on healthcare because of administrative costs and all of that, I agree. But also because of the fact that Americans, unfortunately, are unhealthy, we're eating poisonous food because we have a broken corrupt FDA and USDA and just political system in general. Again, we're overmedicated and yeah, we're overweight as a nation. Yeah, it looked like, again, empirical reality, if you're overweight like I am, you are going to be unhealthy period. It's not in debate. It's not you could want being fat to be better, right? But it isn't better health wise. So snap out of it. And so I just can't stand whether it's on the left or the right, everyone pretending that these guys represent the entire left. When you know what percentage of Democratic voters believe fitness is fascism near zero, 0.00, and then a bunch

1:56:51of jackasses wearing masks eight years after COVID, which I can't understand for what reason that that happens. But anyway, let's keep going because there's good pushback against it now. Okay, so the pushback comes from people who are firmly on the left. So I'm happy to see it because it used to be a lonely place to be back in the day. So Julie and Andrioni from Dropsite News, can we, and by the way, he's very young. He's in his early 20s. Can we leave this utterly insane stuff in 2020? I agree. I do not want a return of 2020 culture wars. It was terrible. You also have Rania Calik, Lebanese American and also the host of dispatches who says we should never concede health and fitness to the right fitness and taking care of ones overall health are important not to demonstrate genetic or class superiority, but to improve health and quality of life as much as possible. I totally agree with wrong that you should want to be healthy and you should want to encourage your friends, your family, the people around you, your political movement to also want to

1:57:54be healthy. Like there's not a debate. There's not a debate. Brian Grim, let's go to him. He says, he had a back and forth with the woman who wants us to be more discent I guess. Now that the left is actually within reach of attaining real power, this kind of anti-social behavior should be thoroughly shamed. And she responded by saying everyone taking the bait from right wing troll accounts to lean into fitness as a virtue is just proving my point by the way. What's your point? Yeah, I don't get it. And he says exercise is good physically, mentally and spiritually telling people that exercise as fascism is filling whatever word you prefer that isn't ableist. That's hilarious. So I get what she's saying. She thinks Brian Grim is a right winger. I know. But since Brian Grim is disagreeing with her, she thinks that's it. You see, I told you the fascists were here to make us healthier. We've got to resist them. Brian Grim is not remotely on the right. It's Google for Cocoa Puffs to think that

1:58:56Ryan Grim is a fascist. This is the way I see it. You don't want to take care of your health and you don't want to feel guilty about it. That is your hang up. So go deal with it in therapy, but you don't have to voice it in the middle of any conference in my opinion. Okay, like this is nonsense. Again, in my opinion, they could voice anything they like, I non-the business of canceling anyone. I just don't want anyone pretending that these people are in any way representative of the left. So that's why I loved that the rest of the left is pushing back. We're pretty lowly out here. There are a few people and I've named all of them who have pushed back openly. Look, I'll say I'm curious what the old rivals or whatever think about all this, because they pretended that this was super popular and that this is what the left wanted. So is it still that or are they going to now move the goalpost and go, I don't know why you're talking about it when nobody wants it, but when you told me earlier that everybody wanted it. So which one is it?

1:59:58I would like Americans to thrive, not live in poverty and have a say at the workplace. That's what I want. Yeah, we want higher wages, higher wages, we want universal healthcare, we want paid family leave. And if you're on the left or you call yourself a socialist, these should be core demands. Paid family leaves at 84%, getting money out of politics is 93%. And ending the wars is 80 to 90%. Why don't we do these things first? Right? Now I'm going to go and talk about absurd things about that. It's going to turn off every voter to, it's almost, I know they're not, I think they're not, but it's almost like what a right wingers would plant into the left wing movement to destroy it. Right? Well, this is the reason why right wingers will highlight these moments from these conferences and make these videos go viral all over the internet. And then that's what gives people the impression that this is representative of the whole left wing. And that forces us to push back

2:01:01and say of course, it's not representative of the whole left. It's not representative of one percent of the left. All right, there's a breaking story that I really want to cover, Jank. So bear with me. He hasn't read it. I just got word of it and read it. So I want to share it with the audience. So let's get into it. It has been one year since Charlie Kirk was tragically assassinated before the entire world. And the Grey Zone has just published an investigative report, Max Blumenthal in particular, regarding what turning point USA has been engaging in following the assassination of Charlie Kirk that raises some eyebrows, that's for sure. So the piece is titled Charlie Kirk's TPUSA sponsored by Israeli government aligned outfit leaked contract shows. So Blumenthal got his hands on this leaked contract. And here's what we know about it. And I'm going to read verbatim from his piece. One year after Charlie Kirk's killing,

2:02:02the Charlie Kirk show is distributed by a federally registered agent of Israel and his widow, Erica, has reversed his critical positions on the US-Israeli special relationship. Remember, in the last few months of his life, he had become very vocal and critical of Israel. Now the Grey Zone can reveal that the TPUSA organization he founded is holding faith events sponsored by an Israel-based nonprofit with close ties to the Israeli government. A leaked contract obtained by the Grey Zone reveals that TPUSA entered into an agreement with international fellowship of Christians and Jews, IFCJ, to sponsor a series of Christian faith-based summits between 2025 and 2027. So this contract was apparently signed when Charlie Kirk was still alive. It was in the last few months of his life. So this was in May of 2025. The contract was signed,

2:03:04the contract committed IFCJ to pay $700,000, just $700,000 to TPUSA over two years. In exchange, the group was to receive a series of promotional benefits, including main stage speaking slots for its president, Yael Xstein, and the distribution of pro-Israel activism kits to over 200 college campuses. So this is based in Israel and Chicago. IFCJ presents itself as a charity which raises money from Christians to assist Jewish people supposedly suffering from poverty and anti-Semitism. In fact, in reality, it's a fundraising behemoth which is currently on a spending spree plowing millions into American conservative media while partnering closely with the Israeli government to spread Zionist propaganda. Yeah, so I'm actually not remotely surprised. Partly because Charlie Kirk has already said that he was getting enormous pressure from Jewish donors

2:04:09who were supportive of Israel. And he talked about how there was a donor who withdrew $2 million from talking point USA when he allowed Tucker Carlson to speak at their conference. So he raised over $500 million for turning point USA. They're non-profit. So it wasn't an investment. It was people giving him money. Let's be honest, to do propaganda. And you know who was honest about it? Was Charlie in a lot of ways. And he said they wanted pro-Israel propaganda. And so here's more Israeli groups, Israeli supporting groups paying TPUSA to give propaganda for Israel. By the way, Charlie stopped doing propaganda for Israel after having taken $500 million from groups like that. And Charlie's not around anymore. And now the people that are around are like, oh yes, of course, we meant Israel. Forget what Charlie was saying. Israel, Israel, Israel. Now to be fair, we're accurate. Charlie used to say that. That's what he used to say, 98% of the time.

2:05:14Before he was murdered, he stopped saying it. Yeah. And now turning point USA is back to saying it. And look at that. They seem financially healthy. A few more details. So IFCJ's president, I mentioned him earlier, Yael Xstein, even boasted that her organization effectively supplements the Israeli state. This is a direct quote. We're a non-governmental organization, but we effectively distribute the aid so well that the government of Israel asks the fellowship to build projects for them during times of emergency. Now this contract that TPUSA signed with IFCJ was inked in the midst of a severe crisis at the house that Charlie Kirk built. That's what Blumenthal's writing here. At the time, Kirk was publicly anguishing over the increasingly onerous demands of those he described as Jewish stakeholders who were threatening to pull their support for TPUSA unless he stopped providing space at his events to conservative critics of Israel,

2:06:21including Tucker Carlson and Megan Kelly. Let me give you the quotes. Charlie said at the time, just lost another huge Jewish donor two million dollars a year because we won't cancel Tucker. I'm thinking of inviting Candace. So he did not like it. He went on to say further that quote, Jewish donors were playing into all the stereotypes. I'm quoting Charlie Kirk and said they were pushing him to quote, leave the pro-Israel cause. And he said quote, I cannot and will not be bullied like this while he wasn't bullied. He was killed. And so if you can't move someone one way, I don't know what happened to him. I would be very surprised if it was Tyler Robinson. But hey, look, the donors are back in charge in talking point USA and back to 100% supporting Israel from a group that has USA in its title. They were pretending to be America first. But whatever you think happened to Charlie put that aside. They were paid to be pro-Israel. Charlie Kirk is telling you that. He told you that when he was alive.

2:07:24And now you see another story about how they're paid to be pro-Israel. And now the Charlie's out of the way, they're back to 100% propaganda for that foreign government. And guys, if you think it's only TPUS, you got a lot of waking up to do. So many organizations in this country are financed by radical Zionists who want all of them to do propaganda for Israel. You think it's a coincidence that all of our politicians in our media weirdly declare I have a pro-Zionist. Zionism is Israeli nationalism. It would be as if all of our politicians came out at once, we were like, I am a Bolivian nationalist. I am a Bolivian nationalist. And then you have these giant media organizations funded 500 million dollars by Bolivian nationalists. And they all come out and go, we are Bolivian nationalists. And somebody tells you that's a coincidence. No, that's not a coincidence. They are trying to manipulate America, not Jewish people, Max Blumenthal is Jewish, who's reporting on this. But radical Zionists who want

2:08:29us to serve their beloved Israel has bought off a lot of our media, a lot of our organizations, a ton of our think tanks, and certainly our government officials. And almost all of those people in Washington, New York, that are in power work for Israel. They do not work for us. And their job is to deceive you so that you don't mind when Israel takes hundreds of billions of dollars from us and makes us go into their wars that cost us American lives and trillions of dollars. Normally, you would deeply object to that unless you had this propaganda that was built in to manipulate you into supporting a foreign government over your own. And if you stop supporting them, well, apparently a left-winger comes and kills you because of trans issues. Maybe we're gonna find out in that trial though. And I'm very curious how that trial is gonna go. Because I know someone had motive and it wasn't Tyler Robinson. Okay, we gotta go and appreciate

2:09:35you. I'm gonna come back and rant Rashida Tiley versus Anthony Blinken. And John Stewart, out to Democrats. I love what he did. And I'll give you a lot more detail on it. We'll be right back.